Father, we ask that this morning You will help us understand the whole topic of the Menorah, something that you entrusted in the hands of the people of Israel for a reason and for a season. I thank you, Father, that throughout Your Word, we can learn so much and we can gain a great understanding of Jesus. Thank You and we bless You, in Jesus name, Amen. Amen. So again, good morning, everyone. One of the topics that really intrigues and brings sparks in the eyes of so many people all around the world is when we make a mention of the Word "Menorah", everybody's like 'wow'. And quite frankly, many people don't know that but the Star of David is absolutely nothing Jewish. It's not even biblical, if you ask me. And I know that a lot of people are thinking, 'Wait a minute. Isn't that your flag?' I mean, if I ask you what is the first thing that comes to your mind when I show you a Star of David? Immediately, you will come up with Jews or Israel. If I ask you what is the first thing to come to your mind when I show you a swastika? The first thing that will come to your mind will be the Nazis, Germany. And if I ask you, what is the first thing that comes to your mind when you see the pentagram, the five edges star, you would immediately come up with what? The occult, Satanic. But all of those three symbols were actually decorating buildings and even synagogues 2000 years ago. None of them was what we hold them for today, neither to Star of David nor a swastika or the pentagram. So if you are an archaeologist and you come to dig in a city that is about 2000 or 2200 years old and you see, you find a Star of David, you cannot jump to any conclusion that it's a Jewish place. Same goes with this: You find a swastika on a mosaic floor from 2000 years ago, you cannot tell me that the Nazis were here 2000 years ago. So what is it, the ultimate thing, that once the archaeologists found, they could immediately conclude that is Jewish? It is, of course, the Menorah. And what is the Menorah? Where do we hear about the Menorah. Exodus 25 verses 31 to 40 when Moses was in the desert with the people of Israel, we know that the Lord gave him a specific instruction of what to do and how to do it. And the Lord said, “You shall also make a lampstand of pure gold; Say "pure gold." Pure gold: Not always God is telling us to use that but here, absolutely. “...pure gold; the lampstand shall be of hammered work. Its shaft, its branches, its bowls, its ornamental knobs, and flowers shall be of one piece." It's not like, You guys make the knobs, you guys make the flowers, you and then we assemble it. From the one piece of gold you carve everything. And then the Bible says, 'And six branches shall come out of its sides:' In other words, there is a stand, There is a big trunk and six branches, three on each side are coming from the sides, and the Bible says three branches on one '...three branches of the lampstand out of one side, and three branches of the lampstand out of the other side. And three bowls shall be made like almond blossoms on one branch, with an ornamental knob and a flower, and three bowls made like almond blossoms on the other branch, with an ornamental knob and a flower.' Pay attention, He's telling us a specific type of tree that the Menorah supposed to somehow follow. It's not the fig tree. It's not the olive tree. It's not the vine, which are all very biblical. It's the almond. Wow! And then the Bible continues and says: '—and so for the six branches that come out of the lampstand. On the lampstand itself four bowls shall be made like almond blossoms, each with its ornamental knob and flower. And there shall be a knob under the first two branches of the same, a knob under the second two branches of the same, and a knob under the third two branches of the same, according to the six branches that extend from the lampstand. Their knobs and their branches shall be of one piece.' He's telling them it has to be a masterpiece. It's not something you assemble from different places. It's one piece of gold, and the Bible says: 'And its wick-trimmers and their trays shall be of pure gold. It shall be made of a talent of pure gold, with all these utensils. And see to it that you make them according to the pattern which was shown you on the mountain.' So when people ask me, why did God take so long to talk with Moses on Mount Sinai? 40 days. There were so many things that God showed Moses. And when God instructed him, God said, Remember Moses... 'Remember, I showed you something there? That's how I want it.' So everything that Moses was instructed to do, and by the way, it was Bezalel, the artist that created it. Moses was given the orders to do something, and Moses was very skillfully delegating into the one that can do it. But I want you to know that it was something that Moses should have already known. That's why God is speaking to Moses. 'Moses, remember, we talked about it? Remember, I showed you something? Remember, I shared with you the divine things, the godly, heavenly things? Now, I want you to make a pattern, a replica, a likelihood of that which you saw that I reveal to you from heaven. I want you to make them here on earth.' So we can already understand from with the words that we see here that God is telling Moses the thing that you're about to create is to remind you of the things that you already know, that they exist. Now, when is it that we had the Menorah? Because a lot of people are intrigued about the existence of that thing. So the first thing, of course we know is, as in Exodus 25 the Menorah was part of the vessels inside the? Tabernacle. The Jewish people did not have a man-made permanent building at the time they were wandering in the desert, they had a Tabernacle, and it was called the Tent of Meeting. It was a tent made of fabric. And it is where the Bible recalls in Exodus, chapter 33. It is where God saw Moses face to face. Now, let's go to Exodus 33 for a minute. Exodus 33, I'm reading to you one of the saddest yet amazing stories. 'Then the Lord said to Moses, “Depart and go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, "To your descendants I will give it. And I will send..."’ Who did He say that He's going to send? '" I will send My Angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanite and the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite. the parasites and..."' The termites? No. '"... the Hivite and the Jebusite."' These are the seven nations. And then He said, 'Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in your midst,"' God said to Moses, Look, you can go. I'll send the angel with you. But I ain't coming with you. That's right after the golden calf, God says I'm not coming. Why? '"...lest I consume you on the way, for you are a stiff-necked people.”' You're so bad, I don't want to consume you, I don't want to destroy you. So I just let you go with my angel. 'And when the people heard this bad news, they mourned, and no one put on his ornaments. For the Lord had said to Moses, “Say to the children of Israel, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. I could come up into your midst in one moment and consume you. Now therefore, take off your ornaments, that I may know what to do to you."’ So the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments by Mount Horeb. Moses took his tent and pitched it outside the camp,"' Look at the pattern: He is now outside of the camp. And He called it the Tabernacle of Meeting. 'And it came to pass that everyone who sought the Lord went out to the tabernacle of meeting which was outside the camp. So it was, whenever Moses went out to the tabernacle, that all the people rose, and each man stood at his tent door and watched Moses until he had gone into the tabernacle. And it came to pass, when Moses entered the tabernacle, that the pillar of cloud descended and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and the Lord talked with Moses. All the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the tabernacle door, and all the people rose and worshiped, each man in his tent door. So the Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. And he would return to the camp, but his servant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart from the tabernacle.' And few verses after that, Moses says, Show me Your glory and the Lord says, 'No one can see my face and live.' So who did Moses talk to? Who was he talking to face to face as a man speaks to his friend inside the Tabernacle of Meeting if no one can see the face of the Father? Wow. So here we are in the Tabernacle, and it's already a Tabernacle of meeting and we can see that God is already having the presence of Jesus right there with Moses. That was in the Tabernacle. And we all know that the Tabernacle moved all the way until they entered
the land of Israel. And they pitched that tent in Shiloh for nearly 600 years. But then it was not until King David, if you remember, asked Lord, I want to build a house for You. How can I live in his beautiful palace and You are in a little tent? Please let me build. And the Lord says, David, I love you, but you have too much blood on your hand. But listen, your son will build a house for me. So theFirst Temple that was in Jerusalem that was about 1000 BC built by Solomon is the first permanent building. And the Bible says in First Kings: 'Thus Solomon had all the furnishings made for the house of the Lord: the altar of gold, and the table of gold on which was the showbread; ' And look what he did, Solomon. '...the lampstands of pure gold,' Look what Solomon did. '...five on the right side and five on the left in front of the inner sanctuary,' Solomon made 10 Menorahs, although there was only need for one. '...with the flowers and the lamps and the wick-trimmers of gold; ' He copied the Menorah 10 times. And then we know that the temple was destroyed in 586 BC by Nebuchadnezzar, the King of Babylon. And then the Second Temple was built. Now many people believe that the treasures of theFirst Temple were hidden right before the Babylonian came to destroy it. In fact, you might not know it, but the ark of the Covenant that was in theFirst Temple did not exist in the Second Temple . In the Second Temple inside the holy of holies there is no ark. The Ark of the Covenant is the only thing that could not have been retrieved. But the Menorah must have been one at least one over the 10 because they had it there. And the Menorah was big, it was taller than me. It was huge, made of one piece of gold. And the high priest would go with his robe on a ramp all the way and light it every day with fresh oil. Everyday, new oil, your mercies are new every morning. And the lampstand was giving light every day the whole day, continually. But then the year was 70 AD, There was a great Jewish revolt against the Roman Empire that started in 66 AD. The first had great success in the first year and a half, But then the Romans sent their biggest cannons, the most important general Vespasian. In his language, it was called Vespasianus, and he came with his younger boy called Titus Vespasian, Titus Vespasianus. And when Vespasian was called back to Rome to become Caesar, his son continued the siege in Judea and eventually destroyed the temple. And I want you to see... No, no, no way back. Go back to... there! I want you to look at this. The symbol and the emblem of the state of Israel today was taken from this Menorah right here. Every Israeli person who is an official on his license, on the driver's license, on our ID card, on every official license, we must have the emblem of the state of Israel and the Menorah on it is taken from this Menorah. And you know where this one is? This Menorah is on the Arch of Titus in Rome. And this Menorah is actually part of many other things that the Jewish people were carrying in a victory procession of the Romans all the way into Rome. We know that. In fact, we know that the writer Josephus Flavius is telling us that the Menorah and all the treasures of the temple were brought all the way to the Temple of peace, which Emperor Vespasian built and celebrated at the end of the Jewish revolt. It was inaugurated in 75 AD. And it housed the most precious trophies accumulated with a conquest of Jerusalem, including the seven-armed candelabra and the silver trumpets taken from the city's temple, which were also flamboyantly carved onto Titus's Victory Arch that we saw in the Via Sacra in Rome. Ladies and gentlemen, we know that it is there because we have historian Josephus that said it was taken. He was there, he was in Rome. He witnessed, he saw it, and we also saw it carved on that arch. So if you're asking me, where was the Menorah? The Menorah was in the Tabernacle, then the Menorah was in theFirst Temple . Then the Menorah was in the Second Temple . And then the Menorah was gone from the city of Jerusalem and it wasn't in the city of Jerusalem. Very interesting, because this is what the temple that peace temple looked like over there at that time was huge. And all the treasures from the Temple of Jerusalem were on display, and everybody could come and see. But this one was completely burned down in the first century. But allow me to tell you that when they looked into the remains, they didn't find any melted gold around. Now, how many of you here visited Jerusalem? Okay, how many of you here want to go to see Jerusalem? How many of you here believe that you will get to see Jerusalem? All right, So if you ever come to Jerusalem and you will, I speak that on you, if you ever come to Jerusalem, look at this picture that you're about to see. This is a picture that I took with my own camera. This is the Menorah that is standing today in the Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem. And it is a replica based on the Arch of Titus and what we found and what we saw. And we believe size-wise and look-wise that this what the golden Menorah looked like at the time of the first and the Second Temple . And the reason why this Menorah is standing in the Jewish Quarter today it's because the Jewish people are already preparing for their Third temple and they've already start preparing the vessels and the ornaments and all the priestly services and they're training people. They're doing that according to the books that they had found with the details of the size and the shape of everything, the Jewish Talmud, Mishnah, the Jewish literature are detailing everything very interesting. So at the present time, the Menorah from the first in the Second Temple period is not in Jerusalem, but in Jerusalem stands a replica that might be taken to the Third Temple once it is going to be built. So the future, yes, is the Third temple and that Menorah that we saw should probably stand there in the Third Temple. Guess what? How many of you know that the Bible is telling us that Jerusalem will be completely changed physically when Jesus will come back with us and His feet are going to stand on Mount of Olives? All of you should know that no matter what is going to stand on the Temple Mount today, whether it's the golden Dome of the Rock or the Third Temple of the Jews, all of that is going to be wiped out and destroyed completely at the return of the Lord Jesus to Jerusalem. All of that, you understand that? The Bible says in Zechariah, chapter 14, that it's going to be like that, it says in the verse three: 'Then the Lord will go forth And fight against those nations, As He fights in the day of battle. And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives,
Which faces Jerusalem on the east. And the Mount of Olives shall be split in two, From east to west, Making a very large valley; Half of the mountain shall move toward the north And half of it toward the south. Then you shall flee through My mountain valley, For the mountain valley shall reach to Azal. Yes, you shall flee As you fled from the earthquake In the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Thus the Lord my God will come, And all the saints with You.' This is the verse that confirms that not only that, we're going to be taken up to be with Jesus, we're going to come back with Jesus to reighn in Jerusalem, in this Jerusalem, for 1000 years. And when that happened, there will be such an earthquake that everything that is going to stand on the Temple Mount will be gone. In fact, the Bible says that water will gush out of the Temple Mount and that will be the river of life that will flow. Look, Zechariah says in verse eight: 'And in that day it shall be that living waters shall flow from Jerusalem,
Half of them toward the eastern sea"—which is the Dead Sea— "And half of them toward the western sea—which is the Mediterranean sea— "In both summer and winter it shall occur. And the Lord shall be King over all the earth.’ Jesus will reign from Jerusalem. He will be king over all the earth. And there will be a river that flows from the Temple Mount. So this Temple Mount with no matter what building that is going to be standing on, it is gonna be gone. And then Ezekiel, the prophet in chapter 40 and on describes the Fourth temple. So not only that we have the Third Temple, but we're going to have the fourth one. It's quite amazing. So what did we have? First, we had no temple and no Menorah. The children of Israel had God with them. And then God said, I'll be with you. But since you sinned and you created the golden calf, I don't wanna be in your camp anymore. I wanna be outside of your camp. And then the tent of meeting and then the First Temple and then the Second Temple . And then, after 2000 years, the Third Temple. And then it will be gone and Jesus will come back and there will be the Fourth temple. And then something happens. But I can't tell you right now. Now let's pause for a moment about the times and let's go to deal with why in the world that God asked Moses to create a Menorah with a shape of almond blossoms. Why not olives? Why not vine? Why not fig? Why almond of all things? You know in Numbers, chapter 17, verse eight, it says: 'Now it came to pass on the next day that Moses went into the tabernacle of witness, and behold, the rod of Aaron, of the house of Levi, had sprouted and put forth buds, had produced, what?, blossoms and yielded ripe, what?, almonds.' Of all things, the staff of Aaron produced almonds. Isn't it interesting? Now let's pause again and let's go to the first chapter of Jeremiah. Jeremiah, one of my favorite prophets. Jeremiah was... he needed some... how can I say... encouragement from God. You know, the prophets... and, you know, I I'm not a prophet. How many of you know that I'm not a prophet? I come from a non-profit organization. But Jeremiah was a prophet, and Jeremiah did not go to the schools of prophet. Jeremiah was called by the Lord, but he needed some assurances. And the Lord said Jeremiah: 'Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” And I said, “I see a branch of an almond tree.” Then the Lord said to me, “You have seen well, for I am ready to perform My word.”' Hmm... Almond tree? Ready to perform the Word? Excuse me, but in Tagalog, it makes no sense. In English, it makes no sense. In German, it makes no sense. In Bahasa Indonesia, it makes no sense, in French and Spanish, Chinese and Japanese, it makes no sense. But it makes sense in Hebrew. Because the word in the Hebrew for almond is "sha·ked" and the word in Hebrew to keep my word is "sho·ked", same! So God is telling him: You see, this is how I'm going to keep My Word. Same word same thing. I'm the same yesterday, today and forever. So just as you look physically at something that is called "sha·ked", that's exactly how in the non-physical way, in the spiritual way, I will be keeping My Word and perform My Word. That's what I love about our God. Think about all of those pagan worshippers. The Bible says, they have eyes, but they cannot see, mouth, they cannot talk, ears, they cannot hear. You're standing in front of a sculpture and you're asking something from him. He can't do anything, he can't hear you, he can't see you, he can't talk to you. So you convince yourself that there's some sort of a blessing there where God says, I'm ready to perform, not just to tell you perform My Word. I will do everything I said. I will do. Take a look at this almond blossom. Look how pretty. If you come at the end of January, that's what you're going to see in Israel. All the trees, the almond trees will be like that. I guess some of you are going to be in Israel at the end of January beginning of February, folks, it is beautiful! And the trees are dressed in white and it's only going to be for a couple weeks and then it's gone. It's as if the blossom came to visit, as if it came for a season, and you behold its beauty. Look at this. Isn't it pretty? The almond tree is the first to blossom of all trees, putting forth its blossoms so early generally in February, but sometimes even in January. And that is why it's so amazing, folks, because Jesus' resurrection is always likened to the blossom of the almond tree. And that's why in First Corinthians, chapter 15:22-23: 'But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive. But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ’s at His coming. ' So we will resurrect when He will return for the rapture to take us to be with Him. But first He had to resurrect. He was the Firstfruits. This is why the almond was always a picture of Jesus' Resurrection. The blossom of the almond was a way of God to say: This is how I'm about to perform My Word. I'm about to send My Word to this world. He will die for you. And He's going to what? Resurrect. And He will resurrect first Because He's the Firstfruits. Isn't that beautiful? Isn't that amazing? Now, why do we have the Menorah? Really, why do we have the Menorah? Think about it. Hebrews, chapter nine is telling us, the whole chapter, by the way, so I didn't quote the whole chapter. But Hebrews nine is telling us that the earthly sanctuary is a shadow of a greater Sanctuary in Heaven. You remember? And by the way again, it's Hebrews, chapter nine. I mean, you really can read the whole chapter speaking about this amazing, amazing thing regarding that. But I just want you to understand. Here in verse 24 he says: 'For Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us.' Wow... In verse 23 it says: 'Therefore it was necessary that the copies of the things in the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. For Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, which are copies...' God gave us in the old testament a hint, a harbinger, a shadow of what He's about to do when Messiah is about to come. And the Menorah with all the way it looks with the blossom of the almond spoke of Jesus, spoke not only of the life of Jesus as the Light of the world, but also of the resurrection of Jesus. Because it's the almond blossom which is the first to bloom. Now a lot of people are asking me: So wait a minute, if the Menorah that we saw in Jerusalem is just a replica, where is the real Menorah? Mm. Look at this picture, it's a fun one. This is our bus driver, Yaniv. Do you remember him? And this is someone else is such a model, I'm not sure who. But ignore this picture and look at the back. What do we see? I have a hint hiding in this picture. What is in the back? Can anyone tell me? Correct. Correct. In the back you see, the Vatican doesn't have the bluish over there but the Saint Peter Basilica in Rome, the Vatican. And people ask me, Amir, what do you mean, Vatican? Well, I can tell you this. Many of the treasures of the Roman Empire were actually stored, taken and stored in the basement of the Vatican. And I want you to know that in the future, as I taught from here even 3-4 years ago, we're going to see the emerging of or the resurrection of the Roman Empire coming from Western Europe. It's gonna be a combination of Germany and France and all of those Western European countries. They formed the EU, now the EU is not good enough, they want to form a new one of only 10 countries. That's what they want. Macron is pushing for a 10 countries alliance, but this time we'll have our own army. First time since the fall of the Roman Empire that Europe wants to be united again with its army. And the Bible says that there will be not only the Antichrist himself, but there's also going to be a spiritually leader that will come ahead of him, who will be what? The false prophet. He has to be a religious figure that will be accepted all over the world. And the only option that we have nowadays coming from the western part of Europe from the dead and about to be resurrected Roman Empire is, of course, the pope coming from it. Now, think about it. If the Antichrist will want to reign from Jerusalem... How do you know that? Because the Bible tells me so. I mean, I go now to second Thessalonians, chapter two, the Bible says about the Antichrist in Verse four: The one 'who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.' He will go into the temple and declare himself as god. And in order for that temple to be a kosher temple with its original Menorah, I... And now comes my own assumption. It's not in the Bible, and it's not even a prophecy because I'm not a prophet. But I wanna think: okay, Is there a chance that the false prophet will offer the Jewish golden Menorah back to Jerusalem so the Antichrist can reign from a temple and say, I'm the true God? I even have the authentic Menorah. But this is just gossip what I just told you, it's just something that you should write, and now, you're gonna forward it to all your friends, and all of them will be sure that it's in the Bible. It's not. But I want to always bring you back to the Bible, because now we come to the conclusion of this message. I'm not gonna ask you: What is the Menorah? Where is the Menorah? How is the Menorah? I'm gonna ask you: Who is the Menorah? That's what I want to ask you. Isaiah, chapter 60 verses 1,2,3 says: 'Arise, shine; For your light has come! And the glory of the Lord is risen upon you. For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, And deep darkness the people; But the Lord will arise over you, And His glory will be seen upon you. The Gentiles shall come to your light, And kings to the brightness of your rising. And the glory of the Lord is risen upon you. For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, And deep darkness the people; But the Lord will arise over you, And His glory will be seen upon you. The Gentiles shall come to your light, And kings to the brightness of your rising.' Isaiah chapter nine verse two: 'The people who walked in darkness Have seen a great light; Those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, Upon them a light has shined.' So when God gave the people of Israel the Menorah, it was mere shadow of the true Light that is about to come to the world to shine His Light. Now, by the way, just so you know, when the Bible says the people were in darkness in the valley of shadow of death, it's just an expression. Psalm 107 says... I didn't even put it in a message. Probably I should have, but Psalm 107 is saying the following thing about that. The Bible says in Psalm 107, look at this, it says in verse 10: 'Those who sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, Bound in affliction and irons--' Why? 'Because they rebelled against the words of God, And despised the counsel of the Most High, Therefore He brought down their heart with labor; They fell down, and there was none to help. Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, And He saved them out of their distresses. He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death.' Wow! John, chapter eight, verse 12: 'Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am..."' "I am" in Greek is "Ego eimi" which is the Name of God, Jehovah, I Am. '“I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.”' Folks, go to Genesis, chapter one read verse one, it says: 'In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.' And then he says, 'The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.' And then in verse three: 'Then God said, “Let there be light”' Wow, those light in the world, but, hello?, only on the fourth day created the sun, the moon and the stars. Who was the light? What was the source of light in the world in the very beginning? And now, Matthew 5: 14 -15, He says: Not only that, I am the light, but when you believe in me, “You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house."' Second Corinthians 4:3-6: But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ,
But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them. For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your bondservants for Jesus’ sake. For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.' Second Corinthians 11:13 -14: 'For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light.' You see, he always copies Jesus. He always copies God, he tries always to be like the most high, so even he is transferring himself to be an angel of life. 'Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.' Watch this. The Freemason it was a Masonic newspaper periodical in England, noted the reading of the following letter: in its January 19, 1935 issue, Albert Pike is quoted. He's one of the top leaders of the Freemason, quoted as giving this instruction to the Council of Very High-level Freemason in Paris, France, on July 14 18 89. Look what he says. Can you move forward? There you go. 'the Masonic religion should be by all of us initiates of the high degrees, maintained in the purity of the luciferian doctrine. If lucifer were not god, would Adonay whose deeds prove cruelty, perfidy and hatred of man, barbarism and repulsion for science, would Adonay and His priests, calumniate Him? Yes, lucifer is god, and unfortunately Adonay is also God. Thus, the doctrine of Satanism is heresy, and the true and pure philosophical religion is the belief in lucifer, the equal of Adonay, but lucifer, god of light and god of good, is struggling for humanity against Adonay, the god of darkness and evil.' That's what they teach in the Freemason's temples. You see how dark, you see how demonic, you see how they take the light of God and, shew, switch it. That's what they teach in thousands of places in the Philippines and all over the world. And they look like they're good people and they do good things. But in the highest levels, they teach Satanism, and it's always playing on the God of light who is the source of light. I want to show you something very cool. Are you up for a cool thing? I want you to see Hebrew, bə-rê-šîṯ bā-rā ’ĕ-lō-hîm; ’êṯ haš-šā-ma-yim wə-’êṯ hā-’ā-reṣ. This is Genesis 1:1 in Hebrew: 'In the beginning...' Can we go to the next one? I hope it's there. Look at this middle. The middle... Go back. The middle is Aleph and Tav, look, Aleph and Tav. "’êṯ": the middle is Aleph and Tav, you know, what Aleph and Tav? The beginning and the end. The Alfa and the Omega. And now move forward. 'In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.' The middle one is the Aleph and the Tav. Genesis 1:1 in the Hebrew makes a Menorah where the main one is Jesus, Aleph and Tav, the Alfa and the Omega. Isaiah, chapter 44:6: 'Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel, And his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts: "I am the First and I am the Last; Besides Me there is no God."' Isaiah 48 Verse 12: '“Listen to Me, O Jacob, And Israel, My called: I am He, I am the First, I am also the Last."' Revelation 1:8: '“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,” says the Lord, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.” Wow! In Isaiah, chapter 11:2: 'The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him...' Okay, take your fingers. Do this and let's start counting, Okay? The Spirit, what? '...of the Lord shall rest upon Him...' The Lordship, then: 'The Spirit of wisdom and understanding, The Spirit of counsel and might, The Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord.' The seven spirits of God. Isn't that interesting? Take a look at this Menorah. Revelation 4:5: 'The Seven lamps of fire were burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.' '...given to us' in Isaiah, chapter 11 and Jesus Himself in the synagogue of Nazareth read from Isaiah 61 confirmed that it's all about Him. Revelation 4:5: 'And from the throne proceeded lightnings, thunderings, and voices. Seven lamps of fire were burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.' And we come to the conclusion. We started with saying that in the beginning there was no temple, certainly there was no Menorah. Say, no Temple. Say, no Menorah. Why there was no temper or no Menorah because God was there. God was there. There was light. There was no need for a temple. He was with you. Guess what? Revelation 21:23: The new Jerusalem that is about to come. The Bible says: 'The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb of God is its...' the Greek is "lychnos", the light, which is exactly the Hebrew word for Menorah, the light. The Lamb of God is the Menorah. That's what it says in the Hebrew. Therefore, I conclude that Jesus was the original source of light and will be once again the only source of light. The Menorah was mere shadow of the Messiah and once He's here with His own, there will no longer need any other light. Amen. And so, honestly, I don't care where the Menorah is and honestly, I don't care if it's coming back going over new one old one because I want to come to the point where I am no longer having any Menorah, and there is no longer a need for a temple. Because we are living eternal life in the new Jerusalem and Jesus Christ is our Menorah and shine His light. By the way, every time somebody is having a Revelation of what heaven is gonna look like, the first thing he describes is bright light that he's never seen in his life, the brightness. You know, you go to a photo shoot, it's all about the light, you know that? Trust me, yesterday I looked like a mummy when I was in CBN. Folks, the Light of the world, the same One who spoke to Moses face to face, the same One who came to bring the Light to those who sit in darkness, the same One who was with the people of Israel in the desert as they crossed the Red Sea, as they crossed the Jordan River, as they entered into the land. It's the same one. He is the same yesterday, today and forever. The Menorah was just a hint, a foreshadow, it was just to tell you of the things to come. It was a shadow of the real things which are in heaven. And it is Jesus Who is our Menorah. Father, we thank You so much for the Light of Jesus in our lives, the Light of Jesus in this world. Father, we ask that You will open the eyes of those who were still in the blindness, it's still in the dark, those who rebelled against Your Word and rejected Your counsel. And Father, may they cry out to You as Psalm 107 says. And as they cry out to You, You will surely answer. And Father, remind us that we are the light of the world and that a lampstand cannot be hidden under the table. Father, often time the reason why we hide is because we know we're not walking with you but there's something wrong with us. Father, today I ask that You will bring to light all that needs to be coming to light so we can become the light that we were intended to be as the Ambassadors of Christ in this world. We thank you and we bless you in Jesus' name, the Name of the Light of this world, in His name we pray and all of God's people say, Amen. Amen.
