“His mouth is full of sweetness. and He is altogether lovely. This is my Beloved and this is my Friend.” Song of Songs 5:16
Today Your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
There is a banquet I have set before you and it is full of beautiful and precious treasures that come from the Words of My mouth.
By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches. Proverbs 24:3-4.
And My mouth is full of sweetness. My Words are sweet for you.
How sweet are Your Words to my taste! Yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth! Psalm 119:103.
I call you into My house, My banquet hall, and I ask you to reside with Me there.
How precious is Your lovingkindness, O God! And the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings. They drink their fill of the abundance of Your house; and You give them to drink of the river of Your delights. For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light. Psalm 36:7-9.
I speak wonderful things and I fill the earth with My glory and majesty. I made the heavens and the earth for you. The highest Heaven is Mine (the Third Heaven which is My Kingdom) but I made it with you in mind.
“Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.” Matthew 25:34.
Eye has not seen, ear has not heard, nor has it entered men’s hearts what I have prepared for you who love Me! You who have loved My Son and taken Him as your Lord and Savior, as your redeemer
And My Son became a curse for you so that you could be blessed. And Jesus prepared a place for you with Me again and drew you back into My very bosom that where He is, you also may be. It is deep within, My secret place where all is in perfect peace.
I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD”; and You forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah. Therefore, let everyone who is godly pray to You in a time when You may be found; surely in a flood of great waters they will not reach him. You are my secret place; You preserve me from trouble; You surround me with songs of deliverance. Psalm 32:5-7.
The place of righteousness, peace and joy in My Holy Spirit. And He invites you to enter My rest.
“Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” Matthew 11:28-30.
Where is that place of perfect peace that no storm can touch and no one steal your joy from you? It is foreshadowed to you in the Tabernacle of which I gave the plan to Moses based on the heavenly pattern. It is the innermost court of the Tabernacle; it is the very Holy of Holies. And all in there is quiet except for the tinkling of the golden bells on the edge of the base of the High Priest’s robe. And it is there I speak to you from above the Mercy Seat. Why? Because it was sprinkled seven times with the blood of the spotless lamb of sacrifice.
I invite you into My rest. And I invited man there from when I first made him on the eve of the seventh day. And this is My rest, the seventh day that is an eternal day, the day of sanctification.
Also I gave them My sabbaths to be a sign between Me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them. Ezekiel 20:12.
And where is that rest? In My everlasting arms.
“The eternal God is a dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms; and He drove out the enemy from before you. Deuteronomy 33:27.
I bring you into My banquet hall and My banner over you is love. It is the place of My rest.
And Jesus comes and draws you into My rest to abide forever. He is Lord of the Shabbat, the seventh day, the Sabbath.
And He was saying to them, “The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.” Luke 6:5.
How is it you would not enter at so great an invitation and so wonderful a place?
The generation I redeemed out of Egypt with outstretched arm, never took My invitation to enter into the rest in My everlasting arms, but instead lived in anxiety, distress, bitterness, and constant complaining and bickering. They did not mix My promises with faith and partake with joy from the table I set for them in the wilderness. They never thought that I set out enough, but everything was there for them.
It is so important that you eat the right words. Eating the wrong words cost Adam the perfect life he was used to living in My rest. It took him from perfect peace and protection and an environment of life with righteousness, peace and joy. He walked with Me and I gave him wisdom, understanding, skill, and great honor. I clothed him with glory and majesty. I gave him rule over the works of My hands. I put all things under his feet.
But he did not know what he had. He was not grateful. And as he listened to the words the devil was speaking to his wife they sounded better than what he had. But this was deceit, misrepresentation, and aimed at taking away his authority over the earth and his seat in Heaven as son of man.
And the devil robbed him of My rest. His life became one of painful toil at the sweat of his brow.
And after Adam did that he never returned to My rest. And seeing that, I did not want him to eat of the tree of life in his fallen condition that would age and have malfunctions from the perishable seed of Adam.
The same was true with the grumbling Israelites, they never enjoyed My rest.
But I had a plan in Jesus to draw you back into My rest. And He carried it out to the smallest and minutest detail.
And now let us talk about what happened with the first man and woman when they did not repent.
Adam and Eve had eaten forbidden fruit and they had to have cleansing but declined My offer and preferred to try to rectify things on their own. They did not bring it to Me or acknowledge what sin they had done. However, in the corrupted state that Adam had plunged himself and his descendants into I did not want him to live forever as he grew more and more infirm. We had to start him off anew.
“And now, the man might stretch out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever,” therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to cultivate the ground from which he was taken. So He cast the man out; and at the east of the garden of Eden He stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of life. Genesis 3:24.
Two cherubim posted at the east gate of the Garden of Eden guarding the way to the tree of life with a flaming sword.
For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do. Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin. Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Hebrews 4:12-16.
Look at the words to “guard the way to the tree of life” in Hebrew:
לִשְׁמֹר אֶת-דֶּרֶךְ עֵץ הַחַיִּים
Et (אֵת): The aleph tav (alpha and the omega, the first and the last, the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet), it is the sign of Jesus, דֶּרֶךְ derek means “way” like a road, pathway, עֵץ ets means tree, wood, trees, and הַחַיִּים Ha (the) Hayyim (life) means “the life” from חַי (living, alive) and verb chayah (חָיָה) (to live).
Now are you thinking about the way back to the Garden to enter and partake of the tree of life as if sin had never been? Yes.
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.” John 14:6.
And what is the fruit of the tree of life for man to eat and never die?
“He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. For My flesh is true food, and My blood is true drink. He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him. As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also will live because of Me. This is the bread which came down out of heaven; not as the fathers ate and died; he who eats this bread will live forever.” John 6:54-58.
Jesus redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for you—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”— in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to you, so that we would receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. Galatians 3:13-14.
The tree of life where you were redeemed from death to life and all your sins and infirmities born by and carried away from you by My Son is the Cross.
Remember when the two unbelieving disciples were on the road to Emmaus the day the Father raised Jesus from the dead and Jesus came to walk with them and their doubt and unbelief prevented them from recognizing Him?
Jesus said to them, “O foolish men and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary for the Messiah to suffer these things and to enter into His glory?” Then beginning with Moses and with all the prophets, He explained to them the things concerning Himself in all the Scriptures. Luke 24:25-27.
And the result?
When He had reclined at the table with them, He took the bread and blessed it, and breaking it, He began giving it to them. Then their eyes were opened and they recognized Him; and He vanished from their sight. They said to one another, “Were not our hearts burning within us while He was speaking to us on the road, while He was explaining the Scriptures to us?” Luke 24:30-32.
The flaming two edged sword was revolving in and cleaning out their hearts to enter to the Garden of Eden again.
In that day the Branch of the LORD will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth will be the pride and the adornment of the survivors of Israel. It will come about that he who is left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called holy—everyone who is recorded for life in Jerusalem. When the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and purged the bloodshed of Jerusalem from her midst, by the spirit of judgment and the spirit of burning, then the LORD (יהוה) will create (בָרָ֣א) over every dwelling place (מְכ֨וֹן) of Mount Zion and over her convocations (מִקְרָא) a cloud (עָנָ֤ן) by day and smoke and the radiance of a fire flaming by night; for over all the glory will be a canopy (חֻפָּֽה) and a tabernacle (sukkah)( סֻכָּה) will be there to give shadow in the daytime from the heat (dryness, heat, desolation, a collateral form of “sword (חֶרֶב)” which is from the verb harav (חָרַב): to attack, smite down, dry up) (חֹרֶב) and a refuge (מַחֲסֶה) and a place of shelter from storm and rain. Isaiah 4:2-6.
Who is the Branch? I told My prophet Zechariah.
Now listen, Joshua the high priest, you and your friends who are sitting in front of you—indeed they are men who are a symbol, for behold, I am going to bring in My servant the Branch. For behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua; on one stone are seven eyes. Behold, I will engrave an inscription on it,’ declares the LORD of hosts, ‘and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day. ‘In that day,’ declares the LORD of hosts, ‘every one of you will invite his neighbor to sit under his vine and under his fig tree.’” Zechariah 3:8-10.
Do you see now why Nathaniel declared Jesus the Messiah, My Son, and the King of Israel when He told him that He saw him under the fig tree before Philip called him?
And now let us consider the stone with the seven eyes.
The stone which the builders rejected that has become the cornerstone has seven eyes.
And I saw in the center (midst) of the throne (with the four living creatures) and the elders a Lamb standing, as if slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth. Revelation 5:6.
My seven spirits and a branch from Jesse’s stem.
Then a shoot will spring from the stem of Jesse, and a branch from his roots will bear fruit. The Spirit of the LORD will rest on Him, The spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and strength, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD. And He will delight in the fear of the LORD. Isaiah 11:1-3.
The raising up of the fallen tabernacle of David has begun in Jesus, Amos 9:11, when all the gentiles come into the New Covenant with Jesus and thus enter Covenant through Him with Me. Acts 15:13-18.
After they had stopped speaking, James answered, saying, “Brethren, listen to me. Simeon has related how God first concerned Himself about taking from among the Gentiles a people for His name. With this the words of the Prophets agree, just as it is written,‘After these things I will return, and I will rebuild the tabernacle of David which has fallen, and I will rebuild its ruins, and I will restore it, so that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles who are called by My name,’ says the Lord, who makes these things known from long ago.” Acts 15:13-18.
Raising again the tabernacle of praise, right into the Holy of Holies behind the veil upon which were embroidered the two cherubim that guarded the way to the tree of life. And that veil was torn in two when Jesus cried, “It is finished,” and gave up His spirit into My hands on the Cross. Matthew 27:51; Mark 15:38; Luke 23:45. The work of redemption had been accomplished and the ransom for sin paid to Me in full by the eternal blood of the true spotless lamb.
He made the veil of blue and purple and scarlet material, and fine twisted linen; he made it with cherubim, the work of a skillful workman. He made four pillars of acacia for it, and overlaid them with gold, with their hooks of gold; and he cast four sockets of silver for them. Exodus 36:35-36.
You understand now why only the veil into the Holy of Holies had the cherubim tapestry in the Tabernacle. And also why there were two golden cherubim carved upon the mercy seat with their attention downward where the blood was sprinkled seven times in atonement for your sins. This took away the sin from those who were saved by the blood of the Lamb and opened to them the tree of life. The Covenant meal of the Body and Blood of My Son, the fruit of the tree of the Cross.
Now you can enter My rest by a new and living way right into My presence in the Holy of Holies, the way of the blood shed for you by your great High Priest, your forerunner behind the veil.
This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil, Jesus has entered as a forerunner for us, having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek. Hebrews 6:19-20.
You are a new creation in Christ, old things have passed away, behold! all things are new. 2 Corinthians 5:17.
And now think about this: The sword that shut Satan and those under his dominion and family out of the Garden so that mankind would not live eternally in that condition by eating from the tree of life, I have now given to you to take down and desolate the devil in your lives and the lives of others. Jesus has given the authority to you in His Name to cast out demons.
Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore, take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm. Stand firm therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; in all, taking up the shield of faith with which you will be able to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God through all prayer and petition praying at all times in the Spirit, and with this in view, be on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints and on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in the opening of my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel. Ephesians 6:11-18.
And how does Jesus take down the devil and all his followers to shut them out of His Kingdom?
And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and He who sat on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and wages war. His eyes are a flame of fire, and on His head are many diadems; and He has a name written on Him which no one knows except Himself. He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God. And the armies which are in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, were following Him on white horses. From His mouth comes a sharp sword, so that with it He may strike down the nations, and He will rule them with a rod of iron; and He treads the wine press of the fierce wrath of God, the Almighty. And on His robe and on His thigh He has a name written, “KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.” Revelation 19:11-16.
The Sword out of His mouth, My Word. And you now have that Sword in your mouth too. My Word is very near you, in your heart and in your mouth. You have only to speak it out.
Who is the one who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? This is the One who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and with the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. For there are three that testify: the Spirit and the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement. If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater; for the testimony of God is this, that He has testified concerning His Son. The one who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself; the one who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning His Son. And the testimony is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life. These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life. 1 John 5:5-13.
The new and living way is open and the angels are ministering spirits to those who are heirs of salvation, that is, of Yeshuah.
Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. Hebrews 10:19-23.
I love you. It is time you entered My rest. I have always wanted you there with Me. Right into My very depths, My bosom. John 1:18. Everything is beautiful in My house and you rest there in My everlasting arms.
“Let His left hand be under my head and His right hand embrace me.” Song of Songs 8:3.
And in My left hand are riches and honor, and in My right hand is healing and eternal life. Proverbs 3:16.
Like a shepherd He will tend His flock, In His arm He will gather the lambs and carry them in His bosom. Isaiah 40:11.