Vol. 2: Godly Marriages & The Exiles of Israel — [Proclamation #23]

This is the second vision that YHWH gave me on Aug. 02, 2024, about life in the future, regathered and restored Israel, as once proclaimed through the mouths of many Hebrew prophets in days of old in His Word, the Bible.

The vision began with a group of young men, none older than twenty-five, talking to each other in a room. The room’s main wall was covered with screens of camera footage from around the city, and the young men watched and discussed what was happening until one of them, let’s call him Ethan, stepped out to join another group of his mates in a corner of the street. Ethan whispered something into one of his friends’ ears. This friend whispered it into another person’s ear, who whispered it into the next person’s ear and so on, until the whispering had gone through the entire group of about five young men.

Ethan’s summoning of his comrades proved fruitful, as shortly after this round of whispers, one of the boys stepped away for a moment and returned with a young woman, whom we will call Myriam, who looked about their age. He made her stand in front of Ethan.

Myriam was very shy, but she remained well-mannered. She was smiling and spoke politely to the group of young men surrounding her. I received the understanding in my spirit that Ethan had been eyeing this girl for a while, way back in the surveillance room, but couldn’t muster the courage to approach her openly with the whole town’s knowledge. As she stood before him, the look in Ethan’s eyes betrayed his complete lustful intentions towards Myriam; he could barely keep it together. It was pure lust and infatuation, not love.

My point of view moved to a man in his mid-to-late forties, who was an elder in the community. He noticed them from afar and observed their little gathering for a moment; it was a young, single woman being interrogated and stared at like prey by five young men. The second he understood what was happening, his countenance changed, and he approached the group of youngsters. He had a brief word with them, and then the group scattered, breaking off the whole ordeal.

The vision jumped to YHWH’s temple, where the Lord had summoned the group of youth to discuss what had happened. Ethan and Myriam were asked to take a step forward, and YHWH asked for a full account of what happened.

I explained in part 1, ‘YHWH Disciplines the One He Loves’, that in restored Jerusalem, YHWH dwells at the front centre of the temple, on the altar, and it is from there that He rules over His people as their God and Father. The way YHWH showed it to me was that the altar was not a platform where a pastor preached, but it was the presence of Elohim Himself represented as a cloud of bright Light. His audible voice comes out of that cloud, and He speaks to us directly.

So, standing in front of the YHWH’s altar surrounded by his friends, Ethan gave a full account about the matter from the first time Myriam caught his attention several weeks earlier, to where they stood in the temple that very moment. He had spent some time asking about her whereabouts and gathering information about her from his circle, which was represented as him in the surveillance room in the first scene. He progressed in his inquiries until he finally succeeded in bringing her into his presence, as witnessed by the elder. Myriam also detailed how she first heard about Ethan, what happened next, and the manner in which she was taken to that meeting.

When they had finished speaking, YHWH scorned Ethan and his friends for their behaviour towards the young woman as inappropriate. He also called out the lust in the young man’s eyes and heart. He thoroughly rebuked Ethan for his scheming to feed his lust. He thoroughly rebuked Ethan’s friends for partaking in such schemes and sponsoring their friend’s efforts, making them equally as guilty. He said that there shall be no evil in His holy city, and warned of the dangers of letting the iniquity of the heart spread, grow its tentacles, bringing other people into the same iniquity and nurturing this evil until it bears the fruit of heavy consequences. They spoke there openly, directly, and audibly with no interference. All the youth understood the lesson, and they unanimously repented of their behaviour before YHWH.

The vision jumped to a new setting. It was another day in Israel with different people. I saw a man who called himself a prophet step on a pulpit in a large hall to speak to a congregation. It looked like it was in the temple, but it was not in the same room as the Lord’s altar. This self-proclaimed prophet said that a certain young man among them was YHWH’s choice of husband for his daughter, whom he had taken up there with him.

He kept going on and on about it. He told people how he received the revelation, recounting his dreams, visions, and numerous confirmations he received from God about it over time. He included members of his family in his testimony and even pointed to them in the crowd, saying that they were willing to come to the pulpit as witnesses of everything he was saying.

After the lengthy sermon, the presumed groom-to-be was called to join the man and his daughter on the stage, which he did. As this happened, the community started cheering, shouting and celebrating the godly union of a young man and young woman in the community.

It was here that my point of view went to the back of the hall and landed on two women speaking to each other with an air of scepticism. You know those people, often motherly women of advanced age, who are in church so often that sometimes one may think they live there? You know those black mamas who pray with such fervour that it feels like they can call down fire from heaven with their prayers? Good. The women I saw at the back of the hall were of that breed.

After speaking for some time, the two women gathered the rest of the prayer team together and called for an emergency meeting at the back of the hall. They felt like something was off about this man, his prophecy and everything that was happening in that moment. Despite the congregation still engaged in much celebration, the whole group of intercessors (as they are often colloquially called) agreed that there was something more to the story.

As I watched them discuss this way, YHWH spoke up to describe what I was looking at; He said, ‘The Priesthood.’

The vision suddenly cut away to a group of people being pushed out of huge doors which looked more like gates than ordinary doors. A bus had already been parked at the front, and was waiting for the exiles-to-be. The people were loaded into the bus without any opportunity to turn around or attempt to continue explaining themselves. I saw them struggle to clarify their story, to no avail. A crowd was pushing them out and simultaneously disposing of their possessions.

As the soon-to-be exiles took their seats on the bus, my view zoomed in on their faces and I recognised the self-proclaimed prophet from the pulpit earlier. He, his entire family and all their belongings were loaded on that bus as soon as the priesthood had inquired from God and confirmed that he was a false prophet. Before I knew it, the bus door was slammed shut, and they were banished from the community.

This is where the vision came to an end.

Psalm 11

‘In YHWH I take refuge; how can you say to me,
“Flee like a bird to the mountains,
for look, the wicked bend the bow,
they have fitted their arrow to the string,
to shoot in the dark at the upright in heart.
If the foundations are destroyed,
what can the righteous do?”

YHWH is in his holy temple;
YHWH’s throne is in heaven.
His eyes behold; his gaze examines humankind.
YHWH tests the righteous and the wicked,
and his soul hates the lover of violence.
On the wicked he will rain coals of fire and sulfur;
a scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
For YHWH is righteous;
he loves righteous deeds;
the upright shall behold his face.’

In this prophecy, YHWH is giving us insight into how He will interact with us in the restored Israel, when we will be His people, and He will be our God after He returns to His dwelling place in Jerusalem. In volume 1, we discussed the fact that it will be the very embodiment of the new covenant in Christ, by which ‘God With Us’ will become a daily reality, just like the Father always proclaimed in the Bible that it would be.

In this second volume, YHWH exposes that His eyes will be sweeping through the streets of Jerusalem to examine and test the hearts of His people. He will be present in His restored holy city to rebuke, instruct, and judge us Himself, directly from the temple. He will keep the foundations of the city pure. He will make sure that unrighteousness and wickedness do not take root in our midst to defile the place of which He said to Prophet Jeremiah that it would be ‘sacred.’ Please take a moment to think about what it means for something to be ‘sacred’ to you, and imagine what Jerusalem will be to the Father in those days.

Remember that this had always been YHWH’s plan with Israel from the beginning, when in the wilderness of Sinai, He asked Moses to instruct the whole congregation to consecrate themselves because He would be addressing them directly to give them the ten commandments. But the whole process ended up being so terrifying, and the threat of dying at any given moment so serious because of YHWH’s holiness that the people could not handle it.

‘On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning, as well as a thick cloud on the mountain and a blast of a trumpet so loud that all the people who were in the camp trembled. Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet Elohim. They took their stand at the foot of the mountain.

Now all of Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke, because YHWH had descended upon it in fire; the smoke went up like the smoke of a kiln, while the whole mountain shook violently. As the blast of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses would speak and Elohim would answer him in thunder.

When YHWH descended upon Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain, YHWH summoned Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up. Then YHWH said to Moses, “Go down and warn the people not to break through to see YHWH; otherwise many of them will perish. Even the priests who approach YHWH must consecrate themselves, or YHWH will break out against them.”’ —Exodus 19: 16-22.

We remained in that mode of fellowship with YHWH, always too impure to behold His presence, until the coming of the One who redeemed us from death and unrighteousness through the shedding of His blood on the cross. His name is Yahshua; He is our Messiah and King.

Through Yahshua’s sacrifice, we have been reconciled to YHWH. Through His sacrifice, our bodies have been sanctified, and we have been made righteous in the Father’s sight. YHWH has now poured out His Spirit upon all of us, and we can ‘approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.’ Therefore, YHWH expects this generation of Israel to consecrate itself as a people and a nation through repentance, prayer and discipleship in Christ to prepare accordingly for that intimacy of fellowship with Him shown in this vision. We must prepare for the fulfilment of His promises of old to us.

‘The days are surely coming, says YHWH, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, says YHWH.

But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says YHWH: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts, and I will be their Elohim [God], and they shall be my people. No longer shall they teach one another or say to each other, “Know YHWH,” for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says YHWH, for I will forgive their iniquity and remember their sin no more.

Thus says YHWH, who gives the sun for light by day and the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—YHWH of hosts is his name: If this fixed order were ever to cease from my presence, says YHWH, then also the offspring of Israel would cease to be a nation before me forever.

Thus says YHWH: If the heavens above can be measured and the foundations of the earth below can be explored, then I will reject all the offspring of Israel because of all they have done, says YHWH.

The days are surely coming, says YHWH, when the city shall be rebuilt for YHWH from the tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate. And the measuring line shall go out farther, straight to the hill Gareb, and shall then turn to Goah. The whole valley of the dead bodies and the ashes and all the fields as far as the Wadi Kidron, to the corner of the Horse Gate toward the east, shall be sacred to YHWH. It shall never again be uprooted or overthrown.’ —Jeremiah 31:31-40.

The blood descendants of Jacob (Israel), not as a spiritual Israel or a hyperbole for the church, will be brought back on the land of the covenant to be YHWH’s faithful bride. The church of the Messiah will be grafted onto her to dwell on the land together, not to replace her. We will be His people, and He will be our God. It will happen on this earth before Messiah’s glorious return.

‘And the foreigners who join themselves to YHWH, to minister to him, to love the name of YHWH, and to be his servants, all who keep the Sabbath and do not profane it and hold fast my covenant—these I will bring to my holy mountain and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar, for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.’ —Isaiah 56: 6-7.

In this vision from YHWH, we also learn about the role of the priesthood, who continue to serve as the guardians of YHWH’s will and laws, like they were in the times of old. In the coming holy nation, the Levites will not be bound to the sacrifice of sheep and oxen, for there is no need for such sacrifices anymore in the new covenant. Instead, the descendants of Levi will be primarily functioning as a body of prayer warriors, offering up prayers in YHWH’s temple for the people of God. Which is why YHWH speaks of His house in the end times as a ‘House of prayer,’ something Yahshua quoted in the gospels.

In this new covenant, the function will be occupied by both men and women as the Word tells us about the pouring out of YHWH’s spirit on all flesh, both sons and daughters, in the last days (Joel 2:28-29). Scripture also validates that ministering to God has become devoid of restrictions because of nationality, gender, and status through Christ, as we are all one body in the new covenant—His body.

‘As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is no longer Jew or Greek; there is no longer slave or free; there is no longer male and female, for all of you are one in Christ Jesus. And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to the promise.’ —Galatians 3:27-29.

YHWH desires the reader to be aware of the fact that although all of Israel and the church will be as one people and nation to Him in Jerusalem; although Scripture calls all of us ‘a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession,’ it does not negate the everlasting covenant He made with the blood descendants of Levi to be a tribe set apart as His own possession in Israel. For this reason, YHWH gave a vision of the new temple and land portions in the restored Jerusalem to Prophet Ezekiel, with specific areas still allotted to the Levites, whose sole purpose and occupation will still be to minister to Him in the temple day and night.

‘The word of YHWH came to Jeremiah: Thus says YHWH: If any of you could break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night, so that day and night would not come at their appointed time, only then could my covenant with my servant David be broken, so that he would not have a son to reign on his throne, and my covenant with my ministers the Levites.’ —Jeremiah 33: 19-21.

When YHWH says something, He means it.