Today's Message

   

THE GREAT HOUSE (II)

So, we can conclude by saying that the Great house represent the mixtures of Holy seed with unholy seed, believers with ‘’unbeliever’s’’, or better still we can call it a place where Gold (signifying God’s natures) and silver (signifying Salvation or Redemption) mixed together with Wood (signifying carnal works) and Earth (signifying the Flesh).

This Great house can also be liken unto individual believers, for the coming together of the believers is what bring this house to full measure.

Above all, the Great House is a Backslidden Church that has a name that she is still living but she is dead!! 

Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord GOD, the God of hosts,
That in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him I will also visit the altars of Bethel: and the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground. And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the LORD (Amos 3:13-15)


NOTE: As we will see here that the great house is nothing but the backslidden church, church here does not referred to the physical building but the People of God.
What we want to discuss here relate to the issue of the ‘’Churches" better still ''denominations’’ not only that but also the Believers cause the coming out of the Systems of the world to serve the Lord is called the CHURCH- Ekklesia. And this has to with you and I.
With that understanding, we can vividly understand this message of the great house; I trust the Lord to help and illuminate our heart, that the eye of our understanding will be open so that we might these things in Jesus name. Amen

Reading through the book of Amos chapter 3 from verse 1, God was against the promiscuity and abominable things done in Israel even in Samaria her capital. Although the Lord has redeemed and saved them from the land of Egypt (the world) nevertheless, as they multiplied, their sins and iniquities were proliferating. The Lord declared that He will not overlook their wickedness without judging them.

In verse 11, God revealed His judgment and what He will use to judge Israel for their sins- Egypt {the heathen Nations/the World}. This is Why the Outer court in Revelations 11:2 which was without the Temple was leaved out without measurement [But the court which is without the Temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles; and the holy city-Israel shall they under foot forty and two months(40 means Wilderness)]. This show that, if any Jew as a physical Israel or believer as a Spiritual Israel does not move or refused to move beyond this Realm of the Outer Court, the Heathen nations which is the World will come in her fullness to tread them down.

I wouldn't go into that now. The outer Court, The Holy Place and The Holy of Holies have a Revelations of their own and they cannot be fully discussed here. But I will just touch them partially in this message as we continue.

Amos 3:12

Thus saith the LORD; As the shepherd takes out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch

To best understand these; Samaria which was the Capital city of Israel represent a Nation of Mixtures, it also signified those who worship what they know not[see John 4:22].Whereas Damascus speaks of those who draw back in the things of God into carnality. These two has no differences because they both served the same Idols. The Lord is saying those who lived in Samaria {the Land of Mixtures} and refused to know their God, and those who took pleasure in carnality {Damascus} will be as those who shepherd takes out of Lion’s mouth{Devourer) not in peace but in pieces.

Amos 3:13-14

Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord GOD, the God of hosts; That in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him I will also visit the altars of Bethel: and the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground.

The word ‘’transgression’’ means going beyond the limit or boundary, it also means the breaking of Law. The Lord required the children of Israel to stay where he has place them, they must not at any time go beyond what he has taught them, that is, His Statutes, His commandments, and His Judgments; but the truth of the matter were these; they went ahead, started doing their own things, not only that, they committed various abominations in the House of God – Bethel (see Gen 12:8; 13:3-4; 28:17-19; 35:15; Judges 20:18-28). 

Bethel means the house of bread; this is a place where the words of God proceed from. But once it is polluted; strange words, teachings and doctrines will set in. The unadulterated words of God will become adulterated, why? Because the Sanctuary of Holy bread has been polluted, the House of unleavened Bread has turned into house of leavened bread. Here you have the choice to choose the one that fits your agenda and self-glory.

How come that Bethel became a den of wolfs and all manners of fowls? The King Jeroboam was the first King that made it a place of Idolatry.

1 Kings 12:28-29

whereupon the king [Jeroboam] took counsel {not of God neither from Him}, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them (the Children of Israel),”It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem”: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. And he set the one in Bethel (in the House of Bread), and the other put he in Dan (The place of Judgment)

How many God brought the children of Israel out of the Land of Egypt? Is it not ONE God? How many gods did Jeroboam presented to them? Two, and from that, those gods began to multiply.

To get the ‘’people’’ out of the way is just a matter of twisting the gospel of Christ into something else; Jeroboam succeeded in doing that by deceiving them into believing in something else.

[I recommend the remaining of that chapter to you]

That was the beginning of journey to the great House, the beginning of retrogression in the house of Jacob. Though we may say that their problem started with their leader, their leader was the one that introduced another god to them, it was also them that built abomination in the house of God but more-also, the problem of the leaders is also the problem of the followers. The followers love it so.

Is there any different with what we have here and what is going on in various denominations and Christian’s organization today? Is there any different between these chapters of the scriptures with what Paul was warning Timothy against?

In order for the people of God not to see Christ, His True Church, the House the Lord is building, altar that resembles THE TRUE ALTAR OF GOD has being built, ‘THINGS’’ has taken the place of “CHRIST”. These are they presenting to us as Christ and His Church just like Jeroboam said; ”It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold these are the gods that brought you out Egypt-World’’ the same things are they telling us day by day.

The issue has always been the issue of going UP, anything that has to do with that, it always invites the enemy to war front.

Can’t we see the abominations that make desolate in our Christianity today? The Bethel that was known for the house of bread turned to the house of Money changers, business hall through the generations of them that know not the God of the House.

The Lord aims and purpose was not only to visit the Bethel that was polluted but also to cut-off the horns that polluted it and cast it into the ground. The horn here speaks of the Leaders; these are the strength that uphold this altar. They are the one that built corruption and abomination in Bethel.

Amos 3:15

And I [The Lord} will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the LORD.

We see from this scripture above that once a house begins to emerge different from the one the Lord is building, such a house will begins to increase both in numbers, names and in different patterns. 

And here we have four categories of houses; four means Flesh or carnality, the third and fourth house were not singular but plurals which means that there are many houses of ivory and great houses.

For better understanding, let’s take these houses one after the other from the accounts of the scriptures and see what the Lord has to say about them and what they represent in our days as used in this verse.