Good God Sunday Morning –June 17, 2012… A Time to Build Part III*

*A continuation of: Good God Sunday Morning –May 27, 2012…The Epistle of the Mountain Top at New Bethel- Part I and Part II June 17, 2012

And the Holy Spirit spoke and said “Some will not understand this prophetic message for it is not for everyone’s understanding.”  And I did not wrestle with the instructions that I was given or its understanding but obeyed and did my Father’s Bidding. Selah- Prophetess Dukes  

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Later as I dreamt the vision again appeared

And I looked down the mountain and saw the people and from a far off I saw my sister, the Nehemiah woman*. She was standing against a wall with mortar and bricks in hand ready to rebuild and behind her stood more mountains. *

  Now that we have come down from the mountain let us not forget lest we shall falter. But let us gather up what was considered waste, forgotten and of no value, and with it we shall rebuild, for were we not called all these things and look what the Lord God Jehovah has done! Selah - Prophetess Dukes  

Nehemiah Urges Rebuilding Jerusalem's Walls

17 Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.
18 Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me; as also the king's words that he had spoken unto me. And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for this good work.
19 But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king? 20 Then answered I them, and said unto them, The God of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build: but ye have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem. (The Book of Nehemiah Chapter2)

Builders of the Sheep Gate

Builders of the Old Gate

Builders of the Valley Gate

Builder of the Dung Gate

Builder of the Gate of the Fountain

Builders of the Wall

(The Book of Nehemiah Chapter 3)

A Time to Build

Come all ye planters…come ye waterier… harvesters...Fishermen of men…

Shepherds of the flock… It is time to build

It is time to lay the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof

It is time to repair, restore, realign, resurrect… the old gates thereof

It is time to build, to sanctify it, and set up the doors of it

Gather up the straw, the mud, the dung…

What man has warranted useless will be your plenty …make bricks

For the Hand that is upon you will be upon it…Build Your Walls

And nothing will be able to prevail against it

Have I not told you there is a time for everything* … It is time to build

 Selah

- Prophetess Sandra Dukes  

*Ecclesiastes 3 KJV

Note: Paraphrasing Bishop-Apostle Adrienne Williams

 “You must learn to build (work with one hand) and war (have a sword in the other hand). Selah

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Watchmen for the Gates

1 Now it came to pass, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed, 2 That I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the ruler of the palace, charge over Jerusalem: for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many. 3 And I said unto them, Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun be hot; and while they stand by, let them shut the doors, and bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, every one in his watch, and every one to be over against his house.

(The Book of Nehemiah Chapter 7)

The Book of Nehemiah is a book of the Hebrew Bible. Told largely in the form of a first-person memoir, it concerns the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem by Nehemiah, a Jew who is a high official at the Persian court, and the dedication of the city and its people to God's laws (Torah). The events take place in the second half of the 5th century BC, and together with the Book of Ezra, it represents the final chapter in the historical narrative of the Hebrew Bible^[1]

The book tells how Nehemiah, at the court of the king in Susa, is informed that Jerusalem is without walls and resolves to restore them. The king appoints him as governor of Judah and he travels to Jerusalem. There he rebuilds the walls, despite the opposition of Israel's enemies, and reforms the community in conformity with the Law of Moses. After 12 years in Jerusalem, he returns to Susa but subsequently revisits Jerusalem. He finds that the Israelites have been backsliding and taking non-Jewish wives, and he stays in Jerusalem to enforce the Law.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Nehemiah

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