Build on the True Foundation

~~ I Will Restore ~~

Joel 2:24 And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with wine and oil. 2:25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you. 2:26 And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed

I will restore. What was eaten or taken away? Grace. Adam had grace, life, to start with. He left grace and went to the old covenant of law, for the express purpose of being a ‘god�? See, Adam wanted to be worshipped, or to rule over others. In order to do this, he had to leave Grace, where we are all ONE, and go into law, where one rules over the others. That law is a rod of iron, by which all are punished if they break it or sin. God does not impute sin where there is no law. So under grace, we are sinless. Under grace we are all the same, neither male nor female, neither bond nor free. We are all on equal grounds. Everyone who does not live thus, all as one, are under that hated and cast away old covenant of law. That covenant is only sanctified by the blood of animals, so all who go back to this covenant in any way, are trampling the blood of Jesus and doing despite to the precious spirit of Grace.

Grace is the tree of life. By Grace are you saved, through faith. By the law is no faith. Without faith, it is impossible to please God. So it is impossible to please God under law. I could write forever on the differences between grace and law. But I will only cover a few things. If you ever see this revelation of the fall of the OT, then you will be able to learn all the things which pertain to life, and those which pertain to death, law.

Be it known to you that both laws, or covenants, are written all through the Scriptures. Just because something is stated in any one Book of Scripture, does not prove it is of law or grace. One must learn what is of law and what is of grace, because both laws are written in all Scripture. Therein lies the cause of most misunderstandings of the ways of God.

If you live by any part of law, you went back into darkness and death. Everyone seems to think that if it was law, it means it was good and of God. But here is proof that this is not so: Eze 20:24 Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my Sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols. Eze 20:25 Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;

God gave them statutes and judgments by which they should not live. The law was added because of their sins. God had said in the beginning for men to have one wife. But they began to choose multiple wives as Cain’s family had done. Because of this very sin, God repented of having made them. See, the sons of God began to pick up this evil practice of Cain’s family. Here is proof: Gen 6:1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, Ge 6:2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. Ge 6:3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. Ge 6:4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. Ge 6:5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Ge 6:6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. Ge 6:7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

Ge 6:8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

Notice this great statement. Noah found GRACE. How many wives did Noah have? Only ONE, the only number God has ever approved of. So, out of that great society of people, only one man had found Grace. This one man still lived according to God’s true law. He still lived according to God’s chosen plan for marriage = one man and one woman. So this is a necessary part of GRACE.

The sons of Satan had gone to more than one wife. It greatly displeased God. Gen 4:17 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch. Ge 4:18 And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech. Ge 4:19 And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.

Now there is the history of the first man who took two wives. He was following in his father, Adam’s footsteps, for Adam was the head over this first world. It took seven generations for this evil to occur. This man was a descendant of Cain, who never served God. So it proves that this evil came directly from those who never obeyed God. Then later, those who were serving God, began to pick up this practice. This so displeased God that he sent the flood and destroyed that society. Only Noah was left, who still lived by grace and had only one wife. Only someone who is willfully disobedient could fail to see this. But this is a sin which vexes the Holy Spirit of God. It causes his anger to rise up enough to send major destruction to mankind.

God said four kingdoms would rule the world in the OT times. It began with Adam, the first head, or kingdom. It went down through Moses, law, which was that fourth head. Then he promised to restore all that those four had eaten away, which was grace, and all that goes with the blessing of grace.

Here is the beginning of that restoration: Eze 36:11 And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

Notice that he said I will settle you after your OLD ESTATES. This is referring to the beginning with Adam and Eve before they fell into sin, or law. Now to prove that this is the beginning of the NT, or Grace:

Eze 36:22 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy name's sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye went. Eze 36:23 And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes. Eze 36:24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land. Eze 36:25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. Eze 36:26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. Eze 36:27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. Eze 36:28 And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God. Eze 36:29 I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you. Eze 36:30 And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen.

Now the above is clearly speaking of the coming in of the New Covenant of Grace, at Pentecost. This is when God fulfilled the above promise of restoring the years that the worms ate away. Verse 30.. I will multiply the fruit of the tree�?he is speaking of again coming to that tree of life, which is grace. Under grace we live according to God’s chosen way of life, not our own way.

Eze 36:31 Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations. Eze 36:32 Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord GOD, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel. Eze 36:33 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded. Eze 36:34 And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by. Eze 36:35 And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited.

Verse 31... He shows them that their own ways were evil and they were living by their own ways. Verse 35 proves that he would again bring them back as in Eden. This was fulfilled at Pentecost. This is when they came back into the Grace which Adam had taken the world away from.

Now Jesus Christ was the minister to teach us the ways of this new covenant, which Adam had cast away in his evil desire to be a god. So the only way to prove what is of Grace and what is of that old law is to go by the teachings of Jesus and His chosen apostles. If you attempt to go back and prove things by those under the old covenant, you will lose your place in Christ, for Christ is of no effect to those who return to law.

Gal 4:21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? Ga 4:22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. Ga 4:23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise. Ga 4:24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. Ga 4:25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.

Now the above is very powerful. Read it again and again. Listen to the words. You who desire to be under law, do ye not hear the law? What? Abraham had two sons by two different women, under law. The bondwoman represents this bondage, for she was not the married, or first wife. She and her son are bond children. So are all who go back to law.

Gal 4:29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now. Ga 4:30 Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman. Ga 4:31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free. He that is born after the flesh, or law, persecutes him that was born after the Spirit. Watch those today who live after the flesh, or law. Watch them persecute with their words, those of us who preach grace or the Holy Ghost, pure, holy living. But notice he said cast out the bond children. This is 11Cor 3, where God did away with that old covenant. Jesus took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross. But the majority of people went right back to that bondage of law. Why? Jesus said they love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil. See, evil. Same as in Genesis six. Their thoughts were only evil continually. They looked around at all the women and took of them all that they lusted after. All of the old testament men were under this evil law. That is why they took so many wives. But notice this: Gal 4:28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.

How many wives did Isaac have? Only one. He was the grace child. He was the promised seed of righteousness.

Gal 5:3 For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. Ga 5:4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

Christ is become of no effect unto you who are justified by the law. Ye are fallen from Grace. So Grace is what Adam fell from. Grace is what Adam took away from men. Only a very few found grace since the sin of Adam. Gen 6:8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

Noah is the first person to have found grace and this is the only reason his family was spared death under the flood. He is the only reason mankind was not completely destroyed. How many wives did he have? Only ONE. Each of his sons also had only ONE wife. Only eight people went into that ark, four men and four women. No multiply wives were spared that destruction. When a man takes more than one wife, he falls away from grace, back to law. Christ is become of no effect to them.

The next man to have found grace is Lot. How many wives did Lot have? Only ONE. Gen 19:19 Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast showed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:

Notice that Lot acknowledges that it is because of this grace, mercy, that he and his family were spared the destruction then. Notice that after this, his two daughters, having witnessed the sins of Sodom, and lacking faith, both became pregnant by their father. The made him drunk so he would not be able to realize what they were doing. He would not have submitted to the two going with him, for he knew he was in grace. But they had fallen into the sins of Sodom. They went right back to this evil law practice, just as Noah had gone back to the animal sacrifices of law, after the flood. But the promise of restoration is still in God’s mind.

The next person said to have found grace in the sight of the Lord is Moses. Each time someone else, in Genesis, spoke of finding grace, it was in the eyes of some other man. Moses is the next person to have found grace in the eyes of the Lord. How many wives did Moses have? Only one. Even when he had to leave her and go into the wilderness, he still did not take another wife.

The OT People were always in great trespass against the Lord. Proof: Ezr 9:7 Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.

So don’t go telling me that you can prove what is righteous by those people and the things they did!

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when did Grace return to the people? And by whom? Zec 4:7 Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.

Surely you know that the above is prophecy of John and Jesus? No Grace was obtained other than the few mentioned, until Jesus came.

Zec 12:10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.

Many people wish to place the above at the second coming of Jesus. But that is not the case. Jesus gave us the spirit of grace and supplications after he died and brought in salvation, on the Day of Pentecost. That is when God restored the years those worms had eaten away. That is when the grace, which Adam lost, was restored to the human race.

So now that grace has been restored, how must we live? According to the spirit of Holiness, which Jesus taught. If Jesus did not teach it, it is in error and of that dead old covenant. So if you are teaching and practicing things which Jesus did not teach, you have fallen from grace, back to law, and will be held accountable for all your sins.

Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sins. Who is this blessed man? It is only those who obey Jesus�?teachings and come into grace.

Romans 4:6 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, Ro 4:7 Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. Ro 4:8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.

Ro 4:13 For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. Ro 4:14 For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect: Ro 4:15 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression. Ro 4:16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all.

No one was cleansed of sin under the law. No one can be justified by law. Gal 3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. Ga 3:11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith. Ga 3:12 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them. Ga 3:13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree

So Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law. The only way you can live by grace is to live by the things which Jesus and his Apostles taught, for they taught the ways of grace and the new covenant. But even in those Scriptures, the things of law are still written.

So now, go back and read our opening verses in Joel two. God promised to restore all the years the worms ate away, and to give us abundance of corn, wine and oil. This is the truth of the new covenant, grace. So when did this occur? Joel 2:28 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: Joe 2:29 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit. Joe 2:30 And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. Joe 2:31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come. Joe 2:32 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.

Ac 2:1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. Ac 2:2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. Ac 2:3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. Ac 2:4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

Ac 2:29 Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day. Ac 2:30 Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne; Ac 2:31 He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption. Ac 2:32 This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses. Ac 2:33 Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.

Ac 2:16 But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; Ac 2:17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: Ac 2:18 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy: Ac 2:19 And I will show wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: Ac 2:20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:

Ac 2:21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. (See that the women, daughters of God, prophecy under this new Grace Covenant. God has exalted the women under the Grace Covenant. They are now back in the rightful place which God made Eve to be, the helpmeet, or the one who surrounds, leads, protects, succors. )

Now the above Scripture solidly proves that the restoration Joel spoke of was fulfilled on the Day of Pentecost. Peter quoted that same Scripture from Joel two, and said, “This is that�?

You would have to call the Scriptures and Peter a lie to deny that the outpouring of the Holy Ghost on the Day of Pentecost fulfilled that prophecy in Joel two. So this is when God returned grace to the human race, so that everyone who is willing, might have this grace and thereby, salvation. There is no other means of salvation. If you refuse this that came at Pentecost, you will never have salvation. It is the only way. Now, if you think you can have this grace, and still live as under that law, you are sadly mistaken. Paul clearly laid this out in Galatians, which I have already quoted here, that if you go back to that law, you fall from grace. And that is exactly what Adam did. He left Grace and went into law, for he loved the worship and to rule over others. He did not wish to be on equal grounds with Eve, his wife, as God had created them to be. So this was total rebellion against God’s way on earth.

God’s chosen and only way, is EQUALITY. You are ALL ONE, which means being equal or totally united, with no one ruling over another. Now we know that Jesus taught his disciples that they were not to rule over each other. He said, with you, (his people), it shall not be so. Then if you return to that OT way, of the man ruling over the woman, you are again in total rebellion against God and his way. If you think you can take more than one wife, you are in total rebellion to grace, God’s way.

Only if Jesus and his Apostles taught it, would it be permissible under the new covenant. They most certainly DID NOT TEACH IT. It has no example in the New Testament. Those who claim they can do this, MUST go back to those rebelling under the old covenant to find examples. But all of those men were under that cast-away old covenant, of the blood of animals, which can never take away sins. So you are not under the right covering. But you today, cannot go back and live under that old covenant and find salvation.

Here is proof that the men of past times were walking in their own ways, and not in God’s ways. Notice how these men wanted to do sacrifice to Paul and Barnabas. This is exactly the sin of Adam as he caused Eve to do sacrifice to him, as a god. Ac 14:15 And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein: Ac 14:16 Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways. Ac 14:17 Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness. Ac 14:18 And with these sayings scarce restrained they the people, that they had not done sacrifice unto them.

See, it shows that this thing of sacrificing to man, was some of the ways of man, which those of the past practiced. It came from their father, Adam, or Satan. But see that God does not wink at ignorance now, after Jesus came and taught us the right ways of God. Ac 17:30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:

Here is proof that all who practiced the OT methods were choosing their own ways: Isa 66:3 He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.

Now that takes in the OT ways of worship. But notice that God called it an abomination to himself and said they had chosen their own ways. So this proves that all of that law system was the ways of man, and not the ways of God.

So the men under this covenant are not an example of salvation, or those living in the New Testament. Those under grace must go by the teachings of Jesus. So, what did Jesus teach about marriage? Mt 19:3 The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? Mt 19:4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, Mt 19:5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Mt 19:6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. Mt 19:7 They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away? Mt 19:8 He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.

See, he took it back to how God set it in the beginning. And how was that? God made Adam only one wife. Jesus said the TWAIN, (means two) shall be ONE flesh. He never at any time said a man could take two wives, as did those old covenant people. We, under grace, must go back to the beginning, to God’s pattern of marriage. Jesus said so right here. A man must have just one wife, as God chose to set it.

I will finish this message with Malachi. This last Book of the OT, is God’s calling Israel to judgment and showing them how their own ways have been an abomination to God. Read this book and you will see God contending with them over many things, by which they had profaned his Holy Name.

Mal 2:11 Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god. Mal 2:12 The LORD will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto the LORD of hosts. Mal 2:13 And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth it with good will at your hand. Mal 2:14 Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. Mal 2:15 And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. Mal 2:16 For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

Now this is solid proof that God took them back to the Garden of Eden to the beginning. Here he shows them that he had made man only one wife. Then he shows how they had dealt treacherously against this wife of his youth. God stated here that he will cut off the man who does this. He said He will not regard their tears or offerings, who do this thing, of dealing treacherously against the wife (singular) of his youth. Will you not fear? Will you not amend your ways and choose God’s ways? Why will you die? Come into the Grace covenant, if you want eternal life. It is not possible to live under that dead old covenant now, since Jesus, since Pentecost, and have life. It is death. It is the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. To practice having more than one wife is to bring your family into death. To still hold your wife under the bondage, of having the man rule over her, is also rebellion and holding to that dead, old covenant. That is solidly proven in this message. To serve any idol is to take you back under that old dead covenant. To think you must still keep a weekly Sabbath, is also of this dead covenant.

Gal 4:16 Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

By: Jo Smith �?Sept. 13, 2007

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