Yet for this I will be sought
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On the Walls of Jerusalem
Shalom B’Shem Yeshua HaMashiach
Peace in the Name of Yeshua, the Messiah
Yet for this I will be sought
By Lars Widerberg
Yet for this I will be sought by the house of Israel, to work for them.
Eze 36:37
Ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem.
Heb 12:22
By the coming of Christ into our lives, by the forming of Christ in us, we are brought into the reality of the heavenly Jerusalem. Zion is brought in as a reality to learn, to guard and to watch over. Zion is indeed a spiritual reality. Zion holds a precious, a peculiar future role. Zion presents and represents a present day burden.
You have come to Zion, found a place of rest at its center, near the Lamb of God. You have a place on its walls; you have to take your place on its walls in skilled participation in the ongoing battle for the city and its life, in anticipation of its final deliverance.
Jerusalem represents the fullness of things eternal, of thoughts divine. Zion awaits, even creation awaits the perfect fulfilment of things promised and designed. Zion awaits your involvement in heavenly measures and developments towards fullness. Zion constitutes the focal point of God’s desires.
“Yet for this I will be sought. . .”
God directs his words, God displays his burden, God speaks his heart to ears which no man has ever detected. The burden of the Creator lies at the foundation of the world, even as the Lamb was slaughtered before the beginning of the world. The perennial burden of the Father forces the nature to align. The burden seeks for companions. Mountains hear and respond, but God is looking for a heart. Judgment and restoration repeats itself on this very foundation. The absence of adherence, the absence of willingness reveals the necessity and prepares the ground for devastating operations of the Lord. A willing ear, an open heart attracts His attention and allows Him to engage in works of grace beyond measure.
As the Lord speaks to the mountains of Israel, Eze 36:1, His perennial burden for the people of the promised land is exposed to the fullest degree. At the heart of the controversy one finds the unwillingness of a privileged nation to produce proper adjustment to conditions required, there is no disciplined willingness to listen and to take heed. As the Lord thus speaks to the mountains of Israel, He watches the surrounding nations as they rage and revel; “Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the enemy hath said against you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession: Therefore. . .” Eze 36:2.
This chapter in the book of Ezekiel holds a most remarkable, a perplexing and breathtaking mixture of judgment and promised restoration. And it is all about this small piece of land, this ever disputed piece of property which God calls His Israel and in which a solid throne is to be set up for His Son, and in which for a while an earthly Zion is to produce law for the nations to listen to and delight in. It is in this solid realm, at the moment filled with dispute and conflict, which God intends to reveal His glory. It is for this realm, particularly for this realm a praying nation is set apart to properly apply these words: “Yet for this I will be sought by the house of Israel, to work for them.” Jerusalem, also the earthly Jerusalem, is of eternal consequence. A praying and a seeking after this pattern holds eternal value, it will profit much at any time. God will take it to heart, remember it and use it for His purposes.
The attitude and approach, the humble seeking of the Lord, ties in with the one purpose and goal for a praying according to this pattern. “As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the LORD.” Eze 36:38. The knowledge of the Holy. The knowledge of the Lord among His saints. The knowledge of the God of Israel among the nations. This is no small thing to be handed over to evangelists only. It takes a nation, a holy nation and, therefore, the hand of the Lord. It takes the judgment of a nation, and it takes restoration after judgment. Our prophet, Ezekiel, makes mention of a new heart to be given to the people and a new spirit to come. The attainment of an attitude and approach, the humble seeking of the Lord which has no other aim than the vindication of the Lord takes genuine measures of purging and moulding – a moulding at the cross of Christ.
We rejoice in the miracles of the valleys of Galilee, especially in the times of beginnings in the Hule valley. We marvel at the miracles of irrigation in the Negev desert. We listen to the modern Hebrew language and remember the remarkable story of the man behind this singular miracle – Elezer Ben Yehuda. We are amazed by the number of Nobel Prize winners among Jews. We hear about the fastest computers being produced at factory compounds around the corner from the oldest sites in biblical history. This and so much more, and many honour the God of Israel for it. But the greater miracles, in which no man has a hand, lie waiting in the future. Some of them will only be brought forth through another purifying event accompanied by much prayer. Jacob’s trouble is not an ordeal belonging only to years passed. The product of this calculated affliction, a holy nation, will gather amazement and silence even among the most brutal enemies. Yet for this. . .
Zion holds a point of integration. A word in the mouth of the nations, to be fulfilled in coming days: “Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.”
Words have lost their weight and inherent value, they have become like chaff in a wind too fierce even for the threshing floor. Honour and modesty are virtues obsolete. The voices are too many. Participation has taken its corrupted form; party spirits act as master minds and pretend to have attained to saviour’s position ready to manipulate its followers. Things eternal are lost to minds and hearts; vanity is hailed as a major quality. Who dares, in this moral climate, to make a brave man’s choice of single-mindedness and straightforwardness? Indifference and shallowness prevail. Words have become cheap indeed among those who do the talking.
Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people: Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD. Eze 36:3-4.
The restoration of a point of integrity is to be found as a major event in the ascent to, in the pilgrimage to Zion. At the beginning of the journey towards reality the sojourners sing the fist song of ascent, Psalms 120: “Deliver our souls, O Lord, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.” And they practice and practice, over and over again, the art of reaching out to the Lord in the most intense worship, in an obedient silence and an attentive hearing in which Zion will be formed in them as the point of integration.
Zion, Jerusalem residing as the first city among cities on earth as well as Jerusalem, the heavenly dwelling place stands positioned in the Spirit of Christ, in newness of life. The glory of an earthly Jerusalem is solely and sorely dependent on the presence of the glory of God. A new spirit, Ez 36:26; a miracle to be prayer for. And the matter of timing looses importance in direct proportion to the gravity of the need. “I will sanctify my great name, which hath been profaned among the nations. . .” Ez 36:23. Intercessors, the watchmen on the wall live in a reality in which the dawn is at hand amidst deepest darkness. They have received a generous gift of hope in the midst of deepest despair. They rejoice in the coming restoration while judgment is still fierce.
The beauty of holiness intended for this city, the favour awaiting this little people is of a kind which no man can comprehend. Even the most brutal enemy will stand in awe in its presence. “I will save you from all your uncleannesses.” Ez 36:29. Its failure regarding priestliness, in the role as priests unto the nations, its failure regarding sin and iniquity will be blotted out by the blood of the Lamb. The marvellous attractiveness of the commandments and precepts of the Lord will lead the many to observing them diligently, in detail and with an open and willing heart. It is for the preparing of this future glory the watchmen are positioned, each one in his assigned role.
There are too many things unfulfilled. There are so many things to ask for. His words to the intercessors, ‘also for this’, are sent out to stir, to engage, to appoint, to lead to a glorious end. There is only one voice which we all are obliged to take heed to, the one voice, who sent out an eternal ‘Yet for this I will be sought’. The fundamental principle of revelation is summarised in one word – Seek. The fundamental principle of accomplishment is summarised in one word – Pray. The fundamental principle of consummation is summarised in one word – Seek. A work founded on this eternal principle will find its harvest in plenty. A seeking, a waiting of this character will be crowned with glory. Learn the art of seeking. Learn the very noble art of waiting on the Lord.
Our prophet heard these words and commandments at a point of finality, at a point of no return. Zion was brought into captivity. The hope of glory had come to an end. National salvation was but a scattered hope. Jerusalem had been violated by the devastating power of a merciless enemy. And God, horror beyond horror, was behind it all.
In these days we will find the intercessors brought to a point at which they will go through the most painful lessons, all of them loaded with similarities to the one confronting Ezekiel. The situation at hand corresponds to the one he encountered in the valley of dry bones. The lesson to be learnt holds the secrets of bringing newness of life to barren places and a new spirit to empty hearts. Experiences lie prepared in the hand of the Lord which will touch the area of ministry. They all include a reducing, a zero point, for the sake of consummation, for the sake of the fullness of Christ. They will bring about a praying which will please God, even vindicate the Lord, in regards to His promise - Yet for this I will be sought by the house of Israel.
A revelation of the fullness of Christ will come to the Church in which God will take delight as in the Son. A coming to reality will be required of the Church as a means and method to bring Jerusalem and its peculiar people to the place of glory among the nations. A coming to reality of this kind gathers momentum through a company of committed who has been reduced to nought in the face of the task in front of them. Dry bone praying will stand, stand solidly, on a word from the Lord once sounded through a son of man –
Yet for this I will be sought by the house of Israel. . .
Shalom B’Shem Yeshua HaMashiach
Peace in the Name of Yeshua, the Messiah
Yet for this I will be sought
By Lars Widerberg
Yet for this I will be sought by the house of Israel, to work for them.
Eze 36:37
Ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem.
Heb 12:22
By the coming of Christ into our lives, by the forming of Christ in us, we are brought into the reality of the heavenly Jerusalem. Zion is brought in as a reality to learn, to guard and to watch over. Zion is indeed a spiritual reality. Zion holds a precious, a peculiar future role. Zion presents and represents a present day burden.
You have come to Zion, found a place of rest at its center, near the Lamb of God. You have a place on its walls; you have to take your place on its walls in skilled participation in the ongoing battle for the city and its life, in anticipation of its final deliverance.
Jerusalem represents the fullness of things eternal, of thoughts divine. Zion awaits, even creation awaits the perfect fulfilment of things promised and designed. Zion awaits your involvement in heavenly measures and developments towards fullness. Zion constitutes the focal point of God’s desires.
“Yet for this I will be sought. . .”
God directs his words, God displays his burden, God speaks his heart to ears which no man has ever detected. The burden of the Creator lies at the foundation of the world, even as the Lamb was slaughtered before the beginning of the world. The perennial burden of the Father forces the nature to align. The burden seeks for companions. Mountains hear and respond, but God is looking for a heart. Judgment and restoration repeats itself on this very foundation. The absence of adherence, the absence of willingness reveals the necessity and prepares the ground for devastating operations of the Lord. A willing ear, an open heart attracts His attention and allows Him to engage in works of grace beyond measure.
As the Lord speaks to the mountains of Israel, Eze 36:1, His perennial burden for the people of the promised land is exposed to the fullest degree. At the heart of the controversy one finds the unwillingness of a privileged nation to produce proper adjustment to conditions required, there is no disciplined willingness to listen and to take heed. As the Lord thus speaks to the mountains of Israel, He watches the surrounding nations as they rage and revel; “Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the enemy hath said against you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession: Therefore. . .” Eze 36:2.
This chapter in the book of Ezekiel holds a most remarkable, a perplexing and breathtaking mixture of judgment and promised restoration. And it is all about this small piece of land, this ever disputed piece of property which God calls His Israel and in which a solid throne is to be set up for His Son, and in which for a while an earthly Zion is to produce law for the nations to listen to and delight in. It is in this solid realm, at the moment filled with dispute and conflict, which God intends to reveal His glory. It is for this realm, particularly for this realm a praying nation is set apart to properly apply these words: “Yet for this I will be sought by the house of Israel, to work for them.” Jerusalem, also the earthly Jerusalem, is of eternal consequence. A praying and a seeking after this pattern holds eternal value, it will profit much at any time. God will take it to heart, remember it and use it for His purposes.
The attitude and approach, the humble seeking of the Lord, ties in with the one purpose and goal for a praying according to this pattern. “As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the LORD.” Eze 36:38. The knowledge of the Holy. The knowledge of the Lord among His saints. The knowledge of the God of Israel among the nations. This is no small thing to be handed over to evangelists only. It takes a nation, a holy nation and, therefore, the hand of the Lord. It takes the judgment of a nation, and it takes restoration after judgment. Our prophet, Ezekiel, makes mention of a new heart to be given to the people and a new spirit to come. The attainment of an attitude and approach, the humble seeking of the Lord which has no other aim than the vindication of the Lord takes genuine measures of purging and moulding – a moulding at the cross of Christ.
We rejoice in the miracles of the valleys of Galilee, especially in the times of beginnings in the Hule valley. We marvel at the miracles of irrigation in the Negev desert. We listen to the modern Hebrew language and remember the remarkable story of the man behind this singular miracle – Elezer Ben Yehuda. We are amazed by the number of Nobel Prize winners among Jews. We hear about the fastest computers being produced at factory compounds around the corner from the oldest sites in biblical history. This and so much more, and many honour the God of Israel for it. But the greater miracles, in which no man has a hand, lie waiting in the future. Some of them will only be brought forth through another purifying event accompanied by much prayer. Jacob’s trouble is not an ordeal belonging only to years passed. The product of this calculated affliction, a holy nation, will gather amazement and silence even among the most brutal enemies. Yet for this. . .
Zion holds a point of integration. A word in the mouth of the nations, to be fulfilled in coming days: “Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.”
Words have lost their weight and inherent value, they have become like chaff in a wind too fierce even for the threshing floor. Honour and modesty are virtues obsolete. The voices are too many. Participation has taken its corrupted form; party spirits act as master minds and pretend to have attained to saviour’s position ready to manipulate its followers. Things eternal are lost to minds and hearts; vanity is hailed as a major quality. Who dares, in this moral climate, to make a brave man’s choice of single-mindedness and straightforwardness? Indifference and shallowness prevail. Words have become cheap indeed among those who do the talking.
Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people: Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD. Eze 36:3-4.
The restoration of a point of integrity is to be found as a major event in the ascent to, in the pilgrimage to Zion. At the beginning of the journey towards reality the sojourners sing the fist song of ascent, Psalms 120: “Deliver our souls, O Lord, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.” And they practice and practice, over and over again, the art of reaching out to the Lord in the most intense worship, in an obedient silence and an attentive hearing in which Zion will be formed in them as the point of integration.
Zion, Jerusalem residing as the first city among cities on earth as well as Jerusalem, the heavenly dwelling place stands positioned in the Spirit of Christ, in newness of life. The glory of an earthly Jerusalem is solely and sorely dependent on the presence of the glory of God. A new spirit, Ez 36:26; a miracle to be prayer for. And the matter of timing looses importance in direct proportion to the gravity of the need. “I will sanctify my great name, which hath been profaned among the nations. . .” Ez 36:23. Intercessors, the watchmen on the wall live in a reality in which the dawn is at hand amidst deepest darkness. They have received a generous gift of hope in the midst of deepest despair. They rejoice in the coming restoration while judgment is still fierce.
The beauty of holiness intended for this city, the favour awaiting this little people is of a kind which no man can comprehend. Even the most brutal enemy will stand in awe in its presence. “I will save you from all your uncleannesses.” Ez 36:29. Its failure regarding priestliness, in the role as priests unto the nations, its failure regarding sin and iniquity will be blotted out by the blood of the Lamb. The marvellous attractiveness of the commandments and precepts of the Lord will lead the many to observing them diligently, in detail and with an open and willing heart. It is for the preparing of this future glory the watchmen are positioned, each one in his assigned role.
There are too many things unfulfilled. There are so many things to ask for. His words to the intercessors, ‘also for this’, are sent out to stir, to engage, to appoint, to lead to a glorious end. There is only one voice which we all are obliged to take heed to, the one voice, who sent out an eternal ‘Yet for this I will be sought’. The fundamental principle of revelation is summarised in one word – Seek. The fundamental principle of accomplishment is summarised in one word – Pray. The fundamental principle of consummation is summarised in one word – Seek. A work founded on this eternal principle will find its harvest in plenty. A seeking, a waiting of this character will be crowned with glory. Learn the art of seeking. Learn the very noble art of waiting on the Lord.
Our prophet heard these words and commandments at a point of finality, at a point of no return. Zion was brought into captivity. The hope of glory had come to an end. National salvation was but a scattered hope. Jerusalem had been violated by the devastating power of a merciless enemy. And God, horror beyond horror, was behind it all.
In these days we will find the intercessors brought to a point at which they will go through the most painful lessons, all of them loaded with similarities to the one confronting Ezekiel. The situation at hand corresponds to the one he encountered in the valley of dry bones. The lesson to be learnt holds the secrets of bringing newness of life to barren places and a new spirit to empty hearts. Experiences lie prepared in the hand of the Lord which will touch the area of ministry. They all include a reducing, a zero point, for the sake of consummation, for the sake of the fullness of Christ. They will bring about a praying which will please God, even vindicate the Lord, in regards to His promise - Yet for this I will be sought by the house of Israel.
A revelation of the fullness of Christ will come to the Church in which God will take delight as in the Son. A coming to reality will be required of the Church as a means and method to bring Jerusalem and its peculiar people to the place of glory among the nations. A coming to reality of this kind gathers momentum through a company of committed who has been reduced to nought in the face of the task in front of them. Dry bone praying will stand, stand solidly, on a word from the Lord once sounded through a son of man –
Yet for this I will be sought by the house of Israel. . .
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Psalms 72:1 Amplified version.
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