Welcome to Global Outpouring, where we contend for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit promised
in Joel 2.28, and we equip for the outpouring so that we may engage in the outpouring.
I'm Philip Bus.
And I'm Sharon Bus.
Welcome to our podcast today.
We have a very special guest today, Siman Tov Al-Aluf from Israel.
And we are going to be hearing some very amazing things that have been his experiences in life
where he's been meeting with the Holy Spirit and having his own personal outpourings.
So we want to welcome our guest, Siman Tov.
Let me just welcome you to the podcast.
Shalom.
You are one of these wonderful, special people.
Everybody on the planet is special, but you're one of these special ones that God has picked
out as his special chosen people.
And you told us a story before we got started.
Tell us about how your parents met.
This is quite a story.
My father was born into an Orthodox Jewish family in Thessaloniki, Greece.
My name, Siman Tov, is my grandfather's name, who used to be the kosher butcher for Thessaloniki
in the 1800s.
In the middle 40s, the Nazis invaded Greece and ultimately got to Thessaloniki, where
my father was.
And out of that community, there was an estimated 80,000 Jewish people living in that city at
the time.
But you know, they ignored a prophetic word that came years earlier from a man named Jabotinsky
came there.
He actually traveled all over Europe, warning Jewish communities, saying that the Lord is
saying go home to Palestine now.
Wow.
He's saying very dangerous is coming.
But Thessaloniki was one of the cities that literally, symbolically threw him out and
rejected his message.
Oh no.
And so when the Nazis actually did come and that word was fulfilled, they were the most
devastated Jewish community in all of Europe.
97% of the population were exterminated in Auschwitz.
So my father, who was married before the Nazis came in, had two children.
Him and his wife and their family all got on a boxcar, went to Auschwitz.
And it began quite tragically because within two hours of their arrival, the two children
and his wife were dead.
And my mother, about a year later from Romania, the Nazis actually came into that region twice.
The first time they took many of the Jewish people out into the forest and up into the
mountains and either shot them.
My mother's case, the first time they took her, they took her up into this mountain in
January, it was freezing cold and had them cross over this river saying that anybody
makes it to the other side of the river, you're free to go.
So my mother was one of the very few out of thousands that survived going into that ice
cold water.
And her hands were cramped and bent and distorted her whole life as a result from frostbite,
the same with her feet.
But then eventually the Nazis came back again realizing that many of the Jewish people were
still there and rounded them all up and put them on boxcars and sent.
That's how she got to Auschwitz.
So you know, my father's job was to take the corpses out of the barracks every morning
and pile them up by the garbage.
So as a result, it gave him access to the discarded food that the soldiers were eating
there and he would take that and barter for cigarettes and cigars.
And my mother's job was cleaning the officer's quarters of the SS.
So she risked her life stealing these cigarettes and cigars and was exchanging them for the
potato skins and whatever that my father got out of, or who became my father, out of the
garbage.
Oh my.
Wow.
So they met in Auschwitz.
Yes.
At the end they were liberated by the Russians in January of 1945.
You know, my parents didn't get married there, but many of the people that survived, it was
about maybe 8,000 people still alive when the Russians came in.
Many of them took rags and bedsheets and made a hoopa and just grabbed a hold of somebody
they'd never seen before in their life and got married.
Wow.
Primarily for survival.
But you know, my mother, before she came there, both my parents came from ultra-orthodox families
and my mother had some very unique experiences as a child, even died at the age of nine and
went to heaven.
Wow.
And she said she was so angry when they were praying and praying up a storm and she came
back into her body, she was so angry that they brought her back.
But she had an encounter with God in heaven there.
And you know, even when in the last days in Auschwitz they were taking the people to the
crematorium alive and they would line up and they'd throw them into the crematorium alive.
My mother had such confidence that God would rescue her and he did three times.
Wow.
And other people thought she was kind of crazy, but she said, no, I know God will rescue me
and she's trying to help them to believe, but many of them were just so filled with
fear.
Yeah.
So yeah, growing up as a child, my mother would talk about God continuously and just
and always remind me how he rescued her from, you know, most of the young women that went
to Auschwitz were raped within a matter of days.
My mother was never touched.
Glory to God.
And she knows it was God's hand of protection.
So wow, that's kind of the atmosphere I grew up.
My parents were really messed up from the camps.
So we grew up in a very dysfunctional family.
My mother very much trusting God.
My father saying if there's a God and he allowed that to happen, I don't want to know him.
Oh my.
But both of them, my mother came to faith first and then, well actually my sister, then
my mother, then me and then four months before my father passed away, he came to faith.
Wow.
Praise God.
So yeah.
So when you say came to faith, you're talking about came to faith in Yeshua.
In Yeshua, yes.
Jesus.
Well, actually we never even used the word Yeshua back then.
It was Jesus.
Sure.
Oh, okay.
But now Yeshua's living in Israel.
Yes, of course.
But you weren't raised in Israel or were you raised?
In Toronto.
I was a little more than two years old.
My parents left Israel and immigrated to Canada.
You were born in Israel?
Yes.
Okay.
In Haifa.
My mother, when I was born, the British in 1947 or 48 built Rambam Hospital, which is
still in use today in Haifa.
It's right on the sea.
She thought she got to go to a luxury hotel because in the maternity ward, you look out
the window and the water was right there.
Beautiful.
So how did you come to faith?
It's a long story.
Most of my life, my mother was very bitter about the German people, very angry, used
to refer to the German people in very derogatory ways.
Understandably.
And, you know, I grew up hearing these stories, especially from my mother, from my father
was not in the picture all the time.
And you know, all of that for almost 40 years.
But when I was almost 40 years old, I had gone to visit her in Toronto.
And when I was approaching her building, the seniors building, there was a man sitting
at bench with her and he was getting up and saying goodbye.
I'll see you later.
My mother say yes.
And so when I got to her, I said, who's that guy?
He was already walking quite a few hundred feet away.
She said, my friend.
And why was I so curious as he said goodbye in a very distinct German accent?
So I said, your friend, what are you talking about?
Are you crazy?
And she said, yes, he's my friend.
And to even push it a little further, she says, I love him.
And she wasn't referring to a romantic love, but just I said, you've lost your mind.
I started getting quite angry.
I said, my whole life, you're telling me about how they destroyed our family and made life
so terrible.
And now you love them?
And she started weeping.
I said, what's going on?
And she had just come to faith in Yeshua probably about, I don't know, three or four months
before.
I didn't know.
And she started in her weeping.
She's saying, how can I not forgive after all of God has forgiven me?
I said, you're nuts.
I actually used some very terrible language.
And she would not back down.
I said, you know what?
I can't stay here.
I'm not going to listen to this.
And I walked away.
I actually almost ran away furious because my whole life she told me how much these people
were to be despised.
And now she's telling me she loves them.
And that she's forgiven them.
And that kind of put a little crack in my stony heart because I knew something radical
has happened to my mother.
This is not just the result of some kind of a watching a movie or something.
Something has changed.
But I still was very angry.
That was probably the beginning of my eyes to begin to open and come to faith.
And it was a year later.
We were actually, my mother had sciatic issues in her legs for years.
And there was one thing that really helped her.
When I was about 16, we drove to Glenwood Springs, Colorado to these hot springs and
it really helped her.
So she was in severe pain back in 1988.
I still wasn't a believer.
No, I was 89.
I wasn't a believer.
And we were sitting in a cottage north of Toronto and I said, let me see if I can arrange
for a trip to Glenwood Springs.
I was out of work at the time.
And it just all fit together.
We found extremely good price.
And we drove to Buffalo and then flew to Chicago and then on to Denver, Colorado.
And you know, I originally booked it for 12 days and we were at the Buffalo airport.
I was thinking 12 days might not be enough.
So I whispered to the woman, I said, is there any chance of extending that?
And she got quite upset.
She said, you got one of the best deals on earth.
She said, you can't make change.
I said, okay, okay, well, I'll just leave it.
And about 10 seconds later, she whispers and said, listen, I'll give you one more day.
Is that good?
I said, okay.
So we flew to Denver.
At the end of 12 days, my mother said, that's enough.
I can't take another one of those mineral baths.
She said, I've had enough.
And she said, let's go home.
I said, if we hadn't have changed anything, we could have flew home today.
So we drove into Denver, hoping that maybe I could switch the flight.
And we got there and there was a brand new hotel next to the Stapleton airport.
And this is leading to something.
And when we got there, my wife said, why don't we just stay in this hotel tonight instead
of going through all of that and trying to get the tickets?
So we did, and we got this beautiful room on the top floor and it looked directly at
the runway.
So after we checked in, we're standing on like a balcony and we watched our flight,
flight 232 from Denver to Chicago pull up and it took off.
And we went off to, and my mother's sitting there reading the Bible.
I said, throw that thing in the garbage.
Or I will.
And she said, no, no, be careful.
Don't say things like that.
And we went out to Kmart just to look around and I didn't know what to do in Denver.
And when we walked into Kmart, they had a whole wall covered with televisions.
And we walked in, I saw this, what looked like a dramatic scene in an action movie.
And we walked up in this big ball of fire and we're standing there and I'm looking
at the price tags and I realized it's not a movie, it's a news report.
And they're reporting that flight 232 United Airlines, which I flew from Israel to here
last week, just crashed in Sioux City, Iowa.
And my mother's saying, say, that's God that saved your life.
Wow.
I said, I almost wanted to argue, but something was, everybody in row nine where we were supposed
to sit were all killed instantly.
Wow.
And a number of people survived the crash.
Some people were jumping out of the airplane at 200 miles an hour as they're coming in
for a landing.
They had lost one of the engines, lost all of their hydraulic, and made a movie out of
it.
Oh my.
But that was another dramatic event that prepared me for salvation.
So that's kind of the way it went.
Wow.
So it's quite the story.
I'll tell you, after a few of those things, there was no question in my mind, this God
really loves me, regardless of how rotten I really am.
Wow.
So yeah, it was just the fall within, I don't know how many months later I came to faith.
My wife was, we were living in Florida and I was in Toronto.
You know, I went to see a friend that was involved in some serious fraud with me.
And so I went to his house to get the money that he had collected for me.
And he had a radical encounter with the Holy Spirit the night before.
Oh my.
I think you're praying, mama.
His wife was in the kitchen, furious.
I had helped, I used to be a union executive for the Canada Post Office.
And I had prepared a briefing for him to try and save his job because they had fired him
and they were going to issue criminal charges.
And we just wanted to keep him out of jail.
They didn't expect anything more than that.
But he was in the shower, she said, look at what's on the table.
So I read it.
They had offered him thousands, like almost $45,000, his job back, his seniority and everything,
if he would withdraw that petition for arbitration that they had submitted.
And when he came out, he said, I can't take it, it's dirty money.
I'm looking at it, I said, what the heck are you talking about?
He said, I can't take it.
So his wife was going wild.
She said, if he doesn't take it, I'm going to kill him.
And she was not joking.
She was dead.
So we went into the basement and he told me, he said, listen, somebody came into my bedroom
at about four o'clock in the morning and slapped me in the chest and pulled me into an upright
position.
I'm looking at it and periodically he'd stop saying, I think I'm losing my mind.
I'm sitting there thinking, I think you're losing your mind.
He said, when I opened my eyes, there was nobody in the room.
And he ultimately came down the stairs into the basement after searching the upstairs
of the house, thinking the only places whoever had broken into the house could be is down
there.
And when he got to the final step, he's telling me how he froze in such fear for what he felt
like was ours, but it was only a matter of seconds.
And he said, all of a sudden somebody started to pour like a bucket of warm honey all over
him.
And he said, he felt love like he'd never experienced in all his life.
And he said, whoever you are, back off, you're going to kill me.
And I'm sitting there thinking, how can love kill somebody?
And it was in that situation.
We had never seen a Bible.
We had never heard the gospel.
Wow.
And the two of us came to faith there.
Look at that.
Yes.
You'd never seen a Bible.
You'd never heard the gospel.
No.
Seems to me God pours out his Spirit on people, even without our help as evangelists, you
know?
Yes.
But I'm sure that it's a result of prayer.
Somebody was praying.
My sister, my mother, my sister was already in the faith at least 10 years, was praying.
So yeah, I remember going back home, back to Florida a week later.
And when I walked in the house, my wife looked at me and said, what the heck have you been
doing?
I said, what do you mean?
She says, you're not the same.
Wow.
I said, I don't know for sure.
But I said, something happened.
It's got something to do with God.
We didn't know what had happened.
Wow.
And she said, get out of the house.
You're not going to bring that in.
It was crazy.
Oh my.
It's not the reaction I was expecting.
Now, was she Jewish too?
No.
Okay.
She actually left, but came back before it got dark.
And for four years, it was a pretty rough ride.
Wow.
She got saved four years later.
Oh my.
In the Toronto revival.
Oh my.
Oh, I love it.
I love it.
Praise the Lord.
Wow.
And then the Lord moved on you at what point to make Aliyah, to become a citizen of Israel?
That's a bit of a journey, but just the thought, you know, in 1990, after I got saved, we came,
we went to Israel for a visit.
The kids and my brother-in-law, we all went.
We went to Greece first and visited my father.
And from there we went to Israel.
And my brother-in-law, who was with us two times, he had an open vision of Yeshua walking.
So we were in Nazareth in this, I remember we were in this hotel or motel and we had
just killed this great big bug that was crawling up the drapes.
And there was a whole bunch of commotion.
The kids were up on the beds screaming.
So we killed this thing and thing calmed down.
And I went into the next, it was like a suite with two rooms.
And I was in with my wife and all of a sudden I could hear my brother-in-law weeping.
I came out and I said, what's going on?
He said, look, he pointed out the window.
He says, there's Jesus.
Wow.
I looked, I didn't see him.
He's not seeing him now.
But he was seeing him.
Wow.
And then three, four days later we went to the Galilee and we were at Capernaum.
And he, again, I find him weeping.
I said, what's going on?
I said, he said, and he pointed into that ancient synagogue there.
He said, he's there.
Wow.
So he had a couple of radical encounters.
And my kids and I got baptized there in the Jordan River.
Wow.
My wife was furious because that was the journey.
And something started stirring.
I said to my wife, I said, I think the Lord might be saying it's time to move back to
Israel.
She said, when hell freezes over, I'm not going to live here.
And in 1997, that church in Toronto that I was a part of, the pastor called for a 40-day
fast.
I had never done one in my life, never thought I could.
And we started this fast in about halfway through the 40 days.
I felt God ask me, would you like to go to Israel?
I said, yeah, I'd like to.
We were broke.
I was about to get laid off.
And I wanted to see how are you going to pull this one off?
And I said, yes, like a little kid.
If somebody, I was back in this trailer down into an icy pit, it was very cold though.
And I outlawed and said, yes, I'll go to Israel.
And the next day I called a travel agent.
She said, when do you want to go?
I said, whatever's the cheapest.
That's when I'll go.
And she called back a couple of days later.
She said, listen, if you go on this day or this day, the day before, day after, it's
going to cost significantly more.
But if you go on this day, which just happened to be the 40th day of the fast.
Oh, wow.
So I broke the fast in Jerusalem.
So when I started, who even imagined?
So we went, the last 10 days we were sleeping in a garage.
It was cold, man.
We were sleeping in the garage every morning.
The next garage, the guy started his car and filled it up and we're choking on the exhaustion.
But there was a presence of God that was so tangible.
I'd wake up every morning shivering, but just in the glory, in his presence.
And I'd say, Lord, I'll live in this garage for the rest of my life if you'll stay here
with us.
Wow.
And I remember we got out of bed that morning really quick and put on our clothes.
I was sleeping with my clothes on and we came outside.
It was right next door to the YMCA.
And my wife turned to me and said, I don't know what's going on, but she says we're home.
Wow.
Now was she a believer by then?
Yes.
Okay.
She was a believer by then, a couple of years at that point.
And the grace of God just flowed over her, filled her up.
So yeah, that's the following year we moved back to Israel.
It wasn't such a, it was the hardest year, the next few years, the hardest time of our
life.
You know, sometimes people think that when God leads you into something that it's always
like paradise.
It's like Paul, you know, come over, you saw in the vision, come over to Macedonia and
help us.
Yeah.
And he ends up in jail.
So she spent two years crying.
But now it's, it's home.
Wow.
It's home.
Glory to God.
So now the Lord has spoken to you to come here now.
What's going on in the Holy Spirit?
What's the Holy Spirit saying?
You know, 2010, I'll try and make it really short.
Take whatever time you need.
I just, I heard about this call for prayer from a guy named Dutch Sheets and felt that
America was on a slide downward spiritually and it was time for the body of Christ to
gather and to pray corporately and call out and plead with God that he would move and
turn things around.
And when I read it, I sent it to some friends in Mississippi because I really felt it was,
it was from God.
And the next day they wrote back said, we prayed and we're convinced God's saying go.
But while we were praying, we felt God saying you should come as well.
And we were broke, which is in Israel, that's quite common for.
And I went to, I don't know, a few days saying, God, how are we going to do?
Is it you?
And then he confirmed in a very profound way using Facebook, but I won't get into all that
but I was convinced, convinced he was saying go.
And we booked a flight to go and we got to the US, we flew to Memphis and then he met
us and then a couple of days later we drove up to Poplar Bluff, Missouri.
That's where the, but I missed one thing.
Before we left, they actually canceled the event and I struggled with God.
I said, God, where are we going?
The reason though, prayer meeting, they canceled it because he didn't have enough money or
something and I really felt God was saying, who asked you to go there, man or me?
He said, go.
So we did.
And the other people that we went with, Ron, that's actually who we're staying with up
until this morning in Missouri because he now lives in Missouri.
We drove up in a motor home and his wife and my wife were in the car behind and so we were
just busy talking.
I didn't realize where we were geographically, but when I crossed, when he crossed over the
Mississippi into Missouri, the spirit of God came all over me and I began to prophesy to
Missouri that there was a move of God unequaled in history that mankind has never seen before.
And I just went on and on for about five, 10 minutes and then finally I calmed and we're
looking at each other with our eyes wide open wondering what just happened.
And we went to this prayer meeting which was out in the ranch, 105, 107 degrees from like
eight o'clock in the morning till eight o'clock at night.
I didn't think I'd survive.
That's hot.
Yeah.
And a guy, a man named Dick Rubin is the one that took up the leadership part of it and
he was teaching.
I had never met him before.
So how other people showed up too?
Yes, like 1300 people showed up to a canceled event.
I love it.
So from 37 states and I think it was six or seven nations were represented there.
And so it was a very unique time of prayer and at the end of it all, we were looking
at, I became part of their leadership team there because I even spoke there, which was
totally unplanned and especially by me.
But God was up to something and they invited us to come back and we did another little
five day thing at their conference center there.
But when I came back into Missouri again from a different direction, I was driving, no,
my wife was driving.
We crossed the Mississippi River.
I'm not consciously thinking about where we are and what's cooking, but as soon as we
crossed back into Missouri again, the Holy Spirit came in great power and I just began
to speak to the state of Missouri and the heartland of the United States.
And I felt God was saying, America, I've not forgotten you.
I'm going to visit you and move once again like you've never seen before.
I can't remember the words.
I was in tears and in so many different ways over the next three or four years, God has
spoken to me directly and to some of the other people.
Lila Trujune was in Dick Rubin and actually Dick ended up coming and living on that ranch,
did meetings there regularly for several months, maybe even a couple of years.
So there's this expectation that's been growing and I've been, last year I was just asking
the Lord, when are you going to move in Missouri?
Will I get a chance to see or anything?
Quite often when I ask why questions, God doesn't answer.
But in July last year, we were driving from the Gaulead down to Jerusalem and God's Spirit
just came into the car in a very tangible way.
And I felt He was saying, go.
He showed me this man that we went to Missouri with the first time and who now has moved
out of Mississippi and lives in Missouri, not far from where the prayer meeting was.
I said, God, what are we doing there?
And I just completely understood that it has to do with what's about to come.
When?
How?
I don't know.
But it was a very powerful encounter with the Spirit of God.
When we got home, I bought a ticket to go to Canada and we went there and we were there
for six weeks and God's fingerprints were all over it.
But then I allowed my own questioning and I was just starting to think, it doesn't make
sense.
What am I going to do there?
I was sitting in a trailer there and God, what are we going to do in a trailer in the
middle of nowhere?
And all this human reasoning and we didn't go.
I disobeyed and we went back to Israel.
And that's why the Holy Spirit began to challenge me about a month ago that obedience has nothing
to do with our understanding, our approval, will it fit into my plans?
And I spent some days just apologizing and repenting and I really felt, and God confirmed
it to a friend in Greece and here we are.
And people, before we even got here, said, yeah, we're ready, let's go.
God pour out your Spirit.
Let the fire fall.
I said, I don't know.
I said, this isn't going to be a work of a man and this isn't going to be orchestrated
or arranged by a man.
God's got a plan and he does.
I could spend the next 20 minutes, if not more, just telling you about ways that God
has confirmed.
You know, we have some good friends in Israel that were there for almost 35 years.
They had radio station, they pastored both Arabic and Hebrew speaking congregations and
then opened up another radio station.
But about less than a year ago, January of this year, they felt led to move to Missouri
and they're moving and they're living in the Ozarks.
I forget the name of the little town they're close to.
And just before we left to come last week, their daughter, who runs a Christian bookstore
in East Jerusalem, an outreach to the Muslim people there, she called me.
I've seen her before but never talked to her.
And she said, we would like you to come over and pray with us and talk because we want
to know why you're going to Missouri.
And when we got there, we talked for a bit and she said, listen, we have got a strong
draw to go to Missouri.
And we know several different couples that God has spoken to them get going to Missouri.
Into the Ozarks in particular.
And so just over and over, there are people that are being drawn into the region.
God's getting ready.
I don't know when God's ready, who knows the time in the hour.
But it's definitely, we're getting close.
Some people are saying America's done and God's written it off.
I don't believe that.
No, we don't even.
No, we don't.
And it's definitely, it's not because we're really good guys and he's going to reward
that but now it's just the love of God that's in his son.
He's not finished here.
I think there's going to be some real stormy times for America in the days ahead.
But in the midst of it, somehow, and I think we'd be foolish to try and describe what it's
going to look like or when it's going to begin.
But it's close.
Very close.
It is.
And yeah, I just, I love the presence of God.
Yes.
It changes everything.
Many a time when we were in all kinds of situations, both emotionally and financially and you name
it and then God shows up and everything changes.
And so that's why I just want to be where he's at.
Yes.
Amen.
Exactly.
So we're here and then I realized that Mary, Lois and Gene were here because of the situation
in Israel and not being able to come in.
So I wrote to them and he said, yeah, he said, if you come in the area, come on over.
We've got a bed for you to lay down.
So here we are.
We're glad you're here.
Amen.
And just that's why, you know, just a day, two days before I left, I met this man and
he asked me why we were going.
I said, I'm not sure.
I told him a little bit of what I just said to you.
He talked about Cory Ten Boom's prophecy, which I had never heard about seeing all these
angels from horizon to horizon over the Ozarks and how this is going to be a region of refuge.
And other people have added, I don't know if it was actually from her or if they've
just led to, but they actually believe it not only will be a place of refuge, but it'll
be a place of restoration in the spirit.
Amen.
That's why we're here.
Beautiful.
Well, hallelujah.
We can hear in your stories how, how there's been a contending for the faith, contending
to, to get people saved, get you saved, get you into the family of God, which was God's
plan to begin with and how he's been equipping you as you followed him.
You didn't know anything.
You started out with just, you were a blank sheet and God has been pouring into you and
pouring into you and pouring into you, pouring into you so that he can pour through you in
the days to come.
I mean, I'm sure he's already been pouring through you.
He's put you in a glorious place.
I know it's not an easy place to live in Israel, but it's, it's a tremendous place that, that
is on his map.
It's right in the back of the Bible.
There's maps of Israel.
That's where it, it's where everything has happened.
You know, it's the center of the earth.
It's the center of God's heart, you know, his, his heart and, and the pupil of his eye,
you know, it's, this is this, don't stick your finger in God's eye for goodness sakes,
but it's exciting to hear how, how God has been working in your life and how he's taking
you into this next thing where he's going to be pouring out his spirit, whether, whether
you're going into that region for the purpose of contending or equipping or actually engaging
in the outpouring at this time, God's going to show us as, as time goes on, but it's exciting
that you're engaged, that you're, that you're obeying.
You've heard the Lord and you're obeying.
One of the reasons, one of the understandings, at least in a very partial, simple way that
I have, why, why is it necessary for someone from Israel to come and participate in what
God is doing and what he's going to do?
And you know, Dick Rubin, he, one of the things he was known for is he draws out of scripture
God's patterns and, and he was saying, if you'll do things according to the pattern
of God, the glory will fall.
Many churches, many pastors didn't comprehend or understand what he was getting at, but
you know, he spoke to Moses, he said, Moses, get the people together.
I want you to build a tabernacle in the wilderness and build it exactly according to the pattern
that I give you.
Don't deviate and I'll anoint each one of the people that's involved that are going
to produce the curtains and the, and the implements that will be in the tabernacle.
But he said, if you'll build it according to the pattern which I've given you, I will
come and dwell in your midst.
And Moses did.
And for many years it was a meeting place for the house of Israel and the God of Israel
out in the wilderness.
And many years later, after Israel came into the land, David said to the Lord, said, I
want to build you a temple.
I want to build a place for you to come and dwell here in Jerusalem.
And I'm abbreviating, but in essence, God was saying, okay, but not you, you've got
too much blood on your hands, but your son, Solomon.
And he gave David a pattern by which to build that temple.
And when he went to Solomon before his death, he said, here is the plan and the pattern
by which God said this temple is to be constructed, do it exactly in accordance to this.
And he did.
And the presence of God came, filled the temple, says to the point where none of the priests
could stand, they all fell on their face.
One more time in Ephesians, in the New Testament, God talks about a dwelling place and there's
a pattern to it.
Ephesians 2.11-22, Paul is writing to the church in Ephesus to Gentiles, but he's describing
to them what we now today refer to as the one new man.
And he said, you who were in times past, depending on the translation or before or historically,
Gentiles.
So, there's a change, there's a transformation that takes place when you come to Christ,
when you come to Yeshua.
You actually lose your identity as a Gentile because it says in verse 19, before that he
says that you were foreigners outside of the promises and covenants of God without hope
and without God in the world.
But he says now because of the blood of Yeshua, you are no longer foreigners, but you are
fellow citizens of the commonwealth of Israel and partakers of those promises and covenants.
And he says, I'm building you together, I'm paraphrasing, both Jew and Gentile, assembling
you together as living stones to create a dwelling place where I may come and dwell.
The church for too long has been satisfied with visitations.
God says, I want to come and live with you.
Yes, habitation.
Yes.
Habitation.
Yes.
And so, if you want to break it down into like, into a physical picture kind of thing,
here when you're mixing concrete to build, to lay the foundation of a house, if you put
too much stone in or not enough concrete or too much sand or not enough sand, the strength
of that foundation will be compromised.
So when you mix both the Jew and the Gentile, that's when you have this place, this dwelling
place.
That's the pattern that God has given us in Ephesians.
Yeah, we're all one in Christ Jesus.
Yes.
So why did we come?
If anything at all, we're part of that ingredient that's going to be put into this mixer that's
going to create the dwelling place for him right here on earth.
Just obey God.
Hallelujah.
That's right.
Just obey God.
Well, thank you so much for being with us today.
We are really looking forward to hearing the reports of what God is going to do in the
days to come.
In the meantime, would you just, would you pray over the people that are listening to
this and just let the Holy Spirit pray through you?
Father, where else can we go?
Lord, if we search the heavens, you're there.
If we go to the depths, you're there.
And Lord, just as the apostles once said, where else can we go?
You alone have the words of eternal life.
Father, I just pray for each and every one that's listening right now.
Lord, some that may be struggling with whatever their issues are, whether they're physical,
emotional, whether there's an illness, if it's financial.
Father, I just pray because where you are, there's a lack of nothing.
Lord, I just invite you to come and be exactly where each one of your children that are listening
right now.
Lord, that you would come and just take up space with them there.
Give them that assurance no matter what they're facing.
Lord, you're the answer.
Yes.
Thank you, Father.
It's not that you have an answer, you are the answer.
That's right.
Yes.
Amen.
So Lord, we give you praise.
Lord, I just speak a word of encouragement to each and every one saying that greater
and brighter and more beautiful days lie ahead.
Yes.
So Lord, I just pray that you would come and fill your people.
Your word says that we are to be filled and continuously filled with your Holy Spirit.
Yes.
Lord, make us vessels that are overflowing with who you are.
And Lord, let that overflow just go into the streets and touch those who are without hope
and trapped in sin in this world.
God, you're not finished.
You're not finished in America and you're not finished with each one of your children.
And we just declare that today in the name of your son, Yeshua.
Amen.
God bless you.
Thanks so much.
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