The old is a shadow of the new. The new is always better than the old. The Old Testament Temple was built out of living stones. It was not build with bricks and held together with tar or cement, like the pyramids. The living stones in the Temple was cut and chiseled in such a manner that one stone fitted with another.
In the New Covenant, we are the Temple of God. 1 Corinthians 3:16-17 and 1 Corinthians 6:19 confirms this fact. Christ is the living stone of this Temple and He is the foundation stone, the cornerstone and the capstone. 1 Peter 2:4-5, says that we ‘like’ the living stone are being built into a spiritual house (Temple). There is no place for any artificiality like programs or projects, to hold His people together in the new spiritual house that God is building. People of God in the New, come together because of covenant and relationships formed with one another.
I had a dream some time ago. In the dream I saw a beautiful traditional church building, with stain glass windows, with carved doors and standing ever so big and magnificient. This church building was standing in the valley, next to a huge montain. On top of the mountain was another much smaller building. It was a very strange building. It was a building made out of people. People standing next to each other and one on top of the other. Suddenly a Hand comes out of the Heavens and rolls this small building of people down the huge mountain. As the building of people rolls down the huge mountain, more and more people gets enjoined to this building and it grows bigger and bigger in size. In no time, it grows to be bigger than the traditional church in the valley. This building of people rolls down the huge mountain and smashes the traditional church in the valley. The building of people does not stop there but keeps rolling on and on.
Such a time is coming. The Hand of the Lord has started a movement. Luke 12:32 says, ‘Fear not little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom’. As this movement of little flock rolls down the mountain, it draws many unto it and eventually smashes the traditional.
Why the little flock? Because prophecy has got to be fulfilled. Jeremiah 50:45 says that the little flock will draw out Babylon make her habitation desolate. The nations have gotten drunk with the filth and evils of Babylon. The Lord cries to His people, ‘Come out of Babylon!’ The little flock is the prophecy of God who will expose Babylon and set His people free.
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Amen! It’s amazing to watch this Exodus… and before I even got the part where you quote Jeremiah, I was already thinking of it…
In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel [ the lost tribes] shall come, they and the children of Judah [The modern day Jews]together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.
They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.
My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.
All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.
Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the flocks.
Thank you for the reminder! It’s sometimes easy to become doubtful of the “rightness” of my position outside of mainstream religion. It has become “in vogue” to “go to church,” but I have played that game long enough and seek only to seek God’s face and serve Him as He personally leads me. Mainstream religion would have you believe “serving God” means serving their organization. Bless you, my friend!