THE CONCEPTS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF THE KINGDOM PART 1

Matthew chapter 21













Today we are walking in: THE CONCEPTS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF THE KINGDOM PART 1










Exodus 16:4



Then said Yahuah unto Mosheh: Behold, I will rain bread from the heavens for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my Torah, or no. Shemoth (Exodus) 16:4





LAW





Today we look to the word LAW-- H2706-choq-- statute, ordinance, limit, something prescribed, due, prescribed task, prescribed portion, action prescribed (for oneself), resolve, prescribed due, prescribed limit, boundary, enactment, decree, ordinance, specific decree, law in general, enactments, statutes, conditions, enactments, decrees, civil enactments prescribed by Yah










The Torah testifies...............



Genesis 26:5




Because that Avraham obeyed my voice, and did guard my watch, my commandments, my statutes, and my Torah. Bere'shiyth (Genesis) 26:5







Exodus 16:28




And Yahuah said unto Mosheh: How long refuse ye to guard my commandments and my Torah? Shemoth (Exodus) 16:28







Exodus 24:12



And Yahuah said unto Mosheh: Come up to me into the Mount and be there: and I will give you caphire stones, and a Torah, and commandments which I have written; that you may teach them. Shemoth (Exodus) 24:12















The prophets proclaim..................



Ezekiel 22:26




Her priests have violated my Torah and have profaned my holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they showed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my Shabbaths, and I am profaned among them. Yechezq'el (Ezekiel) 22:26







Hosea 8:1




Set the shofar to your mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of Yahuah, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my Torah. Husha (Hosea) 8:1







Micah 4:2




And many nations shall come, and say: Come, and let us go up to the mountain of Yahuah, and to the house of the Elohai of Ya'aqov; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the Torah shall go forth of Tsiyon, and the Word of Yahuah from Yerushalayim. Miykah (Micah) 4:2


















The writings bear witness............




2 Chronicles 33:8




Neither will I anymore remove the foot of Yashar'el from out of the land which I have appointed for your fathers; so that they will take heed to do את all that I have commanded them, according to the whole Torah and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Mosheh. Divrei Hayamiym Sheniy (2 Chronicles) 33:8




Psalm 78:5




For he established a testimony in Ya'aqov, and appointed a Torah in Yashar'el, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: Tehilliym (Psalms) 78:5







Proverbs 29:18




Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that guards the Torah, happy is he. Mishlei (Proverbs) 29:18
























THE CONCEPTS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF THE KINGDOM PART 1




The concepts and the characteristics of the Kingdom—that’s what we’re going to talk about. We have been going through a whole series on the Kingdom of Elohiym, which is the only subject that, really, we should be talking about in the called-out assembly worldwide today.




We celebrate around the world, with millions of believers, the period of time that we remember the last week in the life of Yahusha on earth. Today was the day that Yahusha decided to go to Yerushalayim to die. It was today, 2,000 years ago, this very day right now. We know it’s the exact date because it was the day, the first day of the week, that he set out to go toward Yerushalayim. This was the day that he said, “I set my face like flint toward Yerushalayim.” You know, flint is a very hard rock. You can’t break it. In other words, he was fixed: I am going to die.




So the statement meant that Yahusha was saying, whatever happens, there’s one thing I will do, and that is I’m going to die for them, and nothing is going to stop me. That decision was made on this day. This was the day, then, that he sent them to go and find him the donkey so he could ride in on the donkey, down the hill of the Mount of Olives, and up the Qidron Valley, and up to the Temple Mount, and into the city gate, and into the city of Yerushalayim. It was this day. This is the day that they cut down branches, and they began to sing, “Hosanna; blessed is he that comes in the name of YAHUAH,” and they called him, “He’s the King. Here comes the King.”




Now, in Mattithyahu 21, we find in verse 5 it says the prophecy about this day, which comes from, of course, the Cepher of the Old Testament, Zekaryahu chapter 9, is where you find the history of this. You need to read that. But in Zekaryahu chapter 9, verse 9, you find these words prophesying about the coming Mashiach. It says that he will come riding on a donkey: “Say to the daughter of Tsiyon, Behold, your King…” Everybody say King. “…comes unto you, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.” End quote.




Now, that prophecy was written way back, a few thousand years before Yahusha came to earth—a couple of thousand years. This is amazing to me, how details are kept by Elohiym. And Zekaryahu the prophet said that when the Mashiach came, one of the signs would be that he would come riding into the city as a King, but on a donkey. And then Zekaryahu defines, or describes, the kind of donkey. He says he will come on a foal, or a colt, a young, unused donkey. But notice, he says he’ll be riding to who? To you. And he’s a King.




Okay, I want you to write the word King down for a minute.




The Bible is not a Cepher about a democracy. The Bible is not a Cepher about a republic. It is not a republic. The Bible is not about a parliamentary democracy. The Bible is about a system of government.




As we know it, we live in the Western world in a form of government that is called a democratic form—democracy, parliamentary democracy, or republics. These are built on the philosophy of government where the people choose their leader. We vote for our king—for our leader, so to speak—not king, but leader.




The Bible is not about that. The message of the Bible is not a democratic message. It’s very important to remember this. Yahusha is not called a president. A president presides over a nation at the behest and the permission of the people. They vote for him. The prime minister is not what Yahusha Ha’Mashiach is called. He’s not a prime minister. Prime ministers are selected by a party who have been voted in by the people. So the power in a democracy resides in people. Whether it’s a republic or a parliamentary democracy, even in the Commonwealth of Nations, the power resides in the people. If you don’t like who you got in power, in the next election you take them out. So the power is really in the hands of the people.




The Bible is opposite to that. The Bible is not a democracy. It’s not a republic. And I keep repeating this, but I want you to get it, because, you see, we have been brought up, cultured, and conditioned to think in terms of a democracy and a republic. We think that way. So when you read the Bible, you must understand that the Bible is not talking about a governing power or structure that resembles what you know.




This is why, in our last week’s session—if you are aware of what we talked about last week—I talked about the fact that Elohiym waited until the Roman Empire was in power, remember that, before he sent Yahusha. Why? Remember why? Because he needed a model, right? So Mashiach didn’t come to earth until Elohiym had a model in place that could define the message of his Kingdom. The Roman Empire was the perfect model, first because it was structured on dominion. The Romans dominated the entire world at that time, the known world of civilization. They dominated the world. Secondly, they dominated the world, but they kept the citizens that they took over in the land. Thirdly, there was only one ruler in the Roman Empire, only one, and he was not voted in. He was an emperor. An emperor is one who has an empire.




Fourthly, the emperor had a title. The emperor’s title—his title—was Caesar. Caesar is another word for Lord. Everybody say Lord.




Now, Caesar was the only one with the title. There were no other Caesars. And that word means Lord. In other words, the Roman Empire only had one Lord. Everybody say Lord again. Say it again. The word Lord—write it down—it means owner, owner-proprietor. So the word Lord is referring to the person who owns the property.




When you rent from somebody, as I always say, you have to call them the landlord. What are they? The land what? See, they’re lords. In The Bahamas, all over The Bahamas—and also some of you are lords if you own property, and you lease it to someone else—you are a lord. Lord simply means owner.




When you read the Bible, you will find the word Lord written all through the Bible. Sometimes it’s a capital L, sometimes it’s a small l. The small l is referring to those who own property, but the big L is referring to the One who owns those who own the property. So whenever the word Lord is used for Elohiym, it is always a capital L. Why? He is the owner of the whole earth and everything in it.




The Bible says, “The earth is YAHUAH’s, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.” The earth is whose? YAHUAH’s. Take the word out with the meaning: the earth is the Owner’s. There you go. It’s a different picture altogether. The earth belongs to the Owner, and all the fullness—or that which fills it—is also the Owner’s. It’s going to make sense in a minute.




Now, Caesar calls himself Lord. Lord means owner. So the Roman Empire was built on the philosophy that everything is owned by Caesar. Elohiym says, “Send Yahusha now, because the message he’s going to preach is the exact message they’re living.” He’s coming to establish an empire, a Kingdom, and he will be the Lord of all.




So you can have many lords—oh dear—but small l should really be translated caretaker, rendered. A small l means, yeah, you own it. Let me give an example.




In The Bahamas—and also in America, I guess, in Canada too, and other places—but in The Bahamas, when you buy a piece of property, guess what they give you? The conveyance papers, don’t they? And you own the property. You see your name on it. They stamp it. You own the property. But yet the government tells you, you don’t own this property. How do you know? They charge you for the rest of your life for something you own. I got a problem with that. Keep the TV on.




You work all your life to pay for this piece of property, pay for this house. You work hard. And then they let you rent what you own, and they call it real estate tax.




Okay, that’s not a bad model. Listen to me in the model. What they’re saying is, you own it, but you don’t own it. We are giving you permission to own it, and the permission you got to pay for the rest of your life. You are a caretaker.




Now, isn’t it amazing that those who keep the property the best pay the most? Interesting.




This is important. What happens if you don’t pay your property tax? I want you to think about this. You own this property. You own this property. You paid for it. But what happens if you refuse to pay your property tax? What happens? Come on, lawyers, talk to me. Huh? They what? Okay, hear it—they will repossess. This is crazy. What you own.




What they’re saying is, you never owned this. It doesn’t sound fair, I know. Okay. Why this is important to learn: because it’s the way kingdoms think. The earth is always YAHUAH’s, so anybody who claims to own anything in it, or any part of it, they don’t own it. They are caretakers.




Let me tell you how happy I am about that. I found out that a king owns everything in a kingdom. In a kingdom, the king literally owns the whole kingdom, right? Write this down: the king owns the kingdom. That’s the different concept you’ve got to learn. That concept.




So in a kingdom, a king allocates property to people. How many of you remember in The Bahamas there was such a term as—and still is, actually—a term called Crown land? Now, why do they call it Crown land? Because that’s the land that is owned by Queen Elizabeth in The Bahamas, because kings own their territory. They can give it to whom they want.




That’s why there are parts of The Bahamas named after people, whole islands or sections named after people, the Collins family. Those things were given out by the King of England. “You can have this island. You can have that part of it. You can have that half.” I mean, they just—the king just cuts it up, gives it away. This is so good, because in a kingdom the king can move his property around to whomsoever he wills. And guess what? You never own it.




So Yahusha is a King riding on a donkey, not a president. The president of the United States does not own America. Our prime minister does not own The Bahamas. And sometimes they seem like they do, but they don’t. But a king is a different story.




My wife and I went to a kingdom a couple of years ago. We went to a kingdom called Swaziland. It’s one of the last places in the world where there is an actual king that rules the country. It’s a monarchy. Hallelujah. That whole country belongs to him. It’s amazing. The man got—how many wives, baby? How many wives? Eight? Huh? He’s on the tenth one. My God. Now, I’m not talking about one at a time, you know. See, y’all understand, I talk about ten all at once.




The thing is, now, my wife—you know, we are guests of the king, and he is the power of the country. And, of course, you know, when we arrived there, they had a whole parade for us, and it was amazing, and we were the guests of the king. And when we arrived to the place where they were all gathered to meet us, and all the leaders and all the chiefs, then my wife had to be separated from me because she had to go sit with the wives.




Now, look at that. The king made sure no fool touches any of them brothers. You will hear of a man who killed a king? You know. Hey. And she had this shipment of all these queens, I guess they’re all queens, I don’t know. Yeah, I counted eight. Eight.




Tell me why I can’t get away with one wife. He owns the subjects. They said that when that king wants a wife, if he’s sitting now and he’s in a meeting, and he sees a woman that he wants, he just tells the parents, “Deliver her.” And him—this is real—“Deliver your daughter at nine o’clock in the morning, prepare her for the court to be trained. I want her to be my wife.” Why? The concept is he owns the people.




Are you getting it? Yahusha is a King. He could walk into a place and see you. Yahusha now—let me see you in sin, under the garbage heap of all kinds of muck—and he decides, “You, my wife.” You understand it? That’s exactly what he did to some of you. If people knew your past, and yet he walked into your life, and he’s King. He is what? Lord. He says, “I don’t care what she’s been drinking. What do you mean, sniffing? She is mine.” It’s Kingdom. The King can do that.




Now, the King comes in because he owns his Kingdom. He’s Lord.




Now, I want to say a couple things here before we wrap this up. I want you to remember this. When a king has children, those children are called what? Prince and princesses. Now, in every kingdom you’ve got one king. You can have two kings—and I’m talking about in the kingdoms of the model of the world. Now then, all the people in the kingdom are called what? Subjects. That means below-jacks. Are you getting it? You’ve got sub-jacks in every kingdom in the world. You’ve got subjects. You are below-jacks. What a horrible term. But every kingdom has it.




But the Kingdom of Elohiym is a problem, because it’s the complete opposite. In the Kingdom of Elohiym, the people that are in the Kingdom of Elohiym are not subjects. They are all kings. Problem here.




So when Yahusha was talking about authority in the Kingdom, leadership in the Kingdom, he had a problem explaining it. He said, “Look. You disciples got the wrong training. You believe that in the kingdom, he who is greatest is the one who suppresses everybody else. You think that in the kingdom, in order to be big, you got to make everybody else small. You believe that to be somebody, you got to make sure everybody else is nobody.” What an attitude.




He says, “Now that’s the way it’s done.” But we can deal with this in a couple of weeks coming. “That’s the way it’s done,” he says, “in the world. In the pagan world, they want to lord it over their subjects.” Statement: “It shall not be so among you.” Complete rebuke.




To live in this Kingdom, he says, change your philosophy of leadership, authority. You are not great because everyone else is small, because in his Kingdom ain’t no small. He said, “In this Kingdom, the great person is the one who serves everybody else.” There’s going to be a good series when you understand this later.




I was teaching a seminar this week in a corporate company, and I asked the question. And then on Friday night I mentioned it again during our session. What do you think of when you hear the word Michael Jordan? What do you think about? Basketball. You don’t think about people. What do you think about? What he does.




Is he a leader? Yes. Everybody wants him to be on their advertisement. He’s a powerful leader. His name brings in millions. He has influence all over the world. I mean, Michael is an awesome leader. But when I call his name, you don’t think about people, because leadership has nothing to do with people.




Michael Jackson. What do you think about? You don’t think about people. But yet he influences millions. He is now called—ready for this?—the King of Pop. He got no subjects, but he’s called what? King. He doesn’t dominate people. He dominates a domain that is his gift.




I give you one more: Mother Teresa. What do you think about? What do you think about? Charity. What do you think about? Poor, yes. Isn’t that amazing? This woman is a world leader. She stood before the United Nations and addressed them. She was sought by kings and queens who wanted to talk to her. Governments wanted her advice. She was four feet high and never changed clothes—the same dress all the time—but she ruled the world. Why? It wasn’t people we remember. It’s a gift.




Because your leadership is not in ruling people. He says, “In this Kingdom, the greatest among you is the one who found his gift and serves it to everybody else.”




I’m going to ask a question. I don’t want an answer now. I want an answer from you—and I promise I’m going to ask you at this time. I want an answer from you in 15 years, okay? I’m going to ask you the question now, and then I want an answer in 15 years.




Here’s the question: What will I think about when we call your name in 15 years?




I’m going to ask for an answer, because right now we probably think about nothing. Are you known for anything yet? Is there something that you are so good at, that you dominate so well, that it’s synonymous with your name? Or maybe your name is Jack—who? Why are you laughing? Who’s Jack? All right. Oh, you know Jack? I’m waiting to see if you know Jack. Who’s Jack? What is Jack’s last name? Of all trades. He masters what? You got to master something.




There’s a trophy in my office. It’s about three feet high. I went to speak out in California at a conference there at the Shrine Auditorium, really where they have all the Academy Awards, and I was a speaker that night. And all these people in this place, and they presented me with a trophy. The trophy reads: Mr. Purpose. Interesting.




About eight years ago—maybe before, longer, maybe ten years ago—I was chatting with Pastor Richard and Erin, and I think he might have forgotten this conversation. I hope not. I said, “You know what to do? I’ll tell you what to do if you want to be successful in life. Find an area that you’re good at and work it. I mean, just read all the Cepheriym on it, you know. Go to every seminar on it. I mean, if it’s your passion, your love, just go for it. Don’t be known for too many things. Be king of something.”




Elvis Presley, okay. What do you remember? Rock and roll. He’s the king of what? Rock and roll. Leader.




Aretha Franklin. She’s a queen. Where did you get these names from? There are no queens in America. She’s a queen of soul. And notice all the names are different. She’s soul. Elvis is rock and roll. Michael Jackson is pop. Jordan is basketball. Tiger Woods is golf.




What is yours? What are you serving the world? Mashiach says, “The greatest among you will become the one who’s serving the best.”




Do you know why most Bahamian restaurants don’t make it? They sell everything. I’m giving you good advice now. They can invoice me for this idea. It’s free. Stop selling everything. Kentucky Fried Chicken is known for what? Chicken, man. They may throw a burger in there, but that ain’t their thing. It’s chicken.




What are you known for? Find something that is you. Serve it to the world. You know, it’s tough to find good secretaries because they keep changing their positions, their jobs. They keep changing stuff. It’s good to be good at something, because you become sought-after. A good mechanic—Lance—we don’t need a guy who can fix everything, you know. When I want my car fixed, I don’t take it to a plumber. I don’t want no pipes in my car. I need somebody who’s good at that one thing. This is important.




They are what? The authority in the area. Am I talking to anybody here this morning? Why am I stuck on this? I got all kinds of things to talk about. But, you see, somebody here must be trying to be everything, and Elohiym is saying, “Hey, settle down on one thing and get good at it, man. Find your gift and serve that thing to the world, and you’ll become what? Great.”




Muhammad Ali—he claimed to be king. No mayor. He got more influence than the mayor. If Muhammad Ali walks into a town, the people don’t go see the mayor. They have a meeting while he’s there. Why? Because he has sharpened his skill in his area so well, he serves it to the whole world. I mean, he went to the Thrilla in Manila and served the world some gloves. Stopped the world for two hours. What can you do to stop the world? There’s something in you, and that’s your leadership.




I mean, you give me one last name. Say what you think about: Yahusha. Huh? One word. Savior. Salvation. Why? That’s the word. That’s what it means. Elohiym named him what he was. “His name shall be called Yahusha.” The word means what? Savior. “For he shall save his people from their sins.” He named him what he was.




If you want to get saved, you go to Mashiach. He’ll dominate your sins and turn them into a miracle. Amen. He saves you.




Now, the King came riding, synonymous with a dominion. Our Kingdom is a problem because our Kingdom doesn’t have any subjects. So Yahusha said, “To explain my Kingdom to you all, there needs to be a paradigm shift.” Watch this. All the citizens in the Kingdom are sons of the King. Problem. That means every citizen is a prince or princess.




So what do you do now? Well, what is a prince or a princess? Write down the definition. A prince or a princess is a king in waiting. They are kings and they are queens, but they are in waiting. A prince is a king. So why is he called the prince? A princess is a queen. Why is she not called queen? That is simple, because you cannot be a king or a queen, if you are a prince and a princess, until two things happen. One, the king dies; or two, you are removed out of the territory. Two kings cannot rule the same territory.




Prince Charles of England—you all know today—Prince Charles’s problem is, his mother wouldn’t die. Or respect. Please, your majesty. Prince Charles is an old man now. God bless you, sir. Jolly well, old chap, commander fellow. It’s the truth, you know. He’s an old man. He’s older than most of us. But he’s still a prince. As old as he is, he’s still a prince. And the possibility still is there that he might die a prince. Why? Because the queen is still alive, and as long as she is in England and she’s still alive, he is forever stuck with being prince. That means he will never rule, dominate England.




And you’re listening to me carefully. I’m talking about you. I was saying something that sounded very comical this morning, but it was to make a point, and that is Prince Charles has a problem. He ain’t sure how to pray. He ain’t sure if he’s supposed to pray for his mommy to stay alive. That’s one prayer: “Give her long life, a long life.” No. You know one of the famous statements in the Bible and also in Great Britain’s monarchy is this statement: Long live the king. Now the reason why they say you must say that all the time is because you don’t want them to die. But I’m not sure everybody is praying that with you. What do you think?




I mean, after a while, you know, you prince and you 60 years old, and you still prince. You still walking around prince. I mean, you see the throne every day, just walking around prince all your life. They call you Prince Charles. Prince, prince, prince. Man, you get tired of prince. But this woman wouldn’t die.




So Prince Charles—listen to me—never had a kingdom. That’s the only mistake. Prince Charles, even though he’s an old man, so far he never ruled, never had a kingdom. What a sad thing. All his life he is known as the sidekick. Some of you laugh at Prince Charles, but his life is not easy. All your life, even in the shadow, all your life you carry out diplomatic errands. You never speak as the authority. All your life everybody questions you when you speak. I say, that’s tough, man. Sometimes you wonder why people have difficulty living. You know, you don’t live in their shoes. All his life, never had a kingdom, never ruled, and yet he has royal blood.




Now watch what the monarchy is doing. Every kingdom—everybody say kingdom—put next to it monarchy. The Bible is about a monarchy. Kingdoms are about monarchies. What’s a monarchy? A monarchy is a family that owns and rules the whole territory. The family owns the place. My God. That’s why the land in The Bahamas is called Crown land. Why? The king—the queen—actually owns land, land she never saw.




Anybody following this now? Watch this. A monarchy is a family. This is good news for you to understand the Bible. The Bible is about a family. This is a family Cepher. Y’all got to forgive me. This is about a Father with children and with an eldest Son. You getting me? Great.




This Cepher is not about religion. It’s not about traditions. It’s not about all these calisthenics we call worship, and the candles and the smoke and the chants and the songs and the hymns. This Cepher is a family Cepher. It’s a family album. Can you change your thinking?




And the family in this Cepher is a monarchy. The Father is called the King of the universe, seen and unseen. The Cepher actually calls him King of all.




Now, the only way for Charles to become king, by the way—and Charles, your majesty, Prince Charles, you know this is true, you watching this program—you can become king even by the death of your mum. Or, if they can move you out of England and put you in a foreign territory, then you can become a king. Two ways to become a king: the death of the father or the mother, you become king, or they got to move you out of the territory. As long as you are with your father and your mother, you cannot be king.




Write that down. As long as the prince and the princess are with the mother and the father, they cannot be king. They can only be prince and princess. So the way you become a king is the death of the parent, or you are removed out of the same territory as your father.




Let me tell you why this is tough teaching, because this is the real truth. Hallelujah.




Now, do you know what plans they’re making in England right now? They figure Princess Margaret—no, Elizabeth—is so old, but they figure she’s still strong, so the possibility of her outliving her son is very high. You’re following this now. So what they’ve done—they figure, you know, if she were to pass away in the next 15 years from now, which is possible, because her mother’s still alive. That woman is eternal. Woman’s a thousand years old. I mean, now, you know. Lord have mercy. That grandson got real problems.




Okay. So if Queen Elizabeth lives another 15 or 20 years, how old do you think Charlie gonna be? Let me tell you something: Charlie gonna be walking around like granny walking now. So what they doing now, they already started. They figure he ain’t gonna be no good to the throne when grandmama passes. So they’re working on his son William, and they’re saying, “Look, we got to prepare this young fellow to be king.” So they already earmarked him to take over after Queen Elizabeth dies—not Prince Charles, to whom they going? For the son.




Would you follow this? That’s why he’s having etiquette training, diplomatic training, international training, economic training, training in the courts of traditions. I mean, the guy is getting prepared, young fellow, because daddy will never be king now.




There’s a third way. Third way for Prince Charles to become king. This is the one I want to get at. The third way is if his mother woke up one day and said, “I’m tired, so I’m going to abdicate the throne, and I’m going to turn it over to my son because I love him, and I don’t want him to die not tasting what it feels like to sit in this golden chair and give commands, and they are obeyed as if they are law. To feel the power that the House of Lords and the House of Commons—and even the prime minister gotta get permission from you to do anything. The power.”




The prince ain’t never felt it. Serious.




Let me tell you his bottom line. Elohiym’s Kingdom is a mystery. He is King, and he got kids. All the kids are princesses and princes, which means they are all rulers in waiting. Say with me: rulers in waiting.




So I’m gonna go here. I want to show you something. So here’s Elohiym. He is in the invisible world. He is the ruler, King, of the invisible world. And he has children. Now, you were always with him. The Bible says—write this down—Ephesiym 1:4: “He chose us in him before the foundation of the world.” There wasn’t an earth yet. When Elohiym already had you, you existed before earth. Write it down. Help me annoy you. You existed before earth.




The Bible says he chose you long before there was an earth. So you pre-existed before the universe, before planets, before the solar system, before earth, before creation. You existed before Bereshiyth chapter 1. Everybody with me? That’s why the Bible could say, in the same verse, you were predestined. In verse 3 of that same chapter, Ephesiym 1, it says, “Blessed be the Elohiym and Father of our Adonai Yahusha Ha’Mashiach, who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places in Ha’Mashiach.” Who? What’s the past tense? Has already—already—already blessed you with every single blessing you would need. But where are they? They are reserved in the heavenly realms. Why? Because there wasn’t no place else to put them, because there wasn’t any place made yet for them to be manifested.




Do you understand? Everything you need for life and holiness was prepared before it was even manifested, and they were set in reserve in the invisible realm, the Bible says. Why? Because there was no visible realm yet. You get it? You and everything you need existed before there was a visible realm.




It’s like Elohiym told Yirmeyahu. When Yirmeyahu started complaining, Elohiym said, “Yirmeyahu, I called you to be a prophet to the nations, to uproot, to tear down, and to rebuild.” Yirmeyahu: “Oh, Adonai YAHUAH, you made a mistake. I can’t even talk, and I’m only a child.” Elohiym said, “Shut up. Don’t say you are a child.” Because before you were conceived in your mother’s womb, you were history. And before you were born, he says, you had already been appointed to be a prophet.




My Lord. Now watch this. So now Elohiym has children before there’s a planet. Elohiym is King.




Wrapping up now. I got to get this. So Elohiym—help me—Elohiym is not Queen Elizabeth. Thank you, Yahusha. Elohiym says, “Look, I want my kids to taste rulership. But if they stay with me, they can’t rule nothing up here. This is my territory. Ain’t no room for that up here. But I love them so much, I want them to taste what it feels like to be in charge. So I’ve got to get them out of here.” Out of where? Heaven.




Now, see, you want to go to a place—that’s a demotion. Uh-uh. Whole new thinking. Elohiym loves you so much, he got you out of heaven. I wonder—oh, please don’t misunderstand a statement. Keep the TV on. I wonder how much Her Majesty loves Charlie. Serious question.




For Elohiym so loved you that he got rid of you so you could taste what Daddy knows. So when you read the family album, it reads like this: “In the beginning Daddy created a physical realm.” Why? He has to get the kids out of the spiritual realm, otherwise they’ll never taste rulership.




I want to close on the first Scripture and run a couple of verses here. Turn to Tehilliym.




They’ll never feel my rulership. Tell your neighbor, “Boy, Daddy loves us.” You know. If you understand, I understand. Elohiym loves you so much—oh. Let me tell you something, friends. If you got a 35-, 40-year-old son still in the house, something wrong. Y’all talk to me, man. Your son is 40 years old and he’s still in the house, and he’s working. Let me tell you something: they are not men. They are boys. Or women—big girls—still 40-year-old girl.




My daddy told me years ago—and I was talking to someone at lunch yesterday. They said the same thing. My daddy said, “Look, son, until you get your own house, you ain’t a man.” You know what he means by that? Until you have your own territory.




Elohiym says, “Look, I know you’d like it up here singing and dancing, jumping up and down around my throne, but until you get your own territory, you ain’t no king.” We want to go to heaven and jump? I will. It’s a man’s room. For what are you doing? I don’t want to go crying. Can’t angels manage? He’s very clear.




Why he made us? “Let them have dominion,” and he specified, “over the earth.” He’s trying to give you leadership, man. He’s trying to give you rulership. He’s trying to give you authority. What do you want? You just want to sing?




What would you do if your son and daughter spent all day in the house for 25 years just singing? Come on, be honest, man. What would you do as a parent? Let me tell you something. There’d be two songs in the house: “Go away, little girl. Go away. Just go away.”




And yet we want to do that with Elohiym: just go to heaven and sing. Guess what? You used to be in heaven. Elohiym got you out. Why? Because he loved you so much, he wanted you to experience what Daddy experiences.




You know, some of you men who have grown up—some of you are still growing up, yeah—but those who grew up and got your own house, how often have you said, “Boy, I realize what my daddy used to go through now”? Remember I said before, I got to pay bills now—water bill, light bill, phone bill, children bill, tuition bill, all kinds of bills—and you start appreciating what your father must have gone through. That’s what Elohiym wants.




Tehilliym says—look at the first statement—“O YAHUAH our Adonai, how excellent is your name in all the earth!” Write the word majestic down. The word excellent here has to do with majesty. “How majestic is your name in all the earth!” Next statement. He says, “Who have set your glory above the heavens.” What’s he doing? He’s looking at the sky at night, the stars, the planets. He says, “My, look at your nature there.” Read on. He says, “Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings have you ordained strength because of your enemies, that you might still the enemy and the avenger.”




Okay, we got a problem here. Listen carefully. He says, “Elohiym, O YAHUAH, when I look at all this creation,” he says, “man, look at the stars and the beauty,” he says, “but I see something. You have made children.” This is not referring to children’s church. This statement is referring to all in front of you. He’s talking about every child that came out of Elohiym. He says, “Elohiym, you made all this creation, but it was for your children.” Why? Because you wanted your children to praise you with perfect praise.




Just stay with me for a couple of minutes. Don’t miss this, please. I beg you, because the devil don’t want you to get this part. Elohiym created the seen world, the visible world, and 500 million planets, and 500 million galaxies, and 500 million stars, and this wonderful array of stars and Milky Ways and black holes and the awesome beauty of the constellations of stars and buildings—everything you see that causes awe—all of that was because of you kids.




Elohiym don’t need no stars. And David says he did that because he wanted his children to praise him perfectly, and when they did, they would still, they would shut up the mouth of who? Read it there. What? The avenger. Not avengers—singular, right? And what else? The foe. Singular, not foes. And then it says what? The enemies—plural.




Who is it referring to? It is referring to Lucifer. There was an angel in heaven who was in charge of praise and worship. His name was Lucifer. This creature was kicked out by Elohiym, cast out. So now Elohiym has no one in heaven, so to speak, quote-unquote, to lead the worship. David says, “Ah, I see it. I see it. Daddy had some angels in charge of this thing, but what Daddy did was Daddy made a decision. He don’t want no more angels to lead worship. What he wants now is his own kids.”




Oh, Yahusha, I love you. Thank you.