Wednesday Service Recap

1. 01

   Why farmers plow straight

   “No one who puts his hand to the plow and keeps looking back is fit to serve in the Kingdom of God.” Farmers broke up fallow ground in straight lines for a reason: at harvest, everything comes down the rows, and crooked rows mean crushed and lost crop. Straight rows make weeds easy to find and remove, and they waste no space. “These straight lines have a lasting effect.”

2. 02

   The narrow way is straight

   “Enter ye in at the strait gate” (Matthew 7:13–14). To be straight is to be in alignment with Yeshua, with His Word, and with His Torah: “How close is one to His Torah?” Many distractions are important issues of life, but when there is a conflict, the choice has to be Yeshua.

3. 03

   Someone is following your line

   “I'm not an usher, I'm not a deacon…” Even so, “who in your life is aligning themselves according to your plumb line?” If one row becomes crooked, the next one laid beside it is crooked too, and the error grows until the field is completely off. Dr. Marlon recalled Mother's message about an aircraft that naturally drifts and must be constantly adjusted: “We have to constantly be looking and adjusting according to what Yeshua is saying.”

4. 04

   Josiah straightened the line

   In 2 Kings 23, King Josiah gathered everyone, small and great, read the whole book of the covenant in their hearing, and the people stood to the covenant. Then he removed from Yehovah's house the vessels made for Baal, for the Asherah and for the host of heaven, and deposed the idolatrous priests. The Word had been lost, and the line had drifted that far. Dr. Marlon drew the parallel to houses of worship today: “Oh, no, they've got a Bible… But where is it? Is it in their heart?”

5. 05

   We will be measured by His Word

   In Matthew 13, the Son of Man sends His angels to gather out of His kingdom all things that cause sin, and those who are far from Torah, just as Josiah gathered up and burned what did not belong to Yehovah. “We're going to be measured by the Torah. How close did you live to it?” Being ordained is not the measure; the plumb line is. “It might seem like a small thing in some people's eyes, but it's big to Yehovah.”

6. 06

   Eyes ahead, and let Him remove it

   A driver glances at the mirrors to change lanes, but “a person can't be gazing in the rear view mirror for the trip.” Fix your gaze on Yeshua, who laid the first straight line. And don't keep part of what's out of alignment (“I'm gonna keep the Asherah pole”). His plea: seek Yehovah for the worship He prescribed, and anything not in alignment with it, “allow Him to remove it.”

“Don't hold on to stuff that is not God's, because the line will be off. Even by a little bit causes a compound error.”

1. 01

   Come to the King expecting

   Whatever you're believing for, finances, joy, anything, remember Yehovah is our provider. Echoing Dr. Marlon's words about an audience with the King, she encouraged us to go before the throne of grace confident that it's already done, “not in a way of lack, but in a way of thank You, Yehovah, You're my provider.”

2. 02

   Use the power He gives

   “I was trying to do certain things in my own strength.” We still take the wise, faith-filled actions Mom has taught, because “it's not right for us to just sit back and do nothing.” Yehovah gives us power to get wealth to establish His covenant (Deuteronomy 8:18): “We have the power, we got to do something with that power.”

3. 03

   A heart of expectation, not anxiety

   “I'm just waiting for the physical manifestation of the spiritual reality to come into fruition.” Be mindful and aware, but live in that faith frequency: “Live with that heart of expectation… instead of a heart of anxiety.”

4. 04

   Prayer is the highest frequency

   11/11 is World Frequency Day, and Yehovah is the one who created frequencies. She had been invited to do something big for the day alongside a major music producer, but chose to be with the assembly: “What we'll do for World Frequency Day is we're going to take some time… to pray. Because prayer is the highest frequency.” She asked us to pray in the Ruach HaKodesh during the closing prayer.

5. 05

   Wherever you are is your mission field

   We have missions in India, and Pastor Frank is coming to visit in less than a month, so please keep him in prayer (his wife hopes to come too). Going out matters, “but wherever the Most High places us is our mission field,” and that includes places people don't usually call one, “even the entertainment industry.”

6. 06

   Walk in love and truth

   The Scriptures are one stream. Some leave in love, to worship with family or because they believe Yehovah is leading them, and we bless them. But a person who leaves shouldn't come back to stir up contention. If someone tells you what a leader supposedly said, confirm it: “Let's get her on the phone.” “Negative drama… does not bring shalom.” And while some leave, others are coming: Sabbath keepers who are looking for community.

7. 07

   Rightly divide on the Sabbath and the feasts

   No one has shown her a scripture that explicitly says to stop keeping the Sabbath, the dietary law or the feasts. The verse most often used, Colossians 2:16, says “let no man therefore judge you,” so why judge someone for keeping them? Yeshua said those who love Him keep His commandments, and Ezekiel and Zechariah prophesy the feasts in the age to come. She shared her own story: she once told people the Sabbath was Sunday now, “and I was very passionate. I was very loud. And I was also very wrong about Sabbath being changed to Sunday.” Today she knows the Sabbath is still the seventh day, as Yehovah set it from the beginning. She honored Mom for never sweeping truth under the rug to save face, “the crystal clear revealing of Yeshua Hamashiach.” An anonymous form is coming for anyone with questions: “Come let us reason together.”

8. 08

   Wise as serpents, harmless as doves

   With talk of a possible blackout, she encouraged everyone to be ready for at least three days: water, any medications you need, common household items, and food (check the expiration dates). Keep phones and power banks charged. Agree on a family code word in person if you can, or over Signal, then Telegram, never by text or social media, since voices and faces can now be copied. Set up your phone's satellite messaging before it's needed, and consider an offline reference app. “This is not to alarm us.”

“Prayer is the highest frequency.”

1. 01

   A vision of the future

   The feasts described in Ezekiel 45, especially the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot), are set in Ezekiel's vision of a restored temple (chapters 40–48): a prophetic blueprint for the Messiah's kingdom, not something that already happened before Yeshua's earthly ministry.

2. 02

   The Prince reigns from Jerusalem

   Ezekiel dates the vision to about 573 BC (Ezekiel 40:1). It describes a purified temple and worship in a time when the Messiah, “the prince” (Ezekiel 45:22), rules from a renewed Jerusalem.

3. 03

   Tabernacles as the capstone

   In the vision, the Feast of Tabernacles crowns the year of worship, coming after the Day of Atonement and tied to restored land, priesthood and the nations coming up to worship (Zechariah 14:16–19).

Note: While some scholars debate whether or not certain prophecies concerning the Feasts are depicted before or after Yeshua’s return, the fact of the matter is that there is no scripture where Yehovah commanded His people to stop keeping the feasts.

Sister Dorothy summed it up for the family: we keep Yehovah's feasts now, and we will keep them when Yeshua returns and establishes His kingdom. As Mom has said, we are practicing now what we will do then.