When we say a natural to a spiritual, you can see very clearly: What was the first man?

He was Adam. He took the dust of the earth, he picked it up, and he formed a man. And Paul says he was of the earth, earthly. He was called Adam. But the last Adam in First Corinthians 15:46—he says the last Adam is from the heaven. He’s spiritual, and He’s heavenly. So you have a first Adam. You have a last Adam that goes on and on and on.

For example, I’ll teach on this more next week in our lesson. But Moses is your natural man who got the Torah at Mount Sinai. Messiah comes, and actually, He’s the living Torah from heaven. And we’ll go into that quite a bit next week. A worldwide awakening—we join those witnesses who believe we are in the final twilight before Messiah’s day, that we’re in the end zone.

You know what? A week ago, the Chiefs took the game. They got in the end zone, right? In the end, more than it was the Lord. Wow. We believe in the Lord, and we’re convinced of it. It’s a sign—you see, Chiefs: Who’s the chief cornerstone? He’s the cornerstone. And He’s going—He’s showing up now. It’s time. It’s according to Acts 3:19 through 21.

This is a “now” word. It says, “Repent so that your sins might be forgiven, that times of refreshing might come from the Lord, because the heavens are holding Him back until the restoration of all things.” Until then  going to be this call of repentance. That’s what we’ve been in for. Ministers of New Life have been called to repentance. We’ve been in it for15 years now.

. And this is why He’s blessing us, because He has to have Earth repent. Look, I don’t want to get to—I can go off into that. And it’s my nature to get on rabbit trails. So I want—I want to define twilight for you a little bit, though, because if you don’t understand twilight, if you took—because it says that the day is a thousand years and a thousand years is a day, and He took 6000—I’m sorry, He took 6 days for creation.

So there’s 6000 years given to man. 6 is the number of man, but it’s also the number of physical completion. But in the morning there’s a twilight zone, and in the evening there’s a twilight zone. So you can take the 6000 years and put them into hours. And you could begin to figure—if you’re very skilled—you can figure out how much time of the day is in the twilight times, but the twilight comes at the end of the day.

So we’re at the end of the sixth day. So we’re in a twilight time, because the twilight time is when it turns from one day to the next. We’re getting ready to turn from the Sixth Day to the Seventh. The Seventh day is that Earth Sabbath rest. You see, the seventh day is the Sabbath.” Remember the Torah of my servant Moses, the statutes and rules that I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel.

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of YaHVeh”. That’s what we’re in. That’s why the restoration of the Torah now, because we’re approaching the Day of YaHVeH. And if you are not aligned, you will not stand. I believe it must be firmly fixed in the Word So he’s preparing us.

now to speak to you about Priority of Authority. This is the introduction really—that all that beginning. What is that? I don’t know, because that was in the introduction to terms, introduction to, you know, the time and season we’re in. Priority of authority. I want to introduce you a little bit about our Heavenly Father. The more I know him, the more joy I have in my life.

You don’t see Him. You won’t see Him, but you hear Him. You experience his touch. He hovers over your spirit, and you know he deposits something, and He’s unique to every individual because he created each of us. He wrote a book about us. He determined where we would live. He put you here. You think you got here?

No, He put you here, and He put you here at this appointed time because you have a purpose. He has a plan for you. He has a destiny for you. And you need to tell Him, “I don’t want to miss it. I don’t want to miss anything he wants me to do.” He’s so amazing. There’s no father ever been like him.

Many of you never had a father that was a real role model for you. But if you can get to know Him, He’ll make up for all the losses and all the emptiness. Because we as parents often fail our children.

The most far-reaching—what I believe the most far-reaching—issue of life is: Do I know the Eternal Father, the existent one? The author of Hebrews wrote, “Without faith it is impossible to please the Eternal Father. For whoever would draw near to Elohim must believe that He exists and He rewards those who seek him.” You must believe that—not by what you feel, but because  He said it, it’s there if He said It’s established. It cannot move, It cannot change

 Do you know that the plagues in Egypt—he used the first three to show Pharaoh His existence? There about His existence.  They are about existence, He’s also showing Himself to the Israelites because they needed help too—you know, we all need help. We have a mind that works night and day, and you have to bring the mind under the authority of the Spirit.

And the only way you ever do that is by Scripture. You go round and round a mountain in your mind realm. You silence the mind and tell the mind to be quiet. And you take the Word, and you use the Word skillfully, and you silence the mind. Because once you’re born of the Spirit, you should be led by the Spirit and not the mind.

The mind, will, and emotions will lead you astray, and you’ll spend so much wasted time when you can dwell on the Word and speak to the Father and fellowship with Him, even as Messiah did. Every created thing in the universe—every living and animate—is evidence of the Father’s existence, and everything came from Him. It was all His idea.

Physically, we exist because of Him, but we are not existence.

While on earth we have a privilege, through faith in Messiah, to experience our Father’s existence and essence. When we walk in alignment with him, we establish His kingdom on earth.

The Kingdom reveals His essence: Torah teachings, thoughts, and ways. And I’m just referring you to the Teshuvah Reference Guide, pages 94 and 95. He says, “Israel is my pattern. Yeshua is was My Person, and you’re My Micture.” This is what he intends right now: that you and I walk out what He teaches. And when you do that, you reveal Him.

Listen to what Proverbs 28:4 says: “He that forsakes the Torah praises the wicked.” That’s what He says. “But He that does the Torah contends with them.” Now you look today: America is in the condition it is because the Ecclesia does not know the Torah, because when you walk away from the Torah, you walk away from our Father’s teachings. And our Father’s teachings is the Kingdom—you’re revealing him every time you obey Him. You tell somebody else, “This is what He looks like.” Every time you act by the Spirit.

“This is who my Father is. This is what Yeshua came to do.” Yeshua came to reveal the Father. And He came to bring you and me to the Father and to show us the Father. We have many scriptures for that, and we’ll get into that more in our journey, even into next week. Our lives are morphing, undergoing gradual change.

You can look at me and you can see that I’m well over 27—from one phase to another. But our Father remains constant without beginning and without end. The prophet Malachi wrote, “YaHVeh said, ‘I YaHVeh do not change.'” I don’t know who told you he changed, but He does not change. How could he change?

How could he change a word? His name and word are linked together. He has exalted, His Name and Word above all else. As our awareness of the Eternal Father’s existence increases, we begin to experience His essence. As a young shepherd boy, King David loved YaHVeh with a wholeheartedness. In time YaHVeh appointed David as king over Israel, giving him the Davidic Covenant in 2 Samuel 7. I challenge you.

You begin to make the Father the love of your life—that will be. You’ll be making Yeshua the love of your life, and you give your life to bring honor to His name.

I have a theme in my heart. It’s an idée fixe again. I want to make my Father’s name great.

That’s something to live for. That’s something to die for: to make my Father’s name great with a pure heart. Lord, I ask you, give me a pure heart to make You a great name. Not only did YaHVeh give David the Davidic Covenant in 2 Samuel 7. He also sent His Spirit, His Ruach, to reinforce the covenant by giving David two companion. Psalms 89 and 132.

Those are beautiful, beautiful psalms, supporting the Davidic Covenant that reveals YaHVeh’s prophetic promises in essence to King David. And King David in those psalms—this is now what I want you to see—is when a spirit comes upon a writer, he begins to reveal who the Father is. And this is what he says: “Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne.”

Who wouldn’t want to be aligned with a leader like that? “Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; steadfast love and faithfulness go before you”S. That’s who our Father is. I don’t know if there’s any spirit that comes to you and tells you something about your Father. You should silence it with the word. “My Father is good.”

He can do nothing wrong. He would never do wrong. He would never lead me astray. He will never do anything that harms me. You have—we have to silence the enemy. The Eternal Father’s essence revealed in His name and titles: Elohim, righteous Judge; YaHVeh, merciful Father. Now I want to show you that He revealed Himself in the beginning in these two major names, and what he’s helping us understand in Genesis 1:1.

In the beginning, Elohim created. In the Genesis creation account, 32 times our Father references Himself as Elohim. It is the only name in the creation account: Elohim. Now he’s doing that for a purpose. And that purpose is that Elohim means Righteous Judge. He judges righteously. I want to give you an example. I don’t know if you’re familiar with…

I dwell—my drill, not dwell. I drill my class on Genesis 15. Genesis 15 is one of the most awesome chapters, because it’s the Land Grant Covenant with Abraham, Before He even made the Abrahamic Covenant in Genesis 17, He made the Land Grant Covenant in Genesis 15. There’s so much prophecy in that covenant. It tells about how they’re going to go into Egypt, how they’re going to be in exile for actually—they’re going to be there 210 years.

He tells them, When they come out, they’re going to come out with silver and gold. He foretells all of this: “When y’all come out in the fourth generation.” It’s just what we think. But this is what he tells Abraham. This shows you how righteous and just He is. He says, “Abraham, there’s seven nations living in the land that I’m going to give you, but I can’t give it to you now because they haven’t sinned to the point that I have to judge them.”

See, they’re His righteousness. He loves Abraham. Abraham’s obeyed Him. He’s come, He followed Him. But He said, “Abraham, I can’t give you the land yet, because the people that live there—they’re sinning against me. But their cup—I call the cup of iniquity—is not full yet, but is right at the top. But when it’s full, I’m going to judge them, and I’m going to bring you in.”

Now we learned two or three things from that. When the Father judges a people, he will judge the land. Watch America. The cup of iniquity, I would say, is filling up for America. I don’t know what will happen to this nation if we do not turn back and we keep going the direction we’re going—we are. The cup of iniquity is rapidly filling up.

There is a cup of iniquity for the world, dear ones. That’s when—that cup of iniquity that Paul identifies—three people groups in Scriptures. He identifies the Jew, the Ecclesia, and the Greeks, which would mean the goyim: all the nations that don’t know Him are outside of Him. So He has a plan for each of these three. And when it comes the time of the end of the Sixth Day, you will find it will be just like it was when the Israelites came out of Egypt.

The cup of iniquity was filling up in the land of Canaan. And for these seven nations, because He’s going to judge them and He’s going to bring His people in. But I want you to see His righteous judgment. He never acts unjustly with the people, no matter whether they’re His or not, because He’s righteous in all. He can’t be otherwise.

And if you see—and He couldn’t even do anything else but judge it—He has to. That’s His essence. And you’re grateful for that because he doesn’t have favorites. He doesn’t change His standards. And He’s righteous in every decision. And it’s so complicated because He’s got so many things He’s working with, but He’s quite able. Hallelujah. So the more we study His word, the more we see who He is, what He’s like, and that’s how we’re to be.

That’s the kind of people we’re to be: We’re not to have favorites. And do you know, we all do have favorites. I know I have—you know, I’m very partial to my children, and I’m partial to certain people. I try not to show that so much, but we are. We know. But the thing of it is, in the things that really matter, we need to be gracious to people, loving to people, and honest—and be honest with people.

That’s how we help one another. The Stone edition of the Torah states—this is a Jewish publication or a Jewish edition: “This name, Elohim, denotes God in His attribute of justice as ruler, lawgiver, and the judge of the world. By using His name exclusively in the narrative of creation, the Torah indicates that justice is the ideal state of the world, meaning that man should be treated exactly as he deserves according to his deeds.”

However, man is not virtuous enough to survive such harsh scrutiny. God Elohim added his attribute of mercy to the story of creation, so judgment will be tempered with mercy. Now that in Genesis 2:4—you have the Tetragrammaton, the Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh.

 He has memorial name in Genesis 2:4. And so what He’s saying is that He has to act justly, but He likes to show mercy.

But there’s a catch. The only way He really can move for you is through repentance. When you confess, “Father, I failed you. Father, I see it. I was wrong. I did that. Yes, true.” The Spirit comes and tells you: “You’re sinning. Breaking my heart.” You say, “Oh, I see, and I’m so sorry. Please forgive me.” Now the consequences are still there.

But the mercy is extended, and you get another chance. It doesn’t remove the consequences. Only on the evidence of two witnesses or three witnesses shall a charge be established. This is very important. You see, this  did not happen in Yeshua’s crucifixion. At his trial they had paid witnesses. It was not really. But this is why it’s supposed to be for your life.

And my life really—if you even get a prophetic word, you have to have a double to secure it. I always ask the Lord for a double when he gives something. Yeah, I just pick some verses here because they give His essence. “You bless the righteous, O Yehovah.” See, we see that with King David. He gave his heart wholly to him.

He began—he can use David because David is—he’s totally wholehearted. And David—what do we see? He made many mistakes. But what characterized him? He was repentant. And so he is restored time and time again. “Your way, O-Elohim, is holy.  What God is great like our Elohi?” See…

He’s holy. I’m just looking for words to describe. So it’s so important that you and I really know Him by His character, by His essence. Elohim made heaven and earth and sea and all that therein is. I like this translation—I think it’s the NIV—and He’s the keeper of truth forever. Oh, that just blesses my heart. And there’s never going to be anyone like Him.

Nobody’s going to vote him out. And vote somebody else in—no, he’s here. He’s always been. Moses records: “Hear O Israel. Your YaHVeh, your Elohim—He is One.” I’m really pretty big on this. He is one. He’s really not three different persons. He is One with—he has expressions. His word is an expression of Him; his Spirit…

His Ruach is an expression. And whenever you have a touch of revelation, of wisdom, of the Spirit—that’s the Father’s breath upon you. I will challenge you: You cannot have words without breath. If you doubt that, go out on a cold winter day and speak a few words, and you’ll see your breath—and it’s got moisture in it.

And that’s the way the word is. Living is water—is actually water. The word is—washed by the—we’re saved by the washing of the word. He cleanses us by his word. King David prayed: “Blessed are you”—each one of my favorite prayers. Listen to what he says: “Blessed are you, O YaHVeh, Elohim of Israel, our Father, forever and ever.

Yours, O Lord, is the kingdom, the power, the glory, the victory, the majesty—all that is in the heaven, the earth are yours, and you are exalted as head above all.” Actually, this matches very well for the Lord’s Prayer. The prophet Isaiah wrote: “Thus says I—oh my goodness! Some of these verses just captivate me. Thus says the one who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is holy.

I dwell in the high and the holy place, and also with him who is of contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, to revive the heart of the contrite.” It doesn’t matter who you are; doesn’t matter if you have any clout. It doesn’t matter if you’re a child; it doesn’t matters if your IQ is low or high.

It has nothing to do with what you can have from Him. He’s no respecter of persons. He’s looking for a heart that’s tender toward him, that humbles ourselves, that confesses sin, that agrees: “I’ve missed the mark.” That’s really what He’s asking for. He knows we miss the mark. The cover-up is the worst thing because you get nowhere.

You deceive yourself. But you’re not deceiving Him. Yeshua came to reveal the Father. When the Samaritan woman asked him about where she was to worship, he said, “The hour’s coming and is now here when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. For the Father is seeking such to worship Him. Elohim is spirit, and those that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.” And His word is truth.

If you want to worship Him, bring His word to Him. Tell Him how good He is, how great He is. Thank him for all He’s done for you, and He will reveal Himself to you. And don’t go by feelings. Some days you’ll feel Him, and some days you don’t. But you go by His word: Get His word in you and meditate on it and feed on it.

And pretty soon the feelings come too. But you know, triumph over your mind. What is the goal? What is the priority of your life? The goal and priority of life is to know the Heavenly Father and his Son. Again, I want to tell you what Moses prayed after the sin of the golden calf. He said, “If I found favor in your eyes, YaHVeh, please show me your ways that I might know You.”

And then he goes on to say, “That I might continue to find favor with You.” It is to know Him, and I think this pleases Him so much to come and say, “Father, I want to know You. I’m not satisfied where I am. I want to know You. I want to know You because Yeshua is in me, and I want him to reveal You to me…

” And Messiah in His high priestly prayer in John 17, He said, “This is eternal life, that you know the only true Elohim and Yeshua Messiah, whom he sent—that you know the Father.” This is eternal life, that you know Him. Our Father is the most merciful, gracious, loving Father. There will never be a father like Him. None can compare with him, nor will there ever be.

After the sins of the golden calf, Moses offered intercession on behalf of the Israelites. He pleaded, “If your presence will not go with me…” And that’s what I said. Do it today: “Lord, if you’re not in this, then I don’t want to go. But you are in this—I know you’re in it—and I’m going.” And then the road was all repaired on the way.

It was amazing. That was his sign: “I’m fixing the potholes.” So Moses makes this great intercession: “How shall it be known that I found favor in your sight and your people? Is it not in your going with us so that we are distinct? And I and your people are distinct from every other people on the face of the earth, because your presence is with us.”

There’s no substitute for His presence. You can’t buy His presence. His presence comes because you love Him, because you say, “Father, show me your ways, and I want to do them, and I want to do it with joy.” The apostle John wrote—I believe it’s in First John. He says, “We know that we love Him because we keep His commandments.”

And He says His commandments are not burdensome. You know, you might have been guilty of this, as I’ve been guilty: “Oh, I’m so glad we don’t have to do this and that and this and that.” How wrong I was. I have never had so much joy as I’ve come into alignment with my Father and his teachings. It’s been the joy of my life.

It’s been almost like when I was born of the Spirit. I can’t really remember that because I was somewhere 3 or 4. My—I had a mother that talked to me night and day about the Lord, and I don’t really know when I came to know Him—somewhere around 3 or 4—because I started praying and I started getting answers early.

So I don’t know the day, but I know it’s been a joyous thing to know Him. But I had three major encounters with the Lord over 23 years now. You talk about a slow learner—I was very slow. I look back on it: I can’t figure out—how could I have been so slow? But you know, there’s a timing.

There’s a timing in the Spirit. You really can’t preempt it. That’s right. I’ve got—again, our Father is most merciful, gracious, kind. Our high calling is to make our Father’s name great. Now, can you think of anything more eternally rewarding than to work to make his name great? Yes. And He helps me watch the way I act to people, how I interact, how I respond at the grocery store, how I respond in the issue of money, and how I respond in the issue of interaction.

Because it’s a reflection. I’m representing my Father. I’ve got to be careful here and not misrepresent him. Yehovah said to Moses: “This very thing that you have spoken, I will do. I’m going to go with you.” He first said, “I’m going to send an angel.” Wow. Was Moses a smart man? I would probably say, “An angel? Oh, that’ll be wonderful.”

Not Moses. He said, “No way. If you’re not going, I’m not going.” You see, unashamed persistence, It means I’m going to keep on asking. I’m going to keep on asking, and I’m going to keep on—because He loves for us to do that. It may not be the time; you can enter that prayer. You may be a special thing that’s got all of that come together.

You see, he’s working many different ends, but you keep on asking, and one day it’s going to happen. You do remember Zechariah in the temple: He had asked for a child—for he and Elizabeth—so many years had gone by. When the angel appeared and said, “Your prayer’s heard he doesn’t have the faintest idea what prayer. And when he tells him, he says, “We are too old; what can happen?”

And he said, “Well, because of your unbelief, you won’t speak.”

But it didn’t stop. The prophecy came: John the Baptist. “The very thing you’ve spoken. You’ve found favor.” And he says to Moses, “I know you by name.” Now I don’t know what that means. Does he know us by name? Yehovah descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of YaHVeh. And he passed before him, and proclaimed 13 attributes—they are in your book. I’m going to give them to you.

This will tell you what our Father is like. Now I took these from Micah 7 rather than Exodus 34, because Exodus 34 is pretty hard for me to discern those in Exodus 34. I know that the Jewish people have that culled out, but I don’t do well with that. But we can do it in Micah 7:18 and 20, because it’s repeated here.

“Who is Elohim like you? Who pardons iniquity, overlooks sins for the remnant of his heritage. He does not retain his anger forever. He desires kindness. He shall again have mercy on us. He suppresses our iniquities. He casts out sins into the depths of the sea. You grant truth to Jacob, kindness to Abraham. You previously swore to our forefathers from the earliest of days.”

And let me say: What He was to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—He is to us. He has not—He’s looking for those whose hearts are turned toward him. 2 Chronicles 16:9—I don’t know if I already said this. Yes, I did. “The eyes of the Lord run to and fro through all the earth.” He’s looking for those whose hearts would turn toward Him, whom He could call.

You know, today we don’t—any of us want to be different. We don’t want to stand out. But I tell you what, everybody that leaves anything for YaHVeh usually has to be different. If you fit into the crowd, it’ll be hard for you to lead the way. There’s a great move of the Spirit. But the Father has to have those whose hearts are bent toward Him.

Yesterday morning—on this night, you’ll see more. On Friday morning, I was preparing for a class. I hadn’t followed this verse for a long time. He brought Ezekiel 22:30 to me: “I sought for a man to make up the hedge, to stand in the gap for me, that I should not destroy the land. But I found none.” “So I poured out my indignation.”

Do you understand what he’s saying there? He’s saying—you see, Moses stood in the gap for the Israelites, and he kept saying, “If you don’t go with us, I’m not going. I can’t go unless you go with us.” It’s exactly what He wanted. He wanted Earth endorsing heaven’s will. That’s what prayer is.

And so that’s what He wants now, because He wants to bring his kingdom.

This is the call of this hour: the Lord’s Prayer. And the Lord’s Prayer—only one disciple out of 12 said, “If you would teach us to pray.” And He said this—and you all know it: “Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”

I want to unpack that just a little bit. The very first request that He made was that we would hallow the Father’s name. This is Yeshua teaching the prayer. Secondly, “Thy kingdom come on earth.” I know most Christians talk about going to heaven, and as wonderful as that is, that’s not the theme of what the Father’s doing?

What the Father is doing is Tikkun—He’s repairing the world. He is going to establish His kingdom here. He’s not about to let the enemy have the last word. He is going to restore the earth. He’s bringing His kingdom, and all of this—He’s doing right now. And what I’m teaching and what He’s giving us is: “Remember the Torah of Moses before the great and dreadful day of the Lord.”

Because you’re going to need that. You’re going to need to be solidly fixed in the Father—know who you are and be able to speak to the enemy and be able to stand, because some of us will be martyrs, maybe, and we don’t know what it will be. But if we’re in love with the Father, whatever He says, we’ll be fine, because he will prepare us.

Besides, why would we hang on to something here—just for more sorrow and pain and dishes and diapers and laundry and all that? You know, you like—keep doing that. That’s okay. We want to fulfill what we’re supposed to do here, but we want to be in alignment with Him. “What do you have, Father, for me? What do you want me to do?” And for each one—just one. But we’re one. And we have potential. The potential in this room is unbelievable.

And in this room If you find a group of people who say, “My life is going to count for what the Father gives me to do. I’m going to be aligned with Him. I’m going to do it. You show me, Father, how to do it—what to do? I’ll do it.” You can be sure: He will show you.