The Mount of Yahweh
Even though this word was for some in my assembly, to encourage them during our time of worship, I know that it can speak to any believer experiencing difficult times.
The Holy Spirit showed me a mountain that ascended into the sky. The sky surrounding it was dark and black and stormy. There was a path leading up the mountain. At the top was the Temple of Yahweh. Up there, above the dark clouds, was brilliant light. It was, as the cliche goes, a "night and day" difference.
God was telling me to share this as an exercise of faith for people. They should close their eyes, pray in the Spirit, and see this truth. The darkness surrounding them was the world, and its effects. And the Temple on top of the mountain was God's very presence.
We should, by faith, leave behind the world and its darkness, and enter into the presence of Yahweh. We must see by faith this truth that we are coming unto the Throne of the Most High, receiving the grace that flows from it.
His dwelling is light, full of peace and joy, forgiveness and mercy, love and rest.
God also said that to leave that darkness and ascend the mountain was to leave behind the six days of works and to enter the eternal Sabbath of God's rest. This life in the Spirit was the presence of God, to rest from one's own labors and to enter the spiritual rest and refreshing of God's own Spirit.
I encourage you, having read this imagery, to take some time right now and close your eyes. Pray in the Spirit (if you have been baptized into Him), and picture these spiritual truths. See yourself leaving the darkness of the world and entering the presence of Yahweh, high above the world. See the light that envelopes you and feel the release from your own fleshly works by walking in the Spirit.
Once you've experienced this exercise of faith, spend some time worshipping this great God, Yahweh, Who has redeemed you from the authority of Satan. Praise Him for His great love and mercy, having called you from before time began, and pour out your heart before Him, both in your native language and the language of the Spirit.
18For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm, 19the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them, 20for they could not stand that which was commanded, “If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned”; 21and so fearful was the appearance that Moses said, “I am terrified and trembling.” 22But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels, 23to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel. Hebrews 12:18-24
3Who may ascend to Yahweh’s hill? Who may stand in his holy place? 4He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully. Psalms 24:3-4
1Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised, in the city of our God, in his holy mountain. Psalms 48:1
3For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said, “As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest”; although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. 4For he has said this somewhere about the seventh day, “God rested on the seventh day from all his works”; 5and in this place again, “They will not enter into my rest.” 6Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter into it, and they to whom the good news was preached before failed to enter in because of disobedience, 7he again defines a certain day, today, saying through David so long a time afterward (just as has been said), “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts.” 8For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward of another day. 9There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God. 10For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his. 11Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience. Hebrews 4:3-11
16What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.” 17Therefore “‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you. 2 Corinthians 6:16-17