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We see the commission had to go out into the world to every nation, and it required and still requires some elements.  It requires the Word of God as we have heard.  It requires the testimony of Christ.  It requires that this be built only on the foundation of Christ. It requires that the Spirit will work through men who will not look for any elevation of themselves but they will elevate Christ and through Him God at all times. That is why in this land very early in the foundation of the church these words above the altar were inscribed and have continued to be inscribed, so that the honour does never go to any man who stands on the altar, but it must always go to God. This is according to the Scriptures, for when Moses had to set up in his day the means of bringing people to reconciliation he had to ordain a high priest Aaron. He was robed we would say in elegant eye-catching robes. They all had a purpose, but the people could have looked upon Aaron and the people could have very easily began worshipping him as the giver of these blessings. Moses had to place upon his ephod or his head the words – Holiness to the Lord; so that when the people looked up they saw where their praise and thanks had to be. It is the same today within the churches. All praise and honour and glory must always go to the Almighty God through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, through the workings of the Holy Spirit. The moment that shifts then the foundations of that building will begin to sink and the building will crumble.

We have heard that our Lord opened unto His apostles the Scriptures. This sending or giving mankind an opportunity to reconcile unto God was foretold hundreds of years before it came to pass. Two thousand years before our Lord came to this earth an event happened on this earth which was already foretelling the blessings that would flow in this new period of time. We find written in Genesis Chapter 8 verses 6-11, after the flood had abated and the ark was resting on the mountain we see an event that Noah witnessed and it is recorded, and this was foretelling of that wonderful blessing that would come within the world, and we find written: And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: “And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark. And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off:  so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.”

We see in that act a prophecy. If we take the dove, we know that a dove represents peace, and the olive leaf that the dove brought back. The olive leaf on the outside is a dull green which showed that the word would again become a dull place in God’s eyes, but if it is turned over an olive leaf is silver and bright and eye catching underneath, and it showed very clearly that at a future time God intended to once again allow the earth to be turned over and become a bright place to live in His sight. We know that happened many years later when our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ came into the world. It is recorded in the Scriptures that this time would come about that the fullness of righteousness, the fullness of reconciliation would come into the world, and it was prophesied by the Prophet Daniel for seventy weeks, that is prophet’s language, and then it would come to pass and the Messiah would be anointed. We know that if we follow through that prophecy of Daniel it comes exactly to the day that our Lord came to the river Jordan and instructed John the Baptist that he should baptise Him or prepare Him for that great blessing, and John said that – I have need to be baptised of thee, and you come to me. Our Lord said to him – Suffer it to be so, so that the fullness of righteousness can now come within the world: and John baptised Him, prepared Him to be ordained as the Messiah, as the King, as the Prophet, as our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and as He came out of the river God once again sent unto Him the silver side of that leaf. The Scripture, says that the Holy Spirit descended upon Him in the form of a dove, not as a dove, in the form of a dove so that people could think back on what that meant. He turned the leaf over and gave unto the world a great hope that now mankind could be looked upon by God in a different manner. We live in that period of time. We are the beneficiaries of Grace.