~~ Cut off thine hair ~~

Today is Sunday, November 21, 2004. Last night God was talking to me in the night about a profound and deep message. I was delighted and startled at this revelation. So now I will try to place as much of this great truth as I can in this message today.

Jer 7:29 Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

1cor 11:5 But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven. 11:6 For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered. 11:7 For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man. 11:8 For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. 11:9 Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man. 11:10 For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels.

1cor 11:13 Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered? 11:14 Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him? 11:15 But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.

Now before we go to far lets just examine the above Scripture a bit. A woman’s hair is given her for a covering. But if she be not covered, let her also be shorn [=past tense of cut] for that is the same thing as if she were shaven = bald headed. Now see that she still ‘had’ the long hair, for it had not been cut at this point, BUT she was not covered with it. In other words she had it pinned up on top of her head. God said this is the same thing [even all one] to Him as being shaved off.

If a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her. If she pray to God uncovered, or without the long hair hanging down, covering her, then it is not comely or pleasing to God. She dishonors her head. Therefore the woman ought to have POWER ON HER HEAD because of the angels. She was created for the man, to be his helpmeet, or helper, aid, protector and succor him. This means to lead. She was his protector. But if she has cut off her hair, the she loses her power and can no longer be his protector or aid or succor him.

I have written a message on the helpmeet and also on the importance of a woman’s hair, which needs to be studied along with this message. Then this truth will become clear. Now all of this is only preliminary to the message today.

Jer 6:2 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.

Now if this woman were considered ‘comely’ to God, it showed she had long hair, covering her.

Gal 4:26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

Gal 4:21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? 4:22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. G4:23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise. 4:24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. 4:25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.

Ga 4:26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all. G 4:27 For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband. 4:28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise. 4:29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now. 4:30 Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman. 4:31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.

So here we find that those under law are the bondwoman and bond child. They who are under law are under bondage, for the law is bondage; it is a prison. Remember this.

Grace is the freewoman. She is the comely woman who has the long hair and the power on her head. Her children are the true Christians. They are FREE, no bondage, no prison.

Adam and Eve

Gen 2:18 And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

It is not good for the man to be alone. He had no help meet. No protector, no aid, no one to succour him. Succour has a meaning of to lead.

Gen 3:20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

Gal 4:26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

Now this links Eve with the New Jerusalem, which is free [not under law] which is the mother of all living. Therefore ought the woman to have POWER on her head, because of the angels. Now this proves that in order for Eve to be a true help meet [aid, helper, protector, succour or leader] for Adam, she had to have the LONG HAIR, covering her, which is her POWER and GLORY!

Jer 7:29 Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, the mother of us all. Cut off thine power and glory, for I wish to rule over you! This is the words the ‘serpent’, Adam, whispered into Eve’s ear. Cut off thine hair and lose your power or place as my leader and protector.

Jerusalem which is above is FREE. Not under bondage of law. So Paul said if one goes to law, they fall from Grace and Christ is of no effect to them. Under law the man rules over the woman. She is commanded to be in silence. She has no power, for she has cut off her hair. She is now brought into subjection to her husband, and he now rules over her to the hurt of them both. For this is perversion of God’s way upon earth. They thus chose their own way in which God never at any time had any pleasure.

Heb 10:8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;

See here that the sacrifices and offerings of animals was by the law. There is no faith, no life, no justification under this law system. It is the knowledge of sin, evil. It is also our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ. But after one has reached Christ, they are no longer under the law, or schoolmaster. In their youth, all was vanity. Law was the youth of mankind. It was bondage.

Now in order to finish his evil plan, Adam had to persuade Eve to ‘fall’ from Grace by going under the bondage of law. The only way he could take away her power and get her under the law, was to get her to cut off her long hair and cast it from her. This broke her power and her ability to protect him. So he fell from grace to law and brought death.

But this also placed her now under his dominion and rulership. This was indeed what he was after from the start. He wanted to rule over her and become worshipped as a god.

Heb 6:4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, 6:5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, 6:6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

Adam and Eve were once enlightened and had tasted of the heavenly gift, but they fell away to law. He did it knowingly and willfully so he could never find a place of repentance. She did it ignorantly, being deceived, so she repented and was brought back into Grace. She was the one looking for the redeemer.

Now I know I write long messages. That is how I like them, I love to read these long messages. But the real reason is that these wonderful truths have not been taught to people so I must bring in lots of Scripture to show and prove these deep and ‘unknown’ truths. What caused these truths to be lost? I will show you in this message. So, read on.

Isa 65:3 A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick; 65:4 Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels; 65:5 Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day. 65:6 Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom, 65:7 Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.

Now see that they sacrificed and burned incense in gardens? This is speaking of Adam’s race in the Garden of Eden. They are the former people, they are the fathers who did this evil. They brought up these animal sacrifices and eating the swine meat for their ‘sanctification’. It was an abomination to God. But it set Adam up as god, to be worshipped. He had actually made Eve his priest to kill and offer up this animal sacrifice behind that ‘tree’ in the midst = the tree of the knowledge of good and evil = the law. He had the attitude that he was holier than anyone else, even God. I will set my seat above the stars of God, I will like the most Holy. [Adam].

Isa 66:3 He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations. 66:4 I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.

This was Adam and Eve in the Garden. They chose their own way and not God’s way. God never had any pleasure in animal sacrifices or burning incense. He hates it. See that he said when I called, none did answer? When I spake they did not hear? This was when God called to Adam in the Garden and Adam hid himself and did not answer God. They chose that in which I delighted not. I showed you in Hebrews that God said he never had any pleasure in the animal sacrifices. This is what Adam chose = the law and its animal sacrifices.

Isa 66:17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.

Now that verse 17, clenches the fact that this is Adam in the Garden of Eden, attempting to sanctify himself behind that tree in the midst of the garden. But by the law shall no flesh be justified! It is impossible for the blood of animals to take away sins. So Adam failed.

Now you need to understand that all of Scripture teaches both things from the past, the present and the future. We can read the Word and by it find out what went on in the age beyond the flood. Then we can find out what went on in the OT times and what will be in the future, all by the very same words! This is the great mystery and power of the living Words of God.

Now: Jer 7:4 Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these.

See, it was lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, three times. Why? Those before the flood believed that their evil system was of God, it was the temple or salvation of God. But see God shows that it was not of God. Then the second time, those OT Law people believed that theirs was the temple of the LORD. They actually believed that the palace Solomon built was the temple of the LORD. But it was not. It is proven by the fact that God said all of that OT system waxed old, decayed and passed away. It was not God’s temple. Then the third time? The church believes they are the true temple of the LORD. But again, it is not true. They are just the same old mystery Babylon from the beginning there in the rebellion in the Garden of Eden.

Mystery Babylon began there in that Garden with Adam and Cain. Jesus and Revelation declares that Babylon is guilty of all the righteous blood shed upon earth from the start as Cain killed Abel. So Babylon traveled all the way from that Garden to the end of this age when God will destroy her forever. It started as Adam persuaded Eve to cut off her hair and cast it from her. This destroyed her power on her head and therefore they were open for all kinds of evil and disobedience.

Now one more clincher that God never one time told the people to do animal sacrifices: Jer 7:22 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: 7:23 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you. 7:24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

See, God said this thing was the counsels of their own evil heart, they went backward [to the thing Adam started] and not forward [ to Grace which came by Jesus Christ.]

Samson and Delilah

Jud 13:1 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years. 13:2 And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not. 13:3 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son. 13:4 Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing: 13:5 For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.

This child who was to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines was to never have his hair cut, for he was to be a Nazarite unto God from the womb. This is a true type of Jesus and the true church. Samson’s power lay in the long, uncut hair of his head, for he typed the woman, the Church of God.

All the mighty acts of Samson up to the point when He had his hair cut off, shows the power and might of the first true Church, the Apostolic Church which started at Pentecost. No one could understand Samson’s great strength. So it was with this great Church. Samson played around with a few Philistines women at first. But then he met his Delilah. Now Delilah types the whore Babylon Church which is out to destroy the true Church and end her mighty power of deliverance from the Philistines, which type the worldly Satanic things.

See this showed the Church beginning to ‘flirt’ around with the idols and sins of the Babylon Church around her. Now watch what finally takes place:

Jud 16:4 And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. 16:5 And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver. 16:6 And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.

Now see here that the Philistines offered Delilah a lot of money if she would entice Samson and find out the secret of where his great strength lay, so they could bind and afflict him. See the binding is the bondage of law. It will strip away the power of God from your lives.

Delilah fell for this offer of money, for the love of money is the root of all evil. See that the false, whore church dotes totally on money and worldly palaces or church buildings of stone. Samson had seven locks of hair which represent those seven churches. At the end, the seventh one, Laodicia, her total power is gone. She is naked, blind, and powerless again as Adam and Eve found themselves in after they sinned against God.

There were four kingdoms which ruled the world from the beginning with Adam through that law fourth nation, the seventh head. Samson tells Delilah three lies about where his great strength lies. Each time, she told the Philistines what he had said and they tried to bind him that way. But it was to no avail for his strength was still with him. But, at that fourth time [law] he reveals the true source of his power to her.

He told her that his hair has never been cut. Now she recognized this as the truth. So she enticed him to go to sleep on her knees. See, all ten virgins, the five foolish and five wise virgins were ALL ASLEEP. They had lain their heads down in the laps of the Babylon Church and accepted all the devil-worship holidays. Gone back to idol worship. Now this fake church is able to cut away her true source of power, the Baptism of the Holy Ghost.

Jud 16:16 And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death; 16:17 That he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There hath not come a razor upon mine head; for I have been a Nazarite unto God from my mother's womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man. 16:18 And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up this once, for he hath showed me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and brought money in their hand.

Now see that this fake church has betrayed the true church right here, because they went to sleep on her knees instead of staying true to the Baptism of the Holy Ghost. See that money is involved right here. The false churches buys and sells the things of God. This is the mark of this beast church.

Jud 16:19 And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him. 16:20 And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the LORD was departed from him. 16:21 But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.

When they shaved off the seven locks of his head then his power was gone and she began to afflict him. See all seven churches have now succumbed to the enticing idol worship of the fake Babylon church. He did as Saul of old, he wist not that the LORD was departed from him. He thought he could rise up again and be the same strong man he had always been. But without God, this was not true. He was now as any other man. The churches today are in the same condition. They ‘wist’ not or understand not that the Spirit of God, the Holy Ghost, has departed from them. They continue on in their dead form of ‘having’ church, but the true power of God is not with them. Their hair has now been cut off and cast away from them. Their power is gone. Now Satan afflicts them at will.

Notice also that the Philistines put out his eyes. This is showing the blind condition of the final seventh church. They are blind and cannot see the truth of God’ Word and His Way. They have again chosen their own way instead of God’s way. They once again rob the poor to build their hewn stone buildings which God hates. They now teach the women that it matters not if they cut off their hair. They have no need for the power to be on their head. But this leaves them wide open to the affliction of their enemies. Notice also that the Philistines bound Samson with fetters of brass [this means they placed the church back under the bondage of law]. And they made his grind in the prison house. Now the prison house is also the law. Grinding means dealing out the doctrine. So the church is now grinding out the poison meal of the law and feeding it to their children.

The original true powerful Church which started at Pentecost was God’s first witness. They showed the world the true power of God. Then as they slowly fell asleep on ‘Delilah's’ lap, they lost this true power to be a witness of God. Then the church went into the seven churches of which only a few were true Christians. Satan’s seat was in those churches. This is ‘Samson’ with his eyes put out and his hair cut off. BUT....his hair began to grow again. Glory to God. There will come one more true powerful, anointed witness of God. But this time it will be for judgment and punishment of sin.

Jud 16:22 Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven.

This time they will bring the wrath of the Lamb on this world. This time they will avenge themselves of their two eyes.

Jud 16:25 And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made them sport: and they set him between the pillars.

When their hearts were MERRY. Now what is that? Merry X-mess to you all! Idol worship and making sport. They rejoiced and sent gifts to each other and made MERRY because of the death of God’s two witnesses! Rev. 11. So that is represented right here. The Philistines are praising their false god for delivering Samson [the true Church] down into their hands.

They called for Samson to come out of the prison house and make sport for them. They wanted to watch him and make fun of him. People, that is what the worldly church and folks do to you who fall away from truth into law and foolish sins.

Jud 16:26 And Samson said unto the lad that held him by the hand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house standeth, that I may lean upon them. 16:27 Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were upon the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport. 16:28 And Samson called unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes. 16:29 And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and on which it was borne up, of the one with his right hand, and of the other with his left. 16:30 And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life.

Now here we see the second powerful witness of God in action. They will bring the wrath of the Lamb upon this Philistine, idol-worshipping, Babylon church. They will destroy it forever and avenge themselves of all that was slain from the foundation of the world by this evil, harlot church.

Jer 7:29 Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

So now take warning and heed, all you who cut off thine hair and cast it away from you. Therefore ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels.

By: Jo Smith

Nov. 21,2004

~~ Cut off thine hair ~~

Today is Sunday, November 21, 2004. Last night God was talking to me in the night about a profound and deep message. I was delighted and startled at this revelation. So now I will try to place as much of this great truth as I can in this message today.

Jer 7:29 Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

1cor 11:5 But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven. 11:6 For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered. 11:7 For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man. 11:8 For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. 11:9 Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man. 11:10 For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels.

1cor 11:13 Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered? 11:14 Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him? 11:15 But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.

Now before we go to far lets just examine the above Scripture a bit. A woman’s hair is given her for a covering. But if she be not covered, let her also be shorn [=past tense of cut] for that is the same thing as if she were shaven = bald headed. Now see that she still ‘had’ the long hair, for it had not been cut at this point, BUT she was not covered with it. In other words she had it pinned up on top of her head. God said this is the same thing [even all one] to Him as being shaved off.

If a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her. If she pray to God uncovered, or without the long hair hanging down, covering her, then it is not comely or pleasing to God. She dishonors her head. Therefore the woman ought to have POWER ON HER HEAD because of the angels. She was created for the man, to be his helpmeet, or helper, aid, protector and succor him. This means to lead. She was his protector. But if she has cut off her hair, the she loses her power and can no longer be his protector or aid or succor him.

I have written a message on the helpmeet and also on the importance of a woman’s hair, which needs to be studied along with this message. Then this truth will become clear. Now all of this is only preliminary to the message today.

Jer 6:2 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.

Now if this woman were considered ‘comely’ to God, it showed she had long hair, covering her.

Gal 4:26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

Gal 4:21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? 4:22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. G4:23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise. 4:24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. 4:25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.

Ga 4:26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all. G 4:27 For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband. 4:28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise. 4:29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now. 4:30 Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman. 4:31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.

So here we find that those under law are the bondwoman and bond child. They who are under law are under bondage, for the law is bondage; it is a prison. Remember this.

Grace is the freewoman. She is the comely woman who has the long hair and the power on her head. Her children are the true Christians. They are FREE, no bondage, no prison.

Adam and Eve

Gen 2:18 And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

It is not good for the man to be alone. He had no help meet. No protector, no aid, no one to succour him. Succour has a meaning of to lead.

Gen 3:20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

Gal 4:26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

Now this links Eve with the New Jerusalem, which is free [not under law] which is the mother of all living. Therefore ought the woman to have POWER on her head, because of the angels. Now this proves that in order for Eve to be a true help meet [aid, helper, protector, succour or leader] for Adam, she had to have the LONG HAIR, covering her, which is her POWER and GLORY!

Jer 7:29 Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, the mother of us all. Cut off thine power and glory, for I wish to rule over you! This is the words the ‘serpent’, Adam, whispered into Eve’s ear. Cut off thine hair and lose your power or place as my leader and protector.

Jerusalem which is above is FREE. Not under bondage of law. So Paul said if one goes to law, they fall from Grace and Christ is of no effect to them. Under law the man rules over the woman. She is commanded to be in silence. She has no power, for she has cut off her hair. She is now brought into subjection to her husband, and he now rules over her to the hurt of them both. For this is perversion of God’s way upon earth. They thus chose their own way in which God never at any time had any pleasure.

Heb 10:8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;

See here that the sacrifices and offerings of animals was by the law. There is no faith, no life, no justification under this law system. It is the knowledge of sin, evil. It is also our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ. But after one has reached Christ, they are no longer under the law, or schoolmaster. In their youth, all was vanity. Law was the youth of mankind. It was bondage.

Now in order to finish his evil plan, Adam had to persuade Eve to ‘fall’ from Grace by going under the bondage of law. The only way he could take away her power and get her under the law, was to get her to cut off her long hair and cast it from her. This broke her power and her ability to protect him. So he fell from grace to law and brought death.

But this also placed her now under his dominion and rulership. This was indeed what he was after from the start. He wanted to rule over her and become worshipped as a god.

Heb 6:4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, 6:5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, 6:6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

Adam and Eve were once enlightened and had tasted of the heavenly gift, but they fell away to law. He did it knowingly and willfully so he could never find a place of repentance. She did it ignorantly, being deceived, so she repented and was brought back into Grace. She was the one looking for the redeemer.

Now I know I write long messages. That is how I like them, I love to read these long messages. But the real reason is that these wonderful truths have not been taught to people so I must bring in lots of Scripture to show and prove these deep and ‘unknown’ truths. What caused these truths to be lost? I will show you in this message. So, read on.

Isa 65:3 A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick; 65:4 Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels; 65:5 Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day. 65:6 Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom, 65:7 Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.

Now see that they sacrificed and burned incense in gardens? This is speaking of Adam’s race in the Garden of Eden. They are the former people, they are the fathers who did this evil. They brought up these animal sacrifices and eating the swine meat for their ‘sanctification’. It was an abomination to God. But it set Adam up as god, to be worshipped. He had actually made Eve his priest to kill and offer up this animal sacrifice behind that ‘tree’ in the midst = the tree of the knowledge of good and evil = the law. He had the attitude that he was holier than anyone else, even God. I will set my seat above the stars of God, I will like the most Holy. [Adam].

Isa 66:3 He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations. 66:4 I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.

This was Adam and Eve in the Garden. They chose their own way and not God’s way. God never had any pleasure in animal sacrifices or burning incense. He hates it. See that he said when I called, none did answer? When I spake they did not hear? This was when God called to Adam in the Garden and Adam hid himself and did not answer God. They chose that in which I delighted not. I showed you in Hebrews that God said he never had any pleasure in the animal sacrifices. This is what Adam chose = the law and its animal sacrifices.

Isa 66:17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.

Now that verse 17, clenches the fact that this is Adam in the Garden of Eden, attempting to sanctify himself behind that tree in the midst of the garden. But by the law shall no flesh be justified! It is impossible for the blood of animals to take away sins. So Adam failed.

Now you need to understand that all of Scripture teaches both things from the past, the present and the future. We can read the Word and by it find out what went on in the age beyond the flood. Then we can find out what went on in the OT times and what will be in the future, all by the very same words! This is the great mystery and power of the living Words of God.

Now: Jer 7:4 Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these.

See, it was lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, three times. Why? Those before the flood believed that their evil system was of God, it was the temple or salvation of God. But see God shows that it was not of God. Then the second time, those OT Law people believed that theirs was the temple of the LORD. They actually believed that the palace Solomon built was the temple of the LORD. But it was not. It is proven by the fact that God said all of that OT system waxed old, decayed and passed away. It was not God’s temple. Then the third time? The church believes they are the true temple of the LORD. But again, it is not true. They are just the same old mystery Babylon from the beginning there in the rebellion in the Garden of Eden.

Mystery Babylon began there in that Garden with Adam and Cain. Jesus and Revelation declares that Babylon is guilty of all the righteous blood shed upon earth from the start as Cain killed Abel. So Babylon traveled all the way from that Garden to the end of this age when God will destroy her forever. It started as Adam persuaded Eve to cut off her hair and cast it from her. This destroyed her power on her head and therefore they were open for all kinds of evil and disobedience.

Now one more clincher that God never one time told the people to do animal sacrifices: Jer 7:22 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: 7:23 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you. 7:24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

See, God said this thing was the counsels of their own evil heart, they went backward [to the thing Adam started] and not forward [ to Grace which came by Jesus Christ.]

Samson and Delilah

Jud 13:1 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years. 13:2 And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not. 13:3 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son. 13:4 Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing: 13:5 For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.

This child who was to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines was to never have his hair cut, for he was to be a Nazarite unto God from the womb. This is a true type of Jesus and the true church. Samson’s power lay in the long, uncut hair of his head, for he typed the woman, the Church of God.

All the mighty acts of Samson up to the point when He had his hair cut off, shows the power and might of the first true Church, the Apostolic Church which started at Pentecost. No one could understand Samson’s great strength. So it was with this great Church. Samson played around with a few Philistines women at first. But then he met his Delilah. Now Delilah types the whore Babylon Church which is out to destroy the true Church and end her mighty power of deliverance from the Philistines, which type the worldly Satanic things.

See this showed the Church beginning to ‘flirt’ around with the idols and sins of the Babylon Church around her. Now watch what finally takes place:

Jud 16:4 And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. 16:5 And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver. 16:6 And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.

Now see here that the Philistines offered Delilah a lot of money if she would entice Samson and find out the secret of where his great strength lay, so they could bind and afflict him. See the binding is the bondage of law. It will strip away the power of God from your lives.

Delilah fell for this offer of money, for the love of money is the root of all evil. See that the false, whore church dotes totally on money and worldly palaces or church buildings of stone. Samson had seven locks of hair which represent those seven churches. At the end, the seventh one, Laodicia, her total power is gone. She is naked, blind, and powerless again as Adam and Eve found themselves in after they sinned against God.

There were four kingdoms which ruled the world from the beginning with Adam through that law fourth nation, the seventh head. Samson tells Delilah three lies about where his great strength lies. Each time, she told the Philistines what he had said and they tried to bind him that way. But it was to no avail for his strength was still with him. But, at that fourth time [law] he reveals the true source of his power to her.

He told her that his hair has never been cut. Now she recognized this as the truth. So she enticed him to go to sleep on her knees. See, all ten virgins, the five foolish and five wise virgins were ALL ASLEEP. They had lain their heads down in the laps of the Babylon Church and accepted all the devil-worship holidays. Gone back to idol worship. Now this fake church is able to cut away her true source of power, the Baptism of the Holy Ghost.

Jud 16:16 And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death; 16:17 That he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There hath not come a razor upon mine head; for I have been a Nazarite unto God from my mother's womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man. 16:18 And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up this once, for he hath showed me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and brought money in their hand.

Now see that this fake church has betrayed the true church right here, because they went to sleep on her knees instead of staying true to the Baptism of the Holy Ghost. See that money is involved right here. The false churches buys and sells the things of God. This is the mark of this beast church.

Jud 16:19 And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him. 16:20 And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the LORD was departed from him. 16:21 But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.

When they shaved off the seven locks of his head then his power was gone and she began to afflict him. See all seven churches have now succumbed to the enticing idol worship of the fake Babylon church. He did as Saul of old, he wist not that the LORD was departed from him. He thought he could rise up again and be the same strong man he had always been. But without God, this was not true. He was now as any other man. The churches today are in the same condition. They ‘wist’ not or understand not that the Spirit of God, the Holy Ghost, has departed from them. They continue on in their dead form of ‘having’ church, but the true power of God is not with them. Their hair has now been cut off and cast away from them. Their power is gone. Now Satan afflicts them at will.

Notice also that the Philistines put out his eyes. This is showing the blind condition of the final seventh church. They are blind and cannot see the truth of God’ Word and His Way. They have again chosen their own way instead of God’s way. They once again rob the poor to build their hewn stone buildings which God hates. They now teach the women that it matters not if they cut off their hair. They have no need for the power to be on their head. But this leaves them wide open to the affliction of their enemies. Notice also that the Philistines bound Samson with fetters of brass [this means they placed the church back under the bondage of law]. And they made his grind in the prison house. Now the prison house is also the law. Grinding means dealing out the doctrine. So the church is now grinding out the poison meal of the law and feeding it to their children.

The original true powerful Church which started at Pentecost was God’s first witness. They showed the world the true power of God. Then as they slowly fell asleep on ‘Delilah's’ lap, they lost this true power to be a witness of God. Then the church went into the seven churches of which only a few were true Christians. Satan’s seat was in those churches. This is ‘Samson’ with his eyes put out and his hair cut off. BUT....his hair began to grow again. Glory to God. There will come one more true powerful, anointed witness of God. But this time it will be for judgment and punishment of sin.

Jud 16:22 Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven.

This time they will bring the wrath of the Lamb on this world. This time they will avenge themselves of their two eyes.

Jud 16:25 And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made them sport: and they set him between the pillars.

When their hearts were MERRY. Now what is that? Merry X-mess to you all! Idol worship and making sport. They rejoiced and sent gifts to each other and made MERRY because of the death of God’s two witnesses! Rev. 11. So that is represented right here. The Philistines are praising their false god for delivering Samson [the true Church] down into their hands.

They called for Samson to come out of the prison house and make sport for them. They wanted to watch him and make fun of him. People, that is what the worldly church and folks do to you who fall away from truth into law and foolish sins.

Jud 16:26 And Samson said unto the lad that held him by the hand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house standeth, that I may lean upon them. 16:27 Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were upon the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport. 16:28 And Samson called unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes. 16:29 And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and on which it was borne up, of the one with his right hand, and of the other with his left. 16:30 And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life.

Now here we see the second powerful witness of God in action. They will bring the wrath of the Lamb upon this Philistine, idol-worshipping, Babylon church. They will destroy it forever and avenge themselves of all that was slain from the foundation of the world by this evil, harlot church.

Jer 7:29 Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

So now take warning and heed, all you who cut off thine hair and cast it away from you. Therefore ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels.

By: Jo Smith

Nov. 21,2004