David said, he was glad, when they said unto him, let us go into the house of the LORD – Psalm 122:1. The house of the Lord, is the church of the living God, whose pillar and ground is the truth as written in 1 Timothy 3:15, “But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.” The house of the LORD is spiritual Jerusalem, the City of truth as written in Zechariah 8:3b, “And Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the Lord of Hosts, the holy mountain.” The house of the LORD is sanctified unto God by the truth. The eyes and the heart of the Lord are perpetually upon His house, and His ears are always attentive to the prayers that are offered there, as written in 2 Chronicles 7:15 -16, “Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attend unto the prayer that is made in this place. For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there forever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.”
The house of the Lord, is chosen out of the world, hence she is not of the world – John 15:19; John 17:16. The saints in the house of the Lord, the righteous nation, that keep the truth, are called unto the marriage supper of the LAMB, because they are the bride of the LORD, DRESSED IN WHITE WEDDING GARMENT, WHICH IS THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE SAINTS AS WRITTEN IN REVELATION 19: 7-8 “Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to Him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.” This is symbolic of the wedding garment, mentioned in the parable, given by Jesus Christ in Matthew 22:11-12, “And when the king came in to see the guests, HE SAW THERE A MAN WHICH HAD NOT ON A WEDDING GARMENT: and he saith unto him, FRIEND, HOW CAMEST THOU IN HITHER NOT HAVING A WEDDING GARMENT? And he was speechless.”
THE HOUSE OF THE LORD IS NOT ENGAGED IN COMMERCIALIZATION OF ANY KIND, AND SHE IS NOT A HOUSE OF WORLDLY CEREMONIES, BUT A HOUSE OF PRAYER, LIKE THE EARLY CHURCH – JOHN 2:16; MATTHEW 21:12-13.
The house of the LORD is a Potter’s house, as written in Jeremiah 18:1-6 where lives that have been destroyed and made crooked by the devil, are repaired and made straight again, through sanctification by the word of truth – John 17:17, “SANCTIFY THEM THROUGH THY TRUTH: THY WORD IS TRUTH.” THE HOUSE OF THE LORD IS FOR THE SALVATION OF LIVES AND NOT FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF LIVES, BY PRAYING THAT THEIR ENEMIES BE CONSUMED BY FIRE, a revengeful spirit, that was condemned by Jesus Christ in Luke 9:54-56, “And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, WILT THOU THAT WE COMMAND FIRE TO COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN, AND CONSUME THEM, EVEN AS ELIAS DID? BUT HE TURNED, AND REBUKED THEM, AND SAID, YE KNOW NOT WHAT MANNER OF SPIRIT YE ARE OF. FOR THE SON OF MAN IS NOT COME TO DESTROY MEN’S LIVES, BUT TO SAVE THEM.”
The house of the LORD, is a spiritual house, of people of lively stones, whose spiritual sacrifices are acceptable to God as written in 1 Peter 2:5, “Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.” The house of the Lord is quite different from a harlots’ house, which is an assembly of adulterers and adulteresses, the enemies of God, as written in James 4:4, “Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.” And as written in Jeremiah 5:7, “How shall I pardon thee for this? Thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, THEY THEN COMMITTED ADULTERY, AND ASSEMBLED THEMSELVES BY TROOPS IN THE HARLOTS’ HOUSES.”
A harlots’ house, is an off-spring of the Mother of harlots mentioned in Revelation 17:5, whose preaching is that of another Jesus, and whose gospel is that of PROSPERITY, MATERIALISM AND COMMERCIALIZATION, BECAUSE SHE IS BEING CONTROLLED BY THE SPIRIT OF THE WORLD, AGAINST WHICH PAUL WARNED IN 2 CORINTHIANS 11:4, “FOR IF HE THAT COMETH PREACHETH ANOTHER JESUS, WHOM WE (OF THE HOUSE OF THE LORD) HAVE NOT PREACHED, OR IF YE RECEIVED ANOTHER SPIRIT (ANTI-CHRIST SPIRIT, THE SPIRIT OF THE WORLD), WHICH YE (OF THE HOUSE OF THE LORD) HAVE NOT RECEIVED, OR ANOTHER GOSPEL (THE GOSPEL OF MATERIALISM AND COMMERCIALIZATION) WHICH YE HAVE NOT ACCEPTED, YE MIGHT WELL BEAR WITH HIM.”
The ministers of harlots’ houses, are enemies of the cross of Christ, because their God is their belly, hence they make merchandise of the congregation as written in 2 Peter 2:3, “And through covetousness shall they make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time, lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.”
A harlots’ house is of the broad-way that leads to destruction, and many go into this harlots’ house because of her worldly ceremonies and social programmes like “Anointing services”, etc. that are not scriptural, but the house of the Lord, is of the narrow way, that leads unto eternal life in heaven, and only few find her, as written in Matthew 7:13-14, “Enter ye in at the straight gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.”
May the Lord God, give those in harlots’ houses, repentance to the acknowledgement of the truth, that they may recover themselves from the snare of the devil, who has taken them captive in these harlots’ houses as written in 2 Timothy 2:25-26, “In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.”