The Fallen

For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.

Malachis Prophecy 2:7-9

Perhaps you have not met a whole lot of crooked people just yet. Then again, it is not like they go putting themselves out for the hire. Instead, it is a slow gradual creep that follows evils natural progression. Then before you know it, you were in over your heads. That is where it all starts out with the mouth of the Lord. Remember his being made unto us wisdom. That is knowledge of what to say, how to do, and where to walk in right there. Nor is wisdom just a license unto foolishness as some would much rather think. You know how some of you do. Some of you would have thrown out the baby and bathwater too were it not for the Lord. Somebody tell me what we are to do.

I have a feeling we ought to go inquire of the Lord, at least most of us should, if you were being perfectly honest. Is that not though what God has made you to do. Remember your purpose in creation, that of being sent forth for the Word of the Lord. How closely the Levites call mirrors that of the angels, fashioned into his own spirit ministers. What would it look like for Isaiahs Vision 6:5 to catch sight of the Lord only to exclaim woe is me for I AM undone. Then the angel took the coal from off the altar touching his lips to atone for his sin yet taken away. This is a holy God of which we speak that cannot look upon sin. Is it any wonder he should ever think of us at all were it not for all that then.

But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.

So, David himself once came to a similar conclusion. Just to think, if the angels have been made into ministering spirits and themselves as flames of fire, what then of the priests who also share a singular focus as in Unto Them

That are of the Hebrew Tongue 1:7. It seems they keep the altars of God, does not it? At least, these once were back in the days of the covenant before the Lord came to take it away. Well, he rather came to fulfill but it is a taking away for you, if you will. It implies a keeping thereof to be no longer had. So then, if you were lacking in wisdom, you should rather seek unto him. He is the best source of wisdom any could be, better even than your own mother, father, or spiritual counselor even. Which, we all know the Lord delights to be for us should any but trust.

Before we even seek his face, we are undone in his sight as Isaiahs Vision had found. For wounds such as this then, are we not in need of his guidance. Then too, for wounds such as these had he come. Remember as he said in the gospels, that he came to preach deliverance to the captive, to bind up the broken- hearted, and to proclaim on the mountains our God reigns. He is the best Father, indeed, is he not to his people. Even so can he be counted on to never forsake us nor to leave us alone. Then again, he is the best keeper that ever there was, will be, or hope yet to have. For so does he give his angels charge over us all, so that in all our ways we might be kept safely from falling and preserved faultless to stand before his throne. Just in case though you have not known how that some should fall short of the glory, there always remains that of the Father and his household above.

Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.

See, at times we too can so easily fall and come into sin. After a while, sin that the Father has not dealt with remains in the house. It breeds becoming disorder, chaos, unto every evil work. Many it seems can stumble and fall at such a thing. Then too see how it eats from within. After a while, the priests are no longer thinking and speaking the Lord. What is in the heart, see, will soon find its way out of the mouth. That is because the heart is as a raging, surging current overflowing the channels thereof. When the Lord came to redeem man, he did not send just a heart to die on the tree. Oh no, to be complete the sacrifice demanded he send himself for all man. See, our God

holds us responsible for the light that we have and also how we handle it well.

It reminds me of the nobleman that once came to the Father asking a

question. In the beginning though, he made a mistake. He made a slip of the speech when he called him good master. Jesus being higher, said in effect in The Gospel of Jesus Christ 10:18, why do you call me good, there is none good but God. Seeing the Lord in his rightful place then is the cure for all else. He is your fulfillment like no other, for as with the priests, oneness in him should be sought. So, it seemed the Levite would have found had they but spoken and taught of the Lord. Seek unto God then and let him be your wisdom, your guidance, your good Word, your Father, your counselor, your clean-the-house-upper, and also your keeper of all you could bring. No matter what you were facing, he is got you kept and covered as well.