Kindly bear with me for I wasn’t sure how to entitle this writing. Trying to recapture and encapsulate what I believe the Lord was stirring in my mind and spirit soon after sunrise today is far from easy to sum up last weekend spiritually on this side of ‘the pond’.
Without going into fine details of London’s Unite The Kingdom rally and Washington’s Rededication250 prayer day in its National Mall, there’s a personal ‘TON OF BRICKS’ insight that l now know launched me into glimpsing what the Lord may be doing.
BUT how and what do I name this? So I start back-to-front with the video of Sunday’s service which features later, YET I notice its title’s cited scripture is incorrect – HUH!!! So I fast play to check and get poked to use it’s correct verses in the this blog’s title…
LO and behold – and I sense the Lord’s chuckle – for increasingly my personal numbers keep popping up, and this time AMPLIFIED! The verse numbers are not just that of my boyhood house ‘212‘ to which Jesus took me in a vivid dream Visitation, they not only get partially doubled into ‘2.11-22‘ but in doing so also show my birthday number 22 and half its value of 11.
SO, let’s check the scripture Richard Lloyd read at 3Counties Vineyard from the second chapter of Apostle Paul’s letter to the church in Ephesus, emphases are for later:
Brought Near by His Blood
11 Therefore remember that you, once Gentiles in the flesh—who are called Uncircumcision by what is called the Circumcision made in the flesh by hands— 12 that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
Christ Our Peace
14 For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation, 15 having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace, 16 and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity. 17 And He came and preached peace to you who were afar off and to those who were near. 18 For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.
Christ Our Cornerstone
19 Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, 20 having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, 21 in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, 22 in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.
I hope you may be able to take 45 minutes to listen to Graham Sharp’s exceptional talk for he brings it straight into our tumultuous times:


This passage of holy writ’s message is immensely pertinent and APPLIES NOW!
Ostensibly, Saturday’s rally was about the political state of Britain, but it has a far higher spiritual significance as UNITE THE KINGDOM – OF GOD, does it not??
Moreover, the same UNITY of Spirit was being – and continues to be – sought earnestly in America:

‘TON OF BRICKS’ REVELATION
In the room downstairs earlier the previous morning, Saturday 16th May, 18 men from churches in Haslemere area met as usual over breakfast to continue discussing the Beatitudes. We are at Matthew 5:33-37 on OATHS- PLEDGES-PROMISES-VOWS and the Bible is quite clear that making ‘promises is a serious matter.
For some reason one of us comments about the Jewish people being excluded from all the blessing of the New Testament but I mention it won’t be forever. Then opposite me another says “They declared, On our heads be his blood!” as recounted in Matthew chapter 25, viz: (GOSH, another 22 and this time at the start not close of passage)
22 Pilate said to them, “What then shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ?” They all said to him, “Let Him be crucified!” 23 Then the governor said, “Why, what evil has He done?” But they cried out all the more, saying, “Let Him be crucified!” 24 When Pilate saw that he could not prevail at all, but rather that a tumult was rising, he took water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this just Person. You see to it.”
25 And all the people answered and said, “His blood be on us and on our children”.
When my brother so said, I suddenly had revelation that from God’s perspective in their having Jesus blood on their heads the non-believing Jews became covered by that sinless blood as a shadow-substitute; not exactly the same as the full forgiveness of sins and mystical, sacramental eating of His body and drinking of His blood.
Thus, that insight later led me to realise that Keir Starmer, like high priest Caiaphas, had made a profoundly prophetical pronouncement about Unite The Kingdom being a “A fight for the soul of our country” but which had a different diametrically opposite view of far higher spiritual significance to what they’d both presumed in their evil deception !
Selah!
BTW. I DIDN’T PLAN TO PUBLISH THIS AT 22:00 HOURS. A legal matter that cropped up in the afternoon prevented my checking and finalising ’til just now at 21;59
SO, WE HAVE A GOD-INCIDENTAL TRIPLE ’22’ – thank you Lord.
Dear Richard
It is no coincidence that you published this on Shavuot, the Jewish festival of Pentecost which spills
over into today.
I write as a trustee of a charity where a couple, Messianic believers both born in the UK, now
seek to live out the vision Jesus gave them of establishing a congregation in Jerusalem on Eph 2 vv 13-14
For their security I cannot go into more detail here yet I note the importance of the One New Man concept.
This One New Man -” echad” is the word dear Paul uses as a powerful description of who Jesus IS.
Thanks to the teaching of a local retired minister who spent much of his time in Israel and knows his
Hebrew, my understanding on this has been blown wide open. It’s some years ago now since he showed
the little dance group and myself, who support that Jerusalem based charity, the deeper significance of that word
Echad that is at the heart of Eph 2 vv 13-14. I hope now sharing this with you will also blow your mind.
(in Holy Spirit way…!) Sadly though he said the Jews think Nichad, not echad, which is more about one entity…hence
their blindness to echad and Jesus
Echad is the same word used in Deut 6 v 4, the Jewish Shema…….it describes the Oneness of God…. it is also
the same word used in Genesis 2.v 24 to describe how a man shall cleave to his wife and they become
echad……..as of the moment, the couple in Jerusalem focus on Eph 2 and the new life they have in Jesus.
But the Lord….! Jesus IS the Oneness with the Father as seen in his prayer John 17. Had John’s Gospel been the
default Gospel of Early Christianity then History would have been very different. You yourself have published Neil Mackereth’s
insight into the early Fathers condemning the Jews. How quickly we repaid the generosity of Peter, James and Paul
With as evil far, far from the heart of our God. That has led from the Crusades and to the gas chambers..
Last year was the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea. To mark this anniversary came a plea for 100 days of fasting and
Prayer for the healing of the destructive attitudes towards the Jews. That came from another group in Jerusalem
Do find attached my small leaflet produced for that and shared with several people, including one of the Bishops who spoke
out against antisemitism last month….
I believe with the turning point our UK nation is at right now (Douglas Murray coined that phrase recently, when the Chief of
Police asked the Home Office to ban the alquds march in London as a security risk) we are seeing the
birthing of His Kingdom in our midst… and you will remember the picture of the rotten sacking and the UK and then the emerging
Backbone of England…
What is needed is a waking up to our Jewish heritage in Jesus and an embracing of His people….and it’s coming…..God’s answer
to Jesus’ prayer in John 17
Happy Shavuot/Happy Pentecost!!
Shalom, love and prayer
Elaine
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AMEN to our Lord’s prayer for unity dear Elaine as it’s been one of my personal foci and I’ve come to realise part of my assignment has been to attend and associate with several parts of His body of traditional and charismatic style; that is, Catholic, Anglican, Baptist, United Reformed & Methodist, New Frontiers, Vineyard, Toronto’s Catch the Fire.
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Many thanks Richard
That has long been the remit given me too…..
Father hear the prayer of Jesus and help us to not get in the way of its fulfillment in our times
Shalom, shalom, shalom
Elaine
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