Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?  For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee. The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity. Habakkuk 1:13. Psalms 5:4-5.
I tremble greatly before the presence of God’s holiness to communicate this article in godly fear as we contemplate the glorious holiness of our God in the beauty of his holiness: just as we are commanded to worship and serve in the beauty of it and giving thanks at the remembrance of it as well.
Everything about God speaks of his holiness. He does all things in holiness. His mountain is called the mountain of his holiness. Where he resides (habitation) is the habitation of his holiness. His ways are the highways of holiness. Where he sits upon is called his throne of holiness. His words are called the words of his holiness. In all his beauty and glory, there is no corruption but the beauty of holiness – glorious and perfect in holiness. He is unblemished and perfectly pure – there is no unrighteousness in him. The description of him reveals the purity of his personality in the presentation of the appearance of his head and his hairs as white as snow; and his eyes were as aflame of fire – the holy, holy, holy Lord God almighty (thrice holy God) which was, and is, and is to come! Amen.
Purity of lifestyles in sanctification unto God is the sole condition of our eternal hope and fellowship with God in heaven – holiness, without which no man shall see the God. If there is any price to obtain in the right and true state of mind (James 4:8) and any heaven to gain aftermath, it shall only be in the purity of life. It is the sole reason of our salvation from the power of indwelling sins that we might serve God in righteousness and holiness without fear all the days of our life (Luke1:74-75).
We must progressively work it out by divine grace in a dutiful prayerful life and focus mind as we cleanse ourselves from all the filthiness of the flesh and of the spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.…..beloved, now are the sons of God; and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear: we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that has this hope purifies himself, even as he is pure. 1 John 3:2-3. 2 Corinthians 7:1.
Sin (all unrighteousness is sin) is the only legal ground and an opening door or avenue for the enemies to accuse, lay claims and attack before the elect angels and God….whoso commits sin transgress also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. And you know that he was manifested to take away our sins: and in him is no sin. Whosoever abides in him sin not: whosoever sins hath not seen him, neither known him. Little children, let no man deceives you: he that does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. He that commits sin is of the Devil; for the Devil sins from the beginning. For this purpose the son of God was manifested that he might destroy the works of the Devil. 1 John 3: 4-8.
Purity is the power that shuts the devil out of our lives. It is expected that we live and do all things by pureness and in purity. As long as God has not found sin in us, no weapon that is fashioned against us shall prosper – in righteousness we shall be established. Isaiah 54:14. The Lord only fights his battle in righteousness and in truth: if you are pure and upright; surely now he will awake for you, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous. Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase. Job 8: 6-7.
The king of Moab persuaded prophet Balaam to help him cursed the children of Israelis to the end that they might not possess his land. He proposed huge sums of money and material blessings to influence the prophet to use divination and enchantments to curse the people of God. The Lord will not consent to his evil scheme and would defend his interest and accomplish his purposes in his people. The prophet realized that the only way the Israelis could be divinely curse is to sin: for as long as there is no sin found in them, they shall be protected, defended and remained blessed in God…..Behold; I have received commandments to bless: and he hath blessed and I cannot reverse it. He (God) hath not beheld (eyes of divine purity) iniquity in Jacob, neither perverseness in Israel: the Lord his God is with him and the shout of a king is among them. Numbers 23:20-21.
As long as the righteous hold on to his ways steadfastly in truth, he shall be stronger and stronger: and as long as the holiness of his God has not been profaned, the enemy is shut out and the unclean spirits are powerless and speechless against such (Job 17:9) Write me for your copy of how to obtain the promises of God for an in-depth explanation and understanding on this at apostle@glbmchurch.com
With this given revelation and his evil intent to provoke the eyes of divine purity and to move God against the Israelis, the prophet took advantage of the information to counsel the king of Moab to use the daughters of the land to seduce the children of Israelis to commit fornication as they danced naked in the street of Moab to worship and celebrate idols purposely to vex and entice the children of Israelis to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality….and Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab. And they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods: and the people joined himself to Baal-​peor: and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel. And the Lord said unto Moses, take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the Lord, against the sun, that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel…and those that died in the plague were twenty and twenty and four thousand – let us not commit fornication, as some of them and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. Numbers 25: 1 – 9. 1 Corinthians 10:8.
The horror of sin and divine attendants against it should awaken us to righteousness and sin not against the eyes of God’s holiness purer than to look at sin for the vengeance of divine wrath on careless partakers and eaters of the Lord’s flesh and drinkers of his blood in the Lord’s Supper as they disrespected and dishonored (not discerning the Lord’s holy body) the presence of the Lord at his commemoration feast.
The divine eyes of holiness and vengeance shall not tolerate hypocrisy and the mockery to great the price that was paid for travail of his soul…Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. 1 Corinthians 11: 27 – 31.
Either in sinners or in his saints, God’s eyes are purer than to look at sin. He has made atonement and provision for pardon and cleansing through Christ death, endless life and ever flowing fountain opened (blood of Christ, who through the eternal spirit offered himself unto God cleanses you from all unrighteousness and purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God Zachariah 13:1) If we sin, we must rightly confess and forsake it because he will wound the hairy scalp of such that continues in their trespasses, he will destroy the sinners in the world and the sinners in Zion — the sinners of his people…….Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee. Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart. If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles. Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks. Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver. For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God. Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows. Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways. When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, there is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person. He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands. Job 22: 21 – 29.
David was a man greatly beloved of his God. The Lord helped, defended and avenged him of all his enemies. He was raised from dunghill to the palace. The bible recorded that he only made a blunt in the matter of Uriah the Hittite as he committed adultery with Beersheba and killed the husband to cover the tract and trace of his sin….Because David did that which was right in the eyes of theLord, and turned not aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, save (except) only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite. 1 Kings 15:5.
The eyes of divine holiness cannot be touched. It is purer than snow and whiter than milk and fearful like a flame of fire.
Though David repented of the sin: yet the Lord took away the fruit (child) of the sin as the beginning of the many troubles and evil against him and his household for the revenge of this heinous crime……Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of theLord, to do evil in his sight (eyes of divine purity — eyes of divine holiness)? Thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife. Thus saith theLord, behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbor, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun. For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun. 2 Samuel 12: 9 – 12.
Except we are made perfect in God’s holiness, we shall be denied access into that glorious kingdom prepared for the pure in heart — the saints of the high – we cannot see God.
Divine eyes of holiness and purity shall not allow anything unclean to enter into the kingdom of heaven – without holiness no man shall see the Lord…..Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? Who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands and a pure heart: who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. Psalms 24:3 – 4.
God is highly displeased as he is dishonored, either in idolatry or profanes of his house, vessels, name, offerings and holiness. Nothing is more provoking to God than the profanation of sacred things (Daniel 5:22 – 31) and men serving their lusts with the offerings of the Lord. Nothing brings a greater reproach upon religion than ministers’ covetousness, sensuality, and imperiousness. Isaiah 56:11.
For Eli’s sons (despite having their wives) to use the interest and to misused the trust which as priests they had in those women that had devout dispositions and were religiously inclined, and to bring them to commit their wickedness, was such horrid ungodliness as one can scarcely think it possible that men who called themselves priests should ever be guilty of…..Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel; and how they lay with the women that assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
And he said unto them, why do ye such things? For I hear of your evil dealings by all this people. Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make theLord’s people to transgress. If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him: but if a man sin against theLord, who shall intreat for him? Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because the Lordwould slay them. 1 Samuel 2:22 – 25.
God will be hallowed (greatly respected) among his people and in his sanctuaries. His holy things must not be profaned – else, his purer eyes gone bright red (embarrassed and angry) and often times by mercy turned it away from sinner against his wrathful and vengeful eyes which are like unto the flames of fire. Leviticus 22:15&32.
God purer eyes cannot bear long forever with the iniquity of Eli’s children. If he is not sanctified and hallowed by us and among us: he shall forcefully be sanctified and hallowed among us and in the presence of all as the Lord that is holy – the mighty God of Jacob among us and he that sanctified us….And there came a man of God unto Eli, and said unto him, Thus saith theLord, did I plainly appear unto the house of thy father, when they were in Egypt in Pharaoh’s house? And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to offer upon mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me?
And did I give unto the house of thy father all the offerings made by fire of the children of Israel? Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people? Wherefore theLordGod of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me forever: but now theLordsaith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed. Behold, the days come, that I will cut off thine arm, and the arm of thy father’s house, that there shall not be an old man in thine house.
And thou shalt see an enemy in my habitation, in all the wealth which God shall give Israel: and there shall not be an old man in thine house for ever. And the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off from mine altar, shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thine heart: and all the increase of thine house shall die in the flower of their age. And this shall be a sign unto thee that shall come upon thy two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas; in one day they shall die both of them. And I will raise me up a faithful priest that shall do according to that which is in mine heart and in my mind: and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before mine anointed forever. And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in thine house shall come and crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and shall say, put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests’ offices, that I may eat a piece of bread. 1 Samuel 2: 27 – 36.
As royal priest hood and holy nation, we must hereby be reminded that God is holy, and that his priests must be holy. Holiness becomes his house and household in all manner of conversation. 1 Peter 1:15.
Royal priests and priestesses must be sequestered from all pollution, and consecrated to God without fear in righteousness and holiness and to his service and honor, and so must all his ministrations be. All that attend in God’s house must have ‘Holiness to the Lord’ engraven upon their foreheads, that is, they must be holy, devoted to the Lord, and designing his glory in all they do. This must appear in their forehead, in an open profession of their relation to God, as those that are called to be saints, and in a conversation in the world answerable to it. It must likewise be engraves like the engravings of a signet, so deep and permanent, not painted to be washed off, but sincere and lasting; such must our holiness to the Lord be — whose eyes are purer than to behold iniquity…..And thou shall make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD. Exodus 28: 36.