thou wilt be a kingdom of priests – reverend_leenhouts

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Thou wilt be a Kingdom of Priests

Before Dr. A. A. Leenhouts died at the age of 86 after a turbulent life, he left his spiritual testament

in a series of books published under the title The Shofar Series, in which he appeals to believers

the world over to stand guarantors, in word and deed, for a dignified transfer from the Jewish

State to the status, destined for this people, of Kingdom of Priests. It is in this spirit that the

present article has been written, with permission from the current publisher of his writings. (1)

1 The court of the end of times

In the introduction to his Competition of Altars (1981) Reverend A. A. Leenhouts writes:

What God has ordained on this earth regarding the religious cycle of feasts of Israel isutilised, when the fulfilments come to pass, as items in His own AGENDA. Exactly on the

day of the Passover He gives His Son as the Lamb that takes away the sins of the world. And


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when the day of Pentecost has come, the promised Spirit descends on that very day. This

punctuality of order raises the question: And the third feast, the Feast of Tabernacles: did

God erase it from His agenda? Is this crowning feast no longer considered for fulfilment

within the larger framework of world-history? Is there a link missing? NOT SO! The Feast

of Tabernacles will incontrovertibly come to its fulfilment.

It is this fulfilment which is dealt with in my writings. In this respect the Kingdom of

God has indeed come near. The breakthrough of this Kingdom is closely connected with the

coming in of the fulness of the Gentiles, and the Jewish peoples coming to their Messianic

mission. Thus we are approaching the forecourt of the fulfilment of all things. It is this

penultimate epoch in world history that the book of Revelation deals with in a symbolism

that thoroughly conceals. There is a blank page in that last book of the Bible, mentioned in

chapter 10. A small part of the apocalyptic film had to be cut out by the apostle John, for he

heard: write them not.

However, it is also for this penultimate secret that the words of the prophet Amos are

meant (3:7): Surely the Lord God does nothing, unless He reveals His secret to His

servants the prophets. The thunders will not remain sealed up for ever. The fulfilment of

Israels cycle of feasts has thrice remained a secret. Through prophecy God has had this

secret revealed three times. And three times has the fulfilment of the feasts been a veryabundant mercy of God.

2 - Called in 1948

Leenhouts writes:

The Lord intervened in my life in a very extraordinary way after I had come back from a

holiday in 1948 and wanted to take up my work again as minister of the Dutch Reformed

Church in Enschede. Suddenly there was the impact of a miracle, so stirring for the one

experiencing it that any description is bound to fall short. Suddenly my study was ablaze. In

spirit I heard a violent storm and had the experience of the apparition of an angel. I went to

the window and saw that outside there was not a breath of wind and not a leaf was stirring.Then I went to the bedroom, looked in the mirror, and observed that I was like a dead man.

Afterwards I went back to the study, and as led by an invisible hand I took hold of a pad and

sat down behind my desk. Then the Lord spoke literally, word for word: My children have

prayed, and I answer

The Lord spoke about Israels future and about the coming World Revival. He gave

messages for the churches. And afterwards, for many days at a stretch, He showed me in

burning visions the identity of the last text of Malachi, in the last book of the Old Testament,

and of Revelation 10. Each word swept through me like a flame. The sweat of death was

dripping from me, and without having any control of my hand or mind, sentence after

sentence was written down on paper. God revealed the secret of Revelation 10: the secret of

the thunders, the sealed-up penultimate mystery. In spirit I was confronted with Christs

agony in the garden, with His sufferings on the cross, and His abandonment by God, but alsowith the immense power of His resurrection and His future. In turn I had to see our infinite

guilt for His Blood and the riches of His pity in the coming revival.

3 Concealment impossible

When the Lord speaks, concealment of his message is impossible. This was experienced

by all the prophets, and Jeremiah has very honestly admitted it: Then I said, I will not make

mention of Him, nor speak any more in His name. But his word was in mine heart as a bur-

ning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forebearing, and I could not stay.

Likewise it is impossible for me to conceal the message and the view of the end of times,

given to me in direct words and visions. I declare herewith, and this declaration has before

the face of the Lord the power of an oath: Lord God, Thou knowest that I am aware of


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houses, plots and vineyards would be purchased in the land (Jer. 32). During these services

the Last Supper was celebrated according to the guideline given by Paul in his first letter to

the Corinthians (11:26): For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cupyou proclaim

the Lords death till He comes.

This witness was accompanied by our task of mercy towards the Jewish people. The

offerings brought to the services were deposited in a Cup and Grain Fund, specially set up

for the purpose (4) with the aim of devoting half to the witness of the people of God and the

other half as a gesture of mercy to this people, symbolically known as the grain portion.

6 The document

In 1969, on the 2nd day of Pesach / Good Friday, the grain portion of the sum of money thus far

collected was offered to Israel as a first-fruits gift, with the unfolding of a document at the Wai-

ling Wall in Jerusalem proclaiming the significance of the gift. The document bore the following

text:

In the year of 1948 God raised up a prophet in Holland. The message he received

brought a disclosure of the penultimate secret of Revelation 10 and refers to Israels

future. The preaching of this prophet called by God has caused us, Dutch and Swiss

Christians, to concentrate on the biblical promises for Israel, and our attention was parti-

cularly drawn to the words of Exodus 19:6:

AND YE SHALL BE UNTO ME A KINGDOM OF PRIESTS, AND A HOLY NATION.

Comparing these words with Isaiah 61, we see that nothing else can be meant by these

words but Israels Messianic destiny in the future

KINGDOM OF PEACE FOR ALL NATIONS

According to Isaiah 61 the holy status of the people of Israel in the midst of the nations

will resemble the status Levi had among the other tribes. This tribe was exempted from


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every duty in order to fulfil its priestly task; it was not allowed to possess its own terri-

tory in a legal sense; it did not need to maintain its own economy; for the Lord was

their inheritance (Numbers 18:20); and yet the Priests and the Levites had the right to

dwell in the Promised Land. The whole nation owed gratitude to God for having been

brought out of the land of Egypt through the Blood of the Paschal Lamb, and so thisstructure became possible. Now the question arises: What motive will the peoples of the

world ever find to have Israel eat their riches according to Isaiah 61:5-6, so that Israel

may officiate as a Kingdom of Priests?

Through Gods mercy we have discovered the meaning of the Blood of the Lamb of

God, that taketh away the sins of the world,

JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE PRINCE OF PEACE

And now we have become aware that with this Blood God has given us the only basis

on which to fulfill our vocation towards Israel as the priestly nation of the Messianic

time of salvation.

We are now making a start with the offering of our ransom for Israels exemption

from worldly duties in favour of their priestly office in the coming KINGDOM OF

GOD and we believe we must do so, in spite of the fact that up until today Israel has

rejected Jesus of Nazareth as the Messiah. For the stumbling of Levi never dissolved the

duty of the other tribes to pay ransom. Thus for us, Christians, The Words of our Master

remain unassailable: salvation is of the Jews (John 4:22), and so the responsibility

for the people of divine election remains ours. (Romans 11:31)

As a small group of believers we have gathered in special Supper Services an amount of

14,000 guilders in the Cup and Grain fund, with the purpose of using half of it for the

witness to the people of God, and offering the other half to Israel as a sheaf of the first

fruits. We realise very well that the small amount of 7,000 guilders is only of symbolic

value; but this was the same with Jeremiahs field. (Jeremiah 32:15) And although in a

document of this sort we can only mention a few aspects of the great many things that

have become clear to us, and that have moved us to make this offer, we believe uncon-

ditionally that God has shown us the way along which His plan for Israel and for the

world will be fulfilled.

The Board of the Foundation Getuigenis en Eenheid (Witness and Unity) in Amster-

dam signs in the name of sympathetic believers. The Board declares that the amount

mentioned in the document will be remitted as soon as the notice of acceptance from the

responsible body for Israel has reached the Secretary of the Foundation.

Amsterdam, signed on January 26th 1969

JERUSALEM, date of presentation April 4th 1969,

Second Passover Good Friday (Leviticus 23:11)

This document dates from 1969. In the meantime the English name of the foundation has been

changed into Testimony and Unity. The Foundation takes care of the administrative work,

which came into being through the prophetic message of A.A. Leenhouts V.D.M. The manage-

ment of the Cup and Grain Fund is part of this work.


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6 The open letter

A personal report of the events described above was given to the Ministry of Religious Affairs of

Israel and a written report was presented to the government and people of Israel, by means of an

Open Letter, both dated 4th April 1969, the Second Day of Pesach or Good Friday:

OPEN LETTER TO THE GOVERNMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL

Most honourable Members of the Government,Most honourable People of Israel,You are most certainly aware of the fact that the idea of STATE is not to be com-

pared with the high STATUS to which God has called you, namely to be a Kingdom of

Priests and a Holy Nation among the nations. (Exodus 19:6; Isaiah 61:5-6) To function

merely as a state among other nations means being like all the nations (I Samul

8:20). Officiating as a Kingdom of Priests however, requires a state of holiness, of beingset apart for the service of God, just as the tribe of Levi was set apart from the other

tribes.

The situation in which you now find yourselves draws East and West together like

a magnet, in sharp opposition to one another, a situation where Holy Scripture calls you

Gods first-born (Exodus 4:22), and because of this you should be regarded as repre-

senting all nations, a situation in which a to be or not to be position of your people

irrevocably creates a border situation for all mankind. Thus the fulfilment of the pro-

mise of God regarding your status in the Messianic time becomes an ABSOLUTE

CONDITION for the survival of all mankind. For a political solution can only come

forth from a religious solution. This is the dimension that has been forgotten in all the

diplomatic proposals for peace in the Middle East and in general for peace all over theworld. That is why every political project in which Israels election by God is ignored,

is a request addressed to the Eternal to come with that curse about which Malachi spoke

through the Holy Ghost (Malachi 4:6). In the meantime the heavens above you remain

as brass and not a drop of shalom falls on this thirsty earth. The first signs of this need

are already tangibly present. The full harvest of this misery will also come, namely the

absolute end to the life of the peoples of the world.

But in whichever way the Jew or the Christian may conceive the urgent need of a

fulfilment of the divine promises regarding Israels STATUS as a Kingdom of Priests,

anybody will feel that such an action of fulfilment goes far beyond human capacity and

will therefore require a Divine intervention of such intensity and extent, that we have to

go back to Moses and the Exodus and to Elijah and the Carmel judgement in order to

find words that can express our expectations. But sacred sacred history does give many

examples, in the fulfilling of divine promises, of the community accepting in faith a

DIVINE JUDGEMENT.

Was not the celebration of the Passover in itself an abandoning of oneself to the

judgement of God during the supper? Was not the Carmel judgement a judgement of

God and would this judgement ever have taken place, if the people had reacted to Eli-

jahs proposal with a no? (I Kings 18:24)

IS THE GOD OF ELIJAH DEAD?


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As truly as this God lives I pray you, Israel, in His Name by virtue of a divine

vocation which came to me in 1948, to say YES to the invitation to accept a

judgement of God in order to come to a religious solution. There are but two possibi-

lities: either a Messiah, who has nothing to do with Jesus of Nazareth, will intervene in

such a way, that you will be dragged out of your religious and political twilight and willreceive heavenly authority for the official Status of Kingdom of Priests, with all the

accompanying consequences for the gentile nations (Isaiah 61:5-6), or this high Status

will be offered to you by Him Who, as the Christians believe with the apostle Paul,

ascended up far above all heavens, that He might fill all things (Ephesians 4:10). The

fulfilment of Isaiah 61:5-6 belongs also to this.

Well, Israel, we ask you to accept a competition of altars (1 Kings 18) before the

forum of the whole world. Build your Jewish national altar in whatever way you

may see it but build it in confrontation with another altar and expect a judgement of

the Lord with absolute sincerity. God will certainly answer. For the way history ends

also counts as a judgement of the Lord (Psalm 105:19). Then, over against your altar

an altar will be built through the WORD and the SPIRIT of Jesus Christ and on the

basis of His Blood , the Blood of Reconciliation. It will be built out of love for you, for

those who are helping to build it sincerely wish you to achieve the holy STATUS of

Kingdom of Priests in the coming Kingdom of God.

In the enclosed text of the document, which was presented on the Second Day of

Pesach, that is to say on Good Friday, as a gift of the first fruits shaken like a sheaf

before Israels God, you will find a model in miniature of that which was awakened in

Holland and Switzerland through a prophetic message under divine confirmation by

means of very great signs and miracles. And what God has started on a small scale, He

will bring to its conclusion on a worldwide scale.

What the spiritual background of this proposal is, what secrets were revealed, how

a competition of altars can be implemented in practice, what aspects will be opened,

how many delicate and hard points can be touched in short all possible questions that

may arise with this proposal I will gladly discuss with you.

I will end by pointing out to you that at present no Priests hands could be found

capable of accepting this offering of the first fruits from the gentile world IN THE

SAME SENSE in which it was given by the believers. Sincerity bids us to hold the

offering in reserve for you until these hands are available. But should your official

bodies decide now or later to inquire thoroughly into the motives of this proposal, the

believers who have offered this gift sheaf of the first fruits will certainly be willing to

contribute, with the money mentioned above, to the costs of an investigation.

With cordial greetings and a prayer in my heart for the peace of Jerusalem,

Signed A.A. Leenhouts

April 4th, 1969

This money is still set aside for shall the lion roar but not spring? In this way the implemen-

tation of the offering need not be doubted. The first fruits gift will be accepted. You can count on

it!


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The situation in which you now find yourselves draws East and West together

like a magnet, in sharp opposition to one another, a situation where Holy Scripture

calls you Gods first-born (Exodus 4:22), and because of this you should be

regarded as representing all nations, a situation in which a to be or not to be

position of your people irrevocably creates a border situation for all mankind. Thusthe fulfilment of the promise of God regarding your status in the Messianic time

becomes an ABSOLUTE CONDITION for the survival of all mankind. For a

political solution can only come forth from a religious solution. This is the

dimension that has been forgotten in all the diplomatic proposals for peace in the

Middle East and in general for peace all over the world. That is why every political

project in which Israels election by God is ignored, is a request addressed to the

Eternal to come with that curse about which Malachi spoke through the Holy Ghost

(Malachi 4:6). In the meantime the heavens above you remain as brass and not a

drop of shalom falls on this thirsty earth. The first signs of this need are already

tangibly present. The full harvest of this misery will also come, namely the

absolute end to the life of the peoples of the world. () As truly as this God lives

I pray you, Israel, in His Name by virtue of a divine vocation which came to mein 1948, to say YES to the invitation to accept a judgement of God in order to

come to a religious solution. There are but two possibilities: either a Messiah, who

has nothing to do with Jesus of Nazareth, will intervene in such a way, that you

will be dragged out of your religious and political twilight and will receive

heavenly authority for the official Status of Kingdom of Priests, with all the

accompanying consequences for the gentile nations (Isaiah 61:5-6), or this high

Status will be offered to you by Him Who, as the Christians believe with the

apostle Paul, ascended up far above all heavens, that He might fill all things

(Ephesians 4:10). The fulfilment of Isaiah 61:5-6 belongs also to this. Well, Israel,

we ask you to accept a competition of altars (1 Kings 18) before the forum of the

whole world

For us, Christians, this duel signifies among other things obedience, in joining the

deed to the word, observing everything that God reveals to us in his Word regarding the

future structure of the empire of peace. And thus Israel must be enabled to function as

the Kingdom of Priests on the basis of the recognition of the Blood of the Divine Lamb

by analogy with Levi.

That is why on Good Friday 1969, the Second Day of Pesach, a small number of

believers offered a symbolic offering, collected at the table of the Holy Supper, in order

to demonstrate their willingness to obey Gods plan in word and deed.

It goes without saying that there were no priests hands to receive our gift because

Israel has not yet exchanged its position of State for that of Kingdom of Priests. Our

conscience bade us to keep back this offering.

Since your peoples belong to the tent of Abraham, I was given the order to report

to you all that has been said above that is, how Israel has been called to accept to

recognise the events to come as a Divine judgement. In looking at the history of Israels

exile we, Christians, have a collective debt regarding the current state of affairs, and we

must admit this publicly before the Islamic world.

What is the spiritual motive underlying the above proposal? What are the secrets

that have been revealed? And in what way has new light been shed on those parts of

sacred Scripture concerning the future of our peoples? With a great deal of recognition I

would be only too pleased to explain this to you, according to my powers, either in

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I beg you, your Excellencies, to accept the expression of my deepest respect,

Signed: A.A. Leenhouts V.D.M.

Stichting Getuigenis en Eenheid

8 God does not go back on His pledges

By way of conclusion, I would now like to quote Dr. Piet de Vries, minister of the Hersteld

Hervormde Gemeente (Restored Dutch Reformed church) in Waarder (Netherlands):

The New Testament shows us that the death and resurrection of Christ is the turning

point in the history of salvation (in Gods dealings with His people). The coming into being

of the New Testament community, with its Jewish roots though the gentiles also are given

a place therein is tied up with those dealings. Nowhere in the New Testament is it said

that God will go back on this. The church of the New Testament is not an intermezzo that is

foreign to the progressive line of revelation from the old to the new dispensation

(oikonomia) but has a fixed and permanent place there, until the people of the Lord from

both the old and the new dispensation enter the new Jerusalem.

() The Christian church that came into being as a current within Judaism, with a

position for gentiles such as has not yet been seen within Judaism, developed into a current

alongside that of Judaism. This caused many a Christian to lose sight of the special position

held by the Jewish people.

() Amidst all the differences, we must hold fast to the unity of the old and new

dispensation; a unity grounded in the unity of God Himself and of His merciful dealings

with Man. In the New Testament the covenant with Abraham is signed as the basis of the

New Testament community and that covenant is the basis for the expectation that God willonce again take pity on the whole of Israel. Together with the saints of the Old Testament

those of the New Testament await the descent of the new Jerusalem from heaven. All

unfulfilled prophecies from both old and new dispensation will be fulfilled, both spiritually

and materially. And then all that is material will be spiritual and the spiritual also material.

(Profetisch Perspectief, winter 2008, no. 57, p. 37)

Summary: Hubert Luns


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Notes

(1) Competition of the Altars can be ordered through the Foundation of Witness and Unity(Stichting Getuigenis en Eenheid), P.O. Box 64814, 2506 CE The Hague, Netherlands. Website:www.getuigeniseneenheid.nl The Sjofar-series (in Dutch) and all other publications, some ofthem in English, can be ordered through the Primo Vere Publishers (Uitgeverij Primo Vere BV),P.O. Box 82411, 2508 EK The Hague, Netherlands. Website:www.primovere.nl

The source language is Dutch. This translation has not been submitted to the publishers of Dr.Leenhouts writings. The publication itself has been placed on the website with the publisherspermission. Its further distribution is according to the rules of this website, provided that eachcase of distribution is accompanied by the statement that neither translation nor text have beensubmitted to the publishers for permission. If others wish to publish other writings by Dr. Leen-houts, permission is first required from the publishers named above.

(2) Christ is a priest according to the order of Melchizedek, and since He is from a tribe not that ofLevi namely Judah a change has also taken place in the assignment of His office (see Hebrews7:12). This explains that the state of Israel in the midst of the other nations is destined to fulfil thetemple service with its accompanying benefits. Dr. Leenhouts explanation of the analogy of thesacred status that Israel must display with that of the tribe of Levi is as follows:

Just as the tribe of Levi in the Old Testament was exempted in order to be able to fulfil itspriestly task, so must the entire people of Israel (as Kingdom of Priests) be exempted in orderto serve the nations of the world as a sort of ombuds-people. This is the priestly task that theJewish people which does not signify the political State of Israel - will fulfil in the future.This is all in accord with Exodus 19:6, where God gives to the people of Israel the official statusof kingdom of priests. The exemption given in order to be able to fulfil the priestly task willbe granted by the non-Jewish peoples (see Isaiah 61:5-6) who will bring their offerings to thisend in the united celebration of the Sacred Last Supper, thereby creating the condition for adignified transfer from theState of Israel to their status of kingdom of priests. (This,therefore, is what the temple service of the Jewish people will consist of in the future.)

(3) These sentences are taken from the document placed on the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem on 4thApril 199 by A. A. Leenhouts.

(4) The Cup and Grain Fund is named after the story of Joseph, where Joseph allowed the theftof the prophetic cup (by his brothers) to be accompanied by mercy in the form of grain aid.

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