Shushan

Shushan – Lily (in Hebrew)

Shoshanim – lilies (in Hebrew)

Prayer and Revelation – The Palace of Shushan (means Lily in Hebrew), The House of God, His Lily, His Bride

Dear Father, I stand in the palace of Shushan in the midst of Your Words as Nehemiah did in the days the 2nd temple was to be built. Esther also comes forth boldly in the palace of Shushan to speak for her people, the Jewish people,that Haman had plotted to destroy. Both come in the month of Nisan before the King at the time, (the very month of Passover) as Deliverers of their people. They stand in the gap. Here from the palace of Shushan (the Palace of the Lily, Hebrew) is decreed in two books of the Bible (Esther and Nehemiah) the saving of Your people and the rebuilding of Your temple! I stand here Lord and ask You, what will You say to us? You speak to me from a song. I see in Song of Solomon 2:16, My beloved is mine and I am His. He feeds among the lilies.” There is the word again, shoshanim, in the plural, lilies. Oh Lord, I see You revealing something beautiful here. It is the Bride, the LILIES, the true church and we are here on the earth for such a time as this; again to build Your temple (spiritual living stones, 1 Corinthians 3:16) and save and stand with Your people. Jesus, You build Your temple from both of us, the Jewish people and the remnant of all other nations who believe in You, our Jewish Messiah, the Savior of the World. I see as I write, One New Man. Esther (a Jewess, the Queen) and Ahasuerus (a Gentile, the king after his eyes are opened) together working to save the Jewish people. Nehemiah (a Jewish man, the king’s cupbearer) and Artaxerxes (a Gentile, the king) working together to rebuild Jerusalem, the New Jerusalem. Again, You Jesus call us, Your Church, the true Church, the Bride of Christ, to stand for Truth, stand with Israel and all the Jewish people that know You or one day will know You, and to build Your Temple of living stones. For such a time as this…. It is then that You Yeshua will return! (Ephesians 2:11-22)! Here we are built together for a habitation of God through the Spirit of God! This is where You will dwell in Jerusalem for a thousand years with us and then forevermore.

Oh how beautiful! God, You adorn us, Your LILIES, in a glory that surpasses the glory of Solomon in all his glory. We, who hear You Jesus,are arrayed in fine linen, clean and white, more beautiful than the lily; Your Bride, dressed in robes of righteousness. From the Palace of Shushan, spiritually speaking, may we be found doing the work You call us to, building Your Holy Temple, the House of God from living stones both the Jewish believers (now and who will believe in Yeshua and call on Your Name, HaShem Adonai), and the remnant of all nations who will come to the marriage supper of the Lamb, dressed in white, pure and clean, spotless, blameless. Let us be glad and rejoice and give honor to Him, for the marriage of the Lamb is come (it is very near) and His Wife (Bride) has made herself ready (Revelation 19:7). O Lord, prepare us, make us ready even as we are washed white by the blood of the Lamb, our Passover Lamb. Help us to see what You decreed from Shushan in the Old Testament stands again today; the LILY, Esther, Nehemiah, the clean and white linen, the Bride of Yeshua. The mission they had in those days is the same one Your Bride has today. Let us be found faithful. Only by Your Holy Spirit can we see these things as You reveal them to us in these days. We love You Forever, Father God (Abba), Lord Jesus (Yeshua HaMashiach), Holy Spirit (Ruach haKadosh)! In Jesus Name we pray, Amen.

Nehemiah 1:1 – The words of Nehemiah, the son of Hachaliah. And it came to pass in the month, Chislev, in the 20th year, as I was in the Shushan Palace.

Esther 2:8 ..., and when many maidens were gathered together unto Shushan the palace, ...

Song of Solomon 2:1 – I am the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the valleys.

Matthew 6:28 – And why do you take thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin and yet I say unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?

Revelation 19: 6-9 And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude and as a voice of many waters, and as a voice of mighty thunderings saying Hallelujah for the Lord God omnipotent reigns. Let us be glad and rejoice and give honor to Him for the marriage of the LAMB is come and His wife has made herself ready. And to her it was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white, for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.