to entitle to reverance or respect, bless, hallow, anoint, enshrine, exalt.
"Hear me, Levites! Now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of the Lord, the God of your fathers, and carry out the filth from the holy place.
For our fathers have been unfaithful and have done what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and turned away their faces from the habitation of the Lord, and turned their backs.
They also shut the doors of the vestibule and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense or offered burnt offering in the holy place to the God of Israel.
Therefore the wrath of the Lord came on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has made them an object of horror, of astonishment, and of hissing, as you see with your own eyes.
For lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the Lord, the God of Israel, that his fierce anger may turn away from us. My sons, do not now be negligent, for the Lord has chosen you to stand in his presence, to minister to him, and to be his ministers and burn incense to him. 2 Cron 29:5-11
Here we see that the wrath of the Lord came on Judah and Jerusalem because of the filth that was going on in the temple. These people were unfaithful and did evil and turned their backs on God.
You might ask, but what does this have to do with the Church?
The eyes of the Lord are looking to and fro throughout the earth and He is seeing the filth that is going on in the Church and how although some people go to church faithfully every Sunday they do what is evil in his sight outside of the Church building and this is why they live in bondage and captivity.
Its time we carry the filth out of the holy place of our spirits, souls and bodies!
The Most High does not dwell in temples made with hands. Acts 7:48
Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are. 1 Cor 3:16-18
Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? 1 Cor 6:19
What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God.
As God has said: “ I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they shall be My people.” 2 Cor 6:16
And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others. Ephes 2:1
You are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,
in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit. Ephes 2:19
The Lord is saying, "Enough is Enough"
Blow the trumpet in Zion, Consecrate a fast, Call a sacred assembly; Gather the people,
Sanctify the congregation, Assemble the elders, Gather the children and nursing babes;
Let the bridegroom go out from his chamber, And the bride from her dressing room.
Let the priests, who minister to the LORD, Weep between the porch and the altar;
Let them say, “Spare Your people, O LORD, And do not give Your heritage to reproach,
That the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples,
‘ Where is their God?’” Joel 2:15-17
Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Thess 5:23
Sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear. 1 Peter 3:15
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