Dear Believers,
From all indications, we are now at the end of the Church age. That is to say, we have come to the point where God is about to change things radically into a new age of the Millennium. This new dawn will be akin to the degree of change that happened between the first rain drop falling on the pre-deluvian world and some 150 days plus later, when Noah stepped off the Ark onto the sides of the north on Mt Ararat. Much, if not all of what we know of our would will be lost and the world will begin again, but this time under a restored Israel, brought back under God’s law, complete with a New Temple.
How then shall we live in what is left of our gentile church age?
God says,
“And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.”
Acts 2:1-3
This shows how our present church age began. It began with 120 disciples, all of them Jewish, received the infilling of the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost. This event was promised by Jesus himself and they were waiting to receive what he promised.
Here is a truth,
Everything that happened, all the conversions, miracles and scriptures that we honor today, started with His Holy Spirit infilling individuals who waited on him in prayer.
At the end of our age, even though Christianity, in many parts of the world is accepted, we must do the same if we want to experience God in the correct order. That order is: first, His Spirit. It is not teaching, it is not doing, it isn’t building, it is waiting for and receiving His Holy Spirit. Without doing that first, nothing that comes after has any validity.
Why is this so? Are not the works of our own hands important to the kingdom of God? No, they are not. Only that which is led of His Spirit is of His will and will bring forth the fruits that He desires in His kingdom. Without putting His Holy Spirit first and front and center in our lives, we toil in vain for we are merely doing what seems right to our natural minds. This is enmity with God.
What I preach in Tabernacles is based on the premise of “first, His Spirit.” Everything I say and every experience I related flows from a personal encounter with His Holy Spirit and has been caused by my attempt to live out what I hear Him Say. Nothing, and I do mean nothing, that I write about in the Final Feast is possible to do without being filled with and then being led by the Holy Ghost.
Natural minded men and women cannot enter into the Tabernacle Experience of Divine Love. These things are spiritual discerned and only possible in His divine presence. If you take what I say of these wonderful gifts and try to implement them without first having His Spirit and being led by His Spirit into them, you will fail and fail miserably. The things of His Spirit are just not possible without His Spirit.
We are living in the rise of Mystery Babylon. The darkness around us and hence the confusing is multiplying faster than we can try to figure it out. The only real response to this deluge of the Antichrist spirit is for us to seek and find our God and ask for a fresh infilling of His Spirit. When their is strong delusion, only strong revelation will do. Anything in the natural realm we try to do will fail for the world lies in the lap of the wicked one. Thus we must take a different route and focus on His Spirit and being led daily by Him so that we can navigate our lives in this rapidly evolving situation. This is why I say, “first, His Spirit” for that is the foundation upon which we can stand in these difficult times. Once we have His Spirit, we can then listen to what His Spirit says and, by faith, do what He says with whomever He says to do it with. It tell you of a truth, for each and every one of you who are reading this, walking with Him personally and doing what He says, when He says to do it, is our only way forward.
When His Spirit takes hold of us as individuals and as a people, do not expect things will remain even remotely the same. Our generation is just as far from God as were the religious leaders of Israel in the first century. The historical fact of the mater is that when Christ came to the Jewish nation they did not even recognize God manifest in the flesh. Likewise, in our generation, lest the spirit reveal it to you, you will not recognize when you see God manifest in the flesh of your brethren. Expect and as you are Spirit led, embrace what God has for you and do not allow the Pharisees of our time to dissuade you from what you know in your heart to be true.
Lastly, do not despise His blessed hope, which is the catching away of the saints. What is about to happen is so horrific that if there is any chance God will keep us out of the hour of temptation, we must take hold of it with both hands and not let go.
I say this knowing that for a great many of our brethren the the beginning of sorrows has already come. There are believers this morning meeting behind shuttered windows in Iran, in Nigeria, in China, who suffering, and who love Him anyway. They are not a lesser church. If anything they are the elder brother of ours, and their portion is the promise Jesus gave to all of us that: “In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” Whether He keeps us out of the great tribulation or keeps us through our present troubles, He keeps us. Our hope is His leading and guidance in perilous times, and He will never leave us today or in the future.
And realize this to about our blessed hope. We are received into a cloud of His Shekinah Glory — and Shekinah is His dwelling, being the same word as the tabernacle He told Moses to raise in the wilderness at Mount Sinai, the same cloud that filled it so thickly the priests could not stand to minister at the second temple of Solomon. This isn’t accidental and understanding the continuity of His Spirit is important to the rapture. That same Shekinah Glory that filled both of those temples is what fills a temple built without hands in our generation -us. Moreover, when He who lets is taken out of the way, we to who are filled with his presence through His Holy Spirit will be caught up too. We are the chariot of God forshadowed in Ezekiel and whether His Spirit goes, we go also. The catching away is the last movement God began in the wilderness thousands of years ago. We are spiritual Israel and we recieve the blessings of Israel spiritually during this church age along with a fortaste of the rapture that foreshadlows the greater raputure at the end of time after the millennium when Israel finally accepts their Messiah. The truth is, my friend, He has been coming to dwell within His people since that day, and He is about to gather us up into the very cloud of that rested over the first Tabernacle in the wilderness.
When revelation is made plain, know that the time is at hand.
Remember, First, His Spirit — and at last, His presence, forever.
Amen..