I wrote, “The Final Feast”, not to tell believers exactly how to become a Tabernacle Christian but rather to help those interested personally explore this undiscovered country. Learn about the spiritual fulfillment of the Feast of Tabernacles and Divine Love here…
Little ones, I said let there be light and there was light. I spoke “heavens” and the stars appeared. Through power and wisdom I formed the Earth and all therein. What is in My mind I create. I knew you from your mother’s womb because I predestine it to be. You are the expression of My Logos.
My mind is not your mind. However, I give access to my thoughts and they become your thoughts as you yield to my Spirit. Prophets know My thoughts because they are one with Me; they speak as I think. Seers build up and tear down because I build up and tear down. They speak future things because it is the future I shall create.
I predestine you to be conformed to the image and likeness of My Son because I will it. Through wisdom I mark out before hand the path that you shall take because it is My will that you do so. The tragedy and sin of Lucifer is that she challenged My will and my purposes. Satan dared to pervert My logos and deny My right as your God when she said, “hath God said.”
Throughout the history of this world, since your fall, the Devil tried to change my Logos. Therefore, throughout the history of mankind I have intervened to cause events and circumstances to conform to My will. When the currents of history have been altered I sent my prophets to correct them.
Predestination does not prevent free will
Though I predestine, free will is not an illusion as some suggest, it is a gift to My children. You all have the choice whether or not to conform to My will through predestination. I have marked out a place for you to go and, if you will yield to My Spirit, I will make it possible for you to do so. However, if you decide not to take the journey that I have foreordained, like Lucifer, you chose that fate.
Salvation is My grace that allows you to reach the place I foreordained you to go. It is My gift to you to correct the effects of the rebellion of My fallen Seraph. My will, from the beginning, was to have you by My side for eternity. Jesus, through his obedience, made possible the way for you to come back to the garden and walk with Me once again.
I foreknow what I shall create
Predestination is according to my foreknowledge of what I shall create. I predestine according to my will. Everything and everyone exists because I Am and I desire it to be so. For a little while, Satan challenged My authority. In her deception, Lucifer sinned in her heart supposing that she could be like the Most High. This has never been possible, but in the darkness of her understanding she believes that it is. When you yield to her spirit rather than Mine, darkness of soul fills you too making you blind also.
In the end, I will have My way. All that I have purposed to do will be done. None shall gainsay or resist My will for I Am God Almighty. It is my will that none should perish but that all should have eternal life. You have all been predestined to conform to My image and likeness. I foreknow who will choose everlasting life and who will choose eternal death. Nevertheless, it is still your choice to make. It is My will that you choose life but if, like Lucifer, you choose rebellion I will allow you to do so.
As the heavens are higher than the earth
I wrote,
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.“
I Am immortal and you are mortal. If you remain in your sin then you will die eternally. If you become one with Me you will live forever because I live forever. You cannot know my thoughts except I share them with you. Through My Son Jesus Christ I have filled you with My Spirit so that you may conform to My Logos once again.
It is finished
I AM the Alpha and Omega. I judge Satan and save those who accept My son. In the course of eternity, though painful for Me, the Devil’s rebellion has no consequence to My larger purpose. It shall be as I imagine and it is done as I have purposed.
Choose life
I give you the choice to live with Me forever. I invite you back to the garden and fellowship with Me. My beloved Son has paid the price for your sin and made a way for you to become whole again. Choose life and I will give it abundantly. Yield to My Spirit and you shall live forever. All things are made new and the former things will not be remembered. My will is done on Earth as it is in Heaven. I foreknow because I predestine. I open a door that no man can shut. You may decide to conform to My will and reach the place I have prepared for you. Choose life for the time is short and the end of all things is at hand.
Practically speaking, what are spiritual connections like in the real world?
I am going to speak about a special instance of spiritual connections that tends to be the most controversial: spiritual unions between men and women.
Connections in the Spirit happen to everyone and run the spectrum from brotherly love all the way up to and including marriage. Within that range, spiritual connections happen between the opposite sex. Many times these unions are for the express purpose of healing the individuals involved. Though they involve intimacy they are not primarily sexual in nature; they are Spirit-led and therefore innocent.
If this happens to you, you will be searching for answers. Know this, God is with you. However, the misunderstanding and possible persecution from otherwise well-meaning brethren may be intense. I hope this frank and honest discussion of connection love will be of some comfort and help to you during those times.
When Divine Love attracts
The special instances of Spiritual connection are those which take place between men and women. Such unions are akin to “love at first sight” in a spiritual way. They usually occur suddenly and without warning. Depending on how open the individuals are, a spiritual union can hit you like a freight train traveling at full speed. The impact cannot be overstated. For some, who do not know what is going on, it may seem like they are literally falling romantically for the other person. In a very real sense you are falling in love, just not as the world defines it.
Trouble in Lakeland
Surprisingly, many have experienced connection love to a certain degree, yet have not known what it was. Often times, connection love between unmarried people is God matchmaking. Since your choice of mate so greatly affects not only yourself but also your generations, God is keenly interested in whom you marry.
Unfortunately, connection love has been the downfall of many a minister who mistook spiritual love for carnal attraction. Some church leaders have not realized that the love they felt for a woman in their congregation was authored by God. When their natural minds took over and their carnal desires kicked in, what started out in the spirit sometimes ended up in the flesh. This is what may have happened to Tod Bently of the Lakeland Revival.
On the other hand, what may have taken place with Tod is an instance of Divine Divorce. When a minister is obviously moving powerfully in the Spirit don’t automatically assume they have sinned just because they do something odd. We should be slow to judge others lest we call what is of God, sin.
For the natural man knows not the things of God
Paul says,
“But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.”
1 Corinthians 2;14
Spiritual connections occurred in the first-century church. God authored spiritual unions, usually between men and women, were what love feasts were all about. Though God-ordained, such intimate behavior between believers upsets natural-minded people. Indeed, the familiarity that connections display between each other is astounding. Spiritual connections are, in fact, a foretaste of relationships in The New Heavens and New Earth. They are the reason why people are neither married nor given in marriage in the world to come. People who view these unions only through our earthly paradigm fail to understand them because they are literally not of this world.
Judge not that ye may not be judged
Christians who have not experienced spiritual connections tend to condemn them as sin. Even though what God is doing is pure and holy, natural-minded people accuse spiritual connections of inappropriate behavior. This leads some to strongly oppose what God is doing.
Greeting one another with a holy kiss
Spiritual connections vary in intensity. In strong connections, the love of God can reveal itself in all manner of spiritual experiences and/or physical intimacy. Intimacy stumbles onlookers who are used to judging such displays of affection between unmarried people as sin. Frankly, if these displays of affection were not led by the Holy Spirit they would be inappropriate. However, where the Spirit of God is there is liberty. For instance, when God leads a person to kiss another man or woman, it is a “holy kiss” and proper before God.
Love demands expression and spiritual love demands spiritual expression. When our spirits mingle our bodies follow suit. It is impossible to be close enough. Some day, on the shores of eternity, in God’s glorious liberty, we will love each other freely. Until then, we make due with the limitations imposed upon us in this natural realm.
As God unites people, a sort of spiritual convergence takes place. Spiritual connections are a typological representation or a “picture” of how our bridegroom (Jesus) wants to become one with the Bride of Christ (us). People who go deep into Divine Love become “one soul” in that they begin to think alike and finish each others sentences. There is a unity that transcends earthly intimacy and brings you together in such a way that you are no more two people. Space and time begin to dissolve and you know what each other is thinking or feeling across great distances. Adam and Even experienced this type of God-centered union.
Love does not seek its own
Many, who experience connection love, feel totally head over heels in love with their connection. They want to be near them always. There is a yearning to share everything they are with their spiritual partners and to become, as much as possible, one with them. Our bodies react to spiritual love in much the same way as they react to earthly love. It is just that heavenly love does seek its own and would never “use” another for selfish carnal desires.
Edenic innocence is a strange thing to us. Most of us have not experienced innocence since we were small children. Desire to us is lust. To be close to a man or woman in complete purity of heart feels weird at first. You keep waiting for your lower nature to take over, but it doesn’t. Truly, to the pure all things are pure.
Whose property are we anyway?
This leads into another area that is pertinent to the discussion concerning spiritual connections and it is this,
“If we are bought with a price, and our bodies are not our own, is it not proper for the Holy Spirit to do anything He wants with us?”
Our bodies are now the property of God, therefore if He wants us to kiss, or hug, or do whatever, who are we to resist His Spirit?
If your spouse spiritually connects with another person, can you demand that they stop? Many would say “yes, absolutely, I have a right,” but I say, “wait a minute, are you greater than God?” Remember, spiritual connections are predicated on the man or woman actually being led by God’s Spirit. Therefore, if the Holy Spirit unites two people through a spiritual union, in whatever way, we should not interfere.
What God hath joined together…
Though God hates divorce, the fact is, most of us marry unwisely. God was, for many, the furthest thing from their minds when they chose their present mate. Many people even married because they wished to legitimize their offspring. Consequently, God never authorized these natural-minded unions. Therefore, decisions made without our Father’s consent, do not bind Him.
Furthermore, your marriage may or may not survive Divine Love. If God decides your choice of mate to be in His will, He may allow you to continue with your present spouse. If God finds your marriage contrary to His will, He may choose to connect you with another and simply annul your present marriage.
Divine Divorce: the reality of the situation
The phenomenon of Divine Divorce exists. It actually takes place sometimes masked as Christians believers realizing that they have irreconcilable differences. Spirit-led dissolution of your marriage is the biblical anti-type of what happen during the rebuilding of Jerusalem under Ezra. The men of Israel, in order to return to the will of God, to put away their foreign wives and children. God blessed their obedience even in that heartbreaking situation. (Ezra chapter 9 and 10)
The unity of the Body of Christ through Spiritual Connections
The prospect of a connected Body of Christ strikes fear into the heart of the Devil. In fact, spiritual connections are the single biggest threat to Satan’s kingdom here on Earth. The Body of Christ immersed in love, spells certain doom for the Devil’s plans. Where love dwells Satan has no hold.
God says,
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.”
Galatians 5:22,23
The connected Body of Christ is the Man-child spoken of in Revelation chapter 12. We are about to be born, as it were, in a single day. Standing as the unified Body of Christ, it is our destiny to deal a death-blow to the Dragon and his kingdom through the unity of the Spirit created by God’s Divine love.
We ought to obey God rather than men.
God, in the end, remains all in all. His Spirit fills us as we obey His every command through revelation. Most believers never realized how far Spirit-led obedience goes. In every area of our lives, we submit in obedience to His Spirit and simply do what He leads us to do.
Most have no idea what causes the great apostasy. Many think that people will simply decide not to follow Christ any longer due to persecution. However, the truth is, the great falling away occurs because many believers refuse to accept God in the way that He desires to come. Shortly, God will reveal Himself, once again, in a way that stumbles the natural minded and many will miss the time of their visitation.
A word to the wise
Do not, under any circumstance, violate the law regarding legal age. Young people who are underage must always be off-limits to adults. I repeat, do not allow yourself to connect with anyone who is not yet of legal age. This is not only unseemly, but it will bring shame upon you and others if you do.
What the song Amazed depicts is but a shadow of the intensity of Connection Love
