The Link Between The Holy Spirit And The Rapture

Oct23
by Michael King on October 23, 2025 at 10:36 am
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God says,

“After He was baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove and settling on Him,”

Matthew 3;16

Interpreting Scripture

In order to interpret scripture we must be open to hear the voice of the One who wrote it. When we rely too much upon our natural minds to understand when the Holy Spirit spoke through His prophets, we lack the medium through which the word of God came in the first place.

First of all, we must be willing to allow God to lead and guide us into all truth. This precept is fundamental to anyone who ever hopes to come to a knowledge of the truth in His scriptures.

Secondly, we must be willing to follow the leading of His Holy Spirit wherever it takes us. Due to the church’s over-reliance on their natural minds, much of what people believe is either partially or wholly wrong. About the only two doctrines that people have right in general are the doctrines of salvation and water baptism. However, even in these two areas, men’s natural minds have prevented them from understanding the deeper meanings of what it is to be saved, when we are saved, and why we are saved.

I have found that for all my Bible College learning, it is the Holy Spirit showing me His truth that has been most eye-opening and revelatory. Hardly any of the truths that I share here at the Final Feast have come through study, but rather God has either shown them to me through experiencing Him, or He has simply told me the truth as He speaks to me. It is only after His revelation that I search His word to see if these things are true. Most of the time, I am surprised that what He says was plainly in His scriptures all along.

The Holy Spirit given to man

“Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living person.”

Genesis 2:7 (NASB)

The Holy Spirit leaving man

Later, in the Garden of Eden, after Adam and Eve partook of the forbidden fruit, the Holy Spirit left them. A tongue like a fire appeared on Adam’s head, then God’s Spirit left in a mighty rushing wind.

The Holy Spirit given to Jesus

At the river Jordan, that same Holy Spirit descended, gently, as a dove upon the head of Jesus after He was baptized, thus filling Him with God’s Holy Spirit.

God’s Holy Spirit was again taken from the earth when Jesus ascended.

God says,

“And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.”

Acts 1:9

When the Spirit of God, which is “holy” was taken up from the earth, because the Spirit dwelt in Jesus, He was taken up from the earth, too. This is what a rapture is.

During the days between Jesus’s ascension and the infilling of the Holy Spirit upon those of the upper room in Jerusalem, there was no Holy Spirit on the earth.

On the day of Pentecost God gave the Holy Spirit back to mankind (the Body of Christ)

God says,

“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.  And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.”

Acts 2:2-4

During this church age, the Holy Spirit has been with us to varying degrees, but always there. In Topeka, Kansas, in 1901, a fresh outpouring of His Spirit occurred. This continued to spread all around the world from there and other places, such as from Azusa Street in California.

However, since the Day of Pentecost, God has not taken His Holy Spirit from this earth. He has always been here and has been a restraining force upon the world, holding back the evil of the spirit of antichrist.

God takes His Holy Spirit from the earth along with the Body of Christ.

In the coming days, there will be a great, worldwide move of Divine Love, which we call the Tabernacle Blessing. This is spiritual uniting and maturing of the Bride of Christ who will be filled with His Spirit even beyond what the saints experienced in Jerusalem. This miracle of Christ in us, the hope of glory, will put a halt to the antichrist world system. However, God will again remove His Holy Spirit from the earth, just like He did during the time when Jesus left the Mount of Olives, and those who are filled with His Spirit will, like Christ, be caught up to God and to His throne.

After that, there will be no Holy Spirit upon the earth as God destroys the antichrist and his kingdom.

(Note: I do not know if the Holy Spirit will be present during the millennium. I suspect not. The reference to His Spirit covering the earth may refer to the New Heavens and New Earth.)

God gives his Holy Spirit to the Nation of Israel

The Holy Spirit will not come upon the earth again until He is poured out upon the Jewish people at the Battle of God and Magog.

God says,

“And on that day I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.  And I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and of pleading, so that they will look at Me whom they pierced; and they will mourn for Him, like one mourning for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn.  On that day the mourning in Jerusalem will be great, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the plain of Megiddo.”

Zechariah 12:9-11 (NASB)

This is the Holy Spirit that will be poured out upon Israel who is about to be destroyed, and they will realize that they pierced the Son of God, repent of their sin, and Jesus will return to them and save His people from certain destruction.

Accept the gift of His Holy Spirit and be ready

In conclusion, as you might realize, I have not done an exhaustive bible study of what I believe about the Holy Spirit. Some of what I have written is mainstream understanding, but much of it could be misconstrued as conjecture by biblical scholars. However–and this is the point of this essay–in order to see the bigger, deeper picture of what God is doing through His Holy Spirit, I have allowed Him to lead and guide me into these understandings; understandings which, for the most part, could not have been arrived at through systematic biblical study.

Therefore, if you wish to know God’s mind on the bible, open yourself up to allow Him to simply tell you the meaning of the words that He wrote. Do not insist that God conform to your church’s doctrine, realizing that anything you believe is inferior to what He says directly to you. After you receive His revelation, search the scriptures to see if those things are true while permitting yourself to consider things that you have never thought of or may even be controversial.

Blessings,

Michael

I’d Wish We’d All Been Ready by Jordan Sparks

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Spiritual Connections: What They Are

Oct20
by Michael King on October 20, 2025 at 5:26 pm
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The Final Feast Is A Confirmation Ministry For Those who are Experiencing the Tabernacle Blessing

The Final Feast website, which teaches the Tabernacle Blessing, is a confirmation ministry. That is, because the spiritual fulfillment of the Feast of Tabernacles is an experience, you must have yourself, and only then can we offer some help and support.

Likewise, because the Tabernacle Blessing is so unique (at this point in history, anyway) often people struggle to find someone else who has experienced anything remotely like they have. Though the spiritual blessing is powerful, our natural minds always want a way to understand what is happening to us and how that fits in with our Christian faith.

Many times, with a new or restored truth, those who are desperately seeking God, who have tried their very best to find Him within the confines of normal Christianity, find they must open themselves up to His Spirit in ways that those who are bound by doctrine either can’t or won’t. Suddenly, God meets them in powerful ways that do not conform to their church’s teachings, and they find that to embrace God, they must let go of what they have always known or been taught. They feel alone, vulnerable, scared for their salvation and fearful that if they allow God to do what He is doing, no one will understand or support them.

You are not alone

This is why the Final Feast website exists. It is to provide signposts along the way to let you know that, though you may be one of the first, others have gone before you. Through our writings and testimonies, you can find confirmation of what God is doing in your life and perhaps feel a little less lonely and afraid.

The Tabernacle Blessing is the next step in the spiritual fulfillment of the three feasts of natural Israel. Passover equals Salvation. Pentecost equals Holy Spirit baptism. Tabernacles equals oneness with God. Each of these three scriptural feasts has a corresponding spiritual fulfillment that brings a blessing in the church age. This is because God cut off Israel and set them aside for a time and inserted us, the Gentiles, into their place for a season. Thus, what happened to them naturally is happening to us spiritually, until we are taken up to heaven and God’s throne and Israel is grafted back into the natural tree and again deals directly with God.

I say all that to say this: What you are experiencing is the spiritual consequence of seeking God and being found by Him. The powerful love that comes with the Tabernacle Blessing is exactly what our Father is pouring out upon His people during this time and age. Like Christ’s first coming, the church has become old and stale, unable to hold the new wine of His visitation and so, when you receive it, you don’t fit in.

Spiritual Connections, what they are…

God always intended to express His desire for a bride through the relationship between men and women. Our love relationships, in their infinite variety, are His attempt to communicate to us what He wants from His creation. Thus, when men and women yield to His Holy Spirit, they naturally fall into the type (picture) of Him as the lover (male) and His bride as the one He loves and takes to be His wife (female). This is the most powerful experience that is the Tabernacle Blessing.

However, it is in the free expression of His love between male and female that the world takes offense. God, who made our bodies, feels free to do anything He wishes to through them. When He kisses us through another, it is His right, and it does not matter what others think of it or how it appears. The only thing that matters is that it was God who was doing the kissing. This is a Holy Kiss.

Spiritual connections between people in general and between men and women specifically, is the way God made us to interact. That is, as we are led by His Spirit, we form bonds to express His will. Sometimes this manifests as friendship, cooperation, compassion, love. However, in every way we express ourselves to each other, it is in concert with His Spirit expressing Himself through us.

Thus, physical intimacy between men and women was not originally a legally binding contract, but a Spirit-led union of two souls as His Spirit moved between them. In the beginning there was no marriage, only unions joined by His Spirit. Nowadays, people have lost much of that sense of being Spirit-led to be with another person and instead choose their mates based on natural-minded standards such as looks, position, or wealth.

When you are drawn by God’s Spirit into a Spiritual Connection with another person, what you are experiencing is the First Love of Eden. It is powerful, it is supernatural, and it is beyond what our natural minds can comprehend. If you yield to God’s Spirit it consumes you, but in the most natural way imaginable. It is literally love at first sight.

Divine Love is our destiny

This is the Body of Christ’s destiny, and it is presently about the sweep the whole earth. It is the one reality that Strong Delusion cannot stand against, and it will bring a halt to the Antichrist.

Many of us who are spiritually aware and enter into this promised land, have had a rough life. We are chosen; therefore, we have been targeted from birth, and the hounds of hell have dogged us all our lives. We are beaten, bruised, plagued with trust issues, scared, wary, but desperately seeking something real. In this, you are not alone, either. No one who is the Bride of Christ has not been hunted, haunted, and persecuted by demons through other people in this fallen world. It is a given.

What my message is to you, though, is this: The Tabernacle Blessing is the answer to your quest for love and healing. It is the only way that you are going to feel those chains that have bound you so tightly loosen, break, and ultimately fall off. The love of God expressed through the Body of Christ is the healing that this generation is seeking, and it is there for the taking if we will be brave and receive it.

The truth is, you need your own personal Jesus. This means you need Jesus to express Himself through the flesh of another believer who is led by His Holy Spirit. We know that God is love, but we are flesh and blood, thus we need to feel that love through another’s touch, see it in their eyes, hear it in their voice.

There are no bounds or borders or guidelines, only the leading of the Holy Spirit in each and every situation. The Tabernacle Experience cannot be reduced into a theology; it can only be experienced by those who are willing to trust and be led by His Holy Spirit. In each and every interaction with another person, Christ ministers to their needs in whatever way He sees fit, and we just yield to His love and direction.

Freedom from all that binds us

We are all victims, but that does not mean we must all remain victims. What has happened, did happen, but that is in the past and will be forgotten as we allow God to mold and make us into His Son’s image and likeness. When we come together, let us leave these hurts and wounds to God and allow Him to heal and bandage us as He desires at the time He desires to do so. We focus on His Spirit, and His Spirit takes care of everything else.

I have found it difficult to break with my theological past, and however far I think I have come, I still find that my natural mind always tries to make sense of things that happen to and through me. Likewise, I have made the mistake of trying to force even Spiritual Connections into some kind of framework that would fit into scripture as I understand it. I will state here and now, it simply can’t be done. By the time you shoehorn one thing into your understanding, God does someone else that breaks the mold.

Thus, as I have stated, the Final Feast confirms to others what God is doing and can do. It provides a cup of cold water to those who are walking their own path in God and are unsure if they have taken a wrong turn. You have not, you are just some of the first in our generation to take it.

One thing that God has shown me lately is that not all profound Spiritual Connections between men and women end up in a lasting relationship. In my life some have, but others have been for a time and season and God has used them as muses to show me different things in Him or to help me to heal in different aspects of my life. Sometimes, God has flowed through me to heal and minister to them in certain areas, too. What feels like forever, is forever, yet just not on this earth. The forever we feel is for the world to come, the new creation, the New Heavens and New Earth.

I have not understood this and sometimes, even when God was leading differently, I wanted to continue or shape a spiritual union into something that made sense in this world, when that was not the intent at all. I do believe that deep, profound spiritual connections will transcend this life and continue in heaven, yet for this time and climb, I need to be sensitive to the Holy Spirit and not try to shape what God is doing into something that makes sense in this present world.

I share this so that you might also consider that we always must hold our unions with an open hand and be willing for God to do something we don’t expect. Too much is going on around us for us to even remotely understand what God is accomplishing through our unions, and therefore, we must simply let Jesus live though us as He wishes without touching the ark.

Blessings,

Michael

Amor Eterno by Juan Gabriel (English/Spanish Rendition

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