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Have you ever asked
yourself...
What is
Truth?
Where can I
find the Voice of Truth?
Who have I
chosen to believe?
The Living
God of heaven and earth wants
your heart and soul!
He has made
the way for all mankind to
seek His purposes, ways, and
acts of love.
God wants
us to see through His Heart!
He wants us
to hear His Holy Voice of
Spirit and Truth...
Receive the
true Light of His fullness of
grace and truth.
How?
Trust
in
and rely on Jesus Christ,
God's only begotten Son.
John
1:14
(AMP)
14 And
the Word (Christ) became
flesh, and lived among us;
and we [actually]
saw His
glory, glory as belongs to
the [One and] only begotten
Son of the Father,
[the Son
who is truly unique, the
only One of His kind, who
is] full of grace and
truth
(absolutely free of
deception).
Through the
web pages of regardless of
your age or circumstances, you
will
experience
Covenant Life in Christ's
Light waiting for you to
discover!
God is a
Covenant Maker Who exercises
and demonstrates His supremacy
by ruling
and reigning through
Righteousness.
The path of
Truth and Spirit bless those
who believe in Christ the
Light
to the
world! As you receive Him and
walk in His glorious Light,
allow
the past
fade and focus on your future!
Let it
radiate new zeal because you
realize that your future is
infinitely greater!
Your
ability to receive and walk in
the glory of God continues to
increase due
to His
favor and grace upon you.
Every good
gift and every perfect gift is
from above, and comes down
from the
Father of Lights!
James
1:17
(NKJV) In Him was Life, and
the Life was the Light of
men.
John 1:5
(AMP)
While you
have the Light, believe in
the Light [have faith in it,
hold to it,
rely on
it], that you may become
sons of the Light and be
filled with Light.
John
12:36a (AMP)
36 While
you have the Light, believe
and trust in the Light [have
faith in it,
hold on
to it, rely on it], so that
you may become sons of Light
[being filled
with
Light as followers of God].”
Did you
know Light is referenced 263
times in the King James
Version Bible?
God is both
Transcendent (possesses
greatness & power) and
Immanent
(demonstrates nearness &
presence)! He presents His
Love to the world through
the work of
His Son and commands mankind
to receive Him or experience
His wrath.
He is the
originator; The Covenant
Maker! Many do not understand
covenant.
It is very
necessary that we do not
negate or "stick our heads in
the sand"
in regard
to the full council of God.
God
is
a Covenant maker Who
exercises and demonstrates
His supremacy
by ruling
and reigning through
Righteousness.
The path
of Truth and Spirit are for
those who believe in Christ
the Light
to the
world! As you receive
of Him and walk in His
glorious Light,
let past
fade and focus on your
future. Let it radiate
new zeal because you
realize
that your future is
infinitely greater!
Your
ability to receive and walk
in the glory of God
continues to increase
due to
His favor and grace upon you
so that you may become sons
of Light
[being
filled with Light as
followers of God].”
Did you know Light is
referenced 263 times in the
King James Version Bible?
God is
both Transcendent (possesses
greatness & power) and
Immanent
(demonstrates nearness &
presence)!
He
presents His Love to the
world through the work of
His Son and commands
mankind
to receive Him or experience
His wrath.
He is the
originator; The Covenant
Maker! Many do not
understand covenant.
It is
very necessary that we do
not negate or "stick our
heads in the sand"
in regard
to the full council of God..
It
is
also very important that we
do not believe every "wind
of doctrine."
The
contemporary church is weak
because it has received
false teaching
within the past 200 hundred
years and has grown
complacent to study the
scriptures without false
presuppositions.
There
have been many major
movements of God in which
His sovereign power
was
demonstrated by the Holy
Ghost that have revealed the
falsehoods of men
made
policies and practices!
Yet, men
have turned from seeking Him
for direction from the Lord
for the
restoration of the Church of
which Jesus Christ has
destined to build.
The New
Covenant (Jesus Christ) is
alive and He has given His
template
for
building the church in the
Canon of the New Testament!
As God
desired to give mankind a
full understanding of
Himself, He always
presented
His relationship as a
Covenant Husband to a Bride.
As God
desired to give mankind a
full understanding of
Himself,
He always
presented His relationship
as a Covenant Husband to a
Bride.
This
theme can be observed from
Genesis through Revelation.
The best
Book to observe the
foundation of Covenant is in
Deuteronomy.
Genesis
gives us the "first
mentioned principle" into
the covenant caring,
keeping,
protecting character of a
faithful Husband.
We will
see these traits as we
progress in this study of
His bride, Israel.
Let us begin to examine this
theme and how it may be
observed throughout
the full
Canon of the Old and New
Covenant.
God both
gives Law and exercises Law
in which to rule in
Righteousness.
He is the
One Who established the
principles of Life and gave
mankind the
command
to exercise dominion over
the earth. In the
creation, He made man
and woman
and herein began
administration of peace upon
a world that had
been
void, without form and was
filled with darkness.
God made
covenant with mankind from
the very beginning.
He
instructed them to care,
keep and protect the garden
and not to take of the
"tree of
knowledge of good and evil
(blessings and
curses)."
In the
administration of His
creation, God established a
legal and binding
agreement
or treaty for His
subjects. As we grasp
the significance of this
"peace
treaty" we will be able to
see the Triune God
administrating dominion
both in
heaven and earth and see
that both good and evil are
to be ruled,
and yes,
judge over His created
creation.
He made
all things to His glory and
His glory reflects His image
as He fills
all
things in heaven and earth.
Question?
What was Adam male and Adam
female to care, guard and
keep?
They were
to exercise the will of God
in the earth. God had given
them power
and a
free will to exercise His
commands. They were to
protect the perfect
relationship in daily
communion in God’s Presence.
What best
describes their care, guard
and keeping the Garden?
What
Adam—male and female—were
commanded to care (for),
guard,
and keep
was more than cultivated
ground.
The
Garden represented a
God-ordered realm entrusted
to humanity,
a place
where God’s presence, God’s
will, and human obedience
existed
in
unhindered fellowship.
Genesis
2:15
(AMP) is
especially
significant:
"The LORD
God took the man and settled
him in the Garden of Eden
to
cultivate and keep it.”
The Hebrew words deepen the
meaning. “Cultivate” (ʿābad)
carries
the sense of working,
serving, or ministering,
while “keep” (šāmar)
means
to guard,
watch over, preserve,
protect, and carefully
maintain.
Thus, Adam was not merely
the gardener of Eden;
humanity was entrusted
with
stewardship of what God had
established.
*
Guardians of God’s Divine
Order
They were to serve what God
had established, guard what
God had entrusted,
and
preserve the order God had
spoken into being. Their
dominion was never
independent authority.
It was delegated authority
exercised under God's
authority.
Genesis
1:26–28
establishes
that
they were given dominion,
but Genesis
2:16–17
establishes
the
boundary: their authority
remained
subject to the Word of God.
Genesis
1:26-28
(AMP)
26 Then
God said, “Let Us (Father,
Son, Holy Spirit) make man
in Our image,
according
to Our likeness [not
physical, but a spiritual
personality and moral
likeness]; and let them have
complete authority over the
fish of the sea,
the birds
of the air, the cattle, and
over the entire earth, and
over everything
that
creeps and crawls on the
earth.” 27 So God created
man in His own image,
in the
image and likeness of God He
created him; male and female
He
created them. 28 And God
blessed them [granting them
certain authority]
and said
to them, “Be fruitful,
multiply, and fill the
earth, and subjugate it
[putting
it under your power]; and
rule over (dominate) the
fish of the sea,
the birds
of the air, and every living
thing that moves upon the
earth.”
Genesis 2:16-17 (AMP)
16 And
the Lord God commanded the
man, saying, “You may freely
(unconditionally) eat [the
fruit] from every tree of
the garden; 17 but [only]
from the
tree of the knowledge
(recognition) of good and
evil you shall not eat,
otherwise
on the day that you eat from
it, you shall most certainly
die
[because
of your disobedience.
This makes the command to
“keep” the Garden
particularly profound.
They were
guarding not merely trees,
plants, and geographical
territory,
but the
sanctity of communion with
God and obedience to His
revealed will.
The
serpent's intrusion
therefore challenged
precisely what Adam and Eve
had been
entrusted to keep. The
fundamental failure was not
agricultural;
it was
spiritual stewardship.
Instead of guarding God's
Word against
contradiction, they
permitted another word to
challenge what God had
spoken.
There is
also an important
distinction concerning free
will!
God gave
them genuine capacity to
choose, but their freedom
was not authority
to
redefine God's will. Their
freedom gave meaningful
expression to obedience.
They
could willingly say, in
effect: “What God has spoken
shall govern what
has been
entrusted to us.”
So, we can summarize in this
way:
Adam male
and Adam female were
appointed as stewards and
guardians
of God's
divine order upon the earth.
They were to cultivate what
God had given,
guard
what God had established,
preserve the sanctity of His
Word, and exercise
delegated
dominion in continual
fellowship with His
Presence.
Their
keeping of the Garden was
therefore more than caring
for creation—
it was
faithfully maintaining
within their entrusted realm
the will, order,
and purpose of God. And that
makes Genesis
3 especially
revealing:
the first attack upon
humanity's dominion was an
attack upon God's Word—
“Has God
really said...?”
The
Garden was lost at precisely
the point where the Word
they were
commissioned to keep was no
longer guarded!
From the
beginning, Satan was a
defeated foe.
He stole
man's position of grace in
the perfect state in the
same manner
He stole
the position of grace of 1/3
of the angels of
heaven.
There was
guile (fraud, treachery,
deceit, cunning) in his
mouth in
heaven
and guile in his mouth in
the Garden. He planted the
seeds of guile
that
manifested rebellion, a
fruit of unrighteousness
(evil) and resulted in
wrath,
the judgment sentence of
death to the angels and to
mankind.
Adam and
Eve suffered both spiritual
and physical death in the
covenant
judgment
and lost the blessing of the
dominion mandate.
Since the
Lord Jesus has fulfilled all
things, we need to be
sensitive
of those
things the Bible has
declared and revealed.
How do we
learn of the things He has
revealed?
God
honors His Word above His
name doesn't He?
He honors His Son, the Word
manifested in flesh, sinless
and without guile
above
all
things!
Have
you
ever thought as to why the
Holy Spirit had the word
"guile"
penned?
1
Peter 2:22 (AMP)
22
He
was guilty of no sin,
neither was deceit (guile)
ever found on His lips.
23
When
He was reviled and insulted,
He did not revile or offer
insult in return;
[when]
He
was abused and suffered, He
made no threats [of
vengeance];
but
he
trusted [Himself and
everything] to Him Who
judges fairly.
This
declaration
enables us to clearly see
the contrast of
righteousness
to
unrighteousness. We
see the foundations built
into the New Covenant:
of the
Son of God, Jesus
Christ.
Let us
dig into our study and ask
the question: What
does Covenant reveal?
[Note:
The beauty of asking the
proper questions is that the
Holy Spirit will lead us
into the
Word of God and shine His
light upon it that we may
receive the divine nuggets!
Have you
prayed the "Lord's Prayer?
Is it
simply something you do?
Do you
pray it expecting to hear
and see God answer the
petition?
Do you
believe what you pray?
Are you
amenable to an open heaven
demonstrated on earth?
The
insights into Covenant are
golden threads that weave
through every
aspect of
God's Word. God's
Covenants are legal and
binding agreements
or
treaties. He honors His
Word! Here is an
example of God answering
the
prayer that things be done
in earth as they are in
heaven.!
As we
seek, we will find this
pattern in heaven and earth.
Both
heaven and earth are
revealed in
Covenant... Covenant
reveals:
1.
An Identification of the One
who rules...
the
King or originator of the
agreement.
2.
The historical events that
are the foundations and
purposes
for
which the covenant was
established.
3.
The conditions,
stipulations, and terms for
governance of the
agreement..
(ie.
The
guide to citizenship or
membership.)
4.
The sanctions...spells out
the warning or promise of
judgment to offenders.
5.
Succession... a system of
reconfirming the treaty upon
the death
of
the originator, the
ruler. It specifies
the provisions and
administration
(mediator) of completing the
judgments (blessings or
curses) upon the
subjects and future
generations.
Covenant
specifies the provisions and
administration (mediator) of
completing
the
judgments (blessings or
curses) upon the subjects
and future generations.
(Note:
For an in depth study of
this pattern, written in his
own unique style,
see Ray
Sutton, “That You May
Prosper: Dominion Covenant”
free download):
https://www.garynorth.com/public/6673print.cfm
The Holy
Bible is a Book about
covenants.
It is
God's written revelation of
Himself.
It was
written to reveal God's love
for mankind.
It takes
into account the principles
and actions of judgment
and His
coming to us as the
mediator, the Lord Jesus
Christ.
It is the
account of His relationship
with both the physical
church
of the
wilderness and the spiritual
church, the Body of Christ.
Without
Covenant there would be no
Biblical history.
Without
Covenant there would be no
need of Law.
Covenant
gives meaning to Law.
Without
Covenant there would be no
need for prophets.
Covenant
gives meaning to prophecy.
Question?
How does
prophecy give meaning to
God's Covenants?
Biblical
prophecy is the decree,
declaration and proclamation
for
evaluation of man's ethical
actions toward God's Word of
command
and
promises. Biblical
prophecy is not "prediction"
in the occult sense
of
"seers" such as
Nostradamus, Edgar
Cayce, and Jean Dixon.
Old
Testament Prophets were
God's legal emissaries to
Israel and the
nations
as "prosecuting attorneys"
bringing announcement of
God's
Covenant
Lawsuit against the
offenders of the Covenant.
They
decreed a judgment message
from God against the
rebellious violators.
God
administrates His wrath and
vengeance according to the
stipulations
of the
Covenant.
The Lord
Jesus told the disciples on
Mount of Olives what they
could
expect to
experience during their
lifetime in the 24th chapter
of Matthew.
He spoke
about the desolation that
would be sent to apostate
Israel.
He also
revealed the same to Apostle
John in the Book of
Revelation.
The Book
of Revelation is a prophecy
of Covenant.
It
demonstrates wrath against
apostate Israel which
irrevocably turned
away from
the Covenant in her total
rejection of Christ.
It
depicts other things we will
study in later writings.
The Book
of Revelation gives
commandments to keep.
The 1st
century saints were to heed
its instructions.
Jesus had
proclaimed to His disciples
on Mount Olive the coming
of the
Great Tribulation. The Lord
Jesus instructs John to
write and distribute
to the
seven churches what (John)
hears and sees coming upon
them
that they
may know He is alive, the
King of kings and Lord of
lords!
John
warned that the time was
near which emphasized
the
contemporary relevance of
the prophecy. He repeated
the warning
at the
end of the Book.
Revelation
22:6-7
(AMP)
6
And he [of the seven angels
further] said to me, These
statements are
reliable
(worthy
of confidence) and genuine
(true). And the Lord, the
God
of
the
spirits of the prophets, has
sent His messenger (angel)
to make
known
and
exhibit to His servants what
must
soon come to pass.
7
And behold, I am coming
speedily. Blessed (happy and
to be envied) is
he
who
observes and lays to heart
and keeps the truths of the
prophecy
(the
predictions,
consolations, and warnings)
contained in this [little]
book.
Revelation
22:10
(AMP)
10
And
he [further] told me, Do not
seal up the words of the
prophecy
of
this
book and make no secret of
them, for
the time when things are
brought
to a crisis and
the period of
their fulfillment is near.
The ancient world,
A.D. 67-70, would soon be
shook and kingdoms would
crumble
to their foundation.
First century Christians
needed the Revelation
John
wrote of what he heard, saw
and wrote of Jesus Christ on
the Throne
ruling
the nations. It was to
be a steady guide during the
period of dramatic
change
which was to come.
The end
of their known world was
coming, the "Last Days" of
the
Old World
order, the governing of the
world around the central
sanctuary
in
Jerusalem was to be
destroyed in their
generation. God had
established
a new
nation, a new priesthood, a
new humanity worshiping in
the new
sanctuary... Spiritual
Israel, New Jerusalem,
Spiritual Mt. Zion,
The New
Heaven and Earth!!
The 1st
century Christians needed
this revelation knowledge of
the Lord!
Ephesians
2:19-22
(AMP)
19
Therefore
you are no longer outsiders
(exiles, migrants, and
aliens,
excluded
from
the rights of citizens), but
you now share citizenship
with
the
saints
(God's own people,
consecrated
and
set apart for Himself);
and
you
belong to God's [own]
household.
20
You
are built upon the
foundation of the apostles
and prophets with
Christ
Jesus
Himself the chief
Cornerstone.
21
In
Him the whole structure is
joined (bound, welded)
together
harmoniously,
and
it continues to rise (grow,
increase) into a holy temple
in
the
Lord [a sanctuary dedicated,
consecrated, and sacred to
the presence
of
the
Lord].
22
In
Him [and in fellowship with
one another] you yourselves
also are being
built
up
[into this structure] with
the rest, to form a fixed
abode (dwelling place)
of
God
in (by, through) the Spirit.
1
Corinthians 3:17b (AMP)
For
the
temple of God is holy
(sacred to Him) and that
[temple] you
[the
believing
church and its individual
believers] are.
1
Corinthians 6:19 (AMP)
19
Do
you not know that your body
is the temple (the very
sanctuary) of the
Holy
Spirit
Who lives within you, Whom you
have received [as a Gift] from
God?
You
are
not your own,
The Lord of
Glory, Jesus Christ, had
ascended to the Throne of David
and
the ungodly
rulers of Israel were resisting
His authority by persecuting His
brethren. The
suffering of Christians was not
a sign that the Lord had
deserted His
followers nor abandoned the
world to the devil.
In the
contrary, their persecutions
revealed that He was the Ruling
King.
If the
Lordship of Jesus Christ was
historically meaningless, the
ungodly
would not
have had reason to pursue the
Christians. But instead,
the hate
possessed
Jewish leaders, persecuted those
who responded to the Gospel
and followed
Christ.
The Jewish
leaders continued to demonstrate
their unwillingness to
recognize
King Jesus' supremacy over their
rule.
The holocaust
of A.D. 70 was the restitution
demanded for the theft
and slaughter
of the Old Testament prophets, the
crucifixion
of the Lord Jesus
Christ
and
the New Testament
martyrs. This A.D. 70
judgment took place
40 years
after the ascension,
enthronement and outpouring
of the Holy Ghost!
The
Covenant is spelled out in
Deuteronomy 23 through 29
and in Leviticus.
You are
encouraged to read them that
they will demonstrate what
is being
written here regarding the
wrath and vengeance of
God.
The Great
Tribulation and the total
destruction of Jerusalem was
a legal
action
against violation of the
Covenant, a disclosed
judgment that
came upon
Jerusalem A.D. 67 through
A.D. 70.
Today's
church has mostly delayed
Christ's kingship also.
Many have
barred the Holy Spirit from
active participation in
their services
which
have been reduced to the
letter of the law and
man-made programs.
Many
scores of believers, trapped
as "futurists," and
"Doom Sayers"
presuppose Christ is going
to "rapture" a weak church
out of a coming
doom and
holocaust and then return
and set up an earthly
throne.
They
promote that... His kingdom
and rule is in the future
and as such it
cannot be
the victorious and powerful
church Jesus himself
proclaimed!
Matthew
16:18
(AMP)
...I
will
build My church, and the
gates of Hades (the powers
of the
infernal
region)
shall not overpower it [or
be strong to its detriment
or
hold
out against it.]
The
council of my Bible does not
preclude "rapture," future
establishment
of
another throne, nor a
defeated church. My
Bible records that
Christians
since the
1st century are to be
victorious on earth and have
had the call
to rule
and reign with the King,
Jesus Christ seated in
"heavenly places."
Ephesians
2:6-8
(AMP)
6
And He raised us up together
with Him and made us sit
down together
[giving
us
joint seating with Him] in
the heavenly sphere [by
virtue of our
being]
in
Christ Jesus (the Messiah,
the Anointed one.)
7
He did this that He might
clearly demonstrate through
the ages to come
the
immeasurable
(limitless, surpassing)
riches of His free grace
(His
unmerited
favor) in [His] kindness and
goodness of heart toward us
in
Christ
Jesus
8
For it is by free grace
(God's unmerited favor) that
you are saved
(delivered
from
judgment and made partakers
of Christ's salvation)
through
[your]
faith.
And
this
[salvation] is not of
yourselves [of your own
doing, it came
not
through
your own striving], but it
is the gift of God;
Yes! God
is Love.
God is
Faith.
God is
Good.
God is
Merciful. God is powerful!
God is
also a God of righteous
indignation when mankind
continues to
ignore
the Scriptures and deny His
Lordship and Kingship which
has been
operational for 2000+
years. God is waiting
for His people to trust in
Him
and yield
to His pattern for building
His Church and extending the
Kingdom
of Heaven
throughout the earth!
What
should we do with the
following verses?
Should we
cut them out of our Bibles?
Perhaps
we should just ignore them
if they do not fit into
our "theology."
Better
yet, let's justify their
value as nullified since we
now have the New
Covenant! Who
needs the Old
Testament? Jesus set
us free.
There is
no condemnation. I can
do what I want!
The Law
of Sin and Death is not in
force anymore.
BUT, what
about this?
Nahum
1:2-3
(AMP)
2
The Lord is a jealous God
and avenging; the Lord
avenges and He is full
of
wrath.
The Lord takes vengeance on
His adversaries and reserves
wrath
for
His
enemies.
3
The Lord is slow to anger
and great in power and will
by no means clear
the
guilty.
The Lord has His way in the
whirlwind and in the storm,
and
the
clouds
are the dust of His feet.
[Ex 34:6,7.]
His coming in the clouds
brings judgment and
deliverance in
history.
When we
understand and study God's
cloud, we see the revelation
and
demonstration of His Throne.
( the seat of all power and
authority)
He is the
King!
His
Covenant provides that He
comes to protect His people
and
destroy the wicked!
Salvation
in Jesus Christ protects us
from wrath and
fulfills
the New Covenant promises!
Phil
1:19-23
(AMP)
19
For
I am well assured and indeed
know that through your
prayers and
a
bountiful supply of the
Spirit of Jesus Christ (the
Messiah) this will turn
out
for
my preservation (for the
spiritual health and welfare
of my own soul)
and
avail
toward the saving work of
the Gospel.
20
This
is in keeping with my own
eager desire and persistent
expectation
and
hope,
that I shall not disgrace
myself nor be put to shame
in anything;
but
that
with the utmost freedom of
speech and unfailing
courage, now as
always
heretofore,
Christ (the Messiah) will be
magnified and get glory and
praise
in
this body of mine and be
boldly exalted in my person,
whether
through
(by)
life or through (by) death.
21
For
me to live is Christ [His
life in me], and to die is
gain
[the
gain
of the glory of eternity].
22
If,
however, it is to be life in
the flesh and I am to live
on here, that means
fruitful
service
for me; so I can say nothing
as to my personal preference
[I
cannot
choose],
23
But
I am hard pressed between
the two. My yearning desire
is to depart
(to
be
free of this world, to set
forth) and be with Christ,
for that is far, far better;
He
is the King!
Daniel
7:13-14
(KJV)
13
I
saw in the night visions,
and, behold, one like the
Son of man came
with
the
clouds of heaven, and came
to the Ancient of days, and
they
brought
him
near before him.
14
And
there was given him
dominion, and glory, and a
kingdom, that all
people,
nations,
and languages, should serve
him: his dominion is an
everlasting
dominion,
which shall not pass away,
and his kingdom that
which
shall
not be destroyed.
Upon His
ascension Jesus was made
King!
Within 40
years, A.D. 70, the then
known Roman world (both Jews
and Gentiles)
had been
delivered the message of the
Kingdom that Jesus was Lord
and
Christ seated on the throne
of King David.
The New
Covenant Church of Jew and
Gentile (united in Christ)
had been
established and the letters
of the apostles of New
Israel had been written.
The Lord
came in consistent manner as
depicted in the imagery of
all
writers.
He came in the Clouds as the
Edomite and Roman army to
destroy
the Old
that the New would be
established! God is the
same.
The
presence and activity of God
in the Cloud was to the
Egyptians a terrifying
omen of
their destruction, but for
the Covenant people, He was
the Comforter
and
Savior.
John was
translated into heaven that
he might write the Book of
Revelation
to be
distributed to the seven
churches and read to them
that it give the saints
and
leaders (elders) of the city
churches composed of home
allotments
receive
strength, hope and
assurance.
The
prophecy of the Revelation
was sent for encouragement
and edification
of the
persecuted church. It was a
document for the people of
God
in that
generation from their
Comforter and Savior,
(the
generation of the
eye-witness disciples.)
It was
not about missiles, atom
bombs, spaceships, World War
I,
World War
II, Iran's build up of
nuclear weapons, the
terrorist attack on
America's
World Trade Center or the
radicalized Jihadist Saudi
National's
destruction of the Twin
Towers, etc.
Hear what
the Spirit of the Lord has
to say to the Church...
Habakkuk
hears the decree of the Lord
and with poetic Old
Testament
imagery
prophesies:
Habakkuk
3:10-13
(NKJV)
10
The
mountains saw You and
trembled;
The
overflowing
of the water passed by.
The
deep
uttered its voice,
And
lifted
its hands on high.
11
The
sun and moon stood still in
their habitation;
At
the
light of Your arrows they
went,
At
the
shining of Your glittering
spear.
12
You
marched through the land in
indignation;
You
trampled
the nations in anger.
13
You
went forth for the salvation
of Your people,
For
salvation
with Your Anointed.
You
struck
the head from the house of
the wicked,
By
laying
bare from foundation to
neck.
God
proclaimed through the
prophets of the "last days"
and the "end time"
that
which was coming to His
Covenant people, the Jewish
nation.
[Note:
The Son of Man came and also
prophesied the end of the
Old Covenant with
the
coming destruction of
Herod's temple the center of
worship for all Jews.]
Matthew
24:1-2
(AMP)
24:1
JESUS
DEPARTED from the temple
area and was going on His
way
when
His
disciples came up to Him to
call His attention to the
buildings
of
the
temple and point them out to
Him.
2
But He answered them, Do you
see all these? Truly I tell
you, there will
not
be
left here one stone upon
another that will not be
thrown down.
Matthew
24:14-15
(AMP)
14
And this good news of the
kingdom (the Gospel) will be
preached
throughout
the
whole world as a testimony
to all the nations, and then
will
come
the end.
15
So
when you see the appalling
sacrilege [the abomination
that
astonishes
and
makes desolate], spoken of
by the prophet Daniel,
standing
in
the Holy Place- -
let
the
reader take notice and
ponder and consider and heed
[this]--
[Dan
9:27;
11:31; 12:11.]
Matthew
24:32-34
(AMP)
32
From
the fig tree learn this
lesson: as soon as its young
shoots
become
soft
and tender and it puts out
its leaves, you know of a
surety
that
summer
is near.
33
So
also when you see these
signs, all taken together,
coming to pass,
you
may
know of a surety that He is
near, at the very doors.
34
Truly
I tell you, this generation
(the whole multitude of
people living
at
the
same time, in a definite,
given period) will not pass
away till all these
things
taken
together take place.
Yes, God
is Love.
God is
Faith.
God is
Good.
God is
Merciful.
The Lord
Jesus came in the clouds to
protect His Church!
God is
powerful in His judgments.
God's
Covenant agreements are Yes!
and Amen (so be it!)
Luke
11:9-10
(AMP)
9
So I say to you, Ask and
keep on asking and it shall
be given you;
seek
and
keep on seeking and you
shall find; knock and keep
on knocking
and
the
door shall be opened to you.
10
For
everyone who asks and keeps
on asking receives; and he
who seeks
and
keeps
on seeking finds; and to him
who knocks and keeps on
knocking,
the
door
shall be opened
May you be encouraged to
continue to seek the nuggets
of divine inspiration:
Light of
Truth
Light of
Life
Light of
the Spirit
May God richly bless and
keep you!
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