I am reminded of 70 who walked off the "scene" when Jesus challenged
them to hear His audibly spoken words and receive what He was conveying in the spiritual.  Most definitely they were listening
with their intellectual mind and not the mind of the Spirit. 

The message of the Gospel is changeless.

In fact, all the participants and their activities are hidden from view and only the works of God are depicted.
Oh, you see the ark that Noah built!  Yes, and it was made available by God.  The vision and the pattern was given to man from God. God spoke the words to describe the very specifics for building including the smallest of details.
 
In this age of the New Covenant, Jesus cares, tends to and protects the Ark
which comprises the Church of Jesus Christ. We are to see and experience the acts of our Heavenly Father on earth as we travel the stormy seas!
We see His Divine Covenants portrayed by the workings of the Holy Spirit!
Where the gifts of the Spirit and especially the miraculous Gifts are
not sought, the church cannot walk in supernatural power.
Our charge is to walk by faith, not by sight. 
The church was given the details as to how God's Kingdom of Light would be built on the earth and given demonstration of His patterns for building the church through the acts of the apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors  and teachers. The Church is not about physical buildings, it is about the spiritual temple of God. 
We are the temple of God.
Again, one's future is decided by who one has chosen to believe...
Jesus was sent to demonstrate the presence of Heaven on the earth!
There are those who do not believe that Jesus is the Son of God.
Another painting was presented on the Revelation of Light  webpage of
City of Lights website relating to the power of the Ark of Christ.  It depicts Jesus with the disciples crossing the sea of Galilee as a temptest storm suddenly appeared.  Please, take a moment to view it.
Then return here...for the scriptural account:
 
On the same day, when evening had come, He said to them, "Let us cross over to the other side."
36 Now when they had left the multitude, they took Him along in the boat as He was. And other little boats were also with Him.
37 And a great windstorm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that it was already filling.
38 But He was in the stern, asleep on a pillow. And they awoke Him and said to Him,"Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?"
39 Then He arose and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace, be still!" And the wind ceased and there was a great calm.
40 But He said to them, "Why are you so fearful? How is it that you have no faith?"
41 And they feared exceedingly, and said to one another, "Who can this be, that even the wind and the sea obey Him!"
Mark 5:1
Then they came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gadarenes.

At this writing, the painting below also depicts the prophetic hour in which we live.
The church as represented by arks in both of the paintings on this page is going through troubled waters.  Just as the 1st century church found itself immersed in great persecution and complexities, the 21st century church will experience a total shaking and temptest storm through which it will transverse victoriously!  The tempest wind will cease at Christ's command and there will be peace resulting from supernatural changes in all things.
• The Church.
• Salvation of the Lost.
• Human Destiny.
• Political Government and Authority
• Wealth of the Nations.

Only those who rely on, cling to and follow the will of the Father
through the leading Light of the Son of God as the Holy Spirit guides will
emerge through the spiritual storm!  We are to be overcomers; victorious!
Watch for the same dynamics to work in the physical world as well...
For insight into the severity of the spiritual warfare ahead, be alert to watch for the Newsletters of the Prophetic Voice Newsletter sent to your email inbox.. 
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A special newsletter #3 and audio downloads have been prepared titled:
God works through a threefold witness.
We cannot address each of the Covenants seen symbolically in the
three paintings we have referenced for now.  As you gaze upon them, please begin thinking about the impressions you receive as the Holy Ghost makes
the Living Word stir within your hearts and minds. 
The impressions may be revelation that could be shared with others through a variety of forms of communication...such as emails, blogs, and forums.

Perhaps, you came to this page because you declared within your heart
that you identified with Jeremiah and had fire burning in your bones.  
not be straight, will not be on calm seas, nor will it occur immediately
from the time that God initiates wind within you by the stirring of the
Holy Ghost!
The perceptions may be right, but immature applications send the wrong message.     Let us view some of these spiritual principles...

God set the stage with Adam.  He created him, set him in a vast Garden
of Paradise and instructed him to work. 
Adam was given the likeness and image of God and was instructed
to have dominion over the earth. 
 At the age of twelve, Jesus is recorded as saying that he was active
about His Father's business... 
God has given each of us a kingdom... it is best described as "self." 
We can exercise dominion through our free will.
God told him to
1.  Tend,
2.  Guard and
3. Keep the Garden. 
(grab hold of these 3rd dimensional principles...they are not of intellect, or muscle... they are of the power of the seed of the Spirit and will play out in situation after situation from this day forth in our lives through eternity).
Jesus said He would never leave or forsake us and that He would complete that which He began in us.  We are promised eternal perfection!  
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God's Garden today is the Church both corporate and individual. 
Like Adam, few will work within it in an obscure way. 
Adam and Eve's perception changed after their act of disobedience. 
God asked for an accounting of Adam (having already read his mind and heart).   Adam was hiding. He had lost the vision of God.  He found himself naked and hiding among the trees.  His nakedness was due to his disobedience.  Adam and Eve were exposed and ashamed of their nakedness.  Sin had already placed the mark of the beast, "antichrist," on them.  Did you receive the rhema Word?
Rhema (ρημα) Greek ; an utterance (indiv., collect. or spec.); by implication a matter or 'topic' (esp. of narration, command or dispute).
Sin blinds us to our nakedness in being unclothed to the
principles of God.  The Bible tells us that Adam and Eve's eyes of understanding were opened and they were aware of their nakedness.
They were aware of their Sin.  They knew they were disobedient.
They knew there was a consequence for God had told them so.

Yet God, in the fullness of His love for man, poured out the blood of two animals and placed the covering of the sacrifices over Adam and Eve's flesh.
Their acts of sin equate to fleshly acts. God was merciful to them.

Daily God had covered them with His spiritual presence.

Opening our eyes and hearts to recognize we need clothed in God's
righteous living is the work of the Holy Spirit.
This work is an act of Divine Judgment!  Judgment has two powers. 
One works in regard to righteousness and the other works in regard
to unrighteousness.
 For we also were once thoughtless and senseless, obstinate and disobedient, deluded and misled; [we too were once] slaves to all sorts
of cravings and pleasures, wasting our days in malice and jealousy
and envy, hateful (hated, detestable) and hating one another.
4 But when the goodness and loving-kindness of God our Savior to man
[as man] appeared,
5 He saved us, not because of any works of righteousness that we had done, but because of His own pity and mercy, by [the] cleansing [bath] of the new birth (regeneration) and renewing of the Holy Spirit,
6 Which He poured out [so] richly upon us through Jesus Christ our Savior.
7[And He did it in order] that we might be justified by His grace
(by His favor, wholly undeserved), [that we might be acknowledged and counted as conformed to the divine will in purpose, thought, and action],
and that we might become heirs of eternal life according to [our] hope. 

Adam had lost the vision that God had given him through the Word of Knowledge.  God spoke forth the plan for Adam in very clear instructions.
Godly Visions come packaged in various sizes, shapes, and dynamics. 
They are from the throne room!  Some are released in the dreams of the night.  Some are daylight open visions.  Some are reality interactive
spiritual experiences.  They always testify of the work of God.
Then comes the progression formula: Pray...Plan...Prepare...Pursue.
Return with me to the above painting of Noah's Ark.
Can you see the Nature of God portrayed...

• Many would question His nature of kindness when considering that Adam was sent out of the Garden.  Adam's actions resulted in Death and Curse upon the earth.

• Many would question how a loving God could flood the earth and drown all of mankind with the exception of eight souls. 

His kindness, love and mercy are holy and serious attributes!
He brings all things that submit to him into the image of Christ Jesus.
God is an eternal God and we do not see into the ages ahead of what
He has prepared for us.  On the City of Lights website is testament after testament as to the kindness and mercies of God!


Noah worked for 120 years in light to build the Ark.  God gave Noah a command to work! He told him to build an Ark.  God did not give Noah
an army to gather materials and construct the Ark.   There were eight.
Don't you know that Noah spent most of his time in the forest gathering supplies and provisions? Don't you know that Noah was out of sight
on the inside of the Ark building strength into the vessel?  
God is a practical God and as such He is not a respecter to persons
when it comes to seeking Him for direction. He is not a respecter
of persons with His love given as a gift of His Son for our sins. 
He invites all to come to the Light of His grace!
Whoever will come to Him through the Gospel of Christ, whoever will
obey His commands and whoever will seek Him is welcome to work
in the Ark... the church!  He has throughout His recorded Word shown
us His ways and His expectations of us.        
To work is a divine attribute in all that God has established.
It requires faith and commitment to work.  God's grace is upon work.
He is not focused on our works for our own righteous benefits, but upon divine work accomplished through His Son and the works of the Holy Spirit in us that establishes His righteousness in the "new creation."
He has provided all things and working in this life on earth is expected of us.
Here is God's formula to seal the "ark," the church, from without and within:
8 For once you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk
as children of Light [lead the lives of those native-born to the Light].
9 For the fruit (the effect, the product) of the Light or the Spirit [consists]
in every form of kindly goodness, uprightness of heart, and trueness of life.
10 And try to learn [in your experience] what is pleasing to the Lord
[let your lives be constant proofs of what is most acceptable to Him].
11 Take no part in and have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds and enterprises of darkness, but instead [let your lives be so in contrast as to]  expose and reprove and convict them.
12 For it is a shame even to speak of or mention the things that
[such people] practice in secret.
13 But when anything is exposed and reproved by the light, it is made
visible and clear; and where everything is visible and clear there is light.
14 Therefore He says, Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine (make day dawn) upon you and give you light.
15 Look carefully then how you walk! Live purposefully and worthily and
accurately, not as the unwise and witless, but as wise (sensible, intelligent people),

Walking in the Light requires that we learn the principles of Light and that
we then take the actions we have been instructed.  To learn the principles
we must have exposure and practice exercising the spiritual Gifts of the
Spirit and the spiritual Fruit of the Spirit.
The mature fruit produced through exercising are the products :
kindly goodness, uprightness of heart and trueness of life!

To walk in any job, or profession requires knowledge, understanding  and application.   God has given us the physical world that we may comprehend and also apprehend the spiritual realm!
How much heart, soul, and time go into prayer, the study of the Word and exercise of its principles in the Body of Christ?
God told Noah that He was going to flood the earth and to tell all that would hear of the coming judgment.  Noah preached repentance!
Father God has not rescinded His divine message of repentance. 
Do you hear the sound of repentance on our airways and in our churches preached today?   It is an unpopular message!  We can hear all about Love, Faith and Prosperity because it is popular and we can entertain the quest
of men's appetites with these messages.

Are these the message of the Gospel or are these the messages of discipleship?

Oh, but Brother Ron, we are exercising the move of the Spirit and we have gone on... leaving the foundational teachings behind like Apostle Paul instructed in
1 THEREFORE LET us go on and get past the elementary stage in the teachings and doctrine of Christ (the Messiah), advancing steadily toward the completeness and perfection that belong to spiritual maturity.
Let us not again be laying the foundation of repentance and abandonment
of dead works (dead formalism) and of the faith [by which you turned]
 to God,
2 With teachings about purifying, the laying on of hands, the resurrection from the dead, and eternal judgment and punishment.
[These are all matters of which you should have been fully aware long,
long ago.]
3 If indeed God permits, we will [now] proceed [to advanced teaching].
4 For it is impossible [to restore and bring again to repentance] those
who have been once for all enlightened, who have consciously tasted
the heavenly gift and have become sharers of the Holy Spirit,
5 And have felt how good the Word of God is and the mighty powers
of the age and world to come,
6 If they then deviate from the faith and turn away from their allegiance--
[it is impossible] to bring them back to repentance, for (because, while,
as long as) they nail upon the cross the Son of God afresh
[as far as they are concerned] and are holding [Him] up to contempt and shame and public disgrace.
7 For the soil which has drunk the rain that repeatedly falls upon it and
produces vegetation useful to those for whose benefit it is cultivated partakes of a blessing from God.
8 But if [that same soil] persistently bears thorns and thistles,
it is considered worthless and near to being cursed, whose end
is to be burned. [Gen 3:17,18.]
9 Even though we speak this way, yet in your case, beloved, we are now firmly convinced of better things that are near to salvation
and accompany it.
10 For God is not unrighteous to forget or overlook your labor and the love
which you have shown for His name's sake in ministering to the needs
of the saints (His own consecrated people), as you still do.
11 But we do [strongly and earnestly] desire for each of you to show the same diligence and sincerity [all the way through] in realizing and enjoying the full assurance and development of [your] hope until the end,
12 In order that you may not grow disinterested and become [spiritual] sluggards, but imitators, behaving as do those who through faith
(by their leaning of the entire personality on God in Christ in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness) and by practice
of patient endurance and waiting are [now] inheriting the promises.  AMP
Noah's acts of righteous work and righteous preaching saved Noah and his family!  Noah practiced what he preached! 
God has a Plan for each of our lives.  It is called Divine Destiny.
Our Father has made it known what to expect when we engage in a life
of moral deeds and righteous acts.  Our destiny is to walk in Righteousness...conformity to the divine Will and Purposes of God.
He has provided great rewards of Life in His eternal Light.. today as well as from eon to eon. (age to age)

25 My praise shall be of You in the great congregation. I will pay to Him my vows [made in the time of trouble] before them who fear (revere and worship) Him.
26 The poor and afflicted shall eat and be satisfied; they shall praise the Lord--they who [diligently] seek for, inquire of and for Him, and require Him [as their greatest need].  May your hearts be quickened now and forever!
27 All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord, and all the families of the nations shall bow down and worship before You,
28 For the kingship and the kingdom are the Lord's, and
29 All the mighty ones upon earth shall eat [in thanksgiving] and worship;
all they that go down to the dust shall bow before Him, even he who cannot keep himself alive.
30 Posterity shall serve Him; they shall tell of the Lord to the next generation.
31 They shall come and shall declare His righteousness to a people yet to be born--that He has done it [that it is finished]! 
30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.  


If you have requested the Prophetic Voice Newsletter...
a study has been prepared on the topic of suffering and grief.
Within this study is a series of proofs that Jesus is alive and describes both His physical and spiritual body as recorded in the Bible!
 
Adam received a threefold positive (Light of Life) command from God and then received one (Holy Darkness) command.
1.  Tend
2.  Guard
3.  Keep
4.  Do not eat
 
The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil; also rendered as "The Tree of Knowledge of Blessing and Calamity" from the original Hebrew.
 
Adam chose the negative.  He chose to enter the realm of the "Mystery of Darkness."  He chose what seemingly was the pleasurable route for the day.
Adam was not enlightened to the powers embodied within God's Tree
of Knowledge of Blessing and Calamity until his disobedience.
There was a "protective darkness" God had hidden His secrets and mysteries of knowledge within.  It requires the Light of Truth to unveil
that which is contained in the realm of Darkness.   Once Adam and Eve had eaten of the spirit of disobedience,  their nakedness of sin was revealed. 
God is supreme in both Holy Light and Holy Darkness. 
Satan functions in a "perversion of darkness." 
His rule is confined to darkness of evil: to kill, steal and destroy through
evil spiritual applications in the lives of mankind.
6 That men may know from the east and the rising of the sun and from the west and the setting of the sun that there is no God besides Me. I am the Lord, and no one else [is He].
7 I form the light and create darkness, I make peace [national well-being]
and I create [physical]  evil (calamity); I am the Lord, Who does all these things.

Recall that two spiritual powers were contained within the Tree of Knowledge of Blessing and Calamity. Blessing releases increase.
Calamity releases  decrease.  The earth is subject to the Laws
of the Universe.  Blessing and calamity are powers released through these Laws.  There shall always be the law Seedtime and Harvest as long as the earth remains.
Adam ate of a spiritual fruit that produced after its own kind. 
The "eating" or action sown was that of disobedience.  
God separated His Holy light from the darkness of unrighteousness...evil.
We see it everyday. It is in the daily example of man's inhumanity to man.
It is in the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world.
Evil does not exist unto itself.  Evil is simply the absence of God.
Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart.   It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat
or the darkness that comes when there is no light."
  He separated the Light commands from the darkness of disobedience command which aborted man's access to the power principles of the Light commands:
 judgment with curses, calamity and evil replaced the "good seed" of the commands of Light.  Recall in Genesis 1:3-4 that Light is the first Command of God!  The Holy Spirit hovered upon the void without form! 
God brought form (Order) forth as the creation when He spoke by decree!  
He brought those things hoped for and not seen through declaration and exercise of faith into physical substance;

Adam came from lifeless resources. Without the protection and cover of Light, Adam was destined to return to the dust from which he was formed. 
It was the 'breath' of the Spirit of Life that made Adam to be quickened
into the Light of Life... a living being.
Sin is the act that separates the Light of Life from man... 
Righteousness, the commandment of Light, provides Life 
(being in right standing with God renewed of spirit and alive forever
in the abiding Light of God ).
For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life  Prov 6:23 KJV
He that keepeth the commandment keepeth his own soul; but he that despiseth his ways shall die. Prov 19:16 KJV

God did not conceal the spiritual realities of His Light commands from Adam.  He told him that the day that he ate of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, he would surely die.  Adam male and female instantly died to
the Light of God.   They found themselves naked without the covering and favor of God.   The act of disobedience and the act of making their own covering  were the first two acts of humanism... taking actions by the
senses, intellect and designs of man.  Humanism creates that which is pleasurable and wanton to the eye and the senses.  It exercises its own restraints based upon its presupposed goals to fulfill its self determined
objectives.  Humanism knows no boundaries in care, tending or protecting
life.  It exists to support its ever changing rules in quest of dominion power.

The sacrifice of blood is demonstrated in sealing God's Covenants.
God prophetically demonstrated His will and His ways for the covering
of man's sins when He sacrificed the life giving blood of two animals
for covering Adam and Eve.  The two coverings are representative of
1. the Law of animal sacrifice given to the physical nation of Israel
for covering their sins;
2. and the Lamb sacrifice of Jesus Christ
for covering the sins of the spiritual nation of Israel the spiritual church.


Two represents both division and unity.

Adam and Eve's covering is a "type" and "shadow" of the Covenant that God would establish through Abraham the "father of a multitude."
All nation's would be blessed through a blood Covenant.
God demonstrated His Covenant through the miracle birth of Isaac
and later through the provision of a sacrificial lamb.
Through Isaac's son, Jacob (Israel), God established His natural nation
of priests and kings. These are a peculiar people who by blood sacrificial offerings received covering of sins by God.
 
Eve's covering symbolically represented the Covenant God would
establish as the Church... the mother of all life. 
She represents the maternal church in which the miracle birth of the eternal spiritual "new creation" is manifested.  Jesus, the second Adam also born
by miracle, is given as the blood sacrifice to cover the sins of all mankind
past, present and future. God established His spiritual nation of priests
and kings through this supreme blood sacrifice of His Son once and for all.
The spiritual nation (Spiritual Israel) are a peculiar people who by spiritual sacrificial offerings of thanksgiving and praises receive eternal life covering by God.

They entered spiritual darkness the moment they disobeyed God's command of light and life. Several hundreds of years later, Adam also died
in the physical realm and his life substances returned to their original source...the dust of the earth.   Man was cut off from the covering of Light.
He entered a life of darkness without the presence of God to assist him.
Darkness is referenced 159 times in the Holy Word of God. 
The darkness that causes spiritual disobedience is separated from the
Light and Life.  Acts of obedience... Life, Truth and Spirit are Light.  
In these there is no shadow.  A shadow is darkness. 
Darkness is always separated from the light!  
Life, Truth and Spirit are multi-dimensional and have multiple spiritual applications in Light's domain.

There is "darkness." which is an unholy darkness. 
It is one of deception, destruction and death. 
Satan presented "perverted" aspects of the Tree of  Knowledge of Good
and Evil.   He came as an "angel of light" concealed in "wicked darkness."
The fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was presented by Satan as being Pleasant to the Eye and Good for which to Take Possession.
He "painted" an image of deception; a perverted perception of good and power.  His cunning presentation appealed to Eve's human sensual nature.
Satan presented a humanistic lifestyle to Adam and Eve. 
Every aspect of his conversation guised as a serpent focused the conversation upon elevating self.  
The underlying spiritual principle was Pride. It was the same spirit that caused Lucifer and a third of the angels of heaven to be cast out.
Note that God is consistent with how He handles disobedience to the rules
of the Light of Truth, Light of Life and Life of the Spirit. 
He casts it away, separates it from the Light...Separates it from His Presence!

God has set an eternity of darkness for those who will not recognize the
provisions He has made of Light through His Word and Spirit.
He is not going to remember them.  They shall never experience Light, His presence again... eternally.
  
Did you know your future is decided by who you have chosen to believe?
We have just examined the faithful actions of God in regard to his
command of darkness.  Do you better understand how faith works?
Faith is contained in the '"seed" of the Word.  It is governed by Law.
God is the Law maker.  He tends, guards and keeps His Universal
Law of Seedtime and Harvest.  Do you better understand how faith works?
Let me help you...  faith works through One Word!   "Obedience"

(We will do a complete study of the human sensual nature as presented by the Word. 
These webpages are dynamically changed and as such we encourage you
to frequently check the Website Directory and review the posted pages.)
Eve rationalized the benefits presented by the Serpent, (Satan)
as good to eat from the Tree of Good and Evil.  She acted upon the lies.
In believing Satan, she discounted the power of the Truth of God's Word.
Adam had told her what God had instructed him about the only tree in the Garden that was not to be used for food.   God had invited Adam and Eve
to eat of the Tree of Life! 
And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, You may freely eat of every tree of the garden;
17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and blessing and calamity you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.

Jesus is the Tree of Life!  The spiritual implications here are that the Lord Jesus addressed spiritual food to 70 disciples.
They were to eat of His flesh, "Bread of Life..His Word,"

What we feed our spirit minds upon is what determines the actions
that we choose to take.  Who we chose to believe determines our future...
our destiny!  We are to take of both the Bread and the Wine..
We are to discern the spirits and feed only upon the Lamb of God
(spiritual meat/truth) while walking by the Spirit and worshipping God
in the Spirit of Holiness!

We must be spiritually discerning of the cunning "darkness" that comes
to deceive and conquer us.  Only God's Light of the Word and
His Holy Spirit have given us spiritual discernment to recognize and
expose dark acts of evil and wickedness. 

What fruit are you looking to possess and feed upon?  

       ▪Are you available to assist in a vision of God that has the power and
        purpose to reach and destroy the works of darkness in the lives of men?
       ▪Are you accessible to go through troubled waters?   
       ▪Are you willing to walk where others will not go?
God is a Living God of mobility!  Nothing Happens until Something Moves!
(Look for your copy...the spiritual audio message
When God moves, the heavens and the earth are shaken! 
Mankind has such little conception...

The third Person of the Godhead, the precious Holy Ghost, works in a three dimensional power to bring Wisdom of Light regarding the Kingdom of God. 
He is Spirit and His acts are spirit!  We receive from God by Spirit and Truth. 
He enlightens! He illuminates! He reveals!  His work is not done through
conventional intellectualism.  He declares, discloses, transmits, and transforms spiritual understanding!
Read the account when "God Moves," Book of Job and his three friends. 
Then, read about David, Gideon, Moses, Noah, Enoch, Elijah, Elisha, Isaiah,
Ezekiel, Daniel, Jeremiah, Paul and the list goes on... 
Noah was the first man to receive a threefold witness of God's Master Plan for his life!  As with Adam, the first of God's Witness to Noah came in the
form of a Divine Command. God is a Holy God.  He is the God of Light!
God cannot reward evil's darkness.  Remember the recording of the most 
glorious cheribum in Heaven. 
Lucifer turned his attention upon his personal glory.  You know the rest...
As you pursue the righteous actions leading to "your" ministry destiny,
God will bless His people!  The blessings will come through the "works"
of your hands and the Word released through your mouth. 
God has given you spiritual weapons in your mouth and in both of your hands!    Destiny for each of us and millions of others are in our possessions!
By [speaking] the word of truth, in the power of God, with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand [to attack] and for the left hand [to defend];
BLESSED BE the Lord, my Rock and my keen and firm Strength, Who teaches my hands to war and my fingers to fight--

We are soldiers and defenders of the Truth, Life and Spirit of God!
What can we do to serve the Lord to reach those who have heard the message of salvation but are not living within...
What can we do to serve the Lord to reach those who have not as yet
heard the apostolic message of the Good News?   
The answer: Work in unity of purpose for these Divine appointments.
The Ark was to bring blessings to the future generations of God's creation. 
The Ark provided safety, security and Divine cover during a time when God's Universal Judgment was administrated to a world steeped in the darkness
of wickedness and sin. 
  (note; the study of the ARK is a glorious deep and wide revelation of God's Son, David's Greater Son.  It is a rich treasure filled with the Plan of God for mankind!)  Universal judgment is still waging war against the darkness
of wickedness and sin.  The church is the instrument of the Ark of salvation for those who will enter in and partake of the Goodness of God!

God's second Witness to Noah was His Divine Promise that He would not again send a flood or deluge to destroy all wicked life upon earth. 
Do you ever ask why there is so much wickedness on the earth today?
Jesus reveals God's Plan for Man in regard to this matter. 
God has preserved fire for the next round of Universal Judgment.
Fire is in the earth today!  As the winnowing fan, the person, Holy Ghost
whom Jesus promised to send to lead and guide mankind into the Kingdom of God is being poured out upon flesh around the world! 
We must learn to understand the spiritual applications of the Word.
Every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is the ruling
The Father has declared it!  He has made the way through His Son!
Note: God told Noah He would not again use a flood to destroy wicked
sinful mankind.  He did not say that he was changing His plan for the Ages. 
In fact, God is totally committed to a people full of Joy in His Spirit living
in the Covenant of Righteousness..  He personally appended His message
to mankind on Rock... His first witness: the 10 Commandments!
 
God showed Himself in the Glory of the Clouds... 
Jesus ascended in the clouds of Glory
and comes in the clouds of Judgment. 
The bow was a sign... 
God would never again destroy the Earth by a flood.
 

John answered them all by saying, I baptize you with water;
but He Who is mightier than I is coming,  the strap of Whose sandals I am
not fit to unfasten.  He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire. 
His winnowing shovel (fork) is in His hand to thoroughly clear and cleanse His [threshing] floor and to gather the wheat and store it in His granary,
but the chaff He will burn with fire that cannot be extinguished. 
So with many other [various] appeals and admonitions
He preached the Good News (the Gospel) to the people. 

 
   His purpose:

• Convict the world
• Convince the world
• Demonstrate to the world

His message:

• About sin
• About Righteousness
• About Judgment

His ministry:

• He will guide you into all Truth...Jesus and the Father are one in unity  of purpose, thought and action.
  
• He will tell you whatever He hears from the Father.
  
• He will declare to you the things that are to come {what will happen in the future}.
  

  HE IS THE THIRD PERSON OF THE GODHEAD!    THE THIRD DIMENSION!

The Ark of Jesus Christ provides safety for us today and each day eternally. 
It provides great rewards of blessing and enrichment while we work in our divine schedule God has appointed to each of us on earth.

Prior to God's Great Universal flood in Noah's day,
God has some things He wants us to do in faith. 
He has some new things in store for those who come together to work in unity on His behalf.  He has some signs, wonders and miracles He wants to work through us!
The Star of Bethlehem of Judea was a sign that God's Son had come to earth. Thirty years later, Jesus proclaimed the Good News of the Day of the Lord  fulfilled.   The promise of the Messiah was standing in front of them!
In various places and different manners, God has appointed some in the church [for His own use]: first apostles,  (special messengers); second prophet (inspired preachers and expounders); third teachers; then wonder workers; then those with ability to heal the sick; helpers; administrators;
This time we are speaking in spiritual language about these spiritual truths. 
Some deny the power described in this scripture of 1 Corinthians 12:28.  
It is only because of ignorance and lack of zeal to study the Word of God
in the presence of the Holy Spirit that one would deny God's provisions.
  It is one of those "religious things."  
The men of Noah's day were curious. 
They were drawn to see what Noah was doing.
The Good News of salvation through repentance and God's free Gift of Grace
through His Son, Jesus Christ, has been being preached for 2000 years!  There is no other message! 
The Light of Truth states that when we lift up the Name of Jesus...

God let Noah tell the people of His imminent Judgment. 
They chose to ignore, they scoffed, they mocked, they blasphemed Noah. 
They took no heed to his warnings and his preaching of righteousness.
The bible records only eight people who worked on the massive task of building the Ark for God's creatures.  This is a physical look at what God had in mind centuries ahead!  The account of Noah figuratively demonstrates what God had planned for the future through His Son!
Jesus would become the Ark...the mode of safety, assurance and Life!

God has a Plan for His ministry...  the Ark is taking on workers.
 
Spiritually, Jesus put it three dimensionally this way... 
First, we are to die to the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eye. 
Secondly, we are to pick up our cross daily which is evident in the tests, trials, and tribulations in our time on earth. 
Thirdly, we are to follow Him. 
In Him is Light, Life and Spirit.
No one comes to the Father of lights but through the Son. 
His Name is above all Names and all power in heaven and earth are His. 
Father God has declared that every knee shall bow to the Glory that is sealed
in the Name of Jesus. 
Those who will not receive the command of Father God shall be judged for their rebellion. 
Rebellion is as witchcraft...wickedness and evil.  It is sin. 
Judgment has already be pronounced on sin. 
The penalty is death.  
It is the eternal death. 
Father God's perfecting Light not only promises the coming Judgment,
but also performs the Judgment, as a Witness of His hatred for sinful wickedness.
David prophesied this very time, season and message in Psalm 125.

We see a Holy God in all of His Love and Mercy towards mankind in Jesus Christ.  God carries out His Government of Light in separating darkness
from His rule:
(1) in Adam's disobedience,
(2) in the forty day flood of the earth,
(3) in the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD,
(4) in the messages delivered by Jesus regarding Eternal Judgments!
 
God is loving and kind toward us, He is also very serious about our taking Him serious!
Jesus said that when the Spirit of the Lord comes
He will convict, convince and demonstrate to the world the same message.
All is operational today! The Holy Ghost was sent 2000 years ago!

The message of the Gospel is about Father's Heart regarding:

•  the Light of Righteousness
  
•  the Darkness of sin
  
•  the Judgment of Blessing or Curse which is accessed by God's creation based upon the choices one makes.

Watch for God to release bountiful blessings into the lives of those who are living in Christ.  Watch for the same magnitude of physical calamity to be manifest upon the earth as a witness to mankind that Father God through
His Son is the Sovereign King of all things!  Just look around you!
The [Holy] Spirit and the bride (the church, the true Christians) say, Come! And let him who is listening say, Come! And let everyone come who is thirsty [who is painfully conscious of his need of those things by which the soul is refreshed, supported, and strengthened]; and whoever [earnestly] desires to do it, let him come, take, appropriate, and drink the water of Life without cost. [Isa 55:1.]


In His service...
       Ambassador of Christ,