The Ark Is Revealed

10.14.2008

To Noah, Moses, David, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Jesus and His disciples, the glory of God was more than tangible and substantial to their own person. When the heavenly or eternal pattern of God’s government or reign was unlocked through their spiritual vision, vaguely or clearly, with the veil or without, they found the passion and zeal that God has instilled in them finally being fulfilled in the full measure and their hope and desire rested in a right place-the sovereignty and ultimate power of God, even the salvation for their people, which is the land God had given them.

The glory of Gad desires to tabernacle in the dedicated (consecrated or called-out) hearts of His own. “They will be my people and I will be their God.” The Spirit comes like a flood to float the ark of our souls and transfer us to the new land (the land of the living) of our spirit. The ark serves two purposes: deliver us out of the world of corruption and into the Promised Land of the Kingdom. Here lies the work of the Spirit of Elijah and the spirit of the Son. Repentance by the baptism of water is to introduce the repentance by the Baptism of Fire, and the testimonies (water, blood, and spirit) will then be three in one, which is the glory of Father and of the Son come to revealed in us and tabernacle in us by the service of the Holy Spirit.

Drawn out or called out as we are in Christ Jesus is the first purpose of the ark, or the footstool of God. Yet it is through the Son of man that Heaven is open and angels descend and ascend. This is to be established in the righteousness of the Kingdom of God by abiding in the order of the Father’s household and yielding to government of the Son. The seed sown in this image will produce the pattern for this tabernacle, even have the glory of God fill all in all-attain to His divine nature or likeness. Now the harvest has come; now we come to the throne of His dwelling place and sit down.

Wilderness, where God will prosper His own is dawning to His true wife, even the barren woman. But the son will be snatched up. Here implies two streams of the dealings of God in time of the greatest conflict between the saints and the devil. There will be marriage after a while, for the barren woman is to marry her sons. Niomi will have a son. Her joy is coming. Esther is to rise up. And this is a picture of what the true Bride will do simultaneously in a time like this-things happen in the palace is to pair with what is going on outside of the wall of the royal ground.

God’s house will be shaken. Yet it is to be done by the faithful ones who possess the fear and the zeal of the Lord. Unenlightened men tell us how God is to shake His house, as if to be done through the instrumentality of the world under the sway of the devil. No, it will not be so. It will be done by God’s fierce ones with pure zeal and relentless obedience. Jesus had to make his own whip to chase the money changers out. The Levites had to pick up the sword to kill their own kinsman as Moses told them to choose side. Phinehas had to thrust with his spear the one who brought more shame to the humiliated. Joshua had to have Achan sorted out and stoned. Peter had to rebuke the lying couple and decree death to them. All these serve as examples of how God will cleanse up His house.

The flood has come and who can stand it? If we can’t even stand in water, how are we to stand in the fire?

Pray for mercy and now be endowed with His glory. Only these will provision us to stand in the time to come. Lord, have mercy upon us! And shower us with the dew of your glory. Tabernacle in us!

by ladynada
October 12, 2008 6:29 am EST

Nationwide across the United States, a Leave Raking Awareness Push has started in communities feeling the pressures of the FALL SEASON. In Early October, no one should be SURPRISED that an urgency surrounds the growing threat of leave suspension, that visits us every year at this time. Why is the “Fall of 2008″ so different?

Talks of Harvest aside, the aging population of Baby Boomers scattered across the united states of america are hard pressed to either rake their leaves themselves or pay to hire landscapers to do the tedious job for them. In the meantime, it is quite apparent, even this early on in October, that many homeowners will opt to “WAIT IT OUT” until all the leavings have SETTLED and then make the FINAL DECISION.

The threat of the leaves carried on the WINDS of CHANGE from other surrounding dwellings is just too great to sacrifice and the pay cost of removalS during the onslaught. With the secret machinations of these homeowners in mind, a great PUSH has swelled up to raise awareness among the YOUNG PEOPLE of the united states of america, to come to the FOUR, and STAND in the GAP.

This Leave Raking Awareness Push will not only solve the problems facing homeowners nationwide, but will also prepare those same people for the ripple effects of the Economic Crisis. By Enlisting the aid of younger able bodied and available teenagers and adults in your community, your town will be able to develop an enhanced social net of acquaintances and Caring.

The process by which each community must mobilize to effect the infrastructure necessary for children and young adults to meet after school and be counseled trained and equipped to then embark under adult supervision to lawn assignments throughout the neighborhood, would create linkages among social groups in towns that are necessary to have a disciplined response to economic hardships that may arise. Plus, we get all our lawns raked!

The resulting social network would re-constitute the people of the united states of america to a first name, everyone is my neighbor basis.

The Children would be the unifying factor and multiplier.

HOW TO DO CREATE A LEAVE RAKING AWARENESS PUSH in your AREA

Please, first come up with as many ideas as you can on your own. All I can really do is offer some ideas that have come to me here.

First of all, just sharing the IDEA of it, is enough to know that it can and will result in the NETwork being created. The reason is that the idea is so easy to implement on any scale.

Combining Money remuneration into your program can initially be the key. As you gather more people who like the idea and want to see it happen, devise ways to raise money from all areas of your city: households, businesses, churches, govts, everyone donate to a FUND from which to PAY the children for raking the lawns.

To see this part happen, you must blanket your city with advertisement of the idea through those same groups including your local newspapers. Do not forget to inform civil servants and Police, Fire Hospital and Ambulance peoples. Print up flyers about the IDEA and setup a date and time and a meeting at a civil meeting place, like town hall or high school… then set up more meetings to discuss the next week at more local places… as the idea spreads.. the kids will love it

for the next two months the kids can earn money and get to know their neighborhood. Adults who like to volunteer can chaperone work groups who can work the same area. Local residents can meet their neighbors kids and their neighbors.

At meetings, people can discuss the economic situation’s impact on their city, and kids are present too… so more open discussions will take place and more ideas will come up to prepare or help with problems as they arise.

so… thats enough… as you can see this can spread very easily as little or as much as your desire to see it happen in your city..

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Latest Benjamin Fulford Article-9-29-8

By Benjamin Fulford
9-29-8

The United States is about to go bankrupt. What happens next depends on the American people. We could either have World War 3 accompanied by genocide or World Peace followed by an era of unprecedented prosperity.

The situation in the US depends largely on whether the white hats in the Pentagon and the alphabet soup of government agencies take down the financial oligarchs. The important thing for them to realize is that the financial system you have lived in was nothing but a giant mirage designed to blind the American people from reality. Now that the financial system is collapsing, you will realize that you still have your factories, your military might, your land, your know-how and your people. All you need is to put your best minds at work to come up with a new system controlled by the people and not by a secret inter-married clan of Satan worshippers. You will realize that you have been enslaved in your own land by a parasitical financial class. These people got their hands on the dollar printing machine back in 1913. They then used a combination of bribes, murder and propaganda to slowly, slowly capture the once free people of America.

The people of the rest of the world will provide the people of America with generous financing to rebuild their schools, their infrastructure, their factories etc. as soon as you have freed yourself of the Satanists. The Pentagon and the military industrial complex will also be generously funded and offered a chance to become the core of a world army in charge of defending the planet and exploring the universe.

If the American people do not act, the Satanists will use their army of Blackwater mercenaries to put at least a million free-thinking Americans into concentration death camps. They will then install a horrific totalitarian slave state that will attempt to kill as many people as possible throughout the planet. They have been preparing a secret army in giant underground bases complete with suppressed technology capabilities such as anti-gravity and the control of vast amounts of primeval energy.

A source in the British Royal Family tells me the fiscal year end of your secret government is September 30th. He says a financial “black hole” will be evident on October 5th. The reason, he says, is that the European branch of the Western secret government, as well as governments throughout the world, have been robbed by the Bush/Clinton/Rockefeller clan of Satan worshipping Nazis. They have told them to pay up or be cut off from the rest of the world financial system. Of course, they cannot pay up because they have been spending all that money on project blue-beam, a planned fake Armageddon . The Rothschilds, whose real name is Bauer, are also a nasty bunch and their system in Europe may also implode, and if so, good riddance. However, it is important at this point to offer an amnesty to all members of the secret government who pledge to work for world peace and against the planned nightmare scenario. That might even mean plugging your noses and agreeing to work with the nuclear loving, tree-hugging fake CO2 global warming crowd. If we isolate the truly nasty Thule Society and Skull and Bones Nazis from the rest of the secret government, then a war scenario becomes increasingly unlikely.

The American people also need to install an interim government to replace the Bush regime and dismantle the Zionist propaganda machine before holding free and fair elections. That will mean replacing the puppet-actors McCain and Obama with real candidates. The members of the Senate and House who received Zionist bribes will also have to resign an appear before a truth committee.

Once the American people are free, a cornucopia of SF-like wondrous technology that has been kept in the hands of the secret government will be made available to humanity as a whole. Multiple US government sources tell me these technologies include free energy, warp-speed space travel, star-gate portals and more. As long as humanity ends its war-like ways and stops it ceaseless tribal warfare, it will enter an era so wonderful that nothing before, except perhaps the Cambrian explosion, will compare.

Americans now hold the future of humanity in their hands. What will it be: death and horror or freedom in a new golden age? What happens in the next few weeks will determine what happens over the next several billion years. We will either be allowed to expand exponentially out into the universe or we will be once again reduced to a primitive miserable state locked on the surface of a tiny vulnerable planet.

People of America, the eyes of the world are now on you.

Benjamin Fulford

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Enter In Through The Door

Enter In Through The Door
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-Susan Cummings

7-03-08

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7-03-08

Blessed is the man … in whose heart are the highways to ZION

(via HEARTDAUGHTER.COM - The Two Witnesses - Elijah and The Daughter of Zion)

Blessed is the man … in whose heart are the highways to ZION

Posted: 4:18 PM Tue Feb 27, 2007 Post subject: VISION DURING WORSHIP by Christine Beadsworth 2/27

Vision during worship on Sunday 25th
Christine Beadsworth
Feb 27 2007 04:18AM

Precious saints, this vision has remained with me very strongly since Sunday and so I feel i need to share it with you:
Vision During Worship 25/02/2007
As we were singing about the holy words that have been passed down to us, I became aware of the great price paid by those who have gone before us. Many saints of centuries gone by have laid down their lives so that the gospel could continue to be passed on from generation to generation. Then a verse in psalm 84 came to me:

Blessed is the man whose strength is in You; in whose heart are the highways to Zion.

Then I saw before me a white road and walking along it were many people dressed in white. The road ascended and stopped at a certain point. Ahead of it was a city glowing with the glory of God, descending out of heaven, just as it describes in Revelations. I saw that each person had a piece of a road-map in their hearts. When each person came to the place where the road ended, he or she would lay themselves down and as they did so, they became part of the road. The map piece in their heart showed the way for the next step of the journey towards Zion. Those who came after them were able to further than they had gone because of the life that had been laid down.

We have heard much about alignment in recent days. In essence, alignment is spoken of by Paul. Alignment was the desire of his heart also. He said:

Phi 3:10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death;

What Paul desired to be aligned to was the death of Christ because he understood that unless he laid down his life, resurrection power would never be manifested in him. We so much desire to see the glory of God manifested in and through the Church and yet somehow we fail to see that it requires a grain of wheat to fall to the ground and die before a harvest can be reaped.
We pray for the kingdom of God to come. This kingdom is a kingdom of Love and its King demonstrated that love by laying down His life. ‘Greater love has no man than this; that a man lay down his life for his friends’. For the highway to Zion to be complete, it requires us to walk in the footsteps of those who have gone before us; that great cloud of witnesses that even now are cheering us on towards the finish post. Just as they were willing to lose their lives in order to find them, so too, we must answer the call to lay down our lives, that the part of the journey we carry in our hearts may become the solid foundation upon which those who come after us can rest their full weight as they press on to take hold of that for which Christ took hold of them.

After the scene of this white road I saw the Bridegroom turn to the Bride, holding out to her an ancient silver goblet and He said, “are you willing to drink of the cup?”. I knew that a wedding ceremony was taking place and that this was the part where the couple shared the covenantal cup of wine together. Yet at the same time, the Spirit took me to Gethsemane and the struggle of Jesus in that place and I knew that this question the Bridegroom was asking His Beloved referred to the same cup He had drunk for her. Would she be willing to lay down her life for Him? As the answer came in the form of many separate voices from all over blending into one, I saw a crown descending onto the head of a king and the verse from Song of Solomon came to my ears:

Son 3:11 Go forth, O daughters of Zion, and behold King Solomon with the crown with which his mother crowned him on his wedding day, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.

I understood that the Bride, the crown of her Husband, was being set in place because she had answered ‘yes’. She was joining all those members of the Bride who had formed the highway to Zion in previous generations by laying down their lives. This was the day of the Bridegroom’s gladness of heart. Then the white road was completed.

Psa 84:7 They go from strength to strength, until each appears before God in Zion.

The message of the gospel of Jesus Christ is filled with power and carries a ring of authenticity only when it is communicated by a dead messenger!

As never before, the cry of the Spirit in the earth is for those who profess to be of Christ to lay aside their own plans, put to death their own ambitions in the Kingdom and to truly surrender and be willing for God to work His will in them. The life charter by which we steer our course must be ‘not my will, but Yours be done’. We are to be vessels in the Master’s hand, releasing the revelation of our hearts at His command and not doing anything according to our own desire and ambition in the Kingdom. God calls us to die that we may bring forth a harvest. He does not call us to self-realisation. If that is what you are striving for, you are answering the trumpet-call from a different kingdom, the kingdom of self!

The part of the roadmap you carry in your heart is necessary to complete the road to Zion but will never become part of it unless you fully surrender - God requires you to WHOLLY set-apart for Him and HOLY set-apart for Him. We are entering a time when there will be many literal martyrs for Christ but we will never be fully prepared to lose our earthly lives for Him unless we have learnt to die daily right where we are. For those who are dead in Christ, resurrection life will be a hallmark of their life and ministry.
Just as a bride loses her own last name and takes that of her husband, so too, we must be willing to be hidden in Christ, seeking no glory or recognition for ourselves but dying daily, that the power of Christ may rest upon us and so that those who look to the Church for direction as they stand at the crossroads, may see a clear signpost showing them the narrow way to Life.
Selah

Christine
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Way of the Refiner’s Fire - Audio message on the Fire of God

Transcript of Audio message on the Fire of God
Christine Beadsworth
May 16, 2008

Transcript of Audio message on the Way of the Refiner’s Fire

Beloved saints

I believe the message the Lord laid on my heart last week has relevance, even for those who have nothing to do with the current outpouring in Lakeland, Florida. It is a message for the whole Body in this season. May the Holy Spirit add revelation and confirmation to His Word:

I have so much burning in my heart concerning the present position of the Body of Christ and what the Spirit is doing in these days. There is much debate about the Florida outpouring and whether it is of God or whether it isn’t. Some are running with it and saying it is wonderful. Others are standing on the outside looking in and are declaring this is the false move of God with false signs and wonders that will sweep the earth before the coming of the Lord. I just have such a sense that God is coming; He is coming as He said He would in Malachi 3 as a Refiner’s fire and a fullers soap and it is time for judgment to begin with the house of God and therefore He comes as a refiners fire in order to deal with the dross and impurity in His Church.

His motivation is to purify; His motivation is to bring the Church to a state of holiness, set-apart for His purposes; He wants to remove the mixture; He wants to remove all areas of infection and He’s dealing with the whole Body at this time. It breaks my heart as I see two camps in the Church and He keeps reminding of the story when the woman caught in the act of adultery was brought before Jesus by the Pharisees – and to me this speaks of the Church; and yes, the Church is the woman caught in the act of adultery; she has gone after other lovers; she has gone into idolatry; she has gone into spiritual harlotry and in many cases has joined herself to doctrines that are unclean. She has had many husbands and slept with many other men other than the Man, Jesus Christ. She has been caught in the act of adultery. However, there is ONE Body and what we tend to forget is that the Pharisees standing pointing fingers and saying ‘let the judgment of God come upon her’ are actually part of the same Body – for there is ONE Body and there is one Spirit and there is one Lord.

Therefore, as Jesus gazed upon this woman caught in the act of adultery and then bent down and wrote in the sand and pronounced His judgment, "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone!", that judgment was the word like a refiner’s fire which spoke to the heart of the Pharisee. It cause him to see that the finger pointing at the woman was also the finger pointing back at himself because he knew if he was honest about the state of his own heart, that he was not without sin. So I really feel that this is the heart of Jesus for the Church at this present time. Concerning the Florida outpouring, many stand and say ‘there is mixture and this is harlotry and there are strange spirits involved here’. Perhaps this is true or perhaps we are Pharisees looking around the log that is in our own eye at the speck that is in our brother’s eye.

Jesus said that we must not judge before the appointed time when He makes manifest the counsels of men’s hearts and as He releases that word - ‘let him who is without sin cast the first stone’ - over the Body of Christ at this time, He is working; that word is working as a refiner’s fire and a fuller’s soap in the hearts of ALL His people – in the hearts of the Pharisee who points his finger from the outside, having pulled away from this adulterous Church and seeing himself as separate from her and holier than her and more righteous than her and more spiritually mature and in fact, on the right track! That word of fire begins to work in the heart of the Pharisee and it also begins to work in the woman caught in the act of adultery, because she knows as she stands before the face of Him who is the light of the world, that she is guilty. She sees and knows that she is an adulteress and when Jesus says to her eventually, "woman, where are your accusers?" she replies that there are none. His only word to her is not a word of accusation because Jesus does not speak for the accuser of the brethren. Jesus is the faithful High Priest.

The sound that comes forth from the mouth of Jesus is the sound of the Blood, which speaks a better word than the blood of Abel. The sound of the Blood is the sound of mercy which triumphs over judgment and I really believe that God is wanting to deal with His Body concerning the fingers that we have pointed at one another and the judgments we have passed upon one another – because we have judged before the appointed time; we have judged our brothers who we consider less spiritually accurate; we have judged other sectors of the Body whom we have considered – according to our limited judgment and our limited eyesight – to be spiritually inaccurate, without knowing the counsels of their hearts. Only God knows the counsels of men’s hearts and as this anointing of fire comes upon each member of the Body of Christ in this season, it causes us to become aware of the dross in our own hearts for God is dealing with the judgments which we have dealt toward other members of the Body of Christ – and He says that in the same measure that you have measured unto others, will it be measured unto you. Now, why is that? Because we point at the speck in our brother’s eye, not realizing that we have a much larger portion of the same substance – and therefore in that measure that we have judged others, God says "you yourselves are guilty of the same thing". Just as He said to people, "You who say ‘do not commit adultery’ – do you look after a woman to lust after her, because if so, then you have already committed the crime in your heart." So He is dealing with deep foundational motivations of the heart and the secret thoughts of the heart that other men are not aware of.

He is dealing with all self-righteousness and the pharisaical spirit that has masqueraded in the Body of Christ as spirituality. He is dealing with the accuser of the brethren who has been walking around, undetected, in the midst of the Body of Christ, accusing the brethren before the throne of God day and night. He is dealing with the pointing finger and He is dealing with the religious spirit that has masqueraded as a spirit of discernment in this day. He is dealing with the critical spirit because God’s desire is for His Body to be One and when we separate ourselves from other members of the Body because we appear to discern that they are less spiritual or less accurate or less godly than us; when we separate from them because we feel they are spiritually inferior or spiritually deceived, there are many times when we have operated in a critical spirit and not a true spirit of discernment because we do not know the counsels of men’s hearts.

So God is coming to unmask and undo the stronghold of the enemy that has been in the midst of the Body of Christ which has caused many to be weak and sick and some to fall asleep. Paul says in 1 Corinthians that this happens because we have not correctly discerned the Body of Christ and in this day Jesus is coming to deal with His whole Church concerning this very thing. Do we not realize that when we point fingers at other parts of the Body of Christ and other members of the Body, that we are actually not discerning correctly that we are part of the same Body and passing judgment upon the very Body of which we are a part? This breaks the heart of the Father that the accuser of the brethren should be masquerading in our midst as a prophetic voice or a spirit of discernment. The Word says that no man hates his own body but tenderly cares for it and cherishes it – yet sometimes we act in hatred and judgment towards the Body which is part of us.

I feel very strongly that the Church is at that place where Joshua was when he had just crossed into the Promised Land and the Angel of the Lord appeared to him. His first question, as he surveyed the stronghold of Jericho, was "are you for us or them?" The Angel of the Lord said, "Neither! I have come on the business of the Lord of Hosts". I just want to say that in this time, for all those who have an ‘us and them ‘ mentality; those who say we are the ones who have the spiritual revelation and THEY are the ones who don’t, THEY are the ones who need to repent, THEY are the ones who need to rightly align, the Spirit of the Lord says that He is not on our side or their side – He is coming to the whole Body of Christ as One who carries out the purposes of the Lord of Hosts – and that is to purify the priests that we may once again offer offerings in righteousness before the throne of God. He doesn’t want us to be a voice for the accuser of the brethren any longer.

So we really need to realize that we must be very careful of the judgments that we pass in these days, concerning the move of God in the earth and what God is doing – because God is beginning to make manifest the counsels of men’s hearts; out of the abundance of our hearts we are speaking and for some of us, it isn’t sounding good! There needs to come a holy fear of the Lord upon the Church at this time; a fear of God that will not speak and call unholy what God has called holy. We must be very careful about judging what we believe to be manifestations of the flesh. The Word calls us to judge ourselves that we may not be judged so it is really time to go into our own chambers and allow the Spirit of the Lord and the refiner’s fire to work in our own hearts – for that is the only area at this time where we are qualified and released to deal.

In just the same way as the people of Israel were commanded to march around Jericho in silence for six days; with only the sound of the shofars, which is the sound of the Blood, God is saying to His people, be careful of passing judgment in these days, put your finger upon your lips and hear the sound of the Blood – for God is not an ‘us or them’ God, He is a God who is mighty on behalf of His Body, which is ONE Body. We must realize that the people of God are both those who are marching around the outside of the stronghold and they are also those within the stronghold of Jericho – for it was out of Jericho that Rahab, the harlot, came. The harlot church within the stronghold is the one which God wants to bring forth Christ through. Rahab is in the bloodline of Jesus because God does not look on the outward appearance but He looks on the heart and so He placed a harlot in the bloodline of Christ in preference to a Pharisee. So be very careful to judge and call something unclean in these days. Set a guard before your lips and allow the refining fire to do its work in you, because we are men of unclean lips and we dwell amongst a people of unclean lips and we ALL need a coal from off the altar to remove our iniquity. There are none among us who are without sin and therefore we are not qualified to cast any stones.

As those people marched around Jericho for six days, God said that He wanted nothing of the structure of Jericho to remain – it was to be burned with fire. Only the vessels of gold and silver were holy unto the Lord. "They are mine" He said and in the same way, God’s vessels of gold and silver that are within the harlot system are the ones through whom the manifestation of Christ shall come forth from in the coming days. So let us not march around the outside of Jericho and judge the harlot church and consider ourselves to be the people of God , in the manner the Pharisees would, pointing fingers at the woman caught in the act of adultery but rather let us be silent –and let the sound of the Blood be heard over the whole Church. Jericho was a city of palms, which represent the corporate Bride. It was surrounded by many palm trees and there was a high walled city in the middle – yes, there is a stronghold of the accuser of the brethren and uncleanness and idolatry within the church in these days but God, the Refiners Fire, is well-able to purify His Church and just as in the days of Joshua, He is well-able to magnify the sound of the Blood seven times; to let it be heard in its completeness and its fullness in these days. He is well-able to remove the walls separating the people of God outside and those trapped inside. He is well-able to remove the dividing walls between Rahab and the people of God marching round outside.

So there is a serious dealing and a circumcision of the heart in these days and He comes to His lukewarm church and says ‘those whom I dearly love, I rebuke and tell their faults that they may be burning with zeal and repent’. So it is a time to stop our accusations against other portions of the Body of Christ and remember that we are One Body and perhaps we do not perceive accurately. So let us be silent and allow the Blood to be sounded over us - for those shofars not only sounded over the people inside Jericho, they also sounded over the people marching round the outside. They sounded in order to bring together and cleanse all the necessary parts to bring forth Christ in the earth. It is not only Rahab and Jericho that needs the sound of the Blood but it is us, it is the whole Body, which is fragmented and divided, which needs the sound of the Blood in this day. The voice of the Blood speaks mercy which triumphs over judgment. The voice of the Blood says ‘Father, forgive then, for they know not what they do’. It is that same voice of the Blood which sounded over the woman caught in the act of adultery, when Jesus said ‘go and sin no more’. It is the same as ‘Father forgive them, they know not what they do – she doesn’t know what she has been doing’. So we must allow a cleansing of our hearts in these days so that the sound that comes forth from our mouths speaks a better word than the blood of Abel – for the blood of Abel calls for justice and delights in judgment but the blood of Christ calls for mercy.

We must come to a place of fully understanding that there is One Body and although we have mistakenly perceived that some parts are more spiritually in tune than others, it may be that we do not see as God sees. Within the stronghold of the harlot church there are vessels of gold and silver and it is God’s desire for those who are to manifest Christ in the earth to be delivered out of the stronghold. It was not God’s desire for Rahab to be destroyed because He understood the ultimate purpose that would come forth out of the joining of that which was inside the stronghold and that which was outside; that in His eyes they were one Body.

So we must be very careful in these days that we do not become a voice that broadcasts on behalf of the accuser of the brethren. In Revelation 12 it speaks of a manchild being brought forth and the dragon waiting to devour the child as soon as it is brought forth – the dragon releases a flood to destroy the woman who flees to the wilderness and we have the potential to be a receptacle which receives and helps to pour out the flood of words of accusation intended to destroy the Church. We can become a tool in the hand of the accuser of the brethren – this is not the desire of the Father. It is a very sober time – it is a time to walk in the fear of God; it is a time to wash our garments and to wash our hearts in the Blood of the Lamb and to be very circumspect in the judgments we release in these days – we may not be seeing accurately; we may be looking past the log in our own eye.

If you remember when Moses went up Mount Sinai and the Israelites were waiting at the bottom and they got tired of waiting for a word from God and fashioned the golden calf to worship. They were cavorting around it and Moses came down from the mountain and was very angry. He cast the golden calf into the fire and ground the molten gold to a powder and caused the people to drink it with water – this too is the place where the Body of Christ is in these days because we have also fashioned a god after our own imagination and understanding and gone into idolatry. This is a time where God is going to be burning the golden calf in our midst with fire and there is going to be a separating and a cleansing.

In Malachi 3 it says that after He comes as a refiner’s fire, then He will judge the adulterer and all who have lived in an impure manner but it is not for us to pass these judgments. The great schisms in the Body of Christ have been caused by the prevalence of the religious spirit within the Church, spiritual pride and the ‘us and them’ mentality; the spirit that says that WE are more spiritual than others; the spirit that prays ‘oh God, thank you that I am not like other men, I am fulfilling all Your requirements, not like this poor sinner next to me!" So my prayer for the Body of Christ at this time is that we would put a guard before our mouths while the refiners fire does its work; that we would have a fresh revelation of the message of the Blood of Jesus and the heart of the Father that didn’t send Jesus into the world to condemn it but that through Him they might be saved. Let our heart’s cry be for the Body of Christ ‘Father, forgive them, they don’t know what they do’, and more than that, ‘Father forgive us for we have not known what we have been doing’. Let us be like that Pharisee that realizes he cannot cast any stones.

I just want to end with a prayer: Father, thank you for your perfect work in coming to help us prepare as a Bride. May Your refiner’s fire do a sure work in each of us. I pray for salve for our eyes that we may truly see. I ask for fresh revelation that there is One Body – may we no longer curse one another and whip one another with our words of judgment and our pseudo-spiritual discernment. May we understand that when we think we see something ugly in our brother it is only because You are trying to show us something we must deal with in ourselves. May we truly operate in the Spirit of Christ. May the sound of the Blood be heard in such volume and such measure that the walls dividing your Body may come down and that Rahab would be knit with the rest of the Body and that out of this mighty work of fire, You would bring forth vessels of gold and silver that carry within them the dna for the manifestation of Christ – that the world may see Jesus, amen.

By Pastor Lucas Sherraden, Houston, TX

email: pastor@greatwood.org

July 02, 2002

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Bio: Lucas Sherraden is a pastor in the Houston, Texas area. His local fellowship is a part of Graham Cooke’s apostolic network and in relationship with James Avenue Church in Ft. Worth. They are also are in relationship with IHOP-KC.

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There is a baptism of fire coming to the church. This new move of God’s Spirit will clarify for many a new dimension of what the fire of God is. Unlike a painful and dreaded event, this outpouring will reflect a Bridegroom’s heart of love for His Bride.

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THE FIRE FOR GOD’S LOVE FROM HIS THRONE

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I saw a river of fire that came from the throne of God. The origination point of this mighty river was the very heart of God. Then I realized that the -fire- of God wasn’t just his judgment, justice, vengeance, anger toward sin - it was primarily His love and passion. The current of this river was raging. It was obvious that if anyone were to step into the river even a little - they would be instantly swept away by the strength of the current.

As I noticed people around the river looking at it, talking about it, nervously laughing at the speed of its current, I saw Jesus come behind people and begin throwing them into the fire. He was doing this like it was fun for Him. He was laughing and was filled with joy. However, some people screamed with terror and fought it. They tried to resist and began to pray rebuking the Lord not realizing that all the time it really was the Lord. They reasoned - -this cannot be God- - -God would never do this.- Yet the Lord still threw them in.

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JESUS ACTUALLY HELD THEM UNDER

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Others reluctantly submitted and yet others were willing and ready to go. As they entered the river, Jesus went into the river and actually held them under! For the ones that resisted and fought the Lord - this was extremely difficult and hard. It went against their idea of who Jesus was. Some submitted and yet others left the river to go back to shore. When the returned to shore - they began to do exactly what they had been doing prior to Jesus throwing them in. They were content to watch the river rush by and not be in the river.

I began to understand that Jesus was baptizing individuals with fire as John the Baptist had prophesied. This baptism of fire will be a total immersion in a river of fire, which is God’s intense passion for His people. This baptism purifies because the inner heart desires of God’s people will change as we drown in the river of fire. I noticed that as Jesus held people under and they quit struggling, things began to float off of the person and to the surface of the river. As it surfaced - it burned away instantly. This was old, sinful, carnal desires floating to the surface of the river of passion as God submerges us deeper into it. As sin came off - Jesus pushed people further down.

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CONSUMED WITH A DESIRE FOR THE FIRE

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Then I noticed that the people who were going deeper began to change. They were consumed with a desire for this fire instead of what used to thrill them. The -love of Christ will constrain us- was their motto. His love became compelling in a much deeper way. When this baptism is released, God’s people will be surrounded and buried in the intensity of His passion. Everywhere we turn, everywhere we look, everywhere we are - we will see, experience and feel the fire of God’s passion for us.

We will be undone. His fire will overwhelm the church not in a judgment of wrath - but in passion of love.

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APOSTOLIC DEMONSTRATIONS

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When God releases the fullness of this baptism, it will result in an ongoing outbreak of apostolic demonstrations of God’s power in signs and wonders. The miraculous and the supernatural will become normal in many churches. -Church- will not be what we have come to experience and know.

This next move is unprecedented. I noticed that many in this fire became quite powerful with signs and wonders accompanying their lives. It was as if the miraculous couldn’t be helped. There were even -accidental- miracles happening because the anointing was so strong.

The most powerful demonstrations of God’s power did not happen when God’s people gathered for meetings (and there were powerful demonstrations in each meeting) - but it happened when those immersed in fire went out to the world. Miracles happened to the lost. I saw neighborhoods gathering in front of houses where someone everyone knew had just been healed of terrible diseases. I saw people in the workplace stop their workday because someone was healed right on the job. Hospitals saw regular healings as nurses and doctors who were baptized in fire would lay hands on patients and the patient’s problems would go away. The greatest expressions of church happened unexpectedly and in unpredictable places.

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NOW IS THE TIME TO HEAR HIS VOICE AND OBEY

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I felt the Lord telling me that now is the time to commit to and rest in hearing God’s voice and immediately and unquestioningly obeying all that we hear. We are to learn to rest in obedience or we will turn back to what used to be anointed. Learning this lesson now will prevent us from falling back into the familiar. Without this baptism, we would rest on the obedience of yesterday and with what we have believed to be right in the past.

But being immersed in the passion of God will burn away this routine. Those who left the river did this. They returned to the version of Christianity they were familiar with. The enemy and a religious spirit hate this move of God and will be at work trying to distract people back into Christianity as usual. But many in the church will not be like Lot’s wife and look back. They will press ahead!

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FASCINATED WITH JESUS, NOT THE WORKS

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The outbreak of signs and wonders will result in a newfound fascination with Jesus. Very few will be fascinated only with the marvelous works done in the church. The names of the people who worked miracles will hardly be remembered. They will only remember the name of Jesus. Right now people become fascinated with places, ministries and individuals who carry authority in the Spirit. People flock to locations where there is a move of God because they are so hungry for the Lord.

But after this baptism, we will not be awestruck with where God’s hand is at work because we are mesmerized with Him. It is only at His feet where we will be at home. God’s jealousy will be satisfied. As this move of God was unleashed and with every miraculous demonstration - people became totally overwhelmed with the character and nature of God - they saw His beauty.

He will have a Bride that is only enamored by Him and not where He is at work. This move of the Spirit will remove the heart of Gomer from His Bride (Hos. 1:3-8).

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SPIRITUAL FIDELITY WILL BE RESTORED

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Spiritual fidelity will be restored. I saw church leaders and Christians who were on the trading block selling themselves to many things. Church growth was a fascination and it became harlotry. Effective ministry and techniques that led to life transformation were fascinations and leaders were selling themselves to be more effective.

After the river of fire experience - spiritual adultery burned away for many. The heart of Gomer was one of the things that surfaced in the river of fire. No more will those in leadership be fascinated and consumed with a primary desire to reach more people and to minister more effectively because they will be consumed with the love God has for them. In turn - as they were consumed and the fire surfaced this heart - more people came and ministry was more effective.

Because of the signs and wonders and miracles, people became obsessed and consumed only with the Bridegroom. No longer was the church driven by success in ministry, comfort, or a few momentary highs in the Spirit. Our desire will be nothing other than to dwell in intimacy with the Lord.

He will be our only reward.

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I just read the following links today, Tuesday, May 13, 2008, and I will wait for more confirmation from the Lord; however I must post this information NOW.

Raputre 6-7-8 Biblical Proofs

Excerpts only! please go to that link to read the entire study and proofings from the Bible. Below are excerpts SKIPPING sections of text. GO READ THE LINK!

F.M. Riley (10 May 2008)
“So Simple! The Time of the Lord’s Coming”

For the enlightenment and benefit of our readers, a literal word for word rendering of Habakkuk 2:2-3 follows exactly as it is worded in the Hebrew text of the Bible,

2 And answered me Jehovah and said, Write the vision, and engrave it on the tablets, so that he may run who is reading it.

3 For still the vision is for the appointed festival, but it pants to the end, and does

not lie. Though it hesitates, wait for it; for surely it will come; it will not tarry.

Please compare this literal rendering with the wording recorded in the King James Bible. Notice the words “appointed time” in the KJV. These words are translated from the Hebrew word, “mowadah.” This Hebrew word literally means “appointed festival.” See Gesenius Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon, page 457, Strong’s No. 4150.

The Three Festivals

Folks, while there were seven Jewish Holy Days given to Israel by the Lord in Leviticus 23, only three of them were “festivals.” This is clearly stated in Exodus 23:14-17, 34:23, Deuteronomy 16:16, and 2 Chronicles 8:13, where all three of the festivals are explicitly named. These three mandatory festivals were “the feast of unleavened bread,” which began the day following Passover [Exodus 12:1-27; Leviticus 23:5-14…8 days], “the feast of harvest” [or weeks], which is known today as Pentecost [Leviticus 23:15-21…1 day], and “the feast of ingathering,” which is also called the Feast of Tabernacles [Leviticus 23:34-43…8 days]. It is then on one of these three mandatory Jewish festivals that the Lord Jesus Christ is coming back to resurrect and rapture His people to glory. But which one?

Only Two

As the Lord moved me last Saturday night to restudy Leviticus 23, I suddenly realized that only two of the three mandatory Jewish Festivals foreshadow the resurrection and rapture of God’s people. Wow! Amazing! This is so simple I have stumbled right over it for years.

The first Jewish Festival having anything to do with the resurrection and rapture of God’s people is “the feast of unleavened bread,” during the course of which a “wave offering” of the “firstfruits” of the barley harvest is presented to the Lord. This feast marks the beginning of the barley harvest in the land of Israel.

The only other Jewish Festival having anything to do with the resurrection and rapture of God’s people is “the feast of harvest” on which a second “wave offering” was presented to the Lord. Today this Jewish Festival is known as “Pentecost.” The Jewish Festival of Pentecost marks the ending of the barley harvest in the land of Israel. Only these two Jewish Festivals foreshadow the resurrection and rapture of God’s people.

The Fulfillment of Firstfruits

If you are a true Bible believer then you know that just as the Israelites sacrificed a lamb on that first Passover [and each Passover thereafter], so 1,517 years later the Lord Jesus Christ, “the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world,” John 1:29, was sacrificed on Passover in 30 A.D.

Three days and three nights after Christ was crucified, just as the 17th day of Abib ended and the 18th day began, “on the morrow after the sabbath” following the Passover, the Lord Jesus Christ came forth from the tomb, triumphant over death, hell, and the grave, Matthew 28:1; Mark 16:1-6; Luke 24:1-7; John 20. Glory to God! Hallelujah! Praise the Lord!

Now here is where the events really get interesting. For on that same first day of the week, “the morrow after the sabbath,” the Scriptures state, “many bodies of the saints which slept arose, And came out of the graves after His resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many,” Matthew 28:52-53. Folks, these were the “firstfruits” [plural] of the resurrection, which included Christ Himself, 1 Corinthians 15:20, all of which were foreshadowed by the “omer” of barley. Glory to God! Praise the Lord! Hallelujah! But let’s put it all together.

Now let’s look at the other Jewish Festival…..

The Festival of Harvest

This Jewish Festival is known today as “Pentecost.” It is referred to in the Scriptures as “the feast of harvest,” Exodus 23:16, and also as “the feast of weeks,” Exodus 34:22; Deuteronomy 16:10; 16:16; 2 Chronicles 8:13. It is the only other Jewish Festival during the course of the Jewish year where a “wave offering” taken from the barley harvest was presented to the Lord. Didn’t we just see that the “wave offering” of the barley foreshadowed the resurrection and rapture of Christ and the “firstfruits” of God’s people? Then what do you think the second “wave offering” of barley foreshadows? Well..??

The instructions for the observance of Pentecost are recorded in Leviticus 23:15-21. The word “Pentecost” simply means “fifty.” This is because the “wave offering” on Pentecost came fifty days after the “firstfruits” wave offering on “the morrow after the sabbath” following Passover. Both “wave offerings” were regarded as “firstfruits” to the Lord, Leviticus 23:17; 23:20. .

On this “appointed festival” two loaves of barley bread were to be brought “out of your habitations” [homes] to the priest, Leviticus 23:17. The priest would take these two loaves of barley bread into the Tabernacle [or Temple], and standing before the veil would “wave” them before the Lord, just as he had “waved” the “omer” of barley 50 days previously.

These two loaves of barley bread then served two purposes.

First, they signified the end of the barley harvest which had been harvested over the past 50 days. Note this well!

Second, just as the “waving” of the “omer” of barley clearly foreshadowed the resurrection and rapture of the Lord Jesus Christ and the saints who came out of their graves after His resurrection, so the “waving” of these two barley loaves foreshadows the resurrection and rapture of God’s people [true believers] saved during this present Dispensation of Grace. Folks, the barley harvest is a type of the Dispensation of Grace. Just as the two barley loaves “waved before the Lord” at Pentecost signified the end of the barley harvest, so they also foreshadowed the end of “the fullness of the Gentiles” [Romans 11:25], and therefore the resurrection and rapture of “the dead in Christ” and “the living in Christ.” There are your two loaves! See John 11:25-26 and 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18.

Now notice that the Lord’s disciples came on the scene (at woman at the well) and urged the Lord to eat. The Lord’s reply in John 4:34-36 is so enlightening.

“…..My meat [food] is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work.

Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh the harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.

And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both He that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.”

Folks, Christ Himself is the “sower” who began sowing the seed at the beginning of the harvest season. He said so Himself in Matthew 13:37. He is also the “reaper” who brings the harvest to an end. That is exactly what He is stating in John 4:34. He is the One who will “finish the work” that He began. Praise the Lord!

But when is the work to be finished? Folks, it is exactly four months between the Festival of Pentecost and the Festival of Tabernacles. Count it for yourself. So it is obvious that the Lord met the Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well on the day of Pentecost. Folks, the Festival of Tabernacles is the celebration of all the completed harvests [barley…wheat…grape] at the end of the year. But there, on the day of Pentecost, the Lord explicitly told His disciples, “DO NOT SAY…..There are yet four months, and then cometh the harvest….” The Lord told His disciples the harvest was ready right then and was being reaped that day. What day? The day of Pentecost!

Folks, the Lord is coming to resurrect and rapture His New Testament saints to glory at the end of the barley harvest on the day of Pentecost. Glory! Praise the Lord! Hallelujah!

The Significance

Folks, the Day of Pentecost this year falls June 8th, however it actually begins at sundown on June 7th in Israel. What are the significance of these dates?

On June 7, 1967 the Holy Temple Mount and the city of Jerusalem were returned to their rightful owners during the Six Day War. That is the “date” when the tender branch of the fig tree put forth leaves, Matthew 24:32. The Lord Himself said, “So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors,” Matthew 24:33. June 7, 1967 is the “date” when the forty year “generation” began, Matthew 24:34. Therefore on June 7, 2007 the fortieth year arrived. However, Israel is still in the 40th year until June 7, 2008. The 41st year will begin on June 8, 2008. What day is that? It is the Day of Pentecost. Is all of this just coincidence? Or is Almighty God trying to tell His people WHEN He is coming?

see the jewish calendar for pentecost

http://antipas.net/heb_cal.htm

Raputre 6-7-8 Biblical Proofs

All Things New -> Why my nickname is LadyNada

Posted: Feb 8 2006, 09:09 PM

pjbaby gave me great advice about posting a testimony here regarding my New Age nickname. I agreed and will write it out here unscripted.

I said the sinner’s prayer in 1979 @ the age of 20 and started reading the bible and learned and asked for the Holy Spirit. I attended a local Baptist church for about 2 years and was baptized with my mother by immersion.

Years later I would look back and realize that I actually believed in Jesus when I was around 5 years old when I heard the gospel imbedded within a rock and roll song called "Spirit In the Sky". We had a picture of Jesus on our wall in those days, and when I heard in the lyrics about Jesus, I believed in Him fully at that time. So my conscious sanctification process of wanting to be led by the Spirit began in 1979.

In the 1980’s I was heavily interested in the Eschatology because I believed we were living in the last days. I asked the Lord to allow me to be a witness for Him of what was happening on our world. This idea was inspired by the Holy Spirit and I developed a habit of believing that God was looking at the world THROUGH MY EYES.

This habit trained me to talk to the Lord constantly in my daily living. I read as many books about Daniel, and Revelation and end times. I stopped going to church after about two years, and studied one on one with the Lord and the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit would reveal understandings to me all the time and I became accustomed to that guidance as my normal way of living. I would take my Bible to work at the supermarket and read it on my break time never once feeling ashamed as I considered it totally normal.

By 1992 I was frustrated with the Bible related end times books as I was not getting any new inspirations. I prayed to the Lord one day to allow me to go and read other philosophies but to keep me stayed in Him no matter what. The Spirit led me to a book called "The Ancient Wisdom" by Annie Besant which was a theosophy book about the dimensional levels of the creation. As I read this book, the Holy Spirit would teach me from the Bible things related to what I was reading; a kind of filling in the gaps with Truth.

I continued to get all kinds of books including pseudographic, apocryphal, and other extra-biblical non-canon writings. And from there I also read many science books especially physics and esoteric writings about the nature of the universe. By 1993 I met a fellow named Walter in a message forum in a network called FIDONET (this is before internet). Walter was a believer in Jesus but followed New Age thinking and studied the UFO phenomenon.

I never had a personal interest in UFO stuff, but I created a network for people to discuss all things paranormal and spiritual and political, called SEARCHNET. I was also a hobbyist computer programmer at that time, so I ran a three line Bulletin Board System which shared messages worldwide. And I was well known as a Cross-poster, someone who posts the same messages all over the place. Walter and I also developed net etiquette which was translated to the internet once that became popular. By the middle 1990’s I had achieved official NET-KOOK status on the Internet, which is an honor. That title meant that I achieved a good saturation of available usenet groups with information and our guidelines for net etiquette which was to allow people to post their views without being attacked for them. We also trained people how to spot PsyOps agents on the forums.

At some point in the late middle 90’s God directed me to change my focus. I gave away my international mailing lists to guy named Steve, and left it in one day. I had learned much about being a moderator and NOT having a need to be vindicated. My focus turned to IRC CHAT where I spent several years on a friendly and loving network and a room called #BRIDGE. The New Age people sincerely seek God by faith and practice love. Some were Christians too. I was not there to witness to people; I was there as a Christian who was into the same things they were. I learned all about their channellings and the entities and their agendas and teachings. The whole time the Holy Spirit was teaching me by reminding me of Bible Verses related to what I was learning.

I was not being indoctrinated, as I was free in Christ to make up my own mind. As an example, whe