January 2003

BEHOLD THE NEW DAY!

Part Seven

A new creation starts with a new day; and God’s sons are ushering in just such a new day! The way the Holy Spirit spoke it to my heart:

A “BIRTH-QUAKE” IS NOW TAKING PLACE IN THE EARTH!!

Just as the Nativity of Jesus Christ caused a tremendous“Birthquake” that shook the world on its foundation; now once again the world is being convulsed as Christ’s many-membered Body is being delivered! God once cast all mankind into a deep sleep of sin and death; then later He sent His Messiah to begin waking His people- one by one, each in his own order!

“The Son of Man shall send *His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, who shall gather together his elect from the four winds from one end of heaven to the other! [*Early in 2002, a brother in our fellowship, who deals in salvaged goods, found three trumpets [3 = divine completion]!! Later that year, another brother, who knew nothing of this trumpet collection- and in all the 15 years I’ve known him, has never felt led to buy me presents for special occasions, was suddenly and strongly led of the Lord to buy me a costly gift- a large, clear, heavy crystal figurine of: AN ANGEL STANDING IN THE CLOUDS HOLDING A TRUMPET UP TO HIS LIPS! [The entire piece lights up in alternating hues of reds and purples.] To all in our fellowship the message is clear: IN VERY THIS HOUR, Christ is trumpeting the start of a NEW DAY when He is gathering His elect from the four winds!!!] Now learn the parable of the fig tree- When its branch is still tender and its leaves appear, you know summer is near; so as you see all these things, know that the coming of the Son of man is near, even at the doors! Truly, I tell you, This generation will not pass away till all these things are fulfilled. Heaven and earth pass away, but My words shall not pass away!! No man, nor the heavenly angels, know when that day and hour will come; only My Father knows! But like the days of Noah, so also shall be the coming of the Son of man! For as it was in the days before the flood that they were eating and drinking, also marrying and giving in marriage, till the day that Noah entered into the ark! For as they didn’t know a flood was imminent until it came and took them all away; so too shall the coming of the Son of man be. Two shall be in the field and one will be taken and the other will be left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill and one will be taken, and the other left. Therefore watch! For you do not know what hour your Lord will come! But understand this: if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have stayed on that watch, and not allowed his (spiritual) house to be broken up. So you must also STAND READY! In an hour you least expect, the Son of man shall come! [But, dear ones, He is not coming physically “to us”; He is coming spiritually “IN US”!! So if you are busy gazing up to the natural skies for a natural appearing of a man on a white horse in the clouds, you shall miss the Coming of the Lord! For His “Appearing” has already begun within the hearts of His sons!] Who, then, is the faithful and wise servant to give meat in due season to his household, over which his Lord has made him ruler? Surely blessed is that servant, when his Lord comes and finds him doing this! Truly I say to you, He shall make him ruler over all his goods! But if an evil servant says in his heart, ‘My lord has delayed His coming’; so he begins to mistreat his fellowservants, and also eats and drinks with the drunken; The Lord of that servant will come in a day and hour when he is not looking for him; and He will cut him asunder and appoint to him his portion with the hypocrites: and there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” (Mt 24:36-51).

This is no depiction of the erroneous “rapture” theory; but a clear declaration of a glorious, spiritual event taking place in the surrendered lives of a body of overcomers who have been, and are now enduring tremendous purgings for their faith in Christ!! I stand in privileged awe to be among such amazing “Firewalkers”! Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego had nothing on these beloveds!!

[TO BE CONTINUED]