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The Wisdom of God is infinite in understanding. Wisdom created the universe. Wisdom has governed the affairs of men and women throughout the ages of time. Wisdom is God’s own Holy Spirit. Wisdom is seeing with God’s own eyes and hearing with God’s own ears. Wisdom is understanding and knowledge combined to perceive reality from God’s perspective and such Wisdom is revealed in God’s own Word, the Messiah (His Living Word) and the Bible (His Written Word). On this side of eternity we can intimately know Wisdom by consuming God’s Word in Spirit & in Truth. Through a personal relationship with the Messiah and with the Bible, we can experience Wisdom first hand and receive revelation regarding Life, the past, the present and the future. If we truly humble ourselves, set aside our traditions and sit at the feet of Yeshua, His Spirit will reveal to us History (His Story), Today (True Open Dialogue About Yourself) and the Future (Foreseen Unrealized Truths Underlying Revealed Eternity).
As we enter the fullness of the year 2005, what is God doing in the earth and in the heavens? For sure, the stage is being set for the climax of all the Ages, the fulfillment of the Feasts of the Lord, specifically Trumpets, Atonement and Tabernacles, in essence the Marriage Celebration of the Son of God with His Bride and their mutual rule and reign of peace on planet Earth for a 1000 years. All of Creation has been waiting for the manifestation of these events in the history of mankind. Without a doubt, all prophecy will be fulfilled and the Messiah will marry the Bride that He has redeemed with His own Blood and that has been waiting in engagement for 2000 years, wherein He will have finished their eternal home, the City of Jerusalem, and will return to receive her unto Himself and thus live with her forever, after of course, their brief honeymoon for a 1000 years.
Throughout the centuries believers have understood the Bible in the terms of what God was doing in their specific place in history. Prior to the coming of Messiah, believers were expecting a Suffering Servant (Son of Joseph) and a Ruling King (Son of David) at the same time. When He arrived, as a baby, lived for 33 years, was crucified, resurrected and then return to the Father, believers then understood that He was fulfilling the first set of the Lord’s Feasts, Passover, Unleavened Bread and First Fruits. Then on Pentecost and beyond, believers understood that the Body of Messiah (the Church being Jew & Gentile), His Bride was being established in the earth for His divine purposes, to reveal to all of creation the manifold Wisdom of God. Prior to the return of Messiah, believers are now expecting an endless variety of scenarios, all based upon portions of scriptures that are indeed waiting to be fulfilled within this current generation.
Since Adam and Eve, the plot of History has deepen, widen and grown more and more complex, with the destinies of not just the family of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob being fulfilled, but now millions upon millions of families (nations) being grafted into the Nation of Israel by faith in Messiah. The central focus of the work and kingdom of God has and will always be the seed of Abraham through Isaac and Jacob (Israel), but over the past 2000 years, God has multiplied the fullness of His Bride thousands upon thousands of times, that “the knowledge of the Glory of the Lord will fill the earth as the waters cover the sea”. (How many drops of water are in any sea? The New City of Jerusalem, as described in Revelations, can easily accommodate 15 billion people on 12 levels with at least one acre of space, and yet perhaps only 2 billions believers have been brought into the kingdom since Adam and Eve. Where is the other 13 billion or more going to come from, so that His house is full?)
Hundreds of books and articles have been written about what is taking place in our world today and what specific scriptures are perhaps being fulfilled by these events and such is subject to tremendous debate. But the following facts are evident. (1) Since the Messiah returned to His Father, the world is yet to be saved. For more than 2000 years, the church has struggled to preach the Gospel to all nations (families). In fact, since 1900, the percentage of Christians in the world has remained at 33% of the world’s growing population, in spite of the millions of believers that are now coming into the kingdom every year through thousands of global, national and local churches and ministries. There is a huge harvest of souls that is yet to be brought into the kingdom and our current strategies must change to fulfill the Great Commission. (2) Since the Messiah went up into the clouds and the Nation of Israel was scattered throughout the world, God has re-established the Nation of Israel in the Land of Israel in 1948, the City of Jerusalem was re-united in 1967 and since 2003, more Jews live in Israel than in any other part of the world. A sovereign State of Israel, with Jerusalem as it’s capitol and with most of the Jews in the Land of Israel has not existed on the earth since the days of King David and King Solomon. (3) For the first time since the founding of the Body of Messiah, thousands of Jews and millions of Christians are openly discussing their faith in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Israel) in peaceful and revealing relationships. In fact, since 1967, there are now more than 500 Messianic Jewish congregations throughout the world and many secular and religious Jews are very open to understanding more about their Messiah, wherein the Messiah said “When you are One, the world will know that the Father has sent me.” (4) In the last twenty years, millions of believers have been mobilized to pray and intercede for the purposes of God to be fulfilled in our generation. In fact, on May 15, 2005, the first annual Global Day of Prayer, millions of believers gathered to repent, worship and pray for the transformation of their communities, states and nations. (5) In the last twenty years, there has been an explosion of praise & worship, wherein millions of believers are exalting their Messiah, wherein He said, “When I AM is exalted, I will draw all men to Myself.” God is more ready than ever before to send His Son to go and get His Bride, without spot, wrinkle or blemish. He is also more ready than ever before to Judge the nations for their unrepentant sin and pour out His Grace and Mercy upon all flesh that will receive it. He is also more ready than ever before to say to His creation, “Well done, my good and faithful servants, enter into the joy of my kingdom.”
Let us propose the following questions: (1) What if God is about to pour out His Spirit upon our sons and daughters like never before releasing waves of prayer, worship and ministry? (2) What if God is about to fulfill the rest of His Word to the Jewish people, after having brought them back to their Land and thus reveal Himself to them as their Messiah? What if God is about to heal the Body of Messiah and bring back the Jewish foundations of His church that were discarded 1,700 years ago and thus complete His Bride as “One New Man” What if God is about to send forth millions of Laborers (Jews & Gentiles) into the Harvest fields that are ready to be Harvested? What if God is about to transform the secular Jewish State of Israel (Fig Tree) into the Messianic State of Israel (Olive Tree)? What if God is about to heal the relationship between the descendents of Isaac & Ishmael and Jacob & Esau, thus destroying the Spirit of Islam that has enslaved Arabs throughout the Middle East bringing them to their Messiah (Psalms 83)? What if God is about to cause the Body of Messiah (Jews, Arabs & Gentiles) to rebuild the Messianic Temple, as outlined in the Book of Ezekiel, wherein there is no dividing wall between Jews & Gentiles, male and female; and instead of the Ark of the Covenant, there is a Throne Room waiting for their Returning Messiah? What if the Enemy and the world reacts to what God is doing and rushes to use modern technology in establishing their one world government, economy and religion in order to make peace (3 ½ years) & war (3 ½ years) against the saints of God? What if God allows many believers to be martyred for their faith (when the Anti-Christ stops the memorial sacrifices at the Messianic Temple in the midst of Daniel’s 70th Week, the Great Tribulation), while at the same time moving others to established cities of refuge throughout the earth, just like He allowed Lot to escape to a city near Sodom & Gomorrah rather than to the mountains? What if God releases His wrath upon the nations (only those that bear the mark of the beast), while protecting those that are sealed by His Holy Spirit, just like He took Noah through the Judgment of the Flood and the Israelites through the Judgment of Egypt’s Ten Plagues? What if God sends His Son (with the Host of Heaven) to rapture the remaining believers throughout the earth (giving them all resurrected bodies), to fight the leaders of the Nations of the world (that have gathered in the plains of Megiddo) and to defeat the Anti-Christ (that has proclaimed himself to be the Messiah by sitting on His Throne in the Temple of God) and thus cleanse His Temple and establish His peaceful rule and reign with His Bride for a 1000 years? What if the Lord’s Feasts of Trumpets, Atonement & Tabernacles are fulfill exactly on their respective days at the end of the Last Seven Years, just like the Lord’s Feasts of Passover, Unleavened Bread, First Fruits and Pentecost were fulfilled on their respective days when the Messiah first came and when the Holy Spirit was poured out as prophesied in Joel 2:28-32?
“28And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: 29And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit. 30And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. 31The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the LORD come. 32And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.” Joel 2:28-32 & Acts 2:17-21 (King James Version)
Received - March 15, 2005
