Eternal Life - God's Sacred Design

04/14/2023

WITH ALL OUR LOVE, WHILE THERE IS YET TIME, THIS IS OUR HEARTFELT CALL OF HOPE, THAT EVERY PERSON ON EARTH RECEIVES GOD’S SACRED GIFT OF ETERNAL LIFE! PLEASE READ THIS ENTIRE POST AND FORWARD IT TO ALL THOSE ON YOUR CONTACTS LIST, WORLD WIDE! THANK YOU.

Over the entire course of human history, from Adam in the garden of Eden 6,128 years ago, until today in 2023 AD, the real story of why we are even here on this earth in this material dimension in time, has never been accurately revealed through either secular or spiritual investigation. Starting with the Serpent’s enticing lie to Eve, leading to both she and then Adam’s sinful partaking of the forbidden tree, which made all of us subject to the sin penalty of death as incurred by Adam’s transgression, there has been a constant onslaught of Satanically inspired deceptive propaganda, perpetrated from the reasoning of sin-natured natural mind’s; blinding all mankind to the truth of God’s loving design for our life here and our eternal destiny.

As the result, there has only one way the world has ever had any knowledge of this one and only story of why we even exist on this earth in this material dimension in time, and what this life is all about, and that is what is translated in the King James version of the Judeo/Christian Bible! But with all the different authors from all their different cultural perspectives, with all the different translations and interpretations of their scripts, then add those in positions of spiritual authority over history who only certified manuscripts for inclusion in the original canon as chosen by their learned intellectual reasoning; the clarity of God’s loving design has been made ambiguously confusing.

Then regrettably, over the course of history, those in positions of spiritual persuasion within the establishment church, having presented many differing versions of the translated texts with many opposing interpretations of the apostolic record, from their conflicting ideological perspectives; some even composing their own “bibles;” has led to many differing religious agendas having divisive doctrinal dogmas. The most destructive of which is the murderous clash between Judeo/Christianity and Islamism. Then when you add the onslaught of learned philosophical and scientific opinions swamping the media over history, all of which have worked to refute the truth in that Bible as twisted by Satanic propaganda, the entire world has been blinded to the truth and beautiful simplicity of the one and only thing God has lovingly created us for! As only revealed in that one Bible, everything in this life is only about that one thing; that we attain God’s gift of eternal life as His sacred design for our eternal destiny! And Satan’s murderous weapon of deception has been to hide that from us because he ragingly hates us!

With a global average life expectancy of 72.8 years, that is but a dimensionless dot when placed on eternity’s scale! In fact, the entire 6000-year history of man, makes no mark on eternity’s scale! So, the circumstances and events we each experience while here, either with some joy and pleasure, but many with sufferings of hurt and anguish, can only mean one thing! We can either believe this is all there is, in which case, how cruel our creator would be, or we can choose to believe, as revealed in the Bible when the original writings are objectively translated with no self-reasoned interpretations, that we are formed by a loving God as individual souls created to live forever, with an invaluable purpose for every one of us, on an eternal life journey of joy and reward! But after 2000 years of Satan’s murderous lies, the world perceives the beautiful story of God’s loving design for our eternal destiny just the opposite, as oppressive and hateful!

How anyone could shun a story of such unbounded love as the Bible so richly reveals, is the greatest mystery of all time and eternity! It just shows the power in the unabated onslaught of Satanic deceptive propaganda! But the choice is clear! We can either believe God’s true design, as plainly revealed in the reference Bible, or you can be blinded by the Satanically twisted ambiguities that hide the beautiful simplicity of God’s loving design from your perception! Believe the first and live forever in never ending joy, believe the lies, and exist forever in never ending agony! God loves you and wants you to believe and receive the blessings of the first, Satan hates you and wants to kill you to suffer with him in the eternal torment of the second! That’s a choice we all must make, and it should be simple, but with all the opposing philosophical and scientific opinions, along with all the church establishment ambiguities, which have led to thousands of opposing religious sects having divisive doctrinal dogmas, the world has been lost in a dark global cloud of deceptive spiritual uncertainty; which is the most murderous weapon in Satan’s arsenal!

So, having fallen prey to that Satanically twisted ambiguity over the course of its history, the establishment church has failed in its prime mission! Jesus closing edict before he ascended back to heaven, was “But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.” (Acts 1:8); by which they would receive the infilling power of the Holy Spirit to fulfill His great commission! God’s intent for their being empowered by the Holy Spirit, was that by that power, their fervent focus would be to saturate the entire world by every means possible, to let everyone know there is only one thing going on in all of creation; with God creating man as individual living souls as His ultimate creation purpose, designed to live as “heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ” (Romans 8:16-17) throughout eternity! But that is not what they have done! Without focusing on that as its highest priority, the world has heard 10,000 versions of the “gospel” from many differing perspectives, each one claiming, “we’re right, the others are wrong!” That is why our world is suffering so much turmoil and anguish today! Because God’s loving design for our eternal destiny, following this material dimension in time which lasts for only a blink on eternity’s scale, has never been made credibly clear!

To make it plain, the only question the Holy Spirit empowered church should have answered with clarity for the entire world to hear, is how did we get to the place where we have this life and death choice? It all started when the first woman, Eve, and Adam with her, chose to believe the lie from Satan that they would not die, but only “ye shall be as gods,” (Gen 3:5) in and of themselves if they ate of the tree, which God had told Adam … “thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” (Gen 2:17)! Believing that lie, how in his own intelligence and power of reason, he could make choices of right and wrong for what he thought would be fair, to fulfill his self-interests and personal desires, even though they may transgress God’s divine law, Adam chose to usurp God’s authority and partake of the tree in self-assertion, just as Lucifer had done, which had led to his fall! By that choice Adam “surely died” and “sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so, death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:” (Rom 5:12). Because of that original sin, which severed his relationship of righteousness and integrity with the one and only God of pure holiness; he and all since, are the fallen, and have died to God’s gift of eternal life!

But because of His loving sacred design for our eternal destiny, God did not forsake us! “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him, should not perish, but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16) Being born of a virgin, (Luke 1:34) conceived of the Holy Spirit and not of the seed of sinful man, (Luke 1:35) Jesus was born divine as God manifest in the flesh, (1 Tim 3:16) so when He shed His sinless blood at Calvary, He was not paying His sin debt because He had none, but by Jesus’ death as our surrogate, He paid our sin debt, once for all! And thus, “For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.” (Romans 5:19)

So, the answer is; by choosing to believe in Jesus, how as “God manifest in the flesh” He shed His sinless blood as sacrifice to pay our sin debt; then repenting of our sin and asking God’s forgiveness; by that we are born again, and our relationship of righteousness with Him is reconciled, which reinstates His gift of eternal life as our final destiny! By making this choice, as lovingly designed by our Heavenly Father for His eternal pleasure and for our eternal joy, we having fallen, then believing in Jesus for dying in our place to pay our sin debt, become the redeemed, which will bring us the greatest honor; being even closer to God than His angelic host! (1 Cor 6:3) Again, this is really the one and only thing this life, with 70 or 80 years in this material dimension in time, is all about; that we can hear this truth of God’s redemptive plan, so we can freely choose to believe in what Jesus performed at Calvary to pay our sin debt, so we “should not perish, but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16)

This is the clear unambiguous gospel message! And the only story the church should preach! Yes, to preach about loving God with all our soul and with all our heart, and all that it means to love others as we do ourselves is critically essential, because as Jesus said, “… love the Lord thy God with all thy heart ... with all thy soul ... with all thy mind. And … love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.” (Matt 22:37-40), but from the time after Adam partook of the forbidden tree when God pronounced His curse upon the serpent with a promise, “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.” (Gen 3:15), until the time when Jesus cried; “it is finished” (John 19:30), the entire canon of scripture is about this one story! And for all time and eternity, this is the only story of any consequence there really is!

So, our hearts cry is, that the entire world reads this as a letter of love, and that the Holy Spirit speaks to the heart of each and every one, that they believe and receive God’s gift of eternal life, to enjoy the blessings of God in heaven. As a major part of our prayer, we ask that the present opposing world religious factions lay aside their animosities which have been inflamed by 3000 years of murderous Satanic propaganda and deceptive ambiguity, and join in a unified Holy Spirit empowered rebuke of that evil! Even though we identify ourselves as Christian, as defined in this letter, this is not a letter of judgment or condemnation against, or for, any, whether it be Buddhism, Hindu, Islam, Judaism, or Christianity with its thousands of conflicting dogmas! Let us recognize that all this conflict is Satan’s evil work to swamp the world with a masterful web of cunning lies to hide the beauty of God’s design, so he can kill us before we have time to receive the unambiguous truth of the real story, that we agonize with him in the eternal torment of hell!

In summary, God’s holy and sacred eternal design, is in creating an eternal heavenly host of redeemed souls, “which no man could number,” (Rev 7:9) having immortal and incorruptible temples, … of whom Jesus, in His resurrected form, was the firstfruits. (1 Cor 15:20-23) We want every person on earth to be included in that number! And there is no reason this can’t happen, except for some inexplicable reason our sin corrupted minds are more susceptible to believing the lies, than to perceive the beauty of what God has done to make His gift of eternal life available to us. But we are praying that all who read this will believe the truth of God’s loving design for our eternal destiny, and not be blinded by the deceitful lies, so you can be with us there. Our hearts will rejoice, that in that place where Jesus is, we may all be also, where, by God’s grace, and not of our own merit, we, and all of you with us will enjoy the pleasures of God’s unlimited blessings throughout eternity! Please believe in this story of how much God loves you and make your choice today! To God be all the glory! Amen!

02/17/2023

We claim nothing accept by the grace of God we have His promise of eternal life. Not of our merit, not of our worthiness. Thank you Jesus, thank you Lord! We may not say everything the best way, but our only desire is that everyone who reads will receive God's gift of eternal life bought and paid for by Jesus when He shed His sinless blood on Calvay to pay our sin debt, once for all! And to God be all the glory!

02/04/2021

– GOD’S 7000 YEARS HISTORY OF MAN TIMETABLE - AMENDED! –
– – – “HISTORY OF MAN,” NOT – HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE – – –

“But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.” (Matt 24:36) God’s Word is Absolutely True in every word! This famous scriptural reference does not say; “but of that year and month knoweth no man...,” but only; “of that day and hour.” A close review of many biblical references reveals a clear acuity of God’s 7000-year plan for the history of man. IF THAT PERCEPTION IS TRUE, and following the bible’s genealogical record in line with calculated dates of history, we can come close! Based upon the many differing calendar references, it would be virtually impossible to determine the day and hour with certainty anyway. Following the biblically recorded genealogical timeline, dating backward from the 4th year of Solomon’s reign as recorded on the pages of written history, which was from 960 to 920 BC, Adam was created in 4105 BC. Cain was born as the first recorded son of Adam immediately following the “fall of man,” (partaking of the forbidden tree) which marked the time when the blood sacrifice of the “firstlings of the flock” (Gen 4:4) was adjudged to cover their sin. Cain slew his brother Able out of resentful anger concerning his not honoring God’s ordained blood sacrifice, but Able had. There is no exact age of Cain recorded when that occurred, but Adam was 130 when Seth was born shortly after Cain slew Abel. Again, not recorded, but not in conflict with any actual recorded dates, one can surmise Cain could have been about 29 or 30 years old when he slew Abel, which would indicate Adam had been about 100 when “by one man, sin entered into the world, and death by sin;” (Rom 5:12) Thus, Adam’s creation to the fall of man: 100 years.

THE FALL OF MAN: 4005 BC (The beginning of man’s rule under Satan’s dominion)

JESUS BIRTH AND MINISTRY: There are so many questions in the biblically recorded years for Jesus’ birth, ministry and crucifixion, the only way any of those years can be deduced, is to weigh biblical references in respect to recorded historic events. In accordance with when he had been tricked by the Magi so he could not find Jesus after His birth, Herod “...sent and killed all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that region who were two years old or under,"… (Matt 2:16) So, less than 2 years prior to Herod’s death in 4 BC is when Jesus would have been born, which would have been 5 or 6 BC. Thus, fall of man to Christ’s birth: 4005 BC to 5 BC – (4000 of God’s 7000-year plan.)

Jesus began His ministry from the time of His baptism in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, (Luke 3:1) when He was about 30 years of age. (Luke 3:23) As recorded, Tiberius Caesar reigned as co- Princeps with Augustus for a couple years prior to Augustus' death, from AD 12-13, then as Pontifex Maximus from AD 14-37, which would place that event in AD 27. From His birth in 5 BC, that would mean Jesus was actually 32 + or - when He began His ministry. “About 30” is not contradictory.

Jesus’ ministry lasted 3½ years, until AD 31 when He was about 35 or 36. The “Passover Date Calendar” shows the Passover was on Wednesday, April 25 in AD 31. Jesus Last Supper was the evening before. Jesus was then crucified on Wednesday. That would be the only way Jesus would be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth (Matt 12:40) before His resurrection on the first day of the week. (Wednesday night, Thursday day – 1, Thursday night, Friday day – 2, Friday night, Saturday day – 3)

JESUS CRUCIFIXION: Wednesday April 25, AD 31

JESUS RESURRECTION: Sunday April 29, AD 31 (after sundown the evening before)

JESUS ASCENSION: Friday June 8, AD 31. As recorded in Acts 1:3, Jesus remained on earth in His immortal resurrected temple for 40 days following His resurrection. The "33½ years" of Christ’s (God manifest in the flesh – 1 Timothy 3:16) lifespan, from His birth (stepping out of His eternal “I am” domain, into our material dimension in time), to the time of His ascension back to His throne (stepping back into His eternal "I Am" domain) are perceived as “time” to us, but to God from His eternal perspective, those years are a dimensionless “I am” point on the scale of His 7000-year history of man timeline.

BEGINNING OF DANIEL’S 70TH WEEK: Early June 2024 – 1,993 years after Christ’s ascension. (7 years prior the start of Christ’s millennial reign) The beginning of Daniels 70th week will be marked by the signing of an Israeli/Islamic 7-year peace accord by “The Prince that Shall Come … And he shall confirm the covenant “with many” for one week.” (Daniel 9:24-27) Shortly after the signing, with Jerusalem dwelling in seeming security, the third temple will be built, and the blood sacrifice will resume. During this time, persecution of the church will increase with more and more distortion of its teachings, blaming it for most of the societal hatred and bigotry, even to martyrdom! But with the true church recognizing that God’s judgment is at hand, bringing this dispensation to a close, this will bring it to its knees, and there will be an outpouring of the Holy Spirit as never before, (Joel 2:28-29) to fervently inspire a global evangelistic revival which will sweep the world in a closing days harvest of souls, for as many as 2/3 of all nations, kindred’s, peoples, and tongues!

Just prior to, and during the first 42 months of Daniel’s 70th week, earthquake and volcanic activity will intensify, followed by an earth penetrating meteor strike, all of which will disrupt the earths’ tectonic plate system resulting in a calamitous earth shattering, cascading avalanche of earthquake and volcanic devastation emanating from the Euphrates seismic fault system, crippling the world’s commerce system which will catastrophically collapse the world’s economic system, killing over half of all human life on earth through that full series of crushing fire and brimstone calamities and the spreading starvation. The disastrous impact of those tragedies will mandate the establishment of a Global Economic and Commerce Regulatory Authority, which will be administered by an internationally chosen Global Commerce Magistrate (GCM) who will be given dictatorial authority to revolutionize the world’s capitalistic and socialistic economies to a collectivist economic system, and to militarily regulate international commerce to preserve the remaining life on earth.

This will set the stage for “The Prince that Shall Come” to reveal himself as; “…the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.” (2 Thessalonians 2:3-4) From that position, working close with the GCM, he will with great charisma and diplomatic skill, introduce a system of global economic stability through a cashless media-based monetary exchange system that will track all financial transactions and maintain a running account of everything bought or sold, and who made the exchange. Everyone on earth will receive an internet traceable personal account number using a 3-bit hexadecimal numbering system that will be digitally encoded in a chip that can be implanted in either their forehead or their right hand. It will be readily accepted by most, because it will be propagandized as a means of stopping any form of robbery for monetary gain or embezzlement, and all illegal sales of guns and drugs!

That will be the “mark of the beast!” The beasts’ 3-bit hexadecimal number is 29A (666 decimal). In order for any to receive the mark, they will have to surrender all to the authority of the beast and sign on to cleanse the world of all those who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, as infidels. It will be an all-out assault on the true God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob! With the initiation of the mark of the beast, "If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God" (Revelation 14:9-10); but since for the true church, "… being now justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him" (Romans 5:9), and "God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Thessalonians 5:9), at some miraculous moment in that circumstance, the trump will sound for the rapture of the Bride. But this is not a prediction of what day or hour that will occur!

In this same time frame, with cries coming from so many activists about the sacrificial slaying of so many animals in the temple; having “exalteth himself …proclaiming himself to be God.” (2 Thess. 2:4) in answer to man’s sin question, the Antichrist will deem the blood sacrifice as no longer needed, and “… he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, …” (Daniel 9:27) This is known as:

THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION: Early December 2027 – This will start the final 42 months of Daniel’s 70th week. The remaining time of great tribulation in Daniel’s 70th week, with the “…wine of God’s wrath” (Rev 14:10) being outpoured in dreadful torment upon all who receive the mark of the Beast, will ultimately end with the battle of Armageddon when Jesus comes to conclusively destroy the enemies of God.

MILLENNIAL REIGN BEGINS: Early June 2031 – 2000 years after Christ’s ascension – (2000 of God’s 7000-year plan.) Looking at Matthew 24:32-34, where Jesus proclaims; “Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled;” this date closely aligns with the date of the rebirth of the Nation of Israel on May 14, 1948, because as David wrote in Psalms 90:10; “The days of our years are threescore years and ten, Or even by reason of strength fourscore years.” a generation can be considered as 80 years, thus; 1948 plus 80 = 2028! This will end man’s rule under Satan’s dominion. The Millennial Reign with the Bride of Christ in God’s Kingdom is the final 1000 years of His 7000-year plan for man, in this dimension in time!

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12/30/2020

– – – – – THE HISTORY OF MAN - FROM ADAM TO NOW – – – – –

As delineated in the biblical account, most of which was revealed to Moses on Mt. Sinai directly from God, and continuing through secular recorded history, the history of man as we know it, stating with Adam (a real man’s title, not some name depicting mankind in general) until the present day, can be accurately demarcated. Just why mankind has rejected that, and done everything possible to hypothesize alternate paths to define history, is only a continuation of Satan’s everlasting work of deception! Not one word of the biblical record contradicts any substantiated scientific discovery! Even the Carbon-14 dating process does not refute the biblical timeline, when realized that the decay rate of C-14 is radically variable due to the historic level of environmental moisture in which an analyzed artifact is discovered, which cannot be fully known. Employing true scientific method, all differences are only the result of imagination and/or conjecture. And the ongoing fervent conflict between the adamant creationists and evolutionists only intensifies and promotes Satan’s deceptive work! That’s another story, but the constant ongoing lies break my heart! When all God has ever wanted to do was make a way for His created souls to be with Him forever, in that place He has prepared for us, that where He is, we may be also, to enjoy the pleasure of His rewarding blessings throughout eternity! That’s the entire story, and the only story, of God’s sacred design for our eternal destiny! Please accept this truth for your eternal fulfillment.

– – – ADAM’S CREATION TO SOLOMON’S TEMPLE (3148 yrs.) – – –
As determined using the ages of actual individual men, not ‘man’
Adam (4104 B C) to Seth’s birth – 130 yrs. – – – – – – – – – Gen. 5:3
Seth to Enos – 105 yrs. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Gen. 5:6
Enos to Cainan – 90 yrs. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Gen. 5:9
Cainan to Mahalaleel – 70 yrs. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Gen. 5:12
Mahalaleel to Jared – 65 yrs. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Gen. 5:15
Jared to Enoch – 162 yrs. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Gen. 5:18
Enoch to Mathuselah – 65 yrs. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Gen. 5:21
Mathuselah to Lamech – 187 yrs. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Gen. 5:25
Lamech to Noah – 182 yrs. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Gen. 5:28
Noah to Shem – 500 - 502 yrs. ? – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Gen. 5:32
“Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.” Not specific, but possibly as triplets. Not knowing for sure, this is the point in the ledger where there’s a little ambiguity. Noah was 600 at the start of the flood. (Gen. 7:11) He was 601 after the flood. (Gen. 8:14) And Shem was 100, 2 yrs. after the flood. So that may have been 2 yrs. after the ‘start’ of the flood when Noah was 600. which would indicate that Noah was 502 at Shem’s birth.
Shem to Arphaxad – 100 yrs. (2 years after the flood) – Gen. 11:10
Arphaxad to Salah – 35 yrs. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Gen. 11:12
Salah to Eber – 30 yrs. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Gen. 11:14
Eber to Peleg – 34 yrs. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Gen. 11:16
Peleg to Reu – 30 yrs. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Gen. 11:18
Reu to Serug – 32 yrs. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Gen. 11:20
Serug to Nahor – 30 yrs. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Gen. 11:22
Nahor to Terah – 29 yrs. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Gen. 11:24
Terah to Abram – 70 yrs. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Gen. 11:26
Abram to Isaac – 100 yrs. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Gen. 21:5
Isaac to Esau & Jacob – 60 yrs. – – – – – – – – – – – – – Gen. 25:26
Jacob to his entry into Egypt – 130 yrs. – – – – – – – – – Gen. 47:9
Jacob’s entry into Egypt to Exodus – 430 yrs. – – – – – Exod. 12:41
Exodus to Solomon’s temple begun – 480 yrs. – – – – –1 Kings 6:1
956 B C (4th year of Solomon’s reign as historically recorded)

11/25/2020

What can be said? What can be done? I claim nothing, but as I look out upon our tragic world in these perilous times of the last days of man’s allotted 6000 years, then Christ's 1000 year millennial reign, in this dimension in time, why do I feel that those in positions of spiritual authority and persuasion in the global Christian ministry, are continuing to rely upon a growing level of educated intellect to “grow the church,” with their own power of reason, rather than falling on their faces before God and calling upon the Holy Spirit for His infilling power and inspiration to fulfill Christ’s great commission, to preach the gospel to every creature, and win the lost, while there is yet time!

In the beginning days of church history, following the day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit filled those gathered together in the upper room with power to be witnesses, as promised by Jesus just before His ascension, the gospel was being preached with boldness and they “turned the world upside down!” (Acts 17:6) But soon thereafter, probably during the 2nd century AD, that fervency was lost! As Paul had warned in his first letter to the church in Corinth, they began relying on their learned “excellency of speech or of wisdom,” and the “enticing words of man’s wisdom,” and they laid aside “in demonstration of the Spirit and of power.” (1 Cor 2:1-4) And it’s been pretty much the same way ever since! Rather than having 3000 added unto us in a day, (Acts 2:41) or having such as should be saved “added to the church daily,” (Acts 2:47) we’ve settled on the sad words, “it’s not about the numbers!”

Why?! Looking at the record of those early days, there’s only one answer! As they “continued steadfastly … in breaking of bread, and in prayers,” (Acts 2:42) we must once again all fall on our faces before God and in one accord call upon Him for the fulfillment of His promise “and it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh;” (Joel 2:28) Only by a renewal of our surrender to, and a call for a renewed infilling of, the Holy Spirit, to give us power, with a fervent commitment to reaching the lost, by laying ourselves on the altar of sacrifice in love and trust, will we see the final harvest of millions upon millions of souls added the body of Christ church, in these the closing days of time! Let us pray.

11/06/2020

"And 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: And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit. And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord come. And 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

The first installment of this promise was fulfilled as recorded in Acts 2:1-4, with the outpouring of the Holy Spirit coming upon those gathered together on the Day of Pentecost, as had been promised by Jesus just prior to His ascension back to the right hand of the Father. But the text in Joel 2 does not specify a single one time, one day, outpouring. It very clearly denotes “afterwards” and “in those days.” As recorded, it is plainly revealed that on a continuing basis in the early days of church development, as new believers were added, they too experienced a baptismal infilling of the Holy Spirit whereby they received power to be witnesses, as decreed by Jesus in Acts 1:8. In other words, following their conversion they were baptized with the infilling power of the Holy Spirit to fulfill the great commission!

Unfortunately, that pattern only lasted for the first or maybe the second generation of new believers following the Day of Pentecost experience. By the time for the first council of Nicaea in 325 AD, reliance upon the power of the Holy Spirit had been diminished and replaced with self learned “excellency of speech or of wisdom,” that Paul denounced in His ministry, (1 Corinthians 2:1) to maintain doctrinal purity and establish agendas for church ministries and church growth. And it’s very much been that same way all down through church history! That’s why we’re not experiencing the “demonstration of the Spirit and of power” (1 Corinthians 2:4) in the church today to reach the world with the good news of God’s gift of eternal life! It’s only in the power and authority of the Holy Spirit that the church can fulfill Christ’s decree of “upon this rock I will build my church!”

May each one receiving this post pray for the infilling power of the Holy Spirit in their own life, and may the church once again fall on its face before God and call upon Him for a refreshed outpouring of the Holy Spirit, that we may have His power to fervently proclaim the good news of God’s gift of eternal life; is our prayer!