Holy Spirit Themes...

I was reading a recent entry in Joel Rosenberg's blog and came across this sentence:

We explained the increasingly dangerous Iranian nuclear threat, and the urgent need for Christians to get ready and be prepared for the trials around the world and especially in the Middle East that will come in the last days.

Joel was speaking at his first Epicenter Conference in Asia (held in the Philippines). Did you notice the words "get ready and be prepared"?

Over the years I've learned that the Holy Spirit speaks in themes. Certainly the Holy Spirit speaks individually, locally, and very personally. I'm stressing the point of global themes because of their seriousness. Global themes are for the entire body of Christ and I believe the theme right now is Prepare.

Jesus warned all of us about what would be happening in the days preceding His second coming and Paul explained the general social and spiritual mood of the people in the last days. As the centuries have expired many thought they were living in the last of the last days. But, they weren't.

Now, predictably, many Christians (and pagans) think that we are definitely living in the last of the last days. But, what we think isn't that important. It's what God thinks that matters. And, if the Holy Spirit is saying to the church globally to get ready and be prepared we should pay attention.

Recently, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was speaking in Poland and stated:

“[After the Holocaust,” the Jewish people rose from ashes and destruction, from a terrible pain that can never be healed. Armed with the Jewish spirit, the justice of man, and the vision of the prophets, we sprouted new branches and grew deep roots. Dry bones became covered with flesh, a spirit filled them, and they lived and stood on their own feet. As Ezekiel prophesied: ‘Then He said unto me: These bones are the whole House of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up, our hope is gone; we are doomed.’ Prophecy, therefore, and say to them: Thus said the Lord God: I am going to open your graves and lift you out of your graves, O My people, and bring you to the land of Israel.’ I stand here today on the ground where so many of my people perished (Auschwitz) — and I am not alone. The State of Israel and all the Jewish people stand with me. We bow our heads to honor your memory and lift our heads as we raise our flag-a flag of blue and white with a Star of David in its center. And everyone sees.  And everyone hears. And everyone knows – that our hope is not lost.”

To this Rosenberg commented:

The question for all Israelis and all people everywhere is now this: If the prophecies of Ezekiel 37 have come to pass in our lifetime, isn’t it remotely possible that the prophecies of Ezekiel 38-39 will come true in our lifetime as well?

I encourage you to read Ezekiel 38-39. Listen to the Holy Spirit. What is He saying to you, personally, and what is He saying to all of us, globally? I believe His theme is Prepare.

What do you think?

Comments

[Allan Svensson]

Hi.
I found your Web Site by Google
And I wish you the best you can get,
the peace of God through Jesus Christ.

Welcome to visit my Site.
Allan Svensson, Sweden
http://www.algonet.se/~allan-sv/INDEX.HTM

Most Christians have not yet begun to prepare
for Jesus' coming. They can speak and write
about Jesus' coming, and about the signs of the
time, yet they do not make any preparation to
meet Jesus. How can we make a preparation?
In the first hand God's people must get the
knowledge of the Assembly of God. The
truth of the Assembly of God has never been
peached in the churches.

People have a sort of love and fellowship that
does not endure the light of God's word. When
we mention something about churches and
denominations, and compare with what the Bible
teaches about the Assembly of God, then a
remarkable phenomenon appears. Many Christians
become afraid and nervous and point out that we
shall love the assembly and not judge and criticize.
But what is it that they apprehend as criticism?
It is God's word!

Just these Christians who have prayed for revival
during many years, they are the worst opponents
against revival. They do not endure the light of
God's word. They do not want to hear the truth of
the Assembly of God. They think that the
Pentecostal churches and other free churches
are Assemblies of God.

They believe that the Assembly of God is constituted
of church systems and many religious organizations.
Can you anywhere in the Bible find any hint that the
Assembly of God is an organized movement or any
church system?

In the time of the apostles any church did not exist, and
therefore the word "church" does not occur in the Bible.
Everywhere in your English Bible where you see the word
"church" it is a grave translation error. Also Matt. 16:18.
It ought to be "assembly".

In the reality, the word "church" occurs not at all in the Bible.
I have five Bible translations in Swedish, (the oldest from
1703). Nowhere in these Bibles does the word "church"
(kyrka) occur. I have also a reference book where the New
Testament is translated word by word from Greek to Swedish.
Everywhere they translate the Greek word "ekklesia" to
församling (assembly).

Perhaps you want to raise the objection, there are many
bible translations in English which all have the word "church".
This is a very stupid argument. A translation error does not
become better of repeating. A lie is a lie no matter how many
time it be repeated.

In Col. 1:18 (KJV) we can read: "And he (Christ) is the head
of the body, the church ..." And in Eph. 5:23-24, "For the
husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of
the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the
church is subject unto Christ..."

This is a lie! The church is not subjected unto Christ. The
head of the Church is the pope, the black pope, and the devil.
The Bible translators do not make a difference between God's
true people and Satan's Church. From the Church's deeds we
shall know the Church. Matt. 7:15-20. By their fruit we shall
recognize the false priesthood. The Catholic Church has
persecuted, tortured and murdered many millions of Christians.
This is a well-known fact. How could a good tree bear such
an evil fruit?

Why did the Bible translators use the same word "church" also
for God's people, the Body of Christ? Why did not they see the
difference between the murderer and the victims for the
murderer? The first Christians were no church. Calling the
first Christians "the first church" is a grave insult against these
Christians. The Church is a mass murderer. The devil is the
real church father.

If we use the same name "church" on the murderer as on the
victims for the murderer, how then can we know what that
means when someone says "church"?

Right since the great falling away took place a very long
time ago and the first churches came into existence,
2 Thess. 2:3, God's people have lived in slavery under
Satan's churches and denominations. The churches have
all the time served the devil, but pretend to be God's
servants and representatives. The churches have never
been any God's assemblies or God's temples. They have
already from their beginning been harlot beings. They
are born through religious fornication. People have
mixed God's word with doctrines of evil spirits, and so
new churches appear.


Jesus cannot come today because God's people are not ready
http://www.algonet.se/~allan-sv/TODAY.HTM

The most powerful revival message of the Lord
to his people in our time
http://www.algonet.se/~allan-sv/INDEX.HTM

A catastrophic course
http://www.algonet.se/~allan-sv/COURSE.HTM

The restoration of the Assembly of God
after the great falling away
http://www.algonet.se/~allan-sv/PREPARE.HTM#restoration