Post by WatchmanRay on Jun 19, 2011 8:25:40 GMT -5
Most think the body of Christ is just wasting away, Gods going to show back up, rapture the church out and turn it over to natural Israel and they are going to evangelize the whole earth, and then we are going to have hell break loose for 7 yrs. and then boom the next thing you know, God is going to come back with us and set a kingdom up over in the middle east! NOW- that is what is kind of projected out there! SOO- if your mentality is that the church is going to fail miserably over all, until God pulls them out and turns it over to natural Israel, then what motivation and what desire is there to really press forward over all, but of coarse now that is the opinion of HAL LINDSEY AND HALF THE CHURCH. That is their perspective on what is going to happen, and the church is going to fail miserably and turn it over to natural Israel, because God is going to see we can’t make it, and we can’t do it, SO HE is going to jerk us out! That is their interpretation and understanding! BUT GUESS WHAT!! THEY DON’T UNDERSTAND THE TIMES!
How can you understand the times, if you have an opinion that is generated by carnal natural things- - - – the other thing that is greatly affecting the body of Christ and possibly has affected us to a degree, is that for many years up until- I don’t even know when, IT HAS BEEN TAUGHT THAT THE KINGDOM OF GOD ISN’T EVEN HERE, NOT AS THE AUTHORITY AND THE POWER AND THE DOMINION OF GOD THAT HAS BEEN GIVEN TO THE KINGS AND PRIESTS OF GOD TO OPERATE AND FUNCTION IN THIS RELM! Mostly they believe that we have received the SPIRIT as the down payment of the KINGDOM OF GOD and that the SPIRIT in you life is just the presence of the KINGDOM, and that one day you will be raptured out and be changed in the twinkling of an eye and then Jesus will show back up after the tribulation and He will set the KINGDOM OF GOD up on the earth and you will begin to see a type of ruling and reigning! WELL with type of a mentality unfortunately you have BELIEVED the lie of the enemy, and since the KINGDOM OF GOD IS INSIDE OF YOU, ACCORDING TO JESUS, if the KINGDOM OF GOD is inside of you then you are denying the KINGDOM, THEN YOU CAN NOT POSSIBLE ALLOW THE OPERATION OF THE KINGDOM TO TAKE PLACE INSIDE OF YOU, TO NOT ONLY WORK IN YOU BUT TO WORK OUT OF YOU!
So what we find ourselves doing then, [our biggest challenge it appears against the kingdom of darkness is] the lies that have infiltrated the teachings in Christianity and has actually trickled down for generations and generations! Unfortunately even though history itself has proven these eschatological views to be incorrect, they keep adjusting and trying to reshape their eschatology with years and things of that nature and occurrences to try and make it feasible, until maybe they can slip off the face of the earth and leave it to the ones who are left here to try and figure it out!
The thing that happens is it robs the authority and the power from the body of Christ! It robs purpose, and the divine plan of God. It takes the season away. It takes the ability to understand the times completely out of the picture. Anybody who is sitting there waiting for a particular event to come, just to get them out of everything, and not realize the divine plan and purpose of God, there is no way that they will know that this season is the season that God has chosen to equip His people, to rise up and set with Him in the heavenlies and begin to rule and reign in the authority and power that He has given them to subdue CHRIST’S ENEMIES AND MAKE THEM A FOOTSTOOL FOR HIS FEET!
The other perception is- it is going to get worse and worse and all hell is going to break loose and the anti-Christ is going to come, things are caving in on us man and we just need to hide and hold out until Jesus comes. There is a big difference in those two. One is the kingdom of darkness is running roughshod over us, because we don’t have a clue, and we don’t understand the times and we don’t know what’s going on. So – the enemy continues to afflict us and drive us back, maybe not in to physical cave, BUT INTO A SPIRITUAL CAVE, to where he can get us out of the way and we are hiding and just trying to hold on until Jesus comes. It is crazy when you begin taking on that kind of mentality, because what we have done is, we have learned to run and retreat from the face of an enemy that has already been defeated! Jesus destroyed him on the cross and made a show of him openly stripped him naked! Now I mean, don’t try and visualize that- Jesus completely took everything away that the enemy had, so that he had no more covering for his nakedness- other words WE SEE EVERYTHING THERE IS TO SEE ABOUT him, there is no hidden tricks of his trade or anything else, COMPLETELY EXPOSED, he was the deceiver, he deceived the nations, deceived Eve in the garden, and Adam then willingly chose to partake of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, THEY SURRENDERED THEIR[MAN-KINDS] POWER AND AUTHORITY, BOWED THE KNEE TO THE ENEMY, AND HERE HE CAME AT THAT PARTICULAR POINT, THE ONE WHO RULED AND REIGNED OVER THE EARTH, BUT GOD SENT HIS SON WHO RE-DID ALL OF THAT, BROKE THE ENEMY AND STRIPPED HIM NAKED OF ALL HIS AUTHORITY AND POWER AND CAST HIM DOWN OUT OF THE HEAVENLIES, INTO THE EARTHLY REALM, SO THAT NOW THE ENEMY WALKS ABOUT ON THE EARTH SEEKING WHOM HE MAY DEVOUR [doesn’t say he is flying around, he is walking around on this earth seeing whom he may devour]!Whom resist!! Because He said if you will resist him he will flee from you! But when the enemy pops up the church flees away! They run away- I have heard minister’s say- [“oh don’t up set the enemy now, don’t go out of here rebuking and binding oh your going to make him mad.”] Guess what—he is already mad, it’s his nature to be mad! He has got no choose, because your every day existence is another decree from the FATHER that his time is short and that his authority and power has already been broken and that when you and the rest of begin to fully manifest as the children of God, then the whole earth and everything around it will be released into the GLORY OF GOD!!! THAT IS WHAT SCRIPTURE TEACHES!!
Now I know what the mentality of Christianity has been, because I have studied it enough and I have heard it enough and confirmations from my brothers and sisters that have been out there in it the Church system, and we begin to understand that we have a great responsibility and a great accountability has been given to us—BECAUSE HOW CAN ANYBODY KNOW AND WALK IN THE TRUTH UNLESS THEY HEAR IT! [AMAN]
Now—Paul in Romans 1: He said I am a debtor [he said I owe everybody] because- I RECEIVED THE GOSPEL STRAIGHT FROM JESUS, HE GAVE IT TO ME- HIS MOUTH TO MY EARS-FACE TO FACE WE SAW IT, HE PREACHED THE GOSPEL TO ME AND I BEGAN TO REALIZE AND UNDERSTAND THAT I KNEW THINGS THAT THOSE WHO THOUGHT THEY KNEW DIDN’T KNOW! EVEN PETER SAID THESE THINGS THAT PAUL SAYS ARE HARD TO UNDERSTAND [AND THEY GO RIGHT OVER OUR HEAD AND WE DON’T UDERSTAND]! IT’S OK PETER IT’S ALRIGHT, CHRIST KNOWS ALL THINGS!
How can you understand the times, if you have an opinion that is generated by carnal natural things- - - – the other thing that is greatly affecting the body of Christ and possibly has affected us to a degree, is that for many years up until- I don’t even know when, IT HAS BEEN TAUGHT THAT THE KINGDOM OF GOD ISN’T EVEN HERE, NOT AS THE AUTHORITY AND THE POWER AND THE DOMINION OF GOD THAT HAS BEEN GIVEN TO THE KINGS AND PRIESTS OF GOD TO OPERATE AND FUNCTION IN THIS RELM! Mostly they believe that we have received the SPIRIT as the down payment of the KINGDOM OF GOD and that the SPIRIT in you life is just the presence of the KINGDOM, and that one day you will be raptured out and be changed in the twinkling of an eye and then Jesus will show back up after the tribulation and He will set the KINGDOM OF GOD up on the earth and you will begin to see a type of ruling and reigning! WELL with type of a mentality unfortunately you have BELIEVED the lie of the enemy, and since the KINGDOM OF GOD IS INSIDE OF YOU, ACCORDING TO JESUS, if the KINGDOM OF GOD is inside of you then you are denying the KINGDOM, THEN YOU CAN NOT POSSIBLE ALLOW THE OPERATION OF THE KINGDOM TO TAKE PLACE INSIDE OF YOU, TO NOT ONLY WORK IN YOU BUT TO WORK OUT OF YOU!
So what we find ourselves doing then, [our biggest challenge it appears against the kingdom of darkness is] the lies that have infiltrated the teachings in Christianity and has actually trickled down for generations and generations! Unfortunately even though history itself has proven these eschatological views to be incorrect, they keep adjusting and trying to reshape their eschatology with years and things of that nature and occurrences to try and make it feasible, until maybe they can slip off the face of the earth and leave it to the ones who are left here to try and figure it out!
The thing that happens is it robs the authority and the power from the body of Christ! It robs purpose, and the divine plan of God. It takes the season away. It takes the ability to understand the times completely out of the picture. Anybody who is sitting there waiting for a particular event to come, just to get them out of everything, and not realize the divine plan and purpose of God, there is no way that they will know that this season is the season that God has chosen to equip His people, to rise up and set with Him in the heavenlies and begin to rule and reign in the authority and power that He has given them to subdue CHRIST’S ENEMIES AND MAKE THEM A FOOTSTOOL FOR HIS FEET!
The other perception is- it is going to get worse and worse and all hell is going to break loose and the anti-Christ is going to come, things are caving in on us man and we just need to hide and hold out until Jesus comes. There is a big difference in those two. One is the kingdom of darkness is running roughshod over us, because we don’t have a clue, and we don’t understand the times and we don’t know what’s going on. So – the enemy continues to afflict us and drive us back, maybe not in to physical cave, BUT INTO A SPIRITUAL CAVE, to where he can get us out of the way and we are hiding and just trying to hold on until Jesus comes. It is crazy when you begin taking on that kind of mentality, because what we have done is, we have learned to run and retreat from the face of an enemy that has already been defeated! Jesus destroyed him on the cross and made a show of him openly stripped him naked! Now I mean, don’t try and visualize that- Jesus completely took everything away that the enemy had, so that he had no more covering for his nakedness- other words WE SEE EVERYTHING THERE IS TO SEE ABOUT him, there is no hidden tricks of his trade or anything else, COMPLETELY EXPOSED, he was the deceiver, he deceived the nations, deceived Eve in the garden, and Adam then willingly chose to partake of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, THEY SURRENDERED THEIR[MAN-KINDS] POWER AND AUTHORITY, BOWED THE KNEE TO THE ENEMY, AND HERE HE CAME AT THAT PARTICULAR POINT, THE ONE WHO RULED AND REIGNED OVER THE EARTH, BUT GOD SENT HIS SON WHO RE-DID ALL OF THAT, BROKE THE ENEMY AND STRIPPED HIM NAKED OF ALL HIS AUTHORITY AND POWER AND CAST HIM DOWN OUT OF THE HEAVENLIES, INTO THE EARTHLY REALM, SO THAT NOW THE ENEMY WALKS ABOUT ON THE EARTH SEEKING WHOM HE MAY DEVOUR [doesn’t say he is flying around, he is walking around on this earth seeing whom he may devour]!Whom resist!! Because He said if you will resist him he will flee from you! But when the enemy pops up the church flees away! They run away- I have heard minister’s say- [“oh don’t up set the enemy now, don’t go out of here rebuking and binding oh your going to make him mad.”] Guess what—he is already mad, it’s his nature to be mad! He has got no choose, because your every day existence is another decree from the FATHER that his time is short and that his authority and power has already been broken and that when you and the rest of begin to fully manifest as the children of God, then the whole earth and everything around it will be released into the GLORY OF GOD!!! THAT IS WHAT SCRIPTURE TEACHES!!
Now I know what the mentality of Christianity has been, because I have studied it enough and I have heard it enough and confirmations from my brothers and sisters that have been out there in it the Church system, and we begin to understand that we have a great responsibility and a great accountability has been given to us—BECAUSE HOW CAN ANYBODY KNOW AND WALK IN THE TRUTH UNLESS THEY HEAR IT! [AMAN]
Now—Paul in Romans 1: He said I am a debtor [he said I owe everybody] because- I RECEIVED THE GOSPEL STRAIGHT FROM JESUS, HE GAVE IT TO ME- HIS MOUTH TO MY EARS-FACE TO FACE WE SAW IT, HE PREACHED THE GOSPEL TO ME AND I BEGAN TO REALIZE AND UNDERSTAND THAT I KNEW THINGS THAT THOSE WHO THOUGHT THEY KNEW DIDN’T KNOW! EVEN PETER SAID THESE THINGS THAT PAUL SAYS ARE HARD TO UNDERSTAND [AND THEY GO RIGHT OVER OUR HEAD AND WE DON’T UDERSTAND]! IT’S OK PETER IT’S ALRIGHT, CHRIST KNOWS ALL THINGS!