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Beloved of the Lord,
As I wait upon the Lord today, I heard the Lord say,
This is a SELAH moment.”
Then he spoke to my heart Luke 3:2 to expound on the difference between what the church age is from the Kingdom age. I start this post with a question.
Why did God bypass the Religious Leaders of this time to bring the Word of God after 400 years of silence to a man separated unto God in the desert to be a forerunner of Jesus and the Kingdom of God’s message?
It is always those “who think they know and figured God out and put Him in a box” that never truly hear the voice of God.
Religious leaders put a yoke of religious slavery on God’s people by “adding to God’s word” what God wants or expects.
They use a man-made measuring system to measure themselves and others to a “self-righteous” standard they can’t even live up to.
They make “sons of hell” more than they are, Jesus said. They set so much “man-made doctrine” on the people that it condemned them as never measuring up to the standard of God or them.”
False humility is not humility it is false, because it pretends to be humble when it wants the front seat and not the back seat in the house of God.
1 Corinthians 3: However brothers and sisters, I could NOT TALK TO YOU AS SPIRITUAL PEOPLE, BUT ONLY AS (WORLDLY PEOPLE” DOMINATED BY HUMAN REASON.
I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you WERE NOT ABLE TO RECEIVE IT… EVEN NOW YOU ARE NOT READY TO RECEIVE IT. (THIS IS SO TRUE OF THIS PRESENT-AGE CHURCH AND MANY OF THE LEADERS)
You are still worldly, controlled by ordinary impulses, for as long as there is jealousy, strife, and discord among you.
For when one says, I am a disciple of Paul, and another, I am a disciple of Apollo’s, are you not proving yourselves an unchanged and ordinary man,
Who is Paul? Who is Apollos? Just servants through whom you believed in Christ, even as the Lord appointed His task.
SO NEITHER IS THE ONE WHO PLANTS AND THE ONE THAT WATERS ARE ANYTHING, BUT ONLY GOD…. ONLY GOD CAUSES THE GROWTH.
Unfortunately at the present moment in the church age” apostolic and prophetic ministry, these words are rarely and faintly heard.”
The kingdom age produces not an “outward unity of working together in work bonds: but it produces a true humility and sober estimation of who we are and who Christ is in us, the Hope of Glory.
Some want to build “something” for the Lord in their power and strength for in it, knowingly or unknowingly they take the Glory that belongs to God.
Paul writes, “He that plants and He that waters are one, in importance and esteem working for the same purpose, but each one will get their reward according to that labor being in Christ.
Why did the word of the Lord bypass the High Priest and the Religious leaders and come to a man who lived a separated life unto God that “didn’t fit the model” of their day?
Because the “model of God” they were building was wrong and out of alignment even though they held the truths of God and His word.
They redefined that word in their minds and understanding to put false yokes upon God’s people to make them a slave to religion and their vision of God, instead of true bondservants of the Lord.
They did that 2000 years ago, and that same religious spirit operates in so many of God’s leaders today to build that same false yoke of slavery to put on God’s people, especially this young generation so they never can see who God truly is, only one made in religious leaders and likeness.
Paul writes for we are God’s fellow workers, His servants working together, YOU ARE GOD’S CULTIVATED FIELD, HIS GARDEN, HIS BUILDING, HIS VINEYARD., GOD’S BUILDING!
When the focus of local churches and their leaders lose this truth and make the mission win the loss at all costs alone as their single purpose, they lose everything in truly building God’s people in true Kingdom reality.
The book of Acts is not where God is bringing us, he is bringing us into the Book of Revelation. The high priest and priesthood were always, “backward-looking” in their vision claiming it was forward-looking to the day of the Messiah.
Yet they missed Him when He came right in front of them. They even called the Messiah the devil, how sick is that?
They mocked him because “He came” outside their paradigms, outside their model, outside their understanding.
They studied the scriptures but never knew Him who wrote them. They looked back to the “glory days of the past” and how the Lord would free them from slavery.
That same “spirit of religion” can permeate leaders’ hearts thinking they know what God is building when they don’t know at all.
They look to past models to build new ones in the same image and likeness. They set up rules in their heart of success that make sense to them in the name of God, in the name of love, and in the name of unity.
Yet, It heaps failure on those who don’t “do what they say, or are trained like they were.” They become hardened in heart to the “true and genuine” new of God, by being deceived by the past “to try to rebuild” that which is passing away.
The only thing God says that is to be rebuilt in the last days is the Tabernacle of David and the true worship and pure holy love ministry to God. Yet that is not even mentioned in their “apostolic and prophetic” building plans very often.
The one thing God seeks is our return to our first love and do our first work of loving him with all our heart, soul, and mind, which gets bypassed over and over again by working harder for God and making new organizations in His name, but perhaps not “BY HIS NAME.” CAN WE TELL THE DIFFERENCE?
I AM NOT TRYING TO BE CRITICAL OF ANYONE AND WHAT THEY FEEL GOD WANTS THEM TO DO, BUT WE MUST DISCERN WHAT IS OF THE PAST, WHAT IS OF THE PRESENT, AND WHAT WILL LAST IN WHAT IS TO COME.
WHY BUILD SOMETHING ON A CRACKED FOUNDATION WITH A MIXTURE OF FLESHLY UNDERSTANDING OF GOD’S KINGDOM AND THE GENUINE?
What will come is a “counterfeit” system that will speak Kingdom, and proclaim kingdom but is really of the passing church age with all its functions.
It is not a “counterfeit” in the sense it is not church-age work they are still doing. What makes it counterfeit is they are calling “the old wineskin” new by painting it over with Kingdom terms.
The system they are building is still “being under men” before being under God though they don’t say that, that is what it is.
Allegiance to men, allegiance to local churches, allegiance to being faithful to a standard of faithfulness measured by faithfulness to men above being faithful to God.
That system has no “room for God” to raise his people differently than they were raised.
They only see through their own lives and how God worked in them, and can’t see the new God is doing with the new wine and new wineskin he is giving to a new generation of saints who are living Psalm 24.
They continually disparage those who don’t “fit their mold” as being rebellious, out of order, and not right with God because they are not “in something” they say is the right order with God.
I wonder what they would have said about John the Baptist? He surely wasn’t raised like the religious leaders of His day.
Did I ask this question in the beginning? Why didn’t the PRESENT WORD of the Lord be heard by Caiaphas and Annas? Why did God bypass them?
The same reason he is bypassing the religious leaders of our day who have God all figured out and can’t let go of what they know, burn the ships of the past move of God, to enter the new millennium Kingdom age of the Lord in its true glory and power.
So God has to raise “new messengers.” Kingdom-advancing messengers and forerunners like John.
The word of God came to John the Son of Zachariah in the wilderness for a reason. THOSE THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO HEAR COULD NOT HEAR.
THOSE THAT BOASTED THEY COULD HEAR DID NOT HEAR. WHY? BECAUSE THEIR HEARTS WERE ROOTED IN THE TRADITIONS OF MEN AND IN THE LAW OF GOD APART FROM THE GOD WHO WROTE THE LAW!
Beloved the mission and ministry of the church age in contrast to the Kingdom age is like night and day.
I thank God for all He did in my life in the church age. He saved me and my family, delivered us, healed us, restored us, and provided for us.
He filled us with the Baptism of the Spirit and released the 5 fold ministry gifts in us.
For all this, I will always give him praise. I thank him for the cross, and I remember it always, but it is not my destination.
My destination is the destination he made for me and us and that was to be over-comers and full-grown sons of God, Kings, and Priests who can function with him now and in the age to come.
The model for the Millennial reign of Christ has never been seen before on the earth, so why are we looking back to that which is passing away and past, when our future is before us?
That is what the 66th Book of the Bible is all about, our FUTURE, which is ROOTED IN OUR PAST, But now is prepared for our function in the eternity of eternities Kingdom of God as we get ready to live and function in the next 1000 years of Jesus reigning in and with His people to transform the whole earth into His kingdom.
Beloved, let us understand the differences between the two ages, the church age, and kingdom age, and their function and purpose, so the WORD OF THE LORD can come to us as it did with John.
John was readied by his separation on to God to “hear the present word of the Kingdom” for His time, and so God is making a people who are ready today, a John the Baptist generation of forerunners that will hear and proclaim the word of the Kingdom for our time.
That word is not going through the palace halls, the church building halls, it is going to the John the Baptist of our days and to those who are becoming one with Jesus as a bride with her bridegroom.
The Present Word of God in its glory is being released not in the church walls, not in conferences or services as we have known them, but through a multi-membered body of Christ being filled with the fire of God’s pure holy love and Glory.
Many are called, but few (will pay the price) to be chosen,
Here are some fundamental changes in function compared between the two prophetic days of the church age and the Kingdom age.
The message of the church is Salvation. The message of the Kingdom is preparation.
The ministry of the church is “whomsoever. The ministry of the Kingdom is to He that overcomes.
The message of the church age is heaven. The message of the Kingdom leads to the Throne of God.
The desire of the church age is for Jesus to abide within. The desire of the Kingdom age, Jesus taking the place as the Head of the Body.
The testimony of the church age is I have Jesus. The testimony of the Kingdom age is Jesus has me.
The church age operates through “grace, gifting, and offices.” The Kingdom age operates under “Government, the 7 spirits of God, and the Spirit of Prophecy.
To “enter the church” we need the message of salvation. To “enter the kingdom, we need the MESSAGE OF PREPARATION!
BELOVED, JESUS MET GREAT OPPOSITION AS HE SOUGHT TO MOVE ISRAEL FROM THE LAW OF MOSES TO THE MESSAGE OF THE KINGDOM.
THE LAW REQUIRED OUTWARD OBEDIENCE. (PAY YOUR TITHES, BE FAITHFUL TO YOUR PASTOR, COME TO EVERY SERVICE OR YOU ARE REBELLIOUS, YOU ARE IN OUR CHURCH TO FULFILL OUR CHURCH OR MINISTRY VISION, IF YOU ARE FAITHFUL TO YOUR LEADER THEN ONLY ARE YOU FAITHFUL TO GOD)
DO YOU SEE THE MIXTURE OF THE LAW AND GRACE IN WHAT THE CHURCH AGE HAS PUT ON GOD’S PEOPLE BY THE PRESENT LEADERS?
IT HAS MADE THEM SLAVES WHO ARE CONDEMNED AND CAN NEVER MEASURE UP TO GOD OR THEIR LEADERS UNLESS THEY DO ONLY WHAT THEY ARE TOLD TO DO BY MEN ABOVE EVEN GOD.
I UNDERSTAND GOD’S GOVERNMENT AND THE FUNCTION OF THE 5 FOLD MINISTRY, BUT THEY ARE NOT POSITIONS, THEY ARE NOT PLACES, THEY ARE GIFTS TO GET UNDERNEATH GOD’S LIVING STONES TO HELP THEM FIND GOD, KNOW GOD, AND LIVE ONLY FOR HIS WILL.
THEY ARE NOT HEADS OF PARTIES, THEY ARE NOT “SUPER APOSTLES” BETTER THAN OTHER APOSTLES. THEY ARE NOT TO PUT LEADERS OVER OTHERS IN THE WISDOM OF MEN AND WHAT MEN HUMANELY UNDERSTAND AS THE GOVERNMENT OF GOD,
THE LAW REQUIRED OUTWARD OBEDIENCE, AND THE KINGDOM REQUIRES INNER HEART OBEDIENCE.
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.
Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. Mathew 5:3-5.
BELOVED, BECAUSE OF THE MESSAGE OF THE KINGDOM…. THE MESSAGE OF THE KINGDOM… TRANSCENDS THE MESSAGE OF THE CHURCH.
GOD HAS GIVEN US A SPECIAL TIME OF PREPARATION AND THAT IS WHAT 2020-2022 HAS BROUGHT TO THOSE WHO HAVE EYES TO SEE AND EARS TO HEAR WHAT THE SPIRIT SAYS.
IF WE ARE TO TRULY ENTER THE KINGDOM OF GOD REALITY AND SEE HIS TRUE KINGDOM GOVERNMENT A NEW JERUSALEM CITY BE ESTABLISHED ON THE EARTH, WE MUST…. WE MUST… HAVE AN EAR TO HEAR….AND A “NEW WINESKIN” TO RECEIVE IT, FOR WE ARE TO MOVE OUT FROM THE GRACE OF THE CHURCH AGE INTO THE GOVERNMENT AGE OF JESUS CHRIST AS THE KING OF GLORY!
GOD’S AUTHORITY AND LORDSHIP MUST BE ESTABLISHED IN OUR HEARTS BEFORE HE WILL USE US TO ESTABLISH THAT KINGDOM AUTHORITY ON THE EARTH AS IT IS HEAVEN.
Much of the “present apostolic church age ministry” is missing these key ingredients and knowing the ways of God.
It is easier to try to fit it in what worked in the past, then seek the face of God diligently to hear the “present word” of the Lord and to see what He is building is a house of living stones being built up into a Spiritual house.
When we only focus “on the local church” as the expression of God on the earth as we have known it from the church age, our ears become deaf, our eyes dull, because of the hardness of the heart that can only see the Kingdom of God from a “church age” mentality and function.
If we continue to stay in that place, though many 5 folds will receive Kingdom light, they will build it wrongly trying to fit it into an old wineskin of local church function under 5 fold ministry authority as we knew it to be instead of the Kingdom of God vision and purpose that is completely different and even better than what we had.
Revelation 4:1 is a key I will end this with. John the Beloved as the “first type” of a full-grown son and overcomer has to be lifted in the air to see Jesus as He presently wants to reveal himself to us as the King of Glory.
John is lifted into a higher place of seeing and hearing so different than how he knew Jesus, he did not recognize who was talking to him or who Jesus was. (Revelation chapter 1)
When Jesus reveals Himself in “ a new way and a new place” and John is open to hearing Jesus like that, He is now ready like “John the Baptist” to hear the PRESENT WORD OF THE LORD FOR THE LAST DAYS.”
Both Johns were set apart alone from the others and it is to them God gave them the present plan and word from heaven to earth.
After John writes down the word to the 7 churches, He is even called to go up higher to gain deeper revelation and understanding and to see and hear, that which is to come hereafter.’’
What John heard and saw, only a few others on the earth have known. He was taken before the very throne to hear, see, and experience all God is and all of what God is going to reveal on the earth.
BELOVED WHAT HE SAW AND HEARD IS NOTHING LIKE HE HAD EVER KNOWN BEFORE FOR THIS VERY DAY WE ARE LIVING IN.
WHAT HE SAW AND HEARD IF YOU READ IT, HOW DOES THAT LOOK LIKE ANYTHING IN THE BOOKS OF ACTS OR BEFORE OR AFTER TO THIS DAY?
HOW GOD BRINGS HIS RULE ON THE EARTH THROUGH A NEW JERUSALEM CITY, A BRIDE ALL ADORNED IN WHITE. HAVE WE EVER SEEN THAT BEFORE?
SO YOU CAN SEE, UNLESS WE GO BEYOND THE VEIL INTO THE HOLY OF HOLIES, AND ENTER THAT GLORY REALM AS OVER-COMERS WE HAVE NO CLUE… WE HAVE NO CLUE OF WHAT GOD’S KINGDOM LOOKS LIKE, ITS OPERATION, ITS GOVERNMENTAL ORDER SO WE WILL NOT BE CONNECTED TO HIM AS A WHEEL WITHIN A WHEEL.
THOSE WHO DON’T DESIRE TO COME UP TO SEE WHAT IS TO COME HEREAFTER AND HAVE BASED THEIR WHOLE LIFE AND MINISTRY ON BUILDING THAT WHICH WAS BEHIND US AND NOT BEFORE US WILL WASTE TIME, MONEY, AND ENERGY AND LEAD PEOPLE FURTHER FROM GOD’S GOVERNMENTAL REIGN ON THE EARTH BY ESTABLISHING A “SO CALLED” KINGDOM WORK.
IN REALITY, IT IS JUST THE OLD WINESKIN OF CHURCH GATHERINGS AND FUNCTIONS AS WE HAVE ALWAYS DONE WITH A COAT OF FRESH PAINT CALLED KINGDOM WHEN IT IS NOT, BUT CHURCH AGE.
BELOVED FOR US TO ENTER THE KINGDOM AGE, WE MUST EMBRACE AND SUBMIT THE TOTALITY OF OUR BEING TO THE RULE OF JESUS AS LORD AND KING.
JESUS MUST BE OUR HEAD ALONE WHO NOW HAS COME IN A END TIME VISITATION TO GIVE US OUR TRUE PURPOSE AND DIRECTION FOR OUR LIVES INDIVIDUALLY, AS FAMILIES, AND THEN AS A CORPORATE EXPRESSION OF HIS BODY ON THE EARTH.
AT THIS PRESENT HOUR, THE LORD IS KNOCKING ON THE DOOR OF OUR SPIRIT TO PREPARE US TO MOVE OUT FROM CHURCH AGE INTO THE KINGDOM AGE REALITY.
HE HAS COME TO REVEAL HIMSELF IN HIS GLORY TO THOSE WHO WILL DILIGENTLY SEEK HIM AND MOVE US FROM GRACE TO GOVERNMENT SO WE CAN FUNCTION WITH HIM AS KINGS AND PRIESTS TO RULE AND REIGN WITH HIM FOREVER AND EVER.
ANNAS AND CAIAPHAS BEING THE HIGH PRIESTS, THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO JOHN THE SON OF ZECHARIAH IN THE WILDERNESS.
LET THOSE WHO HAVE EARS TO HEAR, HEAR WHAT THE SPIRIT OF GOD SAYS TO THE CHURCHES.