GODS COURTROOM The objective of this message is to help believers understand the spiritual reality of God’s courtroom, where judgments and verdicts are rendered in truth and righteousness. The teaching aims to equip listeners with knowledge of how to approach God in faith, dwell in His presence, and rightly plead their case through the authority of Jesus Christ, our advocate. It emphasizes the necessity of repentance, living righteously, and walking in faith to experience God’s promises of salvation, healing, deliverance, and blessing. < Back GODS COURTROOM Minister Lisa Kane February 8, 2024 Objective: The objective of this message is to help believers understand the spiritual reality of God’s courtroom, where judgments and verdicts are rendered in truth and righteousness. The teaching aims to equip listeners with knowledge of how to approach God in faith, dwell in His presence, and rightly plead their case through the authority of Jesus Christ, our advocate. It emphasizes the necessity of repentance, living righteously, and walking in faith to experience God’s promises of salvation, healing, deliverance, and blessing. Synopsis: In “God’s Courtroom” (February 8, 2024), Lisa Kane presents a powerful teaching on how God’s justice operates in the spiritual realm. Opening with Deuteronomy 32:4, she highlights that God is perfect, just, and without iniquity, meaning His judgments are always fair and true. Using courtroom imagery, Lisa illustrates the roles of the judge (God), the accuser (Satan), the accused (us), and the defense attorney (Jesus Christ). Through this analogy, she shows how salvation works—when we confess Christ, His blood covers our sins, and God declares us free. The message then explores how believers can return to God’s courtroom not only for forgiveness but also to claim their covenant promises. By faith, prayer, repentance, and dwelling in the “secret place” with God, Christians can present their petitions and receive divine verdicts in their favor for healing, deliverance, and provision. Lisa stresses the importance of forgiveness, righteousness, and walking in God’s Spirit as the conditions for these blessings. Through examples from Psalms, Galatians, and Psalm 91, she demonstrates how faith-filled persuasion before God brings breakthrough, just as biblical figures pleaded their cases with Him. She closes by encouraging believers to boldly approach God’s courtroom, not as the accused, but as redeemed children who can confidently claim the promises of Abraham and the inheritance secured by Christ. Inspired Teaching: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kane. I'm recording this on Thursday, February 8th, 2024. Welcome. This message is called God's Courtroom. I'm really excited about this message. You're going to be blessed. If you're as blessed as I am, you're going to be blessed. Amen. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word and we thank you for showing us and revealing your word and your knowledge into our hearts and minds. And I pray that we apply your word to our lives and live your word for you are great. And it is not by might nor by power, but it is by your spirit, Father God. And we thank you for your spirit moving forward in us and and to those around us as we pray for them, Lord, in the name of Jesus. Amen. And amen. Amen. Amen. Let's go to our opening scripture here. This is called God's courtroom. Deuteronomy 32:4. He is the rock. His work is perfect, for all his ways are judgment, a God of truth and without iniquity. Just and right is he. Well, well, we are here to God's courtroom. I've had this message brewing in my mind for like three weeks right now and I'm really excited. As I was preparing this the other day, I was like, "Wow, Lord, this is awesome." As you can see though, God operates in a way of judgment. This is who God is. Now let's identify because we see here in this opening scripture he's clearly telling us that his work is perfect and it's which means it's complete. All his ways are judgment and that word judgment is a verdict. So everything he does is through verdicts. So now if you can get God to promote verdicts on your behalf, now that is something you might be interested in. Okay? And that's what I'm going to show you how it works here. But at the same time, he's a god. He's that word a god uh a strength and mighty of truth or firm. He's without iniquity. He has no evil perverseness. He is just and right. Meaning that he has no bias in his judgment. So, you know, it works both ways. You can be saved and be grateful that you got saved, but then he will stand on his word. If you don't get saved, you will not be saved because that's how God works. Now, God is spirit. God operates in the spirit. So, we're going to have to learn how God's courtroom works because it is done in the spirit. So, let's go to here to uh Romans 1:17. For therein is the righteousness or equity, justification of God revealed. He's taken the cover off. And look at it's from faith, which is your persuasion or credence to faith. as it is written, the just shall live by faith. Now, the just. So, obviously, what I'm going to be talking to or who I'm going to be talking to are people who are spending quality time with the Lord and can actually go to God and say, "Listen, Lord, I've been doing this, this, this, and you can be able to persuade God in your faith of the things that you're doing spiritually, meaning you're you're spending quality uh Psalm 91, in the secret place, dwelling in the secret place. As long as you're dwelling in that secret place and you're abiding by the word of God, you're praying, you're living godly and righteousness, you're not living in sexual immorality, you are free from that, then this is your right to your blessings. And I'm going to show you that pathway to there. And if you're listening to this message and you're not living right, let me encourage you to get right with God first. Start with repentance. Second, purpose in your mind that you are going to live in a clean, righteous, godly manner of everything that you do in your sleep, in the secret place, in the public, that you choose God first. You know, seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and then all these things will be added unto you. This is how God works. He operates in faith and in the spirit. So, we're going to see how that works. But I encourage you to be doing these things because when you do this, it gives you the credence. It gives you the persuasion ability to ask God for something which he said he will give you anything that you ask for. But sometimes, you know, Jesus is impressed with just a little bit of faith. And I just taught on this recently about the centurion uh saying, "You know what? You just give the word. You don't have to come to my house. I know it'll be done." And and Jesus was just flabbergasted. He was like, "Wow, this is this is the first time he has seen faith operated." So, we're going to see how faith operates in all of this. Amen. So, we're going to start here in Galatians 3:2. This only would I learn of you? Receive ye the spirit by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith. Now, it's a question he's asking here. Which are you going to learn? Are you going to work walk in the law or you going to walk in the spirit? So, this is God's courtroom. And remember, we're in a time frame of what's called grace right now in and or the Gentiles. Right now, we are in a spirit of grace or a dispensation of grace, a time of grace where everything is done by forgiveness. Everything is done by forgiveness. You forgive, God forgives. Um, and what you forgive, God will forgive. So, you can be saving others around you if you're forgiving them and letting them go. And by the way, it's not for their benefit, it's for your benefit. When you forgive and let go, it brings good health to your bones. But this is how God operates. So, I'm going to show you uh a little bit of how the op uh the courtroom works. Let's read this scripture before I go any further. Galatians 3:11-14. But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God. It is evident, for the just shall live by faith. There it is again, that same sentence we just read. The just shall live by faith. And the law is not of faith, but the man that doeth them shall live in them. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. For it is written, cursed is every man that hangeth on a tree, that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ, that we might receive the promise of the spirit through faith. Now, remember when I teach here and you see the scriptures, the bold word is what's in the King James version. the parentheses or the words in the parenthesis is other interpretations of that bolded word. So, there's just extra things I'm throwing in there for you to look at and get a bit uh a more in-depth picture of the scripture, if you will. So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to walk you through an analogy right now of salvation in the courtroom. Now, we're going to take it further because this message is going to when you see how this operates and it makes sense because it's going to make sense. You is should change your entire life going forward from this point on. I promise you that. And for the good, for the better. Amen. So, let's say and let's identify a courtroom real quick. What is a courtroom? You've got a judge, you've got a jury, you've got a prosecutor, you got a defense attorney, you've got the accused, you have the accuser, and uh you have the law. The law is what we have. So, in other words, if I get summoned by jury duty and um I'm on, let's say, a a murder case and uh the judge is going to tell me, "You need to decide whether it's premeditated, first degree, second degree, or homicide." He's going to give you the definitions by the law that has been approved and you have to determine as part of that jury whether it is uh applicable under that definition. Just because you think it means something else, you can't go by that. You have to go by the meaning of the law in the courtroom. Okay? And that's very critical. That's very important. I want you to understand that. So let's take the analogy of salvation. Okay. So now the accuser, by the way, that is Satan, the devil. He's going to come into the courtroom and he's going to go up there and he says, "So and so did this." Let's say Lisa, Lisa did this, and she did this, this, this, and this. And so it's noted in the books. Because the law, the courtroom keeps all documentation for everything. That's very critical. We need to know that. So, you've got your your accuser who just accused you of all these things. So, now a summons is sent out for Lisa. Hey, you got to come to court because you got some things to um deal with. And uh now let's pause for a moment here. Some people who hear salvation, they say, "No, no, no." And they stay away from it. Think about this for a minute. There are some people who refuse to go to church, who refuse to get saved. That's hogwash. I don't want to have anything to do with that. They never take their summons and they never come in to deal with their sin. These are people who are who will end up being lost if they don't accept Christ. This is where your prayer comes in for those people so that they can be saved because it's by spirit. It's not by might. It's not by power. It's by his spirit. And when you're praying in the spirit for this individual, it there's a good better chance that they're going to get saved. Amen. But now, let's say Lisa decides to go to the courtroom and she meets legal aid out in the foyer, which by the way would be the Holy Spirit. I'd walk in and there's the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit says, "Oh, good. You're here. You got your summons. Great. I'm glad you're here. Um, I know someone who will get you a pardon and you will be clear of all your charges." Now, some people would say, "Hey, that's too good to be true." And walk off. They won't believe it. That's just how salvation works in some people. But Lisa here decides really okay how does this work? So he said let me introduce you to Jesus. So I meet Jesus and Jesus says okay these are the accusations against you and he's going to ask you did you really do these things and yeah I did that. No worries. I've got your party right here. You are going to be cleared of all the charges. really. So Jesus says, "Come on, let's go to the courtroom." So we go up to the judge now. So the accuser reads off the accusations. God looks down at his books. He says, "Yeah." Jesus says, "Uh, he he asks you though, there is something you have to do before you walk into the courtroom." Jesus says, "Okay, I've got a pardon right here for you, but you've got to say you have to speak your confession out loud. So if you can just tell me because see Romans 10:9 says that if you confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord and believe with your heart that God has raised him from the dead you will be saved. So Jesus says now if you want to be pardoned of these sins you have to do it my way you need to say that I am the son of God. I am Lord and that you believe me. Okay I I call you Jesus. I ask you to save me. I ask you to to help me with this. And Jesus says, "I got you. Okay, we're good." Now they go up to the courtroom. So when they get to the courtroom, the the charges are laid out and God sees them on the books and your attorney, Jesus, says, "Ah, I've he redeemed her. She is set. Here's her pardon, and there's no more sins against her." And so now God looks down at the books and the blood of Jesus covers those accusations. And God says, "Oh yeah, there's no more accusations here. You're free to go and the paperwork is all filled out, signed, you get to walk out of that courtroom free. You're no longer guilty as charged. You are free. That's how salvation works. This is how this all works. Now, I want to take you a little further on that and I want to show you what you can do back in the courtroom if you come back to the courtroom of God. This is good. Let's look at Galatians 3:26 and 29 through 29. For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek. There is neither bond nor free. There is neither male nor female. For ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ, then are ye Abraham's seed and hes according to the promise. Now what we know when you read the Bible is that Abraham was given a promise. I'm going to read that promise here in just a minute and then I'm going to show you some other promises. But through faith, because we believe Jesus and he is our attorney and we went and got our free pardon and it cleared us of everything. Now we get to have these promises, all of these blessings that are part to us. Now remember, there are requirements for this. Uh if you go to read Psalm 91, which I'm going to show you in a bit, he says, "If you dwell in the secret place," what is a secret place? you spending time with God. Whether that's in your car, your closet, your bedroom, wherever, it is you spending time with God. That's the secret place. That is a requirement. And then Jesus, of course, gives us the commandment. Love one another as you would yourself. These are things he tells us to do. But here's the thing is when you're doing that, you have the right to the blessings and the promises around you. You have the right to financial freedom. You have the right to healing. You have the right to deliverance. Those are your rights. I did a teaching on the Bill of Rights, Christians Bill of Rights, many years ago. It's in the website. Go check it out. I'm telling you though, as you get in there and you look and see what your rights are, now you get to go to the courtroom. So, let let's identify that. So, let's say you were given a diagnosis of cancer. So, you come back to the uh the courtroom and you meet the Holy Spirit and you say, "Listen, I've been told this bad news and um I don't want to accept it." Holy Spirit says, "Okay, hold on, Jesus." And he sends you off to Jesus. Okay, so now you're with your attorney. The attorney says, "Okay, yeah, I see that they that you've got cancer here. Okay. Um and Jesus says to you, "Well, if you're willing to do this my way, you can be free of this completely. and and you're like, "All right, what is your way?" He says, "You know where cancer comes from?" He says, "It comes from anger, hatred, unforgiveness, bitterness. You you're filled with these things and you've hardened your heart." And he says, "If you forgive and let it go, the cancer will be gone." That that's the truth of the living word of God in a nutshell. And so if you want to be free of cancer, you got to do it his way and you got to forgive and let go. So he says, "Okay, I need to hear you say that." You see, a lot of people run to the courtroom or run to the altars and pray and pray and pray, but they all they're sending mixed messages. They're there with hatred in their heart, but heal me. I want to still hate, but heal me. And that's not how it works. God is saying, "I need you to forgive." So, let's say you decide to go ahead and do that. All right, Lord. I'm forgiving. I I don't want to, but I'm going to go ahead and let it go because I'm going to trust in you because I don't want to live with this cancer. Okay, so Jesus hears you say it. Okay, let's go to the courtroom. So, now you go up to the courtroom and here's the thing. There's there's things that go on behind the scenes here. You see, Jesus now points a finger at the accuser right there in front of God and says he's been lying to her, telling her that she can hate because she has the right to hate when in reality she needs to forgive so she wouldn't have cancer. Well, she just forgave and I forgive as well. And so now I'm declaring that she has no more cancer. So God looks down at the books. He sees all the actions and he sees the justification by Jesus. Hey, and and by the way, the justification by me, I can go up to him and with Jesus standing there and represent myself if I wanted to and I can say, "Hey, he's been lying to me. I believed him. I believed the doctors that my A1C had to be below this number when in reality it's a bunch of hogwash." Who who decides what number should be right in cholesterol or diabetes? Who gives them the right to say that when our creator is our healer? You see, I'm a Rolls-Royce or a Bentley. I'm not going to take me to a l um a Jify Loop. No offense, Jify Loop, but you don't repair bodies like mine. Mind has to have a heavenly repairer or Jaffa or Rafa, Jehovah Rafa, my healer. That is Jesus. He's my healer. He went to the cross. I'm taking holy communion. I should not have this diagnos uh diagnosis from the doctors. I should not have cancer bec and now I've let go and I'm forgiven. So God hears the credence. He hears the persuasion. He hears the faith and he says, "Granted, you're healed." And he fills out the document and he signs it. And you're thinking, "Really? really. And Jesus is telling you, walk in your faith. You've got it. So, you walk out of the courtroom with your document and you you have no more cancer. You know, I'm just going to share this. Uh, last night I was chilling. I was so cold. I thought for sure I was getting sick. And I said, "No, I refuse to be sick. I refuse it. I'm not going to get sick." Got up this morning. My throat was really starting to hurt. I took some lemon honey. Of course, I've been praying. I've been pray. I was praying so much yesterday. of praying today and I said I refused to get sick. Got up, did my prayers, took my shower, got dressed, had my most of my day, went out shopping, what have you, and look it, I'm perfectly fine because I know that I have already been standing in the righteousness of God, already dwelling in the secret place, already praying. So my faith when I say I'm not going to get sick, that's going to God saying I can't get sick because I'm in your light and your light shines through me and darkness and sickness can't reside in light. That's biblical principles. And you see that is justification to my healing. And he signs the document and I walk out. Now remember there's a delay. We're dealing with spiritual principles here. Remember when Daniel prayed and he was asking for an interpretation of the vision that he had? It took 21 days for the angel to come and talk to him. So you see God already sends you your healing. It may take two weeks, one day, one hour, it could take four weeks, but you don't give up. You keep standing on that because you got your documentation. That's very key. That's very important that you know that and that you walk with that. Now, let's go look at the the promise given to Abraham because I want you to see how this works because this is where the the rubber meets the road, if you will. This is Genesis 12:es 1-3. Now the Lord has said unto Abram, "Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house unto a land that I will show thee, and I will make to of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great, and thou shalt be a blessing, and I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that cursth thee, and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed." Now, you're already seeing this happen. Anyone who's cursing Israel has a curse on them. Anyone who blesses Israel has a blessing on them. So principle or a principle doesn't have to be number one or number 20. There's no particular order here. You need to bless Israel. So as you bless Israel, guess what? You've got God's blessings on you. When you believe in God and you know that the nation of Israel is his chosen people and he grafted you in because he adopted you because you're saved. Now you're part of Israel. That is part you're part of it. You see, we may live in grace and we may be living under the holiness of the name of Jesus Christ, but Jesus comes from the line of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And that Israel has the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And that means we're part of Israel. Just because they rejected Jesus as their Messiah doesn't mean that we're not the same. We are the same. It is a complete full picture. The difference is we're accepting Jesus as our Messiah. But if you're praying for Jerusalem, you're praying for Israel, you're praying for the hedge of protection to be around them, you're asking the Lord to bless them, he will bless you as a result. So that's blessings number one, if you will, number 20. However you bless Israel, you will have the blessings on your life. That is a promise. And by the way, you don't have to believe be a believer in God to have blessings on you from God over Israel. You can be somebody high up and have favor over Israel. just because you like the people for whatever reason. Obviously, I'm thinking that might be the Holy Spirit talking there. But if you have that uh on you, you you have a sympathy for them, you will be blessed. It doesn't matter if you're a believer or not, that blessing's already there. So, I I want to build your faith. Now I want to show you how you can go to the Lord and persuade the Lord in the courtroom of God. Why you should be healed. Why you should have financial restitution. Why you should be financially established and blessed. Because if you are of God, you are never poor. You are never destitute. God always takes care of his own. Amen. And I want you to understand that. So, he's giving you the ability. Now, he might be teaching you a principle here of how to deal with it. But if you're going to the courtroom of God and you're getting that documentation, you're walking out with your blessing. And it may take a few weeks, but you will have it in the name of Jesus. Amen. Psalm 64-5. Return, O Lord. Deliver my soul, oh, save me for thy mercy's sake. For in death there is no remembrance of thee. In the grave, who shall give thee thanks? Here's an example of a psalmist who went to the courtroom of God and used his faith to tell God why he should be delivered. He's saying, "Look, Lord, there there's no remembrance of you of uh in the grave. You know, I I can't remember you there being part of the world of the dead." So, he's saying in faith, I need you to deliver me. What did he ask for? He says, "Turn back to me, oh Lord. Deliver me. Deliver my soul. save me for thy mercy's sake. So, he is pleading with God in his faith before the courtroom of God. Now, there's more to that. Let's jump down to verse eight and let's see what happens. Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity. For the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping. You see, he has his documentation in place. The Lord has favored him, has heard him, and he acknowledges this. So, he has used his faith. Now, he is saying, "I you you need to leave me, workers of iniquity. I've got my paperwork here. I'm delivered. I'm saved. My soul is saved." Look what he says in verse 9. The Lord hath heard my supplication. The Lord will receive my prayer. Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed. Let them return and be ashamed. Suddenly, you see now he's saying, "You got to get out of here, enemy." And you get yourself embarrassed. be ashamed for accusing me of these things because my soul is delivered. You see, he had faith. He persuaded God. He got his documentation and he went after the enemy. This is something you get to do, too. You can get your documentation. Say, I my cousins should be saved because of everything I'm doing. And I've been praying for them, Lord. And he hears you. He hears your faith. He writes you out your document. Here's your your document. They will be saved. You already know it. You keep, in fact, at that point, you start casting out the demons. You let go of my cousins. They're saved already. Get lost. You have the right to do that because you went and persuaded God and got your documentation ready. This is how God's courtroom works. And you get to operate in that because you're one operating in faith by already praying, by already dwelling in the secret place, by already giving God the glory. Amen. Amen. Let's see another example of this. Psalm 31:9 and 10. Have mercy upon me, oh Lord, for I'm in trouble. Mine eye is consumed with grief. Yeah. My soul and my belly. For my life is spent with grief and my years with sighing. My strength faileth because of mine iniquity. And my bones are consumed. Look at that. To shrink or fail. You're falling. He's feeling in his body. That's cancer, by the way, if you haven't noticed that. Again, you get to go to God and say, "This is what I'm feeling. This is what's going on in my body." Now, look, we're still in 31. Look at verse 14 and 15. But I trusted in thee, oh Lord. I said, "Thou art my God. My times are in thy hand. Deliver me from the hand of mine enemies and from them that persecute me." You see, now he's saying, "You wrote me your document. I'm going to trust in you. I'm going glorify you." Look at this. He even worshiped him. He says, "My times are in your hand. You're the one delivering me. You're snatching me away from mine enemies, from them that persecute me." Oh, hallelujah. Hallelujah. You guys got to get this. You got to get this because he's telling now everyone, I got my documentation in order. My body is healed. This is the faith. And God operates by faith. Remember, it is not by might, nor is it by power, but it is by his spirit, says the Lord. So, if you're going to do this, you need to operate in his spirit. You need to go to the courtroom of God. You need to have your attorney there, and you need to be able to give some good reason why in faith why your cousin should be saved, why your body should be healed, why why you have the answers, and you know it. You just got to go give it to God. Amen. Look at this one. I love this one. This one is my all-time favorite because it gives a good point here. Watch this. Isaiah 54:17. No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper, and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment, making a verdict, thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness as of me, sayeth the Lord. You see, he's telling you right there, you have the accuser going to the courtroom. Look at this. He says um every tongue that rise against thee in judgment a verdict that shall condemn. You see that is the devil because see he brought the accusation to God. And by the way those accusations are true. You messed up. I messed up. But do you see what he says here? This is this is the heritage of the servants and their righteousness is of me. See now you're going to go with God because God is just. He's going to rule in your favor if you are doing these things. Now you go in and you say, "I'm doing these things." So he's saying, "No weapon formed against you shall prosper." It stops here and now. Cancer cannot move forward. And by the way, in case you need a little more faith building activity here in your mind, you can still have that cancer and still be painfree because the doctors will see, well, you have cancer. And you say, "So you see, God can make you live 150 years old if he wanted to with cancer and painfree because you're going to the doctors. The doctors are looking at the lie." But you've gone through the spirit to the kingdom to the courtroom as part of the kingdom of God. You go to that courtroom and you say, "Now I've got my documentation. I'm healed." They can keep saying what they want to say. They can keep telling you you have diabetes. They can keep telling you you have cholesterol. But I promise you, none of it will eat you alive. None of it will be prosperous. It stops. Now, that is having faith and using no weapon formed against me shall prosper. Now, as I spoke to and alluded to earlier, Psalm 91, look at this example. This this is what I'm talking about. He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most high shall abide under the shadow of the almighty. We get to be under God's shadow if we choose to be. And there are benefits to it. Look at what it says. I will say of the Lord, he is my refuge and my fortress, my God. In him will I trust as the psalmist trusted. When the psalmist mo the moment he said, I trust in you, Lord, that was his documentation the faith and God wrote it down. You're healed. You're delivered. He He did this. So here you will trust in the Lord. That's your faith. That is your documentation right there. Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler and from the noise and pestilence. In other words, a thousand will die to your left. 10,000 will die to your right. You're going to see that further here. Well, I may not have put that scripture in here, but that's part of Psalm 91. Read the whole Psalm 91. It's awesome. A thousand will die to your left, 10,000 will die to your right, but it won't touch you. In fact, look what else he says here in Psalm 91. Watch the blessings here going down to verse 10. There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. There's that co. Hey, even if you get it, you'll survive it. And many people had died from it. But won't touch us because we go to God and we get in faith. Say, Lord, I shouldn't have I shouldn't be sick. This is done and done with. And he will do that. Look at this what he says in verse 11. For he shall give his angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways. Uh they shall bear thee up in their hands lest thou dash thy foot against the side. He won't even let you stub your toe. That's incredible. That's because you have gone to the courtroom of God. You dealt with your sins and you got your salvation. You've chosen to live for God. You sought his kingdom and his righteousness. and then everything else comes to you. This is it's simple. Matthew 6:33, seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. So when you start to operate in the kingdom of God, what are you doing? You are praying praying for your cousins. You're praying for your co-workers. You're praying for all your family. You're praying for everything and anything because you're seeking the kingdom of God. And then you're doing it in righteousness because you're not living in sexual immorality. You're not sending me mixed messages to heaven. You're saying, "I am walking in godliness and righteousness." And guess what? He's healing you. Amen. Because he has set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him. I will set him on high because he hath known my name. See, you're recognizing the name of Jesus. And that is where key comes in here. You're going with the attorney Jesus up to your throne room. He shall call upon me and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him and honor. And by the way, that word honor is to be heavy, to make weighty, to make rich him. With long life will I satisfy him and show him my salvation. You see, you will be fully saturated. That's just how God works because he wants to bless you. He truly wants to bless you. Second Peter 3:9, the Lord is not slack concerning his promise as some men count slackness, but his longsuffering toward us word, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. So every time you seek the kingdom of God, every time you're praying for your loved ones, every time you're doing that and you're walking in godliness, that is your faith that you get to go to God's courtroom and say, "Because I'm doing this, Father God, I don't need to be sick. I do not need to be destitute. I will walk in every need being met. I will be satisfied. I will know my salvation. I will have a peace of mind. I will have a joy in my heart." These are the blessings that were given to you because God loves you. Oh, hallelujah. He wants to give that to you. Question is, do you want to do those things? And do you want to go to co God's courtroom, not as the accused, but now go back after the accusations have been removed and come in and say, "He lied to me, Lord. He's telling me I'm sick, but I'm I don't believe it. I'm going to believe you because you're my healer. You see, then you get your documentation and he doesn't slack. You're going to have your healing within days, hours, weeks. You will be healed. I promise you that because that is God's word. Amen. Amen. Let's close in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word and we bless your word and we glorify you and honor you, Father God, for you truly are great and mighty and thank you. teach us how to come to your courtroom, how to go through the name of Jesus, how to persuade you in faith with credence, Father God, that we can say to you why we should be healed, why we should not be destitute, why we should be walking in deliverance, why we should be free in the name of Jesus. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. In Jesus name. Amen. God bless you and I will see you in the next message. Bye-bye. Previous Next Home

HEALING FOR THE BROKENHEARTED part 2 The objective of this teaching is to help believers understand the spiritual power and significance of the anointing oil as revealed in Scripture. It aims to show that through the anointing of the Holy Spirit, the yokes of bondage, generational conditioning, and satanic programming over our lives can be destroyed. The lesson encourages Christians to move beyond mere knowledge into experiencing true deliverance and walking in the freedom, authority, and calling that God has ordained. < Back HEALING FOR THE BROKENHEARTED part 2 Pastor Marcos Marrero July 1, 2004 Objective: The objective of this teaching is to help believers understand the spiritual power and significance of the anointing oil as revealed in Scripture. It aims to show that through the anointing of the Holy Spirit, the yokes of bondage, generational conditioning, and satanic programming over our lives can be destroyed. The lesson encourages Christians to move beyond mere knowledge into experiencing true deliverance and walking in the freedom, authority, and calling that God has ordained. Synopsis: This lesson explores the biblical principle found in Isaiah 10:27—“the yoke will be destroyed because of the anointing oil.” It teaches that Satan enslaves people through conditioning and programming, leading them to respond to situations in ways that keep them bound by fear, sin, and generational curses. Just as oxen are yoked together and unable to move independently, believers often find themselves spiritually yoked to destructive patterns, duplications of personality, and burdens of sin. The anointing oil, symbolic of the Holy Spirit, breaks these bondages and brings freedom. Through examples such as David’s anointing in 1 Samuel 16 and the ministry of the disciples in Mark 6, the lesson highlights that when the Spirit comes upon a person, He empowers them to cast out demons, break yokes, and heal the sick. Furthermore, the teaching outlines three progressive levels of receiving God’s anointing: Asking – receiving personal provision and assurance that God meets our needs. Seeking – pursuing identity, heritage, and ministry, breaking free from generational curses. Knocking – pressing deeper into revelation and purpose, entering into God’s destiny. Ultimately, this message emphasizes that the cross of Christ has already borne the ultimate yoke and burden for us. Through the anointing of the Holy Spirit, believers are empowered to break free from satanic conditioning, intercede for their families, and walk in the victory and authority that comes only through Jesus Christ. Inspired Teaching: you glory and honor. We thank you for your faithfulness, your grace, your mercy. Thank you for your grace, your mercy. Thank you for your anointing here this morning. Father God, I pray that you will grant each and every one of us ears to hear, a heart to understand, and your favor. Father God, let your face uh uh uh shine upon us today, Father God, with your love and your compassion. Thank you, Father, for blessing each and every person that is here today. Blessing every family that is represented here today. Thank you for blessing our pastor, his wife, and their family, and blessing Harvard Christian Center, Father God. And thank you for this great door that you've opened for us here in the Wington area, Father God, to be ministers of the gospel of peace to the people of this community. In Jesus name, we thank you, Lord. Amen. Amen. Amen. Praise God. Hallelujah. As you know, we uh we gone in a path to where we uh uh begin uh uh with the lesson as to what Jesus came to do. He said, "The spirit of the Lord is upon me because he did anoint anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. Uh he came to heal the brokenhearted at the heart of this class." Then we dealt with the spirit of rejection because rejection is the u uh you know, at the heart of of the malfunction of of every soul. And we got lessons one and two on faith there if you want to get those. Then uh lesson number three, which we did two weeks ago, and today's will be on the tape for next week. Then we were talking about lesson number three, how Satan uh the way that that he gets away with what he gets away with is through pro a program of conditioning. he has the human race program uh to do his plan and then and then there is the conditioning that he has to where we respond to situations or circumstances in the way that we're programmed. How many of you here that are married have said, "I'm going home today and I'm not going to argue with my wife or with my husband." And how many do you know that there's a button that can be pushed? There's a circumstance that can take place and you're programmed to react in a way that you don't want to. Now, we're going to talk today about the anointing or the anointing oil. The Bible says that the anointing oil is what breaks this programming and conditioning of Satan. Very important that we understand this. So, uh, pay attention today. Make sure that that we get the understanding. Our scripture, which is one of the ones that I put on the flyer when the class first started, is in Isaiah 10:27. And I want to expound on this a little bit. In Isaiah 10:27, we read, "It shall come to pass in that day that his burden," this is talking about the enemies of Israel at that time, which was Assyria, who was taking uh the Israelites uh captive. It shall come to pass in that day that his burden will be taken away from your shoulder and his yoke from your neck and the yoke will be destroyed because of the anointing oil. I want you to see this because this is very very important. Christianity has a lot of symbolism. God uses symbols to to show us a a spiritual principles because we humans are not conditioned to to accept spiritual principles. This is why Jesus spoke in parables. This why Jesus the things are designed to condition us in the good way to receive and to understand the plans and purposes of God. Here let's say that the burden represents the demonic load that the devil places on God's children by way of his programming of his conditioning. in the little illustration that I used earlier when you say I'm not going to do this and then you are programmed uh or condition to respond to a certain situation. It says that in that day this burden will be taken away from your shoulders. I want you to see this. We are living in the day when Jesus ca said I came to take your burden away from your shoulders. That's what Jesus says in the first lesson in Luke 4:18. The spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me for a purpose. God has placed his anointing oil upon me so so that I can remove the burden of conditioning and programming the Satan has placed upon your life. Yes. Jesus said, "That's why I came." And I want you to see this that we're living in that day. We do not have lessons, my friend. We do not have to respond to the way that we have been conditioned or programmed to respond to anymore. As a believer of Jesus Christ, we do not have to respond to temptation the way that we have been conditioned to respond to temptation. This is what the idea is here. Jesus says, "I Jesus said hay bring your burdens or your cares upon him because he cares for you." There's a burden of sin. See, we have been conditioned or programmed to fear. Did you know that we we fear supernatural things and yet God has given us dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air. We have been given dominion over supernatural things. As a matter of fact, we're far above supernatural se uh things. The Bible says that we're now seated at the at the at the side of Jesus in heaven. We are seated far above principalities, power, the supernatural reality. Yes. Yet we Christians fear the supernatural when we have been authorized to rule over the supernatural. See, that's where the conditioning come from. The conditioning comes through the supernatural reality. This is why you watch cartoons today and I remember when my kids were little and all the cartoons are talking about a sorcery and and all kinds of things. This is why her Harry Potter is so popular. This is why all these demonic things are so popular for the kids because our kids have been conditioned and programmed to respond to certain things so that when WA and and and Satanist and and all these demonic things comes in, they're already acceptable to it. Okay, that programming, that conditioning, it is broken. Hallelujah. By the anointing oil. By the anointing oil, it is broken. Now, the conditioning, the burden represents that. What does a yoke represents? The yoke represents a duplicated personality that the devil is able to manipulate. In our last lesson, we read in James 1:7 and8 says, "For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord because he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways." And we talked that the word double-minded means a duplicate personality. Now, I'm I was born and raised in Cuba, and we didn't have big tractors. We didn't have all of the things, the biggest industry. When I was growing up, I live in a port city, so we ship a lot of uh uh sugar. And the way that they would transport in the fields, they they cut the sugar cane and then they pile it on this huge carts. They would take a a a what do they call it? Oxen or the bulls, a a team of oxen. And what they would do, they take this huge piece and then they put a yolk. A yolk is a huge heavy piece of wood like and what it does is they put it on the neck of this bull and they put on the neck of this bull and now they're yolked together. They cannot move independent of one another. What what what one does the other one does and the burden is the thing that they were trailing and they were going and then somebody was able to drive these animals and was able to lead them without being independent of one another. How many of us here can truly say today that many a time we walk as Christians but we have been under a yoke of sin to where we're led to do things that we don't want to do. That's what Paul writes in Romans 7:20. He says, "If I do the things that I will not to do, then it is no longer I who do it, but that duplicate or that personality that is yoke to me." We are yolked. We're bound to a programming system of the world that leads us astray against the will of God so that then Satan can come in and and and pour out his guilt and his shame and his condemnation. And because of that, many of us then just give up on Christianity. We begin to the fire that one that at one time led us. We begin to get farther and far back to where we just don't want to get involved. We're just on the peripheral. We're we're we're saved enough that we can't go completely back to the world because we're miserable over there. But but we're we're still bound to this yoke that that that we don't want to do anything when it comes to the things of God. We don't have the joy. We don't have the thing anymore. We're dragging this burden. Well, the good news says that the anointing oil is supposed to take care of that. the anointing. No, you see the the the bull or the beast cannot be set free until somebody comes in and pow rips that piece of wood out of an egg and set you free. This is the duplicate personality. You see, just like God created you in his image. Satan has a duplicate of you. a duplicate that is bound to sin and and to lie and to sheep and to mistrust and to have all kinds of apprehensions within it. Jesus says the anointing oil will break you free from that past from the personality from the thing that dragged you down and it will set you into the into the road of freedom. Now you know I'm heavy into spiritual principles. So let's let's look at the first spiritual principle that had to do with the anointing oil. And we'll find out on 1st Samuel 16:13. What is it about the anointing oil? And this is why I like to always every every chance I get to pray for somebody, I like to use the oil because it's the the symbolism that it has. 1st Samuel 16:13. Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him David in the midst of his brothers. And watch what happened when that horn of oil was poured upon David's head. And the spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel arose and went to run. What happened when the anointing oil fell on the head of David? What does it say? Spirit of the Lord. The spirit of the Lord. What did the spirit of the Lord do? He came upon who? David. And he did not leave. I want you to see that. It says, "And the spirit of the Lord came upon David." From when? From that day forward. I want you to know that David committed a lot of bad deeds from that time. The yoke had not been broken yet. But I want you to see is that now this man was in a position to where the authority or the anointing of God was upon him. Why? Why is the anointing so so so important in see in the spirit realm things work different than than they do in in in the natural. And we need to to understand that the anointing once you have been anointed by God there is a a trail or there is a mark. There is something that we leave that in the supernatural realm is very visible and is very real. When you go walking and praying when you go anything that you do there's a trail. I was sitting back there in the corner where the chair is up by the telephone uh praying and meditating while I was waiting for for the glass to start. There's two hands. There was there were like three tile spaces away. I mean, one probably couldn't see the other one where it was if they could see. And when I saw them, they were going someplace and and it was amazing. I began to notice the lead end, the one that was here was going and it would walk on this side of the tile, would go across, would cross over here, would go like that. Then what I noticed is that the other end when it got to the point where I first saw the first end without knowing where that end had gone or being able to see it, it followed the exact trail of that end. It when it was on this side, it was here, it was here. Every time it tried went to deviate. No. So that like the end that was in the back knew that there was somebody in front and every area where that ant went, it went. Now I want you to see that the conditioner or the programming of Satan has left as if it were a trail for us to follow. I believe the are called generational curses. The trails that your great great grandparents that your grandparents that your parents have traveled we seem instinctively or naturally just follow that same area whether we like it or not. We go and we go and we go. What the anointing oil does is put you into the trail of following what the footsteps of great men and women of God that have gone before us for us to follow in their path. Isn't it amazing that at the time that that happened I was meditating on the very first time that I was called to teach. I was in the mountains pastor HW which his name is right on the sign and I didn't put the thing together until afterwards. And then I was thinking how my knees were trembling, how scared I was. And that when it came to stand because the Lord was calling 10 people to speak at nine had spoken and and they were waiting for one and nobody was getting up and I knew it was me, but I didn't have the the guts to get up and teach. And so I finally I said in my heart, "Oh man, I can't do it. This this is not for me, you know." And then as soon as in my mind with that pastor said, "Hey, listen. we're not gonna have no breakfast until whoever you are gets up in here and teach us. Okay. So, I kind of felt guilty holding everybody back. So, I got up and I remember my my niece shaking and everything. But anyway, and I realized how the anointing that was in that man's life unknowingly is the same path that in the same way I've been following. You you see what I'm saying? So what I'm saying is that what the anointing oil does is when you accept the Lord Jesus Christ, now you have the ability to break the yoke of the past, to break the yoke of the conditioning and the programming that has been set in our lives and our family's life for destruction. And we can start on a trail of blessings and victory that God has given because that's how God has set it up. Uh now look at how the principle work. 1st Samuel verse chapter 2 verse 10. Now this this is what happened when the anointing oil gets set get set up. In other words, the day that you accepted the Lord Jesus Christ, God placed his spirit upon you and that now has given you the opportunity to come under this anointing. 1st Samuel 2:10, the adversaries of the Lord shall be broken in pieces. Now, remember, keep keep in mind the yoke. The yoke is a very very heavy instrument. I mean, it's a piece of wood that is solid. It's it's something that they can place upon the neck of of of the animal. And once the thing is locked up, I don't care how strong that bull is that can pull tons and tons of stuff. He can't break off of it. I want you to see this because that is the burden of sin that each individual comes to comes with when he comes to the Lord. When you came to the Lord Jesus Christ, all of the sin nature was still there. You are a new creation in the spirit. That's where the anointing takes place. But that yoke is still there. But the principle of God says it is the anointing oil of the Lord that breaks to pieces the the the the yoke of the adversary. The adversary is Satan. Satan is the one that has causes to do that. But this is a principle work 1 Samuel 2:10. The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken in pieces from heaven. He will sder against him because the things that we are bound by are spiritual, are demonic, are from the supernatural realm and they can only be broken from heaven, the third heaven where God is. And notice that it says thunder, thunder can split a a huge tree in half. Thunder can disintegrate to ashes anything. He says God is going to speak from heaven. a a and thunder against this demonic yoke that is upon this the people of the Lord. Says the Lord will judge the ends of the earth. And look what it says. And he will give strength to his king and exalt the horn of his anointed. Of course, that is prophetic of Jesus Christ. But Jesus Christ has made us kings and priests. So that means that when we begin to understand or to apply this anointing that we're talking about today to break the yoke, the voice of God is going to speak from heaven is going to thunder against that yoke that has been placed upon your family and the anointing of God because of the king that we have. He's going to break it. See, there had to be somebody leading the trail. Did you know that when Jesus was going to the cross, he had a joke upon his neck and a burden upon his shoulder? It was called a wooden cross and he bore that thing all the way up that hill. He took that burden, that yoke that was destined for us, and he carried it all the way up to the hill and he was nailed to it. And the Bible says that he was high between heaven and earth on that burden. But I want you to know that when Jesus our king, he says that even heaven silence, everything went dark. But Jesus says it is finished. And when Jesus says it is finished, now Paul looking into the spiritual realm says that Jesus put to shame every principality and every power. He ripped them out of their power because Jesus brought the joke. Hallelujah. with the anointing that have been placed upon his life. But Jesus said, "Now if you take my cross and follow me, I will also break that anointing from your that that anointing that has been placed. Did you know that Satan has a yoke upon your family? Satan has a yoke upon your family? Satan has a a yoke upon your yourself individually. Satan has a plan and a programming against your community, against your church. Satan is very organized and all of the things are set into motion. And unless these things are broken by the anointing power of the living God, then we will be led to drag this burden of sin that has been placed upon us. Now Jesus who is our king, let's go to Mark 6:63. The scripture that we just read in 1st Samuel 2:10 is talking about Jesus. He will give strength to his king. Now I want you to see how Jesus used that strength. Mark 6:13, Jesus sends out the disciples. Verse 12. So they went out and preached that the people should repent. And look at verse 13. the the disciples that Jesus had sent out and they cast out many demons and anointed with oil many who were sick and healed them. Now see 1 Samuel uh 2:10 says he will give strength to the king and exalt the horn of his anointed. Jesus says God said of Jesus you are my king. I have anointed you. I have given you strength. Jesus says, "Go in my name. I give you authority. I give you power over all the power of the enemy. I give you authority." Jesus said. Now, his anointed ones went out and what do they do? They cast out the demon. Now, let's let's stick to the uh uh principles that I'm trying to teach you here. What does the demons represent here? Now, the people that they were preaching to were believers. They were preaching to the Israelites. As a matter of fact, Jesus said, "Go to the Jew first and then the Gentiles afterward." So they were going to the house of God. They were preaching in synagogues. So the demons here represented the yoke of bondage that the people were under. The sin, the Romans 7:20, where it says, "If I do the things that I will not to do, then it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me." the woman who was caught in adultery. Uh uh uh uh the people that that that were bound by all kinds of different things. All of the things represented the yoke of Satan upon the nation of Israel and that is represented today in the body of Christ. This is why Christianity today has such a bad reputation because so many people uh uh uh uh uh Christians are doing so many bad things. Why? because the yoke has not been broken. The anointing oil has not been applied to the situation. But it says that when the disciples went out, they dealt first with the supernatural. See, demons operate in the supernatural reality. So they dealt first with the supernatural. He says that they cast out the demon. Now the Bible says that we have been given authority uh uh to pull down strongholds. You see, when you say to yourself, okay, I'm going to meditate on the word of God and I'm going to identify what the yoke is that Satan has upon my life and upon my family's life. What is it? What has Satan programmed and conditioned my family to do? Think about your aunt. Think about your uncle. Think about your uh uh uh you know grandparents and talk to if you have parents or grandparents that are still well ask how was my your great your grandmother you know talk talk about them and you will find out if you take a little list and you begin to know that in some places it's divorce you will see that divorce is rampant in other words gangs you know administered to people who they're in gangs and their parents were in gangs and their grandparents were in gangs in other ones you know, it was perversion. In other one, there's all kinds of things. And what you need to do is to realize that this demons, as if it were the the the spirits are operating in a precondition or programming, a program is an order of thing. Satan has an order of things set up against us. And it is only through the uh anointing oil that you can break free yourself from that preconditioning and pre-programming and also become an intercessor for your family. Now notice that it says that once they dealt with the spiritual things of it that then immediately those who were sick healed them. You will find out that in many families you have spirits of infirmity that get handed. I mean doctors believe in in generational curses. You go to a doctor and the first thing he's going to do, he's want to know what your daddy, what your mommy, what your brothers, what your sisters, what kind of maladies they have because he knows that if grandma and grandpa and uncle, if they have this thing that you you are in a 70 80% more a higher bracket to get it than somebody who didn't have it because there's an assignment, there's a programming. Your family has been preconditioned to deal with it. you know, whether it's breast cancer, whether it's uh uh uh prostrate cancer, whether it's all kinds of different things is programmed. And I want you to know that the anointing oil and and I'm going to deal with this now in the last half of it. The anointing oil breaks breaks the authority, breaks the programming, breaks the conditioning that you have been set up to to to to give that fruit of. Breaks it off. and he's able to set you into the footsteps of the king to where now you're following what God says about you and about your family and not what the devil says. It's so important that we understand it. But the the question now we want to deal with it and and and if we have time we'll have time for some questions. Uh, how do we receive God's anointing oil that breaks off this programming and the conditioning of the enemy? Let's go to Luke 11. I want to show you something that is new to me, something that that I just come into Revelation. Luke 11:es 9-12 Jesus is talking about a principle that we all understand. He says, "So I say to you, ask and it will be given to you. Seek and you will find. Knock and it will be open to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be open." If a son asks for bread from any father among you, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of a fish? Or if he asks for an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? If you then being evil know how to give good gift to your children, how much more will your heavenly father give you the Holy Spirit to those who ask him? Now what is the Holy Spirit represent? The Holy Spirit represented by the anointing oil. So I want you to see this here that Jesus is bringing us into a place to where he's saying let me give you an understanding of how the anointing oil works because the anointing oil is represented by the Holy Spirit. Remember when the disciples were given the commission go into all the world change the world but they said wait until the holy spirit has come upon you and induce you with power or authority. So this is what we're dealing with. So I came up to the conclusion that there are three levels to the anointing that praise the first level is the level of asking. I believe that we all here today are on the first level asking how do you get saved? You ask God to forgive you of your sins. You cannot be saved unless you are baptized into the body of Christ by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the baptizer. When you confess your sin, the Bible says that the spirit of the living God baptizes us into the body. And this is as simple as level of anointing that put you into a position to where now you can go into the deeper area of the anointing to break off the things that are hidden behind be behind the the things that we don't know. So the first level is asking. Now I want to since Jesus put it in there in the context I want to use the symbols that Jesus uses on the first symbol is the bread versus a stone. You know he says if a son asks for bread uh for bread from any father among you will he give him a stone. Now isn't it amazing that this is what the very first thing that Satan tempted Jesus with. Remember Jesus had fasted for 40 days. He had not eaten anything for 40 days. So I'm sure there was a nice smooth rock that had just the right texture and the right look that look just like a loaf of bread. And Satan use that opportunity. He says, "Now if you if you are the son of God, command this stone to become a loaf of bread." Which by the way God can do. That's no problem with that. But I want you to see that the very first level of the anointing when we become born again, the level that we're all in has to do with personal provision. This has to do with personal provision. And and I want to bring it down to to the level. You will never get out of this level of anointing, the the one of asking until you know for certainty that God will give you what you asking. Amen. That what God God will meet your need. Because see, Hebrews says, "He that comes to God must believe that God is and he is the rewarder of those who diligently seek him." We need to see see without getting out of that first level, you're not going to have an impact in your generations. You need we need to understand it. Is God really able to break the yoke of my neck? Now, when you ask God to set you free, God always answers prayer. By the way, there's there isn't a single prayer that we ever pray that goes unanswered. God answers prayer. But when you ask that, God will now begin to control the circumstances around your life. God brought the Israelites out of Egypt. Then he wanted to take Egypt out of the hearts of the Israelites. And God did something. They were in the desert and for three days they had no food and they have no water and they were about to die. And God was saying, "I want to expose what's in your heart." What was in their heart? Murmuring, complaining. Why did God bring us out? He's going to let us out to die in the desert. And God makes this this statement to Moses. I withheld your food and your water so that you would learn that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. Until we get through that lesson, we will never get into any other level of anointing that the word of God is more to you. I made that statement before and I'll make it again. I can be dying with cancer oozing out of my ears and out of my mouth and I'm still will be saved. He is the Lord who heals me. Because my healing is not dependent on what I can see or what I can taste or what I can feel. The healing is dependent upon what God says. Because if I die then I win. Hallelujah. Because cancer cannot go to heaven with me. Hallelujah. Cancer is of the devil and it goes back to the pit of hell where it came from. You see? So, is that first level of anointing? Is that heater? Is is uh uh the thing on back in there still? Can somebody check? Maybe I think the arrow went on. But anyway, that first level of anointing comes to where you settle not only who gives you the bread, but who butters it. Like pastor Cindy used to say it's not just knowing who who gives you the bread but who puts the butter on it. He used to say that remember that's level number. Level number two of the anointing has to do with seeking. You see lesson my friend. Oh please understand this. If you're not yoke to the devil anymore, you got to be yoke to someone else because you cannot do it alone. See, there's an anointing ahead of us. There's a trail that has been set. It's either going to be the devil's scent or trail that we're going to follow or God sent the trail that we're going to follow. There's no other option. We are destined to be led by somebody that is that that goes the spirit of rejection has such a stronghold on people because of that. It is not until we realize that we belong to something and that now we need to seek that heritage. What does a person that was adopted does when they found out they've been adopted? You 17 18 you found out you've been adopted. you had good good parents and everything, but now all of a sudden you realize that those parents that raise you up are not your blood. And then you begin there's something within you that that just drives you. Who am I? Where did I come from? Why did this happen? And there's a seeking now that that that stares up at first. We need to realize that you see the next level of the anointing. If I am not what what I thought I was all of these years, then what am I? What am I? What is my destiny? If I'm not a loser like Satan program meant to be, then what am I? What kind of a winner? What kind of a victorious person am I? What kind? You see, that is what sets in motion the next level of seeking. And Jesus said if you seek and you're going to find you get out there and you begin to seek you're going to find we you you see God is not going to just drop it in your lap one day. You got to seek if you want to find it. God says I I hid myself on purpose just like a father playing hide and seek. God has been hiding and we haven't been looking for so long. That level of anointing will never be achieved that we seek God into that level. Okay. And then the last one and and this one is is is showed here of a serpent versus a fish. Now I want to use the symbols over here. What is a fish represent of? It's amazing. I went fishing yesterday. We got a lot of fish. But what does a fish represent? represents ministry. ministry. That's what the fish all the disciples of were fishers. He says, "I will make you fishers of men." And what does Satan give? What is the ministry that that Satan gives to to us human? Remember what Jesus said to the to to the Jews? He says, "Your your your vipers, your serpent." He said you go to the end of the world to make a comfort and they can make him a greater son of hell than you are. He says you snakes, you vipers, you brood of vipers. See, a serpent always h uh represents the the ministry of Satan. He's into biting people, killing people, destroying people. Fish always represents the ministry of God. So we have to realize that once the anointing has been placed upon us to break the yoke then we need to realize the seeking part. What is my ministry and the first ministry because the Bible says he who uh who does not provide for his family first is worse than an infidel. That's right. So your ministry right off the bat, like I said, once once you know who gives you the bread and who butters it, now it's your turn to get into that family line. Did you know that there's only one person in the whole Bible that knew who Jesus was? Even John the Baptist, John the Baptist doubted when he was in jail. He doubted, "Are you really the one or should you respect somebody else?" Remember John the Baptist said that? But the Bible shows you one person who knew who Jesus was and his name was Nathaniel, which means gift of God. Nathaniel before Jesus even did the wedding in Canaan, I think it's in John chapter 2, but Nathaniel says that he was underneath the tree. What does a tree represent? The family tree, the generation. Nathaniel was underneath the tree. Jesus comes into Nathaniel. Oh, you know they tell Nathaniel, here comes a Messiah. Oh, he's from Galilee. Nothing good ever comes from Galilee. What are you guys talking about? Then Jesus comes, takes a look at Nathaniel said, "There's an Israelite in whom there is no co, no deceit, no decoy, no duplicate. Here's a man who have broken the duplicate of." And Nathaniel goes and say, "Lord, how do you know me?" He says, "Before Philip call you, I saw you under the tree." I believe, my personal belief is that this man was underneath the tree and the gift of God came upon him and gave him revelation of his uh all of the things that that he was was because of the sins that have been transferred to him to the father. I believe that he probably prayed Previous Next Home

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The Mechanic's of the Day of the Lord The objective of The Mechanics of the Day of the Lord is to equip believers with a deeper biblical understanding of end-time prophecy, particularly the events surrounding God’s final judgment and Christ’s return. Pastor Marcos Marrero seeks to clarify the prophetic cycles revealed in Scripture, connecting Daniel’s 70 weeks, the ministry of the Two Witnesses, and the timing of the rapture with God’s ultimate plan of redemption. By studying the “mechanics” of the Day of the Lord, readers are encouraged to remain vigilant in faith, proclaim the Gospel with urgency, and take comfort in God’s promise of deliverance from wrath. The book aims to strengthen the church’s hope, prepare Christians for Christ’s imminent return, and highlight God’s perfect justice and mercy revealed through Jesus Christ. The Mechanic's of the Day of the Lord Pastor Marcos Marrero September 25, 2023 The Mechanic's of the Day of the Lord Objective: The objective of The Mechanics of the Day of the Lord is to equip believers with a deeper biblical understanding of end-time prophecy, particularly the events surrounding God’s final judgment and Christ’s return. Pastor Marcos Marrero seeks to clarify the prophetic cycles revealed in Scripture, connecting Daniel’s 70 weeks, the ministry of the Two Witnesses, and the timing of the rapture with God’s ultimate plan of redemption. By studying the “mechanics” of the Day of the Lord, readers are encouraged to remain vigilant in faith, proclaim the Gospel with urgency, and take comfort in God’s promise of deliverance from wrath. The book aims to strengthen the church’s hope, prepare Christians for Christ’s imminent return, and highlight God’s perfect justice and mercy revealed through Jesus Christ. Synopsis: The Mechanics of the Day of the Lord by Pastor Marcos Marrero is a prophetic study exploring the biblical foundations, timing, and meaning of the Day of the Lord. Marrero draws extensively from Scripture—particularly Joel, Ezekiel, Daniel, Revelation, and the Gospels—to explain how God’s final judgment and redemption will unfold. The book argues that the Day of the Lord begins with a massive invasion of Israel, orchestrated by God to reveal His power and holiness to the nations. This moment initiates a cascade of events, including the resurrection of the dead, the rapture of the church, the ministry of the Two Witnesses, the reign of the antichrist, and the pouring out of God’s wrath. Pastor Marcos emphasizes prophetic cycles of seven, connecting Daniel’s 70 weeks with both personal and generational patterns of sin and redemption. By examining biblical numbers, feasts, and prophetic visions, Pastor Marcos outlines how God’s judgment is balanced with His plan of salvation through Christ. The narrative culminates in Christ’s triumphant return, the defeat of the antichrist, and the ushering in of the millennial reign of Jesus. Ultimately, The Mechanics of the Day of the Lord serves as both a warning and an encouragement: urging believers to live in readiness, proclaim the Gospel faithfully, and take comfort in God’s promise of eternal life through Jesus Christ. Sample first pages of the Book/Manual: The Mechanics of the Day of the Lord Joel 2:1 “Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in My holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble; For the day of the Lord is coming, for it is at hand.” Italics and bold added as emphasis. Words in Italics added by me for further explanation; this applies to all scriptures in this book. What is the Day of the Lord? According to Revelation 11:18 it is the Day of God’s wrath! When God will judge both the living and the dead, and God will reward the prophets and the saints. Revelation 11:18 “The nations were angry, and Your wrath has come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that You should reward Your servants the prophets and the saints, and those who fear Your name, small and great, and should destroy those who destroy the earth (with the spiritual corruption of their lying wonders and all forms of delusion).” Isaiah 34:8 “For it is the day of the Lord’s vengeance, the year of recompense (wrath) for the cause of Zion.” It is my belief that the Day of the Lord will begin as a response to the nation of Israel being invaded by a confederacy of nations whose leader originates from the north of Israel. God will not be reacting to the actions of these nations, but rather will induce these nations to act on His behalf for Him to judge them on His Holy Land at God’s appointed time. Ezekiel 38:1-6 “Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Son of man, set your face against Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him, and say, thus says the Lord God: Behold I am against you, O Gog the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal. I will turn you around, put hooks into your jaws, and lead you out, with all your army, horses, and horsemen, all splendidly clothed, a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords. Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya are with them, all of them with shield and helmet; Gomer and all its troops; the house of Togarmah from the far north and all its troops—many people are with you.” A comprehensive list is given of all the participants in the above verses who will be compelled to participate in this invasion of the nation of Israel. Why is God initiating this? Ezekiel 38:16 “You will come up against My people Israel like a cloud, to cover the land. It will be in the latter days that I will bring you against My land, so that the nations may know Me, when I am hallowed in you, O Gog, before their eyes.” The God of Israel is going to manifest Himself to the entire world as the All Mighty God when He annihilates in an instant all these nations that set themselves against the nation of Israel. Ezekiel 39:6-8 “And I will send fire on Magog and on those who live in security in the coastlands. Then they shall know that I am the Lord. So I will make My holy name known in the midst of My people Israel, and I will not let them profane My holy name anymore. Then the nations shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel. Surely it is coming, and it shall be done, says the Lord God. This is the day (of God’s Wrath) of which I have spoken.” I believe that the day that the Lord reveals Himself to the entire world will also be the time when the resurrection of the dead will take place, followed immediately by the rapture of the church. Revelation 6:14-17 “Then the sky receded as a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved out of its place. And the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains, and said to the mountains and rocks, ‘Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! For the great day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand?’” As we read in Ezekiel’s prophecy: This is the day (of God’s Wrath) of which I have spoken. Let us read the context in which the sixth seal is opened. Revelation 6:12-13 “I looked when He opened the sixth seal, and behold there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood. And the stars of heaven fell to the earth (the devil and his angels are thrown out of heaven to the earth) as a fig tree drops its late figs when it is shaken by a mighty wind.” Through the prophet Joel a great deal of revelation was given about the Day of the Lord and its occurrence. It was through the prophet Joel that the prophecy that pointed to the beginning and to the end of the church age was given as well. Peter read Joel’s prophecy about the birth and end of the church age out loud on the day of Pentecost. Acts 2:17-18 “And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, that I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your young men shall see visions, your old men shall dream dreams. And on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days; and they shall prophesy.” The first part of Joel’s prophecy was fulfilled on the Day of Pentecost, when the church was empowered to go unto all the nations of the world and bring to them the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. So that the nations could repent before God’s Day of Wrath came upon them. The second part of Joel’s prophecy foretold how the end of the church age would come about! Acts 2:19-21 “I will show wonders in heaven above and signs in the earth beneath: blood and fire and vapor of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord. And it shall come to pass that whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” The Scripture evidence that these signs and wonders in the heavens and in the earth will precede the immediate beginning of the Day of the Lord is overwhelming. And if we are looking for these signs and welcoming them we are assured that our removal will precede the judgment part; for the church will not be here for the Wrath of God, since God has not appointed us unto wrath. We can be better witness to those around us who do not know the mechanics of God’s Day of Judgment. It will be up to those in the church to declare that the end is near! 2 Peter 3:10-11 “But the Day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness.” For two thousand years the faithful witnesses of the church have been proclaiming to the world the great news of God’s salvation through the blood and grace of Jesus Christ for all the lost. But as we look at the conditions of the nations of the world today, they are in full revolt against God and the morality of His commandments. And even His chosen nation, Israel, is in disarray, and there is even compromise in some, if not many of His churches. There is no fear of God in the land anymore and no respect for the commandments that He gave us. But the Day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night on all who do not love His appearing and are not eagerly expecting His soon return. We are commanded to be sober and to be vigilant, searching the Scriptures diligently for in them we find the comfort of His peace in our salvation. Mark 4:11-12 “And He said to them, To you it has been given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God; but to those who are outside, all things come in parables, so that Seeing they may see and not perceive, and hearing they may hear and not understand; lest they should turn, and their sins be forgiven them.” If you have accepted Jesus Christ as your Savior and Lord, you have the Holy Spirit within you and are qualified to understand the teaching of the manner in which He is coming to deliver all of us from the Day of His Wrath, which will be poured out upon those who have rejected the Gospel of Jesus Christ that could have saved them. Next, we are going to teach what happens to those who are left behind after the rapture of the church takes place, and the Day of God’s Wrath falls upon the nations of the world. But first let us examine the mystery related to this seven year period of what I call: the cycles of time. Daniel 9:24 “Seventy weeks (70 x 7 = 490 years) are determined for your people (Israel) and for your holy city (Jerusalem), to finish the transgression, to make an end of sins, to make reconciliation for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy.” When Daniel was a young boy the city of Jerusalem and the Holy Temple in it were destroyed by the Babylonian army, and Daniel was taken captive as a slave. Upon learning from the writings of Jeremiah the prophet that after seventy years of captivity the exiles of Israel were allowed to go back to their own land. Daniel realized that the nation of Israel owed the land a cycle of seventy years of rest, for there are seventy Sabbaths years in a 490 year period, hence why God drove the Israelites out allowing the land of Israel to have its seventy years of rest they owed. Daniel concluded that a new 490-year period had started for Israel when the decree was given for the Jews to go back to their land. Daniel was very eager to know what this new era of 490-year duration would bring upon the people that he loved and the city of his dreams. Here's where you can purchase this book of this book is published: Amazon Barnes & Noble Xulon Press Book Found Here Previous Next Home

MY FATHER, YOUR FATHER To reveal the profound truth that through Jesus Christ’s death, resurrection, and ascension, believers are given direct relationship with God as their Father. The message aims to encourage understanding of Jesus’ role as mediator, the unity of the Trinity, the believer’s identity as children of God, and the importance of forgiveness, faith, and walking in the anointing of the Holy Spirit. MY FATHER, YOUR FATHER Minister Lisa Kane April 11, 2024 Objective: To reveal the profound truth that through Jesus Christ’s death, resurrection, and ascension, believers are given direct relationship with God as their Father. The message aims to encourage understanding of Jesus’ role as mediator, the unity of the Trinity, the believer’s identity as children of God, and the importance of forgiveness, faith, and walking in the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Synopsis: Lisa Kane delivers the teaching “My Father, Your Father” from John 20:17, highlighting Jesus’ first post-resurrection encounter with Mary Magdalene. In this pivotal moment, Jesus declares that He ascends to “My Father and your Father, My God and your God,” signifying the believer’s adoption into God’s family through His victory over death. Lisa explains the power of this revelation: Jesus, fully man and fully God, became the first resurrected body and opened the way for humanity to experience God as Father personally. The message explores how Jesus’ three days in the heart of the earth fulfilled prophecy, how He led the faithful of old from paradise into heaven, and how His resurrection shook history itself. Drawing from Paul’s words in Ephesians 4, Lisa teaches on the gifts Christ gave the church—apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers—designed to edify and unify the body of Christ. She emphasizes that true ministry must be rooted in forgiveness, love, and the power of the Holy Spirit. Finally, Lisa challenges listeners to recognize their calling, walk in unity, and extend forgiveness rather than judgment, for Christ Himself came not to condemn but to save. The message closes with an exhortation to pray for the church, leaders, and the world, living in the reality that Jesus’ Father is now our Father, and His God is now our God. Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kaine. I'm recording this on Thursday, April 11th, 2024. Welcome. This message is called My Father, Your Father. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word. We thank you that your word does not return void. We thank you that the audience listening to this message have ears to hear and eyes to see, hearts and minds to receive and believe the living word of God and to apply this living word of God to their lives. That they walk in your anointing. They walk in your wisdom, knowledge, understanding, and they understand who the father is through this message. Father God, thank you Lord and thank you Jesus for showing us your word. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. Let's go to our opening scriptures. This is called my father, your father. We're going to start here in John 20:17. Jesus saith unto her, this is Mary Magdalene that he's talking to, touch me not, for I am not yet ascended. Or go up to my father, and that word father is means parent, but go to my brethren and say unto them, I ascend unto my father and your father and to my God and your God. And that word god there is deity. Wow. Okay. So let's put this into perspective. You have the the day that Jesus rose from the grave. So he is crucified and he's dead for three days. So the day he's going to raise from the dead, Mary Magdalene is there before the sun rises and she sees the stone is rolled away. So she runs off to tell Peter and John. They run back. They take a look and they leave. She's still there. Well, she looks in and she sees two men in white and she says, "Where is he?" And then when she looks behind her, there's someone that she thinks is the gardener. And he says, "You know, what are you doing, Mary? Why are you here?" And she's like, "Uh, I just tell me where he is so I can take his body. I will take that." And he says, "Mary?" And she realizes he is Raboni, teacher Jesus. And uh he says, you know, touch me not because I have not ascended yet. I I you got to see this. This is so incredible. He Okay. When Jesus came out of the graves, he came out all powerful. He came back to life. You go read Matthew, you will find that all these graves opened up. And on his way to see his father, he takes a stop. I got to go see Mary. I got to let her know everything's okay. I'm alive. And he tells her. Then he tells her to go tell the brethren, his disciples, and the followers, I'm alive. I will come see you shortly. I have to go to the father first. So he made a stop before he did anything else in his miraculous rising out of the grave. He did this. Stop. And he says to Mary, "Look, I ascend into my father and your father and to my God and your God." What Jesus did is he grabbed hold of Mary's uh Mary's hand and he's saying to every believer out there, "Hold hands with me because you're going to see my father who is now your father. My God who is now your God." Oh, hallelujah. I hope that you guys are getting this because it was so important that he decided to stop his ascension just to tell a woman and to tell a woman first. By the way, he chastises his disciples later for not believing. They didn't believe a woman, you know, and Jesus, this is why he went to a woman first. Anyways, I'll leave that in your mind as you think that through. But let's go to Ephesians 4:6-10. One God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in you all. Let's pause. So Jesus is saying, listen, I came to do what my father told me to do. He told me to lay down my life for you and that I would pick it up again. And he did such a thing. Then he's telling Paul is to Paul is telling you straight up look at we've got one God one father of all who is above all through all and in you all. So Jesus you know it is challenging to understand the trinity that there is God the father God the son and God the holy spirit. Three functions of a deity. And here is the most fascinating part. I hope you grab this. God is the father. He never came down to the earth. He Well, he may have came down there. I back up and and recre and correct myself that he's probably come down. But he didn't come down into his creation to die for his creation. He sent his son to do it. So now Jesus when he rose from the grave, he rose from the grave as a man with a new body. The first resurrected person with a first body. And he goes up to God in heaven as a man. He doesn't return back as a spirit. He returns back as a man who has been crucified, who died and rose from the grave. Now, God the Father can look in on us at any time. 200 years ago, 500 years in the future, if the Lord carries that long, he can do this because he's still spirit. He's outside of the creation. Jesus, who is the one who said, "Let there be light." He actually entered into his creation to fulfill the requirements of God the father which was he needed someone with no sin to die for others who have sin and every single one of us have fallen short of the glory of God. We were born into sin at the time of conception actually we are we become a sinner immediately. This is how this works. Well, in order to be saved, we needed a savior. And that is what Jesus did. So now Paul is teaching us that listen, God is Jesus saying, "Listen, here's my God." Because God is God to Jesus as well because he's a man. He's saying he's your God too and he's in you. And so Paul is reiterating it here. One God and father of all who is above all and through all and in you all. But every one of us is given grace according to measure of the gift of Christ. Wherefore he say when he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive and gave gifts unto men. This is the function of what Jesus did because he ascended. He had to go there. We know because he told his disciples, I go to prepare a place for you. and he's there with his father preparing a place for you. In the meanwhile, he left us his comforter, but he was around for 40 days and and showed himself off to more than 500 people. This is how God worked. This is how Jesus worked in all this time and how they functioned together. So today, you and I have this. Now Paul's going to make an interesting point here. Let's go to verse 9. Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended? first into the lower parts of the earth. He that descendeth is the same also that ascendeth up far above all heavens that he might fill all things. So the question then to ask is where did Jesus go for those three days cuz he didn't ascend up right away. He descended first. You see, every person who died before Jesus went to a place called paradise because the first fruit to enter heaven would have to be the perfect man. And nobody was perfect. So they would go to paradise if they believed in God and followed the ten commandments, the law. They met the law. They they repented before God and they had a relationship with the Lord. You can just see Old Testament believers and how they believed. You can go follow David. He's a perfect example of this. So others, they went straight to hell. But Jesus went straight into paradise and took these people out. And when you go read Matthew and all these graves, so let's say Aunt Martha passed away a week ago. You just had her funeral. You're sitting there in your kitchen having a bowl of something and come knocking on the door. Is Aunt Martha, I got to tell you about this guy named Jesus. He came down, he grabbed us, and he took us up out of the grave. And you're just standing there. I could just picture knees knocking, people fainting. This had to be such an extraordinary event that it has changed time altogether. The calendar change was made on his death. This is incredible. His birth and his death. This is such an impactful event. That is good news that we find out that there was a man who was perfect enough to redeem us and save us. This is the father. He he gives the glory to the father because all he's doing is obeying the father and the father says I'm well pleased with my son. Listen to him. So now we get to partner with him and be a partaker of whatever Jesus has. He says I forgive you. Come with me. You get to partake and share in this. Oh, how powerful it is. Let's go look at Matthew 12:39 and 40 to talk about those three days where Jesus was. But he answered and said unto them, "An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign, and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whales, or a huge fish belly, so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. So Jesus went three nights, three days into the heart of the earth. That's where he was. And so when you have a generation asking for a sign, well, how do we know Jesus was real? Well, when you go look at the testimonies that came out of the moment he rose from the grave, the stone is rolled away. They tried to deceive the people. But because so many dead people came out of the graves, these uh historians recorded these things. Josephus and others, they had recorded it and said, "This is what happened." And he packed it everywhere. And Jesus is saying to Martha or excuse me, to Mary, he's telling her, "Listen, this is my God. Now your God." And this is absolutely extraordinary that we get to partake in what Jesus has given for what he did. Cuz I couldn't do it. No, but he did. Oh, hallelujah. Hallelujah. John 8:15-16. Ye judge after the flesh. I judge no man. And yet if I judge, my judgment is true. For I am not alone, but I and the father that sent me. That word judge is to distinguish, decide, and condemn. Now, I want you to see something here. Jesus is saying, "I'm not here to condemn the world. I'm not here to judge you. I'm here to forgive you if you want to be forgiven." That's the simplicity as as simple as you can get for the gospel of Jesus. It is the good news that he came born of a virgin. He went to the cross of his own free will, was crucified, spent three days in paradise, and is shot up out of the grave, and said to the world, "I'm alive, and I'm coming back a second time. Do you believe?" This is the anointing of our Messiah, Christ, that he says, "Your God, my God, my father, your father." and he partakes with us in this. This is so powerful. I hope that you are seeing this and understanding he's not here to judge, which if you're going to partner with him, which means you don't judge either. You forgive cuz Jesus is all about forgiveness. That is the generation we are in right now. This is the time frame we are in now. We forgive. And I'm going tell you right now, not many people can. They struggle with it so much so that they end up get cancer, sicknesses, diseases, die early. Your life should be long and a blessing because you believe. But do you believe enough to forgive and to let go so that your father can forgive you? Oh, I hope that you do. Let's continue on. John 8:29 and 30. And he that sent me is with me. The Father hath not left me alone. For I do always those things that please him, agreeable to him. As he spake these words, many believed or had faith on him. I want you to understand the moment that you believe and you grasp the heavenly father into your heart, Jesus into your heart, and you're forgiven, you are in the agreeable phase to please Jesus. The word agreeable there is to please God. Excuse me. So, you're pleasing God because you're doing the things. You're on the right path. The moment you align yourself with with Jesus, you partner together. He forgives you. You two hold hands. Guess what? The anointing you you walk into this relationship. You are pleasing God. And because you're pleasing God, because it takes faith to believe in Jesus, faith without works is dead. So, you're taking that faith, you're acting on it. Jesus, God is saying, "I am well pleased with you." This is how you move in the anointing of the Holy Spirit, and it's because you have faith. It is because you believe you're glorifying him. And it is so exciting to be able to realize that there is a person who shook the entire world when his blood hit the ground, caused an earthquake, an eclipse, the sun goes dark when he dies. But three days later, he comes out of the grave. And so the sign that everybody's looking for, he says, "I'm going to give you the sign of Jonah." Because Jonah didn't do what God asked him to do. Jonah ran. And so G uh God had to catch Jonah. So he caught him with a big fish. And when that fish swallowed him, several things happened to his body. His body, the acids were breaking down his body, his skin. He turned white washed. Um and he, you know, when he came back out, he was still alive and might not have been able to see, but he looked like a ghost to the people. So when he told Nineveh, "You need to be saved." Guess what? Nineveh repented because they thought there was a ghost telling them who who to believe in. They repented. And that's exactly the sign that he's giving to unbelievers today. Listen, the only sign you're going to get is that you saw Jonah go down and get swallowed by a great fish. And because we know of a person who got swallowed by a great fish back in um late 1800s, early 1900s, he was blind the rest of his life, but he came out and he survived it. But because of what it did to his skin and how he came out of it, this is why people believed. He survived. So when you are sharing the gospel, if you are to anyone, the good news is that Jesus pardon your sins. It's free. You get to be saved. They have the sign of Jonah. Jonah ran. Jesus didn't. Jesus was obedient. But then Jonah came and he did it angry, but he still pleased God because he still ended up doing it. There's like a two-tonone message in there, if you will. Amen. I hope you're grasping. This is an awesome message. John 14:6, Jesus sayeth the name, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the father but by me. So here, you can't get to God. You can't please God until you come through Jesus. You cannot come through Allah. You cannot come through any other means. You can't even go like the Philippines for resurrection day. This one guy they interviewed, he had been crucified 30 times all because of what his he believes that Jesus did. But unless he believes in Jesus, all that act is for nothing. Means nothing. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to the father except through him. Now, when you become a believer, what is it that you're going to want to do? You're going to want to please him. How do you please God? How are you in agreeable with God? What is it that God has called us to do? There are several ministries that we're called to do. Let's take a look at a few of them. Ephesians 4:11-16. And he gave some apostles and some prophets and some evangelists and some pastors and teachers for the perfecting of the saints for the work of the ministry for the edifying of the body of Christ. Now we are the body of Christ. We are part of the kingdom of God. Our hands should be laying on people and they should be healed. We should be casting out devils. We should be praying for our nation. We should be marching forward, praying for the finances of the world. We should be praying for our economy. We should be praying for Hollywood. We should be praying for all of these things. These ministries is what pushes us forward. Let's let's dive into this. I want to look at this a little bit more. They're apostles. Apostles, a delegate or an ambassador. Apostles typically will ratify a city and place a new church in that city and they will bring in a pastor for that church, but they won't stay. They travel. Look at what Paul did. Paul is an apostle of God. He traveled. He didn't stay at the church, but he established it. He also did signs and wonders because he prayed and cast out demons just like Jesus did. And what do we do? We partner with Jesus because my father is your father. My God is your God. And so we partner with him. Now ne not everybody's called to be an evangelist. However, we have I mean apostles, we have prophets, foretellers. Now prophecy is an interesting topic. It's a hot topic now um across many people. Here's the first important thing we need to remember about prophecy. All prophecy in the Bible has been written and established. So, for example, if you're prophesying that the end is coming, well, that's a true prophecy because the end is coming according to the Bible. We know that the signs around the end have not been fulfilled yet. That's a prophecy that hasn't been fulfilled. But if you're prophesying something to the effect like President Trump will win the election or something like that, I find it nowhere in the Bible that says President Trump will win the election. Even if you use Cyrus as an example and you call him Cyrus or whatever, it still doesn't say he wins an election. You see, when a prophet comes out and says something that is not biblical and not found in the word of God or it fits in the word of God, then you have to question that prophet or you need to pray for them. Don't judge them. Don't condemn them. Condemn them because that's what g Jesus doesn't do that. But he prays for them and this is where we need to be praying. But prophets are still part of ministry today. They just have to realize that the word has to come out of the Bible. We can see if you pro uh like for instance Damascus, the city of Damascus is going to be wiped off the face of the earth. You can prophesy that because it's a prophecy in the Bible that just hasn't been fulfilled yet. But you can call on it. These this is coming. Uh when Jesus says, "Heaven and earth will pass away, but my word will not." It's coming. It's a prophecy that hasn't happened yet. You can prophesy. And the end is coming. We know it is. So if you're trying to do the green earth and save this earth as a lot of the leaders of the world are trying to do, I promise you that's against the Bible. This world is going to fall apart no matter what you do to it because it was prophesied that. But there's the office of prophecy. There's the office of evangelists. Evangelists are preachers of the gospel. They're going to teach the good news. They travel and they teach the good news. They're on the street corners. They're out there doing all that kind of teaching to bring people to the good news, to the redemption of what Jesus did and telling the world, "Hey, this is free. Look, you got this. It's yours. You just got to believe. Take a leap of faith." And you got all these people with all the false doctrines and the the ideologies that are in their heads that they don't understand something. Sometimes we have to just purge that out of our brains and just simply believe Jesus rose from the grave and pulled people out of the grave with him. This is all witness testimony at that time. I believe I hope that you do. If you don't want to believe that's between you and God work it out with him. He says come let us reason together in Isaiah. Then you have um pastors. Pastors are shepherds. They are going to lead their church in the direction of the Bible of what Jesus did. So they they're going to be the shepherd. They're going to be there at the hospital with you when you're suffering. They're going to come into your home and minister to you because that's what pastors do. It is very personal of a relationship between the pastor and the congregation. He will be there if you need him. That is what a pastor does. And then you have teachers or instructors. says something I do. I'm called to teach and preach the living word of God. And this is what I do. I break down the scriptures based on what the Holy Spirit reveals to me. And I teach it. Whether you hear it or not, I'm doing my part. This is the calling of Christ. And look what it does. It's for the perfecting which is a complete furnishing of the saints for the work of the ministry attendance service for the edifying or the architecture structure confirmation of the body of Christ. This is how we lay the body of Christ and the foundation. This is how it operates in whole. This is where we need to go because he's establishing the the five-fold ministry here. He's establishing there are gifts. There are other uh things that the um the Holy Spirit grants for the church. You have the gifts of speaking in tongues, interpreting tongues, prophesying and uh you have the gifts of um healing, administrative help. These all these gifts exist. There are different gifts. Sometimes just being at the door greeting someone, how are you? I love you. Welcome to the church. These are ministries of the church. They're all to edify the architecture of the body of Christ. So that we're walking on the foundation of what? The name of Jesus in which we are partnered with. And that his father is our father. His God is our God. Hallelujah. Look at verse 13. Till we all come in the unity oneness of the faith. Till we all get together in oneness. We're not there yet. That's been prophesied. That's a prophecy that we will unify. But we're not in unity right now. In fact, you can go back all the way to the days of the early church. Barnabas and Paul argued whether to take John Mark with him uh or not. Paul said, "Don't take him." Barnabas is like, "I strongly believe we need to take him." They had a falling out. Barnabas and John Mark went one way. Silas and Paul went the other way. They separated because of that. Just little things, little arguments like that will cause this division. It started in the early church. So, we're not in unity yet. But when we will be because we will be because we're going to finally grasp that we follow the anointing of the Holy Spirit that we walk in the living word of God and the word is being revealed to us because knowledge is growing greater today. And we will be in unity as Paul is prophesying here till we all come in the unity of the faith which is that persuasion credence and of the knowledge look at this recognition or full discernment of the son of God which is what I was just saying unto a perfect man unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. So that body of Christ is going to meet that measure. We just haven't got there yet. We need to come in unity. What did Jesus do? He forgave. What do we like to do? Well, we're going to excommunicate or bye. We don't believe in the same thing. Get out of here. The the early church, the Catholic Church back in the 1300s, I'm reading Fox's book of martyrs, they got into an argument. I guess John Whitecliffe came out and says the Eucharist doesn't turn into the flesh of Jesus. It's still bread when you take it. where the Catholic Church was saying no it turns into the body of Christ and the wine turns into the blood of Jesus and you partake and you are taking the physical body of Christ and the physical blood you are drinking it literally and John Whitecliffe says no it's symbol but they disagreed so much that the Catholic Church was crucifying people or killing people for what they believed in and not letting the word of God persevere but for people like this and people John Whitecliffe and others who took the stand finally broke had to get the church out. This is why we have so many denominations today as a matter of fact because of revelation of the word coming to someone and it gets picked up and people believe. But at that time they actually killed people just over whether the eukarist was the actual flesh or not. It's amazing how a little thing like that can be caught up when you're trying to work the Holy Spirit. This is why you see churches fall apart and and partners suddenly hate each other because there's no agreement. There's no forgiveness. There's no letting go. There's no humbling. Whether you believe in your leader or not, if he's your pastor, you need to humble yourself. But go and make sure it's for the Lord and that he stands for the Lord if it's scriptural and you need to pray about it. You don't take the action. You let the Holy Spirit do his part. Amen. Oh, hallelujah. Verse 14. That we henceforth be no more children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the slate. It's like a dice a cube dice of men and cunning craftiness whereby they lie and wait to deceive. That's the thing. So little things like this to step in. Uh there was another Peter that stepped into the Catholic Church and caused a lot of things like that Eucharist being thought of as the physical blood. But as the revelation got more revealed to people, they stood their ground and were martyed for it. That's the history that we have behind us. And look at us today. A lot of people, especially in third world countries, don't have the freedom to speak the gospel. Here in America, I I have the freedom to do it, but the doors are closing more and more because of offense. And that's what happens here. But this is why we need to pray and forgive and let the Holy Spirit do his job. I'm not here to do the Holy Spirit's job. All I'm called to do is teach and preach the word of God. Interpret it and put value into it and share it with you. What is your calling in your life? Let's continue on now in verse 15. But speaking the truth in love. Now if you go to 1 Corinthians 13, the chapter of love. First thing it says, if you talk uh of tongues of men and of angels but have no love, you sound like a clanging symbol. So he's bringing love back into the ministry. but speaking the truth and love. See, when you're upset with someone and you guys are arguing and you're gonna separate, sometimes you just need to love them and say, "I love you and we'll walk away from this and let it go. Let's just continue on and we'll move on to other areas and we'll leave this part. Let's just pray about it. Let it go. Let the Holy Spirit deal with it." That would be effective and that would bring more unity to the church. Something we lack. I, you know, we have a lot of um good teachers out there, good preachers, good evangelists out there who are talking about our government, talking about this that I've not heard one of them say, "Well, let's forgive him and pray for him." I haven't heard that yet, but that's what Jesus would preach and do if Jesus was talking today. Uh but speaking the truth in love, affection, benevolence, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ, from whom the whole body fitly joined together and united. That's what the word compacted there means. By that which every joint supply according to the effectual or efficiently working in the me measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto what? The edifying of itself in love, the construction of the body in love. This is where we're called to do what we're called to do as the body of Christ and as a living organism, as part of the kingdom of God, as part of the church. This is what I'm praying for. I'm praying for the kingdom of God, the body of Christ, the church. One, I forgive us. I have to forgive us because we all mess up. If you go read the seven letters to the seven churches in Revelation, you will find uh six out of the seven letters, Jesus says, "But I still have this against you." We We're not perfect. We're not God. What we do is we partner with Jesus, try to be Christlike. And that takes forgiveness. That takes having grace. That takes backing off from an argument even if you're right. Oh, I hope you guys are grasping this. You see, Jesus says, "I take you to my father who is your father, to my God who is your God." And he, remember, the father gave Jesus all authority to judge the earth. And Jesus says, "Well, I don't judge. I'm going to forgive." Thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah. Oh, I hope you guys are grabbing this and that you walk in forgiveness. That you are praying for your pastors, your leaders, the leadership around the world, for our government, the leaders of the church. We need to be praying for the body of Christ. And I hope that is something that you guys are doing. And I encourage you to do it. Let's close in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word. We thank you for the anointing of your word. I pray that this word edifies one another and gets placed in our hearts that we have mercy and grace to pray forgiveness into the church into the body of Christ into the kingdom of God. And we are marching in the kingdom of God under the guidance of your Holy Spirit, the living word of God through your revelation, Father God. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. God bless you. I'll see you in the next message. Bye-bye. Home Previous Next

REASON TOGETHER The objective of this teaching is to demonstrate that God calls His people to reason with Him on the basis of truth and humility, rather than blind adherence to religious traditions. It aims to show that reasoning with God begins with the recognition of our sinful condition, is grounded in His holiness, and culminates in the necessity of a Savior—Jesus Christ. The teaching emphasizes repentance, humility, and faith in Christ as the only way to be cleansed and made acceptable before God, while also warning against pride and rebellion that lead to judgment. REASON TOGETHER Pastor Marcos Marrero Objective: The objective of this teaching is to demonstrate that God calls His people to reason with Him on the basis of truth and humility, rather than blind adherence to religious traditions. It aims to show that reasoning with God begins with the recognition of our sinful condition, is grounded in His holiness, and culminates in the necessity of a Savior—Jesus Christ. The teaching emphasizes repentance, humility, and faith in Christ as the only way to be cleansed and made acceptable before God, while also warning against pride and rebellion that lead to judgment. Synopsis: This message explores Isaiah 1:18, where God extends an invitation to humanity to “reason together” with Him. It begins with the historical context of how early believers were first known as “people of the way” before being called Christians, highlighting that the gospel was presented not as a new religion but as a more accurate way to salvation through Christ. Reasoning with God is presented as engaging with undisputable truths: mankind is sinful, God is holy, and humanity cannot attain righteousness by its own efforts. Scriptures such as James 4:10 and Psalm 51:17 show that humility and a contrite heart are the only acceptable posture when approaching God. God’s promise of cleansing—making sins white as snow—points directly to the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, who through His blood redeems and purifies believers. The teaching also explains God’s agenda for His people: to live holy lives marked by justice, mercy, and obedience, as outlined in Isaiah 1:16–17. However, since all have sinned and fall short, the only reasonable conclusion is the need for a Savior. Jesus Christ fulfills this role by dying for sin, rising again, and offering forgiveness to those who repent and believe. Finally, the teaching issues a sobering warning: pride is the greatest barrier that keeps people from salvation, and God’s coming judgment will humble the proud. This present generation, possibly the last before Christ’s return, faces a double responsibility—to repent now and escape both temporal and eternal judgment. The only hope is to renounce pride, accept God’s offer of salvation through Christ, and live in readiness for His return. Inspired Teaching: Isaiah 1:18 “‘Come now, and let us reason together,’ says the Lord, ‘Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.’” From the foundation of the church of our Lord Jesus Christ, people struggled to define what to call it. The believers of the early church were not called Christians until many years later at a church in Antioch. Acts 11:26 “And when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. So it was that for a whole year they assembled with the church and taught a great many people. And the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.” Before that, they were called the people of the way—for lack of a better name—since Christianity was never presented as a new religion that they were to embrace, but as a new and more accurate way into salvation. Acts 18:26 “So he began to speak boldly in the synagogue. When Aquila and Priscilla heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately.” Notice how Christian doctrine was based on reason rather than religious precepts; they explained salvation as an act of faith that was based on the fact that Jesus died for our sins, was buried, and rose from the dead on the third day, and that He is now seated at the right hand of God, forever making intercession for all of us who believe in Him. 1 Corinthians 2:1-2 “And I, brethren, when I came to you, did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom declaring to you the testimony (mystery) of God. For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.” As you can see from our opening text, that God is calling us to reason together with Him, and not to the blind adherence of religious dogma. How does a person reason with God? Remember first, that reason deals with facts, so that we need to establish a protocol that is founded on undisputable facts to which we can relate. Though your sins are like scarlet: The fact is that we are all sinners and fall short of the glory of God. We can never reason with God from a perspective of equality, that would be pride, which would immediately cause us to be kicked out of His holy presence. James 4:10 “Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.” Some people get frustrated because they do not seem to get any answers from God when they go before Him in prayer. Psalm 51:17 “The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and contrite heart—these, O God, You will not despise.” These two Scriptures lay a solid foundation as to how we are to approach God in order to reason with Him. First, we must recognize that we are sinners, and that God is holy. Second, that if we come before Him with a spirit of humility and brokenness, He will not turn His back on us. They shall be white as snow: The second aspect has to do with the why are we coming before God. First let me say that, coming before God is always the best move that we can ever make, no matter what our circumstances are. But we need to understand God’s protocol and follow it if we are going to be able to reason with God. What I am saying is that some people only go before God when they have a pressing need that they themselves cannot fix. The problem with this approach is that they want to set the agenda as to what it is that they want to reason with God about. But God has His own agenda for us; He wants to implement in our lives a new way of living so that we can rise to His high calling, which is: Isaiah 1:16-17 “Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes. Cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, rebuke the oppressor; defend the fatherless, plead for the widow.” This is the context from which God issued the promise: Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool. How many of us can keep God’s law? No one can! For it is written that All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean: How do we do that? Jesus Christ and Him crucified! Sound reasoning leads us to the fact that within ourselves we are incapable of doing that which is good; therefore, the only conclusion that we can reasonably arrive to, is that we are all in need of a Savior. Romans 7:18 “For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find.” So far, we learned that God is holy, and that those who follow God must also be holy. We are commanded by God to wash ourselves, and to make ourselves clean in order to follow Him. We are also told that we cannot even do that for ourselves; what a wretched condition we find ourselves in—we need a Savior who is able to deliver us from our filth and make us acceptable before God. Who is this Savior, and how does He saves us? Romans 7:24-25 “O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!...” Jesus is our Savior because He died for all our sins. Hebrews 9:22 “And according to the law almost all things are purified with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no remission.” Jesus is our Savior who not only died for all our sins, but He is also our Savior who cleanses us from all unrighteousness. Ephesians 1:6-7 “To the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved. In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace.” So far reason has led us into the undeniable facts that God is holy and that we are not. That we are required by God to be good, but the reality is that we are not. And not only that, but that we are unable to be good by our own strength. We conclude then that without a Savior we are forever lost. Isaiah gives us the promise that: Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool, but only if we repent and accept His offer of forgiveness that can only be attained through Jesus Christ our Savior and Lord, whose name is forever to be blessed! Isaiah 1:19-20 “‘If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat (be blessed with salvation) the good of the land; But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured (destroyed by your own sins) by the sword’; For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.” The spirit of pride is the biggest obstacle that keeps those who know that they need a Savior, from accepting Jesus as their Savior. We need to realize that it is the pride—and the proud—of this world that our Lord is coming to judge. Without Jesus as our Savior, we will fall under the coming judgment of God. For the preceding generations, their judgment came after they died without Christ. For it is written that: It is appointed unto men to die once and then comes the judgment. What is unique to our present generation—if this is the last generation before Jesus comes, as all signs point that it is—is that this generation will have to bear the judgment of all the preceding generations before it. Matthew 23:36 “Assuredly, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation.” So that this last generation will have to endure the physical punishment due to all the generations before it, while here on the earth, and then, be cast into hell and the eternal judgment that follows. So that there is a double incentive for those who are now alive, to repent and to receive the double reward of salvation and escaping the judgment that is soon coming upon all those who dwell on the earth, to test them. Isaiah 2:10-11 “Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust, from the terror of the Lord and the glory of His majesty. The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.” According to Scripture, there are three major spirits that afflict all the inhabitants of this present-day world. 1 John 2:16 “For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world.” We learn by simple reasoning from Scripture, that the only way to overcome the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes, is by dying to self and living with Christ, through the power of His unending grace. We also learn that pride is what keeps many from humbling themselves before God, confessing their sins before Him, and receiving God’s pardon that is available through our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ. We learn as well that it is that spirit of pride that God will judge mightily at His soon return. If there was ever a time to renounce the spirit of pride and to enter into the Rock of God’s salvation, it is right now before God’s final judgment is unleashed! Isaiah 2:12 “For the day of the Lord of hosts shall come upon everything proud and lofty, upon everything lifted up—and it shall be brought low.” Previous Next Home

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UNDERSTANDING THE BOOK OF REVELATION PART 7 Prepare listeners to receive God’s Word with faith, repentance, and spiritual alertness. Explain a prophetic timeline of Revelation, highlighting the Church age’s close, the rapture, and the two halves of the seven-year judgment (1,260 + 1,290 days). Contrast faithful and nominal churches (Philadelphia vs. Laodicea) and center salvation on Jesus’ deity and atoning blood. Unpack the roles of the two witnesses, the beast from the abyss, the seventh trumpet, and the judgment/reward of saints. Describe Israel’s preservation in the wilderness during Satan’s intensified persecution and connect it to the Day of Atonement patterns. Call believers to live their God-given purpose, overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony. UNDERSTANDING THE BOOK OF REVELATION PART 7 Pastor Marcos Marrero June 14, 2009 Objective: Prepare listeners to receive God’s Word with faith, repentance, and spiritual alertness. Explain a prophetic timeline of Revelation, highlighting the Church age’s close, the rapture, and the two halves of the seven-year judgment (1,260 + 1,290 days). Contrast faithful and nominal churches (Philadelphia vs. Laodicea) and center salvation on Jesus’ deity and atoning blood. Unpack the roles of the two witnesses, the beast from the abyss, the seventh trumpet, and the judgment/reward of saints. Describe Israel’s preservation in the wilderness during Satan’s intensified persecution and connect it to the Day of Atonement patterns. Call believers to live their God-given purpose, overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony. Synopsis: After an opening prayer of spiritual warfare and consecration, the message lays a foundation: Scripture never returns void, salvation rests solely on Jesus’ sinless blood, and religion without Christ’s deity and atonement cannot save. Using the ark and mercy seat as a picture, the sermon emphasizes forgiveness through Christ’s blood rather than human effort. A prophetic overview follows: the Church age (~2,000 years) ends with a visible heavenly unveiling and the rapture of believers who love Christ’s appearing. The first half of the seven-year period (1,260 days) features the release of tormenting demonic powers and the ministry of two witnesses (identified here as Enoch and Elijah) who prophesy until the beast from the abyss kills them; after 3½ days they rise and ascend, accompanied by a great earthquake that kills 7,000. The seventh trumpet then announces that the kingdoms of this world belong to Christ. Believers appear before Christ’s judgment seat—not for condemnation, but for rewards based on faithfulness to their God-given purpose (gold/precious stones vs. wood/hay/stubble). Revelation 12’s “war in heaven” is expounded: Michael expels Satan to earth, triggering fierce persecution of Israel (“the woman”). God supernaturally preserves a remnant in the wilderness for “a time, times, and half a time” (linked to the Day of Atonement pattern of two goats—one taken, one left—and to passages about fleeing through split mountains and sheltering in caves). Typological connections (e.g., “wings of an eagle,” honey and oil from the rock) illustrate God’s provision while the world faces the mark of the beast and martyrdom of those who refuse it. The message closes with a grace-filled appeal: now is the age of mercy. Believers are urged to anchor their identity in Christ’s love, overcome by His blood and their testimony, and walk through the “right door” of destiny for God’s pleasure and glory. Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: Hallelujah. Gloria. [Music] What? No Spanish speaking people here. Praise God. Father in heaven, in Jesus name, I come in agreement now with my brother Fred, Father God, as to binding, Father God, every demonic influence that uh will try to hinder, Father God, us from receiving the word of God tonight. Your word declares that your word does not return to you void, Father, but every time we quote or speak it or talk about it, it goes forth and accomplishes the purpose for which you send it. We declare that we are vessels ready to receive your word, Father God, like water to our spirit and to our soul for nourishment, Father God, for deliverance, for healing, and for restoration, Father God, that we may receive spiritual vision, Father God. The vision of life and hope and liberty and the grace and mercy that you have bestowed upon us, Father God. also that we may have ears to hear what the Holy Spirit says to us, Father God, that we may walk in the path of righteousness for your name's sake. And that you will empower us, Father God, to choose the right door. And we pray, Father, that you would close every door that is not our destiny in you. And that the Holy Spirit will lead us and guide us through that door, no matter how difficult it may be, that we may walk through it by the power of the Holy Spirit, that we may fulfill the purpose for which you created us. that we may fulfill the destiny. For you created us for a purpose and the purpose is to give joy to you. It says that for your pleasure we were created that the things that we do may give pleasure to you, Lord Jesus. Thank you for empowering us tonight to receive it and bless a vision for women ministries. Father God, I pray your blessing upon Fred and Tony and the many that support this ministry, Father God, that it will be a vibrant, Father God, place where life and liberty and all of these things that the Holy Spirit has come to give us, Father God, that may be received. But those who come here, Father, in Jesus name, we thank you, Lord. Amen. Amen. Amen. Hallelujah. Glory to God. If you got the book, we're going to use a lot of the scriptures that we have in the book. Uh we're going to start on page 49. And uh but if you have your Bible, I'm going to be quoting from um from the Bible. And I'm going to start where we finished last week. And that was in Revelation 11 uh Revelation 11 7-10. And then uh we're talking about the end of the um the first half of the wrath of God. For for those of you that that may not be here for the other classes, just get let me give you a brief recount. The church age lasts about 2,000 years. At the end of the church age, there will be an invasion upon the land of Israel. It will be a confederacy that comes from the north. It will involve a lot of the the nations. right now Iran will be one of them by the way that says that the uh the destruction of Israel is very close and that the United States the destruction of the United States will follow that's what he said in the United Nation this madman uh is going to be part very probably of this invasion against Israel so what will happen is God will allow this invasion to take place for one very simple reason most people on the world today don't know who who the real god is. You know there are many gods been preached. You have Buddha, you have Hinduism, you have new age. Even in Christianity, you have many definitions of that. The Bible says in Ezekiel uh 38 and 39 that God is going to show himself holy. That means God is going to choose to reveal to the entire world who the real God is. We read in Revelation chapter 6 when the sixth seal was opened that the sky receded as a scroll and that the people were able to see God in the throne and and the lamb of God Jesus next to him and they said the great day of his wrath has come and everybody ran and hid for their lives because the judgment was coming. So this judgment that God is and basically the judgment is purification. If we look at it from this point of view, it's easier to understand. The earth is contaminated with demons. This is alien, foreign creatures that were never intended to be here on the earth. These are the demons. They're called principalities, powers, a wicked spirit in the high places. These things contaminate mankind today to where mankind is at war against each other and against itself. People kill each other. People hate each other. People do vile things. All of the things are uh uh driven by demons which are under the control of Satan who led a rebellion against God. And one-third of these demonic angels are infesting the earth today. Now the Bible tells us uh in in Romans 8 um 9 in Romans 7:20 uh speaking as a Christian it says if I do the things that I do not want to do it is no longer I who do it but sin that's living in me. So Paul even speaks about a power of loneliness a power that it is within our very uh fiber that drives us to do things we know are wrong. You know we're bound. And it's just like this force is driving. What God is doing during this seven-year period is cleansing the earth. At the end of the seven-year period, an angel comes down with a great chain bind Satan and locks him up in the bottomless pit with every demon that has been uh bound there from that time. So, we saw that there were two types of churches at the time of this trumpet blowing when this uh uh when the heavens are going to part. One is called the Philadelphia church. The Philadelphia church has two qualities. And because of those two qualities, God says, "I will keep you from the hour that is coming to test all of the inhabitants of the earth." The quality was is that we believe in the word of God and that we did not deny his name. See, there are many people today that quote the Bible but don't really believe it. They they they say, "Yeah, we believe Jesus was a good man, but demons, h there's no such thing. Yeah, we believe that Jesus was a good man, but healing people that were blind." No, that was just they were peasants. What did they know? They wasn't really blind when they got there. This is what they'll tell you. They teach you this in in liberal theology. And when it comes about the deity, ah uh no, you know, Joseph messed around with Mary and so Jesus was born out of that. So Jesus is a good man in their eyes. He did good thing but he's not either God nor savior because see if he was born of Joseph he's infected with sin just as we are because the reason why we sin is because we inherited. Guess what? Your parents sin. David said in sin my mother did conceive me when he was repenting of of a sin of lust and and and adultery and all the things said in he says I was conceiving sin. And so as you can see this sinful nature that we have God is going to remove it by simply people who believe in the word of God and in the blood of Jesus to cleanse. You see the only thing that can take away our sins is the blood of Jesus. That's why Jesus had to die. When Jesus died on the cross you you see God when he gave the law he said the soul that sinnth shall surely die. And God says that the life is in the blood. So death meaning your blood has to be shed. That's that's what what a criminal does when when when they kill him. The blood is where the life is at. So the blood is run out of it. So when Jesus died on the cross and he was bleeding from the head because he had thorns on the head. He was bleeding from the wrist because they have pierced his hand. He was bleeding from his uh feet because they have pierced his feet. He was bleeding from his back because they beaten and had all kinds of stripes on the back. And then he was uh uh bleeding from the pierce. They pierced his heart with a spear. When Jesus was bleeding from every extremity, every part of the body, torso, head, extremity, when he was bleeding, his blood, which is pure blood, was sufficient before God to take away all of the sin. So when we accept Jesus as our savior, you see in in the ark of the covenant which is a picture up in there in the middle in the ark of a covenant the law that says the short that the soul that sin is shall surely be cut off was placed in here. This is a box made of gold and had the little top and this law was placed in there the books of Moses. This up here is called the mercy seat. So when you would apply blood to the mercy seat, the angels here represent God looking down, the God could see through the top and could see the sins. The law says you shall die. But when the blood was poured out, the blood covered the law. It says that blood already uh h uh paid for the sin. So the people in the Old Testament had to offer a sacrifice, a lamb that was spotless, that had no no no blemishes on it. And that blood pointed out to when the lamb of God would take away the sins of the world. So that when Jesus came and he died on the cross, now when I come to the mercy sinner, I said, "Lord, forgive me for I have sinned." The law says to all the sinner shall surely die. So I am to be killed. But then the blood of Jesus who was taken by the eternal spirit when he was on the cross, it was placed in the heavenly ark and was placed up in there. The blood of Jesus now covers me. When I throw myself in the mercy seat of God, I come before the mercy seat of God. God looks and instead of seeing me and seeing the law, he sees the blood. Amen. You see, and if I believe that, if I fall to that, I am not righteous because anything I have done, but by the grace of God and I believe his word, and I believe his atonement, and I believe that Jesus had to be pure and holy, the son of God, conceived by the spirit of God, human, because he was placed in the in in the womb. And now we know today that you can take a a female egg and you can fertilize it with a sperm. That's what God did. Except instead of injecting a Joseph or any man thing, it was God. The very same breath that he spoke in the Garden of Eden when he created Adam, he placed that breath in in in in the ovary of Mary. And that which was conceived was totally human. But his blood was pure because a fetus does not get any blood from the mother at all. The blood of a spirit fetus come from the father. Being that his father wasn't Joseph, that his father was God. His blood was pure. And so when he shed his blood, guess what? Boom. I am saved. Why? Because his blood is my life now. Okay. Now there's another church we're told. And the church of the church of Leo and the sin of this church is that in Revelation 3:20, Jesus stands the at the door of this church. He says, "I stand at the door and knock." Means this church, Jesus is out. And you know why Jesus is out? Because that type of church doesn't believe there's demons. Doesn't believe there's Satan. Doesn't believe that Jesus is really the son of God. They just have religion. And see, religion cannot save. Religion cannot save because sin is deep inside of each and every one of us. And the only way that can remove away that sin is the blood of Jesus. So then we saw that uh before the seven years wrath of God begins on the earth that the true church those who love his appearing. Paul talks about Jesus's return. Those who love his appearing meaning when the uh when the heavens are open and we can see the throne of God and we can see the lamb of God ready to judge all of those of us who have that blessed hope. We're going to get excited. We got to start jumping up on that. What's up? That's what rejoice says. And we got to start shouting. He kept his prophet. He kept his here Jesus here. I'm over here women. And we got to be w just waiting for the angel to come by and pick us up. But you see, the people have been trusting in religion. The people have been denying that Jesus is the son of God and that yeah, no, he his blood really don't take away sin. He doesn't do this or that. those people are going to be left behind because they don't know the real Jesus. And so they're going to have to go through the judgment. And we found out that this seven-year period is divided into two parts. The first half and the second half. The first half 7 years by the way is 2555 days. That is if you multiply 365* 7. 7 years is 2555 days. We found out that the first half has 1,260 days and the second half has 1,290 days. That makes it 2550. So there's five days in between. We found out that when the church gets taken away, not only those of us who are alive and are looking for his appearing are taken out, but every righteous person, every person that died hoping on that blood that come from heaven will be raised at that time. So we have the first part of the resurrection. All of those dead people, Adam will his body will rise then. Abraham, Sarah, David, all of those saints, every person who believe the word of God as it was given to them back then will be raised up at the beginning of this 1,260 days. And God in his mercy for the first five months, that's 150 days. Of those 1,260 days, he's going to release all the demons that are in hell. In other words, this second heaven or the second realm where all of these demonic things that we see their influences today because they're not seen at the time they're going to be revealed. And it says that these demons were given power to torment all of the inhabitants of the earth for five months, but they couldn't kill him. He says nobody's going to be able to die on those five months, which is it really boggles your mind. Can you imagine a whole world with so much stuff and nobody can die? The angel of death is going to be blocked away or something. God is not going to let anybody that. So for five months we or not me I won't be here but the people that remain here on the earth are going to find out that hell is real. And you know why? Because a lot of people 75 or 80% of the people acc believe that there's a heaven up to 90 95%. But very few people believe that there's a hell. And you see, you're going to have God and and no devil. Just like you're going to have no devil and and a God because it's good and evil. That's what Adam and Eve parttook of. They ate of the tree of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. There's good and there's evil. There's God and there's the devil. And they have an influence of where we're going. So because those people did not believe. In other words, they might have believed in God, but they said, "You know what? There's really no hell I don't have to worry about. I just going to live for myself. So what God is going to do during those five months, he's going to allow every human that is on the earth to get acquainted with their demons. Those demons that entice people to do the bad things been all this time. All the time you thought it might have been you, the one that was doing it. Well, if you miss that the rapture, they're going to be released and and you're going to be able to see them. And this is in God's mercy to show you, listen, this is what's real. So then the two witnesses come in and they will be prophesying for those 1,260 days. Now prophesying meaning declaring what the people of that time have to do in order to go to heaven. Right now we know what we need to do to go to heaven. That if you confess that Jesus died for your sin, you confess you're a sinner and that Jesus died for you and you believe that in your heart and accept him as your savior, you're saved. Guaranteed. There's no requirement. You don't have to be a PhD on nothing. All you have to do is believe. God has given everybody this a a seed of faith to believe on that. Now, these people are going to be told what they need to do. And this is the message of the two witnesses. And when the two witnesses are given the message, it comes from the voice of seven thunders. As the seven thunders utter their voices, John is told not to write what they say. That means that we don't know. So if you say now, well, if I miss a rapture, I'll do such and such. Why would you want to meet your demon for five months? I'm not that crazy, you know. Leave him here. I'm going to go up on the boat. But anyway, if somebody would think like that, uh, we're not told what they need to do at that time to get saved. This is sealed. This is not going to be revealed until after we are taken out. Now this this uh uh uh people are going to have good news and bad news. He says, "I took the scroll." This is what they were the message. When I took it in my mouth was sweet as honey, but when it got to my stomach, it was bitter. It was sour. This is a a type of to saying good news and bad news. The two witnesses are going to come in and says, "I got good news and I got bad news." The good news is you can still make it to heaven. And everybody said, "Hallelujah." And they said, "The bad news is you got to die." Why? Because you missed it. You You missed the grace of God. The grace ends when the trumpet blows and we're taken up. So the second half, God is now dealing with the law. So at the end of the 1,260 days, this is when the law ends. And this is what we're going to pick up. So I just kind of gave you an abbreviated version of what we've been teaching so far. Revelation 11 verse 7-10. And if you got the book, we're on page 49. It says, "When they finish their testimony, the beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit will make war against them, overcome them, and kill them, and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city, which is spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. Then those from the peoples, tribes, tongs, and nations will see their dead bodies for three and a half days and not allow their dead bodies to be put into graves. And those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them, make merry, and send gifts to one another because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth. They blamed these two prophets for releasing the demons and and for doing all of the things that they were do, trying to convince them that they can still make it. Now notice that the person that kills them is called a beast that ascended out of the bottomless pit. Everybody know it's the antichrist, but you hear a lot of stuff today about the antichrist is Henry Kissinger or they're always looking for a guy somewhere in the world that would fit, you know, maybe is uh Obama or McCain or Bush. They're always looking for for some world leader that's going to fit that. He comes out of the pit. How much more clear can you get than that? This guy comes out of the pit. What pit are you talking about? The pit of hell. That's where he comes out of. He is, you see here, I got to identify who are the two witnesses. Well, the two witnesses is Enoch and Elijah. Now, why are this the two witnesses? Well, Enoch never die and Elisha never die. And the word of God says very clearly that it is appointed unto men once to die. Then comes the judgment. These two were taken up to heaven and never die. That violates the law of God. So they had to come back down to the earth to do what? To die. We just read. That's what they did. Well, in the same way, you know how long Enoch has been in heaven? He was taken up there about 700 years after Adam. So, Adam uh so we have a uh let me see two to three is one to four five six he's been up in there about 4,300 years you know and he won't be a second older when he comes down because in heaven he's at the center of time Jesus says I am the I am the I am is at the center of time everything moves around him but it's he's ever present so you're next to Jesus and you're ever present as a matter of fact in in in in the temple where the ark is there's a manora like this and you see this in Zechariah and there's another olive tree and another olive tree which is who the two witnesses are standing right next to the spirit of God that's the spirit that burns eternal they're standing in eternity and they're there for a purpose and they come in for this purpose this purpose is for them to preach the word of God to the world for 1,260 days now Satan is an imitator everything that God does. Satan does. See, Satan is not an originator. He's not a creator. He is just the opposite of everything that God is. He has no new thing of his own. The same thing Satan is tempting you with now. He tempted your parents, your grandparents, your great-grandparents. Go all the way back up to Adam. He still had the same lure. Getting old, but you know, this is what it does. He had nothing new. It's the same thing. So, he led a rebellion against Moses. That's uh 3,500 years ago. He led a rebellion against Moses and and and we'll get to the scripture tonight. And Moses says, "If these two guys die a natural death, then I'm not from God." But if God does something totally new, he takes these two guys alive to the pit to hell, then you know that I'm from God. So here these two guys uh uh Alberam and uh Avatar, who's the other? We'll we'll get to their names. Anyway, these two guys is been down in hell while the two witnesses have been there. When the heavens rent open and the rapture takes place, the two witnesses come down, the earth open up and the two demonic guys open up. So, what you have during this first, 1260 days is a battle between four what you would say immortals. I mean, we know that the witnesses are going to die, but they're brought back alive again. But this this is going to be what's happening during this 1,260 days. There's a battle between heaven and hell. The antichrist was called destroyer, Abdom. We saw him come up when the fifth trumpet came out. Uh the angel that came down had the key to the to the abyss. And as he opened the abyss, all of this came down. And there was one that was leading him. His name was Abdom or destroyer. That's what Judas was the type of just like Elijah was a type John the Baptist was a type of Elijah. Judas was a type of the Antichrist. Okay. Now he comes up and for 1,260 days they're making war against the two witnesses. But the two witnesses have power to bring fire down from heaven and to torment the people. And they cannot be killed until the end of the days of their prophecy. 1,260 days, which is what we just read. We just read in Revelation 11 verse 17-10 that uh as soon as their their testimony when they finish their testimony the beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit is going to make war against them is going to overcome them and kill them because they have never died. They cannot go back to heaven until they die. It is appointed onto men wants to die. When we when the rapture takes place, we don't die. You said, "Well, why not?" Did you know that if you're a Christian, you're already dead? Because when you accept Jesus Christ as your savior, God sees you as condemned. Because all the sin is to surely be cut off. So when you come to the altar and say, "Lord, forgive me all of my sins." You just admit it before God, your judgment day, death. Except God has a lawyer. He's an advocate. He's Jesus. And immediately as you throw yourself on the altar and said, "God, I'm a sinner." And the Lord requires that you be killed. Jesus steps in said, "Father, I die for this person. My blood, which is on the mercy seat," speaks out on their behalf. And even though you're dead, you remain alive. That's why Paul says, "I am dead in Christ. I am crucified with Christ. The life that I now live is not I who lives it, but the spirit of God that is on me." So you see, we go in the rapture because in reality, we're already dead. Jesus said, "He that believeth in me shall never die." And then he said, "Can you believe this?" He said, "Wait a minute. This body is going to die in the No, I'm not the body. This is just a a a tent that you need to operate here on the earth. The body may die, but you're not. The minute you accepted Jesus Christ as your savior, the Holy Spirit was given to you as a deposit, as a guarantee to make your spirit alive. So when the trumpet blows, we're taken up again. So then the two witnesses are killed. Now go down to uh next page 50 and uh look at Revelation 11, 12, and 13. This is following uh from what we were just reading. Now after the three and a half days that these bodies lay up in there on the temple, the breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them. And they heard a loud voice from heaven, saying to them, "Come up here." This is the resurrection. Come up here. And they ascended to heaven in a cloud. That's what the resurrection is. They ascended to heaven in a cloud and their enemies saw them. It says in that same hour there was a great earthquake and a tenth of the city fell. This is important that you see there's a collapse physical collapse of the earth that takes place. In the earthquake 7,000 people were killed and the rest were afraid and gave glory to God. Now what happens over here is everybody that died trusting in the word of God from Adam all the way until when the trumpet blows and heavens is rent open. They even though they're dead, their bodies are going to be resurrected. In other words, you have a a spiritual body in heaven. Your soul is in heaven with Jesus, but you don't have a physical body. Since Jesus is coming back to the earth, you need to have an eternal and immortal body like Jesus has. So wherever the molecules or the atom that your body were made of, wherever they may be, God reconstitute them and makes a brand new body come up. And that body then is the house for the spirit and the soul to come in. And then we're going to be like Jesus because that's what Jesus has. Jesus not only has his soul and his spirit, he has a physical body that's been in heaven for 2,000 years since he rose up physically. So at that time, those who us those of us who are alive and still believe, we're going to be transformed. Paul says that in the twinkling of an eye when the trumpet blows that we're going to be raised up. the corrupt the corruptible is going to put in corruption and and we're going to be transformed in an instant. Now, since that is a resurrection, now during the 1,260 days, a lot of people die. Says onethird of all of the earth is killed. Okay? Every person that dies during the 1,260 days, if they die believe in the testimony of the two witnesses, they have to be resurrected as well. These are the ones that are under the law. Now, this is what happens when the when we just read there, it says a voice, the spirit of God came upon them. They became alive and a voice from heaven says come up here. That is the second uh uh the second stage of the first resurrection. See, God resurrected everybody by grace. Now he gave u the the law and now everybody that died in there is resurrected. So that includes the two witnesses who were faithful to their calling and that includes the the 144,000 as you will see uh uh later. Now, uh, continue on. Revelation 11:14-16. It says, "The second wool is passed. Behold, the third woe is coming quickly." We told you that the 1,260 days were divided into two woes. The first five months was called the first wall, which was the fifth trumpet. The second wall was the rest of the time. So right here, that completes the second world. That means we're coming into the seventh trumpet now. And the seventh trumpet is going to lead us into what we're going in tonight, the second half of the seven years wrath of God, which will encompass 1,290 days. Now, Revelation uh 11:14-16. Then the seventh angel sounded, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, "The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever. And the 24 elders who sat before God on their thrones fell on their faces and worship God." Now, here is God making a declaration. Remember there are three things that God is judging during these seven years. He's judging the church. We found there was one that was faithful and there was one that was lacking. He's he's judging the Jews who have seven years remaining on their allotted time of judgment. According to Daniel, 490 years were uh decreed to judge him. At the at the end of 483 Jesus Messiah came and was cut off. So these seven years are allotted for the Jews. And here the only thing now that is left to be judged is the kingdoms of this world. So God judges the church first, then he judges Israel second, and then third he's going to judge the kingdoms of this world. Now in in in uh the resurrection and rapture of the church, the remember there are seven feasts. you have Passover uh unleaven bread and and uh first fruit. All of those three feasts that were celebrated at the beginning of the year represented the uh uh Jesus dying on the cross is our Passover. He's the lamb that has to be killed. The blood that was put on the lentil and uh and the lamb that they ate to be healed. That's what Jesus fulfilled Passover. When he was buried in the tomb, he fulfilled the feast of unleaven bread. Leaven is a type of sin. Bread without leaven means a body that has no sin. He was dead, but yet he never had no sin. So he had to rise. Then on the third day after the Sabbath, then you celebrated first fruit. First fruit symbolized the resurrection. So all those three feasts were filled by Jesus. Then Jesus told his disciple, go to Jerusalem and wait until you're end with power. And in 50 days from that feast, the Holy Spirit came down and 120 uh disciples that were in the upper room praying were full with the Holy Spirit. They began to prophesy and they're the ones that preach the gospel to all the world. Now, in the second coming of Jesus Christ, the last three feasts are going to be fulfilled. The first one is called the feast of trumpets. Guess what? The rapture takes place when the blowing of the trumpet. And that takes place that feast is fulfilled at the very first day at the end of the church when the church gets taken away. That's when the feast of trumpets is fulfilled. Then after the feast of trumpet, you have the most holy of all of the feast for the Jews is called the day of atonement when the sins of the nation of Israel have to be dealt with. That is what's happening over here in this middle time. God is judging Israel. This is Israel's day of atonement when the two witnesses are killed. And then uh and then the blood has to be shed. Now uh look at revelation 11 17-19. They saying we give you thanks oh Lord God Almighty the one who is and who was and who is to come because you have taken your great power and reign. The nations were angry, and your wrath has come. And the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that you should reward your servants, the prophets, and the saints, and those who fear your name, small and great, and should destroy those who destroy the earth. Then the temple of God was open in heaven. And the ark, that's the ark I just showed you there, and the ark of his covenant was seen in the temple. And there were lightning, noises, thunderous, earthquake, and great hell. Now see, the Bible says that every believer who has already died in Christ must appear before the judgment seat of Christ. Paul says, "Don't you know that you're not your own? That you've been bought with a price? Don't you know that you got to give an account for everything you done in the body after you were saved, whether good or bad?" See, this is not Christians believe that, oh, we're we're good. No. This life that we live now belongs to Jesus. God has a plan and a destiny for your life. And your judgment is not going to be whether you sin or whether you lie or whether you drink or whether you committed sexual immorality. Those those those things already being judged in the cross. What God is going to judge us for is for whether we fulfill our purpose, whether we fulfill our destiny, whether we live up to the reason why he created us. That's the purpose of this reward. He says that everything that we done after we got saved is going to be uh typified in sixth item. He call it wood, hay and straw. And then he calls it precious stones, silver and gold. Now as you know precious stones, silver and gold cannot be destroyed by fire. They can be refined but they cannot be destroyed. But wood, hay and stubble they are burnt. So basically when the rapture takes place, every single one of us must appear before the judgment seat of Christ. And then the books are going to be open. I was born again in June 2nd, 1976. Everything from the time I was born to June 2nd, 1976. 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THE WRATH OF ELIHU The objective of this message is to expose and discern the spirit of self-righteousness, as exemplified through Elihu in the book of Job. Pastor Marcos Marrero aims to equip believers to recognize how this spirit manifests as condemnation, pride, and false authority, and to teach how Christians can stand firmly in the righteousness that comes only through faith in Jesus Christ. The goal is to strengthen the believer’s assurance of salvation, silence the accusations of the enemy, and guard against deception from the antichrist spirit of self-righteousness. THE WRATH OF ELIHU Pastor Marcos Marrero September 2, 2024 Objective: The objective of this message is to expose and discern the spirit of self-righteousness, as exemplified through Elihu in the book of Job. Pastor Marcos Marrero aims to equip believers to recognize how this spirit manifests as condemnation, pride, and false authority, and to teach how Christians can stand firmly in the righteousness that comes only through faith in Jesus Christ. The goal is to strengthen the believer’s assurance of salvation, silence the accusations of the enemy, and guard against deception from the antichrist spirit of self-righteousness. Synopsis: In The Wrath of Elihu, Pastor Marcos Marrero explores the role of Elihu in the book of Job as more than just a young man offering counsel. Elihu becomes a representation of the spirit of self-righteousness—a spirit that burns with anger when confronted with true, God-given righteousness. Job’s steadfastness in holding fast to the righteousness he had in God, despite relentless suffering and accusations, enraged Elihu because the self-righteous spirit cannot tolerate competition with the grace of God. This teaching emphasizes the difference between Job’s trust in God’s righteousness and Elihu’s reliance on human pride and knowledge. Elihu’s own words expose him as a vessel of false wisdom, claiming perfection in knowledge—traits reflecting Lucifer’s fallen pride. When God appears in the whirlwind, He rebukes Elihu’s empty counsel, showing that the wrath of self-righteousness ultimately lacks true understanding. Pastor Marcos points out that the “wrath of Elihu” continues today as a spiritual force. It demands perfection, thrives on pride, and masquerades as divine authority, yet it condemns believers and tries to add self-effort to the finished work of Christ. This antichrist spirit insists on “Jesus plus”—faith mixed with self-righteousness—leading to pride, failure, guilt, and shame. The message contrasts this deception with the truth of God’s Word: believers are justified and made righteous by the blood of Jesus Christ alone. This righteousness is irrevocable, a gift of grace that silences every accuser. While believers still wrestle with sin in their soul-life, their spirit is secure in Christ, seated in heavenly places. Confession and repentance restore fellowship and blessing, but condemnation has no authority over those in Christ. Finally, Pastor Marcos teaches that overcoming the wrath of Elihu requires holding fast to God’s righteousness by faith, rejecting the lies of self-righteousness, and resting in the sufficiency of Christ. God’s love and acceptance transform the soul, bringing peace, patience, meekness, and self-control. Through the renewing of the mind, believers live free from condemnation, walking in the Spirit rather than the flesh, and proving the good, acceptable, and perfect will of God. Inspired Teaching: Job 32:2 “Then the wrath of Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was aroused against Job; his wrath was aroused because he justified himself rather than God.” Elihu was a man that lived in the days of Job, and as we will see, he is also the embodiment of the spirit of self-righteousness. Elihu the man admits that there is a spirit within him driving him. Job 32:18 “For I am full of words; the spirit within me compels me.” The anger that Elihu exhibited against Job was kindled by the fact that Job held fast to his confession of righteousness that he received from God, instead of rather than God as he was accused. And as we well know the spirit of self-righteousness hates competition. Job 27:6 “My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach me as long as I live.” For a while now Job had to endure the accusations of three of his friends, who prompted Job to confess to sins that he had not committed. How could a man so clearly judged by God they figure, not be guilty of such horrible secret sins so that he should confess and repent of them? Elihu, who was younger than Job’s other three friends had to keep his mouth closed and did not get a chance to go mano a mano with Job, so he was enraged at the fact that Job’s friends were not able to break Job’s convictions of having God’s righteousness in his life. What can we learn from this story that will help us overcome this spirit of self-righteousness and self-condemnation when he comes against us? Job 31:40 “…The words of Job are ended.” Job did not know why God had allowed such terrible tragedies to come his way, but he knew that he was not holding on to secret sins that would hinder his relationship with God. Listen to what Job said about his relationship with God in the midst of his many trials: Job 23:11-12 “My foot has held fast to His steps; I have kept His way and not turned aside. I have not departed from the commandment of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my necessary food.” The thing that enraged the spirit driving Elihu the most was the steadfastness of Job in his relationship with God in the face of such relentless demonic accusations. Job was a sinner, that is, like all of us who fall short of the glory of God. The key issue here is that once we enter into a relationship with God by trusting in God’s Word… it is done! Job held fast to his righteousness in the grace of God despite of his circumstances. So, what have we learned? We know that once we settle the issue of our salvation, which is by the grace of God which makes us righteous by washing us in the blood of Jesus, we silence the accusers; but then now we must deal with the wrath of Elihu which is the spirit of self-righteousness and the Antichrist himself. Read what Elihu says about himself: that he is a created entity who is perfect in knowledge, referring to Lucifer who had that position in heaven and lost it after he sinned. Job 33:6 “Truly I am [Elihu speaking] as your spokesman before God [he is more like the accuser]; I also have been formed out of clay.” In brackets added by me for emphasis. Job 36:4 “For truly my words are not false; One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.” When the Lord appears in the whirlwind and confronts Elihu as He was speaking to Job, this is what God said to him. Job 38:2 “Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?” An attack against us by a spirit of self-righteousness is a spirit of condemnation that rises against those who like Job, have made up their minds not to listen to the words of the accuser of the brethren, and decide to walk by faith and not by sight. How do we know when we are contending with the spirit of the wrath of Elihu? This spirit demands perfection that leads to pride, the pride of life. It is a spirit who claims to be all knowledgeable making him a lying spirit who claims to speak for God. That is the spirit of Antichrist itself, for only God the trinity is all knowing! 1 John 4:1-4 “Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of Antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and is now already in the world. You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.” This antichrist spirit demands Jesus plus! Jesus and our own self-righteousness. Which is a recipe for failure, since pride goes before the fall, and after we fail, he comes and accuses us with a load of guilt, shame and condemnation in order to steal the joy of our salvation. Through the All-Sufficient Jesus Christ In Us we have received many wonderful gifts, including a salvation that cannot be taken away, for it is a gift from God and God’s gifts are irrevocable. For we have been washed by the blood of the Lamb who takes away the sin of the world and He has imputed to us His own righteousness to the glory of God the Father. Romans 11:29 “For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.” 1 John 3:8-9 “He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose, the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed (Christ’s righteousness) remains in him and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.” In case you are wondering, there are two different kinds of sin within the context, and if we do not know the difference, we can get confused. The sin that leads to death is the failure of a person to receive Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord, if we are not born-again, that is born of the Spirit of God, we are still in our sins and spiritually dead and separated from God’s Holy Spirit. 1 John 5:16 “If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin which does not lead to death, he will ask, and He will give him life for those who commit sin not leading to death. There is sin leading to death. I do not say that he should pray about that.” For those of us who have been born-again, born of the Spirit of God, our spirit-man cannot sin, for it is seated in heaven next to Jesus, who is seated next to the Father forever making intercession for us. We walk by faith and not by sight. 1 Peter 1:9 “Receiving the end (goal) of your faith—the salvation of our souls.” 1 John 1:8 “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” Here he is talking about the sin that does not lead to death which resides in our soul, our self-life. As born-again believers, every time our soul sins, we have not only the privilege but the obligation of confessing our sins, in order to receive God’s cleansing and be partakers of His many blessings. Ephesians 2:4-6 “But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.” Parenthesis are in the original text After we are born-again unconfessed sins can keep us from walking in God’s favor. But our spirit-man does not sin, for it is seated with Jesus in heaven and cannot be touch by the enemy. 1 John 1:9 “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” The only option left to this prideful spirit of Elihu, after we take our stand in the righteousness that comes from faith after being washed in the blood of Jesus, is to try to keep us from becoming partakers of the many blessings that God has for us as believers of His promises. Receiving the end (goal) of your faith—the salvation of our souls. How do we do that? Our soul needs to know that it is loved by God despite its many failures: The soul of a born-again believer is accepted in the Beloved of God, just as it is! God’s love, acceptance and compassion will bring joy and peace to the soul of the person who is born-again and repents with godly sorrow. Our soul needs to understand the work patience, true faith endures long and does not give up its desire for the spiritual purity it lacks. It holds fast to the righteousness that comes from faith in the spirit of meekness, and desires to be clothed in the virtue of self-control. Romans 8:1 “There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.” Romans 12:2 “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind (Soul), that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” Previous Next Home

ACQUITTED To demonstrate how the prophecy in Joel 3 concerning Israel’s acquittal from the guilt of bloodshed relates to present-day events in Jerusalem, revealing the spiritual dimension behind acts of violence against the Jewish people, and pointing to God’s promised intervention and the imminent restoration of Israel as a sign of the nearing end of the church age. ACQUITTED Pastor Marcos Marrero Objective: To demonstrate how the prophecy in Joel 3 concerning Israel’s acquittal from the guilt of bloodshed relates to present-day events in Jerusalem, revealing the spiritual dimension behind acts of violence against the Jewish people, and pointing to God’s promised intervention and the imminent restoration of Israel as a sign of the nearing end of the church age. Synopsis: Joel 3:21 points to God’s promise to acquit Israel of bloodshed, a prophecy that connects directly to modern violence against the Jewish people. Unlike past conflicts, today’s attacks bear the mark of demonic hatred rather than mere human leadership. Scripture shows that while Israel once bore the curse of rejecting Christ, God will soon remove their guilt, restore their nation, and bring global judgment on those who rise against them. These unfolding events signal the nearness of Christ’s return and call believers to be watchful and prepared. Inspired Teaching: Joel 3:21 “For I will acquit them of the guilt of bloodshed, whom I had not acquitted; for the Lord dwells in Zion.” If you’ve been watching the news and keeping track of what is going on in the holy city of Jerusalem, you have probably sensed that the Jewish nation is entering a new phase—maybe a new and final phase—in their struggles against their enemies who want to destroy them. What caught my attention on the attack against a Jewish synagogue in Jerusalem that killed five individuals and wounded many others was the amount of blood that was shed by those who were wounded and killed. Profuse bleeding was caused since some of the weapons that were used against them were hatches, which can be used for the dismembering of physical bodies. In their many campaigns against Israel, the Palestinians have used a variety of tactics, from kidnappings, to suicide bombers, to rockets and mortar launchers against their civilian population. What makes this phase different, I think, is that in all the other campaigns against them, there was organized human leadership behind them. I believe that what is taking place right now is its being fomented by spiritual forces of darkness, which are driven by pure and unadulterated hatred against the Jews in the nation of Israel. In case you have not watched the news, Jews are being run down in the streets by seemly random acts of violence, by cars, buses, and other modes of transportation driven by Palestinians that just seemed to lose their common sense and went on a killing rampage. This last attack was aimed directly at a place of worship and against those who were leading the worship, and I believe the phase of this present conflict to be completely driven by satanic inspiration. Joel 3:4 “Indeed, what have you to do with Me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the coasts of Philistia? Will you retaliate against Me? But if you retaliated against Me, swiftly and speedily I will return your retaliation upon your own head.” I believe that the Lord is speaking against the spiritual rulers of the Palestinian territory in verse four. You have to remember that in spiritual warfare, people are like pieces on a board game that the rulers of darkness move at will and to accomplish their devious purpose. By careful observation we can detect when human leaders are acting in an alliance with demonic forces to accomplish their physical objectives. That does not seem to be the case in this new phase of terror that is being unleash against the nation of Israel, and it has Israel’s leaders very worried. The reason I said that this may be the final phase of this present conflict before the Lord intervenes is because of God’s response to these demonic entities in verse four, that He will swiftly and speedily turn their retaliation against their own heads. How do I know that what is taking place in the book of Joel chapter three has anything to do with Israel’s present situation? Joel 3:1 “For behold, in those days and at that time, when I bring back the captives of Judah and Jerusalem.” In those days and at that time, it cannot be any clearer than that! When did God bring back the captives to Judah and Jerusalem? Today, in our present day! For how long were they not a nation anymore? For almost two thousand years! The only time that this specific prophecy can be fixed to a date is in our present today. And from our opening text we can safely conclude that both, the church and the nation of Israel are present during the happenings of in those days and at that time. For I will acquit them of the guilt of bloodshed, whom I had not acquitted; for the Lord dwells in Zion. Even though the early church was comprised of a super majority of Jews, both in numbers and in leadership, the nation of Israel herself rejected Jesus as her Messiah, so that her sins were not atoned for with the blood of Jesus at that time, and that is why their temple was destroyed and their nation ceased to exist. Matthew 27:24-25 “When Pilate saw that he could not prevail at all, but rather that a tumult was rising, he took water and washed his hands before the multitude (the nation of Israel), saying, ‘I am innocent of the blood of this just Person. You see to it.’ And all the people answered and said, ‘His blood be on us and on our children.’” It is clear that the multitude which was represented by the rulers and the leaders of the nation of Israel, refused to acknowledge Jesus as their Messiah, and as one, they uttered those infamous words that cursed them with the curse of blood shedding—the shedding of their blood as well as their children's own blood. This is what I was reminded of when I saw the bloody mess all over their synagogue floor after that brutal attack. But the good news is that God Himself says that He will acquit them, the entire nation of Israel, from that awful guilt of bloodshed that their forefathers swore in an oath before Pilate. And that the acquittal will take place swiftly and speedily after these demonic entities take it upon themselves to brutally and sadistically murder Jews as an act of retaliation against God Himself. This could be one of the greatest signs that Jesus is coming soon, that we have had for a while. So keep an eye on these demonically driven acts of violence against the Jews to see whether they rise to a level of intensity to where God Himself will intervene on their behalf. What are the events that we should look for if God Himself were to intervene on Israel’s behalf at this time? Joel 3:2 “I will also gather all nations, and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will enter into judgment with them there on account of My people, My heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations; they have also divided up My land.” Through all of this we cannot ignore the connection that such an event will have upon the closing of the church age, for as soon as the nation of Israel is acquitted from the guilt of bloodshed, their kingdom will be restored, which means the closing of the church age with the rapture. Acts 1:6 “Therefore, when they had come together, they asked Him, saying, ‘Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom of Israel?’” The disciples clearly believed and were looking for the restoration of national Israel at that time and asked Jesus about it. Jesus did not deny nor rebuked their belief that national Israel would be restored in the future. He just told them that it was not for them to know the times and seasons which the Father has put in place, before He brings about the acquittal and restoration of the nation of Israel. Days later, after their meeting with Jesus, the disciples were gathered in Jerusalem together, waiting for the power to fall down from heaven upon them as Jesus told them it would. After the Holy Spirit fell on them, Peter stood up and quoted Joel’s prophecy that clearly ties the fate of the end of the church age with the restoration of national Israel. Joel 2:28-32 “And it shall come to pass afterward that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions. And also on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days. (The first part of this prophecy was fulfilled on the Day of Pentecost after the Holy Spirit fell on them.) And I will show 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 coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord. And it shall come to pass that whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be deliverance (Acquittal), as the Lord has said, among the remnant (those who return from the dispersion) whom the Lord calls.” (The second part of this prophecy will be fulfilled on the Day of Atonement, during the Lord’s acquittal of the nation of Israel when their kingdom is restored to them.) You can see how intricately connected everything is to all that is taking place in and around the nation of Israel today. Wherever you look in the news today, you cannot escape how all the players are lining up and assuming their prophetic end-time positions. Joel 3:9 “Proclaim this among the nations: ‘Prepare for war! Wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near, let them come up.’” The other unnatural part of what is going on today in the Middle East has to do with the men of war from the nations of the world who are answering the spiritual call to present themselves into that area of the world to fight a war of which they have no concept of, or part of it. These Jihadists, or holy warriors, come from many nations of the world, including the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, as well as many other nations that are in different continents. Many of these recruits have no commonality that bond them, except one, they are answering a spiritual call to prepare for war and to draw near to a place the Lord calls the Valley of Jehoshaphat, where the Lord will enter into judgment with them there on account of His people. It always amazes me how the complex issues that befuddle so many who try to interpret the motives behind the irrational acts of so many can only be truly interpreted through the enlightenment of Scripture. As the acquittal of those whom the Lord had not previously acquitted draws near, so does our redemption. Are you ready? Previous Next Home

A NEW THING The objective of A NEW THING is to encourage believers to prepare spiritually, mentally, and emotionally for the divine changes God is orchestrating in their lives and in the world. Drawing from Scripture, the teaching emphasizes trusting God in times of uncertainty, resisting fear, and cultivating faith that aligns with God’s plan. It calls the church to readiness, worship, and reliance on God’s promises as He ushers in a season of wonders and transformative events. A NEW THING Pastor Marcos Marrero Objective: The objective of A NEW THING is to encourage believers to prepare spiritually, mentally, and emotionally for the divine changes God is orchestrating in their lives and in the world. Drawing from Scripture, the teaching emphasizes trusting God in times of uncertainty, resisting fear, and cultivating faith that aligns with God’s plan. It calls the church to readiness, worship, and reliance on God’s promises as He ushers in a season of wonders and transformative events. Synopsis: In A NEW THING, Pastor Marcos reflects on a spiritual prompting received during December 2013 to “be still and wait” on the Lord. As the new year of 2014 approached, the Lord revealed through Scripture that He was preparing to do something new—something radical that would alter life as we know it. Pastor Marcos explores this theme through prophetic passages in Isaiah, Habakkuk, Matthew, and Revelation, highlighting the tension between human fear of the unknown and the assurance that God has redeemed and called His people by name. The lesson stresses that change is inevitable, but God’s people must remember they belong to Him, allowing faith to overcome fear. The message considers the possibility of world-altering, divine interventions—events so wondrous they defy human understanding and disrupt established traditions. Using biblical parallels such as the flood of Noah’s day and Christ’s prophecy of His return, Pastor Marcos frames this “new thing” as both a personal and collective call to spiritual readiness. He urges believers to remain steadfast, praising God in all circumstances, and keeping their eyes on Christ as the ultimate fulfillment of God’s promises. Ultimately, A NEW THING is both a prophetic reflection and a practical exhortation: to trust God’s plan, prepare for radical change, and live in expectation of His marvelous work and Christ’s imminent return. Inspired Teaching: As I posted our prayer focus for the last month of the year at the beginning of the month of December 2013, the Lord prompted me to pray for the ability to be still and to wait on Him, little did I know at the time that He wanted me to be still and wait, and not to write anything for the entire month of December, until the time of waiting was over. As I prepared to write again this last day of the year so that I can publish new things for the month of January 2014, the Scripture that the Lord gave to me, showed me that this new year the Lord will be doing something new and that we are to prepare ourselves for this new thing. I am not sure yet what kind of change this new year is going to bring, but for some reason I feel that this new year will be called a year of wonders. As always the Lord deals with us both in the personal level as well as in the corporal level, and is too early yet to know whether this year of wonders has only a personal application or whether it will be a year of wonders for the church as a whole. So, this lesson will deal with how to be prepared for the new thing that the Lord will be doing this new year of 2014. Isaiah 43:1 “...Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine.” A new thing means change and change into something that is new always strikes a cord of fear within us, for we naturally fear that which we do not know. But to overcome the fear which naturally flows out of uncertainty, we need to understand that it is the Lord who is the One that is bringing in the change, and since we belong to Him, for He has redeemed us, that should remove the uncertainty of what this new thing will bring to us, for whatever it is we know that it is part of His plan for our lives. Notice how the Lord makes it very personal, for He tells us that He has called us by our name, it cannot get any more personal than that, and then He adds that we belong to Him. We need to keep this reality fresh in our minds throughout the year no matter what happens, and by doing so we will not give into the temptation to fear, for the spirit of fear always works against our faith. Isaiah 43:21 “This people I have formed for Myself; they shall declare My praise.” And no matter what happens we will be able to praise Him, for according to His promises, we know that all things always work together for the good of those who love Him and who know that they are the called according to His purpose. Romans 8:28 “And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.” It is within our nature to wonder what this new thing might be, but we can only speculate as we read between the lines of Scripture. Isaiah 43:18 “Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old.” But whatever it is, we know that it will be radical, for it will eclipse the former order of things, and it will cause us not to even consider the things of old as an alternative way of thinking, so we know that whatever it is it will change life as we know it. Habakkuk 1:5 “Look among the nations and watch—be utterly astounded! For I will work a work in your days which you would not believe, though it were told you.” So what could happen, that it will be so radical, that it would change the long standing traditions of human thinking? What kind of event could change the very foundations and understandings of human knowledge? Isaiah 29:14 “Therefore, behold, I will again do a marvelous work among this people, a marvelous work and a wonder; for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hidden.” The above Scripture gives as a tremendous insight into what that life altering event might be and information about some of its workings. The first thing that we notice is that the work that the Lord is going to do that is going to change life as we know it, He has already done in the past, for He says that He will again do a marvelous work among this people, and then He adds: A marvelous work and a wonder. So that if we ask this question: What kind of work did the Lord do in the past that radically changed the lives of all the earth’s inhabitants? The flood of Noah’s day stands out all by itself, for it affected every human and radically changed the very nature of earth’s nature itself. Matthew 24:37 “But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.” So that we have not only a precedent, but we also have an event that we can associate with the new thing that the Lord will be doing, for whatever it is that the Lord will be doing, it will be a sign that precedes His return to the earth. Matthew 24:29-30 “Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.” Jesus gives us insight as to what the things that will radically change the human paradigm of the cosmos entails. There are three heavens mentioned in the history of the creation: first there is the heaven above, also known as the third heaven and Paradise, the seat of God’s rule over the universe. Then there is the second heaven, also known as the waters, below and the underworld, where all the fallen angels reside. Then there is the first heaven, also called the firmament, which has at its center planet earth, the habitation of the human race. If we read carefully what Jesus said, the stars will fall from heaven, singular, is because Revelation tells us that the stars represent angels, Revelation 1:20 “...The seven stars are the angels…” In Matthew’s case they represent the fallen angels which are thrown out of the second heaven to the earth. Then Jesus adds that the powers of the heavens, plural, will be shaken, which now includes the visible heaven that encompasses the earth, which is also called the firmament and heaven. And that is where the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, singular, when The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light and it is what causes all of the tribes of the earth to mourn as they see Jesus coming to the earth riding on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. How will the human race respond to the infusion of wicked non-human creatures upon our earthly plane? If that is not a new thing, then I do not know what is. What was that you said? You do not believe that something like that will ever happen here on the earth? Revelation 9:1-6 “Then the fifth angel sounded: and I saw a star (angel) fallen from heaven to the earth. To him was given the key to the bottomless pit (the under world). And he opened the bottomless pit, and smoke arose out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace. So the sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke of the pit. Then out of the smoke locusts came upon the earth. And to them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. They were commanded not to harm the grass of the earth, or any green thing, or any tree, but only those men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads. And they were not given authority to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man. In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will desire to die, and death will flee from them.” I do believe that the rapture would have already taken place by the time that the bottomless pit is opened, but the sign of the Son of Man is something that we will witness from our earthly perch before the rapture takes place, so that we need to ask ourselves, can our faith stand the revelation of such awesome and fearful wonders? Matthew 24:31 “And He will send His angels (after the sign of the Son of Man appears in heaven) with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.” Keep looking up! Previous Next Home