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THE SEVEN SEALS AND THE CHURCH AGE The objective of this study is to provide a clear biblical understanding of the Seven Seals in the book of Revelation by presenting them as the spiritual progression of the Church Age rather than solely future events. Through Scripture, this teaching aims to reveal how the seals represent unfolding spiritual forces—deception, war, economic control, and death—that have been at work throughout history and are moving humanity toward the fulfillment of God’s prophetic plan. The goal is to equip believers with discernment, helping them recognize the signs of the times, remain spiritually prepared, and walk in confidence knowing that Jesus Christ, the Lamb, is in control of every stage of history. THE SEVEN SEALS AND THE CHURCH AGE Minister Lisa Kane April 9, 2026 Objective: The objective of this study is to provide a clear biblical understanding of the Seven Seals in the book of Revelation by presenting them as the spiritual progression of the Church Age rather than solely future events. Through Scripture, this teaching aims to reveal how the seals represent unfolding spiritual forces—deception, war, economic control, and death—that have been at work throughout history and are moving humanity toward the fulfillment of God’s prophetic plan. The goal is to equip believers with discernment, helping them recognize the signs of the times, remain spiritually prepared, and walk in confidence knowing that Jesus Christ, the Lamb, is in control of every stage of history. Synopsis: This study explores the Seven Seals of Revelation as a spiritual timeline that has been unfolding throughout the Church Age, revealing the unseen forces shaping world events. Beginning with the opening of the seals by Jesus Christ, the Lamb who alone is worthy, the teaching walks through each seal as a progression of spiritual influence—starting with deception through the spirit of antichrist, followed by increasing global conflict, economic control, and widespread death. As the study continues, it highlights the suffering and persecution revealed in the fifth seal, the divine intervention shown in the sixth, and the transition marked by the seventh seal, all pointing toward the culmination of God’s plan. Rather than presenting prophecy as distant or future-only, this teaching brings clarity by showing how these forces are already active in the world today. It encourages believers to view current events through a biblical lens, replacing fear with awareness and strengthening their readiness for the return of Jesus Christ. Inspired Teaching: Introduction In our previous studies, we established two foundational truths: 1. Revelation unfolds in two realms—physical and spiritual. 2. Jesus Christ is the center of all prophecy. Now we move into one of the most misunderstood parts of Revelation: The Seven Seals. Many believe the seals represent future judgments during the tribulation. But what if the seals reveal something already in motion? What if they are showing us the spiritual progression of the Church Age—from the time of Christ until His return? To understand this, we must remember: Revelation is not only showing us what will happen. It is revealing what has been happening all along—behind the scenes. The Lamb Opens the Seals Revelation 6:1 “Now I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals…” Only Jesus, the Lamb who was slain, is worthy to open the seals. This is important. The unfolding of history is not random. It is being revealed—and permitted—by Christ Himself. The seals are not chaos. They are controlled revelation. A Spiritual Timeline, Not Just Future Events: the seals are shown from a spiritual perspective. They reveal forces that move through time, shaping the world and preparing it for the return of Jesus Christ. Instead of seeing the seals as only future destruction, we begin to see them as spiritual forces unfolding across the Church Age. The First Seal: The Spirit of Deception Revelation 6:2 “Behold, a white horse… and he went out conquering and to conquer.” At first glance, this appears righteous. But this rider represents something deceptive. It reflects the spirit of antichrist—a false imitation of Christ that began early in the Church Age. 1 John 4:3 “This is the spirit of the Antichrist… which is already in the world.” From the beginning, deception has been at work. False teachings. False messiahs. False doctrines. This spirit continues to move forward, preparing the world for its final manifestation. The Second Seal: War and Division Revelation 6:4 “It was granted… to take peace from the earth… that people should kill one another.” This seal represents conflict and war. While wars have always existed, this reveals an escalation—a global pattern of unrest. Jesus spoke of this: Matthew 24:6 “You will hear of wars and rumors of wars…” War is not random. It is part of a larger spiritual movement shaping the world. The Third Seal: Economic Control Revelation 6:5–6 “A quart of wheat for a denarius…” This seal reveals economic pressure and control. It shows a world where: • resources are limited • systems control access • people become dependent This spirit influences nations, economies, and daily life. It prepares the world for a system where buying and selling can be controlled. The Fourth Seal: Death and Destruction Revelation 6:8 “And power was given to them… to kill… with sword, with hunger, with death…” This seal represents the result of the previous three: Deception. War. Control. All leading to death on a massive scale. These are not isolated events. They are connected forces working together. Four Forces, One Direction The first four seals work together. They are not separate. They form a progression: 1. Deception 2. War 3. Control 4. Death These forces are shaping the world—moving it toward a final moment in prophecy. The Fifth Seal: A Cry for Justice Revelation 6:9–10 “I saw… the souls of those who had been slain… and they cried… ‘How long, O Lord?’” This seal reveals persecution and suffering. It reminds us that faithfulness to God has always come with a cost. But it also reveals something deeper: God sees. God hears. And God will respond. The Sixth Seal: Divine Intervention Revelation 6:12 “There was a great earthquake… the sun became black…” This is a turning point. The natural world is shaken. Humanity begins to recognize that something beyond them is happening. This seal points toward God’s intervention in history. The Seventh Seal: Transition The seventh seal marks a shift. It is not just an ending. It is a transition into the next phase of God’s plan. Everything has been building toward this moment. What This Means for Us Today If these seals represent the spiritual progression of the Church Age, then we are not waiting for them to begin. We are living in their unfolding. We can already see: • deception increasing • conflict intensifying • systems tightening • instability growing But this should not bring fear. It should bring awareness. Jesus told us these things would happen. Why This Matters When we understand the seals correctly: 1. We stop being surprised by the world. 2. We start recognizing the signs. 3. And we begin to live with spiritual readiness. A Final Thought The seals are not just about judgment. They are about preparation. They reveal a world moving toward a divine conclusion. But they also reveal a Savior who is in control of every step. The Lamb is not reacting to history. He is opening it. Continue the Study This teaching is drawn from the book: Man’s Final Destiny – Revelation Unveiled This book provides deeper understanding into the seven seals, the spiritual forces shaping our world, and the prophetic timeline revealed in Scripture. Continue your study by reading: Man’s Final Destiny – Revelation Unveiled https://www.houseoffaithministries.org/books-and-manuals/mans-final-destiny-revelation-unveiled Available now. Previous Next Home

ARE YOU WATCHING END TIMES UPDATE MATTHEW 24 The purpose of this teaching is to awaken believers to the urgency of Christ’s return by examining Matthew 24 and related scriptures. It seeks to equip listeners with biblical understanding of fulfilled and pending end-time prophecies, urging them to remain spiritually alert, develop a personal relationship with Jesus, and live in readiness for His coming. < Back ARE YOU WATCHING END TIMES UPDATE MATTHEW 24 Minister Lisa Kane October 19, 2025 Objective: The purpose of this teaching is to awaken believers to the urgency of Christ’s return by examining Matthew 24 and related scriptures. It seeks to equip listeners with biblical understanding of fulfilled and pending end-time prophecies, urging them to remain spiritually alert, develop a personal relationship with Jesus, and live in readiness for His coming. Synopsis: In “Are You Watching?”, Lisa Kane delivers a detailed end-times update centered on Matthew 24, supported by Revelation and Ezekiel. She begins with Jesus’ warning to watch and remain prepared, explaining through scripture and analogy that believers can recognize prophetic signs just as one can discern details in a family photograph. The teaching highlights fulfilled prophecies—false prophets, wars, deception, famines, pestilences, earthquakes, lawlessness, and growing offenses—showing their manifestation in current events and cultural shifts. Lisa contrasts the perspectives of unbelievers, Israel, and the Church, underscoring that only those who cultivate a close relationship with Christ will truly discern the times. She explains the distinction between tribulation, God’s wrath, and the rapture, urging believers to remain steadfast and repentant, like the thief on the cross who acknowledged his guilt and received salvation. The message closes with a call to readiness: to live daily in fellowship with Jesus, to watch with spiritual discernment, and to prepare for the fulfillment of the remaining signs—including the abomination of desolation, the great earthquake, and ultimately, Christ’s return with power and glory. The teaching is both a prophetic reminder and an urgent invitation to believers and unbelievers alike to turn to the Lord while there is still time. Inspired Teaching: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kane and I'm recording this on Saturday, August 19th, 2023. Welcome. This messages called Are You Watching? This is an end times update and we're going to look at the details of Matthew 24, most of Matthew 24. So, we're going to break that down. And uh it's been a while since I've done an end times update, so it's due time. I tried to do it last week and the Holy Spirit said no. So, we're doing it this week. Apparently, he opened the door for me to do this. So, we're going to do this. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word. We thank you for your blessings and we thank you because you are wonderful and we honor you. We put you first in our lives. We seek you first. You are truly the center of our lives. You're the rock of our foundation, Father God. And thank you for your salvation. Thank you, Jesus, for dying on the cross for our sins. Thank you for being the son of God, the perfect one who was able to complete and accomplish what the Bible tells us which you spoke. So Lord, I thank you and I pray that you open up our eyes and ears and hearts and minds to see, hear, receive and believe and apply your word to our lives, Father God, and get ready that we can just know what's going on. Thank you, Lord, in the name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. Amen. And let's go to our opening scripture here. Matthew 24:43. But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into. Okay. So, we're going to break down Matthew 24. We're going to check off some prophecies that are been that have already been completed. But I want you to see what he says as we get towards the end of Matthew 24. He's saying if you knew the hour, you would not have let the thief come in. So if you know the hour, wait a minute, but you you're you're probably thinking no one knows the date and the hour. Well, you know, there's more scripture here and you have to read it in context to really understand what the Lord is saying. Look at Revelation 33. Remember therefore how and and this is by the way um Jesus writing the seven letters to the churches and they're talking to the church of Sardis here. He says remember therefore how you have received and heard hold fast and repent. Turn your life around is what that word means. Therefore if you will not watch I will come upon you as a thief and you will not know what hour I will come upon you. Now, did you catch that? Because there's some double negatives in there. Let's let's change the negatives because when you have two double negatives, it means a positive. So, let's look at this. Therefore, if you will watch, I will not come upon you as a thief, and you will know what hour I will come upon you. So, very important that Jesus is telling us to watch because you should know, you should know what's going on. Think of it like this. Um, if you, this is an analogy, but this is a very good analogy that I think is very applicable to this. Imagine if you walked into your greatg grandmother's house and when you walk in there's a foyer or a hallway and she's got all these old photographs and and they're all on the wall and you're just you walk by and you look at them and you know you know you don't know 90% of the people in these pictures. But you look at one in particular and there looks like to be a mom and a dad, three kids and a snowman. They're wearing warm clothing. What do you know automatically about that photograph? It was taken in the winter. That's on the surface. Okay, you can know this automatically. Now, if you decide to dig a little deeper, catch that. If you decide to dig a little deeper, you can ask your great grandmother, "Who are those in the picture? When was the picture taken?" She can probably answer it most likely. Now, of course, She's got Alzheimer's and stuff. She may not be able to, but maybe you can take the picture out of the frame. Maybe somebody wrote something on the back. There are other ways. You may hit a dead end, but up to that point, you can know when that photograph was taken. Now, let's apply that analogy to end times. You can know when the end is coming. There there's a lot of signs here that tell us and we're going to know. And in fact, we're going to know right up to the minute. And I I'm positive of this just the way the scriptures are written, how the Lord talks about it. And I know in the past the church has been taught that no one knows the day nor the hour. And a lot of people believe that means no one knows when. Well, that's not a true statement. So this is very specific when he says no one knows the day nor the hour. So I want to delve into another analogy that I can take uh with this is see he says it'll be like a thief in the night. Now imagine you're a thief. Let's let's look at it from this perspective. This is another analogy before we dig into it. Imagine if you're a thief and you are a thief with two others and you're at the workplace. You you actually work. you have a job and you guys met together and somehow came together where the three of you became partners and you uh divide the spoils up and what have you. Well, and the way your method is, again, this is an analogy. It's not quite perfect, but listen to how this plays out. If you the the your method is when you you take uh addresses out of the book, the yellow pages or wherever, and you decide to case the place, you monitor them for a couple of weeks. figure out when's the best time to go in and steal their goods and you do it. You divide the spoils. Okay? And it's been successful for you, the three of you. Well, in one day, you know, and the three of you are not really friends. This is just something that came about here at the workplace. You talk about it on your breaks. You talk about in the parking lot after work, what have you. That so you guys really never though took it home, you know, because there is a level where you don't want to take another thief to your home. Okay, let's put it that way. Anyways, so here you guys are are doing this. Well, you pick another address out of the book and it's your address. Now, all of a sudden, you know that they're going to case your joint and they do and and you watch them because you could do one of two things. You can tell them, "Hey, not that address. It's mine." Or because you don't want them to know your address. You have some opportunities here that if you pause and you think about this, what happens on the night that they decide to all break in? You you say, "I'm going to come in from one side or whatever." You just go sit on a chair right in front of the door. You tell them the time to come in and they come in. You're sitting there with the flashlight and a gun. Guess what? They're not going to steal from you because you are there and you knew. And that is the whole point that Jesus is trying to get across here. He says you will know. So you need to watch because you're going to see these things. But again, he's also making it known to selected people. Remember what he said in Matthew. I never knew you. These are people who prophesied in his name. Cast out demons in his name. I never knew you. So this is where now he's talking to a group of people. And what have I been teaching on this whole time? Get into the secret place with the Lord. Know him and he knows you. You've got you guys are on a firstname basis. Your friends, he's in your home. You're in his home. And that is how the relationship works and builds up. So he's talking to this particular group of people. Remember, end time prophecy has to deal with three groups of people. the nation of Israel, the body of Christ, and the unbeliever. So, now we're going to look at Matthew 24 in depth, most of it anyways. And I want you to see where we are in prophecy because it's fascinating because you got to know where we are. And then I'm going to look at things that haven't come to pass yet, those signs to look for so you would know. Amen. So, here we're going to start in Matthew 24:es 4 and 5. And Jesus answered, he's talking to his disciples. And Jesus answered and said to them, "Take heed that no one deceives you, for many will come in my name, saying, I am the Christ and will deceive many." Okay. Um, I had Jehovah's Witnesses come up to my door. Uh, this is before before we moved to Missouri. And he hands me a book and I thought it was like the Holy Bible, but they added extra scriptures, modified things, whatever. And I realized it's an entirely different book. And all the kid kept saying was, "Oh, Jesus was here when the Native Americans were here, the Indians. It was so great to know that he was here, and I believe because of that." I'm thinking, "Okay, well, I'm glad that ministered to you." But the Bible doesn't say anything about him being here with the Indians, but he's been here throughout all history anyway. So, yes, he was here with the Indians. Yes, he was here with the Romans. Yes, he was here with the Greeks. But this kid was so focused on that. And then he's getting this information from a book that's not the Holy Bible. And of course, I pointed them back to the Holy Bible. But how many are deceived by going through a different book and not the Holy Bible? Mormons the same way. Um I think the leader found some gold books underneath the New York City or something like that. And they're going to go to another planet and all their wives will come with them. Something like that. I don't I don't know the details of it because that's not I don't follow that. But how many people are following? There's a there's a huge Mormon following. And we're talking millions. So, has this scripture been fulfilled? Take heed that no one deceives you, for many will come in my name, saying, I am the Christ, and will deceive many. You know, look at the January 6 thing. How many prophets said Trump won? These are prophets. And you know what? I to my shame, I align myself with them because I believe them. and I wasn't going to the scripture and I really really I repented. This is when things in my life changed personally for me. But uh they were saying I was watching a Sid Roth episode uh and I you know he's a great man of God I think but uh he had these prophets on his podcast and he was and they were saying no he won and um one of them was saying you have your cake and eat it too and there and there I am agreeing with him and then it didn't happen and then one of them had the audacity to come back later and say well he won but it was stolen from him and so in my mind I was thinking oh Why didn't you say that beforehand? You see, meaning he didn't know. He didn't speak a true prophecy. So, how many people are being deceived? Oh my word. Anyways, this scripture is fulfilled. And I just want you to see that because people are thinking instead of following the word of God. I mean, I grew up in the church and there are things I've quoted many times and I went looking for the scripture because I wanted to finally give it a a book and a chapter and a verse to it. Guess what? it wasn't in the Bible. And I'm thinking, what? So, I had to now, this is why I look up everything that I'm talking about and I share so many scriptures with you because I learned and I hope you learn from that, too. Don't rely on things you grew up with that you have been quoted with and all this stuff. Don't rely on that, okay? Because it could deceive and uh you don't want to be in that. You don't even want to be close to that element, okay? So, continuing on, let's look at verse six. And you will hear wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled, for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. We know we have World War I, we have World War II, uh the Korean War, the Vietnam War. We've had wars, and then recently the Ukraine and Russia war. It was a rumor, then it became a war. And then now you got rumors of Taiwan and China. So, all of this is fulfilled. Again, this is uh you can check that box off of this prophecy has been fulfilled. Verse 7, for nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom and there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. Nation will rise against nation. If you notice, there's alliances forming right now. You got Russia and China. Most of Africa is lining up now with them. So you um and Saudi Arabia and Israel about to make a peace treaty, a seven-year peace treaty. Gotta wonder where what that's all about. But all of these things have been taking place. And this is setting the platform for nation to rise against nation. We already see that they've got the 2030 agenda, the 2050 agenda in place. They are building the foundation to get to those points because they think it will save the earth. They got to reduce the population, go all electric, do 15minute cities. You've got all of these things that are taking place. So this foundation here, but this has already been ongoing. And it's not just kingdom against kingdom and nation against nation. I want to add in here, the wars aren't just battles with guns and stuff like that. Waring now deals with the banking industry and the money. So you can see they're rejecting the US dollar and this is that's a we're in warfare because of that. Okay. So understand nation against nation. We are in that. They're not they're deceiving us because they're not showing everything through the mainstream media. You have to go and look that information up. I want to continue on because this is there's a lot of information here, but you can delve a lot more deeper into that if you'd like. There will be famines. How many commercials do you see on TV of children starving in Africa? How many years have we've seen that? I grew up with those commercials. I'm telling you, famines have been around for a very long time. Now, they're trying to reduce all the food and stuff because they want to get the they want to actually get to um their agenda in 2050 is no meat. You don't eat any meat. You're in a 15minute city. And the cities the they want to make sure that 50% of the earth is unpopulated. By the way, it's like 75% of the earth is unpopulated right now. Okay? So, don't be caught up in this deception, but that's what this is. Famines. Look at the pestilences. We just got done with CO. There's another CO supposed to be coming out. We've had the SARS 2, SARS one, H1N1, pestilences being around. Uh, earthquakes. My goodness. Now, if you go get an earthquake app and you look at it, there's like a 6.0. several of them in all kinds of places all day long. They're accelerating. These things are accelerating. But what is this described as the time we're in right now? Birth pangs, contractions. Anyone, any mother or a husband that was there with their wife that are about to expect a child, they know they got to go through these contractions. And by the time you come to the birthing process, your contractions are like 30 seconds long, 10 second pause, 30 seconds. And that's the way it was with me when I gave birth to my daughter. I'm telling you, we're accelerating into that. So, we're not there yet because even though we're seeing all kinds of stuff happening right now, and we'll get into into that in a bit here, but you're seeing that. But earthquakes and various ways, but look at what he says here. All these are the beginning of sorrows. This is the beginning of birth pains. this is just the start. Um, and they're not, you know, these are just contractions you're starting to feel. So, this was, so all of those prophecies have been fulfilled here in our lifetime, if not even sooner before our lifetime, before our generation. So, they've been fulfilled. So, understand that. Check those boxes off. Let's continue on with what he says, though. Nine, then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake. I I think it's a UN leader over there, and I'm not 100% certain, but one of them had said, um, you Christians, you will take this thing in your hand and you will shop and buy with it because you won't be able to eat or do anything else without it. And he addressed that directly to the Christians with a tone. I mean, he was vehement about it. And I was like, what did we do to you to make you like this and and it it it goes to show the demonic influence that's over him again for this end times that we are in. And and look at this here. You know, he says they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you. you know, in the Middle East, I saw um I saw the video a little bit, not to the end, but Christians marching in for, you know, they were just walking, singing, himming in a line. They were being led by sheep, by men with guns and knives. And they get to a point and they executed them. These are martyrs for Christ. And it was like, "Oh, is the scripture fulfilled?" Yes. Do the people hate Christians, the nations? Yes. Do they hate Israel? Anti-semitism is so high, it's unbelievable. Unbelievable. And you know it's spiritual when you see and hear about that kind of stuff. But check that box off. That prophecy has been fulfilled. Verse 10. And then many will be offended. Oh, will betray one another and will hate one another. Oh my goodness. The the offense now. Oh, Black Lives Matter is because of an offense. These people were offended because two white guys kill a black guy and it keeps happening over and over again. They don't talk about the black guys killing the white guys. No, no, no. It's hypocritical. It's one-sided. And they were so offended that it all went back to, "Oh, my ancestors were in slavery." And you know what? When they started doing the DNA test and come to find out a lot of these whacks were from the whites who had slaves back then. Guess what? They don't get reimbursed for that. California was big and they wanted to give out I think it was 800 million or something and Newsome finally backed off of that. You don't hear anything about it anymore. It's not in the media anymore. Why? Because they realized, oh, we can't give into it. But they were all offended and and how many I I I'm on social media. I do watch social media. I'm kind of get a little my news from there because you get more of it there than you do anywhere else. But there you are. You've got people who are hating their neighbors. Jesus says, "Love one another. Love your neighbor as you love yourself." These are his commandments. These people are hating each other that they're putting signs on the wall calling this person a Karen because that's the word they use for calling these people and they're calling the peace the police all the time. They're attacking one another. They are offended. People were offended just by putting a Trump sign in the ground. Offended. And look it, they would call betray one another. will hate one another. They were calling the police on you. This scripture has been fulfilled. And that's in our lifetime. Now, let's look at verse 11. Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. I spoke about the January 6 false prophet thing. This scripture has been fulfilled. You can check that box off. Go to verse 12. And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. flawlessness. Defund the police. Defund the police. Oh, it you know what? I did laugh and I maybe I shouldn't have, but I repented and I asked the Lord to forgive me. But at the same time, I did laugh. But you know what was it? Mayor, I think it was in Washington or Oregon. Uh Portland, I think it was something like that. Anyways, they attacked, they stole her house. They were there in her house stealing. She called the cops, but she was the biggest proponent for defund the police in that area. Well, anyways, it backfired on her, didn't it? Anyway, lawlessness will abound. You the state of California right now, you can go steal up to 950 bucks. They will not prosecute you. They will not come after you. And in fact, if your store employee or store security, they're not allowed to even go after you because if they did, they would get prosecuted. Lawlessness abounds. Oh, and love will grow cold. I just talked about neighbors hating one another. That's the same thing that was fulfilled in this time in our generation. This is incredible. You just start checking off all these boxes. Look at this verse 13. But he who endures to the end shall be saved. I spend time and have a relationship with the Lord. And there are many of us who do this. And the more that do this, this is the group that's going to endure to the end. get yourself into that group. I I I I have to urge you as much as I possibly can. And all it takes is you tell God, "I messed up. I'm guilty. I'm sorry." And then you open up his word and you start to question him. He wants to be questioned. Isaiah 1:18, "Come, let us reason together." Question. Talk to him. Let him answer you, though. You need to be open to it and open to his answer. You can be mad. You could go say, "Why? Why are you doing this, Lord?" And he will answer you. But you have to realize his answer is true and his answer is the ultimate answer. And don't go looking to me or any other preacher, pastor to answer your questions for you. We'll do the best we can, but we're just a man or a woman trying to interpret a spiritual thing. So, you got to go direct to the spiritual. You see, you don't have to go through a pastor or the mother Mary. You go straight to the source. Amen. Amen. Uh that's to endure. That's to survive. Verse 14. And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations and then the end will come because birth panes. So the last point here is everyone needs to hear the gospel. I know that there was one tribe left in Amazon and uh they have video of them out on the beach. They were wearing loin cloth and painted in red and they had spears. The helicopter is videotaping. They're just throwing their spears at them. I do know a missionary got out there. um they killed the first missionary to get there and then um I believe other missionaries are there and I think they've got the gospel in there. So we're this close to everyone hearing that. So and then the end will come. That is very powerful. So I want you to understand that. Now the next set of scriptures for Matthew 24 is all about the abomination of desolation. I'm not going to read these scriptures. You can go read it. Daniel tells you the abomination of desolation will happen in the middle of the seven-year time period of God's wrath. So that applies to the nation of Israel. It's involving their third temple. It's involving their daily sacrifices. And basically when the two witnesses die, they die three and a half years into the seven-year time period. When they die, the Antichrist sits on that throne and tells the Jews, "You will worship me." Jesus said that's called the abomination of desolation. Jesus says when you see that run. So that's what those scriptures talk about and they're talking to the nation of Israel. So I'm going to skip those scriptures and we're going to continue on here in verse 29. Says 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 heaven and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. I'm going pause there. Ezekiel 38 and39, Revelation 6 and Matthew 24 here talk about the same event. It's a great earthquake that takes place. The sun goes dark, the moon turns to red. So they're talking about the exact same event. Now look at this. He says and it's immed. So when he says and then the end will come, this is that this is what's called the day of the Lord. This is day one of that 7-year time period. There's an army in Ezekiel 38 that talks about this. This army, Gog and Magog, and its allies, Russia, China, and whomever they ally with are going to attempt to invade Israel. And God is going to prevent it. He's going to kill all these people on the day. It's like a two million man army. He's going to kill them all. It's going to take the nation of Israel. This is how specific the scriptures are. It's going to take the nation of Israel seven months to clean up the bodies, to find all the body parts. You go read this. Go to Ezekiel and read it. Do some homework. Research it because I want you to find this information under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Don't listen to me. Let the Holy Spirit reveal this to you. So, this event all happens on the same time. This is the day of the Lord. This is the same event. This prophecy has not happened yet. We still have a sun and we still have a moon. They're still shining their lights. Let's read a little further. Verse 30. Then notice the conjunction here. So this earthquake, the sun goes dark, the moon turns to red. This arm is going to be killed. That's not here in Matthew 24, but it is in Ezekiel. All this happens on the same day. Look at what he says. Then conjunction then. Then the sign of the son of man will appear in heaven. What is the sign of the son of man? We're going to see that a little bit more. He explains it a little further, but it's the lightning coming from the east to the west. The rapture. For those of you who say the rapture, the word rapture is not in the Bible. It is. It's in Latin. In the Latin Bible, raptura. And by the way, it means caught up. So when they translated rapura into English, they used the basic caught up. make it simple for you to understand. So yes, it's in the Bible. Yes, the rapture takes event. And do you see it takes place on the day of the Lord? It's on this day. And it's after this huge tribulation of this earthquake. All the the tribulation we we're in a great tribulation right now. The seven-year time period. I know a lot of people call it the tribulation. It's not the great tribulation. That's God's wrath. God's wrath supersedes great tribulation. supersedes tribulation. So, you got to watch your terminology when you're dealing with this and talking about it. But here we can see straight up, the son of man will appear in heaven. And then look at this. 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. And I'm not done there. Look at this. And he will send his angels 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. That's the rapture. You know, and for those of you who have a hard time understanding the rapture, think of it like this. It's like the days of Noah. We're going to get into the scripture here. Methuselah had to die. Noah was the last righteous man and Methuselah was righteous before him, but Methuselah lived 969 years. So, Methuselah had to die. Once he died, then God can move forward because now he had less than 10 people righteous on the earth. Uh you can go read Abraham's conversation that he has with God when God comes to visit him before he goes to Sodom and Gomorrah. He's telling him, "I'm going to get Lot out and uh we're going to destroy the cities." And Abraham's like, "Well, if you got 50 righteous people, would you still destroy it?" God said, "No." He says, "How about 30, 20, 10?" He said, "No every time until he got to 10." So there is a level. So the rapture is going to take out all the righteous people because we're not appointed to his wrath. Simple as that. If you notice, we're not preaching. We're not doing any. There is no activity of the body of Christ in the seven-year time period of God's wrath. There are resurrections. And a resurrection, by the way, is different than a rapture. Rapture, Paul describes it in 2 Corinthians 15 or 1 Corinthians 15, excuse me. You can go read these scriptures. I wasn't going to go here, but for a moment, I will. That's for the living. He describes it for the people who are alive. They change in the twinkling of an eye. The resurrection in the middle of the tribulation is when the two witnesses die and they come up to heaven three and a half days after their death. The end of the tribulation or the end of the seven-year time period of God's wrath. Got to get my terminology correct if I want to preach on that. This that is another resurrection. They resurrect the martyrs. What's a martyr? A person who died who's dead for what he believes in in this case for Jesus. So those are resurrections. The rapture. So this scripture that we just read is talking about the rapture and that is that event. It happens on the day of the Lord. Okay. Now let's continue on. Again, that hasn't happened yet. Prophecy that's coming hasn't happened yet. Verse 34. Surely I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place. Pause. This includes the abomination of desolation. I know that there are folks who have who trouble with this because they think, okay, well, the rapture has to take place and this generation cannot pass away, which means we'll be here through this. They get into that. And no, that's not what this means. It means that this generation will not pass away. Well, how many are in a generation? I'm going to tell you right now, people who are my age, this is my generation we're talking about, by the way, and if there are Jewish people my age who will be here when the abomination of desolation take place, it's a true statement. that generation shall not pass away because they will be alive when that happens. So, I promise you, they will be alive up to that point. For the rest of us who have nothing to do with that, we're either raptured up or you are an unbeliever and you made it into that seven-year time period and you are under persecution. In fact, you're probably dead. A lot of pe so many people are going to die during the seven-year tribulation that man will be finer than for gold. And you can go read the scripture on that. Search O for gold and you will find it. But I want you to see this. This generation will not pass away. So all these things that we saw is for us, you and me, today. So now we know this is happening in our lifetime. So we saw all these scriptures get fulfilled. Now we're at the point where we're seeing scripture not fulfilled yet. We haven't seen that great earthquake. We haven't seen the sun go dark. We haven't seen the moon moon turn to red. And we haven't seen the sign of the son of man coming from the east to the west like lightning. That hasn't happened. We haven't seen the angels blow the trumpet and come in and gather the elect from the four corners of the earth. We haven't seen that. Now look at what else he says. Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will by no means pass away. What does that mean? And where is that coming from? Because see, there's going to be a new heaven and a new earth as taught in Revelation. You can go read that. I want you to read it. But I want you to see what the next scripture says. But conjunction, but of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but my father only. Wait a minute. You mean to tell me but of the day that heaven and earth passes away, nobody knows except God? Wait, I thought we were talking about the rapture. Well, we we are. We're going to get to that. You're going to see it how he adds that into it. But he is also talking about when heaven and earth passes away. Heaven and earth doesn't pass away till the end of the seven-year time period. Actually, no, I go further than that. It goes after the thousand-y year millennium because they're going to there's a thousand years that the people come back in the earth. The martyrs are are um uh resurrected and given their body. That is considered the first resurrection. You go read this in Revelation. They will be ruling the people still living on the earth and that are now repopulating the earth for this thousand years. That is what this So now here heaven and earth will pass away. That's not till after then. So he added this lid in and he puts it right in front of but of that day. No one knows the but of that day when heaven and earth passes away. No one knows the day nor the hour. But then God Jesus takes that and he let's continue reading it. This is awesome. But my father only verse 37. But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the son of man be. For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying, and giving him marriage until the day that Noah entered the ark and did not know until the flood came and took them all away. So a Previous Next Home

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CHRIST IN YOU, THE MYSTERY. The objective of this teaching is to reveal the profound truth of the indwelling Christ as the hope of glory for every believer. It aims to help Christians understand that within them resides the fullness of wisdom, knowledge, and life through Christ, empowering them to overcome sickness, fear, and the limitations of the natural world by applying the spiritual principles of God’s Word through faith. CHRIST IN YOU, THE MYSTERY. Pastor Marcos Marrero Objective: The objective of this teaching is to reveal the profound truth of the indwelling Christ as the hope of glory for every believer. It aims to help Christians understand that within them resides the fullness of wisdom, knowledge, and life through Christ, empowering them to overcome sickness, fear, and the limitations of the natural world by applying the spiritual principles of God’s Word through faith. Synopsis: In Christ in You, the Mystery, Pastor Marcos expounds on Colossians 1:27, unveiling the divine reality that Christ dwells within every believer, granting access to the hidden treasures of wisdom, knowledge, and the fullness of God’s power. He explains that while the visible world is governed by the principle of entropy—where everything decays—the spiritual realm operates under the law of life in Christ. Through faith, believers can draw from the spiritual into the physical, releasing healing, deliverance, and provision that already exist in the heavenly realm. Pastor Marcos emphasizes that unbelief, worldly philosophies, and reliance on the basic principles of the world hinder the manifestation of God’s promises. In contrast, when Christians set their minds on things above and operate under the principles of Christ, they tap into the eternal power of the age to come. He illustrates this truth with both Scripture and natural examples, showing that just as subatomic particles transcend time and space, so can believers, through Christ, experience breakthroughs that defy the natural order. Ultimately, the mystery of “Christ in you, the hope of glory” means that past sins and present struggles can be met with the healing and restoration of the future age, secured in Jesus who is the Alpha and Omega. This teaching encourages believers to anchor their hope not in the perishable systems of the world, but in the eternal Word of God, which alone has the power to transform the visible through the invisible. Inspired Teaching: Colossians 1:27 “To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” In our previous lesson, Visible and Invisible, I commented that the number one rule in understanding how the physical and invisible creation interacts was The Word, for it is written: Colossians 2:3 “In whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.” So that not only do all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge abide in God’s Word, but they also abide in The Word that became flesh! Colossians 2:9 “For in Him (The Word that became flesh: Jesus) dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.” So that according to our opening text, those of us who have received Jesus Christ as our Savior and Lord have residing within us already all these treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Colossians 2:10 “And you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.” But notice carefully how Paul describes it in our opening text, Christ in you the hope of glory. What that basically means is that a great gift has been given to all of us who believe, and that within all of us who believe in Christ, resides the potential to access those hidden treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Now from the scientific point of view what that means is that we, those of us who believe in Christ, have been given the power by faith in the name of Jesus to manipulate the basic elements that comprise all matter. So that when Paul writes to us that in Christ we have the hope of glory, what he means is that in Christ we have the grounds to expect the manifestation of that which is invisible to us, or another way of saying it, that which seems impossible to us in the natural. So that true faith is based on the real evidence of something that already exists in the invisible or spiritual realm called heaven, where Christ is seated at the right hand of the Father interceding for us. Scripture tells us that by the stripes of Jesus we were healed, Christ in us gives us the hope of accessing that healing that God has already released and loosed in heaven, to come to reality here in our physical confine if we can by faith release it here on the earth where it is needed. Why do these healings do not take place all the time? Why don’t they become a reality as they should on behalf of those of us who believe? Colossians 2:8 “Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ.” Notice the phrase according to the basic principles. A basic principle is a foundational law that governs a realm. There are laws or principles that govern the physical realm, and there are laws or principles that govern the spiritual realm. In the physical or visible realm, the basic law that permeates everything is entropy, because in our physical world everything eventually dies, for all that is visible is passing away. In the spiritual invisible realm however the basic law that permeates everything is the law of life, which is the law of Christ. 1 Corinthians 15:22 “For as in Adam all die (entropy), even so in Christ all shall be made alive (deliverance from entropy, that is our blessed hope).” Those who operate according to the basic principles of the world cannot produce life, so that the healing that is needed does not come to pass on their behalf. However those who operate according to the basic principles of Christ, receive the healing needed to continue with a good and abundant life, for they are following the proper protocol. Colossians 3:1-2 “If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above (the invisible spiritual realm), not on things on the earth (the visible physical realm).” Let us ask these two simple questions and then a third: where does sickness come from? And where do healings come from? Sickness comes from the past and healings come from the future age that is to come! Now let me ask one more question, where does the past and the future come together? The answer to the third question is in Christ, for He is the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last. He has borne our sicknesses and diseases, He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities which is where all sicknesses came from, that answers the first question. Now here is the answer to the second question. Hebrews 6:5 “And have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come.” Every healing that Jesus performed He brought from the future age that is to come; for it is written in Scripture that in the future every knee will bow and that every tongue will confess, that every eye will see Him, and that in Christ all shall be made alive. Hebrews 12:12-13 “Therefore strengthen the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees, and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.” Now we understand from science that in the invisible world of sub-atomic particles which form all the things which are visible, that these sub-atomic particles exist in two different places at the same time, that is they transcend time and space. So that if our sicknesses are caused by past sins and iniquities that oppress us in the present, we can summon through the Word of God, the powers of the age to come and remedy whatever situation we face, if we dare to believe that with God nothing is impossible. Matthew 17:20 “So Jesus said to them, ‘Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, “Move from here to there,” and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.’” Now let us think about a literal mountain, if Jesus spoke to a high mountain and told it to move from here to someplace else, what would be the mechanics involved? Well we have an answer from nature! Every minute tons of water evaporate from the world’s oceans, move themselves away from there and travel to far away places where they come down as rain or snow, literally tons and tons of them fall back down to earth every minute somewhere in the world. What are the mountains made of? Sub-atomic particles that are held together by an invisible force, and in the same way that the sub-atomic particles that forms the waters that are in the oceans and are disbanded and made to fly away and then to come together again someplace else, the Word of the Lord has the same power to influence the dirt that forms the mountains or anything else, even the living things. Psalm 97:5 “The mountains melt like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of all the earth.” What I am trying to do here is to encourage your hope in the Word of God, for the Word of God is a lot more real than anything that exists within our physical realm. The entire world system is designed to get people away from trusting in the hope of glory that we have in Christ, but if you are in Christ do not be cheated out of your inheritance in the light by going back into trusting in the basic principles of this world. Colossians 2:20 “Therefore, if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations (things that perish with the using and which are not eternal like the promises of God are).” Previous Next Home

THE THREE FROGS To expose the deceptive nature of the “three unclean spirits like frogs” described in Revelation 16:13–14, tracing their influence through false doctrines that undermine God’s truth, corrupt the conscience, and lead humanity toward rebellion against God. This teaching aims to equip believers to discern these demonic influences, remain watchful, and keep clothed with the promises of God through Christ, standing firm in righteousness against end-time deception. THE THREE FROGS Pastor Marcos Marrero May 30, 2023 Objective: To expose the deceptive nature of the “three unclean spirits like frogs” described in Revelation 16:13–14, tracing their influence through false doctrines that undermine God’s truth, corrupt the conscience, and lead humanity toward rebellion against God. This teaching aims to equip believers to discern these demonic influences, remain watchful, and keep clothed with the promises of God through Christ, standing firm in righteousness against end-time deception. Synopsis: The Three Frogs centers on Revelation’s vision of demonic spirits emerging from the dragon, the beast, and the false prophet. These spirits—symbolizing lying doctrines—leap across the world, deceiving nations with signs and false wisdom. Their ultimate goal is to gather humanity in rebellion against God on the “great day of God Almighty.” The teaching identifies three historic channels of deception: Darwin’s theory of evolution (reducing man to an animal), Freud’s psychology (severing the human soul from moral accountability), and Marx’s socialism (exalting pride and control over God’s order). Each corresponds with the lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, and pride of life warned of in 1 John 2:15–16. Together, they form a counterfeit trinity that erodes the divine truth embedded in every human conscience. The message contrasts humans—created uniquely in God’s image and infused with His breath—with animals, which are animated by mere life-force. While fallen angels once attempted to corrupt humanity by blending human and animal natures, God judged and destroyed their work. Modern parallels appear in artificial intelligence and genetic tampering, echoing Daniel 2:43’s prophecy of mingling with the seed of men, yet doomed to fail. Ultimately, believers are warned not to fall prey to these doctrines of demons but to remain clothed with Christ’s righteousness, putting on the armor of light and resisting deception. The call is to vigilance, holiness, and steadfast faith in Jesus—the only One who preserves both body and soul for the promised resurrection and eternal life. Inspired Teaching: Revelation 16:13-14 “And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs coming out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are spirits of demons, performing signs, which go out to the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.” These three demonic spirits jump out like frogs out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet and leap upon the entire world, performing signs and wonders with the goal of deceiving all the humans who inhabit this earth. Unclean spirits always peddle lies against the Word of God, their aim is to keep those who will be saved from sure destruction—once they know the truth—from knowing the truth that Jesus can keep them safe from the judgment of that great day of God Almighty. That great day of God Almighty—as of this writing—is still in the future, but the demonic doctrines represented by these three frogs are alive and present and have been around for centuries now leading many a strayed. That is why Jesus, knowing that many would be exposed to these demonic doctrines, warns us to be watchful and to keep His covering—His promises—on like a garment. Many will say that no one knows the time of the end. That is exactly why we need to keep watch and be ready for today many signs tells us that we may already be in them. Revelation 16:15 “Behold, I am coming as a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame.” Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx are great examples of how this demonic trinity has been working its way into our everyday lives. Through Darwin comes the teaching that the human body evolved from an animal which is a lie. Through Freud comes the teaching that the human mind or soul can be void of morality, that is, if we are nothing more than animals then there should be no guilt or shame nor Day of Judgment. Through the teachings of Marx comes the teachings of socialism or social justice as it is called today, which embodies the aspiration that every aspect of human life can be control by these frog-like demons behind these doctrines. 1 John 2:15-16 “Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh (Darwin), the lust of the eyes (Freud) and the pride of life (Marx)—is not of the Father but is of the world.” Job 41:34 “He (Leviathan the dragon) beholds every high thing (God’s moral law with contempt); He is king over all the children of pride.” We come to the place in time, where the morality of God’s Law in viewed with contempt by many, and pride for a life style that is against God’s morality is publicly celebrated. What is the difference between humans and animals? Animals are called animals because they are animated by the spirit of life that God infused into the creation when God said let there be and there was and commanded them to be fruitful and to multiply. The human body was made alive when God infused it with the breath of God Almighty Himself directly into Adam’s nostrils and man became a living soul, created in God’s image with a fully functioning conscience. Romans 2:15-16 “Who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and between themselves their thoughts accusing or else excusing them in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.” Long before Moses walked down the mountain with the Ten Commandments in his hands, God had already placed the morality of His righteous law in the hearts of every living soul! Before the great flood, the fallen angels tried desperately to remove the human conscience from the physical body through all kinds of human experiments combining animal and human DNA. For the purpose of controlling the human body without it feeling guilt or regret for their actions in order to avoid God’s law of human resistance against demonic intrusion in the human soul. James 4:7 “Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.” Those demonic entities failed miserably in their attempt to recreate man into a soulless creature and are now awaiting God’s judgment; all that were left with was the dead bodies of soulless animals without immortality and deprived of the breath of life from their lungs for God drowned them all in the flood. The fruit of their labor was destroyed and prevented from rising again. Isaiah 26:12-14 “Lord, You will establish peace for us, for You have also done all our work in us. O Lord our God, masters beside You have had dominion over us; But by You only we make mention of Your name. They are dead, they will not live (no soul no resurrection); they are deceased they will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish (no memory no soul).” God owns the souls of all men, for the soul is all the work of God in us. And even though our genetic code has been infused with the frailty and death of the body because of sin, there is immortality promised to men, not only for the soul of man but also for the physical body as well. The blessed hope is the promised resurrection of the physical body. But for the result of those who tampered with this sacred work of God into the soul of man, there will be no resurrection for their demonic product, for the trans-bodies (human-animal) that they engineered bypassing the conscience, cannot rise from the dead and will not rise from the dead for they have no soul; even all the memory of them will be destroyed forever. Daniel 2:43 “As you saw iron mixed with ceramic clay, THEY WILL MINGLE WITH THE SEED OF MEN; but they will not adhere to one another, just as iron does not mix with clay.” That is the kind of work that is going on today in modern science with artificial intelligence, but Daniel tells us that it will fail again. But many are the victims of these evil works, do not fall prey to them. Keep watch and clothe yourselves with the promises of God. 1 Timothy 4:1-2 “Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron.” Jesus wants us to put Him on as a garment and then He blesses those who obey Him: Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame. Paul tells us how to put on the armor of light and how to keep our garment of light on and not be deceived. Romans 13:12-14 “The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.” Previous Next Home

THE GOD WHO FORMED YOU The purpose of this teaching is to reveal the truth that God is the One who has personally formed, sanctified, and ordained each of us from the very beginning—even before birth. Drawing from Jeremiah 1:4–10, Psalm 139, and other supporting scriptures, the lesson emphasizes God’s intimate knowledge of us, His divine calling on our lives, and His continuing presence and authority through His Word. The teaching aims to encourage believers to embrace their identity in Christ, walk boldly in their calling, and trust the God who created and prepared them with love and purpose. THE GOD WHO FORMED YOU Minister Lisa Kane June 22, 2025 Objective: The purpose of this teaching is to reveal the truth that God is the One who has personally formed, sanctified, and ordained each of us from the very beginning—even before birth. Drawing from Jeremiah 1:4–10, Psalm 139, and other supporting scriptures, the lesson emphasizes God’s intimate knowledge of us, His divine calling on our lives, and His continuing presence and authority through His Word. The teaching aims to encourage believers to embrace their identity in Christ, walk boldly in their calling, and trust the God who created and prepared them with love and purpose. Synopsis: This message, “The God Who Formed You,” begins with Jeremiah’s calling, where God tells the prophet, “Before I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee.” From this passage, the teaching highlights how God is not only the Creator of life but the One who molds, sanctifies, and ordains individuals for His purposes before they are even born. The lesson underscores that every believer has a divine calling, and God equips them with His Word and Spirit to fulfill it. Lisa explains how Jeremiah’s experience demonstrates God’s authority to appoint, prepare, and protect those He calls, even in the face of fear and opposition. She connects this truth to the life of every believer—affirming that God has written our names, our design, and our destinies in His book from the moment of conception. Psalm 139 reinforces that we are “fearfully and wonderfully made” and continuously in God’s thoughts. The teaching also stresses the power of God’s Word placed in our mouths—just as He touched Jeremiah’s lips—enabling us to speak life, truth, healing, and authority over nations, circumstances, and personal struggles. Testimonies and reflections illustrate God’s personal involvement and protection in everyday life, reminding listeners that He is always near. Ultimately, the lesson calls believers to recognize their identity in the God who formed them, seek His kingdom first, and boldly proclaim His Word to others. By knowing that God has overcome the world, we can live with peace, confidence, and purpose, trusting in the One who knew us before we were born and continues to walk with us daily. Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kaine and I'm recording this teaching on Sunday, June 22nd, 2025. Welcome. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word and we bless your word that it does not return void. I ask and pray over the listeners of this teaching that their eyes and ears and heart and mind are prepared and that they receive this teaching. they determine its validity with you, that um it is imprinted in their hearts and that your Holy Spirit works with them and bring it to remembrance so they do not forget it and that they remember who you are and what you're about and what you do to each and every one of us as our lives begin and in our and as our lives end. Thank you, Father God, for your precious word. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. and I'm glad you can join me today. Thank you for being here. This teaching is called the God who formed you. So, let's start off here in Jeremiah 1:4-10. Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, So, I'm going to stop here. This is Jeremiah. He is uh about to start the book of Jeremiah, and you can go read the whole thing on your own time. I'm going to just talk about these uh up to verse 10. The way I teach is I present to you the the word in the King James version. And if you see a bolded word in there with italicized words after it, the bolded word is the original word that the translators used in the King James version. And the italicized words are other words that the the translators could have used. And I get those other words from the Strong's Hebrew Greek dictionary. So, and I all I do is I add those extra words in that parenthesis is just to show you where the original author was going with this because we are talking through uh translation. So, I just want to clarify that. Okay. So, says then the word of the Lord came unto me saying, so now God is talking to Jeremiah and Jeremiah is recording this. We're in verse 5. Before I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee. And before thou camest forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. Okay, so we're going to stop really quick here. One of the things is I'm going to be talking about the God who formed me, the God who formed you. We are formed by God. The word formed, as you can see here, means to mold, squeeze, or determined. So he has determined us. He has molded us. He has prepared. He gave us a calling right at the outset here. There is just no uh holding back here. He's saying this is what I've called you. Now, he's telling this to Jeremiah. Now, I'm going to show you other scriptures here in a bit that's going to show you where the scriptures tell us that God is doing that to us, too. It's not just to be a prophet. But I wanted to show this to you because Jeremiah is a very interesting person. And he went through, for lack of a better phrase, hell on earth in speaking the words of God to the nation of Israel and then getting it written down and getting it preserved and his life ending. Jeremiah was called as a youth. And this is very, very interesting. He's saying straight up. This is God telling him before I formed you, before I even made the determination of you in the belly, he says, I knew, I recognized you. So, it's as if God had been sitting there waiting. I'm waiting for a prophet. Where is he? Oh, there he is. So, at the moment of conception, it was like, there he is. I knew you. This is the God that we serve. God is so powerful that even at the moment of conception, he writes a book about us. I'm going to get into that a little bit here. It's something I've taught on before, but I wanted to show and elaborate to you who this God is. He's the one who has formed us. He has prepared us. And here he's saying uh in the belly, I knew you. I recognized you. And then before you even came out of the womb, he says, I sanctified you. I made you clean. Now, I want to pause here and think about that for a moment. Why would a newborn need to be clean or a baby that hasn't even been born? Because a baby is conceived in sin. You see, Adam and Eve fell in the beginning and Jesus came back to redeem us and he's the one who had to clean us and sanctify us. So God is saying, "Listen, while you were in the womb and I knew you, I I mold before I even molded you. Before I even I determined you. I deter that's a word there in recognized. He determined. He formed. He recognized." Then he says, "I sanctified. I cleaned you." He did that to Jeremiah in order for Jeremiah to be the prophet. And look what else he says. And I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. I've placed you. I've called you to be I've given you to be a prophet over the nations. That's your calling. That's what I put on you. Question I have is what's the calling he put in your life? And and you know what? It's okay. God loves you so much that even if you didn't do what he called you to do or be, he knew. And he's just been waiting for you to come see him and talk to him. He knew it already while you were in the belly of your mother. He knew that already. He's just waiting for you to come to him. humble yourself and ask him to forgive you. By the way, he will he will always forgive you. And don't get tripped up about, oh well, there's the uh the son of predition that won't or not the son of predition that there's a sin that is not forgivable. Trust me, that's because that's on the son of predition. That's not on you. You are not the son of predition. You're not Satan. You are not part of that world. And even if you were like dedicated or committed or a curse was placed on your life, God already knew you. He looked at you in the beginning and he saw you already and he knew you. you know, to share a little testimony. My dad and and my husband and I were out to lunch after church this morning, uh, this afternoon, and we were talking about, um, how God has protected our family and kept us, and I remember one time, this is when we were living in Lake Elsenor, California. I remember sitting there, it's 3:00 in the morning, actually. I was laying there and it was 3:00 in the morning and I in California you always keep your windows open pretty much but I had a slider door there for the deck and I'm on the second floor. It is open but I remember laying there and aware that God was there. He was like right outside the window a little ways away but it was like and and I'm not talking just God. I'm saying God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. I was aware and in my mind to this day it still affects me in a way that he came to me at that point. Didn't have to say anything. I just knew he was there and that how that has impacted my life because I I sit here going, man, I must have got his attention somewhere in the future. Who am I that he came to visit me? But let me tell you something. He already knew. And he wanted me to know that he knew and that he was preparing me for whatever is to come. He's done the same for you. He knows you. He's written a book. Now look at Jeremiah's response. It's it's valid in and it's point on. He says, "Then said I, ah, Lord God, behold, I cannot speak, for I am a child." You know, it's funny. Jesus, he said, "Bring the little ones. Let them be here. If you do not bring the little ones in, then you know, you're not part of God." See, God loves children. God is a family man. Isn't that just incredible? Now your impression of family might not be beautiful because you know depending how you were raised and and whether you were orphaned or whatever has happened to you but God is a family man and then he provides you a family you know when you become a believer you become adopted into God's family which is his chosen nation of Israel and it's the church the body of Christ that is your family and sometimes it's really good and sometimes it's challenging But when you have a relationship with God, the God who formed you, he's the one that has prepared you and you you're at peace about everything. No matter someone, a loved one dies, because you know your father, you know who formed you. You know he has them. As it says in Hebrews 9:27, all are appointed to die once. Well, we're all eventually going to die. We're all going to end up on that other side right here though, right now, knowing that he formed us. What's the most important part? Share his word. Share our testimony. Share our lives. Let the people see that we have a peace upon us simply because we know he formed us. We know he has called us. That is the most important part of this. Now look at uh what God says to Jeremiah after he says that. Verse 7. But the Lord said unto me, "Say not, I am a child, for thou shalt to go to all that I shall send appoint thee, and whatsoever I command thee, thou shalt speak." And then be not afraid of those of their faces, for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord. He says, I don't want you to be afraid. And don't say that just because you're a youth. He he says very clearly, I'm going to send you. You're going to be a voice and you're going to speak my words. And then I love how he says, "Don't even be afraid or revere their faces." See, when you're afraid of a bully or you're afraid of what people are going to say, you're giving them more power and authority than they actually have. They don't have that power and authority. So, what it is, you're revering them. You're like, "Oh, look at how much power. Oh, I got to be afraid of them." No, no, no. You need to be afraid of the God who can send them straight to hell for an eternity versus sending you straight to heaven with him as an etern eternity. This is where we have to finally humble ourselves before the Lord and realize I'd rather rever God and be afraid of him than be afraid of anything else in the world. And he's telling Jeremiah this because see Jeremiah is going to go through some hardships. You can go read the book of Jeremiah. You can go find out all the things he had to do and some of it was bad. You that's your homework. You go read that. Take you about I don't know a month maybe to read. The book of Jeremiah is a long book in the Bible. And uh just know that God is with him and God is very clearly saying I am with thee. I'm near thee and I'm going to snatch you away from them. I'm going to deliver you out of them. I want to snatch you away. So Jeremiah still lived to be a lengthy time, but it was a hard life. But God knew this and he had formed him and that's where he was going with him. So he's telling him, "Don't be afraid." Then he continues on in verse 9. Then the Lord put forth his hand and touched my mouth. You see, here is a God who has created everything. He created the universe we're in. He created the the air, our bodies, how to adapt and adjust and live in this world. We're in such a way that if you had so much faith that you can never be sick, you will never be sick. You can live like that. If you believe everything, you know, then you might believe who is telling you you're going to be sick or this or culture tells you, oh, if you go from hot to cold or cold to hot, you're going to get sick. No, you don't have to live like this. See, God gave you the ability to live in healing, to live in peace, no matter what circumstance has taken place. I I do know some people that I sit there and I get mad for them for what they had to go through and they're just like, well, you know, and they they don't even they hardly talk about it or it's uh just a as a casual bygone. That is how God has transformed their lives and he gave them that ability. So here he is doing the same for Jeremiah. He put his he touched his word into his mouth. See Jesus is the author of the word of God. Jesus is the word of God. He's the embodiment of it. So here he says, "Okay, let me touch your lips." He touches Jeremiah's lips. And when he touched his lips, he put his word. He put Jesus into the lips of Jeremiah. So every time Jeremiah spoke the word of God, he was speaking what Jesus was speaking to the nation of Israel and warning them and warning them and warning them because that's what Jeremiah is all about is all the warnings. Don't stray away from God. And they wouldn't believe. And they were stubborn, so stiff necked. But that was how the Israelites were at that time. And God was working with them. He they Jesus spoke his word through Jeremiah. Continuing on, it says, "The Lord said unto me, behold, I have put my words, my cause in your mouth." See now the cause, Jesus cause of salvation, healing, mercy, redemption. He put all that into the mouth of Jeremiah. Says, "I want you to tell these words to the nation of Israel." See, Jesus loves. Jesus is forgiving. He is the merciful, graceful God that there is. And he's telling the nation of Israel through Jeremiah, I want you to repent. Come back to me. Stop following false idols. And this is where Jeremiah became that word and had to go speak that because God called him to do that because he knew him. God formed Jeremiah. God formed Lisa. I'm gonna make her a teacher of the word of God. and I'm going to make her an intercessory prayer warrior. She's going to pray into the situations the name of Jesus. And then you begin to see how God moves. But it's because he formed me. He knew me. And he is doing the same. He has done the same for you. Amen. Continuing on, see this verse 10. God is still talking. See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms. So he Jeremiah is overseeing the kingdoms and the dominions and the powers because he's got the word of Jesus in his mouth and the word of Jesus has always had the kingdoms and dominions. You know Satan lied to him in the 40 days of wilderness when Jesus was fasting. You know the the devil tempted him says listen you bow down to me I will give you all these kingdoms they'll worship you. No, they the devil never has the kingdoms because the saints, Jeremiah being one of them, and if you go read Isaiah 49, we 149, we have the ability to pray over our kings and dominions and cause effective change. One of the reasons why Trump is president now is because of prayer from the church. The church said, "You know what? We see the difference between Kamla and Trump and Lord we are putting this at your throne and we speak the word of God and we pray the word of God over it and what happens Trump got voted in. That's because God already knew the situation. He had already formed Trump. He prepared Trump for this time. He prepared Kamla at for her time at this season. But she has gone a different route. Who knows? She could have been all powerful and could have been the first black American president if she had been a believer in God and God had taken her down that route. But her actions clearly say that she does not support Israel. She So I, you know, don't know if she's an actual believer, but she didn't have that blessing on her. Trump did. But remember, God makes people for and then he makes other things. He made the devil. He formed the light, but he created darkness. That's Isaiah 45:7. You can go read how he did that. So God can do anything and prepare anyone at any time for any of this. Uh to root out. Now listen, this is the authority Jeremiah's given. So he says, "See, I've set this day. I've I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms to root out." That's to tear away, to pull down, to tear down, and to destroy, lose or perish, to throw down, break in pieces, to build, repair, and to plant or fasten. Jeremiah was given that authority. So when he would speak a word, the word of God, Jesus, it would be to tear down, to tear apart, to break into pieces, or to repair, and to plant. You see, that was God's plan for Jeremiah. And this is where we have to realize that he has given us authority as the body of Christ to do the same. Amen. Let's go to Psalm 139. I want you to see something here in u the Psalms. Verse 13. For thou hast possessed my reigns, purchased me is what that means. Thou has covered or fenced in me in my mother's womb. I love that word purchased me. I love that extra translation that could be in there because Jesus is our redeemer and he paid the price for our sins. He has set us apart from the world. And he did it where? In our mother's womb. He covered us. He fenced us in. He put us in there. He's already got us covered. Even though we were conceived in sin, this is what redemption and mercy is about. God who formed us, you know, he could have ended everything and stopped back then and restarted and who knows could have hoped that Adam and Eve wouldn't do it a second time, whatever. But instead, he decided to continue on with it and send his only begotten son to redeem the people and decided to do that because he loves us so much. He wanted to get to know us. He formed us in the womb. Even before we lived our life, even before we made the decision to call on his name, he knew us. This is the God who formed us. Verse 14, I will praise thee, or throw my hands up to thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are thy works, and that my soul knoweth right well. You see his word, he put his word in Jeremiah and Jeremiah spoke his word, but he put his word, the name of Jesus. He put Jesus into us in the womb for right to for us to recognize and know right from wrong. We know the difference. This is why we were able to come in and pray and see Trump become the victor over Kamla. We were able to see that because we know right from wrong by the fruit of their actions. I love it how Trump, you know, they just bombed the nuclear plants in Iran. I love it how Trump came out and says, "God, I love you. Thank you." You see, he's putting God first in his life. You can't ask for anything more than that. Now, whatever God ends up doing with Trump and how he uses him, maybe he sets him up for his return, whatever ends up happening there, one thing I know is based on right and wrong, based on what was placed in my heart while I was in my mother's womb, I know that we're in the right right now because of the fruit of what I can see and what the Lord has caused me to know in my heart. Amen. My substance or power was not hid from thee when I was made in secret and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. You see, when you have intimate relations with someone and you get someone pregnant, that's usually in darkness or it's, you know, a very intimate time. It's a very private time. It's enclosed. This is what how it happens normally. But you see, God knew us there. We were still known by God even in that moment. He knew. He knew us because he formed us. He prepared us. He called us. Verse 16. Thine eyes did see my substance. Yet being imperfect, listen, we weren't we were in conceived in sin, we were already imperfect in the womb. And he saw us. And in Jeremiah's case, he called Jeremiah. Oh, look at this. So then he says, "Yet being imperfect, and in thy book all my members were written, described, which in continuence were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them." He didn't even have his members yet. you know, he was conceived and at the point of conception, you're just a little mass, a little, you know, it's an egg and a sperm and it starts to form inside there, but there are no legs, there's no head, there's no brain, there's no eyes, there's nothing yet. You're just a little seed in there. And he says, "And in thy book, all my members were written, described." At the moment of conception, God writes a book about you. It's entitled with your name. He knows your name. He knows whether you're male or female. He knows what your members are going to look like. He's already written your description in there. He knows at this moment when it hasn't even happened. This is the God of whom we serve. This is our God. This is how powerful he is. This is why the grave couldn't hold back Jesus. Oh, hallelujah. And uh which in continuence were fashion when as yet there was none of them. How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, oh God. How great is the sum of them. He thinks about us all the time. We are mindful. He is mindful of us. He thinks of us all the time. They are continuous thoughts that he has and they're good. They're precious. If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I awake, I am still with thee. God doesn't leave us. He's still there. We go to sleep. We go off into dreamland. We go into wherever place we go. Our body needs that rest, but our mind still goes somewhere else. God is with us when we wake up. And his thoughts are good over us. He's got plans and thoughts for us. And all it is is just stopping and saying, "Thank you, Lord." And asking him to lead us. He will take us there. He will open doors. He will close doors. He will protect us. He will because he's the God who formed us. Oh, hallelujah. This is awesome. Then it says here in Matthew 28, look at what Jesus says. Because again, Jesus is the word of God that was placed in Jeremiah. And then Jesus right and wrong is what's placed in our heart. Look at what Jesus says here in Matthew 28. And Jesus came and spake unto them saying, "All power is given unto me in heaven and earth." Jesus has all the power and authority. He's the one who said, "Let there be light." And there was light and it was good. This he's he's the all powerful. He's the power. He's the one who did it. He's the one who made it happen. And it was by spoken word. Says, "Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost." You see, now it's a little different here. He told Jeremiah, "I'm going to put my word in you. what you speak, you're going to tear down, pull around, pull up, uh, break into pieces, repair and build up and plant. That now he says, I want you to go to everyone, teach them, baptize them, teach them to observe all things whatsoever I've commanded you, and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen. Still, he is with us every day, and he has overcome the world. That is so amazing. In fact, let's read that last scripture there. Verse 33 or John 16:33. These things I have spoken unto you that in me might have peace in the world. You have tribulation, but be of good cheer. I've overcome the world. See, God created this world. Jesus created it all. So, he has placed it his word in our hearts. And he tells you, I want you to do these things and I want you to go do what you need to do. This is what I'm calling you to do. I formed you to do this. And he says, "And don't be afraid of them. I overcame I overcame the world." I love that. That is so awesome. This is the God who formed us. He's the one who has established us. So if you want to know what your will in God is, first seek first the kingdom of God. Matthew uh 6:33, seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you. How do you seek the king seek seek the kingdom of God? You seek him by putting him first in your lives. Have a relationship with him in the morning, in the evening. Read the word. Pray. Ask him questions and look. He will answer you. Then he tells you to go into all the world. That is also letting people know the relationship you have with Jesus because they can have it too because he formed them in the womb just like he formed me and Jeremiah in the womb. Like you, he formed you. He prepared you. And he's telling you to go into all the world and preach the good news. Telling you that I am the good news. I came and redeemed you. I paid the price for your sins. I'm the one who knew you. You know me because you know the right I have placed in you in the womb. This is who I am. This is who you are. Let us partner up together and go show the world the testimony of what I have done for you. This is Jesus calling us into that anointing, into that walk, into that relationship with him so that we can say, "Hey, look what I have. I've got Jesus. Do you want to have peace in your life, too? Let me introduce you to Jesus." He knew you when you were conceived. What? Before you even had a body, he knew what you would look like. And he knows he has good thoughts of you. He thinks wonderful things about you. He is mindful of you. He wants to know everything about your life. What's going on? Where are you going? What are you doing? This is the God who formed you and he placed right in your heart and you can speak his words just like Jeremiah did by taking the scripture, reading it, saying it out lou out out loud and applying it to whatever situation you're in. No weapon formed against us shall prosper. By his stripes I was healed. Let no man take apart what you have brought together. These are just some of the verses that we have that take us to making an effective change with our prayers. Amen. Let's close in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word and we bless your word. Your word is powerful. Your presence is powerful and we know in our heart what is right and what is wrong. Thank you, Father God, for placing your word in our mouths and helping us to know you because you know us so much more than we know you. And I pray that we begin to have that relationship with you where we know what is right and we can stay away and pray against that wrong that is out there. Father God, thank you for your paying the price and redeeming us and saving us. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. God bless you. I will see you in the next message. Bye-bye. Previous Next Home

Between My Prayer and His Answer The objective of Between My Prayer and His Answer is to encourage believers to seek God boldly, ask Him anything with confidence, and faithfully document the journey of seeking, waiting, and receiving. Between My Prayer and His Answer equips readers to pursue God intentionally, trust Him in the process, and recognize His voice and movement as He responds to those who diligently seek Him. Between My Prayer and His Answer Lisa Kane February 16, 2026 Between My Prayer and His Answer Front Cover Objective: The objective of Between My Prayer and His Answer is to encourage believers to seek God boldly, ask Him anything with confidence, and faithfully document the journey of seeking, waiting, and receiving. Between My Prayer and His Answer equips readers to pursue God intentionally, trust Him in the process, and recognize His voice and movement as He responds to those who diligently seek Him. Synopsis: Between My Prayer and His Answer is more than a journal for the waiting season — it is a sacred space for seeking. This guided prayer journal reminds you that you can ask God anything. Nothing is too small, too large, too broken, or too complicated for Him. As you seek Him with your whole heart, He promises to answer. These pages are designed to help you document your conversations with God — your prayers, your questions, your struggles, your surrender — and to record how He speaks, moves, and responds. The waiting is not passive; it is active pursuit. It is listening. It is trusting. It is watching God unfold His answer in His perfect way and timing. Between your prayer and His answer, you are being transformed. And when the answer comes, you will have written proof that God was faithful all along. Sample first pages of the Book/Manual: Introduction. Write. Wait. Return. Prayer is not meant to be a one-time request sent into the air, hoping something happens. Prayer is meant to be a conversation, a living, growing relationship between you and a faithful God who listens, speaks, and responds in His perfect time. This journal was created for the space that often goes unnoticed: the space between your prayer and His answer. So many of us pray sincerely, yet we forget to return. We ask God for direction, healing, provision, or clarity, but when time passes, life moves on, and the moment is lost. What if instead of forgetting, we remember? What if we learned to document our prayers, wait with expectation, and then return to recognize how God answered? Here, you are invited to write your question to God, record the date, and trust Him with the waiting. Some answers come quickly. Others unfold slowly. And sometimes, we only recognize God’s answer when we look back. These pages are meant to become a testimony, a personal record of how God has walked with you through seasons, decisions, waiting, and breakthrough. There is no schedule here. There is no pressure to fill every page. There is only an invitation. Write. Wait. Return. May this journal help you see what has always been true: God is faithful, God is present, and God does answer prayer. Here's where you can purchase this book of this book is published: Amazon Barnes & Noble Xulon Press Book Found Here Previous Next Home

CONCERNING SPIRITUAL GIFTS The purpose of this teaching is to help believers understand the true context and purpose of spiritual gifts. By examining 1 Corinthians 10–12, the message emphasizes that gifts are not isolated abilities but are rooted in fellowship with Christ and proper spiritual authority. The teaching aims to show how spiritual gifts deliver us from the influence of idols and demonic wisdom, positioning us rightly in the body of Christ so that each member functions effectively in unity under the headship of Jesus. < Back CONCERNING SPIRITUAL GIFTS Pastor Marcos Marrero April 18, 2008 Objective: The purpose of this teaching is to help believers understand the true context and purpose of spiritual gifts. By examining 1 Corinthians 10–12, the message emphasizes that gifts are not isolated abilities but are rooted in fellowship with Christ and proper spiritual authority. The teaching aims to show how spiritual gifts deliver us from the influence of idols and demonic wisdom, positioning us rightly in the body of Christ so that each member functions effectively in unity under the headship of Jesus. Synopsis: This message begins with prayer and thanksgiving for God’s presence and guidance, then moves into Paul’s instructions in 1 Corinthians 12:1: “Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be ignorant.” The teaching places this verse in the broader context of 1 Corinthians 10 and 11, which highlight two foundational truths: fellowship with Christ (communion) and proper alignment under spiritual authority. The message explains that spiritual gifts flow from this fellowship, placing believers in their unique positions within the body of Christ. Just as seating arrangements at a banquet reflected status in ancient customs, so too does our place in Christ give us authority and responsibility. Unlike worldly systems that exalt power and pride, the kingdom of God exalts humility—God resists the proud but lifts up the humble. Drawing on passages from James 3 and Psalm 115, the teaching contrasts the influence of demonic, sensual wisdom with the life-giving wisdom from above. Before salvation, believers were bound by “dumb idols” that dulled spiritual senses, leaving them unable to see, hear, or discern the things of God. Spiritual gifts, therefore, serve as God’s tools to free His people from these former influences and to equip them for service. The gifts are not given for self-exaltation but for building up the body, ensuring that each member—whether seen or unseen—functions in harmony. The message stresses that communion with Christ must not be taken lightly; failure to discern His body leads to weakness, sickness, or even death among believers. Conversely, rightly partaking of Christ’s fellowship brings healing, authority, and the power to overcome. Ultimately, the teaching shows that spiritual gifts are God’s weapons of deliverance, empowering His people to walk in their rightful position of fellowship and authority, and to minister under the guidance of the Holy Spirit for the edification of the entire body of Christ. Inspired Teaching: Right. Praise God. Father in heaven in Jesus name, we thank you for your anointing, for your presence that covers, Father God, and for your hand that heals. Also for your hand of favor upon our heads, Father God, upon our ears, upon our eyes, our mouth, Father God. Touch us father in the name of Jesus that we may see what the Holy Spirit is bringing from you to reveal to us tonight father in Jesus name we thank you Lord. Amen. Amen. Praise God. Concerning spiritual gift and it's our scriptures in 1 Corinthians chapter 12. And I was reading um the other morning sitting in Riverside there in my car while waiting and I opened to this chapter and the Lord gave me a neat revelation and it says in um 1 Corinthians 12 verse1 it says now concerning spiritual gift brethren I do not want you to be ignorant and then immediately was like the Lord uh just brought the revelation to my mind that um uh spiritual gift have a purpose and the purpose has to do what he has been talking about. In other words, when he said concerning spiritual gift, I do not want you to be ignorant. And if you look back to take into context uh as the Lord showed me in um uh for example in in first Corinthians um uh chapter 11, he's talking about spiritual authority. In in verse two, he said, "But I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ." And then he's talking about the man being the head of the woman, Christ being the head of the man, God being the head of Christ. So he's talking about spiritual authority. He's talking about uh the dangers of praying or ministering outside of the right proper spiritual authority. That's what he's talking about there. In other words, he's saying uh uh that when things kind of get out of line, uh we're not functioning under the proper anointing or under the proper covering. And if you go back even farther to put into context what he's talking about, he's talking about um he's talking about communion, having fellowship with God. For example, in 1 Corinthians 10 um verse 16, it says, "The cup of blessing which we bless is it not the communion of the blood of Christ, the bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ." So there's an understanding to be had here that when he says in in in 1 Corinthians chapter 12 verse 1 when he says concerning now spiritual gift brethren I do not want you to be ignorant he's taking into context two very major points that he just made in chapters 10 and chapter 11. In chapter 10, he's making the point that we as believers because of the blood of Jesus Christ, we have fellowship. You see, and as believers, we also are placed in a position of authority. Now, let's take this back to the time of of the apostles and so that we can grasp and understand. Remember how Sebedes, the sons of Zebedee, Zebedee's wife, the mother of John and Andrew, came to Jesus and said, "Jesus, when you come into the kingdom, why don't you let uh my uh my son sit at your right hand and at your left hand in your throne to rule." And then there's another occasion when Jesus comes in and says, "Listen, when you're invited to a feast, don't seek to sit closer to the head of the table to the master because he may come in and somebody more important than you may come in and he'll pluck you out of your chair and put that other person." He says, "Sit where the most humble people sit and then the master will see you and then he will sit you up." What he's talking about, he's talking about a custom. A custom in those day is fellowship. When you're in fellowship, the position that you sit in that place of fellowship determines what your ranking is. In other words, the higher ranking you are in that fellowship, the closer to the master you sit. The lower in ranking, the farther you are. Now, I want you to take these two principles here because this is what Paul is talking about. chapter 10 and chapter 11. In chapter 10, he says, "Hey, we're seated now with Christ in the heavenly places because we have fellowship with him." In other words, Jesus said, "Do this in remembrance of me." When we partake of communion, we are recognizing the fact that we are part of the body of Christ. Jesus sits at the head of the table like he did during the communion and the different disciples sit next to him on their positions that are given to him. So the fact that we are now part of the body of Christ places us in a position of authority with Christ. That's what it's talking about. 1 Corinthians chapter 10 1 Corinthians 11 is talking about fellowship and authority. That's what it's talking about. So when in 1 Corinthians 12:1 he says, "Now concerning spiritual gifts, I do not want you to be ignorant." We need to place it within the context is that in fellowship with Christ, we have position and we have ranking. Okay, we need to understand this because this is the whole framework of the gift. This is how they operate. As a matter of fact, if you read farther down, where we're not going to get to tonight, in in 1 Corinthians chapter 12, uh he makes the very statement that in Christ, we're all like part of a body. In other words, we're not all an eye. We're not all an ear. But imagine if you put the eye on the knee, you would have a hard time praying, getting in your knees to pray because your eyes can't handle that. So he is talking about here that no matter what position you have in the body, whatever position has been given to you, whether you're a male or a female as he's using it in in in in 11 when he talking about that the woman not to pray with her head on cover. And when he's talking about that a man cannot pray with his head uncovered, meaning that Christ is his head. And if he's going to do spiritual warfare, he better have Christ as his covering, just like a woman needs to have her husband as a covering or her pastor, he's talking about a position in Christ, a fellowship with him. And then he's talking about not only a position of authority, h a position that brings us to a place of authority. In other words, whether you're the little toe, whether you're the nail, whether you're the eye, whether you're the ear, it does not matter. You fit into that pattern. And to men, now remember, they asked Jesus right in the context of when uh Zebed's uh wife uh wanted one of her sons sitting at his right hand and as his left hand. Jesus says the kingdom of God is not like the gentile world. In the gentile world, you lorded over people. He said, you know, the one with the most drive, the one that can bribe more people or convince more people or lead more people, he takes a head seat. He said, no, in the kingdom of God, the more humble person a person is, the more he to be exalted. In other words, you want to be great in the kingdom of God, be a servant of them all. Now, why is that? Because God governs and rules through principles, spiritual principles. Just like gravity. If gravity was taken right now, we all go floating. And if we don't have nothing to grab on to, man, we're in trouble because we're just out there in space doing nothing. God works always through laws which are called spiritual principle. And God has a very simple spiritual principle which he governs everything by. He says that God resists the proud but yet he exalts the humble. So you want to be great in the kingdom of God, be humble. And God is going to come to your little seat where you're at and going to move you to a higher position of authority because why? Because he has to obey. He governs by the rules that he made. And that's the rule that he made. The humble he lifts up. And now the one that exalts himself, what is it? That God resists the proud. So we need to understand then that in 1 Corinthians chapter 12 when we read verse one when Paul says now brethren concerning spiritual gifts I do not want you to be ignorant. We need to take that into the context that Paul is speaking about as believers. We have fellowship with Christ. And because we have fellowship with Christ within the structure of the fellowship we are given a position. we are given a position of authority. That's what he's talking about in in in chapter 11 being in the right under the proper government uh government ruling uh spiritual ruling of God. So the spiritual gift have to do with placing us in the proper place of fellowship with God and in the proper place of authority with God. So if we start with that then we're going to be able to understand what it's talking about. Now I want you to read. We're going to read verse one and verse two. 1 Corinthians 12. He says, "Now concerning spiritual gift, brethren, I do not want you to be ignorant." Verse two, "You know that you were Gentiles carried away to these dumb idols, however you were led." Now Paul very purposely puts the word there d them. He's not putting down on an on idols. He is trying to bring a very very important point. And what he's saying over here is that when we were gentiles and the problem with the word gentile that's become a fancy word. Oh we're all gentiles. The word gentiles mean pagan means idoltor means an idol worshipper. That's what the word pagan means. It means that hey, when you were an idoltor, when you were a pagan, when you were in the world, before you came into the fellowship that you are now in with Christ, and before you came into the position in which God has placed you, you had an authority and you had a position because you were influenced. You were led by idols. You see, so the spiritual gift are designed to take as if it were our nature or carnality or the position that was given to us by these dumb idols by our pagan ways of walking and placing us within the proper framework and context of the purpose and plan that God has for us. That's what he's saying concerning spiritual gifts. Brethren, I do not want you to be ignorant. You need to understand that now that you're a believer, you're in Christ. You have fellowship with God in the house of God. There is a seat. There is a spot that is reserved for you on that. You occupy a place of authority. And when you're part of the body and you're exercising your full authority within your context of the place of authority, you're making the body work. Hallelujah. You're making the body work. Things are happening. But when you're not within your position and within the realm of your authority, you're hindering. And that's why we need the gift. The gifts are there to place us in the proper place. That's what he's talking about. Now first of all we need to understand that as Gentiles or pagans all of our ways that means the way we think was influenced by demonic stuff. Now I don't have it there in the notes but u uh uh I need you to to see this. I was thinking today as I was meditating is in James and I think it's chapter 3. Uh James chapter 3 if I can find James. Where are you James? There you go. I'm already there. James 3. And I spoke this many times is James 3 verse 12. Let's begin there. It says, "Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olives, or a grape vine bear figs? Does no spring yield both salt water and fresh?" Believe it or not, this is the context into which Paul is talking about. We're going to read a scripture later to where it says, "Are you trying to make God jealous because you're partaking of the table of demons and you're partaking of the table of God?" So the context here is that now that we are situated or positioned in Christ, we need to assume or fulfill the responsibility of that office that has been given to us. And then he says um in verse 13 James 3:13 say who is wise and understanding among you. Remember I don't want you to be ignorant brethren. That's what 121 says. I don't want you concerning spiritual gifts. I do not want you to be ignorant. who is wise and under standing among you. Let him show by the conduct that his works are done in the meekness of wisdom. Remember wisdom is a spirit. He said, "But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth because this wisdom or this spirit, this influence does not descend from above, but is earthly, is sensual, and is demonic." And I want you to to underline those two words, sensual and demonic. And then he says, "For where there's envy, self-seeking, there's confusion, and all kinds of evil are there." And then he contrasts that by the wisdom that come from above, he says, "But the wisdom that is from above is first of all pure, peaceable, gentle, willing to yield and and all kinds of things." So I want you to see that what Paul is trying to deal with here is our carnality versus our spiritual position in fellowship and authority with Christ. Our carnality, the influences of the flesh are going to be in contrast with the position that we are in Christ in our fellowship with him and the authority that has been vested upon us as Christian. And so that if we don't see that the spiritual gift are tools that God has made available to pull us out or remove us from under the influence of the wisdom of this world which is demonic then we cannot come into the fullness of our position and fellowship that we have with Christ. This is why so many Christians fail. Now I want to take you in a journey as to why pagan when we were pagans that's before we were saved when we were pagan how much influence that demonic structure of this world that wisdom that we just read the self-seeking and sensual how detrimental that was to us because that DNA is deeply engraed saved in our human nature and that's what the gifts are for to remove that. Let's go first to Psalm 115 and let's read verses 2-8. Psalm 115 verses 2-8. He says, "Why should the Gentiles say, so where is their God?" Now notice he begins with a question. Why do do pagans say where is their God? How many of you know that now that's what the world says to Christians? Where is your God? How come you're dying of cancer the same way everybody else has got cancer? You're getting divorced the same way everybody gets divorced. you know, you're having to do the same things that we're having to do. So, where is your God? Now, watch what he says. He says, "But our God is in heaven, and he does whatever he pleases." Now, the pagans, verse four, their idols are silver and gold, the work of man's hands. And this is what I want you to see. This is very important. The idols, the works of manham, they have mouth but they do not speak. Eyes they have but they do not see. They have ears but they do not hear. Noses they have but they do not smell. They have hands but they do not handle. Feet they have but they do not walk. Nor do they mutter through their thro. And here's the kicker. Those who make them are like them, and so is everyone who trusts in them. Now, if you didn't catch it, he was talking about the five senses. He says they have eyes, they do not see, they have ears, they do not hear, they have noses, they cannot smell, they have mouth, they cannot taste, they have hands, they have feet, they can't do anything. And it says that those who make him, which is the wisdom of this world, the selfseeking that is embedded in all of us, we were under that influence as Gentiles, as pagans becau before we came into the commonwealth of Israel, which is the promise of God of Abraham according to the spirit where he said, "Your seed shall be like the stars of the heaven." That inheritance that we have before we enter into it, that's what we were under. We were this is so are the ones who make him and the ones who worship that lifestyle they become like them. Imagine that. What does it mean to become like an idol? It means you cannot hear the spirit of God. Means you cannot see the reality of spiritual things. Means you cannot does the Bible say come and taste and see that the that the Lord is good. You cannot taste the word of God. You speak it but it's not food. There's it's like eating cardboard, dry box, something like that. Why? The reason is because of the fact that idols are designed to keep men bound so that they cannot hear the spirit of God and be set free. Remember what Jesus said, lest they hear and be healed lest they hear. Isaiah says, you know, they they they hear uh they have ears, but they cannot hear. And and then he says, and and and unless they hear and be healed. So, we're talking about coming into the inheritance of God. But it says that we inherited all of that. You see, before I was born again, I could read the Bible and I could say, "Man, no wonder the world is so messed up." All you could see when I was reading in the Bible was wars and killings and murders and everything else. You see, my spirit was shut up. Could not see, could not hear, could not taste, could not smell. It wasn't until I experienced a rebirth. Born again, born of the spirit where that dumb idol. That's why Paul calls it the no matter why dumb. Because you don't hear and you don't speak, you're called dumb. That's why he called them. They don't have the ability to speak or to hear. We were led when we were pagans by dom idols. And these do idols kept us boxed in to where we could not see the fellowship the the seed of fellowship that we have with Christ. And we cannot understand the authority that comes with a sitting that we're now seated with Christ. That means that we need to be delivered. We need to be delivered. We need to be delivered from ears that cannot hear. We need to be delivered from eyes that cannot see. Have you ever been around a person that is negative all the time and and in every situation they see the worst and and and you're not involved in it and and immediately you perceive man that person will be so negative. He could see the blessing right there. Their attitude is what keeping them. I mean the person might be dying to hire them but they're doing everything in the world to keep the guy from hiring because of the attitude. You cannot see things like that and that's what he's talking about. So then what first Corinthians chapter 12 what he's talking about he's about God has made available for us spiritual gift because he said brethren concerning spiritual gift I do not want you to be ignorant those spiritual gift has been given to us for a purpose and the purpose is to deliver us from the demonic influences. that we have inherited from our old lifestyle when we were pagans. As a matter of fact, there's another scripture that I want to bring it more at home. And it's right there in 1 Corinthians chapter 10. If you're still in in 1 Corinthians 12, just back up just a little bit so that you can see that all of these things that Paul is doing, he's he's he's they're all chapter 10, chapter 11, they're all talking about. Look at ch 1 Corinthians chapter 10 uh verses 19 and 20. Look what Paul says what I am saying then that an idol is anything or what is offered to idols is anything. He's asking the question, but look what he says. The statement that he makes in 1 Corinthians 10:20. Rather, the things with the Gentiles or the pagans sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God. And because of that, Paul says to us, those who are believers, no, and I do not want you to have fellowship with demons. because you cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. So he's saying as a believer now you cannot remain in your old lifestyle. You have been given a seat of fellowship at the Lord's table which is his body, the church. That's what 1 Corinthians 12, if you read it, he says uh uh this gift are given for the profit of all and we're like a body. There's just one head. See, a lot of people say, well, uh, uh, you know, to justify their stronghold in a church or in a group or fellowship, anything with more than one head is a monster, they say. And I agree with that. Jesus is the head. That's what they don't understand. They're not. Jesus is the only head and Jesus operates through the full body. Any healthy church will have different people manifesting and and and ministry through different gifts. As a matter of fact, you read 1 Corinthians 13, it it says there are many gifts, but there's one spirit. There's the same Holy Spirit. He works. And you know, the Holy Spirit loves working through multiplicity of people. Get a group and begin to minister and you'll see that he the Holy Spirit will jump from one person to the other one to the other one to the other. Why? Because God operates in principles. And what is another principle that God tries to keep us from? Pride comes before the fall. And God knows in our human nature, we're very much prone to pride. So if the Holy Spirit does everything through you and you become the big head, pretty soon you're going to fall over. So the Holy Spirit will just use you for for a part and then he'll move to somebody else. And then you said, "Wow, I can't believe the Lord gave him that." And the other person say, "Look at you. I can't believe the Lord gave him that." But the thing is the two parts work together and bring the deliverance to the to to the thing that you need. And so what? Nobody gets full up because everybody said, "Man, if pray had not been here, that would not happen or if this had not happened." So So the Holy Spirit loves working like that. So he says in 1 Corinthians 12, if you read part of there are many gift but one spirit. But then he goes on to say there are different ministries but just one Lord. I don't care whether you're a pastor or a prophet or whether you're an evangelist or whether you're a teacher or whether you're an apostle, whoever you are, Jesus still is ahead. Why? Because he is the chief cornerstone. He's the head of the church. He is he he he he occupies every main office of the church. He occupies he's king. He's high priest. He's prophet. He's the apostle of our faith. Everything that has a title that governs and rules the body, the church is Jesus. All of us are just somewhere in there. And it's amazing that when h as 70 son's mother asked Jesus, he says those position are reserved by God as to who sits to his right hand and to his left hand. Only God has got those position. And you know what? When we get to heaven and we see those seated up there, I can guarantee you we never heard of them. We never knew them. There's some place some place to where and they suffer endure and whatever God knows the heart. He says whatever you do in secret will be rewarded in public. So then in 1 Corinthians chapter 12, what Paul is talking about when he says, "Now, brethren, concerning spiritual gift, I do not want you to be ignorant." And it's not to be ignorant of the fact that we have fellowship through our communion with Jesus Christ. And because we're in that fellowship, we have been given a position of authority, a seat. See, when you're going to uh the feast, everybody sits at a special place. We all sit at a special place. And that sit is reserved for just us. And he says, "And I want you to understand this." And I also want you to understand that when you were pagan, you were led by do idols that blocked your ability to hear, that blocked your ability to see, that blocked your ability to smell and taste and touch. And so because of that, you need deliverance in some of these areas so that you can be set free. And if you're not set free and you say, "Hey, I don't need it." Then you're going to have a problem. And the problem is in the scripture uh before us. Uh look at 1 Corinthians uh 11 verse 27-30. In 1 Corinthians 11:27-30, talking about our fellowship and and what we're commanded to do, the communion, he says, "Therefore, whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord." Now, it says that there's a proper way to take it in and there's a proper way and and and and and a a profane way of doing it. Verse 18, but let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, partake of the word of God, and drink of the cup, the blood that Jesus shed for us. For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. And then look what it says in verse 30. For this reason, what is he talking about? What is he talking about? For this reason, because of failure to understand the our nature that is corrupted, for this reason many of you are weak and sick among you and many have died. So meaning that in the Lord in our table of fellowship that we have with the Lord, the bread is for the healing and the blood is for forgiveness. I don't care what illness any Christian has, he has a right to come to the table of the Lord. Look at uh Psalm 23. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemy. this table, that bread of healing is the bread, the body of Christ. It says Peter quoting uh Isaiah says by the stripes of Jesus, you were healed. When we partake of the bread, it's not necessarily the communion that can happen on the communion, but when we take the word of God that says, "I am the Lord that heals you." And we're facing cancer or we're facing some kind of destructive disease and we can partake of that word. With eyes that see, hallelujah, with ears that hear, with the ability to taste and see that the Lord is good, the smell of the blood of Jesus that was shed for us, we're able to touch the hymn of his garment and immediately were healed. But he says many of you because you're failing to understand that your position of authority and fellowship in Christ cannot be handled in the natural way. You see cannot be handled in the natural rational way of thinking. This is the mistake that most Christians make. Their ministry is based on the human senses. That's what James 3 said. He says the wisdom that comes from here is is it is it it is demonic. It is sensual. It is based on the senses. It's based on what you see and what you hear. And the Bible tells us uh uh not to lean into our own understanding. That there's a way that seemed right to a man and that the end is destruction. So then what Paul is saying before you can handle your position of fellowship and authority you better understand what the spiritual gifts are there for because the spiritual gift concerning spiritual gift is what's going to set you free. Now look at verse three. This this can trouble many people for a long time. 1 Corinthians 12:3 in first he says now concerning spiritual gift verse one brethren I do not want you to be ignorant verse two you know that when you were pagans you were carried away to these dumb idols wherever you were led therefore I make known to you and you have to make sure you you pay attention here I make known to you that no one speaking by the spirit Spirit of God calls Jesus a curse and no one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit. Now that doesn't seem to make sense, does it? It is in a place there and it's standing all by itself and you say, "Man, what is that all about?" Well, that confirmed the scripture that I read to you in James chapter 3 where it says that there's two wisdoms. There's a wisdom that comes from above, peaceful, pure, and then there's a wisdom that come from this world which is based on sensual and demonic. That means that there are only two fountains. That means that there are only two wells. That means that there are only two sources. This is what it's talking about. And when we were pagans, guess what source we were drinking and flowing out of? Idolatry. And guess what? That idolatry brought dumb. Can see, can hear, can smell, can taste, can touch. You see? And so now he's saying here that you cannot say that Jesus Christ is Lord unless the spirit of God is saying that through you. And you cannot say Jesus occurs if you're born again because you see only the pagans can say that because the spirit of God is in you will not allow you to say anything bad about Jesus because the spirit testified about Jesus. That's all he does. He's here for the purpose of Jesus. The spirit of God will never ever put in a Christian to say something bad about Jesus. Never. It can't. the spirit of God and in the same way in our own nature we can never say Jesus is Lord unless the spirit of God truth you see we we were dumb our eyes our ears everything was blocked we could not see we could not hear it took the spirit of God to connect us see when Jesus send the disciples and gave him power they came back what Lord we spoke in your name and demons went out said don't rejoice in that rejoice that you had the password to heaven Yeah. And it's your name. Your name is written in heaven. When you say in the name of Jesus, your voice registers in heaven and immediately shows that's Marcos. Whoever it is you're born again, your name is in is written in the register just like a computer. Just type in your password and guess what? If you're not connected, you're not going to get in. Okay? You got to be signed up. You got to have a password. Your name is your password. You cannot say Jesus is Lord unless the spirit of God is in you. That's why he said rejoice that your name is written in heaven. That when you pray by the power of the Holy Spirit immediately it is answered. But now remember Jesus speaking about this he says my sheep know my voice. said, "But there are thieves that tried to come in through through the fence or through the back door, but they're not allowed in." See, here on earth, you can do that. You can fool a lot of people. You know, you wear the right clothes, say the right things and everything, and man, you can build a a great following. But that doesn't fool God. You see, you you cannot say Jesus is Lord. And and since we're dealing with demons because you see super personally sick, you know, and you can talk a good talk and play a good game and you can preach a great service, you say in the name of Jesus, if the spirit of God is not ended, that demon is just sitting over there laughing at you eating popcorn or lighting up one or whatever it is they do. You have no authority. You have no power. You see, the only power that we have is the gift that God gives us. Because the gifts are the tools. are the weapons. The gift concerning spiritual gift are the weapons that God gives us to defeat or destroy the power of these things that work with us. And so what he's saying here is in the spirit realm, in the natural you can fool a lot of people, but in the spiritual realm you're either connected to one or the other source. You're either connected to the wisdom that comes from above. Your name is written in heaven. When you speak, there's authority in your voice and demons have to obey. Or you just pulling a game and you're doing, you know what the thing does? You're you're you're in for self-seeking. You know, you just heard of this this pastor that just retired and the church is building him a $10 million church, a 10,000 um uh uh square feet living and stuff like that. And yet all of the years he's been preaching about the poor, all of the poor people and and and how does that um and and and you know, but people can't see nothing wrong with that. And then you know, and you see that in how many other congregations, people that have, you know, mega mega churches and have this uh big big mansions and all that stuff. You never see Jesus do that because when he said he cared about the poor, he really cared about the poor. He says the son of man doesn't have a nest for the birds have nest for he said son of man doesn't have a house doesn't have a place he has one goal and the goal is deliver the people the the people that are bound he saw the people like sheep without a shepherd who were hassle and and being destroyed by by the enemy. So then we get to the point now to where he says that there are diversity of gifts. Now we can understand how these gifts work. If you break them down and you have them there in your note, three of the gifts are called Ottoman's gift. And it is so important because the idols that we were under were dumb. They cannot speak. Okay. Order and gift. The every time you read in the book of Acts that the Holy Spirit fell on people, the first manifestation that came out of the people is they began to speak in other tongues. Now, why why is that? Why? Why is it that all of the sudden the Holy Spirit brought a prompting within the people to prophesy and to speak because before that you couldn't. It's just that simple. See, you were connected to a dead socket. It looked like a real one and everything and you were plugged in, but there was no juice flowing from there. You could not see, you could not hear, you could not smell, you could not taste. When you were plugged into the spirit of God, guess what? The light came on. Your mouth moved. You were able to speak Previous Next Home

WHEN DOES THE DAY OF THE LORD TAKES PLACE? Here is the second teaching on the series called Investigating End Time Prophecy. I'm asking the investigative questions of what, when, who, where, and why to the specific end time events prophesied in scripture allowing scripture to confirm scripture. This second teaching's objective is to examine the Scriptures that reveal when the Day of the Lord begins by comparing the writings of the prophets, Jesus Christ, the apostles, and the book of Revelation. This study demonstrates how the repeated signs of the darkened sun, blood moon, shaken heavens, great earthquake, and mankind's response consistently point to the opening of the sixth seal as the biblical beginning of the Day of the Lord. By allowing Scripture to confirm Scripture, believers are encouraged to watch for the signs God has already revealed rather than speculate about specific dates. WHEN DOES THE DAY OF THE LORD TAKES PLACE? Minister Lisa Kane July 13, 2026 Objective: Here is the second teaching on the series called Investigating End Time Prophecy. I'm asking the investigative questions of what, when, who, where, and why to the specific end time events prophesied in scripture allowing scripture to confirm scripture. This second teaching's objective is to examine the Scriptures that reveal when the Day of the Lord begins by comparing the writings of the prophets, Jesus Christ, the apostles, and the book of Revelation. This study demonstrates how the repeated signs of the darkened sun, blood moon, shaken heavens, great earthquake, and mankind's response consistently point to the opening of the sixth seal as the biblical beginning of the Day of the Lord. By allowing Scripture to confirm Scripture, believers are encouraged to watch for the signs God has already revealed rather than speculate about specific dates. Synopsis: When does the Day of the Lord take place? Is it an unknown event with no identifiable beginning, or has God provided clear biblical markers for His people to recognize? In this study, we compare the testimony of Joel, Isaiah, Jesus, Paul, Peter, and the apostle John to discover a remarkable consistency throughout Scripture. Each describes extraordinary heavenly signs—the sun darkened, the moon appearing as blood, the heavens shaken, the earth trembling, and humanity overwhelmed by the realization that God's wrath has arrived. Revelation 6 records these same signs at the opening of the sixth seal, where the inhabitants of the earth themselves declare, "For the great day of His wrath has come." Rather than searching for dates, this investigation examines the signs God has already revealed, showing how Scripture confirms Scripture. As the prophetic pieces are placed together, the sixth seal consistently aligns with the biblical descriptions marking the beginning of the Day of the Lord, reminding believers to remain watchful, discerning, and prepared for the fulfillment of God's prophetic Word. Inspired Teaching: Revelation 6:12-17 NKJV 12 I looked when He opened the sixth seal, and [g]behold, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the [h]moon became like blood. 13 And the stars of heaven fell to the earth, as a fig tree drops its late figs when it is shaken by a mighty wind. 14 Then the sky [i]receded as a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved out of its place. 15 And the kings of the earth, the great men, [j]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, 16 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! 17 For the great day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand?” Notice that the cosmic signs described in verses 12–14 occur when the sixth seal is opened. Then, after witnessing these events, the inhabitants of the earth cry out, "For the great day of His wrath has come" (v.17). Their own testimony identifies this moment as the beginning of the Day of the Lord. Has this day happened yet? As of this writing, no, but we know from scripture when this day will happen. No, we don’t have a specific date, but we have clues that occur just before this day that we as believers need to watch and pray about. Here are scriptures that tells us the signs we will see when this day takes place. Joel 2:30-31 NKJV 30 “And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: Blood and fire and pillars of smoke. 31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord. Joel describes the same heavenly signs that John records in Revelation—the sun darkened and the moon turned to blood. Joel adds an important detail: these signs occur before the coming of the Day of the Lord. When these same signs appear in Revelation 6, the inhabitants of the earth immediately recognize that God's day of wrath has arrived. Scripture is confirming Scripture. Matthew 24:29-31 NKJV 29 “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. 30 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. 31 And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His [d]elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. Jesus describes the same sequence of heavenly signs—the sun darkened, the moon affected, the stars falling, and the heavens shaken. These parallels strongly connect His teaching with the events surrounding the sixth seal. Later, in Revelation 7, John records the sealing of the 144,000 followed by the appearance of a great multitude in heaven before God's throne. Taken together, these passages present a consistent prophetic picture. He’s telling everyone (this is the audience He’s speaking to: Israel, The Church, and the unbelievers), look at these signs. Scripture confirming scripture. Isaiah 13:6-10 NKJV 6 Wail, for the day of the Lord is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty. 7 Therefore all hands will be limp, Every man’s heart will melt, 8 And they will be afraid. Pangs[d] and sorrows will take hold of them; They will be in pain as a woman in childbirth; They will be amazed at one another; Their faces will be like flames. 9 Behold, the day of the Lord comes, Cruel, with both wrath and fierce anger, To lay the land desolate; And He will destroy its sinners from it. 10 For the stars of heaven and their constellations Will not give their light; The sun will be darkened in its going forth, And the moon will not cause its light to shine. Isaiah adds another witness by connecting the Day of the Lord with God's wrath, the darkening of the sun, and the dimming of the moon. Once again, the prophets describe the same heavenly signs surrounding that day. Isaiah 2:17-22 NKJV 17 The [d]loftiness of man shall be bowed down, And the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; The Lord alone will be exalted in that day, 18 But the idols [e]He shall utterly abolish. 19 They shall go into the holes of the rocks, And into the caves of the [f]earth, From the terror of the Lord And the glory of His majesty, When He arises to shake the earth mightily. 20 In that day a man will cast away his idols of silver And his idols of gold, Which they made, each for himself to worship, To the moles and bats, 21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, And into the crags of the rugged rocks, From the terror of the Lord And the glory of His majesty, When He arises to shake the earth mightily. 22 Sever[g] yourselves from such a man, Whose breath is in his nostrils; For [h]of what account is he? Isaiah even records mankind fleeing into the caves and rocks because of the terror of the Lord when He shakes the earth. John's description in Revelation 6 is remarkably similar, suggesting that both prophets are describing the same event from different points in history. 1 Thessalonians 5:2-4 NKJV 2 For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. 3 For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape. 4 But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief. 2 Peter 3:10 NKJV 10 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 [d]burned up. Peter and Paul (through 1 Thessalonians) reminds believers that although the Day of the Lord will come unexpectedly upon the unbelieving world, it should not surprise those who are watching the signs God has already revealed through the prophets. Summary of When the Day of the Lord takes place? The prophets consistently teach that immediately before the Day of the Lord the sun is darkened, the moon appears as blood, the heavens are shaken, and mankind witnesses extraordinary signs in heaven and on earth. Revelation records these same signs when the sixth seal is opened. It is at that moment that the inhabitants of the earth declare, 'For the great day of His wrath has come' (Revelation 6:17). By comparing Scripture with Scripture, the sixth seal consistently aligns as the biblical point at which the Day of the Lord begins. Previous Next Home

THE EFFECTIVE WORKING WORD The objective of The Effective Working Word is to reveal how the Word of God powerfully and continually works in the life of every believer, bringing about complete deliverance—spirit, soul, and body. Through biblical teaching, the message aims to show that true freedom from sin is only possible by receiving the Word of God as divine truth, not as the word of men, and allowing it to transform us through salvation, sanctification, and belief in the truth. < Back THE EFFECTIVE WORKING WORD Pastor Marcos Marrero Objective: The objective of The Effective Working Word is to reveal how the Word of God powerfully and continually works in the life of every believer, bringing about complete deliverance—spirit, soul, and body. Through biblical teaching, the message aims to show that true freedom from sin is only possible by receiving the Word of God as divine truth, not as the word of men, and allowing it to transform us through salvation, sanctification, and belief in the truth. Synopsis: In this teaching, Pastor Marcos Marrero explores the depth of 1 Thessalonians 2:13, emphasizing that the Word of God is not merely human speech but the very power of God at work in believers. He explains that the Word brings about deliverance in three stages: immediate deliverance at the moment of salvation, continuous deliverance throughout life as our souls are transformed, and ultimate deliverance at the resurrection when our bodies are made new. Pastor Marcos details how our spirit is instantly regenerated when we are born again, never to be separated from God again. Yet, our soul remains in an ongoing battle between fleshly desires and the influence of the Spirit, requiring constant nourishment from the Word of God. This process—described as crucifying the flesh—is often painful but necessary for spiritual growth and holiness. The teaching also warns that believers will face opposition and persecution when the Word effectively works in them, as the world resists those who refuse to conform to its system. Still, this opposition confirms God’s transforming work. Pastor Marcos outlines a threefold approach—repentance, renouncement, and restoration—as the believer’s response to God’s Word, leading to sanctification and renewal of the soul. Ultimately, The Effective Working Word highlights that only by fully welcoming the Word of God as truth can believers experience real deliverance, holiness, and strength to withstand the hostility of the world. It is the Word that effectively works in those who believe, shaping them into the likeness of Christ until the day of full redemption. Written teaching: 1 Thessalonians 2:13 “For this reason we also thank God without ceasing, because when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you welcomed it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also effectively works in you who believe.” The Word of God has many functions, it created everything, sustains everything. But in a more personal level, the Word of God effectively works deliverance in those who believe in it. What is deliverance? Deliverance has to do with freedom. Since sin enslaves men, deliverance from sin is the act of being made free. John 8:32 “And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” Since the Word of God is the embodiment of all Truth, those who believe in the truth of the Word of God are delivered from all their sins. Deliverance from sin follows three stages; we are immediately delivered, we are continuously being delivered, and we will be delivered. The reason the work of deliverance follows three stages is because we are being delivered completely, spirit, soul, and body. Let’s take a look at the spiritual aspect first. Our spirit can never die, for the spirit that gives us life originated from God, and like God it is eternal. In our mortal human nature we are considered dead in trespasses and sin, but death when referring to the spirit speaks of separation from God. When a person dies in their sins their spirit becomes separated from God for ever, that is what is called eternal damnation. When a person becomes born again, or born of the Spirit, their spirit is immediately regenerated and will never again be separated from God. Our spirit is delivered instantly the minute that we accept the Word of Truth. When we die, instantly our spirit would rise up to God because of His salvation. 2 Corinthians 5:8 “We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.” The only thing that our spirit needs after we become born again is to feed in the truth of the Word of God. For a weak spirit, one who is not being nourished by the Word of God, is not strong enough to influence our souls to turn its back on its sinful ways. We need to realize that our spirits are either dead, that is separated from God, or alive in Christ through the born-again experience, there is no in between for the spirit man within each person. Not so for our souls, for they are always going back and forth depending on which spirit is driving them. When our spirit is inspired by the Word of God it motivates us to do good works. When we neglect spiritual nourishment, our soul is moved by the sensuality of this world, through the spirits of the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, to do sinful things. That is why Paul is commending the Thessalonians for receiving the Word of God and is telling them this: Which also effectively works in you who believe. By using the words 'effectively works in you', Paul indicates that the deliverance of our souls is always a work in progress. Galatians 5:24-25 “And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.” If we are born again, we live in the Spirit of God who made our spirit alive in Christ. So, why not also walk after the Spirit of Truth that can also deliver our souls from the deadness of this world system? Our physical bodies will not be delivered until the day when the resurrection of the dead takes place. Even if we are born again, our bodies will continue to decline and decay with the passing of time, for the Word of God declares that: Hebrews 9:27 “And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment.” So, that in our everyday lives, the ministry of deliverance is the process of working out of our souls its dependency to the desires of the flesh. That is why the crucifixion metaphor is used, those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. Since crucifixion implies a slow painful death, that is what the separation from the desires of this world entails, a slow painful death. Matthew 26:38 “Then He said to them, ‘My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and watch with Me.’” The hardest thing for us humans to accomplish is the death of self. Our self life is who we are and how we see ourselves. But when how we see ourselves and who we are does not align with the Word of God, there is no other choice, our soul has to die to self or lose its reward. The effective working Word of God is the only power that can bring about such transformation in us. This is what Paul told the Thessalonians, 'When you received the word of God which you heard from us, you welcomed it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God'. We cannot die to our self-life until we realize that our lives are not our own, for they belong to God. Reason dictates that if we belong to God, our lives should be modeled after the Word of God. As we welcome the dictates of the Word of God for what our lives should be, that is we receive them as if directly from the mouth of God, that’s when the effectively works part sets everything in motion within us. 1 Thessalonians 2:14 “For you, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus. For you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, just as they did from the Judeans.” Immediately the world around them began to persecute them, just as the churches that they had modeled themselves after were persecuted. The world will always persecute those who desire to fulfill the Word of God in their lives. Now why is that? Very simple, those whose desire is for the Word of God, which is Truth, cannot be lead stray by the deception of this world system. If you don’t move with the flow of the world you become an impediment to the flow of the world. John 15:18-19 “If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.” Hatred from the world means that the Word of God is effectively working in us the transformation that God wants to accomplish in us who believe. 2 Thessalonians 2:13 “But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God from the beginning chose you for salvation (deliverance) through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.” Notice how the process begins with salvation, then sanctification by the Spirit, and all comes together by belief in the truth. Would you agree that the world is waging war against the Word of God? Here in the United States if a student takes his Bible into a public school building it would cause so much trauma to the local ACLU chapter that you would think that the end of the world had arrived. Just a lonely cross standing on a faraway hill causes enough distress to those who are under the influence of this world system, that they will not rest until they find a way to remove it. You cannot have such a disproportionate reaction to small things like those, unless it is because it offends the spirits of intolerance that are behind those who feel threaten by the presence of something that they know can deliver them from the power of those demonic influences. Think of it, that was us before we got saved, being moved by the desires of our flesh to lust after the things of this world, and to hate those who take a stand for the principles of life that are taught in the Word of God. And now as believers, are we going to tolerate those same demonic entities just so that we can be part of this world system? Of course not! But remember that deliverance from them requires us to fully commit our lives to the true teachings of the Word of God. Following with this threefold principle of salvation, sanctification and belief in the truth, we can take a threefold approach as well in our stance against these demonic entities. I call it repentance, renouncement and restoration. We repent before God for all of our sins, He forgives us and cleanses us from all of our sins. 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.” We renounce the world and the things which are in the world. 1 John 2:15 “Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.” Remember, we know that His Word is effectively working in us when the world hates us. And as we truly repent of our sins and renounce this world system, then the Lord takes it upon Himself to restore our souls to the divine setting that He originally created us to fulfill. 1 Thessalonians 3:13 “So that He may establish your hearts (souls– self-life) blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.” Previous Home Next

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