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THE INTERMISSION DOUBLE PORTION To reveal the biblical and spiritual significance of the Sabbath as an “intermission” established by God, showing how His provision of a double portion on the sixth day is both a miracle and a sign of His lordship. The teaching aims to help believers understand how Jesus’ actions on the Sabbath reveal deeper truths about rest, healing, and God’s continual ministry, while guiding Christians today to embrace Sabbath rest as spiritual refreshment, restoration, and protection in Christ. THE INTERMISSION DOUBLE PORTION Minister Lisa Kane October 16, 2024 Objective: To reveal the biblical and spiritual significance of the Sabbath as an “intermission” established by God, showing how His provision of a double portion on the sixth day is both a miracle and a sign of His lordship. The teaching aims to help believers understand how Jesus’ actions on the Sabbath reveal deeper truths about rest, healing, and God’s continual ministry, while guiding Christians today to embrace Sabbath rest as spiritual refreshment, restoration, and protection in Christ. Synopsis: In this teaching, Lisa Kane explores the revelation of the Sabbath as more than a commandment—it is an intermission designed by God for His people’s rest, renewal, and recognition of His provision. Beginning with Luke 14 and John 5, she shows how Jesus healed on the Sabbath, challenging the Pharisees’ legalistic view and revealing that God’s work of healing and compassion never ceases. These events demonstrate that the Sabbath is not about restriction but about encountering God’s restorative power. Turning to Exodus 16 and 31, the message highlights how God provided manna in double measure on the sixth day, ensuring Israel could rest on the seventh without lack. This miracle served as a sign across generations that He alone is Lord and sustainer. The Sabbath becomes not just physical rest, but a divine pause where believers witness God’s provision and protection. Lisa applies this revelation to the New Covenant, showing that the believer’s body is now the temple of the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 6). Rest is not limited to one day but can be practiced daily by entering the secret place with God (Psalm 91). The double portion manifests as spiritual, emotional, and physical renewal, giving strength for life’s battles, intercessory prayer, and ministry. Even in trials—such as caring for loved ones during illness—God provides sustaining rest and peace through His presence. The teaching concludes with practical encouragement: to intentionally set aside intermission time with the Lord, whether an entire day or moments throughout the week. By doing so, believers experience God’s hedge of protection, refreshment of spirit, and the miracle of provision that confirms His lordship. Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kaine. I'm recording this teaching on Wednesday, October 16, 2024. Welcome. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you that your word does not return void. We thank you for the revelation of your word and the double portion of what the Sabbath is all about. And I thank you, Father God, for teaching us your word and how to enter into your rest, knowing the miracle that you performed on day six. You are amazing, glorious, faithful, true. Let your word not be snatched out of us. But place your hedge of protection around that word within our hearts and in our soul and in our spirit so we do not forget your word and the revelation that you have given us. Thank you, Lord. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. Oh, I've got such a neat new teaching here. It is um fresh revelation is what I like to call it. So, I'm calling this message the intermission double portion. So, let's go into our opening scripture here in Luke 14:3. And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath day? So, we're going to be talking about the Sabbath day here. But one of the things is when you look at Luke here and you we're going to look at Luke um 14 here in John 5 and then we're going to get into Exodus because we're going to need to understand what the Sabbath is about. You're going to see that there is a uh a revelation of a miracle that God performs every week for you and I for anyone. This is a sign that he has given us. And in fact, because Israel messed up with this sign, they owed God 490 years of suffering. Well, they've served 483. They still got 70 years to go. This is about that, but we're going to see it how it applies to the believers in Christ today, as well as how the Lord established it with Israel back in the day. So, and we're going to see how Jesus transforms this because he's the one who established it in the beginning and we're going to get there, but you're going to see him interact with this because you're going to see how the Pharisees and the Sadducees for that matter anyone else missed it. That's what happens. So, you have to spend time with the Lord, dwell in the Lord so you can get it. And it wasn't taught to me. I just got it because it was taught to me by the Holy Spirit. So, let's get in there. We're going to be in Luke 14 here. We're going to read verses 1-6. And it came to pass as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the Sabbath day that they watched him. I want to bring some revelation to that. They watched him. They set him up with this. So, watch how Jesus handles the setup. They are purposely trying to trip Jesus. Okay, watch how he handles it. Verse two. And behold, there was a certain man before him which had the drop seat. Now, keep in mind, he's invited to one of the chief Pharisees and they're having a dinner. Usually, when they're having a dinner, they're not going to bring in somebody with sickness to their table because they're trying to make an impression. Oh, but they brought this man in because they want to set Jesus up. Now watch verse three. And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath day?" And they held their peace. And he took him and healed him and let him go, and answered them, saying, "Which of you shall have an axe, an ass, or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the Sabbath day?" And they could not answer him again to these things. So Jesus put it right back on them. Like there's a loophole here in the Sabbath day. He's saying that if you have a donkey uh or an ox and it falls into a ditch or for that matter, do you not even feed your animals because it's work? But your animals are your livelihood. See, the Pharisees took the Sabbath day as you can't do any work in there at all. But you got to feed your animals. You got to feed yourselves. And feeding the animals requires you to go feed them. Especially when you keep them in captivity for you know milking and and providing the eggs or whatever your animals are. You have to go feed them. It becomes a daily job. But yet we have this Sabbath day that you're not supposed to work on. And the Pharisees are trying to trip Jesus up on you're healing on the Sabbath day. Now I want you to see something. Jesus healed on the Sabbath day. So that means there's something here that the Pharisees are missing and maybe something we're not understanding. Let's go to another event that Jesus did in John chapter 5. Let's go through verses 5 through 18. And a certain man was there which had an infirmity 38 30 and 8 years. First of all, if you have the ability to heal somebody, it's in a talent. You have the gift, the gift of the Holy Spirit. He gives this to you. Heal the people. This man should not have been sick for 38 years. And yet he was. And this is the compassion Jesus had. So let's continue on. Verse six. And when Jesus saw him lie and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, wilt thou be made whole? He's asking this man who's been sick for 38 years, do you want to be healed? Look at the man's answer. This is fascinating. Verse 7, the impotent man answered him, "Sir, I have no man when the water is troubled to put me into the pool. But while I am coming, another stepeth down before me." Let's pause here. Let's set up the scene here. This is at the pool of shalom. And basically what happens is an angel will stir up the water and when you see that and you're sick, you jump in, you're healed. And that was the in fact archaeologists have found the pool of Shiloh in the city of David. So it's a real place. This is a real event that took place. This is not a parable. This is not a story. This is a real event. And Jesus is going to heal this man. So what this man says though, he says um in a way he's saying, let's look at it. He's saying I have no man when the water is troubled to put me in the pool. while I am coming another step it down. So he's he gives the excuse but he's saying I'm trying on my own to get there. So now you're seeing this event taking place where this man who's been sick for 38 years can't get to the water fast enough. He hasn't thought out of the box to try to be on the edge when it's ready. I don't know. He He's in this situation. In a way, he's accepted his sickness of 38 years and he's got excuses. Now, watch what Jesus does because this is this gets real interesting real fast. Verse 8, Jesus saith unto him, "Rise, take up thy bed, and walk." And immediately the man was made whole, took up his bed, and walked. And on the same day was the Sabbath. So, here's the Sabbath day. This is your intermission. by the word. By the way, the word Sabbath means intermission. And this man is healed on the Sabbath. So is another Sabbath day. Another man being healed by Jesus on the Sabbath day where you're not supposed to do any work. Not only is he not supposed to do any work, he's telling this man to get up, walk, and carry your bed. He's going to carry the bed on the Sabbath day. Carrying a bed on the Sabbath day is work, but Jesus tells him to do it. And the man gets up and he carries his bed. He's being obedient to the word of the Lord on the Sabbath day. Now watch this. Verse 10. The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, "It is the Sabbath day. It is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed." And he answered them, "He that made me whole, the same said unto me, take up thy bed and walk." Then asked they him, "What man is that which said unto thee, take up thy bed and walk?" And he that was healed was not who it was, for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in place. So basically, Jesus got out of the way. He So he healed this man. He leaves. This man doesn't know who Jesus is. He gets healed and then he's walking around with his bed because he was told by Jesus to carry it and the Pharisees are saying, "You can't do that." He says, "No, this guy told me to get up and carry my bed and I'm doing that." And they're like, "Well, who is he? I don't know who he is." So now catch up where they're at. They're coming into the temple. Verse 14, afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple and said unto him, "Behold, thou art made whole. Sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee." Now I want to pause here because this is another entire teaching and teachings I have been teaching on for many times now that the consequence of sin is sickness. So here not only did Jesus physically heal his body, he healed his soul and he's telling him don't sin anymore otherwise it's going to get worse. We don't want it to get worse. Okay. So now coming into verse 15, the man departed. He left the temple and told the Jews that it was Jesus which had made him whole. And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus and sought to slay him because he had done these things on the Sabbath day. But Jesus answered them, "My father worketh." That word workketh means toil, be engaged in, minister about. ministering. This is a Sabbath day, and God still ministers on the Sabbath day. Watch this. But Jesus answered them, "My father worketh hither to, and I work." Therefore, the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the Sabbath, but said also that God was his father, making himself equal with God. So, what are the Pharisees really upset about here? Let we can go down a little further into the root of this. They're supposed to be healing the people. They're not. They can't. Nothing's happening. They've done everything they can. On top of it, they've put themselves in a situation where they have constructed their um ministry to six days a week and the seventh nobody is allowed to get sick and nobody's allowed to have any issues, which by the way is scriptural and we're going to see the double portion of God's miracle make that possible. But here you're seeing there are sick people on the Sabbath. What do you do? So Jesus is showing the world, hey, I'm going to minister. I'm going to heal you on the Sabbath. So there's something about the Sabbath though that we need to get because we got to figure this out. What are this Pharisees doing? And what is God doing? Because there's something here that we should be getting. So, let's go to Exodus 16:29. I want to read this and then I'm going to give you the context of it because there's a lot of scripture that can go with this. See, for that the Lord hath given you the Sabbath. Therefore, he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days. Abide ye every man in his place. Let no man go out of his place on the seventh day. So, right here is where God he established it though at at creation. But here he's teaching the Israelites what the Sabbath is all about. This is where they are in the wilderness for 40 years. They are in this wilderness and God provides mana for them. So first thing he tells them is to go out and grab just the amount that you need. No more, no less. Don't save any of it. So they go out, they grab it. Some grabbed extra. They tried to save it. The next day it was filled with worms and it it decayed. So now God tells Moses to tell them, "Go out and get a double portion on day six because it's going to cover you for day seven. Don't go out on day seven." So now, of course, day seven, some people still went out and Moses like, "You're just not being obedient. God's telling you to be obedient." Now, here's where things get very interesting. God says, "I'm going to give you double portion on the sab on it's a Saturday the or the day before the Sabbath, which I think is a Friday for them. So they have a day before where they're getting a double portion. So when they go to eat on the Sabbath, it's fresh mana, fresh food they didn't have to go work for because God performed a miracle on day six and gave them a double portion so that it covers them for the two days. Now, why does God do that? Let's go further in Exodus. Let's go to Exodus 31. And we're going to read verses 12- 15. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, "Verily, my Sabbaths," here's that word Sabbath, it means intermission, ye shall keep. For it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that ye may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify, which is clean, upon holy you. Ye shall keep the Sabbath, or intermission, therefore, for it is holy unto you. Everyone that defileth it shall surely be put to death. For whosoever doeth any work, deput, employment, ministry, therein that soul shall be cut off from among his people. Six days may work be done, but in the seventh is the Sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord. whosoever doeth any work in the Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death. So what is the Lord talking about here? It's a sign. You see, God wants to know you are Lord. Let's read that one more time. This is in verse 13. For it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations that you may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you. You see, God performs a miracle on day six. And if they had kept that because they would have their double portion, everything is doubled on day six. Everything is provided. What happens is when you teach your children, look, God gave me two amounts, one for today, one for tomorrow, so that we can rest tomorrow and still have a full complete meal. It's an intermission between day six and day one. That's what day seven is all about. It's a pause, a pause of ministry, a pause, a sign. But the sign is the miracle. The miracle is that the people when they see the miracle, wow, I only had enough on day five, day four, day three, day two, day one. But on day six, they got a double portion. It's a miracle. And what happens is those that see it know there's a God. And they know he is God. He is Lord. And they receive that. And they begin to have this relationship with the Lord because they're recognizing what the Lord does. He performs a miracle on day six to cover day seven. Now Jesus showed us that he did ministry on that day. So then what does it mean? Does it have to be on day six? Because see now it's something is a little bit different. Jesus changed things up. So, he wants us to see the miracle on day six. He still wants us to have the rest so that we know he's Lord. But what has he done? That's what we got to look at. Let's go to 1 Corinthians 6:19 and 20. What know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price. Therefore, glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are gods. Now, we're seeing something happening here. You are seeing a a new thing from Jesus. Our body is now the temple. The Israelites had Moses built a temple. They couldn't even enter that temple. Only Moses could. And then it would only be the Levi priests going forward. They did not allow it. Now the temple is in us. So our physical bodies need rest. And because we need to have an intermission, what happens? The first thing you get sick. You get tired. You want to sleep. You lay down. Take some medicine. And why did you get sick? Maybe you were running ragged. There are a lot of um beliefs throughout the different cultures. One culture believes going between hot and cold is the reason why you get sick, but people think they get sick because of whatever. You can put your belief in there. What if I told you God allowed you to get that cold because he's trying to get you to rest because your body is his temple. Now watch this. When you dwell in the temple of God, which means he's within you, which means you have to create a secret place. And we're going to go to that scripture here in just a moment. When you do that, your double portion was already given to you the day before. And all it is is now you're filling up with the anointing of the Holy Spirit, with the Holy Ghost. It refreshes you. You are resting. Even if you are in ministry seven days a week, now he tells you to take a whole day. But if you take an hour, 15 minutes, 20 minutes, but you intercede, you break that into your day, that is your double portion rest. Now, you can do this many different ways. You see, if I come into the I spend time with the Lord every morning and I've got certain days that are longer and I've worked it out with the Lord where I spend time in prayer. I spend time in the word. I spend time studying. That is my intermission. That's my rest. That's my Sabbath. And it builds up as each day goes by. I'm an intercessory prayer warrior. But I don't I pray at church on Sundays and I'm just praising the Lord and worshiping him. Saturdays is more like a popcorn prayer because these are my intermission days. This is where the Lord moves. So he moves with me on the days that he has established for me because I am entering into the rest time that I need with the Lord. pausing in the ministry but still knowing that when I prayed on Thursday, Friday, whatever, it will go into the next thing. Now, here's the miracle. I want you to catch this. When Jesus provides the double portion, God provides the double portion on day six, he provides a miracle where remember what Jesus said when your donkey or your ox falls into a ditch. What happens on that day six is the double portion is provided so you have rest. Nothing will interrupt the intermission, the rest, because God already took care of it. So that you're at rest and you're at peace on that day, you set aside for him. So that means every time I go in to dwell in the Lord um in my secret place, which is this room right here, when I go in and I dwell in, the Lord already placed a hedge of protection around me where I'm not going to be interrupted. I'm not going to be disturbed by sudden things. It will happen those things because those things do happen, but it's not going to happen in my intermission time with the Lord. That's the miracle. And why? Because then I know that he is Lord. He's got me. That's what the intermission Sabbath is all about. So that you see the double portion. You see the hedge of protection. A double portion of what? Well, your rest, his hedge of protection, your blessings, everything is there. He gives it to you where you won't get sick because you are dwelling in the secret place. You're giving your body the rest it needs. And it's not just the physical body that is the temple. Your spirit is restored, refreshed, reconciled with the Lord, redeemed. And you recognize that and you are you're feeling great. As you know, I just did a teaching last week where I actually shared our personal testimony and dealing with my mom and her cancer that she's having to deal with. Well, guess what? Look at me refreshed now. Look, it has been a spiritual battle. I mean, everything we've been dealing with, I shared that in the last teaching. Go check it out if you're interested. And it's been an attack and she was in the hospital for 10 days. There was no intermission. So, when you come out of that, and yes, that was battle number one because we were dealing with the blood clots. Now, we're in battle number two because we're spiritual battle now that she has to have chemotherapy for the this cancer. Well, guess what? I love what the doctor said. He says, "This is treatable. This is it. It's only lifethreatening if you don't treat it. All it needs to do is be contained and you will have a full quality of healthy life ahead of you for as many years as you're still going to be here on this earth. So now that we know this is attainable. So we're in the second part. The intermission was I went to the Lord, spent time with him, dwelled in his word, and actually he gave me this revelation right in the middle of all of this. So, I'm sharing this with you so that you know when you're being attacked, once you enter into the secret place with the Lord, you are in that peace. you are in that comfort because you are getting the double portion and allowing your physical body to rest. Because I'm gonna tell you right now, one of the things that happens when you're dealing with a spiritual warfare thing like this, especially finding out bad news, it uh it impacts your psyche, your emotional system. And when your emotions are just out of control, what's the first thing? Usually your defense system goes down. You get sick because you're tired. You're run down. You're feeling all the the attack of everything and it seems like it's the end of the world. But God, let's go to Psalm 91 now. Verses 1 and two. He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most high shall abide under the shadow of the almighty. I will say of the Lord, he is my refuge and my fortress, my God. In him will I trust. Because that's what the Sabbath is about. You're trusting on the double portion of the day before to get you through the intermission that your body, your spirit, your soul needs. And then you know that he is Lord because he has provided. Oh, you can't ask for anything better than this. Amen. So what can you do? How do you establish a day? You can take an entire day if you want and that way your day is established just for you and God and peace and relaxation. Sometimes people like to go on a hike and go up to the top of a mountain and sit down. Let that be your day of intermission. If it's staying in bed for half the day, uh, and then just grabbing some soup or something, take that type of a day. have that day. Dwell in the the secret place with the Lord, but put him first in that day. Go to him. Say, "Lord, today is a day of rest and I'm coming into resting you. I'm going to allow my body to rest. I'm not going to be stressed out because I already know that you provided the double portion of my rest on the day I needed it and then the day after. And I'm doing what your word tells me to do. One, I'm dwelling in the secret place. And two, I'm obtaining the double portion that you have provided me with so I can be sustained as I pause, take the break like you did, Lord, so I can continue on with whatever I need to continue on, which is working, battling, spiritual warfare. I deal with that uh because I'm an intercessory prayer warrior. So these are the things that you can do. Get that time with the Lord. Get your rest. Stop. Pause. Breathe. If it just needs to be an hour, then do that. But listen to the Lord talk to you. He's going to be bringing you into a place where you will have that rest. Amen. He's going to set your world around in a way that you will have that intermission. And I'm gonna tell you right now, you will be better off doing this and being refreshed to do the battle, whatever God has called you to do in your week than if you don't do this at all. Now, I do it as a daily thing because I spend time with the Lord, but at the same time, I have things I have to get done that needs work, but I have day a day where I just, okay, Lord, it's just you and me and nothing else. And then I I give him that day. I even bless the day. I said, "Lord, this day belongs to you. I bless it and give it to you." I encourage you to get in and have that rest with the Lord. You should never be tired. His yoke is not heavy. It's not a heavy burden. It's not uh choking you. It is a light thing. And you should be able to do ministry whenever you're called to do it because he has established a resting period in you by providing you the double portion from the day before because he will always take care of you on that day of rest. And I don't think you will even have any issues come against you because God protected. He wants you to have that rest. And when you make it a point to have that rest, he's gonna stop the whole world and keep them from interrupting your rest because you will know then that he is Lord. Amen. Let's close in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word and we bless your word. I pray that the enemy does not snatch this word away from us, but that it dwells deeply within us. that we apply it to our lives and that we live in the rest that you have given us and be able to still be that soldier or that warrior or that whatever we have to do to either provide for our families as we go to work but we have that intermission the rest that you have given us that you abide and that you've taken care of everything with the double portion from the day before. Thank you for keeping us whole, well, healthy and strong in you. In the name of Jesus we pray. Amen. Amen. God bless each and every one of you and I'll see you in the next message. Bye-bye. Home Previous Next

Say this prayer out loud: Our Father who are in heaven, creator of heaven and earth, God the judge of all; in the name of Jesus Your only Son I enter into Your heavenly court and publicly repent of all of my sins, and I ask for Your forgiveness in the Name of Jesus. Apply dear Lord I pray, the atoning blood of Jesus over all the sins in my life and the sins in my ancestor’s life that resulted in a curse. I repent of all of our disobediences and rebellions committed against Your Word and I ask for Your forgiveness in the name of Jesus. Apply dear Lord I pray, the atoning blood of Jesus over all the sins in my life and the sins in my ancestor’s life that resulted in a curse. I repent of all of our disobediences and rebellions committed against Your Word. I now repent from and I renounce all the sins in my life and my ancestor’s life such as the sins of perversion, lust, cheating, lying, adultery, fornication, mistreatment of others, uncleanness, filthiness, wantonness, lewdness, and every perverted thing that was connected to our fallen nature. I now repent from and I renounce all the sins in my life and my ancestor’s life such as the sins of false religion, cults, reading of horoscopes, idolatry, witchcraft, divination, all occult involvements, seditions, heresies, sorcery, dissentions, and every demonic thing that was connected to our fallen nature. I now repent from and I renounce all the sins in my life and my ancestor’s life such as the sins of indecision, compromise, hatred, contentions, envy, gossip, murder, hostility towards others, hostilities towards my self, ill will towards others, ill will towards my self, and every divisive thing that was connected to our fallen nature. I now repent from and I renounce all the sins in my life and my ancestor’s life such as the sins of malfunction, failures, laziness, lack of responsibility, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, drunkenness, intoxication, addictions, dependencies, and every compromising thing that was connected to our fallen nature. According to 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.” Now that I’ve confessed all my sins, I ask for Your forgiveness and cleansing from all my unrighteousness and the unrighteousness passed to me through the iniquity of all my ancestor’s. Deliver me Lord and cleanse me by the power of the blood of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I now take authority over the devil’s accusations against me. In accordance with the Word of God, I break and condemn any and every curse upon my life in the name of Jesus. I break all curses of poverty, lack, debt, destruction, sickness, death and vagabond. I break all curses on my marriage, family, children, and relationships. I break curses of rejection, pride, rebellion, lust, hurt, incest, rape, Ahab, Jezebel, fear, insanity, madness, and confusion. In the Name that is above every name, the Name of Jesus, I now break all curses affecting my finances, my mind, my sexual character, my emotions, my will, my intellect, and all my relationships. In the Name of Jesus I now break every hex, jinx, spell, and spoken curse over my life and my family’s life. I break every fetter, shackle, chain, cord, habit, and cycle that is the result of a curse. According to Galatians 3:13 I have been redeemed from the curse of the law by the sacrifice that Jesus offered on my behalf. Father in heaven I now exercise my faith in the blood that Jesus offered for my redemption, and I loose myself and my descendants from any and every curse. I claim forgiveness through the blood that Jesus offered for my sins and the sins of my fathers. All of my sins have been forgiven, so I now renounce all the works of Satan and their effect over my life, and my family’s lives, and I loose myself from every curse that came as a result of our disobedience and rebellion to the Word of God. I exercise my faith now in the Word of God: Romans 10:9-10, and I make confession with my mouth of the salvation, deliverance, healing and restoration that I believe in my heart is now mine, because of the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. Therefore I confess that Abraham’s blessings are mine. I confess that I am blessed and not curse. I confess that I am the head and not the tail. I confess that I am above and not beneath. I confess that I am blessed coming in and going out. I confess that I am blessed by God, and what God has blessed cannot be cursed. In the Name of Jesus and by the power of His shed blood, I now command spirits of Rejection, Hurt, Bitterness, Unforgiveness, Bondage, Torment, Death, Destruction, Suicide, Fear, Lust, Perversion, Mind Control, Witchcraft, Poverty, Lack, Debt, Confusion, Double-mindedness, Sickness, Infirmity, Pain, Divorce, Separation, Strife, Contention, Depression, Sadness, Loneliness, Self-Pity, Self-Destruction, Self-Rejection, Anger, Rage, Wrath, Anguish, Vagabond, Abuse, Addiction, Insanity and the rest to COME OUT NOW in the Name of Jesus my Deliverer, and be forever gone, because all of your rights to torment me and my family have now been removed. Dear Father in Heaven, in the Name of Jesus Your only begotten Son, I now thank you for setting me and making me free from every curse and from every unclean spirit that had operated in my life as a result of curses. Thank You Jesus! AMEN!PRAY TO REMOVE GENERATIONAL CURSES PRAY TO REMOVE GENERATIONAL CURSES PRAY TO REMOVE GENERATIONAL CURSES Say this prayer out loud: Our Father who are in heaven, creator of heaven and earth, God the judge of all; in the name of Jesus Your only Son I enter into Your heavenly court and publicly repent of all of my sins, and I ask for Your forgiveness in the Name of Jesus. Apply dear Lord I pray, the atoning blood of Jesus over all the sins in my life and the sins in my ancestor’s life that resulted in a curse. I repent of all of our disobediences and rebellions committed against Your Word and I ask for Your forgiveness in the name of Jesus. Apply dear Lord I pray, the atoning blood of Jesus over all the sins in my life and the sins in my ancestor’s life that resulted in a curse. I repent of all of our disobediences and rebellions committed against Your Word. I now repent from and I renounce all the sins in my life and my ancestor’s life such as the sins of perversion, lust, cheating, lying, adultery, fornication, mistreatment of others, uncleanness, filthiness, wantonness, lewdness, and every perverted thing that was connected to our fallen nature. I now repent from and I renounce all the sins in my life and my ancestor’s life such as the sins of false religion, cults, reading of horoscopes, idolatry, witchcraft, divination, all occult involvements, seditions, heresies, sorcery, dissentions, and every demonic thing that was connected to our fallen nature. I now repent from and I renounce all the sins in my life and my ancestor’s life such as the sins of indecision, compromise, hatred, contentions, envy, gossip, murder, hostility towards others, hostilities towards my self, ill will towards others, ill will towards my self, and every divisive thing that was connected to our fallen nature. I now repent from and I renounce all the sins in my life and my ancestor’s life such as the sins of malfunction, failures, laziness, lack of responsibility, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, drunkenness, intoxication, addictions, dependencies, and every compromising thing that was connected to our fallen nature. According to 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.” Now that I’ve confessed all my sins, I ask for Your forgiveness and cleansing from all my unrighteousness and the unrighteousness passed to me through the iniquity of all my ancestor’s. Deliver me Lord and cleanse me by the power of the blood of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I now take authority over the devil’s accusations against me. In accordance with the Word of God, I break and condemn any and every curse upon my life in the name of Jesus. I break all curses of poverty, lack, debt, destruction, sickness, death and vagabond. I break all curses on my marriage, family, children, and relationships. I break curses of rejection, pride, rebellion, lust, hurt, incest, rape, Ahab, Jezebel, fear, insanity, madness, and confusion. In the Name that is above every name, the Name of Jesus, I now break all curses affecting my finances, my mind, my sexual character, my emotions, my will, my intellect, and all my relationships. In the Name of Jesus I now break every hex, jinx, spell, and spoken curse over my life and my family’s life. I break every fetter, shackle, chain, cord, habit, and cycle that is the result of a curse. According to Galatians 3:13 I have been redeemed from the curse of the law by the sacrifice that Jesus offered on my behalf. Father in heaven I now exercise my faith in the blood that Jesus offered for my redemption, and I loose myself and my descendants from any and every curse. I claim forgiveness through the blood that Jesus offered for my sins and the sins of my fathers. All of my sins have been forgiven, so I now renounce all the works of Satan and their effect over my life, and my family’s lives, and I loose myself from every curse that came as a result of our disobedience and rebellion to the Word of God. I exercise my faith now in the Word of God: Romans 10:9-10, and I make confession with my mouth of the salvation, deliverance, healing and restoration that I believe in my heart is now mine, because of the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. Therefore I confess that Abraham’s blessings are mine. I confess that I am blessed and not curse. I confess that I am the head and not the tail. I confess that I am above and not beneath. I confess that I am blessed coming in and going out. I confess that I am blessed by God, and what God has blessed cannot be cursed. In the Name of Jesus and by the power of His shed blood, I now command spirits of Rejection, Hurt, Bitterness, Unforgiveness, Bondage, Torment, Death, Destruction, Suicide, Fear, Lust, Perversion, Mind Control, Witchcraft, Poverty, Lack, Debt, Confusion, Double-mindedness, Sickness, Infirmity, Pain, Divorce, Separation, Strife, Contention, Depression, Sadness, Loneliness, Self-Pity, Self-Destruction, Self-Rejection, Anger, Rage, Wrath, Anguish, Vagabond, Abuse, Addiction, Insanity and the rest to COME OUT NOW in the Name of Jesus my Deliverer, and be forever gone, because all of your rights to torment me and my family have now been removed. Dear Father in Heaven, in the Name of Jesus Your only begotten Son, I now thank you for setting me and making me free from every curse and from every unclean spirit that had operated in my life as a result of curses. Thank You Jesus! AMEN! Previous Next Home

I AM SOLDIER Equip listeners—especially those who’ve carried labels like “black sheep,” worthless, or dumb—to anchor their identity in Christ. Through Pastor Marcos Marrero’s teaching, which weaves Lisa’s healing testimony, prophetic confirmation, and Scripture on spiritual authority, the message aims to: (1) minister inner healing, (2) call the weary to re-enlist as soldiers in God’s army, and (3) impart how the Word, the blood of Jesus, and the anointing empower believers to resist the enemy and enter God’s rest. < Back I AM SOLDIER Pastor Marcos Marrero February 16, 2007 Objective: Equip listeners—especially those who’ve carried labels like “black sheep,” worthless, or dumb—to anchor their identity in Christ. Through Pastor Marcos Marrero’s teaching, which weaves Lisa’s healing testimony, prophetic confirmation, and Scripture on spiritual authority, the message aims to: (1) minister inner healing, (2) call the weary to re-enlist as soldiers in God’s army, and (3) impart how the Word, the blood of Jesus, and the anointing empower believers to resist the enemy and enter God’s rest. Synopsis: Pastor Marcos Marrero opens audience attendee testimonies—seeing her late father, feeling his embrace, and hearing the liberating words, “You are not worthless and you are not dumb.” The Holy Spirit marks this as a deeply personal deliverance timed with a message on rejection. A confirming prophetic word (“I am reenlisting My army again… Go up again.”) underscores God’s call for those who’ve felt like the family “black sheep” to rise and advance despite past defeats. Teaching from there, Pastor Marcos explains: We don’t fight in our own strength; Jesus gives authority (exousia) over the enemy’s power (dunamis) (Luke 10:19). God’s Word is life-giving energy that exposes lies and heals the inner life (Hebrews 4:12). We enter God’s rest by rejecting a “grasshopper” identity and confronting giants in the truth of who we are in Christ. The blood of Jesus brings us under God’s unapproachable light (1 Timothy 6:15–16), a protective radiance the enemy cannot penetrate—fueling bold, loving deliverance ministry. Pastor Marcos closes by inviting listeners to receive the Father’s affirmation, renounce old accusations, and re-enlist. By grace, we are soldiers in God’s army—empowered to expose darkness, set captives free, and move with the fresh wind of the Spirit. Inspired Teaching: This is uh the Lord did something really special. Um my dad passed away uh two years ago, a little over two years ago. And um you know um I just love him so much. And um you know it's like every night I would tell the Lord even though he passed away. I would tell God in my prayers, you know, God tell my dad I love him and and tell him that I'm doing good and you know and uh although I'm the black sheep of the family, I'm going to be the one that makes it. I'm going to see you again, you know. and uh you know and and and then uh the Lord would just you know the Holy Spirit would just you know it was like the Lord just like yeah you know he knows you know I'm I'm going to bless that and I'm going to you know I knew that he knew uh that the Lord told him or he heard me and uh so anyways uh this was Monday at 3:00 a.m. I looked in my journal today and um it was the night that Rod was sharing or or the day that Rod was going to share uh the sermon on rejection and different uh spirits, you know, things like that. And um all my life I have always felt I felt that I wasn't worthy and that I was dumb and I didn't belong. And uh I always just felt, you know, like the the odd man out. And um so um anyways, just to let you know that. Um, so, um, Monday at 3:00 a.m., uh, I had a dream and I had a dream that it was, uh, my family, we were standing in the backyard and it was funny because it was super sunny out and it was like, it was like the 70s, 80s, how I remembered the backyard because of the crab grass we used to have. And it was super sunny out. I mean, extremely, it was really interesting how bright it was. It was almost, you know, you couldn't really. And there was a gentleman standing there. We were standing around him and he was talking about Falling Springs, Big Bear, saying that he just put some money down on some property and that he got a cabin there. And it's interesting because my dad, we used to go to Falling Springs and there was this particular cabin our family used to uh stay at and he just loved Big Bear. And um so we're standing around in the group and um I was on the outside and um on the side of the house here comes walking my dad and I I kind of look I what that's my dad you know and I was really excited you know to see my dad and uh he he was walking like the look on his face was like he was just really really deep in thought. He was like, "Wow." You know, he had that look and he walked around and he came over and he bypassed the family and he sat on the in about the middle of the backyard on the grass Indian style with his arms like this and he just sat there and I left the group and I went over. I was so thrilled to see my dad and I sat down the same way and um my my head was perfect right where his neck was right here and I was oh dad you know was doing that you know and when I reached leaned in to do that I went like that and my skin felt his skin and I felt his warmth and I felt his whiskers and I even smelled his dial soap and my dad's from the south so he was dial soap on his hair. He didn't believe in shampoo. So he always had this dial soap smell and um and you know he was just so in other words I I had it was like all of a sudden I had my five senses. I could smell him. I could feel him. And he was really really there. I was sitting with my dad and he put his arm around me like this. He he never looked at me. He just looked straight ahead and he put his arm around me like this and he just kind of, you know, held me close and and I kind of straightened my neck up and all of a sudden I I I felt uh his his mouth right here and he said to me, I heard his voice and he said to me, he said, "You are not Thank you. You were not worthless and you were not dumb. And I mean he was just said it with such meaning to me and and then he said something really interesting. He said just staring and I looked at him. I saw the side of his face and I looked at him. I was I was really surprised. And he was just like, I'm a dumb dumb dumb daddy. And you know, I guess because of the way my dad was raised with verbal abuse, he was always a macho type man, you know, and he was pretty um verbally, I guess, abusive before the Lord got a hold of him. And it took many years, but I saw God change my dad from a really verbally abusive person to a from a wild man to a really really really loving man. And um and so um I guess maybe that's where I got some of that, but I think most of it too was my drug and alcohol use. I was just the the black sheep in the family. I was a lot like my dad. I was very wild like he was when he was younger. But anyways, um um to make a long story short, I guess um won't take too much time. Um I woke up and I just I sat straight up in bed cuz I was in shock. I needed to hear that so desperately and I had no idea. And you know, but it's true. I did think that I was, you know, unworthy and and I was worthless and I was dumb. And I mean, I would hear that tape play dumb especially all the time. if I couldn't get something, you're dumb. You're not like everybody else. You're stupid, you know. And it was constant. And um so my dad told me that I really needed to hear that. And I was just sobbing and sobbing and sobbing. And it's funny because the night uh the night before that that day, my son had got back from snowboarding. My mother and my brother had the kids uh all weekend. They were really tired. And uh and my brother was passed out. Everybody was passed out. So, I had gotten up going to the bathroom and I had to put a towel, folded towel over my face because I was sobbing so heavy. And um and then I left the bathroom and I'm standing in the middle of the hallway and I'm like, I want to turn on all the lights. I want to get everybody up and I want to tell them I saw my dad and my this is what my dad said to me, you know. And then I I was standing there and the Holy Spirit said to me, "This is for you and you alone." And and then he told me something else. When I saw my dad walk come from the backyard, you know, from the side of the house into the backyard, I was in such surprise to see him. Was totally unexpected that. But I do remember hearing a voice saying something. And the Holy Spirit reminded me and said, "He came a long long long way to tell you this." And I just and I back in the bathroom, you know. See? Anyways, then I finally contained myself somewhat. I went back to bed and I thought, "Oh, I'll probably never see him again." So, I tried real hard to go back to sleep and I couldn't. So, then I looked over at the clock. It was 3:00 a.m. And the Lord told me three means the Trinity and Father, Son, Holy Spirit. And uh and and you know, and then all of a sudden, I just felt this release. I felt like uh I was just uh something happened and you know I don't I don't feel I don't feel worthless and I know I'm not dumb and I needed to hear that and I just wanted to share how good the Lord is. Yeah. And oh, and I just want to say one more thing really quick. And then and then Monday night, I came to the service and there was a lot of stuff that Rod was saying, preaching that I was going, "Oh," and I was checking this off and I was checking that off and I was checking this off and it was just like other stuff that that I need to work on. You know, those other two were out of the way. Yeah, it was great. Praise God. like my first mentor in deliverance and stuff, you know, just just breaking me into that type of of of arena, you know, and he's a power he was a powerful man of God. But Ro's going to come up and share something concerning a prophecy. I believe it was black sheep of the family. I can't relate to that at all. Not not at all. Um, you know, when when uh when I was uh Friday night before I I was the Holy Spirit told me to make sure that to make sure that you were here. I He told me she needs this. She needs to hear it. you know, and and it is amazing how much God loves us, that he will go out of his way to prove to us, to show us how much he loves us. We're not rejected. He'll never reject us, you know, and and and it's it's it's really funny because, you know, the same thing happened to me with uh the the gentleman that I'm I'm I'm going to read his prophecy that that he wrote to uh uh the church of uh the body of Christ. Um he came over. I mean, this this guy, Chuck Pierce, is a is a he he prophesies to nations and and he is right on. He nails it right on the head, you know, and uh I I'll we could go late. Um, and when when we were in that when when we were at that conference in San Jose, the the the night before he prophesied over me and then um the next morning we, you know, it was it was the last it was the last uh day of the thing and it was only half day. I saw him come in the the the sanctuary and he belineed straight towards me. He just walked straight towards me and he shook he shook Fred's hand. He's looking at me, shaking Fred's hand, shaking Marcos's hand, and he hugged me, you know, he he's kind of a big guy. He just hugged me like, you know, I just I just melted and he said he said, "God, when I went to bed last night, God put you on my heart and he just wanted to show tell you how much he loves you." And I'm thinking, "Oh, that's really neat," you know, and all a sudden, you know, we're walking out and Freddy, did you hear that? Did you hear what he said? Do you understand that? I said, 'What do you mean? This guy's a he prophesies to nations and he God put you on his heart, you know, and and and when he hugged me, when he hugged me, it was so amazing because, you know, I was born and raised in church, you know, and and and my grandfather, he started, you know, 85 years ago, you know, and and and he was he was uh Marcos's mentor, you know, and and when he hugged me, that was the first time in my entire life that I truly felt the love of God. It was amazing. It was unbelievable. But yeah, I mean, we we need that every once again, you know, especially us black sheep, you know. Um, this is a this is a a prophecy that was uh uh we're on the his uh uh Gloria Zion's uh u email list and and he sent this uh yesterday and uh you know I I read about the first part of what he says and then I get here Linda you read the rest you know but when I started reading this this is what we are going through this was just confirmation after confirmation. This applies to a vision for Wilmington. It applies to Fred Marcos. It applies to everyone in here. And I mean, I start reading it and Linda is standing there. She I'm sitting there go, you know, dripping on the computer, you know, that I I won't do that. I promise. No, I shouldn't do that. I probably will. Um, the title is I am reinlisting my army again. I am breaking the power of passivity from my people. Go up. Go up again. Go up again. Go up again. Go up again. Oh man, the thing is cut off. Okay, I'll I'll add live. It says uh go up against again. The enemy has stopped you and numbed your spirit in the past season. I am anointing you to go up again. I am lifting man. It's cut off. I am lifting I'm lifting something under the piles of of defeats that have caused you to be quiet and passive. Though you have been buried with work and everyday life and and circumstances, I am removing the layers of sod and decay that have held you captive. Go up again. Go up again. Go up again. The wind is blowing in the trees. I am sending a sound in the tree treetops. Go up again, child. Come from behind. Catch up and go up again. I have brought you from behind and you shall hear the the the wind in the trees. The breeze will be your sign to go up again. Go up again. Get hold of your of your emotions and go up again. Even your enemy has mounted up again. I am sending a new wind. Catch the wind and go up again. This new wind will become your mantle. I am redefining your enemies. You will go up again. You will shout. This is my assignment now. This is what I am called to do. Though the enemy has advanced and made headway with his adverse wind, I am bringing you I am bringing you up to a new place to equip you. When you go up again, you will face your enemy with with my new wind. And the enemy will not win again. Even if you have fallen because the relationships have blocked of relationships or blocked supply or have been confused over your your purpose and vision. I say you will go up again. Catch the wind and go again. Reach down. Reach down to my power that is within. Catch the wind and go again. Reach down. Reach down. Reach down for new strength. I placed within. reach down, rise up, and go again. Though my people have been anointed before, the next the the next anointing, I am bringing my people in an anointing that will be known as your fear will laugh. This anointing will cause you to proceed to a new place of breakthrough. This anointing will cause your enemy to become alert against you, to rise up, become alert. I am allowing your enemy to surround you because I have a a strategy for you to go up again against the enemy. Hear the wind. Find your path in the midst of the fray and go up again. Victory is sure. Do not fear the quaking for it is a sign that I am getting ready to reach in. Pull up and reach down again. Even though the enemy and and legalism has risen in the land, I am causing a people to reach up, grab my hand, and stand up again. This is a nation that will quake. In the middle of the quaking, I am again breaking a open a seal of heaven that will cause earth to change drastically. Do not fear when the Lord shakes the foundation. Do not fear when it quakes. Do not fear when the Lord shakes the foundation. Do not fear when it quakes. For you were standing on unsure ground with an unstable future. But the shifting of the plates of the earth and the gifts of the earth for this age in this season will create a major shift in administr in administrative systems. The quaking will cause a different sound to arise in the peoples. A revolutionary sound is rising in the land. That sound will be heard and my and call many into place. Different peoples will align. The ethnos groups are aligning in the house of prayer. A new sound is arising in the church and there will be one man worshiping. Heaven is beginning to resound to earth's cry. This cry will get louder and louder until the enemy's voice is silenced for the season in the earth. There are unccurrens undercurrens flowing and there is confusion and workings in the midst of my plan. I say the enemy is working at work to attempt to stop that which I am sending forth in this hour. But I say that in the midst of an undercurrent, I'm creating a people who will stand above the swirl of the enemy's camp. I will ride on the wings of the wind. I will ride on the wings of the wind. Above the swirl of the enemy's camp, I will ride on the wings of the wind. I will ride on the wings of the wind. I will execute true justice. I will release mercy and compassion. Brother will rise up again with brother, sister with sister, and we will move out and possess this land. We will ride and possess this land. We will move and possess this land. We will move and possess this land. Generation with generation, old and the young will move as one. Old and the young will move as one. A new alignment is happening in cities. Do not accue Do not allow the accuser to accuse you over the past. Do not allow the accuser to stop you from moving forward. Do not allow the accuser to say, "In the past, you tried that and it didn't work. For I am bringing a new anointing that will create a new method and a new way for you to go. I am seeding the court of heaven and the court of earth will reflect that which is in heaven." This is a new measure of rule coming to my people. I am breaking the generational fear structure that robbed the a generation of boldness. I am removing a fear base. Fear has been passed from generation to generation, but three generations will rise again and catch this new wind to go up again. You will feel as if you have had surgery. For I will remove a root of fear so that that you can go up again. You will begin to say again the word of the Lord has come to me. Decree that the word of the Lord will come. Again the word will come. Not the word that heard that you've heard in the past but a word again. The word will come and you will say that I am hearing a God in heaven who is refreshing and giving me boldness again. The word will come again. The I am birthing the next dimension of revelation. You have endured and pressed through. So I will now come again. I am ready to bring my word. I am becoming zealous again. My zeal has arisen again. My fervor is rising in you again. My seed will prosper again. I am reinlisting my army again. From your past faith demonstrations, you have gained the right to be my in my army. Because of the cares of the world, you have left your post. I am calling you again to reinlist. Old men and old women will dance in the streets and isles of my places of gathering. A new call is coming and my people will prosper again. I'm calling forth again those that have gone forth in the past. I am putting them in my ranks again. I'm calling them in again. I'm fanning their flame again. For this is a day of reinlistment for the wind is blowing again because the wind is blowing again. I am reinlisting my people. I'm putting the staff in my in my people's hand again. The old men and the old women are now receiving the staff again. The old men and the old women will begin to dance in the streets with the young men and women and girls and boys. This will create a new rule of Zion. This will create a new rule and Zion will be established in the earth in a new way. Those who have gone before, stretch out your hands again. For I am putting a new staff in your hands and will cause you to hear my voice in a new way. I am redefining your call. The generation that's risen can dance in the streets and exhibit new faith. Just like Caleb, who was 80 years old when he really started to rule, reach out your hands and take up the staff again. I am redefining your gift and sending you out again. The old and new will become dance partners. The old and young will rejoice together. I am reinlisting my troops and I will give my reinlistment bonuses in the earth for the wind is blowing. I am calling my people again. Rise up and follow me into victory. Lift up your feet. Lift up your feet. Lift up your feet. Lift up your feet. Though unity was thwarted in the in the last season and the enemy came in like a flood, I am reinlisting my troops and I will bring forth that I had planned. That which I have spoken will not return void to me. I will stir up my people with a new anointing and a new strength will blend together and my army will rule the streets of their nations. Grab hold of the new staff I am extending. Let your hands be strong. Let your hands be strong. For the words the prophets have spoken, though they've lain dormant and have not blossomed, I say, let your hands be strong. For I will be activating words and accelerating my purposes. This season, my word is coming forth. Don't be don't get left behind. My word is coming again. Rise up again. A righteous man falls seven times and gets up. So shake off your words and rise again. I will build my house again. The old and the young will shout together. It will be a sound that has not been heard in this season. This is a day of rebuilding and completing what has been what had what was begun in one generation. Though the foundation has been shaky and the people have been divided and the world has drawn many away, now I will build my house again. For I am repairing the foundation, and I am lifting up that which is sagged. I am leveling out that which was crooked. And today I start the process. For the wind is blowing again. And even though you have met each other and met me before, now you will meet me in a new way and see each other in a new way in in the way that I see you. Let go. Let go the things of the past. Let go. Let go the things of the past and catch the new wind blowing forth. I am reinlisting. Hear my call and receive your bonus as you come forth. It's all you. All right. Praise God. Uh, I need you to email me that, Rod, please. I'm gonna tell you, first of all, the lesson tonight. Remember, uh, when I was here last week, for those of you who were not here, uh, it was an unfinished lesson, which is, by the way, first page that you have in your notes. It ended, it had about that much left. And, uh, I told Fred, I didn't make no copies because the lesson was never finished. The Lord just didn't give me the end of it. So, as soon as I preached last Friday night, next morning I got the lesson, the second part of the lesson. And guess what? We ended last week with what am I? Paul says, I am what I am. And then I asked a question, what am I? Or what am I? And guess what the Lord showed me? You're a soldier. That's what we're going to be talking about tonight. And he just had that talking about our identity. I mean that prophecy. Let me tell you how how far back that prophecy and I know that uh that time you know uh but let I got to share this with you because it goes with what you were saying. Um um I don't know if it was before her dad passed away or but we went to visit her mom and dad. I heard that might might have been dead already. I don't know if it was 2001 when he passed away was 2002, but her mom lived in a remote part of uh Arkansas in Conway. They retired by a lake and there's a lot of wood. So, we went out there on vacation. We drove and uh we were going to leave that morning about 11. And so, that gave her time to spend, you know, time with her mom and stuff like that. So, I got up early and decided to go to prayer. So, I went and I walked They they have a lot of lakes over there. And so I walk a couple of miles. Then I found a real wooded area all while over there in Arkansas. So I saw a trail. So I get into the trail and I'm walking for a quiet place to pray and I come to a crossroads of trail and I'm standing in the middle and you know everything is are pretty high. I can see that the trail makes a perfect cross where I'm standing at. I looked at the trail that goes that way and then it curves so you can't see no more. So you can see here and then as I look that way the trail goes farther and then it curves and then you can see no more. And then you can see this other trail where they curve and I can see that it makes a perfect cross. This is in the middle of the wood like about 7 8 o'lock in the morning in Arkansas. So I get down on my knees and you know you're in the uh dirt and all of that stuff so I can't really lay down or anything. So I just get down on my knees and I began to pray and I began to pray uh asking the Lord for direction and guidance and all things and all of a sudden you're talking about the rustling of the trees. Here comes and this was weird because you can tell it's not natural when you feel it right. So this wind comes in and and and it blowing right on the top of the trees and and I know man the Holy Spirit is answering me right right now. I got both of my hands up and the wind blows and it blows just on one hand. It's weird. You could feel the breeze blowing but it hitting just one hand. I don't know what my left hand went numb or my head went numb. The only I could only feel the wind on this hand while I was praying. It was a a very strange uh uh experience that I had. So then we got on the road and we left around 11 11:30. I told her what had happened and I'm driving straight through. I was a lot younger back then. I I can't do it now, but I'm driving straight through. So 3:00 in the morning, we left Arkansas maybe 9 or 10 or 11, whatever. But 3:00 in the morning, we're somewhere in Arizona. And I am driving. It's a beautiful night out. I'm I'm and looking at at the stars and everything. As you know, the jets fly from east to west and they leave that vapor trail. And so there's just I'm seeing just as I'm driving and looking out at the night all of these trails going and one jet came across this way and it formed there was just one trail this way and one it forms a perfect cross right in the middle but the the winds up in the atmosphere was so heavy that everything was blowing real fast. So this cross is just sitting there and it's not moving. All the jets go by their trail disappears and I cross the land. I said, "Boy, I've been driving too long. But I need a break. Something is going on in and mine. So I um I finally about after five or 10 minutes of this amen I wake her up because she was just laying there asleep. I said look at honey this thing won't won't go away. And remember I have been praying that morning in what is it for a cross just like what happened on the earth God is just replicating it up in heaven. And and it's weird now. So 25 30 minutes go by. She's already been out 50 minutes. We see all their jets pay for trail. The wind blows it away and this cross is just formed right there perfectly from and it was at an angle like that cross as it was in the sky like that and it was at an angle. So anyway, just as we're wondering you know what what this is or whatever then all of a sudden the cross begins to dissipate begins to break like 25 30 minutes after I seen it. And yes, as we're coming there, we're in the middle of the desert nowhere. We come into this little mountain and the sign says cross mountain road. Cross Mountain Road. In other words, there's a a and and so later uh in 2003, I believe it was, we're going back and I said, "We got to go to that place, Cross Mountain Road." The Lord took us to Las Vegas. We formed a cross in Las Vegas to where we were a La Plaza Hotel. we anointed. That's when I had the experience of the Lord took me. And in that experience where the Lord took me, I to make it up the hill, the Lord put a staff in my hand. That's why all of the things that the prophecy is talking about there, I experience. So, I need you to to email me that. Okay. But, uh, but the thing is, you know, like you were saying in your testimony, God knows us and God is real. And when God will allow us to to, you know, doggy paddle for a while, but when it comes to time, he chose himself up. And and and that's one thing about God that he chose himself up. And there is something I mean, I can tell you from from the 21 years now that I've been serving the Lord that there's something going on now different than it's ever gone before. Something is happening in the spiritual realm. God is getting ready to do something so totally different that we need to open our minds to believe for for things that we could never even think of. Amen. And when the Lord gave me this revelation to to share this this uh four weeks, I want you to know that this is what what has been in my heart. What my heart is that that which is soul and he kept saying that in the prophecy, God is doing away with it. God is changing the way he does business. This is an end time. You know what happened when when you're doing something and it gets contaminated, you throw it away and you get something new. You know, Fred was painting this week. He said, "You take that spackle and you start putting it on the cracks and then all of a sudden your spackle gets all full of debris and stuff like that and then you're making more of a mess and then do anything. You got to get rid of that old contaminated thing. Throw it away and then you come with something brand new, something that has been that has not been used, something that is not contaminated." And that's what God is doing. And guess what? The number one qualification to be part of that army, you got to be a black sheep. Because you see what God is doing, God is dealing with the rejected. If if you look at it, that's who God is going after. God is going after. Did you know that uh you were talking about uh worthlessness? That's a spirit is a spirit of blay. It appears in the King James version of the Bible 17 times by name. And Hannah who was uh uh the mother of Samuel uh was married to Arcana and she was worthless. He had two wife. One was very productive, gave him a lot of kids. Hannah couldn't have no children. You see that represents the old way of doing thing and the new way of doing thing. Every time he came to Jerusalem like they were required, he would give his wife Hannah that was bearing a double portion of everything. But yet she wasn't satisfied. She felt rejected. The other wife tormented her all the time. Said, "You're worthless. You're good for nothing. You can't even give your husband children." And this torment went on. One time she went into the temple and threw herself at the door. Wouldn't eat, wouldn't do nothing. She cried and cried and cried and cried. She was sobbing so much that Eli the high priest said, "Woman, if you're going to get drunk, go get drunk someplace else. Don't come to do it in the house of the Lord." Okay. Jesus, I am not drunk. He said, I am here because my spirit is see that Eli priest who was corrupted. He well at least his uh his songs were corrupted and and he died when when the glory left departed the temple. But that man had to speak something into her life. And when he heard her cry, he says, "Be it unto you according to your faith." It was when she says, "I am not a daughter of Bile." When Samuel Eli the priest came in and said, "You a a woman, worthless woman, what are you doing here crying at the door of the temple?" And she says, "No, I am not a daughter of a lion." When she was saying, "I am not worthless. I may not be reproductive right now. I may be tormented. I may be going through all of the things, but I am not worthless." And the minute she spoke that says I am not worthless. Eli the high priest had to speak because he was in the office. I said next year by this time you going to have a son. And that son was Samuel who was able to introduce Israel to the new that God was doing. He was the man who anointed kings. He was a man the change from the judges to the kingdom of God. And that's what's going on right now. A lot of us may feel like uh Hannah. But when we come to that place where we can cry, I am not worthless. I may have been rejected by religion and I may be rejected by tradition and I may be rejected by all of the norms of men, but I am here to tell you that I am not worthless because I know that God has a plan and purpose for my life. And when we cried out, that cry out, then that's what that voice in your ear makes. That's the Holy Spirit, by the way. The reason why it wouldn't look you, it was just taking the form of your doubt so that you could see it. It was the Holy Spirit speaking to you. And when the Holy Spirit speaks into your ear and he was just putting something in your spirit that you're not worthless. And when that gets placed into your spirit, that is when you conceive. It says that she went home and instantly she conceived. And nine months later, she had a a a young man named Samuel. And that's what's going on right now. By the way, the Holy Spirit is speaking to a lot of people who have been rejected. Anyway, let me go over real quick to what we um we talked about last week. We're talking about dominion. How there were three things that would cause us to turn the dominion over to Satan. The first one was in Psalm 193 where he says, "Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me." So presumptuous sense, that's when we presume that we're called of God or that God has told us to do this or that. That's operating on the uh senses, the realm of the senses. That can cause us to turn dominion over to the enemy. Psalm 119:13 said, "Direct my step by your word, and let no iniquity have no have dominion over me." Iniquity, as I taught two weeks ago, is harlotry is at the root of all iniquity. Harlotry meaning worshiping something other than God. Okay? And and and and the way the Israelites did it is they put Baal. Baal means Lord. As a matter of fact, the Bible calls God because that was their their word at the time, Baal twice. It means Lord. So they were actually mixing their religion to where they were worshiping Nimrod, but yet they call him Jehovah or they called him Lord. And that is what iniquity, the root of all iniquity is worshiping God, thinking you're worshiping God, but in reality you're not worshiping God. You're worshiping something that is demonic. And then the third one that always turns the dominion over. Why? Because if you're giving, worship comes from an old English word. That means worth giving. giving value. When you worship something, you're given a value above yourself. Previous Next Home

Say this prayer out loud: Precious Father in Heaven creator of Heaven and earth, in the Name of Jesus your only begotten Son I now come. Lord, no god has ever taken for himself out of the nations, a peculiar people like You have. By fiery trials, by miraculous signs and wonders, and by spiritual warfare. By Your mighty hand and an outstretched arms on the cross and by the great and awesome deed of the resurrection from the dead. You provided for us the Bread that came down from heaven, the Lamb of God, Your Living Word. You enabled us to drink His blood, precious and holy, for the New Covenant. From heaven you made us to hear Your voice, to discipline and empower us. On earth You showed Your tongues of fire, to fill us with Your power in accordance to Your promises. Lord fill me now with your Holy Spirit, fulfill Your promise in me. And grant me Your gifts with power. Dear Lord that Your authority may be displayed in me and that I may serve You faithfully. Rescue me, O Lord, from evil things; protect me from men of violence, who devise evil plans in their hearts and stir up war every day against me. They make their tongues as sharp as a serpent's; the poison of vipers is on their lips. Protect me, O Lord, from the words of the wicked one; Guard me your servant and my family with the hedge of Your unfailing love. Praise be to You dear Lord, my Rock, You train my hands for war, my fingers for battle. For if I cast out demons by the finger of God, then the Kingdom of God has come upon me with power and dominion. That I may occupy till You come dear Lord. Hallelujah! For salvation and glory and power belong to our God, for true and just are His judgments. He has condemned the greatly corrupted kingdom of the enemy here on earth, and has given the dominion to us His servants, by covering us with His blood. Hallelujah! For our Lord God Almighty reigns. Let us rejoice and be glad and give him glory! He looked and saw how helpless my situation was. So His own arm worked salvation for me, and by His righteousness I am sustained in Him, empowered to do His mighty will. AMEN!EMPOWERMENT FOR THE GIFTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT EMPOWERMENT FOR THE GIFTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT EMPOWERMENT FOR THE GIFTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT Say this prayer out loud: Precious Father in Heaven creator of Heaven and earth, in the Name of Jesus your only begotten Son I now come. Lord, no god has ever taken for himself out of the nations, a peculiar people like You have. By fiery trials, by miraculous signs and wonders, and by spiritual warfare. By Your mighty hand and an outstretched arms on the cross and by the great and awesome deed of the resurrection from the dead. You provided for us the Bread that came down from heaven, the Lamb of God, Your Living Word. You enabled us to drink His blood, precious and holy, for the New Covenant. From heaven you made us to hear Your voice, to discipline and empower us. On earth You showed Your tongues of fire, to fill us with Your power in accordance to Your promises. Lord fill me now with your Holy Spirit, fulfill Your promise in me. And grant me Your gifts with power. Dear Lord that Your authority may be displayed in me and that I may serve You faithfully. Rescue me, O Lord, from evil things; protect me from men of violence, who devise evil plans in their hearts and stir up war every day against me. They make their tongues as sharp as a serpent's; the poison of vipers is on their lips. Protect me, O Lord, from the words of the wicked one; Guard me your servant and my family with the hedge of Your unfailing love. Praise be to You dear Lord, my Rock, You train my hands for war, my fingers for battle. For if I cast out demons by the finger of God, then the Kingdom of God has come upon me with power and dominion. That I may occupy till You come dear Lord. Hallelujah! For salvation and glory and power belong to our God, for true and just are His judgments. He has condemned the greatly corrupted kingdom of the enemy here on earth, and has given the dominion to us His servants, by covering us with His blood. Hallelujah! For our Lord God Almighty reigns. Let us rejoice and be glad and give him glory! He looked and saw how helpless my situation was. So His own arm worked salvation for me, and by His righteousness I am sustained in Him, empowered to do His mighty will. AMEN! Previous Next Home

HEALING FOR THE BROKENHEARTED part 1 The objective of this teaching is to reveal how Jesus Christ restores the authority that was lost in the Garden of Eden and how that authority directly relates to healing the brokenhearted. By examining Scripture, the lesson seeks to expose Satan’s deceptive “programming” and “conditioning” that keep believers bound, and to equip Christians to walk in the fullness of Christ’s authority, free from rejection, fear, and destructive patterns. < Back HEALING FOR THE BROKENHEARTED part 1 Pastor Marcos Marrero July 1, 2004 Objective: The objective of this teaching is to reveal how Jesus Christ restores the authority that was lost in the Garden of Eden and how that authority directly relates to healing the brokenhearted. By examining Scripture, the lesson seeks to expose Satan’s deceptive “programming” and “conditioning” that keep believers bound, and to equip Christians to walk in the fullness of Christ’s authority, free from rejection, fear, and destructive patterns. Synopsis: This teaching explores the authority of Jesus Christ and how it brings healing to the brokenhearted. From the beginning, humanity was given dominion by God, but that authority was stolen by Satan through disobedience in the Garden of Eden. Jesus came to restore what was lost, granting believers the power to overcome every work of the enemy. The lesson highlights how religious leaders in Matthew 21 questioned Jesus’ authority, exposing a common tactic of Satan—causing people to doubt the authority of God’s Word. This same doubt weakens believers today, preventing them from walking in victory. Scripture makes clear that while Satan’s program is to steal, kill, and destroy, Jesus came to give abundant life. Yet many Christians remain bound because of Satan’s “programming” and “conditioning” in their hearts, whether through rejection, false teaching, generational patterns, or personal wounds. These hidden influences can produce double-mindedness, fear, and even self-destruction, blocking the flow of God’s blessings. Biblical examples such as Balaam and Balak (Revelation 2:14) show how compromise with false doctrine removes spiritual authority, while Paul’s warnings in 2 Timothy 3 remind us that not all who appear godly truly walk in God’s power. Ultimately, this teaching calls believers to recognize and break free from the enemy’s conditioning, to anchor their faith in the unshakable authority of Christ, and to receive the wholeness and peace Jesus provides. Inspired Teaching: We long for that day, dear Lord Jesus, when we'll finally meet you face to face and we'll be able to bow down before you, Father God, and personally give you h praise and glory for all that you have done for us. Thank you, Lord, in advance. Thank you for opening our ears to hear this morning. Thank you for granting us a heart that has understanding. Anoint your word this morning, Father God, that it may become food for our spirit, for our soul, and for our body. In Jesus name, I pray your blessing upon each and every person in this class this morning. Father, thank you for meeting every need of their heart. Father, in Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen. Praise God. We're going to talk uh this morning in the concerning the authority of Jesus Christ, how it relates to healing of the broken heart. Our first lesson that we did, we dealt with the mechanics of what Jesus came to do. Jesus says, "I came to heal the brokenhearted." This is part of what Jesus came to do. That was lesson number one. In lesson number two, we dealt with the spirit of rejection. We found out that one of the tools that Satan uses the most against believers is rejection. And that goes all the way back to the garden when men was rejected because of his and her disobedient men and women disobeyed the word of God. Now today in this series of healing the brokenhearted or dealing with a broken heart, I want to focus into how Jesus uh uh has given us authority over all of the power of the enemy. And Satan uses everything that he can to keep us from exercising that authority. How many do you know that if you have authority to do something and that authority can be removed or taken from you then you you may have authority but it's no good to you if you cannot use it. I want to start with Matthew 21 verse 23. And I want you to see something from uh what happened to the children of Israel in Matthew 21:23. We read now when he Jesus came into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people confronted him as he was teaching and said, "By what authority are you doing these things? And who gave you these this authority?" Now notice that it's the chief priests and the elders of the people. Now we need to understand that the children of Israel were programmed as if it were all the way from the beginning of time to accept the Messiah. Last week when we're dealing with the spirit of rejection as men and women were being kicked out of the garden just from their disobedience to the word, God said to Eve, "Your seed will crush the head of the serpent." So, ever since that time, mankind has been waiting for the seed of the woman or a son of a woman that would come up and would become like Adam was, but instead of failing like Adam would crush or defeat the enemy, would have the authority of God because what was lost in the garden was authority. God said to Adam and Eve, I give you dominion. and Satan stole that dominion. Okay? So, God promised, "I will res restore dominion to man." So, here comes Jesus. And I want you to put this into perspective. We know from John chapter 3 that Jesus was doing things that only God could do. We know that Nicodemus came to Jesus by night. Why? Because he was afraid of the chief priests and the elders. He came by night. And he says, "Rabbi, nobody, nobody can do the things that you do unless God be with him. Nobody can make bones grow. Nobody can take open eyes and and h, you know, blind eyes and open. Nobody can do that unless God is with him." And I want you to see that the chief elders and the and the priests saw the same thing that Nicodemus saw. But what happened? They questioned the authority. Why did they question the authority? Because Satan was able to program them to question the God, the authority of God. How many of us when we see a move of the Holy Spirit, immediately we begin to question, I wonder if this is really God or not? I mean, have you been there? You see something taking place? That's the first thing that comes into our mind. And it's a good thing because we need to to judge. We need to make decisions. But we need to understand that this is at the root of the problem. Now look what happens if you go down to right there in Matthew 21:23. Go 20 verses later 43. Jesus says, "Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a nation bearing the fruits of it." Now what happened? because they questioned the authority of the very person that God had promised them that he would send them. God says, "I can't use you. So, I'm going to remove you and I'm going to give that to somebody else, which is us." Now, the reason why I put this into prospect into perspective is because now we're in the same boat. What if we begin to question the authority of God? Will Jesus come and said the kingdom is taken from you and given to somebody else? And you see and today uh a religious leader chief elders question that all the time. They question whether God really created the heavens and the earth in six days. They go through long dissertations about how we evolve or how the things were evolved. And there's all kinds of human rationing to question the authority of God. Because you see, if you can bring the authority of God in question, then our authority is questioned because we have no authority but that which God has given to us. Jesus said whatever you ask in my name will be gi will be done for you. So if we even have a question on the authority of Jesus, then the kingdom is not ours. You see kingdom is operating in power. That's that's what it is. Now, in your paper there, if everybody has a paper, I'd look up the dictionary, two words, two very simple words, and you will see how these words fit so perfectly into the the real that we're fighting with. The first word is program. We're all familiar with the word program. Here's there's four meanings that I got from the uh Webster's dictionary. Program. the first minute a brief statement or written outline of something. You know, when you go to uh uh to the church, you get a bulletin. That's basically your program as to what's going on, what's going to be happening. Number two, performance. There's always a program has built into it a performance, something that has to be done. Then number three, a plan of action. In other words, to accomplish what the program says. And number four, it's a sequence of coded instructions for a computer. And so the Bible says that Satan is the accuser of the brethren. So what I want you to say to see here is that Satan has a program against you, against your family, against your church, against your community, against the nation that you live in. You know what Satan's program is against you? Jesus uh uh briefly stated what the program is. I think it's John 10:10. The thief comes but to steal, to kill, and to destroy. Satan has a short program against each and every one of us. And that program says, I want to steal everything you have. I want to kill everything you have. I want to destroy everything that you have. in that program, he has a performance. He needs to perform on that. In other words, you can desire to steal somebody something that somebody has, but you can't have that unless you act upon it. So, Satan is actively acting upon you and me to steal and to kill and to destroy everything that God has given us. And we need to know that. We need to know that Satan does not take vacations. He doesn't rest in the Sabbath. He doesn't have pity or mercy. He's like the uh Terminator. He's bent, hellbent on destroying you every single moment of the day. That's all he thinks about how to activate the plan against you so that the plan of action so that he can steal. But the part that I want you to see here is a a sequence of coded instruction because this is where we get now to the human heart. You see, Satan knows knows without a doubt that when a person hears the gospel of Jesus Christ, he will accept the Lord. So he has a set of coded instruction that he's been passing down from generation to generation to generation that when you come into the place to where you're going to be blossom as if it were into the reality of the blessing because Jesus says Jesus short program for us is but I came that you may have life and have it in abundance. That's that's God's plan of action. That's what Jesus wants to perform on us. He wants us to have life and have it in abundance. This is the plan of action. This is what Jesus wants to perform of us. So when we accept the Lord Jesus Christ, Jesus sets in motion the blessings of love, joy, peace, longsuffering, goodness, gentleness, all of the good things of the spirit of God are set in motion. So Satan has a set of coded instruction that he has placed deep within each and every human heart. And as soon as we begin to be blessed, he begins to come against that push the button that would keep us from entering into the blessing. So if we do not have our broken hearts healed, we can never enter into the blessings of God. Because you see a broken heart like we deal uh uh is a heart that has been split. In in other words, the scripture there where where James James 1:7 and8 for let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord for he is a double-minded man. Satan's plan is to get you to be double-minded because if you're doubleminded, God's plan of action for your life cannot be brought into place. So you see the double-mindedness is simply two spirit, two personalities or two things motivating you. Remember how Jesus said to the disciples when he was telling them to pray, watch and pray. Jesus says the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. Why? Because there is a imprinted coded program that Satan has in each and every one of each and every one of us heart that he is working on to bring about. And we need to understand unless we get that part of our heart healed, we can never receive or implement God's plan for our life. This is why Jesus says, "I came to heal the broken heart." The broken heart uh uh in in in James 17 and8 means a duplicate and we dealt with this on the last uh two lesson. When God created I need to repeat this for emphasis so that we understand when God created the human soul God made man out of a lump of clay. Then God who is a spirit breathe out of his spirit. breath came out of God's mouth. And as that breath came out, it went into the nostrils of of of of this lump of clay. And the Bible says that he became a living soul. Okay? This soul was a duplicate of God because soul and spirit are the same thing except soul has to do with the lives with the self life or with the personality. So that God created us to be a duplicate of himself. Let us make man in our image and after our likeness. So Satan and how did God created that duplication? By his word. See you cannot speak words without breath coming out of your mouth. So it was the very breath of God when God says let us make man man became a living soul. But Satan come in and say no. Did God say? Did God really say to Jesus is if you are the son of God? What? Questioning the authority of the word of God. So whenever we question the authority of the word of God, there's a split. There's a duplicate. Now there's one of us that lives in doubt and fear and there's one of us, the spirit that is willing. Okay. Now that leads me to the second word, condition. Remember program. It's a brief statement or written outline of something something to be performed performance to be activated with a plan of action or a sequence condition. Listen to put into a proper or desired condition. Now notice number two to adapt modify or mold to respond in a particular way. Many Christians live in so much grief and so much shame because they have been conditioned. They have been adopted. They have been modified to respond in a particular way. And I don't care how good you are, how much you bless God, how much Bible scripture you you you memorize, how much you read, how how much church attendance you go to. If you have been conditioned to respond in a particular way to a certain situation, all that Satan has to do is activate that against you and boom, you're there. Boom. Actually, you're there. If it's anger, you can have the nicest person in the world. You push that right button that says condition anger and you push that button and out goes that fuse and there went your testimony. It's the same way with every condition whether it's loss, whether it's fear, whether all of the things are there. Why? Because Satan somewhere along the line came in and adapted the plan that had God for you. He began to modify it by getting some people in your life. Oh, you're be a loser just like your dad or you'll never be. You'll be this or you'll be that or you'll be the other. And this begin to condition you to respond. See, this is why some people have a spirit of self-destruction upon them. They get blessed. They get the best job in the world. They buy a house and everything and there's something in there that is so miserable that condition that you'll never profit. You'll never be anything and they'll do everything that they can in the world to selfdestruct. Same way with marriage. Some people uh uh find the perfect man and woman that God has for them on their life and they do everything in the world to destroy that relationship. Why? Because they have been conditioned. They have been pre-programmed. They have been molded to respond. You'll never be a nobody. You don't deserve it. How many of us? Well, see, Jesus says, "I came to heal that part of your heart. So, you can't enjoy the blessings." When the woman got a hold of the of the hymn of his garment, Jesus could have just let it go and they kept going. Nobody needs to know. The Bible says Jesus did so many things. If it were written in the books, there wouldn't be enough room in the whole world to put it. Why did Jesus stop and say, "Hey, wait a minute." because he wanted that woman not only to have the healing but to have the peace that goes with the healing. He said, "My daughter, your faith has made you heal." That coin peace. We need to know that that God wants us to have that peace. Now Romans 7:20 is one that we used on the last section where we did says now if I do what I will not to do it is no longer I who do it but sin living in me. Okay. How many of you have seen a a movie or or show where here's the person and then he's got this little replica of himself here and it's got a halo and a is a little angel and then a replica of himself here with a bunch couple of horns and a and a pitchfork. And this is the angel Jew and the devil Jew. And and the angel Jew say, "Oh, no, no, no. You better don't do that. You know, that's not right." And they, "Oh, come on. let's do it, you know, and there's this this this struggle, you know, there is a duplicate of ourselves. And the Bible says very clearly that if when we're born again and we truly have a desire not to sin, if we continue to do, God is saying, you are programmed, you have been conditioned to do something by something that is within you. The Bible calls it sin. Sin that lives in us. that is just a duplicate of oursel who has been adapted or modified to sin, to hate, to lust, to fear, to all of these different spirits that are there. And God says it's not until Proverbs 11:9, until you know what you're up against. See, the reason why I taught last week on on on uh and I didn't even know it was going to be Father's Day uh uh that lesson. I didn't even think about it, but uh uh rejection because that is the key to everything. Rejection. If we can truly understand that God loves us, that when we sin, God sees that duplicate that is in the image of Satan. The duplicate that has been created in us is the one that's doing all those things. And that God truly in his heart is saying, "If you just give me a shot of your heart, I will break that thing off of you and I will recreate that duplicate that I've already placed in your born again spirit, I will make it to come alive in you." Okay. Now, let's go to Revelation 2:14. And I want to put it now into action to the church to where we are today. Remember in the book of Revelation, Jesus appears to John and he is dictating to John seven letters, two different seven churches. And everybody that knows anything about Scathology, uh that's the study of the things of the end. They know that this is the condition of the churches on the end times, the time that we're living in today. Each letter represents the condition of the church. And I want you to see in in verse 14 what Jesus says. But I have a few things against you because you have there those who hold the doctrine of Balum who taught Bailac to put a stumbling block before the children of Israel to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality. What is the doctrine of Balor? The doctrine of balance is probably one of the greatest tools that Satan uses to take away the authority that Jesus has given to each and every one of us. The if if you read this the story of Balum, Balum was a prophet. Now, let me say this and and please listen. The fact that a person has a gift from God doesn't make that person uh uh right with God. Okay? I I I don't know which other way to put it. What I'm trying to say is that for example a a person that has given the gift of a good voice is a great singer or a person that's very talented of the arts. You can use that gift for good or for bad. Yes. Okay. You have a good voice, you can sing real good bad music or you can real good good music. You see? So there are gift. Balam was definitely a man who was gifted. Balam is a man who could see into the spirit realm and everybody knew it when the children of Israel are coming and remember God has promised a promised land to them. They're coming. So Bailo who is the king over there wants to destroy them. But Balac who is a very demonic individual knows that without a written program an act something that a plan of action he cannot destroy the children of Israel. He says now they are blessed of God. So they are blessed in the spirit realm. So I cannot take I cannot take them on on the physical realm because they have a spiritual backing. So I need to neutralize that spiritual authority that they have before I can take them on. Now why am I saying this? Because you have a spiritual backing. You have as a born again believer your name is written in heaven and Satan's plan of action is not going to work against you. Okay, if it if it confronts you here in the natural. So Bala says to Balam, "Okay, I need a a short program, something that I can act on. Since you're a man of God, since you look into the spirit, I want you to curse them. And as soon as you curse him, I'll take him on." So he says, "Okay, let me see." So Balon goes over there, he starts open his mouth, and nothing but blessings come on. What are you doing? Three times this is repeated. So Bailo could not take on the children of Israel because he didn't have a program or have an action. So what did Bailac do? He offered enough to Balam and Balam finally said, "You know what? You can't fight these people in the physical realm. They have the spiritual backing of God. You have to get them. You have to have their authority removed from them. And the way to do that is you go into the spirit realm and you get them to do something that will challenge the very authority that God has given them. And then you can take him on. Now notice what I said. It says uh Revelation 2:14, Balon who taught Bailo to put a stumbling block before the children of Israel. He taught him. He taught this guy. He said, "I can't curse him for you, but I can show you how you can take their authority away from them." What's the stumbling block? Eat food sacrifice to idol. You know what that means to us today? That means taking heed or paying attention to demonic doctrine. You see, this is why it's so important, my friend, that even what you watch on TVN, that even what you what you watch in Christian television, that even what you hear, because if there's a Bum over there who is really gifted of God and is sold out for the the the great uh castles and palace and their fame and all this fortune, these people are going to come in and they are going to present you a gospel that is not the true gospel of Jesus Christ. And when that gets you into a position where you begin to doubt the authority of Christ, then Satan had you here in the realm, his program against you is going to begin to work. But we have to be very careful because of look at second Timothy. Uh let's go there real quick. Second Timothy uh 3 and we'll read one to five. This is Paul warning us way ahead of time. But know this that in the last days perilous times will come. I want you to to to hold on to the word in your mind there. Perilous uh uh uh means times of stress. Okay? For men will be lovers of themselves. Now Balam can be put in that category. Balam was offered an awful lot of money and fame and fortune. He was later killed, by the way, by the Israelites. But he was offered lots and lots of things. And unfortunately many maybe not many I won't judge but I know for a fact that there are leaders within the realm of of the church within here the United States people that we look up to and stuff like that that I have no doubt have sold themselves to uh this you know the the fame and the fortune and the things to where you know you cannot even get close to these guys when they come around you know they're like superstars. charge uh and and and because of that lovers of money, boasters, proud blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiven, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, hotty, lovers of pleasure rather than loving of lovers of God. And look what it says in verse 5. This is what I want you to see. Having a form of godliness. This is not talking about the the rock stars, my friend. I don't think any of you here ever uh will associate the the the punk or or or the rappers or these people as having a form of godliness. You know, Madona doesn't have a form of governance and Britney Spears and all these other people. So, he's talking about religious leaders. Had to be. Yes. He cannot be talking about anybody else. It had to be talking about somebody who is giving you a word, you know, somebody who is influence or chaping what is going on in the churches today because you know uh uh if we all feed from the same trough uh uh uh you poison the water, everybody's going to get poisoned. This is why it's so important sometimes you need to fast certain things like that. allow only God to speak to you through his word and through your prayer and through your meditation. Sometimes you need to cleanse your mind from from the influences going around and stuff like that. Okay? I'm in a form of godliness by den remember we're talking about the precondition program because what happens is if I can bring it down a little bit here to earth when the doctor says to you you may have cancer and if it's there on that part it may be inoperable you may die right then and there the authority of Jesus Christ and says you are the Lord who heals me if it is not safely secured Satan will steal that healing from you the minute that you die. So, we need to have that that that that program of God in our hearts is what I'm trying to say. Instead of the program of the devil, we need to be preconditioned by God instead of being preconditioned by by by the devil. You know, when your car gets hit at 70 miles an hour and all of a sudden you're spinning around, what comes out of your mouth is something that have to be there. You don't have time to think it's going to be all right. We're going to be okay. We're going to be fine. Nothing's going to happen. See, that only comes out if it's already been put in there. Thank God that he put it there. But we need to do that for every aspect of our lives. That means we need to and and as the weeks come, uh I I want to make sure I'm going to give you all of the tools that you need to have the Lord do a really selfch check of your soul so that you can whatever demonic program is there. You know, many of us is generational divorce is a generational curse. Uh today people will come and say oh there's no such a thing as generational curses. How Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law. That's bail right there. You know if read what the curses of the law is. Sicknesses is part of the curse of the law. If we have been redeemed from the curse of the law automatically without without us doing anything. Why do Christians get sick? Why do the New Testament said if you get sick go to the elders have anoint you with oil. Haven't break the curse. That's right. Okay. The curses have to be broken. The program of Satan within us have to be broken. And I don't know, you know, we don't know when we minister to people, the hardest thing is to know what to do. But we do know that the principles of the word of God work. And if we put the principles of the word of God and if we do the prayers and things, God works. God makes it work. You know, if we're submitted, if we're willing, and sometimes it takes a while. Satan may have been working in that program within your family for a thousand years. They might if you could go back a thousand generation I mean a 100 generation uh in your life you could find out that this has been in your line all the way through and it might take some revelation from God. It may take certain things you need to do but we the good thing is that Jesus says I came to heal the broken heart. I came to take the two things that are divided and to make him one again. God wants to make us whole in every area. uh 2 Thessalonians 5 I think it says that that that your whole spirit that your soul and that your body may be kept blameless may be made all one. That is what God is wanting to do. And then he says and from such people turn away. Turn away. He says turn away from such people. What such people? People who are acting out of the flesh or selfish motivation. Let me tell you the soul has power. Psychics that operate in the you know psychic and soul is the same thing. Okay. Psychic that's a word for selfife. Okay. There is power in the supernatural realm and you can operate in that realm. You can go to a psychic or you can uh uh get new age uh uh books. You can get all the things with incantation and you will find out this is why wikah has so many bowlers especially young people because young people want to see power. Young people want to see something that's real. So they go for this stuff. They put a curse on somebody and that curse works. I heard of people that told us, I couldn't believe it when I put a curse on this person for her hair to fall out because they were jealous and envious of her and her hair begin to falling out, man. They were like, "Woo, this stuff it works. There's power there." But the problem with the the power in the psychic or or in the solish realm is that that is the supernatural realm where Satan operates. And Satan has stuff in you. And you get into that thinking, "Well, I can just use this power for good." Guess what? Satan is going to get your button and he's going to bound you more than ever before because this is how it works. That's how he does. So, we need to elevate ourselves. Get out of the psychic or the supernatural or the solish realm and only trust in the spirit realm or the the the Holy Spirit. Jesus said you will not need nobody to teach you. But when the Holy Spirit, the spirit of truth comes upon you, you will know what to do. When we separate ourself by what makes sense to the eyes, we will know what to do. That's what he's saying. Now, I'll close here. Hebrews 12:26-29 talks about that God wants to remove everything that is not eternal. 1 Corinthians 13:13. Uh uh but these things remain, faith, hope, and love. And the greater is love. when you say to God and this will move on into tonight. Uh I won't be here next week but there will be a class Fred is going to be covering uh for me and he's dealing uh with one of the areas that I have taught him that we're dealing. So he'll be here so please be here. I got to feel for a pastor that's having a a bypass thing done next week and tonight. I got to go there tonight too but I won't be here next week. But the week after that, when I get back, I'm going to get with the areas that as you begin to ask the Lord to remove that satanic programming and conditioning that we have all been brought up to, there's going to be a fire. There's going to be because our our God is a consuming fire. So, I want you to meditate on that scripture because we're going to deal with the scripture next time. Okay? Father, in the name of Jesus, I pray your blessing upon each and every one of your children here. I thank you for loving them, for keeping them. Thank you, Father God, for teaching us how to be set free from any control that the enemy may have over us. That we may truly and in all things glorify Jesus, the name that is above every name, the name of the only begotten son who died to deliver us from our sins. In Jesus name we thank you Lord. Amen. Previous Next Home

DEEP AND SECRET THINGS To demonstrate that God alone reveals the deep and secret things hidden from human understanding, and that His wisdom not only discloses mysteries like Nebuchadnezzar’s dream but also reveals His sovereignty over times, seasons, rulers, and the unfolding of history. The goal is to encourage believers to seek divine wisdom and discernment through God’s Word and prayer, recognizing that understanding the present age requires grasping God’s eternal cycles and purposes. DEEP AND SECRET THINGS Pastor Marcos Marrero Objective: To demonstrate that God alone reveals the deep and secret things hidden from human understanding, and that His wisdom not only discloses mysteries like Nebuchadnezzar’s dream but also reveals His sovereignty over times, seasons, rulers, and the unfolding of history. The goal is to encourage believers to seek divine wisdom and discernment through God’s Word and prayer, recognizing that understanding the present age requires grasping God’s eternal cycles and purposes. Synopsis: In Deep and Secret Things, the account of Daniel and Nebuchadnezzar’s dream is used as a foundation to highlight how God reveals what lies hidden in darkness and grants understanding to His people. When the king demanded the impossible—both the content and interpretation of his dream—Daniel sought the mercies of God, who responded by revealing the secret in a vision. Daniel’s immediate response was to bless the name of the Lord, acknowledging that wisdom and might belong to Him. The narrative emphasizes that the revelation was not only about the king’s dream but about God’s sovereignty over human history: He changes times and seasons, raises up and removes kings, and governs world events in accordance with His divine plan. Daniel’s vision connects directly to God’s authority and the unfolding of prophetic cycles, revealing that history is neither random nor accidental but driven by God’s purposes. The teaching then draws a parallel to modern times, suggesting that we live in an age where rebellion against God’s Word has opened doors for demonic influence, reminiscent of the days of Noah. Just as Daniel’s prophecy spoke of iron and clay not mixing—symbolizing spiritual corruption mingling with humanity—so too today’s world is marked by compromise and infiltration of evil. Ultimately, the revelation of deep and secret things is a call for believers to seek God’s wisdom and prepare for the end of the age. Those who walk in God’s understanding will shine with eternal brilliance, turning many to righteousness, as Daniel promised. Would you like me to also condense this into a shorter, two-sentence synopsis you could use at the beginning of a teaching chapter, or keep it at the fuller explanatory level? Inspired Teaching: Daniel 2:22 “He reveals deep and secret things; He knows what is in the darkness (that which is hidden), and light (understanding) dwells (originates) with Him.” Daniel, along with the many wise men of Babylon were being rounded up by the king’s soldiers in order to be put to death. Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, had a very disturbing dream, so he called on his wise men to tell him the interpretation of his dream. But for some reason the king doubted the reliability of his wise men, so he added a caveat to his request: If you can tell me what I dreamed, then I’ll know that your interpretation can be trusted. Daniel 2:5-6 “The king answered and said to the Chaldeans (his inner circle of wise men), ‘My decision is firm: if you do not make known the dream to me, and its interpretation, you shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made an ash heap. However, if you tell the dream and its interpretation, you shall receive from me gifts, rewards, and great honor. Therefore tell me the dream and its interpretation.’” You can hear the desperation in their voices as they tell the king that what he is requesting of them is impossible for any man to produce. Daniel 2:10-11 “The Chaldeans answered the king and said, ‘There is not a man on earth who can tell the king’s matter; therefore no king, lord, or ruler has ever asked such things of any magician, astrologer, or Chaldean. It is a difficult thing that the king requests, and there is no other who can tell it to the king except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.’” The king would not take no for an answer, so he began to round up his so-called wise men and the executions began. Daniel 2:13 “So the decree went out, and they began killing the wise men; and they sought Daniel and his companions, to kill them.” There was a certain criteria, that if met, would qualify a person to be designated as a wise men. They had to be of a good lineage, educated, wise, trainable, healthy, gifted, and good-looking. Daniel 1:3-4 “Then the king instructed Ashpenaz, the master of his eunuchs, to bring some of the children of Israel and some of the king’s descendants and some of the nobles, young men in whom there was no blemish, but good-looking, gifted in all wisdom, possessing knowledge and quick to understand, who had ability to serve in the king’s palace, and whom they might teach the language and literature of the Chaldeans.” When Israel was conquered and the Israelites were taken into captivity as slaves, some of the young captives were set apart under this category, which included Daniel and his companions. So when the decree was given to kill all the wise men, they started with the least of them, those on the bottom of the list of those they qualified as wise men, in the hope that those on the top of the list of wise men, the Chaldeans, would get the message that the king was serious. Now Daniel was not privy to what had taken place in the king’s court, so when they came to kill him, he wisely asked the reason why they were going to kill him and why it was so urgent a matter. Daniel 2:14-15 “Then with counsel and wisdom Daniel answered Arioch, the captain of the king’s guard, who had gone out to kill the wise men of Babylon; he answered and said to Arioch the king’s captain, ‘Why is the decree from the king so urgent?’ Then Arioch made the decision known to Daniel” Once Daniel became informed, he went before the king, asked for time, and told his companions to pray and to ask for God’s mercies, so that they would not have to perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon. Daniel 2:19 “Then the secret was revealed to Daniel in a night vision. So Daniel blessed the God of heaven.” As we read this story, our natural tendency is to place our focus on the secret that was revealed to Daniel, in regards to the revelation of what the king had dreamed. But if we take a closer look, the secret that was revealed to Daniel involved a lot more than what the king’s dream was. How do I know? Daniel’s blessing of the God of heaven reveals that. Daniel 2:20 “Daniel answered and said: ‘Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, for wisdom and might are His.’” In our present-day way of thinking, we do not put much stock to the meaning or value of a name. But throughout much of history, everything about a person hinged on the reputation attached to his or her name. Perhaps the closer that we can come today in regards to the value of a name, is if we see it as a password that allows us access to great and unknown mysteries. So it is no wonder that the first thing that Daniel blesses and gives thanks for is the name of God, which is what allowed him access to God to begin with. John 16:24 “Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.” The most important thing that Jesus has given to us is His name. For it is the name of Jesus that grants us access to the heavenly court. Since the name of God reveals His nature, the first two qualities of the name of God revealed to Daniel is that God is all knowing and that He is all powerful: Wisdom and might are His. Since God knows everything, He knew what the king’s dream was, since it was God who gave him the dream to begin with; and He had no problem revealing to Daniel. But Daniel’s blessing of the name of God goes much farther than just knowing about the dream of a king who had trouble sleeping. Daniel learned a lot more in his night vision that meets the eye. Daniel 2:21 “And He changes the times and seasons; He removes kings and raises up kings; He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding.” The second part of the revelation to Daniel was that, the God who knows everything is willing to give wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding. And in order for us to receive the wisdom and the knowledge that comes from God, it requires that we have a basic understanding of how He changes the times and seasons, and how God is in complete control of their outcome. It is through our understanding of the times and seasons that He reveals the deep and secret things to us, as in our opening text, for He knows what is in the darkness and light dwells with Him. Everything that is going on in the world right now is a direct result of the times and seasons that our Lord has set in motion from the foundation of the world. Nothing that is happening is happening out of chance, be it personal, corporal, or natural. If we want to understand the times that we are living in, we need to understand the timing of God’s seasons and cycles. According to Daniel, one of the ways that we can observe the changing of the cycles is through the process of the raising and the removing of kings and their kingdoms. The dream itself revealed as much, to where we can follow Daniel’s interpretation of the dream to our very present day. Daniel 2:43 “As you saw iron mixed with ceramic clay, they (demonic entities) will mingle with the seed of men (the human race); but they will not adhere to one another, just as iron does not mix with clay.” We are living in the midst of the greatest demonic infusion into our earthly realm since the days of Noah, when the Lord had to destroy every thing that had the breath of life in it. The sin of rebellion—which is as the sin of witchcraft—opens the doors to these abominable creatures to enter into our physical realm. The nations of the world have already decided that which is sin, according to the Bible, is acceptable and normal behavior to them. This world-wide rebellion against the precepts of the Word of God is what allows they, these demonic entities, to mingle with the seed of men. 2 Peter 2:4-6, 9-10 “For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly...then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment, and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority…” We have presently come full cycle to the past judgments and it is our turn now. These deep and secret things have been revealed to those of us who seek for the wisdom and understanding that comes from God and His Word. It is time for us to put our houses in order, for the days of the end are much nearer than we think, let us be wise in the wisdom of God. Daniel 12:3 “Those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the firmament, and those who turn many to righteousness like the stars forever and ever.” Previous Next Home

Say this prayer out loud: Mighty Heavenly Father, I lift up Israel and Jerusalem to Your throne room and I forgive them of their iniquities, the sins they have committed, the curses against them, the curses spoken from them, and the sins of the land they walk on; and I ask You heavenly Father to forgive as them well per Matthew 6:14 KJV “14 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:” Demons, loose Israel and Jerusalem, the Lord rebuke you per Jude 1:9 “9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.” I bind you with fetters of iron to the iron below my feet here on earth preventing you from interfering in Israel and Jerusalem ever again per Matthew 16:19 KJV “19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” And per Psalm 149:6-9 KJV “6 Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand; 7 To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; 8 To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; 9 To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints. Praise ye the Lord.” Father God, I bless Israel and Jerusalem with open ears, eyes, hearts, and minds to see, hear, receive, and believe the living Word of God because you state in Mark 4:12 KJV “12 That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.” I pray in hope that they see and perceive, hear and understand so they would believe in Jesus the Son of the living God! And Heavenly Father, I bless Israel and Jerusalem with softened hearts to be able to perceive and live by Your Word because even you showed the disciples how hard their hearts were when they didn’t believe when You rose from the dead: Mark 16:14 KJV “14 Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.” I also bless Israel and Jerusalem with a spirit of reconciliation because that is the ministry You have given us. Let the spirit of God move forth in the hearts of the people of Israel and Jerusalem to forgive and reconcile the nation back to Jesus, the Son of God as Paul states in 2 Corinthians 5:18-19 KJV “18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.” I pray that Israel and Jerusalem are restored into the joy of salvation, and to the paths of righteousness as the following scriptures state: Psalm 23:3 KJV “He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.” Psalm 51:12 KJV “Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.” I pray that the fruit of the spirit stated in Galatians 5:22-23 KJV “22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.” manifests within the hearts of Israel and Jerusalem. I pray that the gifts of the holy spirit stated in 1 Corinthians 12:7-12 KJV “7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. 8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; 9 To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; 10 To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: 11 But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will. 12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.” would unite the body of Christ under one leadership, the Holy Spirit and that the Spirit of God moves through each of us so that we know what to pray, how to pray, when to pray, and praise the living God in all that we do. And gracious Heavenly Father, we praise You as Psalm 150:1-6 KJV says “150 Praise ye the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power. 2 Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness. 3 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp. 4 Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs. 5 Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals. 6 Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord.” You are praised because You are. We now walk forward in peace knowing that You and Your angels are moving behind the scenes doing what You need to do to accomplish Your will as Psalm 103:20 KJV says “20 Bless the Lord, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.” In the Name of Jesus, the Son of the living God we pray in unity, Amen!PRAY FOR ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM PRAY FOR ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM PRAY FOR ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM Say this prayer out loud: Mighty Heavenly Father, I lift up Israel and Jerusalem to Your throne room and I forgive them of their iniquities, the sins they have committed, the curses against them, the curses spoken from them, and the sins of the land they walk on; and I ask You heavenly Father to forgive as them well per Matthew 6:14 KJV “14 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:” Demons, loose Israel and Jerusalem, the Lord rebuke you per Jude 1:9 “9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.” I bind you with fetters of iron to the iron below my feet here on earth preventing you from interfering in Israel and Jerusalem ever again per Matthew 16:19 KJV “19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” And per Psalm 149:6-9 KJV “6 Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand; 7 To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; 8 To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; 9 To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints. Praise ye the Lord.” Father God, I bless Israel and Jerusalem with open ears, eyes, hearts, and minds to see, hear, receive, and believe the living Word of God because you state in Mark 4:12 KJV “12 That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.” I pray in hope that they see and perceive, hear and understand so they would believe in Jesus the Son of the living God! And Heavenly Father, I bless Israel and Jerusalem with softened hearts to be able to perceive and live by Your Word because even you showed the disciples how hard their hearts were when they didn’t believe when You rose from the dead: Mark 16:14 KJV “14 Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.” I also bless Israel and Jerusalem with a spirit of reconciliation because that is the ministry You have given us. Let the spirit of God move forth in the hearts of the people of Israel and Jerusalem to forgive and reconcile the nation back to Jesus, the Son of God as Paul states in 2 Corinthians 5:18-19 KJV “18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.” I pray that Israel and Jerusalem are restored into the joy of salvation, and to the paths of righteousness as the following scriptures state: Psalm 23:3 KJV “He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.” Psalm 51:12 KJV “Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.” I pray that the fruit of the spirit stated in Galatians 5:22-23 KJV “22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.” manifests within the hearts of Israel and Jerusalem. I pray that the gifts of the holy spirit stated in 1 Corinthians 12:7-12 KJV “7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. 8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; 9 To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; 10 To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: 11 But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will. 12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.” would unite the body of Christ under one leadership, the Holy Spirit and that the Spirit of God moves through each of us so that we know what to pray, how to pray, when to pray, and praise the living God in all that we do. And gracious Heavenly Father, we praise You as Psalm 150:1-6 KJV says “150 Praise ye the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power. 2 Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness. 3 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp. 4 Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs. 5 Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals. 6 Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord.” You are praised because You are. We now walk forward in peace knowing that You and Your angels are moving behind the scenes doing what You need to do to accomplish Your will as Psalm 103:20 KJV says “20 Bless the Lord, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.” In the Name of Jesus, the Son of the living God we pray in unity, Amen! Previous Next Home

THE VERACITY OF GOD’S WORD The objective of this lesson is to strengthen the believer’s faith in the unchanging truth of God’s Word by exposing Satan’s tactics of compromise, distortion, and counterfeit power. It aims to equip Christians with the discernment to stand firm against deception, reminding them that Scripture is divinely inspired, living, and relational—not merely a religious text. Ultimately, the goal is to inspire unwavering trust in God’s Word for both eternal salvation and daily living. THE VERACITY OF GOD’S WORD Pastor Marcos Marrero Objective: The objective of this lesson is to strengthen the believer’s faith in the unchanging truth of God’s Word by exposing Satan’s tactics of compromise, distortion, and counterfeit power. It aims to equip Christians with the discernment to stand firm against deception, reminding them that Scripture is divinely inspired, living, and relational—not merely a religious text. Ultimately, the goal is to inspire unwavering trust in God’s Word for both eternal salvation and daily living. Synopsis: In The Veracity of God’s Word, Pastor Marcos examines the temptations of Jesus in the wilderness to reveal how Satan continually challenges the truth and authority of Scripture. When the devil urged Jesus to turn stones into bread, the deeper attack was an attempt to reduce God’s immutable Word into something temporary and malleable. Jesus’ response, “It is written,” establishes the believer’s foundation: the Bible is God-breathed, not man-made, and therefore trustworthy. The second temptation demonstrates how Satan twists God’s Word into presumption and mechanical ritual rather than relationship. Jesus countered this perversion with truth, teaching that faith is relational and rooted in trust, not reckless testing of God. The third temptation reveals the enemy’s offer of worldly power as a substitute for obedience to God’s plan, appealing to compromise and self-glorification. Jesus rejected this shortcut, affirming that worship and service belong to God alone. Pastor Marcos emphasizes that these three strategies—compromise, ritualism, and counterfeit power—are still used today to weaken believers’ confidence in God’s Word. The lesson closes by urging Christians to cling to the Scriptures as a spiritual filter against deception, knowing that through them we partake of God’s promises and divine nature. Inspired Teaching: Matthew 4:3-4 “Now when the tempter came to Him, he said: ‘If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.’ But He answered and said, ‘It is written, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.”’” During the time of the temptation of Jesus after He had fasted for forty days and forty nights, the enemy came to test the trustworthiness of God’s immutable Word. I want to share with you the insight of what was taking place during this encounter between The Word and the accuser. This is an extremely important lesson. Our understanding of what was taking place behind the scenes if you will, will greatly help us to overcome the accuser when he comes knocking on our door to challenge what we believe. I have seen the faith of some young believers wrecked by their failure to understand the gimmicks that Satan employs when challenging the veracity of the Word of God. My hope is that by exposing some of the enemy’s tactics, that it might prepare you to take a firm stand against the devil’s perversion of the Word of God when you are confronted by them. Luke 20: 17-18 “Then He looked at them and said, ‘What then is this that it is written: “The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone”’? Whoever falls on that stone will be broken; but on whomever it falls, it will grind him to powder.” When the devil challenged Jesus to turn the stones into bread, at first appearance, in the natural scheme of things, it appears as if the enemy is tempting the flesh that was hungry after a long fast, but spiritually speaking there was a lot more going on here than we see at first glance. As we can see from our Scripture in Luke, the stone is representative of the Word of God and it’s power to break those who fall on it, and grind into powder those upon whom it falls. So that in essence the spirit behind Satan’s challenge was “to turn the stone” (The immutable Word of God) into something soft and common like bread that you eat today and is gone tomorrow, it wreaks of compromise. In other words, the enemy was saying, if you are the Son of God you can do whatever you want to with the Word (implying that He could change it). Hence the answer that Jesus responded with, “it is written”. Which brings me to the first application of this lesson in regards to the challenges that we face today when it comes to our faith and trust in the Word of God. How do we know that the Bible is the true Word of God? It is written! I hear people tell me that the Bible was written by men, and that other men decided which of the many books that were written were made part of the Bible, as if God was somehow limited by the powers of men. 2 Peter 1:20-21 “Knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation (It was never left to men as to what to write or what to include and reject), for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke (men spoke from God) as they were moved (into action) by the Holy Spirit.” Satan wants us to believe that men, fallen creatures as we are, are incapable of producing truth, and that is true if men are left to their own devices. But the Bible does not credit men with producing truth, all the credit goes to the Holy Spirit of God. And just as God chose the womb of one of the many virgins of Israel to give birth to the Word in Carne, God chose and moved in the spiritual womb of men and women of God to bring forth the Written Word as well. 1 Peter 2:4-5 “Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious, you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.” The one thing that unbelievers can never comprehend is how the Word becomes alive (a living stone) inside the ones who believe in Jesus as their savior, since they haven’t experienced the transformation that a born-again believer experiences when he/she becomes a living stone. We become like living stones when we partake in simple faith the truth of the Gospel. What is hard for me to understand is how believers that have tasted of the sweetness of the Living Rock that gushes forth to satisfy their taste for righteousness, can overtime allow the bitter waters of the enemy’s poison to weaken their trust in the truth that they have tasted in their born again experience. Galatians 1:6-7 “I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel, which is not another; but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the Gospel of Christ.” Which brings as to the second temptation that Jesus had to endure on our behalf. Matthew 4:5-6 “Then the devil took Him up into the holy city, set Him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to Him, ‘If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down. For it is written: “He shall give His angels charge over You,” and, “In their hands they shall bear You up, lest you dash your foot against a stone.”’” In the natural the temptation is for Jesus to be presumptuous, but if you look a little deeper the truth of this temptation is the perversion of God’s Word. Once a believer has experienced the truth of God’s Word, the enemy’s aim is to pervert its application by treating the Word as mechanical in nature instead of a living relational part of our everyday lives. Yes, there may be a time when God tells you to trust Him to the point of doing something so foolish that it defies human logic. But to the person that is in a personal relationship with the Living Word there will be no doubt in their hearts. Jesus simply responded to this temptation by saying: “It is written again, ‘You shall not tempt (test) the Lord your God.’” Matthew 4:7 One does not have to test true relational friendship, because by definition, it has already been tested when the weaker one chose to put all their trust in the power of the stronger one. So that when a believer puts his/her trust solely in the Word for their eternal salvation, how much more can they trust the Word for the less important matters of everyday life. Galatians 3:1 “O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified?” So that once we know the greater truth that Jesus was crucified for our sins, the goal of the enemy is to separate us from daily trusting in Him as we continuously work out our relationship with that same truth. Basically, what I am saying is that if we are willing to trust His Word for our eternal salvation, then how much more can we trust in His Word for our everyday life. Matthew 4:8-9 “Again, the devil took Him up on an exceedingly high mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. And he said to Him, ‘All these things I will give You if You will fall down and worship me.’” When Adam was first created, he was given dominion over all the kingdoms of the world that were to come in all their glory. When Adam failed to trust the Word of God that said that he was good even though he was naked, Adam forfeited his dominion to the devil who caused him to know that he was naked. In other words, he believed the lies of the devil over the truth of God’s Word and that kept him from partaking of the tree of life. When the devil tempted Jesus who is God the Word the third time, his aim was to have Jesus the Word declare him, the devil, good, in exchange for Jesus not having to bear the sins of Adam and of his descendants through the cruel death of the cross in order to regain the dominion that Adam had lost when he failed to trust in the Word of God. So basically, what the devil said to Jesus was, I’ll give you the dominion that Adam lost to me in exchange for you declaring me good even though I am perverted, you have power to declare me clean so that You do not have to die on the cross. Matthew 4:10 “Then Jesus said to him, ‘Away with you, Satan! For it is written, “You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve.”’” So that in the temptations that Jesus suffered we can clearly see the progression of the devil’s machinations, and they all involve different levels of perversion to the Word of Truth. First the devil wants the Stone Truths or the foundational principles of the Word of God to be turn into the soft bread of compromise, so that the Word that the believers profess won’t crush his head. Secondly he wants us to have religion instead of relationship with the Word of God. In religion or ritualistic confines the devil is able to turn the Word that frees us into cold frigid rules that suffocate the very life that the Word was meant to give us. Thirdly, the devil offers an easy way out to the uncompromising believer that will not deviate from God’s foundational principles and walks in the freedom of the spirit filled life, by trying to make the road that the believer has to walk harder than it is, so that he can tempt him to receive perverted power that does not come from God. Unfortunately some who originally ministered in the Word of Truth have given up the difficulties of the narrow road of hardships for the temporary glory of the third temptation, the glorification of self. Jesus did not mess around when faced with that third temptation, immediately He uttered the words: “Away with you, Satan!” All humans are influenced by spirits that want to sway us into doing good or bad. There is always something or someone in the spiritual realm that wants us to do their bidding. The only protection that we have against those bad and unprofitable influences is the Truth of the Word of God. The Word of God is the filter that protects our spirit and soul from contamination. The greater our knowledge of the Word of Truth the finer the mesh becomes in the filter. Do not let the spirit of the world that continuously belittles the Word of God rob you of the many benefits that Jesus has provided for us in his many great and precious promises. 2 Peter 1:3-4 “As His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him (the Word made flesh) who called us by glory and virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises (in God’s Word), that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption (perversion) that is in the world through lust.” Previous Next Home

THEY WILL MINGLE WITH THE SEED OF MAN The objective of They Will Mingle with the Seed of Man is to explore Daniel 2:43 and its prophetic warning about demonic interference with humanity in the end times. The teaching seeks to explain how spiritual entities—fallen angels and demons—attempted in the days of Noah, and continue today, to corrupt the human race through genetic manipulation, hybridization, and deception. By uncovering biblical, historical, and modern parallels, the lesson warns believers of the urgency of remaining in Christ, whose new creation life preserves them from such tampering and ensures their readiness for His imminent return. THEY WILL MINGLE WITH THE SEED OF MAN Pastor Marcos Marrero Objective: The objective of They Will Mingle with the Seed of Man is to explore Daniel 2:43 and its prophetic warning about demonic interference with humanity in the end times. The teaching seeks to explain how spiritual entities—fallen angels and demons—attempted in the days of Noah, and continue today, to corrupt the human race through genetic manipulation, hybridization, and deception. By uncovering biblical, historical, and modern parallels, the lesson warns believers of the urgency of remaining in Christ, whose new creation life preserves them from such tampering and ensures their readiness for His imminent return. Synopsis: This study begins with Daniel’s prophecy that “they will mingle with the seed of men,” identifying they as non-human spiritual beings seeking to corrupt mankind. The lesson traces this back to Genesis 6, where the “sons of God” (fallen angels) produced hybrids with human women, resulting in the Nephilim. This demonic tampering filled the earth with violence and evil, prompting God’s judgment through the flood. Jesus’ warning that the last days will resemble “the days of Noah” (Matthew 24:37–38) provides the key connection for today. The teaching suggests that just as ancient demons engineered hybrids, modern demonic forces may be working through genetic engineering, technological advances, and even artificial insemination to re-create altered humans fit for their purposes. It highlights disturbing historical examples, including Nazi experimentation, and modern genetic research that could one day strip away humanity’s God-given conscience. The teaching connects these developments with biblical prophecy concerning the mark of the beast, which will permanently alter human nature and sear the conscience, making redemption impossible. Yet it emphasizes hope: those who are in Christ are already “a new creation” (2 Corinthians 5:17), sealed from corruption by His blood. The study concludes with a strong call to readiness, urging believers to remain steadfast, for the signs point to the nearness of Christ’s return and the end of all demonic interference with mankind. Inspired Teaching: 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.” In this fascinating verse from Daniel’s writings we are presented with an end time mystery that has baffled many theologians for centuries; who did Daniel mean by they will mingle, when speaking about creatures that will be interacting with the humans that will be alive during the times of the end? They, within the context, seems to imply creatures of non-human origin, since the seed of man is a phrase that its used to represent the entire human race, literally it is saying that, they, non-humans will mingle with humans, or try to mingle, for Daniel says that they will not succeed. What other non-human creatures are there that have intelligence, personality, a desire for human likeness, and interact with the human race in a regular basis? Demonic entities! Since the days of the fall of Adam, the devil has been working hard to change the human race, his aim is to reengineer humans to be earthly vehicles that his demonic hordes can use to conquer and rule the earth with; since demons are spirits and the earth’s environment requires a physical body to operate within it, the demons cannot physically conquer our tangibly based human realm unless they possess a physical body. Genesis 6:4-5 “There were giants (nephillim, which means fallen or fallen mighty ones) on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God (a reference to non-human spiritual creatures, angels or demons) came into the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown (famous for their supernatural abilities). Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” We see that before the days of Noah the devil was hard at work in his endeavor to rule and govern the earth through hybrids who were void of conscience, and endowed with superhuman abilities, ruthless, and hell bent on the subjugation and destruction of the entire human race. If we want to know how that scenario applies to us today, then we need to understand what took place back them, because as Jesus tells us: Matthew 24:37-38 “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 in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark.” Basically, Jesus is telling us that if we want to understand how the end of our present age is going to come about, we can read about the conditions that prevailed during the prelude to the flood, and draw a comparison with the conditions that will exist in the earth before He returns to once and for all put an end to all demonic tampering with the human race. When the sons of God came into the daughters of men and they bore children to them. The sons of God is a reference to non-human spiritual creatures, that can be applied to angels or demons. Just like the phrase, the seed of men is a phrase that applies to the entire human race, good or bad. Our first problem that we need to solve is that these spiritual creatures came into the daughters of men and they bore children to them. So here we have what our opening Scripture was describing, they will mingle with the seed of men. Our problem has to do with the mechanics of how does a spiritual creature that does not have a physical body impregnates a physical human woman? One possibility is that, since spirits can transform themselves and take a human form, for we know from the Bible that God’s holy angels have that ability, that somehow, that is how those women were impregnated. Reason does not allow me to believe that, for if that were the case, then the fallen angels wouldn’t need physical bodies to exercise their rule over our physical realm, they could just take any shape they desire and be done with it, I mean, if they can transformed themselves into a physical body that can get a woman pregnant, then they could kill any body they wanted to, for if they can produce life, they can also take it. Matthew 22:30 “For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels of God in heaven.” Jesus makes it clear that once we are resurrected from the dead, even with our new physical bodies, we will not have the ability to reproduce, for our new physically eternal bodies will be like that of the angels that do not reproduce. If you are a spiritual entity without the capability to reproduce physically, how do you get a woman pregnant with your own seed? My best guess is, through artificial insemination. Genesis 6:2 “That the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful (good, a good, good thing); and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.” In the original Hebrew in the Strong’s concordance, the word translated beautiful comes from # 2896 and it means, good, a good, or good thing. From our male human perspective a woman is a good thing for us, that is if we want to fulfill our desires for a compatible mate that will help us, not only to procreate, but to be our companion for the rest of our lives. From a fallen son of God perspective, a good woman means nothing more than a suitable womb that will allowed them to fertilize it with altered genetic human genes, where they can engineer human physical bodies suitable for their demonic host. You may say that such technical knowledge was not available back them, where do you think our present technological advances in genetic engineering came from? Hitler and his occult obsessed inner circle! The same demons that drove men of old to assist them in recreating the human race after their demonic likeness before the flood, are the very same demons that drove Hitler’s scientists into the great many technological advancements of the twentieth century. One of the dirty little secrets that present day scientists do not want you to know is, that all the research (genetic manipulation) that Hitler’s doctors performed on pregnant women in those concentration camps, especially woman that were pregnant with twins, were the very foundation for many if not all of our present day medical breakthroughs. We are living in the last generation, just like it was before the flood of Noah’s day, they, demonic angels, are busy at preparing for themselves physical human bodies that they can indwell and take over with and rule with their out of this world abilities, you see the obsession in the movies with these super heroes everywhere today. Now Daniel tells us that they will not succeed, but you know that that is not stopping them from trying, and by understanding what is going on, it helps us to understand that we are living in the end of the age. The reason why it will not work is because, they do not have enough time today in a woman’s life span to perfect the monsters that they created in days past. I believe that since women lived life spans of over nine hundred years back then, they were able to impregnate a woman over and over again, each time with a new genetic modification based on what her last offspring lacked. It is believed that this went on for hundreds of years, you add to that the probability of cross breading and you can create almost any monster with the qualifications that you want. Secular human history is full of depictions of the many horrendous creatures that they were able to create, many of them were part animal part human, but their goal was to create physical entities that lacked a conscience, for that is the part of the human soul that allows humans to turn away from their evil ways. Evidently they succeeded for we are told that: Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. The sons of God are spiritual creatures, that means that they are made of air or breath, that is how they indwelled the physical monsters that they created and the physical humans that enabled them. The flood was designed to drown all the contaminated creatures, to rid the earth of these wicked spirits that had found a way to manipulate humankind, and through them to contaminate the entire earth. The longevity of the human race was, I believe, shorten for this very purpose, to prevent them from having the time that was needed for them to perfect these monsters again. To overcome this deficit, the demonic realm is counting on computer technology that will allow them to run all the possible mutations within a computer program, before they introduce their perfected models once again. I believe that this is already taking place in secret laboratories around the world both in humans and animals. One of the signs to look for is that of mutated animals that somehow escaped those places where they were genetically engineered, these mutations are been found more and more often. Many of them are dead, but some are found living in the wild somewhere, any attempt to identify such mutated creatures is quickly done away with and the evidence promptly disappears from public records. Since their, these demonic entities aim, is to contaminate every human on the face of the earth, just like they did in the days of Noah, a computerized network is needed to categorize and analyze as much physical human data as possible. In the last decade we have seen not only the mapping of the human genome, but extensive research into the genetic composition of humans all around the world, including people from remove tribes that live in isolated places. Their greatest achievement will not come out of the monsters that they are so feverishly trying to engineer, but out of their current genetic research, that I believe will allow them to change the genetic human gene that allows our conscience to know right from wrong, once you remove that, like they did during the days of Noah, humanity becomes worthless to 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.” When the mark of the beast is introduced, it will be physically branded on the right hand, or on the forehead, this mark will bear the name, or nature of the beast, and the number of his name, his genetic code. That is why those who receive the mark of the beast can never be redeemed, for their consciences will be seared for ever with a demonic genetic code that removes their conscience, their ability to repent. That is what is being perfected right now, that is how close we are to the return of Jesus, for if He doesn't come back soon, the entire human race will be doomed. Genesis 7:1 “Then the Lord said to Noah, ‘Come into the ark, you and your household, because I have seen that you are righteous before Me in this generation.’” Those of us who are covered by the blood of Jesus have been genetically altered, for we are a new creation, our old genes have passed away. 2 Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away, behold, all things have become new.” That is why the antichrist cannot be revealed until we are removed, for once we become born again the devil cannot tamper with our new nature, for it is Christ’s nature, the image of the last Adam that will finally be completed on resurrection day. Friends that is how close we are, by all means make yourself ready, for your sake and for the sake of your household. Previous Next Home

THE DAY OF SALVATION The objective of this message is to emphasize the urgency and present reality of salvation, reminding both believers and unbelievers that today is the time to accept Christ and walk in His grace. It aims to encourage Christians to live out their salvation daily through ministry, service, and consistent faith, while also calling unbelievers to repentance and relationship with the Lord before it is too late. < Back THE DAY OF SALVATION Minister Lisa Kane February 29, 2024 Objective: The objective of this message is to emphasize the urgency and present reality of salvation, reminding both believers and unbelievers that today is the time to accept Christ and walk in His grace. It aims to encourage Christians to live out their salvation daily through ministry, service, and consistent faith, while also calling unbelievers to repentance and relationship with the Lord before it is too late. Synopsis: Lisa Kane begins with prayer and introduces the central scripture from 2 Corinthians 6:1–3, highlighting that now is the “accepted time” and today is the “day of salvation.” She explains that salvation is a present reality secured by Jesus’ sacrifice, and that God calls everyone to receive it without delay. The message distinguishes between simply being saved and actively living in a relationship with Christ. Lisa urges believers to deepen their walk with God through prayer, study, and ministry, while reminding unbelievers that repentance cannot be postponed. She draws from Isaiah 49:8 to show how Paul ties Israel’s restoration to the broader call of salvation for all people. She critiques the modern romanticizing of five-fold ministry roles, clarifying that ministry in its truest form is simple service—acts of attendance, aid, and love. Using Jacob’s transformation at Peniel (Genesis 32) as an illustration, she shows how wrestling with God leads to personal transformation, just as salvation transforms every believer. Lisa also unpacks Paul’s teaching in 2 Corinthians 6:4–10, where ministry is lived out in all circumstances—whether in patience, affliction, dishonor, joy, or sorrow. She stresses that salvation must be exhibited daily, even when believers feel weak or inadequate, because God’s Spirit empowers them to minister in every season. The message closes with encouragement from Philippians 2:12, urging Christians to “work out their salvation with fear and trembling,” not in vain but with a life that demonstrates God’s love, truth, and power. Lisa reminds the audience that whether strong or struggling, rich or poor, every believer is called to manifest the joy and reality of salvation today. ✨ In short: This teaching stresses that the day of salvation is now. It calls unbelievers to repent and receive Christ immediately, while urging believers to actively live out and exhibit their salvation through service, endurance, and daily ministry empowered by the Holy Spirit. Inspired Teaching: Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kane and recording this on Thursday, February 29th, 2024, leap year. Welcome. This message is called the day of salvation. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word. We thank you for your blessings and favor on us, Lord. And and we pray and ask that we we hear your word and we apply your word to our lives, Father God, because this is an awesome message. And I thank you for the revelation of this message. And I pray that we can all take a part of it and run with it and hold on to you as tight as we can. Father God, in the name of Jesus we pray. Amen. And amen. All right, let's go to our opening scripture here. This is called the day of salvation. Our opening scriptures is in 2 Corinthians 6:1. We then as workers together, together means cooperation with him, beseech or call near, invite you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain or empty. So we're going to be talking about the day of salvation here. Today is the day of salvation. We are in a time period of salvation right now which is absolutely incredible and I hope that you get this and you understand it. So we are going to be talking about the day of salvation. salvation is. And if you notice here, we work together in this salvation. So, we're going to be talking about ministry work for believers. If you are an unbeliever and you are hearing this message, now's the time to repent. I encourage you to call on Jesus. You need to. We all need to. We have all fallen short of the glory of God. So, now's the time to repent. And now's the time to get ready with the Lord. If you don't have a relationship with the Lord on top of your salvation, meaning you're spending time with the Lord and getting to know his word, you're asking questions. He's answering because you're reading and praying. Uh that's the relationship value there. If you're not doing that, you need to because now's the time to get ready. He is preparing us for his return. Now is the time to get ready. This is called the day of salvation. Amen. Let's continue on to verse two. Uh here in 2 Corinthians 6, we're going to read verses 2 and three. Verse two, notice, okay, it's got parentheses already around it. That's because that is in the Bible. Okay, the parentheses are already there. I didn't add them. So, what I did is I added brackets for the bolded word. So if you see the bolded word in brackets afterwards, those extra words are other words that the bolded word could have been translated as. It gives us a deeper look into the scripture and I like teaching that way. So that's what you're seeing on the screen in front of you. So now this particular verse two is a reference to Isaiah 49:8. Paul is partially quoting that scripture. We will look at Isaiah 49:8 here in a moment. So let's look at what Paul says. He says, "For he saith or he's laying down." And by the way, this is God talking that he is referencing. Says, "I have heard thee in a time accepted," which means approved. And in the day of salvation have I secured or helped thee. Behold now, meaning present time is the accepted, the approved time. Behold, now is the day of salvation. I'm going to stop there. The day of salvation is this time here and now that we're in right now. How do I know this? Well, the day of the Lord has not re happened yet. That's a big day of taught on it. It's a day where there's an invasion from Gog and Magog into uh Israel and they're all killed. God stops and there's a day of darkness. It is a day, a dreary day, lots of rain, hail. It's a big earthquake going to happen that day. that has not happened yet. Okay? So until that day happens and and by the way at that point the rapture happens. So the body of Christ will be removed at that time. Until that day happens we are in what's called the day of salvation. It's because what Jesus did is when he was crucified he redeemed all of us. He paid the price for our sins, yours and mine. And because he did that, we have redemption, a free gift. It is salvation. Jesus says, "I'm going to forgive you of anything and everything." All you have to do is confess. Romans 10:9 says that if you confess with your mouth, Jesus is Lord and believe with your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. It is a very simple matter of fact. That's your salvation. Remember the thief on the cross? He never got water baptized. He never went door todo. He never was fruitful. He never multiplied. He never got a chance to live for Christ because he died on the cross and that was it. But he was saved. So s the day of salvation is now. And we're going to look a little more. And I just did a teaching on the difference between living for the Lord and just being saved and the different levels of different Christians throughout the world. That is true. It is a fact. You can go take a look. I have a different level of my belief and faith may be more higher than others and it's still lower than others. I'm not at the top and I will never proclaim to be at the top, but there are those that are and I and God bless them. So, each of us have to kind of work out our salvation and get to that. So, that's what this salvation message is about. And I want to show you how Jacob did it. But before we get there, let's read the rest of the scripture because I want to bring this all to life. Verse three, giving no offense, stumbling or occasion of sin. That's what the word offense means. Giving no offense in anything that the ministry be not blamed. That ministry is attendance, aid, service. Okay. So, I think in today's time, and maybe I'm being a little overdramatic about it, but I think that the body of Christ has romanticized the five-fold ministry, uh, evangelism, apostilhip, prophet, teaching, um, and I can't think of the other one right now, but, uh, we've romanticized it and put these people that do these ministries up on a pedestal. But look at what the word ministry is. It says attendance, aid, service. That's all we're doing. Listen, we're all as human as you are. All we do is spend time in the word and ask the Holy Spirit for revelation of that word so we can come and teach it to you because we are called well in my case I'm called to teach and preach the word of God which is means I'm a minister. I minister the living word of God to you and I do this on a weekly basis. In fact, what I do is an online ministry which is supplemental to you joining your body of Christ or your church in your sanctuary. This is just additional to kind of get you through the week. Gives you um I hope I'm teaching a little more in the meat area a deeper understanding of the living word of God than what your pastor can teach. Your pastor teaches but he teaches as a global over uh he covers the whole church, the whole body of Christ. So he can't do individual teachings and and to the body of Christ because he has to keep his body together and bring them up together. So there's going to be in that body more that are uplifted and closer to God than others. So he has to keep a balance whereas I have the opportunity to come in here and teach a deeper meaning, a deeper level of the word of God. And I hope that you are blessed by it. Amen. So that's what this is about. So when you become saved, that salvation should not be empty vain. We saw Paul talk about that. He says it needs to be filled with something that is the spirit of God. So let's continue on and read um and now I want to quote this is the scripture that Paul quoted in in verse two of Corinthian first Corinthians 6. So this is Isaiah 498. Let's read the whole scripture. Thus sayeth the Lord, in an acceptable, which is a delight or favor time, which is now, have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee. Now, here's the rest of it. and I will preserve or guard thee, give thee for a covenant or promise of the people to establish the earth to cause to inherit or occupy look at this the desolate which is the stunned deficit stupified makease heritages. Now he's talking to Israel here. Now Israel has become a nation again. It is a shock to the world. Israel is the fourth largest nation in the world to provide food for the world. And there a little teeny thing. But that's Israel because God has allowed them to occupy that desolate land that Mark Twain talked about back in 1800s when he wrote about Israel, how desolate and wilderness the place was. But look at what God has done. And it amazes people. It stupifies them and it it stuns them. So God did that with Israel. Paul is quoting that scripture. He's quoting the beginning part. He says, "This is the day of salvation and I have helped thee." meaning he's helping us here and now so we can walk in the ministry of the day of salvation. Because we today, any preacher, any minister, any pastor, any evangelist, any any teacher, any person in the five-fold ministry, our objective will always be salvation and grace because Jesus is in the business of salvation. He's here to save people. He says, "I will forgive anyone of anything at any time." That is what you ought to grab on. The only one who does not forgive all the time, anytime, and all the time is uh the Holy Spirit. And what that is, it's a voice in the back of your head. So when you get saved, you see, even before you get saved, there's something in the back of your head talking to you. He's saying, "You want this?" And you know why it was funny? My dad was talking about the day um the week before he got saved back in 1976. He remembers it. He was watching people in the church. He happened to go to church and he's watching the delight and the joy of their heart as they praised and worshiped the Lord. He says, "I want that." And the next Wednesday service that they went to, they didn't want to wait till Sunday. They went Wednesday night and they went up and got uh saved. They went and accepted the Lord in their heart. There was an altar call and they went up forward. Every pastor, every preacher, every evangelist should be talking about salvation and letting everybody know now's the day of salvation. Now is the time to get saved. It is very important that you do this. You see, I I want you to understand, I know we're all attracted to the end time events, especially uh not just the day of the Lord and the rapture, but really about the sevenyear tri uh uh seven-year time period of God's wrath. We have to be very careful about that because see our goal and objective is try to not get anybody to get there. So to even teach that you can get saved during that time is not biblical. Now there will be people who will be martyed during that time for Christ because they're not going to accept the mark of the beast and they're going to end up dying for what they believe in. But that doesn't mean they're saved during that walk. It means you have to die for it. Now, we really don't even know that to be true. I say it because that's what a lot of theologians teach. The seven thunders are going to speak and they're going to tell you how to get saved. At least that's what I believe in. But remember, God told uh or the angel told John, "Don't write what the seven thunders say." See, they don't want us to know what's going to happen in that time period because now is the day of salvation. This is the time period where we need to be saying, "Get saved now. Don't wait any longer. Now is the time to get saved. Amen. So, this is what we're talking about. Let's go to Romans real quick. Romans 11:25. For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant, which is not to know or lack of information of this mystery. It's a secret. Watch what he says here. This is very important. Lest ye should be wise in your own conceits. See, we're wise in our own conceits to even think that we know what the seven-year time period of God's wrath is all about. If you're a believer in Christ, you will not be attending that time frame. Our time comes when the fullness of the Gentiles is complete. I will show you scripture on that. And that's what I'm actually showing you right here. He says, uh, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits. that blindness and by the way that word blindness means stupidity or callousness in part is happened to Israel until the fullness or completion of the Gentiles which is a race a tribe foreign become in or enters in we the Gentiles the body of Christ came into existence the moment Jesus rose from the grave he taught it as the kingdom of God in in his three three-year ministry that he had when he was crucified he went to the grave for three days. He rose from the grave and before he left he walked on the earth after death for 40 days and appeared to over 500 people at one time. This is all eyewitness testimony in the Bible in the four gospels and in Acts. You can read about all of this and what they have what happened. It's your choice whether you want to believe it or not. So the day of salvation began with Israel. the law. They had to present the law and Jesus fulfilled the law. And he says, "Now I'm telling you to love your neighbor as you love yourself." And that is a commandment. So he's saying, "Now is the time to confess me as your Lord and Savior. Now is the day of salvation so that you can get saved." And I already taught about the difference between living with Christ and living not with Christ. But in your ministry, whether you are on high for God or you happen to be down here, you're going to see Paul tell us that our ministry should still be an exhibit to those around us because the salvation of the Lord is today and we ought to be sharing that no matter where we are spiritually. And Paul is teaching this and you're going to see this here in the scripture. Now, that means this fullness of Gentiles is going to come to completion on the day of the Lord because we do not teach salvation in the seven-year time period of God's wrath. This is just more scripture supporting that. And I I hope you're understanding that. And I hope you're watching these last several videos I've taught on this because I really want you to see and know we have to be teaching the now, the grace, and the salvation of today. We want to be aware of prophecy. We want to know that this time is coming to an end. But at the same time, this just means we need to be more urgent with what we're teaching. Amen. So there is coming the fullness of the Gentiles will be completed and then Israel will continue on. Now Israel needs to be saved. So Israel who has rejected Jesus, they're going to go through the seven-year time period and God is going to save them. He is their help and he's going to work walk with them during that time period and that is all biblical. They're going to be 144,000 male Jews are going to be sealed of 12,000 of each tribe. They're going to have to run. They're going to run to the hidden place that God has for them right in the middle as soon as the abomination of desolation happens. So that happens in the seven-year time period. It's right in the middle. They're going to run because they're going to see all of a sudden they've been following the Antichrist and they're going to become aware and they're going to get saved. So God has a plan for them. But the body of Christ is not in that plan at that time. So today is the day of salvation. Today is the day that we need to be saved. Amen. Now in Genesis, I want you I want you to see something. This is so powerful. when you get saved and there there won't be an emptiness there. It won't be vain. You're going to have a spirit of God talking to you and there is going to be a transformation. Now, sometimes the transformation takes place and it's instantaneously. Other times it takes a little more time. I want to show you something in the Old Testament that had me weeping so much. I don't even know why my spirit was weeping so much, but it's so powerful. I hope that you catch this and I hope that my spirit with the Holy Spirit is imparting this uh feeling and this joy to you because today is a day of salvation. You're going to see what happened to Jacob when his day of salvation took place. Amen. Okay. So, we're going to go to Genesis 32 and read verses 24- 28. Let me give you a background before I begin reading. Jacob has spent I think it's about 20 years. You can go read that part of scripture. He spent seven years in Laban trying to get his wife Rachel. Now Laban and Leah, I guess Leah is the older daughter, I think. And Jacob worked seven years for Rachel, but they tricked him and put Leah there. They put so much heavy veils that he didn't see her. He married her and went and consummated the marriage and realized I got the wrong wife. So he ends up working another seven years for Rachel. So he was there 14 years and I think he was there another either six or seven more years there. But in the meantime, he has two wives. And he ends up getting 12 children. Uh some through the handmaid handmaidadens because there was a jealousy going on, a rival between Leah and Rachel. So you can read all of that. This is how the 12 tribes of Israel comes into existence. Now notice his name is Jacob. Watch what happens. He He He's leaving Labon Laban. He's leaving him. He's now going to go see his brother, Esau. Now, the last time he saw Esau, they didn't part in good terms. He ran from Esau. Esau got mad. He was able to manipulate Esau to get his birthight from him. And Esau was mad, but Esau sold it for a bowl of food, a plate of food. So anyways, they left in bad terms. So now Jacob is coming back. So he sends messengers ahead and Esau responds by bringing him and 400 of his men toward Jacob. So he's marching toward Jacob. So Jacob's thinking, "Oh my goodness, he's going to fight me and my family." Jacob doesn't have an army. Jacob only has this family and his servants and his cattle and all he's doing is trying to find a better place, a bigger place to get out of Leon Leon. Layman, I don't know how to say his name. I'm going to say Layman. Layman had tricked him and manipulated him for the past 20 21 years or however many years it was, but he had uh tricked him, had changed his wages multiple times, tricked him with the different wives. So he is now finally going to leave and go back. And now he is scared because he thinks his brother's going to defeat him. So he separates his family. This has got to be the craziest thing you have got to ever hear. He's not thinking that his family is going to be defeated, per se. He's putting him in safe places, but he's doing it in such a way that he can save at least half of his family, but he doesn't know which half is going to be saved. So he is distressed. He is distraught. He is vexed. He is in a place that he doesn't want to be in and but he has no choice. So he's got his family all separated. He is by himself at a peak, a precipice that he names Penny later. Now watch this. Says here, "And Jacob," which by the way that name means heel catcher, was left alone. He's now separated from his family. And there wrestled. Oh, I want you to see what this word wrestled means. To float away as vapor, grapple, a man with him until the breaking of the day. He's wrestling with a man. And that word wrestle is to grapple, but it has a vapor quality to it. Watch. Let's read the rest of it. And I want to show you something here. And when he saw that he prevailed not against him meaning God is realizing see Jacob is wrestling with the spirit of God. He is wrestling with God and God is not winning. Obviously God is letting Jacob win here but watch. So this is and when God saw that he prevailed not against him he touched the hollow of his thigh and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint as he wrestled with him and he said this is now God talking let me go for the day breakth and he said I will not let thee go except thou bless me so Jacob is like I got you and I'm not letting you go till you bless me oh watch this and he said to him this is God talking to him what is thy name and he said, "Jacob." God said, "Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel, he," which means he will rule as God. For as a prince hast thou power, prevailed with God and with men and hast prevailed. So he prevailed with God and with men. That is what the name Israel means. Now I want you to understand this happened in the physical in Jacob's day. Now prior to this moment the people always talked about the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac. They never talked about Jacob because he hadn't been transformed yet. later on when his brother approaches him because you know now he had his his transformation his salvation took place he's no longer empty he's realizing he named it pineal because this was a place he wrestled with God and saw the face of God and he lived through it so he had a transformation so what he did is he tells his family but they continue forward Esau approaches him and hugs him. And Jacob is seeing God for the first time move in his life. Now, I want to ask you a question. Today is the day of salvation. Are you wrestling with God? He's going to let you win. That's the revelation here. Now, I want you to see the ministry part of it because there are days you're going to feel like you can do ministry work and there's going to be days you can't because we're still flesh. So, look at what Paul says about ministry and the salvation that we have within our soul, within our spirit. Watch what he says in our work that we do for Christ when we live for Christ. because that transformation takes place just like Jacob. We see God move and yet still we have down days. So Paul tells us what goes on. Watch this. He says we're back in 2 Corinthians 6 starting in verse four. But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God. Now watch this. He says in all things. So he's going to tell you in the good and the bad and in the in the evil and the good. He's going to show us this. I want you to see some key words here. Approving means set together, introduce, exhibit ourselves. Look at the word ministers. To run errands, attendance of God. So we're to do God's ministry. This is what we're called to do here in the day of salvation, which is today and now. But not all days do we feel like it. So he says you need to exhibit yourselves as ministers in everything. So he starts in look he goes in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tomalts, in labors, in swatchings, which is sleeplessness, in fastings or abstinence, in puress, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost. When you don't feel like praising and worshiping the Lord, you still need to do it because you need to be ministering and exhibiting your ministry through the Holy Spirit and through all things. He continues on and by love and look at this and he says unf by love unfeigned which means you need to whether you're loving with through benevolence by giving gifts and being there for somebody just letting them cry on your shoulder if that's what you have to do or even when you don't feel like loving them you still got to exhibit your salvation that God has transformed in you. Amen. So, he's showing us how to do it. He says, "By the word of truth." You still got to do it by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor. You've got tools of righteousness on the right hand and on the left. You see, these are things that we have even when we don't feel like it. Continuing on, look at says by honor and dishonor. There going to be days you're going to honor your parents. There going to be days you're going to be mad at them and you're going to curse them. Honor and dishonor. says, "By evil report and good report." Look at this. As deceivers and yet true because there days that we like to manipulate things because we're the flesh. We think it's easier to lie or to to deceive somebody, you know, like maybe this is better for them. You know, we keep the truth from them because then they'll might do this or do that or whatever the situation may be. You know exactly what I'm talking about. And the Holy Spirit is showing you that. Well, guess what he says? In that, you still need to exhibit your salvation. You see how important this message is? We need to be exhibiting our salvation of the Lord because today is the day of salvation. Whether you feel like it, whether you're lying, whether you're cheating, whether you're an adulterer, whether it doesn't matter. You are still having to exhibit your salvation. Look at what he says as unknown. Because now you got people who say, "Well, I know the right way. This church teaches God the right way. This church I'm of Apollos. I'm of Paul." It doesn't matter. It's the day of salvation. It is of Jesus. What he did on the cross. He died for us and then he rose from the grave. And that is what we teach on. And that is your knowledge that you should have in the day of salvation. See, it says as unknown or lack of information and yet well known as dying because even as you're dying in a hospital, you should still be exhibiting. My time might be coming short here, but you know what? I give God the glory because he has given me a great life. And you know how many people you will minister to when you say things like that is awesome and powerful. And yet, and behold, we live as chastened, educated, or trained up as a child and not killed. We can come become dead. We didn't let this world die or kill us. We didn't let the enemy take us down and keep us down. So he's saying even in that fight, you are exhibiting the day of salvation, your ministry. Hallelujah. Look at this. He says, "And even as sorrowful yet always rejoicing to be full of cheer, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing all things." So even if you're rich or even if you're poor, you are exhibiting your ministry. Whatever it may be, it could be baking cookies. It could be just smiling to people. It could be just telling people, "God bless you at the grocery store." It's your ministry because it is your salvation. It is what the Lord has transformed into you. And today is the day of salvation. And every one of us is a part of the body of Christ, the kingdom of God, and the church. And we should be marching in this exhibit displaying the day of salvation because it is now whether we feel like it or not. This is our ministry. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. And let me show you how we know to do this even further than what Paul tells us. Look at Philippians 2:12. Where wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed or listened attentively, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence. Work out your own salvation with fear and treble trembling. And look at salvation is rescue safety. You see, when you are demonstrating that you're praying for people in the hospital, that you're going there, you're texting them, you're on, you're you're letting them see other people are you're letting them cry on your shoulder. Other people are watching this and they're like, "Wow, this is neat. I want this." And what happens is when they get saved, you show them the day of salvation, how to exhibit the joy in their heart, however way they're feeling, because it is the spirit of God. Is not by might nor by power, but by his spirit. And so all things that you do needs to exhibit the day of salvation. Amen. Amen. Let's do this and let us purpose it in our hearts. You know, I pray every morning this actually Monday through Friday. I do pray Saturday and Sundays, but I do a different prayer on Saturdays and Sundays. So, I pray every morning, but it's funny because there are days I'm praying and nothing. I mean, I'm I'm speaking the words. I may speak in tongues a bit, but it's there's really no I don't feel any movement. I don't feel like it. I'm tired. I'm sleepy. Um, but there are other days. Today is a great example. Boy, the anointing was so strong. So, it amazes me. So, there's just every day is a different day, which means we have to exhibit the salvation we got in that day, no matter what that day is. I hope you get this message and I hope that it encourages you to take that day and say, "You know what, Lord? No matter what this day is, I'm giving you the glory, honor, praise, and strength because you're still my God, my King, my Lord, and my Savior. And I'm still going to exhibit you. Even if I've got a cold, I'm sick, sneezing, whatever, I'm going to exhibit you. Oh, I'm going to exhibit your salvation. Oh, thank you, Lord. Thank you. Let's close in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word. We bless your word, let it not return void. Thank you, Father God, for letting our hearts be filled with joy and that that joy is always present and prevalent even when we don't feel like it. And teach us and help us have the strength to exhibit your salvation for what you've done in our lives daily, Father God. No matter how we feel that day and no matter what's going on on that day. Thank you, Lord. In the glorious name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. God bless you. I'll see you in the next message. Previous Next Home

UNDERSTANDING THE BOOK OF REVELATION PART 2 Present a clear, Spirit-led framework for understanding Revelation as a twofold unveiling—earth’s perspective (Rev. 1–3) and heaven’s perspective (Rev. 4–5)—by tracing God’s dispensations, clarifying the timing and symbolism of key passages, and showing how Christ (the Lamb) receives all authority. Prepare listeners to interpret the seven seals (Rev. 6) and to live as the faithful “Philadelphia” church that holds to God’s Word and Christ’s deity. UNDERSTANDING THE BOOK OF REVELATION PART 2 Pastor Marcos Marrero May 10, 2009 Objective: Present a clear, Spirit-led framework for understanding Revelation as a twofold unveiling—earth’s perspective (Rev. 1–3) and heaven’s perspective (Rev. 4–5)—by tracing God’s dispensations, clarifying the timing and symbolism of key passages, and showing how Christ (the Lamb) receives all authority. Prepare listeners to interpret the seven seals (Rev. 6) and to live as the faithful “Philadelphia” church that holds to God’s Word and Christ’s deity. Synopsis: After an opening prayer for clarity and revelation, the message reviews last week’s premise: Revelation tells the same end-time events from two synchronized angles—what happens on earth and what happens in the unseen realm. This is set within God’s dispensational timeline: innocence, conscience, human government, promise (Abraham), law (Moses), grace (through Jesus), and the coming kingdom (the millennial rest). Rev. 1–3 cover the church age. Two end-time church types are highlighted: “Philadelphia” (keeps the Word; affirms Jesus’ deity; promised protection) and “Laodicea” (self-sufficient, Christ outside the door; will face refining fire). Many misread Rev. 4 linearly as the rapture; instead, the teaching argues Rev. 4–5 shift to the heavenly point of view of the same era, solving timing tensions (e.g., anointing authority passing to Israel in Rev. 7 with the 144,000). In Rev. 4 John is caught up to heaven: the throne radiates “lightnings and thunderings”—symbolic of divine life-giving energy (the Word). The seven Spirits are before the throne. This scene is presented as a view of the eternal Word prior to incarnation. John then sees four living creatures—lion, calf/ox, man, and flying eagle—interpreted as a “dispensational clock”: human governments (lion), law (ox), grace (man), and the kingdom’s lift into immortality (eagle). Rev. 5 searches for a worthy Man to take the sealed scroll; none among Adam’s descendants qualifies—until the Lion of Judah appears as the slain Lamb. This Lamb, bearing perfect spiritual and physical authority (seven eyes and seven horns), receives the scroll—harmonizing with Jesus’ declaration, “All authority…has been given to Me.” Heaven responds: elders, living creatures, angels, and all creation worship the Lamb with sevenfold and fourfold doxologies, affirming His cosmic lordship. The message weaves Psalm 22–24 to show the cross, its provisions, and the victorious ascent: Christ descends, plunders hell, empties paradise, and ascends with a human, resurrected body; the everlasting gates receive the “King of Glory.” Implications for today: unique convergence signals we’re nearing God’s judgments and the kingdom transition—global alignment of nations (e.g., UN), Israel restored as a nation (1948), and a fresh apostolic/charismatic restoration in the church—calling believers to bold, humble, Word-anchored faith. The session closes by previewing next week’s focus on the seven seals (Rev. 6)—how they map onto the church-age mysteries—and by praying for opened ears, understanding hearts, and readiness to walk as kings and priests with Christ. Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: [Music] How's everybody doing tonight? Praise God. Huh? Hallelujah. Father, thank you for giving me clarity of thought right now. Allow my spirit to receive what the Holy Spirit uh has for us tonight. And allow me, Father God, in the um uh in the processes of the mind to receive the revelation as revealed by the Holy Spirit. Father God, open my ears to hear, my heart to understand, Father God, and uh allow us, Father God, to partake of the blessing of your word as we try to unveil it now, Father God, in accordance to the spirit of truth that reveals the truth to us in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Praise God. Now, for those of you who wasn't here last week, we started um uh the process of uh going through the book of Revelation. In the book of revelation, I made this statement that in order for us to understand it, we need to understand one very basic concept and without this we cannot understand it and that is that the revelation is twofold. Uh for example, if if if you're making a movie of events that are taking place simultaneously, we as human cannot see both events at the same time. So the screenplay that's making the movie will play one part first and then somehow they'll let you know that what you're seeing next is a different event that is taking place at the same time. Like Pearl Harbor, there were things going on in Washington. There were things going on in Tokyo. And so in order for you to understand they will put on the bottom whatever time it was that it was going. In order to understand the book of revelation we need to understand that the book of revelation is giving the same account or the same events from two different perspective. And this is not new. You you have first and second chronicles and first and second kings. First and 2 Kings is the same events but from a physical point of view. First and 2 Chronicles give you the same history but from God's point of view. And so we see this, we see it on the book of Job. Job was not aware of heaven. Uh was not aware of what was taking place in heaven. But the book of Job gives us an insight how Satan goes before the throne of God begins to accuse Job. And so what happens is the events that are taking place in the spiritual realm have an effect upon Job's life. All of a sudden his wife I mean his children are gone his house is gone everything is gone. So if we do not come into the understanding that the book of revelation is written in a twofold manner. In other words there are spiritual things that are taking place which that is what causes the physical things to happen. We made this statement when we started last week that the book of revelation the first three chapters chapter 1, two and three after the short introduction that it deals with the church age uh we need to understand that there are what the Bible call dispensations of time. What a dispensation of time is simply the rules that apply to that period of time. For example, Adam and Eve, that was called the dispensation of innocence, only had one rule. And the rule was don't eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. And the dispensation of conscience, which is the the one that Adam and Eve lived when they got out of the garden all the way up to Noah's flat, that period of time, uh, 1650 years, um, that period of time was called conscience. And the Bible tells us an insight into what the condition of that time was. Says that the thoughts of every man were evil constantly. Meaning that the conscience of men was so perverted the destruction was eminent. And so then came the dispensation of human governments. Uh God told the sons of u uh Noah to scatter themsel and and repopulate the earth. They say we want to make a name for ourselves. We don't want to be nobody. So they gathered together. Nimrod was their leader. He built a tower and there God came in and confused. He didn't judge them. He judged conscience. He killed everybody except no one, his family. And Adam and Eve, he kicked him out of the garden and said you can never go back into it. But when it came to the human governments, God reserved their judgment for an end time, which we're going to deal with that tonight. Then uh since men could not save himself in his innocence, since man could not save himself by his own conscience and since man could not save himself by the laws that he made, human government, then God introduced a promise. God took a a a man who was a moon worshipper. Abraham, his mother and his father were moon worshippers. They they were from Iraq, the area. Uh uh this is why the Iraq war has such a spiritual connotation because God pulled him out of there and he says I'm going to make a covenant with you. Then God took this man introduced himself to him. The Bible says that Abraham was a friend of God. And then God said to this man, I am going to make a covenant with you. And the covenant that we he made with Abraham, he says, "Out of your seed, all of the nations of the earth will be blessed." This is a statement that God made. Then God took Abraham out, says, "Look at the stars. As many as they are, so shall your descendants be." Then he took him to the sands of the seashore. Says, "As many of the the grains of sand, so shall your descendants be." So that means that the promise of of of God to Abraham was twofold. physical that's what the sand of the seashore is and spiritual that's what the stars are so out of Abraham came two dispensations the first dispensation was the dispensation of law when God took Moses through the burning bush God introduced the law through Moses God took Moses up into heaven brought heaven to the mountains climbed the mountain and 40 days and 49 Moses was revealed the dispensation of law, the dispensation of law. They violated the law. So God decreed 490 years punishment to the nation of Israel. And then Daniel was told at the end of 483 years, Messiah is going to come and he'll be cut off. And so seven years were left to where God is going to deal with the end of time because Daniel says that at that time God is going to put an end to sin, an end to defilement. God is going to cleanse everything. So then when Messiah came and got cut off, God introduced a new dispensation which is the dispensation in which we live. It's called the dispensation of grace. Grace was introduced through a man through the man Jesus Christ. He came in and he uh uh uh by his sacrifice introduces and we're going to see that tonight to the dispensation of grace. So then what we have is God gave a promise that at the end time he's going to deal with the human governments. He's going to deal with Israel and he's going to deal with the church. And out of that he's going to bring redeemed people into the kingdom age which is a thousand years and is what is called the time of rest. So basically then when God introduced himself in gener in revelation chapter one to John he gave him a message to seven specific churches. It was a physical message because John was in the aisle of Pat Mo Patmos which is an island that is off the coast of Greece even today. He gave him h a a message to seven churches. Three or four of those cities where the churches were are still there today and the ruins of the other places are there. And so we came to this is where we finished last week. We came to the conclusion that the church age beginning with the message to the first church back to the messages to the Leo Desan and the Philadelphia church concluded the dispensation of grace. In other words, to the Philadelphia church, God says, "I am going to keep you from the hour of judgment that is coming upon the whole earth to test those." And the reason why is because he said, "You have kept my word and you have not denied my name." There's two type of Christians today. There's a type of Christian that believe that the word of God, the Bible, is the the word of God uncompromised. And they believe that Jesus is deity. They don't believe Jesus was a great prophet or he was all things, but he is divine. He is the son of God, the word of God who became flesh, came into a physical body. Okay? That's what it means not to deny his name. There's a lot of Christianity today that says no that thing about being born of a virgin does that you know that doesn't exist. We have to realize the fact and the fact is that if Jesus is not born of of God himself of the Holy Spirit overshadowing Mary then the whole of Christianity is a farce because we're still in our sins. If Jesus was born out of a man, Joseph, then the sin of Adam was passed on to the body of Jesus. Jesus had to be born of God. God has to come in into the womb of Mary and conceive. And and and we see that in Hebrews and we see that in one of Psalm where it says, "Sacrifice and offerings you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me." Now Jesus told John the physical revelation and he says there are going to be two churches at the end of the time. One is the Philadelphia church. The one that keeps my word, the one that does not deny my name. You are going to go through an open door. Says I open I have the keys of David. I open a door that no man can shut and I close a door that that that no man can open. And that church, the Philadelphia church, the one the one that believes in the deity of Jesus and believes in the truth of the word of God, you're going to be taken out when the judgment starts. He says, "But the Leoa church is the only of the seven churches where Jesus says, "Behold, I stand at the door and knock." Jesus is on the outside. Is the only church that does not have Jesus on the inside. Why? Because they say, "I have need or nothing. I am rich." This is what religion has become today. They have a form of godliness. They quote the word and all of the things. But when it comes to getting things done, they trust on man's ability to do things. Okay. Now, we're going to start, if you have the book, we're going to start in in um in page number nine. And we see there uh what we concluded last week in revelation 3:17 and 18 where the leo deaya church says because you say I am rich I have become wealthy and I have need of nothing and you do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. And then God says to this church, I counsel you to buy from me gold. Gold always symbolizes salvation. buy from me gold that is refined in the fire. Meaning that the only way that this church can be saved now is through the refining fire. He says that you may be rich and that white garments that you may be closed that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed and anoint your eyes with eyes that you may see. So then if you keeping track of things, Revelation chapter 1 to3 deals with the church age from the time of Jesus to the time of the end of the church when the church gets taken away and the church has to go through what is called the the wrath of God, the judgments of God. Now we come to chapter four and this is where if you follow prophecies this is where everything gets tangled up because most people think like we think human linearally. So after chapter three of course comes chapter 4 and so chapter 4 says uh uh you know there's a door in heaven open and boom they say this is the rapture. But here's the problem. If you have the rapture take place on Revelation chapter 4 verse one and the church is removed, the church has the anointing and remember the anointing goes to the entity that God blesses like he blessed Adam. He says, "I give you dominion." And then when Adam came on the other side, that dominion was passed to Enoch and from Enoch to to Noah. And then then that authority was given to Abraham. And then after that was given to Moses and to the children of Israel. And then on the day of Pentecost, that anointing was given to the church. When the church gets taken out, the true church, because the other one don't have God inside of them. When the church gets taken out, that anointing or authority has to be given to somebody else. Who could it be? Well, Israel, because they got to have seven years when God is going to deal with them. And we see this in where? Revelation chapter 7. In Revelation chapter 7, we see the two witnesses anointing 144,000 12,000 of each tribe of Israel are offered as an offering to God. These young men who have never defiled themselves with women, never been married or anything, these young men are offered to God and that is when the anointing is restored back to Israel. But this does not happen until chapter 7. So if the rapture takes place in chapter 4 and then you got chapter five and chapter 6, then where was the authority? You see, this is why it doesn't make sense. This is why you hear some people saying that well the rapture takes place at the beginning of the tribulation and some people say no it takes place in the middle. Why? Because the middle is they believe when you get to chapter 7. The way that we solve that problem is through the twofold problem. Chapter 4 as I'm going to teach you right now does not follow chapter three. Is now God going to show us the same events from chapter 1, 2, and 3, but he's going to show it to us what is taking place in the spirit? If you see that, everything will make sense. Now, watch this. Revelation chapter 4. This is where we change gears now. And so John Wright says, "After these things I look, and behold, a door opened in heaven, and the first voice which I heard was like a trumpet speaking to me, saying, "Come up here, and I will show you things which must take place after this." Immediately I was in the spirit, and behold, a throne set where? In heaven. And there was one who sat on the throne. Now for comparisons, because this is what we need to do to understand, you need to compare Revelation chapter 1 to Revelation chapter 4. When Jesus reveals himself to John in Revelation chapter 1, what does John say? I was in the aisle of Pathmouth, a physical place. He says, "I saw he had hair, he had eyes, he had feet, he had a a golden thing on his chest, and he walked among the candles which represents the church." That was a physical revelation. That tells us that the seven churches, the letters to the seven churches were speaking about the church age. The seven churches, the seven is a number of completion. the meaning from the beginning that the church was born on the day of Pentecost to the day that it was gone that was represented by the seven letter. But now look at over here the difference. First he says that and I highlighted for you there that a door was standing open where in heaven see heaven and earth are two different things. The alopathmas is in Greece here on the earth. All of a sudden he's taken out to heaven. Okay. And then when he sees heaven what does the boy says to him? Come up here. Now, if somebody says come down, that's bad. We know hell is somewhere down there, right? But we always know heaven is up. So, if they say come up here, that's good. So, he's going up to heaven. And then he says, "I was in the spirit or you could say in the spirit realm." And then he saw the throne in heaven and he saw somebody there. So basically the revelation now is going to shift. John is going to be taken out of our present time uh uh our our our time and space in which we live in on the physical. He is taken out of it. That's what heaven is. In heaven there's no time. Okay? The time works different over there. So he's taken into the spiritual realm and now he's going to be shown a revelation. Now we need to interpret what the revelation is. So we move on reading and then it tells us that he gets up in there and that um he he gets to see certain things. everything I've been speaking it I I got it written there as to how um the u when the church was born the anointing was taken from Israel as in Luke 20:13 the vineyard was given to others and now that will be restored back to them but now he sees in Revelation 4:5 He sees, it says, "And from the throne proceeded lightnings, thunderings, and voices, and there were seven lamps of fire that were burning before the throne, which are the seven spirits of God." Now, John gets taken up to heaven. He sees the throne in heaven. He sees someone sitting on the throne, like God sitting on the throne. And now he sees out of the throne lightning and flashing and thundering. Now remember we are in the spiritual realm now. And what did we learn from from uh uh learning about the supernatural? We learned that things are symbols which shows us different things. Now how many of you here know that there are no thunder storms in heaven? This is a spiritual realm. There's no lightning. There's no thundering. So when John is describing what he's seeing, he's trying to explain something that is in the spiritual realm with physical uh words. So what he is seeing, he is seeing because this is what thunderstorms are. He is seeing a tremendous amount of energy being released from the throne. If you were into the spiritual realm, see the throne of God is the center of everything. Everything is held uh is held by God. I got the scripture right right before you get there. Uh you can see it where where it says that everything Acts 17:28 for in him we live and move and have our existence. The word of God sustains everything. So when you go into the throne of heaven, the very first thing that you will see is the energy that comes out of the throne of God where God is sitting and that energy sustains and holds everything together. Everything all the movements of the entire universe are controlled by this energy that flows from there. Now in Revelation chapter 1, we saw this energy inside of a physical body. We saw that Jesus had his feet were like like bronze when it's being melted. It it glow like like bronze in the fire. We saw that his hair was white like pure light. Why? Because energy inside of it was shooting out. We saw like a huge giant sword that came out of his mouth and that is the word of God. The energy of the word of God. If you go to Hebrews 4:12 where we're giving a description of the word of God, he says, "For the word of God is powerful and and and is able to divide us under is living and powerful." He said the word of God is living and powerful. When when he says the word of God is living, the word is sa soy when we get life. But sa means like a sue. All life comes from God. That's what that word means. The word of God is alive. That's what it means. And the word for powerful is not duno dunamos which where we get dynamite which is where most of the words for power is. And it's not exosa which is the word that's translated power. That means authority. When he said I give you authority over all the power of the enemy. Exosea over dunamis. We have authority over the power of the enemy. But this word that is used there to describe the word of God is the word eneria means energy. So you need to understand it. The word of God is lifegiving energy. The word of God come from the throne of God and as he radiates out fills everything with life. It's life. Everything that the word of God touches becomes alive, becomes healed, becomes whole, becomes complete. And so we have to ask ourself a question. John 1:1 says, "In the beginning was the word and the word was God and the word was with God." You read a couple of verses down and it says, "And the word of God was a light that lighter all men." Meaning the energy that fills everybody with life. And then in John 1:14 says, "And the word became flesh." Which is what we see in in Revelation 1 when Jesus is described as full of energy. But hey, listen. When we get to Revelation chapter 4 to the revelation that is in heaven, we don't see Jesus. See, listen, because I don't want you to misquote me. The word of God is eternal, but the body of Jesus had a beginning. This is a very big distinction that you have to understand. Everybody say, "Oh, Jesus is forever." Yes, the word of God, the salvation of God is from the beginning. But the body of Jesus had a beginning because he's like us. We all had a beginning even though we're eternal. We're going to live forever, but we did not begin until the spirit of God made us and form us in our mother's wombs. You see? So, the word of God is eternal. It's always been around. But when God needed a man, he formed a body. He got Mary's consent. He told Mary and she said, "Be with with you as as you wish." She allowed her body to be used by the Holy Spirit. And so the body of Jesus was a a a form in her womb. And when he was born, that was the beginning of the physical body. But the person that was living in the physical body, the word of God is eternal. Because from the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word is God. But the reason why I'm bringing this point is because in Revelation chapter 4, we don't see Jesus. We think God. He says there's one who was sitting on the throne and then he says that we see lightning and flashing and thundering and then we see the seven spirits of God. So we see the trinity but the word is not in a body yet. So what does that tell you? The revelation chapter 4 is giving us a revelation of before the word became flesh. This is very important because if you begin with the church age when Jesus came and says I will build my church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it and now we're going to be showing the spiritual side of it then God has to take us to a beginning place and in the spiritual realm there's no beginning because God is eternal. So we're given a glimpse of the throne and in the throne we see the sevenfold spirit of God. We see one who was sitting on the throne and out of the throne was a tremendous amount of energy being released. I'll make the point and I'm going to prove it right now that what you're seeing in Revelation chapter 4 is the word of God before he became incarnate. The word of God before he became incarnate. Now, let's read on and you'll see that uh that this is what it says. And by the way, all of the things that I'm saying is is written here. So if you have the book, you can go back in it. Then now in in in in Revelation chapter one, after Jesus was revealed and he described that he has feet and and waste and and everything, then the message was given. The message was a chronology, seven churches. So you could follow a timeline. Now the same thing is going to happen here after we see God on the throne. One who sat on the throne the energy that was being released from the throne which is the word of God and then we see the sevenfold spirit. Now God is going to give us a timeline. But like you know nowadays I I don't know how kids do it. Do do they still teach kids how to read a clock? Because on the digital age that we live in you don't need to learn to tell time. Do you guys remember when you were a kid you had to learn how to tell time? You know those of us who were old kids know how to do that now. They just look at the digital thing and tells you what the time is. Here we also have to learn how to decipher this clock. And so I call this a dispensational clock. And this is um uh Revelation 4 6 and 7. This is the very first thing now that is revealed as John gets to heaven. It says before the throne there was a sea of glass like crystal and in the midst of the throne and around the throne were four living creatures full of eyes in front and in back. Now notice that front deals with the future and back deals with the past and then it describes these four living creatures. The first living creature was like a lion. The second living creature was like a calf. The third living creature had a face like a man. And the fourth living creature was like a flying eagle. Now if you look down there on the page 12, notice that I have the innocence, conscience, human government, promise, law, grace, kingdom, age. These four creatures represent four dispensations of time. and and and and we can prove that and and and I go into great detail uh dealing if you look at Psalm 22, Psalm 23 and Psalm 24. Psalm 22 for those of you that that may not know deals with the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. There were three spiritual things going on on the cross when Jesus was crucified. Jesus, David wrote this, by the way, a thousand years before it happened. Psalm 22, he says, "I am hanging on the cross. I can count all my bones." He says his mouth is dried up. Everything that happened on the cross with great detail, David chose it. And then he says that he was surrounded by lions that were tearing at his skin. Now, we know when Jesus was crucified, there were no lions there, were they? And then he says that the bulls, strong bulls of Bashan were goring him as he was in the cross. Now there were no no bulls in there. And this is farther down in in the book as you read. And then he says there were dogs. Gentiles always called were called dogs by the Jews. Everybody who wasn't a Jew, they call them dogs. That was a nickname for the Gentiles. So what Jesus did on the cross, he was defeating the the spirit of the lion. What is the lion? The king of the jungle or this is the kingdoms of the earth or the human governments. The ox which is a beast of burden represents the law which nobody could could carry. It was a load that it was too heavy that broke everybody. and the dispensation of a man was the time of grace that needed to be unleashed. And the flying eagle, that's when we're set free from the bounds of gravity and death and we're taken into the kingdom age, which is a time of immortality. So as you can see the very first thing that John sees when he gets to heaven he says four dispensations form like a clock. Why like a clock? Because first came the human government. Remember after the flood Noah's son began to reproduce and God gave him a command to scatter himself over the face of the whole earth. Nimrod led a rebellion against God. All of the governments of the world at that time came together and they built a tower to what? To reach to heaven. And what happened? God scattered them. They were never judged. So that is the the lion. There the king of the jungle. The human represents the human government. Then the next one was the ox. This is the beast of burden. That's the law. The law is like a a a yoke that goes on the neck that drags you down and breaks you. Why? because nobody could keep the law. And so there's the second beast, the second dispensation. Now, you see, God is bringing it to where he's going to deal with the human governments. God is going to deal with the ox. But the way that we know that this is talking about the time of Jesus is because in Revelation chapter 5 verse one, they're looking for a man, whether it's in heaven, whether it's in earth, or under the earth, who is able to go to the hand of the one who sat on the throne and open the seals in it. No man was found worthy. Now, what does that mean? that Adam could not produce out of his own seed a man who wasn't contaminated. See, think of it as a as some kind of a disease, you know, that that is total. And the person gets it and then every child he has to whatever generation will be contaminated with that. That's what sin is to God. When Adam sinned, every seed, every person that descended from Adam was contaminated. The blood God said the life is in the blood. The blood was contaminated. So nobody descendant of Adam could go up because you see God set up a time when the dispensation of men came. Just like when it came the dispensation of law, God chose Moses. Just like when God needed to introduce the promise, he chose Abraham. And when he needed to introduce the destruction, he chose Noah. Here comes the dispensation of man. The grace of God is going to be revealed to man. And it's going to reveal through a man. And that man cannot be found anywhere. It's not in hell. It's not on earth. It's not in heaven. So John begins to weep. He cries. I can't believe it. Here's heaven and we can't come to it. We can't come to Why? Because there's no man. Now we know that the law says sacrifice and offerings you you you did not desire but a body you prepared for me. You see before the foundations of the world God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit with all of the angelic host were sitting on the table and were planning the creation. And God Moses said if we create men like us and give him freedom, they have a a choice and they can reject us. And if they reject us, then they will become the opposite of what we are. God is good, so everything will be evil. That's what Satan is. Satan is the opposite of everything that God is. And so the word of God said in the councils of the heaven, if man fails, I will redeem them. Hallelujah. See, that's the word of God. That's the promise of God. And God said to the word, "Your word is good enough for me." And boom, he created Adam naked and and and with everything that he was lacking. But he said if he needs to be redeemed, the word will redeem it. So when the time came to redeem, no man could be found. But the word of God said, "You prepare a body for me and I'll redeem man." And so in Revelation chapter 5, as you read on, John is weeping and crying and an angel thugs him and say, "Hey, don't cry. Look, the lion of the tribe of Judah has triumphed." White lion. Because the lion represents the king of the jungle. He's king of kings and lord of lords. That's how the angels of heaven see the word of God because he is the king. He's God. But John looks and instead of seeing a lion, he says a lamb as they have been slain. Because you see that is our humanity. We cannot gaze into the holiness of God except through the lamb of God. And this lamb has seven horns and seven eyes. Since this is spiritual vision, we have to interpret what the signs mean. We know that seven is a number of completion. And we know that eyes represent spiritual knowledge or spiritual wisdom. And we know that horns mean physical strength. So when he sees a lamb that has seven horns and seven eyes, he's seeing a person, a man that has become totally and completely like God, perfect spiritual power and perfect physical power. Now, how do I know that chapter 4 and chapter five belong before the crucifixion and not after? Because of Matthew, before Jesus goes up into heaven, he says, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me." That's exactly what John sees in Revelation chapter 5. A lamb that has seven horns and seven eyes. All spiritual authority and all physical authority. Now, when did this happen? This happened 2,000 years ago. This is not in the future. You see, if you say that Revelation 4 is in the future and Revelation chapter fives are in the future, then Jesus hasn't received his power yet. See this? If if if if the lamb hasn't been given all authority and all power yet because revelation five is in the future then Matthew lie because Matthew said that all authority uh I mean John you know Matthew said that Jesus said all authority and all power has been given to me and John says that thou was placed upon the lamb. Now this is so very important to us to understand because what this does to us, it gives us an opportunity. This this dispensational clock that I just showed to you gives us an opportunity to gauge what time it is in God's clock. You see, 2,000 years ago when John was taken into heaven, they were looking for a man. And the man we know is Jesus. At the end of the man, the the age of grace, we're going to go into the kingdom age, the end of the thousand years. Did you know what has to happen in the heaven's clock in order for that to happen? Well, guess what? God has to judge the governments of the world the in the same way that that they were when they sinned. When Peter sinned, God brought him. Jesus brought him back to the place that he fell. Remember, he got saved fishing. He denied Jesus by the fire. So Peter was fishing. Jesus came to the shore. Said, "Cast a net to the other side. He brought Peter back to the day when he was saved. When he realized that it was the Lord, he comes in. The Lord has a fire and in the fire there's fish and there's bread." And he says, "Peter, if you love me, feed my sheep." He restored Peter in the same way that he fell. Peter was by the fire when he denied Jesus. Okay? So God always brings something before he deals with it back to the condition that it was when he fell. So God at the end time has to bring first of all the nations of the world in one place with one accord and with one purpose. Then he has to bring Israel as a nation because when God judged him, he judged them for 483 years and then they were dispersed. And for 2,000 years they were not a nation. 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THE GENTILES SHALL KNOW To show from Ezekiel’s prophecy that God’s dealings with Israel and the nations are purposeful, revealing His holiness, justice, and covenant faithfulness. The teaching emphasizes that end-time events—including Israel’s restoration, the judgment of invading armies, and the unveiling of God’s glory—will make both Israel and the Gentile nations know that the Lord is the one true God. THE GENTILES SHALL KNOW Pastor Marcos Marrero Objective: To show from Ezekiel’s prophecy that God’s dealings with Israel and the nations are purposeful, revealing His holiness, justice, and covenant faithfulness. The teaching emphasizes that end-time events—including Israel’s restoration, the judgment of invading armies, and the unveiling of God’s glory—will make both Israel and the Gentile nations know that the Lord is the one true God. Synopsis: “The Gentiles Shall Know” explores Ezekiel 38–39, where God foretells an end-time invasion against Israel. This invasion, prompted by God, is designed to reveal His holiness to the nations before the seven-year Day of the Lord’s Wrath begins. Scripture declares that God will supernaturally destroy the invading armies, leaving no doubt about His power and sovereignty. The message underscores that both Israel and the Church share in God’s covenant promises—Israel with a physical inheritance and the Church with a spiritual one. Despite replacement theology teachings, God reaffirms Israel’s central role in end-time prophecy, restoring them to their land and pouring out His Spirit upon them after the Church’s removal. Prophecies also identify the nations aligned against Israel, including those from the “uttermost north” (Gog, Rosh) along with Persia (Iran), Ethiopia, and others—alignments visible in current geopolitical realities. The destruction of Damascus (Isaiah 17:1) may act as a trigger for these events. Ultimately, God calls the nations to His “sacrificial feast” on the mountains of Israel, demonstrating His glory before all. The study concludes by affirming God’s faithfulness: just as He revealed these details to Ezekiel 2,500 years ago, His promises of redemption and Christ’s soon return can be trusted. Both Israel and the Gentiles will know that the Lord alone is God when He establishes His sanctuary among His people forever. Inspired Teaching: Ezekiel 39:23 “The Gentiles shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity; because they were unfaithful to Me, therefore I hid My face from them. I gave them into the hand of their enemies, and they fell by the sword.” Ezekiel 38 and 39 speaks of an end time invasion against the nation of Israel, this invasion is initiated by God’s prompting for a purpose. Ezekiel 38:16 “You will come up against My people Israel like a cloud, to cover the land. It will be in the latter days that I will bring you against My land, so that the nations may know Me, when I am hallowed in you, O Gog, before their eyes.” Prophecy tells us that in the latter days God will bring His final judgments upon the earth, His judgments will last for seven years, and it is called the Day of the Lord’s Wrath, that judgment will culminate in the final battle of Armageddon, where all the armies of the nations of the world will meet their final judgment. Revelation 19:19, 21 “And I saw the beast, the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against Him who sat on the horse and against His army...And the rest were killed with the sword which proceeded from the mouth of Him who sat on the horse…” Before that final judgment takes place, God in His mercy, will reveal Himself to the nations of the world, so that those who are foolish enough to take a stand against Him will do so in full knowledge of who the real God is. In order for God to show Himself holy to the nations before His seven years final judgment begins, He has to do something that only an all Mighty God can do, wipe out an entire army in an instant, for that will leave no doubt in the mind of the world as to who the real God is. About twenty five hundred years ago God revealed to Ezekiel the name and the location of the nation that would lead a confederacy against the nation of Israel, the nations that would be part of that confederacy and that Israel would cease to be a nation for a season, for He told them through Ezekiel that He would give them over into the hand of their enemies because of their unfaithfulness. Think of it from our present day perspective, were we to have a world wide vote right now to let the people of the world decide who they believe the real God is, the God of the nation of Israel would not fair very well, for the nation of Israel, and the Jews in particular, are the most hated people by the Gentile world of today. Even in some Christian teachings we find that they do not believe that the present day nation of Israel has any heritage left in biblical prophecy, they call it replacement theology, for they teach that Israel forfeited all of their rights of inheritance when they rejected Jesus as their Messiah, and that the church is now the beneficiary of all the promises that the nation of Israel had coming their way for the latter days. When God entered into His covenant with Abraham, the covenant was two-fold, as the sand of the seas meant a physical inheritance, and as the stars of the sky meant a spiritual inheritance. The law came through the ministry of Moses but grace came through our Lord Jesus Christ, Israel and the church are both part of the covenant. So that clearly both Israel and the church play a vital role in end time prophecy, even if one does not accept the heritage of the other, as it is the case in many instances today, so that God has to set the record straight. Before Ezekiel is told that in the latter days the Gentiles will know that God has a place and purpose for the nation of Israel, He lets Israel know that they have a vital role to play along with the church. Ezekiel 39:22 “So the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God from that day forward.” From which day forward? From the day that He reveals Himself holy to the nations of the world by destroying their invading army, and removing the church to her spiritual inheritance, and restoring the nation of Israel to their physical inheritance, which is the Holy Land. Ezekiel 39:28-29 “Then they shall know that I am the Lord their God, who sent them into captivity among the nations, but also brought them back to their land, and left none of them captive any longer. And I will not hide My face from them anymore; for I shall have poured out My Spirit on the house of Israel, says the Lord God.” The house or nation of Israel can only be sealed after the church is removed, for that is on whom the Spirit of God is resting right now. Ezekiel 37:11, 14 “Then He said to me, ‘Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They indeed say, “Our bones are dry (without the Spirit), our hope is lost, and we ourselves are cut off!”...I will put My Spirit in you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land (most of the world today see Israel as occupiers, they won't after God intervenes on their behalf). Then you shall know (along with the rest of the world) that I, the Lord, have spoken it and performed it,’ says the Lord.” In verses twelve and thirteen there is a reference to the resurrection from the dead, and we know that when the resurrection from the dead takes place that is when the faithful Philadelphia church will be removed. Ezekiel 37:13 “Then you shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O My people, and brought you up from your graves.” Since the first stage of the first resurrection from the dead includes all the saints of old, and since it is Jesus who will bring them all back to life, the Jewish nation will know then that Jesus Christ is the Lord, God’s Anointed One, as Moses had clearly told them a long time ago. The nation that leads the army that attacks the nation of Israel is identified as coming from the uttermost north, and it is called Gog, the prince of Rosh, which means head. Part of their confederacy will be the nations of Persia, Ethiopia, Libya, Gomer, and Togarmah. These are their ancestral tribal names, Persia is today's Iran and they have made it clear that they want the nation of Israel to be wiped off the map. And that brings us to our present day alignment of nations; Russia and Iran have a vested interest in the government of Syria remaining in power, for they are allies, and as of this writing, the US is contemplating the use of military force against the Syrian nation for using chemicals weapons in their war against the insurgents that want to overthrow the present Syrian government that is in bed with Iran and Russia. This conflict of it self, as it stands right now, does not in my opinion constitute enough reason for the northern confederacy to be activated against the nation of Israel, but it is ripe for the last major prophetic event that has to happen before the invasion takes place, to maybe come to pass before all of this is over. Isaiah 17:1 “The burden against Damascus (the capital of Syria). ‘Behold, Damascus will cease from being a city, and it will be a ruinous heap.’” Damascus is one of the oldest city in the world and has been continuously inhabited for most of its history, which means that Isaiah’s prophecy has never been fulfilled, and it awaits its fulfillment today. It does not take much to imagine that if in our present situation a weapon of mass destruction was to be leveled against the city of Damascus, for that is what it would take to wipe out an entire city, and if it was blamed on Israel, that would be reason enough for the allies of Syria to come to her rescue and avenge those whom they blame for such a catastrophe. Could it be that God Himself brings judgment against that city in order to draw Russia and their compatriots into the slaughter end time feast that He has prepared on the mountains of Israel? Ezekiel 39:17-21 “And as for you, son of man, thus says the Lord, ‘Speak to every sort of bird and to every beast of the field: assemble yourselves and come; gather together from all sides to My sacrificial meal which I am sacrificing for you, a great sacrificial meal on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat flesh and drink blood. You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams and lambs, of goats and bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan. You shall eat fat until you are full, and drink blood till you are drunk, at my sacrificial meal which I am sacrificing for you. You shall be filled at My table with horses and riders, with mighty men and with all the men of war,’ says the Lord God. I will set My glory among the nations; all the nations shall see My judgment which I have executed, and My hand which I have laid on them.” Five times the Lord uses the words sacrificial and sacrificing, the point is clear, before the Lord ushers anything new He always requires a blood sacrifice, six million Jews were sacrificed in Nazi camps before the nation of Israel could be established once again, now the world is going to provide the meat for the sacrifice that is going to let all the world know who the real God is once and for all. This is how close we might be to the end of our journey here on earth. If God is able to tell Ezekiel twenty five centuries ago the geopolitical alignments of today, and every detail of the events that are about to happen, then we can be sure that we can trust Him when He tells us that He is coming back soon to redeem us to Himself. Ezekiel 37:27-28 “My tabernacle also shall be with them; indeed I will be their God, and they shall be My people. The nations also will know that I, the Lord, sanctify Israel, when My sanctuary is in their midst forevermore.” Previous Next Home