The Fire has come: Learn of Me: PT 6

Greeting Beloved Readers:

I have gotten a lot of heat sometimes by talking about the "third day revelation" that has dawned in our new millennium time as we wait for the Lord's return. There is so much teaching and attempts to narrow down the events of the end-times that Christian Bookstores shelves are filled with books about how things are going to unfold. There are even popular Christian fiction series like left-behind that have sold millions of copies to those longing to understand the events that are yet to come.

I am probably the least person on the planet to discuss these deep prophetic unfolding. I do not have the degree's that others may have on these topics so I am not an expert in any way. Nevertheless, the Lord has chosen to speak to me concerning some of these end-time events and plans to help prepare His Bride for His return.

I am surely nothing special and just one little voice out of many that are speaking in this hour about the events to come. Yet, I can not keep still and say nothing when these things are burning in my bones like Jeremiah! My purpose of writing about these events and the third day is not to make a new doctrine, or a new movement or any such thing. My purpose is just so we can be prepared for He, who is to come! My hearts cry from the Lord is that we would be as wise virgins ready to go out and meet Him at the midnight hour when the Bridegroom comes calling. My prayer is we will follow the Lord to have oil in our lamps and extra oil to finish the journey to go out and meet Him.

So dear reader I am trusting in two things. First, that the Lord would unfold to us His desires and plans for the "now" moment we are living in. Second, that you will take all that I write to the Lord for His discernment and understanding if these writings are from Him or not. If they are from Him, then to ask the question to the Lord, How can I walk in these truths and finish the race?

It is so important that we rightly understand the times we are living in or we will not be ready for His return and it will come upon us as a thief in the night. The day will come upon us as unawares as the Lord removes our candlestick by not returning to our First Love and our First Work. Nothing would break His heart and mine more than to not blow the trumpet while there is still time to change and have many miss the call of the Bridegroom. It would devastate me to see the foolish knock at the door and the Lord say depart from me, I never knew you! God Forbid! It is critical for us to understand the present work of the Holy Spirit and of Jesus in this hour.

Beloved, Today April 7, 2008 Jesus is standing in the midst of His church as a refining fire and fuller soap. He is standing there just as John the Beloved saw Him in Revelation chapter 1-4.
There is a present work that our Chief High Priest, Intercessor must do in our lives for our preparation to be married to Him, and we must understand that work or have the door closed on us as well.

Revelation chapter 1 gives us a picture of this "change of day," this "change of time and dimension." The Lord had me write a book about it in 2004 called the "Anointing of the Moment!" This book is written to explain some of the work the Lord is about to do and is doing now in the church. He told me that this book would represent 20 minutes of spiritual time. I don't have a clue on what that is. He told me I would write 3 books about the "timing of the Lord." The second one would be called, " The Highway of Holiness, a way in the wilderness." These blogs are going to be part of that book. This book would represent a second 2o minute period of time as well. The third book, I can not release the title yet, but it will be the last 20 minute of spiritual time we have to get ready for this marriage day.

I wish I could explain more of what that means, but in quite honesty, this is all that has been revealed to me to present. I do know this, that the first book, "the anointing of the moment" is happening right now, and so is the beginning of the second book, "the highway of holiness."
So I pray that your heart would be open to this "present work of the Lord" in our hearts. It may require for you to put aside some of the preconceived ideas we have all had about the "coming of the Lord," as we have known it.Th is is why I believe the book of Revelation was written in such a mysterious way. It has so much truth in it that is hidden for specific moments in time.

For me the hidden parts that are being revealed have taken me from Revelation chapter 1 to Revelation chapter 4. Again, I only have a part of the understanding of it. The bible says we know in part and we prophecy in part. So my little bitty part must fit into what others have received from the Lord as well. I don't have the whole picture and truthfully no one else does either no matter how much we have studied. These events have to be first revealed in and by the Spirit of God, and then they must be revealed in the natural to be seen. This is a long prelude, but a necessary one for all of us to gain understanding of what the Lord is doing now and is about to do for all those who have ears to hear and eyes to see.

Today's teaching is called, "Learn of Me." This scripture is found in the book of Mathew chapter 11:28-30, let us read it:

Mat 11:28: Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

We have spent much time teaching about the "Flame of God in our first 5 lessons!" How John the Baptist prophesied that Jesus would baptize us with the Holy Spirit and with FIRE! If you have not read the preceding 5 blogs on this topic, I encourage to stop here and go read them or this blog will not make a lot of sense to you.

This "flame of Yah Jovah" is His burning presence, His Glory and His Shekinah! It was the very way He chose to reveal Himself to Moses. He took an ordinary bush and consumed it with Himself, but the bush itself was not consumed. Have you ever asked yourself this question, " God of all the ways to reveal yourself to Moses, why a burning bush?" Believe it or not, it is a very important question to ask and a very important answer to hear.

As aforementioned to you, the bush was an ordinary created thing God had made. It was going to become extra-ordinary because it was going to be consumed with God Himself. Why did you do that Heavenly Father? I believe, God chose an ordinary bush to show us His end-time plan. I believe the scriptures bare me out on this because the two men who stood with Jesus on the Mountain of Transfiguration were Elijah and Moses! Both of these men were men of FIRE! One found the fire and the mountain and was led by the fire in the wilderness, the other was commissioned to call down "FIRE from heaven and confront the false prophets of Baal who the false prophetess Jezebel had placed in Israel.

Both of these men for lack of a better term could be called "FIRE-MEN!" As I mentioned in the earlier blog, a time would come when God's remnant would begin to seek Him again earnestly as their vital need and when they did He would show up and come in their midst. Malachi chapter 3:1-3 speaks of this coming. "And the Lord who shall seek shall SUDDENLY come to His temple! And who shall stand when He appears, and who can endure the DAY OF HIS COMING! For He will come as a REFINING FIRE and like FULLER'S Soap! And He will sit as a refiner of gold and silver and thoroughly cleanse the Levites to bring forth to the Lord offerings in righteousness. (paraphrased from earlier quotes in the previous blogs) Notice the words, the Lord whom you seek shall SUDDENLY COME? In Acts chapter 2 vs 1-4, the bible says:

And when the day of Pentecost was fully come,they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

Yes beloved, this was an "anointing of the moment" for the disciples. They were gathered together, set apart waiting for the fulfillment of the promise of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. On that day of Pentecost the church was birthed in a BLAZE OF GLORY! All 120 men were transformed or transfigured by the outpouring of the Holy Spirit who appeared to be upon them as FIRE! Notice the word says, and it SAT UPON each of them.

This was the "alpha" moment of the churches day of power. They received power from on high to start the work Jesus left them to do in the nations. What happened to that Glory, that power on display over the last 2000 years? When you read the book of Acts and see all that they did in the power of the Holy Spirit, you don't get a picture of their Christian life consisting of going to a church service on Sunday and Wednesday. You also don't get a picture of them having Christian concerts, Chicken dinners, Marches for Jesus or any other such thing to get people's attention.

What you do get however; is a picture of this: A RADICALLY REVOLUTIONIZED PEOPLE CHANGED BY THE POWER OF THE FLAME OF GOD IN THEIR LIFE! THEY WERE NEVER THE SAME AFTER THIS OUTPOURING! They preached and ministered in the "flame of God" with signs, wonders and miracles. These signs just didn't accompany the "clergy" or the "hot preacher" on TBN, but it filled "all that believed and received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. Men who were chosen to distribute food as deacons were doing astonishing miracles testifying of the resurrection of the Lord. No gimmicks, no glitz, and no glamor was this fire that filled them. It was God's visible GLORY IN HIS TEMPLE!

There were no CD's, no tapes, no books, no conferences or seminars and no ipods were seen, just the FLAME OF GOD"S HOLY SPIRIT BURNING IN THEM! That is what you see in the bible Books of Acts if you would be honest? So what has happened to us over the last two thousand years that we no longer see this fire or even believe there was a fire that came down from heaven.

Most Christians think Pentecost was a one time event or some new movenment. Many don't believe Pentecostals are even saved. Fellow Christians believe Pentecostals are demon possessed because they speak in tongues as the Spirit gives them utterance. Many other believers mock the Holy Spirit baptism in peoples lives as them just being emotional or fanatics and even call them "holy rollers!"

That being said, that is not what this blog is about to discuss what happened on the day of Pentecost was real or not, but rather, the "what is to come" from the flame of God. John the Baptist prophesied that Jesus would baptize them with the Holy Spirit and Fire! Why two separate utterances here, Holy Spirit and Fire?

The Holy Spirit and Fire aren't they one in the same thing? The answer is yes! The day of Pentecost was the flame of God revealed in the heart of men. This outpouring STARTED the work and it has lasted up to this day, though at times only through a small remnant. But in these last days God is not done sending His fire! For He is a consuming Fire and His desire is to make everything, everywhere one with the nature of that fire. It is in these last of days, when all the wine has seemingly run out, God is going to CHANGE WATER INTO WINE AND FINISH THE WORK HE STARTED IN US! PRAISE HIS NAME!

Maybe someones light bulb went on with the last few sentences. He wants to make everything, everywhere one with His nature of Consuming Fire. Now we go back to review of Moses and the question of why God chose to reveal Himself as a flame burning upon a bush that was not consumed. Here at this mountain under the first covenant God begins to reveal to us His end-time plan. He is going to take an ordinary bush that He created for Himself and fill it with Himself as FIRE!

He is going to consume this little old bush in the intensity of His Glory, but it will not be consumed, destroyed or be harmed in any way. This ordinary bush was going to be made ONE WITH HIM IN HIS NATURE AND CHARACTER! OUT OF THAT ORDINARY BURNING BUSH WOULD COME A VOICE THAT WOULD DECLARE THE NAME OF GOD! I AM, THAT I AM!

Are you seeing this GLORIOUS EVENT TO COME Beloved reader? On this mountain Moses was going to see the OMEGA work of God or the Finishing work that would make the created thing one with the creator and not be consumed, condemned or destroyed. HALLELUJAH! Since this was in the days of the first covenant, God used an inanimate object like a bush to show His Glory being consumed with FIRE! Don't you see why I am writing to you to come and live and walk in the very FLAME OF GOD?

In the new testament. we are going to see the same picture, but this time the fire is going to come directly to God's hand made temple itself and not a bush. The bush was to be a pointer (a prophetic picture of what is to come) to the fact that God could consume something with Himself as He is, and the created thing (the temple of the Holy Spirit) would not be destroyed. (1Co 6:19-20, Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own; for ye were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body.)

His temple made of FLESH AND BLOOD is going to be made whole. It is going to be made complete. His temple will be a house fully flooded with God Himself. On this mountain we see the miracle that is yet to come! We are going to be changed (transfigured with Glory) to be a reflection of His name, filled with His presence, and become His voice on the earth as a witness and then the end will come!It is here on a high mountain once again, God chooses to show us what His finished work as a REFINER' S FIRE is going to look like in a human being!

When is this going to take place? Let us read Mathew chapter 17: verses 1-3:

Mat 17:1 And after six days:

Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart: and he was transfigured before them; and his face did shine as the sun, and his garments became white as the light. And behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elijah talking with him.

When Moses went up that mountain he said to his wife, "I must now turn aside to see this great site." Yes Beloved, Moses had to turn aside or change His direction to see who God really is. Moses saw the future on that mountain. He saw how God could take the ordinary (a plain old bush) a bush that was a weak thing subject to die a natural death and God filled it with His presence for Moses to see. This ordinary bush in this moment of time was going to be a "reflection of God's glory!" This burning bush was going to be a place where "the voice of the Lord would be heard again. This bush was going to be a place where God would speak His divine instructions and plans to a man outwardly.

On the day of Pentecost all this present revelation of Moses was going to change. From that Glorious first FIRE day and forward we no longer have to hear the Lord's voice through prophets or men, but God can speak directly to us through His son in our heart. (Heb, 1:1-2) In this human heart God established a NEW AND BETTER COVENANT! Read Hebrews chapters 8 -10 to find this in the Word of God.

On this glorious day for Peter, James and John, the bible makes this statement, "And after six days Jesus, took with him Peter, and James, and John his brother, and he brings them up into a high mountain apart. Now go on with me here Beloved, did you catch the first 5 words,"and after six days Jesus, takes Peter, James and John? OK, maybe it is just me, but where are the other 9 disciples? How come Jesus didn't take all of them up there? Could this mean something important for us to understand the end-time events that are about to come?

Notice we don't know anything about the first 6 DAYS? Just after 6 days Jesus took them apart, up the mountain to see something no man has ever SEEN BEFORE! They are about to get a revelation of I AM, THAT I AM. Their revelation will not be as Moses understood this Glory that is to come would be, but as He now plans to reveal this same Glory filling HIS TEMPLE, the Body of Christ!

Follow me a little bit more, I know this is getting long and I should stop, but I can't, SORRY! After 6 days! Remember what I wrote about in yesterday's blog? Do you remember what Jesus said to the Pharisee's when they told Him Herod wanted to kill him?

Luke13:31-33,"At that time, certain Pharisees came to him and said, Go away from this place, because Herod's purpose is to put you to death. And He said, Go and say to that fox, I send out evil spirits and do works of mercy today and tomorrow, and on the third day my work will be complete. But I have to go on my way today and tomorrow and the third day, for it is not right for a prophet to come to his death outside Jerusalem."

I pray we grasp this prophetic utterance Jesus speaks here. He says, "Go tell that fox, today and tomorrow, I do miracles and cast out devils." The book of 2nd Peter 3:8 says, "But, my loved ones, keep in mind this one thing, that with the Lord one day is the same as a thousand years, and a thousand years are no more than one day." A day is like a thousand years in God's spiritual time. From the death of Jesus to the year 1000 is one day, From the year 1000 to the year 2000 is another day, and then the year 2000 begins a THIRD DAY!

Jesus tells the Pharisees, that He is going to work today and tomorrow, or two days. When the day of Pentecost came with fire, He empowered His disciples to go forth for two days. If we trace history back from Adam until Christ many believe it has been 4000 years or 4 days. If we add 4 plus 2 we get 6 prophetic days. I am not saying the physical years are the same, they very well may be, but I know as prophetic days they are. After 6 days Jesus takes them up a high mountain. Interesting to note that after 3 days there was a wedding at Cana and there the wine ran out. Could it be that after 6 spiritual days, our spiritual wine is all out as well? Were there not 6 clay pots that were empty needing to be filled again? So why does the bible say, " After 6 days Jesus...?

Here is why: AFTER 6 Days, Jesus takes Peter, James and John up the mountain. Notice this is not a time when they were not dead or raptured. Matter of fact neither were the two men on the mountain with Jesus dead, Moses or Elijah. Peter wanted to make tents for all them to sleep. You don't make tents for dead men, you bury them! This "after 6 days represents a "period of time, an anointing of the moment" to bring about a DRASTIC CHANGE in our revelation and understanding of who Jesus Christ really is as King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

Up until this day, we understood the Lord from the perspective of Moses who saw a bush on fire and not consumed. In that bush was the tangible presence of God's glory in which a voice spoke to Him and gave Him directions. God called that place Holy, so Moses had to take the shoes off his feet. Many thousands of years later on another mountain another object of God's creation was about to be consumed with fire and not be consumed by it.

This time it was going to be a human being's body. A body that was made out of flesh and blood just like ours. A body that would eventually die and decay like a tree. But this earthen vessel as weak as it is has a special purpose in the heart of God. This body was made to contain the same fire that consumed that bush and was not destroyed. This body made of flesh and blood, God himself said "I will live in them and I will be a God unto them, and they will be my people"

Peter, John and James were about to see the fullness of God's end-time plan for the remnant that is going up the mountain with the Lord. The other 9 were left down on the bottom to show us that not all will come up to this place of REVELATION! These three are going to be known as THIRD DAY PEOPLE! Third day, not because of time or space or a new doctrine, but because of the REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST they are about to witness. They are going to be called to testify of what they saw and heard on that mountain in the years that awaited them.

They were going to see the GLORY OF GOD FILL THE TEMPLE! A temple not made with bricks or stones, but one made by the very hand of God with flesh and blood! This human body was going to be a place consumed with the presence of God's Glory and not be destroyed or harmed in anyway like the bush Moses saw on the mountain. Just as that bush would be to this day a place where Moses saw the REVELATION OF GOD and heard HIS VOICE, so will the nations come to the brightness of arising, as we "ARISE AND SHINE FOR THE LIGHT HAS COME, AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD HAS RISEN UPON US!" (Isaiah 60)

I am going to have to stop now or this will become a book itself. There is still so much more to write about. I hope this is getting you excited in your spirit, for God has saved the best wine for last. This third day revelation is not a movement. It is not about 2 classes of Christians or any type of superiority. It is about those who are hearing the call up the mountain with the Lord for that FINISHING WORK to be completed in their lives. It is about those who are willing to come into the fire naked and unashamed and be changed by the refining fire. This third day revelation of Jesus Christwill bring forth a Bride coming forth from the wilderness leaning upon her beloved!

This is the Glory and the work that John is going to witness on the Island of Pathmos in the book of Revelation chapters 1-4. It is here in these chapters, we will begin to understand the nature of our God as a consuming fire, and His end-time plan to form us into a Kingdom of Priests and Kings to our God. We will explore these chapters hidden meanings so we can learn of Him and His ways, and become a bride made ready to marry the Lord. Are you hungry for more yet?

I am going to close with some scriptures from the book of Mathew 11:28-30. Jesus says, "Come to me, all you who are troubled and weighted down with care, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke on you and become like me, for I am gentle and without pride, and you will have rest for your souls; For my yoke is good, and the weight I take up is not hard."

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