I want to share with you a chapter from one of the books the Lord gave me to write called the "Anointing of the Moment. " This book was given to me to be an "alarm clock" to the church in which God is giving us a "spiritual hour" to get ready for the "hour that is going to come upon the earth.
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The Lord is drawing a Bride unto Himself as found in Hosea chapter 2. In the desert wilderness he prepares her to become betrothed to the Lord in steadfastness and in righteousness. He does this by removing the "idols" from her lips. Remember out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. So what is on the brides lips is in her heart and there is some mixture in her. Mixture to things that are equal to or as important to her as the Lord in her life.
This can not remain in her to be a Bride without spot or blemish. The book of Hosea is also a book where God requires the Prophet to marry a harlot knowing she will cheat on him, but in the end she will become faithful. This is a picture of the present view of the Body of Christ. We are filled with sin and idolatry, we just won't admit it.
The book of Revelation chapters 2 and 3 begin and end with an accusation against the church.
1. Rev. 2:5 You have deserted Me, your first love. You have given up the love you had for me at first. This rebuke comes with a warning, repent or I will remove the candlestick from your midst. The candlestick represents the "manifest presence" of the Lord in our life or ministry. How serious was that to King David after he committed and murdered? He cried out, "Create in me a clean heart Oh God, and renew a right spirit in me. Take not thy Holy Spirit from me." He saw what happened to King Saul when he fell from God without truly repenting.
I believe the Bible says, Jesus Christ, the same, yesterday, today and forever. The punishment for not truly repenting before God for King Saul was two fold. First, God ripped the Kingdom from him. Second, He removed His presence and Spirit and gave Saul over to an evil Spirit. That could never happen to us we are in the new covenant.
2. Let us read Rev 3:14: And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; Rev 3:15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I wish you were cold or hot.Rev 3:16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth.
Wow, that is pretty tough language from God isn't it. "I am saved by grace." I am OK, I am a good person. I pay my tithes and go to church on Sunday. The Lord says, "I know your works! Your works are how you live your life? He says, " I know how you live you are not hot for me, nor are you like an unsaved person cold against me." You are LUKE WARM! You are worse than cold. You say you love me and you say I am your Lord, but your life reflects a life of living in the world as the world does but having a Christian name.
You are truly not my disciple at all. You just appear to be by name only, so I will spew you out of my mouth. Little harsh Jesus! Where is all that love they preach about every Sunday. Where is all that "make me a better person preaching" we hear every Sunday. What makes us luke warm? Idolatry and rebellion in our hearts. We have it church, let's just admit it is there, so we can get to the Lord for Him to Baptize us with Fire to remove it.
Pretending it is not there is not the answer. In Hosea chapter2, the Lord tells how Israel is a harlot, yet then in the most beautiful act of love starting in verse 14. He is going to "allure her into the wilderness to speak tenderly to her heart." This isn't the mushy love that the church does in the flesh. "Oh, I so love you brother, I really love you sister, even though you are in sin and darkness, God loves you, even though you are luke warm and have idols in your heart!" "God doesn't mind."
There is more to God's love than I love you just as you are that the American Church teaches. Hebrews 12 shows us the nature of what the true love of God is also. Yes His love is like the Prodigal Father waiting for the son to return. Yes, His love is like the woman caught in the act of adultery that ran to Him to be saved. Yes, It is that, but it also more!
The more is what the church in America is not ready for, and it is why our nation suffers to this day. Please read the following verses to understand the fullness of God's love towards us and then you will begin to understand why the Holy Spirit has me writing these teachings.
Heb 12:1 For this reason, as we are circled by so great a cloud of witnesses, putting off every weight, and the sin into which we come so readily, let us keep on running in the way which is marked out for us, Heb 12:2 Having our eyes fixed on Jesus, the guide and end of our faith, who went through the pains of the cross, not caring for the shame, because of the joy which was before him, and who has now taken his place at the right hand of God's seat of power.
Heb 12:3 Give thought to him who has undergone so much of the hate of sinners against himself, so that you may not be tired and feeble of purpose. Heb 12:4 Till now you have not given your blood in your fight against sin: Heb 12:5 And you have not kept in mind the word which says to you as to sons, My son, do not make little of the Lord's punishment, and do not give up hope when you are judged by him;
Heb 12:6 For the Lord sends punishment on his loved ones; everyone whom he takes as his son has experience of his rod. Heb 12:7 It is for your training that you undergo these things; God is acting to you as a father does to his sons; for what son does not have punishment from his father? Heb 12:8 But if you have not that punishment of which we all have our part, then you are not true sons, but children of shame.
Heb 12:9 And again, if the fathers of our flesh gave us punishment and had our respect, how much more will we be under the authority of the Father of spirits, and have life? Heb 12:10 For they truly gave us punishment for a short time, as it seemed good to them; but he does it for our profit, so that we may become holy as he is.
Heb 12:11 At the time all punishment seems to be pain and not joy: but after, those who have been trained by it get from it the peace-giving fruit of righteousness. Heb 12:12 For this cause let the hands which are hanging down be lifted up, and let the feeble knees be made strong, Heb 12:13 And make straight roads for your feet, so that the feeble may not be turned out of the way, but may be made strong.
I don't understand why this is such an ugly word to the body of Christ? Why is rebuke, correction and chastisement so despised in the American Church? The Lord chastens those he loves. He tells us in Rev 3:19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. The AMP version writes, "those I tenderly love, I rebuke and correct and show them their faults." Beloved, Reader is that such a bad thing? Why is this such a threatening message to the church in America?
I can only answer that by what the word of God says in John chapter 3: And this is the test by which men are judged: the light has come into the world and men have more love for the dark than for the light, because their acts are evil. Joh 3:20 The light is hated by everyone whose acts are evil and he does not come to the light for fear that his acts will be seen. Joh 3:21 But he whose life is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his acts have been done by the help of God. Can there be another answer?
The Lord is trying to work in our lives to become a Bride holy, separated to the Lord Himself. He has sent His Holy Spirit to burn in us like fire to remove every trace of idolatry and rebellion in our heart. He alone can do that work and finished that work at the cross.
Hosea chapter 2 gives us a prophetic picture of what the Lord desires to do in our hearts inwardly today. We must listen and obey the Lord now while there is time. We must become like the 5 wise virgins who had the extra oil to go out and meat the Bridegroom. Let's read some this chapter to see the desires of the Lord, and what we must do to be separated unto the Lord in this last hour of preparation.
Hos 2:14 Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. Hos 2:15 And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
Hos 2:16 And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt call me Ishi; (my husband) and shalt call me no more Baali (my idols). Hos 2:17 For I will take away the names of Baalim (idolatry) out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.
Hos 2:18 And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.
Hos 2:19 And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in loving kindness, and in mercies. Hos 2:20 I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD.
This is the "present work of the Holy Spirit" but is the church in America even aware of what God wants to do? Do you see His desire to remove the name of "idolatry" from His bride's lips. He desires to be Her only love. Wouldn't you want that if you were marrying someone? You would want to remove all the past dates, people your spouse went out with before you from his/her memory by your greater love for him/her.
The Lord desires the same thing. He desires us to be HOT for Him and not checking out all the world has to offer and calling that "isn't he or she hot" like the teens say today about the opposite sex. He desires us to have a single eye just for him as found in the Song of Solomon. He wants us to have dove's eyes that merge together to see just one thing, Him!
Is this not the very first commandment. You shall love the Lord thy God with all they heart, with all the soul and all thy mind and you shall but no strange God's before Him? Let us read the passage from the book the Anointing of the Moment that will explain this further.
The dessert wilderness is a place to be alone with the Lord. Here our hearts (our will and desires) must be dealt with so we can be transformed with His character and nature. It is in the dessert wilderness we are to be made one with Him. That is why He chooses this place to marry His bride.
The choice before us is this: will we come out of our present circumstances and life and follow the Lord where He leads? Will we give up all that this world has to offer? Will we allow the Lord to work His total victory in us until we choose His will over our own? This is the power of being married to the Lord, to overcome the POWER OF SIN once and for all?
"For God has done what the Law could not do being weakened by the flesh (the entire nature of man without the Holy Spirit) Sending His own Son in the guise of sinful flesh as an offering for sin. God condemned sin in the flesh, subdued, overcame, deprived it of it's power for all those who accept that sacrifice." (Rom. 8: 3)
Jesus has come back again to His people and is standing in her midst now as seen in Revelation Chapters 1-3. He has come to lead His bride into the wilderness not to bring forgiveness from sin, but to break for the last time the POWER OF SIN over her life.
This is why "she comes out of the wilderness leaning upon her beloved." (SOS 8:5) This may seem like an impossible task for us to accomplish! It is impossible for us. Nevertheless, what is impossible for man is possible for God! Hallelujah! "THEREFORE, SINCE THESE GREAT PROMISES ARE OURS, LET US CLEANSE OURSELVES FROM EVERYTHING THAT CONTAMINATES AND DEFILES BODY AND SPIRIT, AND BRING OUR CONSECRATION TO COMPLETENESS IN THE FEAR OF GOD."(2Cor. 7:1)
Listen to the Word of God concerning this separation: "SO WHOEVER CLEANSES HIMSELF FROM THAT WHICH IS IGNOBLE AND UNCLEAN, WHO SEPARATES HIMSELF FROM CONTACT WITH CONTAMINATING AND CORRUPTING INFLUENCES WILL THEN HIMSELF BE A VESSEL SET APART AND USEFUL FOR HONORABLE AND NOBLE PURPOSES, CONSECRATED AND PROFITABLE TO THE MASTER, FIRM AND READY FOR ANY GOOD WORK." (2Tim. 2:21.)
We must allow the Bridegroom to allure us out of where we are still living with mixture from the world. We must come to the holy place of the Wilderness to cleanse ourselves and prepare ourselves for our wedding day. The bride has already begun this process and has experienced some change, but now she is being drawn out to the desert to be caught up into the glorious finishing work of the Lord.
We must rightly respond to the call to COME OUT FROM AMONG THEM! We must yield to the alluring love of our heavenly Bridegroom for a miracle is about to take place. We are going to be changed from water into wine.
At this present moment in time, the call has gone forth and the Lord is finding out who are really His Own Ones. He is finding out who are true sheep and who are not.
''NOT EVERYONE WHO SAYS TO ME ON THAT DAY, (this third or seventh day.) LORD, LORD, WILL ENTER THE
AND I WILL SAY TO THEM OPENLY AND PUBLICLY, I NEVER KNEW YOU (I was never one with you or intimate with you. I never supped with you) WHO ACT WICKEDLY DISREGARDING MY COMMANDS!" (Mat. 7:21-23)
What commands are we to obey? We must obey all of them including, come out from among them my people and touch not the unclean thing and I will receive you!
"FOR THIS IS THE WILL OF GOD, THAT YOU SHOULD BE CONSECRATED (SEPARATED AND SET APART FOR PURE AND HOLY LIVING) THAT YOU ABSTAIN, SHRINK FROM ALL SEXUAL VICE, THAT EACH ONE OF YOU SHOULD KNOW HOW TO POSSESS AND CONTROL YOUR BODY IN CONSECRATION AND PURITY, (SEPARATED FROM THINGS PROFANE) AND HONOR, NOT TO BE USED IN THE PASSION OF LUSTS LIKE THE HEATHEN, WHO ARE IGNORANT OF THE TRUE GOD AND HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE OF HIS WILL." (1Thes. 4:3-5)
Will the Lord spew the luke warm out of His mouth? Will the Lord remove the candlestick from our midst if we don't repent now and understand His ways and His desires for this moment in time? Am I saying they won't make it to heaven? Only God knows that answer? But, I can tell you just praying a "sinner's prayer" and not becoming a new creation is not real salvation! We are to bring forth "fruit" that proves are repentance according to John the Baptist. He told us to flee from the wrath that was about to come.
Listen to the warning of 2Thess. 2: 1-3: "BUT RELATIVE TO THE COMING OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND OUR GATHERING TOGETHER TO HIM, WE BEG YOU,BRETHREN, NOT TO ALLOW YOUR MINDS TO BE QUICKLY UNSETTLED OR DISTURBED OR KEPT EXCITED OR ALARMED, WHETHER IT BE BY SOME REVELATION OF THE SPIRIT OR BY WORD OR BY LETTER FROM US, TO THE EFFECT THAT THE DAY OF THE LORD HAS ARRIVED AND IS HERE.
LET NO ONE DECEIVE YOU IN ANY WAY, FOR THAT DAY WILL NOT COME EXCEPT THE APOSTASY COMES FIRST (UNLESS THE PREDICTED GREAT FALLING AWAY OF THOSE WHO PROFESSED TO BE CHRISTIANS COMES (AMP) AND THE MAN OF LAWLESSNESS IS REVEALED, WHO IS THE SON OF DOOM."
This is the year this will accelerate in our midst. Many are hearing this call of separation unto the Lord. Few are willing to get up and leave this "world" behind to go into the wilderness place of the betrothal of the Lord where He can remove the idols in our heart.
God is serious about His church and Jesus for His bride. He must come for a Bride who has made herself ready as in Revelation 19:7 He is coming for a Glorious church without spot or wrinkle. The Holy Spirit is blowing the trumpet to come up here! Come up to a new place in your relationship with God. Come to a place where you welcome the "Lord whom you seek shall suddenly come to His temple... and He shall come and sit as a refining fire and fullers soap." Why do we need fire and soap?
To be made ready into a pure spotless Bride for our Lord Jesus Christ, that is why! I hope you will heed the "trumpet call, Beloved Reader!"
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