The Birth of the new Church

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Chris Welch As I said...now is exactly like it was in 1973- 4 in Amersham when my Dad was asking me the same question.
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Chris Welch Although it seems weird talking like this...anybody remember 1975 and 6? The Kansas City Shepherd's Conference, the Lakes and the Dales Bible Weeks...and the angels? And the reports of angels in the Yorkshire Press? I tell you I don't mind failing at all!!!! LOL

I was recalling 1973 and 4. Marcus Roberts had had a significant encounter with USA Christians from Gene Edwards' Galeta fellowship.  I think he met some in Falmer University Brighton, then he exhuberantly shared some of Watchman Nee's material with us.  I have shared the effect of Graham Pulkingham on Amersham Baptist Church in what was quite a wry encounter of two species.
Graham Pulkingham grabbed our attention because the Fisherfolk came almost direct from Houston to do a week at our school, Dr Challoner's Grammar School Amersham.
But also Graham's talk to the church really got our notice. It was the anointing with which he stated the Church is the Body of Christ.  It had the same cutting edge that Jesus did when He stated to Nazareth Synagogue: " Today is this scripture fulfilled in your midst."

 I have shared of the 1970s origins of the church Marcus and I eventually ended up in. Long before we arrived Jorge Pradas had challenged the charismatic prayer fellowship that met once a month in Emsworth: "Are you a fellowship or are you the Church?"

It's specificity of believing.

So yesterday I was recalling the same kind of lull that we are in now, but 40 years ago. Then it seemed things changed like a whirlwind two years later. The Dales Bible Week pinned some of us
to the wall. It was in a cow's shed in Harrogate Showground The irony wasn't lost on us as Ern Baxter led several thousand of us in the prayer of Mary....Lord I don't understand but be it unto me according to your Word.

Now we can articulate what we were doing.
It was specificity.
It was believing in our heart and confssing with our mouth that Jesus Christ, the same awesome Jesus Christ was being born in us. We were believing ON HIS LIFE.

In genesis 3 Adam believed OFF his life in a titanic act that still affects us.
He began believing in the lie of the independent self.

By being specific and nailing our colours...we are in fact reversing history,
History is being reversed on the fulcrum of the New Creation in Christ.

Therefore if any man is in Christ he is become a new creation, the old has passed away and the new has come. Our active believing on everything Christ did IS THE VICTORY THAT OVERCOMES THE WORLD.
If we become passive, if we like Peter on the waves, start to consider for a moment what on earth am I doing?  we will sink. This is not the victory.

THIS IS THE VICTORY even our faith. But we can pray, Lord help my unbelief.

Adam and Eve's little movement of reaching for fruit was VAST.
The Jesus Move taking their first corporate steps to nail their specificity to the mast was VAST.


And this is our believing.
STILL.
And now more defined through Norman Grubb after the book Yes I am.

I am Jesus Christ in his Chris Welch vinebranch form going on.
I don't build stone churches.
I don't seek to continue any tradition of man
I don't owe any man that task.
I am a free man in Christ.
But it IS the faith of Jesus Christ operating in me.

And now, as we have received the eyesalve of Revelation
we see God as the source of the ONLY LIFE in the Universe.
We can perceive a corporate derived life....since the devil
himself lives by God's life as well, but has twisted it in on itself
as a self for self life....so yes we see a derived life....

but now we keep our single eye open for what God is doing
with me, with everyone.
Willing and working for His good pleasure.

This is the New church.
Life itself.

We are not building oldstyle churches, oldstyle meetings.
We are telling you how you can live God's Life, the only real life
today in you. Sure we will gather as we eventually did in great numbers
40 years ago.....and when we gather it will be more specific than at any time since Adam. For now we are at last grasping what gathering in His Name means.

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It took three whole generations for God to get His package of stuff into Abraham Isaac and Jacob and then this was rolled out into a "Family" Nation. But this in itself was still quite an outer form of what He was going for.
As I wrote this morning, on a huge scale, the Jews were used to bring in the Outer Court ministry. That God existed. That God wanted to bless and heal. That God was Father and wanted a relationship with a people. But it was Jesus whose job it was to introduce the next big stage. As we can see in history the last 2000 years has been a very mixed affair. Church has been incredibly like the Jews knowledge of God, with people more caught up with Law than relationship.

God is continually replanting and pruning His work. One way to think of Church history is as a "transition" between Law and Spirit. it began free , but even in Acts we can see seeds of religion wanting to take the church captive. The church itself has gone into the ground and died.....the first fruits of resurrection have happened with Luther's rediscovery of salvation by faith....and gradually more and more has been restored. Having done Holy Place Christianity for 100 years God is taking the whole of His church into the most radical transition yet. We enter individually into a crisis that is like Romans 7 crashing in on us. Everything that we knew, thought, felt we owned is going up in smoke in an experience of the altar of incense.
If you like the forerunners were the 12 apostles who had to learn they couldn't do Christianity. It's a horrible time for our flesh, but we start to get our new identity.
Now if we thought charismatic churches were an improvement on evangelical churches....well that's nothing to the difference between what's coming now.
I went through this type of transition 40 years ago in Amersham. We knew we had more light, but everywhere was just denominational churches. So we withdrew for a few years refusing to play the Christian game and sure enough the Spirit sent in amazing men , mainly from America, who raised up the last generation of churches.
These are now wearing thin, and the Spirit is currently brooding to bring forth something completely new. Probably like Jesus and the disciples, it won't even look like church...it'll be more like living together.

More Bloody Revolutions?

I want to share something on a bigger scale using a bit of history, One of the big things about Union thinking and single eye thinking that Jesus talked about is related to the words of David...even though I make my 4 poster in Sheol there are you
and the prophets somewhere...(listen if St Paul didn't have Google then I can say that too)
You are surrounded by Darkness....or in the Midst of Darkness
Darkness is as LIGHT
we are over SHADOWED by the Most High
in the SHADOW of His wings

Matthew 5 makes it absolutely clear that the BLESSING of the Lord is to be found right in very precise spot where we hate according to the natural man....errrr...but only when He shows up.  We require Him to show up to survive.

A lot of the mad way Christians live....and this is also true of all humans too...is God showing up unexpectedly and undergirding us in completely alien situations.
We are like burning bushes that never burn up.
We are like roots out of parched ground
"Where did you lot come from?"  Ask any of us on the net here regularly making absurd spiritual type statements. They would be absurd but they are coming out of God really showing up in incredible ways.

But God showed up for Ishmael and his mum too!!!!   That's a great bit of prefiguring there by the way...read it for yourselves.
(In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attack....it may well transpire the attackers were "turned" and mindcontrolled" and the whole thing wasn't really Muslim at base, but like so many others, secret service based with Muslim as cover. If that is so my heart goes out to Muslims who now find themselves in the midst of French racial hatred.)

The context of this post of seeing the WHOLE is to do with prayer.
For centuries Christians have been praying THY KINGDOM COME and while Christians have been "meaning that" outwardly, because they may have not been very mature....
God HAS BEEN FAITHFULLY answering...but in the same manner as He answered the prayer for the Messiah

Like a ROOT out of parched ground.

If you can see in the Spirit you can see that particularly in the last 500 years we have started a completely new traversal of the heavenly Tabernacle. Any unbelievers unfamiliar with this stuff check it out for yourselves.....
The Tabernacle, (and Moses one was just a Cornflakes packet model of the real Heavenly One)see Hebrews)...had three sections.
Luther began things again when he stated simply
Salvation is by faith in the death and resurrection of Christ. Not by paying your way in Indulgences to the Pope.
Spiritually this is the BRAZEN altar ...if you stray any further out of the door you are nolonger in God's Tabernacle...you cease to be a part of the Heavenly Covenant with man....this is what Luther was saying.

Now follow all the "furniture" of the Tabernacle inwards and I guarantee you can understand that each MOVE of GOD from the Anabaptists (Laver and baptisms) onwards corresponds with all the rest of the furniture until we "come home" to the Holy of Holies, God incarnating Himself in man.

BUT SAINTS AND SOON SAINTS.....what did it "look like"?
100 Years War
Revolutions
Birth of America
Freemasonry
Millions dead
World Wars
Police States
Cold War
Threat of Nuclear War......wars and rumours of wars

Saints praying "Thy Kingdom Come"  won't be thinking God has ever answered.
But in the reverse sort of Kingdom weave whereby the underneath part of the tapestry is what we see, on top the true Spirit weave is actually what is birthed in corporate man in terms of light,  understanding,and manner of living.....
Revelation as in the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ to John makes it perfectly clear that Christ is reigning and ruling and opening seals that ARE BUILDING A HOUSE in the EARTH...it just doesn't always look like it...

Any more than the birth of the child looks any more like the child that 2 hours later, cleaned up and in blankets is presented to any visitors to see the mum and child.

YOU AND I, like DAD's allowed into childbirth....are just privileged to see the messy birth process of the KINGDOM actually arriving LIVE as it happens.
Amidst screams.
Traumas
Negatives
Disturbances
and so on

But history shows us some amazing things.
This is the well known one I was going to pinpoint.
European Revolutions and Britain

In the Spirit it was the TIME in the heavenlies for the precursor to the birth of the new PRIESTHOOD in all the nations of the world.
In Moses time this looked like the Levites all washing ceremonially and being anointed to enter the covered areas of the Tabernacle. Why covered? Because beyond this point ONLY priests could enter, and only the Spirit was going to be the Light source  . Around the 1750s onwards we are at the very earliest preparations for the Baptism in the Spirit to be outpoured again as experience across the earth in the early 20th Century Pentecostal explosion. But in the late 1700s this was still not yet.

But it WAS the birth of the Brethren understanding that we were ALL ministers and priests. So in the Spirit this was the rolling out of the new understanding of who are now the LEVITES?
Without that understanding God is not going to be able to baptise everyone in the Spirit come the twentieth century.

So how did it "look " in the natural?
Well in Europe and America it "looked" like a Freemasonry bloodbath as the peoples severed themselves from the "old priesthood " notion of the catholic heirarchies (especially France) but also from the old order patrimonies of KINGS ruling nations.    THIS WAS GOD's TIME and you either did it in a bloody way or as in England...you did it more in God.

After praying literally for a 100 years non stop, the Moravians went into all the world preaching the gospel....but the100 year  DAM of SPIRITUAL POWER affected nobody more than the UK and America. John Wesley was "Kingdom blasted" by contact with these Moravians and nothing more so than by the incident of the ship in a storm. He knew that they knew that they knew that they knew...
and in that moment he knew that he didn't........

METHODISM was only a RHEMA stage in God. RHEMA is a direct spoken Word of God similar to the manna they received in the Wilderness which went "off " in about 3 days. Methodism may be slightly renewed by now but in the 1960s they had so "gone  off" it is a wonder I could ever become a Christian at all, and as it was I never became a Christian in the Methodist church.

But in 1750s-90s Methodism and Wesley and Whitfield's preaching WAS God's rhema word to be able to affect Britain  so that we never had the bloody revolution that was planned by the occult elite.
Methodism was never meant to be a sum total denomination in its own right. Neither was the Brethren Movement later.

TODAY...the WORD is GOD IN YOU AS YOU.

You can either do it in a Luciferian way in New Age, and experience the full force of his hideousness or you can experience revival in God  and experience the change in history in a less bloody way....BUT EXPERIENCE the birth of the KINGDOM in real time you will.  For the LORD of Heaven and Earth has decreed it and is birthing it, and NO MAN can stop the prayer of 2000 years.....

THY KINGDOM COME.

Briars 16 - Systems of Control. Monarch and Pedophilia

These are conversations on Facebook today together with related subject material on Youtubes.





The reason Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew's links are important are not because it sells more copies of the tabloids and National Enquirer, it's because it is a continuation of the same window that stretches from Sutcliffe (not as random and uninvolved as you think...buddy with Saville) Saville, DuTroux a royal procurer- the Belgian incident, through to names you know via Greg Hallett, a reporter co publishing work with a Spymaster General. Yes you can dig around for every detail, but that's not the point. The point is that Maxwell (probably suicided) and all these other names are involved somehow in pedophilia...not necessarily for pedophilia's sake....but it has been used since the BOGUS Luciferian Templars right down through their education systems in boarding schools as the "unmentionable sin" whereby every leader can be blackmailed to pass any relevant Law which helps further infrastructure for those wanting to profit by it.

Democracy as an ideal hasn't actually been practical for centuries, because of this one technique alone. So when John (Facebook friend of friend) sought to take his abuser (John was raped at 14 in social services) to court, ofcourse he didn't stand a chance. The judge was probably in the same ring, or quietly wheedled out to be in the SEAT that day. Yes, the British system can tosh tosh quietly down it's nose as "unruly John" seeing his chances of justice fade, pours lighter fuel all over the defendant, then gets immediately banged up for it.....but if you have had your whole soul screwed up by someone in authorities overpowering you and raping you....wouldn't you too think nothing of "unruly tendencies"? The very system that is there to protect you damages you worse than if you had spent your life on the streets.


Who would willingly send their kids to a boarding school knowing now that every single institution in the world seems to contain some fraternity practices, compromises,Luciferian belief systems, that all practice the smiling face of rationalism and politeness?



Don't think that I am like the Good Samaritan? I am the priest who passes by on the other side. How do you mean Chris?
I was still quite "charismatic" in my views in the early 90s, and I had a couple in my house. The lady was into David Icke. Because of Wogan, which was a BBC construction, I passed by on the other side. I was charismatic. I didn't want dealings with a man kneedeep in the New Age. I never even looked into the things he said. If I had I could have been among those pushing for Jimmy Saville's arrest, for the exposure of pedophilia, for cleaning up our democratic system.
In God terms, I think you will find that most KEY ISSUES of history are buried Cinderella like, or princess and the Frog like exactly where they are not meant to be. The FACT IS....whatever else David is into...if we'd actually listened to him instead of passing by on the other side...20 years on we may have had something more like politics today instead of the sleaze dustbin that keeps all younger people and those of an artistic bent right away from the BINARY system Polling Booths.
"We'll give you a choice of TWO so you think you are choosing, plus 6 or 7 jokers to make it seem like Democracy"


"When they deny you the right to tell your stories"says Zeph Daniel listening to a Monarch programming survivor,"they are actually participating in the abuse."
Scripture says "we expose the works of Darkness".
That doesn't mean talking endlessly about them. We simply do our part in targeting the heart of the evil that we know.
To simply acknowledge what is happening in our world is NOT to fall prey to fear. Do you know what it is instead?
It is to simply acknowledge what is happening in our world.
People who targeted Apartheid in 60s America.People who targeted Apartheid in 80s South Africa. They were all tarnished. Now everyone beams hypocritically and says what a right thing to do.
This is the same spirit ofcourse that has been around since Jesus. He said you celebrate the dead prophets and Moses. Well they spoke of Me. So if you were real you would be celebrating and recognising Me.
But scaredymongers never target where Satan is now....they just emerge from their barricades of fear about 20-30 years later and take the applause as if they were involved.
I have had dealings with a charismatic brother this week that to me pretty well exemplifies late Vineyard thinking. (John Wimber's Vineyard.) So instead of obeying scripture and targeting this world where it is now, he accuses those who do of spreading fear. At which point after 6 years we have lost patience with each other. He defriended me, and while he is in this late Vineyard softly softly fear of man and devil thing, I don't particularly want to associate. The reason I am so clear on all this is because of Gideon's 300. Keeping your eyes peeled.

From a Facebook Friend raised in Satanic Ritual Abuse

I have a story for you. This past year since I became aware of the mind control fr my childhood and been seeking The Lord daily Bc my life had shut down due to being out of work, divorced, disabled ... In other words not my great devotion to The Lord. In my desperation I sought Him daily as truly my only hope for sanity and going on in every area of life. I had some moments here and there of Him visiting me. One time he sat by me. Not seen, but felt. He told me to stop repenting for things I didn't do. He was very calm and serious. He said this is very important. You must think good things about yourself. (All I could think was how I wa bossy to my little sister) maybe He already asked if I remembered looking at the sky on m walk to and from school as a child Bc I was thinkin if myself as very young. He said I saw you looking at the sky. He said you were looking at me and I was looking back at you. I did remember. I had forgotten, but in that moment I remembered and marveled Bc I did that every day my entire childhood. I looked at the sky. Idk why I just did every day. I looked and looked. My heart was so touched. To know he knew and he cared and it mattered. I just weep thinking about it. It is so beautiful that He sees us. He sees our heart. He knows me more than I know myself. Even now I struggle I thinking one good thing truly about myself. It is an insurmountable task to me. Having had the wrong god somehow foisted on me through witchcraft then the mixture in the church to push works so much. Yes you are saved by grace but now you must work Bc look how much he paid... No every step is still thefirst full of grace. I just wanted to share that all the stories along the way are not scary and sad. How to know the great love and grace except we understand the depths from which we are saved? Well thanks you so much for listenig. Another thing on my heart to tell someone anyone is that people news to know that mkultra abuses/training a do lot make a person strong. It is so valued and respected how much torture someone can go through as if the abuses really make people strong or have super powers of certain skills like sharp shooting or beig determined to go on ... No!!! They only damage people and make them highly function in certain ways and them burn out and crash irrevocably. It is The Lord who saves and makes people able to endure till the end. I would have killed myself many times over if lot for the power of The one true God. NSA, FBI. And any others listenig in - hear me- only Jesus saves. Only He makes strong. Only He has true victory. All the other forced stuff is a sham and ends in defeat. True victory is of The Lord. Please, repent, turn from these wicked ways and do good with whatever is in your power to do. Seek Jesus and so things His way of peace, truth, love. All else is a waste of your time/life. Well I gotta go call the insurance man about my busted pipes. Bless you brother and your wife and the saints by you.

We live in Him the Consuming Fire - Annalize Mouton

…when Christ came into the world, he said:
“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire,
but A BODY YOU PREPARED FOR ME;
with burnt offerings and sin offerings [all the offerings of the old Adam – praying, worship, surrendering of will, fasting, seeking of God, yes, that whole endless list of doings to get more holy and right with God]
YOU WERE NOT PLEASED
Then I [Christ] said, ‘HERE I AM—it is written about me in the scroll—
I HAVE COME TO DO YOUR WILL, O GOD.’ ”
…Then he said, “Here I am, I have come to do your will.” He SETS ASIDE the first to ESTABLISH the second. AND BY THAT WILL , WE HAVE BEEN MADE HOLY THROUGH THE SACRIFICE OF THE BODY OF JESUS CHRIST ONCE FOR ALL.

Do we get that? Really? WE HAVE BEEN MADE HOLY THROUGH THE SACRIFICE OF THE BODY OF JESUS CHRIST ONCE FOR ALL!!!!!! Climb down your own little high horses peeps, and enter into HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS ANS HOLINESS. It's a DONE DEAL! Or are we too proud to admit defeat and accept what has been offered us: FREELY????

Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. [The religious treadmill. That bloodsucking leech and his daughters who are never satisfied: give, give! Not enough, not enough!] But when THIS PRIEST [Jesus Christ, our high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek] HAD OFFERED FOR ALL TIME ONE SACRIFICE FOR SINS, he sat down at the right hand of God, and since that time HE WAITS for his enemies to be made his footstool. FOR BY ONE SACRIFICE HE HAS MADE PERFECT FOREVER THOSE WHO ARE BEING MADE HOLY.

By ONE sacrifice.

Has made perfect forever.

It is done. How long is forever? What part of this don't we get? Oh, you don't understand Annalize, we have a roll to play. Yeah? As I understand from Jesus, Paul, Peter, James and John, our role is one of resting with Him [in Oneness] in His fiery throne [from which comes lightnings and thunder] in the heavenlies where we have been placed not by ourselves, but by Him: receiving, entering in, taking/appropriating/making His inheritance our own – not just bits and pieces, but absolutely everything He offers. Dining at His table, eating the whole LAMB OF GOD, drinking the whole overflowing CUP of NEW WINE, saying thank You, thank You, thank You!

Our role is one of walking AS A NEW CREATION CREATED IN RIGHTEOUSNESS AND HOLINESS OF THE TRUTH. Trees of Life, Trees of Righteousness, a Planting of the Lord! We have put on Christ, clothed with God Himself, we have His mind, we have His love shed abroad [that means: emptied out] in our hearts, we are living His very own God-kind of ZOE/AGAPE life.

And if some dark whispering voice of the accuser try to tell us to do more, to yield more, to seek His face more, to surrender our will more, we just once again dive into His Blood, His Will, His Righteousness, His Holiness, His perfect Life, He the Spotless, Perfect One in Whom we already stand perfect and we enter still more deeply into Him and eat and eat and eat more Lamb, and drink and drink and drink more New Wine – Resurrection, Glorified LIFE! Flesh of His flesh, bone of His bone, with our Father's DNA.
Our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ.
Our Father, our Father!
You are my beloved Son in Whom I am well-pleased!
Our Father, our Father!

All because of that ONE PERFECT SACRIFICE!
Jesus, our Lord, o how we love You!
We your people, your body have come to do Your will o Lord!
We, the body You have prepared for Yourself!
We love to do Your will, O God!

Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have CONFIDENCE to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, HIS BODY, and since we have a GREAT PRIEST over the house of God, let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the FULL ASSURANCE that FAITH [His faith that is now mine] brings, having our hearts sprinkled to CLEANSE us from A GUILTY CONSCIENCE [of never yielding or being perfect enough] and having our bodies washed with pure water [all the bad DNA completely washed away]. Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess [of walking in as as the manifestation of His Resurrection and fullness of Life, here and now], for HE who promised IS FAITHFUL.

Therefore we do not lack any spiritual gifts as we eagerly wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed in and through and as us. He will also keep us firm to the end, so that we will be blameless on this day, the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful, who has called us into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

We live in Him, the CONSUMING FIRE, burning ones forever! And by the breath of His mouth [our mouths] He will slay the evil one, the anti-Christ!

Clouds and thick darkness surround Him; Righteousness and justice are the foundation of His throne. Fire goes before Him, a river of fire flows, comes out from before Him and burns up His adversaries round about. His lightnings light up the world; the earth see and tremble.… Smoke rises from his nostrils; consuming fire comes from his mouth, burning coals blaze out of it.

We are the burning coals consumed and made alive in and by Him! — with Susan Ryan, Marsha Newton-Zornes, John Castleman and 24 others.

Clocking Out?

Paul Noble posted an interesting article about the large numbers leaving churches and not because they are necessarily giving up faith....in fact quite the reverse.
I alluded to the "gap", the "transition " of 400 years between Malachi and the gospels. God's biggest things usually have lulls....or incubation periods.
-Genesis 1 the Spirit on the waters
-From Abraham's Dad right through to the real start of Israel as a nation was some 3-4 generations of just God working things through with 4 individuals....Terah, Abraham, Isaac,Jacob....then things kicked off.
-390 years in Egypt!!!
-40 bloomin years in a desert waiting for the first generation to die off
and on and on.
-The last sizeable revival in the UK apart from our youth one around 70-72, was the Welsh revival and a small Hebridean revival.

So why the gap? Well it is actually extremely related to the Malachi-Matthew gap.
Why?
Jesus wasn't just a prophet. Wasn't just a Saviour...although there is no "just" about that. No He literally was the ADAM that DIDN'T flunk out as the first one had. This 2nd and Last Adam overcame....as a man.

That's the reason for the lull.
This Last Adam is showing up again. In the saints. To walk things out.
There's as huge a leap between Jews and prophets and patriarchs to Jesus

as there is now between CHURCHGOERS, and CHURCHIANITY and LITURGIES and SERMONS and what God is doing today

Literally fulfilling John 4.
Neither on this mountain nor at Jerusalem shall the people worship me...they shall now worship in Spirit and in Truth
The pots and pans shall cry Holy to the Lord!!!!

This NEXT THING is about the knowledge of the glory of the Lord covering the earth as the waters cover the seas.....
It's about the Son of Man standing up in the Earth and being seen like lightning from the East to the West.
It's about the Righteous flourishing quite suddenly in the same way that a palm Tree does after a very long barren looking tree trunk.....Kabaaaam!

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Annelize Mouton   God has enthroned His Life in us.

The Apostolic Lineage Lie

I met an apostolic lineage guy the other day....they are the

traditional form of the more modern "apostolic covering" pyramids. In this game you have to make sure that your ministry is appointed and recognised by somebody else in a continuous line since St Peter. I suppose in their thinking saint Paul must have somehow got his gospel ratified by the Jesus apostle bigwigs in order to keep his lines going. I am assuming Canon Andrew White and Michael Terry are both in this parlour game. It is of course one of the Ancient Doors that needs lifting that the King of Glory may come in.....just as the same thing is occurring in the secular Luciferian realm with the 13 Bloodlines dating from Babel.....what in naive parlance is referred to as Old money or Venetian bloodlines. Indeed now there is scarce any difference between Church and witchcraft which is why WICCA is alongside Methodism Catholicism Unitarians in the world council of churches.

No our authority which is a flame of fire, comes like St Paul and the apostles from what we have touched, tasted and handled of Christ....this Christ we have eaten and drunk and now live.
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Why Ephesians 2 was right all along

And you [a]were dead [b]in your trespasses and sins, 2 in which you formerly walked according to the [c]course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience.
You can't routinely even quote this passage in public. Proverbs 1 describes how the spirit of folly operates and if you quote this passage you can watch it operating in real time. Masquerading as the hearer's own "independence" you will watch the involuntary smirk, eye movements, snorts, petulence,laughter,scorn....at the ludicrous idea that humans are controlled. But any Christian watches the identical behaviours everytime this issue is raised. it's not just the disagreement or opposite belief....it's the expressed spirit "Oh....the very idea!!!!?"
And it is done so forcibly, immature Christians...and perhaps sensible Christians back off.
But it IS a GOOD IDEA, because it explains how quite ordinary people turn so violent when confronted wtih the naked truths of pretty well anything Jesus spoke in the gospels. You'd have thought that the law of averages would mean such a revered man would have hit the nail on the head a few times???? I mean Mohammed did. Numerous others like Confucius did. So why is just about every phrase Jesus St Paul and the other apostles met with this involuntary series of odd movements, and eye rolling, and sneering and snorting...if the words aren't actuallyin fact 100% true and it is actually "the spirit now operating and manifesting in that son of disobedience" in front of you....who any other time appears as quite normal and evenhanded? It's always the Bible that is the problem apparently.
You get the same kind of behaviours don't you out of teenagers that don't want to hear correction, because it's just Mum being Mum...or Dad being Dad?
Well supposing when it is the Bible....supposing the answer is not
"Oh that Book the Bible...everyone knows it's not true"
Supposing that is just PRECISELY the same spirit of folly right there as a teenager snorting because he or she really needs to wash their socks...they really do smell the room out.
Supposing the Bible stating that our independence really isn't the independence we thought and actually we are behaving pretty much like puppets in matters of importance anyway "according to the prince of the power of the air?"
Which would account for why Christians get so few varieties of replies when they ask non Christians why they don't believe. The few different types of replies are now sooooo incredibly boring...but non Christians who after all are meant to be totally independant free thinking individuals always trot out the same handful of things....like mindcontrol...and it would make sense too...because the ideas all come from the same demons who tell everyone to think this way.
Stephen Fry, who in all other matters seems so knowledgeable...is a bit original at least...but on QI he did trot out the most ludicrous bilge about Jesus doing all the apocryphal miracles as a baby or a toddler. He hasn't a clue. Jesus didn't do anything until baptism in the Spirit. Neither did I. Neither did any of us Christians. Jesus was a carpenter. He moved bits of wood around. Goodness knows what Fry thinks he was jabbering on about.

Safe Door

The Holy Spirit 
unlocks the Bible. 

It's a 1000 page code
but it is encoded 
in relationship 
and covenant 

and cannot unlock outside of one.

The Way of the Lord

The ONLY way you personally are going to know you are entering the Way of the Lord, as opposed to the way of your brain....
("what seems good to a man ends in death")

is to do the BIZARRE things the Holy Spirit will get you doing. Like baptism in water and baptism in the Spirit, with spiritual gifts like speaking in other languages...praying for healing...a whole new world of Spirit which DOES NOT OBEY cause and effect....It may mean selling things, everything. it may mean going places. It may mean loving people you don't love. It may mean hating people you love. (You don't hate them ofcourse...but you may have to say and do things they in their little bubble universes find hateful and quite weird). If you know a lot then it's not that you unlearn it all...you have to completely relearn it according to Galatians 2:20...become as a little child etc.... If you were ignorant before you will find God taking you on steep learning curves, since He doesn't actually want us ignorant, but wiser than serpents and mature sons in His Kingdom operations.
All the normal rules of entrepreneurs and inventors and cutting edge artists will apply to you and more some!!!! because the Spirit that is now in you gets to the root of all things, exposing the hideous lies upon which the whole of the world system runs...so you are not just CREATING like your heavenly Father, you are creating on a brand new unseen foundation of ROCK....Jesus Christ. Every demon in hell will oppose everything you are doing in bringing the Kingdom into manifestation.

Rand Swift's The Revolution is On

Rand Swift has spent his time in the trenches as a church planter, international speaker, spiritual revolutionary for Jesus and an observer of the Christian faith. He speaks as a voice of experience from success and failure, uncovering with unique insights secrets of the faith that are compelling to say the least. His concepts on spiritual warfare and the repolarization of the Jesus followers various arena's of influence (which he refers to as a 'metron') bring a fresh look on the individual mission the person rooted in Christ is called into. As Swift says, "To change things on a purely physical level and not address the spiritual source that is the animating power behind the scenes only rearranges temporarily the furniture in the room, but if you change the spirit of a thing, you change its entire future and everything expressed from that point on. Everything in life at its fundamental core is spirit and nothing is what it appears to be. Change the spirit of a thing and you change the future." Swift is considered a 'Foundationalist' (not to be confused with 'fundamentalist') and a prophetic voice with insights toward the future of the global Jesus Revolution. In The Revolution Is On! Swift draws back the curtain on the supernatural discussing his own personal confrontations with the demonic and the divine.

As he looks toward the future he sees a global re-spiriting, or repolarization of all things ultimately to the life giving, liberating Spirit of Jesus Christ filling all the earth with the rich and overflowing infinite splendors of God, but between here and there remains a huge battle between light and darkness culminating in a spiritual Armageddon in a naked clash of supernatural powers. We are engaged in a global exorcism of all spiritual energy that is anti-to the infinite and unstoppable nature of (eternal) life. His mission now is a mission of awareness first a view of inspiring spiritual warriors press the cause of supra-natural freedom in every geographical substructure, beginning with the liberation of people, their neighbors, neighborhoods, villages and cities from the devouring oppression perpetrated by dark energies seeking to devour lives instead of release them into the infinite nature of unbound and inexhaustible (eternal) life. Yup...it's the Jesus mission. The Revolution Is ON! - indeed.

Who Do you Say that I am ? by Robert D Torango

A Time Of Trumpets Part Seven


“Jesus – Let The Gathering Be Unto Him”
Heb 12:22-29

22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.

It’s all about Jesus! He is the one Supreme Lord and King that the Father has given all things unto. At His Name, every knee will bow and every tongue will confess He is Lord! He is the Anointed One, made both Lord and Christ, from whom all blessings flow. Without Him, there is no salvation nor is there any conciliation. It is only because of His willingness to become the Ultimate Sacrifice in order to bring all humanity back into right standing with the Father. He died a horrible death on a rugged, lonely cross in order to reconcile us and free us from sin and death. He took on humanity to become our Elder Brother and to overcome everything that our humanity was subjected unto by the design of God. Because of Him, we now have access to the treasures of the Father. He made us to be Joint-Heirs of His inheritance, signing over to us all that the Father has given to Him, signed and sealed by His own divine blood. No man can ever disannul our part in His great salvation, as He is our Kinsman Redeemer, having made us bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. We are not mere followers of Jesus, we are His genetic counterpart. He bears the DNA of the Father and through Him, we also bear that Divine Nuclear Attribute. It is ONLY THROUGH HIM that we have this familial connection, as He has the genetic code by which we gain access to that Divine Attribute. Without Jesus we are only human. If we deny Jesus, we deny our part in the Divine Lineage of Almighty God. Jesus is the blood-line by which we are made partakers of the Divine Nature.

He is not merely a Teacher or Master, one of many that have become religious icons, but He is THE GATEWAY into the glorious substance of the Father. Some would have us believe that there is more than one way to God and that Jesus is only one of many ways to enter into the graces of God. Some even tell us that Jesus never existed, that there is no evidence of a historical Jesus and that He was only a fictional character made up by a religious sect in order to gain control over people’s lives. There has always been an agenda throughout the past 2 millenniums to discredit Jesus and to try to remove Him from the consciousness of mankind. Jesus is without a doubt the most reviled spiritual figure in the history of the world, enduring constant blasphemous attacks against His teachings and His Lordship that no other religious figure has ever had to experience. Today, Jesus can be lampooned by every diabolical buffoon that wants to try to destroy His character and ministry by any means they desire. He has been made fun of in movies, in literature, in comedy routines, on television, in cartoons and more. However, don’t anyone dare to do the same to Mohammed, or Buddha, or Brahma, or any other god that people follow. We know that the reason for this unbalanced attack against all things concerning Jesus is because the spirit of Anti-Christ is in the world, seeking to defame and replace the true Jesus with an alternative Christ, which many have now termed simply a “Christ”, which is a generic term that seeks to remove the name of Jesus from any conscious thought concerning the spiritual journey into God. By removing Jesus from this spiritual equation, they think that they can now enter into the fullness of God through their own, self-made “Christ” which appeals to those that want all of the benefits of knowing God without knowing His Son, Jesus, the Christ of God. It is a fool’s errand, a new age agenda that has found a foothold in the ranks of sonship and kingdom groups.
When Charlotte and I first started seeing the Kingdom Message, there were always those that would come into our meetings that tried to pervert the Message of the Kingdom of God by discrediting Jesus through a methodology of making Him less than what the scriptures declare Him to be. In the past, it was always a subtle, serpentine maneuvering of double entendres and shadowy terms that were meant to implant their seed of subversion in the minds of the young and naïve believers that were in our midst. At that time, it was so amateurish in its presentation that it posed little threat to us that were grounded and rooted in the Truth. However, as time has passed, there is now a true AGENDA at hand, one which is very slick and bold when it comes to speaking against the Lordship of Jesus. It has become bold by reason of the acceptance of such drivel by those very ones that should know better, but have become lukewarm and apathetic when it comes to defending the Faith that has been delivered to us by God. Today, there are no watchmen on the walls, no standard to be raised, no plumbline in the hands of the ministry to keep the way of life. Jesus is not fashionable in today’s world, being relegated to a caricature of outdated symbolism. Jesus isn’t seen as relevant anymore, being cast as something for the religious crowds to believe in, but not the modern, socially involved, contemporary free-thinkers that seem to be filling the ranks of non-believers. It has become trendy to be accepting of everything and anything that smacks of rebellion toward the Reign and Rule of Jesus Christ. The Jesus Agenda is alive and well under the guidance of the spirit of delusion that has captivated this present generation. This Agenda seeks to blur all the lines of Truth, until there is no longer a contrast between good and evil, right and wrong, truth and error, Christ and Anti-Christ. I have heard a subtle indifference begin to creep into the message that is coming from those that are ministering “sound good” truths, which sound good to the ego of man and makes everyone “feel” better about themselves. I have heard that we shouldn’t see both good and evil anymore, that everything is good and evil is an illusion. I have heard that we are all Christ, equal to Jesus and maybe even a little greater than Jesus. I have heard that the concept of sin and a sin nature is nothing more than a lie perpetrated by some religious Jewish zealots. Taken at face value, if such a thing were true, then we never did sin and we never did need a Savior for our sin, which means that Jesus never did die for our sins but was only a good man that was killed by Jews a long time ago. I have heard that we can bypass Jesus into the Father, that Jesus isn’t the Door at all, but there is no difference between us and Jesus. I have heard many other statements expressed that are even more anti-christ in nature that have been tolerated by those that call themselves “kingdom” and this apathy has given these type of mindsets equal footing with the true kingdom message.

“Will The Real Jesus Please Stand Up?”

Inexplicably, those that try to convince others that Jesus is not a historical person but a mythical character made up by religious zealots still quote what Jesus says in the scriptures. Even though they tell us that the scriptures are not inspired by the Holy Spirit of God! Of course, the only reason they quote the scriptures or mention Jesus is to gain the trust of those that they are trying to deceive regarding the Lordship of Jesus. The Jesus they are mentioning is NOT the Jesus that the scriptures describe. In the 1960’s there was a Television program titled, “To Tell The Truth.” The show consisted of a panel of celebrities that were presented with 3 or 4 individuals that all claimed to be a certain person. Only one of them was the true person and the others were impostors. The panel were given a limited amount of questions to ask of the contestants and then try to guess which one is the real person. When the time to reveal who was the true individual, the host would say, “Would the real (whatever name they went by) please stand up?” I feel like we are in that same scenario today with so many counterfeit impostors being presented to us by those that claim to have the true message regarding Jesus. With so many muddied concepts being presented to us, it begs the question to be asked, “Would the real Jesus please stand up?”

I believe this is a vital truth for all of us that are being gathered into Jesus Christ at the sounding of the trumpets of God. The gathering is in Him! Without Jesus, there is no Christ. You cannot remove Jesus from your consciousness and still think that you are the Christ. The Ego of Self is one of the great deceptions in the midst of God’s people today and that goes beyond just hardcore New Agers. The institutionalized church system also preaches “another Jesus” that is just as deceptive as the Cosmic Christ message of the New Age movement. Their Jesus is one filled with revenge and judgment, coming back to earth to set things right and bringing utter destruction and eternal damnation to all that have not been following His teachings. Their Jesus is away somewhere in outer space, waiting to come back to earth to set up his kingdom. Each branch of Christian denominations has their own brand of Jesus and they are all planning on having their own personal mansion right next door to His! It is time to reveal the True Lord Jesus Christ, and He will indeed be standing up in the hearts of His first-fruit company of sons as He brings down the kingdoms of men and establishes the Kingdom of God in all mankind. It is to this end that we are being called into this special place in Christ. We are being called into this place to be changed and transformed, cleansed and purified, made whole and complete in Jesus Christ. It is not our mission to change everyone’s mind about the real Jesus. Our calling is not to the world and to change the church world’s mindset. That is the Father’s business. We are called to speak to the elect, the chosen of the Lord, the lively stones of His choosing, the vessels of Christ that have been preordained and predestinated to hear such a Word. It is not my concern to try to convince those that are ministering such new age abominations to change their message and renounce their ways. My mission is to blow the trumpet into the hearts and mind of those that are called to a higher purpose in God, who are being drawn aside from their first love and are being delayed by reason of this flirtatious affair with such false teachings. Do not think that this is just some kind of rant from an intolerant preacher that wants to stir up trouble. I am speaking to those that know better than to allow these elements of soulish desires to captivate your mind with such dark and deadly concepts. Let others go and do what they want to do, but for you that are the chosen of the Lord it is not child’s play, it is your very life.
It seems that a large amount of saints do not feel that it is a serious matter to see the Pattern Son, Jesus Christ, be thrown aside. Some may think that I am just beating an old drum, not really in tune with the present viewpoint of God and how He deals with mankind. I am amazed at how many today are even questioning whether God exists or whether Jesus and the Holy Scriptures are nothing more than made up stories. Even scholars, both in today’s world and also in the early church, are questioning whether the miracles listed in the scriptures actually took place or whether they were just allegorical. I hear so many on the social media sites asking questions like, “how do we know God is real?” or “how do we know the events in the bible actually took place?” “Show me evidence that God is real!” Faith is something foreign to these that are so earthly minded and full of cynicism and doubt. They are searching for an answer to their questions, but they don’t understand the role faith plays in finding that which they are seeking after. They want a sign, an outward demonstration that God exists and that He is truly their Father. But, an evil and adulterous generation seeks after signs and proofs concerning God and His plan for creation. The natural mind CANNOT receive the things of God. God is not something that you can put in a bottle or take a sample of and study under a microscope. He is a spirit and those that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and truth.
The fact of the matter is that many of those that are now teaching new age concepts had their beginnings in Jesus and at one time had a relationship with the Son of God as their Lord and Savior. I would have to think that it was a very shallow relationship to be drawn off into such deception at this time of their life, but at that original encounter, they knew Jesus as Lord. I myself could never deny Him simply because He is more than a religious figure to me. I know Him personally and intimately. It was at the age of 15, on the 5th day of September, 1965 when I walked into a little Pentecostal church in Ecorse, Michigan and had a personal encounter with Jesus Christ. I wasn’t indoctrinated before I met Him. This was the very first church I had ever walked into. The preacher was an old-fashioned Pentecostal minister that preached with his dentures in his pocket. I couldn’t understand a word he was saying! I didn’t hear the gospel or the message of the church, but I did have an extraordinary encounter with Jesus that night, at which I felt a physical weight drop off my chest that I did not even know was present until it left. For the first time in my young life, I felt light and free and I knew I would never be the same again. It was Jesus, not the preacher or the church that washed me in the regenerative blood of the Lamb, it was Jesus Himself. It wasn’t Buddha, or Mohammed or any other religious figure that changed my heart, it was Jesus Christ, the Son of God. As I have called upon His name throughout the years, I have been healed, restored, baptized in the spirit, seen Him perform miracles, wept and cried as His presence wrapped itself around me, witnessed the same events in others and all of this has given me all the proof I need that Jesus is indeed who He said He was. The same spirit that raised Him from the dead, moved through the early church in signs and wonders, brought kings to their knees and caused kingdoms to give Him allegiance, has been upon me all the days that I have served Him. He is my Lord, my King, my Friend, my closest confidante. He has moved for me in ways that most of you may find unbelievable. Not mere religion, dear folks, I am talking about a walk of life and a relationship that even now continues to grow ever more real and sacred. If someone did indeed try to make up a religious figure for political and religious agendas so many years ago, it is beyond the realm of sanity to think that such a fictional character could bring the world to acknowledge such a figure. Time stood still in the eyes of the world and the whole world views history as having took place either before the death of Jesus Christ or after the death of Jesus Christ. Yet, there are today nincompoops in our midst that still try to convince the ignorant and naïve that Jesus was nothing more than a myth. Silly Wabbits. Their hearts are like empty sepulchers and the spirit of the anti-christ is entrenched within the psyche of their minds, using them like puppets that are attached to the strings of a Master Puppeteer, speaking without shame or any sense of Godly reverence. They are counterfeits, impostors, false teachers, serpents operating out of the ancient spirit of deception and sleight of hand. They speak of themselves as gods, false christs, purveyors of a “higher consciousness”, truth seekers, enlightened masters, but they are nothing but clouds without rain, actors playing a part, speaking of things that they have not attained unto. For all the self glorification that the new age message spouts forth, none of the individuals that speak of such mysterious secrets of enlightenment even remotely resemble such a reality. They are just men and women, like any other earthly creature that ever walked the earth. There is no glory to be found in them, no life giving spirit, no glorious illumination, only words that appeal to the soulish realm of the mind. Their message has the sound of dry leaves, crackling and crumbling to pieces when handled. It is an empty message because it has removed Jesus from its content. It is all about the glory of the fleshly mind, self glorification, the deity of self, trying to be God through words that fall out of their mouth like maggots, rotten and vile. Too strong for you? I pray the Lord Jesus will open your eyes to the magnitude of deception that is being celebrated right in the midst of the sons of God. It is time to cut off the house of flesh from the midst of us and to cleanse the heavens. The trumpet is sounding and it is sounding in a clear voice that is bringing judgment to all the elect as we gather unto the Lord Jesus Christ.

The following quote is from one of the most anointed writers of our time. J Preston Eby has long held in the spirit for the pure word of the Kingdom of God to be heard in the earth and in this portion of his series on the Book of Revelation he makes such a clear distinction between truth and error concerning Jesus Christ that I am compelled to share it with you. I pray it will strike your heart as it did mine.

It is from the series, “From The Candlestick To The Throne”, Part 3, The Revelation Of Jesus Christ. Online at www.kingdombiblestudies.org.
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THE REVELATION OF — WHICH CHRIST?
We speak too carelessly of the deep and sacred things of God. One of the greatest truths ever kept hidden from the eyes of men is the truth about the revelation of Jesus Christ. I must hastily add, the revelation is not the revelation of "Jesus" — neither is it the revelation of "Christ." It is the revelation of JESUS CHRIST! Although Jesus and Christ are forever one and inseparable, yet there are distinct revelations and manifestations of each one. Jesus simply means Saviour. "Thou shalt call His name Jesus (Yashua, Yahweh is Salvation), for He shall save His people from their sins" (Mat. 1:21). This was the word of the angel Gabriel to Mary! The name Jesus reveals His Saviourship. Jesus asked His disciples one day, "Whom say ye that I am?" And Simon Peter answered and said, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God!" And Jesus answered and said unto him, "Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven" (Mat. 16:16-17).
The disciples knew that they had been walking, talking, and eating with Jesus of Nazareth. But it took a revelation of the Spirit for them to see that this same Jesus of Nazareth was also "the Christ, the Son of the living God." When Jesus was born, heavenly angels announced His birth to the startled shepherds, saying, "For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord" (Lk. 2:11). You see, despite the fact that a large percentage of present day believers frequently use the word Christ to refer to the Lord Jesus, very few people even know what the word means, much less understand the message behind it. Christ is not Jesus’ last name! Christ is not an English word — it’s a Greek word. Why translators have neglected to translate it for so many years, I don’t know. But because they did not translate it, but merely brought it over into the English virtually in its Greek form, generations of Christians have missed out on its great meaning and significance. For hundreds of years western believers have ignorantly used the word Christ merely as a religious title!
The plain truth is the word Christ means Anointed. Although we generally think of the word anointed in a spiritual context, the word in and of itself isn’t spiritual. Anointed simply means to pour over, smear on and rub into. When you go to the beach, you anoint yourself with suntan lotion. So there’s nothing particularly special about the generic word anoint. But when you begin to talk about Jesus being TheChrist, the One who has been sent by God and anointed with God’s reconciling, quickening, saving, transforming power, the word becomes very, very special. It takes on great significance, not just because it’s some kind of mystical, religious term, but because of the powerful, practical nature of what the anointing of God is, and can do!
Christ is the transliteration of the Greek word "Christos," which simply means one anointed with holy oil. The Hebrew "Mashiach," from which we get our word Messiah, has the same meaning as the Greek word "Christos," which is the anointed. It comes from a root word which simply means to smear or rub with oil. The first time we meet with holy oil in the scriptures is in the narrative of Jacob’s experience at Bethel. "And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place! . . . And Jacob took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it. And he called the name of that place Beth-el." And from that memorable morning, all through the Old Testament, wherever there was a spot of common earth to be separated unto God and consecrated, or a common object to be dedicated to holy use, or a common man to be set apart and sanctified as a priest, or a sovereign to be enthroned and crowned, Jacob’s holy oil was always employed for that sacred purpose. Holy oil became one of the most impressive and important, as well as one of the most universal, of all the sacramental signs and seals in the Old Testament economy.
It continued to be so, till all consecration, and all sacrifice, and all priesthood, and all sovereignty came to their consummation in Jesus, the Christ of God — the Anointed of Yahweh! And thus it is that His Old Testament name, The Messiah, and His New Testament name, The Christ, and His English name, The Anointed One, contain and convey to us the whole heavenly history of His election from everlasting, His predestination, His incarnation, His calling, His consecration, and His complete equipment, in every way, for all the position and ministry and glory and dominion He now fills as the Son of God. When our Lord first announced Himself to Israel, He opened the book of Isaiah, and found the place where it was written of Him: "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor: He hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, and to set at liberty them that are bruised." This, then, is the true Messiah, the true Christ, the true Anointed — the Christ of God! Even as Peter opened his mouth, and began to preach Christ to Cornelius, and to all his house, in these very words: "How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost, and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with Him."
And this is how this great name, "The Christ," came to be given to the man, Jesus of Nazareth, above all other men. Almighty God took that chosen man and anointed Him, as man had never been before, with the Holy Ghost. That is to say, God filled the man Jesus of Nazareth as full as human nature could hold of the mind, and the spirit, and the grace, and the glory, and the power of the Divine Nature. And having so anointed Him, God then presented Him to Israel, and through Israel to the whole world, as the Son of God in human flesh.
Some say that Christ is the anointing, but that is not quite the truth. Jesus the Christ is the anointed, the anointed one, and Christ is the one anointed, not the anointing. The oil typifies the anoint-ing,but the one upon whom the oil was poured was the anoint-ed. Others teach that Jesus "had the Christ" or that "the Christ was in Jesus." Those terms are foreign to scripture and make no sense whatsoever. The Christ is not something that came upon Jesus or that dwelt in Jesus — the Christ is who and what Jesus was and is! "Thou art the Christ..." (Mat. 16:16). "God has made this same Jesus both Lord and Christ" (Acts 2:36). "Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God" (I Jn. 5:1). Jesus was not the oil — He was the prophet, priest, and king upon whom the oil was poured! He is not the anoint-ing — He is the anoint-ed!
While we rejoice in the wonderful fact that Jesus is the Christ, the deeper truth is that as Jesus is the Anointed, or the Christ, even so are we! Contrary to popular teaching Christ is not only the one man, Jesus — not merely one person, but many. "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!" (I Cor. 12:12). In union with Jesus Christ, the anointing which made Jesus the Christ now makes you and me the Christ. It is because "the Anointed" is in us, and we are in Him! We have received of HIS ANOINTING. "But the anointing which ye have received of Him abideth in you...and ye shall abide in Him" (I Jn. 2:27). According to this passage the anointing which we have received from Him has now become our anointing because we abide or dwell in Him. Jesus Christ is THE ANOINTED ONE and we are members of His body — therefore we are IN THE ANOINTED ONE and share HIS ANOINTING. It is not Christ as the anointing that makes us the anointed, it is our participation in the very substance of Christ — the Anointed One — that makes us anointed! He is not our anointing — the anointing whichHe received from the Father is now also our anointing!
The spirit of sonship from God is the holy oil and Jesus Christ is the Head that was first anointed with that oil. Many do not understand this simple truth! Therefore they try to separate "Christ" from "Jesus Christ." Jesus the Christ is the Head of this body, and the very life and reality of this body which we are. The same anointing that is poured upon the Head-Christ flows all the way down to the feet of the Christ-Body, so that every member of the body is anointed with the same anointing as the Head. The Head is not the anointing! The Head is the Anointed, and as members of His body we have received from Him the same anointing! It is impossible to separate Jesus from the Christ, or Christ from Jesus Christ, just as it is impossible to separate ourselves from the Christ of God. When we are truly apprehended of the Father as sons of God, in the same family and order as Jesus, we receive the same spirit of sonship from the Father, which is the anointing that makes us THE ANOINTED SON! Flesh and blood cannot reveal this truth to our hearts! The Father, from whom issues the spirit of sonship, must reveal it within ourselves by the Spirit! It is the Spirit that searches out the mysteries of the kingdom of God and all the deep things of God, and that same spirit must reveal these truths to His apprehended ones! As I write these lines and make a feeble attempt to set forth to the Lord’s precious elect what I see in the Spirit, I sense the presence and power of the same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead!
There is no point in over emphasizing this fact, but we want to clearly establish the truth that "Christ" is not something Jesus possessed, but it is who and what HE IS. It is not "Christ" as something or someone separate from Jesus that we have received, and in whom we live, but it is JESUS CHRIST who is our very own reality. Let us note but a few of the many passages that make this truth plain. "Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ, were baptized into His death?" (Rom. 6:3). "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus" (Rom. 8:1). "But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ" (Rom. 13:14). "Unto...them which are sanctified in Christ Jesus" (I Cor. 1:2). "But of Him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption" (I Cor. 1:30). "Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christis in you, except ye be reprobates?" (II Cor. 13:5). "For ye are all one in Christ Jesus" (Gal. 3:28). "And hath...made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus" (Eph. 2:6). "For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works..." (Eph. 2:10).
Christ means THE ANOINTED! It will be very helpful if in every place in the New Testament where the word Christ appears we would read it with the understanding that it means the Anointed or the anointed One. Anointed with the spirit of sonship we shall overcome in every area, triumphing gloriously in every situation, and will come forth in His victory over all things! Our lives have been foreordained by the Father to walk this path unto sonship. It is a path that was predestined for us in Christ Jesus before the world began. This path was established in Christ for all who are apprehended of the Father to the glory of manifest sonship. It is not "Christ" as something other than Jesus that energizes us, but it is the risen, ascended, glorified, spiritualized, and universalized Jesus Christ who is the genetics of our very own sonship! Therefore we are assured that we shall be able to attain to the same fullness of sonship as it is fulfilled in our Lord Jesus the Christ! What a word! What a hope! Hallelujah!
With this exhortation fresh upon our minds, let us think a little further about the book of Revelation as THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST. Again I say, it is not simply the revelation of "Jesus," nor is it merely the revelation of "Christ." It is the revelation of J-E-S-U-S C-H-R-I-S-T! Nothing more, and nothing less. There is "another Jesus" and "another Christ" that is proclaimed today by the New Age movement, and the concept of some who call themselves kingdom people and sons of God is not far removed from this other Jesus and this other Christ.
The New Age terminology can be mistakenly taken for Kingdom Truth. They speak much of the kingdom of God within man, of Christ within man, of love, mercy, goodness, and spiritual perfection and oneness with God. The ancient serpent is wise, shrewd, crafty and subtle, and he knows that the most effectual way to instill error into the minds of the unwary is to use old and precious words and put a new meaning into them. So when his messengers, masquerading as "ministers of righteousness," seek to lead, if possible, the very elect astray, they use the old precious words, but put an entirely different and false meaning. When they talk about God and our heavenly Father they don’t mean the God of the Bible, the personal God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. They mean the impersonal energy that is resident in all things animate and inanimate. They talk of atonement, but they do not mean at all the redemptive death of Jesus Christ on our behalf by which we are reconciled to God by His blood. They mean the at-one-ment in which we recognize our oneness with all things, a cosmic unity, not with the Creator, but within ourselves and with the creation. Jesus has nothing to do with it at all, except as a great Teacher, a Way-shower, revealing to us the divine potential inherent in every man. They believe there are many ways to God — Jesus is merely a way given to Christians — one of many ways to God.
What do the New Age people look to for salvation? A complete or perfect union with this "inexorable principle" or "divine energy" permeating all things, which is their god! It is the same thing as Nirvana of the Buddhist, Brahma of the Hindu — an imaginary god-consciousness, into which all will finally be absorbed. And this is attained by discovering and developing your "inner self" — which "inner self" is the corrupted soul rather than the regenerated spirit! And when they talk about Christ, they do not mean at all our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, the actual historic Jesus who lived and died for us, who rose from the dead, ascended up to the right hand of God, and came back again in mighty spirit-power. Oh, no! They mean an "ideal Christ, or a "Christ principle" that is in every man! They mean the "inner self" of the soul! They see God as the life principle of every man and Christ is the name that is given to man once he has awakened to his godhood. Now, it is true that the seed of God is in every man! But no man is "Christ," that is, an anointed one, until the seed of God in him is quickened, germinated, and empowered by the infusion of God’s Holy Spirit! Jesus, in the New Age view, was no more the Son of God than the drunk in the gutter. He was simply a good man, a highly developed man, a "Master-Spirit" who developed the Christ principle within him and showed men how to awaken to their true inner self. According to their teaching Jesus was a man who went through many incarnations. These incarnations of Jesus took the form of Confucius, Buddha, Moses, David, and many others. These lives were his days at school, and he arrived at a state of consciousness, while manifesting as Jesus of Nazareth, where he remembered his past lives. They see no need for Jesus as the Lamb slain, for redemption, justification, regeneration, new birth, sanctification, baptism in the Holy Spirit, or any other New Testament experience. Men don’t need to be saved, reconciled to God, or cleansed by the washing of regeneration — just awakened to the god within! What the New Age movement has done in America and other western nations is to combine Christian terminology with the tenets of various eastern religions, wrap them all up in a new package, and put a label on the package which guarantees everyone salvation without a Saviour! And what some in this Kingdom walk have done is create their own hybrid strain of sonship, speaking Kingdom truth deadly laced with pagan New Age concepts!
The New Age movement is a modern form of eastern pagan religion — mingled with the darkness of the occult. While they do espouse some principles that contain truth, these are at best but half-truths, which are more deadly than the outright lie! All true reality of the living Jesus Christ is missing — they know not the Lord Jesus as Saviour, nor the cleansing power of His blood, nor the quickening, regenerating work of the Holy Spirit, nor the authority of His name, nor the baptism in His Spirit, nor the fellowship of His body, nor the truth of the Holy Scriptures — in short they are at best bastard sons, subtle counterfeits, and there is no light in them for the light they do have is darkness, merely their own supposed inherent godhood, unquickened and unregenerated, which is the godhood of the self, old Adam — not the true and living God! This "inner self" of all men is the "Cosmic Christ" of the New Age!
The book of Revelation is not the revelation of this Cosmic Christ, nor of a Christ principle, nor of the old inner self of unregenerated men — it is the revelation of the crucified, risen, ascended, glorified, spiritualized, universalized JESUS CHRIST who is Saviour of all men and Lord of all! It is the revelation of Jesus Christ as Head and body in the earth by the power of the spirit of His sonship! Remember, dear ones, that there is no truth beyond Jesus Christ! He has been given the name which is above every name in the heavens and in the earth! To Him has been given all power and all authority in heaven and in earth! Neither is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven by which we must be saved! He is the Head of all principality and power! He is the prince of the kings of the earth! He is the firstborn among many brethren! He is King of kings and Lord of lords! He is the Mighty God and the Everlasting Father! In Him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily! We are the body in which His fullness is revealed! Those who seek an ultimate truth beyond Jesus Christ, an ultimate reality beyond Him, will discover to their dreadful dismay that they have taken a fearful detour into the realms of outer darkness! (End Quote)
It is time to shine the light on the darkness. Let us all guard our spirit and be sober in the Day of the Lord. More to come.
By Robert D Torango