Battle for the minds of men

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The Mystery of God is Finished
The place of His sanctuary, which is our minds, will be cast down, polluted and need serious cleansing. Good thing that Yeshua cleansed the temple at the start of His ministry and then again at the end of His earthly ministry for us. During the Feast of Trumpets come all the last warnings that this world will receive before the plagues fall. In Yeshua’s ministry you will find there the promise that He will cleanse His temple twice. At the start when you first gave your heart to Yeshua and received the baptism of the Holy Spirit which is the first cleansing. So your first cleansing of your temple by Yeshua through the Holy Spirit starts your journey with Him. At the end, with what is called the latter rain there will be a greater baptism called the Baptism of Fire. In order to understand the third baptism which is of fire, you need to understand that God is a consuming fire. Sin is consumed, and if the sinner is still entangled in the sin, he too will be consumed.

In that day, when the Lord returns, if you are not prepared to stand before God, the consuming fire, then “ As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.”

If you are prepared to stand before God, washed by the blood of the Lamb, baptized by the Holy Spirit, living the new life found in Christ, prepared by His Word for this day because you have been baptized with fire, you will be changed from mortal to immortal to live with the Lord for all eternity when He returns to gather you home.

Baptism by fire needs to be understood in the context of what God is preparing His people for. God is preparing His people to be with Him forever. As a God of consuming fire, it is important that we are baptized by the fire, so that we can have a taste of what it is like to be before a Holy Consuming Fire God; "the sinners of Zion are afraid, fearfulness has surpassed the hyprocrites, who amoung us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who amoung us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?"

It should be the hope of all believers to be able to stand in that day and say “this is my God, and I shall dwell with Him forever in the devouring fire.” As the next verse of Isaiah 33 indicates, it takes the upright, believing saint to walk in the devouring fire with God.

 

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“He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil. We need to prepare ourselves to meet the Lord when he returns. We need to understand that God is real and a consuming fire. Since God has not been presented in this light, it is important that you gain an imagery of reality that has not been approached by but a few writers like the author of Hebrews. Paul.

We shall be glad and rejoice for when we see this big ball of fire at His Coming, we will not see it as the world see it. It will not be the day of His Wrath but the Day of Our Redemption for us. It is the same fire, but for those who have been told to be afraid of the eternal fire, it is damnation they see. For those that are looking for a God who is a consuming fire, they see redemption and salvation. Like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, they will not be burned up. They will be able to live in the midst of the fire with God.

We will dwell in the midst of the fire forever with our God. That is why there is no need for the light of the sun or moon in the New Heaven and New Earth, for God is our light.

When that day comes, where you are face to face with God, the consuming fire, and if all your labors are burnt up and you suffer loss, but you are saved because you see your God at work in all this, then you were prepared for this by God himself. For the world does not teach you to be prepared for a consuming fire of a God. We have that beautiful promise that it will not burn us up.

The importance of baptism by fire is the final preparation to meet God and it is found in the work of the Holy Spirit in greater measure than that which was in the first baptism which is known as the early rain. The early rain is just a sample of the cleansing by fire done seven times in all of us before the Second Coming. Like Yeshua said, “I am come to send fire on the earth, and what will I, if it be already kindled?”

Sins are consumed by fire and all the wicked that are attached to their sins are also consumed by fire. It will not be any different for the sinner as it is for Lucifer.

Many have tried to explain the unquenchable fire, but looking at it in the light that our God is a consuming fire, it will change the way that you see what Yeshua was talking about.

 

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May your life be a living sacrifice, and that sin may not be found in you. Everything in the temple service shows that sins and the bodies that harbor sins are burnt up to ashes before God. The burning of sins is performed in the outer court at the altar of sacrifice. Sin will melt like wax before the fire in the presence of God.

The importance of repentance and purification before the coming of the Lord can not be stressed enough. It is an almighty powerful, Holy God that will be coming in all His glory.

Fire from God destroys evil, sin, sinner and the whole earth. Fire will also display the creative powers of God. Those that are of the Lord will witness the awesome power of God’s creative power. When God creates the New Earth, they will witness the difference between what is left behind them as they move to the Garden of Eden before them.

 

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Knowing God is in the midst of the fire and it will not be quenched, we need our hearts to want to be with Him, to dwell where He dwells forever. Get a feel for what experience you would be in for if the Holy Spirit descended upon you tonight. Pray for Yeshua to teach you true repentance as only he knows the depth of sin. Trust him who will lead you to a closer experience with God that which you will never understand the depth of knowledge and wisdom of God and length that Satan will go to destroy your connection with God. See God in a new light.

Here is a question that every believer should place in their heart. “Will I be able to stand before God?” Who can stand before his indigination? And who can abide in the fireceness of his anger? His fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him. I pray it will not be you who says to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: 17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?”

We may die, but we have the promise of the resurrection on the last day and the home in heaven with God standing on a sea of glass mingled with fire.

 

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Have faith so strong that when the Lord comes, with all fire and damnation, it washes over you in review and redemption; for you have gone before the Lord and opened the Book of Your Life, Yeshua has covered your sins with His blood and you have gone out and sinned no more by the grace of God.

 

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Final Sanctification
Does sanctification have a time and a place in Christian experience like Pentecost to the upper room for the disciples? Sanctification is a process of God’s grace by which the believer is separated from sin and becomes dedicated to God’s righteousness as the truth become known to them. Accomplished by the Word of God, the truth is given by the Holy Spirit. Let’s face it, if reading the Word of God does not come with the Holy Spirit enlightening it, you will either find yourself trying to do it according to how it reads, or not do it because you see no application to your own life.

Sanctification results in holiness. It is purification from the guilt and power of sin. It is more than that, it is the power to walk in the truth and the righteousness of the spirit of the laws and God’s intent as Yeshua did. Sanctification is a separation from the world and setting yourself apart for God’s service.

 

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It is a concept found throughout the Bible. Spoken of as holy or set apart in the Old Testament whether is was in the land of Canaan, the city of Jerusalem, the tabernacle, the Temple, the Sabbath, the feasts, the prophets, the priests or their garments. Even God is sanctified by the witness of believers to His power and glory.

It is seen in the answers the believers give when someone asks them for the reason for their hope. His judgments upon sin are handled at a certain appointed time. We are to be prepared for the appointed time and what better than the time that God appoints for these tasks.

Yeshua also was “sanctified and sent into the world” Sanctification can be found in the Day of Atonement as the process by which God does the final purification of the believer. Sanctification’s first start in the believer’s new life is at the sacrificial death of Christ. Apostle Paul noted that God has chosen and reconciled us to Himself in Christ for the purpose of sanctification, that we should be holy and blameless before God and zealous of good works. Old Testament sacrifices did not take away sin, but they offered the symbolism of sanctification for the purifying of the flesh.

 

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The blood of the new covenant, however, goes far beyond this ritual on the purification of the body. It is where the reality of what Yeshua has done for you should not be cast aside or treated lightly. It is the most important aspect of sanctification in the heavenly sanctuary and your salvation is something we should nopt treat so lightly.

The offering of Christ’s body and blood serves make a way for purging our conscience from “dead works to serve the living God”. Because our cleansing from sin is made possible only by Christ’s death and resurrection, we are “sanctified in Christ Yeshua”.

Sanctification is God’s Work. We are sanctified by the work of all three working in our lives. We are sanctified by God the Father , by God the Son , and by God the Holy Spirit

So what is all these sanctification processes suppose to do for us? Sanctification is a process that continues during our lives as believers. Until the last generation, where those who are alive and awaiting the Lord’s return, it has been that only after death are the saints referred to as “perfect”.

 

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Sanctification involves the believers in the process and as a responsibility as commanded in the Bible. We are commanded to be holy; to be perfect and to present your members as slaves of righteousness for holiness and purity as it is the Will of God.

This will take effort on our part, working with the Holy Spirit to put to the death the evil deeds of the body or works of the flesh. We are to separate ourselves and walk in the Spirit that we may display the fruits of the Spirit and be the final harvest that Yeshua is looking for. It will be a closing sacred assembly work that God will perform on schedule. His appointed schedule that He has set for Himself and us I will break down and reveal from scripture.

 

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Two Witnesses
To start the Feast of Trumpets you must have two witnesses spot the new moon. The role of the two witnesses is to announce that the fall feasts are about to start with the Feast of Trumpets. Now the two trumpets of silver can be paralleled to the two witnesses who are calling people to the last call of redemption. The two witnesses will call for the ingathering of the believers and for the journeying that will need to be done spiritually to be in the place in the wilderness, where God can again speak to us as it was at Mount Sinai.

Now there will be the time when the book in Revelation 10 is opened and it tastes sweet, but when the full impact of what this means, to the wicked and those in rebellion to the Word of God will cause the stomach to churn.

When the two witnesses come, they will come in the power from on High. Please note that once the book of Revelation 10 is opened read, digested, there is the command to prophesy again.

The two witnesses then appear in Revelation 11 to deal with the increased pressure of the beast upon the people. They will be able to command plagues like Moses and conviction will be with their words, for Yeshua will be with them like a voice out of the cloud.

 

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The clouded mind that each and every one of us has is confusion on one point or another, lost and not knowing where to turn will be cleared by the messages of the two witnesses of Revelation. It will ring true and will be like the voice of God to our hearts and minds. It will bring us convictions, repentance, and salvation in the mysteries of God that have for so long been covered by traditions and our own sinful lives.

They will cause the mystery of God to be finished. The hidden things of God will no longer be hidden; the truth will shine in all its glory. The two witnesses’ message and the son of perdition that appears to confuse the masses bring about tribulation such as never before witnessed upon the earth. Tribulation and turmoil in the mind over conflicts of information means that there is still controveries over truth battling for your soul. As tribulation is in everyone’s mind, so also will the outwards signs of turmoil be among the people, as the rulers look to control the masses, and leaders look to lead the crowd.

Everyone will be taking a position, everyone holding and protesting even if it takes forcing their beliefs or position upon others until there is nothing left to be said because everyone is willing to die for the position they will then hold. The entire world will then be judged accordingly, and the plaques will fall afflicting each and everyone justly in righteous judgement.

 

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In that three and one half time period, during this turmoil, those who are witnessing for Christ will find it getting extremely difficult to the point that they will wear out. They will be exausted from warning and wooing on the hardness of the hearts of men to change while there is still an opportunity.

During the Feast of Trumpets, you will have watchmen who will give out the trumpet warning, the heralding of the news, and the announcements of what is soon to come to pass. These watchmen on the wall of Zion are the two witnesses of Revelation.

So it will be when the two witnesses, in Revelation, prophesy to the world, they will open the eyes of the world as to what is going on in God’s world. They will also show what is going on and going to happen in our world as we near the end of earth’s history

 

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One Trumpet
This ram's horn that was blown on the tenth day of the seventh month was also blown during a jubilee year. Jubilee points to the future perfect freedom. This Jubilee coming up will be the Jubilee of Jubilees or better known as the Millennium.

The Bible commands us to blow the trumpets on the Feast of Trumpets as a memorial, ten days to remember but what? It does not tell us why the trumpets need to be blown. Nothing, no explanation, no meanings divulged or even hinted at. Various attempts have been made to explain the festival. By searching through the Scriptures for references to trumpets blasts we find they were used for a variety of purposes. Each purpose gives us a different reason to remember and highlights a unique aspect of the festival. Each remembrance is a key facet to this feast. One of the first things would be for us to remember our sins and repent.

God wants the people who seek after him daily and are delighted to know the way that God wants them to live and the way that things should be. These people who are willing to approach Him for all the truth will not forsake anything that is of God. They have found delight, truth, righteousness, justification, and sanctification in all of God’s ordained ministries and services. It is our delight to seek God daily and know His ways, and do His ways as they are His righteousness and not turn our back on His Laws, for we know it is the sanctified way of approaching God.

 

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There is also the aspect of the coming of the Day of Atonement and the need for repentance. Feast of Trumpets marks the beginning of a ten day countdown to the Day of Atonement. Because the Day of Atonement is judgment day, the trumpet is sounded as a reminder that judgment is very near and the time for repentance is short.

Our God is gracious and merciful, full of forgiveness, very slow to anger, even repents Himself of the justice the sinner deserves if they would just tear open their heart and start a new life in Him. Many have heard Joel 2:13 over and over again, but this time read it with the understanding the kingdom of heaven is truly at hand. We are at the door of eternity. We are soon to be at the end of this earth’s history. We are soon to see Yeshua come in the clouds of glory with the entire Heavenly Host with Him.

 

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Have you learned what Yeshua meant by learning the difference between mercy and sacrifice. Many have sacrificed their whole lives, living the cloistered life, the celibate life, and did all these works in the name of their religion but have never come to Yeshua, though they call out His name often. They sing His name, they pray His name, and they worship any image they have of what they think he looks like. They do not live the repentant life where in they are under the sanctifying influence of the Holy Spirit, and will follow Yeshua whereever He leads, even if it is away from what they thought was truth.

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. This is why studying the Bible to see if it is so, and praying for godly direction for the believer to walk in is so important in your relationship with God and men.

Matthew 9:13 But go you and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

 

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Trumpet Two
In Temple times, the priesthood sounded three trumpet blasts every morning to announce the opening of the Temple gates. So too, it is believed, that the first trumpet blasts of the Feast of Trumpets announce the opening of the gates of Heaven. This is traditional Feast of Trumpets image is fully employed in Revelation 4:1. After this I looked, and, behold a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will show thee things which must be hereafter.

In this tradition, the gates of Heaven are opened to receive our prayers of repentance and remain open until the conclusion of the Day of Atonement. This will be our opportunity to be shown the things which must be hereafter, the soon to come to pass in the last hours of earth’s history. Those things that we need to know and understand to be able to stand in the last days.

The Day of Atonement service is concluded with one long trumpet blast which announces that the gates of heaven have closed and judgement is complete. Therefore, the sound of the trumpet on Feast of Trumpets is a remembrance of the need to repent before judgement is made. Since the two witnesses are preaching repentance, it would not be surprising that they start at Jerusalem.

 

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True repentance, deep thorough and sincere will bring a gift from God. It is one of the prized gifts that a believer can receive and it is the gift of the Holy Spirit, so necessary in its fulness in the last days of earth’s history. Keep on repenting until the Lord blesses you with this gift.

It will be worth it, for it will such a refreshing experience after living in this sinful world, to have a taste of heaven, to experience Holiness, to eat of the Hidden manna, and there is no sin worth keeping in comparison to the blessings provided if you would just give up those favorite sins. Repent you therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.

 

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Trumpet Three
Trumpets were also used for Coronation Ceremonies. In the Scriptures, the trumpet is sounded at the coronation of a king. The trumpet announces the newly crowned King and proclaims his ascent to sovereignty. It is well illustrated in the coronation contest for David's throne. So it wouldn’t surprise me that this is when the Yeshua is crowned in Heaven as our King.

Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the sacred tent and anointed Solomon. Then they sounded the trumpet and all the people shouted, "Long live King Solomon!" Only the King of Kings can take The Book out of the Hand of God. As one of the elders told John the Revelator, the Lion out of the tribe of Judah, and the root of David, has prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof. He came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne.

So the coronation of the King of the Universe, our Lord Yeshua could occur during the Feast of Trumpets or on the Day of Atonement when He is handed all dominions.

The last message pure and swift riding and striking the heart with arrows of convictions dead on the mark by the one who has been given the crown.

 

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According to ancient Jewish tradition, the first day of the seventh month is the yearly anniversary of God's completion of creation. As such, it is also the New Year's Day of the Biblical Calendar. This New Year's Day aspect is reflected in the festival's common Hebrew name: Rosh Hashanah. The first day of the seventh month marks and remembers the anniversary of the completion of creation as well as the day that Yeshua becomes King over the new creation in us. Yeshua never denied that He was the King of the Jews or the Universe.

Therefore, the sound of the trumpet on the Feast of Trumpets is a remembrance of the coronation of the King of the Universe, and it symbolizes our acceptance of God as King. As with any Kingdom, the law of the land is pronounced and proclaimed throughout the kingdom and to all the citizens. The day will come when God will reveal His Kingdom and its laws by which all nations on earth will be judged. It will be a hard day for those who have rebelled against God’s Law, but it will be a day of rejoicing for those who have believed in God and in His Kingdom coming.

It was at Mount Sinai when God descended upon the mount in Exodus 19, that there was a heavenly trumpet sounding loud and long. The sound of the trumpet at Sinai was one of the miraculous signs that accompanied the giving of the Ten Commandments and the invitation to covenant with God.

 

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Therefore, the sound of the trumpet on Feast of Trumpets is a remembrance of that day at Mount Sinai when Israel accepted her covenant with God. Later when Joshua came to the Promised Land, it was lead by the priests carrying the Ark of the Covenant with seven trumpets blowing.