Peace and grace in the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Revelation 12:2-3
12:2 Then being with child, shecried out in labor and in pain to give birth.
12:3 And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great, fiery red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems on his heads.
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she' refers to the woman or the church of God.
There are two conditions of the church on the last days as follows:
- Being like a woman who is pregnant and will give birth. It refers to the powerlessness. Nothing she can do.
- Facing the great, fiery red dragon or the shaking and crisis in all aspects in the world. Spiritually, there are many sins. Physically, there are impossible problems in the service and ministry to God as well as marriage.
What must the church do?
In the powerlessness, the church must cry out in labor and in pain to give birth. It refers to the life renewal from the fleshly man to the spiritual one who is as perfect as Jesus is. It means being set free from the world, the crisis, and the doomsday until being in heaven with Jesus.
Where can the church get the renewal?
John 19:31-34
19:31 Therefore, because it was the Preparation Day, that the bodies should not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
19:32 Then the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and of the other who was crucified with Him.
19:33 But when they came to Jesus and saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs.
19:34 But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.
We get it from Jesus. Jesus must willingly die on the cross with the four main wounds (two on hands and two on feet) for saving or renewing the Israelites. After His death, His side is pierced with a spear creating the fifth wound or the biggest and deepest one, out of which blood and water come out for saving or renewing the Gentiles.
Thus, the Gentiles can get the renewal through the fifth wound in the side of Jesus.
It has been prophesied in the book of Zechariah.
Zechariah 12:10-14
12:10 "And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn.
12:11 "In that day there shall be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning at Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.
12:12 "And the land shall mourn, every family by itself: the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan by itself, and their wives by themselves;
12:13 "the family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of Shimei by itself, and their wives by themselves;
12:14 "all the families that remain, every family by itself, and their wives by themselves.
This is also a warning for the wives and girls that they must change much more nowadays. The women also refer to the church that must also change.
Therefore, every one, family, and congregation must mourn. It means crying out and groaning, weeping, or suffering in the flesh for being able to see the side of Jesus which has been pierced until the blood and water come out, so there will be the renewal.
The facts found in seeing the side of Jesus which has been pierced by a spear are as follows:
- Receiving the sign of blood (the Altar of Burnt Offerings)
It means that we must believe or have faith in Jesus as the Only Savior and repent. We willingly mourn, cry out and groan, weep, as well as suffer in the flesh and feelings for confessing sins, stopping sinning or not repeating the sins, and returning to God or being dead to sin.
- Receiving the sign of water (the Brazen Laver)
It means that we must cry and groan, mourn, weep, and suffer in the flesh and feeling for entering the true water baptism.
Matthew 3:15-16
3:15 But Jesus answered and said to him, "Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness." Then he allowed Him.
3:16 When He had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him.
The true water baptism means as follows:
- It is according to the will of God or the Bible although it is not in line with the logic. The will of God can only be received by faith. If the faith can receive something, the logic will also receive it because the faith is higher than the logic or worldly knowledge.
- It is like the baptism of Jesus as the Head. Jesus came out of the water, namely the burial of water.
Romans 6:4
6:4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Thus, the true water baptism means that one who has believed Jesus and repented or died to sin must be buried in water with Jesus in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit or the Lord Jesus Christ and raised from water with Jesus, and then the heavens are opened. The door of heaven is opened and we receive the heavenly life, namely the righteous life like Noah.
1 Peter 3:20-21
3:20 who formerly were disobedient, when once the Divine longsuffering waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.
3:21 There is also an antitype which now saves us--baptism(not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
Living in the righteousness like Noah also means living in the grace.
Genesis 6:8
6:8 But Noah found gracein the eyes of the LORD.
We are protected and preserved by God from the crisis in the world up to the judgment of God or the doomsday and the hell. Only the people who get the grace of God can be called in the true water baptism. Only a family or eight people in the one ark or baptism could get the grace. All of them were saved from crisis and the upcoming judgment of God.
If the door of heaven is opened, we will get the baptism of Holy Spirit.
Matthew 3:16
3:16 When He had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him.
- We get the baptism of Holy Spirit (the Door of Tabernacle) like a dove that comes down to us, His body.
It has happened on the days of Noah. Noah sent out a raven after the flood, and then a dove.
There was a dove too when Jesus was baptized. At the end of the forty days, Noah sent a dove.
Genesis 8:6,8-12
8:6 So it came to pass, at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.
8:8 He also sent out from himself a dove, to see if the waters had receded from the face of the ground.
8:9 But the dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot, and she returned into the ark to him, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took her, and drew her into the ark to himself.
8:10 And he waited yet another seven days, and again he sent the dove out from the ark.
8:11 Then the dove came to him in the evening, and behold, a freshly plucked olive leaf was in her mouth; and Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.
8:12 So he waited yet another seven days and sent out the dove, which did not return again to him anymore.
The dove sent out by Noah prophesies the dove coming down to Jesus after the water baptism. It will also come to us.
Noah sent out the dove three times.
It prophesies about the work of Holy Spirit from age to age as follows:
- Holy Spirit on the age of father God or the beginning as from Adam to Abraham.
After forty days and forty nights, Noah sent out a dove, so it hovered over the face of the waters. The number forty refers to the full tearing of flesh or the flesh does not speak anymore.
Genesis 1:2
1:2 The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
The dove hovering over the face of the waters refers to Holy Spirit hovering over the face of the waters or the plain and straight way, namely the sincere and honest heart.
Genesis 37:1-3
37:1 Now Jacob dwelt in the land where his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan.
37:2 This is the history of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. And the lad was with the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives; and Joseph brought a bad report of them to his father.
37:3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age. Also he made him a tunic of many colors.
For example, Holy Spirit helped Joseph, so he could be honest until the flesh did not speak anymore. He could tell the father about the evil of his brothers, regardless of any risks he had to take. We must also brave to confess our own evil or sins.
The results are as follows:
- Genesis 37:3
37:3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age. Also he made him a tunic of many colors.
Joseph got the tunic of many colors. It means that Holy Spirit gives the gifts which determine our ministry, so we can be used in the edification of the perfect body of Christ. It begins from our ministry in the marriage, as the girl/boyfriend, fiancé, husband, wife, children, and parents, as well as in the shepherding, inter-shepherding, until the Israelites and Gentiles become one perfect body of Christ.
- Genesis 37:31
37:31 So they took Joseph's tunic, killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the tunic in the blood.
Joseph experienced that his tunic of many colors had to be dipped in the blood. It means that we get the sprinkling of blood because of our service and ministry or ordination to God. Not all people can receive the cross. Only the people whose heart is honest and sincere can receive the cross.
Acts 5:41
5:41So they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for His name.
2 Timothy 3:12
3:12 Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.
Why does God let us experience the sprinkling of blood?
- So that the tunic of many colors cannot be taken away by Satan. We do not become a loser, but keep the ministry until the end or Jesus comes a second time.
- So that we can pass the double crisis of famine which happens in the world on the last days through the wheat of Joseph or the Bride Tidings. Moreover, we are glorified and our future life is beautiful.
- So that we can have the clean and bright fine linen or the garments of the Bride and the door of heaven is opened for us.
- Holy Spirit in the age of the Son of God from Abraham to Jesus' first coming to die on the cross.
Genesis 8:10-11
8:10 And he waited yet another seven days, and again he sent the dove out from the ark.
8:11 Then the dove came to him in the evening, and behold, a freshly plucked olive leaf was in her mouth; and Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.
The dove broke and brought olive leaf. The olive leaf came from the olive tree. There are many olive trees in the hill of olive in which there is the garden of Gethsemane. Gethsemane refers to the pressing to the flesh.
Luke 22:41-43
22:41 And He was withdrawn from them about a stone's throw, and He knelt down and prayed,
22:42 saying, "Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from Me; nevertheless not My will, but Yours, be done."
22:43 Then an angel appeared to Him from heaven, strengthening Him.
Holy Spirit strengthened Jesus in His struggling or when His flesh and all its wills and lusts were being fully crucified, so He could receive the will of the Father that was not in line with His fleshly will and logic until He could say "Abba, Father" or be obedient until the flesh did not speak anymore.
Romans 8:15
8:15 For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, "Abba, Father."
If the church or all of us are anointed by Holy Spirit, we will be able to cry out "Abba, Father" or be obedient to the true teaching Word and God's will or the truth until the flesh does not speak anymore.
1 Peter 1:22
1:22 Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart,
After being obedient until the flesh does not speak anymore, we will be sanctified from the six sins which are ingrained and the last bond, namely the will of money or the root of wickedness. We can feel more blessed to give than to receive. It begins from returning the possession of God, namely the tithes and offerings, as well as giving to the work of God and other people who are in need. We can love and not hurt one another.
1 Corinthians 5:11
5:11 But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner--not even to eat with such a person.
Malachi 3:8
3:8 "Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed Me! But you say, 'In what way have we robbed You?' In tithes and offerings.
The results are as follows:
- The door of heaven is opened.
Matthew 7:21
7:21 "Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
Malachi 3:10
3:10 Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, That there may be food in My house, And try Me now in this," Says the LORD of hosts, "If I will not open for you the windows of heaven And pour out for you such blessing That there will not be room enough to receive it.
The physical and spiritual blessings from heaven come down.
- We are in the atmosphere of feast. We get the joy of heaven which cannot be influenced by anything in the world.
1 Corinthians 5:7-8
5:7 Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.
5:8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
It continues until someday we get the invitation to the marriage supper of the Lamb and enter it.
- Holy Spirit on the last age, from Jesus' first coming to the second one.
Genesis 8:12
8:12 So he waited yet another seven days and sent out the dove, which did not return again to him anymore.
The dove was sent by Noah and it did not return to him anymore.
John 16:7
16:7 "Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you.
Acts 2:1-2,4
2:1 When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
2:2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.
2:4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
It means the pouring of Holy Spirit. It begins from the upper room in Jerusalem and He does not return anymore until now or until Jesus' second coming. Holy Spirit cannot be limited by anything.
Romans 8:26
8:26Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
Holy Spirit helps us to worship God with a broken heart or cry and groan. It means confessing or weaknesses and crying out the powerful name of Jesus until we can speak with the other tongues.
The results are as follows:
- We can cry out the name of Jesus and receive the power of His name for defeating the trinity of Satan, namely Satan, the Antichrist, and false prophets.
Philippians 2:9-11
2:9 Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name,
2:10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth,
2:11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Satan is the source of sins up to the peak. He is defeated, so we can defeat the sins and live in righteousness and holiness. Satan is the source of problems or crisis. Satan is defeated and the power of Jesus' name will finish all impossible problems.
- The name of Jesus is attached to all of us, so we get the new name.
Isaiah 4:1
4:1 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, "We will eat our own food and wear our own apparel; Only let us be called by your name, To take away our reproach."
We get the renewal, namely the faithfulness to Jesus Himself, the true teaching, and in the marriage. We also believe and entrust our life to God.
It continues until someday when Jesus comes a second time that we are as perfect as Jesus is and worthy for welcoming His second coming with shouting for joy, saying "Alleluia" and we do not stumble in words. We are with Him in the New Jerusalem or the eternal heavenly kingdom forever.
God blesses you.