Passover

Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, is our Passover and in Him we have been cleansed from all sin and set free. No other name under heaven has been give to man whereby we might be saved. No greater love could the Father shown than by giving His only begotten Son. And no greater sacrifice was demonstrated than by our Lord than laying down His life for ours.

Abba Father, thank you for your awesome Gift and sacrifice.

God's Masterpiece

The Crucifixion of Jesus Christ was God's masterpiece. Before time ever began, this work had been planned.  More inspiring than the works of  Michelangelo, more dramatic than Moses parting the Red Sea. It was there on a cross, set on a hill, that God chose to display His masterpiece of love. Battered, torn, bruised and bloodied Jesus' body hung there naked before the world to take away your sins and mine. The very act defied man's conscience and challenged his reasoning. Angels struggled to comprehend it while man's finite minds could never have conceived of such. And no one other than Jesus, the Lamb of God, could complete His divine plan.

Jesus gave his all, down to his last drop of blood, to fulfill the covenant promises God made with Abraham, the very promises that became the Constitution for every believer. It was only through Jesus' pain and suffering we were healed, and it was His sacrifice alone that redeemed us from our sin, guilt and shame. This single act also declared our freedom as well as the doom of satan, the enemy of our souls, to hell. No one else could have done such a thing. No one other than Yahweh himself, the Christ, was willing to die for you and me.

As Jesus, our Passover Lamb, hung between heaven and earth he spoke the most powerful words ever spoken on this planet, "It is finished." With that final stroke of genius, the heavenly Father was once again united with his creation and all was restored. Those simple words still resonate through time and space. God's work was truly complete. Everything you and I will ever do or receive was accomplished that day, that very moment and never again will we see such a scene. It will always be remembered that Jesus was crucified, so that we could have life. Our faith, our future and our very existence is based on this awesome display. All those who acknowledge this work of art, realize they are indeed truly blessed. To God be all the glory forever and ever. Amen.

John 3:16, revealed the Father's heart and Jesus' life, death and resurrection as God's Masterpiece.

Jesus was Pierced

Today is the beginning of Passover at sundown, yet most of Christianity will have celebrated Palm Sunday yesterday and Easter Sunday next week—both days are man-made holidays. God would desire His sons and daughters to recognizes His holy days—Passover, Pentecost and Tabernacles. Yet the exact days are not something we should become legalistic about. But the seasons are important to be recognized. Some people may even sense certain activity in the spiritual realms and in the natural during these seasons. 

Passover is often a time of trials—testing of our will and our flesh. Just as it was for Jesus. It was also the time when He became the sacrificial lamb of God. A time when we need to say, not my will but yours Father. Here is a message from the Lord about Jesus' death, our choices and the love of God for His sons and daughters.

"When Jesus was pierced in the side, mankind was pierced with the same spear. It was a huge prophecy for a washing—a redemption, a planting, a sowing and a reaping three days forward, a reaping for a season. Though he is dead he will come alive again. 

Jesus was harpooned. He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities, it was chastisement that brought your price upon Him, and by His stripes you are healed. And you like sheep have turn and gone your own way. And the Lord laid upon Him the transgression of you, all of you. And as He was lead to the slaughterhouse, He didn't make a sound. 

You have so often questioned why my leading in your lives. That you think you're so powerful that you could screw things up the plan of God, or screw this up for your lives. Your not that powerful and you're not that good. God's plan worked completely despite your sin, despite your foolishness, despite your humility. 

It worked perfectly despite Abraham's, despite King David's humility their sin and their garbage. It's not that I place faith upon a people. It's that people place faith upon Me. David, your not one to trust in your own ability to follow, and that's wise. You trust in the Heavenly Father and the Lord Jesus for strength and ability to lead you. The will of the Lord Jesus is going to come forward in your lives." 

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"The first women, Eve was deceived by the serpent. But the Word does not say that the man was deceived by the serpent. The man chose to sin against God. The women chose to listen to the devil, the liar. And with everything within me I sought a man to walk with me in the cool of the day again. And when I find men with a heart like Abraham, a heart like Jacob, a heart like David's, a heart like Peter's, James or John's; through it seems that their lives were filled with hardships, and indeed the costs are great—these men's lives are lights in history. Men who walked with God in the cool of the day. They would prophecy of a restoration to come. It was always God's plan to walk with man. Men who in spite of the deception of the women, despite the sin they chose. They would walk with God like Enoch walked with God, and Moses walked with God, Joshua, or Caleb—men of faith, who walked with God. 

Your lives are where the Lord wants them to be. It's important that you meet on Friday, Tuesdays at the men's meeting and Thursday for Bible study. It important that you go to church and read your Bible and worship the Lord. It was not expected of you, yet it draw us together relationally, to meet Spirit to spirit on a daily bases. It was your choice to be content with me and push me with questions thousands of questions."

"Mankind chose to separate themselves from God in the garden, it was a choice of the will. The women was deceived, the man made a choice. And that is why I will not seduce a man to follow me. I will give him the choice to reattach himself in communion with God—through choice, not through being deceived or coerced into a relationship with God. Oh there are plenty of people who use tactics—I'm not one of them. A man will decide, chose you this day. 

Your lives have been about choices and you chose to walk with God. To abide with Him. Sometimes you feel so far away from God. Sometimes you feel that if I'm walking with God, why is my life like this? It's in the weakness of your flesh that My strength is made perfect."

"Mankind has been pierced with a spear and out of the side came a women. One who would not be deceived by the enemy, the serpent. One who would in due time would be brought to her Husband and the two would become one flesh and she would listen to her Husband and not to the serpent." 

"You know when Jesus was pierced He was already dead. As mankind's way of proving that something is already dead. But in that place of death, I mean not dying—death. From that place of death—life flowed out and was sown into the ground. Men often tote their achievements about their spirituality or their giftedness or their intelligence. I look deeper than all of that. You being sons before Me and I, Samuel, will always chose David. You can bring all the sons of Jesse before me and I will always chose David. Because I know what's inside a man. I know what's in his or her heart. I know when the rough paths come and times of chastisement comes and the pain comes, who will cut and run, and who will stay for the count, and who will allow their lives to be completely thrown down for the care of God to die another death. And you have chosen the way that has been right. And you trust me, that I will exalt you."

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"The people will follow something pure, people will follow grace. They will follow anointing and spiritual power. They will follow whatever is most noticeably inside you. A power driven for oneness with Yahweh God. That sweeps everything in its path into it. Like a vortex. Like what scientist call a black hole. Sweeping everything into it. Yet, what men considers a black holes are really not, because they're dimensional moves. They're portals and doorways into another world, another dimension. Its like the picture of the spirit world, there are real portals even on the earth and in the heavens as well. But on this earth there are portals in which the angels ascend and descend and kingdoms ascend and descend and how principalities form. The black holes is not really black, it's because men see backwards, They say things are black when they are really white, light."

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"Things won't be like they were before, my friends. Things are never measured on failure or success, it has always been measured on the love of Christ, I see no failure. I see no failure for Israel and I see no failure for you. If measured on the love of Christ, I see no failure. If it was measured on personal obedience, faithfulness and in all that. Then there's enough failures to go all around and you can share it with the rest of the world. You can all sing sad songs and make top 40 hits out of them—but the love of Christ is your adornment. 

The love of Christ is your savior. The love of Christ—it's He who laid down His life for you, so you could be restored to the cool of the day with Him. If nothing else tonight is the cool of the day for us. As you're leaning on the presence of Yahweh, you're leaning on the heart of Jesus, the heart of Christ and you're hearing my heart. I love you."

(Portions of a prophecy on January 28, 2011)

God vs The Easter Bunny

Well, it's that time of year again when most children in western culture are looking forward to the Easter Bunny and Easter Egg hunts. Parents will be busy hiding candy of every shape and size in the house or yard–depending on weather conditions. They can choose from a variety of treats, such as, giant chocolate bunnies, marshmallow chickens, cream-filled chocolate eggs or small jelly beans. There are even plastic eggs to fill with little toys, candy and trinkets. This and more to fill their colorful Easter Baskets, all in the traditional pastel colors of Easter. Some kids even get to help mom or grandma with the color-dying of hard boiled eggs as to add to their collection. Even the decorating of the egg has become an art-form around the world, and priceless collectibles for some buyers. So what is it with all this bunny and egg stuff?

Many communities and churches in the communities get into the Easter Festival by having Easter Egg hunts to draw people together or draw the public into churches. Some churches will even give candy treats to the children after they tell them the "Easter Story," which to them is the resurrection of Jesus. (The candy companies sure love these festivals.) However, some churches now call it "Resurrection Day"; either name suggests to people the celebration of Jesus' resurrection from the dead. Jesus was placed in a tomb after his cruel death on a cross a couple of days before. Now He is alive and is waiting for us in Heaven. Some churches will even have sunrise services in commemoration of that early morning resurrection.

The resurrection of Jesus is the heart of Christianity. Without Jesus' resurrection, their faith and the faith of other people who follow Jesus would be meaningless. But, God never planned for His sons and daughters to celebrate Jesus Christ's resurrection, but instead his Passover. Passover was one of the three Holy Festivals that God established and commanded all the men of Israel to celebrate. However, today the Passover Festival is almost never celebrated by the Christian community. And why?

Most Christian churches have chosen to tie themselves into the pagan festival of Easter, and have even added several other events proceeding the resurrection, with Palm Sunday the week before, Ash Wednesday, then Good Friday, which seems to be Christianity's brief version of Passover or the "Last Supper" that Jesus shared with His disciples. Then there is the Crucifixion and finally the Resurrection two days later, not the three days that Jesus had prophesied, using the prophet Jonah as the example (Mt.12:40). Somebody got it all wrong, and I don't think it was Jesus. What this all adds up to is a lot of compromise and religious traditions.

Jesus' death and resurrection were absolutely necessary for fallen mankind, but our focus is to be on Jesus, not on Easter or Resurrection Day. Jesus is Passover, the Lamb of God. He is also Pentecost, the foundation and Birth of the Church, and He is Tabernacles in which the Body of Christ dwells. All three of these spiritual Holy Days are found in Christ Jesus and are to be celebrated.

All man-made holidays are carnal including the religious ones. It doesn't mean anything to change the name of a worldly or pagan event to sound religious. Non-biblical festivals have no part or place in the Kingdom of God. And they never will.

The meaning of Easter and its timing are derived from the pagan goddess Eostra, the goddess of fertility and sun worship. There are evil spirits, rituals and practices that still influence this holiday. If you wish to know more about this pagan "holiday" you can go to Google. Then all the nonsense to do with eggs and bunnies will make more sense to you. Therefore, I will not elaborate any further on Easter. (I used to celebrate Easter, because that was the way I was taught.)

I thank God for the cross, that Jesus died for our sins, and that he rose from the grave to give us resurrection life. But, most of all I thank him for his everlasting love, his forgiveness, and that His Holy Spirit dwells in me. I also rejoice in the fact that He has given all those who follow Him a place in His Kingdom. And we are to rule and reign with Him in His power and authority. I believe we will all see the difference in time. Let's learn to celebrate Jesus, when and how He would desire us to.

To all my Jewish and Christian friends, HAPPY PASSOVER and GOD BLESS YOU!