THANK YOU LORD FOR TRUTH Amen glory to GOD ! This is a great mystery, and my prayer to God is that He may give all who read these lines the spirit of wisdom and revelation to perceive and see the true nature of all things. The Babylon system calls itself the church. It is not the church! Someone says, “That is a Baptist church,” or, “that is a Methodist church,” or, “that is a Pentecostal church.” There is no such thing as either a Baptist church or a Methodist church or a Pentecostal church! They don’t exist! There is a Baptist religious organization and system which calls itself the church but it is not the church. The living redeemed people are the church! And the Baptist religious system is Babylon! So here we have a seeming contradiction! On the one hand we do not call Babylon the church, while on the other hand we refer to the people in the religious systems as the church. It is because much of the church is in captivity in Babylon! Now, there are those who “come out of Babylon” and they appear to be “another church.” Some even deny that those in Babylon are the church! But the truth becomes very clear as we consider the seven churches of Asia! Most of them were already living in some form of religious Babylon, yet they were the Lord’s church whom He both praised and rebuked! In chapter one of the Revelation we see the Lord Jesus walking in the midst of the churches with eyes as a flame of fire and feet like unto brass, as if they burned in a furnace, and His voice as the sound of many waters. This is the prophetic spirit of Christ in the midst of the churches! The Son of God walks in the midst of the churches in judgment. His eyes pierce through the façade the church has built up around itself, and His feet bring the refining fire of God every where He steps. The message is clear: The Lord Jesus is the authority over the church! Some ministers, whether apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, or teachers, try to be little dictators over the Lord’s people. Many churches have been spiritually devastated by leaders who take advantage of the Lord’s flock. But the pastor is not the authority over the church — the One we have to deal with is the One who walks in the midst of the churches! “Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave Himself for it; that HE might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, that HE might present it to Himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish” (Eph. 5:25-27). Make no mistake about it, HE WILL HAVE A GLORIOUS CHURCH, and it is the result of building — He is both the Author and the Finisher. There is a tremendous purging process on the horizon among the many groups and institutions of man, for although the systems themselves are Babylon, yet those within the systems are HIS PEOPLE. They may be but abused and brainwashed babes in Christ — but He will finish in them what He has begun! Oh, yes, there is a work begun, and salvation is a process, and those touched with His salvation are HIS, but in need of much purging and processing. The responsibility is HIS, for it is He who has redeemed them unto Himself, and line upon line Christ will work in each heart, every man in his own order, from glory to glory, until every man is made complete in Him. God is performing this great work in His firstfruit company now, and we are experiencing what it means to be refined by fire, purged, purified, changed, transformed and conformed to the image of the Son of God! For the called-out firstfruits the place is HERE, and the time is NOW! The work taking place in the lives of God’s sons in this hour is but the first step in God’s great redemptive, reconstructive, and restorational purpose. When God has finished His purifying, all who name the name of Christ will advance into heights and depths in Him! Mystery of mysteries, Christ loved the church and gave Himself for it that He might sanctify and cleanse and present it to Himself a GLORIOUS CHURCH without spot, wrinkle, or blemish. The final vision of this glorious church is the NEW JERUSALEM COMING DOWN FROM GOD OUT OF HEAVEN PREPARED AS A BRIDE ADORNED FOR HER HUSBAND. This is not Israel, the wife of Yahweh — this is the church, the bride of Christ! The New Jerusalem is the ultimate reality of the church!
Posted on: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 13:28:39 +0000