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Post by Sunnysnet on Mar 12, 2004 19:19:33 GMT -5
20 THE DISPENSATION OF THE FULNESS Cecil duCille (Message given at the Nov 2002 Sonlight Gospel Nebraska Convention) God made the earth in six days and He rested on the seventh day. God does not need rest, so therefore it must be a revelation of God when He said that He rested on the seventh day.”1 Peter said (in 1 Peter 3:8), “But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years (one millennium), and a thousand years as one day.” The revelation here is that God took six natural days and He rested on one natural day. How do we know it is a natural twenty-four hour day and not a spiritual day of some thousand years in length? Because in Genesis, Chapter 1, the Bible said that for each day, that the sun rose and the sun set. So we know that it is a natural twenty-four hour day. Now God rested on the seventh day, and as I said, it is a revelation; and the revelation means that even as God did on the seventh day, that in the seventh millennium all that God set out to do from Adam on will be finished. We are now in the seventh millennium, and I do not have the revelation as to how far into the seventh millennium we are, but I know that we are farther into the seventh millennium than the calendar says. Amen? But because the calendar said so, God has manifested many things to us to show us that it is a change of time that we are now in. And because we are in a change of time, then things must change with the church. God never uses time like this—where one time ends and then the other time just starts. Never! Never! He dovetails it, and then one time begins and pulls away from the other time that is coming to an end. So that in the flood, when the first dispensation should change, it was 365 years before the end of the 2000 years that the flood came. Did you know that? But because Noah was of the old dispensation, God did not fully change everything until Noah died; and Noah died in 2004. Amen? So then, the new dispensation went on to Jesus Christ. And here Jesus Christ comes, but you notice—He is making the time of change shorter and shorter. The first two thousand years, it was 365 years for the change. The second time, now with Jesus, it was only thirty years. Jesus came thirty years before we went into the new dimension, and the Bible says that Jesus came “under the law.” “But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.”2 1 Ref. Genesis 2:2 #nosmileys#nosmileys
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Post by Sunnysnet on Mar 12, 2004 19:20:29 GMT -5
THE OMEGA MESSAGE THE DISPENSATION OF THE FULNESS 21 He lived under the law for thirty years, and one day He rose up and said, “This is the new dispensation.” Of course, He did not speak those words. His mother got a word from the Lord, and there is a peculiar thing. I wondered here if God told Jesus’ mother before He told Him. I am speaking of the time (in John, Chapter 2) when His mother came to Him and said, “The wine is finished.” Remember now, He is just about to take up His ministry, and she came to Him and said, “The wine is finished.” He said, “What have I to do with that? My hour has not yet come!” But when He said that to her, she turned away and went to the men with the water pots and said, “Whatever He tells you to do, do it.” Don’t you see? She knew something that He did not know. So then, that night the dispensation of the law had fully pulled away from the dispensation of grace, and Jesus Christ turned the water into wine. Hallelujah! Amen! “For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.”3 Well, He went on, and that dispensation lasted for another 2000 years; and it is marvelous that we are at the end of that 2000 years. We lived to see it and we lived to be going into the new dispensation. There have been three dispensations, and now the fourth dispensation (the dispensation of the fulness of times) has come to us. And what kind of people are we supposed to be? If we are the people who have seen the change of God’s order, what kind of people are we to be? Let us go back a little bit and see what happened when “law” changed to “grace.” What happened is that all the students of the Bible…. Remember, over time there were men whose lives were given totally, absolutely to the study of the Word. (In 1 Chronicles 12:32) God said that the tribe of Issachar was the tribe who knew “the times.” “And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do.” They could tell you what is going to happen this time and what is going to happen that time, because that was their part in the body of Christ at that time, for what it was. They had this dispensational revelation, and so they knew that Jesus Christ should come. So then, the word went around Jerusalem and around Israel (I am going back now to the time of change from law to grace) that a king is to be born. Listen, Brother, if you are down here in the law, you cannot interpret what is happening up higher in grace. So the things of God that we are dealing with, we cannot fully appreciate what is happening unless we are on that level of the Spirit where it is revealed to us. So then, you had the different levels there, and when the people heard and when the students heard that this king should be born, they 2 Galatians 4:4-5 3 John 1:17
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Post by Sunnysnet on Mar 12, 2004 19:21:28 GMT -5
THE OMEGA MESSAGE THE DISPENSATION OF THE FULNESS 22 knew who the king was. They called Him “Messiah” (“Hamashiach” in the Hebrew). They knew Hamashiach should come about that time. So, they were looking for Messiah, but because they were so involved politically—we have some people even here who are involved politically. Right? Who listen to Rush Limbaugh. (You see, if I didn’t listen to him, I wouldn’t know his name.) Who listen to Rush Limbaugh, so that you are politically aware of what is happening. But these people, they were so politicized that they thought that He was a king coming to overthrow the Roman Government and to give them their freedom. But as far as God is concerned, that would be no freedom. You see? But they believed that the Roman Government would be overthrown by Messiah. So they saw Him as a political leader, and then some of them went back to thinking of the Machabees, and they felt that He was going to be like the Machabees, to come and fight and set them free. So when Jesus finally took up His ministry, they thought He was an earthly king who had come to overthrow the Roman Empire. I do not know if you understand what it is? Israel is a peculiar set of people. I remember when Menachem Begin overthrew the Arabs. This man Begin, if you remember, was the man who was the head of Israel. I do not remember, but it was the seven-day war or something like that; and he began to walk through the streets of Jerusalem. And the people took up palms and they shouted, “Son of David!” “Son of David!” I mean, it was electrifying! And you can imagine what happened with Jesus, in John 12, when He came into the city. For, remember now, it was the time when they were expecting the priest to go through the ritual of carrying the palm branches into Jerusalem. It was a ritual, you know, that they did every year! But instead of the priest coming, here comes Jesus on a donkey! The people began the shout, “Son of David!” “Son of David!” The priests could not stop them. The people threw down their clothes for Him to walk on, and they were sure now that Messiah had come. A good number of the population were sure that Messiah had now come, and many times they tried to take Him. They said, “Let us capture Him, and take Him away somewhere where we can have Him get His army together.” There were some there training to follow Him, and so they sent one of their leaders to Jesus, to become one of His disciple s. And this leader was secretly plotting to be the “Prime Minister” or whatever. So he was there plotting and planning, while his army was waiting in the shadows. Oh yes! They had trained men, ready to fight whenever Jesus gave the word. They were disappointed. They were disappointed and they themselves decided that they should kill Him, because He was not the Messiah that they were looking for. But then, the reason that I am spending a little time on that part of the word is that we are at this time in the same position. Amen! It was a change then from “law” to “grace,” but now we are changing from “grace” to “fulness” and it is difficult for the church to see it. It is difficult for the church to understand that the church must die! The church must die so that the glory
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Post by Sunnysnet on Mar 12, 2004 19:22:23 GMT -5
THE OMEGA MESSAGE THE DISPENSATION OF THE FULNESS 23 of God might come forth in a temple. In a people! Yes! For He will no longer dwell in temples made with hands. Yes! But He wants the temple of your “body,” and the temple of your “soul.” Hallelujah! I will go back here to Ezekiel’s temple. He wants to come through the “eastern gate.”4 The eastern gate is your “mind.” He wants your mind relieved, to be freed from all the things of the world that you are taking up in your mind right now. He wants your mind! God wants your mind! Hallelujah! So now let me show you the picture of the church, which God showed. Turn to Revelation, Chapter 12, and let us read from the very first verse. “And there appeared a great wonder in heaven… It says, “And there appeared a great wonder in heaven,” but let us translate “in heaven” as “in the kingdom of God,” or “in the body of Christ,” which is where we are. And it says that there was a “great wonder” there, “…a woman clothed with the sun.” What? Can you imagine a woman clothed with the sun? Where you see a woman standing here, and a beam of sunlight is coming down upon her and it covers her as a garment, so that her garment is “light.” Right? Are you seeing the picture? Her garment is “light,” and it says, “…a woman clothed with the sun and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.” What better picture would you want? I mean the thing is so plain, it cannot be plainer. Here we find three churches in one. First, there is the “moon” church. Now, you know that the moon does not have any light of its own, but the moon must get its light from the sun, and the sun here is Christ. But here the moon is in darkness! The moon is in darkness because the sunlight that should have been shining on the moon, it is shining on the woman. The woman here is standing on the moon, so that means that the moon has become her “footstool.” Amen? I could go as far as to say that she “rose up” out of the moon. Amen! The moon has served its purpose. Amen! So then, whereas man has worshipped God on a low level, God began the worship on a very high level. Adam, after he sinned, fell to a lower level, and although he still communicated with God, it was on a lower level. When God walked with Adam He laid the foundation of worship. God began worship on a very high level. And when he fell to a lower level, God through Moses brought man to worship God with natural things, as a type of the spiritual things. Now this was because the natural man does not understand the spiritual things. So they had to use a lamb. They had to slay the lamb 4 Ref. Ezekiel 44:1-3
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Post by Sunnysnet on Mar 12, 2004 19:23:28 GMT -5
THE OMEGA MESSAGE THE DISPENSATION OF THE FULNESS 24 and they had to have blood. All this was designed as a “schoolmaster” to bring us to Christ.5 They had to slay the lamb, they had to have everything in order, and they had to have an altar. These physical things are how man started to learn how to worship God. Man carried out these rituals for a long time, but when Jesus came He told the woman at the well, “Neither in Mount Gerizim neither in Jerusalem shall men worship God anymore, but men shall now worship God in spirit and in truth.”6 So He was bringing in a new dimension of worship. True worship comes only from the Spirit. Amen! So then, our body does not initiate the true worship of God. That means, the Spirit of God comes into your body and then your body will manifest God. The manifestation is not the true worship; the worship is inside. What we are seeing the body do is the manifestation of your worship of God. So then, the woman now is “clothed with the sun.” But that is not the end of it. Something more glorious is to come, for she is now pregnant! “And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.” She is now pregnant! What made her pregnant? The sun! Come on? You know, in the Greek mythology and in all these mythologies and things like that, it is the story of God’s dealings with man that these men took and formed it into mythology. Oh yes! Men took it and formed it into mythology. Because God had revealed Himself to Adam from the very beginning. The revelation of God came in the Garden of Eden. Hallelujah! So then, the woman is now pregnant with the sun, and the “sun” is a “son.” The “s-u-n” brought forth a “s-o-n,” and the “s-o-n” is the thing that God wants! From the beginning, when God saw Adam fail, God was encouraged and said, “A man child will come forth.”7 Amen! Jesus came forth! The people said, “This is the man child!” Amen. But Jesus came forth in order to bring forth the man child! So then, the “woman” must fade away! Amen? She must fade away, because there is a “son” coming. So we have three churches in one (moon, woman, man child). That is what God is showing us here. Three churches in one. So we are in the dispensation of the change from “grace” to “fulness.” From “Christ” to a “multiple Christ,” a many-membered body. Don’t you understand that this is the “fulness” of what God wants! Amen! But we are still in low ground. We are still in low ground. We have got to climb “…up into Zion… to see my Lord.” The song says, “Climbing up, up, up into Zion. Climbing up to see my Lord” You have to climb the hill of Zion to see the Lord, and God is saying to us here, “I am giving this to you. This is the present that I have for the people of 5 Ref. Galatians 3:24 6 Ref. John 4:6-24 7 Ref. Genesis 3:15
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Post by Sunnysnet on Mar 12, 2004 19:24:47 GMT -5
THE OMEGA MESSAGE THE DISPENSATION OF THE FULNESS 25 the end of time!” Amen! You are in the woman church, and there must be a travail! There must be a travail; and blood is going to flow. It is not that the blood “is going to flow,” but it is that the blood “is flowing.” The blood of the saints is flowing, and it is going to be flowing, and it is going to flow until we get to that point where no man can touch us. Do you remember that in Scripture? Let me show it to you, because you do not know that I am repeating words from the Bible. Turn again to Revelation, Chapter 11, and Verses 4 and 5, “These (the two witnesses) are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth. And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.” This is speaking of a people rising up, that no longer will be persecuted unto death. They will not be able to touch you. Hallelujah! The power and the glory of God around you will be like a “fire”! Amen! Yes! And God reminds you through His Word, with its many different types, because He sets a precedent in the Word. He is saying (in 2 Kings 6) that sometimes we’re like Elijah’s servant and we cannot see. “And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do? And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them. And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.” It is because we are in this low, low, low area. We cannot see the words of God, but He set it in the Bible for us, to let it happen before so that we could see it. Here is Elisha (in 2 Kings 6:8-23) and the king of Syria called his counselors together and he said, “Which one of you is the fifth columnist? You are leaking everything that I speak in my bedroom! It is leaked out to Israel and they know exactly where my armies will move from where I won’t move. Which one of you is the fifth columnist (the mole)?” One wise man got up and said, “King, don’t hurt any of these fellows. None of them is the fifth columnist. There is a man in Israel. His name is Elisha and everything you speak in your bedroom, he hears it.” Now, even if you do not know that much about God you would begin to respect Him here, wouldn’t you? The king should say, “Well, boy! I can’t manage a man like this. But instead he sent all his great army down to get Elisha. Let us read about what happened when they came upon Elisha. It is in 2 Kings 6, and beginning with Verse 18, “And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the LORD, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha. And Elisha said unto them, This is
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Post by Sunnysnet on Mar 12, 2004 19:26:14 GMT -5
THE OMEGA MESSAGE THE DISPENSATION OF THE FULNESS 26 not the way, neither is this the city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom ye seek. But he led them to Samaria. And it came to pass, when they were come into Samaria, that Elisha said, LORD, open the eyes of these men, that they may see. And the LORD opened their eyes, and they saw; and, behold, they were in the midst of Samaria… And he prepared great provision for them: and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.” Elisha here is a type of “Christ in the church.” When the king of Syria sent his army to get Elisha, Elisha struck them with blindness and he led them to the camp of the King of Israel. He fed them and sent them back home and the Scriptures says they never came back. But it was different in the case with the prophet Elijah. When the king of Israel (in 1 Kings 1) sent those fifty men out to kill the prophet Elijah, Elijah burnt them up! Elijah here is a type of “Christ.” He brought down fire from heaven and he burnt the men who had come to arrest him. The men came in, and they surrounded Elijah and the captain of these men said, “Elijah, thou man of God, come down here! Come to me.” Elijah knew their hearts. Do you know that that was what killed them? It was their own wicked hearts. Oh yes! Elijah said, “If I am a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven and burn you.” Can you imagine what God’s fire is like? “POOF!” They were burned to ashes! When the king heard, he said, “Call out fifty more powerful men! Send them out there!” And they were there “rubbing their beads” (an ancient practice that Rome later put into their worship), and you know what I mean. Working all their little sorceries. Some anointed themselves with oil for spiritual protection, a common practice of the occult, and they said, “We are going up against a spirit now, so we are getting ourselves prepared.” Wretched fellows! They went out there, and they said the same thing; and the same thing happened to them as happened to the preceding fifty men! God is showing you that He is making us to be “stones of fire.”8 Do you understand what that means—to be “stones of fire”? No one can touch you! “And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days clothed in sackcloth…And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed”9 Remember now, we know how they have killed all the prophets, and all along, like in China, the millions of people and the brethren the communists have killed and put in prison, and what not. And the brethren have not gotten the revelation that if they kneel down and pray together, and say, “God, stop that persecutor,” he will freeze in his path or he will die in his cause! Oh yes! 8 Ref. Ezekiel 28:14 9 Revelation 11:3,5
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Post by Sunnysnet on Mar 12, 2004 19:27:17 GMT -5
THE OMEGA MESSAGE THE DISPENSATION OF THE FULNESS 27 We were in Jamaica. We had a brother that used to be in the Communist Party. He used to be their “exterminator.” Bad man! He got saved. Amen. A good friend of mine. They sent men from Kingston to kill him. He is on the road, his tire punctured. He was there fixing his tire, and here comes a car. He asks them for a lift with his tire to go get it fixed. When he got into the car, the guy said to him, “Ah, who are you?” He told them who he was, and they said, “You are the man we are coming for!” So the guy opened his glove compartment and pulled out his gun. The other fellow in the back said, “Let us go and finish our job first, and when we are coming back, we will get him.” The brother said, “Well, okay. When you come back, I will be right here. This is where I live. I will be right here waiting for you.” What do you think happened? They never came back. The car turned over down the road and killed them all. You do not realize half of the power that you have. God is saying that He is molding us and making a church into “stones of fire”! Like the archangels Gabriel and Michael (“stones of fire”) who stand on the mountain of God.10 Hallelujah! And no man can touch you! Unless it is God’s time for you to go home to glory, and then you would go home to glory anyhow! But, you believe that, don’t you? You believe that, so then why would you be afraid and run and hide? Do you see what I am saying? You need to believe that! “…stones of fire”! We were looking at the story of Elijah in 2 Kings 1. It says there that a third group of men were sent out. What a stupid king! Now, put yourself in the place of that king. Would you send another group of men? He sent a third group of men, and it so happened that the man who led them feared God and when he got before Elijah he knelt down and said, “Save the life of your servant.” Amen. And the Lord said to Elijah, “Go with him.” And Elijah was not afraid. The fifty men trembled at his presence. I am trying to tell you that God has put a certain principle in the Bible that we need to understand and we need to follow. Coming out of the “woman” church, we are entering into the “man child” church. The man child church is a man of POWER! It is a church of power! No man will be able to touch them (Until they want you to touch them). So the church I showed you there in Revelation 12:1, the woman church, that is where we are. The church is pregnant with the man child church. The peculiar thing is that God has to give us an analogy in the natural so that we can understand the spiritual. But when the woman goes into the wedding chamber, with Christ, it is a man child church that comes out. The man child church means that Christ is the head and we are the body. We are totally under the direction of the Lord. God says, “Turn right,” and you turn right! No more making mistakes. No more saying, “God said…” when God didn’t say. 10 Ref. Ezekiel 28:14
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Post by Sunnysnet on Mar 12, 2004 19:28:47 GMT -5
THE OMEGA MESSAGE THE DISPENSATION OF THE FULNESS 28 No more thinking the thoughts that God didn’t think. You know what I am saying. God is perfecting a church! Out of imperfect people He is making a perfect church! That is, if you follow everything that the Holy Ghost says, you will act perfectly although you are still imperfect in the natural. Do you see what I am talking about? The woman (imperfect) is pregnant with the man child church (which is perfect). But they are all in one. They are all in one. Now the woman goes into the wedding chamber, and let us just say that her name is “Sarah Jane.” She comes out “Sarah Jane Jesus Christ”! There is a name change! A nature change. Jesus Christ said, “I give you a new name, and no man can decipher that new name.”11 You are coming out as a new person. In other words, when Jesus becomes the full Head of the church, the church will move like a well-oiled machine. Hallelujah! Moving hand and foot according to the principles of God, without missing a beat. Now, we are back to Revelation 11. I want to show you here the three churches again. He said, beginning in Verse 1, “And there was given me a reed like unto a rod unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise (Go) and measure the temple of God (the church), and the altar, and them that worship therein. But the court which is without the temple (the outer court) leave out…” He said, “Leave it out! Measure it not!” Why? “…for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months (three and a half years).” I believe that these things are going to take place on all three dimensions and at the same time. While Israel (Jerusalem) on the natural level is out there fighting, this Jerusalem (the church, this church system) is here fighting their own battle; and everything that happens to Israel is going to happen to the church. And, eventually they are going to destroy Jerusalem. You know that, don’t you? Eventually they are going to destroy Jerusalem. But God will save His people! Now He said here in the verse we just read that the holy place church will be the only thing left here, but when we go back into Revelation we’ll see that there’s a time when the holy place church will also be taken. The holy place church will be taken by the antichrist. “When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:”12 The church that speaks in tongues and believes in the baptism of the Holy Ghost is going to be taken by the antichrist. Do you know why? It is 11 Ref. Revelation 2:17 12 Matthew 24:15-16
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Post by Sunnysnet on Mar 12, 2004 19:29:57 GMT -5
THE OMEGA MESSAGE THE DISPENSATION OF THE FULNESS 29 because when God gave you the baptism of the Holy Ghost, He gave it to you for one reason, that it should make you like Jesus Christ! Now if you stop God from working (and some of us do stop God from working in our temple) then we stop God from working in our temple to bring us to be like Jesus Christ; and destruction will ensue. Destruction will ensue. Amen! You know, we really do not have a choice. Our choice is to walk in God and to follow Jesus Christ. So then, the work of God has brought us to where the church has begun to travail. The church is going into deeper and deeper travail, and when darkness comes down and when it comes to the point where it seems hopeless and there is no more hope, then the “man child” church will come forth! Amen! And I believe that all of us here want to be part of that man child church. I am sure that we do. We want to be part of that man child church, therefore God is speaking to us tonight and He is saying, “If you want to be what God wants you to be….” Did you hear that? “If you want to be what God wants you to be,” what do you do? Just stop doing! Just let loose! Just give yourself to God! It sounds so easy, doesn’t it? But give yourself to God and God will make you what He wants you to be! Amen? You have to cleanse your mind! The mind is the problem. The mind is the thing that will destroy the rest of the soul. The mind is the gateway of the soul. The mind is God’s gateway into the soul. You must begin to train your mind to think upon the things of the Lord. It is so very simple. If you do not know what to think about, begin to think about the stories in the Bible. Just begin to think about the things of the Lord and God will begin to move through it. Do you know that while you are thinking about the things of the Lord, there is no space for the devil to come in? There is no space for him to come in. He cannot find a way in. Amen! So then, we are indeed coming into the dispensation of the fulness. Actually, the dispensation of the fulness has already begun. Timewise, it has already begun. But we are very slow to wake up out of our sleep. Do you know, the Bible said, “…they all slumbered and slept.”13 I am going to give you some good advice, Brethren. Whenever you have conventions, get a timekeeper. Get somebody who keeps the time so that nobody will run over and run one meeting too long and distress the brethren. Because half of you are asleep! Yes! I do not think that you can help it—you are tired! Going for over an hour or two hours for the song service and so and so, you wear out all the little strength that you have to hear the Word of God. Do you know you have to be strong to listen to the Word of God? Amen! Especially when the word is a little bit heavy. You have to listen. But you cannot keep awake and so, Brethren, you are sleeping. But that won’t 13 Ref. Matthew 25:5
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Post by Sunnysnet on Mar 12, 2004 19:31:22 GMT -5
THE OMEGA MESSAGE THE DISPENSATION OF THE FULNESS 30 stop me! Amen! You know, even in your sleep, you are going to hear the Word. Amen! Praise be to God! So we are in the church dispensation and we are coming into the new dispensation of the fullness; and the problem is that you cannot carry the old dispensation with you. You cannot carry the “church order” with you! Now, let us get back to it. In “church order” we have “elders.” Remember now, I am not in the “outer court” here, so I am not talking about bishops and cardinals and all like that. That is outside there. Amen! That is way out! I am talking about in here now. We have “elders,” and most of the elders are actually “acting-pastors”; and we are acting-pastors because we do not understand the full meaning of eldership. “Eldership” means that the Spirit of God is working in you in a more matured fashion than He is working in the little sister over there. So then, you will have eyes to look over her head, and if you see a demon fooling around her you can say, “Get out of here!” You become protectors of the body of Christ, for Christ’s sake! So you are like the guards in the temple. Amen? You are like the guards in the temple (Ezekiel’s temple) that guard the bride. You know, if you remember the story about Vashti and of Esther, they had Esther in there for twelve months treating her with “myrrh” and other things preparing her for the wedding.14 There were guards around, and anybody who tried to get into that place would be a dead duck! They would just kill you. Amen! They did not fool around in those days, you see. Treating the bride with myrrh speaks of the bitter travail of those who are called to be the bride of Christ. We are now at this stage of preparation before the appearing of Christ. So you find that Jesus is saying to a people, “If you want to be part of this man child company, you must begin to drop off the Babylonish ways, the worldliness.” He described it as FLEEING out of Babylon: “Come out of her!”15 “Run for your life!” But some people do not know how to come out of Babylon, and they leave the church and they believe that “Because I left the church, I am out of Babylon!” Well, let me tell you something, Babylon is IN you! That is where Babylon is; and “Babylon” means a MIXTURE of the things of God with the things of the world, or the devil, or of self. It is the same thing! “World… Devil… Self—it is the same! That is what Babylon is. So if you have a mixture in you (in your thinking), where you feel that certain things must be done certain ways or else you just cannot be “spiritually correct,” then God says, “Get that thing out of your mind!” Begin to concentrate upon God and upon His Word, and God will bring it to pass that one day you will be loosed and freed from the “Babylon” that is within you! Amen! I know some churches. You go in there and you MUST pray first, and some of them say that you have to pray for half an hour at least or that you 14 Ref. Esther 2:12 15 Ref. Revelation 18:4
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Post by Sunnysnet on Mar 12, 2004 19:32:44 GMT -5
THE OMEGA MESSAGE THE DISPENSATION OF THE FULNESS 31 have to pray for such and such a period of time. Others say, “Well, we don’t believe in that, but we MUST start the service with a song service.” Right? “We must start with a song service. It would be a crime, Brother, if you didn’t start with a song service.” (Laughter) Amen. Hallelujah! I went to a church once, and you had to “jump” to get the glory, and, “Nobody jumps until the leader starts jumping.” Did any of you know that church? It was somewhere down in Indiana. Amen. Well, he comes in and he starts jumping like a Zulu; and as he starts jumping, jumping! You would see all the men, everybody, just jumping straight up! Oh God! Amen! That is worse than Jewish rituals! That is worse than Catholic rituals! We must realize that when we left the Catholic Church there is a spirit that came with us and that many of us still have a vestige of the Catholic spirit in us. Oh yes! That thing is the most awful thing that has ever happened to the church! Catholicism! Amen! Because the time was when they would KILL you if you did not pay homage to the pope. Amen? If you did not do certain things, you would be killed; and right now I am not so sure if you wouldn’t be killed if you went up and said anything about the pope. Would any of you like to try it? Do you follow me? So then, the Moslems come along, and they begin their ritual and they must pray, what is it? Five times a day! They must pray five times a day and they have to go down on their knees. Well, I do not know if many of them do not feel like me, for if I went down there I would not be able to get back up! I do not know how they do it, but I see them go down on their knees, and they all get back up; and they have to go down on their knees again. Brethren, “darkness” has covered the land, and “gross darkness the people,” and God says that at that time He will arise upon His people as a “light.” “Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.”16 So you see, the “light” is coming. It looks so far away now, to see a Moslem man bending down on his knees and getting back up, and saying that he is worshipping God. But the manifestation of that is that he says that His God said he must kill all the Christians and Jews! They say that the “Allah” of Islam is the same God as the God of the Christians, but is the God of the Christians going to tell him to kill Christians? Something is wrong! I do not know, but I thought that at least intellect and the ability to reason in human beings would help some of them from being so ignorant, but it doesn’t. Can anybody tell me what is wrong, and why an intelligent person (a Doctor or whatever he is) still feels that he has to bend down and pray five times a day or else God would not hear him? 16 Isaiah 60:1-2
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Post by Sunnysnet on Mar 12, 2004 19:34:25 GMT -5
THE OMEGA MESSAGE THE DISPENSATION OF THE FULNESS 32 Brethren, let us leave the darkness behind us and let us come to the throne of God, with grace in our hearts KNOWING that God is going to make us what we ought to be! We cannot do it, you know. We cannot do it for ourselves! GOD is the one who is going to make us what we ought to be. And what we ought to be is like Jesus Christ, Himself. Amen! And the more you go towards that goal, the more separation you will find with your own people. People that you love. People that you fellowship with. You will find a separation coming between you and them. You love them, you do not hate them, but there is a distance between you because you are climbing up the hill of Zion. Amen. I am saying, Brethren, that within a few years we will get to the point of NO turning back. This country has a war thrust upon it. We did not want it. America has been backing off from this war for years and years and years. When did the terrorists bomb our embassy in Nairobi? Brother, do you remember what year that was? 1998? All right. In 1998 we were in Kenya, and we saw the devastation and the wreckage that they brought upon the American embassy. And can you imagine? Twelve Americans were killed and America did nothing about it! The American government sent an old lazy rocket over into Afghanistan to get Ben Laden, and before the rocket got there somebody told Ben Laden to leave. So the rocket didn’t get him. But that is all that they did and then they stopped. Then these people, they went and they bombed the ship, the USS Cole. They killed seventeen American sailors, and again America did nothing about it. So you can see that America was backing off from the war. That is, until they came in and wrecked the Towers, killing thousands. I do not believe they really know how many people were killed, because some were incinerated and they have not found any parts of them and they do not know where they are. But the point of what I am saying is that the war was thrust upon America, and when America begins to move now, is there anybody here who can tell me where it is going to end? I know where it is going to end, but I do not know if I should keep it as a secret or I should tell you. Do you want me to tell you where the war is going to end? It will end when Jesus comes! When Jesus, “the prince of peace”17 comes! That is the only end we are going to have. Let me show it to you in the Scriptures. I was talking to God one day, and I said to God, “You know, Lord, man cannot destroy Your earth.” But He said, “Yes! They could!” I said, “Lord, where is it in the Bible?” He told me to turn to Matthew 24, and to look at that twenty-second verse. “And except those days should be shortened, there should NO flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.” 17 Ref. Isaiah 9:6
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Post by Sunnysnet on Mar 12, 2004 19:35:29 GMT -5
THE OMEGA MESSAGE THE DISPENSATION OF THE FULNESS 33 So what is going to stop the war? Come on, students? Don’t you see it? He said, “…but for the elect’s sake” the “days WILL be shortened.” It means that it is only a matter of time. If you give them enough time, they are going to destroy the earth! To poison the atmosphere so that we cannot get any air to breathe—what a calamity that would be! Poison the atmosphere! God said here that it could happen, but because of the “elect” He is not going to let it happen. Now, how close are we to that? Let me show you how close we are. For years and years, Ben Laden has been trying to get atomic bombs; and it is believed that he has gotten some bombs. But only one bomb is a calling card for destruction. So if he sets off one bomb, he is finished because once it is started being used, they are going to be used. But now, we came up to a point where the nations like Russia and the United States and the smaller nations that have had the atomic bomb—they were all holding on to it. They do not dare use it because they know if they use it, it is the end of them. You see? So it has caused a standoff. But guess what? Here comes a people without a country. If Ben Laden bombed us with the atomic bomb, where would you bomb him back? They ran out of targets in Afghanistan, and Afghanistan was bombed because it didn’t have the right sense. If they had just backed off from Ben Laden, they couldn’t have bombed their country. Do you see what I am saying? So now, Ben Laden has no country; and here is another stupid man named Hussein; and if he is stupid enough, he will let the United States start a fight with him. Because, once they start, he is finished. Amen! But, you see, how long is that condition going to continue? Let me show you a little thing here. According to the Catholic Church doctrine, they are destined to rule the world. Are you with me? The Catholic Church doctrine is that they are going to rule the world. But according to the Koran, it is the Moslems who are going to rule the world. One Moslem man was preaching in London, and he said, “Right here! We will be in charge of London right here sometime soon in the time to come!” They believe that they are going to rule the world. They believe that they are going to rule Jerusalem. They believe they are going to take the whole world and that we will all be Moslem. That is two peoples now that believe they are going to rule the world. But then, what now? The Chinese believe that because they have so many soldiers (two hundred million men under arms) that they will be able to rule the world one day. So the Chinese also believe that they are going to rule the world! Right? Then there is the “beast”18 that is rising up in Europe, and they are sure that it is they who are going to rule the world. Do you follow me? 18 Ref. Revelation 13:1
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Post by Sunnysnet on Mar 12, 2004 19:36:48 GMT -5
THE OMEGA MESSAGE THE DISPENSATION OF THE FULNESS 34 So what is going to happen? God said, “…BUT for the elect’s sake.” That means that He is going to let something happen to stop the war; and I asked Him what it is. I asked Him, I said, “God, what are You going to do? Tell me the secret?” Well, it is no secret now if I know it, because I talk out all the secrets, except a few. And He answered and said that He will bring forth “the elect.” “And I will give power unto my TWO WITNESSES, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days clothed in sackcloth… And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed. These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.”19 Now we see here that when the “elect” come forth they will speak the Word. The power of the spoken Word will come from them and it will do ANYTHING that they want to be done? STOP atom bombs! STOP war! SUBDUE men! SUBDUE kingdoms! Don’t you understand? That is where God is training us to be. But some do not believe. And if you do not believe, He will still do it, but you will not be in it. Do you follow me? God can use just one person… two people. He knows His army, and He is going to use them. I believe that it will happen within this decade, in my estimation. I have estimated wrong before. I have been wrong before. But I have never been wrong with the Word of God. For I know that God told me that there will be a great atomic war in the year 2008. By 2008, all these little countries will have their atom bombs and they will probably have China (who wants to rule the world) behind them. Amen! And they will be willing to risk it. I want to remind you of the vision that Brother Gruver had. I want to remind you of the visions that I had pertaining to the United States of America. I want to remind you that we are coming closer up to the time. I did not know that the war was going to start so early. You notice how slowly it starts off, but guess what? It is picking up speed! Yes! The Spirit of God came to me and said, “Two hundred days after ‘mascas,’ there will be blood and fire on the face of the earth”; and we have finally calculated out what this word “mascas” means. Strangely enough, we found the word mascas on the computer, and it means an organization that the Government has to study atomic weaponry; and all the nations join together who have this atomic thing, and they call it “MASCAS.” But He said that it would be “two hundred days after mascas,” and I think that mascas was the day, September 11, 2001. For it was two hundred days to the dot (actually the first hour of the 200th day) that there was an explosion in Israel and I saw the blood and I saw the 19 Revelation 11:3,5-6
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