Tongues of Fire
THE APOSTLE PAUL ON A MISSION
Moving Of the Spirit
Acts 19,1-7: And it came to pass, that while Apolis
was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples,
Vs. 2. He said unto them, have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much
as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.
Vs. 3, And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John’s baptism.
Vs. 4. Then said Paul; “John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance” saying unto the people, “that
they should believe on him, which should come after him“. That is, on Christ Jesus.
Vs. 5. When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
Vs. 6, And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.
Paul had declared to the Colossians
Paul gave to the Saints at Colossi, at that time, an insight that revealed the revelation that, he, Paul had received
from God.
He said that he had heard things that were unlawful for him to utter.
The question is; why would the revelations that Paul had received from God, be unlawful to utter?
Is Paul saying...
God does not allow me to speak these revelations to anyone?
It certainly sounds like that...
John the revelator had been told not to write some things that he had seen or heard.
Why would God want to conceal certain experiences or words that had been declared?
The withholding of certain revelations, such as that of Daniel, and also by John the Revelator was certainly
for a reason.
God had made Jesus Christ his son a mystery that was
hid from the foundations of the world.
Romans 16:25 (KJV)
Now to him that is of power to establish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the
revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,
The reason that Jesus was a mystery was... that Satan would not know just how and when that Jesus would come to die for
the sins of mankind.
Had God revealed too much information, then Satan would not have crucified the Lord.
1 Cor. 2:8 (KJV) Which none of the princes of this
world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
God brings to pass things and reveals revelation knowledge to his saints when the time is right, and not before.
When Adam and Eve disobeyed God, they were driven out of the Garden...there were flaming swords to keep the way of
the tree of life.
Genesis 3:24 (KJV) So he drove out the man; and
he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree
of life.
At that time Jesus ... which was the tree of Life, was
preserved until the fullness of time would come.
Galatians 4:4 (KJV)
But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
After the fall of mankind...when God drove the man and woman from the Garden of Eden... At that time man went into
the time realm and began to die.
Genesis 2:17 (KJV) But of the tree of the knowledge
of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Death was the sentence ... was placed upon mankind...
this sentence has reigned from the time of Adam’s fall.
Romans 5:14 (KJV) Nevertheless death reigned from
Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that
was to come.
We have in our body... the sentence of death... death
makes its bid for your body.
It is my opinion ... that the only thing that holds
that sentence from taking effect is... the Grace of
God... God’s mercy that is shown... not only
to the righteous... but to the sinner also.
Had Adam and Eve... been able to take of the tree
of life, after that when they sinned... Satan would have been able to, not only stand in the presence of God, he would have
in essence replaced God’s presence in his created man with his presence
Satan then would have become like God.
Isaiah 14:14 (KJV) I will ascend above the heights
of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
This was his ticket... to the ascension to the
most high.
Just as God has been Glorified in Christ Jesus... That Glory is that of the Saints of God being brought into the presence
of God the Father.
It is evident... that Satan could never be like
God as a Angle.
Satan was not made in the Image of God. Satan was not made from the clay.
Satan never had the breath of God blown into his nostrils.
To be like God ... Satan had to incarnate himself
into one of God children and, since Adam was the first son of God that was created, Satan knew... that if he could
get into the flesh... that Adam had...then let Adam go to the tree of Life...eat of the fruit...
Satan then would have taken the image of God ... as
Jesus was the Express image of the Father.
Satan would have ascended up to the Throne... would
have been able to sit down in the throne with God...Satan would have been like the most high.
Jesus asked the father... to glorify him with the
glory that he had with the father in the beginning.
John 17:5 (KJV) And now, O Father, glorify thou
me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
Jesus was... had the Glory of the father... before
the world was.
This proves that God and Jesus... existed before
the world was ever placed into existence.
When Adam became a living soul ... The Lord took
him and placed him into the Garden of Eden.
There...God took from Adam a rib...
From that rib God made Adam a helpmeet. This helpmeet is the Woman named Eve. She was to be a companion to Adam.
Here... the Glory of the man... is the woman...this
woman stood by side of Adam... this is... a similitude to the bride of Jesus Christ.
The Church is the bride... the righteousness of
the Saints is the Glory of the Father.
We can say that this is the purpose of the first Adam and the helpmeet that he had created.
The bible says that God can see the end from the beginning.
Isaiah 46:10 (KJV)
Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall
stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
We must realize... when we are talking of the end
from the beginning... God through Jesus Christ...in Jesus Christ... made both the beginning... and the end, and, everything
in between.
God declared the End from Jesus Christ ... which
is the beginning.
The End of the Matter is Jesus Christ
The law made... those that had not sin after the
similitude of Adam... Which had death to rein over them...they had been made to know...in that law...were the councils of
God... a promise of the hope that each and everyone that had a hope of being delivered from the death and the grave.
God through the Law... revealed first... that sin...
was exceedingly sinful...that the man that had fallen from the Garden... all that followed... were to look
to Jesus Christ.
If Man was to ever be lifted up and Glorified again... it
would only come through the one that was mentioned in the law.
The law itself could not deliver mankind... up to the
Father... to receive the Glory that God the father wanted through his son Jesus... before the world was created.
Through the pain staking mercy ... the councils that
God the Father placed in Jesus Christ... there... he was able to make... and cause his councils to come to pass.
You have to know... God wanted Adam and Eve to enjoy...
this from the very beginning... if they had not yielded to the Serpent...surely things would have been a lot different.
We can see... God at times became weary with those of
time past... God wanted to destroy them from the face of the earth.
God made an attempt to wipe sin out
God wanted man to follow in the righteousness of that of his son.
Yet man just couldn’t get away from the presence of the Serpent.
The serpent was driven out of the Garden... through
the flesh that Adam and Eve had and took up his rein in that habitation.
We can see him coming through the flesh through Cain
At the same time we can see the councils of God coming through Able.
As it was written ...had not God left us a seed.
Romans 9:29 (KJV)
Esaias said before... Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made
like unto Gomorrha.
We certainly would be destroyed by fire. lie the cities
of Sodom and Gomorrha. By the way...isn’t that
one of the Prophesies that foretells the end of those who do not follow God...who follow after Satan?
Luke 17:28 (KJV)
Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
As the Lord said... that he then had been Glorified with the Glory of a son... even though he was a created a living soul...God the father became Glorified in that creation.
God has referred to the Saints... as the place of his
residence... that is what he wants more than his own majesty...to prove this... we only need to look at the verse in John
3. 16.
John 3:16 (KJV) For God so loved the world, that
he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Jesus was made lower than the Angels ...stepped down
from the Glory of that which exists in Heaven.
Jesus came to this sin torn world and died... willing
just to have us to enter into his presence once again, as he had with Adam and Eve, in the Garden.
As the Voice of God talked with Adam and Eve in the
Garden...The voice of the Holy Ghost still today wants to communicate with us.
2 Thes. 1:10 (KJV) When he shall come to be glorified
in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
We just take... what God has done for us as something
that could or did happen... because God had nothing else better to do.
The whole existence of God ... is that of God himself
existing in his saints.
It is a mistake... for us to think that we have the
ability to make ourselves righteous by our own doings.
Jesus Christ is our righteousness... in him along can
we enter into the presence of God the Father.
Had not Jesus been prepared... from the beginning as
our redemption...we would have been all been like Sodom and Gomorrah.
Thank God... that as he looked upon Lot with his mercy...The mercy had been extended... to Lot... because of that which God had prepared in Christ.
The Lord reached down... when the evil surrounding were
to be burned up by fire...he extended his mercy to Lot.
That is the same mercy ... which he showed... when he
died on the cross.
He delivered us from the curse... that Malachi had
pronounced upon mankind.
Lot was taken by the hand ...commanded to leave that
place and not to look back.
We today are commanded... to come out from among the
world... and be separate.
2 Cor. 6:17 (KJV) Wherefore come out from among
them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.
As fire rained down... upon those cities in those days...
that fire was the judgment type... that was there at the cross... when Jesus came. The Bible states that he came in the fullness of time.
Galatians 4:4 (KJV) But when the fullness of the
time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
Daniel spoke of the time that Jesus would come to redeem those that were looking for the Messiah.
Daniel 9:25 (KJV)
Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the
Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even
in troublous times.
Later in this manuscript I have dealt very piously with this Prophecy that is given to Daniel.
Mysteries are sometimes Hidden
Jesus said that the Kingdom of Heaven suffered violence... From John the Baptist until Christ... Jesus stated that the...” violent
takes it by force”
Matthew 11:12 (KJV) And from the days of John the
Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
This is where we miss the revelation ...of what Jesus
had done for all the saints of God on the cross.
As Job was given into the hand of Satan to try him... as Satan continually came in the presence of God...when the Old Testament
Saints appeared before God... Satan appeared there also.
Job 1:6 (KJV) Now there was a day when the sons
of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them.
What Job was saying was, as Jesus said... That Satan
stood in the presence of God along side of the Old Testament Saint and accused them continually.
I want to add here some vital information...
You see There was no mediator there to represent those
that come to God...unlike today...we have a mediator to
represent us.
This mediator not only confesses us to the Father...took our penalty of Death and the Curse that was placed upon mankind...took that and nailed it to the cross...then he
took that to Hell...put it where it belongs...then he
came out of Hell...rose up...appeared to those of his followers...displayed that he was not dead... but was alive.
When Jesus did this... he made an open show of Satan...he
defeated Satan...took his seat on the right hand of god,,, to stand in the presence of God...to confess the brothers and sisters...the
saints of the Lord...making intercessions to god the father.
Jesus then Cast him out of the presence of God... into
the world ...when he came into the world he went to make war with the saints.
Up unto John the Baptist the Old Testament Saints... were
given into his hand until a time...times... and a dividing of time.
This is the three and half years of the first part of tribulation... that was to come on mankind.
This is the penalty... that Adam and Eve... and the
whole creation groaned and traveled with...until the Adoption took place.
Romans 8:23 (KJV) And not only they, but ourselves
also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit,
the redemption of our body.
What Daniel had declared... was to take place...was
that of the Coming of Jesus...Daniel was allowed to reveal only those things that would not give Satan a hint...as
to how this was to happen.
God had to withhold from mankind...certain things...had he not done so...They would not have crucified the lord.
1 Cor. 2:8 (KJV) Which none of the princes of this
world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
To sum up the matter is this ...the Old Testament Saints...were given into the hands of Satan to accuse and to kill and to wear out the Saints until Jesus came...there at the
river of Jordan...when John the Baptist along with Jesus who was being baptized...there Appeared The Holy Ghost...this
Holy Ghost was the voice of the Father... there was the...three that are in Heaven...bearing witness to those
who stood by.
Luke 3:22 (KJV) And the Holy Ghost descended in
a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.
This is the beginning... of the taking and lifting of
the curse that was upon mankind.
Jesus walked and did many infallible proof’s of the power of God... among his believers.
For three and half years... he did these great miracles...then
came the final moment...after he had placed into the hearts of those who followed him...he then walked into the place which was supposed to be that of a holy city.
Jesus rode in... not as a...king of man made credentials...Jesus rode on a lowly jack ass...come up to the place where Satan had taken the Law...which was given on Mt. Sinai... where the children of the devil who...thought to change that Law...so that they...could hold dominion over Gods people...Satan
thought to change things around so he could set himself
up in the Seat Of God...that seat was the heart of
those priest’s that stood there.
These had made an agreement with Hell itself... took
and placed between man and God...a wall so high that no
one ...could get over it...with out their permission.
Yes they had been given into his hands until the time, times and the dividing of time ...that was the three and half years that Jesus came to take upon himself as the curse.
This is why the Devils cried out to Jesus... and said
have you come here to torment us before our time.
Matthew 8:29 (KJV) And, behold, they cried out,
saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?
When Jesus came up out of that water there in Jordan ...when
he and John the Baptist was being baptized... Jesus then began he to teach and to deliver those who were diseased and
oppressed of the Devil.
Here is where Satan knew.. .that he was up against the
one that was there in the Garden of Eden...that tree of Life...that was there for the taking...and by taking of that tree
of life...Adam and Eve could have lived forever in the presence of God’s Love.
Here again come the full force of Gods Love... once
again...here is the Love and presence of God...again...manifesting...that he was...is...to be Glorified in the Saints...those
that...as Adam and Eve...who was privileged...at one era... was able to walk with in the Garden of Eden...here
once again the Lord was walking in the presence of his creation...not only to walk with them on earth...Jesus was now...ready to Adopt us back into the presence of the Glory of God...to be able to come down to us...through the Holy Ghost...to take up his abode in our hearts.
Daniel 7:25 (KJV) And he shall speak great words
against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing
of time.
After that day when Jesus Hang on the Cross... gave
his life for us...shed his sinless blood for us...we are
no longer given into Satan's hands.
We have Power over Satan... to push him far away from
us.
Praise God Almighty.
This is enough to make one shout his way out of any thing that comes our way.
It is sad that those that can’t see ... what Daniel
was saying...that still...like to hold onto the Law of
commandants and traditions of the elders who...still want
to give Satan the opportunity to hold dominion over them.
In doing so they can have dominion over the lives of each other .
Jesus said that he has made us free and free indeed.
John 8:36 (KJV) If the Son therefore shall make you
free, ye shall be free indeed.
When they come to you... tell you that you have to do
this...do that... you need to resist them...tell Satan
to get behind you.
They that know and worship God... worship him in Spirit and Truth.
That Truth is Jesus Christ
Jesus said that he was and is the truth
John 14:6 (KJV) Jesus saith unto him, I am the
way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
If you think... you can get to the Father by any way except through Jesus...you are going to find yourself lost...except you go through Jesus...you will end up in Hell.
What a sad tragedy... to think that just because we
do this... or that... we have gained the approval of the Father.
God the father only looks at you through his Son Jesus Christ
Jesus came not to Judge... Jesus came to give life
to those who will come and believe on his name...who walk not after the flesh...but after the Spirit.
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