Dedication of the Temple
Paul Nosike
Awka, Nigeria
March 14, 2009
At the middle of the night, in the early hours of March 12th, I presented to God in prayer the difficulties I was having. I had quit my job at the leading of the Spirit and I refrained from getting any job or engaging in any self employment thing. This very night I told God that I was not pursuing the things of the world, but my problem is that I also do not see much spiritual progress. A few years back God responded to my prayers in remarkable ways; this time around the sky is mostly to me like brass. Then I went to bed and slept off.
Part of a dream I had involved a man that I know telling me that Reinhard Bonkhe (the most popular evangelist known in Nigeria) will be dedicating the temple on the 10th (no month given). He went on to say that he would then carry out a crusade few days after dedicating the temple. When I woke up, I reasoned that since March 10th was already past, the 10th most likely points at April 10th. Then I considered that it could be referring to the tenth day of the first month of the biblical calendar. This year the tenth day of the first month of the biblical calendar falls on 4th/5th April.
Mt 21:12 Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves.
Mt 21:13 “It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it a ‘den of robbers.’’”
Mt 21:14 The blind and the lame came to him at the temple, and he healed them.
Mt 21:15 But when the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did and the children shouting in the temple area, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they were indignant.
Mt 21:16 “Do you hear what these children are saying?” they asked him. “Yes,” replied Jesus, “have you never read, “‘From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise’?”
This Jesus’ entry into the temple happened right after Jesus stepped down from the colt that He used for the Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem. It obviously happened very close to His crucifixion and hence Passover. He drove out the people who were merchandising in the temple just before His sacrifice of atonement for our sins.
Last night I told God in prayer that if the end-time revival that I have been waiting for does not commence in the month of April, then I would have to find a way to earn some money in order to take care of my family. I woke up from sleep this morning and a question came to my mind, if I had any dream in connection with the number 14. I could not remember any such dream, but as the thought went on I remembered a dream that I had in 2007. By then I was also anxiously waiting for the end-time revival to commence. In a dream I journeyed over a long distance and eventually ended up in a street full of churches on one side of it. I got this knowledge that the church that is number 14 on the street was going to do a celebration that week. The number 14 church and the churches before number 14 were newly painted in readiness for the occasion. Then I woke up from the dream.
I did not understand the meaning of the 2007 dream by then. However, the question in my mind this morning about the number 14 in my dream brought it back. It immediately connected with the March 12th dream. The 2007 dream showed that something great will happen to the Church on a Passover feast day (14th day of the first month of the biblical calendar). The March 12th dream showed that Christ will come into some people four days before Passover; that is the meaning of churches on the same street as the number 14 church, but before the number 14 church, being as newly painted as the number 14 church. The people to be indwelt by Christ are obviously the 144000 Israelites of the book of Revelation. The rise of the 144000 will also mark the end of merchandizing ministries.
Rev 14:1 Then I looked, and there before me was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads.
As I wrote in http://www.etpv.org/2006/t144am.html, Revelation 14 contains the summary and sequence of key end-time events. The first end-time event is the sealing of the 144000 Israelites.
Rev 7:2 Then I saw another angel coming up from the east, having the seal of the living God. He called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea:
Rev 7:3 “Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.”
Once the 144000 Israelites are sealed, the world is in trouble. The birth pains (Mat 24:8) that will ultimately lead to the birthing of the Manchild begins. The angels that hold the four winds of the earth will begin to hurt the land (earthquakes), the sea (tsunamis, rising of coastal waters) and the trees (severe drought due to adverse weather).
In Matthew 21, Jesus drove the merchandisers out of the temple and in a few days time He died for our sins on Passover day. This time around He enters His temple (the 144000 Israelites) and the Moses company (the 144000) lead the people of God out of worldliness and into desert life on the Passover day. The people of God begin the march toward the Promised Land (heaven). It will take the people of God about 3½ years to reach the Jordan River, where Joshua (Jesus) will appear on the scene and cross them over the Jordan (rapture) into the Promised Land (heaven). Unfortunately, not all who experience the ministry of the 144000 at the beginning will make the rapture.
Some people wonder how God could find 144000 Jewish Christians that Christ would inhabit in the near future. However, Isaiah 11 has the locations of descendants of Israelites of old.
Isa 11:10 In that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples; the nations will rally to him, and his place of rest will be glorious.
Isa 11:11 In that day the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to reclaim the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, from Lower Egypt, from Upper Egypt, from Cush, from Elam, from Babylonia, from Hamath and from the islands of the sea.
Isa 11:12 He will raise a banner for the nations and gather the exiles of Israel; he will assemble the scattered people of Judah from the four quarters of the earth.