The Adoption Of Sons
Rosemary Ann LaVigne
First published Jan 14, 2003 on "The House of David " inJesus.com
The Sound of a Trumpet in Zion - Storm Warnings
I believe the Lord is trying to show the Body of Christ that there is more to our coming into the kingdom and being spiritually born from above than just getting saved and evangelism. As the Apostle Paul writes concerning the adoption and this word adoption in your Strong's Concordance tells us its meaning is "the placing of Sons." This does not happen over night. Our walk with the Lord is progressive on from infancy as babes in Christ on into "spiritual" maturity. We learn of Him in the Father's school of learning Christ as we diligently seek Him and His ways in obedience and an utter commitment to knowing Him intimately.
When Paul spoke of the adoption in different places in scripture, he was not speaking of the adoption in the sense that we know in the natural world. The adoption he was speaking of was in this sense, when a Son of God comes into full age or what the Bible speaks of as the "perfect" man or maturity in Christ, sons of full ripe age... For an example as when a Jew in the natural had come to the "age" of accountability at the age of thirty and could be trusted to take over his father's business. It was at the age of about thirty years old as Jesus was about thirty years of age as recorded in Luke's gospel when he was baptized in the Jordan river sent into the wilderness to be tested and then came out in the Power of the Spirit. Our Lord began his ministry at the age of thirty and ministered for three and one half years......He was about 30 years of age when he was baptized at the Jordan River by John the Baptist and there was a voice from heaven that said, "My beloved son in whom I am well pleased." It was when Jesus said of his baptism, he was to fulfill all righteousness as he was still under the law, and according to the Law, a male in a Jewish family had to be thirty years of age before he was accountable for his words and given "full" authority.. Another example is of the blind man from birth Jesus healed...He had to be thirty years of age as well for his parents said, "He was of age..."
The adoption comes when we have come through the chastening of the Lord and have come to the biblical age [in symbolism of the age of maturity as a perfect man], which was seen in types as the number thirty, which has the meaning of maturity. It was the same with Joseph the favored son of his father, he was the same age of thirty [30] when he began to rule in Egypt second in command to Pharaoh. Also as seen when David was thirty [30] years of age, he was elevated by the Father to become King to rule over All Israel. The same will be seen as those who are called "Overcomers" eight [8] times in the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ. Thus which is the biblical number 8 which you may know already is the number of "New" Beginnings...These Overcomers come to "full" maturity when they as seen in the scripture as the "manchild" in Revelation chapter 12 and are caught up to the throne of God and given the right and the authority as mature sons of God to rule with the Father's authority wielding the rod of iron. [Revelation 2:26-27; 3:21-22; Revelation 12:5; Psalm 2:8-10.].
A Company of Mature Sons are Arising to their Place of Authority
A company of mature sons that includes the daughters as well, because in the spirit there is neither male nor female when one is in Christ. Sons who have overcome and are victorious in Christ who are caught up unto the throne of God....These of the manchild company have come to full maturity and therefore are "birthed" from the woman seen as the church through travail to bring these sons to birth.. [Revelation chapter twelve]. This is at the time frame of the last three and one half years to finish the ministry of Jesus to complete the week that Daniel writes of in Daniel chapter nine...to anoint the MOST holy. It is as they become qualified and approved of the Father through many trials and afflictions allowed of the Father to be "chosen" from the many that are called, which means [picked out and selected by preference.] These Overcomers are picked out not for who they are, but for their obedience to the ways of their Father in coming to full ripe age through the enduring the chastening of sons and the rigorous trials that they must overcome in order to qualify to rule and reign [in] the with the Son of God Jesus Christ as he overcame and is seated in His Father's throne .
Revelation 3:21-22
"To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. 22He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches."
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If you will take note that in the first chapter of John's Revelation and visions, he writes in verse 3 of Chapter one. "Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand." And in verse 19 chapter One, John writes.. "Write these things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter." The word hereafter is important here. We know that Jesus was already seated at the right hand of the Father and this manchild written of in Revelation chapter 12 can't be Jesus. That is speculation and erroneous teaching that has been passed on through many years...The manchild John sees are selected and are a chosen people who John sees as... Those who follow the Lamb whitersoever he goeth as a company who are redeemed from among men who are redeemed from the earth as the Father's "firstfruits" unto God and the Lamb, and these receive the Father's name in their foreheads, which is His sig-nature sealed and engraven in their minds with the Signet Seal and is written... Holiness unto the Lord.
[See Revelation 14:1-5].
These who are the Father's firstfruit Sons have come to full maturity and have been caught up to the throne of God. A people who endure unto the end through much preparation and tribulation in the refining fires of the Lord's choosing... and are made ready to rule and reign with Christ and are granted with the Father's authority to use the rod of Iron that is given to the Overcomer.
Jesus speaking here.
Revelation 2:26-27.
"And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I [Jesus is speaking here] give power over the nations:"
Vs 27 "And he [the overcomer] shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers; even as I [Jesus] received of my Father."
In Psalm 2:8-10 we can read again these verses, but with more detail.
"Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession."
Verse 9 "Thou [you, the overcomer] shalt break them in pieces like a potter's vessel."
Verse 10 "Be wise now therefore, O ye kings, be instructed, ye judges of the earth."
Verse 11 "Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling."
1 Corinthians 6:2
"Do ye not know the saints will judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?"
The prophet Isaiah writes in chapter one verse 26 of chapter one. "I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counselors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city."
Verse 27
"Zion be shall redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness."
Verse 28
"And the destruction of the transgressors [those who work iniquity-are the lawlessness ones] and of the sinners shall together, and they that forsake the Lord shall be consumed."
Proverbs 2:21-22
"For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it." verse 22 "But he wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors (those who work iniquity - these are the lawless ones) shall be rooted out of it."
Job 31:3
"Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?"
"The Lord will [and has now] entered into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof [the ancient and honorable men and the princes are the leaders in the man centered church systems today.] It was as they were called ancient and honorable men and princes in the Old Testament when the Father dealt with natural Israel. "For ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses [your houses of worship today. The harlot churches who have and their leaders who are the Shepherds and Pastors who have left off to take heed to the Lord and his wise counsel.]"
[See Ezekiel chapter 9 as well as Isaiah chapter 9.]
Destined for The Throne
Our whole walk as the Lord sees and in the Father's heavenly purposes has always has had a people in mind that would be destined for the throne...Much more could be written on this and it may come at another time... Ruling and reigning with Him and given His the Father's authority to qualify as approved genuine Sons that are led of the Spirit, a willing people that will be used greatly in the day of his power. [Psalm 110] A people that can be trusted by the Father in using and handling the rod of Iron with his the Father's mind and heart, which is the Father's legal and qualified authority that is granted to the overcomer.. [Revelation 2:26-27 also See Psalm 2:8-10 and Revelation 19:11-16 here.]. This is why those who are totally committed to the Lord's righteous judgment and holy ways are in such a battle at this present time as the enemy of our soul hates these Sons and will do anything to discourage and keep them from pressing on to the obtaining lawfully, the mark for the prize of the high calling of God that is in Christ Jesus. [Philippians chapter three]
There indeed is a race to run and win, and he who runs must run it lawfully for that crown that glorious incorruptible crown that is laid up for those who obey Him.. The crown of glory.
We are now living in the climax of an awesome prophetic time frame in the Father's eternal divine purposes and those who are destined for the throne must press on and in now like never before.
O children of the Most High God, let us walk in his ways and let us walk in the light of the Lord. For surely this is the day we have waited for...The day we have waited with anticipation and joy unspeakable and full of glory!
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THE SEALS ARE ABOUT TO BE OPENED!
First published January 14, 2003
Reprint September 21, 2004 reprinted once again March 22, 2009
The Lion Has Roared!
Rosemary LaVigne
I am led of the Lord to share with you what the Lord has been ministering to me the last few days and a good portion of the month of January. There is definitely an acceleration of the “unveiling” of the Lord’s truth for this season. I pray there are ears to hear what the Lord has opened up to others and myself that are hearing. My heart is pounding inside of me as I write.
The Lord has opened my eyes and understanding to a great number of prophetic things that deal with the last days in which we are entering into at this time. The Lord desires these truths to be known, revealed and understood by his people at this time. First of all before I go on with the prophetic message that is upon my heart to share, I want to tell you readers that we are about to see awesome things come upon this nation of America. Great devastation and calamity will prevail very soon and come upon this wayward nation of America and the Church that has not heeded to the warnings of the Lord to repent and mend their ways. But in the midst of all this calamity and devastation we shall see a great moving of the Spirit of the Lord to recover that which has been lost and many will yet turn and give their hearts to the Lord. Many backsliders will come in yet...
Threats of War Fill the Air!
As we see the continued elevated threats to go to war with Iraq many of our troops are no longer here to defend our country. We are becoming more and more open for an attack of the enemy. The Lord is allowing all these things to manifest because, We all of us have sinned against the Lord. The message of repentance has been sounding across the land, but has fallen on many deaf ears and the Lord is saying, We have been weighed in the balances and found wanting. Judgment is nearing and it is well deserved. Soon and very soon there will be a great change in our way of live style here in this nation that once was the richest nation in the world. A nation that has been greatly blessed by God in the past, and now has fallen into a nation of rebels and evildoers. It is because of ungratefulness, haughtiness, wastefulness, iniquity, perversion, a spirit of apathy and pride and the neglect of acknowledging the Almighty God and the lack of the fear of the Lord in the people, even Christians. And we shall reap what we have sown. Many of the Lord’s people do not see that many of the messages that have been sent forth from his the Father's true messengers have been messages to HIS people to turn fro our wicked ways....
It is many of the Lord’s people are not where they should be in following and seeking the Lord for their lives and families. Holiness is not an option.
There have been far too many messages sent out that bundle all of the Lord’s people in one lump, and not all will be of those who will reap the blessings and great favor of God that is about to be made manifest. It will be those who have “chosen” to fear Him, and to follow the righteous ways of the Lord. Those who have chosen to walk in that narrow way that leads to life. This is a people that have willingly paid the price of rejection, misunderstandings and in suffering for His name's sake and that have been willing to sacrifice all for the gospel of Jesus Christ. A people of no reputation, a poor and afflicted people the prophet Zephaniah writes. The remnant of Israel (who are a part of the “one new” man that are in Christ that shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies. They will have no deceitful tongue in their mouth: for these shall lie down and none shall make them afraid. They are the poor and afflicted ones that the Lord shall leave in the midst of the people. These shall trust in the name of the Lord! [See confirmation in Zephaniah 3:12-13]
These believers are what the Bible call the “outcasts” of Israel. They have had to walk alone and without the camp of religion.. and without a great deal of fellowship. Learning the ways of the Lord in their own personal wilderness experiences by and through the trials and fiery testing to refine and purify them for the Father’s holy purposes of carrying His heart to the nations. Also these tested, and tried ones are to be used to carry out the final days of the vengeance of the Lord upon his enemies. [See Psalm 149:5 to the end of Chapter]. We hope to share more on this subject as time permits. (Send for the prophetic booklet the message called His Chariots of Fire obtained from this ministry. Address at the end of this message.]
Please ponder these following words…
“O Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book until the time of the end.”
The Lord is saying the book is about to be opened and unsealed. The rider on the white horse is the Lord's corporate remnant, and not as so many believed and are taught is anti-Christ as has been taught in the past. [See Revelation chapter 5 and chapter 6:1-2] More detail will be written on this white horse as time permits.
“But thou O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.” Daniel 12:4 KJV
“But you, O Daniel, shut up and seal the book until the time of the end. (Then) many shall run to and fro and search anxiously (through the book), and knowledge of God’s purposes as revealed by His prophets) shall be increased and become great.” Amplified Bible Version
THIS IS HAPPENING NOW!
“Surely the Lord God will nothing, but he reveal his secrets unto his servants the prophets. The lion hath roared, who will not fear? The Lord God hath spoken, who can but prophesy?” Amos 3:7-8
It is the Lord’s prophets that he will reveal his secrets to, not to the apostles. We must line up everything that we hear and read with the Word of God. The Word and the Spirit will always agree.
This following message deals with wonderful truth that will bless those who will receive it and study out fully what the following messages contain.
It is fascinating to see and to understand that when the 7 seals are opened in the Book of Revelation chapter 5 by the one that is worthy and is called The Lion of the Tribe of Judah the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lamb that was slain is the one worthy to open the 7 sealed book. He alone is to have pre-eminence. We can see a change begin to happen. This opening of the seals appears to be the unveiling of the prophetic vision that has been shut up and sealed by Daniel until the time of the end. [Daniel 12:4] This is the same vision that the prophet Habakkuk wrote about in chapter 2:3. “For the vision is for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie; though it tarry, wait for it; because it surely will come, it will not tarry.” The prophet was told in verse 2 of Chapter two, “And the Lord answered me and said, Write the vision. Make it plain upon tablets, that he may run that readeth it.” This is the same vision Daniel was given. And if we study out the book of Habakkuk it speaks of the vision of God’s judgment that will be manifested in the end. [Request the free booklet message "Write the Vision" on hard copy].
It is in this prophetic time period at the end that will also be a time when the “trees” [People represent different kinds of TREES in the Word of God]. These trees of the field will bear "fruit." Trees represent the Lord’s people will bear “fruit.” The fruit is the nature of the Son of God who is the express image of His Father. We will go further into this in other messages dealing with how the husbandman [Our Father] is waiting patiently for the precious fruit of the earth. [in our earthen vessels see John 15:1-5] And has long patience for it, until he receive the former and latter rain! (See James 7:5-6-7)
“Rejoice ye children of Zion!” [Joel 2:21-32...]
The children of Zion who are of the Lord’s governmental family that shall bear His nature as holy lights in a world full of darkness that shall cover the people. They will arise and shine the prophet Isaiah declares! [See Isaiah 60:1-3] These holy sons and daughters will seem like “torches” that will emanate the Lord’s glory and they will prophesy, that is they will preach and teach by divine inspiration as the Holy Ghost speaks through them as the oracles of God. This all will take place just prior to the awesome judgments that will fall upon a wicked and sleeping world and wayward Church.
Restoration of the Prophetic Ministry
During this outpouring and restoration of the prophetic ministry of the Lord’s Spirit upon all flesh that was prophesied by the prophet Joel that would come “afterwards.” [See Joel chapter 2] There will come a great moving of the Lord’s Spirit in the midst of great persecution that will be evident and manifested throughout the world. Because of the turmoil and devastation that will be everywhere during this time frame, there will be much devastation and calamity in the midst of the glory and power that God will send to yet sift many who are his sheep from the goats. For there will be a number of the Lord’s people who will be tried and made white during this time of great upheaval and awesome events in the heavens and in the midst of the earth. Weather will play a part in the changes and the rise in plagues and unrest because of economic failures and fear entering into the hearts of men..(written January 14, 2003)
Daniel tells us in Daniel 11:33
“And they that understand among the people shall instruct many; yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil many days. Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen (helped) with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries. And some of them with understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.” So we can see that there is going to be a lot happening very soon as we see the day approaching.
There will be a great number that will come and sit at the feet of those whom God will raise up at this time. Those in whom the Lord will arise in first will not take the glory for themselves, but will be willing to give all for the sake of the gospel message. Teaching things that will put “meat” on the dry bones of those who have thirsted for righteousness. This gospel of the Kingdom; which is proclaiming the Lordship of Jesus Christ, the glorious message will be preached and go unto all nations as a witness and then, and only then will the end come. Many nations will literally be converted to Christ in this last day moving of the Lord’s Spirit. It will be a “quick” work in righteousness and those who understand among the people will do exploits. For even now the Lord is making these things plain to those who are called to sound the alarm and trumpet message in Zion!
This moving of the Lord’s Spirit is to be accomplished by the sending forth of the seven spirits of God into all the earth. [See Revelation 5:6] the cross-reference to this verse is in Isaiah 11:1-5; Zechariah 3:9. There is much teaching involved in these verses and they speak of the new Israel again the “one new” man that is IN Christ.
This is a picture of and is symbolic of a full, not an in part restitution or seen as a restoration of the complete fullness of prophetic ministry that is of the genuine Holy Ghost. The restoration in and through a holy people for his name!
The seven spirits of God represent the spirit and mind of Christ going forth into all the earth! [See Revelation 5:6]
Conclusion to Part One
Before we finish this part of the message the Holy Spirit desires for me to make this very clear to those of you who are reading this message. When the Lord speaks of his people, he always refers to them as those that are called by his name. He is speaking to his Church today not a nation or a country, but to His people! [2 Chronicles 7:14] Is speaking to God’s people, not America as a whole, a nation whose people, a great number of them DO NOT know the Lord. Please keep this in mind as you read. Everything that happened to natural Israel in the Old Testament is now a repeat in this present time. Only it is the Church that the Lord is speaking to. Many of the Old Testament prophets have a “present” truth that we must apply to today’s called out Church of Jesus Christ. There are veiled truths in the prophets that will speak to you and I personally, if we can hear them with a "spiritual" ear...
There is a message that deals with “present” truth that the Lord has been speaking to me today, and I have shared portions of it with you for you to judge.
The 7 SEALED BOOK
We are rapidly moving into the time when the book and words that Daniel was told to shut up and seal until the time of the end will be opened. We see this book as the seven-sealed book that is spoken of in the Revelation of Jesus Christ at the end of the New Testament Books. Daniel was told to close or seal up the words of the book until the time of the end and John was told to open the book.
Revelation 22:10
“And he saith unto me, "Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book; for the time is at hand.” [Revelation 1:3] This is that day and the time is at hand!
We, my precious brethren are in the time of the end.
First published Jan 14, 2003 on "The House of David " The Sound of a Trumpet in Zion - The Lion Hath Roared Publications - P.O Box 5348, Pagosa Springs, Colorado 81147 USA
Unto Him That Hath The Ears To Hear
Rosemary Ann Lavigne
March 26th 2009
Writing to you... It's very, very late to get right with God...I am sending this again with more added as the Lord for some days has been speaking to me to make plain what it means to be a wise virgin and not a foolish one...For as some have not taken the time to read and study out this word and it is a vital word to digest and to take Heed of NOW while it is still yet day and we can work openly.
May we the Lord' people see perhaps there is little time to make preparations and to yet seek Him for that extra oil which is the "light and revelation of God." The extra oil that is needed to keep our lamps burning to be gathered into our VESSELS along with the oil in our lamps. The foolish virgins (seen as Christians) in our Lord's parable of the wise and foolish virgins-- ten in all. It is the custom for a Jewish wedding to take place in the evening at twilight and the beginning of the new day as their days in Israel start in the evening not like our day starts in the morning at DAY LIGHT.
The foolish virgins did not take the time to gather extra oil in their VESSELS while there was yet time to do so. For as Jesus parable tells us of the wise and the foolish virgins that is found in Matthew 25:1-13. Please rehearse this parable of Jesus as it speaks ... will you? For when the Bridegroom came as that Cry was make at the MIDNIGHT HOUR--- The door was shut to them who were among the foolish virgin Christians. (See Matthew 25:1-13 for the whole parable.)
The word foolish in your Strongs Concordance of all Bible words in the Greek text-- the word foolish has the meaning of and is rendered as found in the G#3474 Moros seen as dull or stupid (as if - shut up), that is, HEEDLESS, blockhead, absurd; -fool -ishness.
This parable of the wise and foolish virgins is shadowed out once again by our Lord with the door being shut once again and is found in Luke 13:23-30. I am going to write these scriptures out for you. Jesus warned and this is what he said to the one who asked him the question. "---are there few that be saved...?"
Luke 13:23-30
"Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them,
24Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
25When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:
(These are similar unto the same words Jesus used in the parable of the wise and the foolish virgins---seen as all Christian believers that are also found Jesus' parable that is found in Matthew 25:1-13 as well. Compare them if you will.)
(The Lord rising up is the same timeline and time frame of his coming like a thief in the night. (1 Thessalonians 5:1-10) Him our Lord coming suddenly when the wise and foolish virgins were all slumbering as it reads in Matthew 25:1-13. They who all were waiting for the Bridegroom's coming has been long as this man, we can see in other parables of Jesus that was on a far journey is seen as our Lord and commanded his servant to watch as well as it reads in Matthew 24:42-51 and to give "meat" in due season.)
26Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets.
27But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.
(Lawless ones seen as these believers in Christ that did not obey the Lord - See Matthew 7:23-24; Matthew 24:412-51; Matthew 25:12:Matthew 25:21-46)
28There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.
29And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.
30And, behold, there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last."
It is wise to take and heed unto the counsel of our God and sincerely and earnestly and diligently strive to enter that narrow way that leads to life in Jesus Christ the Son of God. For many because they would not listen and take heed will be found on the broad way that leads to destruction. (Matthew 7:8-14)
The prophetic ministries out there on the internet and airways are not telling the Lord's people these vital truths.. They are telling the people to prepare mostly in the natural because they have families etc. which is good but.. and needed as well. But what needs said and broadcast clearly is that is we all that profess His the Name of Jesus must---Must seek Him with the whole heart first and foremost and live a life that reflects the Lord's ways in holiness and righteous behavior and then we shall be protected in a miraculous way in the times to come. Psalm 91 is a promised...But we must choose to fear the Lord and we must choose to heed the Lord's wise counsel and reproof or we will reap the whirlwind and the desolation and the calamities and the destruction that will and is already coming on those who do not obey the Lord and His righteous ways.. Our God does not change and what He required of His original Israeli people, He is requiring of us seen as the New Testament called out Church of Jesus Christ. The examples lie here in these verses...
Words to the Wise
WISDOM SPEAKS TO US WHO WILL LISTEN
Proverbs 1:1-33
"The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
"To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
3To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
4To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
5A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
6To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
8My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
9For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
10My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
11If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
12Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
13We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
14Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
15My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
16For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
17Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
18And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
19So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
20Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
21She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,
22How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
23Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
24Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
25But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
26I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
27When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
28Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
29For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
30They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
31Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
32For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
33But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
There is the Natural Rain and then there is the Former and Latter Rain of the Holy Spirit in Teaching Pure Doctrine
There is both as first that which is natural and then that which is spiritual
I Corinthians 15:46
"Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual."
We can apply this to the rain.
Just listened to it Nathan Leal's audio...and it was good and needed and heeded here as have seen this for many years...And unfortunately the messages have fallen on many deaf ears. There is a two fold truth dealing with the "rains"... and draught that is in the land that is allowed by our God...It is because of the sinning church that has not heeded to the message and call of and unto repentance and a turning to God in brokenness and humility...See 2 Chronicles 7:13-14... Verse 13 speaks of how God withholds the "rain" because of sin and Deuteronomy 11 tells us why...as God does not change...Eccl 1:9-10. It is because of not heeding to our God's ways that He sends the four sore judgments as he died to natural Israel that are found in Ezekiel chapter 14 and in what is the Lord shows us in Deuteronomy 28 and Leviticus 26. Blessings IF we obey Him and the curses if we do not obey Him. Obeying Him brings the refreshing rain for our thirsty and land seen in this end time as the former and latter rains...See Joel 2:21-32
"If" ---this little two letter word is used in both Old and New Testaments. Do we hear this as God does not change.. "If"--- we obey his commands and if we do what He tells us to do like Israel of Old the words ring clear here from Isaiah 1:19-20. Again God does not change. "If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it." (See Ezekiel chapter 33 all of it.)
Deuteronomy 14:1-18
"Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.
2And know ye this day: for I speak not with your children which have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm,
3And his miracles, and his acts, which he did in the midst of Egypt unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his land;
4And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD hath destroyed them unto this day;
5And what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came into this place;
6And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel:
7But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD which he did.
8Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to possess it;
9And that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
10For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs:
11But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven:
12A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.
13And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
14That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.
15And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full.
16Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
17And then the LORD's wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.
18Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes."
The Natural Jews the orthodox Jews put a little black box tied to their forehead with the laws of their God written inside the black box and another on their hand as they only see this commands of the Lord in the natural . We God's N/T Church need to see this in the spiritual realm as well and lay up the Lord's words in our "hearts" and in our soul (the mind realm of the triune man in Christ) and bind his words for a sign upon our hand, that they God's words be as frontlets between our eyes. This is where the name of the Father seen as "His nature" his words as well are engraved and are written in the foreheads of the 144,000 and the signet sealing takes place in the "mind. the realm of the soul." See Revelation 14:1-5 and Revelation 7:1-8: Revelation 22:4.
The rain for our land which is seen as "our personal and individual land--- you and me." The rain is withheld because of no repentance and a turning to God in humbling ourselves and turning from our wicked ways. 2 Chronicles 7:13 -14. Our God tells us as he does not change.
2 Chronicles 7:13-14
"If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
(See Joel chapter one)
14If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
The Father is seeking fruit and the pure doctrine seen as the former and latter rain in teaching in the rain sent by God the Father in order to bring his sons and daughters unto full ripe age--- It is necessary that the pure and wholesome clean refreshing rain in teaching good doctrine seen in what is the Lord's instructions is needed to bring the "fruit" of the nature of Jesus unto maturity in us the Lord's people. It will take a full repentance and a turning from all known sin in our lives. A brokenness to see our condition and be willing to say Lord, Do what is needed to bring me to that place where there is nothing left in me that offends you.
IT TAKES PURE RAIN TO DO THAT
James 5:6-7 and take that to Hosea 6:1-3...see all of Isaiah 61.
This applies to our nation of America as well and other nations that have forgotten God the made them all. The only provision is found in 2 Chronicles 7:14...Disobedience unto the Father's ways brings the four sore judgments of our righteous God.. This goes along with Deuteronomy 11:1-18 which is for God's people and all of us to take heed of. The natural rain brings the harvest unto maturity in the natural ways. WE need the rain of God seen in His the Father's pure doctrine in teaching the Father's words and ways that are righteous in order to avert the "spiritual" draught and what is the famine that is in the land that persists in many people that the Lord himself sends in allowing and in causing a "spiritual famine" in the land for "the hearing of the words of the Lord to exist." The spiritual rain seen as the Father's doctrine. (See Deuteronomy 3:1-3; Deuteronomy 11:1-18 brings the harvest that comes at the end of this age of the wheat seen as the true sons of God and the tares that were planted by the evil one unto maturity at the same time when the bade appeared.. For it is when the full fruit appears on the wheat seen as pure grain as well as no fruit on the tares as they are barren and do not bear fruit but briars like thorns and thistles. See Deuteronomy 32:1-3 and Matthew 13-30 and 37- 43.)
"Therefore speak I (Jesus) to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
14And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Easiest, which smith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
15For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
16But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.
17For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.
18Hear ye therefore the parable of the sewer.
19When any one hearth the word of the kingdom, and understand it not, then cometh the wicked one, and cachet away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.
20But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that hearth the word, and with joy received it;
21Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.
22He also that received seed among the thorns (The false ministries Matthew 7:15-23) is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
23But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
(The fruit is the nature and what is the character of Jesus Christ ... See John 15:1-6 and Galatians 5:22-26)
24Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:
25But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
26But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.
27So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?
28He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?
29But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.
30Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn."
FOR THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT IS ALL GOODNESS AND RIGHTEOUSNESS AND TRUTH
Ephesians 5:9
(If we do not know what a tare is-- it is seen as an imitation "wheat" a look a like wheat only until the harvest which is the end of this age as the wheat at maturity as its fruit is seen and bows low because of the weight of the abundant grain in the ear. It's head bows low at maturity as the fullness of ripe grain as the full fruit appears and is ready for harvesting. And while the tares stand straight up tall among the wheat at their maturity as well...which could be distinguished by pride and there is the difference and it will be known by the wise and discerning ones that are not dull of hearing but wise in understanding what the will of the Lord is ( Vital to see and take hold of these words of Paul's for us found in Ephesians 5:5-21) It is in God's ways that we learn while the wicked will not understand.)
Daniel 12:10
"Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand."
Matthew 13:37- 43
37He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man;
38The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;
39The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world (age); and the reapers are the angels.
40As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world (Age).
41The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;
AMP verses here in verse 41-43
"The Son of Man will send forth His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all causes of offense [[a]persons by whom others are drawn into error or sin] and all who do iniquity and act wickedly,
42And will cast them into the furnace of fire; there will be weeping and wailing and grinding of teeth.
43Then will the righteous (those who are upright and in right standing with God) shine forth like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Let him who has ears [to hear] be listening, and let him consider and perceive and understand by hearing.(A)
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