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RAPTURING FAITH HAS COME!
Thought for the book taken from the
Message delivered on April 4, 2015
Glen Daniel, West Virginia U.S.A.
©2015 by Ben Howard
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RAPTURING FAITH HAS COME!
(Testimony of Barbara Jean Howard) “Last Monday, Ben and I
were talking about faith. I told him that since the church ages are now
over, I don’t have faith like they did in the past ages. Because during
the church ages they were hoping for the change, and because it wasn’t
time for them to make the change, their true destination was a new life
in the first resurrection. And so it is with those that are still in the
spiritual realm of the seventh church age. They have a certain kind of
faith (church age faith), but there is time no longer for that type of faith.
That’s not the faith that I have, because they are just hoping for the
change; they don’t know whether they will go to the grave or not. But
my faith is not to have my spirit and soul separated out from my body.
Because in this time of rapturing faith, our faith is believing that our
spirit, soul, and body will stay together for all eternity. The Apostle
Paul had already seen what was over there, so he had a desire to go on;
because he said, “I am in a strait between two, having a desire to depart
or stay.” But there is something in me that doesn’t want my spirit to
be separated from my body. (But then, I know if a person’s spirit, soul,
and body are not united together as one, then they are already separated
while they are living.) And I don’t have faith to go through tribulation,
He hasn’t given me that kind of faith either, because that faith hasn’t
come yet; although we can see the seed of that faith in Revelation,
Chapter 7. So I thought to myself, “What kind of faith do I have?”
There is only one faith that is for us. The faith that has come for us is
the body changing faith. That is what we have been given. There is no
other faith for us. On Monday, Ben and I were talking about these
things and I hastily wrote these few words down, “Till faith has come.”
Well, I hadn’t discussed with anyone what Ben and I were discussing
or what I had written down. Then on Wednesday, Leah sent an email
down to us, and it lined up perfectly with what I had written down on
Monday. So I’m going to ask her if she would to read it to us, because
it is absolutely true.
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(Testimony of Leah Farruggia) “I woke up Wednesday morning
with these thoughts: If the mind can shut down a body (we’ve seen it
when depression tears down someone’s mind)—and if anxiety and
depression and fear can cause changes in the body such as heart
problems, colon problems, cancer, and many more diseases which
produce death, then what will the mind of Christ produce? It will
produce life—healing for mind and body, glorification, and
translation! Jesus is the source which produces life, eternal life. But
Satan is the source of anxiety, fear, and depression which produces
death. In the past ages, many saints had much faith, but eventually
still died physically. Because the part of the Word that says, “we which
are alive and remain shall be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of
an eye” wasn’t anointed for that hour. So that faith wasn’t connected
to the tree of life—the part of the Word that He is now activating (or
anointing) for this hour. But when our faith gets activated by eating
the little book (this trumpet message) it produces the faith of the Son of
God which is an anointed faith which produces the mind of Christ and
produces a glorified body with no death in it.”
I want to thank Leah and Barbara Jean for their testimonies; it
is so wonderful to see that God is using the members of the body
of Christ in such a present day way. I appreciate the Lord and
His many, many blessings. Also, I want to thank each one of
you for the singing and the worshipping of the Lord. I also want
to say that it is so good for my wife and I to be here with you
again in West Virginia, to see each one of you and to know that
it is through Jesus Christ that we are the seed of God. It was all
by His choosing, and that is a wonderful thing. This doesn’t
depend on whether we are rich or poor or how much we know
or how much we don’t know; and our education has nothing to
do with our salvation. We are saved by grace through faith and
not of works, so no one can boast of their own goodness.
See, God planned this whole thing back before He ever made
the world. God foresaw the whole thing, and He knows how we
are going to react to what we are hearing in the Word. And if
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we don’t react according to what His plan is for us, God can
nudge us a little to the left or to the right to keep us in line with
His will, because He has already been here (even in this service)
before the world was created. He was with John on the Isle of
Patmos; that’s how John could write about the great white
throne judgment at the end of the millennial reign; even seeing
it all the way into eternity where there will be a new heaven and
a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth were passed
away, and there was no more sea. God was right there and He
took John there with Him and John wrote about it. Well, He’s
here today and He has brought us with Him. And in Him we
live, we move, and we have our being. So let us pray and ask
God’s blessing on the Word.
Heavenly Father, we bless your name, we praise your name, and we
thank you for the love of God, as Paul said, “The love of God that
surpasses all understanding,” Our human mind can’t understand the
love of God. O God, I pray that you will bless us and put your love on
each one of us and let the love of God be seen coming forth as a great
shining light. May we be that which you would have us to be. Lord,
as we read your Word, I pray for the anointing and the inspiration to
bring it into being and it will be as you’ve ordained it, in Jesus Christ’s
name.
I will begin the message tonight and see how the Lord will lead
us. In this hour that we are living in, we are all looking for
something called the translation and rapture. There is a saying
amongst many of the followers of the message that Brother
William Branham brought and the followers of the message that
Brother Raymond Jackson brought that are still living in the
seventh church age. Many times we hear them say, “We are
waiting for rapturing faith,” or “When that rapturing faith
comes,” or “When those seven thunders utter, we will have
rapturing faith.” They don’t realize that the revelation that God
started with the seventh church age messenger, Brother
Branham, was brought up to a higher level by the message of the
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apostle, Brother Jackson. Then after Brother Jackson’s message
was delivered, God continued to move by bringing into being
this trumpet message that produces the marriage of the Lamb
and the rapture. The people failed to follow on to know the Lord
in this full revelation. So both the followers of Brother Branham
and Brother Jackson failed to recognize this rapturing message
and to be in tune with what God is now doing. So having said
this, I want to bring a message today entitled, Rapturing Faith
Has Come.
When we are talking about rapturing faith, we are talking
about the faith of the Son of God that will absolutely change
these bodies that we are living in, just as He changed our soul.
It is not any harder for the Lord to change a body than it is to
change a soul. And it is not any harder for Him to raise someone
from the dead, whether they have been dead ten minutes or a
hundred years or even thousands of years. We seen this when
Martha and Mary’s brother Lazarus died. They sent for Jesus
but He didn’t come right away; He tarried for another day or so
after He got word of Lazarus’ sickness, because He was
following God; He knew what God wanted. Lazarus had been
dead for four days and had even began to decay, because they
said, “By now he stinketh!” But that didn’t matter. It wouldn’t
have mattered if it would have been a thousand years later and
there wasn’t anything left of him, because it was the spoken
Word of God that brought him forth. Jesus spoke the Word and
said, “Lazarus come forth!” And suddenly he came forth after
being dead for four days. Well, Peter, raised a woman that had
been dead for quite some time. (Acts 9:40-42) And Paul raised
a man from the dead (Acts 20:9-10), and the prophets of old did
the same thing. And now Christ Jesus through this last trump
message that is sounding forth through the wife of the Lamb is
also going to raise His own from the dead. The Bible says, “The
dead in Christ are going to rise first, then we which are alive and
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remain shall be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye,
to be caught up to meet the Lord in the air.”
So those are the things that the Lord is now doing, and He is
giving us faith for it—like the Word of the Lord that Barbara Jean
wrote down, and that same Word that came to Leah when she
woke up the other morning and she got up and wrote it down,
as they both read earlier. That is the body of Christ in action.
These are just a few of the many things that are happening that
God is doing. He has brought us together and has given us a
revelation that will change these bodies without taking them
through the channel of death; and that is a wonderful thing. As
Barbara Jean testified earlier, she doesn’t have the kind of faith
that was in the church ages; for they were under both law and
grace and their faith for the translation was an ‘in part faith.’ But
now there is another kind of faith that has been activated for us
in this hour. And God who put our spirit, soul, and body
together in the beginning, put us this way to stay together and it
cannot ever be separated again. This is one of the blessings that
is granted to us because of the events of Revelation, Chapter 10.
Before Revelation, Chapter 10, came into fulfillment this was not
possible. And now this last trumpet message has sounded out
and the body of Christ has accepted God’s plan by revelational
faith as it is revealed in God’s Word. This is the result of Christ,
the Mighty Angel, coming to the earth to be the body that we
have been baptized into by lifting all the penalty of the fall of
mankind. And in the message today, we are going to read about
this faith that Paul said would come. There was a faith to come.
Paul put this prophecy in the foundation, and now Christ’s faith
has come into the building.
On occasion Paul calls Christ and faith the same thing, as seen
in the scriptures that we are going to read, so we can only say,
“It is an operation of God.” We have a message entitled, Keeping
Our Spirit and Soul and Body Together for all Eternity. Now those
that are part of the wife this side of the rapture will be changed
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without having their spirit, soul, and body separated. And of
course there are those that go into the millennium and on into
eternity after the millennium that will still be in their natural
bodies with no death in them. They will remain in their natural
bodies and will be caretakers of the earth. But here in this
message we are only dealing with the wife of the Lamb.
Remember, those that have gone on didn’t die, they just
moved out of their body into their spiritual body. This physical
body decayed in the earth but their spirit and soul are still alive.
And when Christ came according to 1 Thessalonians 4:14, He
brought the saints with Him (their spiritual bodies) that are part
of His wife. Notice, when Christ came to earth in Revelation,
Chapter 10, He came in an angelical form as the Mighty Angel,
and there was a mighty purpose of Him coming like this. If you
will read our book entitled, Now That Which is To Be Done will
Now be Done, there is a chapter in it called, God’s Message and the
Behind the Scene Powers to Bring it to Pass. The behind the scene
powers are the angels of God with the anointing that brings the
Word of God to pass, and nothing can stop it. And now this last
trumpet message is happening and nothing can stop it. And
there is a people that have received rapturing faith, they have
the revelation that this faith has come! In 2 Thessalonians 1:3, it
says, “We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is
meet, because that your faith growth exceedingly, and the charity
of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth.” We have a faith,
and this faith is going to sustain us through everything that
comes our way. That is because rapturing faith has come! This
has become our inheritance as the wife of the Lamb. The faith in
this hour has moved beyond the uncertainty of the church ages
as we have been baptized into the fullness of Christ.
When we read the Word of God, we find that God had to give
a law to keep the people under while coming through the seven
church ages when they were in a fallen condition. But the
church age law (which was the mystery age of Matthew,
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Chapter 13, and Revelation 10:7) never did undo what Paul said
the church would be. Remember here, the law cannot disannul
the grace that God has given. Before the law was ever given,
grace was given. The law was only given by Moses 430 years
after grace was given, and the law was an added-in factor until
the seed (Jesus Christ) came. And to the believers the law was
taken away and they were back under grace again as at the
beginning. That’s the same thing that happened with the
church. We, the true church, are now living on and by the great
grace of God as it was at the beginning in Paul’s day; although
the fall came and the church age laws and rituals were added
until the seed came again as seen in Revelation 10:1-7, which
dealt with the church ages (seven thunders). This brought us to
Revelation 10:8-11 and Ephesians 4:13 where we are now back
to living under the great grace of God. We have come out of that
church age law. We have come through the do’s and don’ts of
Pentecost. Now this rapturing faith (Christ) has come down in
His fullness and we are no longer under those do’s and don’ts,
because we don’t need them to do what is right. So what are we
going to do with do’s and don’ts? We leave all of that and move
with this message, because the marriage of the Lamb has taken
place and we are living above all of that.
When we look at what the law is for, we find that it is very
important, and here is why it is so important—the law can’t save
us, it has never saved anyone, we are saved only by grace. All
the do’s and don’ts that we could load in a freight train would
not cause us to have the grace of God on our lives. The do’s and
don’ts were only till the seed came, because the law couldn’t get
us across this bridge. But the law was needful for the church
ages; it kept them looking forward to Christ Jesus’ coming that
we are now experiencing. Remember here, these saints were
going to die and go into the ground, and when they come out of
the grave they will be purified, because death took care of their
bodily purification and the resurrection brings them
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glorification. I’m speaking here of the resurrected body as 1
Corinthians 15:42:43 says, “So also is the resurrection of the dead. It
is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: It is sown in
dishonor; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in
power:” But this is not so for us because now we, the living wife,
present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God
each day as we let the love of God flow through us. This means
that the Lord Jesus Christ is living in and through us and we
don’t need to die for our glorification, for we are presenting our
bodies now, a living sacrifice to God (Romans 12:12), and we are
now ready for translation.
Now I want to read in the Book of Galatians 3:17. It says, “And
this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ
(Now that was Christ (the anointing) which was even back there
in the Old Testament; not Jesus, but it was the same Spirit that
later came upon and into Jesus the Word; making Him Jesus the
Christ (the anointed one). And it was the Christ that was with
God before the world was. And we were there too according to
Ephesians 1:4.) Let’s read Verse 17 again (Paul is talking about
Christ in the days of Moses.), “And this I say, that the covenant,
that was confirmed before of God in Christ, which was four hundred
and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise
of none effect.” In other words, the law that came was put in there
for a season. It wasn’t at the beginning but 430 years later, after
they had been living under the grace of God for 430 years
without law.
Now watch real close here and don’t miss this part; for I’m
showing you the church ages. The body of Christ under the
baptism of the Holy Ghost started out without a church age law
to live by. They started out under the grace of God; and like
Israel, they didn’t even have any New Testament scripture to go
by for quite some time. Then the church ages started in about 53
A.D. and that’s when we began to see the church age law added.
But before that, they were led by the Spirit of God. And Paul
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said, “We are not under the law, but we are under grace.” “We
are not saved by the law, but we are saved by grace.” But when
the espoused virgin fell away (just like Israel fell from grace),
they were put under a law, and we call it the church age law. The
church age law was only added to keep them in line (to survive
on), because God knew what He was going to do at the end time.
He took John to the Isle of Patmos and showed him the Mighty
Angel, Christ coming back to earth as seen in Revelation,
Chapter 10, and once again it would be just like in Paul’s day
when they were without any church age law.
When the church fell, God had Paul put a law in. This is shown
in our book entitled, Bishops, Elders, Deacons, and the Five Fold
Ministry, which can be found in our vast online publication
library of our website. And as I said earlier, before this they
were without any do’s and don’ts, law and traditions. They
were walking with Christ, talking with Christ, obeying Christ,
and being led by the Spirit of Christ expressed in the Holy Ghost
at that time. A turning point from the church age law began
when Paul wrote that this would only be till we came to the
fullness of the man Christ Jesus. And then all those church age
laws would just become the history of the church. And we can’t
live by history. And although we know history, we know that it
is not where the life is at. We can’t move faith from one age to
another, unless we bring that faith up to date with the Word for
that particular time period. So each time the light moves we
receive that updated faith.
There were seven candlesticks lit during the seven church
ages; only one candlestick was burning at any one time until
those ages were over. After this time is over we see that the
candlesticks are back in heaven as seen in Revelation, Chapter 4.
Again, this is after all the church ages are over. In Revelation,
Chapters 2 and 3, we read where Jesus tells the churches,
“Except thou repent and do what I tell you, I will remove thy
candlestick.” This was just like the law that was added 430 years
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after God gave the promise to Abraham that He would save
them by grace. But afterwards when Israel sinned, the law was
added to the grace that they were under. The law did not replace
the grace as far as saving anyone, it just kept them aware of the
fact that they were sinners. So the law in most cases had a shelf-
life on it. When I say shelf-life I mean a time when its
effectiveness ran out and it became history; just like the church
ages have become the chronicles of what has been. But not
anything that occurred in the time of the church ages changed
the promises of God for the wife of the Lamb.
Notice that the church ages didn’t undo what God promised,
because Paul said in 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17, “For this we say unto
you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto
the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For
the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice
of the archangel, and with trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall
rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up
together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so
shall we ever be with the Lord.” And now once again we have the
same type leadership as was seen in Paul as we are baptized into
the body of Christ and this rapturing faith has come into us.
Although this is happening in our day, it is made possible only
by the great miracle of the redeeming of fallen mankind at
Calvary. And even though He redeemed everything then, He
didn’t claim all that He had redeemed at that time because all
the seed of God hadn’t been born yet. We see in Revelation,
Chapter 5, where the Lamb took the Book of Redemption,
opened it, and He took from it the little book and brought it to
His waiting bride in the form of the Mighty Angel; and He
claims us for His wife with our part of the Book of Redemption,
which is in the little book here in Revelation, Chapter 10.
Everything else will be claimed in its proper time.
This helps us to understand what happened during the time
period of the seven church ages—Christ Jesus was shown as the
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High Priest, the church was fallen, and they were under do’s and
don’ts. They were under that church age law, and He walked
among them as High Priest. This is shown in the first three
chapters of the Book of Revelation as He was dressed in a
priestly raiment, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
He was making intercession for a fallen church. But now the
promise for us after the church ages are over is this rapturing
faith. This is the same thing that Paul wrote, “The seed (Christ)
has come.” Then he repeated himself and said, “Faith has
come.” Paul used the words Christ and faith as being the same
thing (Galatians 3:16-25). And that is what has happened to us
in this hour—this faith has come to translate the wife and raise
the part of the wife that are in the grave. All those that are in the
grave that are part of the wife, they will hear the voice of the Son
of God and get up out of the ground. Hallelujah! Well, here is
the voice of the Son of God going forth and they are rejoicing in
it! It’s the same voice that we are hearing that’s going to change
the living.
I want to put this note here about this great event of
Revelation, Chapter 10, by referring to the battles in the Old
Testament. Many times, when one king would conquer another
king, they would put their foot on their throat and that was a
sign to all that the conquering king was the new leader. The
conquering king wanted to show that the defeated king wasn’t
the king anymore, “Look here, I’ve got my foot on his throat and
he can’t do anything.” Well, here came Christ Jesus, the great
conquering King, in the form of the Mighty Angel. He took on
an angelic form and came down. And just as He was the Holy
Ghost (under the first leg of His coming), and just as He was
High Priest during the fallen church age, here He comes now,
He’s the Mighty Angel. But He doesn’t stay the Mighty Angel,
that part came to an end as we were baptized into the body of
Christ. And we now stand forth, the Word made flesh. Christ
doesn’t stay an angel. But the Spirit comes down, the Mighty
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Conqueror, and every angel now knows who this is that is now
in charge, whether they are a fallen angel or whether they are a
good angel. All creation knows that there’s a new King. He’s
the King of the earth. He’s showing forth the very Christ Jesus
that died and went down into hell and challenged Satan when
he had the keys to death and hell and took them from him.
That’s what it says in the Book of Revelation 1:18, “I am he that
liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and
have the keys of hell and of death.” He went down into hell and
brought all those Old Testament saints up. We find them alive,
walking around, and going into the city of Jerusalem and
visiting the people, because there was a Mighty Conqueror that
had come on the scene. (Matthew 27:52-53) Hallelujah!
Now in this last day, a Mighty Conqueror has come, and He
has destroyed the enemy, the spiritual powers, and the devil has
no power over us. Satan is defeated. And the one that came
down as the Mighty Angel has now taken on flesh and bones in
marriage. The Bible says, “He died once and death has no more
dominion over Him.” Faith has come! There is faith to believe
God for translation. There is a faith for a people to keep spirit,
soul, and body together and go in the rapture. That’s not the
faith that says, “I’ll die and get up out of the grave.” Jesus had
a faith that said, “Destroy this temple and in three days I will
raise it up.” But that is not the faith that He has given us.
Because He has given us this faith which says, “I will be changed
into His likeness, while keeping my spirit and soul and body
together, without death.”
I was talking to a man recently and I have mentioned this
before, so I hope you don’t mind me being repetitious, but I
believe it will be good to tell it again here. The man said to me,
“Ben, let me show you something. Let me teach you a little
about the Word. The Bible says that Jesus doesn’t come back to
earth until after the tribulation period is over, so how come you
want to tell people that they are going to be caught up and fly
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into the sky?” Well, I only had a few words to say to him, and I
believe it was the wisdom of God. I said, “I agree with you; Jesus
Christ does come back after the tribulation period is over as King
of Kings and Lord of Lords, but Christ comes back before
tribulation.” Christ in His fullness has come and He has brought
us rapturing faith. Christ comes before the tribulation and Jesus
comes back after the tribulation. Christ is that Spirit that came
down in Revelation, Chapter 10, and He came in the form of the
Mighty Angel and when He did He joined Himself to the
feminine Spirit that was already a part of Him through the
baptism of the Holy Ghost to those that were the wife in waiting.
It’s just like how God took from Adam the feminine part of the
spirit and created Eve. Paul said, “We are bone of His bone and
flesh of His flesh. We are in Jesus Christ’s stead.” Well, we have
become the flesh and bones of Christ as His wife. And when
Jesus comes back as King, we (His Christ) will come back with
Him and will sit by His side.
Notice, grace came first, that is when Abraham preached the
gospel in Christ. (Galatians 3:17) But the law came 430 years
after this, that’s after Israel fell from grace. Watch what Paul is
saying in Galatians 3:18, “For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no
more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.” Now our
inheritance is not by the law, our inheritance is by the grace of
God. It’s by grace that we are saved, not of works lest any man
should boast. Law has nothing to do with it. We have an
inheritance and it is by grace that He gives it to us.
Now watch as we read the next verse here. Verse 19 says,
“Wherefore then serveth the law?” (What was the law for to begin
with if it doesn’t save anybody? If grace was already here four
hundred and thirty years, why did God put a law in there to
begin with?) Watch what it says, “It was added.” They had grace
first, but law was added to it. They started out under grace in
Paul’s day. The law was added to grace because they fell from
grace. And throughout the church ages they lived under law—
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communion, foot washing, joining a church. But there is a
people today who don’t live under rituals; for they live under
His great grace. “The law was added because of transgressions till
the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was
ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.” But then God added
law, because they used grace for their fleshly pleasures. As Paul
said in Galatians, Chapter 5:13, “For, brethren, ye have been called
unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by
love serve one another.” And he continued this thought in Verses
22-26, “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering,
gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there
is no law. And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the
affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the
Spirit. Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another,
envying one another.”
Let’s go back to Galatians 3:21, “Is the law then against the
promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which
could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the
law.” And if the church ages could have given us our new body,
we wouldn’t have needed this last trumpet that we now see and
hear. If the law would do, we wouldn’t have needed Christ, and
that is what Paul is saying here. But the law couldn’t do it. And
it tells why. They had fallen away from the grace that the church
started out with. Revelation, Chapter 2, He said, “Thou art fallen
from thy first love.” It stayed that way until the church ages ran
their course, and here came Christ back to earth, the Mighty
Angel, and we were baptized into His body and became the
body of Christ as the wife of our Lord Jesus, thus fulfilling the
Mighty Angel’s part of this redemption plan.
Continuing with Verses 22-23, “But the scripture hath concluded
all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given
to them that believe. But before faith came. (Now he is talking about
faith coming. Here Paul calls faith Christ. He is showing that
Christ and faith are the same—seamlessly blended perfectly as
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one.) But before faith came, we were kept under the law (church age
law for us) shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be
revealed.” This wasn’t revealed during the law period or the
church ages. He says, “Afterward it is going to be revealed. This
is going to lift us off the ground.” Watch as we go further.
Verses 24-25 says, “Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster (that
was the only thing it was for; even during the churches ages), to
bring us unto Christ (the Mighty Angel), that we might be justified
by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a
schoolmaster (the law).” That faith has come—Revelation,
Chapter 10, Christ has come in His fullness and He brought this
faith, and (watch this) He is giving a people a faith. And how
does faith come? Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the
Word of God. And faith for the translation is given as a certain
part of the Word is preached, meaning the last trumpet is
sounding.
Last week’s message was entitled, Revelational Faith for Hearing
the Promised Word for You, and it goes right along with this. God
has built a faith in us, and we have gotten to the place where we
can’t help but believe. Just like when the Pentecostal
Deliverance Movement was going on, you could start a revival
and no one could stop the people from coming to the meetings,
because they wanted to be part of it. Back in those days, I would
put up a tent and people came from all over and nobody had to
beg them to come, they were there. Many of you remember
those old days. The people came basically to shout and to dance
in the Spirit, and they believed God and enjoyed His blessings.
But then God let that run its course and it died. That’s exactly
what happened. But now faith has come back, faith has come
into the wife of the Lamb and no one can stop it. It is to translate
our mortal bodies. It has given us this rapturing faith that He
said would come. And we are no longer under the law. Let’s
shout the victory, it’s ours. And we are more than conquerors,
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because we are baptized into the fullness of the Mighty
Conqueror.
So rapturing faith, here it is! We know by revelation that we
have come through the church ages and that we are the body of
Christ. And God has given us a special baptism that no other
generation has ever had, because the Mighty Angel, Christ’s
body wasn’t here in this way until the Revelation, Chapter 10,
coming of His body for the waiting bride to be baptized into.
And now, without doubt, this is the baptism into the fullness of
the body of Christ, and we have become the very Christ as we
have reached the fullness of the man Christ Jesus. And that is
the wife of the Lamb walking around here in the earth today.
We’re not religious people. Jesus wasn’t religious at all. Those
religious people came against Him, and He called them what
they were, “A generation of vipers!” Religion is not worth a
pinto bean with a worm hole in it. Amen.
This is for the wife who is the spiritual seed of Abraham. It is
sometimes asked, “How can we be the seed of Abraham if we
are not a Jew?” In the days of Abraham there were neither Jews
nor Gentiles. That’s the seed of Abraham. It is Jesus Christ. It
was Isaac in the natural realm, but Christ was the spiritual seed;
and Christ was with Abraham as he preached the gospel in
Christ. And if we be born of Christ, we are of that original seed
of Abraham, we were with Christ before the world. And now
Christ Jesus is speaking right out and bringing His Word. There
is apostolic leadership, and we are not tossed to and fro and
carried about with every wind of doctrine, but we are speaking
the truth in love.
Heavenly Father, Lord, we bless your name and we praise your name.
I just pray, Lord, that you take these words and use them for your glory.
Bless the people and may they receive and realize that we are the seed
of God and we can no more be lost than God can be lost. We don’t have
to keep church age law, because we are under grace and are being led
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by the Spirit. Lord, I pray that you bless each one now, in the name of
Jesus Christ. Amen.
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AUDIO/VIDEO SERMONS AND BOOKS
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