We see this ministry in manifestation in the spirit and power of Elijah as he stood on Mount Carmel and contested with the false prophets of Baal. The fire fell and consumed the sacrifice along with the wood, stones, dust, and even the water. This mighty manifestation caused the people to fall on their faces and declare the Lord as God. “Now when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces; and they said, ‘The Lord, He is God! The Lord, He is God!’” (1 Kings 18:39) We also see this ministry exercised in the days of Moses as he stretched forth his rod, and the Red Sea swallowed up and drowned the Egyptian armies.
The results of this anointing and authority are noted in Exodus 14:31: “Thus Israel saw the great work which the Lord had done in Egypt; so the people feared the Lord, and believed the Lord and His servant Moses.” This anointing administered in the spirit and power of Elijah will be seen again and produce holiness and the fear of the Lord in people. Its purpose is always redemptive — to bring forth true repentance and cause the hearts of the people to completely turn to the Lord. We’ve been in the infancy stages of seeing this on a wider scale. This will include a worldwide company of men and women who have been summoned by the Lord to be His messengers.
In the times of Moses and Elijah, and throughout other stages of Israel’s history, great severity was necessary to turn the hearts of the people back to the Lord. Often people quote the scripture in Romans 2:4, properly stating that it is the goodness or kindness of the Lord that leads to repentance, but they fail to read the verses of wrath and judgment surrounding that scripture. When the Lord’s goodness does not lead to repentance, then He is forced to move us into the realm of divine severity (Rom. 11:22).
Too many people have taken the Lord’s goodness to further their pleasurable, worldly, and even sinful lifestyles and agendas. Too many are building their own ministries today who have little to no godly character because they have never been thoroughly tested or proven and stripped of pride and selfish ambition. Therefore, for the sake of their salvation and the perseverance of their souls, for the sake of their eternal reward, the Lord has to administer His severity. And so we will see the manifestation of both the goodness and severity of God side by side in the days ahead. Bittersweet times are upon us. We will choose our own medicine. These things will come with great cost and great loss to many as well as great glory and victory to others.
I find the scriptural reference to Jesus as the “Lamb of God” very rare until we get to the book of Revelation. There we find approximately 29 references, more than the rest of the entire New Testament combined, to a lion-like lamb (slain but standing, and what a paradox it is to know of the “wrath of the Lamb” — Rev. 6:16) which delivers victory in judgment in a manner reminiscent of the resurrected Christ. It was the revelation of the Lamb that ushered in His first coming, and it is that same revelation that will usher in His first coming, and it is that same revelation that will usher in the end of the age, when His wrath is poured out. It is only in the Lamb’s meekness and character that we will triumph. With fear and trembling, let us make ourselves ready.
My name is Cesar and I’m a Voice in The Desert
www.mywalkwithmycreator.com
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The results of this anointing and authority are noted in Exodus 14:31: “Thus Israel saw the great work which the Lord had done in Egypt; so the people feared the Lord, and believed the Lord and His servant Moses.” This anointing administered in the spirit and power of Elijah will be seen again and produce holiness and the fear of the Lord in people. Its purpose is always redemptive — to bring forth true repentance and cause the hearts of the people to completely turn to the Lord. We’ve been in the infancy stages of seeing this on a wider scale. This will include a worldwide company of men and women who have been summoned by the Lord to be His messengers.
In the times of Moses and Elijah, and throughout other stages of Israel’s history, great severity was necessary to turn the hearts of the people back to the Lord. Often people quote the scripture in Romans 2:4, properly stating that it is the goodness or kindness of the Lord that leads to repentance, but they fail to read the verses of wrath and judgment surrounding that scripture. When the Lord’s goodness does not lead to repentance, then He is forced to move us into the realm of divine severity (Rom. 11:22).
Too many people have taken the Lord’s goodness to further their pleasurable, worldly, and even sinful lifestyles and agendas. Too many are building their own ministries today who have little to no godly character because they have never been thoroughly tested or proven and stripped of pride and selfish ambition. Therefore, for the sake of their salvation and the perseverance of their souls, for the sake of their eternal reward, the Lord has to administer His severity. And so we will see the manifestation of both the goodness and severity of God side by side in the days ahead. Bittersweet times are upon us. We will choose our own medicine. These things will come with great cost and great loss to many as well as great glory and victory to others.
I find the scriptural reference to Jesus as the “Lamb of God” very rare until we get to the book of Revelation. There we find approximately 29 references, more than the rest of the entire New Testament combined, to a lion-like lamb (slain but standing, and what a paradox it is to know of the “wrath of the Lamb” — Rev. 6:16) which delivers victory in judgment in a manner reminiscent of the resurrected Christ. It was the revelation of the Lamb that ushered in His first coming, and it is that same revelation that will usher in His first coming, and it is that same revelation that will usher in the end of the age, when His wrath is poured out. It is only in the Lamb’s meekness and character that we will triumph. With fear and trembling, let us make ourselves ready.
My name is Cesar and I’m a Voice in The Desert
www.mywalkwithmycreator.com
#avoiceinthedesert
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