Shall we not be here to witness the unfolding of the "greater works" that attend the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at the climax of the age? Did not the Master of Ceremonies at the Wedding Feast at Cana speak of the best wine being preserved and held back until the very end? Yes, the thick darkness of the midnight hour will surely come. But the lamps of the wise virgins will still be burning.
Their lamps will not go out. The wise will have the extra outside supply of oil of anointing and oil of illumination. And with the oil of gladness they will be given "a song in the night". Our God will pour out of His Spirit during those awesome future times.
And He will perform wonders that have never been seen before. That is the Way of our God. So do we really want to agree with those who declare that we in the Church will not be here? Do we have any scriptural authority to teach this? Or is it just a popular religious fable that sells? Can we close the gates of Grace and Mercy and padlock them shut with chains a full seven years early?
Are we permitted to say, "That's all folks" seven years before the fullness of the Gentiles is brought in? Do we not want to stick around to see these wonders unfold as all Israel is restored? Are we being presumptuous and out of line here with this churchy "cut and run" eschatology of ours? Is this a latter day indulgence, a special dispensation of grace dispensed by the church for profit and filthy lucre? Where is the Holy Scripture, chapter and verse, proving the God of Israel has set forth such a notion? And by whose authority do we presume to evict the Omnipotent Omnipresent Holy Spirit from tribulation earth and terminate the dispensation of Grace seven years ahead of time?
Dear saints, we can and should be encouraged here. The last seven years of this age, and the Great Tribulation are not all gloom and doom as we have been told. And the wrath of God comes afterward and only on the wicked. Much of what we have been taught we must unlearn. We must align our beliefs with scripture and scripture alone. For example, the prophet Joel tells us that the Holy Spirit outpouring will come to a final glorious crescendo right at the end of the age.
Can we believe what He is saying here? Joel saw this final climactic and glorious Pentecostal outpouring at the time of the salvation of Jerusalem at the Battle of Armageddon. He saw it in the time context of the 6th seal cosmic disturbances of a darkened sun and a a bloody moon. Just before the Day of the Lord opens up with wrath being poured out on the enemies of God's covenant people we still see the Gospel at work.
This blow-out end-time revival will a re-visitation, even an eclipsing, of the Day of Pentecost. Back on that epic day 2, years ago our Apostle Peter made special reference to Joel's prophecy and that epic final Holy Spirit outpouring.
Notice the embedded time reference in Joel's prophecy as he mentions the darkened sun, the moon turning to blood, and the stars falling. These cosmic disturbances are also seen in the Olivet Discourse and Jesus Himself tags this final blaze of glory as coming "after the tribulation of those days". He therefore places it in the time frame of the very last few days of this age. This is before the Day of the Lord opens up and the angels of wrath pluck up the wicked as tares for the fires.
Joel 2 28 "And it shall come to pass afterward That I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your old men shall dream dreams, Your young men shall see visions.
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Blood and fire and pillars of smoke. Joel 2 32 And it shall come to pass That whoever calls on the name of the Lord Shall be saved.
Hosea prophesied that after "two days", two millennia , God would revive Israel. Thus the Jewish nation will come to an epic national salvation. In the manner of the classic fireworks festival the Holy Spirit outpouring will climax in a grand finale at the very end of the seven years. This outpouring will not only see the salvation of the Jewish nation in Judah but will also empower the Church to complete the Great Commission.
In this same late 70th week time period the "fullness of the gentiles", the end-time harvest, will be brought in. While all this is happening the heathen nations will be raging. And yes these will be awful times for many, this is true. But the covenant people of God will 'rise and shine', for their Light has come. Nor will they be scurrying off like rats to hide as we see in those fictitious characters in the "Left Behind" novels.
The Bride of Christ will be clothed in righteous glory of her Father, shining like the sun, radiant in splendor. And like a supernova, the end-time Elect will go out in a blaze of glory! The re-union of the two houses of Israel focusses on Ephraim or his father Joseph and Judah. Ephraim is a handle on Israel for the ten northern tribes of Israel. The Northern Kingdom of Israel rebelled from the royal tribe of Judah went their own way.
They ended up in gross idolatry. They were were divorced by God and cast off.
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The northern ten tribes never returned to the land of Israel in numbers sufficient to restore their tribal names or their sovereignty in Israel. These are the so-called 'lost ten tribes'. Judah is the royal tribe in the Jewish nation. They too went into idolatry and captivity.
In their case it was Babylon that carried them off in and B. They did return to the land of Israel in faith and numbers sufficient to re-establish a sovereign presence in the Holy City. Their temple was rebuilt under Zerubbabel, faith and devotion restored under Ezra, and the gates and walls of Jerusalem were rebuilt under Nehemiah thus securing Jerusalem's sovereignty as a city state. Thus continued the saga of the Jews. The Gospel is going out to the ends of the earth. The Shepherd of Israel will find all of these lost people and save their companions as well.
He will seek out and find every last one of the lost sheep of the House of Israel, even on a dark and cloudy day. Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim. Two millennia ago He came as the prophesied Suffering Servant. These two offices of Messiah have been a puzzle and a source of wonder for the Jewish rabbis for a long long time.
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One theory they put forward was that there might be two messiahs. The messiah of the kingdom office they would name Meshiach ben David. The messiah of the priestly office they would name Meshiach ben Joseph. Ben David would be the the messiah as King of Israel.
Ben Joseph would be the messiah as High Priest of Israel. As we have seen from scripture, Jesus will fit the bill for both offices quite nicely. He will fulfil both in His two comings. In the fullness of time these two offices of Messiah. A gap of two millennia will have separated them. The first coming of Messiah came on the 10th of Nisan in the year of His passion. It was just 4 days before the Passover of His crucifixion. He came to His people in his priestly ministry as the 'suffering servant' riding on a donkey bringing the bridal price in his very life for the betrothal to His Bride and covenant people.
This next time He comes it will be quite different.
Did Jesus possess both priest and king blood?
In giving the blessing and in receiving tithes, Melchizedek acted in both his priestly and kingly capacities. The genealogy of Jesus entitled him to be king, but he had no genealogy that entitled him to be priest. Melchizedek was a priest without genealogy. He was not part of a succession of priests. His priesthood stood alone. He was not begotten of a priest nor did he beget a priest to succeed him. We have gone into the symbolic aspects of Melchizedek's royal priesthood for a very good reason. There are certain conclusions one must draw if one comes to believe in Jesus Christ as both priest and king.
The doctrine cannot be true, because Jesus must, "according to the order of Melchizedek" , be a priest on his throne. The name means "King of Righteousness" - a name echoing kingly and priestly functions. In the King James Version, [3] the Book of Psalms names Melchizedek as representative of the priestly line through which a future king of Israel 's Davidic line was ordained.
Alternatively, it is suggested this term was here intended to be treated as an agglutinated improper noun , and thus translated as rightful king rather than left as Melchizedek ; this interpretation is taken by some modern translations, such as the New JPS Tanakh. The Law of Moses stipulates that only the male descendants of Aaron be commissioned to serve as Jewish priests before the God of Israel and the Jewish nation. This commission is believed in Judaism to be "a covenant of everlasting priesthood" " Brith HaKehuna " and not eligible for replacement by other tribes of Israel.
Judaic midrash exegesis identifies Melchizedek with Shem the son of Noah. Midrashic literature attributes this transition as a consequence due to Melchizedek preceding the name of Abraham to that of God, such as in the Midrash Rabbah to Genesis. While some Jewish commentators, such as Chaim ibn Attar , write that Melchizedek gave the priesthood to Abraham willingly. Maimonides , in his Mishna Torah compilation, explains that Jacob separated his son Levi from his other sons and appointed him to instruct and teach the ways of 'service to God', specifically the servicial methods used by his forefather Abraham , to his brothers.
For the prelude of this choice see Targum Yonathan to Genesis In midrash, it is written that Amram the son of Kohath the son of Levi was the spiritual leader of the sons of Jacob "Israel" during their Egyptian Bondage. At the time of the erection of the Tabernacle , God commanded Moses to appoint Aaron and his sons to the Jewish priestly service as a precondition to God revealing his Shechinah amongst the nation of Israel;. And Aaron and his sons I will sanctify to serve me and I will dwell amidst the sons of Israel and I will be to them a God, and they will know that I am God their Master that took them out from the land of Egypt in order that I will dwell in their midst.
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Christians believe that Jesus is the Messiah spoken of as "a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek" Ps. According to the writer of Hebrews 7: Melchizedek is referred to again in Hebrews 5: And verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of Abraham: But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises" Hebrews 7: If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, for under it the people received the law, what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law" Hebrews 7: The author of the Epistle to the Hebrews in the New Testament discussed this subject considerably, listing the following reasons for why the priesthood of Melchizedek is superior to the Aaronic priesthood:.