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1   Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.   2   For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.   3   Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.   4   And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. ~ ZECHARIAH 14:1-4

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Notice that when the Day of the Lord comes the Lord will put His feet on the mount of Olives and the mount of Olives shall cleave, forming a great valley. If you look closely there is a great mountain that has pushed up, which is Christ Himself. Certainly, the kingdoms of the earth have become the Kingdoms of God, for He has taken possession of the whole thing. Also notice, the same image is presented in Revelation 10 when the Angel puts one foot on the earth, and one on the sea. Spiritually speaking, He is also pushing up out of a Bride, taking possession of this part of the earth. While our flesh is cleaved, what remains is HIM.

The hour is upon us, darkness, gross darkness. Gross darkness on the people now, that's what it is. What does it all mean? Where we standing? What hour are we in? How close are we to the Coming? Well, you say, "When all they have a revival." "Fear not, little flock, it's your Father's good will to give you the Kingdom." All right. What does it mean? God has begin to separate the Light from the darkness, see, pressing it behind, like He did in the beginning, to show the dawn of a new day. The Church Ages are fading out. Pardon me. The Church Ages are fading out. God is pressing the darkness into a place, it has to do it, to fade out the church organizations, fade out the world. The world is covering the thing over, and worldlyism has took the whole thing. Then isn't God right? By worldly things, and worldly dressing, and worldly acting, and worldly living, it's the world! You are not of the world, little children. You are of Heaven. This is not your Home. ~ 64-0112  SHALOM

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We are living in the hour when the light of a new day has come, revealing exactly what was uncovered in Christ’s death and what was proved in His resurrection. It is a day when light is pressing darkness, causing it to fade out. The Bride is not trying to escape the darkness. She is not afraid. She is turning on the light, causing the darkness to flee away.

14   Do all things without murmurings and disputings:    15   That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;    16   Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain. ~ PHILIPPIANS 2:14-16

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“Among whom ye shine as lights in the world.” The Bride is a testimony of a different world, a world in which God is King. It is the world as it was created before sin stained it. The Day of the Lord is the return to this original condition. It is a purging of all that is deformed. You are a shining proof that there is another condition beyond their sight. That is why Paul reminds us not to be complainers. If there is any election there, they recognize Who and what you are ambassadors of, maybe not consciously, but from a depth that they have never known before. Hold forth the word of life. It will not return void.

5   Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:   6   And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. ~ MALACHI 4:5-6

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There is a Day of the Lord coming, a day when the kingdoms of this earth become the Kingdoms of our God. All that are not part of the thought of God will be judged. It is that same day that is breaking on the Bride by the Baptism of the Holy Ghost under the fullness of the Word. It is separating soul and spirit (Heb 4:12). It is this realization that causes our heart to be turned. We MUST know who we are by this new heart perspective. Amos 5:18-20 depicts a dire condition of those who THINK they are ready for the Day of the Lord but are not.

4   Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,    5   Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;    6   Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; ~ I CORINTHIANS 13:4-6

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I’m sitting here trying to put into words the enormous love that I see in these words. There is no way for us to humanly mimic this wonderful love of Christ. I think about what type of world we will live in for eternity. It will be a place of indescribable beauty, with love echoing through every fiber of creation like music. Can we achieve that on our own? Absolutely not! It will take a complete renovation, a day like no other day. II Peter 3:10 calls it the “day of the Lord”. For us to come to a place, personally, where we “seeketh not her own”, we will have to have our own “day of the Lord”. There is no way we can achieve Love’s true qualities without it. Let the eternal fire of God fall on you and bring you, bring me, to this great Holy Mountain of God.

1   If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,     2   Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.    3   Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.    4   Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. ~ PHILIPPIANS 2:1-4

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This great statement begins with “if there be”, with the presumption that we believe there is, so these will be the signs. If the Spirit of Christ dwells in and among us, we will be likeminded, in one accord, and have the same mind, esteem others better than ourselves. Being in one accord has to do with being “one souled” or having the same source of life. One mind is when that life rules our thinking. This only comes by the Spirit of Christ, which is why Paul immediately, in verse 5, goes into his thoughts of having the mind of Christ, expressing the humility of God and living and dying for others, not for our own self-gratification. He is not only our example, but He IS our life. His life will always be the same wherever It dwells.

1   My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.   2   Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.   3   Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.   4   And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things. ~ PSALM 45:1-4

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I am so in love with these verses, especially verse 1. The psalmist is writing about the Messiah, the anointed One, of whom we are a part. He says, “My heart is inditing a good matter”. The word “inditing” means a boiling pot. He is saying, “I am about to explode on the inside if I don’t speak about my King”. “My tongue is so inspired that the words want to just gush out of my mouth”. The author is expressing that now that he has caught a view of this wonderful Word being fulfilled, he cannot but declare with everything that is in him. How should we be, having seen the fulfillment of all the Word that the prophets looked forward to in this day? I think that should be enough to change us.

Now, if my body has the power over all things, then what my body is, is what I am. Is that right? That's what I am; that's what you know me as. Is that right? Well, then, all that God was, He poured into Jesus, for He was the Fullness of the Godhead bodily. Is that right? And all that Jesus was, He poured into the church. "These things that I do, shall you do all things--also. Even greater than this shall you do, for I go to the Father." Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all. ~ 60-0522E  ADOPTION 4

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Easter is not a celebration of a historic event. It is the recognition of the proof of the removal of the curse of sin. Jesus died as the sacrifice that was required because of Adam’s choice to follow his own humanity rather than the theophany life he had. He bowed His head and said, “It is finished”. He did not have to raise from the dead, but He did, proving that the curse no longer had a hold over us. Death had been defeated! This life that rose from the dead, this victorious proof of the curse being over, has now been poured into you. You didn’t die physically at Calvary, but the Spirit that IS YOU DID. You have already paid the price of sin IN HIM. Now what are your limits? You have no borders but the borders He describes of Himself, the Word!

16   Rejoice evermore.   17   Pray without ceasing.   18   In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. ~ I THESSALONIANS 5:16-18

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The closing statements to Paul’s first letter to the Thessalonians are very important. There is much more than we are posting here, but these three are linked together. Verses 16 and 18 form a perfect border around the key; “Pray without ceasing”. We should be always in an atmosphere of prayer, but not as we think. Prayer is not about asking for things. It is a condition, for the Bride, where the Word can flow, the fruit of the Vine (John 15:1-8), meeting the needs of those on our hearts. We often get into a pattern of repetitious prayer, where we say the same things over and over. Think how this would sound in conversation with a friend or loved one. Prayer should be a response to a real overflowing of life from the inside, bubbling out, traveling to the ordained place, not to return void, not having accomplished its purpose. Prayer is amazing!

5   And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.   6   But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. ~ MATTHEW 6:5-6

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The word “reward” is an interesting word. We think of our “reward” in the next life, but reward means wages. We do not have or enter eternal life as wages due for something on our part. Life is the gift of God, totally unmerited. So what is Jesus talking about? Our reward is our further participation in His Life this side of the change. As we apply ourselves to the Word it does not MAKE us elect, but the reward is being able to step further into His grace right now. It may be that the wages of our devotion to the Word will be that we step right into our change. This is the groaning Paul speaks of in II Cor 5 and is our full spiritual desire.