Persistent faith and the fear factor will battle its way into your decisions. You will have to choose in the days ahead which you will live by.
Will you walk and have persistent faith in the only begotten Son of God who died for our sins, although chaos swallows the known world, including America? Will you instead allow fear to become a factor in your daily life? The choice is yours.
Persistent Faith and the Fear Factor
Speaking of choices, we have just finished Passover and Unleavened bread. Many in the church have finished Easter; the pagan celebration patterned after Eastre or as Zola Levitt has said “Ishtar”. This is covered in depth in my teachings on Days of Unleavened bread and Passover3. The church took over the pagan celebration and made it into a celebration of our Lord. While many can rejoice at this, many others ask why you do not celebrate the Lord’s feasts. Yet, let me digress for this expose newsletter. While the church keeps doing its own thing, per se, know this; that as a people, we are on the collision course with destiny. You will not stop it or delay it!
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The Arrival:
Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ. Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do? Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation. Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
Act 2:36-41
It is this collision course that the early church found itself on. During the day of Pentecost the Holy Ghost came and the power thereof infused the little group of believers in the upper room. They were told to “tarry at Jerusalem” until that promise of the Father would arrive. So the Holy Spirit came on that day and soon after, we find Peter speaking to the crowds in Jerusalem. The day of Pentecost is one of the pilgrimage feasts and Jews from all over the nations gathered there in accordance with Gods command. It was to this crowd that Peter spoke and it was to this crowd that the believers filled with the Holy Ghost spake in other languages [tongues] and those in the crowds heard the message in their own languages. Astounded, they at first thought the group were drunk, but Peter assured them that it was too early in the day and what they had heard and were seeing was a fulfillment of prophecy by Joel the Prophet.
Peter continued to preach the word and when he was finished the crowds were convicted in their hearts. They asked “what shall we do?” It was at this time that Peter told them to “repent and be baptized”. Further telling them, Peter said “the promise is unto you and to your children, and to all that afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.” That message began the gospel call and the response of the sinner’s heart. It was all in accordance with God’s word and the power of the Holy Spirit to guide, anoint, and bring people to the Father which was plain and evident that day. It was powerful and momentous.
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