BRINGING FORTH THE TRUE CHURCH THE BRIDE OF CHRIST

REV. 19:9

The Testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy

DUTY OF THE CHURCH
 

Joel 2:15-16:  Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly: Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet. In these scriptures, with many more, we find that it is time to gather God's people together, assemble the elders (who are ministers), and all that will hear, even those who suck the breasts (still on the milk of the word), and let the bridegroom (which is Jesus) go forth of His chamber, and - most of all - bring the bride (which is the Church) out of her closet (showing that the true Church is still hidden from all the other churches that are in the world, but is now to be revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit). Eph. 3:6, "That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel."

The reason why this should be made known now is shown in Isaiah 34:8, "For it is the day of the LORD'S vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion." For the Lord had said through the prophet Malachi in Chap. 4:5-7 That he would send the prophet Elijah and he would turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: WHICH IS THE VENGEANCE OF GOD. And the controversy means that everybody is saying those that are born again are in the Church. There is no scripture to confirm such a doctrine. The wise man Solomon said in 6:8-9 that "There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number." Meaning the queens are churches that are preaching being born again by the Spirit of God, sanctified by the blood, filled with the Holy Ghost, getting the people ready to have eternal life at the second coming of Jesus; and the concubines are churches likewise, but are considered helpmates to get people saved and preach them the message of salvation; and the virgins are people that get born again and do not belong to any church, but go from church to church shouting, singing, praising the Lord, and are looking for the coming of Jesus. And these are all running in a race and feel and believe that they are in the Church. Apostle Paul said in 1 Cor. 9:24, "Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain." Now, this is not speaking of running in a race to have eternal life, for if it was - then as all the world - the people that's born again, out of all them that are serving the Lord, only one would get eternal life. So it must mean that all these churches that claim to be in the Church when they get born again are running in this race to be The Church. To prove that point, I want us to go back to Song of Solomon the 9th verse where he said: "My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; yea, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her." So out of all these churches (the queens and concubines) and the daughters (the virgins without number) there will be only ONE dove, ONE undefiled, who will be the Bride of Christ, the Church.

Therefore, the Apostle Paul has made a statement in Eph. 4:4 that there is one body (church) and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling, meaning the same God that called me to repentance called everybody to repent and come unto His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ; one Lord, one faith (not faith for healing or salvation, but church, which Jude said in 1:3 "Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints." We find in Eph. 3:1-5-6: "For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles, If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward: How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words, Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ); Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit; That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:" Galatians 1:13: "For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:"; and Galatians 1:23-24 "But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed. And they glorified God in me." In Eph. 3:7-11, Paul said that he was made a minister according to the gift of the grace of God that was given to him. He felt like and believed that he was the least of all saints but yet the revelation of the Church was given to him that he might preach unto the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ. And he had a responsibility to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God (meaning hid in the Bible scripture), who created all things by Jesus Christ. The reason to reveal this now is to the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God, according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord. Thus letting us know that God reveals His secrets to the Church and not to the kingdom. For as it was in the days of Jesus when the disciples came to Him (in Matt. 13:10-11): "And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables? He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you (the Apostles, which was His Church at that time) to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them (the kingdom of God) it is not given." This is what Paul meant when he said that the Church will know the manifold wisdom of God, which is the milk, the bread, the manna, and the hidden manna. Therefore, since these mysteries are revealed to the Church, the Church will reveal the difference in the Church and the kingdom of God, the time and season of the second coming of Jesus, the first and second resurrection, the meaning of day of the Lord, the doctrine of the Rapture, the meaning and purpose of the mark of the beast, and Bible prophecy in its time and season. It was the angel who told John the Revelator in Rev. 19:10 ". . . that the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy", which is to fulfill all prophecies that is to be fulfilled before the second coming of Jesus. It was Peter that said in Acts 3:20-21 and I quote: "And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began." The Apostle Paul also said in Eph. 1:9-10: "Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:" John said in John 10:16 "And other sheep (born again, sanctified, Holy Ghost-filled Christians) I have, which are not of this fold (this Church): them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold (the Church), and one shepherd (Jesus)." Showing that Jesus has other people who are His, but He will bring them by the Spirit into the Church (one fold). AMEN