THE DAY OF THE VENGEANCE OF OUR GOD

Part 2

The Day of The Vengeance of our God Listen to Paul: "For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming (presence) of the Lord shall not prevent (precede) them which are asleep. For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord." Paul is basically saying here that those who went before rose first. Now we that are alive and remain, we are caught up with them in the same place in the Spirit—under the New Covenant. He is trying to tell them that there is a great "catching up." He said we shall be caught up together with them in the "clouds."

Here Paul is not talking about natural clouds hovering over the earth. Even as the mount of transfiguration when a cloud appeared, it meant something spiritual. In the 11th chapter of Hebrews, he mentions the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Moses and many others of great faith in God under the Old Covenant. Then opens the 12th chapter saying:

"Wherefore seeing we are also compassed about with so great cloud of witnesses..." He was not talking about rain clouds that flow over the earth. He was talking of spiritual clouds, the clouds of witnesses. Remember Jesus ascending in Acts one, and the bible said a "cloud received Him out of their sight." Could it be the same cloud of witnesses spoken of in Hebrews 12, or the same cloud that Jesus and the disciples went to on the mount of transfiguration? Or could it be the cloud mentioned in Revelation 1, "Behold He cometh with clouds, and every eye shall see Him..." Spiritual we are "caught up together in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air." The word "air" does not mean sky.

It is the same word used for breath, wind, life, or spirit. We are caught up together with them in the spirit. I believe this is getting more and more exciting all the time, for our Father is bringing new life to us. I read once of an old Jewish custom where it was important that when a bridegroom (or man) would become engaged to a woman, he would leave her for a season. Then when he returned, he would return with a shout. "The bridegroom cometh," he would shout.

Then the bride to be would know that her bridegroom was on his way. Now, it was an old reference that the bridegroom came as a thief in the night. What did he come as a thief for? He came as a theif to steal away that woman from her natural parents so that they two, the bride and the bridegroom could be made one. He came to steal her away.

Now doesn’t Christ come to steal us away from the carnal realm of this world? Though our feet walk on terra firma, yet in Christ we are living in the spirit realm. Jesus told the parable of the ten virgins. Five were wise, five were foolish. Yet they were all pure. The problem was that none of them knew when the bridegroom was coming. But if they had known Jewish custom, the bridegroom always came at midnight.

And why did he come at midnight? It tells how beautifully Christ comes into our lives. There is something different about midnight. Midnight is neither P.M. Nor is it A.M. Midnight is just midnight. It is not yesterday, nor is it tomorrow. That is why the experience we have with our Father is not something that happened back in the past and it is not something that is getting ready to happen in the future. Midnight is that space between two days. The Old and the New. But it is the beginning of a brand new Day, the Day of the Lord.

Let us see how interested Paul was about this subject of the Day of the Lord. "But ye brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. You are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor darkness." 1 Thess. 5:4,5. Notice, we are not in darkness—that that day should overtake you—you are not without God. You are in the day time-light consciousness. You are the children of the light. Sons of light in a darkened world. We are sons of light in the Day of the Lord. are not of the night nor darkness. We can rejoice in this. To see that the Day of theLord comes as a thief in the night, it takes us out of night time and brings us into light. Darkness is of time, light is eternal. We are talking about sun, moon and stars. Christ shines in our life as the lightning shines from the east to the west, so shall the coming of the Son of man be. He shines in us and we begin to see those things which were darkness, and they are made manifest to us.

"And the city (New Jerusalem which we redeemed are) had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it, for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it, and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it. And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by Day: For there shall be NO NIGHT THERE." Rev. 21:23-25.

Beloved, that speaks of the Lord’s Day-Day of the Lord, for He is the light, and in us there is no night. We have no need of the sun and the moon. We are now clothed in the illuminate light of the Father and the Lamb. He is our New Day garment of brightness, that no mere man can approach unto. 1 Tim. 6:16. The Day of the Lord is not a time slot, it is not a date on the calendar, nor anything that you can read on anybody’s "time chart." Those will mislead you, for they put everything into the past and future. Christ and the Father is light today. "Today id the day of salvation, now is the accepted time."

The day of vengeance speaks of vengeance as enlightenment, not darkness. what most declare as vengeance, it would be a dark day. But it is the vindication of the Father’s promises unto His people. It is inner radiation of the Father radiating out through His messengers, bringing illumination of "word and spirit".

"I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God." Rev. 15:1. "And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed in pure and white linen, and having their breasts girded with golden girdles. And one of the four living creatures gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever." And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, God your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth." Rev. ‘16:1.

These angel messengers are "clothed in pure white linen" and are living, completed ( seven) messengers of god. Rev. 19:8. They were "girded about the breasts with golden girdles," or girded with divinity. We see that the vials ( bowls) are also "golden" having God’s nature and character. Golden girdle about the breast bespeaks the substance and essence of El Shaddi the "breasted One" who revealed Himself to Abraham. Acts 7:2, Gen. 17:1. He is the One Who nurtures and sustains His chosen. These messengers impart the same. There is the life substance of Deity from the seven (completed) messengers, they have the "full counsel of God." These are Truthsayers, not doomsayers. Men and women "as Christ Jesus" (Gal.4:14) are coming into possession of mount Zion as David did. 2 Samuel 5: 6-8, "The king and his men went to Jerusalem unto the Jebusites, the inhabitants...which said to David, Except you take away the BLIND and the LAME, you shall not come in here: thinking, David cannot come in here.

Nevertheless, David took the stronghold of Zion: the same is the city of David. And David said that day, Whoever goes up to the water shaft (water tunnel), and smites the Jebusites, and the Lame and the BLIND, that are detested of David’s soul, he shall be cheif captain. Wherefore they said, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house." So except you "smite the blind and the lame" inhabitants of Jerusalem (God’s spiritually blind and lame), how can you completely possess the Jerusalem and Zion, the city of the great King? As David hated (detested) lameness, and blindness, so are we to. And we smite it where ever the Lord leads us to such conditions, but with His "word and spirit." It was not the people that he hated, it was the condition.

The "blind and lame" are those who cannot see the revelation of of our God today, and can’t walk out His word, His gospel, keeping its precepts. So Father is moving to replace the "lame and the blind" from the "high places" of teaching His people error. As illumination comes through "spirit and word" people are delivered fro darkness into the light of Christ Jesus and His great kingdom.

The Father’s dealings are in mercy, and those who represent Him also will be tender and merciful. "Mercy triumphs over judgment." James 2:13. The resurrected Lord dwells within, making you a witness of His resurrection and ascension. And you in Him become what he is to multitudes. The Lord’s body is become the continuation of Himself in the earth. The revelation of Christ is giving spirit to king as well as ditch digger, it is bringing them all to the same level in the Father’s economy in spirit. This message is penetrating desert and jungle, islands and nations. The shed blood of its martyrs cannot turn it. Ridicule is fading before its face. It will ignore the sword and authorities that martyr its elete messengers. The divine truth of its message and anointing is doing a marvelous work of transformation on great and small. And the old paths of the wilderness are done away. "You shall be called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to dwell in." Isaiah 58:12.

Continued.

Scott Paris

December 11, 2000

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