Wednesday, May 5, 2021

BLESSINGS EVEN IN TRIBULATIONS

My Dear Precious Child,
    After Jesus Christ emphatically chided the religious and political leaders about their sins, and when He pointed out clearly that woes and griefs that were going to come upon them in their lives on earth as a result, Jesus told them that I had over and over tried to save them from those curses but that they wouldn't allow Me to comfort them and save them, that they continued to reject My help.  (Matthew 23:36-38) He and His disciples left the temple area and His disciples pointed out the building of the temple, which was eagerly awaited by the religious and political leaders.  Jesus told His followers that not one stone of the temple would be left upon another, that they would all be thrown down. (Matthew 24:1-3)
    While Jesus was seated on the Mount of Olives, His disciples approached Him and asked when that calamity was going to happen that the destruction of the temple would take place which would signify the sign of Jesus' coming back to earth after his crucifixion and the end of the age of the law would occur.  Jesus answered them by telling them that they must be careful not to be deceived because many people would say that they were the Christ, the Messiah, and that those people would lead many people astray. (Matthew 24:4-5)  He was concerned that in the three days that He was in hell for the sins of the whole world that the men who had followed Him for three years would be led astray by unscrupulous religious and political leaders.  Later, even after My new covenant with people began, that exact same thing happened where some of My disciples were led astray by religious and political leaders who convinced the disciples of Jesus that they needed to be circumcised in order to fulfill the Jewish laws in addition to their becoming participants in My new covenant with people.  Even with His stern caution for them before He was crucified, some of them were still later led astray, which He continued to caution them against.
     Yet, while He was still with them, He told them that they would hear about wars and rumors of war taking place, which was beginning to happen already in the spiritual dimension just like what Jesus had said about My kingdom having previously been assaulted from the days of John the Baptist up until He began teaching about My kingdom of God coming into the world. (Matthew 11:12)  There were signs of wars in the heavens already between My angels and the devil's demons as well as famines and earthquakes going to happen in the earth because of the end of My spiritual first covenant with a man called Abraham and the beginning of My second and final covenant with people which was to bring salvation into the earth with the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross for the sins of the whole world.(Matthew 24:6-8)
   Jesus warned His disciples and followers that they would be handed over to suffer affliction and tribulation, be put to death and be hated by all nations for His names' sake.  He also warned His followers that many people who had trusted in Him and obeyed Him would stumble and fall away, even betraying each other and pursuing each other with hatred.  False prophets would rise up deceiving them and leading many other people into error.  He said that the love of the great body of people who had followed Jesus in His life on earth would grow cold because of the demons of lawlessness and iniquity.   Yet, even with all of those negative things being prophesied by My Son Jesus that were to happen after the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, He promised that the people who endured all of that persecution and tribulation would be saved and the Good News of the kingdom of God would be preached throughout the whole world as a testament to all nations, and then the end would come to the old covenant of the law when My new covenant of the Holy Spirit's reign on earth would begin on earth as the ministry of Jesus Christ.  (Matthew 24:13-14; Matthew 28:19-20; Acts 2:1-13)
    Little did His disciples realize the joy that was going to engulf them after all of that happened and My new covenant began with people on the day of Pentecost when the obedient men, women and children were waiting in the upper room.  Little did they realize that the demonic veil between heaven and earth would be split in two when the demons who formed a barrier between heaven and earth would be sent to the fiery furnace and My kingdom of heaven would be available to My children of promise who become born of My Holy Spirit and baptized in My Holy Spirit.  Consequently there would be a new heaven and a new earth. The new heaven would happen because there would be inhabitants of heaven who had been perfected by My Holy Spirit and they and the spirits of the prophets of old would become inhabitants ot heaven also. (Hebrews 12:1 and Hebrews 12:22-29) The new earth would be because My Holy Spirit would come to live inside of My children who are born of My Spirit and baptized in My Holy Spirit.  My Spirit would make their bodies His earthly temple of My Holy Spirit.  The earthly Jewish temple would no longer be My temple in the earth.  My temple would be the bodies of My children of promise. (I Corinthians 3:16; II Corinthians 3:16-19)  Therefore, now there is a new earth and a new heaven.  There were celebrations in heaven and in earth because salvation had come into the earth.  I remembered their sins no more and they were filled with My Holy Spirit, distributing My love, peace and forgiveness to all inhabitants of the earth.  It definitely was a new heaven and a new earth. (Isaiah 65:17-25; Isaiah 66:18-22) 
    Your Father of the New and Everlasting Covenant with Mankind

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