Daily Rhema: DEMONSTRATING THE POWER OF THE AGE TO COME

1 Corinthians 9:1 (KJV)
Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord?

Paul walked in the office of an apostle and tasted of the powers of the age to come.

However, after the Lord Jesus was resurrected, He could not fully explain the details of these truths to the Church, though He did teach some of them (Jn. 16:12-13).

For example, the Lord did not tell the disciples that the power they were expecting was going to come on the ceremonial day of Pentecost. He knew the feast of Pentecost had to be fulfilled. He had fulfilled Passover and had been resurrected. His disciples had partaken of the Holy Spirit when He appeared to them after His resurrection (Jn .20:22 )!

We must understand the fulfillment of the feast of Tabernacles. It is somewhat different from the first two feasts; Passover and Pentecost.

The first two feasts were primarily gifts: you just prayed for salvation, a simple sinner’s prayer, and you get born again. To be baptized in the Holy Spirit is to pray a simple prayer in faith. The Holy Spirit will fill you, and by faith, as you raise your voice, the utterance comes, and you begin to speak in tongues!

This third feast is a gift too, because everything we have from God is by grace through faith. However, it is also called the feast of Ingathering.

The natural nation of Israel has three harvests: the barley harvest at Passover, the wheat harvest at Pentecost and then a fruit harvest at the end of the year when they harvest grapes and make wine. These harvests differ one from another. They correspond to the three different feasts. This endtime Tabernacles feast is a feast of fruit. Prophetically, the feast has two aspects to it:

You must bring in the fruit of the Spirit (Gal. 5:22-23) in your life. That is why you must harvest fruit in your life. It is a condition for the second part. The fruit of the Spirit is the love of God.

To fulfill the feast of Tabernacles, you must be on the road to perfecting the love of God. You may not yet have perfected it; but you must be perfecting, that is, bringing in the harvest of the fruit of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance!

The second part of the harvest is the harvest of the nations as revealed in Isaiah 60:1-3.

Nigeria is destined to be the first of the firstfruits nation. That is why there is so much contention over the nation in the realm of the Spirit!

The fulfillment of the feast of Tabernacles is crucial to the fulfillment of Nigeria’s prophetic destiny, because it is in the fulfilment that God will manifest the Spirit without measure that will be not just the ‘tasting’, but a demonstration of the power of the age to come, that will make manifest the glory of God. The purpose of the demonstration of the glory of God is to deliver creation from the bondage of corruption, and that deliverance will be a witness to all nations!

It will be a demonstration to principalities and powers and to all nations, that will cause them to acknowledge that there is a people of God on the earth! This demonstration will far outstrip the ‘taste’ that we have had with Pentecost!

There will be a people that will demonstrate the manifold wisdom of God as it has never been seen before; the ability of the mind of Christ! They will demonstrate the character of God in righteousness, purity and holiness. They will demonstrate the power of God in a manner that has never been seen before; and that is the season we are in now!

We, the firstfruits of this perfect Church, are to demonstrate the powers of the age to come as a witness to all nations, so as to make disciples out of every nation; that is every tribe, tongue and kindred. The Greek word used in the original scripture is ‘ethnos’. There must be a crop of perfect disciples from every tribe, tongue and kindred before the end shall come.

Disciples must be taught all things, to bring them up from baby Christian to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ! There must be disciples in every nation: Chinese disciples, American disciples, Indian disciples, Saudi-Arabian disciples, Iranian disciples, Iraqi disciples, etc! These will be born again, Spirit-filled, tongue talking, perfection Christians, that will demonstrate the glory of God to their own people!

Nigerian disciples, not just Nigerian believers, not just Nigerian Christians! Disciples are those who wake up at 3.00am, the fourth watch, to pray with travail, embracing the discipline of the Lord Jesus in the days He was on earth (Mark 1:35 ).

Sadly, the majority of Christians are not disciples. They are believers and they will go to heaven because the condition for going to heaven is believing on the Lord Jesus; but they will suffer loss. They will not inherit the Kingdom and carry the glory, because the glory is reserved only for those who are disciples!

These are the Christians who get up early in the morning to pray, who are fasting and are praying and are not doing it only when they have emergencies and problems, but daily, like the Bible says: ‘Take up your cross daily’ (Luk. 9:23). The spiritual complexion has changed and therefore the atmosphere that is required for the fulfilment of the feast of Tabernacles is now in place.

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