December 2008

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Update: Trip to Ghana

On January the 12th in the providence of God I will be boarding a British

Airways flight from Newark New Jersey with a final destination for Accra
Ghana. During my time in Ghana I will be the guest speaker for conferences
that will include Pastors and Christian workers. The itinerary will take me to
three geographical regions within Ghana with three separate conferences. The
conferences will take place during the day and at night we will be holding
crusades. Please pray that God will give me the precise formation of sound
words to be spoken. Likewise prayers for travel mercies, health as well as
protection are appreciated.
Profound Thanksgiving

I would like to especially thank those who gave for this trip in the providence
of God, giving joyfully with little provocation. The Tree of Life congregation
surprised me completely on a Sunday morning with a love offering which
included giving from our branch churches in Portland Pennsylvania as well as
the New Jersey church. There was response as well from our newsletter
readers. Thanks to my family for donating, thanks Sisters and Brothers. The
Lord has supplied and at this point we are only slightly short of what is needed.
Yesterday I paid for and received $605.00 worth of shots that is required to
enter Ghana. They have left me with sore shoulders and a very weird sense of
symptoms. A meningitis shot is highly recommended and there is need for
malaria pills to be taken daily while on this trip. The cost is another $320.00 or
$160.00 per. If one would like to give for the malaria pills and meningitis shot
this would be more than appreciated. Thank God that airfare has been paid for;
God is a great provider. In case one wonders I will not be receiving an
honorarium.
Pastor Secku who has oversight of churches throughout Ghana has read the
books that God has given to my stewardship. He has felt a deep burden that his
Pastor’s should be trained in discerning the great falling away as well as the
need for overcoming the last great falling away through the blood of Jesus, the
subjects dealt with in two of the books God has given me. I learned that leaders
of the African churches often weep for the spiritual decline of the American
church. The church that brought the Gospel to much of Africa. Quite frankly
The Church in much of Africa is shocked at the spiritual decline of the church
in America.
 The ministry was once on Radio Africa. The response from Ghana was
very overwhelming. We are anticipating large crowds in the evening crusades.

I am quite certain that we are moving in the perfect will of God in all this
matter. With every fiber of my being THANK YOU. Now, let us visit the
presentation of the Word.

What God communicates to the elect;

That Which is from before the Foundations of the World.

I have become very troubled by the term the “Church”. There is so much that
is called the church that is simply not the Church of God’s Mind and heart. I
am currently training myself to call the church the elect. This is similar to the
term “born Again”. The marvelous words by which Jesus describes our racial
translation has been ruined by the myriad of the profane that attach the term
“born Again” to whatever can make a dollar in the uncrucified world of
apostasy.

What Makes the Church Elect?

What makes the church elect is when the church can receive what God
communicates from before the foundations of the world to an elect in humility
of calling. Please note Mathew 13:34-35:

“All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a
parable spake he not unto them:
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will
open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from
the foundation of the world.”

God’s ways are not Man’s ways. Often prayer is unanswered because we
communicate to God about our wants rather than having an ear for his desire to
speak to us. God truly desires to speak to us about what was in his heart before
he made the foundation that creation rested upon. He desires to communicate
the revelation of his heart so that the gospel would be communicated by such
revelation. This is what we learn from the Apostle Paul in the glorious book of
Galatians. The elect is that body of believers who God communicates to, that
which has been kept secret from the foundations of the world.

Five Profound Communications to the Elect

Communication Number 1: The Father’s Greatest Love For Jesus.

Carefully read the words of our beloved Lord Jesus as found in the Gospel of
John 17:24:
“Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I
am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst
me before the foundation of the world.”

It is the will of God that we dwell with Jesus in Spirit and truth. The Holy
Spirit glorifies the Word of God who is Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit who
indwells us will lead us into the scriptures and show us the greatness of the Lord
Jesus Christ. He will show us his glory that he had with the father before
creation was placed upon foundations. The Holy Spirit will show us the
profound love that the father has for Jesus. He will teach us of the union that
dwells in the Godhead and why the father proclaims Jesus the brightness of his
glory and his exact character representation. Because the father is well pleased
with the Son there is a union in glory. What is most amazing is the reality that
the exact love that the father has for Jesus, The Lord Jesus Christ loves us with.

Communication Number 2: We Have Been Chosen in Him Before the

Foundations of the World

The reality that none of us sought out God but that God has chosen us is
truly one of the greatest of all the great gospel mysteries. Carefully consider the
Apostles words to the elect of the Ephesians found in Ephesians 1:4:

“According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world,

that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.”

What is astonishing to me is that before there was creation we were known to

the great heart of God by name. How astonishing that in the great all knowing
God’s heart there was a desire for his chosen elect to walk with him in
companionship. That he calls us to walk in the secret place of the most high is
glorious beyond expressions. He became our high priest and Apostle that we
might be seated with him in heavenly places as a spectacle before nations. High
priests are of the Holiest Place of all. The high priestly apostolic ministry of
Jesus Christ does not take place in a tabernacle made with human hands but in
the greater tabernacle dwelling eternal in the heavens. We have been chosen a
nation of priests for the Holiest of Holies. We have been chosen to be Holy and
without blame before him in the father’s love. The precious elect washed in the
blood of sprinkling, chosen in Christ Jesus from before the foundations of the
world.

Communication number 3: The Lamb Slain from Before the Foundations of the
World Has Written a Book

In the book of Revelations God communicates the mystery of his heart by

the book of Life in the following as found in Revelation 13:8:

“And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him,(Anti-Christ) whose
names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation
of the world.”

The Lamb slain before the foundations of the world has authored a book. It is
the book of Life. Each chapter has the story of an epistle. The ink of this book
is in blood, the blood of one slain from before the foundations of the world.
The chapters are inspired by his union with the Father that has brought us into
union with him and one another. This book of life was written before any of
our days came into being. While we were being knit together in our mother’s
womb our lives were being conformed to the blueprint found in this book of
life. We are chapters in the book of Life known and read of all men. To be
conformed to the author’s divine thought from before the foundations of the
world is essential. We dare not write our will into this great epistle for there is
danger of being blotted out of his pages. (Revelations 3:5) Oh God as you
wrote upon King David’s spirit the pattern of an earthen tabernacle, do write
upon our spirit the pattern of the tabernacle of the Lamb, the Lamb slain from
before the foundations of the world.

Communication number 4: Blood has been Shed from the Foundations of the
World and is Required.
He Has Called Us into the Fellowship of his Sufferings.

Consider what wisdom communicates as expressed in Luke 11:46-51:

“And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens
grevious to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your
fingers. Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your
fathers killed them. Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your
fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres. Therefore
also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some
of them they shall slay and persecute: That the blood of all the prophets, which
was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;
From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, which perished between
the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this
generation.”

Lawyers are what currently run this country. They are the politicians leading
the nation to antichrist. The wicked A.C.L.U. under the banner of there
communist founder Baldwin come continually against the Word of God and
stand in the antichrist opposition to all that is Holy and according to God’s
Word. Satan is the original remover of God’s Word. As the church follows his
lead in the new age bibles, the world joins the satanic expression and we see the
Word of God removed from our courthouses and public display declaring Jesus
Christ. In the antichrist atmosphere of past apostate generations that has found
its expression in America, we hear Jesus express what the wisdom of God
speaks.
The wisdom of God tells us that he will send his elect with the Word of
God. This elect, chosen in him, have been abiding in the Holy Spirit of
Prophecy and in the Holy Spirit of Holiness. They shall come forth with the
wisdom of God hidden from before the foundations of the world. This wisdom
will be rejected by the uncrucified church world as well the global empire.
Because the wisdom of God (that cries to us) is rejected, God will require the
blood that has been shed, by those who would hide the testimony of Jesus. Men
destroy men who hold the formation of Jesus Christ in the inner man that there
deeds might not come to light. In the shadows and types found in the Old
Testament such as Abel and Zacharias, who bore the testimony of Jesus, there
was a shedding of blood. This is a testimony of blood that speaks to us from
before the foundations of the world. If this was required of a generation at the
first coming of Jesus Christ, think and tremble at the generation of his second
coming, that counts his blood as unholy. The blood of a Lamb slain from before
the foundations of the world, sprinkled from everlasting to everlasting.

Communication 5: He Has Often Suffered from

Before the Foundations of the World

In hearing the voice of the Holy Spirit, we come upon what He desires us to
hear in Hebrews 9:26:

“For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but
now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the
sacrifice of himself.”

In the Old Testament which records the beginning of dispensations, we learn

of distinct dispensations of unique expression. These expressions continue into
our time wherein we see the culmination of these ages. There is a distinct
admonition upon we who the ends of ages are coming upon. Carefully consider
the ages that are now mentioned.

1. That which is from before the foundations of the world.

2. Creation.
3. Innocence.
4. Two generations of the fall.
5. The law.
6. The Promise.
7. The incarnation, we beheld His glory.
8. Pentecost, the church age of grace.
9. The last days and tribulation.
10. The millennium.
11. The gathering of all things unto Jesus Christ.

Within each age we find a dispensation that longs for the utter fullness of the
Lord Jesus Christ. He is central to all that is abiding from before the
foundations of the world. In creation there is a longing for that which is without
form and void to hear the cry, Let there be the light. In innocence there is
invitation to man to eat of the Tree of Life and live forever. In the fall there is
murder of righteous Abel and an expression of two generations. One generation
in its seventh line is that of polygamy and murder. The other generation sees
the seventh line that is taken to heaven without death. In each of these
dispensations there is a longing for the manifestation of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Shadows however cannot fulfill the heart of God. In these He suffers often
 from before the foundations of the world.
In the promise, there is the Promise Seed to all nations. The seed that will
crush the seed of satan. The law is but a school master. But in incarnation there
is fullness. Here the Lamb slain from before the foundations of the world
expresses the fullness of what is often suffered. The cross manifests the
government of resurrection and ascension. In Pentecost and grace there is
gathering, but still there is apostasy wherein candlesticks are removed and His
blood is trampled under foot. He continues to often suffer. In these last days
antichrist will attempt to remove His testimony. In the millennium He will rule
with a rod of iron, and will suffer over the short rebellion of the devil and his
rejection of nations. But there ultimately comes a time when He who has often
suffered from before the foundations of the world, will see the fullness of all
things being gathered into His headship. That special dispensation when all is
gathered in Him.
Ephesians 1:10:

“That in the dispensation of the fullness 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.”
 

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