We will continue with our study of the books of Daniel and Revelation next week, but we have just finished the MorningStar Vision New Year’s Conference, and the message from it is especially crucial for us to be prepared for these times. So, I will give you a brief on it first.
We hold this new year’s conference each year to seek the Lord for a word for the coming year. The Lord has been faithful to give us such words, or prophetic perspectives, each year. Words from this conference in the past have been some of the most important we’ve had, and the one from this past conference is one of these.
The main prophetic theme of this conference was preparing for the coming wave of harvest. A main emphasis on how we do this was entering the spiritual instead of trying to get the spiritual to enter our realm.
The harvest that Jesus said is the end of the age became seared in my thinking through a two-and-a-half-day experience I had in 1987. My second book, The Harvest, was about this experience, and it was a panorama of coming events that have unfolded over the time since. This has been a continuous theme in my messages and writing since, but after the dreams I had, this has even more greatly dominated my thinking for the past few weeks.
This message is crucial to prepare us for what makes us the strongest, most impactful Christians that we’re called to be. The main reason Jesus came to the earth and paid such a price for our redemption and salvation is to restore all that was lost by the fall. To represent Him as we should, we are called to come up to His level, not bring Him down into ours. This must also become a focus of our teaching and thinking. He did not come to show us how God lives but how we are supposed to live.
In every important way that I can think of, this emphasis on preparing for the coming harvest will benefit every believer. First, every time we witness of Jesus Christ, it strengthens our faith and relationship to Him. There are certain basics to being a witness for the Lord, but there is also a uniqueness to our witness that will speak to the unique person or audience we’re addressing. The Holy Spirit will lead us in this uniqueness if we’re sensitive to Him. This enables us to see aspects of Him that keep our relationship to Him fresh and expanding.
The “apostolic gospel” that the first apostles of Jesus preached impacted the world in their time, but also for all time. There has never been another message to have this kind of influence on the earth, because there is no other message that can compare to it. Is this not why Jesus is called “the Lamb” throughout eternity, as we see in the book of Revelation, even though He is also “the Lion of the Tribe of Judah?”
Not only did all things come into being through Jesus, but all things will be summed up in Him. He is the Reason for the creation, and He is the main Reason each of us exists. The main purpose for the existence of every person on earth is to know Him, to trust in Him so as to abide in Him, and to become like Him. The degree to which we do this will determine the level of our true success as human beings.
This is why the “apostolic gospel” that the first apostles preached—and that all true apostles preach—was not just about salvation or the benefits we receive when we trust in Jesus. “They were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead” (see Acts 4:2). They preached Jesus because He is not just the answer to our problems; He is the Purpose for the creation, and everything is going to be summed up in Him (see Ephesians 1:10).
Through Jesus, the apostles preached the resurrection from the dead, because it is through the fear of death that we are kept in bondage (see Hebrews 2:15). Both the fear of death and death itself are eradicated through Jesus. Because this is the primary fear that keeps people in bondage, when we are delivered from this fear by our faith in the resurrection of Jesus, it will begin to also break off of our lives all other bondage that controls us through fear.
We are called to live by faith, not fear. This is going to become a reality for those who truly believe in Him, not just in a doctrine. This message we will see sown throughout Daniel and Revelation, and actually throughout the Scriptures. It is believing in our hearts, not just our minds, that results in righteousness (see Romans 10:10). What is in our heart is what we really are and what we truly believe. It is our goal for the WFTW to reinforce these things so that they will become who we are, not just what we think.
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