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This
message of He Came As A Thief In The Night was
preached on February 15, 2009 in Dawsonville,
Georgia, and we want to deal with
the spiritual coming of the Lord in Revelation,
Chapter Ten, 1 Thessalonians, Chapter 4 and Chapter
5; also Matthew, Chapter 25:1-11. We
often hear sermons that Christ is going to come as a
thief in the night, but as this event has transpired
we say, "He came as a
thief in the
night. I preached a message once entitled,
"They Missed His Coming, Have We?" It was
about the Jews, and how they missed His coming.
They missed it, because He came as a little baby
laying there in a manger. The parents were
very poor and there was no room at the inn for
Him, so Mary and Joseph rented a cow stall where
there was a manger, putting cloth down on the straw
where they laid the little baby. So
the King of the earth was born, and the whole Jewish
Nation totally missed Him. Later, He went into
the temple at twelve years old and the
religious leaders were amazed at His wisdom; the
questions He asked, and the answers He gave to their
questions on the Word of God.
Then He submitted Himself and went home with Mary
and Joseph until He was about thirty years old.
There was about eighteen years that
the scriptures keep silent about and no doubt the
question was asked many times, "Whatever happened to
the young man that came to the
temple that day with so much wisdom?" But He
was soon long forgotten. So Jesus was absent
as far as the scripture records for about
eighteen years. Then after this, He came to
the river to be baptized by John and then His
public ministry began for about three and a half
years. And though He was here all the time,
yet the people missed Him. Yes, the Jewish
Nation as a whole totally missed His coming.
So when He came into Jerusalem to offer Himself as
their King, He didn't come riding in on a great
white charger horse all fixed up with all the military paraphernalia on, and people wasn't
carrying Him on a throne blowing bugles like they
would do when a king came. No. He rode
in on a little donkey. Some of the common
people began to pull branches off the trees to lay
in the way for the little donkey to walk on
saying, "Hosanna, Hosanna, to the King." The
religious leaders and the Jewish Nation as a whole
was ashamed of their Savior and King
and rejected Him, even though they had been waiting
and singing about the coming of the Messiah and
they still are waiting today. So
my question is, "They missed Him, have we?"
The religion of that day missed Him. That's
why they said, "Let Him be crucified!" But
Pilate, the Roman General was ready to let Him live
saying, "I find no fault in this man, so let's just
scourge Him and let Him go," because
he wanted to do something to appease the people.
But the priest and the other religious leaders cried
out and got the people stirred up
saying with one voice, "Crucify Him, Crucify Him!"
But Pilate said, "It's customary that I release one
prisoner at this time of year." So he
picked the meanest man he had to compete with Jesus.
He said, "Now we've got Barabbas here," which was a
murderer and all kinds of
things that he had done; so Pilate picked Barabbas
thinking they would without a doubt choose Jesus to
be released over Barabbas. He
thought without a doubt they would say, "Release
Jesus, and keep Barabbas behind bars." But no,
they did right the opposite. They
said, "Release Barabbas, release Barabbas." It
didn't matter that he was a murderer and a criminal.
Pilate asked, "Then what shall I do
with this man called Jesus?" And in one accord
they cried, "Crucify Him, crucify Him, let Him be
crucified!" The religious world had totally
missed
Him. They didn't know He was the Savior of the
world. They didn't know He was the one who
created the world as He was the Word.
As they were crying out crucify Him, crucify Him,
Pilate's wife sent a note to him. She was a pagan
lady, and Pilate was a pagan also.
This note said, "Have nothing to do with this just
man, because I have suffered many things in a dream
because of Him." So that scared
Pilate; he knew now he was getting into trouble.
So he sent for a pan of water and washed his hands
before the people. He said, "I find
no fault in this man. I wash my hands; I'm
free from this innocent man's blood." But you
can't wash Jesus off your hands. Pilate was
the only one that could authorize the crucifixion of
Jesus, or let Him go. But because of the
persuasion of the people, Pilate delivered Him
to be crucified. The same thing happens many
times today where people will let other people have
influence on them, and persuade them
to go contrary to what they know is right because
something looks like it would be the most popular
thing to do. But in serving God, it's
usually never the popular thing to do. A lot
of times it's contrary to what most people think.
So the Jewish Nation missed Him. They
totally missed Him. "He came as a thief in the
night," as far as they were concerned He was just a
little baby in a manger. Now in this
last day, we find the Lord coming back again as the
Mighty Angel of Revelation, Chapter Ten, and the
whole religious world has missed
His spiritual coming.
Now Paul was writing to the saints in 1
Thessalonians, Chapter 5:1-5, speaking of the coming
of the Lord and he says, "But of the times
and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I
write unto you." In other words, if you
are in the light, you're awake, and we have no
need because you can see it. "For
yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord
so cometh as a thief in the night."
That's why they
missed it - He came as a thief in the night.
That's how Jesus came... as a thief in the night
laying in a manger. "For when they shall
say,
Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh
upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and
they shall not escape. But ye
brethren are not in darkness (you understand
this, you know what is going on) that that day
should not overtake you as a thief." Now
he's
saying there's going to be some that this day will
not overtake them as a thief. There will be
some that are awake, that's knowledgeable
and that are walking in the light in perfect contact
with the Lord and knows what has happened.
"Ye are all children of light, and children of
the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness."
See, he's making such a clear differentiation that
we're not of the night; we're not of the
darkness. We're children of light. You
don't even need anybody to tell you about it.
In other words, the Holy Spirit has let you know,
"He's here! He's here!" He's here today
in the power of the resurrected Savior, and He is
here in the power of His Word. He's here to
make Himself known in the Word.
Now notice, He
came
as a thief in the night;
not He is
coming as a thief in the night, and it is for
sure they have totally missed Him
today. There are many people still looking for
the coming of the Lord, but in the Spirit He has
already come and united with the members
of His Body as His Wife in the earth. Now we
know there is a physical coming in the sky, but He
does not come to earth in the physical
at the time of the rapture; we meet Him in the air
as a glorified Body. But here and now, He is
seen in the earth by revelation as the Wife
of the Lamb. (Revelation, Chapter 19:7-8)
She is His flesh and bone (Ephesians 5:30) as He has
descended from Heaven with a shout,
the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of
God. (1 Thessalonians 4:13-15)
Revelation, Chapter Ten, also shows that He comes to
earth as the Mighty Angel and puts one foot on sea
and one foot on earth, showing He came Himself all
the way to the earth as the Mighty
Angel to marry His Wife. So there can be no
doubt this is the coming of the Lord as Paul spoke
of it in 1 Thessalonians, Chapter 4, and
John spoke the same in Revelation, Chapter 10:1-2,
that's Christ in the earth presently. But,
when we speak of the physical coming of the
Lord as Lord of lord's and King of kings without
exception, we are speaking of His coming after the
tribulation period to the earth to start
the millennium reign. But to get a thorough
understanding of what the Bible teaches about the
coming of the Lord, it is very important to
differentiate between the coming in Revelation,
Chapter 10:1, as the Mighty Angel, and His physical
coming to earth as King of kings and
Lord of lord's with His Wife, which is raptured (or
caught away) before the onset of the great
tribulation period. So to have a complete
understanding of what the Bible says about the
coming of the Lord, I am saying what is needful to
differentiate between the coming of the
Lord as the Mighty Angel in Revelation, Chapter 10,
and His physical coming as King of kings and Lord of
lords with His Wife as seen in
Revelation, Chapter 19. There is a portion of
the Word of God that reveals where we are today and
the part that applies to us - Revelation,
Chapter 10:8-11. You have to recognize your
part of the Word. There's a part of the Word
that cannot be written in letter... it's only Word
that is written in your heart by revelation... it's
that Little Book of Revelation, Chapter 10:8-11, and
we eat it, then we prophesy again.
So at this time Christ has come back again, and I
want to say here about 'this coming' so that you
will understand. When the Church fell
away, Christ was seen as High Priest. The
literal Jesus did not get up and come down to earth,
but He projected Himself as High Priest
and He is seen here walking among the seven church
ages until all seven ages are over. Now that
the church ages are over, we can see
that in Heaven He takes the Book of Redemption (the
Big Book) that is spoken of in Revelation, Chapter
5, which was sealed with seven
seals. In this pictorial scene the bloody lamb
breaks the seven seals. Then the scene changes
as Christ, the Mighty Angel, is seen
bringing the Little Book (which is a small portion
of the Book of Redemption corresponding to what Paul
said in Romans, Chapter 15 - "I
will not speak of those things which God has not
wrought by me.,") back to the earth for His
Wife, which is the unwritten part or prophetic
part of Paul's message that is spoken Word.
Remember here, that Paul's writings or message is
only a small part of the total Bible. But
when we look at the church age period, we find that
the blood had to be applied constantly, keeping the
spots out of their garments. That's
why people went heavy on taking communion and foot
washing while they were coming through that period
where it was necessary to
constantly remind the Church that the blood was
continuously being applied as they were reminded....
(Do this in remembrance) of the
crucifixion. But we find in the Book of
Hebrews that, "We should have no more
consciousness of sin." We find in the Old
Testament that
every year they had to offer a sacrifice, bringing
their sins back to remembrance again. But Paul
says, "Jesus Christ as High Priest
entered once into the Holy Place having obtained
eternal redemption for us all, and there should be
no more conscience of sin." (Hebrews
10:2) So, therefore as we fully understand
that Christ, the Mighty Angel of Revelation, Chapter
10, has come down (1 Thessalonians,
Chapter 4) to this earth to take on flesh and bones
in marriage, it lets us know that the long awaited
promise of His coming to marry His
Wife has taken place. Now having this
understanding, we now know that the purpose of
having the Lord's supper or communion has been
completed, but only for His Wife. While the
church world continues in its old established ways
as they failed to realize that the promised
one (the Lord Himself) has come, and did not go in
with Him to become His Wife. (Matthew, Chapter
25:10) We see in the Old Testament
in those sacrifices there was a remembrance made
every year of their sins, and so has it been in
taking the Lord's supper or communion.
So throughout the church ages, the Church did the
same thing. And it was alright, it was in
line, because the Church was coming through
a fallen period.... Christ had not come yet as the
Mighty Angel of Revelation, Chapter 10:1 - but now,
He has come as a thief in the night.
But through that time (the church ages) they had the
wine and they would drink it, this being a type of
the blood. Also they would eat the
bread, this being a type of the Body, and every year
during the church ages, preachers brought to
remembrance the sins of the people. I
too have been there as I started in the church ages,
but came out of the church ages into this final
stage at the completion of the spiritual
coming of the Lord. The Lord has propelled me
from Revelation, Chapter 10:7 to Chapter 10:8-11, into
this final phase of the Message
with the Word that is written in your heart.
That is the only Word that's going to be written in
your heart, and it's only going to be written
in His Wife's heart. We are baptized into His
Body, and we have His mind. Now it's the whole
Body of Christ that is getting revelation and
not just the ministry bringing it, but it's the
whole Body, as the ministry and all other members of
the Body have come together as one.
John in Revelation, Chapter 10:8-11, is a type of
the Wife of Christ, and he takes the Little Book and
eats it.... Thou must prophesy again
before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and
kings," and that is what we are doing today.
We are not just ministering the natural
Word, but we are ministering the Life of the Word,
which is Christ, the Spiritual Word, as He has come
back in this last day. The Spirit
of the Body had to come before the members could be
baptized into it. While the church ages were
in process, and while Jesus was
pictured as High Priest among the seven candlesticks
and the church was going on with their church
systems, such as having communion,
foot washing and all these things, the Bride was
called into the higher calling of being the Wife of
the Lamb (Revelation, Chapter 19:7-8).
This scripture shows that the Wife is clothed in
Fine Linen (the garment that has never been soiled)
clean and white, and is not bound by
the church age customs and traditions any longer
which are shown as wearing a
(traveling
garment), white robes that could get spots
and blemishes as the church age saints wore.
Sometimes, we try to incorporate customs and
traditions in our church's (which means their ways
of doing things.) But we've come to the
place now at His coming - when He came, see.
That is why Christ said, "Do this in remembrance
of me until I come." This statement is
fulfilled for His Wife in 1 Thessalonians, Chapter
4:13-18, and Revelation, Chapter 10. Christ
was seen for two thousand years as a High
Priest walking amongst the seven church ages shown
in Heaven (symbolically) as a bloody lamb with seven
eyes and seven horns as He
walked amongst the candlesticks, girded about the
paps with a golden girdle; all this is identifying
the High Priest, and you can read this
in Revelation, Chapter 1. Then, we go on into
Chapter 2, and you see each church age as He walked
amongst them. But in this last day,
here He comes roaring like a lion. Henceforth,
we (the Wife) no longer just see Him as the High
Priest, nor the bloody lamb that is
interceding in Heaven for us, nor do we see Him in
this manner of.... "Do this in remembrance of
me," but we see Him as our Husband as
a marriage has taken place. In the days of the
Apostle Paul, he said, "He shall come as a thief in
the night." But I am saying, "He came
as a thief in the night," - past tense. "He
came as a thief in the night." That is not
just the natural Word. Because with the
natural Word
you would say, "He is coming and this will happen
and that will happen." But I am saying by the
Spirit of the living God, "He has come!"
Please hear the audio, video, or read the books
below to get further understanding of the spiritual
coming of the Lord in this last day.
He Came As A Thief In The Night
Message Delivered on February 15, 2009
in Dawsonville, Georgia
Audio -
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here to view Book -
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The
Traveling Garment And The Wedding Garment Which Has
Never Been Soiled
Message Delivered on March 21, 2010 in
Dawsonville, Georgia
Audio -
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to listen
Video -
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How Christ Finishes His Plan Of Redemption
Message Delivered on February 8, 2009
in Dawsonville, Georgia
Audio -
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to listen
Video -
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Other Books.....
I Will Not Speak Of Those Things Which
God Has Not Wrought By Me - Book -
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here to read
Message Delivered on June 22, 2008 in
Dawsonville, Georgia
Two Parts To A Wedding: Ceremonial And
Consummation - Book
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Click here to read
Message Delivered on April 5, 2009 in Dawsonville,
Georgia
Paul Planted, Apollos Watered, And God
Gave The Increase -
Book -
Click here to read
Message Delivered on July 13, 2009 in Chilanga,
Zambia
What Kind Of A Sign Are You Looking
For? - Book -
Click here to read
Message Delivered on May 2, 2010 in Glen Daniel,
West Virginia
I'm Not A Whit Behind The Very Chiefest
Apostles - Book -
Click here to read
Message Delivered on September, 5, 2010 in
Dawsonville, Georgia
If You Receive Another Jesus, Another
Spirit, Another Gospel, It's Not This Word Book-
Click here to read
Message Delivered on September 12, 2010 in
Dawsonville, Georgia
Wife Of Christ Receives Both Legs/The Coming Of The Lord-Remember The Feet
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Message
Delivered on May 1, 2010 in Glen Daniel, West
Virginia
Book-Click here to
read
Reaching The End Time And The Fullness
Of Christ - Book -
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Message Delivered on February 6, 2011
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Testimony continued......
Finding The Little Book Within The Big Book
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