Gospel for Easter 2021, part two 2 - Trumpet is playing, the Lord is calling!

Apr 2

Note! These two sections of the good news received in 2021 (this is section 1) have been published as a new blog post in 2024, where the message can now be read in a revised version (Edition 2) with grammatical and vocabulary corrections. The blog post also includes a table of contents to aid in understanding and reading the entire message.
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Scripture taken from the New King James Version (NKJV).

WARNING!!!! This is so-called solid food (Hebr. 5:13-14, 1. Kor 3:1-2)

The ones exhausted by the corona time, not yet faithful, or at the beginning of their faith journey, should not continue reading from here. Instead of the good news, the text can only feel distressing in the situations mentioned above.

Those who do not blame God for the evil in the world and understand the sowing concealed by God in shaking are probably already merciful on their journey of faith with the gifts of heavenly wisdom given by the Spirit, which are a prerequisite for understanding this text and the ability to try it.

SEQUEL TO THE GOSPEL FOR THE ELDERS OF ALL CHRISTIAN CONGREGATIONS

“All inhabitants of the world and dwellers on the earth: When he lifts up a banner on the mountains, you see it; And when he blows a trumpet, you hear it. For so the Lord said to me, "I will take My rest, And I will look from My dwelling place Like clear heat in sunshine, Like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest." For before the harvest, when the bud is perfect And the sour grape is ripening in the flower, He will both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks And take away and cut down the branches. They will be left together for the mountain birds of prey And for the beasts of the earth; The birds of prey will summer on them, And all the beasts of the earth will winter on them. ”

Isaiah 18:3-6 (NKJV)

This text is a continuation of the gospel associated with the Lord's revelation of the birth and deliverance of the donkey foal in connection with His Second Coming. In connection with that revelation, the Lord prompted the proclamation of the good news to all the inhabitants of the Earth that the time of Isaiah 18:3, the raising of the pennant and the playing of the trumpet, has now begun. It is a short age when the Lord still one more time calls to follow Him and return to Him before the final execution of the time of tribulation and wrath with its judgments facing the impious. If you have not read the first part of the gospel about the donkey foal, you should get familiar with it first:

Gospel for Easter 2021, part one - The Foal of the Donkey Has Been Born

It is, indeed, a joyful task to be involved in declaring that the Lord has raised His pennant as a sign to all the inhabitants of the Earth. It is a pennant given to mark the beginning of the whole era of approaching His return.

The Earth is already sighing its filth under our feet, and even more impiety, lawlessness, and apostasy in the world seem to be advancing (Isa. 24: 4-5, Matt. 15: 8, 2 Thess. 2: 3). Who would not rejoice at the return of the King, who will take over the whole world justly, equally, and righteously. Who, in these times of deception, disease, and pollution, would not wait for a time when the tears of the afflicted will be wiped away and those who compete for the finish will receive their rewards, and the impious will receive their judgment.

The voices of the prophets around the world act as the trumpet of the Lord just like before the first coming. The messengers of the Lord forward the call of the Lord but how many will receive the call?

THE LORD NOW PUTS THE LEADERS OF CHRISTIAN CHURCHES IN THE SAME TRYING AS THE JEWISH SCRIPTURES AND PHARISTS OF THEIR TIME

Honourable elders of Christian congregations, remember the nature of your Creator. His justice and fairness is unwavering.

At the time of our Saviour's first coming, only a small number of Jewish priests, rabbis, and Pharisees accepted Jesus and His invitation to follow Him. Although the Jewish priests and scribes knew the scriptures in an exemplary manner, disbelief prevailed as the Saviour, having been waited for for centuries, stood in front of them. Unbelief was not removed even by the miracles and signs performed by Jesus. It was on the contrary. The same fate befell most of the disciples who had partaken of the Holy Ghost in front of the scholars.

For centuries, Jews have got to hear from many Christians a reminder and resentment that Jews living in the time of Jesus did not realize that Jesus was truly the promised Messiah. But what about us Christians now, is my question to you, honourable leaders of Christian congregations? Will the elders of the Christian congregations even begin to try the call of the Lord proclaimed from the mouth of a Lord's servant? Are the faith and courage of today's Christian congregations better than the faith of the ancient brethren to respond to the call of the Lord, which is suddenly made again from the unexpected side as the Lord's pattern of action is?

I would like to be able to write to you this gospel sequel with the same joy as I wrote to my friend about the donkey revelation. However, it is difficult because it has been written that only a remnant of this time of the Lord's screening associated with the gospel will survive. In the midst of joy, therefore, I cannot help but feel at the same time the sorrow for that many will reject the invitation just as so many of those who sanctify God's name did at the first coming of the Lord. On the other hand, this is destined to happen so that neither of the daughters of Jerusalem will be able to boast to each other on their journey as the Lord reunites the daughters of Jerusalem into one nation, a purified bridal congregation awaiting His return. (Daughters of Jerusalem = the ancient southern people of Judah + the ancient northern Ephraim/Israel and all the people who were part of them from the gentiles).

“Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are on the sinful kingdom, And I will destroy it from the face of the earth; Yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob," Says the Lord. "For surely I will command, And will sift the house of Israel among all nations, As grain is sifted in a sieve; Yet not the smallest grain shall fall to the ground. All the sinners of My people shall die by the sword, Who say, 'The calamity shall not overtake nor confront us.' "On that day I will raise up The tabernacle of David, which has fallen down, And repair its damages; I will raise up its ruins, And rebuild it as in the days of old; That they may possess the remnant of Edom, And all the Gentiles who are called by My name," Says the Lord who does this thing.”

Amos 9:8-12 (NKJV)

“"As I live," says the Lord God, "surely with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with fury poured out, I will rule over you. I will bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you are scattered, with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with fury poured out. And I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will plead My case with you face to face. Just as I pleaded My case with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will plead My case with you," says the Lord God. "I will make you pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant; I will purge the rebels from among you, and those who transgress against Me; I will bring them out of the country where they dwell, but they shall not enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord. "As for you, O house of Israel," thus says the Lord God: "Go, serve every one of you his idols--and hereafter--if you will not obey me; but profane My holy name no more with your gifts and your idols. For on My holy mountain, on the mountain height of Israel," says the Lord God, "there all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, shall serve Me; there I will accept them, and there I will require your offerings and the firstfruits of your sacrifices, together with all your holy things. I will accept you as a sweet aroma when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you have been scattered; and I will be hallowed in you before the Gentiles.”

Ezekiel 20:33-41 (NKJV)

The age that began at raising the pennant marks an era of screening before the return of the Lord, which one does not manage until they are ready to put again the Word of the Lord in front of the traditional rules created within the time of the people. This means an age as God gathers and cleanses the congregations that will enter the Lord’s wedding meal into a united bride church that is acceptable to the Lord. If, accordingly, the Lord will once at His coming set everything to their place for good, the first steps have been prescribed to be taken even before the Lord's return.

“You have wearied the Lord with your words; Yet you say, "In what way have we wearied Him?" In that you say, "Everyone who does evil Is good in the sight of the Lord, And He delights in them," Or, "Where is the God of justice?" "Behold, I send My messenger, And he will prepare the way before Me. And the Lord, whom you seek, Will suddenly come to His temple, Even the Messenger of the covenant, In whom you delight. Behold, He is coming," Says the Lord of hosts. "But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner's fire And like launderer's soap.“

Malachi 2:17-3:2 (NKJV)

My sister of faith received in prayer an exhortation to be conveyed to the age: “Humble yourself to walk the way of the cross”. I can only agree with the wish and pray that the elders of the various Christian congregations will be able to accept the Lord's call and humble themselves to try it in front of the Lord. Whatever your position or earthly path of education and career are, at the top of all the structures of human wisdom should be the willingness to listen to the messages of God's messengers and, according to the instruction of the Word, to try everything against the Word by the help of the Spirit. Through the ragged, the changes of the ages were communicated in connection with the first coming of the Lord, and from equally deficient vessels God's promptings are again proclaimed.

THE LORD WILL SOON SHED THE RAIN OF THE SPIRIT THERE, WHERE HIS CALL IS RESPONDED

Before I go into more detail on the content of the Lord’s invitation, I will tell about the promised prize of those who pass the screen. Part of the gospel of the beginning of a new age is that the long-awaited shedding of the Lord’s heavy pre-harvest rain is really near. We are in an age when the Saints sanctified and those idealizing anti-Christian habits are only progressing deeper and deeper in their lawlessness and apostasy as revealed by the Word. In order to confirm the ability of the own ones to withstand the prescribed times of tribulation still to come, and to provide as an armoury against the spirits of evil a large-scale apostolic anointing with its miracles and signs, the Spirit set to rest in the North is awakened.

To avoid misunderstandings I will clarify the previous. Of course, the Holy Spirit has worked in the meantime here and there, witnessing our Lord to be a living God. This presence of the Spirit, the defender of believers, the Spirit of Truth, was promised to the apostles to come. The Spirit was shed out on all those who loved Jesus on the first Pentecost (John 14: 15-17). The age that has begun is about the continuation of the Spiritual activity of the apostolic age more broadly and globally. The operation of the Spirit will be needed as the Lord frees those who seek Him by the slavery of the dark forces and by caring for the brothers and sisters in the congregation in the middle of tribulation. Taking into account our knowledge of this age preceding the second coming of the Lord with the afflictions of Jacob, I would not want that necessary protective presence of the Spirit in the middle of those times to remain unaffected by any congregation. No congregation can be built so strong in human power that without the presence of the Spirit of the Lord and the miracles of the Spirit, it would survive the future. People cannot, for example, without the Spirit in the middle of times of tribulation, be able to rely completely on the Lord for food. Food miracles will be seen where the Lord is called to help and the Spirit is present. Only those congregations in which the Spirit is present as a strong advocate and encourager of those against chosen by God are able to survive the impending age of tribulation.

Naturally, the Lord again gives people the free will to choose whether to respond to His call.

The rain soon sent by the Lord will then be directed with its richness of strong miracles there where the Lord's invitation to return to the original apostolic obedience to His Word is accepted.

And it is not only a question of the presence of miracles, but of the continued existence of congregations in general. Notice and try in Spirit the serious warning that follows the raising of the pennant and the sound of the trumpet.

“For so the Lord said to me, "I will take My rest, And I will look from My dwelling place Like clear heat in sunshine, Like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest." For before the harvest, when the bud is perfect And the sour grape is ripening in the flower, He will both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks And take away and cut down the branches. They will be left together for the mountain birds of prey And for the beasts of the earth; The birds of prey will summer on them, And all the beasts of the earth will winter on them.“

Isaiah 18:4-6 (NKJV)

In His revelation, the Lord revealed to me that these verses mean, for the age to begin, what will happen to those congregations that do not respond to the call. The impervious congregations of the screening will eventually be the ones through which God accomplishes the beginning of the age of judgment. After all, it is written that the judgment begins specifically in the temple of the Lord. (thus, referring to all the congregations in the world).

As the previous warning about the gospel was particularly serious, I asked the Lord to confirm the matter requested to be proclaimed. As an encouragement, let us mention here the latest confirmation of the message, which took place on 21 March 2021. As I was in silent prayer with my co-worker given to me by the Lord, I prayed quietly in my mind the Lord to confirm the message to be proclaimed during this prayer once again. I almost felt guilty about falling into disbelief, for I had already received several strong confirmations from the Lord in this regard. After all, as part of the whole, I had recently learned why several people working on visions had received a revelation about the trumpet already for ten years. For ten years I had wondered why the Lord speaks to me about the trumpet when I have utilized my musical gifts specifically for playing the violin.

So I asked the Lord for one last confirmation and I got it. I asked if this era of the Lord’s billhook really meant such serious screening for congregations, threatened by the judgment. The Lord acted immediately. I had not yet spoken a word to my sister of faith about that matter of the Lord’s billhook. Right after I had quietly in my mind prayed to the Lord to confirm the matter by giving my sister of faith a vision for the verse, my sister of faith interrupted our silent prayer. Slightly confused by the vision she had received, she began telling she did not know anything what the Lord wanted to tell her through the vision she had just been given. She continued telling that she was shown a chainsaw, the tip of which shone with divine glory, and it swayed like a billhook in the middle of gloomy darkness. I could not, in the almost tactile presence of the Holy Spirit, be without smiling and exclaiming happily that I knew. I received my answer and I no longer hesitate to fulfil my promise to the Lord to declare all that He has given to say!

I have all the confirmation I need and I am ready to proclaim the Lord’s gospel as a part of this serious exhortation to all Christian congregations in the world. Although the era includes this serious warning about screening and the call to return to the original apostolic obedience, the Word encourages to look at the raised pennant to show the wonderful goal of gathering as one Holy nation to witness the arrival of the Lord in Jerusalem:

“Go through, Go through the gates! Prepare the way for the people; Build up, Build up the highway! Take out the stones, Lift up a banner for the peoples! Indeed the Lord has proclaimed To the end of the world: "Say to the daughter of Zion, 'Surely your salvation is coming; Behold, His reward is with Him, And His work before Him.' " And they shall call them The Holy People, The Redeemed of the Lord; And you shall be called Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken.”

Isaiah 62:10-12 (NKJV)

THE LORD INVITES TO RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL COVENANT WITH HIM

The elders of Christian congregations, you will now find perhaps the most difficult trying of your career to put the Word of God ahead of the conclusions of human wisdom, and to possibly contest with the additional challenges created by the man-made bureaucracy. What happens in a situation when leaders in the congregation with the Holy Spirit end up willing to follow God's call, but instead of spiritual leaders, lay members who are still ignorant of the Holy Spirit and the skill of trying, are deciding on doctrinal matters?

I certainly do not raise the previous concern to underestimate the spiritual capital of lay members. In fact, I am even more concerned about the situation that has been written in the press as a reality in some congregations. If the supreme spiritual leadership of the congregation does not work under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, then the principles of lay members, even though based solely on traditional rules, are the congregation’s only hope of keeping the proclamation of the Truth of the Word even in its present state. Thus, there can be no congruent way to respond to the call in congregations where doctrinal matters are not in the hands of spiritual guidance alone.

The previous examples are written to encourage both elders and lay members to seriously ponder their relation to the Lord and to listen carefully to those who are trying the message in the Holy Spirit. It is an era when decisions can no longer be made under the influence of the spirit worlds that mock the Holy Spirit by preaching the ear scabies that people wish, and choosing as the prevailing practices. While such a strategy may seem attractive and the best in the world of earthly market forces in order to grow congregations, it would be a short-sighted and fatal misstep in the age that has begun. The Lord will no longer allow steps to be taken further from the Truth without the execution of the billhook judgment upon that congregation. Remember that the Lord never sends warnings as intimidation but as loving warnings and instructions to choose the right direction.

As the elders, according to the Word, you are responsible for the souls of your congregation. As a part of the gospel, I am not willing to quote the serious verses from the Word, which concern the duty of the elders to remain in the teaching of Will announced in the Word of God. Apostate preachers have been severely condemned in the Old Testament and the New Testament only confirms this God’s line of judgment. Our Lord is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

The task ahead is therefore challenging but the reward for obedience will be great. And it is no less a matter than the matter of the life and death of many people.

Before I go through the concrete things I have received from the Lord to convey related to responding to the Lord’s call, I still want to make sure the sufficient understanding of the connection between God’s pre-written history and the present situation. I write the following because I know that church history which influences the birth of many different congregations does not necessarily address the issue from the perspective of the Word written by our Lord.

RETURN BACK TO THE OLIVE TREE OF GOD, YOU ALL ISRAELI

Do you, dear reader, understand whom all the people are meant with Israeli in the title? Please understand that this means all the Jews who have received Jesus into their hearts, the descendants of the people of the ancient northern state of Israel who have received Jesus into their hearts, and the believing gentiles who have received Jesus into their hearts. Please understand that the previous triad based on the division of ancient Israel is, in fact, the same thing as the description of the divide: Messianic Jews and Christians. And if, dear reader, you have already internalized the matter under this title, you will understand that all of the above divisions are also included in one and the same definition: Israelites grafted into the olive tree include people who have taken Jesus into their heart as their Saviour (Messiah) regardless of human genetics and congregational connection.

With regard to matters relating to the beginning of the age, however, it is necessary to understand the original divide of nations made by God in the Word of the Bible, in which God divided the nations, made up of the descendants of Jacob, with the promise to Abraham into the chosen people and gentiles. It must be remembered, however, that God's promise, already made at that time as an eternal enactment, that He would also embrace those of the people who join the chosen from the gentiles. The condition was, however, that the representatives of the gentiles would also receive the acts given to the chosen people and begin to live accordingly.

“And if a stranger dwells with you, or whoever is among you throughout your generations, and would present an offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the Lord, just as you do, so shall he do. One ordinance shall be for you of the assembly and for the stranger who dwells with you, an ordinance forever throughout your generations; as you are, so shall the stranger be before the Lord.”

Numbers 15:14-16 (NKJV)

“"Also the sons of the foreigner Who join themselves to the Lord, to serve Him, And to love the name of the Lord, to be His servants-- Everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath, And holds fast My covenant-- Even them I will bring to My holy mountain, And make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices Will be accepted on My altar; For My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations." The Lord God, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says, "Yet I will gather to him Others besides those who are gathered to him."

Isaiah 56:6-8 (NKJV)

Understand, as early as the time of Moses, the premise was that belonging to any congregation or genetic inheritance alone was no guarantee of salvation. At the time of the Old Covenant, the attainment of righteousness in the eyes of God was emphasized by the concrete compliance of the law given by God. Contrary to what is heard preached somewhere, through Jesus' death on the cross, the law by no means ceased to exist (Jesus even himself emphasized that not even a letter of the law will disappear, Matt. 5: 17-20).

From the teachings of Jesus, it can be said that the new covenant that came through Him, instead, renewed the covenant by modifying and supplementing the law and other provisions and instructions given by God. A good example is circumcision set by God as an eternal enactment. Even this enactment perpetuated in the Old Covenant did not disappear in the New Covenant. God does not contradecirse, and God does not have to use an eraser. Instead, as the Old Testament prophets have already declared, there would be a time when, instead of circumcision of the foreskin, one should perform the circumcision of one's own heart. In practice, circumcision of the heart means accepting Jesus as the Lord of one’s life, beginning to seek, according to Jesus' prompting, the will of His Father in the Word, to listen to what the Holy Spirit begins to speak to the heart, and to grow oneself into obedience to the will of God.

Especially in all matters pertaining to the ordinances set by God as eternal, the Scriptures should be read very carefully. Which of all the laws did Jesus really change and how? Which of the laws, on the contrary, were not changed, and following Jesus by his example would, on the contrary, oblige us to comply with those laws as well? Do you love the Lord to study the ordinances He set as eternal? Have you found the Word by familiarizing with its healthy fear of God to which God Himself referred to in giving the commandments of His covenant, urging them to teach them to future generations? You have already experienced why the fear of the Lord in Proverbs is combined with the beginning of wisdom and the source of life to avoid the snares of death (Proverbs 9:10, 14:27).

“Especially concerning the day you stood before the Lord your God in Horeb, when the Lord said to me, 'Gather the people to Me, and I will let them hear My words, that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.’“

Deuteronomy 4:10 (NKJV)

The most significant change in the New Covenant, however, was that with the New Covenant we got the grace of Jesus' perfection and the work of the crucifixion to fill our own shortcomings in the attainment of righteousness. Nevertheless, this did not mean that we could in future live without the attempt to learn the will announced by God in His Word and follow, among others, the ordinances set as eternal in our lives. With the New Covenant, we truly had the grace to be saved by faith in Jesus alone, as long as we followed His example and were willing to circumcise our hearts at the pace shown by the Holy Spirit in accordance with God’s will.

Following the steps of the generations of Israel after the liberation from Egypt, God found the people quite incapable of passing on the covenant instructions from one generation to another and living according to them. In the New Covenant, the Lord Himself wanted to take overall responsibility for the teaching of the circumcision of the individual's heart through His Holy Spirit. Every reborn believer knows what this means. If only for a holy day set as a covenant between the believer and God, one devotes time once a week to God in search of His will in His Word, one has certainly at some point experienced the teaching of the Lord mentioned above. In an amazing way, the Spirit himself begins to teach the texts of the Bible to a human being and step by step to increase obedience. Naturally, this does not mean that the Lord has not yet left a particular task to the teaching proclaimed from the mouth of a human being.

So who are meant by the Israeli, whom God in the New Covenant gives an opportunity to be grafted into God’s noble olive tree?

Israeli refers to all people in the world who have found faith in God’s only Son, Jesus Christ (in Hebrew Yeshua HaMashiach), accept him into their lives as Saviour, and begin to follow Him.

Since over the centuries, some strange doctrines have been proclaimed that only members of a certain congregation would be saved or that Jews should convert to Christianity, prioritizing the customs created during the ancient Roman Empire over the celebrations in the Scriptures, it may be worth repeating Paul's teaching about God's noble olive tree.

As Paul writes in his Epistle to the Romans, the disbelief among ancient Judah and the exile of the people of Judah soon after that marked the beginning of an age of grace for the gentiles. Right at the same time, however, Paul immediately warned the surrounding gentiles not to take pride in the mercy they had received at the expense of the stumbling of the chosen people.

Paul compared the descendants of Abraham’s descendants belonging God’s chosen people into a noble olive tree that God alone decides to care for. Paul, already then, reminded the gentiles at that time that the root of the tree would never change. The tree would be the same even if God had to cut off the members of the chosen people who had drifted into disbelief from there and, in the age of grace, would also graft there branches of a wild forest oil tree, referring to the gentiles.

“For if the firstfruit is holy, the lump is also holy; and if the root is holy, so are the branches. And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree, do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you. You will say then, "Branches were broken off that I might be grafted in." Well said. Because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be haughty, but fear. For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either. Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise you also will be cut off. And they also, if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, who are natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?”

Romans 11:16-24 (NKJV)

But what can we say to have happened according to the history books, despite the warnings!

From the books of history we can read about the anti-Semitism toward Jews by Emperor Constantine in the 300s and its influence on the decision-making of the first ecclesiastical assemblies. In addition to the hatred to the Jews, the decision-making of Emperor Constantine was also influenced by the cost of worship of idols, which had long influenced the Roman Empire at that time. Thus, because of his own worldview, Emperor Constantine did not want to put things in the Scriptures into practice as they were written in the Word. In order to more easily incorporate Christianity into the religions that influenced the Roman Empire, through the First Synod, he established for him and his contemporaries a better nationwide version of the message of the Bible.

The content of the First Synod was thus influenced mainly by a human being who was not a scholar of the Scriptures and who showed genuine hatred towards the representatives of God's chosen people. Constantine, for example, was unaware that God had set the feast days of the Lord in His Word as His eternal ordinances to remind all future generations of the preconceived stages of His global plan of salvation (through which, among other things, the probable time of the year at Lord's return can be deduced, although the year and exact timing can never be known). Thus, instead of knowing the scriptures of the Bible, Constantine made decisions on the basis of the earthly prestige available to him, e.g. marking the feasts of the Lord as feasts for the Jews only and partially replacing them with practices influenced by the idolatry rituals of the Roman Empire. Fortunately, Easter was allowed to maintain its existence although many elements of practices related to the worship of the god of fertility have been mixed with current practices.

By considering objective analysis more important than the traditional doctrines of culture that have been passed down from one generation to the next, it can be said that something changed with the original message with Constantine. Nor do you have to read the Bible very widely when you can get an idea of God’s point of view.

It is humanly understandable that these human teachings of Constantine in those centuries of dictatorship spread in that form because the common people did not have the opportunity to own their own Bible and in any way try what they had heard from the pulpit. However, God oversaw the whole and sent individual reformers to restore practices that had become increasingly distant from the Word of the Bible. No wonder, for example, Martin Luther was commissioned to declare repentance for the indulgence trade. After all, that man-born doctrine seriously offended the glory of His Son's crucifixion.

In the middle of everything, however, a lesser informed matter shall be remembered. God had already foretold that He would allow such deceptive heresies to come as part of the deportation punishments that followed the infidelity of a part of the chosen people. Ezekiel 20 describes wonderfully past periods of apostasy from the people of Israel. I urge elders, as part of the ordeal of the Lord's call to be proclaimed, to pray through the Spirit throughout the 20th chapter of Ezekiel and its connection to why this call of the Lord can be answered without feeling ashamed of the heresies that have influenced for centuries. One can take comfort in the opening of the eyes to the number of delusions and the existence of centuries by the fact that nothing in this world has happened without the permission of the Lord and without His prior notice. As part of the punishment for repeated missteps by the ancient people of Israel, God announced already through ancient prophets that as part of his dissolution, he would take away the Sabbath, the joy of service with its feast days, and allow new misleading commandments and rights to spread among the people.

“I will also cause all her mirth to cease, Her feast days, Her New Moons, Her Sabbaths-- All her appointed feasts.”

Hosea 2:11 (NKJV)

“Also I raised My hand in an oath to those in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the Gentiles and disperse them throughout the countries, because they had not executed My judgments, but had despised My statutes, profaned My Sabbaths, and their eyes were fixed on their fathers' idols. Therefore I also gave them up to statutes that were not good, and judgments by which they could not live; ”

Ezekiel 20:23-25 (NKJV)

Ezekiel 20:33-38 (NKJV)

“And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God from the beginning chose you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth”

2. Thessalonians 2:11-13 (NKJV)

Now, however, we are in a time of gospel when God, through His messengers, declares that the time of that predestined punishment has come to an end. The Lord declares His mercy to ancient Israel. He is ready to renew his covenant among the Christian congregations that have taken missteps, each of which, in one way or another, bears the punishment imposed on ancient Ephraim. The Lord is ready to restore the feasts and the joy of His service to all the congregations. The Lord now asks, who is willing to humble oneself and admit the taken missteps? Who is ready to accept the invitation to return to the original covenant with Him (as it is already written to be happened in the end of time)?

However, special attention must be paid by the Christian congregations to the aspect of this beginning of the age that God allowed the things set as eternal to change only among the expelled part of the Christian congregations with whom God had broken the (marriage) covenant by separation (among the gentiles, the northern tribes of ancient Israel, who had already been expelled from the Jews). It is no wonder, then, that the Sabbath, set as an eternal sign of covenant between God and His own, changed with both Constantine and later decision-makers, both when it comes to the day and practice (as the Lord announced for this to happen spiritually fornicated people in Hos. 2:11). Similarly, it is logical that the Sabbath, which serves as a sign of the covenant, has remained unchanged for millennia among the representatives of the ancient southern people, the Jews, since the habits that Jesus followed.

It is also important to remember that God does not hold people accountable if they have not even had the opportunity to receive the right teaching and knowledge. Even in past centuries, when the Lord had turned His face to a part of the people descended from Jacob through a letter of separation and the Lord allowed the proclamation of the Truth to take heresy for a predetermined period, grace still existed over those nations throughout the centuries. As promised in the New Covenant, those who have received Jesus into their hearts and sought Him from the Word have always been able to partake of the seal and salvation of the Holy Spirit. It is easy to understand when one remembers that the grace available to an individual through faith is not tied to any single earthly congregation connection. The congregation connection, on the other hand, plays an important role in finding, strengthening, and competing in faith to succeed to the finish and the promised victory prize. (cf. the symbolic manifestation of the matter also in the donkey parable of the gospel as the release of both the mare and the foal from the yoke: when the foal associated with the return to Jesus is born, the mother of the foal is also released with it from the yoke).

Given the things revealed in God's Word about the significance of the Lord's feasts for the Lord's, own, one can better understand other missteps that God allows for Christian congregations for a period of time. It is no coincidence that the feast of the Lord, the foundation of all grace already realized during the first coming of Jesus, for the global plan of salvation; the Easter, already was allowed to remain existing. Instead, it is understandable that for the people to whom the letter of separation was given as a sign of the dissolution of the covenant, the Lord allowed the Feast of Tabernacles, reminiscent of his birth and forthcoming return, to become an unbiblical way and time to celebrate the birth of Jesus. Those familiar with the Scriptures will understand that this also meant drifting away from a celebration that has its own important significance in waiting for the return of the Lord and celebrating the associated hope that is part of God’s global plan of salvation.

As for many elders, the stumbling blocks will be the same as in ancient Judah time (pride, fear of shame and loss of status), the Lord reminds everyone of His power and promise in this matter as encouragement and consolation. This call of the Lord is not a threat to Christian congregations but an opportunity. In accordance with the verse in the book of Ezekiel quoted above, the Lord alone provided for the covering of the eyes of people and nations among both the Jews (the 1st coming of Jesus) and the present Christian congregations (the fermentations of Constantine & and their dismantling before the 2nd coming of the Lord). The Lord reminds us that no one should therefore be ashamed to feel these heresies, which have been fed mainly by national cultures for centuries. This was provided to happen for a time period.

Instead of shame, it should be gratifying that the Lord has now announced that the age of significant mercy has begun, when the Lord is ready to remove the coverings from the dispersed Christian congregations and to call everyone back to the original covenant, original obedience, and related blessings. Shame will eventually be felt in this age only by those who regard man-made traditional rules so much more important than the message of the Lord, brought by God's messenger, so that they will not even try it in the Spirit (cf. Thessalonians' description of loving injustice more than the Word of God, quoted above).

“"For I am the Lord, I do not change; Therefore you are not consumed, O sons of Jacob. Yet from the days of your fathers You have gone away from My ordinances And have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you," Says the Lord of hosts. "But you said, 'In what way shall we return?' ”

Malachi 3:6-7 (NKJV)

THE LORD IS CALLING CHRISTIAN CONGREGATIONS TO RETURN TO A COVENANT WITH HIM

By raising the pennant and playing the trumpet, God is now calling all Christian congregations around the world to return to their original apostolic roots and renew their covenants with Him. An era has begun in which He will have mercy and betroth on the ancient people of the north, as it is written.

Congregations do not need to be united. Congregations do not have to be abolished and new ones do not have to be established. Instead, each pre-existing Christian congregation must consider for itself whether it will turn its gaze to the pennant, whether it will listen to the sound of the trumpet, and whether it will respond to the call.

That is why the Lord has already done what He has done. This time, He did not prepare an individual Reformer to re-create new ecclesiastical doctrines or trends. Instead, God, through His own Spirit, has awakened believers in various congregations around the world to understand the same things that have deviated from God’s will over the centuries. Again, this is a matter which the Lord foretold in His Word to happen in this age:

The greatest obstacle to the conversion of the Lord's will in the congregations is probably the same to which a large number of the priests, rabbis, and Pharisees of the people of Judah stumbled. Is God more important than status, pleasing people, political and other relationships, feeling humbled in admitting that teaching has taken missteps in the passage of time from the Truth, a man-made bureaucratically intractable process, or some other obstacle? Is anything else more important than Jesus’ instruction to love the Lord, your God above all else?

THE STRATEGIC WORK OF EVERY CHRISTIAN CONGREGATION SHOULD NOW HAVE ONE AND THE SAME OBJECTIVE - RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL COVENANT WITH THE LORD

I know that many Christian congregations are doing strategy work again for years to come. Based on the Lord's numerous confirmations, I can assure you that no Christian congregation has been assigned more than one strategy for success in the years to come. The Lord is the head of all Christian congregations and He has prepared a workable strategy. Where His call is answered, the promise of the faithful of the book of Malachi will soon be enjoyed:

“"Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed Me! But you say, 'In what way have we robbed You?' In tithes and offerings. You are cursed with a curse, For you have robbed Me, Even this whole nation. Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, That there may be food in My house, And try Me now in this," Says the Lord of hosts, "If I will not open for you the windows of heaven And pour out for you such blessing That there will not be room enough to receive it. "And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, So that he will not destroy the fruit of your ground, Nor shall the vine fail to bear fruit for you in the field," Says the Lord of hosts; "And all nations will call you blessed, For you will be a delightful land," Says the Lord of hosts.”

Malachi 3:8-12 (NKJV)

Do you see a connection between the previous verse of Malachi and the previously quoted verse on the vines of Isaiah?

Next, I will write about the concrete first steps that the Lord individually has confirmed to me in this passage to be written as part of responding to the invitation.

CONCRETE FIRST STEPS GIVEN BY THE LORD

1 – TRY THE MESSAGE

Dear elders of the congregations receive my message from the Lord delivered under my mantle of the Prophet and begin to try it in the Spirit. Please do choose to try the message servants of the Lord who have experienced rebirth and who know the workings of the Holy Spirit, otherwise trying in the Spirit does not do its thing. Any member of the elders who proclaims the transformation of the Lord over millennia or the transformation of things mentioned in the Bible as sin into things favourable to God as the ages progress, is inappropriate to try the message. So be careful who you choose to try the message.

In those congregations where the message is tried and the Spirit confirms it, but the lay members decide about the doctrinal things: there may be a need for elders to first preach and teach the doctrinal bodies a comprehensive understanding of the Spirit's work and the need to put the Lord's Word in front of the ear scabies that follows the market economy at the expense of the Word. First then comes giving teaching to other congregation members, for example, by taking the next concrete step in the Lord's call to restore the Sabbath.

CONCRETE FIRST STEPS GIVEN BY THE LORD

2 - RESETTING THE SABBATH, THE SIGN OF THE COVENANT

Bring, alongside current practices, the opportunity to gather during the original Sabbath time and its manner (Friday evening to Saturday evening).

Old traditional rule practices do not need to be abolished immediately. Let no one condemn the parishioners who, according to old practices, celebrate the holy day. Let no one also condemn those who have already responded or will respond to the Lord's call to return to original obedience. Remember that the Holy Spirit of the Lord is responsible for the timeline for each believer to write God’s will in the heart through studying the Word and prayer. We cannot demand anything more from anyone.

The Lord Himself, indeed, will testify through His Spirit which habit He prefers only if the original apostolic habit, accordingly to the Lords message, was brought to the congregation. I refer above to the revelation I received from the Lord that in the coming rain from Him miracles (creative miracles, healings of the sick, deliverance from demons, etc.) will occur in abundance precisely where apostolic customs and obedience to the congregation are restored by the means of the sign of the covenant, the Sabbath. Notice the connection of revelation to the Word. Many of the miracles Jesus performed took place just on the Sabbath.

I cannot think of any other reason other than the anti-Semitism that still remains since the time of Constantine in that even the mere mention of the word Sabbath seems to be a “red garment” for some congregations. The thing set for God’s eternal ordinance never changed from concerning all those grafted into the noble olive tree of God.

The Sabbath is not a trivial matter to the Lord. Remember that the Lord set the Sabbath as a sign of the covenant, and in many places in the Word it can be read about the significance of the matter as a sign of obedience to the Lord and, on the other hand, curses as the cause of the Sabbath-breaking. At no point did the New Testament change that sacred rule for the Lord. Jesus’ command not to condemn different practices did not mean that whatever human decision is readable by the Lord’s will in the future. The follower of Jesus had to strive to follow the example of Jesus, from which one can deviate in favour of a weaker in faith, if necessary in individual situations in the name of love.

Let us repeat the basic idea of what this era means according to the Word.

We have moved to an age when God will have mercy on the remnant of Israel who received the ancient letter of separation. In the end, it seems quite understandable that the Lord, naturally, in this engagement of the descendants of Israel to his bride, as the first thing, calls for the return of the matter given as a sign of the covenant to those who have been pardoned. Again, we can see how God in His holiness implements the law Himself, even though none of the people can fully fulfil it.

My sister in faith described the matter finely and pragmatically by looking at it with the help of a parable given by the Lord Himself. After all, marriage between a man and a woman is in many ways recognizable from the Word of the Bible as a symbol of the relationship between the Lord and His bridal congregation. It is understandable that biblical marriage is therefore also quite holy to the Lord. As the Lord’s return and the expected wedding feast approach, it is natural for the bride to be beautified for the wedding feast (cf. the exhortation of Christian congregations to purify their doctrines and return to original obedience in the era that has begun). From this perspective, the Sabbath can be thought of as a regular meeting day between the Lord and his fiancé. If the bride arrives to meet the future bridegroom each time on a different day than the terms of the covenant have agreed, it is understandable that the promise of the covenant will stand alone because of the Lord's forbearance and grace. This perspective is good to take into account when considering in the congregations how encounters between the Lord and people and the testimonies of the Holy Spirit about the living God could be increased.

To see the miracles of the Spirit on Sabbaths in the congregations, however, make sure that the work of service in Sabbath gatherings is performed by reborn servants who are faithful to the Word of the Lord. It is useless to accuse the Spirit for fleeing a place and the absence of miracles and signs from congregation life if persons who declare things defined as sin in God’s will to be allowed to people in modern times are called to represent God. Our God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, Yahweh (YHWH), is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

If your congregation has a part of a wild ass foal made by God at this time, give them the floor. For this purpose, God has, hundreds of them even in Finland, if not thousands, already sown in the various congregations. If there is no part of the wild donkey foal in your congregation, you can contact e.g. Hoshiana Mission in the transition to take the first steps.

I will publish an even more separate article on the possibilities of spending the Sabbath for the congregations as more practical guidance in order to get started. As a hint, however, let it already be revealed at this stage that although the Lord is an orderly God, the Lord did not set formulas to bind the various activities of the Spirit on the appointed holy day, the Sabbath. Imagine new joyful gatherings where Jesus' examples of the purpose of the Sabbath are fulfilled: diaconal family connection, interactive Bible study, breaking bread & wine as a memorial meal, joyful & Spirit-present praise & thanksgiving, opportunity for people to meet God through the testimonies of the Spirit (e.g. prayer service).

A very important part of restoring the Sabbath is also to return to the congregations a teaching, to the members of the congregations, about what the families' own responsibility is for the Sabbath, in addition to the things they receive through the congregation connection. In addition to receiving the teachings of the Word on the Sabbath, encounters with the Lord through the work of the Holy Spirit, and a loving and caring congregational family connection, the Sabbath has also its significance for the family well-being and blessings. In addition to taking care of passing on the knowledge of the Word to their children, at least on the holy days, in order to increase their knowledge of our Heavenly Father and His Son, families should gather in one way or another to thank and praise the Creator for the good things in life by being together.

The Lord's desire to restore joy and happiness to His service therefore applies not only to the churches but also to the believers' own acts of faith and family connections. Where Christian congregations have had the joy of taking the gospel of Jesus to as yet unknown Jewish brothers and sisters (reference to Jews and Christians as daughters of Jerusalem), in the beginning of the era should Christian congregations and Christian families reciprocally learn from the Messianic Jews about the service of the Lord with joy and according to the Word, by celebrating the Sabbath and the feasts of the Lord. The Lord's invitation to return to the original covenant with Him means the period of the Reformation before the Lord's return, in which the Lord, through His invitation and the associated sieve, will sweep away e.g. the heresies that came into the life of faith and the doctrines with Constantine.

It is worth noticing that even Jews have been framed by their own age-old tradition on the Lord's Word, but ways to spend the Sabbath and the Lord's feast are still based on the times and habits of the Word. However, unlike Christians, most of the ways that emerged as the traditional rules of the Jews have a biblical basis and they beautifully only deepen the instructions of the Scriptures.

In the service of the Lord, especially on the weekly Sabbath, the call from the Lord to serve Him with joy should be visible. As a good example for families, I have conveyed a music video related to Joshua Aaron's wish for a peaceful and happy Sabbath from the desired atmosphere of Friday night:

https://youtu.be/IIwCDYWOEQ4

Since the stigmatization of the Lord's feasts and Sabbaths to be habits belonging only to the Jews, which has been influential since the days of Constantine, is still strongly influenced in many Christian congregations that have exerted since Constantine's synod, I repeat once again that the restoration of apostolic habits to the Christian congregations is not a matter of conversion to Judaism but of a necessary predestination by the Lord to the original obedience to the Word before the return of the Lord.

“And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, "Speak also to the children of Israel, saying: 'Surely My Sabbaths you shall keep, for it is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am the Lord who sanctifies you. You shall keep the Sabbath, therefore, for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work on it, that person shall be cut off from among his people. Work shall be done for six days, but the seventh is the Sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death. Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant. It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.' ”

Exodus 31:12-17 (NKJV)

The Sabbath was instituted as an eternal covenant between the Lord and the Israeli. With the New Covenant, Jesus again only supplemented the Sabbath guidance. Jesus did not change the time of the day consecrated to God to another. I will not go into this in more detail here, but let me mention, noticing all the possible readers that even the death penalty was not abolished by the New Covenant, even though life is no longer intended to be deprived with the death penalty. The constant neglect of the Sabbath, on the other hand, will inevitably eventually lead to spiritual death, which in turn will have its own consequences in the post-bodily period as well. The death penalty is a good example of what kind of change the Word refers to, for example, the transformation of the law into the law of the Spirit. The death penalty itself did not disappear either, although instead of a carnal death, eternal ordinance changed with the New Covenant to concern spiritual death that means, to be separated from God and the salvation available through Jesus.

CONCRETE FIRST STEPS GIVEN BY THE LORD

3 - RESTORATION OF THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES

Alongside Christmas, which was born as a tradition of the people, restore the biblical way to celebrate the birth of the Lord and the anticipation of His return, as God ordained as eternal in His Word to all who are grafted into His noble olive tree. In fact, nowhere in the Bible is there even a request to celebrate the birth of Jesus, but by studying the Word, one can understand that God has set the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot) to be eternal during the celebration of the Lord's coming to Earth. Those who already understand the cyclicality of God's plan of salvation know that it is no coincidence that the Lord was born on Earth for the first time during that autumn feast, and, on the other hand, it is celebrated annually as a prelude to the wedding feast of the return of the Lord (+ in addition to the former, as a memorial service in connection with historical events).

As with the Sabbath, the old practices of traditional rules do not need to be abolished immediately. Let no one begin to condemn the congregation members who will continue to celebrate Christmas in honour of the birth of Jesus. Let no one begin to condemn those congregation members who have already been called by the Lord through His Spirit to change as part of the restoration belonging to the age. Remember that the Holy Spirit of the Lord is responsible for the timeline for writing His will to each heart. However, the Spirit cannot do his work in those congregations that do not respond to the Lord's call and do not even allow believers to return to the original practices indicated by the Word.

Just as with Easter, God in His command to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles had both historical and future significance. On the one hand, God wanted to set it up as a celebration set from generation to another to commemorate the past with joy (things set to be remembered after the liberation from Egypt). On the other hand, He wanted the Feast of Tabernacles to be celebrated as an eternal ordinance as a reminder of things still to be promised as part of God’s global plan of salvation.

In contrast to Easter, the event of the Feast of Tabernacles concerning the Global Salvation Plan has not yet taken place. It has been right also in the past centuries to sing in the Christian congregations about the anticipation of making it to the Lord’s wedding meal. The misstep, however, has been that a human being, who did not know the significance of the feasts instituted by the Lord, was allowed to remove the God's eternal ordinance reminiscent of the Lord's return and the expected wedding meal from those following Jesus. It is no coincidence that God set the celebration of the birth of His only Son for that feast. And it is no coincidence that for the Second Coming of His Son, He wanted to prepare His elect in the form of that feast of joy year after year for the return of His Son to Earth. Do you again recognize the exact planning of the Lord in the parallels of the first and second coming of the Lord. I myself agree with the well-known notion of the Scriptures that one year, when God's elect in festive costumes and multi-day parades have gathered, our Savior will also return in the middle of the Feast of Tabernacles. After all, Jesus himself gave that little hint in response to his brethren going to the Feast of Tabernacles:

“Then Jesus said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready. The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I testify of it that its works are evil. You go up to this feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, for My time has not yet fully come."

John. 7:6-8 (NKJV)

The Lord is now calling the Christian congregations, all of which are more or less influenced by the teachings of the ancient emperor Constantine, to give their congregation members the opportunity to be among those who are already ready for the joyful celebration on the coming day of the Lord's return, according to the Lord’s wish.

The significance of the Feast of Tabernacles for the Lord can also be seen in many eschatological verses of the Word. It is no wonder, then, that the Lord commanded it to be included as part of His call in this beginning of the age.

CONCRETE FIRST STEPS GIVEN BY THE LORD

4- REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY

If your congregation is one of those congregations where the Israel mentioned in the Word is preached only to mean present-day Christians or that only our congregation members or denomination will go to heaven, the time has come to shake off all such leavening. The time has come when the elders of the congregations must understand Paul’s description of God’s noble olive tree and the message of Ezekiel 37. A time has begun when the elders of the congregations must understand that the root of God’s noble olive tree remains unchanged in the promise made to Abraham by the blessing of His descendants and the strangers who joined them.

Let us still repeat that although God once expelled ancient Judah and Ephraim (Israel) from the Promised Land, God never dismantled the special status of those peoples in His global plan of salvation. God also described very early on how, as part of the plan of salvation, the gentiles will have the opportunity to join those nations (and not the other way around).

In the wake of the anti-Semitism of ancient Constantine, many churches have modified the message of the Bible so that the church congregations would form a new Israel and even the Jews would have to join them for salvation. To be saved, the Jews only need to receive the Lord Jesus into their hearts as their Saviour, nothing more. As stated earlier in the text, God allowed these missteps of the leavening of compensatory theology as a pre-written part of punishment as well as because the current Christian congregations would not be able to boast alongside Jewish sisters and brothers. The Spirit should give an understanding of the matter to see God's equal treatment of the daughters of Jerusalem. As much as Christian congregations have criticized Jewish habits, some of which are their own cultural heritage rules created on top of Biblical Word practices, in this age the eyes of Christian congregations receiving the Lord's invitation will be open to their own man-made traditional rules affecting for centuries that have seriously diverged from the Word of the Bible.

Thus, neither of the daughters of Jerusalem (Judah & Israel) will be able to boast on the journey including flounders when the Lord returns. However, with both remnants, a large number of believers from gentile nations will also return (this is especially well shown in Ezek. 37). Thus, genetic inheritance still does not matter in terms of acceptance of faith. Instead, genes matter as to how God will use these descendants of the ancient people of Israel in each way to implement the global plan of salvation in different ages.

CONCRETE FIRST STEPS GIVEN BY THE LORD

5- STOPPING THE PREACHING OF SUPER GRACE

If your congregation preaches the departure of God’s law with the New Covenant and super grace, in which God forgives anything without any requirement to even try to become acquainted with and obey God’s will through the Word, it is time to shake off the teaching of that leaven.

Grace and salvation are truly available to all, but the grace of the Jesus’ cross work should not be mocked. It is scary to listen to and see how half of Jesus’ own words about His suffering and grace coming through the crucifixion have very often been cut off in sermons, thereby also leaving people in false assurance of salvation. Jesus himself said after he rose from the dead and appeared to his disciples:

“Then He said to them, "Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. ”

Luke 24:46-47 (NKJV)

The former is a very different matter from preaching: all sins so far are forgiven, continue the same way as before!

Of the sins, only the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is mentioned as a sin that cannot be forgiven, not even by the grace enabled by the crucifixion of Jesus. Numerous other verses from the Bible testify how other sins can be forgiven, but the condition is a desire to repentance. Preaching super grace shockingly decries the crucifixion of Jesus.

The starting point for the manifestation of God’s power in the congregations is to preach the grace that will come through the suffering and death of His Son as Jesus Himself has commanded. The elders should be able to give people the right hope of God appearing in people’s lives by teaching guidelines for living according to God’s will. The elders should be able to tell what sin is in God’s eyes according to His word and what is not. The elders should be able to teach parishioners how important part studying the Word of the Bible is to the life of a believer, even then once a week on the holy day as set as eternal ordinance. The elders should be able to teach that if only obedience to God is sought and He is sought in the Word, He will at some point surely give His Spirit in support of the change in repentance. The elders should be able to teach how God does not require one-time success in change or one-time learning of His will, but it is about a step-by-step growth process in the life of an obedient believer. The elders should be able to teach congregation members that if only they try to get to know God by becoming acquainted with the Word, the Holy Spirit will undergo a circumcision of the heart at each of their own pace, enriching them with miracles and signs.

It is not in vain the Word calls the journey to the saving faith a competition, and gives an example of foolish and wise virgins. In this regard, as part of Friday or Saturday Sabbath gatherings, begin to teach the congregation members what it really means to follow Jesus (including Jesus' obedience to the Father's will + Jesus' instruction to follow His example).

The neglected need for preaching repentance and the ignorance of God’s will expressed by God’s Word has led to a worrying and sad increase in self-righteousness among people. As the importance of studying the Word is not taught, neither the character and the will of God can be known, nor the Holy Spirit can speak to people through the Word. Many drift into life in constant sin and even try to buy righteousness in the eyes of God with monetary gifts. In practice, money is used to try to do good deeds by buying a good conscience to atone for sins that are not even attempted to repent, even if they may be known as sins at heart. The elders should have the courage to teach that no matter how good the deeds made possible by money are abundant elsewhere, or even if millions are handed over to the churches, sowing lies, hatred, deception, and injustice at the same time one is likely to be left out of saving faith. And it is not always just a matter of the person himself, but in the worst case, a person, unknowingly, still leaves to their posterity the burden of sin that followed from sin, with its curses. Especially in these past decades of prosperity permitted by God, there would have been a need to teach what Jesus meant by his parable of the camel going out of the eye of a needle. How many souls have been left without salvation because no one has dared to preach about the need to repent and the insignificance of money in circumcision of the heart. Grace is available to all, but how many are finally, for receiving the grace, ready to give their hearts to the Lord to be shaped by the humility to seek God’s will and to genuinely attempt to live obediently to God’s Word. While faith alone saves, faith without deeds (according to God’s will) can be dead and leave people in false assurance of salvation. Indeed, in ancient times, the apostles even gave a rich man the opportunity to preach the Truth boldly:

“But Peter said to him, "Your money perish with you, because you thought that the gift of God could be purchased with money! You have neither part nor portion in this matter, for your heart is not right in the sight of God. Repent therefore of this your wickedness, and pray God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you. For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and bound by iniquity."”

Acts 8:20-23 (NKJV)

So shake your congregation out of rebellion by revealing God’s will to enable people to repent to be forgiven of their sins.

Also shake your congregation out of rebellion against the word law. After all, it is only a matter of God’s loving instructions that show the purpose of righteousness. Thank God that He gave His only begotten Son so that no believer would perish, even if they were only at the beginning of their efforts to follow Jesus' example in doing God's will. However, everyone should have the opportunity, according to Jesus' command, to know the will of His Father and the opportunity to repent so that the grace of the crucifixion may be the atonement for all sins. God does not require much of us. There should be a desire in the heart, even once a week, on a day set by God, to seek God and His will in the Word. God has promised to receive everyone who seeks Him (Luke 11: 5-13). Many accuse God for not answering prayers and lacking miracles and signs, but how many have first tried to find God in the Word as the Word teaches.

WHAT AFTER THE FIRST STEPS

The previous First Steps announced by the Lord are the starting points on which everything is based. If you are faithful when it comes to the teaching of the need to restore the Sabbath and repent as part of the forgiving of sins, the Holy Spirit, as part of His duties, will do other work in hearts and congregations.

Furthermore, for the sake of certainty, it should be noted that the beginning of this age does not mean that the Lord will immediately gather the remnant of Israel into present-day Israel. However, in the Spirit, I urge you to carefully consider the description of riding a donkey during the Easter time. There is a stage going on when the apostles prepared by God around the world will release that donkey mare and donkey foal and thus pave the way for the Lord. However, the Lord asked us to remind you not to fall asleep under the interpretation that the whole restoration would take place only after His return. He is already ahead of us all the time, as it is written. We know that the details of biblical parables and events have amazingly accurate meanings. In connection with the approach of the return of the Lord, it is worth considering what guidelines could be inferred from the fact that in the Easter tableau the donkey's head first enters the gates of Jerusalem (supporting the view of other places in the Word). Indeed, it has been established in my heart through many prayers and revelations of the Lord that, as with the Jews, the remnant of Israel, with its associated gentiles, will already begin its return to the Promised Land before the return of the Lord. At some point in the middle of that process, one year during the Feast of Tabernacles, the Lord will return to the Mount of Olives as written. It is worth noting that according to the information I have received from the tribes of the ancient northern people, the descendants of the Manasseh tribe have already returned from India, so that interpretation of the partial return of the remnant of Israel to Israel before the Lord's return has already begun to happen.

“"I will surely assemble all of you, O Jacob, I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together like sheep of the fold, Like a flock in the midst of their pasture; They shall make a loud noise because of so many people. The one who breaks open will come up before them; They will break out, Pass through the gate, And go out by it; Their king will pass before them, With the Lord at their head."”

Micah 2:12-13 (NKJV)

STILL A SPECIAL WARNING TO THE ELDERS OF THE FINNISH CONGREGATIONS

Although we Finns have a reason to rejoice for the independent land we have received through the miracles of God, and for its beautiful meaningful form, there is no more room for pride and spiritual blindness. In my autumn article on the website, I described last summer in connection with a message I received from the Lord, how the people of Finland, the leadership of the country and the people's church have slipped into a state of serious apostasy over the past decades. Although, on top of that, we still shine at number one in international headlines in terms of worldly standards, the state of our nation, by the standards of God’s trial, actually corresponds to the state that already led to the punishments of the ancient northern state of Israel.

While the outer shell is largely made to shine in the headlines of media guided by the power of money, there are many things beneath the surface that are partly visible and partly very skilfully hidden to elevate the wrath of the Lord. This is how it was in the time of ancient Ephraim. When the apostasy goes far enough, not even the grievances are brought up anymore, but they are skilfully tried to hide (media game, censorship, etc.). Since my writing last autumn, the amount of apostasy just seems to have progressed even in our beloved homeland. After all, God follows especially the realization of righteousness and justice in the nation.

So I have been instructed by the Lord to put those dimensions of Ephraim's apostasy into another very precise concrete writing, after which it should be unclear for none as to why punishments can soon be seen to come if repentance is not made even after the last exhortation. I must proclaim that message with as heavy a heart as Elijah and Amos did during the time of Ephraim. God, as mentioned in the book of Isaiah, has already put on his armour of vengeance. However, he waits until the last, but the time for repentance in Finland is really running out.

In my writing in autumn 2020, I warned about how the punishments of the 1980s Stockholm prophecy are already around the corner. What is interesting, then, is that, based on the news I have recently seen, the Lord is already raising the whip of punishment on our eastern border for next autumn in the form of an unprecedented scale military exercise by our eastern neighbour. But as in the days of Ephraim, though God raises his prophet to warn and exhort repentance, the people with ears will not hear, nor will the people with eyes see. As during the apostasy of Ephraim, the spiritual blindness of the people will eventually lead to shakings of the nation.

The only good thing about the situation in Finland is that the Lord has spoken to me and confirmed to me what will happen in Finland in the following next years is great for arousing the knowledge of God and the fear of God and reverence for God among other gentiles. Do you see the connection again to the time of Ephraim. Before the shakings came upon Ephraim, the nations beside them were instructed to observe the events in order to learn about the dominion of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in this world.

In practice, the alternatives for Finland now are for the nation's leadership to wake up in the last time given to repentance and, as in the war years, to declare to the people the need for repentance, return to their knees and cry out the Lord for help. Of course, as in our struggle for independence, God would respond to prayers and cry with abundant nation blessing again. It must be remembered that in the cause of God in the terms of the state of the nation is by no means only the leadership of the nation, but the leaders of all the congregations in terms of righteousness.

Another option is a path without repentance and turning to God. It is the path of the tear valley of Agar with its shaking, which God, in the middle of the weeping of the nation, turns to salvation for many, while restoring the nation to its original healthy fear of God. I believe that Ýou too have a hunch which path in the light of the history of the nations is more probable.

So it may really happen that the Maiden of Finland is not allowed to maintain her beautiful form only as the nation's apostasy progresses. I can only say, like the Old Testament prophets, that MAYBE God will still change His judgments if we repent at the last moments at the nation's leadership and the congregations rejoice the Lord by responding to His call.

Even if the judgments come, there is always a comforting side due to God's way of doing things. Although our country could no longer celebrate as the bridal congregation, the sign of which was given to us the form of our country, those who have been screened among the nations responding God’s call, will come to celebrate as a bride.

SUMMARY and ENCOURAGEMENT

We have arrived at a special period predestined by the Lord at the end of the grace period. At the same time, however, the call contained in the gospel signifies an age of screening in which the Lord will exercise the justice with His people who have drifted into apostasy. Receive this message of mine from the Lord and try it. Remember that only the Truth revealed by His Word is valid for God as defence in justice. Do not go in front of the Almighty with the human doctrine for which there is no basis in the Bible. Do not go in front of the Almighty, succumbing to the things that Peter warned about:

“knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, and saying, "Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation." For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water, by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water. But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. ”

2. Peter 3:3-7 (NKJV)

“and consider that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation--as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you, as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures. You therefore, beloved, since you know this beforehand, beware lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being led away with the error of the wicked; but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.”

2. Peter 3:15-18 (NKJV)

Those who are willing to humble themselves in front of the Lord to admit the missteps of our ancestors affecting our cultures and teachings and thus passing back under His wand, He will restore to His protective covenant. Rebellious and human doctrines, as well as human desires that are made more important than His Word, He will separate from the crowd at the end of this age. (Ezek. 20: 33-41)

Thus, be bold shepherds and respond to the Lord's call to return to the original covenant and purify your doctrine to apostolic obedience to the Lord's Word.

The Lord will be with you mightily in change through His Spirit and guide you forward only if you show through the first steps that you receive the call in your congregations.

“And blessed is he who is not offended because of Me."

Matthew 11:6 (NKJV)

With blessings and praying the strength and courage of the Spirit of the Lord in your work,

Leora

Additional material:

As an interesting additional material regarding the significance of the Easter and the Feast of the Lord, I will include a link to the recent TV7 program series Kaksi Pääsiäistä (Two Easters). The program series deals nicely with Easter from both Old Testament and New Testament perspectives. I still remind you that while the series reveals the celebration of the holy day postponed in the footsteps of Constantine to the supposed resurrection day of Jesus, it does not remove the Lord's revelation to celebrate the holy day at the time appointed by the Lord. Of course, the Day of Resurrection is also important, and as the series finely points out, the hint given by the Lord about the resurrection on Sunday was already visible in the Old Testament. However, even in the Old Testament, that day was to be celebrated in addition to the Sabbath, and nowhere in Word can be found the permission to replace the day set as a sign of the covenant entirely with that other day.

https://www.tv7.fi/arkki/kaksi-paasiaista/osa-1-3-uhri_p80034/

Reetta Salmelainen