Doctrine
The enemy has used over and under "emphasis in doctrine" to divide the believers over the last 2,000 years. But what satan intended to kill the Bride, God has used to make her ready for victory! God uses ALL things for the good of those who love Him and are called according to His purposes. God called the Bride a Body:
I Corinthians 12:12-20 For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body— whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and have all been made to drink into one Spirit. For in fact the body is not one member but many. If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body,” is it therefore not of the body? And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body,” is it therefore not of the body? If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling? But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased. And if they were all one member, where would the body be? But now indeed there are many members, yet one body.
This is true in individual congregations, but also true between congregations. The scheme of the enemy was to divide, but God has used that division to actually isolate and exercise different "muscles" in His Body. When the Bride comes together in appreciation of how much the bicep of the Word has grown in one congregation, and the flowing eloquence of the tounge has been refined in another...the keen discernment of the eye in another, and the loving and steady pumping of the heart in yet another, she will quickly realize that she is ready to "overcome."
Revelation 2:7 “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God.” ’
The Bride is going to overcome the tribulation! Jesus looked at His end time Bride in Revelation 2 and 3 and gave her a "physical." He told her how to see herself and how to do the last bit of training to get her ready to be rejoined with the other parts. 7 characteristic congregations go into the tribulation and what comes out is one spotless Bride:
Revelation 19:7-8 Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready.” And to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.
The tribulation is what she is supposed to overcome...together. the trouble is meant to separate her, but what the enemy doesn't realize is that the trouble will draw her back together, like in the Book of Acts.
We draw back together not by agreeing with each other about Jesus, but agreeing with Jesus about each other...then all the muscles that have been isolated and built over all these years will function in victorious glory as we drink in the same spirit and eat the same bread of the word. This is the greatest time to be alive if you agree with Jesus, and the worst if you don't. This is the great and terrible day of the Lord, which requires coming together in "one accord!" After describing the antichrist army in Joel 2:1-10, it says this:
Joel 2:11-18 ...The day of the Lord is an awesome, terrible thing. Who can possibly survive? That is why the Lord says, “Turn to me now, while there is time. Give me your hearts. Come with fasting, weeping, and mourning. Don’t tear your clothing in your grief, but tear your hearts instead.” Return to the Lord your God, for he is merciful and compassionate, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love. He is eager to relent and not punish. Who knows? Perhaps he will give you a reprieve, sending you a blessing instead of this curse. Perhaps you will be able to offer grain and wine to the Lord your God as before. Blow the ram’s horn in Jerusalem! Announce a time of fasting; call the people together for a solemn meeting. Gather all the people— the elders, the children, and even the babies. Call the bridegroom from his quarters and the bride from her private room. Let the priests, who minister in the Lord ’s presence, stand and weep between the entry room to the Temple and the altar. Let them pray, “Spare your people, Lord ! Don’t let your special possession become an object of mockery. Don’t let them become a joke for unbelieving foreigners who say, ‘Has the God of Israel left them?’” Then the Lord will pity his people and jealously guard the honor of his land.
I Corinthians 12:12-20 For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body— whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and have all been made to drink into one Spirit. For in fact the body is not one member but many. If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body,” is it therefore not of the body? And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body,” is it therefore not of the body? If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling? But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased. And if they were all one member, where would the body be? But now indeed there are many members, yet one body.
This is true in individual congregations, but also true between congregations. The scheme of the enemy was to divide, but God has used that division to actually isolate and exercise different "muscles" in His Body. When the Bride comes together in appreciation of how much the bicep of the Word has grown in one congregation, and the flowing eloquence of the tounge has been refined in another...the keen discernment of the eye in another, and the loving and steady pumping of the heart in yet another, she will quickly realize that she is ready to "overcome."
Revelation 2:7 “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God.” ’
The Bride is going to overcome the tribulation! Jesus looked at His end time Bride in Revelation 2 and 3 and gave her a "physical." He told her how to see herself and how to do the last bit of training to get her ready to be rejoined with the other parts. 7 characteristic congregations go into the tribulation and what comes out is one spotless Bride:
Revelation 19:7-8 Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready.” And to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.
The tribulation is what she is supposed to overcome...together. the trouble is meant to separate her, but what the enemy doesn't realize is that the trouble will draw her back together, like in the Book of Acts.
We draw back together not by agreeing with each other about Jesus, but agreeing with Jesus about each other...then all the muscles that have been isolated and built over all these years will function in victorious glory as we drink in the same spirit and eat the same bread of the word. This is the greatest time to be alive if you agree with Jesus, and the worst if you don't. This is the great and terrible day of the Lord, which requires coming together in "one accord!" After describing the antichrist army in Joel 2:1-10, it says this:
Joel 2:11-18 ...The day of the Lord is an awesome, terrible thing. Who can possibly survive? That is why the Lord says, “Turn to me now, while there is time. Give me your hearts. Come with fasting, weeping, and mourning. Don’t tear your clothing in your grief, but tear your hearts instead.” Return to the Lord your God, for he is merciful and compassionate, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love. He is eager to relent and not punish. Who knows? Perhaps he will give you a reprieve, sending you a blessing instead of this curse. Perhaps you will be able to offer grain and wine to the Lord your God as before. Blow the ram’s horn in Jerusalem! Announce a time of fasting; call the people together for a solemn meeting. Gather all the people— the elders, the children, and even the babies. Call the bridegroom from his quarters and the bride from her private room. Let the priests, who minister in the Lord ’s presence, stand and weep between the entry room to the Temple and the altar. Let them pray, “Spare your people, Lord ! Don’t let your special possession become an object of mockery. Don’t let them become a joke for unbelieving foreigners who say, ‘Has the God of Israel left them?’” Then the Lord will pity his people and jealously guard the honor of his land.
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