BEYOND PENTECOST

JOY THOMAS

 The Feasts Of Israel

he Lord restored several truths to the Church during the twentieth century, such as the truth concerning the body of Christ, the five fold ministries, the gifts of the Spirit, praise and worship etc.  We thank the Lord for the way the Spirit of God is opening our eyes and stirring our hearts to see how God has been restoring these truths to the Church.  But there is no time for complacency.  Let us recall that the Israelites had reached the very borders of Canaan, the Promised Land.  Yet, they did not enter Canaan.  They stopped short of Canaan and remained in the wilderness for forty long years!  They were to cross Jordan and move on but they failed to do so.  Today, God’s people, in this generation, stand at the very entrance to the spiritual land of Canaan.  It seems that all is set for the Church to advance forward, cross the borders and enter into the promised land.  Therefore, God’s people need to hear the trumpet call again and, having heard it, to move on in His purposes.  There is a great need for all of us to really know and understand what God has purposed for His Church in His Son.  We wish to share God’s move of restoration from another angle, which will help to broaden our horizon and establish the truth in our hearts.

The feasts of Israel in the Old Testament are symbolic and prophetic of New Testament spiritual experiences.  The three major feasts of Israel were -

 Firstly, these feasts are prophetic.  Secondly, they talk of progressive spiritual experiences in an individual and in the Church, involving the continual appropriation of the life of Christ into our beings.  Being prophetic these feasts have a corresponding time of fulfillment that occurs:

So far, there has been only a partial fulfillment of the feasts in the Church, historically, and in the believer experientially.  There remains much to be appropriated by the Church and by the majority of believers.  May the Holy Spirit help each one of us as we pursue this study further.

A New Beginning

In Israel of old The Feast of Passover was held in the first month of the year.  It was established in connection with the deliverance of Israel from  Egypt.  They experienced the reality of the Feast of Passover in their individual lives when they were saved by the blood of the lamb that was applied to the door posts of their houses (Exodus 12).  Israel, as a nation, experienced the Passover when they were finally delivered from bondage in Egypt.  For Israel it was A NEW BEGINNING (Exodus 12:2)  It was a time of birthing, when, as a nation, they were thrust out of the Egyptian womb of bondage and captivity.  The blood of the lamb was the means of their salvation.  The Gospel says, “Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world.” ( John 1:29). 

In the New Testament, believers in the early Church experienced the reality of the Feast of Passover when they believed in the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ.  Individuals experienced deliverance when they confessed Christ.  The book of Acts gives an account of many Passovers in the lives of individuals.  The four Gospels in the New Testament tell us of the Lamb of God who was slain so that people may be delivered from the bondage of sin and Satan.  We know that whoever applies the precious blood of the Lamb by faith, will be delivered and will experience Passover in his individual life.  Thus, we see that ancient feast of Passover was prophetic of an experience in the life of the believer in the age of grace.

  The Church, historically, fulfils the Passover by proclaiming and participating in the gospel of salvation, which is the gospel of grace.  When any church proclaims Christ and His righteousness, and when the blood of the Lamb is applied to the lives of believers, the church is said to fulfill the Passover.  When justification by faith is preached and when grace apart from works is offered to the believer, the Passover is fulfilled.  Every genuine evangelistic effort that brings souls into God’s kingdom on the basis of Christ’s atoning work, represents a fulfillment of the Old Testament Feast of Passover.  So, for a believer in Christ, receiving Christ as the Lamb of God, is but the beginning of one’s experience in God.  It is a foundational experience for a believer.  New birth is the beginning of the New Covenant relationship.  A believer must not stop at the experience of the Passover in his life, but move on to other feasts.  There is much more to follow!  May we be amongst those who do not settle down after making a good beginning in our lives.  May we rather use this experience to launch out, experience other feasts in our lives and use them as launching points to appropriate the fullness of God’s purposes.

The Fiftieth Day

If the feast of Passover holds something that is essential for us in the age of race, then it follows, that the Feast of Pentecost and the Feast of Tabernacles are also indicative of some important spiritual experiences. 

The second major feast is the Feast of Weeks or Pentecost.  This occurred at a separate point in time from the Passover and was different and distinct from previous feasts.  After crossing the Red Sea and being led  by the pillar of fire, the Israelites were brought to the foot of Mt. Sinai on the first day of the third month.  At Sinai the Lord spoke to Moses to tell Israel to sanctify themselves on the third day.  Then Moses went up again to the Mount on this day, and it was on this day, that the Lord wrote the Ten Commandments on  tablets of stone.  Here, at Mt Sinai, the Lord spoke of the Law, the Aaronic priesthood, the sacrificial system, and  the design for the  Tabernacle of the Lord.  Here the nation was established as “the church in the wilderness” (Acts 7:38).  The Jews looked upon the Feast of Pentecost as a celebration of the commemoration of the Law.  A detailed description of the Feast of Weeks or Pentecost is found in Leviticus chapter 23, verses 15 to 21.  Verses 15 and 16  reveal that the Israelites were to carefully count the days from the day that they brought the sheaf of the wave offering till the completion of seven Sabbaths i.e. 49 (7 x 7) days.  The day after the seventh Sabbath, was the fiftieth day.  The Greek word for Pentecost simply means 'fiftieth'.   The Israelites left Egypt on the 15^th day of  the first month, which is called Abib or Nisan.  The fiftieth day fell in the month of Sivan as shown below:

The Gospel of Matthew says that the Lord Jesus came to fulfil all the intricate details of the Law (Matthew 5: 17-18; 11:13).  The Book of Acts shows that this period of 50 days from the Feast of Passover to the Feast of Pentecost was fulfilled in reality.  After Christ’s resurrection, at the close of three days and three nights in the tomb, His disciples saw Him and spoke to Him for forty days.  The Lord spoke to them of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God for forty days.  At the close of forty days, He ascended to the Father.  The disciples tarried in Jerusalem in the upper room for ten days. On the fiftieth days “when the Day of Pentecost was fully come” the Holy Spirit was poured out on the believing and waiting disciples.  Thus we have:

Post-resurrection ministry of Jesus    40  days

Tarrying of the disciples                        10  days

                                                                   50  days

Holy Spirit –The Breath Of Life

Just as Israel experienced the giving of the Law at Mt. Sinai, fifty days after the Passover, so the disciples experienced the coming of the Holy Spirit to write His laws upon the tablets of human hearts, fifty days after the real and eternal Passover.

 Again, as the Feast of Pentecost was celebrated fifty days after the waving of the sheaf of firstfruits, so the Holy Spirit was poured out on the fiftieth day after the resurrection of Christ Jesus.  This was truly a remarkable fulfilment of the Feast of the Fiftieth Day in the third month!  The disciples who had been apprehended three and half years earlier, who were cleansed and instructed at the Master’s feet, were now partakers of another experience!  The God of Israel was commemorating the Feast of Weeks in a fashion never e seen before or ever imagined.  Exactly fifty days after Jesus’ resurrection these 'unlearned and ignorant' persons heard a sound from heaven as of a mighty, rushing wind and became immersed in an outpouring of power (Acts 2: 1-4).  The same Creator who had breathed the breath of life into the first Adam, was now breathing life and power into another man.  This was the corporate man which is the Church, the very body of our Lord Jesus Christ.  This small band of empowered witnesses spoke with great boldness, wrought signs and wonders, and gave potent testimony of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.  On that very day of Pentecost, many of the Jews who heard Peter’s powerful message were pricked in their heart and asked “Men and brethren, what shall we do?”  And the answer was, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.”  The book of Acts gives us a clear picture of this experience(the baptism of the Holy Spirit) in several chapters.

The Baptism Of The Holy Spirit – An Earnest

It is necessary to mention that the Feast of Weeks was often referred to as a Feast of the First fruit.   Exodus 34:22 uses the phrase, ‘firstfruits of wheat harvest’.  This indicates that a greater harvest would follow!  Likewise, in the New Testament fulfillment of the Feast of Weeks, the impartation of the Holy Spirit is referred to as the ‘earnest’ of our inheritance. (Ephesians 1:14).  The term ‘earnest’ means a pledge of more to come, or a deposit against a full portion to be given later.  Contrary to the belief of many, baptism in the Holy Spirit DOES NOT signify the fullness of the life of God, made available to the believer.  Nor does it represent the climax of experience available to the Church.  It is only a means, rather than an end.

We have seen that the Old Testament Feast of Pentecost, like the Passover, was prophetic in nature.  It has its corresponding New Testament fulfillment, both in the Church historically and in the believer experientially.  The Feast of Passover and the Feast of Pentecost in the Old Testament were not identical, and neither are the corresponding New Testament experiences of salvation and baptism in the Holy Spirit.  Salvation is only a beginning, just as a seed sown in the ground. A further growth and the rich harvest of the life of Christ is yet to be experienced.  The Pentecostal experience represents a further incoming of the Christ-life in the person of the Holy Spirit.  Those who have only experienced a Passover in their life are exhorted to believe God for a genuine Pentecost in their life.  May we not, at this juncture of our spiritual growth, call our revelation complete.  May the Lord help us to be careful  not to submit to any subtle denominational or doctrinal yoke imposed upon us by men of limited knowledge or understanding.  Let us, rather, acknowledge that our revelation and experience is incomplete and let us pray that the ‘spirit of wisdom and revelation’ may rest upon us .

We come now to the third and final and most glorious Feast of the Lord, namely the Feast of Tabernacles.  It is a Feast about which the people of God seem to know or understand very little.  We proceed with a deep conviction, that if the first two major Old Testament feasts were prophetic of New Testament experiences, the third feast  is also prophetic. We move on with fear and trembling, for we feel we have only a small measure of insight and revelation.  Yet, we offer what we have to the hands of the Master that it may feed, challenge and inspire the Church.  Much, more will follow as we hold these truths before Him and allow Him to speak further in our lives.  May the Holy Spirit guide us into all truth.

Rejection Because Of Unbelief

The Apostle Paul says that many of the things that happened to Israel were as types and examples for the New Testament Church. (I Corinthians  10: 6,11).  The natural Israel, the Israel of old, experienced the Feast of Passover in Egypt and received a mighty deliverance.  At Mt. Sinai, the nation experienced the Feast of Pentecost in the third month.  God’s intention was then to bring  Israel into the land of Canaan where they  would enter into  the third and final Feast and partake of the fruit of the land.  In Egypt they experienced Passover.  At Mt. Sinai they experienced  Pentecost.  But only in Canaan land they were to experience and enjoy Tabernacles. 

A great tragedy is seen when the nation came to Kadesh-Barnea.  ‘Kadesh’ means ‘holy’ or ‘holiness’, and ‘Barnea’ means ‘an inconsistent or fickle son’.  It was at Kadesh Barnea that the Israelites rejected the inheritance of the land promised to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.  In rejecting the land of Canaan they also rejected the greatest Feast, the Feast of Tabernacles (Numbers 13 & 14).  For forty years God allowed them to wander in the wilderness until that entire generation perished.  Only Joshua and Caleb lived to enter into the land of Canaan with the new generation.  Their national sin was one of unbelief. (Hebrews  3 and 4).  The new generation, after crossing the Jordan, kept the Feasts of the Lord.  They experienced Passover (Joshua 5:10 to 12), Pentecost (Leviticus 23:9 to 14) and Tabernacles (Nehemiah 8:13,14&17). Joshua and Caleb, as overcomers along with the new generation, experienced  the Feast of Tabernacels in Canaan land, according to God’s promise. They had another spirit and wholly followed the Lord.

Beloved, the Old Testament scene may be superimposed upon the history of the New Testament Church in a remarkable comparison.  The historical books of the New Testament show the fulfillment of the first two Feasts.  The four Gospels show Christ as the historical fulfillment of the Feast of Passover.  The Book of Acts shows markedly the historical  fulfillment of the Feast of Weeks or Pentecost, in the Church.   But where, in the history of the Church, can one find the fulfillment of the third and final feast, the Feast of Tabernacles?  This is one Feast that has remained unfulfilled in the Church.  Concerning this Feast, Alfred Edersheim, in his excellent book ‘The Temple: Its Ministry and Services’ says, at page 287,  “…. the fact remains that the Feast of Tabernacles is the one and only type in the Old Testament which has not yet been fulfilled.”

The New Testament Church follows the pattern of the Old Testament “church in the wilderness”.  The Bible says, 'first the natural, then the spiritual,' so also, first the shadow, then the substance.  As natural Israel wandered for forty years after Passover and Pentecost, and failed to observe the Feast of Tabernacles in Canaan through unbelief, so spiritual Israel, the Church, has followed suit.  The Church has been wandering, so to speak, through its history in absolute unbelief of God’s promises relative to the Feast of Tabernacles.  Generation after generation has passed away, dying in the wilderness, never experiencing the Feast of Tabernacles.  However, there must be and there will be a new generation that will arise to enter into the Covenant promises of God and experience all the three Feasts of the Lord. 

A New Generation

It would be wrong to conclude that the third Feast has not been dealt with in the New Testament.  The burden of the writer of the Book of Hebrews was that the believers  may march on to experience the third Feast.  The Book of Revelation also speaks much about the third Feast.  However, the Lord has kept the fulfilment of this Feast for the end-time generation that will fully believe Him and enter into His promises.  The nation of Israel wandered for forty years; the Church has been wandering for approximately forty jubilees (i.e, 40 x 50 = 2000 years).  Praise God, the period of the wilderness wanderings of the Church are coming to an end!  A new generation is arising!  They are experiencing Christ as their Passover.  They are keeping the Feast of Pentecost in the Baptism of the Holy Spirit.  They will not stop there but they will move on and experience the Feast of Tabernacles and the truths symbolised therein. Hallelujah!  No one who has this understanding will ever be satisfied by calling himself a Pentecostal believer!!  This truth is illustrated below.

Natural Israel (Historical fulfilment)

Spiritual Israel / Church (Historic/ Prophetic fulfilment) 

The Seventh Month

In 1 Kings Chapter 12, we have an interesting account of the division of the united Kingdom of Israel into two kingdoms, namely the Kingdom of the House of Judah and the Kingdom of the House of Israel.  Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, sat on the throne of the House of Judah, consisting of two tribes.  Jeroboam, the son of Nebat and servant of Solomon, took the throne over the House of Israel, consisting of the remaining ten tribes.  The Lord permitted this division to take place so that His sovereign purposes would be fulfilled in the nation (I Kings 12:1 to 24).  In 1 Kings 12 we read:

“And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar.  So did he in Bethel, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made.” (verse 32).

“So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Bethel the fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense.” (Verse 33).

Here we see how Jeroboam set up a substitute Feast of Tabernacles, postponing its occurrence to another month.  We need to consider a few things from the above verses.  Jeroboam, fearing that the kingdom of Israel would  return to Rehoboam, decided to set up a counterfeit feast.  He made two golden calves and set them up as gods, even as Aaron had done earlier.  One golden calf was set up in Bethel and the other in Dan     (I Kings 12:29).  This became a sin unto the people      (1 Kings 12:30), and the people began to worship these golden calves even as they did under Aaron (Exodus 32).  Jeroboam also set up a house of high places and established his own priesthood which was not of the tribe of Levi.  Then to add to his sin, he “ordained a Feast in the eighth month, like unto the Feast that was in Judah”.  He built an altar and sacrificed to these false gods, on the fifteenth day of the eighth month.  The Scripture states that all this “he had devised of his own heart”. God sent a prophet to bring judgment upon him for his sins.  However, Jeroboam did not repent but went further into sin.

What lesson can we learn from this historical account ?  Just as Jeroboam had set up a counterfeit feast in place of the actual Feast of Tabernacles, a month later, so also are there many modern-day Jeroboams following him and doing the very same thing today.  The true Feast of Tabernacles was to be kept in Jerusalem, in the place where the Lord recorded His Name.  It was also to be kept in the seventh month.  Evidently Jeroboam reasoned in his heart that the people of Judah would probably accept the postponement and substitution rather than bother to go to Jerusalem.  In this way he believed he would be able to prevent the Kingdom of Israel from re-uniting with the Kingdom of Judah.  Jeroboam was a man habituated to have his desires met.  He never wanted to do things according to the word of God.  Beloved, there are many Jeroboams today who have set their hearts upon their own desires and doctrines and refuse to go in God’s ways.  They are accustomed to postponing what the Lord has ordained for them in His Word.  Like   Jeroboam, they fear that people may leave them. 

Some leaders  believe the Feast of Tabernacles shall be fulfilled, but not in this dispensation.  If we tell them and teach that the Feast of Tabernacles must be held in the seventh month i.e. in this dispensation, they consider us to be false teachers and prophets!  The tragedy is that today many Christian leaders think that this Feast is meant to be fulfilled in some future dispensation.  They would rather that this Feast be held, not by the Church, but by others, such as natural Israel.  Some would even consent to establish a substitute Feast!  But by doing this the Church would be robbed and denied the privilege of entering into this glorious Feast of Tabernacles, as intended by God.  Notwithstanding what many Christian leaders would do, God will have a people in this day and age who will indeed enter into all the three Feasts of the Lord.  God will not allow modern-day Jeroboams and a counterfeit priesthood, that exists in today’s idolatrous system,  to prevail.

 There is a great burden in my spirit and a desire in my heart, that the people of God, the hungry remnant of God, may hear the voice of the Spirit as they read these pages.  We have seen that these Feasts are prophetic in nature.  Two of the three Feasts have already been  fulfilled in the Church, as per the prophetic word of the Lord.  There has been a historical fulfilment of Passover as well as a historical fulfilment of Pentecost.  There has also been an experiential fulfilment of both Passover and Pentecost in His Church. However, so  far, there has not been a historical or experiential fulfilment of the Feast of Tabernacles in the Church.

 Restoration Or Fulfilment

The early Church, in the first century, came to the very borders of the promised land, in a spiritual sense.  However, instead of going on with God, the Church began to go downwards.  By the fourth century, the Church entered into the dark ages, spiritually.  During that time, the Church lost possession of two Feasts, which She had experienced earlier.  Therefore, for the Church to go on to the fulfilment of Tabernacles, She must first be restored to the experience of Passover and Pentecost.  Praise God, our God is a God of Restoration.  He will surely bring His Church to a place of possessing all the Glory of the Lord which she lost in the past.

The Church lost the truth and experiences concerning the Feasts by the end of the first century and finally she entered the Dark Ages of her spiritual life.  However, God’s promise for His Church remains, “And I say unto thee, That thou art Peter and upon this rock I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”( Matthew 16: 18).  His word says “That he might  present unto himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish” (Ephesians 5:27).  The journey of the Church is illustrated below:

The journey of the Church through the ages:

You Have Not Passed This Way Before

In the days when Martin Luther and others moved into the experience of Passover were persecuted ,they were able to refer to the Scriptures to show how the Passover was experienced by the first century Church.  He could tell his protagonists that the book of Acts was proof enough that the Church had experienced the Passover, spiritually, but lost it afterwards..  Thus he could emphatically say that God was restoring the truth that had been lost earlier.  Yet, they were persecuted and burnt to death.  Similarly, when the Feast of Pentecost was restored at the turn of this century, the men of God could show others, from the Scriptures, how this Feast had been experienced by the early Church.  They could clearly declare, that God was restoring the Feast of Pentecost, which the Church had lost in the early centuries.  They could say that that move of God was not something new but that it was a work of restoration or recovery, of that which the Church had possessed at one time, but lost subsequently.  They had the proof that what  the Church had once lost was being restored by God, in His mercy.  Still their lives were not spared!

Beloved brethren, in declaring that there is a Feast of Tabernacles that is yet to be fulfilled in the Church and that the Church will move on till it experiences this Feast upon the earth, we lay ourselves open to misunderstanding and even persecution.  If people ask what this Feast will be like, we have nothing to show from Church history in the New Testament, since it had not been fulfilled in the Church earlier.  However,  just as there are many prophetic expressions in the Old Testament concerning the Feasts of Passover and Pentecost, so also are there many prophetic words about the Feast of Tabernacles.  The problem today is that we cannot provide any proof, from the New Testament, to show that the Feast of Tabernacles must be fulfilled by the Church.  Today when one is baptized in the Holy Spirit and speaks in tongues, we can explain and tell people, from  passage in the Bible that believers in the early Church had experienced the same thing.  Despite this, there are people who do not believe in this experience and even declare that it is not of God.  So what shall we do, brethren?  Shall we give it up in unbelief?  Certainly not!  How many of you would like to experience this truth now?  How many long to move on to the fulfillment of the Feast of Tabernacles?  You need to decide these things in your heart.  It is going to be a costly decision. 

Every one who moved on with God, in the past moves of God in the earth, had to pay a heavy price.  There is an uncertainty in moving on with God today.  The price that is to be paid is comparatively greater today.  Earlier restorations of truth were less risky because the saints could justify their faith and experience from the Scriptures. The proof of all they did lay in the Scriptures for all to see.  This is why there are many Jeroboams today, who have unbelief in their hearts, and say that this Feast will be fulfilled in the eighth month or in some future day, when we get to heaven.  I feel in my spirit that there is a remnant of God that is reaching out to Him in faith for the fulfilment of this prophetic end-time Feast.  It is as the Lord spoke to Joshua and the saints “for you have not passed this way heretofore.”   The Church has never passed this way before.  Yes, it is very true.  The instruction to Joshua was, “. . .when ye see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, and the priests, the Levites bearing it, then ye shall remove from your place, and go after it.  Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure come not near unto it, that ye may know the way by which ye must go:. . . ” ( Joshua 3: 3-4).  We need to keep our eyes upon the Ark, the Lord Jesus Christ.  We praise God that this Feast has been fulfilled in His life.  The fulfilment of this Feast was prophetic concerning Him, first of all, and then as to the Church and individual believers. 

Ther is a generation that is keeping their eyes glued upon the Ark, the Lord Jesus.  They are maintaining the distance of two thousand cubits (years)!  There are true ministries being raised by God today, who are bearing the Ark and proclaiming this truth of moving on beyond Jordan.  It is time to get ready, beloved brethren.  The Scripture says, “And Joshua said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.” (Joshua 3:5).  This is what the heavenly Joshua is saying to His remnant in the earth today!

Moving Beyond Pentecost

Beloved, let him who has an ear, hear what the Spirit is saying to the Church.  We cannot but declare this truth with all boldness and humility.  God’s word is ‘Sanctify yourselves’.  The general condition of the  camp of God’s Church today has been one of lightness, casualness, merriment, lukewarmness, and in some extreme cases, spiritual ‘rioting and drunkenness’.  Standards of righteousness are being eroded by modern theology.  Many Church systems are falling prey to an ecumenical spirit that, not only promotes a counterfeit, man-made unity, but demands the acceptance of much false doctrine and spiritual error.  The spirit of compromise and carnality, which the world is fostering, is bringing deception to many.  An increasing number of Charismatic and Pentecostal ministries are becoming corrupted by business management concepts,  a spirit of entertainment and the Babylonish defilement of ‘greatness’.  These realms are characterised by a ‘man-centred’ point of view, a deceptive, fleshly drive towards ‘kingdom’ building, the use of mass psychology, and quite often, a shameful exploitation of believers in the realm of finances.  In other circles, believers are being taught to meet God in a highly emotional (laughing and rolling on the ground, etc.), undisciplined, soul dimension, often leading to varying forms and degrees of sensuality.  ‘Uncircumcised strangers’ are being brought into the sanctuary of the Lord, to pollute it and to cause the glory of the Lord to lift from among His people.  Today’s strangers are a subtle mixture of the flesh and world, which could easily be mistaken for ‘spirit’.

Church history shows how God’s people have repeatedly pressed the stop button after experiencing either the first Feast or the second Feast.  They have built their denominations around the various truths related to these two Feasts.  The sad history of the Church shows that those who experienced Passover truths opposed those who experienced Pentecost truths.  And history, repeating itself, shows that those who have experienced Pentecost truths, will oppose those who seek to follow on to know God in Tabernacle truths!

Dear brethren, moving beyond Pentecost will require paying a high price, combined with a deep and genuine wave of repentance and cleansing  to sweep over God’s people, preparing their hearts to meet the Lord in a new way.  Every revival has begun with repentance and every ascension to a higher place in God has required a deep heart-searching and cleansing, so that God’s people  are brought low before Him.

How many are willing for such a deep preparation by the Spirit?  How about you, dear? Will you move on or stop at Passover?….Pentecost?….Tabernacles?