When Will The Church Be Secretly Taken Up?

Why We Must Biblically Believe In The Rapture Of The Church Before Tribulation?

By Abraham Israel

Frequently people ask this question, ‘why we must believe that the Church will be raptured before tribulation?’ The following points are some of the important points that gives us the reasons why we must believe in the rapture of the saints before the tribulation starts,

1.) First of all, the rapture of the saints before the tribulation is the only Biblical argument that can be proved fully from the scripture without any discrepancy. [Note: After the 'abomination of desolation' the rapture may happen any moment, after the rapture the tribulation will start immediately].


2.) Jesus Himself admonished the Church to be watchful for the imminent end time event of rapture (Luke 21:36; Mark 13:33-37), so that no one may be found sleeping and thus miss the rapture. To sleep is not to be aware of what is happening in the spiritual world because of lack of conscious connection with Jesus daily (Mark 13:37; Luke 21:34-35; 1 Thess 5:4-6).


3.) Paul told the believer’s to comfort one another and encourage one another with the message of rapture (1 Thess 5:11). The reason for such comfort he gave in the preceding verses which says, “…God did not appoint us [i.e. believer’s] to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ [i.e. when He appears for salvation at the time of rapture (Heb 9:28; 1 John 3:2-3)]" (1 Thess 5:9-10).

The rapture of the Church in essence is not an escapist message but a message of comfort and hope for the Church. This is the only message that will surely bring hope and comfort for the end time Church in our generation, which is presently going through turbulent times of much persecution and hate from the world.


4.) Jesus spoke of a particular day in which people would suddenly be taken up. One will be left behind and the other raptured, after which Jesus predicted a catastrophe of destructive wrath of God which would come upon the wicked world in an unprecedented way for its evil life style (Luke 17:30-37; Matt 24:40-44; Mark 13:14-19).

This destructive wrath of God will be in the magnitude of the destruction that happened during Noah’s and Lot’s generation, the only time when God destroyed the whole earth by a rising flood because of His wrath and then a whole city completely by raining fire and brimstone from heaven. It was a complete and an absolute destruction in the olden days (Matt 24:36-39; Luke 17:26-29). Jesus Himself said that the wrath of God will be so intense, if God in His mercies does not stop, no flesh or humans will be left alive in the earth. But for the leftover believer’s sake, surely God has promised to intervene and shorten the days of wrath (Mark 13:20; Matt 24:22).


5.) Jesus again and again emphasized about the imminency of the rapture event through various parables, metaphors and derivatives. He described the characteristic of suddenness of this event of rapture which nobody living at that time period in the world would expect or even realize until suddenly the wrath of God would be poured out on the wicked world. But He specifically spoke to the believers to be alert and ready during this autumn season of Apostasy in which suddenly the flight of believer’s will take place on the day of rapture (Matt 24:42,44; 25:13; Mark 13:32, 35-37; Luke 17:27, 29-30; 21:35-36). This rapture event is described metaphorically as a lightning flash which would be identified only by those who will be watching the spiritual sky (Matt 24:27; Luke 17:24; Mark 13:33-37). The spiritual sky is the voice, conviction and revelation of God and His word through His Spirit.


6.) The resurrection of martyrs who died in all the ages past because of their faith in God and believers who will be beheaded during the tribulation wrath of God will be resurrected when the last trumpet will be blown at the second coming of Christ to the planet earth (1 Cor 15:50-58; Matt 24:31; Rev 20:4-6). Then Jesus will separate the sheep from the goats in the Judgment of nations before His millennium reign will start. There are three categories of people Jesus mentioned in the Judgment of nations; they are sheep, goats and the brethren of Jesus. The goats are unbelievers alive in their physical bodies, the sheep are believers who will be alive in their physical bodies, and the third group of people who will be pointed by Jesus as “these My brethren”, “one of the least of these” in Matt 25:40 and 45 will be the saints who will be raptured before tribulation together with the martyrs of all ages and the tribulation saints who will be beheaded by Antichrist (Matt 25:31-46; Rev 19:7-9, 13-14; 20:4-6). After this Judgment of nations Jesus and His brethren will rule the world in their glorious bodies (Matt 19:27-29). These brethren of Jesus will be none other than the sanctified Church saints of all ages past (Heb 2:11). The unbelievers after the Judgment of nations will be thrown in to the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels (Matt 25:41, 46; 13:41-42). All the nations will be judged based on how they helped all the saints by faith during the tribulation time, in which they will be hungry, thirsty, will be strangers, naked, sick and will be thrown in to prison because of the persecution of the Antichrist. These believers in Jesus will be helping their brethren by risking their own life and putting it on stake, just like Rehab helped the spies of Israel to escape the clutches of the people of Jericho (Josh 6:17). The living believers in their earthly bodies will be invited by Jesus after the judgment of nations to live in the millennial kingdom of Jesus on earth (Matt 25:34). They will then multiply, repopulate and fill the earth again with human beings just as the days of old before the millennium (Matt 13:43).


7.) When the disciples asked Jesus about the sign of His second coming and the end of the age, Jesus did not hide anything from His disciples but chronologically and sequentially started to tell the disciples the scenario of the end time events, starting with the destruction of the temple that stood in the time of Jesus to His second coming to the earth in which He will establish the kingdom of God on earth physically. The only thing that He did not tell them was the exact hour and day of each event. The one thing I think often is, if Jesus has given all the details so plainly why are theologians and Bible experts make it so complicated for everyone to understand the word of God by adding their own ideas and theories to it?


Given below is the chronological and sequential order of the end time events that Jesus predicted will happen at the end times,

(i) Destruction of the temple that stood at the time Jesus ministered before two thousand years ago (Matt 24:1-2; Mark 13:1-2; Luke 21:5-6, 20-24).

(ii) Then Jesus spoke specifically to the apostles in the first century that a severe persecution against them will arise because of propagating the gospel. Jesus encouraged, exhorted and edified the apostles to patiently keep on working till their very end (Luke 21:12-19).

(iii) Jesus admonished the end time generation not to be deceived by giving heed to the words of many deceivers who will arise in many parts of the world. Jesus has already warned the believers not to go after these deceivers who will come in Jesus name and will boast saying ‘I am Christ’ (Matt 24:4-5; Mark 13:5-6; Luke 21:8).

(iv) Then Jesus predicted a period of accelerating birth pangs of sorrow which will come upon the end time generation as the signs of the beginning of the end times. In this period of time Jesus predicted many news of wars [i.e. World War 1, World War 2….war between Arabs Israelites, Palestinian terrorism against the nation of Israel] and rumors of wars [i.e. World War 3, Armageddon, end of the world, etc…]. Jesus told that the end is not yet even when they see the things described above. But after all these preceding events, nation will rise against nation, kingdom against kingdom, there will be famines [i.e. a period of time when there is not enough food for a great number of people, causing illness and death], pestilences [i.e. a very serious infectious viral diseases like HIV, STD’s, etc that spreads quickly and kills large numbers of people. Virus is an extremely small organism which causes disease in humans, animals and plants. These are also usually called as plagues], earth quakes in various places, commotion [i.e. terrorism and public unrest], fearful sights [i.e. great destruction like 911] and great signs from heaven (Matt 24:6-8; Mark 13:7-8; Luke 21:9-11).

(v) Persecution of the End Time Church – The end time Church will be declaring the gospel of Jesus Christ in all the world through various methods with the power of God. Mighty signs, wonders and miracles will follow the gospel message in an unprecedented way. But the social and moral climate of the world will degenerate very badly during this time, so that the entire world will start to hate the Christians and will persecute the gospel propagators of the end time apostolic Church. Even within the Church many brethren will betray one another because of persecution. The lawless lifestyle of people will abound because the love of many will grow cold towards God and one another. This is the exact time in which the Jesus indicated that the nation of Israel [symbolically identifying it as a fig tree] will once again be reborn and will start to become stronger and stronger which will also indicate a unprecedented latter rain summer harvest very near ahead in which the end time apostolic Church will reap billions of souls and will bring them to maturity in the kingdom of God because it will be the end time season of summer harvest. I believe we are exactly living in this time of summer harvest. According to this verse in the Bible, this will be the terminal generation which will see all the end time events take place to the very end and also it says that Jesus will be standing at the heaven’s doors ready to rapture the Church away to heaven during this period of time (Matt 24:32-35; Mark 13:28-31; Luke 21:29-33). Saints wake up! We are very near than when we first believed. Jesus will surely build His glorious end time Church. No matter how severe the persecution that arises, “the gates of hell shall not prevail against” the end time Church (Matt 16:18). Jesus described particularly this period of time in the gospel to encourage the end time Church to understand that it is He who will be in control of all these end time events (Matt 24:9-14; Mark 13:9-13; Luke 21:12-19). The urgency, priority and the focus of the end time apostolic Church should be to preach the gospel to all the nations (Matt 24:14; 13:10). The Church of the end time should learn to endure these persecution and trials and keep proclaiming the gospel till rapture takes place (Matt 24:13; Mark 13:13; Luke 21:19; Rev 3:7-11). Many false prophets will rise up during this period of time and will deceive many (Matt 24:11). So the Church should discern about these wolves in sheep’s clothing by their fruits and should not get deceived because of lack of discernment (Matt 7:15-20). These deceivers will always form a faction and will have followers who will follow them. They will have a peculiar spirit of divisiveness to isolate and divide the Church of Jesus Christ (1 John 2: 18-19). The anointing within us will send a danger signal when we interact with these deceivers (1 John 2:20-22; Mark 2:6-8). We cannot determine whether a spirit is of God or the devil by the manifestation in itself, but it is the source when checked will reveal the reality of its character. This is the reason John the Apostle advised the first century apostolic Church to check every spirit by making it to confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh. The spirit of the Antichrist which is in the world can never be able to confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh (1 John 4:1-3). If a person does not want to hear the gospel and hates it, he is already influenced highly by the spirit of error (1 John 4:4-6). The bottom line is, “…darkness shall cover the earth, and deep darkness the people; But the Lord will arise over [you] the end time Church, and His glory will be seen upon [you] the end time Church.” (Isaiah 60:2).

(vi) The temple will again be built up in the end times as in the former times. Preparation is already on in Jerusalem to build it. A seven year peace covenant will be made by Antichrist with the nation of Israel, so that the Jews will again be able to offer gifts, sacrifices and offering as in the days of Old Testament times to conduct the temple rituals without any problem. Because the Gentiles will co-exist with the Jews, they will be trampling the city of Jerusalem till the second coming of Jesus Christ to this planet earth. The Bible says that the city of Jerusalem will be trampled by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled (Luke 21:24). According to the Bible the times of the Gentiles will only end with the final kingdom of Antichrist (Dan 2:44; 7:8-14; 8:21-25). The Antichrist will be the last one to trample and make the city of Jerusalem and its temple to be desolated (Daniel 9:27). At the middle of the covenant at three and half years Antichrist will break the covenant and will enter in to the temple to stop and influence the independent offering of gifts, sacrifices and offering of worshipers, which up to that time will be controlled by the priests of the temple and its managing society. This is one of the seasonal sign of rapture that Jesus particularly told the believer’s in Judea to watch for and thus flee out to the mountains to escape being caught by the evil clutches of Antichrist (Matt 24:15-19; Mark 13:14-17).

(vii) Jesus told all the believer’s to watch and pray at this time so that they may not be left behind during the tribulation (Matt 24:20-22; Mark 13:18-19; Luke 21:36).

(viii) During this period of time, the apostasy of the Church and self-indulgence of people will reach its zenith (Matt 24:23-26; Mark 13:21-23, Luke 21:34; 17:23).

(ix) Exactly at this time of callousness of many, the rapture will happen in a twinkling of an eye, as like the lightning that comes from the east and flashes to the west. The believer’s will be raised up in their glorious bodies, will gather together and will fly away like young eagles to meet the Lord in the air (Matt 24:27-28; Mark 13:18; Luke 17:24-37; Isaiah 40:31). Jesus indirectly told the apostles that the days will come when they will understand that the end times will not be seen by them in the first century. Then the apostles will desire for the day of the Son of Man [because this will be the time of fulfillment of God’s promise of reaching the whole world with the gospel before the rapture takes place (Luke 17:22, 26; Matt 24:14; Mark 13:10)] but they will not see it because they will all be dying mostly within the first century itself (Luke 17:22).

(x) Immediately after the rapture takes place, the destructive wrath of God will start to be poured out on the wicked world (Luke 17:27-29). This tribulation wrath of God will have the potential to wipe out the whole human race if it is not stopped. But for the sake of believer’s to be left alive on the earth when Jesus comes back, God will shorten the time of tribulation wrath (Matt 24:21-22; Mark 13:19-20). This tribulation wrath will come suddenly upon the whole human kind as a snare (Luke 21:35; 17:26-30). The revelation of the Son of Man is only to the believer’s during the day of rapture (Luke 17:30; 1 John 3:2; John 14:1-4). Jesus exhorted all the believer’s living through the tribulation to pray without losing heart because God may soon avenge the Antichrist by His wrath hearing the prayers of the saints, and also when the Son of Man comes to rule on the earth (Luke 18:1-8).

(xi) After the tribulation of those days will get over, the signs of the Son of Man will appear in heaven and all the tribes of the earth will mourn for the messiah to come and deliver them from the curse of Antichrist. Then they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory (Matt 24:29-30; Mark 13:24-26; Luke 21:25-27). Jesus has clearly instructed the left behind believer’s to look up and lift up their heads in prayer towards God and receive strength to victoriously face tribulation even from the beginning of tribulation in hope for them to be delivered when Christ comes. Only those believer’s who will look up to God daily during those times will have the strength to even die as martyrs (Luke 21:28; 18:1-8; Rev 20:4).

(xii) During the second coming of Jesus Christ to establish His millennial kingdom and rule with a rod of iron, the last trumpet will be blown and all the dead martyrs of the tribulation time will be resurrected in their glorious bodies. At this time “death will be swallowed up in victory” by Jesus Christ forever. But the living believer’s will be left on the earth to populate it again (Matt 24:31; Mark 13:27; Luke 21:27). You may ask a question here, how do you know for sure that only the martyrs of tribulation time will only get resurrected and the living believers will go onto live in the millennial kingdom of Jesus Christ? Because when we see Rev 20:4-6 resurrection and compare it with the last trumpet resurrection of 1 Cor 15:51-54, we can clearly know that the resurrection mentioned in both the places can only happen in Matt 24:31 according to the law of last event of trumpet in the Bible.

The following points proves that the last trumpet resurrection is the resurrection at the second coming of Jesus Christ,

(a) The last trumpet is the last and final trumpet to be sounded according to its order, time and sequence of all the trumpets mentioned in the Bible. The Greek word for ‘last’ is ‘eschatos’ which means ‘last in time or in place’. This last trumpet will be the last one blown in all the end time events. There is no more any trumpet mentioned in the whole of Bible after this event (1 Cor 15:52; Matt 24:31). Hence it is the second coming trumpet sound.

(b) In 1 Thess 4:14-18 Paul focuses the trumpet sound to the time we the believer’s will get resurrected and will meet the Lord in the air and we will be with Him forever. Here the context of his message is the message of comfort. In 1 Cor 15:50-58 Paul focuses the trumpet sound to that of inheriting the kingdom of God which Jesus also told the living believer’s in Matt 25:34. Then Paul says not all believers will die, but all we [i.e. those who have been martyred for Christ’s sake] shall be changed.

(c) Then according to the context, he does not focus on giving out a message of comfort rather he focuses on the message of victory by saying “Death is swallowed up in victory”. This cannot be rapture because the believer’s who will be left behind after the rapture will still die beheaded by Antichrist. Only at the time of second coming Christ will completely win over ‘Death and Hades’ forever.

(d) With the message of victory Paul encourages the believer to steadfastly continue in the work of the Lord which is to keep sharing the good news of salvation through Christ. This is a victory message given to the believer’s who specifically go through the tribulation. The work they will do for God will be rewarded at the time of Judgment of nations. For Christ will reward them with the kingdom prepared from the foundation of the world (Matt 25:31-46). They will inherit it as His obedient spiritual children’s (1 Cor 15:50). Hurrah! During the tribulation time many children of God who will know the Lord intimately in a personal way will surely do great exploits even in the midst of life threatening persecution (Dan 11:32-35).

(e) Only when Christ sits on the earth, the sting of death and Hades will lose its power against Him completely because He has won over it and will hold the key of Death and Hades in His hand on earth. At the end of His rule on earth, Jesus will throw both Death and Hades in to the lake of fire (1 Cor 15:55; Rev 19:11-16; 20:11-14). Only those sinners who will rebel against Him will prematurely die during the millennium because of the curse that will come from Him (Isaiah 65:19-20). The bottom line during tribulation is, Death and Hades will still rule at its pinnacle on earth through a Antichrist. During the time of tribulation the key to the bottomless pit [i.e. Hades] will be given in to the hands of the fallen star Lucifer the Devil (Rev 1:18; 9:1; Luke 10:18; Isaiah 14:12).

(f) In 1 Thess 4:16-17 Paul describes about two categories of people who will be raptured during the trumpet sound, (i) The dead in Christ will rise first (ii) We who are alive shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. As a result both these categories will continue from that time to be always with the Lord forever. But in 1 Cor 15:51-52, Paul describes all the believers of only one category rising up, they are “the dead will be raised, incorruptible, and we [i.e. the martyrs during the tribulation and of all times past] shall be changed”.

(g) The resurrection of tribulation martyrs is a mystery compared to the rapture because Paul says “…we shall not all sleep [i.e. all believer’s living at the time of tribulation will not die (Matt 24:22)], but we [i.e. those who have been martyred for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God (Rev 20:4-6)] shall all [i.e. the martyred saints of every era] be changed….at the last trumpet [i.e. second coming of Christ (Matt 24:31)].” (1 Cor 15:51-52).

(h) In the martyr’s resurrection Jesus will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet [i.e. last trumpet], and they will “gather together His elect” all over the earth (Matt 24:31; Rev 20:4-6). But in the Judgment of nations, after Jesus sits on His throne, all the nations will be gathered before Him, only then Jesus will start to separate the sheep believers from the goat unbelievers (Matt 25:31-34, 41). If the martyred tribulation saints were standing in the judgment of nations before the throne of Jesus to be separated from unbelievers, How can they sit at the same time to judge, live and reign with Jesus? (Rev 20:4). This clearly shows that the martyr’s resurrection will happen at the exact time of Jesus’ second coming to the earth. Then all the martyred saints will sit along with Jesus in their glorious bodies and will judge the nations because judgment will be “committed to them”. Praise the Lord!

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The Tangible Attributes

The Tangible Attributes of the Anointing

By Abraham Israel

The anointing of God can be felt tangibly in three realms of our lives initially. The three realms are spiritual, soulish and physical. The regenerated spirit within us will be able to identify tangibly the effects of the anointing in the spiritual realm (1 John 4:13; Titus 3:5-6; John 6:63). The words that Jesus speaks to us from heaven is brought to our spirit man though the Holy Spirit (John 16:12-15). It is very easy to hear the voice of Jesus in our spirit man (Heb 12:25). The more our spirit man gets bigger and bigger [i.e. renewed and edified], the more space God will have to dwell in us (Eph 3:16-17; 2 Cor 4:16; 5:1-5; 1 Cor 14:4). The more He dwells in us the more we will be able to hear and identify His voice. The more we keep on hearing His voice, the more the faith of God and confidence in Him will bubble out of our spiritual inner man (Rom 10:17; Heb 11:1). The more we keep on hearing His voice the more He will be pleased with our lives (Heb 11:6; Deut 5:23-30; 15:5-6). As a result of hearing His voice we will receive the empowerment of God flow through our spiritual inner man in to every area of our lives. The spiritual blessing then becomes manifested in our soul and our physical body (Isaiah 58:11; Prov 13:4). This physical blessing of God will then manifest in to the financial and social sphere of our lives (Gen 24:1, 35, 50-52). Many Christian wrongly believe that getting rich is not a spiritual thing, but they forget that it is the anointing of God that empowers a man to acquire wealth (Deut 8:18). It is God who can really keep a man busy with the joy of his heart and give riches, wealth and also give the power to eat of it, to receive his heritage and rejoice in his labor - this is the gift of God (Eccl 5:18-20). So only the Bible says that the blessing of the Lord makes one rich [i.e. in all things which includes spiritual, soulish, physical, financial and social area], and He adds no sorrow with it(Prov 10:22).

The main difference between a rich person who have acquired wealth for his own self in the world and a kingdom person who has acquired wealth through God’s empowerment is the enjoyment that they will have in holding it (Prov 11:24-25; 1 Tim 6:17). The godly rich person will have great joy in giving and using his wealth in building the kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven, because he will understand that it is the will of God (Matt 6:10, 33; Prov 21:26; 11:28; 13:22; 28:8). So only God Himself allows the wicked and selfish man to store his wealth so that at the right time He will transfer that riches in to the hands of the righteous to enjoy life and to supply it to everyone who is in need (Prov 13:22; 28:8; Job 27:13-17; Is 45:3). The worldly rich man may aquire a lot of wealth but he will not be able to enjoy it in all the three realms [i.e. spiritual, soulish and physical] of life (Eccl 2:26). He will have a lot of sorrows and worries along with his riches because of his trust in his material wealth rather than the God who gives it to enjoy (Ecc 5:12; Prov 28:11, 20; 1 Tim 6:9-10, 17-19). Sorrows are curses that come upon a man’s life because of the legal justice of God on earth (Prov 19:23; 13:21; 11:31; 26:2; 28:20). When God blesses a person it will bring enjoyment in to that man’s life and surrounding, it will last for eternity because it comes through the eternal spirit man inside him and it will follow him generation after generation(Prov 8:18; 13:7; 15:6; 20:7).

The Apostle Paul in Ephesians 1:3 describes this anointing as the “[The empowerment though which] …the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, …has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ.” In other words through the anointed one [i.e. the Christ], God the Father has made the anointing of God to be available without limit to everyone who has become a believer in Jesus Christ’s birth, death and resurrection as a substitute for them. This spiritual blessing is actually an empowerment that God gives to make a person to be successful in whatever field they work in. The anointing is the very ability of God that gets rubbed over us as we stay in the presence of God perpetually. Actually the Holy Spirit who is the third person of the trinity becomes a resident in a believer right from the moment that person receives Jesus Christ to be his Lord and Savior of his life (1 John 3:24). From this point of time the Holy Spirit is called as the anointing that teaches a believer because He is the divine executive of the trinity who releases this ability of God in a person to succeed in his life (1 John 2:27). The source of its release is pointed toward Jesus Christ who is described as the Holy one who holds this anointing infinitely without measure (1 John 2:20; Matt 3:11; Titus 3:6; John 3:34).

1) The Anointing is rechargeable - Actually the power of the anointing is tangible and can be received by humans and stored in humans as a battery is charged and stored with the electric power. So only when Moses went in to the presence of the Lord and stayed for forty days in the intimacy of His presence to converse with the Lord, his body got so charged up with the anointing that his face shone literally like a bright eye-blinding high wattage bulb. As a result the people of Israel were afraid to come near him (Exodus 34:29-30). The charge that gets stored in us will be always proportional to the time we linger in His presence. Our physical human body is not able to continuously hold the glory-presence of the anointing of God continuously (2 Cor 3:7). Our human components have become leaky because we all have that deteriorating sin nature that causes us to sin and hence have fallen short of holding continuously the perfect glory of God (Rom 3:23). But the New covenant has made the Spirit of God to dwell in us by making our human body to become the temple of God (1 Cor 3:16).

The New Covenant gives us the guarantee that no matter how we grieve the Holy Spirit because of disobedience, He will never leave us nor forsake us because our lives are hidden under the blood of Christ (Eph 4:30; Heb 10:14-18; 13:5; Colossians 1:20; 3:3). So only Apostle Paul confidently says, “8 how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious? 9 For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more in glory. 10 For even what was made glorious had no glory in this respect, because of the glory that excels. 11 For if what is passing away was glorious, what remains is much more glorious.” (2 Cor 3:8-11). Now we have absolute flexibility and endurance to hold the glory of God without losing it in our spirit man which was not the same in the Old Testament, so only the preceding verse in 2 Cor 3:11 says that this glory remains with us always in the New Testament. We have an interpenetrated continuous connection with the glory of God in our spirit man (1 Cor 6:17). As we grow spiritually, our capacity to hold the glory of God increases from one level to another level in our inner man (2 Cor 3:18; 4:16; Eph 3:16). The glory that gets deposited upon a person now is for eternity and can be measured and weighed (2 Cor 4:17). The Glory of God is the Spirit of God and is the very person of God, so only Apostle Peter described the Holy Spirit with His inseparable character trait as the “…Spirit of glory and of God…”. This glory of God will “…rest[s] upon you…” proportionally to the criticism and reproach that you will go through for the name of Christ (1 Peter 4:14).

Our soul and the body have not been made perfect for now but will only be perfected on the day of rapture in which we will receive a continuous Spirit directed soul and a glorious body which will hold the glory of God in all the three realms of spirit, soul and body (1 John 3:2; Luke 24:39-43; 1 Cor 15:35-49; 1 Thess 5:23-24). Hence until then we need to dwell in the presence of God more and more to get recharged in our soul and body (2 Cor 7:1; Rom 8:11). This is what Moses did to get recharged with the glory of His presence, so only the Bible says, “33-35 When Moses finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face, but when he went into the presence of God to speak with him, he removed the veil until he came out. When he came out and told the Israelites what he had been commanded, they would see Moses' face, its skin glowing, and then he would again put the veil on his face until he went back in to speak with God.” [The Message] (Exodus 34:33-35). Apostle Paul has affirmed that this glory-anointing which manifests physically is within the reach and can be manifested by every individual believer in an ever increasing level more than the level of Moses in the Old Testament (2 Cor 3:7-18). Live for Christ and get the glory anointing of the presence of God deposited literally all over your spirit, soul and body. Be passionate and go after it, there is nothing that can be compared to this glory presence in one’s life. If you have it more and more, you have got everything that you would have ever longed for in your life!!!

2) The Anointing will always end up affecting our body – Some people think that their body will be made well only when they go to heaven finally to be with the Lord. If it is true why does the word of God say that “… if the Spirit of Him Who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, [then] He Who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also restore to life [i.e. healing and health] your mortal (short-lived, perishable) bodies through His Spirit Who dwells in you.” [Amplified] (Rom 8:11). It is not at all right to say that we will be made well only in heaven when the word of God says otherwise as we have seen in the preceding verse. It is not a provisional problem of God but it is our faith problem that when rectified will make us whole bodily. The challenging question that we should ask our self is, ‘Why did Jesus not deny a single person from being healed by saying that it was not God’s timing for them to get healed or saying to them that they lacked faith to get healed in all His three and half years of ministry that he did?’. He did not say like that because He believed that it is God’s will for everybody to get healed and be healthy for the glory of God (Acts 10:38; Heb 2:3-4; 1 John 3:8). One time a man not understanding the will of God asked Jesus “…If You are willing, You can make me clean.” (Mark 1:40). Jesus corrected his misunderstanding about the will of God saying, “…I am willing; be cleansed.” (Mark 1:41). Immediately this man with leprosy was healed (Mark 10:42).

Jesus only did what God the Father showed Him in His spirit man (John 5:19-21). This shows that God the Father is always willing to heal us if we persevere holding on to His promises and we will surely be rewarded at the end of our faith journey. The end means it is not the end of our life, rather the time of fruition when our faith will touch and receive the promise of God’s powerful Anointing and the resultant manifestation which happens tangibly (Heb 10:35-36). Another woman with a problem of the flow of blood for 12 years touched the clothes of Jesus with faith, immediately power flowed out of Him and healed her. She tangibly felt the power of God in her body and knew that she was healed (Mark 5:29). The power of God can be felt when the anointing of God gets quickened by our faith, both in the person who receives the benefits and also in the person through whom God works (Mark 5:29-30). Immediately Jesus did not say to her ‘Because you have touched my garment you have been healed’. If it is so, we cannot be healed today because Jesus in not present physically nor do we have his garments. But Jesus said to her, “Daughter, you faith has made you well…” (Mark 5:34). In other words Jesus told her, your faith in the healing power of God has made the healing anointing of God to flow through me to touch your body and be healed of your affliction, go in the completeness of His presence. This shows that our body will get affected by the presence of God as our faith will rise to touch and access the healing power of God again and again in our lives. Jesus many a times appreciated people and pointed to their faith as the sole reason for receiving healing (Matt 9:22; Mark 5:34; 10:52; Luke 8:48; 17:19; 18:42).

Jesus even while teaching the word of God was able to access this healing power of the Lord because of His expectant faith in God (Luke 5:17). The physical body of Moses was so charged up with the anointing of God so that even at the ripe old age of one hundred and twenty “… His eyes were not dim nor his natural vigor diminished” (Deut 34:7). This shows that God not only heals and strengthens us through His anointing, but also it is God’s will and a privilege for his children’s to stay fit and healthy by connecting to the glory presence of God. Nothing will be impossible with the anointing of God (Luke 1:37, 35). Learn to dwell in the healing presence of God daily by connecting to God through His word and praying to Him consistently on a daily basis. These activities will keep you full of faith and health because of the healing nature of His presence!

3) The Anointing can be stored and transferred even in inanimate objects that we use – The anointing is such a tangible blessing upon one’s life so that even the materials that we use will get charged with this ability of God. We see in the Bible that a dead man was raised from the dead when his lifeless body accidently touched the bones of Elisha inside the grave (2 Kings13:20-21). If we ask the question what made the dead body get resuscitated? It is the anointing of God that got deposited even in to the bones and marrows of Elisha because of a double portion anointing that he received from God while seeing Elijah his mentor taken up in to heaven (2 Kings 2:9-14). At first he was not mature enough to understand the anointing tangibly, so only at first he said, “…“Where is the LORD God of Elijah?” And when he also had struck the water, it was divided this way and that; and Elisha crossed over.” (2 Kings 2:14). Here in the preceding verse we see the desperation of Elisha more than his faith. Surely his words and action did show his inexperience in operating in the faith of God. His desperation was to operate and see the tangible manifestation of it in the natural realm like his mentor Elijah operated. One thing we should notice here is, God responded to Elisha's desperation to see the manifestation of the anointing. Even in our days if we are desperate for the anointing, God will manifest tangibly in the natural realm in unusual ways. But later in his life he got matured to identify the anointing whenever it came upon him. He also understood later, in what way the anointing of God would get stirred up in him. This is the reason he asked for a musician to come and play music. The moment the musician started playing the music, the anointing of God came upon Elisha strongly and he began to prophecy (2 Kings 3:14).

In the life of Apostle Paul we see that when he could not go to various places to pray for people to get delivered and healed, he laid over his body the handkerchiefs or aprons that people brought and literally deposited the anointing [ability] of God over the pieces of clothes, so that whoever took it in faith to the infirm people and placed it upon them, saw immediate deliverance, healings and miracles (Acts 19:12). This shows that the anointing can be literally stored in even inanimate things to affect people’s lives when God is pleased and works with a person because of their faith in Him (Acts 19:11; Heb 11:6). Faith in God brings the manifestation of the anointing in unusual ways.

Also we see in the life of Apostle Peter that the anointing of God was tangibly felt by people over a particular area or circumference around Peter [i.e. from the place where the anointed Apostle Peter stood to the place where the receiving people connected through their faith]. Again it shows that the anointing was active through the air particles. As the ions in the air get charged up and act as a conductor when lightning strikes, so also the anointing will release the power of God though the air in order to reach the receiving person. Again the faith of the people in bringing the sick into the streets and laying them in beds and couches, expecting that at least the shadow of Peter might fall on some of them released the power of God from the anointing that Apostle Peter was anointed with (Acts 5:15-16). Faith will always release the power of God from the anointing of God.

We also see that this anointing of God got deposited over the Israelites when they “all werebaptized into Moses [i.e. the instruction of God given through Moses] in the cloud and in the sea [i.e. symbolic of receiving anointing of God during salvation (sea) and then receiving the baptism in the Holy Spirit and refilling of the Holy Spirit (cloud) (Acts 10:44-48; 11:14-18)]” (1 Cor 10:2). Because of this anointing that covered the Israelites even their clothes and sandals did not get worn off (Deut 29:5; Neh 9:21). These things will work the same way even in our times after nearly three thousand years have passed because God says, “For I am the LORD, I do not change…” (Mal 3:6). It is our faith in God that brings such an anointing to cover our homes, children, material things, etc. Ask God with faith to tangibly cover you with such a glory cloud always and he will do it because it is His promise that says, “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.” (Matt 7:7). In fact God desires to give you such glory manifestation and covering, but it is your persistence that brings in the answer (Luke 11:13). In the original Greek the literal meaning forMatt 7:7 is, “[Ask and] Keep on asking and it will be given you; [Seek and] keep on seeking and you will find; [Knock and] keep on knocking [reverently] and [the door] will be opened to you.” Our persistence and audacity of faith will finally position us to receive more of the anointing of God in our lives. Praise the Lord!

4) The Anointing will cause joy and gladness in our heart just as wine and oil in the natural – The Bible compares the anointing of God in many places to the oil and wine that brings refreshment and extreme unspeakable joy. This is the kind of the manifestation that Jesus had. Even when Jesus felt hungry and tired while His disciples went to buy bread from a nearby place, God in His divine appointment made Jesus to minister to a Gentile woman of Samaria while sitting wearily in Jacob’s well at a city of Samaria. In the mean time when the Disciples came back, they urged Him to eat. Because of the anointing overflow that Jesus had already received while ministering to the Samaritan woman, Jesus suddenly felt rejuvenated and satisfied even without food. His hunger left Him because of the word that just then came out of the mouth of God and flowed through Him (Matt 4:4). The sudden surge of the anointing that Jesus felt was not noticed by the hungry disciples who must have come with expectation to eat along with Jesus (John 4:31-32). As a result the Bible says, “33 Therefore the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought Him anything to eat?” 34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work. 35 Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest! 36 And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. 37 For in this the saying is true: ‘One sows and another reaps.’ 38 I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored, and you have entered into their labors.”” (John 4:33-38). In the preceding verses Jesus made the disciples to understand that a reapers anointing receives immediate wages of rejoicing. The last days anointing is the reapers anointing of rejoicing. The apostles straightaway took the scriptures and used it to reap the already grown field of souls who knew the scriptures, which symbolically conveys the idea that the harvest was ripe. In other words, they were ready to receive the impartation of the anointing of God in to their lives. It was not the same in the Old Testament time in which the prophets were sowing the prophetic seed of the word of God in to the world through prophetic scriptures to be manifested in the last days (Rom 16:25-26; Heb 1:1-2; ). The bottom line is, Jesus wanted His disciples to understand that it is not unusual to receive such a rejoicing anointing, because it is the last days overflow that comes as a wages for the reaper of souls harvest. We too, in our generation should correct our wrong thinking when the joy of the Lord sweeps over a preacher or a congregation.

When such new wine anointing over flows even the voice of the preacher and the singing of the congregation will be affected because of it. The minister’s voice will suddenly begin to impart and carry the sweet vibration of joy and gladness that he will be experiencing in his heart. This unique anointed voice is described in the Bible as the “voice of joy”, “voice of melody” and the “voice of gladness” (Is 51:3: Jer 33:11). It is sometimes equated with the joyous intimacy of the “voice of the bride groom and, the voice of the bride” (Jer 7:34; 16:9).

When the anointing comes upon us we will be full of words, we will feel a compulsion within our spirit to speak the word of God which is in our mouth, then in our belly [i.e. innermost being or kidneys] we will feel a pressure as a wine that has no outlet and we will be ready to burst out like a new wine in a new wine skins. Only when we speak out under the anointing we will feel relieved (Job 32:18-20). Jeremiah under a heavy anointing felt the same way and said, “My heart within me is broken because of the prophets; All my bones shake. I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of the LORD, and because of His holy words.” (Jer 23:9). The Lord will fill his servants who are broken hearted and oppressed because of the burden of the ministerial yoke with such anointing, that they will literally feel like they are filled with wine because of the anointing. Such anointing can be experienced by every individual if only their confidence in this life will be on the Lord (Prov 3:24-26).

In the New Testament on the day of Pentecost the apostles were filled with the anointing of new wine so that the people who saw the apostles mistook for having drunk literal wine. Such was the literal manifestation of the anointing through them. But Apostle Peter stood with the other eleven apostles and explained this phenomenon of God that was prophesied hundreds of years ago by the prophet Joel and corrected their misunderstanding (Acts 2:13, 14-21). We too need to correct our misunderstanding and apprehension about the new wine anointing that God is releasing like never before in this prophetic summer season of the latter rain harvest(Matt 24:32). As the Bible says wine will always make glad the heart of man and oil will make the face of man to shine (Psalm 104:15). When the anointing increases upon us, we will feel glad and at the same time our face will start to literally shine like the face of Moses in the Old Testament and Stephen in the New Testament (Exodus 34:29-30; Acts 6:10,15). Many times without any specific reason our hearts will literally “rejoice with joy unspeakable [and inexpressible]” and our face will shine “full of glory” (1 Peter 1:8). As the Bible says, "...[Our]heart shall swell with joy;.." (Is 60:5). This phenomenon is nothing but the bursting of the new wine anointing out of our inner most being (Prov 3:10). This new wine anointing is actually the New Covenant anointing that Jesus told people will desire in the last days (Luke 5:39; Matt 9:17; Mark 2:22). Only the new wine anointing will make glad the maidens of the bride of Christ to be cheerful in such a distressing times like ours (Zec 9:17; 2 Tim 3:1). Love the lord will all your heart, soul and mind and love your neighbors as yourself, as a result of it you will experience this true new wine anointing which will only come because of being in intimacy with the bridegroom who is Christ (Matt 22:37-40). Once you experience it then you will long for it saying “…For your love is better than wine.” (Song 1:2). Desire the new wine anointing with all your heart from the Lord and you will experience it! Praise the Lord!

5) The Anointing will increase hatred in you against lawlessness – The anointing will increase in you a passion and love for God and His righteousness. Like a hungry and thirsty person lost in a desert, you will long for more and more of God’s righteousness; repeatedly you will be filled with the anointing of God (Matt 6:6). Proportionate to the love you have toward God you will begin to hate lawlessness and evil utterly (Ps 97:10). The Bible says that God the Father said to His Son Jesus, “You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness;Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You with the oil of gladness more than Your companions.” (Heb 1:9). From this preceding verse we see that the capacity of the anointing mantle that we receive from the Lord and its increase upon us will be directly proportional to our love for the righteousness of God and our hate towards the lawlessness of the devil and his evil demons (1 John 3:4, 8). God Himself has become our righteousness in the New Covenant (Jer 23:6).

The manifestation of the anointing is inseparably intertwined with gladness. Only the Lord can give such gladness, no devil or demon can ever bring the true gladness of the anointing in to a person’s life. The devil can only try deceitfully to imitate such things. Where ever there is an original, there will always be a counterfeit (2 Cor 11:10-15). But the true seekers and lovers of God can easily differentiate the real from the bogus manifestation. Jesus has advised His followers to check the fruit of the Spirit [i.e. good character of Christ] in a person’s life to find whether they are genuine or duplicate look alike. If the fruits are not good, then the direction in which the anointing will steer us will not be God-wards but more in to a state of lawlessness(Matt 7:15-23; Gal 5:22--23). The anointing is holy anointing oil, so it should not be used to indulge in the fleshly things of lawlessness. There should also not be any imitation of the manifestation of the real anointing. Or else God will cut of the person from the family of God(Exodus 30:32-33). So ask the lord to put in you a holy reverance toward the anointing, so that you will desire for it intensly and will be carrying it for the glory of God.

Pray now, Dear Heavenly Father, I love you and your righteousness, put in me a holy hatred against all forms of wicked, evil and lawless things in my life and surroundings, increase my desire and love for your righteousness more and more. Let your mighty anointing increase in my life and let your glory manifest tangibly (Luke 11:13). Thank you for hearing and answering my prayer in Jesus Name I pray, Amen!!! Hallelujah!!

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