The first break will be the ascension of the Bride of Christ and that before the beginning of the seven years Tribulation Period. This first break will firstly permit all those that are anointed and governed by the Holy Spirit (Overcomers, Bride of Christ) to be lifted from this earth and from this Universe, that is, from this physical Creation conta­mi­na­ted with evil and darkness, from this territory governed by Satan, and taken OUT of it. The Redemption of the Universe demands this process that in a specific point of time to­wards the end of its existence, the redeemed man would be taken out of it so that the evil and unrighteousness in the Universe and Satan, the originator of that evil, may be judged by that man and by Christ, and thereby bring into the Universe “all righteousness” (Mt. 3:15), that is, full satisfaction to God the Father. This first break will also permit Satan to begin the seven years Tribulation Period under the rule of antichrist. Satan and his angels are at that time still in Heaven and still influence these heavenly realms with their dark­ness and evil. But then, Satan and his angels are cast down to the earth and that because of the Blood of the Lamb and of the testimony of the Bride of Christ (Rev. 12:7-12/ Mt. 18:16/ 2Cor. 13:1). After Satan is cast down to the earth, he takes the full power which God will give him, to continue 42 months (3½ years of the Great Tribulation) as God’s instrument for the destruction of the world (Rev. 13:5-7).

The second break will be before the end of the Great Tribulation and it will be the ascension of the others from the Church, which were not taken during the Coming of the Bridegroom, but they were blessed and worthy of the First Resurrection (Rev. 20:6). This will give the opportunity for God to pour His great wrath on the world and destroy it by fire (Rev. 16:1-21). This represents the “cleansing of the Universe” from evil and darkness and from the rule of these powers of evil and darkness. By this fire God prepares condi­tions for the 1,000 year’s Kingdom of Heaven on earth in which truth and justice will rule. After this Kingdom on earth, God will create a New Heaven and New Earth, that is, a New Universe in which truth, justice and Life will rule for ever and ever (Rev. 21:1,2). Hence, the Re­demption–Renewal of the Universe rests not only in Christ and His work of Redemp­tion, but also in the redeemed man, which by his own will allowed himself to be formed into the Image of Christ (Rom. 8:29) and lives in Him as a member of His Body for ever and ever and has all the authority over hell and all the powers of darkness and evil.

Our New spiritual man was created in liberty of the Spirit of God because wherever there is the Spirit of God, there is liberty (2Cor. 3:17). If, therefore, the Spirit of God is not in our soul, does not have access to it, cannot influence it, does not govern it in any way, then our soul cannot be free, but remains in the slavery to the powers of darkness and evil. Hence, if we do not overpower these obstacles in our soul, do not open the “door” to our spirit where Christ dwells by His Spirit and from where He knocks on the heart of our soul (Rev. 3:20), then we will never be liberated during all our earthly life. And we will never be able to do what we know we should do. All our life we will remain unuseful to the Lord, without oil, which also means, without love and faith and our entry into the Kingdom will remain questionable because we will have nothing to do there and will not be worthy of it. Also, we will contribute nothing to the liberation and cleansing of the Universe, of that Magnificent and Majestic Creation of God. As long as we prefer a spiritual slavery and misery on this poor and cursed earth and caring just for own selves, then we cannot possibly know neither Christ, nor the devil and cannot be useful to Christ in any way.

On the basis of the above Light of God, let us consider the baptism by water more deep­ly. Few Christians have any notion what their baptism really meant before God, before Christ Jesus, the Son of God and why they had to be baptized at all. I myself had a rather limited understanding and notion about my baptism, which were growing only gradually and were gaining wider and deeper meaning. We could write a lot about this important act of Christ­ianity. I desire to turn to one Word of God, which was never preached to us, nor was it ever explained in any way because, apparently, nobody had a vision reaching beyond the meaning of the letters of this Word. When the Lord was coming for His baptism, John the Baptist objected to it (Mt. 3:13,14). The Lord, of course, understood him very well, but John did not understand what a tremendous event was about to take place. The Lord told him: “Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness“(Mt. 3:15). It should be quite clear that no one can interpret these words of the Lord to mean that when He stepped down into the water of Jordan, He thereby fulfilled “all right­eousness”. The Lord was speaking here about something far more important, far greater and much, much more far-reaching.

When this Universe, this present Creation of God, fell under the wrath of God, under His Judgment due to the evil, sin, unrighteousness and death, which corrupted and defaced this Creation, God rejected it and He demands an absolute righteousness. God will never abandon or modify His demand for an absolute, universal righteousness, holiness and purity of His Creation. Man, of course, was never able of such a deed. Therefore, had God not planned the Redemption, the Renewal of His Creation, then man together with the whole Universe would have had to perish, be totally destroyed, exterminated from his existence being absolutely unable to satisfy the demands of God for an absolute right­eous­ness and holiness of His Creation. (Note: This is in all likelihood represented by what hap­pened between the first and the second verse of Genesis, chpt. 1) In other words, a righteous Creation, righteous man and righteous and pure Universe must be produced to satisfy “all righteousness” demanded by God. Thus the Lord had THIS in His under­stand­ing and vision when He was stepping down to the water of Jordan, and not only to die for a sinful man. This old Creation corrupted and defaced by evil, sin and unrighteousness must be exchanged for a New Creation, New Heaven, New Earth, New Universe where righteousness will rule. Because He, that sat on the Throne said: “Behold, I make all things new” (Rev. 21:1,5). The Baptism of Christ was thus a “Cosmic Baptism”, point­ing to His “Cosmic Death” on the Cross, which resulted in the change of the Universe from the old one to a New One. And the born-again man has his important role in this affair according to his high calling of God in Christ Jesus. That’s why Apostle Paul was press­ing for that high prize and important accountability before God (Phil. 3:14).

This is at least the most important part of the LIGHT about the scope of Christ’s Redemp­tion, about His Personal Majesty and Power, about His Will and Purpose which are, always were and always will be in harmony with the Will and Purpose of God the Father. And alongside all this, He is meek and lowly in heart (Mt. 11:29) and this Majestic Personality of the King of Universe lives in our spirit!… and we hardly know Him! This Majestic King of the Universe gave us His Life; and now, when He wants us to give Him our life, we hesita­te or even refuse! THIS IS OUR TRAGEDY! And because we hardly know Him, we hardly know our own selves! We know our soul only to the degree to which we are self-conscious and thus we also know to the same degree our character. But we do not know WHY we are as we are, why we believe as we believe, why we act as we act, what powers govern our soul and direct it, what powers formed our character, our nature, our habits and all what we have “in our blood”. Why do we not know it? Because we are deceived! In fact, we can never know ourselves in truth until the Lord gives us His Light in which we would be able to see ourselves. Here we are coming to another Part of the Earthly and Heaven­ly Spiritual Facts.

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To be continued next week

brother Hanola

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