PORTALS IN SPACE AND TIME
PORTALS IN SPACE AND TIME (Friends: This is long, but you
might want to take the time to read it.)
“Then
He (Abram) proceeded from there to the mountain on the east of Beth-el and
pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he
built an altar to the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord.” Gen. 12:8
“And he(Jacob)
had a dream and behold a ladder was set on the earth with its top reaching to
heaven; and behold the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. And
behold the Lord stood above it and said: ”I am the Lord, the God of your father
Abraham and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give it to you
and to your descendants. Your descendants shall also be like the dust of the
earth and you shall spread out to the west and to the east and to the north and
to the south; and in you in in your descendants shall all the families of the
earth be blessed. And behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go
and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have
done what I have promised you.” Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said,
“Surely the Lord is in this place and I did not know it.” And he was afraid and
said “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God and
this is the gate of heaven.” So Jacob rose early in the morning and took the
stone that he had put under his head and set it up as a pillar and poured oil
on its top. And he called the name of the place Bethel…” Gen. 28:12-19a
God
dwells outside of our space/time as we know it… and so from the very beginning
He set up portals both in space and in time… points of contact between heaven
and earth. If we read carefully, we can see that heaven’s angels use these
portals as entry and exit points into our dimension. Satan also makes use of
these portals and this is why the high places were set up where the worshippers
of pagan gods could make contact with the principalities and powers behind
their idols. Mt. Herman was a portal through which 200 fallen angels came down
to consort with human women. (Gen. 6)
Daniel
pulls back the curtain for us a little in showing that Gabriel had to fight his
way past certain demonic overlords in order to answer Daniel’s prayer. It was
we, through Adam who made Satan the god of this world and so until Yeshua came
and spoiled principalities and powers and unleashed His Holy Spirit upon the
earth, Angels pretty much had to enter into our realm by human permission. In
other words, Satan legally gained ownership of this world from man and so
heavenly angels could only come into this atmosphere when invited and entreated
by men.
It was
Abraham who travelled to Mt. Moriah to offer His son on the very spot where God
would later offer His Son and thus he opened up a portal to heaven in Jerusalem
which David would later set up as the City of the Great King.
The
Bible is full of great mysteries which we fail to appreciate simply because we
don’t understand the depth of meaning behind them. So God established portals
of entry into our world and led the ancient patriarchs to discover these
portals and to set up places of worship or altars unto the Lord in those
places.
It is
interesting to note that people who visit Jerusalem for the first time, in
spite of the different culture, they are surprised when they feel that they
have somehow come home. It is because of a sense of divine appointment, that
the God of heaven who lives in our hearts also dwells in this place and we
sense it. Jerusalem is still the main portal between heaven and earth and that
is why it is a cup of trembling after 2000 years. We can’t even comprehend why
the powers and governments of this world would be fighting over a dusty little
ancient spot like Jerusalem. But it is not what we see, but what we don’t see
that is the source of the problem. Principalities and powers are battling over
control of this portal as if whoever wins this battle will become the rightful
ruler of the world.
This is
why Jesus ascended to heaven from the Mt. of Olives and why He will return at
His second coming and set foot on the Mt. of Olives in the same spot from
whence He left. He is coming to reclaim this portal once and for all and to set
up His kingdom, having bound Satan for 1000 years.
Jesus
is coming to reclaim His lost territory, to clean it up and to teach His sons
and daughters how to rule and reign with Him according to eternal principles,
rather than the temporary self-gratifying, self- destructive principles of
Satan’s kingdom.
We
think that God can just wiggle His nose and change everything with a blink, but
that is not the case. He may have created the world in 6 days, but it is going
to take 1000 years to redeem and to restore that which has been destroyed by
sin.
This
redemption and restoration has already been going on for 2000 years in human
hearts, one person at a time and like I said, God may have created the heavens
and the earth in 7 days, and we are instantly saved by the blood of Christ, but,
learning to live by the spirit rather than by the flesh is a life-long process.
It is in most cases a very slow process simply because we don’t understand what
God is trying to do. We tend to take this living process and turn it into dead
religion and then we follow our traditions while our hearts remain unchanged.
(This is not God’s plan.)
We are
so slow to learn and Satan has done a good job of perverting it by calling
every portal in both space and time legalism, or old and done away. We no
longer take advantage of God’s appointed times and appointed places. And while
we have universal access to God now through His Holy Spirit, it is interesting
to discover that God is still working according to His appointed times.
God
placed certain blessings on His appointed times. Because of anti-Semitism in
the early centuries of Christianity the Sabbath was changed and with it, the
loss of one of our portals in time. The appointed feasts of the Lore were also
traded in for pagan holidays and a whole bunch more of God’s portals in time
were lost. This is perhaps why the world is plunging into darkness… and it is
also why God is restoring a knowledge of these appointed times, these portals
so that His Remnant people can once again operate by divine appointment.
Satan
is going to do everything in his power to force the world onto his agenda. The
Mark of the Beast represents man releasing his allegiance to God and turning to
Lucifer for his security and blessing. The globalists are all Luciferians and
their goal is to gain total control of the world and to wrench it away from God
once and for all. This of course includes control of the portals… Jerusalem is
a prime target… and they will also try to gain control of the portals in time
by killing anyone who tries to connect with God on His appointed times.
The
Sabbath, of course is one of these Portals in time and even science has
verified that there is a special kind of rest and restoration that takes place
from Friday evening to Saturday evening. It is a 24 hour portal of rest and
re-creation.
Many
Sabbath keepers don’t understand this concept and so they make a religion out
of it, or turn it into legalism and therefore lose the blessing. But for those
who understand… it is a portal of rest and blessing between heaven and earth.
It is an access portal into heavenly places.
Like I
said, earlier, God is still operating according to His appointed times. He
brought this to our attention with the blood moons and eclipses in 2014-15. He
brought it to our attention by causing our finances to take a dive every
Shemitah. (Every 7th year since the 1920s) He is trying to teach His
remnant people how to connect with Him, not as a legalistic ritual, but as a
series of open doors.
Apparently
the church of Laodicea never gets it, but the church of Philadelphia does, for
it says concerning them: “And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write;
He who is holy who is true, who has the key of David to open and no one will
shut and who shuts and no one opens says this” “I know your deeds. Behold I
have put before you an open door which no one can shut, because you have a
little power and have kept My word and have not denied My name.” Rev.3:7, 8.
Then
God says something strange in the very next verse. He says: “Behold I will
cause those of the synagogue of Satan who say that they are Jews and are not,
but lie- behold, I will make them come and bow down at your feet and to know
that I have loved you.” Rev. 3:9
What is
that all about? Of course some will try to tell you that those who claim to be
Jews in Israel today aren’t really Jews and they will even deny the greatest
miracle of our times as God brought Israel back from all of the nations where
He had scattered them. He restored their language and culture and for those who
study Bible prophecy, hundreds of end time prophecies are being fulfilled daily
in Israel even as the surrounding nations plot to drive them into the sea.
I am
speculating here, but is it possible that through replacement theology pagan
Christianity claims to be the new Israel in spite of the fact that they have
changed every one of God’s laws, His calendar and His appointed times and
replaced them with pagan portals? What are the real issues that will bring the
whole world to one final boiling point and why is Israel at the center of it?
And why did God fulfill Joel 2:31 in our day at the very time when the global
religion of the Beast is being formed and Jerusalem is being fought over by
many factions?
The
truth is, most of the church is asleep today simply because they do not
understand the issues. They have abandoned the study of Bible prophecy, they
are steeped in replacement theology and won’t let go of it, they love their
traditions, and worst of all, they have little or no idea that God’s goal for
these last days is to bring many sons to glory… that is to restore a people to
the image of Christ.
This is
why Romans 8 is so important. We simply must learn to live by the Spirit and
not by the flesh. And the goal of this is that we become” His body, the
fullness of Him who fills all in all.” Ephesians 1:23 and rather than being
detached in some way, Jesus, by His Holy Spirit is “building up the body of
Christ; “until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the measure of
the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ.” Ephesians 4:13. WOW! Is
that a high calling or what?
We are
being “renewed in the spirit of our mind and we are putting on the new self
which is the likeness of God, which has been created in righteousness and
holiness of the truth. This is the work of the Holy Spirit and it is so close
to us and so intimate that Paul says: “And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of
God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.” Eph. 4:30. IN other
words, it grieves the Holy Spirit when we ignore His presence in our temples
(bodies) and it also grieves Him when we cause Him to participate in things
that He abhors, by our actions. We cannot do this and live at peace with God.
Religion
cannot take the place of that which the Holy Spirit is doing inside of us. We
have fellowship with one another through the Holy Spirit and it is the Holy
Spirit that makes us one Body… and yet we see a Body in the world that is
shrinking and dying in many places and powerless in others. We see a church
that has not managed to hold off the destruction of our nation as it plunges
into moral and spiritual decay. Even the church itself is morally weak and
broken. What will restore us?
For one
thing, the church has removed itself from its ancient foundations. One of the
Feast days that it has abrogated is Pentecost, even as they deny the living and
active work of the Holy Spirit. They have set Him on a high pedestal and they
invoke His name, but they do not let Him into their hearts.
So I am
not talking about a legalistic observance of the Feast days. Rather I am
talking about getting back to the foundational things that those Feast days
represent.
PASSOVER: The blood of the Lamb by which we are saved and
delivered
UNLEAVENED BREAD: The sinless sacrifice offered in our place
FIRST FRUITS: The risen Christ who presents Himself to the
Father as the first fruit of many to come.
PENTECOST: The infilling of the Holy Spirit through whom
Christ is being formed in us…who enables us to replicate the life of Christ and
to carry His good news to a dying world with transforming power.
FEAST OF TRUMPETS: A
feast yet to be fulfilled by the coming of our Lord
DAY OF ATONEMENT: Judgment and reconciliation when our sins
are forever taken away.
TABERNACLES: When Jesus returns to earth to tabernacle among
men for 1000 years.
How can
it be said that these appointed times have been done away when the last three
of them have yet to be fulfilled? And while we have universal access to God
through the Holy Spirit since the cross, God still operates and carries on His
agenda on earth through His portals of time and space and I think it is
possible that we will rediscover the power of the early church if we will
return to those things which formed the foundations of their faith before many
of the foundations were removed by men.
The Old
Testament saints were saved by looking forward to the Messiah, just as we are
saved by looking back to the Messiah… and yet Hebrews 11:40 tells us that: “All
of these having gained approval through their faith did not receive what was
promised because God had provided something better for us, so that apart from
us they should not be made perfect. “ Heb. 11:39, 40. That is to say that the
animal sacrifices that pointed forward to Yeshua could not cleanse them like
the blood of Yeshua did and we are also given to understand as well that while the
Holy Spirit was WITH them, He could not be IN them until Christ’s atoning
sacrifice was accomplished. (See John 14:17, Acts 8:14-17)
The
blood moons of 2014 and 15 fell on Passover and Tabernacles, the first and the last
feasts. They speak volumes to us for they serve as a reminder of God’s
appointed times and indeed the knowledge of these appointed times has been
growing by leaps and bounds since then. But they also announced to us that we
are entering into the final days of earth’s history, when all of the issues
will come to a head, the final battles will be fought, the great falling away
will take place so that the man of sin may be revealed and the Time of Jacob’s
Trouble will begin.
We are
seeing nature going out of control just as the Bible says it will in these last
days. Volcanos are springing up all over
the place providing harbingers of things to come.We see the nations in an
uproar. We see the formation of the global religion of the Beast forming even
as large parts of the church abandon the foundations of the faith and join the
ranks of the antichrist. We see negotiations under way for a peace treaty in
Jerusalem as well as preparations for the building of the third temple. We see
signs in the sun, moon and stars. How can God’s people be asleep? It is
astonishing!
It is
no accident that the two witnesses are Moses and Elijah. They are coming to
restore the ancient foundations. Elijah will restore the hearts of the fathers
to their children and the children to their fathers. Notice how large groups
are now denying the Old Testament altogether and separating further from it.
This is the countering work of Satan because he knows that the two witnesses
are coming soon and he is working to undermine their message even before they
arrive.
There
are two things that Satan wants removed from the earth with extreme prejudice…
God’s chosen people the Jews and God’s other chosen people the Remnant who have
become Abraham’s seed and heirs according to promise. He hates those who
brought the Word of God into the world and those who brought the Messiah of God
into the world and He also hates those who believe in them.
So, even as Satan is
seeking to destroy both groups, God is making them into one new man in Christ.
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