The dream then moved as I could see myself sleeping in a bunk room. I was experiencing a strong sense of urgency to wake up so that I would not miss the Lord’s message to His leaders. As I awoke I noticed that everyone was already dressed and gone into the stadium in the next room. It was a sort of strange but there was a large tinted window in the wall of the bunk room that allowed you to see into the stadium from the top level. As I looked through the window I could see the stadium was full of leaders and I could barely see the Lord on stage because it was so far away. I became rushed and in a hurry to get dressed so that I could hear what the Lord was saying, but as I attempted to go where my luggage was, I noticed that there was dung, feces, waste all over the floor. I then tried to navigate around the contaminated areas of the floor to go into the bathroom area where I figured my clothes were. As I entered into the bathroom area there was a huge man that seemed to me as if he weighed 600 pounds or so. He was sitting on a toilet that was elevated about two or three steps above the floor. There was dung everywhere on the floor, on the walls it seemed to be smeared everywhere I turned. I was disgusted at the sight of the mess I saw. The man on the toilet was constantly making waste. Still driven with the urgency to get dress to see the Lord, I was now becoming frustrated that I could find no place to get dressed without getting dung on my clothes. As I realized that I could not successfully get dress without getting stained with dung, my last words in the dream was . . . “This has got be cleaned up!” Then I awoke.

At first I thought the dream was concerning a personal challenge within myself because I had over-slept in the dream. I thought maybe I needed to become more alert as to the Lord’s direction or somehow this dream was indicating to me that there was a need to more attentive to being prepared. However, as I investigated all details I began to see a different meaning unfold.

I began to ask myself, “How could these other preachers have gotten dressed without getting stained with dung?” The answer immediately came . . . ‘they didn’t'  They were stained with dung and it did not concern them to the degree that they went into the meeting with Christ with dung in their garments.

I also inquired, ‘who was this 600 lb. man on the elevated toilet?‘

That’s when the Lord begin making it clear that this dream was much bigger than me. It was later revealed to me that the huge man on the elevated toilet was the ‘fleshy, man-centered, earth-bound religious spirit’ that has been in the church from almost the beginning of the church age. It was using men to live and lead in their religious forms with only the power to produce dung. This spirit or mindset does not know Christ as first love; it has divided the church into denominations; it is strongly legalistic and has a heavy hand for condemnation; It is judgmental in nature knowing very little about grace and even less about mercy and the way peace is not known. This spirit is over the top with the attraction to appearance, is fleshy, earthy, stylized and driven by the pride of life; It has never known true intimacy with God being without depth and empty of life while in pursuit of the glossy and the fashionable.

This is the huge man sitting on the throne-like toilet messing in the church.

It is a huge religious spirit that has enlarged itself over the years.

Mal 2:3 – “Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, [even] the dung of your solemn feasts; and [one] shall take you away with it.” (solemn feasts are religious  forms and ceremonies. they are worth nothing without a heart that loves and honors the Lord)

Phil 3:8 – “Yea doubtless, and I count all things [but] loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them [but] dung, that I may win Christ,

The only thing to be done with dung is gathered up and carried away to be burned, buried or flushed.

I had realized that the Lord was showing me the awful religious condition of the church that is in desperate need of being cleaned up. No wonder Jesus prayed in John 17 for the sanctification of the church through the truth. Scripture also declares in Eph 5:26 “That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,”

Le Yonn Armstrong

Love The Truth

To Repent = means to change the mind, to turn the thinking in the opposite direction.

Man was going his own way. The old testament definition of sin is  . . . “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.” (Isaiah 53:6)

Jesus came and preached  ’And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.’

Jesus came declaring the gospel of the kingdom and coupled that declaration with the word ‘repent‘ —— > change your mind.

It does not mean curl up on the ground to beg and cry. It does not mean to tarry at the altar. It does not mean to tell God how your good days out number your sinful days. It does not mean to tell God you will never do it again.

It is not how skillful you are at persuading God to let you off the hook. It simply means to change your mind and commit to trying your best to do better.

The better is based upon the gospel or good news from God. The gospel of the kingdom functions to stir faith in the heart of man. The gospel empowers faith to be stirred in a man. Faith aligns a man’s thinking to follow after God’s thinking.

Repentance is a faith expression. It is brought about by observing God’s goodness.

Ro 2:4
Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

It is the goodness of God that can be so overwhelming that it can ultimately produce godly sorrow. It is realizing that I don’t want to continue doing bad in the presence of God being so good. As you literally discover that God is so good it hurts you to wrong against Him.

2 Co 7:10
For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

There is a difference between godly sorrow and the sorrow of the world. Godly sorrow produces true repentance and brokenness before God. The sorrow of the world is typically regret for getting caught, embarrassment to the ego or wounded pride, yet that there is no turning; whereas godly sorrow causes a person to turn right toward God.

It is importance to know that repentance does not pay for sin. It is the self-righteous mindset that thinks if he should sin, that he can repent it away. As if repentance pays for sin. This goes back to knowing that sin was already destroyed before it was committed and repentance is the door to enter in and take advantage of sins that were already paid for.

Love The Truth
Pastor Armstrong

One of the longest words in scripture is ‘SALVATION’. It takes a lifetime.

What is salvation or what does it mean?

Its meaning is very vast.  In general It is deliverance from danger, deliverance from slavery, deliverance from enemies. In particular to the new testament it is deliverance from sin, flesh, sin’s penalty. Not only does it mean being delivered from but being delivered into – the body of Christ  and into everlasting life. It is also deliverance for sickness and disease and any other damage caused while under the devil’s influence . It is rescue, restoration, reconciliation, renewal and revival.

Why is salvation needed?

Salvation is needed desperately in the entire human race. The number one reason is the fall of Adam and Eve from the presence of God into the dark depths of a sin nature. because of their fall from God into sin, all people born are born with sin in them. The problem in this is that sin is not like catching the cold of flu, something you can get over with time, rest and drinking fluids. Sin is much like having a terminal disease, being a slave and in debt all at the same time; with no way out. Man was utterly cast down and over-powered by the condition of sin. Man had no strength of his own to conquer or subdue sin. Man does not possess the worth or wealth enough to pay for sin.

The Law Was Added

In most cases when the bible speaks of the ‘law’, it is referring to the first covenant – the ten commandments that were given to Moses on Mount Siani

(Deuteronomy 34:28)

Romans 5:13 says, “For until the law, sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.”. From the time that Adan sinned until the time that Moses was raised up, sin was in man but there was no law to call it sin nor to enforce the penalty for sin.

Sin not imputed = means not charged

From Adam to Moses mankind had no knowledge of sin and and certainly did know how bad it was because there was no law given that would charged then for sin.

God gave the ten commandments to Moses as a measuring rod for sin so that man would come to know his sinful condition. The law of Moses acted as an x-ray machine to help man see that sin was in him; and killing him. The law was the catalyst that defined man’s need for salvation. The law called sin what it was. The law called man a Sinner. Through the law sin became the power of death in the devil’s hand over the human race.

Christ The Savior

As the knowledge of sin reach it’s all-time peak through the law, The advent of Christ as the Word – made flesh; was made manifest to destroy the works of the devil. Christ was sent to be the vehicle of salvation. Just as in the days of Noah, the ark was the vehicle or vessel of salvation for eight people in the entire world.

This salvation though Christ would be offered to the entire world. He is God’s means of deliverance from sin, from danger, from enemies from sickness and disease. Christ is God’s strong arm being able to reach down and undue man’s bondage to sin. John 3:16 says, “For God so love the world that he gave His only begotten Son,that whosoever should believe on Him shield not perish but have everlasting life”

Luke 4:18 Jesus said, “The Spirit of the Lord [is] upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,”

John 1:29 John saw Jesus coming he said, “Behold the lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world”

Hebrews 2:9 says, “But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.

Hebrews 10:5 states, “Wherefore when He cometh into the world, He saith, sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not but a body thou hast prepared me.”

2 Corinthians 5:21 He who knew no sin was made to be sin for us; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.

Isaiah 1:18 Come let us reason together, Saith the Lord, thou your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; thou they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

There are gauntlet of scriptures that lift Jesus as the savior and His work of redemption/deliverance. without Jesus, there is no salvation. Jesus became the sin of the world on the cross. He died and tasted death for every man, woman, boy and girl.

The gospel which simply means good news is that Jesus died to pay for your sins and three days later God raised Him from the dead into eternal life. And if any man would believe on Jesus, Call on the name of Jesus, he shall be SAVED.

Salvation is God’s grace given to the world. Grace = means that it is a gift.

It can’t be earn and you can’t afford it. it is purely an expression of of God’s love.

Ephesians 2:8,9 says, “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.

God’s grace is a ‘saving grace’ or grace that saves us without merit or works.

Romans 10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe(have faith) in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

The Three Parts Of Man

Man is made of three parts. He is spirit, soul and body. Sin is so severe that it saturated every part of man.  Every part of man is saturated with sin because of fall of Adam. Though sin, death took rule over the human race; for the wages of sin is death. Man was on a death doomed course.

Righteousness through Christ has the same leaven effect. Matt 13:33, Jesus says, “Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.” Again the three measures of meal is a type of the three parts man being infected with the righteousness of God through Christ.

Faith in Jesus begins the salvation stages in a person’s life. Once a faith is stirred, salvation is on assignment to be accomplished in every part of man’s being. Just as sin actively occupied all three parts of man, salvation is given to saturate and take over all three parts of man’s being. Most Christians Identify themselves as being saved. But this is partly true. Their born-again spirit is saved. The soul can not be included in that arena of salvation. Only After being born-again in spirit, can the salvation of the soul begin by learning the word. The soul literally gives birth to the life of the word of God and this is what saves the soul.

The first area of salvation is to a man’s Spirit. He must be born again of the Spirit. “Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”(John 3:3) Jesus further explains in John 3:6 saying, “That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

The second area of salvation is to a man’s Soul. Learning the word of God saves the Soul. “receive with meekness the engrafted word which able to save your souls.” (James 1:18)

The third area of salvation is to a man’s body. “For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal [must] put on immortality. (1 Co 15:53)

also “Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body” (Phil 3:21)

The moment a person gives their life to Jesus, their spirit was born again into Christ becoming a new creation. The rest of your years on earth should be spent receiving the word of God through hearing, studying, learning and meditating; this saves the soul. The last stage of salvation shall happen for those who are full of the word when He(Christ) comes to be glorified in His saints.

Salvation is the longest word in scripture because of its ongoing process to be gained in all three areas of our lives as sons of God.

(1 Thess 5:23) follows, “And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and [I pray God] your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

There is more to the cross of Christ than many Christians know. Yet Paul is used to highlight the cross as the single most important knowledge there is to be gained saying in

1 Co 2:2 “For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.”

So much was accomplished by the crucifixion of Christ on the cross that benefits those that know the truth. The benefits of the cross are much more profitable through knowledge than just emotional agreement or one-dimensional belief. What Jesus did by way of the cross unveils a knowledge of what’s in God’s heart toward His people.

Luke 1:77  To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins,

When you look at the death of Christ on the cross, it was not only the death of Jesus. The Lord’s death was the death of the human race.

Hebrews 2:9  But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.

Romans 6:10,11 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

2 Corinthians 5:14   For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:

The above scriptures show that the death of Christ was the death of all men for sin. Since the cross, every man’s body is a dead body, a crucified body. All human bodies are loaded with the seeds of sin. All human bodies were under the death sentence.

Hebrews 9:27 “And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:”

The only appointment of death(death sentence) to the human race was when Adam sinned and death entered by sin.

Romans 5:12 “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:”

All because of the sin one man sin came upon all men. And all because of the crucifixion of one man, all men are crucified. The death of Christ was the death of all. Now, I know that this truth is starting to disturb many you. Because, to you, it is starting to sound like  . . . INCLUSION! Well rest your souls. I am not saying all men are saved and going to heaven. I do understand that to get the benefit of sins being paid for and going to heaven, you have to believe on Christ. But please understand, that those who never believed, their sins are all paid in full just as much as the all believers’ sins are paid in full. The difference is that the unbeliever does not get to partake in the benefits of the cross. The cross has paid for every sin in the whole world forever. This is a testament to the worth of Jesus and the perfection of His sacrifice. Just because there are those who will not believe, does not negate or diminish what the cross of Christ our Lord finished.

The point thus far in this lesson is that all have been crucified through the crucifixion of Christ. Most Christians have not learned to look at their lives through the lenses of being crucified with Christ. This knowledge is huge as it pertains to walking by faith. All flesh failures can be accounted to the cross where they have already been answered. I no longer have get all bent out of shape because I failed or messed-up somewhere in my life. I no longer look at the cross the same way. I don’t just see Jesus’ death, I now see my death through His death. That’s why Romans 6:7 tells us, “For he that is dead is freed from sin.”

To live under the dispensation of Christ crucified is to live in the knowledge of your death; and to live in the knowledge of having no sin”. This does not mean I don’t commit sin. It means that the penalty for all my sins forever have all been answered at the cross when the death of Christ became my death. Because of Christ and through Christ I died for all my sins 2000 years ago. Thank God we are not under the law or first covenant. That dispensation demanded death for sin. The death of Christ upon the cross opened a brand new reality with God. The magnitude of grace and mercy that only God can give has been released through the death of Christ that the goodness of God would bring men to repentance. Man can have justification by faith, salvation without works, love without fear, joy regardless of sorrow, holiness that never fails, repentance without blame, sin without remembrance and boldness through all failures. All of these and more were made possible by the cross of Christ.

This is why I have absolute faith in Christ and can say what Paul said – 2 Co 2:2  ”For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.”

Love The Truth
Pastor Armstrong

If you think about it, ‘passover’ was when the Israelites left Egypt and passed through the Red Sea. When they had made it over on the other side of the Red Sea, it closed up killing Pharaoh’s Army. This was truly the ‘passover’. The night before when they kill the lamb and smeared it’s blood on the door posts; and roasted the body of the lamb; they had to eat every bit of it, that was the ‘atonement’.  The atonement was completed by the shedding of blood and the burning of the lamb’s body.

What is the ‘atonement’? The popular answer among churchmen is ‘covering’. Atonement is a covering in a generic sense. However, in Christ ‘atonement’ is much much more. Many tend to diminish ‘atonement’ from being a new testament application and only see it to be a ceremonial practice in an old testament setting. The ceremonial practice of atonement only covered the sins of the people and could never take them away. Present theology teaches that ‘In Christ’ sins are taken away and therefore there is no need for a covering. Supposedly, this is the school of thought that dismisses the atonement or the need for covering in the new testament.

Well in light of the truth that is in Christ, it would be insufficient to limit the word atonement to just mean a covering; and it would be insuffiecient to say there is no need for a blood covering even with the knowledge that Christ has put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. The atonement is, but not limited to being a covering. For Christ became the sin of the world in His body and received the penalty for sin in our place upon Himself. And yet still the blood of Christ was fixed eternally in the heavens as a cleansing cover for the benefit of our sinful, un-regenerated flesh bodies.

While the need for blood is very vital, atonement goes beyond the application of blood. We must examine and know what God instructed beyond extracting blood from the sacrificial victim. It was the body of that animal that became the sin of the sinner. It was the body of that animal that was to be burned on the altar until there was nothing left but ashes. The body of the animal served as the substitute for the body of the sinner and his sin. The atonement is not just the blood being carried and put in place but the atonement includes the termination of the body of sin (of the sinner). Literally  . . . the death of our flesh . . . .  is also in the atonement!

Col 2:11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:

Your circumcision (Death of flesh at the cross) took place before you could accept Jesus as you savior.

Ro 6:6   Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with [him], that the body of sin might be destroyed,

Again our crucifixion, (of our flesh), took place way before our new birth in Christ.

The DEATH of Jesus was imputed to us.

WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN A DEATH CREDIT

We will not find full life in him until we accept His death as our own.

It was our death being accomplished by His death

If we are not dead by the death of Christ then we are subject to the law.

Ro 7:1   Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?

The law incarnate or in flesh, was nailed to the tree. If flesh was crucified then the law was also, seeing that it was no longer needed in the absence of sinful flesh. Man’s flesh was the target of the law. Once the flesh was terminated at the cross the assignment of the law was terminated as well.

Col 2:14  Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;

The church must see itself dead with Christ in this world yet alive unto God. The only justifiable outcome for sin is death. As a means of justice being served, God had to see our death for sin before he could give us life.

Ro 6:7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.

2 Co 5:14   For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:

Col 2:20    Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,

So then your response to this truth is to: “Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.” This is the mindset of faith, to proceed in the advantage of having a heavenly disposition in Christ, that I might enter into the fulness of redemption.

Here is a timely bible study for those who are comitted students of the word of God.

From time to time we read where people try to predict the ‘End Of The World’. It makes the news, dates are set and people talk. Man in his carnal reasoning continues to make unfounded predictions and dates that aren’t worth the time and attention that people give it.

In addition, there are so many Christians just waiting and expecting the rapture (catching away) as the next thing to happen. And I want to say to so many, that the rapture or ‘catching away’ cannot happen yet. I know there will be those of you who read this and will, without hesitation, think me to be a heretic. I want to make clear that I believe that a prepared people will be caught up in the air to meet the Lord. However, before this will happen, another feast of the Lord must be fulfilled first. If we are only expecting the rapture (catching away) in this day and hour, then we are leaving out or skipping over a very powerful and important part of God’s redemptive plan.

Christians belong to God. We as Christians are refered to as the children of light. Meaning, we should know the truth. More than that, God does not want any of His children ignorant.

God has a plan laid out in His word. Oftentimes people become indoctrinated with theology and things become twisted. Theology can be and has been used to teach anything man wants; but with God, only the truth counts. Let’s look at the truth of God’s redemptive purpose laid out in the shadow of the old covenant.

The book of Leviticus chapter 23 lays out a prophetic structure of God’s redemptive plan from beginning to end.

God uses Israel as puppets on the stage of history to play out His redemption story to its fullest in Christ. He gave Israel specific instructions concerning when they would stop their daily operations for the sake of worship. He called them ‘The Feasts Of The Lord”. These were holy convocations -literally ‘assemblies’

Leviticus 23:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.

The word ‘Feasts’ means appointed or set times. These appointed times were tailored to fit in an agricultral year in Israel. The beginning of their year was April(first month). The end of their year was October(seventh month). Passover was in the first month and Tabernacles was in the seventh month.

These [Set Times] were of the Lord and for the Lord. That’s what made them holy. But concerning the very end of things, that’s a time set by God, only for God to know as Jesus stated, NO MAN KNOWS

“But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.”

(Matt 24:36)

No man knows. No angels know. Jesus even included himself in ‘not knowing’ saying,

“But of that day and [that] hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.”(Mark 13:32)

Jesus also tells us our part in all of this by saying, in Matthew 24:42

“Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.“

We do know that he coming! And we should know that His coming is near. But to name a day and an hour is antithetical to the scriptures. It is absolutely ridiculous and faithless to state and stand on a claim that is directly opposite of what the word of God says!

When you read thoughout Leviticus 23, you will find seven Feasts listed out. Three of them are major feasts.

When Listed, it should be look like this:

1) Passover

2) Unleavened Bread

3) Firstfruits

4) Pentecost

5) Trumpets

6) Day Of Atonement

7) Tabernacles

Each feast carried a meaning. They are prophetic emblems of spiritual realities that would be fulfilled in and through Christ and His church.

Passover = Christ’s death, Burial & Resurrection

Pentecost = The Birth Of the church / Pouring out of the Spirit

Tabernacles = The Fully glorified Christ in His prepared people / His coming

Jesus has already fulfilled the Feasts of Passover in His Death, Burial and Resurrection.

Pentecost means 50. Fifty days after Jesus’ resurrection the Feasts of Pentecost was fullfilled giving birth to the church by outpouring of the Spirit.

The church has been in PENTECOST ever since. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

There remains The Feasts of Tabernacles.

I believe that most theologians and scholars understand the structure of these feasts of the Lord. I believe that most of them perhaps know that the feast of tabernacles has not been fulfilled. But I am doubtful of the majority of them when it comes to discerning the intent and content of what tabernacles is all about. Church doctrine/man’s doctrine is birthed out of man’s reasoning. It does not come out of the Spirit of truth and revelation. Church doctrine fails to discern that God’s plan include showing this world the fulness of His glory through a prepared people here on earth.

The bible teaches us that a thousand years is as a day and a day is as a thousand years to the Lord. It has been 2000 thousand years since pentecost began. We could also say, It’s been 2 days.

It’s simple. The day that follows the second day is the THIRD DAY.

There are several prophetic scriptures that entail what happens on the Third day. The number ‘3′ is emblem or symbol of ‘Divine Manifestation‘. We know that Jesus, while in Jerusalem, was threaten that Herod would kill Him and was told to get out: (Luke 13:31)

Jesus is very talented in taking a present situation and using it as a prophetic announcement. Often Jesus would speak concerning the future while responding to the present events at hand. So Jesus responded to Herod’s threat in this manner:

Luke 13:32 “And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.”

We should all know that Jesus was already perfect. So then what is he talking about? It is (we) His body that has to be perfected – when ? On the third day (3rd one thousand-year day from the cross) a people in Christ shall be perfected to become just like Jesus. This is what the Feasts Of Tabernacles is all about.

Jesus was prophesying that His church would be casting out devils and doing cures during the (2 days) 2000 years of Pentecost. And the third day He (His body) would be perfected. This is the reason God gave gifts unto men, some apostles, some prophets, some eveangelists and some pastors and teachers . . . for the perfecting of the saints. Paul said, “when that which is perfect is come that which is in part shall be done away.” Also in Hebrews 6:1, “Let us go on unto perfection”. The object of perfection is a man’s conscience.

Hebrews 9:9 . . . perfect, as pertaining to the conscience; (Not Flesh)

Afterwards, Jesus went right on and dealt with the present situation.

Luke 13:33 Nevertheless I must walk to day, and to morrow, and the [day] following: for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem.

What about another prophetic picture? In John chapter 2 we see Jesus and His disciples going up to a marriage in Cana. When? On the third day.

John 2:1 And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there:

John 2:2 And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage.

The picture demonstrates the wedding template of Eastern culture where the reception party goes on for three days and in some cases seven days. On the third day the marriage would be consummated. The Bridegroom would have full residence with his bride. He could now have tabernacle with her in the consummation.

This wedding had been going on for 2 days already. Jesus and His disciples came on the third day.

The church is really a wedding reception that has been going on for 2 days. This is Pentecost that has been going on for 2000 years(2 days)

The wine of the wedding had run out after 2 days.

The pentecost wine of the Holy Ghost is running out after 2ooo years(2 days).

But notice that the best wine was saved for last – the third day.

the best wine(tabernacles) of the Holy Spirit is about to be served from earthen vessels that were full of water.

Jesus had instructed that the six earthen vessels be filled to the brim with water. (water of the word) ’6‘ is the emblem for ‘man‘. Man was created at the end of the sixth day. God wants man to be filled with his words of life. The word (water) filled in man shall become Christ glorified in us (best wine). This is what the ‘Feasts of Tabernacles’ is all about.

Tabernacles is the ‘Coming Of The Lord’ in His FULLNESS. He must come in His people fully before He comes for His people.

Here are few other scriptures that are descriptive of ‘Tabernacles’ :

John 14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

Ephesians 3:19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

Ephesians 4:13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

Philippians 3:14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

John 14:12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father

These scriptures and many more point towards what shall occur in the Feasts of Tabernacles. obviously, It is not the end of the world. If anything, the church’s limitationto demonstrate the fullness of Christ to the kingdoms of this world is coming to an end. Make way for the Feasts of Tabernacles the Lord is coming in His People (FULLY)!!!

- Le Yonn Armstrong -

In this particular study, I want to talk about the need, the must need of understanding the death of our flesh. Or, as the Bible says, this ‘circumcision made without hands’. One of the things that the church presently struggles with is, not knowing how to deal with a person’s flesh. The church today still wrestles with sin and with the fallings of the flesh.

Colossians 2:11 States, “In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:

The word circumcision typically means, ‘the cutting away of flesh‘

We typically understand circumcision as the removal of foreskin from a man’s genital area. This was also religiously asscoiated with the generations of God’s people in the old testament as requirement for being in covenant with God. However that type of circumcision was just that; a type! It was a foreshadow of the death of man’s flesh at cross.

Circumcision also means the ‘putting away of the fleshly body‘ or ‘ destroy the body of sins‘

The death of Christ, one man, was viewed by God as the death for all men. For all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God. The death for sin was because of man but Christ took man’s place in that death, and man took His place in righteousness.

2 Corinthians 5:21, “For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.”

The crucifixion of Christ was His circumcision with hands. It was men’s hands that demolished His flesh from the whipping post to the cross. All the physical suffering He experienced came by the hands of men. However, since Christ was used as our substitute, God gave us the credit as His death is our death. God imputed death to us. While His circumcision was with hands, no man touched us and not one drop of our blood was spilled for sin. Even though we did not experience bodily death for sin, God put on record that we did.

2 Corinthians 5:14 says, If one died for all, then were all dead.”

The power in this transaction is that our sins are in our flesh. So if Christ became sin with the sin of the whole world, and He died our death, our sins died with Him. Ours sins are housed in the flesh. The death of Christ was also the death of flesh and the death of sin in the flesh. When Christ died, I died. He destroyed the body of sins.

Without the vital knowledge of circumcision of our flesh, we as God’s people will not be able to walk with the Lord in these last days. They that will walk with the Lord will do so in absolute complete freedom. There’s nothing more freeing than knowing your flesh with it’s sins are cut away from interfering with your walk with God. The Scriptures says, “he that the Son hath set free, is free indeed.” When you look at those who have been laid to rest in the grave, they are tied to nothing in this world. They are free indeed. The same must hold true for the believer that will walk with Christ in this present age. They can’t be tied to anything, not to the law, not to sin, not to the world and certainly not to the flesh. They must take their rest in the work of Christ. His work is a finished work. Everything that could possibly separate a person from God and God from that person has been dealt with completely by Christ Jesus.

The church typically has not been able to deal with a man’s flesh. You cannot set a person free, regardless of them having the Spirit, without the truth. Truth is what Jesus did. Jesus said to those Israelites, “If you continue in my word you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free; and whom the Son sets free is free indeed.”

Faith is imperative to the extent that we as people must find relationship and fellowship with God solely upon and through the finished work of Jesus Christ. In the book of Hebrews we are taught that there remains a rest for the people of God. We know that in the beginning God worked six days and on the seventh day he rested. The book of Hebrews verifies this truth in saying, “For he spake in a certain place of the seventh [day] on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.” (Heb 4:4)

We must understand that the context of the Hebrews chapters 3 and 4 are highlighting the absolute need and function of faith and in contrast is demonstrating the detriment of unbelief. The fact is, we must believe God’s Word in order to enter his rest.

So when we believe, we are believing what God did or what Jesus did to remove all possible boundaries. In doing so, people may come and walk with God without fear, without condemnation, of any such, due to their human weaknesses and failures. The only failure that stops a person from drawing close to God is unbelief. Again it is vital and is a very important truth that we must believe.

The terms ‘circumcision‘ and ‘human flesh‘ must be fused together in the mind of the believer.

You must see your flesh as a circumcised reality. If not, you will go no further than just being born again and or having the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in tongues. For God through Christ did not establish the crucifixion just so that a person would be or might be born again. Like the majority of the church population you’ll only be born again but not know what it is to be free indeed.

Circumcision began with Abraham. Not with the law. God invited Abraham to be in his covenant. The only way Abraham could enter in to God’s covenant was by circumcision.
Circumcision is a type of death at the cross. That’s why circumcision ended at the cross. the cross of Jesus was our circumcision. There is no more death for sin. In that he died, he died unto sin once. He died once. He ended sin once.

Before God could give eternal life through the Spirit, He first, had to see your death. Legally the death would complete the required penalty for sin. However, God never imposed the penalty for sin on man. The penalty for sin from the foundation of the world was always intended to be laid on Christ. Scripture tells us in 2 Corinthians 5:14, “that if one died for all, then were all dead.” This certainly this was the fulfillment of the law. The law measured sinful flesh to be worthy of death. When Jesus died the death for humanity and humanity was credited with the death of Jesus, there was no further need for the law. The law has no jurisdiction over dead people because the penalty that the law exacted in is done. Why? Because there was no sin left for the law to deal with.

Colossians 2:14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;

The handwriting of ordinances = The law of Moses, the ten commandments
Jesus was the law in flesh. When he was nailed to the tree, the law or writings of commandments were nailed to the tree. The death of our flesh through circumcision (of Christ) loosed us from the law. Romans 7:1 we are bound to the law as long as we live. In Christ we died thus we are free from the covenant of the law.
Essentially, in order for the human race to receive eternal life, God had to accomplish our death for sin without killing the human race that he loves so much. Through the circumcision of Christ we died out of the things that had the power to separate us from God. Through Jesus’ death we died out of flesh that housed sin; we died out of sin and its power to penalize; we died out of the law which demanded death for sin. So before we could enter into life eternal God made sure our death was in place first.

Colossians 2:20 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,

If we who are believers in this life ever come to actually believe that our death has already been fully and completely accomplished in Christ; then we shall know better that our dead bodies and born again spirits our are not in any wise subject to ordinances in this world. We are entirely subject to God The Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.