The Latter Rain
I don' t know if you remember. Probably about 13 or even 15 years ago we were all at the Lord's Land Big House. I think it was a Land and Sea meeting. I had one of my common headaches and an older lady prayed for me and then you joined her. I never knew her name, but she and her husband moved up to Oregon (or North somewhere) shortly after. Anyway, she started crying and saying over and over again. "This is a precious one, this is a precious one." Then she said, "the backbones of the body are coming together". It was a very emotional message.
I know personal prophecies are to be pressed into. Now I am living in Youngstown, OH. I suspect that the ministry is going to move sometime this year. They are looking at Texas, because there seems to be people who want to help fund the TV ministry. Just about all of us want to move with the ministry. I know when this thing is released it is going to be one of the shockwaves (earthquakes - which actually mean changes in mindsets) that hit the world. The message is really that Jesus is now coming back, He is first coming back in the bride, but the bride must make herself ready. We are spiritually made ready by having eyes to see and ears to hear the Torah and rest of the Scriptures. As we "see" him we shall be like Him. (Rev. 16:18)
The wedding feast is the latter rain of revelation that is pouring down right now. The latter rains are not like the spring rains in Jerusalem - they occur in select places first, and then later they cover everyone. God is calling out right now the servants who are to release this to the body. The truth is that they are about to be birthed forth, but they have been hidden. (Hosea 6:3)
It's the servants coming out and warning the 10 virgins that the bridegroom is coming. It's the wedding in Cana (sounds a lot like Canaan) where Yeshua told the servants to take the empty waterpots (people are the vessels), fill them up with water (water is revelation), and as they poured them out the water became wine. Yeshua has saved the best wine for last. (Matt.25:1-13)
It's the wedding feast, which in Jewish tradition comes before the wedding. It's the wedding feast, in which those who are bidden don't come and finally he is going to release the invitation to the masses. -- Over and over again we see the sleeping church does not want to wake up to this. It is too different. "You have not gone this way before". The idea that the church has been missing it by concentrating on the carnal or literal interpretation instead of the spiritual interpretation (which comes with the eyes to see what the Spirit is saying to the churches) is an insult and they don't even want to consider it. (Matt.22:2-14)
The antichrist is religion. It's the golden calf that the church has formed and called YHVH. They think their boxed god and their understanding of his ways are all there is. They are eating of the tree of good and evil. The evil being their own mindsets. The true God is about to spit them out of his mouth. Sure, they may have Pentecost, but Pentecost was in the wilderness. It's time to move on. We are about to enter the Promised Land. It's the Land flowing with milk (for lots of babies) and honey (the wisdom of God). (Rev.3:16-18)
Yeshua is coming back to examine the tree. The tree has leaves, which are for the healing of the nations, but is there any fruit? Fruit only comes when the tree can pull up the water of revelation from the roots of the Torah. (Mark 11:13-14)
There are two babies that are being birthed right now. The religious church system and the true bride. At midnight the one is going to wake up and find a dead baby. Looking at the true church, she's going to demand that it is her baby. Only the sword of revelation will reveal who the true church is. The sword of revelation is the revealed truth of the Word of God. It is the revelation of the mysteries hidden. (1Kings3: 16-28)
Jesus taught in parables because he wanted the world to know that the whole scripture is a parable. Yes, it truly happened, but God is such that he can orchestrate events to capture his spiritual meanings. The earthly tabernacle is patterned after the spiritual tabernacle. It is a shadow, a dark saying, a parable ---- a shadow that needs to be filled up with the real. The study of the types, parables, symbolisms etc. is a necessity for getting the bride ready. The gates of the New Jerusalem are made of pearls. Pearls are symbolic of parables. (Rev.21: 21)
Nature is a parable. A caterpillar goes through a metamorphosis. There is a dissolving inside the cocoon, and when the hormones of the head meet the hormones of the body the change takes place. God wants to come and take over our mindsets. As we take on the mind of Christ a change will take place. The mysteries of the kingdom of God are in the parables. When we spiritually "see" Jesus through them, we become like him. (Matt. 13:35, Luke 8:10, 1 John 3:2)
The prophecies of Tommy Hicks, Smith Wigglesworth, etc. are happening now, and the church must wake up and get eyes to see it.
"Anoint thy eyes with eyesalve that thou mayest see".
Revelation Of The Former And Latter Rain
Juanita Bequeath
I want to tell you what the Lord has been leading me into. It's really revelation of the former and latter rain. About the mid 90's, I started coming across books on the symbolisms of Jesus in the Old Testament. I found them in the most unlikely places, and got the feeling that I was being supernaturally led to different things. My studies got me so excited, but I still had the feeling that there was more a fullness of the Holy Spirit that I was missing. The excitement carried over into other areas of my life. Everything was exciting and I had an opportunity to go to school for ultrasound (echo). I thought it was the perfect way to support myself. Even though I had warnings, I took a 10 year detour out of what God's perfect way was for me.
I have since learned that during that time period there were people all over that God was revealing revelation to. Usually it started with former rain, the symbolism of Jesus first coming. The natural manifestation of this was the Messianic movement, with studies on the tabernacle, the feasts, etc. etc. The spiritual manifestation was even deeper, where God started preparing his bride to interpret the scriptures with the eyes to see and ears to hear as he taught his disciples. The early church fathers were in the former rain. (rain is symbolic of revelation) Everything they were teaching was to reveal to the world that Jesus was who was told about in the Torah. Every Old Testament story is about Him, every Old Testament ordinance points to His ways.
I made quite a bit of money doing echos. It drained me though because it wasn't right for me. I finally realized I would die spiritually if I continued, so I took a job teaching at a Christian school. I didn't realize that I was still in the wrong place, but God saw my heart and supernaturally again brought me into contact with people who were receiving what he has been revealing. Except for natural manifestations, a lot of what God has been doing spiritually in these people has been hidden. Natural manifestations allways follow the spiritual manifestations. For example, the return of shofars (trumpets) to the churches actually symbolizes the prophets speaking. Isaiah 58:1 says, "Raise your voice as a trumpet..." There are numberous examples, among them also Rev. 4:1.
Rev 4:1
1 After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven. And the first voice which I heard was like a trumpet speaking with me, saying, "Come up here, and I will show you things which must take place after this."
(NKJ)
God is raising up true prophets of God, and they have already been trumpeting the messages of the seven trumpets in Revelations. The natural manifestation of the prophets has been the carnal title giving of "prophet" in some churches. Unfortunately this has turned others off to the realization that there are true prophets being raised up.
I started feeling like my 10 year detour had made me miss out on so many things. The teaching has moved from the former rain to the latter rain as was prophecied that they would both be coming together:
Joel 2:23
23 Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God; for He has given you the former rain faithfully, and He will cause the rain to come down for you-- the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.(NKJ)
Another thing that had happened is that the revelation has gotten so much deeper. The Jews teach that the four streams coming out of the Garden of Eden are the four levels of teaching. The first two are the literal teaching and the allegories, the second two are the symbolisms and mysteries.
The mysteries are the sod level. When Jesus said to get eyes to see and ears to hear, he was actually saying to learn his spiritual language so that you can "see" the Word at this level. What I've found is that the sod level usually contains the hidden spiritual application of the Word. I've also realized that some of the preachers I heard as a child sometimes taught at the sod level, though full revelation of what God is doing now was not yet revealed to them. At the sod level is the power of God, and it is only revealed through the Holy Spirit. Another way of saying it is that the sod level is a revelation of Jesus, and when we see him we shall be like Him. It is God's way of making the bride ready. It is the wedding feast that he has prepared and is bidding people to come to. The wedding feast comes before the wedding.
I Jn 3:1-2
2 Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.
God wants us to grow up spiritually so that we can receive the revelation he is giving. He reveals his secrets to his servants the prophets.
I Cor 14:20
20 Brethren, do not be children in understanding; however, in malice be babes, but in understanding be mature.
Amos 3:6-7
6 If a trumpet is blown in a city, will not the people be afraid? If there is calamity in a city, will not the LORD have done it?
7 Surely the Lord GOD does nothing, unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets.
(NKJ)
The last two streams of interpretation are also the rhema (spiritual) word as opposed to the logos(literal) word. It is the utterance of God. What has happened in our churches is that only the logos word has been taught. The logos is the literal, natural interpretation. It is the carnal word. It is necessary for babies, but babies must move on. It is for those who reflect the light and do not become the light. It is the moon glory as opposed to the star and sun glory. It is the outer court of the tabernacle which in Revelations is cut off, as opposed to the inner court and the Holy of Holies. There were only two streams coming out of Babylon. Paul says to be carnally minded in death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
The church is asleep. In actuality asleep is spiritually dead. The servants are coming out now, showing that we are entering into the seventh day of creation (also known as The Lord's Day, the Sabbath), and shouting that they must wake up. God doesn't want us to be a wise virgin, or a foolish virgin, for a virgin has not had intercourse with the bridegroom. He wants us to be one of the servants shouting to the church to wake up. On the third day (three thousand years since Jesus) there was a wedding in Cana and the servants were instructed to fill the water pots up to the brim with water (vessels speak of people. The servants are to fill the vessels up with revelation). As they pour out it is found that the water has changed to wine. The best wine is saved till last.
Bye for now, ~ Juanita
Ps. You wouldn't believe the opposition to this message. Religion is the antichrist. It sets on God's throne and has the people calling it Yahweh. It's man's ideas of the logos interpretation of the scriptures. The number of man is 6. Three is the number of completeness. 666 is man in his completeness trying to be God. It is so deceptive. The golden calf was a picture of the antichrist. We think they were so far off in their worship of it. The calf or ox was the highest form of sacrifice. They knew the logos word that the calf represented their deliverance, but they didn't understand that there was a symbolic meaning to it and the logos word will never deliver us.
Heb 10:4
4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.
(NKJV)
We see the same today. The logos word will not save us. It has to be a revelation of Jesus (we know that). But having begun in the Spirit are we made perfect by the flesh (the logos word)?
Religion has built such a protection about itself.
- Whenever you mention the four streams you are accused of being into the Kaballah. They don't realize that the Kaballah was the spiritual side of Judiasm and they had the truth before they started not believing that Jesus was a part of it. We have to cut down Kaballah, but take the trees for meat.
- As soon as you mention the end times you hear, " no one knows the day or the hour". You'd think it was Lucifer's biggest sword. There is a Jewish interpretation explaining that, but besides, Jesus rebuked the people because they didn't know the time they were in. There are so many ways showing the time, it is too numerous to go into here.
- Because the Holy Spirit is sometimes moving (as in the Lakeland revival), the church thinks everything is all right - as dirty as they are. They don't realize that the fig tree had leaves (healing of the nations), but Jesus is coming back through to examine it to see if there is fruit.
- They don't want to hear that their logos teaching is not where it's at. It's the same situation Jesus had with the Jews.