The Lord reminded me of how He revealed Himself to me in a new way more than 30 years ago. He showed me that God the Son, Jesus, is not only Savior, Lord, and King, but also the Baptizer with the Spirit.
During that time, He took me to His Word and showed me how He revealed Himself progressively to humanity throughout the ages.
Yes, already there in Genesis 1 we discover Him to be the only true Creator-God, the Father who, as it were, gives birth and life to everything that exists and would ever exist.
We also discovered Him there as God the Word, who speaks and sows Word-seed, and then there was light, or the waters separated into what we now know as “earth” and “sea”, etc.
God also revealed His plan of redemption and restoration. Yes, that He would become an ordinary man, can you believe, as the Messiah, to come and live among us on earth for a while?
On September 11, 3 BC, according to our best research, God the Son was born as a Jewish boy, Jesus, in the village of Bethlehem, in Israel. The angels also described Him as Immanuel, God with us.
As an ordinary man, He lived among us for more than 33 years, to be crucified on April 9, 30 AD, died, and then rose from the dead after three days. For 40 days thereafter He showed Himself to be alive and be the new King on earth, to more than five hundred people. (1 Cor. 15)
Jesus, God the Son, then prophetically revealed to us that, after His ascension, He also became the Baptizer with the Spirit, who will send God the Spirit to this world to come and live IN each of God's people and to be with and in us every day.
God's heart in this new season, is to make His Kingdom visible on this broken earth full of broken people, through His people, ON whom the Spirit came and supernaturally equipped each of them with supernatural gifts and abilities. And through us, He wants to magnify His Name and make His kingdom visible here on earth, piece by piece.
Jesus as the Baptizer with the Spirit, would also give specific people who would not only be ministering to others through the gifts of the Spirit but also be "God's gifts" to His Body, the Ecclesia, here on earth.
Listen to what God's Spirit reveals to us about this in Eph. 4:11 to 16:
“And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ— from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.”
God instructs His people, the Ekklesia, to go and minister the Good News, the Gospel of the Kingdom, to people. Their task is to testify about Jesus and what He did and said. The world around them will recognize them by the way they love one another because it will be the same love with which Jesus loved. God will also use them to heal people and free them from all kinds of demonic bonds that bind them.
Yes, in this they will do the same thing that Jesus did, as God prophesied through the prophet Isaiah there in Isa. 61.
That is why we see and hear how God's people, through the anointing of the Spirit, heal people, prophesy, minister wisdom and supernatural detailed knowledge, reveal demonic powers at the helm of affairs in people and communities, make miracles happen, and as a new caliber of "ministry leaders", begin to step forward to serve new wine and new wineskins everywhere as pioneers in so many areas.
Jesus already revealed in Luke 5 that most communities will look strangely and hostile towards them and to what God's Spirit is revealing through them.
Yes, God's people will even be persecuted and killed because of what they are doing and saying!
It will be as if these people whom God anointed to serve "new wine", are 10, 20, or even 30 years ahead of their time, and most people will not be ready for what they are offering to the world!
The Lord God says: In this season, I am busy revealing My Master Plan everywhere on earth about how My people, My Body, the Ecclesia, in unity, begin to join hands and together begin to seek My heart and plan in areas where I have given them supernatural authority and wisdom and insight.
Supernatural synergy and unique supernatural solutions will be found for vexing questions and challenges of our time!
This is what you see happening around you now, says the Lord.
If you have not yet seen it, ask Me so that I can open your eyes to it. I want to give you a new hope. I also give you a new calling. So, that you can understand what I want to use you.
Of course, I will use each of you in a unique, different way.
Come and sit at My feet and hear from Me what My plan is for you.
Come and hear from Me where I want to use you as the garden hose through which My grace, My love, My healing, My Word, My deliverance, My life, and it in abundance, will flow.
Assure that you are firmly connected to Me as the Faucet, as the Source. Then life will begin to flow in abundance.
Know also, says the Lord, that what I am doing in this season, is going to be something new and different.
As I have revealed in Revelation 18:4, people will hear Me saying: “Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues. For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. Render to her just as she rendered to you, and repay her double according to her works; in the cup which she has mixed, mix double for her.”
You know that I referred to Babylon, and everything in service and part of Babylon’s control in this world.
This practically means, reveals the Lord, that you can no longer be a part of it.
You cannot and may not give and invest your energy, lives, time, and money there anymore. Yes, even if you have waved and represented My flag there for many years.
That time is over, says the Lord.
Come, sit at My feet, and let Me specifically explain and reveal to you what it means in your life to “come out of her”!
“Come out of her, My people!”