We are talking about what I hear the Lord prophetically saying about "the new wine skin" that can now truly accommodate the biblical Ekklesia.

The new picture of the Biblical Ekklesia that I see is where the community around us truly sees and experiences a community of believers where "biblical koinonia", love between believers, and being there for one another is the way of life, 24/7.

How are they going to see it?

They will see what was seen and experienced in Jerusalem and other towns from May 30 AD, after the day of Pentecost, as we read about in the Book of Acts.

Yes, they will see and experience how we practically love each other and are willing to share everything, except our spouses!

Listen to how Acts 2 and 4 describe all of this.

“They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common. They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need. Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.”

 And: “All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had. With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And God’s grace was so powerfully at work in them all that there were no needy persons among them. For from time to time those who owned land or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales and put it at the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to anyone who had need.”

 Need I tell you how the Ekklesia became a deliberate and focused part of the communities in which the Lord set them down, to be there between them all the time on the lookout for what the real needs around them were and then listened very sensitively to how the Lord wanted to use them to minister supernaturally to those needs.

Furthermore, they sensitively waited for open doors, hearts, and opportunities to witness the Good News of the Kingdom of God that had also arrived for these people and this community.

In a world demonically driven and manipulated by a spirit of greed, egos, and fear, the Lord will use us as 1 Thess. 5 says, to demonstrate a new, better way and style of life there in the community.

Listen to what Jesus said in this regard.

He said He is placing the Ekklesia literally on the doorstep of hell!

With the promise and knowledge in their hearts that the God who put them there, promised as Jesus said to Peter in Mat. 16: "Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." "Happy are you, Simon Barjona," Jesus told him, "w

 “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven. And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”

In Matthew 5, Jesus said that the Ekklesia within this new wine skin, will be this Light and this City on the mountain:

“You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.”

So, we will have opportunities again and again to oppose the demonic spirits head-on in the name of Jesus. He will use us to minister and address distress, hurt, trauma, broken relationships, and even poverty and its roots, in the name and with the power of our King.

Therefore, within this new wineskin, we cannot be at peace with all the unscriptural teachings, traditions, and demonically driven divisions in the “CAU” (church around us) where the enemy has God’s people still in its claws in all sorts of ways, and where believing people are still his instruments to block and stop what God wants to do.

Because this new wineskin is so revolutionarily new and different, it won't do any good to try to repair or renew the existing man-made church structures. No, it will require a radical paradigm shift where we allow God to serve us "new wine" through His Word and Spirit and we start drinking it!

The rest, of course, will follow automatically through the working of the Spirit.

For years the Lord has been speaking to me about this. However, it is only now that He has given me the freedom to prophesy openly about this.

So, gird yourselves, for this is what I hear the Lord say about this. Of course, as with anything I or anyone else does prophetically, you know what God says about this. As in 1 Thess. 5:19 ff.

“Do not quench the Spirit. Do not despise prophecies. Test all things; hold fast what is good. Abstain from every form of evil.

Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.”

So, what do I see in God’s Word and hear Him say about the new wineskin that is able to accommodate what He wants to do in the Ekklesia to bring His Kingdom to earth?

Can I just quickly remind you who we are talking about when we talk about the “Biblical Ekklesia”?

We are of course talking about people who at some point in their lives had a personal faith encounter with a living Jesus, God the Son, as Savior, Lord, and King.

He has His grace that He came to offer each of us through His Word and the Spirit through His incarnation, life, death, and resurrection. We have accepted it in faith and chosen to serve and follow Him for the rest of our lives.

So, God the Spirit has made us new, “reborn” creatures, Jesus says there in John 3, and He has come to live in us to guide us and teach us all that Jesus has done for us.

God the Spirit now wants to supernaturally equip and anoint everyone who is part of the Ekklesia with the gifts of the Spirit so that the Lord can use us as witnesses and ambassadors of the Kingdom of heaven here on earth.

For us, Jesus continues: Above all, keep seeking and be sensitive to My voice, because I want to show you how you fit into My plan to let My Kingdom come and what My will is for your life.

For us, Jesus continues, e.g., in John 13:34,35: “I give you a new commandment: that you love one another. As I have loved you, you also must love one another. By this, everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.”

In so many places in His Word, He then spells out what loving and being family in Jesus practically means and what it looks like.

After all, you remember what is written about this in passages of Scripture such as in the book of Acts; 1 Cor. 12 to 14; John 14 to 17; the entire book of Ephesians; and 1 John.

Do you know that the word, “Ekklesia” within the typical Roman Empire referred to this group of chosen, equipped individuals who were then sent out by Rome to be “set down” somewhere in the Roman Empire, locally in a town or city, to practically demonstrate and live out the new, better way of life, and values and hope for a better future, among all the people in that community. In such a way the community can taste and experience “something of heaven on earth” among them!

Thus, the Ekklesia of Jesus was called to be ambassadors and representatives of a new, better life, to make the “Kingdom of heaven” happen here on earth! People around us must see and experience this in how we love and care for each other.

Next time I will talk more about what the Lord says prophetically about this.

For years, the Lord has been speaking to me prophetically about what He means by the concept of “new wineskin” in Luke 5, specifically regarding how the Biblical Ekklesia should look like to what we know as the “church-as-we-know-it” (C-A-W-K-I).

It was remarkable how the Lord served me “new wine” sip by sip; otherwise, I would have choked on it because I was too accustomed to the “old wine” and my traditional understanding of God’s Word.

In my first book, “Where to with the New Wine,” I described my theological understanding as a fortress with solid walls. While it contained wonderful Scriptural truths, many theological lies and misinterpretations of Scripture were strategically cemented within those walls. However, God's Spirit systematically began to knock down one wall after another in my understanding of Scripture.

As is the case with any change in thinking, I had to be "re-taught" by God, through His Word and Spirit, from the beginning to learn how to read and understand God's inspired Word with new eyes and a new understanding. In my situation, He also used the theological chaos that erupted in the Dutch Reformed Church to facilitate these shifts.

Today, more than 30 years after this change in thinking began in my life, the Lord shows me how these lies He pointed out are also embedded in every part of the "(C-A-W-K-I)." worldwide. Therefore, this prophetic word I received is meant for every part of the "(C-A-W-K-I)." across the globe.

The Lord reminded me of how He showed me in 1988 in Switzerland and in the rest of Europe the roots of many theological lies and misunderstandings of His Word in the teachings of the Reformation of 1517 and the years that followed. The enemy has managed to embed numerous lies and misunderstandings of the Word into the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church, from which Martin Luther, Calvin, and many other reformatory leaders originally came, and so, also became part of the teachings of the Reformation itself.

Consider, for instance, the concept of “baptism” inherited from our Roman Catholic background, where infants are sprinkled with water, and this act is described as a biblical “baptism.” This also led to a distorted understanding of the “church,” whereby one becomes a “member” of the church simply by being baptized as a baby or as a child of believing parents.

Then came Emperor Constantine the Great, a young and confused Christian believer, who, under the guidance of misguided spiritual leaders, legislated that congregations and churches must be “led and taught” by theologically trained leaders; otherwise, it was deemed “against the law.” This led to the creation of thousands of man-made, man-invented “church systems” all over the “C-A-W-K-I” that were never God’s intention.

What makes this tragedy even greater is that this “C-A-W-K-I” must rely on money and a Mammon-driven collection system to maintain these man-made church systems. This explains, in short, the fragmented nature of the “C-A-W-K-I” characterized by thousands of man-invented “churches,” “church” systems, congregations, and even “church brands” worldwide around us, despite Jesus’ declaration that HIS CHURCH IS ONE.

This situation affirms Jesus’ words in Matthew: “No one can serve two masters at the same time. He will either esteem one less and the other higher, or he will have more for one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and Mammon.”

Therefore, I hear the Lord say: This is why the current movement away from typical Christian church systems is happening worldwide. This is happening not because My people no longer love Me and Jesus, nor because they no longer want to serve, says the Lord. Rather, it is happening because they love Me and want to serve Me with power and conviction!

I am busy, says the Lord, with a total reformation and re-creation of what you know as the Church of Jesus. This is why many of you find yourselves in limbo concerning your relationships with other believers around you in your daily life and work.

This shift also impacts the spiritual leaders whom I have called to serve full-time in My Ekklesia, says the Lord.

Therefore, says the Lord, this is also why I told you, as one of My fivefold “gifts” (Eph. 4), back in 1993 that I would be your ONLY PROVIDER and LORD. You must never allow anyone to influence your life and ministry through a monthly salary. No one may manipulate you with money or prevent you from saying or doing what I instruct you.

Thus, I hear the Lord say, return to the biblical picture of the Ekklesia, as we saw in the congregations of Acts and in the approximately 300 years that followed that day of Pentecost. This is also why He is currently calling His people worldwide, echoing the words of Revelation 18:4: “Come out of her, my people!”

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!”