The PROMISE from ABOVE - 27 May 2019 (The Fountain of Living Waters) by Celia Joy Martins
Everything on Yahweh's APPOINTED TIMES:
According to the Hebrew Priestly Calendar found with the Dead Sea Scrolls - today is the commemoration of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit - day 50 after First Fruits when Yahshua ROSE from the DEAD - and 10 days after He WAS TAKEN INTO HEAVEN.
LIVING BY YAHWEH'S CLOCK:
It really AMAZES me and I really stand in AWE in EVERYTHING that has to do with our heavenly Father and His kingdom things. His PERFECT TIMING and PERFECT TIMES and SEASONS ... it is as IF IT CALLS OUT the GREATNESS and the GLORY of our WONDERFUL FATHER. There are absolutely NO CHAOS in ANY of His kingdom things - NO CONFUSION - just PEACE and LOVE and TRUTH ...
MESSIAH'S FINAL MESSAGE:
In the Gospel of Luke we receive a clear picture of the happenings and the FINAL MESSAGE or TEACHINGS of MESSIAH YAHSHUA just before He was taken into heaven:
1. OPENED UP THEIR MINDS:
YAHSHUA THOROUGHLY OPENED UP the MINDS of HIS DISCIPELS to UNDERSTAND the Scriptures (Luke 24:45);
2. IT IS WRITTEN - MESSIAH SHALL SUFFER - DIED and RISE AGAIN:
Luke 24:46a "And said to them, THUS IT IS WRITTEN that the MESSIAH SHALL SUFFER and on the THIRD DAY RISE from AMONG the DEAD." [Hos. 6:2]
3. AND IT IS WRITTEN ... WITHOUT REPENTANCE there is NO FORGIVENESS:
The IMPORTANCE of REPENTANCE is STIPULATED in Luke 24:47 (AMP) as Messiah added it after "It is WRITTEN" ... there will be NO FORGIVENESS if we FAIL to REPENT.
Luke 24:47 "AND that REPENTANCE [with a view to AND AS A CONDITION of] FORGIVENESS of SINS SHOULD be PREACHED in His NAME to ALL NATIONS, beginning from Jerusalem."
I WILL SEND you "THE PROMISE":
Then Messiah told them that they were witnesses of these things and said ... "BEHOLD, I WILL SEND FORTH UPON you what My Father has PROMISED, but REMAIN in the CITY of Jerusalem UNTIL you are CLOTHED with POWER from on HIGH." (Luke 24:49)
CLOTHED with POWER FROM ON HIGH:
We need to understand that the DISCIPLES were already BELIEVERS ... but they NEEDED HOLY SPIRIT FIRE ... the POWER WORKING from on HIGH to DRENCH them ... to CLOTHE them ... to ENCOURAGE them ... to TEACH them ... to ENABLE them to WITHSTAND the ONSLAUGHT against them in MOVING FORWARD - PROCLAIMING the GOSPEL of SALVATION to the NATIONS midst in severe PERSECUTION.
The Gospel of Luke also tells us that the disciples ... witnessing Messiah taken into heaven WHILST BLESSING them ... WORSHIPPED Him and went back to Jerusalem with GREAT JOY. There they CONTINUALLY went to the TEMPLE celebrating Him with PRAISES, BLESSINGS and WORSHIPPING ... (Luke 24:50-53).
IN the UPPER ROOM - in UNITY:
The disciples were ALL in FULL AGREEMENT and DEVOTED to STEADFAST PRAYER ... WAITING TOGETHER with the women and the mother of Yahshua and Messiah's brothers - Jude author of the Book of Jude - and James (not the disciple) author of the Book of James.
Acts. 1:13 "... they mounted the stairs to the upper room where they were INDEFINITELY STAYING - Peter and John and James and Andrew; Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew; James son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas, son of James. ALL OF THESE WITH THEIR MINDS IN FULL AGREEMENT DEVOTED THEMSELVES STEADFASTLY to PRAYER, WAITING TOGETHER with the WOMEN and MARY, the MOTHER of YAHSHUA AND with His BROTHERS (James and Jude)." (AMP).
WHEN PENTECOST HAD FULLY COME:
Yahweh's DAYS start at SUNSET (NOT MIDNIGHT) - and ENDS the FOLLOWING SUNSET (sunset to sunset). ABBA'S TIMES and TIMING are NOT the SAME as the WORLD'S TIMES and TIMING - the ENTIRE WORLD following the GREGORIAN (Roman) CALENDAR - as is being USED TODAY - is out of SYNC with our Father's TIMES and TIMING ...
When the Bible speaks of a day that had FULLY COME, it refers to the daytime that followed - the night had already passed.
A RUSHING BLASTING SOUND FILLED the WHOLE HOUSE:
Acts 2:1-2 tells us that when the DAY OF PENTECOST had FULLY COME, they were ALL DIVINELY TOGETHER in ONE PLACE when they HEARD a SOUND from HEAVEN like the RUSHING of a VIOLENT TEMPEST BLAST, and it FILLED the WHOLE HOUSE in which they were SITTING.
TONGUES RESEMBLING FIRE SETTLED on them DIFFUSING (drenching) their SOULS:
There APPEARED to them TONGUES RESEMBLING FIRE, which were SEPARATED and DISTRIBUTED and which SETTLED ON EACH ONE of THEM, and they were ALL DIFFUSED THROUGHOUT THEIR SOULS with the HOLY SPIRIT beginning to SPEAK in OTHER DIFFERENT and FOREIGN LANGUAGES as the SPIRIT GAVE THEM CLEAR and LOUD EXPRESSION. (Acts 1:3-4).
MINISTERING ... the MIGHTY WORKS of YAHWEH-GOD:
The sound was so hard that a multitude of Jews residing in Jerusalem - devout and God-fearing men from every country under heaven HEARD it and they CAME TOGETHER astonished and bewildered as they heard the apostles speaking in various languages (dialects) telling of the MIGHTY WORKS of YAHWEH-GOD. (Acts. 2:5-11).
Besides themselves with amazement and puzzled and bewildered, they started to discuss among themselves what this could mean, when Peter told them that it is prophesy going into fulfillment (Acts. 2:12-14)
THE BEGINNING of the PROPHESY through the prophet JOEL:
Acts 2:16 "... THIS is the BEGINNING of what was SPOKEN through the PROPHET JOEL"
IN THE LAST DAYS - a MIGHTY OUTPOURING:
Joel 2:17 "And it shall COME to PASS in the LAST DAYS, YAH DECLARES, that I WILL POUR OUT My SPIRIT upon ALL MANKIND ...
SONS AND DAUGHTERS SHALL PROPHESY:
... and YOUR SONS and YOUR DAUGHTERS shall PROPHESY [TELLING FORTH the DIVINE COUNSELS] ...
YOUNG MEN SHALL SEE VISIONS:
... and your YOUNG MEN SHALL SEE VISIONS (DIVINELY GRANTED APPEARANCES) ...
OLD MEN SHALL DREAM DIVINE DREAMS:
... and YOUR OLD MEN shall DREAM DIVINELY SUGGESTED DREAMS.
:18 Yes, and on My MENSERVANTS also and on My MAIDSERVANTS in THOSE DAYS I WILL POUR OUT of MY SPIRIT, and they SHALL PROPHESY [telling FORTH the DIVINE COUNSELS and PREDICTING FUTURE EVENTS PERTAINING ESPECIALLY to YAH'S KINGDOM.]...
THERE SHALL BE WONDERS in the SKY and on EARTH - BLOOD and FIRE AND SMOKING VAPOR:
:19 And I WILL SHOW WONDERS IN THE SKY ABOVE and SIGNS on the EARTH BENEATH, BLOOD and FIRE AND SMOKING VAPOR; ...
THE SUN SHALL TURN INTO DARKNESS and the MOON INTO BLOOD:
:20 The SUN SHALL be TURNED INTO DARKNESS and the MOON INTO BLOOD before the OBVIOUS DAY of YAH COMES - that GREAT and NOTABLE and CONSPICUOUS and RENOWNED DAY.
:21 And it shall be that WHOEVER SHALL CALL UPON the NAME of YAHWEH [INVOKING, ADORING and WORSHIPPING YAH, the MESSIAH YAHSHUA], shall be SAVED. (Joel 2:28-32).