Peace and grace in the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Revelation 6:7-8
6:7 When He opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, "Come and see."
6:8 So I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. And power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death, and by the beasts of the earth.
The opening of the fourth seal is the fourth punishment from Holy Spirit God to the world.It is the revival of a pale horse, so the death and Hades rule over a fourth of the earth to kill men with many things.
There are three kinds of death, as follows:
1 Corinthians 15:51-52
15:51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed--
15:52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
The matter of being dead or alive is not our business, but God's. The important thing is that as long as we live, we must hear the sound of the trumpet or the shepherding word.
If we hear the sound of the trumpet, we will experience the life renewal little by little from the carnal man to spiritual one, until the last sound of the trumpet when Jesus comes a second time; we are changed to become perfect as God is.
If someone dies, but he heard the sound of the trumpet when he was alive, he will be raised incorruptible when the last trumpet is sounded. For those who are still alive, they will be changed in the twinkling of an eye to get the glorious body like Jesus. Both of them will become one perfect body of Christ or the Bride of Heaven who is ready to greet the second coming of Jesus on the glorious clouds. They will enter a thousand years kingdom of peace and the New Jerusalem or the eternal kingdom of heaven. We are free from the three kinds of death.
Matthew 24:31-32
24:31 "And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
24:32 "Now learn this parable from the fig tree: When its branch has already become tender and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is near.
The thing that must be renewed is the hard heart to become gentle one.
Jeremiah 17:1
17:1 "The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron; With the point of a diamond it is engraved On the tablet of their heart, And on the horns of your altars,
The hard heart is the one that keeps the sins up to the peak. In such heart, one does not want to confess the sin, but blames others and God or the true teaching Word. The result is that the sin is engraved on heart or it becomes permanent. The sin is engraved on the horns of altar means that there is no forgiveness anymore but perdition forever.
The hard heart must be struck with the loud voice of the trumpet or the hard teaching Word, so it can be humble and gentle.
Being humblemeans the ability to confess the sin to God and others by the encouragement of the hard teaching Word. If it is forgiven, do not sin anymore.
James 1:21
1:21 Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
Being gentlemeans the ability to receive the hard teaching Word or the persona of God. It also means the ability to accept the weakness of others, forgive, and forget others' sin.
Then, the blood of Jesus will reconcile us. We have the peaceful heart which is the dwelling place of Holy Spirit. We become the house of prayer.
The functionsof the Holy Spirit are as follows:
God blesses us.
Revelation 6:7-8
6:7 When He opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, "Come and see."
6:8 So I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. And power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death, and by the beasts of the earth.
The opening of the fourth seal is the fourth punishment from Holy Spirit God to the world.It is the revival of a pale horse, so the death and Hades rule over a fourth of the earth to kill men with many things.
There are three kinds of death, as follows:
- The physical death. The causes are old age, illness, et cetera.
- The spiritual death. It means living in sin up to the peak, namely the sin of eating-drinking and marrying-being given in marriage. It means being separated from God or lost because of the false teaching.
- The second death. It refers to the lake of fire.
1 Corinthians 15:51-52
15:51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed--
15:52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
The matter of being dead or alive is not our business, but God's. The important thing is that as long as we live, we must hear the sound of the trumpet or the shepherding word.
If we hear the sound of the trumpet, we will experience the life renewal little by little from the carnal man to spiritual one, until the last sound of the trumpet when Jesus comes a second time; we are changed to become perfect as God is.
If someone dies, but he heard the sound of the trumpet when he was alive, he will be raised incorruptible when the last trumpet is sounded. For those who are still alive, they will be changed in the twinkling of an eye to get the glorious body like Jesus. Both of them will become one perfect body of Christ or the Bride of Heaven who is ready to greet the second coming of Jesus on the glorious clouds. They will enter a thousand years kingdom of peace and the New Jerusalem or the eternal kingdom of heaven. We are free from the three kinds of death.
Matthew 24:31-32
24:31 "And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
24:32 "Now learn this parable from the fig tree: When its branch has already become tender and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is near.
The thing that must be renewed is the hard heart to become gentle one.
Jeremiah 17:1
17:1 "The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron; With the point of a diamond it is engraved On the tablet of their heart, And on the horns of your altars,
The hard heart is the one that keeps the sins up to the peak. In such heart, one does not want to confess the sin, but blames others and God or the true teaching Word. The result is that the sin is engraved on heart or it becomes permanent. The sin is engraved on the horns of altar means that there is no forgiveness anymore but perdition forever.
The hard heart must be struck with the loud voice of the trumpet or the hard teaching Word, so it can be humble and gentle.
Being humblemeans the ability to confess the sin to God and others by the encouragement of the hard teaching Word. If it is forgiven, do not sin anymore.
James 1:21
1:21 Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
Being gentlemeans the ability to receive the hard teaching Word or the persona of God. It also means the ability to accept the weakness of others, forgive, and forget others' sin.
Then, the blood of Jesus will reconcile us. We have the peaceful heart which is the dwelling place of Holy Spirit. We become the house of prayer.
The functionsof the Holy Spirit are as follows:
- The Holy Spirit makes us faithful and fervent in ministry until the end line, namelywe die or the second coming of Jesus. It continues up to the throne of heaven forever.
Romans 12:11
12:11 not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord; - The Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness.
Romans 8:26-28
8:26 Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
8:27 Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.
Our weakness is that we cannot pray and worship God. The Holy Spirit helps us, so we can pray and worship God with broken heart. We feel unworthy and unable to do anything like the clay until we worship God in tongues. We only stretch out our hands to God.
Then, God will stretch out His hands to bring goodness. The destroyed thing becomes good, the failure becomes successful and beautiful, and the impossible things become possible.
We are employed in the revival of Holy Spirit at the last rain to glorify God. The broken earthen vessel can be renewed into the glorious one by God. It continues until we are changed to become perfect when Jesus come a second time.
God blesses us.