The Appearing of Jesus!
“Beloved, now are we the sons* of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure,” 1 John 3:2-3.
*The word son here is the Greek word teknon, tek’-non of God, meaning a child, not a mature son.
We all as Christians start out as just a child of God, however it is God’s purpose for us that we mature and become a fully fledged mature son of God.
This maturing is a process of growing up in the ways and nature of the LORD Jesus.
The LORD is coming in us before He will come for us
In John chapter 7 It was the time of the Feast of Tabernacles, and Jesus said to the disciples. “You go on up to Jerusalem ahead of Me and I will come later.”
The disciples said to Jesus, “Why don’t you go to Judea and show yourself to the world?”
Chapter 7 verse 4. Jesus said, “No, you go up to the feast. I’m not going up yet because my time is not fully come.”
It was obvious that Jesus was waiting for a very specific time. But then we have verse 10.
“But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret,” John 7:10.
He would secretly appear at the temple in Jerusalem. The whole setting of this is profoundly prophetic. The context is the Feast of Tabernacles which speaks of the End-Time move of God in this earth and the great harvest, and finally the coming of the LORD.
Notice:
- It is the feast of tabernacles picturing the great last day’s move of God.
- Jesus goes up first in secret.
- Then he appears with a prophetic statement.
“In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified,” John 7:37-39.
Now is has been thought that this verse was speaking of the baptism in the Holy Spirit and this is so, but only to a degree.
Jesus was speaking on that last day of the feast of Tabernacles when He spoke this.
The Last Day or the final events of the Feast of Tabernacles. What the early church and the present day church experienced in the Baptism of the Holy Spirit was only the down payment, it was not the fullness of this experience.
The early church did not spiritually experience the Feast of Tabernacles. This was reserved as the best wine as it were for this generation.
The early church went down into decline and eventually into a thousand years of darkness. So what was Jesus prophetically saying on the Feast of Tabernacles there in Jerusalem?
Now I believe in the rapture, the great catching away. I also believe in the second coming of Jesus back to this earth. However before these two events occur, Jesus is coming in His true sons before He comes for them.
He will reveal himself to this world through his sons before He returns to this earth to set up His kingdom. He is coming in secret in His sons first.
Jesus will manifest Himself to the people of this earth through His sons (this word sons is not a gender expression, it refers to male and female).
This secret appearing of Jesus in His people will result in a demonstration to this world the authenticity of who Jesus really is. He in his people will demonstrate His great love for mankind.
This will result in what Jesus spoke in John chapter fourteen becoming a reality.
“Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son,” John 14:11-13.
The fullness of Jesus in us will be manifest to this world through His people thus fulfilling the prophetic words of Jesus in John 7:8.
“He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water,” John 7:38.
This also speaks of the fulfillment of the prophecy of Isaiah
“Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising. Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side,” Isaiah 60:1-4.
The fullness of Jesus in us will be manifest to this world through His people thus fulfilling the prophetic words of Jesus in John 7:8.
“He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water,” John 7:38.
The inhabitants of this world will have a demonstration of who God is and what He is really like. This demonstration will be seen through Jesus in His people. The great harvest that will result from this will be astonishing.
“And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come,” Matthew 24:14.
Only then will Jesus return and judge the people of his world.
The Secret Of The Ages
There is a secret that has been hidden throughout the ages that is about to be revealed in its fullness to this generation.
“Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: to whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory,” Colossians 1:26-7.
This mystery was hidden to those in the Old Testament apart from a few like Enoch. In the Old Testament God was always external to them. They had no concept of God dwelling in them.
This mystery of Christ in us will reach its highest manifestation in these last days, it is the only hope for this world. This mystery is so profound it will take eons for us to understand it in its fullness.
Being reborn of the seed of God which is incorruptible is mind boggling, 1 Peter 1:23. We are a new creation or a new species in this universe. We have through a rebirth become part of the Royal Family of God.
“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new,” 2 Corinthians 5:17.
The word “new” in this verse is from the Greek word Kainos. This word in the Greek does not mean just new. This is not a new replacement for the old, it is not reassigning us back to Adam in his innocence. It is a brand new species.
It is way beyond human, it is a creation without precedence. Nothing like this has ever appeared in the universe before. Being born again introduced a new creation to the cosmos we live in. We are born again with the seed of God. The very DNA of God.
“For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory,” Colossians 3:3.
We are God’s dream come true, He has long waited for many sons, the family of God. This world was lost to Satan by a human being and it can only be redeemed by a New Kind of creation that is beyond human, Christ in us is the only hope for planet earth and its inhabitants.
The Rise Of The Morning Star
The Morning Star is the name given to the planet Venus when it appears in the east in the early morning.
On the 30th July 2010 I had an interactive vision in which I saw an ornate chest. I watched as the LORD opened this chest and take out an instrument called a sextant.
This is an instrument which was used to plot one’s position at sea. I watched as the LORD took a bearing on the horizon then another bearing on a star which I knew to be Venus the day star or the morning star. I noticed the Arc on the sextant was divided into fourteen segments. That was in October 2010. Seven years ago.
We are now in 2017. The LORD looked at me and said, “The morning star will arise over the next 14 years becoming brighter and brighter.
I will arise within My people like never before over the next 14 years and at evening time it will be light.”
“But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light,” Zechariah 14:7.
We are now 7 years into this. The next seven years will see the Morning Star arise in many, transforming them into an even glorious New Creation.
This is part of God’s purpose to begin to release the power of transfiguration in the days that now lie ahead of us. This year is the year of the 70, a year of jubilee, a year of release on many fronts, from finance to an upgrade in our walk with the LORD.
Remember if you can see the future you can be a part of it. The rising of the morning star speaks of Jesus rising within us completing the process of the new creation, bringing this new creation into its fullness within us. You were born for this hour.
“But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings,” Malachi 4:2.
But that which ye have already hold fast till I come.
“And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father. And I will give him the morning star,” Revelation 2:25-28.
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August 2017 In this Issue:
- The Appearing of Jesus – Neville Johnson
- Expand your Spiritual Horizions – Bobby Conner
- The Great Commission – Joe Sweet
- Taking the Land – Kent Mattox
- Persecution & Martyrdom is Coming – Sadhu Sundar Selvaraj
- The Revelation 12 Sign – Andy Tiplady
- Be Very Alert – Editorial
~ Neville Johnson ©
The late Neville Johnson of The Academy of Light. Neville was in full time ministry for over 40 years. During that time he founded two Bible schools training ministers and missionaries who are now serving the LORD in fifteen nations. He was Director of Living Word Academy of Light in Australia. With great effect Neville preached the Gospel and taught the Word of God in over thirty nations and ministered in countless ministers seminars around the world. He was burdened for the lost with an apostolic calling to the nations.
Neville returned to be with The LORD on September 1, 2019.
The teaching that ‘everyone’ will see God is not in line with what Jesus says about His appearance and not in line with what God says about Himself. And even if ‘all eyes’ will ‘see’ Him it is not the same thing as if all eyes will ‘recognize’ and know Him:
“Follow peace with all men, and Holiness, without (holiness) which NO MAN shall see the Lord. Hebr.12:14
“Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me and to him that ordereth his conversation aright (with and from and Me) will I shew the salvation of God. Ps.50:23
“the problem with not understanding that the ‘old covenant’ has not yet vanished is also one of the reasons why the believers ignores God’s warnings:
“and thou hast been gropling at noon, as the blind gropeth in darkness; and thou dost not cause thy ways to prosper; and thou hast been only oppressed and plundered all the days, and there is no saviour (to be seen). Deut.28:29
“And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.Luke 17:26
They continued with their human religious doctrines and thought they knew the Lord:
“until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood(of false doctrines) came, and destroyed them all. Luke 17:27
“also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank (the false doctrines) they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded (their spiritual houses on the sinking sand) Luke 17:28
“But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom (the separation was completed) it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all Luke 17:29
if I now see my one face when I look into a mirror who’s face will I THEN see when I look into the mirror?
“now we see through a glass (mirror), darkly; but THEN face to face Hebr.13:12
“without (holiness) NO MAN shall see the Lord. Hebr.12:14
“When he shall come to be glorified IN his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day 2Thess.1:10
Once again, only those who has cruicified themself and their will for to do the Father’s Will, only they will see the Lord:
“Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me and to him that ordereth his conversation aright (with and from and Me) will I shew the salvation of God. Ps.50:23
In other words; There will be no one who will stand in the end of this time and say:
Did I not have right all the time? Do not Jesus exist?
Nor on the opposite “Ok, you have right, now I see him!
It will only be a quick final separation between light and darkness and then is all ‘times’ and all what is written completed. And God can finally rest!
“There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God Hebr.4:9
“And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it, because that in it he had rested from all His work which God created and made Gen.2:2-3
Jesus will not be seen by anyone else but only to God’s obedient children:
“how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and NOT UNTO THE WORLD ? John 14:22
“he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him John14:21
I am astonished at the level of “holier than thou attitude” you have – loosen up and let go of those religious demonic spirits that operate through you. I am sorry to sound harsh. See these scriptures below – every eye will see Jesus as He returns to the earth to “save” the people in it. Have you not read these:
John 3:17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Rev 1:7 Behold, He is coming with the clouds, and EVERY EYE will see him, even those who pierced him, and all tribes of the earth will wail[b] on account of him.
Isaiah 17:7 In that day, man [mankind] will look to his Maker [God the Father], and his eyes will look on the Holy One of Israel [Jesus].
Zech 9: The burden of the word of the Lord in the land of Hadrach, and Damascus shall be the
rest thereof: when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, shall be toward the Lord.
Here is a passage from the book of Jubilees that aligns with the above. Taken by itself is meaningless, but it reinforces the ideas above. Jesus is going to appear to everyone in the same way Jesus appears to the Apostle Paul.
Jubilees 1:27 The Lord will appear to the eyes of all, and all [mankind] shall know that I am the God of Israel and the Father of all the children of Jacob, and King on Mount Zion for all eternity.
“The word son here is the Greek word teknon, tek’-non of God, meaning a child, not a mature son”
In ancient hebrew (observe this is long before human ‘discovered’ what is invisible to the human eye) a sperm cell is pictured and named as ‘seed’ (nun).
The greek word ‘tek-non’ also witness of that it is a ‘tecnical’ way of to produce a child (a son).
The science does not confirm that the Bible is the truth – the Bible confirms that the science is truth!
The sperm cell can only be carried by a male and it is by reproduction we are ‘traveling’ through the ages:
“Jehovah speaketh unto Joshua son of Nun, “minister” of Moses (which rod in the hand is the chromosome rod)
now, rise, pass over this Jordan. Josh.1:1-2
“Jehovah thy God hath borne thee as a man beareth his son Deut.1:31
“the only begotten Son, who is on the bosom of the Father. John 1:18
“If then David doth call him Lord, how is he his son? Matt.22:45
The embryo lives from and through ‘the blood’ of the mother/father:
“he who is eating my flesh, and is drinking my blood, doth remain in me, and I in him John 6:56
“And no one (because of lack of the Spirit of the Truth/Spirit of revelation) was able to answer him a word Matt.22:46
The believers must stop read the Bible as if it is a ‘history book’. They must also stop listen to doctrines and instead begin to seek the Spirit of truth.
The Bible is the Word of the Creator of everythin, not a word from a history teacher or a teacher of agriculture nor it is a book which can be taught at childrens sunday school.
The whole ‘New testamente’ is a book of revelation and every thing Jesus say and does is a revelation of the true meaning of the parables in the ‘old testamente’.
With this said one has to understand that we are still in the ‘old’ covenant (bound to the genetic laws) because the old covenant has not yet disappeared it is only READY to disappear which is the different between the lie and the truth. In God’s realm there is no place for the lie.
“In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away. Hebr.8:13
One has to understand that the gospel is already, throughout the ages, ‘preached’ to the world and that AFTER that the end came. The separation process is also a continually process and it is right now!It is also a quiet separation which only those who are walking with and close to the Lord is aware of!
“And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come,” Matthew 24:14.
“at the end of the world, the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just Matt.13:49
“(NOW)it is the last time, and as ye have heard that antichrist (a falling away from the true doctrine from God) shall come, even now are there many antichrists, whereby we know that it is the last time 1JOhn 2:18
And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be Matth.24:39
In the body of Christ shall those who walks in perfect obedience to the Lord be separated from those who don’t and only one of the will be aware of the separation process:
“Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left Matth.24:41
Do any one hear the urgent call from God about the times?