As In the Days of Noah…

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Blessings, flood, Noah, rain, rainbow, tithe

Matthew 24:38-39 “For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and they did not understand until the flood came and took them away; so will the coming of the Son of Man be.”

For my whole Christian life I have come to believe that God is going to bring destruction before the coming of the Son of Man on the earth, maybe you have been taught the same thing. As I studied the days of Noah as noted in Genesis 6-8, the Lord began to reveal a mystery to me, that I have never been taught nor saw before. Looking at the days of Noah, the corruption of man, the evil (selfish) intents of his heart, and God’s grief over ever creating man are the obvious days of Noah things. The building of the ark, the entering two by two most have known since childhood. The 40 days and nights of rain, the rainbow as a covenant promise that God would never do that again, is all so familiar to us. If it is not, please read the story.

What began my quest into the mystery of Noah was his name, which means rest. I then began to realize he was a transitional figure, he saw the end of one world and the beginning of another. These revelations peaked my interest even more in the story, for it sounds a lot like where we are today. So, what happened in the days of Noah? Looking through the rainbow, which is our covenant promise of never being destroyed again by a flood, I had a desire to see a deeper meaning. Here is what I learned.

Genesis 7:11 says, “In the 600th year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened.” That phrase floodgates of the sky is translated windows of heaven. Malachi 3:10 says, “Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house, and test Me now in this, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out a blessing for you until it overflows.” We are in the year 5775AD, this in the Hebrew calendar, is the year of the open window and the verse for this year is Malachi 3:10.

As I put all these puzzle pieces together, the Lord showed me that He is about to open the windows of heaven and flood the earth with blessings until they overflow. A friend of mine sent me a text about a month ago and said, I hear the abundance of rain! We are about to experience the rain of blessing as in the days of Noah!

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Getting a PhD. In the Character of God

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Believe, Character, Christianity, church, Doctorate Level, Trainining

Many people, myself included, have been in training for the next move of God for a long time. Some just started and they are being given opportunities before me, as I inquired about this, the Lord said, some positions, only need a High School diploma, while others need a Bachelors, Masters or even a PhD. Depending on the level of leadership the Lord is going to have you be involved in is determined by the amount of schooling you need for that position. I have been in this training period for 14 years. 4 years in revival training, 9 years in desert training in Malaysia and now going on 2 years in more training.

At times it can feel like God has forgotten you, or that you have missed the mark, some may even think they have sinned, or been passed over, but the Lord told me that it is training for the position He has prepared for you. God knows how much we can handle, He knows what we will steward well without falling out of love with Him, He knows us so well, so He is training us based on His knowledge of us. But, what are we being trained in. Most people that go to school are looking for a position, more money, a title, upon their completion of school, but with God and His kingdom, that is not what He is after.

Completion on whatever level in the kingdom of God is going to have you coming out with an understanding of the character of God. We are not being trained how to plant a church, run great board meetings, or even how to write and present a sermon, rather the training we are in is for the understanding of the character, the unchanging nature of God. Many people are trained in programs, we are being trained in the character of a person, Yahweh, Jehovah, Elohim, the I AM.

I just had a class with God on the subject of His goodness. He told me that He can only be good. I said, how is that possible, He said, I have no other option but to be good, I have given myself no other choice. He went on to say, Satan can only be bad, he can only do evil, he was created this way, he has no other choice, but to do evil. I said, then how am I created in Your image if you don’t have a choice, but I do. The Lord said, I had to create you with a choice between believing Me or believing Satan, because if I did not give you a choice, but just made you like me, then it is not love.

The Lord went on to explain to me that we are the most powerful creation He made, because we are the only ones who have a choice. We do not have a lot of choices, we have 1 of 2 choices. We can choose God or Satan, good or evil, blessings or curses, life or death, love or hate. (Deuteronomy 28). He gave us the power of choice, because love demands we choose. I was blown away by this revelation. God can only do good, He only thinks good things about me, He only has good things planned for me. (Jeremiah 29:11). This understanding of God has revolutionized my life, because now I know the source of thoughts and realize more clearly the enemies goal is to get me to doubt the goodness of God. Oh the lessons being learned as I am getting a PhD. In the character of God.