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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Bringing the Throne Into the Land of Promise, continued
These men have power to shut up the sky so that it will not rain during the time they are prophesying; and they have power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they want. (Revelation 11:6—NIV)
In addition to the traditional evangelism the end-time army of witnesses will be able to perform works of judgment and destruction in order to open the doors to hostile nations and to reveal what the world can expect when the Lord returns.
As we have seen the gifts of healing operate over the last fifty years it has been evident that the ministers have sometimes been corrupted by the power given to them. We are being warned today to guard against the dangers that are presented when we are given authority and power.
We must guard against taking the glory to ourselves.
We must guard against coveting money and material riches.
We must guard against the temptations of the lust of the flesh.
This is why the witnesses of Revelation Chapter Eleven are clothed in sackcloth, speaking of humility and a renunciation of the world spirit. Ministers of today often are dressed in expensive clothes and drive the finest cars. It will not be so with the army of witnesses being trained today.
However, the army of witnesses is not the army that will cross Jordan, so to speak. There is another army. The crossing of the Jordan means the Lord Jesus has returned from Heaven with His army of resurrected saints to drive all sin from the world, to bring in everlasting righteousness.
The army of witnesses will be composed of flesh and blood human beings operating under a double portion of the Holy Spirit. The army that will drive Satan from the earth will be composed of saints in resurrection bodies.
Two Divine works are taking place today. The first is, we are being prepared for the great latter-rain outpouring so we can bear witness to every nation of the soon coming of the Kingdom of God to the earth. The second work is the forming of Christ in us. It is Christ in us that is the basis for our descending with Him and taking back the earth from the enemy.
Notice carefully the following:
When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. (Colossians 3:4—NIV)
"When Christ, who is your life." We are not eligible to return as the Ark of the Covenant, so to speak, bringing the will of God into the earth, until Christ is our life.
Christ becomes our life as we continually are brought down to the death of the cross. We are learning to live by the power of His resurrection. We are sharing His sufferings. We are crucified with Christ. It is no longer we who are living but Christ who is living in us.
The exercise of Divine judgment against Satan cannot be conducted by flesh and blood. Flesh and blood cannot enter the Kingdom of God. It is Christ, and God in Him, who alone can destroy Satan and all His works.
To be continued.