Jesus Christ will baptize His followers with the Holy Spirit and also with fire.

He will separate the wheat from the chaff, putting His wheat into His barn and burning up the chaff with fire that cannot be extinguished, that is, eternal supernatural fire. The reference is to the Lake of Fire.

Here we have the spiritual fulfillment of the Blowing of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement, and the feast of Tabernacles.

The Blowing of Trumpets announces the coming of the King to judge His enemies in the Church.

The Day of Atonement is the period of God's working during which the Lord separates the wheat from the chaff in our life and totally reconciles us to Himself.

The feast of Tabernacles portrays the bringing of the purified nature of the believer into perfect rest in God through Jesus Christ.

We have been at the feast of Pentecost, so to speak, throughout the present century. How many millions of believers have enjoyed the Presence and work of the Holy Spirit!

Now God is ready for the work for which all that has gone before is the foundation. God is ready to remove sin from His creation and bring in everlasting righteousness.

What is the plan?

The plan is to remove worldliness, lust, and self-will from a firstfruits of His Church. Then through their victory Satan will be cast down from the heavenlies.

At the coming of the Lord the victorious firstfruits will ascend the thrones in the air that have been vacated at the time Satan and his angels are deposed. (This is why we are caught up to meet the Lord in the air. It is because the thrones that govern the earth are located in the air above us.)

As soon as the saints have been gathered to the Commander in Chief in the air the invasion of the earth will begin. Down through the clouds will descend the riders on the white war stallions led by the One called Faithful and True. The horses and those whom they carry move in the perfect will of God.

Faster than light will come the dead-living holy ones. They cannot be frightened or bribed. The armies of Antichrist will make a brief show of resistance and then will flee in disarray as the irresistible force of destruction engulfs them.

Soon the wicked are carrion, heaps of bloody flesh, food for the circling vultures. Earth never before has seen such carnage and never will again until the fire of God falls on the rebellious nations at the end of the thousand-year Kingdom Age.

This is a Jesus the churches do not know. This is the Lord, strong and mighty in battle, more terrible in His wrath and power than any conqueror of history.

Kiss the Son, lest he be angry and you be destroyed in your way, for his wrath can flare up in a moment. Blessed are all who take refuge in him. (Psalms 2:12—NIV)

To be continued.