A NEW DAY DAWNING

Now just for clarification, we need to begin this article of the "New Day Dawning" in Rev.19:1-21, and this marks the "voice of the Archangel ministry." to the church. This is of course Jesus Christ in the five-fold ministry working and bringing the church to completeness as the glorious church without sin and iniquity through "that which is perfect has come."

Jesus Christ is not going to marry the church which is analogousely his wife already. The scripture is using the analogy of "husband and wife", and not bridegroom and bride." In the analogy of the bridegroom and bride, we see the people who are elected and called to Christ through the gospel become his so-called wife by becoming the church on that Pentecostal day in the first century.(Rom.7:1-4) We see this reality confirmed in 2-Cor.11:1-4, where Paul says

The word espoused in the Greek language is defined as joined together in a spiritual union. This is the original and present day reality for the elect.

These saints are predestined by the grace of God to attained the "high calling of God in Christ." (Phil.3:13-16) First, there is the spiritual resurrection and the marriage, or union of the elect Israelis and the individuals of the Gentiles with the Lamb as they become part of his church-body. And this occurred all through the church ages.

But in this scene Christ is personified and glorified in the people through the physical resurrection and glorification of our corporeal bodies for the marriage or union with planet earth. The saints are caught away in the air to the Mount of Olives east of Jerusalem.

John said, "And I saw heaven open, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon "him" was called faithful and true, and in righteousness he judges and makes war." The white horse is a symbol of the dynamic power of Jesus Christ directing the activities of the church to judge and make war with the armies of the antichrist.

This is the glorified collective saints symbolized as the figure riding the white horse wearing their golden crowns of eternal life.

The glorified saints receive a secret name because they are the collective glorified God-body of Jesus Christ, and they have experienced redemption through the vicarious and substitutional work of the Son of God. The efficacy of the blood is in the truth of Christ they possess, and they are the expressed "word of God." (Rev.2:17)

The armies from heaven are the saints from Adam unto the church dispensation that waited in that multidimensional level of Paradise for the resurrection. These saints are not in the high calling of God in the church. Nevertheless, they have the benefits of the saving grace of Jesus Christ, and his righteousness is expressed in their clothing, and they are ready to do battle with the armies of the antichrist.

The collective church will smite the nations with the sword, which is the spoken word of God, and rule them with the law as a rod of iron. But first the glorified church must tread the winepress with the fierceness and wrath of God in the last battle before the Kingdom age begins.

The beast, the European Community, which is the restored so-called Holy Roman Empire, with the armies of the 10 kings will gather at Armageddon to plan their strategy, and then they will attack Jerusalem from the north and south of the Valley of Jehoshaphet located between Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives.

After the battle is over, the judgment of the beast with seven heads, the restored Holy Roman Empire, which is carrying the woman with the name "mystery Babylon" written in her forehead, or Roman Catholicism, will face the judgmental nuclear fire of God. (Rev.18:1-24) The total destruction of the "seat of the beast" located on the seven hills of Rome, or Vatican City. The beast system and the woman will be burned with the nuclear fire and brimstone as the 10 kings of a quasi-unified European confederacy unleash their mighty fire-power.

The armies of these kings sent into the land of Israel will all be killed in the last battle and feed to the fowls of the earth at the great marriage or union of the church with the earth, and it is called the great supper of the lamb.(Rev.19:17-21)

In Rev.20:1-3, The spirit of deception and death, the Devil, is bound in the "bottomless pit" for a thousand years. And this is where we see the mystery or the revelation of the new heaven and earth made known to the people of the church. The earth, this disordered world state of civilization is filled with deception, destruction and death today but, it will all pass away as the saints take control and begin to administer the law of God to the natural people who were not killed in the last battle. These people will repopulate the nations of the new earth.

The earth and heaven, its atmosphere, will be new in the succession of order, because it will be the prophetic seventh day or God's rest that follows the sixth day we are living in now. It will be new because sin and the curse of physical death, sickness, disease and destruction will be abolished; and the natural people will attain a measure of immortality for a thousand years. (Isa.60:1-22) The atmosphere, or heaven will be new because the demons spirits that pervaded heaven oppressing, obsessing and possessing the spirits and minds of human beings, and the Devil's angels will be bound in the bottomless pit for a thousand years.

The "sea" types the religious masses of the European nations who were in league with the antichrist. They were all killed and feed to the fowls of the earth in the last battle of the earth. The "bottomless pit" is the church of the Devil in the guise of Christianity, and the beast system of the antichrist that has "no foundation." Thank God, the church of Christ is established on the solid rock of the reality of Almighty God.

We can see a parallel between the Devil's religio-political system in the life and times of Ahab and Jezebel, the "Queen of Heaven." (2-Kgs.9:1-37) After the eunuchs (her ministry) cast Jezebel down (Romanism) and killed her, Jehu, a type of the glorified church drove his chariot and horses over her, and eventually the dogs, the 10 kings of Europe who unleashed their nuclear arsenals upon the seat of the beast, eat her body.

After the battle is over, there is nothing left of Jezebel but her feet (a type of carrying her religious lies), and her skull (a type of her leadership), and the palms of her hands (a type of her ministry). These people of the Devil who were not killed moved into the Kingdom age, and this is the "bottomless pit" where the Devil is bound. They will not be able or permitted to preached or teach their evil doctrines for a thousand years.

Yours in Christ ~ ~ ~~ Gene Austin

Come and dine on the strong beef and wine of the word at the marriage supper table of the Lamb today. And make yourself ready as part of the glorious church of Jesus Christ.