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==Just think of that!==
<p>We now are turning our eyes away from dying and going to Heaven, as important as that is to us older folks, and are beginning to think seriously about the coming of the Kingdom of God to the earth. </p>
<p>After all, that is what Jesus, John the Baptist, and the Apostles of the Lamb preached about, isn't it? </p>
<p>Maybe we should do the same. </p>
<p>The Blowing of Trumpets announces war! the coming of Jesus in the Spirit to wage war against His enemies, particularly those enemies that have His people bound. </p>
<p>Because we have not understood that the Divine redemption includes deliverance as well as forgiveness, we have fallen back on grace as a substitute for victory over the enemy. </p>
<p>Thank God, that day is over. We are ready now to drive the enemy out of our inheritance. God told Christ to sit at His right hand until He made His enemies a footstool for His feet. Notice, in the fourteenth chapter of the Book of Revelation, that Christ now is <strong>standing </strong>on Mount Zion (the Christian Church) with 144,000 of His Firstfruits. </p>
<p>He is ready to demolish the enemy, and we are to join in this effort, beginning with the enemies in our own personality. </p>
<p><em>The Lord says to my lord: "Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet." (Psalms 110:1) </em></p>
<p>This sounds like the manner in which God is going to put an end to sin and bring in everlasting righteousness, doesn't it? God is going to accomplish total victory over unrighteousness through the Lord Jesus Christ and we are to cooperate with Him. </p>
<p>I feel certain that we now are entering the "third day." The trumpet of the Lord is sounding in the spirit world. The drums of <em>El Shaddai </em>are summoning us to war. We no longer are appealing to "grace" as an excuse for our sinning but are appealing to the mighty Spirit of God to come and help us drive the enemy, the urges to sin, from the members of our body. </p>
<p>Some translations say "force out demons," Others, "throwing out demons." </p>
<p>I like "forcing out" and "throwing out" because that is the nature of the third day. As Jesus directs us we are to cast out, drive out, force out, throw out, and otherwise destroy the hold Satan has on us. This is quite different from "forgiving" our sins, isn't it? </p>
<p><em>He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. (I John 3:8) </em></p>
<p>Destroy, not forgive, the works of the devil. </p>
<p>Are you with me in this? </p>
<p>The trumpets of God are sounding! It is time to take the Kingdom. The authority of the enemy was destroyed on Calvary. It is the first day of a new year, as well as the third day of redemption. God is ready to do business in the earth. It is His earth and His nations, and it is our earth and our nations if we are co-heirs with the Lord Jesus Christ. </p>
<p>Recently a six-year-old girl in our church, when her daddy was reading to her about David and Goliath, said, "God sent the bear and the lion against David so David would not be afraid when he met Goliath." </p>
<p>Has God sent enemies against us to prepare us to confront the forces of Hell? </p>
<p>After the Blowing of Trumpets comes what may, in some sense, be the most important festival of all: the Day of Atonement. </p>
<p>The Day of Atonement signifies "reconciliation to God." </p>
<p><em>Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord. (Leviticus 23:27) </em></p>
<p>There is nothing of equal importance on earth and in Heaven as reconciliation to God. </p>
<p>"Be reconciled to God," the Apostle Paul implored the Corinthians. </p>
<p>Now, here is a factor to be considered. </p>
<p>We are reconciled to God by the blood of the cross in a legal sense. But we are not actually reconciled to God in the full sense of the word as long as we are behaving sinfully. </p>
<p>Now, as we are entering the spiritual fulfillment of the Day of Atonement, we discover that there are urges in our body and spirit that are hostile to God. Our body and spirit have not as yet been reconciled to God as long as we are not obeying Christ in every detail of our life. </p>
<p>I know that Satan has managed to convince God's people that we are bound hopelessly in sin, and as long as we are in the world we are obligated to sin. But this is a destructive lie! </p>
<p><em>Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation—but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live. (Romans 8:12,13) </em></p>
<p><em>He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might <strong>destroy </strong>the works of the devil. (I John 3:8) </em></p>
<p>This is a lie. Each of us is troubled with a few minor sins, and also two or three "kings," we might say. Through the Spirit of God we can get the victory over each of these! </p>
<p>God want all of this evil out of us. Totally. Completely. Eternally. </p>
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