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Greetings,
We had a great weekend in Bellingham. The sun has been shining brightly, and it feels a bit like summer. We had a weekend of healing training at Alife and many people came eager and willing to receive and give to others the life of God’s healing love. We saw several healings and testimonies as people went out into the streets.
God wants us all to live in and from His manifest presence in our lives. We come to God through Jesus Christ the Son. This enables us to know God as our Father. The reality of knowing God the Father and Jesus Christ the Son is the testimony of eternal life. It is made possible by Holy Spirit dwelling in us in this world. There is an open door in heaven, and we must respond to the call of God to live in and from His presence in our hearts to experience the New Covenant testimony of intimacy with God in Christ. That heavenly door is found in the human heart by the grace of God made possible through the once-for-all sacrifice of Jesus, the Lamb of God for our sins. Our disconnection from God is healed by our connection to God in Christ.
Revelation 4:1 After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven. And the first voice which I heard was like a trumpet speaking with me, saying, “Come up here, and I will show you things which must take place after this.”
When we choose to come to that place made real for us in Christ we hear a voice. That voice is the voice of Jesus made known by God’s Spirit in our hearts. His voice is like a trumpet. The trumpet is a symbol for prophecy. What is prophecy? God speaks; life happens. Many times we turn prophecy into some religious sounding thing. We change our voice. We make it sound weird, but it’s simply when God speaks, life happens.
There’s two ways He speaks to us in the sound of the trumpet. One is as the shofar. The shofar is a horn from a dead animal. That means it died, but when the wind of the Spirit blows through it there is a testimony of being born as something new by God’s Spirit. I’m back! I live! I cannot die! The wind of God’s Spirit gives us new life, eternal life, resurrection life in every moment of our journey in this world.
Before I was diagnosed with my recent cancer situation, God spoke to me on my morning run one day, because there’s an open door to Jesus in my heart. He said, Son, there’s nothing in your life that can end in death because you have eternal life. It’s not simply one day that you have eternal life. You have eternal life now! Eternal life is knowing Me as your Father, and knowing Jesus, the Son. That’s eternal life. So you don’t just have life, you have life that cannot die.
That’s a pretty good deal for anyone. That means on bad days, it’s going to end up in life. That means on the day you die; you’re going to end up in life. There’s no situation that can end up in death in your life because you’ve embraced a personal relationship with eternal life. That’s great. This is the testimony of eternal life.
There is a second testimony seen in the prophetic symbolism of the trumpet. The trumpet is also something that changes your character. The silver hammered trumpet was a trumpet that you fashion and shape. You don’t weld it, you hammer it and shape it from one piece of silver. This is a testimony to Christ being formed in you. Christ is being formed in us by the work of Holy Spirit in our lives. Love is being formed in you and me. Forgiveness is being formed in us. We are not just receiving life; we’re becoming life givers. Someone who has been forgiven can be hammered and shaped by forgiveness to give the life of forgiveness to others. We’re being shaped, we’re being hammered by love. He’s fashioning and forming us with love and mercy. Our character is changing.
The silver trumpet is what they used to bring the sound of direction in battle. This trumpet sounded to turn to the right, to the left, go straight forward, or retreat. It was something that could give directions. The change of the character of your life into the character of Christ makes you able to be someone that we can follow. Others can hear the sound that signals to go to the right, go to the left, go straight forward, or retreat. The sound of the presence of Christ in your life is like a trumpet and the Spirit of God is saying, come up here, I’ll show you things.
Revelation 4:2 Immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne set in heaven, and One sat on the throne.
The qualifier for our coming is Jesus. It is not by our works that we qualify. It is by His love. Romans chapter eight says, there is now therefore no more condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. Some translations add the statement, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the spirit. The Textus Receptus Greek added that phrase, but some of the older Greek texts don’t even have that phrase. Now it is true that when we don’t walk according to the Spirit, we can feel disconnected and we can begin to experience some condemnation, but we don’t even need to add that part. Let’s just keep it simple. There is now therefore no more condemnation to those who are in Christ. So we have immediate access to God in the Spirit whenever we choose to come to Him and live in and from His presence. This a New Covenant testimony for all who come to Him in Christ.
Blessings,
Ted J. Hanson
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