Peter, John, and Matthew only needed the onefold Spirit, but today we need the sevenfold Spirit because we are so dead. We need the complete Spirit, the sevenfold Spirit. How much we need the Spirit today! We need the Spirit seven times. This is not seven Spirits but the sevenfold Spirit, the intensified Spirit. The one Spirit becomes seven because it is now the age of the intensified Spirit. The Spirit becomes the second person of the Godhead.įurthermore, the Spirit in Revelation is the sevenfold Spirit. But in Revelation something has been changed. Matthew tells us that God was incarnated so that we might be baptized into the Father, the Son, and the Spirit. The age has been changed to the Spirit.ĭo you think that this is only my opinion? Read your Bible again. O brothers and sisters, the age has been changed! The age has been changed! Today is not the age of Matthew but the age of Revelation, and we must realize that now we are not at the beginning of the age of Revelation but at the end. Are we living in the days of Matthew, or are we in the days of Revelation? There is no doubt that we are in the days of Revelation, and even at the end of the days of Revelation. They may say, “How can you say this? What proof do you have to say that the age has been changed?” The proof is here in Revelation 1:4-5, in the change in the order of the Godhead. In these days I have been so burdened to tell the children of God that the age has been changed. I must say again that the age has been changed! It has been changed to the Spirit. In the Gospels the Son was second, but now in the book of Revelation the Spirit becomes the second. It is no longer the age of the Son but the age of the Spirit. This is why we say that the age is changed. Have you seen this change? In Matthew the Spirit is the third person of the Godhead, but in Revelation the third person becomes the second. But in Revelation it is the Father, the Spirit, and then the Son. It is so clear that it is the Father, the Son, and the Spirit. In Matthew there is first the Father, second the Son, and third the Spirit. Let us read these verses: “John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is coming, and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne, and from Jesus Christ, the faithful Witness, the Firstborn of the dead, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth.” Today is not the age of the Son but the age of the Spirit. This is because, as I have pointed out already (see The Stream, Feb. In Revelation 1:4-5 the seven Spirits of God are put before Jesus Christ in the order of the Godhead. Then when we come through the New Testament to the last book of Revelation, it is so interesting to notice that the Spirit of God is put into the second place of the Godhead. This is the first book of the New Testament. The beginning tells us that God was incarnated as a man to be with us, and the end says that we must be baptized into the Triune God-into the Father, the Son, and the Spirit. These are the two ends of the Gospel of Matthew. Then, at the end of the Gospel of Matthew, we are told to go and disciple all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit (28:19). God was incarnated to be a man so that He could be with us. The first chapter of the New Testament tells us how Christ was God incarnated to be a man, and this wonderful man is called Emmanuel, “God with us” (v. To see the intensified Spirit we need to spend a little time to look into the whole New Testament.
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