4 And the smoke of the incense (the perfume) arose in the presence of God, with the prayers of the people of God (the saints), from the hand of the angel.
5 So the angel took the censer and filled it with fire from the altar and cast it upon the earth. Then there followed peals of thunder and loud rumblings and blasts and noises, and flashes of lightning and an earthquake.
Fire is the power of the Holy Spirit operating in our life’s. We are baptized with the Holy Spirit and with fire, which is power, the power of God Himself!
“John answered them all by saying, I baptize you with water; but He Who is mightier than I is coming, the strap of Whose sandals I am not fit to unfasten. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.” Luke 3:16
We are shown here that the power of our Father is poured out on His children who have been sealed and that He will use us as He never has before! Our prayers are answered beyond anything that we could think of or ask for here, just as the Holy Spirit had Paul write in Ephesians Chapter 3. I believe that we are going to be one body as never before during the end times, because we are told that there is going to be a great falling away of all of the fake believers.
“Let no one deceive or beguile you in any way, for that day will not come except the apostasy comes first [unless the predicted great falling away of those who have professed to be Christians has come], and the man of lawlessness (sin) is revealed, who is the son of doom (of perdition),” 2 Thessalonians 2:3.
Our Father will use us during the last three and a half years of this world, as we now know it, to do the works that Jesus did and even greater works, John 14:12. The Holy Spirit had John write in 1 John 4:17, that as Jesus is, so are we in this world. The Truth is that we are more than conquerors through Christ Who loves us, and Greater is He that is within us than he that is in the world! And here we see that during the Great Tribulation there is only going to be hot or cold, the lukewarm will have been separated from the true chosen ones. And with the power of our Father comes lightening, thunders and earthquakes. Read Psalm 18 and you will see how our Father reacts when His children call upon Him and here in Revelation we read a very similar description of our Father coming to our aide.
Also, remember the parable that Jesus showed us about the wheat and the tares, how the tares must be separated and burned first. This separation occurs during the Great Tribulation, the false Christians and the disobedient are removed from the chosen and called, and they are burned, they are consumed by the wrath of our Father.
Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn. Matthew 13:30
Before the trumpets were allowed to sound, the angel had to pour out the power of our Father upon Jesus’ Bride. Just as before the four winds were allowed to come, we who were chosen had to be sealed. We are sealed with the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit is our power and He is our strength. The Holy Spirit clearly shows us things to come, and He teaches us all things, as He causes us to remember everything that Jesus has spoken. But for the tares there is only destruction and ruin. The wicked are first bound up and removed from the earth. The wicked are the fake religious leaders who have made merchandise of us and who have laid burdens on us that they would never even attempt to keep themselves, Matthew 23:4. The wicked are the wolves in sheep’s clothing, they are the leaven, and the whoremongers who have had a form of godliness, but who have denied the power of our Father, 2 Timothy 3:5.
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