God will appear to certain individuals of His own choosing not many months or years hence. He always has; He always will.
How can I be sure of this? God’s history of His dealings with His people serves as a prophetic blueprint of what He will do next. “That which has been is now. And that which is to be has already been, and God requires the things of the past” (Eccle. 3: 15).
In fact, the Holy Bible is a record of God’s literal appearances to people. Before every great move of God, He has appeared to someone. He intervenes with His presence, shattering the dull, numbing grind of human earthly existence with His incomparable light. We humans evidently need this astounding experience in order for us to be sure that God really is real and means business.
These stupefying manifestations begin, appropriately enough, in the book of Genesis, the seed book of beginnings. There we see God speaking to Adam and Eve in the Garden. “And they heard the voice of the LORD God (Yahweh) walking in the garden,” (Gen. 3: 8). He was in a human form, “walking in the garden,” and they were afraid of His presence there. A bit later we see God having a lengthy conversation with Cain.
Before Yahweh destroyed by water the wicked, He talked it all over with Noah, who “found grace in the eyes of Yahweh” (6: 8). And “Noah walked with God.” And so it was that God confided in Noah His plans, instructed Him to build an ark, and established the Noahic Covenant with him, ensuring the continuance of His righteous seedline.
We next see Yahweh appear to Abraham, the father of our faith. “And Yahweh appeared unto Abram,” and established the Abrahamic Covenant with him, giving him and his heirs the Holy Land of promise (Gen. 12: 7). And “after these things the word of Yahweh came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward” (15: 1; 17: 1-19). And God makes a great move and promises Abram that of his own loins he will have a son in his and Sarah’s old age, and his seed will be as numerous as the stars of heaven. And Abram believed what Yahweh told him. And it was that very faith and belief that God appreciated so much that God “counted it to him for righteousness.”
This is huge. This is a great move of God as He shows mankind that just believing God and His word will establish us in a right standing with God. Getting right with God comes from believing Him. Period. This is when faith triumphs over man’s puny attempts in his own strength to keep the ten commandment law of God.
For the law was not given to us as a goal to strive for or a moral ideal, as it were. For we in our human strength cannot successfully keep the 10 Commandments. No. The law was given to man as a mirror to show him of his own unrighteousness and sins, and to show him his innate wickedness. “The law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers…for whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars…” (I Tim. 1: 9-10).
God granted to Abraham, because he believed Him and His promises, a new heart that keeps the commandments of God, which is when God counted his belief as righteousness, or being right with God.
What Does This Have to Do with Our Generation?
The take away for us in our generation? God has promised us a new heart and new spirit that keeps His ways and commandments if we believe Him. God commands us, “Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit.” How do we make this happen? By just believing His promise: “A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you” (Ezk. 18: 31; 36: 26).
This new heart that does not transgress and break the 10 Commandments is called “righteousness” by God in the scriptures. It is the state of being right with God, and it is attained the same exact way that Abraham obtained it from God. By believing God.
And this way of receiving a new heart and new spirit from God that does not break His commandments is outlined in the New Testament scriptures. Although written in plain sight in black and white, you won’t hear those passages preached in the pulpits Sunday morning, for most pastors don’t believe it (for more on this read the “Introduction” of my book found here:
https://immortalityroad.wordpress.com/ebook-the-unveiling-of-the-sons-of-god/ ).
No, most modern day pastors don’t believe that after letting our old heart and spirit die with Christ on the cross, that God will give us a new heart and new spirit that does not sin against him. The pastors don’t think God can do that. They don’t believe that “whosoever is born of God does not commit sin” (I John 3: 9). It is right there in black and white, but they don’t think it is possible. But I thought that “all things are possible to him that believes” (Mark 9: 23).
Do We Believe God Can Do It?
Abraham certainly did not let the “deadness of his wife’s womb” keep him from believing that God was able to keep His promise that they would have a child. He was 100 years old and Sarah was 90. Which is easier to believe? That a 90 year old woman, decades past the age of bearing children could get pregnant and deliver a baby or God being able to change our hearts to not sin against Him? Yet Abram “did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised. This is why it was credited to him as righteousness” (Romans 4: 19-22 NIV).
Let us not waver either through unbelief of His promise to us of being His righteous sons. We simply must believe like Abraham did. That God will give us a new clean spirit if we believe Him; He did promise it to us if we believe that He will.
And so Yahweh appeared to Abraham and promised him much and established the way for Abraham’s spiritual children–us–to walk by faith in these last days. Faith. Belief. This is what is holding us back from becoming the manifested sons of God, the princes and princesses of the Kingdom of God. If we cannot believe Him that He will give us a pure sinless heart and spirit–a new heart that He promised–then how will we ever grow up into being like Him and those men of God that He appeared to?
Time would fail me to outline all of those men and women of faith that God appeared to–Moses, Joshua, Gideon, Samuel, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Paul–to name just a few. He appeared to them all before a great move of His in the earth. He will do the same today, for He changes not (Mal. 3: 6).
The Criteria
Wait a minute. That will be the criteria. He will appear once again to those who believe Him for a new heart and new spirit, which is being right with God. For Christ did say, “He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much” (Luke 16: 10).
For a new spirit is just the beginning, as it makes us a child of God. We must keep growing spiritually into spiritual young men and fathers. For God will bring forth in the last days His kingdom. That is the good news. And ruling with Him right here on earth will be the over comers. “To him that overcomes, will I grant to sit with me in my throne.” Some will sit with Christ on His throne. That is a promise. But it will be those who are full of faith and belief, those who have bought from Christ “gold tried in the fire,” and “white raiment” to hide their nakedness, and have “anointed their eyes with eye salve that they may see” (Rev. 3: 14-22). Those are the over comers; those are the manifested sons and daughters of God; those are the ones He will appear to in these latter days to strengthen them and encourage them for the battle to take back the earth and establish His literal kingdom and government right here on earth. K. W. Hancock
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