Jesus Christ

Before we see the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, we will see the
coming of the Church. What we think is the church, is not the church.
That is why God is going to burn up everything that is not from Him
and rest He will put through the fire. The Tabernacle of Moses is the
fore shadow of Jesus Christ. Every thing in the tabernacle of Moses
talks about Jesus. When we begin to think, we are saved by anything
else that we are outside of the will of God and have fallen from
grace. We are saved by the blood of Jesus alone. The tabernacle of
Moses speaks about the death of Christ. When you become to be born
again, you must die to you sin. If you don’t do it to your sin, you
are not born again. The Tabernacle of David is the fore shadow of the
Body of Christ. The Tabernacle of David is the shadow of the raised
Lord Jesus Christ. When you die at the Tabernacle of Moses ,you are
the resurrection into the tabernacle of David. You are born into the
Body of Christ! The Tabernacle of Moses is based on law and works and
the tabernacle of David is based on grace and faith. Law and works
must remain in Jesus and outside of Jesus, we can’t do nothing good in
ourselves. In the tabernacle of David, there is worship ministry of
the minstrels and psalmists. Not only that, every believer need to
worship God in Spirit and Truth. In the tabernacle of Moses there is
offering and sacrifice. Jesus is the sacrifice! Today we need to
praise and worship God. There are seven ways of praising God and only
one-way to worship God.

The Church, the Body of Christ is the tabernacle of David in this
world. In Acts 15:16 through 18 we see the words ‘return, rebuild, and
restore.’ The words “RE” mean that we had this before. In the
beginning God made man in his image, we had everything but through sin
we lost it. God is giving us back what were ours in the beginning.

Jesus Christ had gone before us to prepare many spiritual levels for
us to step upon. Not that those who are on the lower levels are lesser
or those who are one the higher levels are greater, but it is through
Christ Jesus can our steps be in order. And through Jesus we will move
forth to the next level that he has made ready long ago.

Soon and very soon there will not be walls between the spiritual world
and the natural world, for through the Body of Christ, the Church the
walls will fall. The Kingdom of God must first come in the Church
before it comes in the World. And the Church has been called to take
back the world for Christ, for the kingdoms of this world shall be
become the kingdoms of God. We will have a new earth through the
ministry of the Church. The old earth of sin and darkness will be
removed and another will possess it through grace and faith. Yes the
old order of man and religion will be burnt up through the fire of the
Holy Spirit and the new order will come through the reformation which
the saints of the Most High have received in the Kingdom of God
through prayer and the Holy Spirit and we shall possess this world for
God’s Glory.

What is the Church anyway? The Church is living stones, a spiritual
house, and a holy priesthood. A chosen generation, a royal priesthood,
a holy nation, a special people to proclaim praises and offer up
spiritual scarifies to our God and Lord Jesus Christ.

Religious freedom in India?

Religious freedom in India?

Despite a long history of Christian persecution in the country, the
International Religious Freedom, report released this week by the U.S.
State Department, gave India’s central government a fairly high rating
on its religious freedom laws.

“The national government, led by the United Progressive Alliance
(UPA), continued to implement an inclusive and secular platform that
included respect for the right to religious freedom,” claimed the
report.

Unfortunately, whether this is true or not seems to have made little
difference. Don with Grand Rapids, Michigan-based Mission India agrees
that the secular central government has decent laws regarding
religious freedom, but that they seldom step in at the state level.

Don says the situation with religious minorities in India mirrors that
of the caste system. “The caste system was outlawed over 50 years ago,
and yet the caste system remains very strong and is required to be
reported on forms that you fill out for the government. So even though
there’s a law that disbands caste, it’s a part of the system, and it
hasn’t changed.” Don says likewise in India, “There is religious
freedom. In some places that is respected, but in many places it is
not.”

The problem is, when religious freedom is not respected, Don says the
national government tends to look the other way. Even the report
admits that although the central government has good intentions toward
religious freedom, attacks against minorities continue to go
unattended. “This shortcoming was exacerbated by a low police-to-
population ratio, corruption, and an overburdened and antiquated court
system,” notes the report.

“There have been, in my opinion and my experience, some positive
developments in terms of the central government’s attitude toward
persecution, but they have little influence on what happens at the
state level and have not really taken any kind of aggressive step, as
far as I’ve been able to see, to stop the abuse against Christians,”
explains Don.

This may not be such a problem if the abuses were not so frequent. Don
goes as far as to say that “where the Hindu fundamentalist groups have
power or a strong following in the area, Christians are attacked on a
regular basis.”

The report on religious freedom in India took note of some of these
instances from July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010, but many were left
undocumented. For instance, the anti-conversion laws present in six of
India’s states were discussed, but the attempts and successes of
Hindus to forcibly convert Christians were never mentioned. Instead,
accusations against Christians to convert Hindus – especially those of
lower castes – by force were discussed. Suffice it to say, this has
not been the experience of most ministries connected with Mission
Network News.

Don says the media in general is often slanted this way though in a
country comprised of 80 percent Hindus and only two percent
Christians. “Even though Christians are often times forced under
threat of life to enact Hindu ceremonies to deny their faith, those
are not deemed as forced, but are acceptable,” explains Don.

There is clearly a disconnect between the national law and the actual
reality for Christians in India, but what can be done? Don says the
situation is unlikely to change any time soon, and the best thing for
Western believers to do is to pray. Remember also that despite the
large amount of suffering felt by the church in India, they continue
to grow in number.

“They’ve been persecuted, and they know what it means to follow Jesus
whole-heartedly. So in spite of – or because of – persecution in many
ways, the church in India is maturing and strengthening.”