ROCK OC – “The Shaking” – JAN 29, 2022
Introduction - Veronika West - Don't pray away the shaking - Love and judgment, redemptive...a rescue mission to AWAKEN America. Purging and purification / Refining fire
James 1:2-4 - 2 Consider it all joy, my brothers, when you encounter various trials, 3 for you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance. 4 And let endurance have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Hebrews 12
12:1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which so closely entangles, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted. 4 In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. 5 And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons?
“My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord,
nor be weary when reproved by him.
6 For the Lord disciplines the one he loves,
and chastises every son whom he receives.”
7 It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? 8 If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. 9 Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live? 10 For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness. 11 For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
12 Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees, 13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed.
14 Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord. 15 See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no “root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled; 16 that no one is sexually immoral or unholy like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal. 17 For you know that afterward, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no chance to repent, though he sought it with tears.
18 For you have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire and darkness and gloom and a tempest 19 and the sound of a trumpet and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that no further messages be spoken to them. 20 For they could not endure the order that was given, “If even a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned.” 21 Indeed, so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, “I tremble with fear.” 22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, 23 and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, 24 and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel. 25 See that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape if we reject him who warns from heaven. 26 At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.” 27 This phrase, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of things that are shaken—that is, things that have been made—in order that the things that cannot be shaken may remain. 28 Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, 29 for our God is a consuming fire.
His Baptism(first encounter?) - John 1:32 - remains!! - And John bore witness: “I saw the Spirit descend from heaven like a dove, and it remained on him.
His Testing (Shaking – another encounter) - Matt 4:1 - Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit
Matt 4:4...but by EVERY word... (Full Counsel) - 4 But he answered, “It is written,
“‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
Matt 4:5-7 - Devil misusing God's word. How?? Presumption!! Many are doing the same today..."God will cover you"..."We can drink poison", etc.
5 Then the devil took him to the holy city and set him on the pinnacle of the temple 6 and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, “‘He will command his angels concerning you,’ and “‘On their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.’” 7 Jesus said to him, “Again it is written, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.’”
Matt 4:11 - Angelic assistance - Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and were ministering to him. (afterwards)
Mark 1:13 - not just AFTER the trial...but DURING it. "ministered CONTINUOUSLY"
He was in the wilderness forty days being tempted [to do evil] by Satan; and He was with the wild animals, and the angels ministered continually to Him. (were ministering to Him) - AMP
Hebrews 1:14 - Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation?
Hebrew 12:22 – the opposition?? Fallen angels?? Righteous angels? innumerable!!
22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering,
Did 1/3rd of the Angels fall?? https://readingacts.com/2020/05/26/the-dragon-and-the-stars-revelation-123-4/
Luke 4:14 - And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee… (Anointed AFTER the Shaking) – only Luke mentions this
Matt 4:17 - Message - Repent/KoG at hand - From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” (near)
God's blessings WITHOUT meeting God's conditions?? (healing, forgiveness)
Matt 4:19 - Fruit - "Fishers of Men"
Good News Translation - Jesus said to them, "Come with me, and I will teach you to catch people."
Passion - Jesus called out to them and said, “Come and follow me, and I will transform you into men who catch people for God."
Mark 1:29-31 - Jesus and fevers?? (WWJD) - 29 And immediately he left the synagogue and entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. 30 Now Simon's mother-in-law lay ill with a fever, and immediately they told him about her. 31 And he came and took her by the hand and lifted her up, and the fever left her, and she began to serve them.
John 3:34 - Spirit w/o measure (OT – measured. Jesus NT – without measure!)
· The Son was sent to speak God's message, and he has been given the full power of God's Spirit. (CEV)
· The one whom God has sent speaks God's words, because God gives him the fullness of his Spirit. (GNT)
· For he is sent by God. He speaks God’s words, for God gives him the Spirit without limit (measure). (NLT)
Paul Cain..."to the Church without mixture, I will give the Spirit without measure"
Romans 8:19 - For the creation eagerly waits for the manifestation/revelation of the sons of God.
Is this the “latter-day rain”(Joel 2)? “…the glory on the latter house exceeding the former”(Haggai – context of shaking)? “…the greater works”?
