Jubilee 99 May Deny the Atonement
"Whatever form its
social ramifications may have taken, the jubilee was, and remained, a religious affair, for the atonement of
sin (see Lev. XXV,
9)." Note: We have updated this article to address
Jubilee 2000 which has as its theme: "They Cried To the Lord." There
is always a Freudian slip in picking the themes of these meetings
imitating the more militant "vineward" or Latter
Rain. The Jubilee carries many secret messages.
First, it means, like the Catholic Jubilee and many pagan religions,
if you come to the centray sanctuary and watch the rituals performed
by the God manipulators the thrill you felt proved
that the gods were no longer angry and you had your sins
forgiven. Next, Jubilee implies that people in the old
"deliterious and decadent and rural" churches need some superior
power to set them free. Then, the "lands" or the church buildings are
literally wrestled away from those who legally bought them and given
to the new Jubilators. Those who paid the bills are out in the cold
to meet in the high school gym. This "restoration" of the first but incomplete
"restoration" or second incarnation will be demonstrated in physical
things even if Jesus said that His kingdom was in the heart and not
of this world. Only when the church has experience the second
incarnation and has restored the physical kingdom is Christ even
remotely competent to come and restore the spiritual kingdom.
"At the Jubilee, all the
debts were canceled, all the slaves were set
free, all the land returned to its
rightful owner. This is a physical example of the spiritual truths
that are fulfilled in Jesus Christ, and will be finished at His Second Coming. The debt of sin will be canceled, the slaves of sin will be
set free, and the rulership of the earth will return to Jesus Christ
and His Bride forever." Jubilee's start on the Day of Atonement.
"(Atonement, AT-ONE-MENT, AT ONE WITH GOD,
when God and humanity come together. When Jesus Christ returns for
His Bride, there will be AT-ONE-MENT.) "A Jubilee occurs every 50 years.
The 6,000 years of man will exactly complete 120 Jubilees. The root
12 in the number 120 is significant in that the number 12 denotes a
completion number for man. There were 12 children of Israel, creating
12 tribes of Israel; and 12 disciples of Jesus. But didn't Jesus come to proclaim the final
and effective Jubilee? The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD
is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to preach
good news to the poor. He has sent
me to bind up the brokenhearted, to
proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the
prisoners, 2) to proclaim the year of
the Lord's favor and the day of
vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, Isaiah 61:1-2 (NIV)
The premillenial theme is that not now but
perhaps later. We have to travel to Nashville or Jerusalem to hope
that the Lord Jesus Christ will finally do what He apparently failed
to do the first time! Describing Caneridge, Conkin notes that people
look for external effects to prove the "at-one-ment" with God and the
urge for the second incarnation in which Christ is resurrected just
so that we might die with Him again ad a continuous form of
Jubilee: "Sinners dropping down on every
hand, shrieking, groaning, crying for mercy, convoluted; professors
of religion praying, agonizing, fainting, falling down in distress,
for sinners, or in raptures of
joy!
Some singing, some
shouting, clapping
their hands, hugging and even
kissing, laughing; others
talking to the
distressed, to one another, or to
opposers of the work, and all this at
once--no spectacle can recite a
stronger sensation. And with what is doing, the darkness of the night,
the solemnity of the place, and of the occasion, and conscious guilt, all conspire to make terror thrill through
every power of the soul, and rouse it to awful attention."
(Letter quoted by Conkin, Cane Ridge, p. 93-94). "Soon the sheer confusion practically
subverted the outdoor preaching. Small groups joined in prayer or in
loud hymn
singing, with singing the most
enjoyable group activity and the one that often most affected an audience... More conventional shouts and groans
joined with a near babble of
speech, some incoherent, some later
distinguished as holy
laughter or singing." (Conkin, p.
94). "They do bear comparison to the
ring shouts and dancing so often
observed in black religious services, which were probably a
survival of African religious
practices. Indeed, black religion in
the South may have had some influence on expected or
sanctioned ways of
giving bent to religious ecstasy at Cane Ridge. "What the exercises revealed were
religiously serious
people who, in a powerfully suggestive
environment, chose, or were forced, to reenact the drama of Jesus' passion
and the ever-recurring drama of their own tortured quest for
salvation. These mutually reinforcing dramas forced people
toward experiential poles--on one hand the extreme of
personal revulsion and self-doubt, on the other that of exaltation
and joy." (Conkin, Cane
Ridge, p. 104). Shelly/Harris speak of the kingdom as in the
fermenting process before Jesus came
but it did not complete fermentation. Therefore, we must open the
church to include even more foreign leaven so that it will ferment
with exuberance. The history of all such movements show that in the
end the new wine will exhilarate for a time but will then turn to
vinegar. A common sign as an exhilarating worship service as the new
wine ferments but becomes more toxic. The Star of 2000 By Jay
Gary "Ed. Note: Because Tabernacles is
encompassed by Jubilee, the celebrations in the two seem to become one in
this statement. Even in the opening praises of the book, Eagle's Nest
Pastor Clarice Fluitt declares, "This is an incredibly prophetic book. Jay
Gary has peered into the spirit realm and drawn from God's secret
place. He declares that the church must prepare a celebration, a
festival for, about and with
Jesus, our honored guest and royal
Bridegroom. The Star of 2000 is infused with a biblical revelation of
fullness, sonship, maturity, and perfection of the glorious triumphant
church - the Feast of Tabernacles.
Read the book." "The annual calendar of Israel was built
around three major festivals: Passover, Pentecost and Tabernacles.
These celebrations in Jerusalem were anything but boring. There was
dancing,
singing
and exuberant
celebration before the living God.
"The
Year of Jubilee
encompassed these three festivals, only raised to a higher
power. "The clear call of God across the millennia is
that we are invited to come into His presence and feast on Him. "On
the last and greatest day of the Feast of Tabernacles, Jesus "stood
and said in a loud voice, 'If anyone is thirsty, let him come and
drink' (John 7:37). Then as well as today, Jesus calls us to
experience His jubilee." ( Jay Gary JUBILEE, p. 84-85) However, except for premillenialism and other
Messianic groups, Christ came to fulfill these festivals. He
is our
Passover. Furthermore, Jesus refused to go to the Feast of
Tabernacles until the outrages were over and perhaps he could teach.
Those who had just finished their "jubilee" with singing, dancing,
instrumental music, book fairs, pathetic sermons and poems, were on
the prowl to find their Messiah! If we have experienced the Atonement
we will simply not feel the need for someone to work miracles on us
with wine out of the wineskin and musical women. Rubel Shelly and Randy Harris deny that the
Church is the full kingdom as it is to come. For the kingdom to come
revivals such as Jubilee 98 must manufacture a new wineskin which
will hold then now-fermenting kingdom and gospel. However,
"Tied up with this belief of a last-days revival and a
great harvest of souls is the supposition that the church will establish God's kingdom HERE ON
EARTH. According to those who promote this belief,
after we take dominion of the earth again we are to set up
righteous rulers and begin to prepare the kingdom so
that Christ can return to earth again and rule the kingdom that
WE
have prepared for Him. Lee Grady "believes that God is establishing His
Kingdom on earth THROUGH the diligent and gradual WORK OF THE
GODLY...."(22) Thomas F. Reid declares: "We must make ready the world
for Christ's coming. The Ayatollah could not return to Iran until his
followers had sufficiently prepared for his return. In a profoundly
deeper way, THE CHURCH MUST PREPARE THE EARTH FOR THE RETURN OF JESUS
CHRIST." Yet another promoter of this Kingdom Now / Reconstructionist
theory is Earl Paulk. He writes: "In Matthew 24:14, Jesus clearly
says that HE CANNOT
RETURN for His Bride UNTIL she has
demonstrated the Gospel of the Kingdom to all the nations of the
earth. Until the church can demonstrate the
alternative Kingdom, JESUS CANNOT COME
AGAIN. God no longer has the
authority to send Christ back to
earth, because He will not circumvent His eternal plan. While no man
knows the day or the hour, I can say with the authority of God that
CHRIST CANNOT AND WILL NOT COME
BACK UNTIL we have demonstrated the Gospel
of the Kingdom to the nations of the earth. That task demands a
mature church, which will have become an alternative to the kingdoms of the world. That is
what the church is all about and JESUS CHRIST'S RETURN
IS UP TO US."(23) Because the laughing exercises flow from the
same mind manipulation as "bringing the worshiper into the presence
of God" with musical facilitators (manipulators), the Jubilee 98
movement is closely in bed with Promise Keepers in hoping in vain
that breaking down the
walls will permit God to establish the
kingdom because He was defeated by Satan the first time: "To achieve this kingdom on earth,
these proponents claim that we must all come together as one
united whole. Herein lies the problem. "Because denominational differences fade under
the influence of the laughing phenomena, it will be very useful in bringing about the
restoration of a united
Church as well as supplying the
manpower
to handle the coming harvest."(24) In other words, the laughing
revival will play a prominent role in uniting peoples of different
faiths and religions to help bring in the one world church that
the New Age movement is working for. "Sadly, the laughing (Musical Worship Teams or
manipulators) revival is leading us towards the one world religion
where Scriptural doctrines and
beliefs are ignored for the sake of "unity." "You probably already know that when sheep are
lead to the slaughter, there is a goat (called a "Judas goat") that goes
before them to lead them to their death. After the goat has guided
them to their destination, he turns aside while the sheep blindly are
led to destruction. I'm afraid that the so-called "Christian" leaders
in many cases today are leading the people as sheep to the slaughter.
"Remember how the animals noises such as
lions, eagles, oxens, etc. have been manifesting in the meetings?
Also, as was mentioned in my last article, Rodney Howard-Browne calls
himself the "Holy Ghost
bartender" (from new wineskins) and
claims he is serving "new
wine." Charles and Frances Hunter
refer to this as "'Joel's Bar' where the drinks are free and there is
no hangover!" (28) Howard-Browne encourages people to: "Take another
drink...the bar is open....Be filled! We loose the power! Have
another drink!" (29) With all this in mind, listen to the words of
Jeremiah: "They shall ROAR TOGETHER LIKE
LIONS: they shall yell as lions' whelps. In their heat I will make
their feasts, and I will MAKE THEM DRUNKEN, THAT THEY MAY
REJOICE, and sleep a perpetual
sleep,
and not wake, saith the LORD. I will BRING THEM DOWN LIKE LAMBS TO
THE SLAUGHTER, like rams with he goats" (Jeremiah 51:38-40). This is
an amazing prophecy when you consider what is taking place with the
holy laughter movement. "As Christians we should have no part in this
movement. "Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if
the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch" (Matthew
15:14 ). Click Here
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