Recondite Events and the Binding of the Devil.

 Between the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the sending of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost, lots of recondite events occurred. The WCG's hireling ministry were and are ignorant of these events.

The first event was Christ going into the holy of holies in heaven to offer himself for the redemption and reconciliation of God's elect.  On earth, he died for the sins of the whole world, but reconciliation in heaven was only for the sins of God's elect (Heb.9:11-14)..

The second event was, as the High Priest, on the day of Atonement (Lev. 16:20-21) came out of the holy of holies, and laid his hand of the head of goat that represented the devil, and sent him away by a fit man into the wilderness.  Similarly, after Jesus offered himself for the redemption of God's elect, he sent Michael the archangel to bind the devil, (fulfilling the prophecy, "He led captivity captive, and gave gives unto men"(Eph. 4:7-8) and (Col.1:13-14). That is, he took the devil captive, and sent the Holy the Spirit to those who truly believed in him.) and cast him into the bottomless pit.  This event occurred during the forty days that Jesus was on earth. During the battle, Satan disputed about the body of Moses (Jude 1:9).  The reason that is recorded, is to let us know that the battle occurred after the death of Moses.

 After the devil and his angels were defeated(Rev.12:7-8), an angel was sent from heaven with a chain in his hand (Rev.20:1-3), and the key to the bottomless pit.  He bound or shackled the devil and his angels, and cast them into the bottomless pit for a thousand years.

After the binding of the devil, Jesus ascended into heaven, sat down at right hand of the father, and ten days later the Holy Spirit was sent in a blaze of glory. Meaning, the ministers of Christ burn with the love of God, and the warmth of it embraces everyone. Fulfilling the promise, that he makes his ministers a flame of fire (Heb.1:7).

Now Satan will be released at the fifth trumpet(Rev.9:1-3), and Christ returns at the seventh trumpet.

These mysteries are so recondite and abstruse, that they fall into the category Peter calls, "things that are hard to be understood"(2 Pet.3:15-16).

 BTW, I was baptised in water on the 2nd June 1975, by Arthur Suckling. But I had already received the gift of the Holy Spirit, without understanding what God had done for me.

 

To be continued.