2004/02/11

Vision of an Ark

Apostle Andre called for all household leaders to attend Tuesday noght training. While praying the Holy Spirit signified that we are busy with something that the earth has not seen.

This is our opportunity to be part of an accurate church, functioning and building with Jesus the Master builder.

May God reveal the hope of your calling believer and may he show you His riches invested in the saints - everyone doing their share revealing God's Genius.

May His Spirit empower you with the same resurrection power Jesus had, to build and finish the work to his glory!Vision of an Ark
Apostle Aje Pelser
10 Feb 2004 during a worker’s meeting.

We were praying for the church.

God showed me an ark being built. Craftsmen were busy on different parts of the boat at different stages of development.

The thing about the original ark was that it had never been done before. There had never even been rain! Now is the time of the latter rain.
What we are busy with for God has never been done before.
I remember what Ian Chelan said in Wichita Kansas – “What you are doing is not in the earth.” That was in 1998.
The Reformational church as we call it seeks to go back to Jesus original blueprint of what a church should be.
That’s something new in the earth!
Noah got the details for an ark from God, specification for specification.
It needs to be built specifically and accurately, because the lives of its passengers depend on it.

“Rest, (Heb. Noah) the grandson of Methuselah (Gen 5:25-29), who was for two hundred and fifty years contemporary with Adam, and the son of Lamech, who was about fifty years old at the time of Adam's death. This patriarch is rightly regarded as the connecting link between the old and the new world. He is the second great progenitor of the human family.

The words of his father Lamech at his birth (Gen 5:29) have been regarded as in a sense prophetical, designating Noah as a type of Him who is the true 'rest and comfort' of men under the burden of life (Mat 11:28).

He lived five hundred years, and then there were born unto him three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth (Gen 5:32). He was a 'just man and perfect in his generation,' and 'walked with God' (Compare Ezek 14:14, 20). But now the descendants of Cain and of Seth began to intermarry, and then there sprang up a race distinguished for their ungodliness. Men became more and more corrupt, and God determined to sweep the earth of its wicked population (Gen 6:7). But with Noah God entered into a covenant, with a promise of deliverance from the threatened deluge (Gen 6:18). He was accordingly commanded to build an ark (Gen 6:14-16) for the saving of himself and his house. An interval of one hundred and twenty years elapsed while the ark was being built (Gen 6:3), during which Noah bore constant testimony against the unbelief and wickedness of that generation (1Pe 3:18-20; 2Pe 2:5).”

[Easton’s Bible Dictionary]

Interesting that Noah means “Rest” and that is the message of late in the church: “I will give My people rest.”

Noah was used of God to bring rest to the earth from wickedness.
He was accurate for 120 years. Morne Fourie confirmed that he had been thinking about the ark. Morne knows about carpentry himself; and was considering who worked the hardest in the Bible. He thought that it had to be Noah because he built the ark for 120 years!
He also added that even though Noah worked hard, he kept up his communion with God and did not allow his work to determine his relationship with God.

Apostle Andre added:
Apostolic Reformational Church – different sort of ARC!

God deliverance of a generation depended on Noah accurately following God’s instructions for building.
Similarly, the deliverance of our generation depends on how accurately we build with Jesus His church – which is a parallel to the ark. Just as God prepared a vehicle to transport and deliver/save mankind in the time of the flood, so God is now preparing His church to transport and save our generation from the flood of wickedness. Yes the world will not be destroyed again by a flood – next time it will be fire. Are you going to be in the ‘Arc’ God has provided?
Moreover, are helping to prepare that ‘Arc’, or are you just serving God for yourself?

An apostolic Reformational Church works according to the principle that God’s Genius is revealed in a many-membered body of believers accurately functioning and fulfilling scripture. God’s genius is not in one man.
Think of yourself as worthy of carrying out your part of His genius. IN the Book of Acts the believers were of one mind; one purpose; one heart.

We will not follow man’s systems of church growth, be it cells; user-friendly or demon friendly models!

We make a vow to God: “Holy Spirit, if you don’t make me successful, I don’t want to be.”

We acknowledge those who taught us and instructed us, but all the glory goes to God, where it belongs.

We only bow before the living God, systems of men.

Let us build together an ARC of refuge for our generation to enter the Rest of God and escape the flood of corruption that is in the world through lust.
Let us transport a generation in the vehicle of the church to God’s destiny for mankind.

Amen.

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