The Body of Christ – the Church – is Very Important

Prophecy                                April27, 2014 (Sunday after Easter)

               Jesus went up to Heaven after His resurrection on Easter morning with His blood but not His body. His body remained on the earth, alive, still here. Jesus did not bodily enter Heaven until the Ascension when He began the process that would release the Holy Spirit at Pentecost to create the Church and empower Her to be His earthly body.

               There was no sound when Jesus went up to Heaven that Easter morning. When the Spirit descended physically to empower the Church to be Jesus’ body there was the sound like a mighty rushing wind. When Jesus returns bodily, to meet the Church in the air, there will be a Trumpet sound. When He touches the earth again on the mount of Olives outside Jerusalem at His second coming there will be a mighty sound that will split the mountains.

               Jesus rose to Heaven to present the captives He had taken from Hell as well as His blood, spiritually – eternally. Jesus’ body was still part of/ one with the earth. It could not just go into the Heavenly realm and return without causing some disturbance in creation, some sound. It was not yet time to come and go from Heaven without impediment. That will be the case in the 1,000-year reign of Christ but not yet.

                Where was His body while He was in Heaven? It was with Mary. She watched over His body while He was absent from it in His spirit. (When I have a vision of Heaven my body is still on the earth, it is still me. The same was true for Jesus.) Mary watched over His body just as she watches over His body, the Church, while Jesus, in His resurrected body, is in Heaven.

               Mary acted as the handmaid of the Lord again, as she had when she received the seed of the Messiah by faith. It was the same way when she watched over creation and prayed/interceded for it to the Father when Jesus was disconnected from creation and from the Presence of the Father when He was cut off in Hell as the punishment for sin.

               The body of Christ must be accounted for! The body of Christ is not replaced by the Holy Spirit because He has no body. The Word does not replace the body of Christ as though it were some differentiated thing/substance. The Word is Christ. The body of Christ, the Church, is His body. It is one with creation as we are. This will remain true until the first Heaven and the first earth pass away and become new.

               The Church is very important and must be honoured as Jesus’ body. The Church interprets the Word – ministers the Word, to creation. The presence of Jesus in the earth is ministered by His body – the Church.

I am the Lord.