Cycles & Seasons

LUKE 1:5-6, 10-13; 18-20 And, behold, thou shalt be dumb, and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall be performed, because thou believest not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season.

Times (Gr.) a measure of time, the time when things are brought to crisis, the decisive moment

waited for; what time brings, the state of the times, the things and events of time

DANIEL 2:21 And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:

Life Cycles:

ISRAEL.AT.KADESH.BARNEA 53-0328 193 …After Moses' life run in a cycle of forty. He was called, at forty, refused by his brethren, went out on the desert and herded sheep for forty years. When he was eighty, He sent him down to deliver Israel out of Egypt. And when he got close to the promised land, he was a hundred and twenty years old. He had the stride of a young man, and his sight never failed him at a hundred and twenty.

196 And Moses got his temper all up, and run down there, and smote the Rock. It didn't bring water. He smote It again; It brought water. Said, "You rebels, must we fetch you water out of this Rock?" Like that, and brought forth the waters, 'cause God had to listen to that prophet because He'd endued him with that power. And that broke the whole program of God's Bible.

GOD'S.PROVIDED.WAY 53-0613 E-68 Now, here's a woman really is in serious trouble. The woman's got a mental nervousness. Isn't that right, lady? Look, you're worst trouble is in the late of the evening, isn't it? Along towards night, you get gloomy and worried. And you get so weak, you can't hardly stand up. You have to set down. And you're just all tore up. Now, what it is, lady, it's nothing to hurt you. It's a premature time of the change of life, menopause. Now, come here. It's a gloomy shadow. And it's nothing but a lie of the devil. And you're all right, and you're going to get all right. Lord Jesus, I bless the woman in the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. I pray for her healing. Amen.... Listen. If He could tell me what your trouble is... And if I'd talk to you a few minutes, It'd tell your life. But It don't have to do that. Look, will you do what I tell you do? Go out of here just as happy as you can be. He's got you all gloomy and wore down. You've dropped down in this cycle down here, when you got to get up here. Look up here, believe up here, and say, "Thank God." And go on and be happy; you'll get well. If you don't... headed for a lot of trouble. Go, believing now.

REMEMBERING.THE.LORD 62-1209 38 The great leaves that just fell off the trees. Where the red, green, blue, brown, all different colors across the great breast of the earth, where God's nature laid dead beneath it, God just planted out His bouquet. But He knows when He plants the bouquet, there's a resurrection in spring. The world has to just to come around its orbit until it gets back right with the sun again, and it will rise in funeral flowers. Never say this is the end, no more than the leaves, brown on the tree, says it's the end. Only thing it has to do, is for the time cycle of God to float around until the time of the coming of the Son of God. And every living creature that ever died in Christ will come forth again in His Presence, remembering Him. Oh, when I come to the end of my road, I want to die in His Presence, remembering Him, that He is the Resurrection and Life. He is that One.

Operating According to the Laws of God:

PRESENT.STAGE.OF.MY.MINISTRY 62-0908 74 …God has ways of doing things, and his servants only can work according if he works according to the will of God.

JOHN 19:9 And went again into the judgment hall, and saith unto Jesus, Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer. 10 Then saith Pilate unto him, Speakest thou not unto me? knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to release thee? 11 Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin.

COD 59-1219 429-Q-94 94. There is places in the Bible such as I Samuel 18:10, which says an evil spirit from God did things. I do not understand an "evil spirit from God." Please explain this.

Well, maybe by the help of the Lord, I can. It doesn't mean that God is an evil spirit. But every spirit of everything is subject to God. And He makes everything work according to what He will. Now, on your question, you're talking about the evil spirit that went out from God to torment Saul. He was in a moody, broke-down condition, because, first place, he was backslid. And when you backslide, God will permit an evil spirit to torment you.

RESTORATION.OF.BRIDE.TREE 62-0422 20-5 God has set all of His laws to serve Him, both natural and spiritual, working according to His Word, regardless of the conditions. I love that, I have a Scripture here on that. God sets all of His laws in motion. God set all of His laws into motion; that it must work according to His own Word... His laws has to work according to His Word. He commanded the sun; …the moon; …the earth; …nature; and they all fall right in line. And all the laws work in harmony with God's spoken Word. And the law of Life that's in us will also bring us to a resurrection. It's got to. It's impossible for it not.

22-2 No matter, regardless of conditions, you're going to meet God somewhere. You've got to come to Him; you've got to meet Him. See? Because what? He has spoke a Word, and put a law with that Word. And the law is His own law, His own Life behind It…. And by His own death, burial, and resurrection He proved His laws was right. Said, "You destroy this building, I'll raise it up again in three days." I, personal pronoun, "I'll raise it up again in three days; I'll bring it up. Just destroy it and see what happens." For He knew the law of God; He knew what it was. He knowed it had to work according to the Word. He knowed that the Word of God had been spoke through a prophet and said, "I'll not suffer my holy One to see corruption." That settled it.

ACTS 17:26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;

God’s or Scriptural Cycles:

DOCTOR.MOSES 55-0114 E-16 All Scripture has a compound meaning, or it runs in cycles. For instance, there where it said in Saint Matthew, I believe it was. "Out of Egypt I have called my son." Now, that Scripture that Matthew was referring to was really pertaining to Israel. And God said, "Out of Egypt, I call My son, Israel." He'd called Israel His son out, but it also meant Jesus. "Out of Egypt I've called My Son." See how it routines back? The cycle of time swings back ever so often. History repeats itself, and Scripture repeats itself down through the age. Any scholar knows that, that's ever studied it from a spiritual standpoint to watch how Scripture will repeat itself, run in cycles like that.

EXAMPLE:

WARNING.THEN.JUDGMENT 63-0724 33 (People were debating Serpent Seed) It's hard if you don't... You have to depend on the Holy Spirit because this Bible is wrote in riddles. You just can't set down and read It like a newspaper. It's hid. How would you ever justify God when He told Moses up there, said, "Now, don't you make any graven images," in His commandments, "don't you make anything like heaven, any Angel, or anything else; don't make any graven images," and yet on the same day told him to mold two Angels out of brass and put them right at the mercy seat, where mercy's at? You have to know God and His Nature before you can understand His Word. He has the key to that Word Himself, and He's the only One can handle It and open It, and so He's the One has to reveal It.

JOHN 6:37 All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.

MARK 8:34 And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

COD 64-0823E 1005-53 Many of the questions here on: "The church and..." You can't divide what they are. The Bride is the elected of God. The church goes through... That's the ones It says, "Whosoever will, let him come." But the Bride is the elected of God.

ACTS 1:6-8 And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.

I Thes. 5:1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.

I PETER 1:11 Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.

The entire plan of Redemption was about the original picture, the fall, the promise of restoration, the restoration and NHNE. All the parts of that must be in place according to the cycle or program of God. Redemption is out of and in to.

THIRSTING.FOR.LIFE 57-0630 E-17 And now, everything that come out of that cycle of Eternal Life, when that goes back into its cycle again, into that ceaseless eternity, not one shape, form of sin in any way will ever enter. Now, here's one Baptist preacher believes in holiness. Notice, that has got to be cleansed; that person's got to be cleansed. And there's only one thing can cleanse him; that's the Blood of Jesus Christ. Nothing else can do it.

LUKE 19:41-44 And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.

PARADOX 64-0418B E-30 Now, we proved that at one time it was up straight, 'cause God said it was. Up in the British ice fields, they can blast five hundred foot through that ice, and there's palms, ferns. It showed it was once a tropic. And now it leans back, from the antediluvian destruction, that leaned it back. And I believe the very thing that they throwed it out of its cycle then, is ready to throw it back in its cycle now. Man destroys himself by his knowledge. God destroys nothing.... We can liquidate; we cannot annihilate…. When fires are burning, that's gases breaking apart. It goes right back to its original condition again. You can't annihilate nothing.

(Matter cannot be created nor destroyed. Death cannot even destroy life, only break it down. God could call for it.)

380-2 CHURCH.AGE.BOOK All along we have been talking about the Seed of Wheat being buried, then sending up two shoots, then the tassel, then the true ear. This might make some wonder if we said that the Lutherans didn't have the Holy Spirit just because they taught basically justification… No sir, we are not saying that. We are not talking about the individuals or the people, but the AGE. Luther had the Spirit of God, but his age was not the age of full restoration by another outpouring like in the beginning. It was the same with Wesley, Booth, Knox, Whitefield, Brainard, Jonathan Edwards, Meuller, etc. Surely they were full of the Holy Ghost. Yes, they certainly were. But the age in which each lived was not the age of restoration, neither was any age but this last age, the age of complete black out in apostasy. This is the age of apostasy, the age of restoration, it is the age of the finished cycle. With this, it is all over.

89-1 CHURCH.AGE.BOOK

That cycle of revival and death has never failed. All you have to do is recall this last move of God in the Spirit when men and women dressed like Christians, went to church, prayed all night, took to street corners and weren't ashamed of the manifestations of the Spirit. They left their old dead churches and worshipped in homes or old store buildings. They had reality. But it wasn't too long a time until they began to get enough money to build fine new churches. They put in a choir instead of singing unto God for themselves. They put gowns on the choir. They organized a movement and ran it by man. They soon began to read books that weren't fit to read. They let down the bars and goats came in and took over. The cry of joy was gone. The freedom of the Spirit was gone. Oh, they kept on with a form; but the fire had died down and the blackness of ashes is about all that is left.

WHY.CRY.SPEAK 63-0714M 19-4 It's a situation under control. And when Moses saw that he was raised up for this purpose and that he had met face to face this great God Who had made the call, and had anointed him, and identified him, and said, "This is your call, Moses. I'm sending you. And I'm going to show you My glory, and here I am in the bush, burning. Go down there; I'll be with you." He didn't even need a stick. He had the Word, the vindicated Word. It anointed the faith that was in him. And it anoints us when we see that we're living in the last days, to find out that all these signs that we see being taken place that's spoke of in the Scripture would take place in the last days: all the way from heaven to the political powers, and the nature of the people, and the demoralization of the world and among the women, and how they would do in the last days, and… the men, and …the churches… the nations would do, and how God would do. And we see it all laying right here on us. Oh, it anoints our faith. It moves us out in the great cycles. It separates us from other things of the world… Then it brings out your faith when we see these things happening here.

GOD'S.ONLY.PROVIDED.PLACE.OF.WORSHIP 65-1128M 21 And the thankful part of it, dear friend, that the dear Lord Jesus... You who trust me to tell you the Truth; the dear Lord Jesus, one morning about eight o'clock, let me see that land. Now, it wasn't a vision; but I don't want to say that. Ever what it was, it was just as real as I'm speaking to you here. Now, I seen the faces of those people, and I couldn't recognize them; they'd turned back young again. And they was just real as... I'd hold their hands and things.

22 And it helped me, because I used to have an idea when a person died, just their soul went off. But then when He quoted that to me, that "If this earthly tabernacle of our habitation be... we already have one." See? And we've got to have everything in three's to make a perfection. And there's one body here, then that body there which is the celestial body, and then the glorified body in the resurrection. See, that makes it complete. So it's a... It's not a myth; it's not an idea; it's not a spirit. It is a man and a woman like you are, just exactly.

LUKE 12:42 And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season?

Finding the Revelation of God’s program and our part in it:

POSITION.IN.CHRIST 55-0116A E-8 God's got a time for all things.... We plant corn. We got a time that we plow corn. Then at the time, we harvest corn. The spring rains come, the drought through the summer, the fall rains, the snows. You just can't say I plant my wheat today and tomorrow and go out and harvest it. God …has seasons for His Word. He has times in the Scripture where It said, "And the Presence of the Lord was there to heal the sick." That's when Jesus was ministering too… Maybe at other times the Presence of the Lord wasn't there to heal the sick. And we find out that God works everything seasonally… Moses, what he failed to find was the time limit of God.

E-9 Then when God revealed Himself to him in the burning bush, he found out then that the very thing that was in the burning bush was the thing that he lacked. And I think that's a whole lot with us today, that many times we try to do the program ourselves and fail to get what was in the burning bush, the direct revelation of the will and time of God. What good would it do you to plant some corn out here today? (January 16) It would rot.... Nothing happen. If it happened to sprout the cold weather would kill a germ. It wouldn't work. We got to have the season for it.

E-10 So Moses found out now, the real direct Word of God and the time of God, and the revelation of everything to do, now, try to keep him out of Egypt. Right back to Egypt he went just as hard as he could go, for he knew that God had promised deliverance, and the time had come for deliverance. Now, Moses was looking first at the Word… Now, he had to have a direct contact with God to know how and when to do it.

E-11 Now, we as Full Gospel people, I think have made many mistakes by looking into the Word, and say, "God said this." And we failed to find the direct revelation of our life to fit in that program. When we find that, then it's got to happen… We have got to do what God has revealed to us to do. Brother Graham is doing that; God has revealed to him a world wide revival, and he's making a good show of it too. And I appreciate him. And I'm trying my best by the revelation that God has given me to minister to the sick people, to what He told me to do.

E-13 Now, if we can find our position and know that it's God's Word that has promised it... That's the reason Joshua and Caleb had no fear that they could not take the promised land. ("We just can't do it…" they were looking at the sense of reasoning.)