Rend the Heavens and Come Down

"Oh, that You would rend the heavens and come down, That the mountains might quake at Your presence As fire kindles the brushwood, as fire causes water to boil. To make Your name known to Your adversaries, That the nations may tremble at Your presence!” -Isaiah 64:1-2 This prophetic cry Isaiah was written over seven centuries before the time of Jesus. It was a cry for God to come with His judgment by splitting the barrier between His Kingdom and the earth. It was a cry to manifest His power so all the nations tremble at His Presence. It was a prophetic word from God in two ways. First, Christ Jesus is coming back to earth as God’s King; the nations will tremble before Him (Revelation 19:15-16). It is the blessed hope we have in Christ. Secondly, the other manifestation of this prophetic word happened years ago, when God did come down to earth. In a manger in Bethlehem two centuries ago, God came down and took on humanity. Jesus was born. He was born because only a man could redeem mankind. As God had given dominion of the earth to man, He needed a man to gain back control of the earth. When Adam and Eve sinned in the garden, Satan usurped authority on the earth. A man without sin was the only way possible to establish the Kingdom of God on earth. Jesus, the son of man, went to the cross and died. Matthew tells us that when He breathed His last the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. Legally and perfectly, God had rent the heavens and came down. No longer could the Kingdom of Satan have legal authority on the earth. Jesus, the last Adam, had forever opened earth to heaven. Now, we, the blood bought children of God, reign on earth because the risen Christ is in us.

Pastor Michael Heil

PRAYER: Heavenly Father, thank You for Your Word. Thank You for the cross, for Calvary, for sending Jesus to die for me. Thank You that He has made me victorious by conquering death, hell, and the grave. You, O God, are glorious and majestic. Help me to always remember You are sovereign. In Jesus' name, Amen.

Linda A. Knowles

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