Kingdom Manna

A New Era

By Lanny Swaim

A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.

Proverbs 13:22

The better I get to know the Lord and the longer I study Scripture, the more I realize there are layers to Scripture.

One of the things I am discovering is that many verses I had taken at face value actually have a deeper prophetic meaning. An example of this that I realized quite some time ago is the prophetic significance of the Feasts of God, Passover, Pentecost and Tabernacles. I think any serious student of the Bible understands the historic significance of the feasts and the obvious prophetic fulfillment with Jesus being born during Tabernacles, crucified on Passover and the Holy Spirit coming on Pentecost, but fewer seem to understand there is another prophetic fulfillment of each feast.

We have experienced the second fulfillment of Passover and Pentecost during the first two millennia of the Church, but are just now beginning to experience the second fulfillment of Tabernacles, when Jesus will become fully manifested in His people, not just positionally but experientially.

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I believe Proverbs 13:22 (above) is another example of a scripture verse with a face value understanding but also a deeper prophetic meaning. While it can have a present application during any time in history since it was first written, I can see there is a future prophetic fulfillment, taking place in our day; still future but in the beginning stages.

The world’s wealth for a very long time has been controlled by a few wealthy individuals and families, as they have manipulated governments and the world currency. We often refer to them as globalists, the Cabal, the Illuminati, etc. And while a few individuals/families have become extremely wealthy outside the realm of these globalists, they are the exception and not the norm.

But that’s all about to change.

The reason Donald Trump is so hated and feared by these globalists is because he is their worst nightmare. Since President Grant sold us out to the Rothschild’s in 1871, Washington, DC has been under the influence of and in many ways controlled by these globalists; not only the Rothschild’s but others they are associated with.

In reality, the United States has not been a Constitutional Republic since 1871. That’s why the Democrat Party and more than a few Republicans have been able to trash the Constitution without any fear of justice being served.

But that too is about to change.

There has never been a nation established on self-governance by the people like the United States of America. And while it is an experiment that appears to have failed, it is currently being reborn.

I recently watched an interview on Elijah Streams with Jan Halper-Hayes, who is with the Department of Defence and knows a lot that is going on behind the scenes. She is not a prophet, but in this recent interview she made a prophetic statement.

She said that Donald Trump, Elon Musk and Robert Kennedy Jr. will become known historically as the founding fathers of the new United States of America.

Everything is about to change.

I believe we are about to see the prophetic fulfillment of a transfer of wealth from the wicked into the Kingdom of God, which will enable us to leave a substantial inheritance to our children and grandchildren.

Today 1% of the world’s population has 43% of the world’s wealth, with 99% sharing the remaining 57%. The top 10% holds 85% of the world’s wealth. The bottom 50% hold only a small fraction of the world’s wealth, often less than 1%.

In America, if the wealth was evenly divided among its citizens, each person would have roughly half a million dollars. If yearly income was equally divided, each person would be making around $95,000 yearly.

To force a redistribution of wealth is socialism, and it wouldn’t take long until the wealthiest would have most of it back.

But what if God gives strategy, to those seeking Him and listening to His Spirit, the ability to gain wealth and keep it, using it for Kingdom purposes? And what if this becomes possible because the global elite are exposed and brought down because of their evil intentions to keep most of the world’s wealth?

If the earth is the LORD’s and the fulness thereof (see Psalm 24:1), and it is, shouldn’t His people have control of the wealth of the world instead of globalists with an evil agenda?

It’s been the other way for so long that it seems almost impossible for it to change; and yet, with the drastic shift in politics and the beginning of a great spiritual awakening, plus a new reformation of the Church at hand, it is very possible.

Not only is it possible, it will happen according to prophetic scripture, including the Book of Enoch, which the first century Christians considered to be scripture, as did Jude and Jesus, with both of them quoting from Enoch in the New Testament.

Surely we were born for such a time as this!

Last Day Resurrection

By Lanny Swaim

And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.

John 6:40 (emphasis added)

No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

John 6:44 (emphasis added)

Beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

2 Peter 3:8

Dutch Sheets often speaks about the synergy of the ages, a term the Holy Spirit gave him.

Synergy is when the combined efforts of two or more people or groups of people result in a greater outcome than they could achieve individually. The word comes from the Greek words sunergia, meaning cooperation, and sunergos, meaning working together.

So the synergy of the ages is referring to the present generation cooperating with past generations, resulting in a greater outcome than any one generation could achieve alone.

The term last day, used by Jesus in John 6:40 & 44 (above), has to be put in the context of 2 Peter 3:8 (above).

The Bible focuses on seven millennia of history on planet Earth, and mankind has already experienced six millennia; or as Peter informs us, six days (thousand year days).

We are now entering into the seventh day (millennium), which is the last day of the week. There is a parallel between the seven days of creation as recorded in Genesis, and the seven millennia the Bible focuses on.

The eleventh chapter of Hebrews mentions numerous men and women of great faith who fulfilled their purposes in their generations, but the chapter ends by saying they all received a good report because of their faith, but didn’t receive the promise they were believing for (see Hebrews 11:39). Then the last verse of the chapter says that without us they can’t receive the promise they were believing for, which verse 40 identifies as perfection.

The perfection spoken of here is actually completion; the completion of God’s plan for mankind and planet Earth.

Each generation did their part to move mankind toward the completion of God’s plan, but none of them actually accomplished the completion of God’s plan. The writer of Hebrews inserted his/her generation into the process, but was prophetically speaking of a future generation; a last day generation.

Having arrived at the last day (millennium), which the Bible focuses on (having nothing to do with the end of time, which will never happen), there will be a generation during this millennium who will complete God’s plan, perfecting all of creation.

The resurrection that will take place during this millennium is not necessarily a resurrection of those who have died, but is instead a resurrection of all they accomplished to make the completion of God’s plan a reality.

Will those who have gone before be physically resurrected? Possibly, but I don’t really know. But our focus should not be on that possibility, but instead on their accomplishments being resurrected and joined with the accomplishments of each generation to enable the last generation of the last day to complete God’s plan of perfection for all of creation.

While the present generation may be just another in the process, I believe there is the possibility that we may be the generation that will put on immortality, without experiencing physical death, and live for the entire millennium and on into the eighth millennium and beyond that.

I believe this is the hope of glory that Paul wrote about (see Colossians 1:27). It is not something we can exercise faith to believe for, but we can certainly hope our generation will be the one.

Regardless, know that we were born for such a time as this.

Last Day Intimacy

By Lanny Swaim

The following is a prophetic encounter Barry Wunsch had in 2021, which he recently shared on Elijah Streams.

Prophetic Encounter: Lion of the Tribe of Judah

I felt led to share about a prophetic experience I had a few years ago. I believe it was in 2021 during a fifty-day life-changing fast that the Lord brought me into. What happened was about two weeks into the fast.

The Lord woke me up in the middle of the night, and before me was a picture of Him in another nation and how they saw Him. The next thing I knew, I watched as the Lord took me around the world, nation to nation, and I saw a picture of the Lord in each nation the way they saw Him.

From North America, Mexico, India, Pakistan, South Africa, South America, Asia, the Middle East, Iceland, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, the Philippines, Europe and others, picture after picture, I saw Him dressed in that culture's attire and how they knew Him and saw Him.

Then, at the very end, the last picture that was in front of me was the Lion of the tribe of Judah. As I looked into the eyes of this magnificent lion, the Lord spoke to me, and He told me that people were going to come to know Him in a way they have not known Him, as the Lion of the tribe of Judah! I believe that we are entering into a time, and this is what we are going to see. He is coming in a way that we have yet to know Him. May we be found ready!

The Lion of Judah represents strength, nobility, and bravery. The term appears over 150 times in scripture. It is a title for Jesus, portraying Him as having great authority, power and majesty.

Jesus is referred to as the Lion of Judah in the fifth chapter of Revelation, where He is identified as the one worthy to open a book sealed with seven seals, having to do with the destiny of mankind and planet Earth, and the part the redeemed play in that destiny.

The title Lion of Judah can be traced back to the book of Genesis, where Jacob blesses his twelve sons. Jacob describes his fourth son, Judah, as a lion's cub. The tribe of Judah became the seat of the Israelite monarchy, making Jews, as they later became known, very important.

Judah means praise. So there is a definite connection between the power, authority and majesty of the Lion and praising the LORD God. Perhaps this is why the singers were sent into battle ahead of the soldiers in 2 Chronicles 20:21-22.

When he [Jehoshaphat] had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the LORD, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, Praise the LORD; for his mercy endureth for ever. And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Judah; and they were smitten.

We praise and worship the Lord because of who He is, not to get something from Him or to get Him to do something. However, when we intimately praise and worship Him and His presence manifests among us, our enemies are scattered.

As last day believers, we are perhaps becoming more intimate with the Lord than any generation before us. True, spiritual praise and worship is all about intimacy. Intimacy produces unity as we become one with Him and Him with us, not just positionally but experientially.

During this seventh day (millennium/see 2 Peter 3:8) of/since creation, I believe the hallmark of those chosen by God to be at the forefront of a total and complete convergence of Heaven and Earth will be true, spiritual praise and worship.

And the better we get to know God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, the more natural it becomes to worship Him, not just during times when we come aside to do so corporately in a service, but continually.

Last Day Unity

By Lanny Swaim

He gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.

Ephesians 4:11-13 (emphasis added)

A few years ago I got involved with Facebook primarily to connect with other believers and to reveal Jesus. I’m not one to post pictures of what I am having for supper tonight, and really don’t care what you’re having.

If that’s your thing, I’m not in any way coming against you for it, but it just isn’t my thing. I do sometimes post personal stuff but for the most part refrain from that. And, I have reconnected with some old friends, especially other musicians I knew when I was playing in rock bands many years ago. Some of them are believers too, which makes reconnecting even more enjoyable.

So, while I don’t use Facebook exclusively for spiritual reasons, it continues to be my main reason for continuing on social media.

It has been very interesting, sometimes encouraging and sometimes discouraging, to see what other believers are posting. Facebook makes it clear that Christians are all over the place doctrinally, and sometimes become very offended and even mean when responding to other Christians they disagree with.

Ephesians 4:11-13 (above) informs us that we have been given what is often referred to as the five-fold ministry to build up the Body of Christ until we all come into the unity of the faith. However, judging by what I see on Facebook, it appears the five-fold ministry is doing just the opposite, causing much more division than unity.

So obviously there is something wrong with the five-fold ministry in the Church today if it is not accomplishing its job.

It seems to me that there must be some, if not gross misunderstanding of what the five-fold is and how it functions. And I suspect there are more than a few self-appointed five-fold ministers rather than God ordained ministers.

Could it be that the whole Church system is wrong and a true five-fold just will not fit into a man-made system?

Some time ago the Lord spoke something to me that at face value sounds like a contradiction. He said, “Division brings unity.”

In the thirteenth chapter of Matthew, Jesus is speaking in parables concerning the Kingdom of Heaven. One parable is about tares being sown in among wheat. The owner of the field tells his workers to let the tares grow with the wheat until the harvest and then to separate them, burning the tares and gathering the wheat into his barn.

It seems to me this is what we see happening today. The wheat and tares have grown together for most of the past two thousand years of Church history. But as we enter this new day (millennium) we are witnessing the tares being exposed and uprooted as the wheat is not just being brought into the barn but is being ground into flour, enabling it to produce bread, becoming the Lord’s Ekklesia (Greek for Church meaning a governing/legislative body) and rising to the occasion.

What we are witnessing is a separation of the wheat and the tares; of the true five-fold and the false five-fold, of true Spirit led believers and false believers stuck in the traditions of men, even of a true gospel and a false gospel (the Gospel of the Kingdom vs the Gospel of Personal Salvation).

So what is unity?

To become one with someone as in a marriage covenant or as in knowing the Lord, is to be of one mind.

At the time of this writing my wife and I have been married for 39 years. Frequently we start to say the same thing at the same time, or one of us will start a sentence and the other finishes it.

Do we always agree on everything? No. But the longer we live together and the better we get to know each other, the more we agree.

That’s why Ephesians 4:13 says until we all come in the unity of the faith.

We are in a process of getting to know the Lord, and in doing so we are getting to know one another, not in the natural but in the Spirit.

That’s why we must remain teachable. That’s why we must continue to seek truth, even if our search leads us to knowledge that contradicts what we thought to be true.

False doctrine abounds. There is accepted terminology thought to be scriptural that is nowhere to be found in the Bible.

That’s why Paul told Timothy to study, righty dividing the word of truth (see 2 Timothy 2:15). It’s not enough to just read the Bible and it is certainly not enough to take someone else’s word for what it says.

Study the Hebrew, the Greek, the Aramaic. Compare scripture with scripture.

And above all, become intimate with the Lord. The better you know Him, the better you will understand scripture.

Listen to those promptings in your spirit, when something just doesn’t seem right. Ask the Lord about it. Ask Him to teach you. And then be willing to walk away from anything you thought to be true that you discover is not true.

We are on a journey. We are in a process. And He will lead us into all truth.

Don’t become discouraged because you may have been wrong. And don’t become gun-shy realizing that what you are now seeing may not be the complete picture.

Keep seeking. Keep asking. Keep knocking.

We are living in a time when many hidden mysteries are being revealed and when false doctrine is being corrected. We are living in a time when we are coming into the unity of the faith. We are living in a time when Heaven is converging with Earth.

We are living in the most exciting time in all of history so far.

Surely we were born for such a time as this!

All glory to God!

Last Day Rest

By Lanny Swaim

If Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day. There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

Hebrews 4:8-9

Beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

2 Peter 3:8

As I often say, there is a parallel between the seven days of creation and the seven millennia the Bible focuses on. 2 Peter 3:8 confirms this and places great importance on the comparison of a day equaling a thousand years and a thousand years equaling a day.

Without an understanding of this truth, it is impossible to understand the rest of the Bible.

When Jesus said on the cross, “It is finished,” He was saying there is nothing left to be done. He had accomplished not only the salvation of mankind, but the salvation of creation; of the entire universe.

Eternally speaking, this was accomplished from the foundation of the world (see Ephesians 1:4-5/Revelation 13:8), but on the timeline of history it had to play out. So, when Jesus went to the cross He ensured salvation for all of creation, which had already been accomplished eternally, but it still had to play out on the timeline of history.

Hebrews 2:8 says this:

Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him.

We see the comparison between the seventh day of creation and the seventh millennium the Bible focuses on in Hebrews 4:4:

For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.

When Jesus went to the cross, He enabled mankind to enter into the same rest that God entered into on the seventh day of creation. This rest is the reality that everything that can be done to perfect God’s creation has been done. And yet, God entered into that rest knowing that His man would disobey Him and introduce His perfected creation to death and destruction.

When Jesus, as the last Adam, went the cross and succeeded where the first Adam failed, He too did this knowing that it would still have to play out on the timeline of history, which is what Hebrews 4:8-9 (above) is about. .

Since Jesus and Joshua are the same name, Jesus being the English equivalent of the Greek and Joshua being the English equivalent of the Hebrew, some translations use the name Joshua in Hebrews 4:8, assuming it was Joshua who didn’t give God’s people (the Hebrews) rest by leading them into the Promised Land because of their unbelief, sentencing them to die in the wilderness until Joshua would lead their children into Canaan.

While this is an example the writer of Hebrews uses, I think the KJV got it right by using the name, Jesus.

I believe this is a prophetic scripture, and while Jesus enabled God’s people to enter into His rest, most for the past two thousand years have not. So the rest spoken of here remains future.

Again, an understanding of the comparison of the seven days of creation and the seven millennia the Bible focuses on is necessary to see the prophetic significance of this.

The seventh day is the Sabbath; the day of rest. The Sabbath of creation and all the Sabbaths of the laws of Moses point the way to the Sabbath millennium, the last day (millennium) that the Bible focuses on.

We have now entered into that millennium. A remnant of believers is beginning to get a glimpse of and actually experience this rest that has remained since Adam and Eve disobeyed God in the Garden of Eden.

We rest from our labor, knowing that God will accomplish all that has already been accomplished eternally.

I should point out that this is not a passive rest but an active rest. We have a very important part to play in the walking out of all this.

We have been perfected so we can be perfected, not by our own efforts, but by what He has already accomplished. And as we are perfected, Heaven will converge with Earth, resulting in the perfection of all of God’s creation.

Surely we were born for such a time as this!

Last Day Rest (2)

By Lanny Swaim

If Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day. There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

Hebrews 4:8-9

Beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

2 Peter 3:8

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made: and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

Genesis 2:1-3

The LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

Genesis 6:3

Without an understanding of this truth, it is impossible to understand the rest of the Bible.

In our last teaching we looked at how a remnant of believers is beginning to enter into rest, ceasing from their own labor and resting in the finished work of Jesus.

That is only possible because God, in the creation narrative, rested on the seventh day; establishing a precedent enabling mankind to enter into the same rest during the seventh day (millennium) since creation.

But God didn’t only rest on the seventh day of creation, He too is entering into the rest He made precedence for in the creation narrative, during this seventh millennium since creation, which is finalizing the rest His people are entering into.

In Genesis 6:3 (above), God says that He will not always strive with mankind, but that mankind’s days shall be 120 years. In other words, God’s striving with mankind will last for 120 years, until mankind enters into His rest, becoming one with Him and like Him as never before.

But on the timeline of history, we see that God has been striving with mankind for 6000 years. So His reference to 120 years cannot be literal, consecutive years.

Obviously there is a mystery here. A mystery for us to uncover.

What if the 120 years in Genesis 6:3 are Jubilee years? Jubilee years occurred every 50 years in ancient Israel. Every 50 years Israelites literally started over with a clean slate. All debts were canceled, all property was returned to its original owner, all slaves were set free, etc.

So, 120 Jubilee years equals 6000 years.

120 X 50 = 6000

That brings us to the millennium we have now entered into, counting time by the Gregorian calendar, which I believe God has made provision for, knowing that most of the world would eventually count time by that solar calendar.

This millennium, which we have barely crossed the threshold of, is the Sabbath that the Sabbath of creation and all the Sabbaths of the laws of Moses point the way to.

A remnant today is getting a glimpse of and beginning to taste of the rest that remains for the people of God. And in doing so, we have the potential to and are actually beginning to become like God in character, discovering what it is to be like God, with the emphasis on “be.” Being rather than doing.

Doing is about striving. Being is about resting.

What we do doesn’t determine who we are, who we are determines what we do. We are experiencing the reality of 1 John 4:17 in a greater way than ever before.

As he is, so are we in this world.

Surely, absolutely and without a doubt we were born for such a time as this!

Last Day Labour

By Lanny Swaim

If Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day. There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. Let us labour, therefore to enter into that rest…

Hebrews 4:8-11

Labour and labor are two different spellings of the same word. Labour is the UK spelling of the word, and labor is the American spelling of the word, hence the KJV uses labour but since I’m an American, I’ll use labor.

It is translated from the Greek word, spoudasoman, which means to strive, hasten or exert oneself. So, while in this verse of scripture it could have to do with working, its meaning could also have to do with laboring as in child birth.

Since to labor as in working would be a contraction to resting, I believe its meaning is to labor as in giving birth.

In order to give birth one must be pregnant.

There is a remnant of believers today who have been pregnant with something new that is currently beginning to be birthed on the world’s stage, unlike anything mankind has experienced in the past.

This remnant is the firstfruits, the pilgrims and trailblazers of many more to come. And we are paving the way for a convergence of Heaven and Earth unlike anything known to mankind until now.

In the sense of giving birth, we are laboring to enter into His rest (the Sabbath rest), when creation will be perfected (completed).

The prelude to this perfection/completion is the greatest spiritual awakening the world has ever known, and a new reformation of the Church. As the Lord’s Ekklesia (Greek for Church meaning a governing/legislative body), this awakening and reformation will not only enable but sustain the political changes necessary for us to disciple the nations.

There has never been a time like this time. There has never been a day like this day.

Surely we were born for such a time as this.

Last Day Assembling

By Lanny Swaim

Let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works. Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is, but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

Hebrews 10:24-25

There are two Greek words that can be translated as assembling in Hebrews 10:25 (above). One is episunagoge, which means gathering together. The other is paneguris, which means a gathering of people to honor a god, or for a public festival.

To assemble together constitutes an assembly. The Greek word for assembly, which is translated in English versions of the New Testament as Church, is Ekklesia. Ekklesia means called out to be a governing or legislative body. It is not a religious or spiritual word, but a political word.

The writer of Hebrews admonishes us to not forsake the assembling of ourselves together. Considering the above Greek words that assembling is translated from, and the Greek word Ekklesia, which the word assembly or Church is translated from, the writer of Hebrews is addressing more than just coming together for a meeting.

It is about coming together as a people, whether in a meeting or just in the sense of being unified wherever we are. And when the occasion permits, exhorting or building up each other, provoking one another to love and to good works.

In other words, encouraging each other; standing together for the common cause of spreading the Gospel of the Kingdom.

One of the reasons the Hebrew people and the early church assembled together was to celebrate the festivals or feasts of God, Passover, Pentecost and Tabernacles. We must understand the prophetic significance of the feasts; the initial prophetic significance of them and the ongoing prophetic significance of them. (For more on this subject there is an entire book on the Feasts of God on this website, which can be read here free of charge. Simply go to "More" at the top of any page and scroll down to begin or to read additional pages.)

This understanding kept them on course with the purpose of bringing the Kingdom of God in/on Earth as in Heaven, as the Lord’s Ekklesia, actually reigning with the Lord, not at some future time but continually, realizing that there would be a future time when the nations of the world would become the Kingdom of our Lord and His Christ (Ekklesia) (see Revelation 11:15).

As the Lord’s Ekklesia, we are not just here to occupy until… We are here to literally take over the world, not by force or coercion, but by changing hearts; thus discipling the nations.

And we have now entered into the millennium when this is actually going to happen.

The Book of Enoch, which both Jude and Jesus considered to be scripture, prophesied this time.

When the congregation of the righteous shall appear, and sinners shall be judged for their sins, and shall be driven from the face of the earth, and when the Righteous One shall appear before the eyes of the righteous, whose elect works hang upon the Lord of Spirits, and light shall appear to the righteous and the elect who dwell on the earth, where then will be the dwelling of the sinners, and where the resting-place of those who have denied the Lord of Spirits? It had been good for them if they had not been born. When the secrets of the righteous shall be revealed and the sinners judged, and the godless driven from the presence of the righteous and elect, from that time those that possess the earth shall no longer be powerful and exalted: and they shall not be able to behold the face of the holy. For the Lord of Spirits has caused His light to appear on the face of the holy, righteous, and elect. Then shall the kings and the mighty perish and be given into the hands of the righteous and holy.

Enoch XXXVIII: 1-5

Enoch prophesied three major events that were future during his time on Earth: Noah’s flood, the coming of Jesus as the Son of Man, and a time when evil will be eradicated from Earth.

We are in the beginning stages of the time when evil will be eradicated from Earth, and a remnant is getting a glimpse of and actually tasting the reality of it.

Never has there been a time like this time. Never has there been a day like this day.

Surely we were born for such a time as this!

Last Day Assembling (2)

By Lanny Swaim

Hebrews 10:24-25

In our last Kingdom Manna teaching we looked at what assembling together actually means, which is much more than coming together in meetings or for “church.”

One of the definitions of assembling is to come together to celebrate festivals, and we know that the early church continued to celebrate the festivals or feasts of God, like the Jews did. They didn’t do this in obedience to the law as the Jews did, but I think because they had an understanding of the prophetic significance of the feasts/festivals.

The first prophetic fulfillment of the feasts took place when Jesus came as the Son of Man. He was born during Tabernacles, was crucified on Passover, and came back as the Holy Spirit on Pentecost. But the second prophetic fulfillment of the feasts comes after those events.

During the first two millennia of the Church, we have experienced Passover (salvation) and Pentecost (the baptism with the Holy Spirit). But we are just now beginning to experience Tabernacles (God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit dwelling in believers in fulness; experientially and not just positionally).

In Galatians 4:19 the apostle Paul speaks of Christ being fully formed in the Galatian believers, something that had not yet happened (see the AMP version).

We know that Jesus took up residence in us when we were born again (born from above), but His being fully formed in us is the process of maturity, which takes time.

So, as we enter into the second prophetic fulfillment of Tabernacles, a remnant of believers is beginning to get a glimpse of and actually experience Christ (the anointed One and His anointing) being fully formed in us.

This remnant is the firstfruits, pilgrims and trailblazers of many more to come.

The playing out of this is the assembling together the writer of Hebrews was referring to. While congregating together for meetings or coming together in other ways is important and necessary, realizing that we are coming together to fulfill the feasts of God is of much greater importance.

Having knowledge of the prophetic significance of the feasts is extremely important, and without that knowledge you will not understand the time we live in and what the future holds. Nor will you have a very good understanding of the Gospel of the Kingdom.

I’m somewhat amazed at how few (almost none) are teaching this or seem to have any understanding of or interest in it. Perhaps this is why the Church has not stepped up the plate, so to speak, and done our job, which is to bring Heaven to Earth.

But that is changing. And while only a remnant has any understanding of it at the present time, many more will soon follow.

Like the sons of Issachar, this remnant not only understands the time we live in, but is gaining knowledge of how to proceed from here, bringing about a convergence of Heaven and Earth and completing God’s plan of salvation for all of creation.

Surely we were born for such a time as this!!!

Theology vs Revelation

By Lanny Swaim

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.

2 Timothy 3:16-17

Study to show thyself approved into God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

2 Timothy 2:15

We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

2 Peter 1:19-21

Theo means God or a deity. Logy means the study of something or someone. So a biblical understanding of theology means the study of God. A broader definition is the study of religion; more specifically the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences.

The simple definition of revelation is to uncover something not yet known. The broader definition has to do with divine guidance or inspiration. A biblical meaning is the way in which God reveals Himself.

Theology has to do with the intellect; studying intellectually.

Revelation has to do with something being revealed spiritually, which can occur in concert with intellectual study or independent of intellectual study.

It is impossible to understand the Bible intellectually without spiritually revealed knowledge pertaining to the meaning of the words on the pages of the Bible.

Perhaps the reason there are so many differences of opinion concerning Christian doctrine is that most if not all of those opinions have been arrived at theologically instead of spiritually; in other words, void of revelation.

I determined a long time ago that I am not interested in anyone’s opinion. I want to know the truth.

Having said that, there is much theological terminology accepted by Christians that, while considered to be biblical, is not in the Bible.

In some cases, perhaps many cases, this terminology has become so widespread and accepted by so many that to question it is often perceived as heresy. And, there is also terminology found in the Bible that has been misinterpreted and the wrong interpretation has become widely accepted.

While questioning questionable terminology can be considered controversial and even get one labeled a heretic, as a truth seeker, question it I must. And you should too.

In the next several Kingdom Manna teachings we are going to look at some of these terms, hopefully getting a better understanding of scripture, enabling a more intimate relationship with God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Theology vs Revelation: Free Will

By Lanny Swaim

(Our last Kingdom Manna teaching established a foundation for this teaching and for several that will follow. If you haven’t yet read the last one, I encourage you to read it before reading this one.)

2 Timothy 3:16-17

When Paul used the word scripture in his second letter to Timothy, he was referring to the Old Testament, and possibly some other books not included in our modern day Bible. What we consider the New Testament today was not yet written or was in the process of being written, and not yet canonized.

However, realizing that today we consider the Old and New Testaments to be biblical scripture, I think it is safe to consider Paul’s letters to Timothy to be scripture.

In our foundational teaching on Theology vs Revelation, I pointed out that some terminology considered by many to be scriptural is, in reality, nowhere to be found in the Bible. Beginning with this teaching, and for several more to come, we will be looking at some of those terms.

In this teaching, we will be looking at the term free will.

The general determination of Bible scholars concerning the study of free will is that the Bible does not explicitly address free will. I’m not a Bible scholar, but in my study of scripture, I agree with this consensus 100%.

A leading scholar on the subject, Michael Frede (1940 -2007), has stated, "Freedom and free will cannot be found in either the Septuagint or the New Testament, and must have come primarily from Stoicism.”

(The Septuagint is Hebrew scripture translated into Greek,)

(Stoicism is a philosophy that teaches self-control as a means to overcome emotions that may be destructive.)

Frede wrote that he could not find either the language of free will or even any assumption of it in the New Testament or the Greek Old Testament. His assumption was that Christians must have developed the free will doctrine from pagans.

Another Oxford scholar, Dr. Alister McGrath (Born 1953), agrees with Frede, He states, "The term free will is not biblical, but derives from Stoicism. It was introduced into Western Christianity by the second-century theologian, Tertullian.”

Interestingly, there is at least one Christian denomination today with the term free will in its name, an indication that entire denominations are based on theology instead of revelation.

While the term free will cannot be found in the Bible, there is scriptural narrative and terminology that contradicts the concept or doctrine of free will.

In Jeremiah 1:5 God tells Jeremiah that before he was formed in his mother’s womb, he was known by, sanctified by and ordained by God to be a prophet to the nations.

Obviously, Jeremiah had no exercise of free will in the matter.

Ephesians 1:4, speaking of believers, says that God chose us before the foundation of the world to be holy and without blame before Him in love.

If this is true, and it is, we had no choice in the matter. If we were chosen, we did not do the choosing. Again, like Jeremiah, there is no exercise of free will in the matter.

In Peter’s salutation to believers in 1 Peter 1:2, he calls us the elect. The word elect comes from the Greek word eklektos and the Hebrew word bāḥīr. It means determining beforehand, ordaining, or deciding ahead of time.

To be determined, ordained or decided beforehand or ahead of time leaves no room for the exercise of free will.

Paul also refers to us as God’s elect in Romans 8:33.

Peter not only refers to us as the elect, but in 1 Peter 2:9 he calls us a chosen generation. Again, if we are chosen, we did not do the choosing.

Even Jesus confirmed this in John 15:16:

Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain…

In Paul’s second letter to Timothy he says God called us, not according to anything we have done, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in the anointed Jesus before the world began (see 2 Timothy 1:9).

We know that in the Old Testament (under the old covenant) the Hebrew people were chosen by God to be a nation set aside to worship Him and walk in obedience to Him; a nation above all the other nations of the world (see Deuteronomy 14:2 & Isaiah 43:10).

While they did rebel against God numerous times, they remained His chosen nation and He dealt with them as such. Even their rebellion could not change the reality that they were chosen, but it did cause them much pain and suffering.

I have found all of this to be true in my own life. I did not choose the life I am living. Without a doubt, I was chosen before the foundation of the world to be who I am today.

While I have made some bad choices that caused me much pain and suffering, that pain and suffering was simply tests and trials that steered me toward who God predetermined that I would be, like a rudder steers a ship.

And some of those tests and trials were not brought on by bad choices, but simply because of my ignorance and immaturity. Their purpose was to expose anything within me that didn’t line up with who God made me to be.

In a sense, even my failures were somehow a part of God’s plan for me, not so much to reveal what appears to be shortcomings, but instead to reveal who I really am, which was determined before I was formed in my mother’s womb; even before the foundation of the world.

God has to have a people on planet Earth to reveal Himself to the rest of the world. If He depended on us to make that choice, none of us ever would. Before we realized we were chosen, we had no idea there was even a choice to be made.

He put the hunger in us to know Him. He drew us to Himself. He revealed Himself to us. That is the only way anyone comes to Him.

And that is why all of creation is crying out for the manifestation (revealing) of the Sons of God (see Romans 8:19).

Frequently, when discussing free will with other believers, I make the comment, “I have no concept of free will. I did not choose the life I am living. But I am so glad that He chose me.”

Does that make me better than anyone else? Certainly not! It simply means I have been chosen to be of service to believers and non-believers alike, with the ultimate purpose of bringing about the convergence of Heaven and Earth, which Jesus taught us to pray in what is commonly referred to as the Lord’s Prayer.

I hope by now you are realizing that what we are studying here has nothing to do with an afterlife. To look at chosen in those terms has nothing to do with what chosen really means.

And I hope you are also realizing that surely, absolutely and without a doubt we were born for such a time as this.