2011-02-13 NCC Sermon Notes by Joshen Zu Xian

2011-02-13 NCC Sermon Notes

by Joshen Zu Xian

Joshen Zu Xian did an amazingly detailed set of notes again for “God’s Promise Of The Transfer Of Wealth Revealed” sermon !

Please visit here (for the MS Word version with illustrations and maps):

https://sites.google.com/site/gracefolk/sunday-sermon-notes

Summary:  From Jacob’s blessing of his 12 sons, we learn how God consistently makes provision for His people long before a crisis hits.  There will also be a transfer of wealth from the people of the world to God’s people in these last days for the gospel’s sake before Jesus returns. This prophetic sermon helps us understand past and current world events, and  gives us a blessed hope for our futures!

I reproduce the text of his notes here for convenience:

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Pastor Prince: “Before we begin, I want to share with you a testimony. Last 2 weeks we celebrated CNY, and on that Monday the church board invited me and some others to go over to the one north site to hear updates about the building, because now we have reached level 5, where our auditorium is. I told my assistant to prepare Holy Comm. and anointing oil, and what an awesome sight. When I was there, I asked the project manager which direction was One-North facing. I never asked this before, and left it to the architect to decide which direction would best benefit us.  And he said, it faces east. Now that’s interesting cos the tabernacle of Moses faces east, the temples of Solomon faces east, and every temple of God faces east. The holiest of holies is on the west. I’ve always said for many years now, that I would love to preach from the holiest of holies. Not an outer court preaching, but that my message would always be from between the wings of the cherubim, from the mercy seat. Not a condemning word, but a word of grace and mercy. Now, all of you will be in the east, facing west, and I’ll be preaching from the west, facing east, from the holiest of holies. Isn’t that awesome? And we didn’t plan for it. Plus, our auditorium is on lvl 5, number of grace. You been with us long enough, you would know some bible numeric. =)

So we were up there and we had communion, and we prayed that all the workers there would be blessed, and that their work would prosper, and then out of my spirit came out these words that surprised me when I said it. I said; “And let there be no death among the workers”. Those who were there heard me say it loud. Then we anointed the place with oil.

Just last week, on Thursday, we received news that a worker had fallen off from the fifth floor all the way to basement 1. Now, our fifth floor is about the equivalent of 8 floors high, as our levels are thicker.  So this worker fell on an aluminum layer put there in case someone from the lower levels fell. It was never meant to catch anyone from that height. But all the man suffered was a broken foot. Praise be to God, no death. Hallelujah.”

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Today’s sermon is on bible prophecy.

God is a God that prepares for His people. Long before there is a challenge facing you, God has prepared an answer. Long before Adam fell, the Lamb of God was slain from the foundation of the world.

Do you know the bible says God goes ahead of you and prepares the way? So that when the children of Israel stepped into the land flowing with milk and honey, they will live in houses they did not build, they will drink from wells they did not dig, and they will eat from trees they did not plant.

God goes ahead and prepares for us, and drives away the squatters on the land that belongs to the Lord and the fullness thereof, and He gives to who He wills. And you do not need to strive, you don’t need to constantly work overtime because God has a portion, God has a place, God has an inheritance for you no one can take from you.

Now, let’s talk about Bible prophecy and what the lord has for us today.

¼ of the bible is prophecy. The very first one was when God said: ”The woman’s seed will crush your head.”

Jesus said something will happen before He returns. The Bible says in the end times will come scoffers, people who will scoff at the idea of the 2nd coming. They will say “Where is He? Where is His coming?” but the Bible says He is delaying His coming as He is long suffering, and not willing that any should perish. He is waiting for man to turn back towards home, turn back towards grace and His love, and turn back towards Him as their source of every good thing in their life.

But one day, God will say:”Ok! Jesus, go back and claim your bride.”
Then there will be the rapture, and although the word “rapture” is not recorded in the Bible, the event is, and God will reverse the laws of gravity and we’ll all have a brand new body immediately, forever strong, healthy and forever young, never to die again, and we’ll be with the Lord forevermore.

So Jesus says there will be some signs before it happens.

²⁴ And they will fall by the edge of the sword, and be led away captive into all nations.

This happened in 70AD, when the Romans came in to Jerusalem and Israel was led captive into all nations. That’s why we have Jews in ALL nations across the earth. For 2000 years they have been in the Diaspora. Until 1948, God brought them back into the promised land against all odds. You must understand they are hated by the devil because the Savior of the world came as a Jew. And God keeps his covenant with Abraham and God sent the savior through this chosen race, the Jewish people. But because they have rejected Jesus Christ, Jesus said” You have rejected the very one who wants to cover you with his wings like a mother hen who covers her young, but you would not.” And that explains how they were exposed to horrors like Adolf Hitler. These things are because the devil hates them.

And Jerusalem will be trampled by Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

Since 70AD, for 2000 yrs, Jerusalem was under the control of the gentiles. The Romans, then the Mamaluks, then in more recent times we had the Byzantines, then the Turkish, then finally the British took over. In 1917, General Allenby marched into Jerusalem without firing a shot and liberated Jerusalem. He was a Christian and believed the Bible and told the Jews in Europe to come back and take possession of their land once more. But many of the Jews were now wealthy and ingrained in the European countries and refused to come back. Had they come back, in 1917, they would have avoided the Holocaust. Then, in 1948, against all odds, they became a nation once again. God caused the world to be more sympathetic and have a soft spot for the Jews because of what they had gone through and allowed them all to return to the land that God had given them.

However, Jerusalem was not yet in their hands. In 1967, in the 6 day war, it was theirs. Their battles are amazing. They are always outnumbered 5 to 1, sometimes 10 to 1, and like for example, Yom Kippur War in 1973, they were severely outnumbered. Yet, the enemy nations lost 300 planes, versus Israel’s loss of only 19 planes. And EVERY single time Israel has been attacked, when they counter, they end up with more land than they originally had.

There is no military history of any war that lasted for 6 days, except for the one recorded in Joshua, in the battle for Jericho. God is repeating history!

¹⁵And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring; ¹⁶men’s hearts failing them from fear and the expectation of those things which are coming on the earth, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken

Something will happen that will cause men’s hearts to be fearful after 1967, and what is it? “The powers of heaven will be shaken”

So what is this “powers of heaven”?  In the Greek, the word used is (οὐρανός) Ouranos, from where we get the word uranium, which is used in nuclear weaponry. In other words, God is saying that the atomic matter will be split, used to destroy.

¹⁷Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. ¹⁸Now when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near.

Now, we can rejoice! This redemption is not your soul redemption, you are already saved! But this is referring to your bodily redemption!

Pastor Prince: Jesus is about to redeem your body! The one he paid for at Calvary! Your body will be redeemed to be like his body! Never to grow old, never to fall sick, never to tired again, never to feel bored again, never to fall asleep in service –had to slide that in, you know what I’m saying, amen? xD”

In Matthew 24, Jesus added something else that might interest you.

⁶And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. ⁷ For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places.

The word “Nation” is ethnos, meaning ethnic groups would war against ethnic groups, as well as countries against countries.

⁸ All these are the beginning of sorrows.

Now, when He comes back, we must understand that the rapture is not the 2^nd coming of Christ. The second coming is for Israel. Before they are destroyed, Jesus would come and rescue them, whereas the rapture is for the church. That’s why for the believer, Jesus comes as the bright and morning star. But for Israel, He will come as the Son (Sun) of Righteousness.

Early in the morning, the bright and morning star appears first.  =)

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Is there oil to be found in Israel? Lets find out, based on the prophesies of Jacob and of Moses.

There was a debate about whether there is oil in Israel. They were saying how Israel is the only land in the Middle East without oil. Even Golda Meir joked once, when Moses brought the people out of Egypt, he made a wrong turn and instead of turning right into Saudi Arabia, where the oil is, he turned left into Israel!

In the 90’s and in 2002, Pastor Prince had shared about prophesies regarding oil in Israel, and he is sharing it again now. It’s in hindsight to see things that are happening right now before our eyes.

Turn to genesis, when Jacob was about to pass away into the presence of the Lord.

Genesis 49:1

¹ And Jacob called his sons and said, “Gather together, that I may tell you what shall befall you in the last days,

The last days could not be any time before 1900 since Jerusalem was not yet in the hands of the Jews, so it can only be our generation!

By the way, in 1917, when the call came from Gen. Allenby to return to Israel, and they didn’t, count 50 years later, God gave them another chance. Why 50 years? Because in God’s law, every 50^th year, the Law of Jubilee takes effect. Every debt is cancelled, every man returns to his land.
(Joshen’s observation note: So, this proves that not EVERY old covenant law is of no relevance today. If the law of Jubilee is still in effect to God, what then shall we say towards tithing? Food for thought. I may be wrong.)

So Jesus is our true Jubilee, but isn’t it amazing how God fulfills His promises?

Back to Jacob. We won’t look at all the sons, but beginning from Reuben, Jacob prophesied over Simeon, then Levi, then Judah, the fourth son. Now Jesus would come from Judah, the lion of Judah. Then suddenly, Jacob jumped all the way to the 10^th son, Zebulun. Who was the 5^th?  Dan is the 5th. Zebby is the 10^th. So Jacob took the 5^th(number of grace) and the 10^th(number of law) and exchanged it. Someone will give his place of Grace and take your place of curse.

Now, Jacob lived WAY before Jesus times, yet, he foresaw that the Messiah would come and what He would do. This is proven when Jacob prophesied over Judah, then swapped to Zebulun, because Jesus would come from Judah, and then would go on to perform 2/3 of his acts in the land of Zebulun.

Then we come to the blessing of Joseph. Now this is exciting cos the treasure is “X-marked the spot” in Joseph’s land.

²⁵By the God of your father who will help you,
And by the Almighty who will bless you
With blessings of heaven above,

Blessings of the deep that lies beneath,
Blessings of the breasts and of the womb.

²⁶The blessings of your father
Have excelled the blessings of my ancestors,
Up to the utmost bound of the everlasting hills.
They shall be on the head of Joseph,
And on the crown of the head of him who was separate from his brothers.

So, already we see a clue here. The blessing shall be on the head of Joseph’s crown.

When Moses died, Joshua allotted the land according to God’s direction, and Joseph’s portion was divided into his two son’s Ephraim and Manasseh. Turn to your Bible, the back, and look for Tribal Allotment of Israel.

Now, let’s turn to the prophesies of Moses.

Before Moses died, he gave a prophecy regarding Joseph.

Deuteronomy 33:13-16

¹³And of Joseph he said: “Blessed of the LORD is his land, With the precious things of heaven, with the dew, And the deep lying beneath,

¹⁴With the precious fruits of the sun, With the precious produce of the months,

¹⁵With the best things of the ancient mountains, With the precious things of the everlasting hills,

¹⁶With the precious things of the earth and its fullness, And the favor of Him who dwelt in the bush. Let the blessing come ‘on the head of Joseph, And on the crown of the head of him who was separate from his brothers.’

Notice the last line, it’s exactly the same as what Jacob said.

So, the location of this treasure is in Joseph’s head.

Next blessing of Moses, we look at Zebulun.

¹⁸ And of Zebulun he said:

“ Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out,
And Issachar in your tents!

¹⁹ They shall call the peoples to the mountain;
There they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness;
For they shall partake of the abundance of the seas
And of treasures hidden in the sand.”

Ok, lets look at Zebulun’s area.

Then, we look at Asher!
²⁴ And of Asher he said:

“Asher is most blessed of sons;
Let him be favored by his brothers,
And let him dip his foot in oil.

Pastor once went to Israel, and asked the guide there if they believed there was oil in the land of Asher and they said:” Olive oil? Oh, plenty!” But he was referring to black oil.

Interestingly, the word for olive oil and the word for black oil is the same, שמן shemen.

But in Deuteronomy 32,

¹³ “He made him ride in the heights of the earth,
That he might eat the produce of the fields;
He made him draw honey from the rock,
And oil from the flinty rock;

Black oil, is drawn from flinty rocks. So we can determine that the oil here is referring to black oil.

OK! Notice how the tip of the “foot” of Asher, is touching the crown of Joseph?
That’s where the oil is!

In fact, in 2009, Israel announced discovery of a huge gas field just west of Haifa.

Where is Haifa?

http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/jan2009/gb20090119_996007.htm

Pastor Gabriel reads: “A popular quip in Israel’s energy industry has it that when Moses left Egypt, he took a wrong turn on his way to the Promised Land: The Biblical figure should have veered right to Saudi Arabia rather than left to Israel, which has long been assumed to lack any petroleum reserves. Now it appears Moses might have had a better nose for energy than previously thought. On Jan. 18, just hours after a cease-fire began in the Gaza Strip, Israel announced the discovery of a major natural gas field off its northern Mediterranean coast.

The news sent the Tel Aviv stock market sharply higher on Sunday as the size of the find appeared to eclipse the negative impact of the recession the country is now facing. Shares of the Israeli partners in the Tamar-1 drilling site jumped between 42% and 124%, though profit-taking pulled some down on Jan. 19. Even the Israeli shekel joined in, climbing by up to 1.6% against the dollar on Monday before settling the day up a half-point.

“This is one of the biggest finds ever, and could even turn Israel into a natural gas exporting country,” predicts Yitzhak Tshuva, the majority shareholder in Israel’s Delek Group (DELKG.TA), one of the partners in the offshore drilling. That would be a huge change for a country that has been nearly 100% dependent on imported oil and coal. Last year alone Israel spent $12.8 billion on fuel imports.

The find, located 90 kilometers due west of the port of Haifa, is the first large field discovered in the eastern Mediterranean and is significant even by global standards.

Now, why is this important?

Why now? Why not earlier? Because God foresaw the problems Israel will have with Egypt. Now, Egypt and Israel have a peace treaty, but now, the stability is shaken. And Israel’s number 1 need from Egypt is energy. It was okay then when Mubarak was in power, but now, everything is changing.

So now, Israel is energy independent!

Church! God goes ahead of you!
First the natural Israel, then spiritual Israel will benefit. We are both Abraham’s seed. When Israel became a nation again in 1948, there was a great healing revival in the church. Then, in 1967, when Israel regained Jerusalem, the charismatic renewal occurred. Every time something good happens to Israel, something good will happen to the church.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-06-03/israel-may-join-gas-exporting-nations-with-leviathan-discovery.html

Pastor Gabriel reads: Israel is on the path to exporting energy for the first time in its 62-year history after Noble Energy Inc. and partners said their offshore discoveries in the country may hold twice as much natural gas as the U.K.

Nobel, the Houston-based operator of the Leviathan block, said yesterday the area may have 16 trillion cubic feet of gas, as it also raised its estimate for the nearby Tamar field to 8.4 trillion cubic feet. Nobel said all its areas in the eastern Mediterranean may hold as much as 30 trillion cubic feet.

“This has the potential to turn Israel into a key regional gas player, competing with the likes of Egypt,” Guil Bashan, an analyst at IBI in Tel Aviv, said by phone. “This is also a major plus for the economy and for the partners operating the licenses, which can produce value by becoming major exporters.”

Israel, which has been in several wars since it was founded in 1948, has been dependent on oil and coal imports from as far away as Mexico and Norway and has bought gas from Egypt in the past decade. Now, with the Tamar find last year expected to fulfill its gas demand for the next two decades, the country may be able to ship the commodity to Asia and Europe.

Our God is a preparing God. This coming week, you might ask “Oh man, why did this happen?” But don’t worry, God has prepared the answer and the favor. God has prepared the blessings for you. And when the enemy attacks you, you will take back more land, more territory, more blessings. There are no spoils without battles.

This is why Ezekiel 38 prophesies enemies of Israel coming against them and how God will provide Israel a resounding victory. Why they want to attack Israel? The Bible says they come for a spoil, a treasure.

Now, Pastor was watching the news and saw the pro-mubarak vs the anti-mubarak riots. Next morning, while he was still thinking about the incidents, he opened his bible and it fell to Isaiah 19.

² “I will stir up Egyptian against Egyptian—
brother will fight against brother,
neighbor against neighbor,
city against city,
kingdom against kingdom.

Do you think its coincidence? What is frightening for the world is that Egypt controls 4% of the worlds trade through the Suez Canal. If Egypt loses it’s stability, then trade would be affected. Now, MAYBE, there is an allusion to the Suez in Isaiah 19.

⁵ The waters of the river will dry up,
and the riverbed will be parched and dry.
⁶ The canals will stink;
the streams of Egypt will dwindle and dry up.

Anyway, want to see how this chapter ends?

¹⁹ In that day there will be an altar to the LORD in the heart of Egypt, and a monument to the LORD at its border. ²⁰ It will be a sign and witness to the LORD Almighty in the land of Egypt. When they cry out to the LORD because of their oppressors, he will send them a savior and defender, and he will rescue them. ²¹ So the LORD will make himself known to the Egyptians, and in that day they will acknowledge the LORD. They will worship with sacrifices and grain offerings; they will make vows to the LORD and keep them. ²² The LORD will strike Egypt with a plague; he will strike them and heal them. They will turn to the LORD, and he will respond to their pleas and heal them.

²³ In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria. The Assyrians will go to Egypt and the Egyptians to Assyria. The Egyptians and Assyrians will worship together. ²⁴ In that day Israel will be the third, along with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing on the earth. ²⁵ The LORD Almighty will bless them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria my handiwork, and Israel my inheritance.”

We don’t know who will oppress Egypt, but we know who is the “savior, and defender”!

So, what will happen in these last days?

Number one, Jesus is coming back.

One of the things you’ll receive when He comes is a brand new body.

1^st Corinthians 15:51
⁵¹ Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed—

What does this mean?

Pastor Prince: This means, during church service, these people who don’t fall asleep, they are the only ones who will be changed! Those who slumber wont be changed! Ok ok! Just kidding okay? I’m sorry! Don’t write to me to complain, I wont read…”  What it really means is that we shall not all die. Why doesn’t the apostle use the word die? Because Christians don’t die, they just drop their bodies and go to a new place. Because Jesus has conquered death. Death was never meant to be. And I believe it’s our generation! Cos our generation saw Israel come back in 1948, our generation saw 1967, Jerusalem coming back into Israel hands, our generation is seeing the prophesies being fulfilled! So our generation is the one who will not see death! Jesus will come again, and we shall ALL be changed!

For this corruptible body must put on incorruptibility, this mortal body must put on immortality. In other words, God will clothe you with a body that will never die. Imagine how fast will you go in your chariot of fire across the universe when you know you cannot die. Step aside Lamborghini! Step aside Ferrari! Porsche! BMW!  None of you can compare with God’s chariots of fire! And we’ll have the whole universe to play in!

Scientists say that our sun system is just a TINY part of our Milky Way, and that the Milky Way is just a TINY TINY TINY part of the entire universe. So why did God make such a huge expanse of space? It’s for us to play in! Don’t think Heaven is gonna be boring! Whatever causes you pleasure on earth, remember God created you. He knows what tickles your fancy!

Now, listen carefully, sin may make you feel like you’re enjoying, but it will make you stoned, and the consequences are nasty. When you follow God’s ways, you will enjoy most. God is not a joy killer, but a joy giver!

We’ll close with a prophecy regarding Israel and you! But before that, lets see how God repeats history.

In Genesis, there is the garden. In Revelations, there is also a garden.

In Genesis, there are the 4 rivers, in Revelations; there is the River of Life.

What happened to Israel when they left Egypt on the night of Passover will happen again.

Before Israel left Egypt, there was a transfer of wealth. The bible says the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous. If you are righteous, there is a transfer of wealth coming for you!

Now, just a few decades ago, they found the Dead Sea scrolls. Why is this important? Because people argue that because the Bible is a copy of a copy of a copy, how do we know that we still have the same bible word for word and not something that has been manipulated?

When they analyzed the scrolls, they found the book of Isaiah, word for word. God wrote this book.

So, look at Isaiah 60!

¹ Arise; shine;
For your light has come!
And the glory of the LORD is risen upon you.

This is not the prophecy for when Jesus comes again, because when Jesus comes, there is no more darkness. So this is for our times! Next verse says

² For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth,
And deep darkness the people;
But the LORD will arise over you,
And His glory will be seen upon you.

Notice, that darkness covers the world, but the Lord will arise over YOU!

You are the people of God. The people, are just people out there! They are covered by darkness, hopelessness, but you! His glory will be seen upon you!

³ The Gentiles shall come to your light,
And kings to the brightness of your rising.
⁴ “ Lift up your eyes all around, and see:
They all gather together, they come to you;
Your sons shall come from afar,
And your daughters shall be nursed at your side.
⁵ Then you shall see and become radiant,
And your heart shall swell with joy;
Because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you,
The wealth of the Gentiles shall come to you.

Now, look, it says, the wealth of the Gentiles shall come to you! You don’t have to look for it! You don’t have to fight for it! It will come, to you! You just pursue Jesus! You pursue a good relationship! And Wealth will come to you! It will find you! We are seeing this happen already in our church. The world will not understand.

This prophecy is not just for us, but also for Israel. We are both children of Abraham.

Now, what is the abundance of the sea? Now, it could be the gas, it could be the oil. What we’re saying is that, we should not “over-spiritualize” the Bible. While one can interpret it as meaning people, let’s not forsake the natural interpretation.

In Isaiah 35:1

¹ The wilderness and the wasteland shall be glad for them,
And the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose;
Now, the word for desert is “Aravah”, which is near Petra. Today, it is the biggest source of flowers and roses exports to Europe. Today, the desert Aravah is LITERALLY blossoming as the rose!
So, back to Isaiah 60, what is abundance of the sea? Israel is seeing the first part happen already, next will be the wealth of the gentiles.

Pastor Prince: Now, can I say this to all of you? Tt must happen at least some years before the rapture right? I mean, if we need money, we need it now before the rapture! Whats the point of giving us the money, the gold and then immediately *poof* go uo to heaven? So we have all this money in our hands, walking on streets of gold! Then angel says “Eh, can I have some gold? I need to repair this street in heaven!”  The wealth is not for heaven! And seeing as the rapture is happening anytime now, God has to prosper his people at least some years before the rapture! So we can use the money to finance the Gospel in these end times, amen, to build a place like one north, to preach the gospel from the holiest of holies, facing the east, from the fifth floor, hallelujah, and the world will hear the Gospel preached! Amen! Give Jesus the praise! “

God is positioning you! How many can say Amen to that? You have taken the bread, you have taken the cup, and that’s what the Jewish people did on the Passover night, and not 3 million people left Egypt, but 3 million millionaires left Egypt.

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