There is mourning for the loss of the first love of the Gospel of Christ.

Joel 1:8-12

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• There is mourning for the loss of the first love of the Gospel of Christ.
• There is mourning for the loss of service to God which has been cut off from the churches.
• There is mourning for the rejection of God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit.
• There is mourning for the loss of sowing the Gospel Seed and bringing souls to God.
• There is mourning for the loss of the fruit of the Spirit.

 There is mourning for the loss of the first love of the Gospel of Christ. “Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth“ Joel 1:8

The “husband of her youth” refers to God being the husband of the Church through Jesus Christ. Virginity refers to purity, and many of us still alive today can remember when the manmade churches kept the purity of the Gospel of Christ. Those were the days when God was honored as the Divine Creator, the need for Jesus Christ was acknowledged for the remission of sin, and the infilling of the Holy Spirit was desired. The churches believed that Jesus died on the Cross to atone for sin, God raised Him from the dead after three days, and He ascended into Heaven to live eternally with God. Because He lives, we will live eternally with Him. The churches once were the light shining with the message, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” John 3:16

The First Church referred to in Revelation 2 talks about the churches leaving their first love, the “husband of her youth.”

What have the churches left Jesus Christ for? They have left God to live for the thing giving them what to think, feel, do, say, and believe. It enables the image of the beast to live and speak through people in every city around the world. By giving people what to feel and think, it replaces the human conscience. The world is filled with traits of psychopathy on every continent. The masses around the world conform to the anti-Christian global culture as they are groomed to the mark of the beast by what they say and do.

A relationship with God cannot be held because of being egocentric and thriving on being empowered and exalted above God our Creator. The global culture is not able to maintain a marriage to Jesus Christ because they do not feel a need to admit they are sinners and they do not feel remorse nor guilt to lead them to the remission of sin. They cannot hold a marriage to the Holy Spirit because they are not able to humble themselves to the life of Holiness. They oppose, ridicule, manipulate, and attempt to dominate the fruit of Spirit. They have a lack of empathy for others as lawlessness anti-social behavior flourishes globally.

There is mourning for the loss of service to God which has been cut off from the churches. “The grain offering and the drink offering have been cut off from the house of the Lord; The priests mourn, who minister to the Lord.” Joel 1:9

Service to the Lord Jesus Christ symbolizes the grain and drink offering which has been cut off from the house of the Lord. The “house of the Lord” refers to the manmade churches as well as the human body as the house of the Holy Spirit. The manmade churches are no longer connected to serving God through Jesus Christ. Service to God is to share the Good News of Jesus, which is that God loved the world and sent His Son Jesus Christ for the remission of sin so that whoever believes in Him will have eternal life. With that, the thing that gives people what to feel, think, do, and say are cutting people off from serving God through Jesus Christ by hardening the human spirit against the Good News.

The true ministers of the Word of God, and all of us who desire to share the testimony of Jesus, mourn to see how the house of the Lord is cut off from God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit.

There is mourning for the rejection of God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. “The field is wasted, the land mourns; For the grain is ruined, the new wine is dried up, the oil fails.” Joel 1:10

The wasted field and the land that mourns is every city around the world inhabited by the masses of the global culture. The ruined grain, the dried-up new wine, and the failed oil refers to service to God, the remission of sin through the blood of Jesus Christ, and the presence of the Holy Spirit. The anti-Christian global culture has ruined service to God, they have dried up the new wine of the Gospel of Christ, and the Holy Spirit is taken from this world. They have done that by welcoming the thing giving them what to think, say, do, and feel. “It was granted to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given him over every tribe, tongue, and nation.” Revelation 13:7 The “him” in the verse above refers to the beast behind the image and mark of the beast.

There is mourning for the loss of sowing the Gospel Seed and bringing souls to God. “Be ashamed, you farmers, wail, you vinedressers, for the wheat and the barley; Because the harvest of the field has perished.” Joel 1:11

The farmers and vinedressers are those who have been given the task of plowing the Gospel Seed to bring people to God through Jesus Christ. However, where they should be harvesting souls to enter into the eternal Kingdom of God, the harvest of the field has perished. The farmers and vinedressers include the churches who have discarded the Gospel of Jesus Christ as well as everyone who has fallen away from sharing the testimony of Jesus. The harvest of souls for the Kingdom of God has perished and every farmer and vinedresser should be ashamed for turning away from the Message of the Cross. Jesus said, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.” Luke 9:62 Because people have quit allowing the light of Jesus Christ to shine through the churches and the human spirit, we should wail because the harvest of souls has perished.

There is mourning for the loss of the fruit of the Spirit. “The vine has dried up, and the fig tree has withered; The pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree—all the trees of the field are withered; Surely joy has withered away from the sons of men.”  Joel 1:12

Jesus Christ is the vine and everyone who lives for Him are the branches. In today’s world, the vine of Jesus Christ has withered, and the branches of every Christian tree has also withered. Joy has withered away from the world as the human spirit has been hardened against the joy of the Spirit. People are being given what to feel, do, and say instead of experiencing true joy by the fruit of the Spirit. Belief in God has withered, acknowledging the need for Jesus Christ has withered, and embracing the Holy Spirit has withered. Because of the rejection of the Water of Life (Jesus Christ), the branches have withered and will be burned in the eternal flames of hell.

As our Lord Jesus Christ has said, “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.” Jon 15:5-6

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:1