Glorify Holy Spirit Healings not Mark of the Beast Healings

Acts 3:13-26

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• Jesus Christ, who makes people whole, is being crucified.
• Jesus is the fulfillment of prophecy who we must listen to.

Jesus Christ, who makes people whole, is being crucified.
“The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified His Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let Him go. But you denied the Holy One and the Just, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you, and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses. And His name, through faith in His name, has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which comes through Him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.” Acts 3:13-16

Peter healed a crippled man [in the name of Jesus Christ] to enable him to walk, as described in Acts 3:1-12. In the verses of this post, Paul explains to the Jewish people that they crucified Him who brought the healing. Today, we know the healing of the born-again experience to enable us to walk out of a lifestyle based in the flesh into a life walking in the Spirit with Jesus Christ. Today’s culture delivers the Gospel of Jesus Christ to death, the same Gospel that has given multitudes the ability to live in the presence of the Holy Spriit.

In today’s culture, which is global, to be born-again means to live for the beast that oppresses the Holy Spirit to give people what to speak, do, think, and feel. This beast crucifies belief in God and crucifies the forgiveness of unbelief through Jesus Christ.

The Apostles of Jesus Christ, and His disciples, always referred to Jesus as being present in the Old Testament. Peter spoke of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob glorifying God’s servant, Jesus Christ, as quoted, “The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified His Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let Him go.” Acts 3:13 The same Jesus that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob glorified is the same Jesus that the Jewish people handed over to Pilate to have crucified. Even when Pilate was willing to release Him, the Jewish people demanded that He be crucified, as described in John 19:5-16.

Today’s culture is crucifying the same Jesus today that is spoken about in the Old Testament and who came in the flesh to this world 2000 years ago. The “scarlet cord” is a term that refers to the Old Testament Scriptures pointing to Jesus as the Christ and Son of God in the New Testament of today.

“But you denied the Holy One and the Just, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you, and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses.” Acts 3:14-15

The Jewish people literally asked for a rebel [revolutionary] and a murderer [whose name was Barabbas] to be released instead of Jesus, as quoted, “And they all cried out at once, saying, “Away with this Man, and release to us Barabbas”— who had been thrown into prison for a certain rebellion made in the city, and for murder.” Luke 23:18-19 In today’s atheistic culture, they demand the crucifixion of the testimony of Jesus Christ in exchange for the release of those willing to put to death belief in God, the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and to fight against the presence of the Holy Spirit. Death could not hold Jesus in the grave 2000 years ago, and neither can our Lord Jesus be held in the grave by those of today’s world. Just as God raised Jesus from the grave those many years ago [and the Apostles witnessed] our Lord Jesus is returning as the King of kings and Lord of lords.

“And His name, through faith in His name, has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which comes through Him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.” Acts 3:16

In the name of Jesus, a crippled man was healed to demonstrate that the power of God was alive in the name of Jesus Christ. Today, in the name of Jesus, by faith in His name, people are made strong in the Spirit and to withstand the pitfalls of this world. We realize, that “…we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.” Ephesians 6:12 We put on the armor of God of His truth, righteousness, peace, faith, Salvation, the sword of the Spirit [the word of God], and prayer in the Spirit.

Faith in Jesus Christ, who gives us the Holy Spirit, makes us whole and sound. This is total opposite of what the beastly entity does to people by giving them what to speak, do, feel, and think. They are not grounded in truth, have a false sense of righteousness [Godliness that denies Jesus Christ], have a lust for conflict and friction, are without faith for eternal life, are without hope for Salvation beyond the grave, they reject the sword of the Holy Spirit, and do not have a prayer within them through the Spirit.

Holy Spirit Glorifies Jesus Christ for the Healing.
“Yet now, brethren, I know that you did it in ignorance, as did also your rulers. But those things which God foretold by the mouth of all His prophets, that the Christ would suffer, He has thus fulfilled.” Acts 3:17-18

The Jewish people and their rulers, who delivered Christ Jesus to be crucified did it in ignorance. The ignorance being rooted in their zeal to uphold the laws of Judaism and refusal to believe that Jesus could be God in the flesh and their Christ. Even so, the prophecies of the Scriptures were fulfilled, such as, “Declare this in the house of Jacob and proclaim it in Judah, saying, ‘Hear this now, O foolish people,
without understanding, who have eyes and see not, and who have ears and hear not: Do you not fear Me?’ says the Lord.” Jeremiah 5:20-22 And concerning the suffering of Jesus Christ, Isaiah 53.

Today’s culture, which is global, is ignorant in their pursuit of crucifying and driving the Gospel of Jesus Christ into extinction. The governing authorities and the community culture are unaware that they are the fulfillment of prophecy of the culture of the beast. They are the fulfillment of those within whom the beast lives by giving them what to speak, do, think, and feel. God has made us to be His temple, the temple of the Holy Spirit, but they serve the one “…who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.” 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 The “he” in that verse is the “man of sin”. Click here for a post on the “man of sin”. This is the one that gives life to the image of the beast to speak and live through people as they are groomed to the mark of the beast by what they are given to say and do. They are the fulfillment of those who contribute to the suffering of Christ, being those who, “…worship the dragon who gave authority to the beast; and they worship the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?” Revelations 13:4

“Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that He may send Jesus Christ, who was preached to you before, whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began.” Acts 3:19-21

We must repent of our unbelief of God by the forgiveness offered to us through Jesus Christ. Our sin will be blotted out, put in remission, so that the refreshing of the Holy Spirit comes in the presence of God. Jesus Christ will come to us as our Lord and Savior who today sits at the right hand of God in Heaven until He returns to restore all things. He restores us to a resurrected and eternal body and restores a new heaven and earth where the eternal New Jerusalem is. All of this is prophesied about in Zachariah, Ezekiel, Habakkuk, Micah, Revelations, Daniel, and all of the prophets.

“For Moses truly said to the fathers, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brethren. Him you will hear in all things, whatever He says to you. And it shall be that every soul who will not hear that Prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the people.’” Acts 3:22-23

Peter once again [as all the Apostles and disciples of Christ do], uses the Old Testament Scriptures to reveal how they refer to Jesus Christ. Moses spoke of Jesus when he said God would raise up a Prophet from among the Jewish people [their “brethren”]. Jesus was from the Tribe of Judah. Today, Jesus calls us His brothers and sisters, “For both He who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are all of one, for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren…” Hebrews 2:11 Jesus is the word of God made flesh, and His Gospel we must listen to, whatever He says to us through the Holy Spirit we must do. Jesus said, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.” John 6:29 “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 6:23

“Yes, and all the prophets, from Samuel and those who follow, as many as have spoken, have also foretold these days.” Acts 3:24

“You are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your seed all the families of the earth will be blessed.’ To you first, God, having raised up His Servant Jesus, sent Him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your iniquities.” Acts 3:25-26

To this day, the Jewish people are the children of the prophets, that is their fleshly heritage, their lineage, and their roots of existence. Today, all Believers are the children of the prophets because we accept Jesus as the Christ and Son of God, and we communicate the prophecies of the Bible. A few of those prophecies, since 1945, are listed in the post on Habakkuk 2:1-4. The Jewish people are the children to whom the promise was made to their fathers through Abraham, that through their “…seed all the families of the earth will be blessed.” Jesus Christ is the seed of Abraham that has brought Salvation to all the earth, “And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.” Galatians 3:29

Jesus Christ was sent to the Jewish people first, and His resurrection was evidence of the power of God to give eternal life and to give the born-again experience through the Spirit of life [without the laws of Judaism]. However, because they rejected Him, Salvation has come to whoever believes in Him, “He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” John 1:11-13

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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, 3:11