The Quickening

The Quickening¹

"There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down" Jesus "pronounced" as He departed "Herod’s" gleaming white marble temple gilded with gold, through white marble colonnades he would never walk again, amid its vaulted archways and grand stairways. And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, His disciples came saying, "Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?"

Adding "nothing" more regarding the "judgment" He had pronounced, the Lord continued "... many shall come in my name, saying, I am the Christ; and shall lead many astray. And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars; see that ye be not troubled: for these things must needs come to pass; but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be famines and earthquakes in divers places. But all these things are the beginning of travail" (Matthew 24:5-8).

The Greek word rendered “travail” ὠδίν ōdin is used to describe a woman in the pangs of birth. We appear to be seeing subtle manifestations of that "beginning of travail." Unfortunately, Christendom is focused, if focused at all, on "Israel's" prophetic "flowchart," rather than its own, unaware that the "beginning of travail" follows that which "must" come before, i.e., "The Quickening."

As a mother senses that twinkling" sensation of life within, when the child latent in the darkness of her womb emanates that first discernible affirmation of life, so will the "Body of Christ" sense that "twinkling sensation of life within when "caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air" (cf. 1 Thessalonians 4:17).

"Behold, I tell you a mystery: We all shall not sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed" (1 Corinthians 15:51-52).

"The Quickening" is the consummation of a seven faceted mystery "which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory" (cf. Colossians 1:26-27). 

A Mystery

Are you ready?

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