Yesterday, Today & Forever
Pastor Rev. Stephen Coates
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. (English Standard Version)
THE OLD HYMN STATES:
Yesterday, Today, Forever – Jesus is the same,
All may change, but Jesus never – glory to His name,
Glory to His name – glory to His name,
All may change, but Jesus never – glory to His name!
GOD’S PROPHETIC PROGRAM OF WORLD HISTORY:
Is three dimensional = Yesterday, Today and Forever!
HISTORY = HIS-STORY – LORD JESUS CHRIST
“Let all the house of Israel therefore know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”
Lord – Jesus – Christ
Prophet – Priest – King
Yesterday – Today – Forever
History – Present – Future
Understanding – Interpretation – Revelation
Understand mysteries – Knowledge – Prophetic Power
Historical Understanding – Present Truth – Visions
And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
PROPHECY IN BALANCE IS 3 D
It may come as a Word Of Knowledge or a Word of Wisdom!
Revelation or the Future may be told forth (forth telling – is not fore-telling) by God’s audible voice, visions, dreams, messenger or by God’s Holy Spirit through His own Word.
Revelation is primarily new futuristic (Forever)
It
is the glory of God to conceal
things,
but the glory of kings
is to search things out.
And he said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house, who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old.”
PRESENT TRUTH (Today) INTERPRETATION USING GOD’S WORD THE BIBLE
Do not quench the Spirit.
Do not despise prophecies,
but test everything; hold fast what is good.
Abstain from every form of evil.
Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. (English Standard Version)
KEYS OF THE KINGDOM (Today = It Is Two Thirds Your Obedience)
“I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”
You bind good prophetic promises to yourself and loose un-godly ones away from yourself.
UNDERSTANDING PROPHECY TODAY IN THE MOUTH OF TWO OR THREE WITNESSES
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. (English Standard Version)
“A single witness shall not suffice against a person for any crime or for any wrong in connection with any offense that he has committed. Only on the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses shall a charge be established.
This is the third time I am coming to you. Every charge must be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses.
Do not admit a charge against an elder except on the evidence of two or three witnesses.
“But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses.
Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses.
INTERPRETATION IS PRESENT TRUTH (Today) THROUGH THE WORD OF GOD – THE BIBLE
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. (English Standard Version)
2Pe 1:12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know [them], and be established in the present truth. (King James Version)
INTERPRET TODAY – NOW – PRESENT TRUTH
1Jo 3:2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
1Jo 3:3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure. (King James Version)
UNDERSTANDING PROPHECY – COMES FROM YESTERDAY
Prophecy is best understood after it has come to pass!
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Historical
Understanding – Interpretation Of Prophetic Scriptures –
Are Best Understood From Yesterday – This Protects Us From
Wild Futuristic Speculations And Extreme Assumptions!
Prophetic Revelation = Tomorrow, Future
Interpretation = Today, Now, Present Truth, Bible
Understanding = Yesterday, Which Has Come To Pass
UNDERSTANDING COMES FROM THE PAST TENSE – IT IS HISTORICAL
And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life. (English Standard Version)
UNDERSTANDING – YOU MUST GET IT, OR YOU DON’T HAVE IT!
Give
me understanding, that I may keep your law
and observe
it with my whole heart. (English Standard Version)
HISTORICAL (YESTERDAY) UNDERSTANDING OF PROPHETIC SCRIPTURES!
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. (English Standard Version)
My
son, if you receive my words
and treasure up my commandments with
you,
making
your ear attentive to wisdom
and inclining
your heart to understanding;
yes,
if you call out for insight
and raise
your voice for understanding,
if
you seek it like silver
and search for it as for hidden treasures,
then
you will understand the fear of the Lord
and find the knowledge of
God.
For
the Lord gives
wisdom;
from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. (English Standard Version)
PROPHECY IS THREE DIMENSIONAL – IT IS BEST UNDERSTOOD AFTER IT HAS COME TO PASS LIKE YESTERDAY!
For
a thousand years in your sight
are but as
yesterday when it is past,
or as a watch in the night.
But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. (English Standard Version)
UNDERSTAND MORE INFORMATION ABOUT HISTORIC INTERPRETATION OF PROPHETIC SCRIPTURES BY VISITING THESE LINKS:
www.armageddonbooks.com/historicist.html
(These links are provided for your understanding and development in Historic Interpretation of the Scriptures, we do not necessarily agree with every thought or publication.)
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. (English Standard Version)
Pastor Rev. Stephen Coates