No anointing and mantle receipt surpasses Pentecost Day

(…continues from part six…)

7)            What is Apostle Joshua Selma looking for, running helter-skelter looking for fresh anointings, when it is scripturally clear that the Third Member of the Godhead, the Holy Spirit, remains the Christian’s chriō? Will there not be a resultant contamination of a Christian’s life if a fallen Adamic anointing gets spread or mingled with that of the Holy Spirit’s? Selah! Let us dig again into Scripture where it reads, “But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him” (1John 2:27). The Bible, and no other protocolary, remains the only Magna Carta of every minister of God. Why should we jettison the inherent Spirit of God and jet off to seek human aid, when the matter is strictly God’s Kingdom business?

                The phrase, ‘the angel of his presence,’ (Hebrew, פניומלאך פ male’âk pânâyv, ‘angel of his face,’ or ‘countenance’), means an angel that stands in his presence, and that enjoys his favor, as a man does who stands before a prince, or who is admitted constantly to his presence (compare Pro 22:29).’ Joshua Selma makes it crystal clarity that as Jesus, his ultimate encounter, He gave him the gift of ‘angel of His presence’ and a huge angel showed up – making Two entities, Jesus and that huge angel. This clearly places a personality distinction between the Lord Jesus and the angelic gift, right? Isaiah 63:9 “In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.”

And the angel of his presence saved them

                And the angel of his presence saved them – This angel, called ‘the angel of the presence of God,’ is frequently mentioned as having conducted the children of Israel through the wilderness, and as having interposed to save them in Exodus 23:20-21 20) “Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. 21) Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.” An angel that must be obeyed and who has pardoning power cannot be a created being. Let us look at one of the encounters Moses experienced going through the wilderness in Exodus 33:13-14 13) “Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people. 14) And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.” The Hebrew for ‘presence’ is pânı̂ym (paw-neem’): ‘person; the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively).’

God spoke words to Moses and he wrote them down.

                The LORD God’s Presence is, from the definition of pânı̂ym, the physical Person of Himself. This LORD God that spoke with Moses and gave His acquiescence to let Moses see His face is the manifestation of the Second Member of the Godhead, Jesus Christ. We surely need some verses of the Bible to drive this facticity home. Exodus 14:19 “And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them:” and this same Person is the One of Exodus 17:6 “Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.” The prophet reminded Israel of Jehovah’s walk with Israel, “And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out” (Isaiah 48:21). And this is the identity of the Angel of His Presence: 1Corinthians 10:1-4 “Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; 2)And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 3)And did all eat the same spiritual meat; 4)And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.”

There is no difference between the ‘Angel of His presence’ and the ‘pillar of fire and cloud’. Let us read Exodus 33:9-10 “And it came to pass, as Moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended, and stood [at] the door of the tabernacle, and [the LORD] talked with Moses. 10) And all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand [at] the tabernacle door: and all the people rose up and worshipped, every man [in] his tent door.” Ask yourself why Moses wrote, “and all the people rose up and worshipped, every man [in] his tent door”? The One in the pillar of cloud is the LORD God, the Second Member of the Godhead; Israel knows the LORD her God.

The Spirit that moved in Genesis 1:2

                Apostle Joshua Selma said he was in Reinhard Bonnke’s crusade and when the Preacher was about to drink water and minister Water Baptism of the Holy Spirit, his eyes opened and for the first time he saw the physical manifestation of the Holy Spirit. It was a bird, bigger than a huge auditorium, moving and the wings had silver linings. The Spirit told him, “The union of the spoken word and the movement of the Spirit is what births the miraculous.” It was not a sermon; he actually saw it. This made him to conclude, according to him, “I have found it. I got something in my life.” Now, I understand that John the Baptist did see the Holy Spirit in John 1:33 “And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.” If John saw the Holy Spirit, what stops Joshua Selma from perceiving, with his naked eyes, the Holy Spirit? What he claimed to have heard, “The union of the spoken word and the movement of the Spirit is what births the miraculous;” can easily serve as manipulative tool of unsuspecting minds of itchy ears. Inspirational speakers have warmed their sweet talks into the Church and this kind of statement from Selma is what trips nominal Christians.

Getting born again is a conscious effort on the part of an individual. Get born again. You were born in sin. Say this sinner’s prayer.

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord, and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!”

(…to be continued…)

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