http://cryfromthewall.com/chapter25TheAgeOfJohnLoveandThunder.html
...the last Revival/Reformation.
Those in this Revival/Reformation who endure to the end will have the anointing of David and the anointing of John. They will have the anointing of the prophet/king, the anointing of the prophet/apostle. They will have the anointing of the SEER who SEES the spiritual realm as David partly and passionately saw. They will have the anointing of John who saw even more than David as he stood with the glorified Jesus Christ both on the Island of Patmos and in the heavenly throne room.
The anointing that is on this last days, last age Church will certainly be the anointing of John. But this anointing of John is two fold. Most certainly John was the apostle of love. Of the three pillar apostles, John was the one who was closest to the heart of our Lord. He was the disciple whom Jesus loved. He was the disciple to whom Jesus entrusted His mother. Two images of love that come immediately to our mind are first, John laying his head on the bosom of our Lord, and second, John speaking these words, “Little children, love one another.”
But there is another aspect of John’s anointing that is summed up in the surname given to him by our Lord, in the Gospel of Mark. Jesus calls him and names him: “Son of Thunder.” Undoubtedly this was, as Philip Schaff says, “...an epithet of honor and foreshadowed his future mission, like the name Peter given to Simon. Thunder to the Hebrews was the voice of God. It conveys the idea of ardent temper, great strength and vehemence of character .... The same thunder which terrifies does also purify the air and fructify the earth with its accompanying showers of rain. Fiery temper under the control of reason and in the service of truth is as great a power of construction as the same temper, uncontrolled and misdirected, is a power of destruction.”
John was both the apostle of love and the thundering prophet. No other apostle or disciple carried the mantel of prophet so graciously and so dynamically as John. As a Seer his vision spanned from before the beginning of time to after the end of time. He saw back to before the creation when he tells us that, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” He also saw beyond the end of time to the beginning of eternity as he describes “a new heaven and a new earth... (Where) the Lord God, the Almighty, and the Lamb are its temple. And the city has no need of the sun or of the moon to shine upon it, for the glory of God has illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb.”
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END TIMES "A" LEVEL PING.
It has long stood out to me that as well as being the apostle of love,John also mentioned the spirit of antichrist a lot.
I don't mean this flippantly...but I'm still yet to rise to the dizzy heights of an unprofitable servant.
Post 61.
http://cryfromthewall.com/chapter25TheAgeOfJohnLoveandThunder.html
...the last Revival/Reformation.