The Rising of the Temple of God:: A Journey Towards 2020

By Apostle Antonia

The book is inspired by a vision Antonia received when she was born again back in the early 90's. She believes that the Holy Spirit was talking to her about the the body of believers (the church) would rise up to shine God's glory around the world with Jesus Christ. She is preparing people to be joined together with Christ Jesus Himself to rise up a human temple for God and his Spirit to dwell in to make His presence known around the world.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Dec 11, 2015
• ISBN: 9781514431870

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Contents

You Are A Person Joined To Jesus

Introdction- Deep Love With Jeus

Note From The Author

Book Dedication

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Appendix A

Appendix B

References

In Him the whole building is jointed together and rises to become a holy temple.

Ephesians 2:21

YOU ARE A PERSON JOINED TO JESUS

"He predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ,

In accordance with his pleasure and will," (Ephesians 1:5).

H oly Father you speak to your people through the words in this book. They are YOUR people you know them by name Holy Father you know all about them as you formed them in their mother’s womb. You knew before-hand what kind of life they would live here on earth, and you always hope that they would find their way to you so you could show them that the life they were born into was not your original plan for them. The unkind world has a way of grabbing your people before you can make yourself known to them. This is my prayer for all your people Father that they may be found by you so you can make yourself known to them. Even the people who think they know you speak to their hearts something that will bring them in to your deeper love and brighter light to see what they never saw before. In Jesus name, Amen

In the words of my departed beloved pastor/prophet Dr. Michael McCann Countless millions of Christians all over the world are engaged in an endless battle for self-acceptance. Multitudes fight the battle daily for personal self-esteem and it seems that daily many lose the battle. Christians are engaged in a personal struggle, in which often times they cannot even identify the enemy which wages war against them. It is only as we see our-selves in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ that we can begin to build the self-esteem and personal confidence to live the victorious Christian life that we are called to do, (McCann, 2004, p. 11).

Seeing ourselves as the person we ought to be in Jesus will give us confidence of who we are. Self-esteem would not become a battle for Christians to lose when they find their identity in Jesus. For the word does say Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it, (Matthew 10:39). The only thing a Christian should lose is his will to live for him/her-self and find a new life in Jesus Christ. There is no battle to lose, if one willing gives up their life to live a new life in Christ Jesus. The only thing lost is an old sinful self that wants to keep sinning. Christians have to lose self-will to live in the old nature, and gain a new self-will that is obedient to the things that God ordain for His people to have. And one of those issues God set in place for His people is to accept His Son, and to come live in His kingdom with Him. We are a person first in the kingdom of God. Ephesians 2: 19 says You are no longer foreigners and Aliens, but fellow citizens with God’s people and members of God’s household. Here is my educated summary about God’s kingdom here on earth from many years now studying at the Wesleyan University/Seminary. There is no church if there are no people that are in God’s household. The people of God’s household make up the so called church here on earth with the authority of the apostles and prophets of today’s time. When Dr. McCann uses the word multitudes, that is millions of people who call themselves Christians that he states belong to the ‘Unhappy Majority,’ (McCann, 2004, p.11). I believe he was stating something that he really did not comprehend himself very well. The only thing he saw was physical signs of unhappy people in churches. But he did find in his study that many Christians do not enjoy the Christian life as they should because they fail to see themselves as they should, a person in Christ Jesus. And that is the cause of why the church and pastors become the blame for many Christian peoples unhappiness. People that are in the wrong position, people trying to live their life walking on a road not made for them. The reason so much war is engaged upon the Christian people is that they fail to identify where they need to be. Many Christian people will tread in places where their enemies live, not knowing they even have enemies. Let me go back and state again what I stated previous: There is no church if there are no people that are in God’s household. Christian people become unhappy or discontented because they really fail to identify with who they are and what they are doing here on earth. In other words where a person’s association is, can affect their happiness in their life. John the Baptist said the kingdom is near (Matthew 3:2), meaning the kingdom is the spiritual realm. The Kingdom starts with The Christ. In today’s Christian society we know that not all people who say they are Christian are Christian following the Christ. For Jesus Himself said No one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again, (John 3:3). And now my eyes are opened more to this fact as I continue my education in the seminary. People following the Christ first have to belong to God as His own child and come into His kingdom here on earth. This means something has to happen like the Spiritual Birth. The kingdom of God is a state of being, a state of comprehension of where your life is influenced from. Life as a child of God should be influenced spiritually. It is only when a person can reach this status becoming born again they can be made aware of the kingdom realm and begin to partake in it. Partaking in the kingdom is living in His light as His child. It will give the person a sense of who they are as His child as they live their life here on earth in the spirit. It will also give them a self-confidence that does not look like what is in the world. Self-confidence in Christ Jesus is when a person does not reflect what the world knows self-confidence to be. The self-confidence that is not from the world will bring awareness to that person that they are not from this world, but they are the ones that are heading in the direction towards eternity. When a person is confident that they are pointed towards heaven, they will only live a life for Christ to complete God’s mission plan on earth. The plan is to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ to all the nations. Called The Great Commission.

The ultimate membership or belonging is in the belonging to God’s house first. First we have the citizenship in the kingdom of God. This means Christians are people belonging to God’s household and are family members of God. A family member is a citizen of the kingdom of God. As a person that belongs to the house of God and has citizenship in His kingdom, also has a membership to His Temple. In His Temple are His family members that are joined together with Jesus Christ Himself with the help of Jesus’ leadership that consists of the apostles and prophets. The apostles and prophets are given divine instructions to put the holy temple up here on earth. This is an important part in this 21st century time that all people that belong to an earthly church know they are in God’s kingdom. I believe this waits ahead for