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The Prophet Hosea when he brought that prophecy stood in a street in Jerusalem, called strait, and he delivered that message to the people that God was so disappointed in them that He would say unto them that they are no longer His people. That happened we know when our Lord was on the cross, when the Jewish nation said that they would take upon themselves the blood of Christ for their generation and for all generations thereafter. Our Lord was saddened for He knew now that they were not the people of God. The promise was that there would be a greater promise to them in that same street, and that was on the day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit fell from heaven as flaming tongues of fire and sat on the apostles’ head, and they were able to proclaim to the people that they were now to receive a better title than being the people of God. They were able to take hold of the title to be sons and daughters of God through the workings of the Holy Spirit. Now there was this greater blessing.

It is recorded that all of those that were assembled were Jews at that time from all the tribes, and there was a great dispute on who should become the next king, but they put those disputes aside and they elected one to be head over them and that was our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and He became Head of the Church. As He ascended to heaven He was anointed to be the Highpriest forever, was anointed to be the future King, and He was to become our Prophet forever. His words will stand forever, and if we give ourselves to those words then we will receive the great reward of the coming Kingdom.

We have heard that this will only be given unto us or be able to be obtained through a special gift that would come from the Head of the Church working through the power of the Holy Spirit. The Prophet Zechariah prophesied this on what that special gift would be, and we find written in Zechariah Chapter 4 verse 6 on as follows: “Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts. Who art thou O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel thou shall become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it. Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me unto you. For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the Lord, which run to and fro through the whole earth.

We see the prophecy that as Christ laid the cornerstone for this, He will finish it. No one else will interfere. It is His right and He will achieve it by His Spirit which is the Holy Ghost, and the blessing that is needed for the Church He saw in the headstone, shouting Grace Grace. It is only through the Grace of Christ that we will be able to be prepared to be part of this great promise. It is only through the workings of His Spirit which were described as the seven eyes of God going through the whole earth, for God sees everything, God’s Spirit is everywhere. The Holy Spirit does not linger in one place. It is working everywhere within the world. Seven means complete. The complete Spirit of God is working for this great day when our Lord will return, where we can receive of that promise that has been given unto us.

This requires workings through mankind, earthen vessels chosen by God to take this Gospel of the Kingdom message out into the world.

The Apostle Paul wrote they are gifts from Christ after His ascension. Ephesians 4: 11-13 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.”

Let us never grow weary with all the gifts of Christ, given in love to the church as a preparation for the coming Kingdom.