Sid: My guest by way of telephone Rick Neill. I’m speaking to him at his home outside of Akron, Ohio about his brand new book “Ultimate Glory.” I’ve wanted a book for so long that takes a look… as in the Hebrew it says these Biblical festivals are rehearsals. Wouldn’t you like to go into a rehearsal of the last days that God Himself had put together? That in effect when you look at through the eyes of the Biblical festivals it makes the end time scenario so clearer than looking at it with the filtered lenses of the Greco-Roman festivals. Now on yesterday’s broadcast we talked about the strategic time that the rapture would occur. I asked the question to Rick “Who’s going to be preaching the gospel if the Christians are out of here?” What’s the answer?
Rick: Okay I believe I have a different perspective on this, coming from this Day of Atonement perspective. First of all I think the emphasis during the church age, the 2000 years that the church is on the earth, the emphasis is on, God’s emphasis is on preaching the Gospel. There is some judgment involved in that time, but I believe that once it has ended and the rapture has occurred and the church is taken, I believe that the emphasis on that next season, God’s emphasis on that season, is judgment more than salvation. There will be salvation during that time but the emphasis is going to be more on judgment. The reason that I say that is because of the glorious outpouring on the Day of Atonement, the glory of the Lord is going to fill the earth, there are going to be billions of people brought in.
Sid: You know I have to tell you something, just a personal aside. I’m an evangelist to the very core of my being. I never liked the idea of the pre-tribulation rapture because I thought to myself “I’m an evangelist I don’t want to be pulled out of here the greatest harvest the world has ever seen. I know it sounds crazy but I don’t want to, I don’t care what it costs, what it takes, I want to be involved in reaching millions of souls,” but looking through the eyes of the rehearsals of the Biblical festivals I have the best of both worlds. I’m here for the harvest and I get pulled out before the great tribulation, but things are going to be kind of bad even during the harvest aren’t they?
Rick: The darkness is going to be darker it’s going to be great all over the earth but the glory is going to be even greater. I believe what Paul said in 2nd Thessalonians, he said in 2nd Thessalonians 2:11 “And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.” I believe what the Lord is saying here is that in the combination of the two the great outpouring of glory on the Day of Atonement and the earth shaking evangelistic move that follows that with all of these glory filled believers shaking the earth, raising the dead, emptying out hospitals and nursing homes. It’s going to be almost impossible than to not have heard the truth. Now I believe that this verse that we just read from 2nd Thessalonians answers those who have had the chance who have heard the truth but rejected it because they loved unrighteousness, God is going to send them strong delusion that they would believe the lie of the anti-Christ. So I don’t believe that there’s going to be a great harvest during the time of the tribulation.
Sid: You know what I was thinking though… I’m looking at the time of the great harvest because again as an evangelist the devil’s going to go slightly mashuga, slightly crazy, because these people that will be running around will not be the lukewarm variety of 21st century mental Christians, but ones that are sold out to the lamb. Every one of us are going to be walking and doing the exploits of Jesus, he’s going to go crazy.
Rick: I know it’s fantastic! That’s God’s whole intention that’s His plan that we are going to be like Jesus. The Lord started at the beginning with… every time the Lord gave us a new covenant or expanded the covenant it opened the door to us getting closer and more intimate with the Lord, and us walking in more power. There are 3 major groups in the earth:
- Moses and the people that were with him. Up until Moses’ time they didn’t have the law, they didn’t have the feast days, but once the Lord gave them the law, He gave them the feast days it drew them closer they had a more intimate walk with the Lord. Then at the end of their time came…
- The second most blessed group ever to live that was John, and Peter, and all the apostles. That group not only could they live as King David lived, but then they moved into being born again and Spirit filled. They got closer to the Lord with more intimate and walked in more power than King David could.
- Now there’s this 3rd and last group that’s going to annihilate the works of the devil and that’s us, those who are on planet earth today that believe in the Lord that are repentant that are going after the Lord with all of our heart that not only will we have the power of the Lord that was given on the day of Pentecost, but we’re also going to have the glory. It will be the first time ever in history that the church will walk in the power and the glory simultaneously in the Lord.
Sid: Is that why a lot of people that a day is coming that we won’t have superstars like we have on television today because we’ll all be moving in this anointing?
Rick: Precisely. We will all be… how the Lord speaks to me in this is it’s like a relay race that we all have a lane to stay in in your anointing only works in your lane and so many today are out of their lane trying to do things that they are not called to. But on this day, the Day of Atonement, we all come into the fullness of our destiny, when we come into the fullness of His power and His glory that we will stay in our lane, that the evangelist won’t try to be pastors, and pastors won’t try to be prophets, and people won’t try to do things that they’re not anointed to do. That they will stay in their lane and there will not be jostling for position, nobody will try to be a big name, but everybody will have their call, they will have their destiny, they will have the glory of God filling them and the power residing upon them, and we are going to be the glory that covers the earth.
Sid: You know you gave me a revelation the last time I saw you about Jeremiah 16 verse 14-16 that says “First the fishermen will come for the Jewish people then the hunters.” You took that in a different vein for believers. First the fishermen will come and that’s where we are in the season right now where God by His Holy Spirit is gently telling us during the Feast of Trumpets, the 10 Days of Awe and Repentance, “Repent! Repent! Become a wise virgin be filled with the oil!” But what will happen when the hunters come?
Rick: The hunters are a dark day. The hunters are when the lukewarm get vomited out of His mouth. The love of the Father that is just coming forth into the church now the declaration of the great Father’s heart. That He not only loves us but He likes us, He appreciates us, He receives us right where we are at. He’s in the process of wrapping his arms around us and loving us into wholeness. Now that’s what He wants to do for those who will receive that’s the message of the fishers. The hunters just as with Israel, the Lord has a place for every Jewish person to be in the last days and He will bring in there gently to the fishers, or harshly to the hunters. The same thing holds true for the church, that in the last days there is a position that we’re each predestined to occupy and if we will yield to the wooing of this spirit, the leading of this spirit that we will be where we’re supposed to be doing exactly what we’re supposed to be doing. If we fight against that then the hunters will come and it’s more of a… it’s like the fear of the Lord balanced with the comfort of the Holy Spirit. The Lord wants us to be motivated by the comfort of the Holy Spirit, but when that fails He will use the fear of the Lord for our good so that we won’t be destroyed.
Sid: When you saw so clearly in scripture how this was all tied into the Biblical festivals, what did you think?
Rick: I wept and I shook. My wife at the time we started this I didn’t have a word processor, I did all this on a typewriter and writing it all out long hand in the beginning. She would type out this stuff that the Lord was giving me and she would sit there and literally shake and weep, and I’m overwhelmed by this revelation. What I feel right now Sid as you and I are sitting here talking I feel as if John the Baptist could have had the same conversation with the person there by the Jordan as he was baptizing saying “We’re about to enter into something that nobody has ever walked in before and God is about to do a new thing and you people are the one’s He’s going to use to do it.” I think the same thing can be said of our conversation here right now. That the Lord is about to do a new thing in the earth that nobody has ever walked in before and He’s not going to resurrect Peter or Paul, or Jeremiah to do this He’s going to use us and it won’t be the superhero’s, they will be Spirit filled, Jesus loving, obedient people that are going to turn the church upside down.
Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth
Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth