A mighty outpouring of the Spirit is coming, yea! It has started...
The former(early rain) and the latter rain.
Contrary to popular opinion. Wars, rumors of wars, famine and chaotic events around the globe, are not the major indicator for marking the last days(we are the answer to the wars).
The Bible uses the outpouring of the Spirit as the means by which heaven opened the new calendar, called -THE LAST DAYS. Notice the Bible didn't say last day, but LAST DAYS... A major epoch in human history.
Pentecost- the early rain.
The concept of the former and latter rain can be deeply understood, by looking closely at the weather pattern of the nation of Israel. There is the early rain, that ushers in planting season and gestation period. There is also the latter rain, it ushers in the time for harvest...
After the Spirit was first poured out on the day of Pentecost, peter stood up to announce..."For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day.
But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel"...
Peter was announcing the fulfilment of the prophesy given by prophet Joel. But what happened on that day of Pentecost, was the early rain. This was the rain that ushered in a new season in the history of man kind. This rain ushered in a planting season...yes Pentecost was just the planting season.
The Bible said the outpouring will come upon all flesh, but on the day of Pentecost, it started with 120 which is a prophetic number( remember they were also 120 priest with instruments of music in Solomons temple when the glory came).
The latter rain...
Unlike the early rain, the day of Pentecost. This former rain will not happen in a building with few people. This outpouring will come upon regions... The early rain( Pentecost rain) gave a harvest of 3000(minus women and children) in one day. This latter rain will give a harvest of regions, countries and believe me continents. This rain is like a strong tsunami, sweeping through regions and continents. I am talking Iraq, Iran, Pakistan... Yes a nation can be harvested in a day.
The Rain- the former and the latter rain
"for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month".
There is a generation, that has a promise of overlapping seasons. The Bible speaks of The rain- a combination of the early and former rain in the same season. Remember, the early rain ushers in the planting season, while the latter rain, the harvest season. When these two rain meets and fall in the same season, the time lapse between the early(seed time) and latter rain(harvest time) is eliminated. So that " the the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that sows seed"...
When the two raining seasons overlaps, "the grain and grapes will grow faster than they can be harvested" (NLT).
Harvest speed...
"Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest."
In the natural it will take four months, after the early rain, before the former rain comes to prepare harvest. But Jesus was teaching his disciples a mystery, how that harvest can be gotten the moment the seed hits the ground, when seasons of rain overlaps. When the former and latter rain seasons meet, time is taken out of the equation, and things grow at the speed of light.
I say again! There is a glory storm coming, it is the combination of the former and the latter rain, falling at the same time, bringing seed and harvest in a moment.
Suleiman Lawal
GloryHub Int'l Ministries
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