Approaching Your Last Chance For Communion On Earth

What will it be like when there is no more Communion being served and shared? When we can no longer see Jesus or hear His Voice at His Table? Are we near the Day of the Final Communion?

Jesus did not become the Old Testament Manna. He said those who ate it, died in the wilderness. It sustained physical life but not the spirit. Jesus became the living bread for us. God put on flesh. He is still flesh, even at the right hand of the Father! Jesus was the scriptures become human. By 'tabernacling' in a physical body in our humanity, He became one with us. He did it so that when the dreadful day of our salvation required him to bear all of our sins and sorrows, it would ultimately kill His body. His Body was tortured, crucified and speared. 

He did this so that the world from then on would know that God loves us that much. 

He was willing to carry and bury all our sin, shame, sickness and sorrow so that one kiss from Him would destroy all that our body commanded us to do in rebellion to Him and all that would separate us from eternal life with Him. Because Jesus was spotless (and free of all sin, shame and sickness) His sacrifice was acceptable to satisfy all the demands of the Mosaic Law. Sin and death were conquered forever so that we might begin a personal and intimate relationship with Jesus. Then He provided His Holy Spirit to lead us into His presence and to bring to mind all that Jesus does and says, even today! Jesus is no dead He is alive! More than alive - He radiates life, is full of grace and truth and wants more than anything to have deepening communion with you. So He also provided His Table where He meets with us. He provides Himself as the meal. The Bread of his Body and the Wine of His Blood open our eyes to recognize Him and to ear His Voice. We feed on what we see and what we hear and feel. When we sit down with Him and dine with Him He feeds us with His presence and in His presence we are transformed by His glory from one degree of glory to another.

St. Ephraim of Syria 306-373 AD wrote at length throughout His life about this. Here he is, through one of his teaching songs, addressing Jesus:

"See Fire and Spirit were in the womb of her who bore you,
see, Fire and Spirit were in the river in which you were baptized.
Fire and Spirit are in our baptismal font;
In the Bread and Cup are Fire and Holy Spirit."

Tanios Bon Mansour quoted Ephraim, "The Sacrament of the Eucharist is not reduced to a simple system of reference, but is the medium of a presence, which is first of all that of the Body of Christ", as Ephraim conceives of it. For him the bread and the wine become the Body and Blood of Christ by the action of the Holy Spirit, just as it was by the Spirit that Christ was in the womb of Mary, and in the water of baptism. 
                                                                                           "The Eucharist as Living Medicine" by Sidney H. Griffith

As we witness how the Holy Spirit is connecting the dots between Communion and CommunionFire, we are becoming overwhelmed with the measure of His grace and revelation. He shows us from the life of Jesus and the Apostles, through the Scriptures, to the early Church Fathers, Creeds of the Faith and our own personal experiences here in South Carolina. We believe the manifestation of the Miracle of CommunionFire is a powerful sign that gives us our heart "settings of hope" for the imminent Return of Jesus Christ. So consider this following encountered last week (as journaled).

On 2/12/15 Morning Communion with Camille in the Bread of his Body my eyes were opened to see Jesus on the Beach with fireworks crisscrossing in front of Him and He was clearly excited and happy. Then drinking the wine of His Blood I clearly heard the Voice of the Lord by the Holy Spirit say, "Jeremiah 16:9". I knew I was to look this up. I had no idea what it said, do you?

Camille - while eating the Bread of Blessing found that it tasted bad like it was stale and moldy. "The manna stopped appearing the day they ate some of the produce of the land; the Israelis never ate manna again." Joshua 5:12 She really wanted to drink the wine of his Blood to get rid of the bad taste of the bread. She drank quickly and found relief. Jesus said, "I will not drink from this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom." Matthew 26:29

WHAT WAS THE OVERFLOW?

"Moreover you shall not go into a house of feasting to sit with them to eat and drink." What?

When we discuss our encounters in Communion, (remember they take only a few seconds but the impact is eternal.) the Holy Spirit has a way of anointing our thoughts as the cup of understanding begins to overflow revealing more of the Lord's goodness and mercy.

Our conclusion for the moment was that the "Crisscrossing Fireworks" were symbols of the Rapture - the catching away of the Church in the twinkling of an eye. 

We also discussed Why isn't the Church praying for the Lord's return? Why aren't we crying out to Him in passionate love, "Even so, Come Lord Jesus!" (Revelation 2:20 the final prayer of the church?) Then the Scripture reference posted in my heart by the Holy Spirit always seems to give me a reason to pause, but over the past two years I have learned to trust the Voice of the Holy Spirit because the message has always been pinpoint accurate.

It starts out pretty strong talking about the Table! Then, "Thus says the Lord of hosts!"

"Behold - I am going to eliminate from this place before your eyes and in your time":

The Voice of Rejoicing
The Voice of Gladness
The Voice of the Groom and
The Voice of the Bride

Wow! At first this seems very troubling. Don't go into that house of feasting to: 1) Sit Down With Them, 2) Eat with Them or 3) Drink with Them!

Then the Lord says He is going to do something to eliminate this place right in front of us in our time (day and hour)!

The "Something He is going to do" is "ELIMINATION"! But How? Its not that He is going to remove 'them' but He is going to remove "YOU"! Just like Enoch, Elijah, and Jesus, we will be removed from the adversary and adversarial conditions. He eliminates them by removing you!

Jeremiah 16: 

8 "Moreover you shall not go into a house of feasting to sit with them to eat and drink." 

9 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Behold, I am going to eliminate from this place, before your eyes and in your time, the voice of rejoicing and the voice of gladness, the voice of the groom and the voice of the bride. 

Cross References
Revelation 18:23
The light of a lamp will never shine in you again. The voice of bridegroom and bride will never be heard in you again. Your merchants were the world's important people. By your magic spell all the nations were led astray.

Psalm 78:63
Fire consumed their young men, and their young women had no wedding songs;

Jeremiah 7:34
I will bring an end to the sounds of joy and gladness and to the voices of bride and bridegroom in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem, for the land will become desolate.

Jeremiah 25:10
I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of bride and bridegroom, the sound of millstones and the light of the lamp.

Ezekiel 12:25
But I the LORD will speak what I will, and it shall be fulfilled without delay. For in your days, you rebellious people, I will fulfill whatever I say, declares the Sovereign LORD.'"

Ezekiel 26:13
I will put an end to your noisy songs, and the music of your harps will be heard no more.

Hosea 2:11
I will stop all her celebrations: her yearly festivals, her New Moons, her Sabbath days--all her appointed festivals.

I am coming quickly; hold fast what you have, so that no one will take your crown (Note this picture was selected before I saw the picture below (both on the beach). Click the picture to see what Jesus says about how we should treat His enemies.)

Jeremiah 16:9 sure does sound like the rapture! We both agreed (Later this was confirmed to us from Cross References and Commentaries) but mostly it was because this came directly to us at the Lord's Table. He prepared a meal for me and one for Camille. We each had our own feast in His presence but as happens many times, the message was coordinated. This knits our hearts to Him and also to each other. 

Then Camille's encounter took shape. The bread 'was bad'. I had been using the same piece of bread for a week - one bit at a time. It was a physical reaction - not spiritual but it was because the Holy Spirit was driving home a point. In Israel when the manna was prepared in heaven and sent down like the dew every morning it had to be eaten that day. By the next day the manna was not edible. The day is coming soon when there will be no more Communion bread. Those left behind will for the most part be in denial of the fact that they are starving for the Body of Christ. Once Jesus takes away The Body, is His Body is taken away?

Then Camille's instant thirst for the wine of His Blood was a powerful reminder that the Blood of Jesus washes away every memory and experience from even the taste of "bad bread" from the world and our pre-Christian life. We also felt it was an indication of how much the Lord can't wait to return so that He can drink with us again. He has been fasting from heaven's vintage for almost 2,000 years! Jesus is so excited that we are going to be with Him when He appears (like firecrackers shooting skyward)! When the sound of mirth and gladness is gone and the voice of the groom and the bride is gone the world will be bewildered. It will be a sad place. Meanwhile - we will never again eat the bread of sorrows. We will only eat the Bread of Life and share the Cup of Heaven's Vintage wine! It will be a cause for the greatest celebration in the history of creation!

Even So, Come Lord Jesus! Amen! Come Lord Jesus! At His Table and in His presence our love and relationship with Jesus grows deeper every day! At His Table your heart will cry out... Amen! Come Lord Jesus!


When we come to the Lord's Table and sit down in His presence He says we wold also be sitting down in the presence of our enemies. As the Lord returns His people to His Table, the enemy will become clear as well. These are martyrs, men who share the Victory of Christ who lay down their lives willingly.

#gotcommunion #feelthefire #comelordjesus #alleluia #amen

The video is called "A Message signed with blood to the nation of the cross" and was released by the group's Al-Hayat Media Center, according to Flashpoint Intelligence, a global security firm and NBC News consultant. "This undeniably means that the group now views Christian populations as not only targets but also part of the bigger 'Crusader plot,' not separate from the US-led coalition or aggressors," Not to mention thousands being murdered in Nigeria and millions losing their homes by the same "brave" enemies of the Cross! The blood of martyrs has always been the seed of the Church! As they receive their robes in heaven with other martyrs from the pat 2,000 years - their blood is crying out to the Lord of Heaven! "Even So, Come Lord Jesus!"