Greetings in the name of Jesus. I submit this teaching to you, exhorting you to search the Scriptures to 'see if these things are true' Acts 17:11. There certainly is a new sound coming from the mountain, prepare ye the way of the Lord. Truly the time is coming when "the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established on the top of the mountains, ... and all nations shall flow to it" Isa.2:2.

Paul Galligan, apostle of Jesus Christ.

 

THE THIRD DAY CHURCH

In August 2005, Robert Holmes, a prophet, shared a message at SHILOH entitled, ‘the third day church’. This was the first time we had heard teaching on the third day church. However at our Easter Convention, Samuel Januarie, a prophet from Cape Town, South Africa, also shared a dynamanic message on the third day church and we listened carefully because God was bringing the word a second time. Then on Sunday 30^th April one of our international guests, Israel Onoriobe, an apostle based in South Africa brought further understanding of the third day transitional church showing us how we are coming into the revelation of the glory of God. A major part of this transition is the affirmation of what the Biblical church is and a growing understanding of the kingdom of God.

 

The Scripture texts primarily used are Hosea 6:2 “After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His sight.” and Lu.13:32 “and He said to them ‘Go tell that fox, Behold I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow and the third day I shall be perfected [I shall reach My goal NIV].” This is prophetically understood as referring to millennial days which equal 1000 years each. From Adam to Christ is approx. 4000 years and from the time of Christ [His death] is nearly 2000 years and so the church is now in the transitional time of millennial change, bringing us to the time of His coming and the subsequent rule and reign of Christ on the earth with His saints for 1000 years. God is quickening his work in our day because there will be a kingdom people, priests of the order of Melchizedek, walking in maturity, becoming the glorious church Jesus is preparing for Himself.

 

THE TRIPARTITE NATURE OF HIS UNFOLDING REVELATION

For years God has been unfolding the tripartite nature of His unfolding revelation in His dealings with man, bringing us to the walk in maturity whereby we enter in and experience the third stage. This is illustrated in the revelational teaching of the Tabernacle of Moses: Outer Court, which can be said to be the first day church experience; the Holy Place, which can be said to be the second day church experience, and entering within the veil to the Holy of Holies which is the revelation of the third day church. Heb.9:1-5 briefly describes the Tabernacle of Moses, but in doing so makes known to us a major revelation. Verse 2 says that in the first room of the Tabernacle, called the Sanctuary or the Holy Place, there is the lampstand and the table of shewbread but does not mention the third piece of furniture that was in the Holy Place, the Golden Altar of Incense. Then in v.3-4 the Scripture says that along with the Ark of the Covenant the Golden ‘censer’ was in the Holy of Holies. However the Greek word SC#2369 is ‘thumiasterion’ and means literally ‘a place of fumigation in the sense of smoking, that is, the altar of incense’ but has been translated ‘censer’. This is clearly a misinterpretation.

 

The Altar of Incense

The altar of incense was an essential piece of God-given furniture in the Tabernacle. Originally it was placed outside of the veil directly aligned with the Ark of the Covenant.  In the New Testament it is now said to be in the Holiest of Holies. How can this be, and what deep truth is the Holy Spirit revealing to us? Through the death of Jesus the veil has been removed and we enter the Holiest boldly “through His flesh” Heb10:20 The veil is now no longer there to separate one part of God’s house from the other part, meaning that we have access to the very seat of His throne of grace!

Jesus has saved us out of the world, in the fulfilment of the ministry of the Outer Court [the altar of blood sacrifice and the water laver = salvation including water baptism]. Then He has baptised us in the Holy Spirit bringing us into the experience of the Holy Place where we learn to minister to God, finally bringing us to the place of entering into the fullness of the Father’s glory. This is where we are destined to come!

 

The Three Feasts of Israel

Likewise revelational understanding of the Feasts of Israel enables us to enter in to the experience of the third feast and the walk in maturity unto perfection. Passover in its three parts: Day of Passover, Feast of Unleavened Bread and Day of First fruits, represents salvation including water baptism. Pentecost, the Greek name of the Feast of Weeks, a single one day Feast, 50 days after Passover, represents the coming of the Holy Spirit, enabling the saints to minister as priests and servants. The Feast of Tabernacles beginning with the memorial blowing of Trumpets – calling the church to walk in maturity – followed by the Day of Atonement which is fulfilled by the saints forsaking all sin, brings us to the time of Tabernacles which is fulfilled by the fullness of the Godhead indwelling the saints (Jn.14:23, Col.2:9-10).

 

The Revelation of the Godhead

Each of the feasts and each compartment of the Tabernacle reveal to us and in us the Persons of the Godhead; firstly Jesus, secondly the Holy Spirit and thirdly the Father. However we have already seen that the presentation of the Tabernacle of Moses in the New Testament is no longer presented as two distinct rooms but one because the veil is now removed through Jesus. Therefore finally the revelation of God which John says is the revelation that the fathers have “they know Him who is from the beginning” (1Jn.2:12,14), is the revelation of the ONENESS of God. It is something like this: Jesus saves us and we say we have come to know Jesus and we become His disciples, His children; then He fills us with the Holy Spirit and we come to know the life in the Spirit, becoming His ministers; but the final goal is for Jesus to bring us in the fullness of the Spirit to the Father, being ‘adopted as sons’.

 

Inheriting the Promises of God

The other clear Old Testament type that typifies our walk is the Exodus of Israel from Egypt, the journeying through the wilderness [of the world], then reaching and inheriting the Promised Land. We are saved out of the world, but like the children of Israel it takes the dealings of God by His Spirit to get the world out of us – the restoration of our souls, “He restoreth my soul” – so that we are ready as overcomers to enter into the inheritance and walk with God in the fulfilment of His precious and magnificent promises (2 Pet.1:2-4). Many have taught that the inheritance or ‘Promised Land’ is heaven. However this is a serious misunderstanding of God’s eternal purpose as clearly taught in the Scriptures. Paul teaches us in Eph.3:2-11 that it is the revelation of the mystery of Christ and His church that brings the fulfilment of God’s eternal purpose; in 1Cor.2:6-7 Paul tells us that it is this mystery, the ‘wisdom for the mature’, the ‘hidden wisdom’, which God ordained before the ages for our glory. The inheritance is not heaven but it is the kingdom of heaven revealed in the earth through the church, bringing to fulfilment the promise of God that ‘the earth will be filled with God’s glory’ and “that knowledge of the glory of the Lord will cover the earth as the waters cover the sea.” This is outworked by the manifestation of the sons of God (Rom.8:19) which is the “bringing of many sons to glory”Heb.2:10. Heaven is already filled with God’s glory, but His clear intention is to fill the earth with His glory.

 

Little Children, Young Men and Fathers

The apostle John in 1 Jn.2:12-14, clearly describes three generations, or age groups based on maturity, that should exist in the church at all times: little children, young men, and fathers. Little children represent the newly saved who need to be founded in the faith through the nurture of the pastoral ministry, feeding them the milk of the word. Jesus said to Peter “Feed My lambs” Jn.21:15. Then these same children need to be discipled in the word, that is, taught the word of God - the doctrines of the faith – by the teacher. Jesus has commanded us to “make disciples of all the nations, baptising them …, teaching them to observe all things” Matt.28:19-20. Unfortunately most churches are not being obedient to make disciples but are content to get ‘more church members’. It was a great shock to a brother apostle of mine that when he began a discipleship group in a local church, he found some members of the church were not even saved, others were not baptised in water and most had never spoken in tongues. There has been a negligent attitude towards basic discipleship.

 

 

Young Men

The ‘young men’ are the ones “who are strong, and the word of God abides in them and they have overcome the wicked one” 1Jn.2:14. The ‘young men’ represent the believers who having received some basic discipleship [training in the word] and now have a testimony: the word is abiding in them and they have the victory over the devil. Therefore they are able to minister to others. Such ones need specific training and equipping for ministry to become servants in the house of God, preaching the kingdom of God.

 

Fathers

The ‘fathers’ are the mature ones. [Remember “in Christ Jesus, there is neither male nor female” Gal.3:28] Fathers by definition have children. The normal expectation of God in the Scripture is for there to be ‘fathers’ in the church, that is, spiritual fathers and mothers to bring up the little children to become the young men. The young men will then grow to the place of maturity when they receive the “predestined adoption as sons” Eph.1:5 It is at the time of maturity [a ‘kairos’ time, not a specific ‘chronos’ time] that the young man is ready to receive “the adoption” which is ‘the placing as a son’, which is the time to receive the promised inheritance.

 

GOD HAS RESTORED FATHERS

Because there has been a dearth of fathers in the church of Jesus Christ, God has provided the answer through the sending of “Elijah the prophet, and he will turn [is turning] the hearts of the fathers to the children” Mal.4:5-6. To this end God has raised apostles at the end of the age who, coming in the spirit and power of Elijah, are fathers and through the apostolic fathers that He has raised, God is releasing the truth and reality of sonship. However in this awesome restoration there has been some misunderstanding and misapplication. Some apostolic fathers have concentrated on raising sons unto themselves and have overemphasised the reality of ‘having fathers’ in an unscriptural way. In the natural it is children who need a father not mature sons. So it is in the spiritual: it is the children in Christ who need the fathers to raise them to become servants in the kingdom of God. As those servants mature they come to the place of being ready to receive the adoption. Some have not seen the revelation of ‘sonship’ that is clearly taught in Scripture and that the experience and reality of sonship is actually an experience of the Holy Spirit Himself bringing to pass the promised ‘adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace.’ Eph.1:5-6

 

Those who have just become sons need some fathering to become successful fathers. However God alone can ‘beget’ sons; it is a spiritual operation so powerful that mature ministers have said ‘it is like being born again, again!’ The role of the apostle as a father is to father sons, thus becoming a father to fathers. The sons then who have been fathered by the apostle are able to father the ‘young men’ who are growing up in the ministry to bring them into sonship and they in turn become fathers. God wants all of His children fathered and God is “bringing many sons to glory” through Jesus Christ who has already been made perfect through His sufferings for us Heb.2:10.

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SHILOH APOSTOLIC MINISTRY TRAINING SCHOOL [INTERNATIONAL]

We are now coming to the end of week five and have 13 international delegates with us today from: Uganda, Pakistan, India, Myanmar, Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa. Two other international brethren have been part of the school for a few days each, and Yolande, Winston’s wife, was able to be with us for two full weeks. Two brothers from Nigeria have their visas and are expecting to travel late this week.

 

We are enjoying the ministry of Jim Hosie and New Frontiers Restoration Ministry this week for four days. Jim and the team are teaching and training and ministering in areas of healing and freedom (Lu.4:18). Last week we were very blessed with the ministry of Christine Wren, who has a prophetic ministry. She was accompanied by a team of three from England. Many were encouraged, built up and ‘activated’ in the gift of prophecy and we all grew in our understanding of the prophetic ministry and the teaching of the Scriptures in many key areas. Christine has become a valuable co-worker together with us in restoring the proper foundation to the church of Jesus Christ, Eph.2:20, and the perfecting of the saints until we all come to maturity, Eph.4:12-16.

The first week of the school featured an apostolic/prophetic conference and Ps. Pat Morgan ministered powerfully in song and in the word; prophet Samuel Januarie from Cape Town, shared some powerful prophetic messages concerning the ‘third day church’, ‘pursuing God’, ‘knowing the depth of relationship with God’ and ‘intercession as per the example of Esther’. Apostle Paul Galligan also shared in the conference bringing messages on ‘Jesus the Apostle’, the ‘ministry of women’ and ‘entering into sonship’. A number of people responded desiring to receive the adoption as sons and had powerful experiences, including some of the international brethren. Other international brethren have received sonship during the school since then.

 

The context of the international school in which we are bringing much in-depth teaching and various ministry is the context of entering into sonship and receiving apostolic revelation. Without the adoption of the spirit into sonship and the revelation of the mystery the school would be no more than another teaching school. But praise God He is releasing His grace, His revelation, His anointing and the Spirit of adoption.

 

Joseph project report – thank you to all who have contributed to the Joseph project over the previous months and currently. We have been drawing from the store house, releasing provisions of food and household items and cash from the Joseph fund bank account to families who are hosting the international brethren, as well as buying some ‘warm clothing’ for brethren from countries that never experience winter. We are also giving to each person a ‘Spirit Filled Life Bible’ which Koorong are providing to us at a very discounted price.

 

Favour in the community – Over recent weeks we needed to contact Australian Embassies in various countries and we used the internet café across the road from SHILOH to fax documents for us. JoAnne kept the proprietor of the café informed and encouraged him to ‘pray’ that all the visas would be granted and he would benefit from their using his email facilities. However when JoAnne took the first international brethren across to introduce them, the proprietor announced that the international brethren could use his email facilities free of charge for the duration of the school. We thank God for this generous man.

 

CALENDAR

SHILOH INTERNATIONAL APOSTOLIC SCHOOL OF MINISTRY

From now until June 17^th you are welcome to attend the school. It operates from 9am to 4pm weekdays.

May 22^nd to 24^th Daniel Sheyestah, ex-Muslim from Iran, powerful preacher of the Gospel

May 22^nd Monday evening 7pm – public meeting at SHILOH with Daniel Sheyestah.

May 23^rd Tuesday – Daniel speaking in school during day

-         evening Daniel speaking in Warwick [venue to be confirmed]

May 24^th Wed. - Daniel speaking in school during day

                         - Evening Daniel speaking at Darra [details available soon]

 

Team from international school led by Ps. Peter De Bressac will be in Gladstone on evening of Friday 26^th May and in Proserpine House church on evening of Sat. 27^th and Sun. 28^th am.

Team from international school led by apostle Paul Galligan will be in Dorrigo from Fri. evening 26^th to Sun 28^th lunch time.

Other international school brethren will be at Burning Lamp Prayer Tower in Ipswich on Fri. 26^th and ministering in house meeting at Hattonvale. Others will be involved in youth gathering at Withcott house church on Sat. 27^th.

 

JUNE 10^TH TO 12^TH APOSTOLIC/PROPHETIC CONFERENCE at SHILOH as a highlight for the International Delegates at the School. Leading ministers who will be in the school will be ministering.

 

SHILOH mid-year Apostolic Training School – June 19^th to July 1^st

This two-week school will include the International Delegates. The school will be conducted as a ‘pattern’ training school to demonstrate to international leaders how to conduct short-term training.

 

FRIDAY NIGHT AT SHILOH 2006 TERM TWO

Time: 7pm to 9pm each night.

May Friday 12^th  –  “Prophetic ministry” – being activated in prophecy

                     19^th  -   “Prayer and Intercession” – learning how to do it

June Friday 2^nd   “Ministering the Lord’s Table”

                      9^th   “Fellowship Meal” – invite your friends: this meal is in the context of a Conference

                               weekend, saints will be here from out of town

                     16^th “Graduation Dinner” – For the students graduating from the International School