The Clearing Podcast - Where Eagles Fly

Vision Six. (Rev. 17-19) Subject: God’s Judgment over the World System. In light of the inevitable destruction of the world system with all its sin industries, we should pay attention how we invest our time, carefully evaluating which works are destined to be “burned up.” The world system consists of a matrix of deceptive ideas […]

Vision Five. (Rev. 15, 16) Subject: God’s Judgment over Sin. As in the time of the Exodus, God will provide refuge for His people as He judges the earth. He will keep His people in safe “Goshens” as He calls them to be a house of prayer for all nations. It is increasingly incumbent on […]

Vision Four –  (Rev. 12-14)  Subject: Israel. Israel is pictured as a woman, and the Christians are her offspring.  Jews will be persecuted because they are the people who produced the King.  The King returns to replace the world system (“Babylon the Great”).  The King will rule from Jerusalem.  The number three and a half […]

Vision Three. (Rev. 8-11) Subject: The Creation. The Creation itself will increasingly reflect the sickness of the human race in rebellion against God. The last (seventh) trumpet Represents the final victory of Christ. Between the sixth and seventh trumpet blasts, God downloads His special promises for His faithful ones. The “two witnesses” are based on […]

Vision Two. (Rev. 4-7) Subject: Human history from God’s perspective. The Ascension of Jesus was the turning point in history, based on Daniel 7. The scroll is the title deed of the world. Jesus alone paid the price to purchase the whole world from its bondage to the deceiver. The tearing off of the seals […]

Rewards for Overcomers. Being an overcomer means resisting worldly pressures and popular thinking, to embrace the thoughts of the King. Those who succeed in living as Kingdom citizens will receive these rewards: 1) we will eat of the tree of life; 2) we will not be hurt by the second death; 3) we will receive […]

Revelation: Vision One –  (Rev. 1-3)  Subject: The Church. A unique community because it has at its center Yeshua the Priest-King.  The seven churches of Vision One are representative of the “whole, complete and perfect” Church; therefore the gifts and warnings Jesus gives apply to us as well as the original churches in John’s circuit. […]

Revelation Introduction – The Book of Revelation announces how Jesus will complete the tasks God has given Him, destroying the hostility and futility of the human race toward God.  At the end of the story, Jesus gets rid of the Deceiver “so he can deceive the world no longer.”  The Book of Revelation is not […]

Do We Need a Christ? From God’s point of view, Adam’s disobedience reflects two problems in the human race: sin and satanic deception. The first coming of Jesus took care of the problem of sin. The second coming will take care of satanic deception. Both sin and deception must be dealt with if Jesus will […]

Focusing on the Kingdom – The original gospel of Jesus was “the Gospel of the Kingdom.”  Jesus understood Himself to be the fulfillment of that gospel, and so did His disciples, the Apostles of the Church.  Today, God is showing us that He has every intention of fulfilling the Gospel of the Kingdom as He […]

The Jewishness of Jesus – At the same time that Rome turned Christianity into the official religion of Rome, the popes of that time created a new idea about how Jews and Gentiles relate to each other. Replacement theology came into existence.  No longer are Gentiles grafted into Israel.  Gentiles are replacing Israel as the […]

Dispensationalism and “Left Behind” Theology – John Nelson Darby, a member of the Plymouth Brethren, invented yet another eschatology that moved Christians back to a belief in the physical return of Jesus to reign on earth for 1000 years.  But before that happens, Darby claimed, Jesus would come back for a secret “rapture of the […]

Postmillennialism – With the worldwide great awakenings of the 19th and 20th centuries, followed by the missions movement, there came a great hope that God was going to win the whole world to Christ, purely by the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in spiritual awakening.  Thus, the Church would grow and grow and take over […]

Allegorical or Predictive? – Beginning with Isaiah, we have prophecy that describes the rise and fall of earthly empires.  All of these empires were future to Isaiah, though to us, they are historical.  All of the prophecies of Isaiah except those that concern what is yet in the future, have come to pass, demonstrating that […]

The Rise of A-millennialism – Teachings 4-7 deal with the history of eschatology.  My teaching begins by portraying the rejection of the original idea–that Jesus will return historically to restore all things—in preference to a new doctrine, which has been called a-millennialism (which means “no millennium.”) Under this new doctrine, Jesus will not return to […]

The Gospel of the Kingdom – In Ephesians 1, the apostle Paul lists seven ingredients in the Gospel of the Kingdom, of which the salvation of our souls is only one.  The purpose of the Kingdom of God is not “salvation,” but that “Heaven and earth will be united under one head—Jesus Christ.” “Creation will […]

Recovering Apostolic Teaching – God continually leads us back to the Bible to connect with His original vision as revealed to the apostles and prophets of old. Unfortunately, the Church lost the original vision of the Kingdom of God during the fourth century, when the Roman Catholic Church sought to supply the Roman Empire with […]

End Time Introduction – The Kingdom of God operates not by human principles, but by God’s higher ways.  He trains us to wield authority as His Royal Priesthood, and to minister in the power of the Holy Spirit.  The same is true as we move toward “Part B” of the story, the return of the […]

Summary – By tracking God’s mighty deeds of the past, we can draw some conclusions about the advance of God’s Kingdom throughout the centuries.  Acts 3:19-21 is the most concise biblical summary of the coming of the Kingdom of God.  It is a story with two historical parts.  The first consists of “times of refreshing […]

Back to Jerusalem – Through the influence of many praying westerners, the Christian faith spread through much of China.  However, the Communist movement resulted in the complete eradication of all Western churches—and the house-church movement resulted.  During this season, in the early 40’s, Jesus began to visit His Church with a spirit of prophecy.  One […]

The Goforths of China – Jonathan Goforth and his wife Rosalind visited Korea just as this great visitation of God was occurring.  They interviewed the missionaries, wrote their own account of what had happened, and then returned to Manchuria, just to the west of Korea, where they had been missionaries for years.  Back in China, […]

The Great Korean Revival – A group of Presbyterian and Methodist missionaries in Pyongyang heard about the great outpouring of the Spirit in India and inquired, “Why couldn’t God do the same thing here?”  They prayed for months, until in January of 1907, the Holy Spirit was poured out at Pyongyang Presbyterian Church.  Thousands were […]

Azusa – The Welsh Revival sparked revivals all over the world—in the Kassia Hills in India, and at Azusa in Pasadena.  God used William Seymour, a black man, son of a slave, to lead the most extraordinary and powerful manifestation of His presence in the twentieth century.  Fire fell from heaven on the lowly building […]

Worldwide Awakening – After the death of Dwight Moody in Chicago in late 1899, the Chicago Bible Institute was renamed the Moody Bible Institute, and was led by R. A. Torrey. Torrey was led to pray regularly for a worldwide great awakening, the prayers lasting three years.  Then, guided by the Holy Spirit, Torrey put […]

Western Tribes. God kept the westward momentum of His Kingdom going through an extraordinary outpouring of prophecy among the tribes of the Columbia Plateau in the Pacific Northwest in the 18th century, roughly corresponding to the eastern great awakenings.  Each prophecy, a different one for each tribe, pointed to Jesus, fueling a curiosity about Jesus, […]