It's Supernatural

Sid: We want everyone everywhere to be red hot for the Messiah. As I’m saying this I’m thinking about my guest Rick Neill; I’m speaking to him by telephone at his home right outside of Akron, Ohio. Interviewing him on his brand new book “Ultimate Glory,” one of the first books I’ve seen that takes the Biblical festivals that in the Hebrew God says are actually rehearsals, and gives us a peek into what’s going to happen in the last days rather than through the filtered deception of the Greco-Roman understanding. We look at the rehearsals that God Himself put into the scriptures that said “If you want to take a peek into the book of the last days look at My Biblical festivals.” So right now Rick believes we are in Rosh Hashanah, the Feast of Trumpets. In traditional Judaism and in the Bible it tells us that it’s 10 days of awe and repentance where you repent. So what’s going to Rick for those, and we’re in that window right now of those 10 days of repentance. What’s going to happen to the lukewarm believers in the Messiah, which let’s be candid, are most Christians today? Unfortunate I hate to say this but it’s true I believe many churches are nothing more than warehouses for hell. What’s going to happen to those that refuse to get red hot during this 10 days of Feast of Trumpets, or Rosh Hashanah?

Rick: I believe the very word you reference there, lukewarm will give us the key to that. Is in Revelation 3 where Jesus said “He knows our works and would that we were hot or cold, but those who are lukewarm” He said that He is “going to vomit out of His mouth.” I believe that is about as clear as it can get. That is not… that doesn’t mean “Well done good and faithful servant.” That is the Lord vomiting, I believe He’s… that’s a picture of lukewarmness making the Lord sick. Which I’m a Baptist with the earlier peace days when speaking of Jesus back with Passover He said “Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.” Then concerning Pentecost with the baptism of fire, baptism of the Holy Spirit, He said “Behold He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.” Well there’s also a prophecy from John concerning this time this Day of Atonement. In Luke 3:17 it says “His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and gather the wheat into His barn; but the chaff He will burn with unquenchable fire.” I believe that shows that same picture that the Lord is coming to purify His bride, He’s coming back for a bride without spot or blemish, without wrinkle. That purified bride, that clean bride, that glorious bride is going to be here on earth it’s not just going to be in heaven.

Sid: So let’s take… there was an exact day that was fulfilled where we had a rehearsal first by looking at the festival in the Old Testament. Then we saw it actually fulfilled in a single day, that was Pentecost. Do you believe that there’s like a cut-off point called Yom Kippur, or Day of Atonement, that when that occurs if someone is still lukewarm or a foolish virgin, they’re going to be cut-off?

Rick: I believe that with all my heart Sid. I believe that…

Sid: Well let’s look at the positive, what about those of us who repent and are red hot for the Messiah. What’s going to happen to us on the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur?

Rick: Okay I believe Isaiah 60 shows that really well. I believe that this is going to be a time of great darkness. It says “Arise, shine; For your light has come! And the glory of the Lord is risen upon you. For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and deep darkness the people; But the Lord will arise over you, and His glory will be seen upon you.” For me that carries the entire picture of the Day of Atonement. I believe we are heading into the darkest time in human history. I believe that darkness is overtaking the earth, but I also believe that the Lord has purposely going to use that darkness as a backdrop to help magnify the glory that’s about to be released in the church.

Sid: Is that what we’re being prepared for in this 10 days of Feast of Trumpets, and it’s not 10 literal days but the season we’re in right now?

Rick: Exactly. I believe in Romans 8:18 it says “For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.” In John 17:22 Jesus said “And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one.” I really believe that this… just like in the shadow that on the shadow day of atonement the high priest once a year on this day would go in and the glory would feel the temple. Just as on Pentecost when the Lord came as a baptizer with the Holy Spirit and He filled His entire church that was in one accord they all were filled with the Holy Ghost and fire. I believe the same is going to be seen on the Day of Atonement when the great High Priest Jesus Himself comes and fills His temples with glory. Again there’s a perquisite as with the Day of Pentecost, the perquisite was they were all in one accord, that their hearts were all together they were not rebellious, they were not selfish, they were in accord with one another and the Lord. I believe the same thing is true with this upcoming Day of Atonement that the Lord is calling from our perspective. We can get fearful if we look at the judgments and the cutting off that the Lord speaks about. But from God’s perspective He’s looking for the faithful, this whole thing about the Day of Atonement and the Feast of Trumpets is about faithfulness. Passover and Pentecost dealt with faith, but now we’re dealing, the fall feast days are dealing with faithfulness those who are faithful will be blessed beyond their wildest dreams.

Sid: Now one of the things I’ve often wondered is the book of Ephesians talks about the glorious church. You don’t have to be a great theologian to figure this out it’s a church that’s filled with the literal glory of God. I’ve often wondered how God is going to do this. The way you’re explaining it, and we’re in a season of separation right now. On Yom Kippur, Day of Atonement, this… you were quoting from Isaiah 60 the Spirit of the Lord being upon us. Describe what it’s going to be like in the church and in the world on real Christians on the Day of Atonement, on those that are red hot.

Rick: I believe the prophecy that Jesus Himself spoke said that “Those who would believe in Him they would do the same works that He did and even greater.” I believe the glory of the Lord is going to fill every repentant Christian those who respond in correct ways to the call to repent they’re going to be so filled with the glory of God that they are going to walk as Jesus walked, that they are going to be filled with His glory. I believe it could even go to the point where the Mount of Transfiguration, where the disciples saw Jesus up on the mountain. Jesus was still in His earthly body but He was walking in the footsteps that His Father had predestined for Him. In that still earthly body the glory of the Lord filled Him. Moses when He came down off the mountain He glowed and had to put a veil over His face and that was under a lesser covenant. I believe that the ultimate of this of the Day of Atonement is going to be so far beyond our capacity to dream; I believe that we’re going to empty out hospitals, nursing homes, children’s homes, I believe that raising the dead is going to be common place, I believe that the outfall the tidal wave of this Day of Atonement is that there are going to be billions, not millions, swept into the kingdom.

Sid: But there’s also going to be persecution going on. A lot of people feel that the church will really be whipped about that time not that it’ll be a great revival.

Rick: Well there’s going to be, probably a better word might be reformation than revival because the Lord is going to reform the entire church.

Sid: In other words, it’s not going to stop where Martin Luther stopped it’s going to go all the way.

Rick: Yes. Everything that is in the church now the lukewarmness, and the compromise, and the pretend Christians they’re all going to be gone on the Day of Atonement, they’re going to be severed, they’re going to be winnowed by His winnowing fan. Those who are left are going to be devoted they’re going to be filled with His glory, they’re going to walk as Jesus walked, and they are going to be unstoppable.

Sid: Is it time for a red hot Christian to be alive?

Rick: Whoooo (laughing) it’s the best time. I’m looking… I used to so look forward to the rapture but now that has been so far moved to the back burner for me because I want to walk in the full glory of my Lord. I want to see the fullness…

Sid: Okay but where does the rapture come in according to the Biblical festivals?

Rick: I believe that the Lord is showing me on that is that the rapture will occur on the first day of the Feast of Tabernacles, which is 5 days after the Day of Atonement. I don’t know if that’s going to be 5 literal days, I don’t know that it matters. I believe what the scenario will be will be that the church is called to repentance and preparation to the Feast of Trumpets. Then on the Day of Atonement the glory will fall, it will feel the church and it will so empower the church that there will be literally millions of Jesus’, the least on this earth in the fullness of His glory and power. In His church the glory will cover the earth and in this time period between the Day of Atonement and the first day of the Feast of Tabernacles. If this is where this massive harvest will take place and the Feast of Tabernacles is called the Feast of the Great Harvest. I believe what the Lord is showing is the rapture will occur on the first day of the Feast of the Great Harvest, or the Feast of Tabernacles.

Sid: Then you see 7 years, the same scenario of 7 years with the anti-Christ coming on the scene?

Rick: Yes I believe so.

Sid: Well who’s going to be preaching the gospel then if the rapture occurs?

Rick: Okay I believe that… the emphasis… that brings me to a different question, to answer your question I have to go a different direction.

Sid: Rick we’re out of time we’ll pick up right here on tomorrow’s broadcast.