Part Five
The Preparation Of The Corporate Child

Written by Ed Tarkowski

Originally delivered at the
"Apostasy & The Year 2000 Conference"

POINT 6: AFTER READING THIS, I COMPARED NEW AGER BARBARA MARX HUBBARD'S BELIEFS WITH THOSE OF THE LATTER RAIN AND FOUND THEM BASICALLY IDENTICAL

Who is BARBARA MARX HUBBARD? She is a world-renowned futurist, speaker, social architect, and prophetic politican, who ran for the vice-presidency in the 1984 presidential election. She is a founder of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution, and is a leader for social and spiritual change. Hubbard is also the author of a host of New Age books, including "The Revelation," which she channeled from "The Christ."

Hubbard's doctrines are either identical with or similar to those of the Latter Rain. Both Latter Rain and New Age are evolutionary in nature. In Hubbard's version, man is born a god, and must evolve to a realization of the fact. The corporate body in her philosophy is called HOMO UNIVERSALIS. In the Latter Rain doctrine, man must first receive "Christ" and then mature to the point where he incarnates Him. The corporate body of these men is called the Manifest Sons of God, though they have also been known as Joel's Army and The Manchild Company. Both the Latter Rain and Hubbard expect their corporate man to be manifested at the end of the age. Here are more New Age-Latter Rain Comparisons, just a few of the many examples in my "Laughing Phenomena" booklet.

NEW REVELATION

We've already seen the prevalence of new revelations in LATTER RAIN.

Hubbard's Christ:

"The text of the New Order of the Future is the Story of Creation.

"The first chapter is revealed in the religions of the world, especially the Judeo-Christian which foresaw the future most clearly. Its vision as stated by Paul is true.

"'Behold I show you a mystery: we shall not all sleep; but we shall all be changed.' REVELATION SHALL BE UNFOLDED in evolution through the marriage of faith and knowledge in each of you."(10)

NEW BEGINNINGS

Wimber said that the Lord told him seventeen times that this would be a "SEASON OF NEW BEGINNINGS."

Hubbard's Christ:

"Those of you who hear these words are to carry on the commandment given to John two thousand years ago. You are not only to prophesy the end, the tribulations, and the New Jerusalem, you are to act it out. You are to discover the blueprint and become co-creators with God. You are to see the first fruits of the NEW BEGINNING."(11)

ABRAHAM AND SARAH

We've discussed Abraham and Sarah's role in the NEW "MOVE OF GOD""

Hubbard's New Age Revelations - In another of her books, a section entitled "The Lineage of Founders of a New Order of the Future" has one of Hubbard's sources of the "New Beginning" also pointing to Abraham and Sarah:

"Abraham and Sarah understood that their relationship with God was a partnership for the transformation of the world."

REPLACEMENT OF ISRAEL WITH THE CHURCH

Please go to Part Five, Preparation for a Corporate Child, for a summary of what we have said to this point.

Summarizing what we presented in Part Four:

1. The New Age Christ said there would be a season of New Beginnings, just as with John Wimber's revelation.

2. These New Beginnings are based on and proliferated by New Revelations, just as in the Latter Rain.

3. The New Revelations are bringing forth a corporate child who is Abraham's seed, through whom the earth will be transformed. This is also the same as Latter Rain.

4. That transformation will be fulfilled through the celebration of a Planetary Pentecost in a time of revival, harvest and unity, and in Latter Rain teaching, that is the Feast of Tabernacles.

POINT 7: THE CORPORATE MAN WILL EVENTUALLY ENTER THE TIME OF JUBILEE IN THE YEAR 2000. WE NEED TO LOOK AT THREE INFLUENTIAL MEN WHO SUPPORT A YEAR OF JUBILEE AND WHO, TOGETHER, HAVE THE CAPABILITY TO LEAD THE ENTIRE CHURCH OUT OF TABERNACLES AND INTO JUBILEE

PAT ROBERTSON AND JUBILEE

In a 1987 report on Pat Robertson, Constance Cumbey wrote,

"Whether there is direct networking or not, it is a fact that the 'Year of Jubilee' teachings do show up in Robertson's work in amazingly similar format to those used both by [Manifest Son teacher] Bill Britton and [the New Age] Synthesis Fellowship. On page 133 of his book in a discussion of what he calls 'The Law of Use' Robertson says: 'Notwithstanding the sneers of many in the banking community, it may be that God's way will be the only one open to us - a year of jubilee to straighten out the mess.'"(24)

Cumbey also cited Pat Robertson's Perspective newsletter from January/February 1981:

". . . . In a section called 'A Radical Proposal to Halt Inflation' Robertson called for an International Year of Jubilee. This was modeled, said Robertson, after the Biblical Year of Jubilee. . . . [which] canceled debts, freed slaves, 'and the means of production would be redistributed. . . . If inflation is to be broken, there must be a cancellation of debt - on a worldwide basis.'"(25)

Today, Pat Robertson is also offering conferences on Tabernacles. In the April 1995 Charisma magazine, CBN ran the following ad:

"Gain a deeper understanding of Israel, the Church and the end times as the annual Jerusalem celebration 'Feast of Tabernacles' comes to CBN Conferences. Featured speakers are Jan Willem van der Hoeven and Johann Luckhoff. July 13-16, 1995."

Judson Cornwall, the man who shared about his "impregnation" with Robertson on the 700 Club, was also a speaker at this conference. As for Johann Luckhoff, he's the Director of the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem [ICEJ] and recently wrote the following in the ICEJ newsletter concerning the Church gathering in Jerusalem to celebrate Tabernacles:

". . . . The video of last year's Feast of Tabernacles is already taking the highlights of those celebrations to the ends of the earth."

Pat Robertson is a powerful influence towards Jubilee: he is looking for a major revival and billion-soul harvest, he applauded the laughing revival, he is promoting Tabernacles and he supports a Year of Jubilee. He is a powerful man who can lead part of the Church into Jubilee 2000.

JAY GARY AND JUBILEE

Jay Gary is another very influential man, responsible for "The Singapore Global Consultation On World Evangelism - 2000 & Beyond." Following the Global Consultation, Gary became coordinator of the newly founded Global Service Office which promised to "serve any group that had AD 2000 plans." He then started his own Celebration 2000 Project and is associated with many global evangelization efforts, three of which are New Life 2000 (Bill Bright's Campus Crusade For Christ), Evangelization 2000, (Fr. Tom Forrest) and AD2000 Together, (Vinson Synan). Needless to say, there are thousands upon thousands involved in global evangelism. Gary also networks with the March for Jesus organization which drew 20,000,000 marchers last year. Jay Gary sits in a very, very powerful position from which he can influence a large number of Christians across the globe toward the celebration of Jubilee.

In his book, "The Star of 2000," Jay Gary links together the three great Jewish feasts with a call to the Church to "experience Jesus' Jubilee":

"The annual calendar of Israel was built around three major festivals: Passover, Pentecost and Tabernacles. These celebrations in Jerusalem were anything but boring. There was dancing, singing and exuberant celebration before the living God.

"The Year of Jubilee encompassed these three festivals, only raised to a higher power. The clear call of God across the millennia is that we are invited to come into His presence and feast on Him.

"On the last and greatest day of the Feast of Tabernacles, Jesus "stood and said in a loud voice, 'If anyone is thirsty, let him come and drink' (John 7:37). Then, as well as today, Jesus calls us to experience His jubilee."(26)

Because Tabernacles is encompassed by every Jubilee year, the celebrations of the two become one. In fact, Gary says the three feasts, including Tabernacles, are "raised to a higher power" by Jubilee. In Eagle Nest Pastor Clarice Fluitt's praise of "The Star of 2000," she declares,

"This is an incredibly prophetic book. Jay Gary has peered into the spirit realm and drawn from God's secret place. He declares that the church must prepare a celebration, a festival for, about and with Jesus, our honored guest and royal Bridegroom. The Star of 2000 is infused with a biblical revelation of fullness, sonship, maturity, and perfection of the glorious triumphant church - the Feast of Tabernacles."(27)

According to Fluitt, Gary's revelation is a revealed secret "drawn from God." But the revealed secret of Jay Gary is NEW REVELATION, and it's also Latter Rain doctrine. "Fullness, sonship, maturity, and perfection of the glorious triumphant church" is the terminology of the Latter Rain. Because of his position, Jay Gary has the awesome potential to shift many more in the Church from Tabernacles into a celebration of Jubilee.

POPE JOHN PAUL II AND JUBILEE

The call for the Church to celebrate Tabernacles and the Year of Jubilee has slowly increased since the resurgence of the Latter Rain doctrine in the mid-80s. And now we find another religious leader, Pope John Paul II, making the same call through the release of a 72-page papal letter. The letter, entitled "The Coming of the Third Millennium: Preparation for the Jubilee of the Year 2000," was released on November 10, 1994. In Article 23 of the new document, John Paul writes,

"Since the publication of the very first document of my pontificate I have spoken explicitly of the Great Jubilee, suggesting that the time leading up to it be lived as "a new Advent." This theme has since reappeared many times, and was dwelt upon at length in the encyclical Dominum et Vivificantem. In fact, preparing for the year 2000 has become as it were a hermeneutical key of my pontificate."

David Crumm of the Detroit Free Press reports that the pope's plan "calls for many phases of preparation for the jubilee." Crumm wrote,

1. "After years of slow dialogue with many Christian denominations, the pontiff wants to move rapidly to break down barriers between the churches. He wants temporary agreements to allow members to worship together in special jubilee programs. Beyond that, the pope hopes to move quickly toward full communion, in which members of the churches would share worship services."

2. "By 1996, the pope wants to publish a humble confession for the sins of his own church over the past 2000 years. Chief among these sins, the pope said, was the church's use of violence to promote the faith in periods such as the Inquisition in the Middle Ages. . . ."

3. "In 1999, the pope wants leaders of the three faiths that look back to the ancient patriarch Abraham as their founder [Jews, Muslims and Catholics] to join in three meetings."

So the Pope is moving to reconcile religious connections by the year 2000. Reconciliation is going on in every area of life, and 1996 will most likely be the year of the big push for major reconciliations. The reason for this is to bring about a unity that will prepare people for the experience of Jubilee in the year 2000.

There is no doubt of the Pope's influence to call millions into Jubilee 2000.

POINT 8: A LOOK BACK TO HOW TABERNACLES SUPPOSEDLY FULFILLS THE CORPORATE MAN'S DESTINY AND CALLING

I got a note recently saying that in Latter Rain, all the reconciliation that is going on is considered part of the celebration of the Day of Atonement. But Alan Vincent said that God is "moving the Church from the Day of Atonement to Tabernacles." This gave me the sense that to the degree that the various areas are reconciled, the Latter Rain church moves proportionately into the Feast of Tabernacles. According to McMillan and Thompson, "we will never fulfill our destiny and calling" until "we understand and partake of this feast [Tabernacles] as we have both Passover and Pentecost, . . We must discover the meaning of the Feast of Tabernacles and 'celebrate' it along with Passover and Pentecost. . . . What God did among the Jews in Jerusalem, He is going to do among humanity and worldwide. Pentecost will come to maturity in the Feast of Tabernacles."

What does that mean: "fulfill our destiny and calling"? McMillan and Thompson say that Pentecost must find its fulfillment in Tabernacles. What is the meaning of that? It's important to know who they are referring to when they write "we". Remember, to Latter Rainists, Pentecost is a personal experience of God by each man, while Tabernacles is a corporate experience.THIS MAN, the CORPORATE MAN, is the one who has to fulfill "HIS" destiny by:

1. corporately discovering and understanding the meaning of Tabernacles;

2. corporately celebrating or partaking in it;

Then whatever happens when the corporate man completes this process will be the fulfillment of "his" destiny and calling.

So how does Pentecost find its fulfillment in Tabernacles? Let's say it this way: when everyone has received the same spirit through being harvested or revived by a Pentecost, they "qualify" for Tabernacles. Then when all of those who received the same spirit are brought together and are given the same spirit again as a corporate group, that's Tabernacles. When Tabernacles is celebrated corporately, the ONE MAN'S destiny and calling are fulfilled.

I want to bring all of this together now and make some final comparisons. First, let's look at:

TABERNACLES AND JUBILEE IN THE CURRENT MOVE OF GOD

John Wimber said God told him to go the nations because He was going to pour out His Spirit as He did in the beginning - He said it would be a time of New Beginnings. This is an unscriptural second outpouring of the Holy Spirit. This New Beginning is also the Feast of Tabernacles, and Tabernacles has three aspects to it: Unity, Revival and Harvest. More and more, we are hearing of Tabernacles being celebrated in the churches, but there's more to it than that. A prophetic word given on September 24, 1995 during a conference in Arkansas referred to the celebration of Jubilee:

"A season of jubilee is coming. A bigger place, a more spacious place where there is room for everyone. More room to minister...more resources being released...more time to give...more time to be with the Lord...more power released into the church. Canceled debts, forgiven mistakes, restoration of things and relationships you had thought were lost forever. A fulfilling of earlier dreams and visions. . . . But before my jubilee comes, . . . I'm pouring out my power and releasing strength through a gift of joy. Angels and earthquakes are being sent to open prison doors as my people praise me..rejoice in me...laugh with me..cry out to me... and receive me *in the way I am coming*. Get your heads and hearts up...for a season of jubilee is coming."

The power and the laughing and the joy spoken of in this word is not Jubilee but precedes it - they belong to Tabernacles. But when Jubilee does come, Jesus supposedly said, he must be received "in the way I am coming." This coming is described in a prophecy by Bill Britton, a Latter Rainist. In her Biblical Discernment Ministries newsletter, Jewel van Merwe quoted Britton's prophesy from his book, "Eagle Saints Alive":

"I see the great year of Jubilee, when we shall pass through the veil into the very presence of the fullness of God, to be filled with this fullness and go forth proclaiming liberty to all of creation. . . This is the ultimate anointing! This is the fullness of the Spirit! This is the Spirit without measure that Jesus had spoken of in John 3:34, reserved until the end time for His Brethren!"

I believe that when the Church reaches this stage, its proposed destiny and calling as a corporate man will be fulfilled in the Manifest Sons of God. The question is, "What is the link that moves the Church from Tabernacles into Jubilee?" The answer to that seems to lie with Jay Gary. Gary has called for "the year 2000 to be celebrated as a Golden Jubilee." Earlier, I quoted Gary as saying,

"The annual calendar of Israel was built around three major festivals: Passover, Pentecost and Tabernacles. These celebrations in Jerusalem were anything but boring. There was dancing, singing and exuberant celebration before the living God.

"The Year of Jubilee encompassed these three festivals, only raised to a higher power. . . . . Then, as well as today, Jesus calls us to experience His Jubilee."

Because Jubilee is Tabernacles, only raised to a higher power, the door is wide open for the Church to march into a Golden Jubilee in the year 2000; the two feasts would mesh together. Gary's call would be the door for the Church, in the words of Bill Britton, to "pass through the veil into the very Presence of the fullness of God," or, as in the other prophecy, receive Jesus "in the way [He] is coming" in Jubilee. Not coincidentally, the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem is promoting Tabernacles in churches worldwide, and its Director, Johann Luckhoff, was recently invited as a Distinguished Leader to the AD2000 Global Conference on World Evangelism in Seoul, Korea. What makes this extremely interesting is that Jay Gary was the person who co-ordinated the first GCOWE in 1989, and Luckhoff has written,

"One of the reasons I was invited to Korea was because the organizers of the GCOWE hope to have the next gathering in Jerusalem at the end of this millennium. That should be quite an event!"

He was speaking about Jubilee 2000 and the celebration of Jesus' 2000th birthday. So, the stage seems to be set as we draw near to the year 2000. The final shift in the direction of a united global Church THROUGH TABERNACLES will move it as one unit INTO JUBILEE - its culmination of joy. But there is more to this.

ROME'S NEW PENTECOST

In 1966, Pope John XXIII prayed to the Holy Spirit for the success of the Ecumenical Council, Vatican II: "Renew Thy wonders in our day, as by a new Pentecost." Two years later, the charismatic renewal broke out in the Catholic Church. It seems that everything is being made new. Wimber has his New Beginnings, as does Hubbard, and Rome has a New Pentecost, but none of these are found in Scripture. We've said that the three aspects of Wimber's and Hubbard's New Beginnings are Revival, Harvest and Unity. Now look at these excerpts from Pope John XXIII's prayer at Vatican II, because these same three aspects are found in the NEW Pentecost of the Catholic Church:

(REVIVAL) "RENEW Thy wonders in this our day, as by a NEW PENTECOST. Grant to Thy Church that, being of one mind and steadfast in prayer with Mary, the Mother of Jesus, and following the lead of blessed Peter, it may advance the reign of our Divine Savior, the reign of truth and justice, the reign of love and peace. Amen."

(HARVEST) "Grant that from this Council ABUNDANT FRUIT MAY RIPEN; that the light and strength of the gospel MAY BE EXTENDED MORE AND MORE IN HUMAN SOCIETY; that the Catholic religion AND ITS ACTIVE MISSIONARY WORKS MAY FLOURISH WITH EVEN GREATER VIGOR, with the happy result that knowledge of the Church's teaching MAY SPREAD and Christian morality MAY HAVE A SALUTARY INCREASE.

(UNITY) "We pray also for those sheep who are NOT NOW OF THE ONE FOLD OF JESUS CHRIST, that even as they glory in THE NAME OF CHRISTIAN, THEY MAY COME AT LAST TO UNITY UNDER THE GOVERNANCE OF THE ONE SHEPHERD."

Who is the ONE FOLD spoken of here in the Pope's prayer? Rome. Who are those sheep who glory in the name of Christian and are not of the one fold? Protestants. And what did the Pope pray? That "THEY MAY COME AT LAST TO UNITY UNDER THE GOVERNANCE OF THE ONE SHEPHERD." This is a prayer for unification of the denominations with Rome. In the mid 60s, AFTER the NEW Pentecost had broken out and spread, Leon Cardinal Suenens said,

"The drive toward unity among Christians seems irreversible; we may hope that the hour is not far off. . . . We are permitted to be confident with hope founded in God and in the progress of theology that the third millennium will see the restoration of full unity and full communion."

We are seeing the Cardinal's hope come to fruition in global proportions today. We have seen his "progress of theology", empowered by the progressive revelations of the Latter Rain, evolve into a manifested unity. Since the NEW Pentecost started, walls have come down in the denominations while association with Rome has steadily increased. Father John Bertalucci said in the 1950s,

"I want to tell you something brothers and sisters. When the sleeping giant of Rome comes alive, watch out world. . . . especially in a day and age where we can cooperate and collaborate in winning the world for Jesus Christ."

This is THAT DAY, and Rome IS coming alive! Jay Gary has more than a small conversation with the Catholic global evangelization program. And this is the key to unifying everything.