Part Six
The Corporate Child Manifested:
The Corporate Christ

Written by Ed Tarkowski

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

Continuing from Part Five:

COMMUNION WILL PLAY AN IMPORTANT PART

In his Detroit Free Press article, David Crumm stated that "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." But what does the Pope believe about the Sacrament of Communion? Dave Hunt quotes Vatican II about Communion and the Eucharist:

". . . in the Eucharist we become PARTAKERS OF THE BODY AND BLOOD of God's only Son . . . [and] THE PARTAKING OF the Body and Blood of Christ HAS NO LESS EFFECT THAN TO CHANGE US INTO WHAT WE HAVE RECEIVED."

Read it again. That is MANIFEST SONS TEACHING! INCARNATION! IMMORTALITY! The Pope wants full unity and communion, and Vatican II says we BECOME WHAT THE BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST IS - that's INCARNATION of one new man - physically - indwelt by the Spirit of A NEW Pentecost! The language of the Latter Rain doctrine is not foreign to the Catholic Charismatic Renewal's New Pentecost. In an article originally published in the March/April 1978 edition of New Covenant magazine and now found in "Good News", the newsletter for the Catholic Renewal published by the National Service Committee in England (Jan/Feb 1995), we read:

"But something new has happened to us in the charismatic renewal. When we were baptized in the Spirit, we experienced a God who does make a difference. . . . The revelation of Jesus - his words, his actions - is not just a bunch of separate fragments cast out for the winds to carry wherever chance leads them. THERE IS A PLAN TO THIS REVELATION; it builds up TO something. God is not manifesting himself in a random or chaotic way with no ultimate purpose.

". . . The Body of Christ, the Bride of Christ, The New Temple, The New Israel, and so on. All of them indicate that God's purpose in manifesting Himself to mankind is to create A CORPORATE REALITY made up of Christians in union with Christ.

"The Word of life MADE MANIFEST is ultimately, then, this single corporate reality The One new Man."

What makes this all the more interesting is that Barbara Marx Hubbard's Christ said to her,

"You have come home to me. The bread and wine hold within them the substance of my new body. The key for you now each day is to breathe deeply in a 'birthing experience' of the resurrected body. Then do the communion and experience my body transforming yours. Do this in preparation for the Planetary Birth which will be induced through this experience given to the new disciples of Christ who chose to work together for the Planetary Pentecost, when the Spirit of God is poured out upon all people. This is the purpose of your mission on Earth. All your projects will be reoriented, aligned and empowered as you accept this purpose and put it first. . . . finally."

This is rather disturbing because promotion material for Jerusalem Celebration 2000 planned for February 1996 in celebration of Jesus 2000th birthday in Jerusalem says Pastor Jack Hayford will lead "the whole multitude" to "the shores of the Sea of Galilee for Holy Communion." It is at this event that "Dr. David Yonggi Cho will speak on miracles and the feeding of the 5,000 amidst a magnificent time of high praise and worship to conclude the five memorable days." But do you know Hayford's view on Holy Communion? He apparently has no problem with the Catholic sacrament. Look at this quote taken from the Promise Keepers' book, "Seven Promises of a Promise Keeper," where he writes about "Redeeming Worship" on page 19:

"Redeeming worship centers on the Lord's Table. Whether your tradition celebrates it as Communion, Eucharist, the Mass, or the Lord's Supper, we are all called to this centerpiece of Christian worship."

In his book, The Star of 2000, Jay Gary speaks of a proposal made in 1979 by Reformed professor Lew Mudge "that the churches which are still divided should settle their differences as we approach the year 2000 and convene a holy council in that year - the first universal council since A.D. 787." Exclaiming that this would be "a gift of God" . . . and "the greatest Christian congress in 2,000 years!," Gary then relates how Lukas Vuscher describes this proposed council:

"On the opening day of the assembly they would all unite in confession of one and the same apostolic faith on the basis of years of thorough preparation. They would declare the divisions between them to be a thing of the past and then join together in celebration of the Eucharist."

In Gary's video, The Power of 2000, he says,

"Really, the final, and probably it's the most important image of the year 2000 I like to speak of, is Jubilee 2000. This image looks at the year 2000 as a common meal. It looks at, ah, like the ancient Jewish society; it used to start all over again in 50 years. It looks at the year 2000 as a second chance, a second wind, for the Church and for the human planet. It may not be the end of the world (inaudible words), but we can consecrate ourselves and celebrate the goodness of God, for His steadfast love endures forever. Whatever 2000 brings, we all know it's probably going to be a once in a lifetime experience. It will be the greatest celebration in the history of civilization. And with Columbus, we didn't know whether to protest or parade, but with Jesus, Jesus' 2000th birthday, we should sound a clear trumpet. His celebration of His birthday will overshadow all previous celebrations of human history, including the bicentennial in the United States and France. You'll start probably in '96 with the re-creation, the re-enactment of the journey of the magi, continuing up to 2000 and beyond. Up until now, most of the press has just seen the year 2000 as the biggest New Years in a thousand years, but soon we'll see it as the biggest Christmas in 2000. I think Jesus', (inaudible words) the Father is so we want to honor the Son that He is calling us to the banquet table. And if we follow, this, this, unpack this mega-image, if we unwrap this birthday gift from heaven, Mission 2000 becomes Meal 2000, Countdown 2000 we fill with Celebration 2000. This is my prayer and I'm sure it's yours."

The common meal will center around the Eucharist, and this will play an important part in the Jubilee celebrations, as Gary and the Pope indicate. But Jubilee 2000 and the celebration of Jesus' 2000th birthday are vitally tied to the full communion desired by the Pope. We have seen that,

1. Jay Gary is leading the evangelical Church into a Jubilee Year in the year 2000.

2. Within the first 100 words of his speech after being elected Pope, Pope John Paul II also declared, "the year 2000 will be a year of the Great Jubilee."

We are fast approaching that year, and full communion and full unity as well. "Christianity" will finally reach the unity it has been seeking. What is crucial here is that both the Pope and Jay Gary are tying the celebration of Jesus' 2000th birthday to Jubilee! Leaning on Catholic rather than Jewish tradition, Jay Gary describes how Jubilee has already been linked to the birth of Christ:

"A tradition developed that the Jubilee began on Christmas Eve with the opening of a sealed golden door in St. Peter's Basilica. It affirmed that as the pope struck the holy door with a golden hammer, living streams of grace and pardon from Christ, the rock, were released. The inheritance of the fathers was restored to the sons. . . .

"Like the biblical Jubilee year, the coming bimillennial should be a time of reconciliation and celebration before God. This ordinary year, A. D. 2000, needs to be celebrated in an extraordinary way, particularly in light of Jesus' 2000th birthday."

This linkage was furthered in the papal statement on Jubilee issued last November 10th, in which Pope John Paul II suggested that "the time leading up to the [Year of Jubilee] be lived as a new Advent." He wrote:

"The first phase . . . is meant to revive in the Christian people an awareness of the value and meaning of the Jubilee of the Year 2000 in human history. As a commemoration of the birth of Christ, the jubilee is deeply charged with Christological significance. . . ."

"A jubilee is always an occasion of special grace, 'a day blessed by the Lord.' As has already been noted, it is thus a time of joy. The Jubilee of the Year 2000 is meant to be a great prayer of praise and thanksgiving, especially for the gift of the incarnation of the Son of God and of the redemption which he accomplished."

JUBILEE AND CHRIST'S 2000TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION WILL BE ONE EVENT

The various strands of the Latter Rain/New Age scenario for the end of this age have been woven together into an intricate banner announcing the celebration of Tabernacles and Jubilee, centered around communion. But another thread now being added to the design spells out a place name, the city in which the banner must be planted - Jerusalem. One of the gatherings being planned for the Holy City is JERUSALEM CELEBRATION 2000, to be held February 7-11, 1996. Dr. Paul Yonggi Cho, one of the Celebration's promoters, recently announced that many thousands of delegates would come to Jerusalem "from all over the world." Robert Schuller, scheduled to pray for the nations during the celebration, said, "Jerusalem Celebration 2000 may go down in the history of Christendom as the most exciting celebration of the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ!" According to the promotional material, a host of other speakers will include Jack Hayford (Church on the Way), C. Peter Wagner (co-ordinator of the AD2000 United Prayer Track) and Tom Pelton, who is "founder and president of March for Jesus USA and is the March for Jesus Coordinator for the Americas with responsibility for the entire Western Hemisphere." These last three men are closely knit with Jay Gary through AD2000 programs.

Sounding much like Pope John Paul II and Jay Gary in his vision for a soon-coming spiritually-united kingdom, Dr. Cho said,

"I pray that this spectacular event will bring a renewed love and unity among the peoples of the world."

So Christians are going to Jerusalem to begin celebrating Jesus' 2000th birthday, just as Jay Gary has proposed. Others will travel to the Holy City to celebrate Tabernacles which, according to Gary, will be "raised to a higher power" in the Year of Jubilee. And the Pope is headed for Jerusalem in an all-out effort to bring the corporate Church into full communion for Jubilee. The interweaving of these three themes in Jerusalem will center on Jubilee as a celebration of the birth of Christ. Two questions must be asked: Is the manifestation of the Sons of God through Tabernacles being timed to come during Jubilee? And will the city of Jerusalem be prematurely exalted as the dwelling of God? Of this we can be sure: the two events are being tied together.

If you or people you know have been having a strong change of mind about celebrating Christmas this year, I believe it is Jesus reaching out to His people to turn them away from such celebrations. Why? Because as we get nearer to the year 2000, we may get so caught up in the hype of the celebration of Jesus' bimillennial birthday that we will be led into an experience of the New Age Christ. Let's see how that is possible. I want to add Hubbard to this, but first I want to make the following point.

POINT 9: THE WHOLE HUMAN FAMILY WILL BE AFFECTED BY JUBILEE 2000/JESUS' 2000TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION

The Latter Rain's and Gary's TABERNACLES, the Pope's and Gary's JUBILEE and Hubbard's PLANETARY PENTECOST will, according to each of them, affect not just the Church, but the whole of humanity. Other leaders from various belief systems are saying the same thing. For instance, concerning the celebration of Jesus' 2000th birthday in Jerusalem, Dr. Yonggi Cho wrote,

"I pray that this spectacular event will bring a renewed love and unity AMONG THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD."

On his "God's Suddenlys" tape, Alan Vincent quotes God as saying that, through Tabernacles,

"I'm getting ready to laugh and I'm getting ready to roar, and I tell you this WHOLE WORLD is going to feel the shaking of that laughter and the power of that roar."

M. Scott Peck (New Age Christian) has written,

"It seems to me that a virtual Second Coming is required. In fact, that is what it's all about. With all due respect to the traditional millennialists, I think what is meant by the Second Coming is not the bodily return of that one solitary man, but the coming of the mystical body of His True Church; the coming of the spirit of Christ TO EVERYONE, SWEEPING THROUGH THE WORLD. Father, make us like Mary . . . to give birth to Your Son; to give Him to everyone. This is the time of the Second Coming. Whether we like it or not. There's no alternative except self-annihilation. . . . It is the time of the Second Coming. 'Here and now we're chosen to be, to reveal His grace that all then may see.' It's either give birth to Jesus or else. The time when we must choose is upon us. Father, make us like Mary."

Tom Sine (Futurist) wrote:

"Giving birth! What imagery could remind us more compellingly of the agony of our journey or unleash such a wild hope within us for OUR COMMON FUTURE? As we have anticipated the avalanche of change rushing toward us, it would be easy to focus on the pain, trauma, and ordeal of the birth process and never look forward to the birth of the new.

"But where can we turn to find hope for the future? Where can we find any hint, any assurance, that something new is being born? Where can we find a confident hope that helps us not only to make it through troubled times, but also to engage the emerging challenges of a new century creatively?"

Matthew Fox (Dominican, Director of the Institute in Culture and Creation Spirituality) says:

"Indeed, the birthing of the Cosmic Christ is the purpose of the incarnation. . . . Divinity wants to birth the Cosmic Christ in EACH AND EVERY INDIVIDUAL."

Robin McMillan and Steve Thompson wrote that in order for us to fulfill our destiny,

"We must discover the meaning of the Feast of Tabernacles and 'celebrate' it along with Passover and Pentecost. . . . What God did among Jews in Jerusalem, He is going to do AMONG HUMANITY AND WORLDWIDE. Pentecost will come to maturity in the Feast of Tabernacles."

Jay Gary again:

"I am convinced that the year 2000 can truly be a Jubilee year for the ENTIRE HUMAN FAMILY."

"Is there any prophetic word that God has given THIS PLANET? Or, in other words, what's the essence of an AD2000 vision? What, in other words, I'll be asking, was the spirit 2000 that comes forth that's brought renaissance, and renewal, that's bringing new hope, and how do we, how do we understand that and receive that and run with that?"

Pope John Paul II:

"Mary . . . should inspire all who cooperate in the Church's apostolic mission for the REBIRTH OF HUMANITY. . . ."

Barbara Marx Hubbard's GREAT INSTANT OF COOPERATION:

"The great Instant of Co-operation. . . . will come to the PEOPLES OF EARTH TOGETHER in one instant of time. . . . It means ALL OF YOU co-experiencing the same force at the same time and acting together in accord with the idea that you have from within. It means transcending the experience of self-consciousness. The WALLS will come down EVERYWHERE ON EARTH."

Elsewhere, Hubbard writes:

"This massive, sudden empathetic alignment will cause a shift in the CONSCIOUSNESS OF EARTH."

Barbara Marx Hubbard draws on the Book of Revelation as a base for her New Age prophecies. The Latter Rain has interpreted the word of God according to New Age principles. The two will mesh; they are already compatible. Both look to Abraham and Sarah's child. Both have usurped the place of Israel. Both speak of the birthing of a corporate body of people who, having realized Christification, will cleanse the earth of evil and establish a kingdom of peace. Both are declaring a celebration of joy in which the corporate child will come forth. Hopefully, before the final merging of the two, the Church will realize we have lost the simplicity of a Lamb slain for sin. Hopefully, we will return to the proclamation of that Lamb's resurrection, because He is going to return in judgement.

But what about Hubbard's Homo Universalis and the Manifest Sons of God? Where do they fit in? And what do they have to do with the birthing of a baby and the celebration of Jesus' 2000th birthday?

POINT 10: IT'S TIME TO BIRTH THE BABY

Pierre Tielhard de Chardin wrote:

"Sooner or later souls will end by giving themselves to the religion which activates them most as human beings."

"After what will soon be 2,000 years, Christ must be born again, he must be reincarnated in a world that has become too different from that in which he lived."

Esther Inilski (Overseer for global intercession):

Reporter Chris Mitchell, CBN: "Esther Inilski oversees a prayer network for global intercession. She says many intercessors describe the times we're in like a spiritual pregnancy."

Esther Inilski: "We talk about revival and birthing, using that term as well. And, yes, this baby's been in the womb a long, long time and we're saying we've got to get this baby birthed. And we believe, yes, that God's time has arrived."

Wes Campbell (Vineyard Pastor) praying for a participant at a recent prayer service:

"Father, we pray that you'd put an anointing of a preacher on Matthew, an anointing of fire. Let the coals come from the altar of the Lord, Matthew, and touch your lips. And Lord, I pray for faith and ignition. Let fire come out of his stomach, Lord, let the fire of God come on his back. And Lord, I pray that Matthew would stand up in faith, that's true faith, Matthew, believe it! IT'S THE TIME TO BIRTH THE BABY. It's the time for the outpouring of the Spirit. Believe it! Lord, I pray for faith that when Matthew says, 'This is the time!' It's not, 'I hope it's the time,' . . . 'it might be the time.' THIS IS THE TIME! . . ."

Jay Gary (AD2000 Global Service Office):

"So it is with the coming Bimillennial Era. If it is to have any hope of more than a passing success, it must GIVE BIRTH TO THE 'SPIRIT OF 2000.' . . . We must recover the simple idea that the SPARK OF ETERNITY has been PLACED WITHIN EACH HUMAN BEING. We must fan this flame, this tiny spark within every person - and insure that no government, no group, or no authority is allowed to smother or snuff out this sacred flame.

"Where can you share the "Spirit of 2000"?" Each of us have circles of influence and networks we can touch - our local parish, a rotary club, or a professional network.

"As early citizens of the 21st century, we have a sacred duty to carry this torch across the length and breadth of the planet. Let's blow the jubilee trumpet and herald this coming renaissance among government, education, arts, media, business and religion."

Barbara Marx Hubbard (Futurist, a founder of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution):

"'Behold, I show you a mystery: We shall not all sleep; but we shall all be changed.' Omega! The PLANETARY BIRTH is a real event in cosmic time. . . . that is really HAPPENING TO US NOW!"

Celebration of Jubilee 2000 is a global event that will give birth to a corporate Christ made up of New Age adherents and a deceived Church. Homo Universalis will come forth; the Manifest Sons of God will come forth; the "children of God" will come forth, with the denominations following behind Rome into a Great Jubilee.

POINT 11: WE MUST REALIZE WHAT IS HAPPENING: JUBILEE = PLANETARY PENTECOST

The following scenario is rather simplistic, but it illustrates how easily every Christian in every denomination can be pointed towards Jubilee:

1. Jay Gary will call the participants in global evangelism to Jubilee 2000.

2. The Pope will call those he's unified to celebrate his preannounced Jubilee: Muslims, Catholics, Jews, denominational Christians and other religions of the world.

3. Joel's Army of the Latter Rain will march out of Tabernacles into Jubilee.

4. Barbara Marx Hubbard and other New Agers will call their followers into a Planetary Pentecost, where the Spirit is poured out on ALL FLESH.

The celebration of Jubilee, or as Hubbard calls it, The Planetary Pentecost, is setting up the perfect conditions for the simultaneous manifestations of the Latter Rain's Sons of God and the New Age's Homo Universalis. Even Pope John Paul II, in Article 23 of his Jubilee document, expresses this expectation:

"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.' . . . . Despite appearances, humanity continues to await THE REVELATION OF THE CHILDREN OF GOD and lives by THIS HOPE, like a mother in labor, to use the image employed so powerfully by St. Paul in his Letter to the Romans (cf. 8:19-22)."

The Pope wants the time leading up to Jubilee to be LIVED AS A NEW ADVENT, and Advent means "a coming or an arrival". Is John Paul, like Hubbard, asking what in our day is comparable to the birth of Christ? He wrote,

"Mary . . . should inspire all who cooperate in the Church's apostolic mission for the REBIRTH OF HUMANITY. . . ".

So his hope is not the second coming of Christ in the clouds, but rather the manifestation of the children of God. That's Latter Rain theology. I'm not suggesting that all of these people, including Jay Gary and the Pope, are Latter Rainist. What I am saying is that the Latter Rain doctrine has subtly influenced and is now controlling the direction of the Church, which as a result is increasingly uniting on a global basis.

POINT 12: WE NEED TO LOOK AT ONE LAST CELEBRATION: PLANETARY PENTECOST

Barbara Marx Hubbard's Christ said we would see the NEW Beginnings. Her Christ also promised an outpouring of the Spirit of God:

"Do this [Communion] in preparation for the Planetary Birth which will be induced through the experience given to the new disciples of Christ who choose to work together for a Planetary Pentecost, when the Spirit of God is poured out on all people."

The New Age Christ told Hubbard:

"The Instant of Co-operation begins, empathy floods the feelings of the whole body of Earth, separateness is overcome, and I appear to all of you at once. I appear to you from within as a voice, and as a vision of yourself as an evolving being. I appear to you from beyond as the light being that I now am. . . .

"At the moment of cosmic contact, I will appear to you both through inner experience and through external communication on your mass media - the nervous system of the world.

"You will all feel, hear and see my presence at one instant in time, each in your own way."

The Christ said he will communicate through external communication. Keeping in mind Earnest Ramsey's conclusion that Neo-pentecostalism's Jubilee is the same as the Age of Aquarius, or Hubbard's Planetary Pentecost, I ask you to consider this: Pope John Paul II is planning to speak by radio or television to 5 billion people of the world during the Jubilee celebration of Jesus' 2000th birthday. What do you suppose will happen if, during his address, he calls for another New Pentecost, or for the Spirit of Jubilee to be poured out? Would Mary inspire the rebirth of humanity to occur? What spirit do you think would respond - Jesus Christ or Hubbard's Christ? If it were Hubbard's, then the promise of a Planetary Pentecost resulting in a Planetary Birth by the New Age Christ would be fulfilled. Let me repeat Alice Bailey's words for you:

"What the orthodox theologian and the narrow doctrinaire have to offer no longer satisfies the intelligent seeker or suffices to answer his questions. He is shifting his allegiances into wider and more spiritual areas. He is moving OUT FROM UNDER doctrinal authority AND TO direct personal, spiritual experience AND COMING UNDER the direct authority which contact with Christ and His disciples, the masters, gives."

Many today are saying the Bride is pregnant and in labor and on her way to the celebration of a birth that Hubbard says is "comparable with the birth of Christ":

"The early Christians had a story to tell: a child was born . . . . Everyone could understand this story, from kings to peasants. Unexpectedly a new question burst forth in my mind. I spoke it out loud. Lifting my voice to the ice-white sky, I demanded to know:

"'What is our story? What in our age is comparable with the birth of Christ?' "I knew it must be one story for all of humankind, for we are all members of one planetary body. . . .

"Then I heard the inner words clearly [from the Christ]:

"'Our story is a birth. It is the birth of humankind as one body. . . . We are one body, born into this universe. GO TELL THE STORY OF OUR BIRTH . .'"

Barbara is telling it. The Latter Rain is telling it. Jay Gary is telling it. Pope John Paul II is telling it. Will we tell it, or will we warn the Church that we are headed into a deception and that the tool the adversary is using to deceive is the birth of our Lord and Savior 2000 years ago? There is not much time left to warn. We are only four years from the year 2000. We need to strongly consider the words of Tricia Tillin as we draw near to Christmas 2000:

"Very little is being said about the doctrine, origins, purpose and goal of the 'new move.' It is my belief that most churches and leaders do not know those things. . . .

"Few people involved in the current events know the origins of the phrases they are using (like Second Pentecost, or Latter Rain); few leaders understand where the concepts they have been taught in conferences, fraternals and elders' meetings have been coming from! Many have never even heard of the Latter Rain, and would deny having anything to do with such doctrine. Yet still they accept the beliefs with which they have been subtly indoctrinated over a period of decades! Ignorance is no excuse, for the teachings are plainly contrary to the Word of God. Leaders, as well as individual Christians, have a responsibility to test supposed new revelations, not to accept and promote them just because they are popular."