Are You Sure You Want an Open Heaven?
God’s glory has been manifested through what appears to be gold dust and a glory cloud at Bethel Church in Redding, CA with increasing frequency since August. This post is not a debate whether you believe it or not and even if you don’t truth is not diminished by your lack of belief. The Bible says nothing is impossible with God and if God is in it, I want it. I have friends who have first-hand testimony of the phenomenon happening at Bethel Church. I want to experience it in my church, but lately, I’ve been wondering: are we prepared for it? Last week I was reading the book of Mark; I noticed something I hadn’t seen before in Mark 1:10 . It says when Jesus was baptized in water he saw heaven torn open. I was struck by the words torn open . It depicts violence and I had to look it up in my Greek Bible. The original word is schizo , which means to rend, divide, break and it denotes a violent action. Everyone wants the effects of an open heaven but are we ready for the violence to r