NEW SEASON

By Pastor Fred. M. Mukiri

Response to the New Season

The whole earth is in a new season. This has nothing to do with Autumn, Spring Summer or Winter. It’s a heavenly season, a divine season that has hit the Earth so hard that the Earth will never go back to what it has been before. We are on a journey to fulfill God’s mandate and His divine purposes. Since 1990s, prophetic voices around the world began to sound out that the Earth was in a brink of a New Dispensation. Dr. Morris Curello was among the key men who sounded that clarion call. When these prophets were speaking that way, the season we were in was the Charismatic season. People were being baptized into the Holy Spirit and many of them prophesied things from the Spirit of God.

Questions have risen about what the season is all about. This may not be enough forum to explain in detail what is happening .But to touch but a few things, we are moving from the dispensation of Church to Kingdom, from Sectarian, Denominational organization to Kingdom Communities, from God existing for our needs to we, living for His will, from a “parish complex” to covenantal relationships. Varied sectors of the Body of Christ have understood this while some recesses are opposed to it and brand it as “cultic”, just because they fall short of understanding what God’s Spirit is doing.

Knowledge of God is in “layers”. Truth in God is in layers. Before anything happens on Earth from the realm of the Divine, God takes it upon Himself to communicate it to His prophets - Joel 3:7.When the prophets announce what God is about to do, it becomes imperative for the people who hear to repent; this time not from sin, but from the inaccuracies that had characterized where they are, to embrace what God is about to release. Since the Protestant Reformation or otherwise the Lutheran Reformation of 1700’s, God has been systematically restoring truth that was lost in the Dark Ages of the Roman Catholic Monolith, consolidated under popes. These Truths were proclaimed by certain individuals who become the pioneers and developers of what they saw in God. But our greatest undoing has been denominations consolidated around these truths and the personalities and what they taught. So we have Lutherans, Wesleyans, Coptic, Presbyterians, Catholics, Pentecostals and so on. But that was not the intention of God. God is not sectarian neither is His body segmented. So a question has risen. What is the accurate response to a New Season that God speaks through the mouth of the prophets?
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I said, God’s truth is in layers. It is stone-upon-stone, .Let me explain.
Exodus 1:8 and following, opens up a discourse about a change of season. A different king came in Egypt and changed the course of events and orders of daily life.
We are told that he didn’t know Joseph and he went on to employ task masters who enslaved the children of Israel. These sons of Israel cried upon God and as a response, God sent Moses as a deliverer. The relationship of these sons of Israel with God from that point in time was towards a revelation of the nature and character of God. He took them to the mountain to explain to them the nature of that relationship and since they didn’t want to approach him, He gave them a set of precedence that would govern that relationship. He initially wanted to live among them but when He called them to Himself, they hid and didn’t want to approach His glory. God never intended them to become a religion, but that’s what they resulted into. A religious bunch, filled with dos and don’ts. It was supposed to be a RELATIONSHIP developing out of continual revelation of who God was and what His purposes for deliverance were.

So God gave Moses the Decalogue (10 commandments) to be a regulation and a government of how this peculiar relationship would operate. In the process of time, religious groups consolidated out of this initial relationship, which went on, through the years to develop thousands and thousands of laws and sub-laws out of the 10. The initial, simple relationship mutated into a stratified religious system, a monument of past glory, filled with dos and don’ts.

Secretarian dogmatism crept in that saw to division of the sons of Israel into sects based on what each believed and didn’t believe. There were Hellenists, Pharisees, Saducees, Zealots, Scribes, to mention but a few.

One of the disciples of these religious systems comes into picture to show us how religion and secretarian ideology operates at the onset of a new season from God. Remember, this religious outfit grew and consolidated from an authentic move of God, The Exodus. But because of failing to understand the intentions of God and His purposes for the Exodus, which was relationship - Exodus 3:10, it deviated, took a tangent and an offshoot took them off the track. God, in His own sovereignty sent His Son, the embodiment of all the law of God (Logos- Word-Counsel of God) to re-introduce God to them, just like Moses re-introduced the God of their fathers - Exodus 3:13-15. This Son, who was God’s Total Counsel in flesh; incarnate, was to shape up what went crooked, because , the problem was not the Law of God ,but the people on whom the Law came –Romans 8:1-13;7:7-14.

JOHN 3 introduces to us a man who was a teacher of this religious outfit. The way he expresses himself is the same way religion operates. So, in essence, John 3 is a confrontation between a New Season; a current representation of God, and a past season; what God did in the past.
Vs 2...HE CAME TO JESUS BY NIGHT...
Religion has a way of hiding from the light. I call them, night crawlers. They don’t want “to walk in the light as He is in the light”– 1 JOHN 1:5-7.They are afraid that their deeds will be seen for what they were .So he comes by night. According to this group, it was anathema, a cursedness of some sort, for God inhabit a human body. Human bodies, to them, were evil and beyond repair. So someone coming around and claiming that he was God - In - Flesh was something that gravitated a death penalty on that party. But this particular guy, who we will call NIC the righteous, seems to have been following Jesus from afar. Just like a past season, NIC the righteous knows the validity of the New, but he doesn’t want to leave the Old and link with the New.
Actually, that’s the reason why NIC the righteous comes to Jesus; a representative of the New at night. Doesn’t want its nature exposed. It always propagates and proliferates at night... night crawlers.
I can give NIC the righteous credit. For once, he refers to Jesus as rabbi, meaning “Teacher of the New.” He then goes on to say that “we know...”, in other words, the Previous or Old Season understands that the New Season is from God. Essentially, Nic the righteous is saying, “you one from God and God speaks to You now, not us”. According to NIC the righteous, no one could do what this New Season does unless God be with him.

Look at the focus of the New Season. Does it beat its chest at the pomp of all these accolades? Emphatic no! Jesus, a representative of the New, is not egocentric. The New Season is not accessed by Ego – Maniacs. Blunt words but true to the core. He does not congratulate NIC the righteous for discerning that this new thing is authentic. The others in NIC’s camp were saying this new thing was Cultic. They said He cast out devils using the prince of devils. They said He was mad, or otherwise, besides Himself. All these heap of abuse at an authentic thing that the Spirit of God was doing.

Jesus goes on to describe the necessary response to access the New Season. Verse 3... Verily, verily, I saw unto thee, except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God. A.V.
This is what the Authorized King James Version, New Scofield reference Bible 1967 copy put as footnotes to this verse:
“...The necessity of the new birth grows out of the incapacity of the natural (or religious) man to see or enter into the Kingdom of God. However gifted, moral, or refined the may be, the man is bluntly blind to spiritual truth and impotent to enter the Kingdom; for can neither obey, understand, nor please God... (John 3:3, 5, 6; Psalm 51; Jer 17:7; Mark 7: 21 – 23; I Cor 2: 14; Romans 8: 7, 8; Ephe 2:3)

NIC, this respected Jewish religious leader came to Jesus seeking this New Season. He actually needed to be born from Christ.

Religion can’t enter the Kingdom.
A rich young ruler came to Jesus, seeking the Kingdom, the New Season. “What do I do?” - Mark 10:17. He had money, but he had missed the New Season big time. His money had become his religion. Jesus replied that he should part with his god, which was his wealth and give it to the poor. Its not that money is essentially evil, but that was his greatest impediment. Money was his god. “...Come and follow me then”. - Mark 10:21.

A Samaritan woman had been through five husbands. She did not know that she was looking for the New Season in God. What makes me say that is because, this lady claims she was actually a worshipper, she met The Season Himself, at a well she frequented at odd hours. He told her that He could give her the Living Water; that He had ability to give her something that world satisfy her forever and become ... a spring of water welling to eternal life - John 4;10 -14. She said “...give me this water”.

Peter, in his assertiveness, tried to become an impediment to the door to the New Season. He was viewing and minding the things of men, not God’s. His remedy was, “...get thee behind me Satan”. In other words, as long as you mind what people say or think about you, you will gravitate “a Satan dimension”; an opposition to advancement of God‘s will. Peter’s cure came by alignment. “Get thee behind me! Align yourself to me. Tow the line Peter”.

Have you responded to the New Season or are you in opposition to it?





Fred is the leader at The Apoduterion, a Present Truth leadership capacity building facility of The Life Community in Thika, Kenya, engaged in development and dissemination of the Gospel of the Kingdom of God. He is engaged in primarily identifying and developing leaders for the 21st century and beyond.

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