THE HOLY GHOST MOUNTAIN MOVING COMPANY

Before Jesus cleansed the temple a second time, “he being hungry” saw a fig tree and subsequently "cursed” it at its root. The following day when Peter saw it, he said, “Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away. And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God. For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. Therefore I say unto you, What things so ever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them” (Mark 11:21-24).

I believe that Jesus’ words were as silver tried, purified seven times: Every word was measured by the Holy Ghost and anchored in “it is written!” As a man full of the Holy Ghost, Jesus was walking by faith that was ever proceeding from the Father; therefore he spoke in faith that was grounded in the Word of God. Jesus would have never said that you could speak to the mountain and it would obey you if He could not back it up with scripture! This gets it out of the realm of the “mystical” and out of the arena of “inward imaging” and into the solid ground of sound doctrine.

The whole chapter of Mark 11 teaches this principle of Jesus walking in faith that came from hearing the Word of God. Note that from the “Mount of Olives, he sendeth forth two of his disciples” to “find a colt tied.” The disciples did as they were told and found the colt just as Jesus said they would. How did Jesus know to do this? Because the voice of the Holy Ghost within lined up perfectly with the scriptures he had learned. It was written, “Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass” (Zechariah 9:9). This was one colt that this man had to let go of!

Why did Jesus cleanse the temple? Was it to make a show or was it sudden impulse? No, it was a fulfillment of Malachi 3:1 “The Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.” Jesus plainly stated his motive when He said, “Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer" but ye have made it a den of thieves”(Isaiah 56:7). Jesus walked into the temple by the faith of Malachi three verse one and the confidence of Isaiah!

Why did Jesus curse the fig tree when he knew “the time of figs was not yet.” Remember it was fig leaves that Adam tried to “cover” his sins with. Immediately God showed by making him a “coat of skins,” that only innocent blood could accomplish that. Indeed, the Old Covenant of God with Israel was centered on the blood of innocent animals. But this was never God’s ultimate plan and it never produced the desired results in Israel at that time—that will come at the end of the Great Tribulation. That is why it reads, "The time of figs was not yet."

Jesus knew that this Old Covenant was soon to fade away because he was fixing to cut the New Covenant in His Blood! Nothing could be surer than this: Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel all wrote of the New Covenant to come.! Jesus cursed the fig tree knowing from the scriptures that God could never satisfy his appetite for true worship with types and shadows. God was no longer going to cover mans sin: He was going to cleanse man’s heart and wash away his sins: “But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people” (Jeremiah 31:33). Jesus cursed the fig tree because he was walking in the faith of Jeremiah 31:33!

Now what about this “Holy Ghost Mountain Moving Company? From Mark 11:1 it is clear that Jesus at that time was “headquarted” at “Bethany at the Mount of Olives.” Now I know that "mountain" here is applicable to many things, but Jesus was specifically referencing the Mount of Olives when He taught that we could "speak to the mountain and it would obey."

Jesus said, “Have faith in God.” Romans 10:17 states: “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” Where did Jesus get the faith to teach his disciples this wonderful truth? Once again He got it from the teaching of the Holy Ghost that was grounded in the book of the Holy Ghost. He had read in the book of Zechariah 14:3-4: “Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.” Jesus knew that one day he would come back with the armies of heaven and set foot on the Mount of Olives and that it would “depart all the way to the sea!!(I heard Perry Stone teach this part) This truth had "leaped off the pages" of Zechariah into His heart before He ever spoke it to the disciples!

How did he know he was coming back? Because it is w…………