Teachings

Jesus ascends to heaven – Before Jesus returned to heaven, He gave His disciples one last charge: go tarry in Jerusalem until you are filled with power from on high. Being filled with the Spirit would empower them to be the Apostles that Jesus had called them to be. This would give them power to preach the gospel and do the works of God as Jesus had commanded them to do in all the world. Holy Ghost poured out – After the disciples tarried in the upper room for a hundred and twenty days, they were all in one place and in one mind when they heard a sound from heaven as a rushing mighty wind. It filled the place where they were sitting, and cloven tongues of fire sat…

The angel Gabriel visits Zechariah and then Mary – The prophets that were in the old testament spoke often of the coming messiah that would save God’s people from their sin and their separation from Him that began in Adam. They also prophesied a forerunner that would prepare the way of the Lord. When the time was fulfilled to bring these prophecies to pass, God sent Gabriel, the angel of God that stands in the presence of the Lord, to deliver these messages. ~ He first visited Zechariah, who was a priest in the temple of God. Even though his wife Elizabeth’s womb was dead, Gabriel declared that they would bear a child that would go before the face of the Lord to prepare His ways and to give knowledge…