Does God send His Spirit to anyone? Let’s go back and look at an early lesson from Scripture that is still relevant for us today.
Genesis 8:7 And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth .8 Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; 9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark. 10 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; 11 And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. Did human nature change after the evil world was destroyed by the flood? A pretty simple answer, look around you, we are heading down the same path as the world was in the times of Noah. 20 And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ had to be offered on the cross or altar for a world that loves corruption.
Galatians 5:17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: The raven and the dove are warring within our hearts and minds-so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. 18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. 19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. 24 And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. Has the flesh {raven} been crucified in our lives? The door has been opened and the {dove} is waiting to land on the new creation.
The dove returned to the ark with an olive branch. It is an image of peace and restoration. The dove has a few interesting qualities. Doves are often associated with purity and innocence, making them a fitting symbol for the Holy Spirit, Who is considered holy and pure, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
The raven, a symbol of the unclean, when it did not come back was it feeding on dead and decaying flesh? When Noah released the dove from the ark, it could not land upon the old creation and returned to the ark until it returned with an olive leaf. Noah knew it was time to go forth from the ark and build an altar and give thanks to God. Is there a spiritual lesson in this teaching for us today?
The dove is symbolic of life. The dove {Holy Spirit} feeds us through the truth of God’s Word. This carnal world of Satan reflects the raven, which ate upon the dead bodies floating on the waters. People are satisfied with what this fallen world has to offer. The raven has the mindset of the world it feeds on death. The world is spiritually feeding on the teaching of dead religions. We should be like the dove–we live for the anointing of the Holy Spirit. We all must ask ourselves, are we living the nature of the old world {man/woman} raven, or the new life of the new world {new man/woman} in Christ?
Ephesians 4:22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; 23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; 24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
The lesson from the ark, we must put off that old man/woman. That dead nature of the raven must be put to death. So the dove {Holy Spirit} may land on its new creation and bring life.
Ezekiel 36:26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. The “new spirit” is our spirit and the “my spirit” is the Holy Spirit. Were there no new spirit in us there would be no Holy Spirit within us. We would be like the raven feasting on this dead and decaying world. To have His Spirit we must have a new spirit united with our spirit.
Do we have peace? Is the new spirit dwelling within us? John 14:27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. This peace can only become a reality when the dove {Holy Spirit} descends upon us.
Remember the only thing that would satisfy the dove is something from the new creation. She found an olive leaf. Noah knew, the new creation was ready to go out into it. When God sees the dove {Holy Spirit} sitting on the new creation, He knowsHis end time temple is ready for habitation.
Look at those around us, the world feeds their minds and hearts on the dead rotten garbage of Satan’s world, this is what fills their hearts and minds. Just like the world at the time of Noah, this world is under God’s judgement, the door is open to all. Will they come to the open door? Will those we come in contact with listen to the end time preachers of righteousness?
The dove could not feed itself on the dead and decaying like the raven did. The dove had to continue to return to the ark until it found evidence of a new creation. We have to continue and return day after day after day to the Word of God till we find Spiritual food and the green olive branch.
Dove had an olive leaf in her mouth, we are to have the nature of the DOVE. We are to have the Word of God in our mouths. The RAVEN is an unclean bird that feeds on dead and decaying flesh. The dove is a clean bird symbolic of the Holy Spirit. We are to have the nature of the dove that finds no rest in a corrupt world.
If the last days are going to be like the times of Noah, is there a last day of safety that believers need to enter into now–even today. We enter into a place of safety that is far greater and more long-lasting than the safety of Noah’s ark. Acts 2:38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Outside of Noah’s ark, terror and sin reigned. As we look outside of God’s ark today, we see the same thing going on today, terror and sin reigns throughout the world. Just as in the days of Noah, the door of the ark stood open for a season, inviting whomever to come into the ark of safety. 2 Peter 2: 5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; Today God’s church is also preaching the righteousness of His Word just as Noah did. Are those around us listening to the message that the dove {Holy Spirit} has put within our hearts and minds?
The open door possibly made people feel there was plenty of time to accept the offer, because it was always open. It is no different today; many are not making their calling sure Matthew 25:1-11, and the world looks at it as tomorrow is going to be the same as today. The world is ever more comfortable living in sin and rebellion against God’s truth.
Brethren, we have to make our calling sure. Don’t get put to sleep spiritually in this Godless society. Jude 1:4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, {condemning God’s Word} turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, [means a license to sin} and denying { not to accept, to reject, to refuse something offered} {what has mankind rejected and refused and offered? The Word of God for the traditions of men} the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. Walk through the door while it is open.
Your brother in Christ,
Ron
Release of the Spirit – Ron Volk
July 6, 2025 by Shirley Gohner • Uncategorized • 0 Comments
Does God send His Spirit to anyone? Let’s go back and look at an early lesson from Scripture that is still relevant for us today.
Genesis 8:7 And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth .8 Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; 9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark. 10 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; 11 And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. Did human nature change after the evil world was destroyed by the flood? A pretty simple answer, look around you, we are heading down the same path as the world was in the times of Noah. 20 And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ had to be offered on the cross or altar for a world that loves corruption.
Galatians 5:17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: The raven and the dove are warring within our hearts and minds-so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. 18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. 19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. 24 And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. Has the flesh {raven} been crucified in our lives? The door has been opened and the {dove} is waiting to land on the new creation.
The dove returned to the ark with an olive branch. It is an image of peace and restoration. The dove has a few interesting qualities. Doves are often associated with purity and innocence, making them a fitting symbol for the Holy Spirit, Who is considered holy and pure, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
The raven, a symbol of the unclean, when it did not come back was it feeding on dead and decaying flesh? When Noah released the dove from the ark, it could not land upon the old creation and returned to the ark until it returned with an olive leaf. Noah knew it was time to go forth from the ark and build an altar and give thanks to God. Is there a spiritual lesson in this teaching for us today?
The dove is symbolic of life. The dove {Holy Spirit} feeds us through the truth of God’s Word. This carnal world of Satan reflects the raven, which ate upon the dead bodies floating on the waters. People are satisfied with what this fallen world has to offer. The raven has the mindset of the world it feeds on death. The world is spiritually feeding on the teaching of dead religions. We should be like the dove–we live for the anointing of the Holy Spirit. We all must ask ourselves, are we living the nature of the old world {man/woman} raven, or the new life of the new world {new man/woman} in Christ?
Ephesians 4:22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; 23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; 24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
The lesson from the ark, we must put off that old man/woman. That dead nature of the raven must be put to death. So the dove {Holy Spirit} may land on its new creation and bring life.
Ezekiel 36:26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. The “new spirit” is our spirit and the “my spirit” is the Holy Spirit. Were there no new spirit in us there would be no Holy Spirit within us. We would be like the raven feasting on this dead and decaying world. To have His Spirit we must have a new spirit united with our spirit.
Do we have peace? Is the new spirit dwelling within us? John 14:27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. This peace can only become a reality when the dove {Holy Spirit} descends upon us.
Remember the only thing that would satisfy the dove is something from the new creation. She found an olive leaf. Noah knew, the new creation was ready to go out into it. When God sees the dove {Holy Spirit} sitting on the new creation, He knowsHis end time temple is ready for habitation.
Look at those around us, the world feeds their minds and hearts on the dead rotten garbage of Satan’s world, this is what fills their hearts and minds. Just like the world at the time of Noah, this world is under God’s judgement, the door is open to all. Will they come to the open door? Will those we come in contact with listen to the end time preachers of righteousness?
The dove could not feed itself on the dead and decaying like the raven did. The dove had to continue to return to the ark until it found evidence of a new creation. We have to continue and return day after day after day to the Word of God till we find Spiritual food and the green olive branch.
Dove had an olive leaf in her mouth, we are to have the nature of the DOVE. We are to have the Word of God in our mouths. The RAVEN is an unclean bird that feeds on dead and decaying flesh. The dove is a clean bird symbolic of the Holy Spirit. We are to have the nature of the dove that finds no rest in a corrupt world.
If the last days are going to be like the times of Noah, is there a last day of safety that believers need to enter into now–even today. We enter into a place of safety that is far greater and more long-lasting than the safety of Noah’s ark. Acts 2:38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Outside of Noah’s ark, terror and sin reigned. As we look outside of God’s ark today, we see the same thing going on today, terror and sin reigns throughout the world. Just as in the days of Noah, the door of the ark stood open for a season, inviting whomever to come into the ark of safety. 2 Peter 2: 5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; Today God’s church is also preaching the righteousness of His Word just as Noah did. Are those around us listening to the message that the dove {Holy Spirit} has put within our hearts and minds?
The open door possibly made people feel there was plenty of time to accept the offer, because it was always open. It is no different today; many are not making their calling sure Matthew 25:1-11, and the world looks at it as tomorrow is going to be the same as today. The world is ever more comfortable living in sin and rebellion against God’s truth.
Brethren, we have to make our calling sure. Don’t get put to sleep spiritually in this Godless society. Jude 1:4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, {condemning God’s Word} turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, [means a license to sin} and denying { not to accept, to reject, to refuse something offered} {what has mankind rejected and refused and offered? The Word of God for the traditions of men} the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. Walk through the door while it is open.
Your brother in Christ,
Ron