Brother Eby also wrote:
The elect of the Lord who walk in the Spirit and are taught by the Spirit have little interest in dates and years, or in the passing of time. Our primary interest, yea, our all-consuming passion is to KNOW HIM in the fullness of Himself!
Those who love God and hear His voice by the Spirit are learning the blessed and holy truth that God’s purposes being worked out in the earth are not tied to dates on the calendar but to the spiritual growth and development within God’s called and separated people.
God’s calendar is both spiritual and experiential, not natural, physical, or carnal. It is that we might experience Christ in the perfection of His nature, in the fullness of His spirit and power, in the accomplishment of His purposes, and in the unveiling of His sonship glory, that the creation might behold HIM in the dawn of the New Day. Then everything and everyone will be blessed and quickened because of what He has wrought in us, not merely because a date on the calendar has arrived.
Only by the power of Christ raised up in us, the Light that He is, can anything anywhere be transformed by our hand. By His Light all darkness shall be dispelled. The arising of His glory, the dawning of His Day, is not a date to be calculated, but an attainment to be realized! It is the power of the voice of God, and the wonder of the work of God in His elect that alerts us to the reality of this Day — not dates, times, cycles, chronologies, prophecies, numbers, or calculations of any kind.
“YE are the light of the world,” Jesus declared to His disciples. THOSE WHO ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD ARE THE DAY OF THE LORD! Nothing could be plainer than that. We who are of the Day, and are not lovers or sleepers of the night, have a high heritage. “For ye were one time darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as sons of light” (Eph. 5:8). “While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be sons of light” (Jn. 12:36). “Ye are all the sons of light, and the sons of the day: we are not of the night, nor of the darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others…” (I Thes. 5:5-6).
We who have received the love of the truth and have been made the light of the world have a higher calling. We have privileges, and duties to perform. We must be about our Father’s business! There must be a parting of the ways with all who walk in the night of sin, negativism, religious bondage and spiritual drunkenness. It is time to forsake the shame and error of former carnal and religious realms, and time to look up, time to arise and shine!