September 2024

Putting on Christ, one Revelation at a time.


Posted on September 9, 2024 by ADMIN

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Putting on Christ one revelation and one deed at a time.

“All have sinned and Fallen short of the Glory of God.” in the fashion of Adam. For this reason we are called to put on the Glory is to “put on Christ“, one deed at a time, one promise after another to where it can be said of you. That “ye are completed in Him who is head over all powers and principalities in Heavenly places “in Christ”, as the acquisition of putting on Christ one revelation at a time until you have His testimony confirmed in you.

This is the gospel that accords with “godliness”, meaning god-like-ness. For if you remember at the end of the book of The Revelation of the Christ, that John stooped down to worship that angel that was talking to him thinking it was Christ and the angel said ” see that you do not do that for I am (just) one of thy brethren of those who keep the testimony of Christ. Worship Him.” He was a glorified saint, as being the gift given and the expected fruit of the cross and given to the Elect. To look to His word as a mirror, to brush off the dust from Adam, to see what we must become as our part of putting on Christ, one revelation at a time, during our sojourning here in the flesh.

This is why “The word of God became flesh and dwelt among us“. And why “we beheld the glory of the only begotten of the Father full of grace and truth” giving us pictures as to what we are to become like, not so much the man or we would have physical descriptions for that kind of getting dressed. It is He who is inside of us as being “spirit and truth”. And there is NO man who qualifies because of their carnal limitations, and why we are to put that off, not the flesh body as such, but to mean to put off carnal ways of thinking such as is common for self preservation. To be born again of the spirit? This is our new identity.

Here are some verses from Scripture having to do with taking off the old to put on the new man created in the image of God, as pertaining to “putting on Christ”. To mean that we put on Word and the attributes that are described therein. To be “putting off the body of the deeds of the flesh” and not the flesh itself, is “putting on Christ” who is NOT flesh such as is our outer person. That He became like us to show us that we can be like Him even before we finish our sojourning here in the flesh, and why it is a journey and not to sit and wait for an erroneous 2nd coming. (A phrase not found once in scripture). Lest you become found with the slothful stewards who say, “my master delays his coming”, when He comes to us even now. Oh the burning sensation of lost opportunities. Coulda, shoulda, woulda. To then be told “depart from Me you workers of iniquity for I do not know you from where you are from”, because they were left wanting and waiting, and the feast doors were closed, with them outside and out of view, because they did not make this correlation.

And because “In Him dwells the fullness of the godhead body, (we’ve entered into, and now) “we are complete in Him who is head over all” in the same way. Then we can enter His rest and cease from our works as our prototype the Christ has done for an example on how to do it. That we recognized our part and did it to be done. He did NOT give us a task we could NOT do.

This is having “run the race with endurance”. Then to be “seated waiting for our enemies to become our footstools” too. To mean we rest from the doubts and fears associated with their scary non-stop presentations which are many, because we have been given the opportunity to enter into Christ’s rest too. That putting on Christ is a do-able goal. Then to have time left to spare as we watch the events unfold from here. That we become spectators too.

That is what it means to “enter His rest”. This is what “the gospel according to godliness” delivered to us. And the word “accord” infers to a synchronization of persons. To be “in and of Christ” is the place of the seventh day rest the gospel delivers. Other wise how could we be invited to enter it?

This is why the Godhead body is a plurality of persons in one body. And we become one with and in that One body as “living stones built up a habitation of God in the Spirit, our new place and identity”. And we don’t have to wait for our body to expire to enjoy this fullness. We do however anticipate the greater gathering at the completion of the edict that went out to “Go ye therefore to the ends of the earth and the end of the age, teaching and preaching all I have commanded you”. To include us. For there remains a rest to the people of God, That those who have entered that rest, have ceased from their works as God did from His. Let us fear lest you fall short of it”? That may seem a little stern, but necessary. He did not leave us here without the tools to complete our task.

The Trade Off Takes Place Like This

2.(The Father) made Him who knew no sin, to become our sin, for us to become the righteousness of God in Him”? Some call this the “Transubstantiation”, to refer to where the transference of Christ likeness to you to become like Him takes place, “in the spirit of the mind”. And because He was with the Father in the beginning’ and His very image. Christ put on a copy of us without diminishing anything of Himself (John 1.1-3), so that we in turn would then put on a copy of Him to be like Him, for us to diminish no more. And because His original construction was NOT flesh but invisible code called word, it is who become the very aspects those words describe, that we put on and become in the spirit of our minds too. In this way we complete our cycle back to the Father “in the name of Christ” as His family member. That “He made Him who knew no sin, to become our sin for us to become His righteousness in Him”. To removed the road blocks. For us to in turn put off, NOT the flesh but the deeds of the flesh associated with a faithless way of thinking. AS we were instructed to “Be ye renewed in the spirit of our mind”. This is how your transition place.

Here below are some verses from scripture that tell us what to put on and what we are as becoming “Saints and Holy Ones”. To refer to Christs righteousness gifted to us from the cross for our discovery, our recovery, and our being re-imaged back to “That which is from the beginning” (John 1.1+14) This would be your job well done!

Matthew 6.25 “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. For life is more than food and the body more than clothing.

Romans 13.11 And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. 12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, (mostly unbelief) and let us put on the armor of light13 Let us walk [a]properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy. 14 But put on (like a garment) the Lord and Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.
And so you know that not mix the two natures, from Romans.
16 No one puts a piece of un-shrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch pulls away from the garment, and the tear is made worse. 17 Nor do they put new wine into old wine skins, or else the wine skins break, the wine is spilled, and the wine skins are ruined. But they put new wine into new wine skins, and both are preserved.” This is about the renewal of the mind as in the mind.

1 Corinthians 15.53? For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality (in the spirit of the mind where this all takes place). 54 So when this corruptible (way of thinking) has put on incorruption, and this mortal (mindset) has put on immortality, (and not when your body dies) then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: “Death (we inherited from Adam) is swallowed up in victory. And this is accomplished one revelation at a time, one installment after another until “Ye are complete in Him who is head over all powers and principalities.” To mean you too, to indicate that it is not at some second coming scenario but by one revelation after another, to receive one attribute after another.

5 Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. (ignor them) 6 Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience (who entertain such nonsense), 7 in which you yourselves once walked when you lived in them. 8 But now you must put off all these: anger, (payback), wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth. 9 Do not lie to one another, since (you have to see that) you have put off the old man with his deeds, 10 and (you) have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge in the likeness of the image of Him who created him, 11 where there is not the distictions of Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ has all and is in all. 12 That is why, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, long suffering; 13 bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you forgive them. 14 And above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection

Did you get that? Put on the bond of perfection??? You can do it, and as you see now, whatever blockages you may have had, can be erased and replaced with the truth. That YES, old things having passed away, behold all things are new, and all things are from Christ” and not from a department store because we cloth our insides, our invisible parts we learn to see in this way and type of dialogue.

So now maybe these words below from Peter may set these truths in cement.

1 Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained like precious faith with us by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ: 2 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in this knowledge of God and of Christ our Lord, 3 as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, 4 by which WE have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may (NOW) be partakers of the divine nature, having  (already) escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. 5 And also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue (add) knowledge, 6 to knowledge(add) self-control, to self-control (add) perseverance, to perseverance (add) godliness, 7 to godliness (add) brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness (add) love. 8 For (not if but sinse) these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in what we know of our Lord and Christ. 9 For those who lacks these things (is because they) have become shortsighted, even to blindness, and (they) have forgotten that they have been cleansed from their old sinfulness. 10 Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to (press in and) make your call and election sure, for in doing these things (and understand this) you will never stumble;

So now with these clarifications, to then use scripture for anything other than Gods recreated, restored images will likely just be feel good distractions because these writings are meant for our personal growth in godliness, to mean our own transformation and  transfiguration. To “work out your own salvation with fear and trembling for it is God who works in you for His own good pleasure.” So that you are not going it alone. Amen!

And so we have said and still say;

The Kingdom of God is at hand” in this way. Still!


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Church is Christs Body of Believers NOT a building


Posted on September 7, 2024 by ADMIN

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The Resurrected Body of Christ according to Scripture, is NOT a building but “wherever two or more are gathered together in My Name, there am I in their midst”. This is the invitation from Christ.

The concept of a “church structure” today is wrong because a church is just a New Testament synagogue. They are both just man made buildings.

As we see here in the book of Acts with Saul to become Paul that “And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they (people not a building called church) were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles (who are pillars of the Body of Christ. No physical structure involved with this church scenario to include multiple places to prove that “we are “living stones assembled together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.” That “wherever two or more are gathered in My name, there am I in their midst. And because God is spirit and God is truth and seeketh such, A physical structure is totally unsuitable for Him or His body of believers. We are asked to convert into his look a likes, taking on the angles of the “Chief Cornerstone that the builders rejected”. Why? Because they just could not understand that their physical temples, only shadowed the invisible for training purposes only.

Even as He spoke to David; “Go and tell My servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord: “You shall NOT build Me a house to dwell in. 5 For I have NOT dwelt in a house since the time that I brought up Israel, even to this day, but you have gone from tent to tent, and from one tabernacle to another. 6 Wherever I have moved about with all Israel, have I ever spoken a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd My people, saying, ‘Why have you not built Me a house/abode/church? 7 Now therefore, thus shall you say to My servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: “I took you from the sheepfold, from following the sheep, to be ruler over My people (called) Israel (and not a place it’s building) (of which Israel also is not a place but a people of a born again Jacob). 8 And I have been with you wherever you have gone (not a place), and have cut off all your enemies from before you, and have made you a name like the name of the great men who are on the earth. 9 Moreover I will appoint a place for My people Israel, and I will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own (to mean separated from and sanctified) and move no more (for eternity); nor shall the sons of wickedness oppress them anymore, as previously, 10 since the time that I commanded judges to be over My people Israel. I will also subdue all your enemies. Furthermore I tell you that I your God will build a house. 11 And it shall be, when your days are fulfilled, when you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up your SEED (Christ) after you, who will be of your lineage; and I will establish HIS kingdom. 12 He shall build Me a house (church), and HIS throne will be established (and oporational) forever. 13 I will be HIS Father, and HE shall be My son; and I will NOT take My mercy away from Him, as I took it from those who were before Him. 14 And I will establish HIM in My house and in My forever kingdom; and HIS throne shall be eternally established

And it was Peter first to align himself with Christ, the Chief cornerstone that the rest of the living stones draw their angles of angels from.

And from Deuteronomy 20. God told Moses “when you build My Temple, you shall not use hewn stone. For the moment you have touched it with tools (of fabrications of man’s hands) DO NOT ASSOCIATE ME WITH SUCH FIR IN THE DAY THAT YOU DE SO, YOU HAVE Defiled IT!”

SO WHEN Christ came and started building His assembly, “on the foundation of the Prophets and Apostles with Christ the Chief cornerstone”. What quarry did He come from. And since “we are a habitation of God in the spirit”. Then this puts all dedicated carnal structures called Churches, all blaspheme Gods Word and Holy Spirit. Why? Because they will not associate with such.” Those words are from scripture.

That is why we say; Enter The New Covenant era Kingdom. And “The Kingdom of God is at hand”. To mean that it is within reach to the re-spirited mind of faith. Even as Peter said “5 Ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Christ. 6 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and those that believeth on him shall not be confounded. To mean you will not be confused about these truths.

We are in Him, as part of His structure, and He is in us, and that we are His members and feelers in a dying world.

And it all started right here; (17 Christ spoke these words, lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said: “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You, as You have given Him authority over all flesh (in an eternal way), that, for Him to give eternal life to as many as You have given Him. And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and the Christ whom You have sent, who said. I have glorified You on the earth. I have finished the work which You have given Me to do (meaning all the scriptures). And now, O Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.” With these all fulfilled, He is now “seated at the right hand of the Father, waiting for His enemies to become His footstool (Hebrews 1.1) because of His previous work that is still being played out TODAY, so as not to need an addendum, modifications or anything else you can think of for Him to need to come back to do something else as if we were left orphans. Those are all forms of disbelief. For IT IS FINISHED!  (The Holy Spirit Now is at work in us, as is Word already spoken and laid out, or splayed, with arms wide at the cross (Our cross over point into Eternity), to “Come unto Me”

And we can confirm His “Will and Testament, which describes the distribution of the testators goods as the result of that death to mean the cross. That we are joint heirs of the things of God even NOW that were written back then.

Check the scriptures, there is no other point of distribution, NOT even a second coming. The term second coming is not in scripture. That “,we come to Him as living stones” (1Peter 2.4-5)

The only difference is the time of your new birth, to mean those “born of the Spirit as joint heirs of the things “In Christ”.

As you can see, it was Christ, after He put off His flesh assembled the 12 Apostles as the foundation laid back then that we are standing on NOW! To then have as door ways or entry points described as the 12 prophets according to The Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ to show His servants things which must shortly (also translated “immediately) take place.” And it did. To mean within their time frame back then. Even as Christ had said, ” for I tell you the truth, their are some standing here who shall not taste death until they see (Me) the son of Man (Christ) coming in great Glory and power in My Kingdom”. To infer that what was written was meant to whom it was spoken to back then to THAT generation. That “The Kingdom of God was at hand” back then as it is NOW! If you can hear His voice. Go to your scriptures and look for the phrase “second coming”. It is not there, because His comings are many. And it was the wicked servant who said “my Master delays His coming”. So you have been warned!

And because Christ built with “living stones” like “Peter”, not the man so much but his inner man. You don’t visually see this, but if you are perceptive, you should be able to perceive it (to mean an inner seeing), with your heart. “For it is with the heart that one must hear and see to receive the things from God”.

And this is how ALL revelation takes place because even as Christ said “My Kingdom is NOT from here (at that time standing in THAT Jerusalem,s (not so) holy place, to continue and say,) “if it was My Kingdom I would fight but hence My Kingdom is NOT from here” excluding Himself from the all the Jews and their religious structures that “were cast down till not one stone was left standing.” This is the anger of God towards physical structures supposing to be Holy.

To understand Gods Kingdom in this way, frees us up to say Yes, We are living stones assembled a habitation of God in the Spirit, and it only takes two (structural) members gathered together to participate in “Heavenly Jerusalem the Mother of us all, who are born of the Spirit. That this “Mother of us all”, is to infer that it started with Christ’s Baptism of The Holy Spirit, His Bride and wife where John the Baptist was the best man and carnal witness to include as many as are born again and borne from above, as those born of the Spirit. (John 3, abc’s of faith). To mean us too!

Are you starting to get the picture? Living stones? A habitation of God in the Spirit?  Because if you want something more actual, factual and substantial, you are trying to appease your carnal nature when scripture declares that “Old things having past away, behold ALL things have (already) become new, and ALL things are from Christ”. Not the man, but who He was before He ever “became flesh and dwelt among us. These are the rightful heirs of the Kingdom. He only became flesh to show us how to put it back off. Not so much the flesh body itself, but the fleshly appetites demands and fears that promote carnal preservation. That is the mindset that is “enmity against God”, that enshrines Temples, Cathedrals and Churches….

But the scriptures say that Christ is the first born from the dead, as the Chief Cornerstone. (The stone that the builders rejected has become the Chief cornerstone”. And that is a marvelous work in our sight”!) These verses all speak of the Christ for while He was here in the flesh, He fulfilled, or, filled to the full all of scripture up till His day to include the gospels as the ending of The Old Covenant, for the New Covenant to start after His death and resurrection. To leave no open ended scriptures to fulfill in some future.

And as He told the disciples right before the cross. He said “I go to the Father and ye see Me again no more“(John 16). However you would never know that now by the current teachings of a second coming Jesus man. For “flesh and bone does Not inherit the Kingdom”. And if that is not enough? Hebrews chapter 1 states that Christ is seated waiting for His enemies to become His footstool. Why? Because, as He said at the cross “Father, it is finished. And from John 17. 4 I have glorified You on the earth. I have finished the work which You have given Me to do. 5 And now, O Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.

And to enter His Glory, like with sports. There is no glory or trophy until the task is completed and the competition has been defeated. This is why Christ is seated waiting for His enemies to become His footstool, (Hebrews 1.1) as He watches everything being played out to perfection.

This is the institution in the spirit of your mind, of “Heavenly Jerusalem the Mother of us all, started with “and I say you are Peter, (to mean Petros and Rock) and on this rock I will (NOT build My church but, I will assemble my church!! (The Greek word translated church, is ekklisia and means (those who are called). That we are the living stones built up a habitation of God in the spirit. That we are His members. And where ever two or more are assembled (also translated built) there am I in their midst”.

And because kind begets kind and associates with such. Physical structures are completely unsuitable to house those who are born again and borne from above and borne by the Spirit. That “the spirit blows where it wishes? You can hear the sound but you don’t know where it comes from or where it goes?” So is everyone who is borne from above”, to mean of the Spirit. So that yes, born again believer’s, These are the bricks for the building of God. The brick that the builders rejected became the Chief Cornerstone.

We are “built up a habitation of God in the spirit. And, that wherever two or more are gathered on My name, there I am”? We are His assembly. His “general assembly and church of the firstborn. See that you do not refuse Him who speaks from Heaven! For if they did not escape him who spoke on earth, how much more will they escape Him who speaks from Heaven for the removal of ALL (all visible) things for the invisible to remain?”

Separating the wheat from the chaff.

It was the “Ekklesia” erroneously translated “church” was to mean an “assembly of believers” as operating off of these truths and NOT a physical structure where the word “church” gets inverted to confuse these final generations.

Of which church has no Hebrew or Greek correlation and is etymologically associated with the Scottish words kirk, curse, circus and sorcery and has no real relevance with scripture other than what people have been taught to believe about church today. But their church refers to a visible, physical structure. But we are living stones!!!

God had already made it crystal clear in Exodus 20. That “if you make Me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stone (or if you use your tools on it) for in the day that you use your tool on it? You have profaned it, Do NOT associate Me with such”.

And in New Covenant lingo “22 In whom ye also are built together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

And not a physical man made building of any sort at all ever. For it was even the whole population of the Old Covenant that were called “children nearly 1200 times in Scripture, because they could not understand that what they were doing was playing with toys. They put up and took down over and over using training instruments, but never made the cross over. They all died in the wilderness which just describes their bewildered mindsets.

So goes the whole of Christendom today with churches and cathedrals. But we were warned that “The wheat and the tares grow together? How much more deceptive can you get than building with bricks, and how much more blasphemous can the final era church extend her defiance in the face of the scriptural evidences. And with the obvious observation, there is of a lack of knowledge or repentance. That “if per chance God gives them a knowledge of repentance? So as to escape the snare of the Devil who has taken them captive to do his will? So as to repent and change?  And from Peter “it would be better off NOT knowing the truth than to know it and turn from it. But as a dog returns to its vomit and a pig to the wallowing in the mire, do to these go back to the old way of doing things. And with more quotes directly from our Savior, “when the Son of man comes, will He really find faith on earth?” Even as Christ was asked, “are there many or few that will be saved? Who told the disciples. “Strive to enter the Kingdom for the narrow is the gate and few there are that find it, but broad is the gate that leads to destruction” and many find it. And “wicked men and impostors grow worse and worse? You may find you have to go it alone in the flesh. However the validations from Gods Holy Spirit will reward you tremendously for doing so.

As we hope you can recognize these truth here. That God rewards those that diligently seek Him! Because we will all have to face a time when you feel you have to go it alone, for that is a test of obedience and personal sovereignty acquired as being fulfilled as His image.

And again from the gospel “Those who love brothers, sisters mothers and fathers more than Me? are not worthy of Me”, said Christ. This is a concept you have to face as testing your intentions for that is what our life here is for. A separation process. Even as Hebrews states;  4.13-16 dividing of soul and Spirit, and there is nothing hidden from the sight from Him with whom we have to do”, to mean, with whom we must give an account.

“The wheat and the tares nature together”? But “first gather the tares in bundles to burn, to gather the wheat into My barn”. To mean that the wheat will see the bundling in terms and conditions for uncountable contending counterfeits.

How snug it feels to have comfort in numbers among the man made church buildings, but that is NOT a promise from the Heavenly Father or His Only Begotten. And again “are there many or few that are saved?” To mean avoid being bundled to burn. And Christs answer? “Broad is the road that leads to destruction and many find it”. Our rout is the narrow path and treacherous. To mean one at a time, and “each one in their own order, Christ first”. (1 Corinthians 25)

Here is our warning explicit and clear from Hebrews ”

22 you HAVE (already) come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, 23 to the [j]general assembly and the Ekklesia of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24 to Christ the Mediator of the new covenant, and of His blood that was sprinkled that speaks better things than that of Abel.

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Hear the Heavenly Voice

25 See that you do not refuse Him who speaks (to you through these words). For if they (under the Old Covenant) did not escape Him who spoke on earth? How much more shall we NOT escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven (to us by His Holy Spirit), 26 whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, “Yet one more time I [k]shake not only the earth, but also heaven.” 27 Now this, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken (even as we speak here), as of things that are made (associated with the seven days creation with Adamites), so that the things which cannot be shaken (meaning the Eternal) may remain (to mean without competition.)

28 Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we [l]may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. 29 For our God is a consuming fire.

For God had said “And if you make Me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stone; for in the day that you use your tool on it? You have profaned it, do not associate me with such”? So goes all physical structures, to include all your brick and mortar churches, cathedrals or other built structures such as are common to man, as blasphemous, because of how a physical temple distorts our perceptions of these truths. Even as Christ said to Petros, or Peter “For I call you Petros for upon this rock I shall assemble my church, in Greek  from “eklesia”, which simply means “My called out ones”. Called out of the old testament teaching tools into the invisible. That is why we are called “Living stones assembled for a habitation of God in the Spirit. And why Peter in Greek is Petros and means Rock. And from the revelation “built up of stones that are the measure of a man that is of an angel”, as once again associated with the part that intricates us with Spirit and truth and not churches. That is part of “the illusion with all lying signs and wonders if possible to deceive the Elect. And if you are NOT sure that you are of the Elect, then if I was you? I’d reconsider my affections for buildings of worship. For sinse “the wheat and the tares mature together”, and “the first shall be last and the last shall be first”. And “if possible to deceive the Elect”, to mean,, if you are NOT sure that you are among the Elect? And your not sure if what we say about the church is true? It may be your view of church that may prevent you from receiving the validation from the Holy Spirit that you are of the Elect. Because if you have not received this revelation by the spirit of what we say about church? It could be because you are hanging on to the concept today that is common about church, that just does NOT fit with scripture. And if you wonder how this could happen? You need to go no further than Matthew 13 that states

The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: 25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. 26 But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. 27 So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares? 28 He said unto them, An enemy hath done this.

So for us, we have to scramble through the debris of weakened understandings and translations of Gods gospel of His Son, to uncover these truths. So we borrow this verse that Paul brings up later, to show you where we are going through the mumbled text in its current condition, to say that  18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the self same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit.” To use the mirror metaphorically. So as too set aside the notion of some future coming Jesus to give you something later as though we are left here bereft and  ill-equipt, waiting for our change to come, when we have the scriptures and the Holy Spirit to deliver us the goods.

That, as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, 4 by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these (PROMISES) you can be partakers of the divine nature (NOW), having (already) escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.” And how? Through the knowledge, to apply what you know As Paul says “sown in weakness, raised in understanding”. So unless you know where we are going, you might get lost as we fumble through some distorted texts to get through this juxtaposition, to where what we just quoted makes more sense.


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