Sayings about the Last Generation Jews.

It was John the Baptist who told both governing parties of the, “Pharisees and Sadducees (who had) come to his baptismal, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? John was equating the rulers and teachers of the Jews in that day as working for Satan. And John goes on to condemn them saying “And even now the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Speaking of their impending doom in that generation.

In essence John was telling them that their time was up, that they would be no more. That the wrath of God was looming and their replacement had come. Of which we know as the King of kings and The Lord of lords with that Coming of Christ with and in His Kingdom we know even is still with us today as “The Kingdom of God at hand”. For this is the Jews and their Jerusalem in that Israels unexpire-able eternal replacement.

We have this warning from John who said to the people “ I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance. but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to loosen: He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire: As a means of supersession.

We then see that it was Christ who after John had baptized Him, went about inviting people to “The Kingdom of God at hand”. And He was NOT promoting THAT generation of Jews or their rendition of a kingdom for God, but theirs. That Christ had become “a new and living way to The Father (because the Old had failed), which he has consecrated for us, through the veil of His flesh; Through the Cross.

It was Christ who accomplished something that the Old Covenant/Testament and all its participants could NOT do. Even as He said to those Jews when they chided Him for being a king but not theirs. Christ replied “you have correctly called Me King, however My kingdom is not from here” thereby distancing Himself between that Jerusalem in that nation also saying “or I’d fight for it”

It was here that He drew a demarcation line between His Kingdom and their blasphemous, bastardized rendition they were expecting to be exonerated for? As though a Jerusalem on earth was important as they do again today?

Yes, we “know the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews(again today), and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan. “Of Satan” because they are renewing and revitalizing their rendition of that kingdom of old (old testament times) as though that was Gods favorite.

To which we say it is gods favorite but NOT the Creator God, but the god of this age as was the last Jerusalem  from the time of Christ because it expired with “all of the law and the prophets (who) were ONLY till John the Baptist”. It was he who denounced them and who would introduce their replacement called the Christ of whom John baptized and said “this is the one who comes after me, who is greater than me, whose shoe laces I am not worthy to stoop to untie”. And “He who comes after me was preferred before me” because He was pre-existant.

These were all done so that “all things may be fulfilled”. Meaning filled to the full expectation of who Christ is, and the realization that the time of the Jews were emphatically over from that time on.

If Christ came in support of that generation of Jews kingdom, He would not have introduced another Kingdom.

So when Christ came to introduce “The Kingdom of God at hand”, He had to make it clear that He wasn’t talking about the Jews Jersalem but His. And if THAT Jerusalem with those Jews were pleasing to Him, then there would be no need for their replacement. But most people today don’t get that. We say that because they have bought into the idea that the modern Jews are doing a noble work by bringing back that dastardly place, but they are not. To take expired and fulfilled verses from the pages of scripture to repurpose and rebrand them for another coming christ, meaning a second coming One, spits in the face of the work Christ already clearly accomplished when “He became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His Glory as the Only Begotten of the Father”. For Him to inturn say “Father I have finished the work you have given Me to do”. And make no mistake about it, He has nothing left to do but 2 Peter 3.10.

For you see, if the eternal Son of God had been pleased with those Jews and their Jerusalem in that day, it would’ve remained till this day. Why would Christ make a personal appearance and start with sayings like “you have heard it said of old, but I tell you…? Unless He was letting them know that the change had come and that He was taking over. “All the Law and the prophets were till John? Now the (replacement) Kingdom is preached and all are entering?”

Then He we to say “But I say unto you” to draw a contrast exposing the opposition. Christ brought in the antidote to what the Jews were peddling. We say peddling because they had industrialized the things of God for business. Meaning to generate revenue. That is why He first over threw the money changers in their rendition of a temple for God. It was them who were pilfering off the would be sacrificers subjected to the guilt they promoted by the law for profit. Which is another proof that it was an industry because it generated cash. But remember “you shall not worship (or serve) God and Mammon” meaning money, showing who the Jewish leaders served. The two don’t mix. But never the less they sold forgiveness’s for cash. “For wherever your treasure is there is your heart.

Here are a collection of other saying of Christ about that generation. Notice that not one of them was a compliment. We bring these to your attention so that when you try to equate the modern Jews with the Jews in the time of Christ? You are right. And you are right because they are both blasphemous. But this final era of the Jews in our day is even worse because the last Jews in the time of Christ because the Jews today, and the portion of Christianity that follow them, are Hell bent and bound for condemnation because the person they call Jesus Christ, did not leave them a good reference for the Jews of old for the modern Jews and Christians to seek to return to that era. That “ none were righteous, no not one? And “you brood of vipers, sons of Satan?

And you may think that some were. But here is an Old Testament verse that Paul drew upon to make the same point that “10 As it is written: “There is none righteous, no, not one; 11 There is none who understands; There is none who seeks after God. 12 They have all turned aside; They have together become unprofitable; There is none who does good, no, not one.” 13 “Their throat is an open [a]tomb; With their tongues they have practiced deceit”; “The poison of asps is under their lips”; 14 “Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.” 15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood; 16 Destruction and misery are in their ways; 17 And the way of peace they have not known.” 18 “There is no fear of God before their eyes.” 

Hmm! Sounds like the Jews again in our day. We know that the law was given to expose their sin, not to exonerate any of them for if the Law did, there would be no need for The New Covenant. The New came because of their failure. But today? Many have reverted to the old covenant mindset who anticipate a coming King as they did of old, and a coming Christ of things that have already happened, showing their ignorance and their blatant disregard for the cross of Christ who became the one and only true sacrifice, fulfilling all sacrifices to negate the need of any others EVER. Hence the fulfillment and uselessness of the bygone age. They were looking for a King but rejected Him. They are looking again today but this time it is “9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion (yes God gave this to the wayward souls who rejected the One who already came for another they call a second coming), that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

As for us who are hearing in these days? We keep our distance from the representation of the Old, because we know that is the trap. Yes, it is a trap for a wayward people who have believed in such a blasphemous rendition of scripture to have forgotten the purpose and meaning of the Gospel to where the the New Will and Testament,with all its goods have been forgotten. You cannot incorporate two “Will and Testaments”. Because one gendered death through multiple sacrifices. But the replacement sacrifice of the Only Begotten of the Father gendered life because He was a one time sufficient price that was paid in full for all time and eternity. John 3.16. For people today to turn and go back to the Old Testament place offices, feats and sacrifices with this in mind is, blasphemous. It is NOT okay, it is NOT cute, it is NOT cute, funny or tolerable

That is why some were commended in the Revelation that said “ I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan. 

This is the ultimate blasphemy and the test of time showing that the Gospel message of the cross of the Only Begotten of the Father has returned to the days of Christ and run its course and it too is ready to expire along with the salvation message. Even as we read again in the revelation of “the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.

Tes, in the Revelation of Christ, it refers to Jerusalem on earth as both Sodom and Egypt, Let that sink in.

Yes, Jerusalem of old became blasphemous, and with that fact being established, how much more today will the wrath of God come pounding down on these deceivers. But the deceivers are not the enemy. The believers of the lies are. The deceivers are empowered by those who are deceived for you see, it is the power God gives to humanity, that resurrect and empower the old enemy and Satan who “must be released one more time to deceive the people of earth one more time. But God didn’y let Him out. Fallen humanity did through fear, they brought back to life their old foe. God gave us Christ for us to be re-empowered for godliness and humanity lazily resurrected, and rise to the occasion of one last deception. You have been warned!!!

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness (and empwer the illusion by broadcasting it); 19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. 20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: 21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man,

And they call it “a second coming”, a phrase not found once in scripture. So we say again in our day “9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that can save them (The Christ of The Cross). 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion (a second coming savior to save by rapture in competition with The Savior of The Cross), that they should believe a lie: 12 That they may all be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in(thee) unrighteousness (of a fairy tale of fallen fairys. Read full chapter/

The two women Hagar and Sarai become Sarah in Abrahams life Portrays the Old and New Covenants.

We have hidden throughout scripture keys to unlock prophesy. Our Heavenly Father did so to ensure that we would not be taken away by false gospel message renderings.

Some versions of scripture may seam innocent as they look for modernizing scripture through a succession of newer translations. And because “the wheat and the tares mature together”, we need to be able to backup what we believe in the midst of “an illusion with all lying signs and wonders, if possible to deceive the Elect”, that we’ve been warned about.

The reality here is that as the “lies” become more and more believable, we have to stay on the forefront of what our Father reveals to us lest we blend in with the modern Christians who have reached a critical point en-masse, by adapting it to the various cultures. Yes, the gospel has gone out to the ends of the world and of the ages. But we are to conform to the gospel, not the other way around.

Fortunately for us we have the Hebrew texts and Old Covenant story pictures to help us distinguish truth from compromises that causes deception by perverting the New Covenant, to blend it back into the old.

We are alluding here to the “illusion if possible to deceive the Elect”. And because the lies in our  day are that believable to the simple minded church goers. That we have such a variety of denominations and scriptural translations so as to find one that’s fashionable for you and your denomination, a term that admittantly is a smaller portion of a whole.

Where is your personal “transformation” in that? To which you may say, we all love God and that is all that matters. Hmm. Really? That’s scary.

But even Christ warned His Disciples of this saying “13 Therefore I speak them in parables: because seeing (with their eyes) they see not; and hearing (with their ears) they hear not, neither do they perceive or understand. 14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: That people quite likely don’t see the correlating lessons. This is flat out, alarming!

Case and point.

We are being presented today with a modern day rendition of another Jewish kingdom. Along with it is the idea that the Jerusalem of the Old Covenant, will be implemented, but this time the Son of God who is the Christ, will some how be happy in that He will come back and vindicate the poor Jews for being mistreated and accept their kingdom? Hmm. More blasphemy. Maybe Christ needs to apologize for giving them up to in turn vindicate them? After all we are all good people, right..? More blasphemy.

However much scripture is modified and simplified through subsequent renditions to appease the modern readers, and the removal of the Apocryph?

We can still find enough to inform sincere seekers, that God has woven these truths in picture form to be made known to us “by revelation”, and by unveiling through the historical pictures and parables. That “seeing with their eyes they see not and hearing with their ears they don’t hear or understand? This is what Christ says about the in-sincere.

But for the Elect? “All things are open and exposed to the eyes with Him in whom we have to do”. Meaning, of Him in whom we must give an account.

Lessons from Hagar and Sarah

The Old way verses The New Covenants as pictured in the life of Abraham, who himself was a prophecy of another Father, some call “Abba”.

We have embedded into Abraham’s life, some harsh realities that dispell the myth of the need to re-habitate the so called Jews in a modern Israel in a modern Jerusalem to rebuild their temple for their Messiah to come back. We already have our Messiah who told us “Lo, I am with you always, even throughout the ages”, yes even to the end. So we need not be distracted by such “illusions if possible to deceive the Elect”, meaning us with the Holy Spirit.

There are no unfulfilled verses from scripture but as 2 Peter wrote that “the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

And of that day, as the final day as we read further into 2 Peter

“But the day of the Lord (the next and the last appearing) will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. 11 Therefore, since all of creation will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, 12 looking for and hastening this coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?

Old Covenant and New Covenant as seen in the pictures of Abram with Hagar

It was Abram before he became Abr-ah-am, who begat a son from Hagar the maid “servant” to a “lord” and “in bondage” represents the Law era interlude as having to do with the “10 commandments” associated with the 12 tribes of Jacob, to include Judah (where the term Jew claims it’s heritage) as the covenant of a way NOT to do it. Yes, Hagars son who was found crying in the wilderness hungry and in need of water, depicts the Israelites with Moses. For it was them at their inception, having crossed through the Red Sea at their birth and their baptism. To then start crying in the wilderness for water. If you remember. The people started whining and complaining, like Hagars Ishmael crying under a bush. To then have Moses who was instructed by YHVH to “speak to the rock and it will yield water”. Where Moses instead said to those brought forth (born) to serve the “Lord” as master, “Must I strike this rock with my rod to bring forth water”. Whereas YHVH told Moses to simply speak to the rock and it will yield water.

Moses and company demonstrated that they fulfilled the prophecy of Abram with his maid/servant Hagar, that they were never intended to be the heirs of promise, even as it is written that Sarai to become Sar-ah, and Abram become Abr-ah-am. That their child Isaac, was the heir of promise.

Even as Paul taught those in Galatia saying, “24 which things are symbolic. For these are the two covenants: the one from Mount Sinai which gives birth to bondage, which (represents) Hagar— 25 for this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children—

To in turn equate Abr-ah-am and Sar-ah-, associated with the New and final covenant, the eternal replacement of the old, to never use the old analogies, pictures and concepts every again except as a picture of how not to do it, but just to serve as the contrast of “the new and living way. Again from Galatians. “26 but the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all. 27 For it is written: “Rejoice, O barren, You who do not bear! Break forth and shout, You who are not in labor! For the desolate has many more children Than she who has a husband.” 28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise. 29 But, as he who was born according to the flesh then persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, even so it is now. 30 Nevertheless what does the Scripture say? “Cast out the bondwoman and her son, for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.” 31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman but of the free.

With these truths so clearly laid out, how can you look at, regard or give credence to that monsterous rendition in what is falsely called Israel, Judah, Jews and Jerusalem today? “Cast out the bondwoman with her son (and belongings), for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.” 31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman but of the free.

Cast out the bond woman and her son (from your mindset)

The Old Covenant as seen with Hagar as a servant to be “Lorded” over, in contrast with The New Covenant seen in Sarah, saying “Cast out the bond woman and her son, for they shall not be hiers of the Kingdom”. The implication here is that you can NOT hold both old and new Covenants relevant at the same time. That  had to be expired and “cast out”, or, cut off, as to be discarded and circumcized, of putting off the flesh of the carnal thinking, physical, fulfillments, that ate replaced with the acquisition of spirit and truth that accords, or corrolates with godliness associated with The Last,  being The New Covenant the old only explains in pictures

These are the only two Covenants God made with Abraham and the differences between the promises made to Abram verses Abraham. Unfortunately for us readers, the New Testament/Covenant translations did not distinguish Abram from Abraham through to include The New Covenant where the conveyance of these contrasting covenants become obscuregets. Yes, Abram and Abraham are the same person, but a change in circumstances created the change in character, so that God gave him a name change so that we would make the distinction new from old to acknowledge our change, one revelation at a time until “we are complete in Him who is head over all principalities and powers”. That along with the name change, implies a change in the person as well.

At first Abram was given the promise that he would be a “father of 12 tribes, which corrolates to the Old, now expired Covenant that the Jews (from Judah/Yudah) present themselves as. It was Abrams Son Ishmael born by  Abrams maid servant that pictures the Old Covenant Law era, verses Abraham’s Son Isaac born from His wife Sarai, become Sarah with a name change too With Ishmael.

This is why in Galatians Paul taught to “cast out the bond women (Hagar) and her son for they were not the heirs of promise. If you remember, Hagar and Ishmael like the time of Moses, were all wandering in the wilderness looking for water for us to make their connection But “in the name shall thy seed be called differentiating between the law of sin and death and “the law of the Spirit of life in Christ has set us free from the Law of sin and death as being antagonistic to the spirit. And to “cast out the bond women and her son”, was to show us that the “Old Covenant” concepts have to be put to rest as historical relics, of the way on how NOT to do it. That Old Covenant and New Will and Testament Covenant have likenesses but ONLY IN CONTRASTS, as we read here in Galatians where Peter and Paul bumped heads over this very thing as we read here in Chapter 2. Where Paul the x Pharisee said “when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live in the manner of Gentiles and not as the Jews, ^[a]why do you compel Gentiles to live as ^[b]Jews?” Here is the exact text

……..In Genesis 12,God had made a with Abram saying “12 Now the Lord God had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee: 2 And I will make of thee a great nation (singular), and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: 3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed (end of promise). 4 So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran. 5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came. 6 And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land. 7 And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the Lord, who appeared unto him.

So here we have Abram, not Abraham. That Abram would dwell in Canaan as “a great nation (singular)” And this first promise/covenant, had to do with Abrams son from his maid servant Hagar, whom Abram lorded over. This son was born in bondage as having to do with being under the Old Covenant law

17 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect. 2 And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly. 3 And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying, 4 As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations. 5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee. 6 And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee. 7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. 8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God. 9 And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations. 10 This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised. 11 And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you. 12 And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed. 13 He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. 14 And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant. 15 And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be. 16 And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of her. 17 Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear? 18 And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee! 19 And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.

So you see, God made two covenants with Abram/Abraham. That with a name change came a covenant change. For God had said to Abram that he would make him a great nation (singular), but to Abraham with the New Covenant that replaced the old covenant that was fulfilled with Abrams see in his servant Hagar. And just as those of the Old Covenant called God Lord as having to do with “servants” as was Hagar. But it was NOT with Sarai but Sarah. So then it was “Abraham” and “Sarah” who had the name changes that had to do with a charecter change and a covenant change.

And here we will interject a little secret that is a promise to the Elect as having to do with The New Will and Testament/Covenant. It was as Christ was having His last conversation with the disiples to become Apostles, a higher order then a prophet, that He told them, “I go to the Father and you see Me again no more”. Then we have this account  24 And when they were come to Capernaum, they that collect tribute money came to Peter, and said, Doth not your master pay tribute? 25 He saith, Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? of whom do the kings of the earth take custom or tribute? of their own children, or of strangers? 26 Peter saith unto him, Of strangers. Jesus saith unto him, Then are the children free.

Hereby equating them as children and not servants because they are first-fruits of The New Covenant of which we are of the final harvest.

And here from Isaiah “51 Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek YHVH: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged. 2 Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you (in a parrable): for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.

The Will and Testament of Christ is complete.

It was Christ who said “I go to the Father and you see Me again no more”, who also said “follow Me that where I am, you may be also”as our intended goal.

That “we once knew Christ according to the flesh, but henceforth know we Him that way no longer”. Why? Because He who “in the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God”. That also “the Word became flesh and dwelt among us”. Who then put off the flesh and returned to the Father, who now calls us to Himself. How? By doing the same thing. We too become “word”.

That is why we are instructed to “put off the body of the sins of the flesh”, and not so much the flesh itself but the aspects of the flesh that are antagonistic to the reality of “spirit and truth”. And we do this with our tools in the faith. That “when we see Him as He is (WORD), we shall be like Him”? This has nothing to do with physical features, of something carried out by a poof of magic they call the rapture, but by pressing into the Kingdom, one revelation after another, in spite of the obstacles hurled at us from religious institutions claiming to work for God. You will know them as being profiteers for pay of money and Mammon.

For it is “the law of the spirit of life in Christ that sets us free from the law of sin and death” and not having to physically die to do so.  We say this so as NOT to bludgeon the physical body. No, for that is the innocent bi-stander, but we “put off the body of the sins of the flesh”. Which is a body of beliefs and principals or lack thereof. That is what we must put off as being substandard and antagonistic to the things of God. To then receive the exchange to  the truth and not new physical features. That we are to “be ye renewed in the spirit of your minds” as something that precedes and supersedes our carnal experience. “That we may prove what God’s good, acceptable and perfect will is”. That we can have both lives simultaneously, where the demands of the flesh have been squelched. It becomes a servant for a higher order of life. And that it is “the law of the spirit of life in Christ that has set us free from the law of sin and death”, and not our physical death or some second coming or end of life experience when we get our goods. This is the “Kingdom of God at hand” that Christ brought to us as He put out of business and shelved the old order of that day.

That is why it is “the slothful stewards” approach that says “my master delays his coming” as though Christ saving us is incomplete, that the cross was temporary, and He must do something more for our completion than just give His life for ours at the cross. For Him to have to do more, is blasphemy!

For we each one of us “shall stand before the Bema seat of Christ to receive for what we did in the body, good or bad. That we are responsible for what we do in the here and now of our life in the flesh where we are called to “work out our own salvation with fear and trembling” as our purpose here. This is us doing our part, because we have been given the way to overcome “the fall” as portrayed with Adam and Eve. And we do this through the application of the free gift we get through the gospel.

With this understanding, there are no good excuses for us not acquire godliness. Why? Because salvation is the restoration of the fallen image of God, to be raised back up in understanding where the fall took place. For there were no broken bones or sutures needed when Adam fell, but just to be set back in place of reflecting the image of the Creator who is a self governing sovereign indebted to no one. (This is the key) To no longer be lorded over by which we can once again say “Abba Father”.

This is the true gospel of salvation being our empowerment in the here and the now as being more than possible, but more so what is expected of us from Him who paid such a high price for our retrieval. As we read from in Hebrews to “let us go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God.

So the proof that it is now, is that the price was paid “in full” at the cross where Christ said “it is finished” and NOT “that’s all I can take”. Proving that the New Will and Testament is NOW in full force. And like all inheritances, they are in effect upon the death of the testator, and not some 2 thousand plus years later as most suppose. That we have access to “everything that pertains to life and god-li-ness by way of the knowledge (or of knowing) Christ who has called us to glory and virtue”, which takes place right now, in the spirit of our minds with eternal ramifications.

This is our inheritance as a result of the death of Christ. Yes He rose too to show us that He overcame. But He only did that because there was no other way. Even as He prayed in the garden. “Father if there is any other way”. All He had to do is to look at those saved by the Old Law Covenant and concur that “there is none righteous, no not one….

As it was written in the book of The Revelation, “The Testimony of Jesus Christ which God gave His servants of things which must shortly take place.” Was not to be a long drawn out process. If it was, the gospel would NOT be complete, but it is now. Even as we read in Hebrews, after He had purged our sin, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, and has become greater than all the (messenger) angels (and the law with the prophets), who now waits till His enemies are made His footstool”. How? It is us that apply these truths in the spirit of our minds, and in this way we are counted as being among The Elect.

This is THE message first spoken by the Son of God inviting us to “The Kingdom of God at hand” of “the Kingdom prepared from the foundations of the world”, as a testimony that preceded, superseded and  replaced the Law era that “shortly took place” because it took place and happened to them back then. And The New Testament is irreversible, un-expire-able, irrevocable, unchangeable, eternal and always “at hand”. And it is always new because of its ubiquitous nature, as “The Kingdom prepared from before the foundations of the world”. Eternal things can not be newly made, but brand new in their eternal glory, indicating that it is not in the making or coming later at a rapture or some second coming event as many suppose. And it is NOT time sensitive or location specific, or it could not be “at hand” and it could not be eternal. That is because God and His things are not subject to such.

But the Apostles who were sent out to the four corners of the earth, did so to preach that The Kingdom of God is at hand”, as not being time sensitive and location specific for if it was, it would NOT be “at hand” and it would not be eternal because it would have limitations, and it does not, but the impostor does,

From the opening of the book of the Revelation “God signified it and sent it like a letter to all the congregations pertaining to the things that are at hand. For even after all the testimonies and prophecies old and new had ended by the time of The Revelation of Jesus Christ saying “seal not the prophecies of this book for the time is at hand”. This was to remind us that the immanent return of Christ was associated with the invitation of “The Kingdom of God at hand” as being ubiquitous, eternal, surpassing space and time, proving to us that it is eternal. Meaning, all powerful and within reach anywhere and anytime, or else it could not be “The Kingdom of God at hand” but one that is coming later or that you must go to visit as many suppose. But their fruits expose themselves of being powerless as needing another because that is what they were taught and what they believe. But that simply is NOT the gospel, meaning the “Good News”. And that is not salvation but an empty hope to be realized later. Do you really believe that? Well that is NOT the gospel, which means, the good news. And “all the promises of God are yes and amen” and not maybe or later or at a secondcoming.

What this means to us today is that christian-dom  as a whole, has run it’s course. And the proof of this is that by and large, people believe the same things about Christ as the Old Testament Law era people did who were condemned and replaced for doing so. For they were not bearing fruit and had said “are you the coming one, or do we seek another”. So then again today they are seeking another coming one and the term “at hand is irrelevant. Hmh! What do you suppose the consequences are of that? Another time change? However the New and Old Testaments have had their turns for bearing fruit. Remember the parable about the farmer? Dig down around the roots and water it. Then if their is no fruit, pluck them out”.

,,When the gospel message that Christ died to give us,matches with and looks like the age in which He was rejected and crucified, don’t you think that would be another “last generation”? That the gospel once again has run its course? If God now wants to honor another fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies, then He has to apologize to the last Jews and make repairations to them for Him being a hypocrite. And if that is the case, then the Jews are in control and God serves them. This is their agenda. “Whose coming is according to Satan with ALL lying signs and wonders if possible to decieve the Elect”, of the likes of us who participate in “The Kingdom of God at hand” that Christ was crusified to instill in us. This is the battle today for the souls of people.

As Christ stated “I have not come to bring peace to the world but to start a fire, and how I am … till it is set ablaze. That scripture only has relevance in the context of which it is written, of the invisible. That all the law and prophets era along with all the parables were just tools we use to understand invisible realities that are not time sensitive or area specific. For if it were, then the message that The Kingdom of God is at hand, would not be because it would have limitations but it does not. The limitations belongs to us. Our shortfall is in the spot of our understanding.

For those who ascribe any future relevance of needing something else to happen, meaning prophecies and end times, or another time of the Jews, are doing so without authorization. Meaning, without the Authors intent or permission. In this case the Creator God’s. Why? Because you have to re-use expired texts to do so. Think about it. Old Testament, New Testament, back to Old Testament prophecies again? They really do not know what they are talking about when in truth even the four Gospels are primarily in The Old Testament because The Old had not expired till the death and the Resurrection of Christ that happened at the end of the Gospels. That a Testament is a will and only in force after the death of the testator happens, meaning after the cross, which is the cross over from Old to New Testaments. And testaments has to do with the dispersion of the deceased testators goods.

The scriptures are an evacuate plan into the spirit. This is us “ceasing from our works as God did from His”, as ‘”all things being deposited to our eternal account. We cannot add to it or take away from it. Just accept it or reject it. And to accept it is to grow into the knowledge and the application of it. To “be ye renewed in the spirit of your mind”, is where this all takes place. This is the gospel.

The gospel message is about God’s Only Begotten. It is His story, and of no coincidence, it is “history” as having happened. He is the object of the vernacular of God. That those who are truly “in Christ” are “in the rest” of God called The Sabbath days rest, and with the rest of God of those who have accepted the Gospel in its entirety. No loose ends, no open ended phrases or time frames. No incomplete or unexpired texts. And surely no room for more prophecies to happen to give us something else. The cross was sufficient for these things.

For this reason the last book in scripture called Book of The Revelation, opens with “The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly (means immediately) come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: 2 Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw. 3 Blessed are those that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand. Meaning, at your finger tips.

And that same “end times book” at the very end says “12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. 13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. 14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and that they may enter in through the gates into the city. 15 For outside (for those who dis-beleive) are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie. 16 I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the rooAnd if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.t and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star. 17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth  say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. 18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: 19 

The Kingdom of God really is “at hand”, meaning graspable and within reach, or Christ Himself would be a liar. Choose you this day. Amen

The End Times Cult

In Christs early teachings He described the gospel as a drag net that caught fish of many kinds. That once the drag net was brought in, the fish would be separated, the good from the bad. This parable is an  analogy (because that is what a parable means) of how the scripture works. It appeals to a broad spectrum of people, and the fisherman is looking for those who seek the truth.

In another parable, he separates the goats from the sheep

And Hebrews says “12 For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. So that we know what tools to use to attract the sheep.

And goes on to also say 13 And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and exposed to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.

So for those who go to scripture for its intended goal of “Salvation” by a Savior, (think of the application of salvation from its core word “salvage” from the wreckage from Adam and Eve, as the reconstruction of something back to its original purpose), they would likely find favorable results because this is the genuine purpose of scripture and why The key figure in the scriptures is called The Savior, verifying our claim. Whether you call Him Jesus, Yahweh, Jehovah or Frank, if you go to scripture to obtain your own salvation, which means restoration, that the “division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and and the thoughts and intents of the heart? You have come to the right place for the right thing.

This is where Gods work of salvation takes place to affect their status of life, meaning a forever life. This is the Authors intent and purpose of the scriptures, is your salvation. That the wreckage of the fall of humanity that took place in the Garden of Eden, and with the restoration pictured in The Garden of Gethsemane (in Greek meaning garden of the “skull“) indicating to us where the restoration of the fall we call “the resurrection” takes place, is in the spirit of the mind, and why we need to use parables and analogies to help us with our invisible components for us to “work out our own salvation with fear and trembling”.

This is us taking responsibility with the gift of salvation that was given to us at such a high price of the Christ at the cross, for many to in turn wait for a second coming Savior to do something more like His blood was not enough. That is NOT gonna happen. That is the “slothful steward who said “my Lord delays His coming”, for His comings are many. So let us do this with diligence lest we insult the gift Giver and the giver becomes a taker as He retracts His offer and His help from the slothful stewards and wayward souls who use scripture out of context for other causes.

Because of this, Paul said “16 Therefore, (meaning from now on), we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ in human form, yet now we know Him (as a man in the flesh) thus no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is [in Christ], they are a new creation; old things having passed away; behold (or, check it out), all things have become new. 18 Now all (these) things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us (the tools of His word for) this ministry of reconciliation, 19 to witness, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing peoples trespasses to (as many as would receive) them, and has committed to us this word of reconciliation.

In other words, it is here for the taking. That “the violent take it by force. And from Corinthians “Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may be the winner. Not that you have to literally fight or scramble for it. But you do have to be this serious. This is The Gospel!

We are not dealing with an angry God under this premise. And this is why the Gospel means “The Good News” because the antagonism was neutralized by the cross. Remember Christ asked the Father if there was any other way” it must’ve been no because He still went to the cross.  And when the question was asked “ What advantage then has the Jew, or what is the profit of circumcision?

It was the past record of the Jews of the the Law and the prophets that wasn’t too good, because the answer to that question was “10 As it is written: “There is none righteous, no, not one; 11 There is none who understands; There is none who seeks after God. 12 They have all turned aside; They have together become unprofitable; There is none who does good, no, not one.” 13 “Their throat is an open tomb; With their tongues they have practiced deceit”; “The poison of asps is under their lips”; 14 “Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.” 15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood; 16 Destruction and misery are in their ways; 17 And the way of peace they have not known. (Hmm, sounds like them again today)” 18 “There is no fear of God before their eyes.” 19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. 20 Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin. 

So however much people may go to scripture to feed other interests, like “end times” or holidays or wise saying or history, salvation is the purpose of its Author and why we have a Savior for the world who did so through the cross (John 3.16), meaning He is the Savior for all who would accept this message. Even as the Son had said “Lo, the volumes of the books were written of Me. I have come to do your will oh God. And by that one act, He took away the first (old covenant) to establish the second”. Meaning the Old Testament culture is irrelevant and that the the world is operating just fine as “the wheat and the tares mature together”. They can both get their nutrients from the same source being scripture.

This should clue you in as to who the “ill intended” seekers are? End timers. That is not the focus desired by its Author. Does this seem far fetched? Go and look. There is not one scripture that uses the phrase “second coming”. That is the focus we were warned of , saying “ the evil servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming,’ Because they have to see to believe. What does that have to do with faith? (Hebrews 11)

So if you are not seeking the purpose of the Authors intent, it is an unauthorized ill-intended application of their word, in this case Gods. His word is taken out of context, hence the analogy of the two edged sword that Gods word is meant to “discern between the thoughts and intents of the heart.

And like the spies with Rehab who were sent out another way? Because they were “ill intended”, meaning looking for the wrong things.

The Failure of All The Old Covenant.

And as a side note, the True God, who is the God of scripture is NOT a God of war for the same reason so that those who use scripture for wars, genocides and holocausts, or to get permission to kill others like the modern Jews do? They are more wayward then the Jews of old who were given up to their own demise of temple and Jerusalem worship. That’s why they were destroyed “till not one stone shall be left upon another” to become unrecognizable. Why? Well first because the punishment must fit the crime and their city with its presentations and entanglements were blasphemous, so God did a forever annihilation on them to detour any other attempt to try to re-create it. Because those Jews just could not and would not agree with nor understand these truths and principals in scripture. Even like Christ spoke at the Sermon on The Mount “The Kingdom of Heaven is like…” They were all only analogies. “Is like”?

That is what is meant by calling them “parables”. Sounds like, looks like but not really like. And to further compound this point, it was at The Sermon on the mount where Christ taught to “turn the other cheek” and to go the extra mile to settle a dispute, unlike the war mongers in the impostor Jerusalem of today. Because in truth, “the weapons of our warfare are not carnal (tanks, guns and bombs) but mighty through God for pulling down strongholds (mindsets and contracts), 5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, (yes, an invisible, spiritual war) bringing every thought into captivity to (ensure our) obedience to Christ, 6 and being ready to punish (with the sword of the spirit) all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled.”

And to punish or avenge has to do with matters of conscience and arguments has to do with words and mindsets which quite likely has an intended association with the word as “sword of the spirit”, or s-word as being analogous too. As “pulling down strongholds, 5 casting down arguments and every high thing” that competes with God as God in our hearts and the spirit of our minds, and not some silly plot on an earth. For where was His throne before He created? Right where it still and will always be.

What does the sword of word have to do with worldly wars? We are taught “And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled;? Why? Because of fake news! (for more on fake news, read Isaiah chapter 8. You are not suppose to use the world news)

Part 2.

Understanding this may help you reconcile with the bloody sacrifices of the Old Covenant era as analogies having to do with our hidden parts like our soul, our heart and our thinking. It is here that is the correct application of those bloody sacrifices. They are the analogies and not the bloody gory stuff you see from only the surface. And if you want to see the anger of God for the Jews using the sacrifices without any change of heart, as if those pleased God, read the first chapter of Isaiah to set the record straight. Here is a portion of that speech where God says “To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to Me?” Says the Yahovah. “I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams And the fat of fed cattle. I do not delight in the blood of bulls, Or of lambs or goats. 12 “When you come to appear before Me, Who has required this from your hand, To trample My courts? 13 Bring no more futile[a] sacrifices; Incense is an abomination to Me. The New Moons, the Sabbaths, and the calling of assemblies— I cannot endure iniquity and the sacred meeting.

He does not now, nor did He ever take delight in any bloodshed accept to retribution those who do. And as far as God not liking their feasts, you can also add to that list ALL the Pagan holidays that have infiltrated the faith even today. And remember, we were instructed to content for the faith once and for all delivered to the saints”. Because of the long slow drawn out process of deception.

Today’s Jews.

It is really rather fascinating that a modern day rendition of another Jerusalem like of old of the time of Christ, is being presented in the last era of the analogous Kingdom of Israel and Jerusalem of the Jews from the time of Christ. That they seek to return to that as if that Jerusalem was Gods, good, acceptable and perfect will? For them today to militarize their attempt to work for God by literally conducting war and genocide for this cause? That they wage war and kill to do so? For the gospel of peace? Really?? Blasphemy!

It is really quite evident that they do not know the Savior because they seek to save their Jerusalem  to re-implement that bastardized version like the city of God called Jerusalem back then, meant to be the city of peace. This is an inversion of the Gospel and evidence of the Gospel turned upside down back to what they were back then before it was said “till not one stone shall be left upon another” was the promise from the Real Christ, the saving one. As we were warned of a coming time “with all lying signs and wonders if possible to deceive the Elect”? Is just the reimplementation of the old. It is that clear. Better check your status!

The Gospel of Peace

The word “Salem” in Hebrew means peace, and Jeru-Salem means city of peace. But look at what they are doing in Jeru-salem today? Not my Jeru-salem, not my Gods Jeru-salem, not the Gospel of The Christs Jerusalem. He is the one who destroyed that Jerusalem in His day, because of their wayward ways.

The name the Palestine’s had for the place that is now called Jerusalem was “Al-Quds” and means “The Holy Place”, and it was called that until the modern “Jews” went in by war less then a hundred years ago and started changing things. Look what they are doing now! This is murder. This is NOT the work of the Creator God, or sanctioned by the Redeemer God. “For God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten Son, to save? Do these two fit together those of the world. He did NOT save the Jews. If God was that unhappy with Al Quds, He could just do another destruction like with He did with Jerusalem. That is what He did to the Jerusalem of Old Testament times. Yes, God did that. That is why scripture called the last Law era Jerusalem “the great city which spiritually is called Sodom, where also our Lord was crucified. Because they were that wayward too. To restore that today as the modern Jews portend to do? Why would anyone who knows the Author of scripture believe any of what is being presented today?

This is a litmus test for the coming destruction. If you are behind this or supporting it in any way, you have chosen the side of the judgment from the Almighty God who settles His own disputes. He doesn’t need a modern jew or their useful idiots (Americans) to carry His banner and promote His cause. It is not His banner or His cause that is taking place over there today. God is NOT depending on them to do this! This is a total inversion of the gospel for another gospel to kill. And it is not competing in benefits, because all who associate in this and with this are slated for damnation. This is a separation process between sheep and goats” And Jews are rearing their ugly heads like the ugly goats they are.

Yes the God of Love Patience and Salvation has an end. And when the last time He made such an end was with the Christ era Jerusalem because it forsook its counterpart it was to re-present. The City of Peace! We understand because we “know the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. Yes, because we say to them (the Jews of today) “You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do (as is evedent by the non-stop war footage). He was a murderer from the beginning, As these are carrying out murders!!

They have been exposed and YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. This is to separate the wheat from the tares, the goats from the sheep and the faithful from the disingenuous and confused to get right or left. Choose you this day!

As Peter said “it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them(and change the gospel of God to war). 22 But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: “A dog returns to his own vomit,” and, “a sow, having washed, to her wallowing in the mire.”So too, these people return to their old reactions from their fallen instincts.

And we will go even go further and say, it would be better off to be judged in the same fashion of the Old expired Testament city of Jersalem that was destroyed because of those Jews “till not one stone was left upon another” for their blasphemies, then to be judged by what they are doing again today because you’ve got the scriptures and historical facts to correct you and you are so blinded as to use the gospel, meaning “the good news” for war. To support the modern day Jews who have no real connection to anything scriptural that they didn’t make up or steel. That one is expired (another word for dead). So as then there go the Jews again, “Fill up the measure of your fathers guilt? Yes, Go to Hell! Because that is where you are headed too if you are a Christian in support of the Jewish movement today.

We say that “The Kingdom of God is still at hand” in the way Christ intended when He first spoke it as other than the one that was destroyed back then. And we have been warned of “a coming which is according to Satan with all lying signs and wonders”. Can you see this?

Yes, to take expired scriptures and try to reinvigorate the ones that were condemned, will end up with the same results. Especially when it is questionable as that what they call Jerusalem today with the “wailing wall”? Wasn’t Jerusalem of old destroyed till “not one stone was left upon another. That the only buildings that were left from back then were the barracks for the armies of Titus? What they are trying to present as Jerusalem today, it is not and cannot be because there are stones left upon another.

The main point of all this is that Christ came preaching that “The Kingdom of God is at hand” as something other than their Jerusalem. That “the gospel is preached and all are entering”, had nothing to do with an earthen Jerusalem. Even as Christ answered during His interrogation by the Jews about Him being King. And He said “You have correctly called Me King, however My Kingdom is not from here (of your bricks or buildings) or I would fight. However, My Kingdom is not from here”, to mean DO NOT MAKE AN EARTHEN COMPARISON .So what do you suppose they are re-presenting today?? The LIE with all signs and wonders to deceive.

Checkmate.

The Kingdom of God is still at hand for a short while. If you are waiting for another Christ to rescue? You are rejecting the One who already did that. There is only One saving for humanity and that is the one of the cross.

Amen!

The Promise to Abraham was Stolen.

Genesis 17.4-6 God told Abraham “4 As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations. 5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee. 6 And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and (plural) kings shall come out of thee.

If you remember, God had previously made a promise to “Abram” before he was “Abraham”, that he would father the twelve tribes of Israel. Meaning that this promise to Abraham of “many nations, supercedes the promise to “Abram” as the replacement. This has to do with the “time of the gentiles as superceding the Old Covenant era.

Yes the promise to Abraham, that He would father many nations (meant the Gentiles) has been stolen by the Jews because “many nations is translated else where in scripture is the Gentile nations. Not that it has been stolen from God or Abraham but from us who are of the Gentiles, meaning from all nations that scripture refers to and not the Jews whose time was fulfilled along with the old testament with all it’s offices, persons, places, and holidays. That we are the heirs to the promises of Abraham that he would be the Father of many nations as a portrayal having to do with the New Will And Testament time of the gentiles. As Christ instructed the Apostles to leave Jerusalem before its destruction. To “go ye therefore to all the nations teaching and preaching all that I have commanded you”as having to do with the New, after the expiration of the Old Law articles, persons, place and Old Covenant associated with that bygone era of old with their expired relics that did not work any way.

Because of this, the modern Jews are  irrelevant because even if they were bonifide they would at best be qualified as being just another member nation with equal footing and status as all of the  other gentile nations as being one of them and among them. However they set themselves outside and above the rest of the gentiles and propose to revert back to the days of old with another earthen Jerusalem in competition with “Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all (meaning Gentiles of all the nations) according to The Book of Galatians in the Bible.

This is why Christ commended those who knew “the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan. Because the Jews who claim to be of Judah, one of the twelve tribes associated with the promise to Abram and NOT Abraham. Those Jews are from the last generation of Old Covenant persons that expired with it.

So then to go back to the Old Covenant is a blasphemous rejection of the new and spits in the face of the Christ of the cross who bore the judgment for our discrepancies, that all of the Old Testament law sacrifices looked forward to as their replacement, so that we in turn are restored to what Adam and Eve lost thereby giving us another chance to discover who we are, not as slaves to a Lord under Law, but by which we call out “Abba (the root word for Abraham) Father” as being inducted into the family of God through the death and blood of His Son that all the law and the prophets with all their feasts and procedures only dimly alluded to and prophesied about. That is the reason that they are fulfilled and expired as historical relics that only anticipated the new. The Old Law and the prophets (meant to speak of coming things) showed us how NOT to do it. If the Old Covenant had worked, it would NOT be old. And if the New was just a reversion to the Old or a temporary injunction for another it is NOT new.

Their are only two covenants and Abram represents the Old and Abraham represents the new with God saying “5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.

Thereby equating a name change with a purpose change!

Now we have “a New and Living way to the Father” . And father in the Hebrew scriptures is “Abba”, Hence Ab-raham. We see Christ calling His Father “Abba“, And Paul taught the difference between Old and New covenants by saying “For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again (meaning the Old Covenant mandates) to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. This is something the Old Covenant could not deliver.

Who also taught “And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

Referring to the fulfillment of the promises. Even as scripture says “for all of the promises of God are yes and amen in Christ”, for those who are “in Christ” are in the New Covenant that replaced the Old.

Just like the Only Begotten of The Father. Then we in turn are born into the family of God by confession and profession, by accepting Christs sacrificial payment for our differences and being rewarded and sanctified by receiving the Holy Spirit of promise through baptism. Not the ceremony so much but more so the understanding and accepting it. That just as Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit and became dead to the things of God “for in that day you shall surely die”. They died because the breath of God left them and they experienced a spiritual death by the Holy Spirits departure. For God had breathed, not oxygen but His spirit into Adam and he became a living being as being alive to God. When Adam died, it was a spiritual death for the Spirit had left. And to be brought in again is our rebirth. Us being “born again, and borne from above. (John chapter 3)

So when we receive Gods Holy Spirit, this is what qualifies us as being “born again” and “born from above” and “born of the spirit”. And our proof is our understanding of these truths and having the ability to be able to convey them.

With these truths, Hopefully you can see here the difference between Abram, and Abraham as being names that portray in picture form, to different between  the covenants, New and Old. The new obviously has to do with the Holy Spirit associated with baptism. Of which when John baptized Christ, he said “and I beheld the spirit of God descend upon Him like a dove”. And with this sign, John the Baptist, as the last and greatest prophet knew his time was over, and the law era was over because he then said “and He must increase and I must decrease”. Therefore verifying our claim.

The Modern Day Deceivers.

For you see we are in a time where some people who claim to be Jews pretend to be Gods people and the heirs of the promises of Abraham but they are not. God had earlier given a promise to Abram, that He would make Abram a great nation, singular. But when Abram had his name changed to Abraham and Sarai to Sarah, It was because there was a change of character. Therefore there was a name change also.

In scripture a name is NOT selected because it is pretty or sounds nice but because of the persons ingredients, and Abraham had reached a greater stature in the eyes of God. In essence Abram portrayed in picture form the Old Covenant era, being promised 12 tribes, whereas Abraham, Abrams  replacement portrayed the time of the Gentiles, meaning from all the nations of the world. And Abraham replaced Abram.

That is why in the book of the Revelation Christ said “17 Those that hath an ear, let them hear what the Spirit saith unto the called out ones; To them that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give them a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no one knoweth saving the one that receiveth it.  Meaning that some are called another name by their Heavenly Father then the name they were born with like we just showed you with Abraham and Sarah. And Abram had his name changed that correlated with him being not only the father of one nation as was Abram, but “many nations to Abraham, to mean multiple nations. This correlates with the old and new covenants. That the New Covenant for all nations, does not elevate one nation above another as the modern Jews do of themselves. That is a reversion of covenants as if God needed to repent for removing them.

If you remember, it was the 12 disciples turned prophets who were commissioned to preach the Gospel to ALL the nations to the ends of the earth, as they were instructed  “do not leave that Jerusalem until you have heard from me”. With the Holy Spirit swooshing in, (remember , Adam lost the Spirit, Christ reclaimed it for us, and the Apostles were commissioned to commence with the introduction of the Holy Spirit through Baptism. Then their were people from every language and nation glorifying God, showing us that the Old Covenant reached its intended goal and conclusion. Hence “expired” like a moldy product on a shelf to be discarded.

AFTER the expiration of the Old Covenant era and its nation (singular) of whom “Jesus said to them, “Do you not see all these things? Assuredly, I say to you, not one stone shall be left here upon another, that shall not be thrown down.”

as having to do with the expiration, the dismantling and destruction of the Jews kingdom to make way for a New King, Kingdom and a new people called Christians from “every tribe language and tongue. And this testimony began where the Old Covenant ended on the day of Pentecost where people spoke in tongues from every nation

As we quote from the book of The Acts of the Apostles who replaced the prophets saying “36 Therefore let all the house of Israel (to include Jews) know assuredly, that God hath made the same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord (meaning to serve this one as your replacement ) and Christ. 37 Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do? 38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent (from your old covenant failures), and be baptized every one of you (of all tribes including Jews) in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins (something the law era could not do), and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. 39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call (from all the peoples of the world). 40 And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this (old testament law) untoward generation.

Meaning that Jerusalem and those Jews. They were the final trusties of that Old(expired) Testament, that Christ called “a brood of vipers, sons of Satan doing the deed s of their father”  Showing us that that by the time judgment of the Old Testament era was over. That Jerusalem would be destroyed beyond recognition. To never be able to be rebuilt again. And further proof of that is that, that Jerusalem was built on a fault line whereby an earthquake destroyed part of the city where the temple stood when Christs body gave up His spirit on the cross as seen here. 50 And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up His spirit. 51 Then, behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth quaked, and the rocks were split,

And further proof that that was the time of the beginning of the end of That Jerusalem, of that Old Covenant kingdom and era, was by witnessing a resurrection as seen here. “and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, ⁵³ and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.

that was a promise realized only for the New Covenant that was a new reality put into effect with the sacrificial death of the Savior who implemented The New Covenant by being “Savior of the world, (the word “world” in that text should’ve been transcribed “aeons” meaning “ages” to the intent that a new age started different from the old.

And that is the point and why Christ said not to mix the new wine in old wine skins and visa versa. The only lapse of coverage was while Christ “became flesh and dwelt among us” to then have Him say “I return to the Father and you see Me no more” in that fashion of the flesh.

This is the reason Christ was first to preach that “The Kingdom of God is at hand” as being different then the one they were accustomed to. And for that to be true, there had to be a resurrection because that was part and parcel of the coming  of a new age different from the old.

This is how Matthew described this event 27. 52 and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; 53 and coming out of the graves after His resurrection, they went out and appeared to many.

And many remain alive today

To make the point irrefutably clear that we entered a new era for the “resurrection was the symbol given and the coveted product the Old anticipated.

To then have the 12 disciples turned Apostles, a higher office than prophets. To be told to “go ye therefor to the ends of the earth (meaning all the nations called “the Gentiles” teaching and preaching all that I have commanded you”, as proof that the time of the salvation message to the whole world in their localities, had come. They were instructed not to depart from Jerusalem until the promise that you have heard from Me (about the comforter helper to take Christs place). And the book of Acts gives the account of the disciples being in the upper room, to have the Holy Spirit sweep through and have the glories of God being spoken in all languages and dialects proving that the Promise to Abraham would come into effect as something different and not complimentary of the Old, but its replacement had come, being the visible in exchange for the invisible. Even as Christ said “you have heard it said of old (meaning the Law), but I say to you… defining a demarcation line between the covenants. The Old Testament verses the New Covenant. And just like old wine in a new skin spoils, and new wine in an old skin breaks, so too the Old and New covenant kingdoms have commonalities only in contrast of each other, and why the Old Covenant Law was called the Law of Death, in contrast to the New because they are THAT different.

And with Christs death to cover that payment rendered for us, this gives us permission to participate in the true gospel of salvation to the gentiles given way back when to father Abraham who was promised to be the father of many nations. So we knew that the Law Covenant given to Moses was weak and frail because it was continuously broken over and over. Which was the reason for the continual, non-stop animal sacrifices.

But even as with the departure of Hagar from Sarai become Sarah. Hagar had to be out of the picture for Sarah to come into fruition in the same way that we have to disregard the demands of the law as having had its fulfillment “in Christ”. It was expired, rendered weak and  ineffective, for “how many righteous were there? None, no not one!!”

So any other rendition of the Old Law era and its kingdom could only come from an opposing influence and why we are commended by God saying  “for you know the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

This is why we can convey this with such clarity and power.

In truth that scripture should read that “I know the blasphemy of those who say they are Gods people and call themselves Jews are not, but are of the synagogue/church of Satan”, because Gods people have their roots and their heritage in the promises and person of Abraham, picturing our Heavenly Abba. As it was written of Him that he would be the father of many nations and nations is a word synonymous with gentiles.

The book of Galatians teaches that Abraham had two wives. The first one was Hagar who represented the Old Testament Law culture, in contrast with Sarah as the Mother of the promises that supersede and replace the Old, Law covenant concepts that only brings about death, as we quote from Galatians “4 But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the (Old Covenant) law, 5 to redeem those who were under that law (and put it out of business and shut it down), for us to receive the adoption as sons. 6 And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!” (and not master or Lord (which are Old Covenant understanding of God whom we call Father) 7 Therefore you are no longer a slave (under Old Testament Laws or Prophecies) but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ

(of The New Covenant founded on better promises. 

4 Now I say that the heir, as long as he is a child, does not differ at all from a slave, though he is master of all, 2 but is under (tutors called) guardians and stewards until the time appointed by the father. 3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world. 4 But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were under the law, for us to receive the adoption as sons

(of the New Covenant founded on better promises)

6 And because you are God’s children, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!” 7 Therefore you are no longer a slave (subject to old covenant law but an offspring, and if an offspring, then an heir of God through Christ (because of the cross and demarcation line between the old and new).  8 But then, indeed, when you did not know God, you served those which by nature are not gods. 9 But now after you have known God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements (associated with Old Covenant Law), to which you desire again to be in bondage? 10 You observe days and months and seasons and years. 11 I am afraid for you, lest I have labored for you in vain. 12 Brethren, I urge you to become like me, for I became like you. You have not injured me at all. 13 You know that because of physical infirmity I preached the gospel to you at the first. 14 And my trial which was in my flesh you did not despise or reject, but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus. 15 What then was the blessing you enjoyed? For I bear you witness that, if possible, you would have plucked out your own eyes and given them to me. 16 Do I now become your enemy because I tell you the truth? 17 They (the jews) zealously court you, but for no good; yes, they want to exclude you (from the New), that you may be zealous for them. 18 But it is good to be zealous in a good thing always, and not only when I am present with you. 19 My little children (seeing themselves connected to the Old Covenant), for whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you, 20 I would like to be present with you now and to change my tone; for I have doubts about you. (Think of yourself here and the Two Covenants) 21 Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law? 22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman, the other by a freewoman. 23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born according to the flesh, and he of the freewoman through promise, 24 which things are symbolic. For these are the two covenants: the one from Mount Sinai which gives birth to bondage (called the Old Covenant Law), which is Hagar— 25 for this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children— 26 but the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all. 27 For it is written: “Rejoice, O barren, You who do not bear! Break forth and shout, You who are not in labor! For the desolate has many more children Than she who has a husband.” 28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise. 29 But, as he who was born according to the flesh then persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, even so it is now. 30 Nevertheless what does the Scripture say? “Cast out the (earthen Jerusalem ) bondwoman and her son, for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman. (You cannot have Heavenly Jerusalem while you are focused on the one on earth)” 31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman (earthen Jerusalem )but of the free.

In this way, The kingdom of God is at hand, but it is not the one talked about in the daily news.

You have Heard it Was Said of Old…

These were some of the words first spoken from The Christ, after He had come from His Baptism by His cousin John, whereby John beheld the spirit of God descend like a dove to remain upon Him. This was the man called Jesus who proved He was the Christ through these series of events.

You see He had to undo the curse from Eden where Adam became dead to the things of God by losing the Holy Spirit. When God breathed into Adam and he became a living being”, that had nothing to do with the oxygen in his lungs, but the breath of God, He calls His Holy spirit This is The Breath of God, His companion/counterpart of His Son and our Savior called The Christ and Adams replacement being “a life giving spirit” as explained here by Paul the Apostle.

“42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: 43 It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: 44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. 45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam (Christ) was made a quickening spirit. Read full chapter

Even as John the Baptist testified of Jesus that “ when He (Christ) was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he (John) saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:

This is what qualified Christ to be Adams replacement of putting all who believe in Him, back on track as practicing images of the Living God  who are “working out their own salvation with fear and trmbling”.

This is the one time reversal of the fall, even as the voice of Heaven said “the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him (Christ), and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.

Of being the new creature we become like after we receive the Holy Spirit too.

And again”And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, 2 And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun (think about Pauls encounter with Christ as “the Bright light form Heaven) , and his raiment was white as the light. 3 And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with Him. 4 Then Peter said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias. 5 While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; Him, shall you hear (and focus on Him and NOT Moshe or Elijah). 6 And when the disciples heard this, they fell on their face, and were sore afraid.

That until Christ as a man, was baptized with the Holy Spirit, that the Law would remain in place as a holding mechanism “till faith comes”. But “after faith has come” the law was done away with and put off like a filthy rag. That “the law was added because of transgressions, till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made; 

And “24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ, for us to be justified by faith. 25 But after faith is come (meaning acquired), we are no longer under the schoolmaster (called Law). 26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ (and not slaves serving masters and lords). 27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28 There is no longer Jew nor Greek (classifications), nor is there bond nor free, nor male  or female: for ye are all one (and co-equals) in Christ”

And as Peter describes our gift saying “According as his (Christs) divine power hath given unto us everything that pertains to life and godliness (of living life on a godlike fashion the way God lives), through the knowledge of (knowing) Him who hath called us to glory and virtue: 4 Whereby we  were given exceedingly great and precious promises: that through these, you are already partakers of the divine nature, having (already) escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust (of following the needs of your old lower nature). Providing that you use these provisions in the “renewing of your minds).

Showing us that Christ was the un-doing and the expiration of the Law because the law becomes irrelevant being “expired” because of the New Covenant, Will and Testament” associated with new like in the Spirit, for the heirs to have access to their inheritance, being us  who are adopted into the family of God through the same means being our Baptism and our cross over from death to life as was dimly portrayed at the Red Sea with Moses whereby at that collective baptism, the angel of death passed over, then to have all their enemies drowned in the Red Sea for them to go on to acquire and apply the provisions of the gift of God in Christ as pictured in Israel the people and not in the land of Israel.

As it was said in the beginning “in that day you shall surely die”, mankind became dead and unresponsive to the things of God. Now for those who associate with Christ, “And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam (Christ) was made a life giving spirit.

Do NOT insult the giver of this “life in the Spirit by reverting to old forms of religion that are powerless to save and an insult to the giver of life who paid such a high price for you. ”

It was Christ, the Son of God and son of man, who became the prototype and manufacturer of a new species in that we willnever die. Even as Christ said “And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? And we hope you say yes because to believe in what is presented here is the pre-qualifier of your new citizenship in the New Creation.

Not that the new creation is new in the sense of just being made. For it is new in the sense that it is eternally new and never gets old, and it just may be made new for you, but Adam and Eve had it from the beginning and why 1 John says “Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.

Here is a high Point we would like to make.

When Christ came to put in place the replacement of the Old called The New Testament/Covenant, He also had to expire the whole Law era interlude. And He started by saying “You have heard that it was said to those of old…”

The ironic thing is was the institution of the New through the blood of Christ that made the Old Covenant old and expired as a testimony on how NOT to do it. Christ was the first One to call the Law era old because He was the Law eras completion first as the first one who could keep it because the Law is a picture of Him. And because the New came, the Law some call the Ten Commandments, and the laws of Moses, should now only be referred to as Old, because they had lost their relevance with the one time coming of Christ. There is no other coming or another saving of any sort but to grapple with this by faith, one on one with God by yourself. That the whole law era interlude anticipated this. Even as it is said of the Old. The Coming of Christ did this!

“ 20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. 21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; 22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: 23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; 24 Being justified freely by his grace (apart from the Law) through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: 25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; 26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: for Him to be just, and the justifier of those who believeth in Christ. Read full chapter

SO for us having our do-over as a result of this New Union to replace the Old, we have another heritage other then the death that comes upon all of humanity of the old law order. And to ensure that all the old order would reach the obvious conclusion of breeding death, the Law era was given for “Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made;

Meaning that  “till the seed should come to whom the promise was made;

“When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.

Being The Savior and Christ some call Jesus all meaning the same thing. With His arival on the seen as the last sacrifice, the law era interlude was over. If this was NOT true, Christ in no way could say “The Kingdom of God is at hand”, nor could He forgive sin because He became the payment for it and where payment has been rendered there is no longer a reckoning or an accounting of sin because keeping track of it was only a book keeping method. Even as Paul taught to Rome, for us to “reckon it to be so”,

These are things already given and appropriated, to be forgotten and lost, to have many if not most, to go back to reckoning and accounting their sin as though there is more that needs to be done but NO. That would be double jeopardy. Christ does not have to come back but for one thing. As 2 Peter states “10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall beburned up. 11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, 12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? 13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

And just as a quick note here. Sin is singular. Meaning that when we receive the gift of salvation, our sins (plural) are forgiven in that there is no longer a tracking method and no accuser. The sin nature has been covered in two senses. One is by way of payment rendered and two by way of covering it up to make it disappear for “Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life; 2 (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;) 3 That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. 4 And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.

The Kingdom of God is at hand in this way still.

Amen

The Translators of scripture were given something to translate that they did not understand as a collective whole. Meaning that there had to be a consensus. The original writings they transcribed from did not have the ambiguities that English has. Words like, could, should, might maybe and, in order to, are all used at the translators discretion. Meaning that if they had not received a promise of God as touching the invisible, then they quite obviously being carnal, must see to believe, and thereby nullify the need to believe as being the only necessity for a thing to be true. In essence they inserted ambiguities to convey falsities as though the promises from God were meant to be fulfilled later at another carnal event called a second coming as opposed to implementing when you have the faith to believe and are doing so in the right progression. And because the faith is progressive, some things have to be received in a certain order. For this we are called to press in to attain, to reach out and lay hold of why Christ laid hold of us”.

The loss and mis-conveyance of this truth became the birth of the now popular and pervasive idea that Christ must come again in a “second coming” scenario because they have to see a thing to believe. But “Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” For they shall receive the thing that is said. Because it does not take any faith to believe a thing you can physically prove. And so they sit in the pews and wait week after week, and say in their hearts like the wicked servant who said “my Lord delays His coming”. But Gods hands are stretched out still.

And The New Will and Testament translators bludgeoned the texts with this kind of a physical sense that becomes nonsense when it comes to the things of God because in truth “one must first believe that He is, and that He rewards those who diligently seek Him”. And since our Heavenly Father rewards us with new portions of Himself each time we allow, then why would we reduce his word to the expectation’s by those who have no understanding of the invisible? Because “faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence that there are things not seen’. It is by these that the elders gain repor with the Father. As touching the invisible.

We are talking about real encounters by the invisible God and His Son who said “I will never leave you or forsake you”, but never the less most still sit and wait for another savior. And they call it a second coming” a saying that is NOT found in the scriptures. And because Gods things don’t take on a form in creation, if we expect it to, we have false expectations of what God and His Word are about.

His words are about our transformation and our transfiguration to be like Him. To be spitting images of the Father, and not the other way around. As a matter of truth, the gospel itself becomes useless in a people that expect spectacular events to validate their faith.

And more dangerous than that is a people who have been so inverted from the faith to believe in “just the facts”. This is the generation that we are warned of who would expect a second coming Jesus in the form of a man as the focal point of their  gospel “a coming one who is according to Satan with all lying signs and wonders if possible to deceive the Elect”. It is because that (maybe even today with us) they take all the scriptures that define Gods “Heavenly places”, to include the parables and Old Testament word pictures meant to take them into the Eternal, and they reinterpret them to be manifest again on earth as if that was ever Gods intention or the purpose of the gospel. Because if it is, and God wants a Jerusalem on Earth with the modern day Jews, (a name that has no true association with the original language). Then God would have to apologize to and make reparations to the Jews of old for expiring, putting them out of business, destroying their livelihood, subjecting their mothers to eat their babies, to then have “not one stone to be left upon another that shall not be rummaged through by the armies of Titus first, and bring them to the point of extinction, because that is what the testimonies said happened to that era. A genocide. Even as The Christ and Savior cried saying “41 And when he was come near, he beheld the city (That Jerusalem), and wept over it, 42 Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. 43 For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, 44 And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation. 45 And he went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold therein, and them that bought; 46 Saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of thieves. 47 And he taught daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to kill him, Read full chapter

And from Matthew “ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! 38 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. Which indicates an extinction.

And the Jews of today are trying to rebuild that? Blasphemy! They are not suppose to as we are taught from Leviticus 26. “27 And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me; 28 Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins. 29 And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat. 30 And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you. 31 And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours. 32 And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it. 33 And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste. 34 Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies’ land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths. 35 As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it. 36 And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth. 37 And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies. 38 And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. 39 And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them. 40 If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me; 41 And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity: 42 Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land. 43 The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes. Read full chapter

How is it that now again in our day that it is okay for a people to reclaim that land to renew it as it was?? That is so far off the mark from “Gods good, acceptable and perfect will, that here today they’ve aligned themselves with the thief of the things of God because Gods things are Heavenly. They are Eternal. They are indestructible, for this we know because “we look to the city whose builder and maker is God”. And to tie this back to the beginning with Moshe, God said “when you build a temple unto Me, the minute that you have used tools upon it? You have violated it. Do NOT associate Me with such”. But nevertheless the people world wide are glorying over that monstrous rendition of the last blasphemy. All the while they think God is behind it. But as it is written “when you see the abomination spoken by Daniel the prophet in the Holy place? Let those who read understand”. And the understanding is that if you see, and since we do see a modern day expectation, then you know the time is ripe for the judgment from God.

If this doesn’t strike you as blasphemous, then think about this. If the gospel was given for our benefit for godliness, and we then in turn, turn it around to make God a man again. Wouldn’t that be a problem. Because if that was Gods plan, He wouldn’t have to wait. But because the change and the transformation belongs to us? That is what He is waiting for, the final number to transform. But if we are found waiting and watching without our own transfiguration, then for what purpose were you given this life?? Because if you are tracking the scary stuff in the news, you know what? You my friend are being carried away by the flood of lies by the mouth of the dragon referred to in the Revelation. And if you are familiar with the foolish virgins who went to the world for their wedding feast preparations and were left outside with the damned? It is because they got caught up in the visuals and DID NOT CHANGE! The Gospel had no lasting effect but only temporary entertainment. And just as condemning is that their Jesus had to come as a man again because they were let unchanged.

Do you really think the gospel is about Christ putting on the flesh again?

Scripture is given for our transition, our transfiguration and our metamorphism. Christ became a man once and blazed for us a trail to the Father. Him now calling us to Himself, even as Paul said “therefore I plead with you by the mercies of God, BE YE RECONCILED to the Father. For He made Him who knew no sin, to become our sin, for us to (in turn) become His righteousness in us”. That is our transfiguration in the here and now that we are accountable for and what scripture is given for. If you throw all of your end time fascinations away and walk away with this one truth you will be okay. But if not? If you go back to your addiction of end times fascinations? BEWARE! For God may not spare you either but give you the tribulation you have been glued to because you become your dominant focus. And since God has given us everything that pertains to life and god-like-ness through the knowledge of Him who calls us to His Glory and virtue”? If you got NOT these, you’ve got nothing but the burning sensation of lost opportunities. Woe are they! For the time is upon us when “10 And he said to me, “Do not seal the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand. 11 He who is unjust, let him be unjust still; he who is filthy, let him be filthy still; he who is righteous, let him [a]be righteous still; he who is holy, let him be holy still.”

With that,now maybe we can be as serious about our transfiguration as is our Heavenly Father, and NOT be so focused on making scripture palatable to the carnal mind having been translated by such. Let us go up from here.

PAUL TEACHES ABOUT THE RESURRECTED CHRIST HE SAW WHO WAS A BRIGHT LIGHT FROM HEAVEN, NOT A MAN!

Seeing Christ AFTER the boulder was rolled away from the tomb is the qualifier to be an apostle as being greater then The Old Will and Testament  prophets. Even as we were told speaking of John the Baptist being the greatest of All the prophets “Those in the Kingdom are greater than he”. Such are we. Here is the qualifier.

1 CORINTHIANS 15.1  Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, (it did not come by man nor was it taught by man but by revelation of Jesus Christ) ² by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain (if you need to see to believe). 

³ For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, ⁴ and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures, ⁵ and that He was seen by ^[a]Cephas, then by the twelve. ⁶ After that He was seen by over five hundred brethren at once (Matthew 27.52), of whom the greater part remain to the present (in that day), but some have ^[b]fallen asleep. ⁷ After that (His resurection) He was seen by James, then by all the apostles. ⁸ Then last of all He was seen by me also, as by one born in my own time. (But these who saw Him, saw Him differently then those before or this demarcation line would not be described here because only people away from the event of the crusifixion did not see the pre-crusified Christ. Only these saw Christ in His post incarnate form of being a resurrected man, along with the 500.

⁹ For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. ¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. ¹¹ Therefore, whether it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.

The Risen Christ, Our Hope

¹² Now if Christ is preached that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? ¹³ But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ cannot be risen. ¹⁴ And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is empty (and unchanged) and your faith is also empty (and still looking for a saving to rescue you from a dying world). ¹⁵ Yes, and we are found false witnesses of God, because we have testified of God that He raised up Christ, whom He did not raise up—if in fact the dead do not rise. ¹⁶ For if the dead do not rise, then Christ is not risen. ¹⁷ And if Christ did not rise, then your faith is futile; you are still in your sins! ¹⁸ Then also those who have ^[c]fallen asleep in Christ have perished. ¹⁹ If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable. 

The Last Enemy Destroyed

²⁰ But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have ^[d]fallen asleep. ²¹ For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead. ²² For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all are made alive. ²³ But each one in there own order (not first and second coming only): Christ the firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ’s at His (successive) comings. ²⁴ Then afterwards comes the closing of the invitation, when He delivers the kingdom to God the Father, when He puts an end to all rule and all authority and power. ²⁵ For He must reign till He has put all enemies under His feet. ²⁶ The last enemy death is destroyed. ²⁷ For “He has put all things under His feet.” But when He says “all things are put under Him,” it isevident that  (only) He who put all things under Him is excepted. ²⁸ Now all things are made subject to Him, and the Son Himself is also subject to Him who put all things under Him, that God may be all in all. (It is in Him we live and dwell and have our being).

Effects of Denying the Resurrection

²⁹ Otherwise, what will they do who are baptized to be dead (as you vowed to be buried in tge likeness of His death to be raised in the likeness of His resurrection as yo promised (vowed) at your own baptism in your own order when you were able to believe unless your vows are broken promises you made to resmain waiting for another resurrection that is not by faith for another Jesus of another resurrection), if the dead do not rise at all? Why then are they baptized for the dead? (To be on hold for another saving the cross couldn’t deliver on?)³⁰ And why do we stand in ^[e]jeopardy every hour? ³¹ 

I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I recon my old self dead daily. ³² If, in the manner of men, I have fought with beasts at Ephesus (to profess and defend this newness of life), what advantage is it to me? If the dead do not rise, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die (anyway)!”

³³ Do not be deceived: “Evil company corrupts good habits.” ³⁴ Awake to (the) righteousness (of God by faith), and do not sin (disbeleive)for some do not have the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.

A Glorious Body

³⁵ But now you may say, “How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come?” ³⁶ Foolish one, what you sow is not made alive unless it dies. ³⁷ And what you sow, you do not sow that body that shall be, but mere grain—perhaps wheat or some other grain. ³⁸ But God gives it a body (completely different from the one you use to interact with on earth) as He pleases, and to each seed its own body.

³⁹ All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one kind ^[f]of flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish, andanother of birds.

⁴⁰ There are also ^[g]celestial bodies and ^[h]terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. ⁴¹ There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for onestar differs from another star in glory.

⁴² So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption (at your baptism acknowledgement). ⁴³ It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. ⁴⁴ It is sown a natural body, IT IS RAISED A SPIRITUAL BODY! (To further assist you here, read John 3. …

There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. ⁴⁵ And so it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being.” The last Adam (Christ verse…) already became a life-giving spirit.

⁴⁶ However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual. ⁴⁷ The first man was of the earth, made^[i] of dust; the second Man is just like the Lord from heaven (that was seen by Peter first, then the 12, then the 500, then Paul as one born in his own order). ⁴⁸ As was the ^[k]man of dust, so also are those who are madeof dust; and as is the heavenly Man, so also are those who are heavenly. ⁴⁹ And as we have borne the image of the man-of dust, we also bear the image of the heavenly Man. (Old things have passed away, behold all things have become new and all things are from God” and not earth)

Our Final Victory

⁵⁰ Now this I say brethren (at this stage of my faith), that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption. ⁵¹ Behold, I tell you a ^[m]mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed— ⁵² in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. ⁵³ For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. ⁵⁴ So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” (For this reason we profess that we have passed from death to life as vowed at baptism, and we press on in this main feature of faith to grow in it till it consumes our carnal nature  not being a physical body but a body of beliefs of weaknesses and fears we’ve adopted from fallen Adam. To cast these aside to associate wuth tge last Adam. Flesh Nd blood does not inherit tge Kingdom? Correct, but tge re-spirited mind of faith does. And even Adam in the garden was made resurrected because he could not fall if he was not made upright. And that is all resurrection is, is being stood back up from the fall. It is the reversal of the fall, hence resurrected and raised back up to “that which is from the beginning”. 

⁵⁶ The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. ⁵⁷ But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. (Because the Law was given to make sin exceedingly sinful, so that you being good and dead from the law, being delivered from that law by the deliverance of Christ, for you to walk in newness of life now like Adam had. This is a restoration to that which was from the beginning. That is your do over, you born again.

⁵⁸ Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. (Nor are you on hold or in limbo left waiting for another Jesus as though the cross was insufficient.

Father, is there any other way?

These were among the last words of Christ who was on His way to the cross to face the inevitable. That, no, there is no other way. The Old Testament with all its places persons feasts and teachings, how many righteous were produced? “None, no not one”. For you see it had to be clear in the past, in that day and ours that apart from the expiration of the Old Covenant, to make way for the implementation of the New Covenant along with all it’s giftings, with a right standing with the Father, could NOT be possible in the Old Covenant system. And the reason why Christ teared up over that old Jerusalem was because of the complete failure of that whole era. That among those born from women, there was none greater than John The Baptist, but of those who are the least in (the New Covenant) Kingdom are greater than he. Showing us that with a change of Covenants came a change of a Kingdom and a change of charecter and nature called “The New Creation”, in contrast with The Old to magnify that contrasts as “The New and living way to the Father.

It was the final Jews of that Old Testament time that tipped the scale for judgement. We say Jews because the other 11 tribes had already been dispersed. So that we say “the last Jews” flippantly because in reality J is not a common sound from the Hebrew language showing us the extent of corruption. Corrected they would say tribe of Yudah and not Jew. But anyway, it was the last of the last 12 tribes now claiming to be Jews, who demonstrated to us that they were the worst of the worst because it was said of them by the Son of God to “fill up the measure of your fathers guilt” accusing them of being fathered by Satan. They did not serve the Creator God, to then finish  off the guilty charges for killing Zechariah “whom you beheaded between the Porch and the Altar. To then behead John the Baptist and to finish it off with crucifying The Son of God who said “All these things will be required from this generation” as the guilty ones. And in Gods law, you cannot charge someone else with anotheer mans crime. So yes, their guilt was full because of their own deeds but only because they perfected the ways of their fathers

The Good News

As sad as this all may sound, here is the essence of “The Good News”, which is generally translated as “the Gospel”, meaning good news to the Jews? No!. For the promise given to Abraham to be fulfilled that “he would be the father of many nations (Gentiles) without differentiating the Jews as superior The Jews were never the object of scripture or the plan of God. Think about this if you think the common day jew has something to brag about. You know how to answer.

The scriptures were given to replace the feasts and the Saboth days and their rituals to achieve godliness, to now do so with access to scriptures, given to re-script the mind which had to be given time to prove that “there was none, no not one” of the Jews. Their mouths are open scepelcures” spewing out condemnation, guilt and deadness. To then have Christ blurt out from on the cross “Abba, Abba, why have you forsaken Me”, was said for all to know that payment was rendered. The expectation that The Law era demanded was satisfied to put it out of business. That the laws given to promote righteousness only brought death. To then have the coming of Christ close that era as useless. And NO! There is no other way. And to resurrect the concept of the Jews of old with all their expectations is an inversion and the turning upside down the Gospel.

Annihilation was and is the end game of that scenario. And woe to those who try to repeat and re-enact that era. Even as Paul said “I see that the law is good, but the way to perform it was not found in me”, so that the humble of heart may receive the free gift of righteousness by faith, to have all the requirements from the law and Old Covenant credited to our account without having to do them. But until each one comes to this point, they do not really understand the Cross. That all the law and the prophets and every mandate that was ever given were accredited as having been completed for us to “go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of dead works and repentance’s to God. Even as He said to Isaiah 1.

“Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth! For the Lord has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up children, And they have rebelled against Me; 3 The ox knows its owner And the donkey its master’s crib; But Israel does not know, My people do not consider.” 4 Alas, a sinful nation, A people laden with iniquity, A brood of vipers, Children who are corrupters! They have forsaken God, They have provoked to anger The Holy One of Israel, They have turned away (to go) backward. 5 Why should you be stricken again? You will (only) revolt more and more. The whole head is sick, And the whole heart faints. 6 From the sole of the foot even to the head, There is no soundness in it, But wounds and bruises and putrefying sores; They have not been closed or bound up, Or soothed with ointment. 7 Your country is desolate (meaning lifeless), Your cities are burned with fire; Strangers devour your land in your presence; And it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. 8 So the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, As a hut in a garden of cucumbers, As a besieged city. 9 Unless the Lord of hosts Had left to us a very small remnant, We would have become like Sodom, We would have been made like Gomorrah. 10 Hear the word of the Lord, You rulers of Sodom; Give ear to the law of our God, You people (Jews) of Gomorrah: 11 “To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to Me?” Says the Lord. “I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams And the fat of fed cattle. I do not delight in the blood of bulls, Or of lambs or goats. 12 “When you come to appear before Me, Who has required this from your hand, To trample My courts? 13 Bring no more futile[f] sacrifices; Incense is an abomination to Me. The New Moons, the Sabbaths, and the calling of assemblies— I cannot endure iniquity and the sacred meeting. 14 Your New Moons and your appointed feasts My soul hates; They are a trouble to Me, I am weary of bearing them. 15 When you spread out your hands, I will hide My eyes from you; Even though you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of [h]blood.

“Who has required this of you?? And anybody that rejects this gift of life from the cross to go back to the Old, will be condemned by the Old because they’ve despised the Cross of the Only Begotten and counted His blood as a common thing, in the same way as the Law era Jews, “for on you (the Jews not the 12 tribes) shall be all the guilt and shame of the blood shed from righteous Abel to Zecheria. Meaning that era and anyone who would return to that era would receive the same eternal damnation God did not and does not love the jews. That is the wrong association!

Yes to go back to the old pre-cross concepts, to glorify the modern jews and their jerusalem in hopes of another coming Jesus is a total inversion of the gospel, especially since you’ve got the new testament to draw upon as well.

The Kingdom of God is still at hand and indissoluble

Introduction:

This account is written by James, brother of the Messiah and Christ. James being family and being familiar with these accounts because he grew up with Christ his brother and his cousin John the Baptist who was just two years older than Christ. It was John who introduced the Christ saying “here comes the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to loose. And “I see the Bride with the Bridegroom therefor my joy (and purpose) is fulfilled. “They must increase and I must decrease”.

Because of this, it is fitting for James to write this account, who was first the brother of Christ son from Mary, both James(yudah) cousins of John the Baptist, whose fathers name is Zechariah, who was at the temple and was slain by the Jewish leaders for not cooperating with them in their search for John and Jesus as the decree was given to kill all the male babies 2 years and younger. This was the reason they were ushered out of Jerusalem that has to do with the expiration of the old and to introduce the new because John was raised in the old and was instrumental in bringing in the New Covenant era. But to close the old, there had to be a decree of judgement to the old. This is the reason that Christ said that “on this generation all the blood that was shed on earth from righteous Abel to Zechariah whom you slayed between the porch and the altar shall be required from this generation”. Meaning that all previous accounts would be closed by judgment and damnation or saved by receiving the blood of Christ for the remission of sin. The Jews however chose judgment because they, even the women said yes, your blood be upon us and our generation. From here starts;

The Infancy Gospel of James

1 According to the records of the twelve tribes of Israel, there once was a very rich man named Joachim. 2. He always doubled the gifts he offered to the Lord, 3and would say to himself, “One gift, representingmy prosperity, will be for all the people; the other, offered for forgiveness, will be my sin-offering to the Lord God.”

4Now the (celebration ceremony of) great day of the Lord was approaching, and the people of Israel were offering their gifts. 5And Reubel confronted Joachim and said, “You’re not allowed to offer your gifts first because you haven’t produced an Israelite child.”

6And Joachim became very upset and went to the book of the twelve tribes of the people, saying to himself, “I’m going to check the book of the twelve tribes of Israel to see whether I’m the only one in Israel who hasn’t produced a child.” 7And he searched (the records) and found that all the righteous people in Israel did indeed have children. BAnd he remembered the patriarch Abraham because in his last days the Lord God had given a son, Isaac.

9And so he continued to be very upset and did not see his wife but banished himself to the wilderness and pitched his tent there. lOAnd Joachim fasted ‘forty days and forty nights.’ !lHe would say to himself, “I will not go back for food or drink until the Lord my God visits me. Prayer will be my food and drink.”

2 Now his wife Anna was mourning and lamenting on two counts: “I lament my widowhood and I lament my childlessness.” 2The great day of the Lord approached, however, 3and Juthine her slave said to her, “How long are you going to humble yourself? Look, the (celebration of the) great day of the Lord has arrived, and you’re not supposed to mourn. 4Rather, take this headband which the mistress of the workshop gave to me, but which I’m not allowed to wear because I’m your slave and because it bears a royal insignia.”

5And Anna said, “Get away from me! I won’t take it. The Lord God has greatly shamed me. Maybe a trickster has given you this, and you’ve come to make me share in your sin.”

Infancy James 2:6And Juthine the slave replied, “Should 1curse you just because you haven’t paid any attention to me? The Lord God has made your womb sterile so you won’t bear any children for Israel.”

7Anna, too, became very upset. She took off her mourning clothes, washed her face, and put on her wedding dress. sThen, in the middle of the afternoon, she went down to her garden to take a walk. She spied a laurel tree and sat down under it. 9After resting, she prayed to the Lord: “0 God of my ancestors, bless me and hear my prayer, just as you blessed our mother Sarah and gave her a son, Isaac.”

3 And Anna looked up toward the sky and saw a nest of sparrows in the laurel tree. 2And immediately Anna began to lament, saying to herself: “Poor me! Who gave birth to me? What sort of womb bore me?3For 1 was born under a curse in the eyes of the people of Israel. And I’ve been reviled and mocked and banished from the temple of the Lord my God.

4″Poor me! What am 1 like? I am not like the birds of the sky, because even the birds of the sky reproduce in your presence, 0 Lord. s”Poor me! What am 1 like? 1 am not like the domestic animals, because even the domestic animals bear young in your presence, 0 Lord.

6″Poor me! What am 1 like? I am not like the wild animals of the earth, because even the animals of the earth reproduce in your presence, 0 Lord. 7″Poor me! What am 1like? 1am not like these waters, because even these waters are productive in your presence, 0 Lord. s”Poor me! What am I like? I am not like this earth, because even the earth produces its crops in season and blesses you, 0 Lord.” 4 Suddenly a messenger of the Lord appeared to her and said: “Anna, Anna, the Lord God has heard your prayer. You will conceive and give birth, and your child will be talked about all over the world.”

2And Anna said, “As the Lord God lives, whether 1 give birth to a

boy or a girl, I’ll offer it as a gift to the Lord my God, and it will serve

him its whole life.”

3And right then two messengers reported to her: “Look, your husband Joachim is coming with his flocks.” 4You see, a messenger of the

Lord had come down to Joachim and said, “Joachim, Joachim, the

2:6 Childlessness was understood, not as

having a natural cause, but as a sign of divine

punishment (see Gen 16:2; 20:18; and especially 1 Sam 1:5-6).

2:7 Putting on her wedding dress suggests

that Anna is anticipating the outcome of her

plea to God for a blessing similar to that

which God gave Sarah, that is, for the blessing of offspring.

Infancy James 4:4-5:10

Lord God has heard your prayer. Get down from there. Look, your

wife Anna is pregnant.”

SAnd Joachim went down right away and summoned his shepherds

with these instructions: “Bring me ten lambs without spot or blemish,

and the ten lambs will be for the Lord God. 6Also, bring me twelve

tender calves, and the twelve calves will be for the priests and the

council of elders. 7Also, one hundred goats, and the one hundred goats

will be for the whole people.”

SAnd so Joachim came with his flocks, while Anna stood at the gate.

9Then she spotted Joachim approaching with his flocks and rushed out

and threw her arms around his neck: “Now I know that the Lord God

has blessed me greatly. This widow is no longer a widow, and I, once

childless, am now pregnant!”

lOAnd Joachim rested the first day at home.

5 But on the next day, as he was presenting his gifts, he thought to

himself, “If the Lord God has really been merciful to me, the polished

disc on the priest’s headband will make it clear to me.” 2And so

Joachim was presenting his gifts and paying attention to the priest’s

headband until he went up to the altar of the Lord. And he saw no sin

in it. 3And Joachim said, “Now I know that the Lord God has been

merciful to me and has forgiven me all my sins.” 4And he came down

from the temple of the Lord acquitted and went back home.

SAnd so her pregnancy came to term, and in the ninth month Anna

gave birth. 6And she said to the midwife, “Is it a boy or a girl?”

7And her midwife said, “A girl.”

SAnd Anna said, “I have been greatly honored this day.” Then the

midwife put the child to bed.

9When, however, the prescribed days were completed, Anna

cleansed herself of the flow of blood. lOAnd she offered her breast to the

infant and gave her the name Mary.

4:9 The mss differ over whether Anna is pregnant or will be pregnant. The

future tense would be more likely if the word rested in the next sentence

were a euphemism for sexual intercourse, but since this word is used of

Joseph in much the same circumstances (see 15:2) and no such euphemism

is intended there, it is probably better to prefer the literal meaning and so the

present tense (is pregnant). Thus, Anna’s conceiving a child becomes as

much a miracle as later Mary’S will be.

Birth ofMary

4:5-7

~Jg,13:15-20

5:1

~Ex28:36-38

5:4

@LkI8:14

5:8

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5:9

~LvI2:1-8

5:2 A metal disc was part of the high priest’s

garb and was attached to his headband (Exod

28:36), but its use here, to reveal sin, is otherwise unattested. The disc may have been a

mirror, and mirrors were used to obtain

revelations.

5:9 Childbirth rendered a woman ritually

unclean, unable to touch anything holy or

enter the temple. For the regulations on how

and when a woman cleansed herself after

childbirth, see Lev 12: 1-8.

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birthday

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Infancy James 6:1-7:6

6 Day by day the infant grew stronger. 2When she was six months

old, her mother put her on the ground to see if she could stand. She

walked seven steps and went to her mother’s arms. 3Then her mother

picked her up and said, “As the Lord my God lives, you will never walk

on this ground again until I take you into the temple of the Lord.”

4And so she turned her bedroom into a sanctuary and did not permit

anything profane or unclean to pass the child’s lips. 5She sent for the

undefiled daughters of the Hebrews, and they kept her amused.

6Now the child had her first birthday, and Joachim gave a great

banquet and invited the high priests, priests, scholars, council of

elders, and all the people of Israel. 7Joachim presented the child to the

priests, and they blessed her: “God of our fathers, bless this child and

give her a name which will be on the lips of future generations

forever.”

BAnd everyone said, “So be it. Amen.”

9He presented her to the high priests, and they blessed her: “Most

high God, look on this child and bless her with the ultimate blessing,

one which cannot be surpassed.”

l0Her mother then took her up to the sanctuary-the bedroomand gave her breast to the child. llAnd Anna composed a song for the

Lord God: “I will sing a sacred song to the Lord my God because he

has visited me and taken away the disgrace attributed to me by my

enemies. 12The Lord my God has given me the fruit of his righteousness, single yet manifold before him. 13Who will announce to the

sons of Reubel that Anna has a child at her breast? ‘Listen, listen, you

twelve tribes of Israel: Anna has a child at her breast!'”

14Anna made her rest in the bedroom-the sanctuary-and then

went out and began serving her guests. 15When the banquet was over,

they left in good spirits and praised the God of Israel.

7 Many months passed, but when the child reached two years of age,

Joachim said, “Let’s take her up to the temple of the Lord, so that we

can keep the promise we made, or else the Lord will be angry with us

and our gift will be unacceptable.”

2And Anna said, “Let’s wait until she is three, so she won’t miss her

father or mother.”

3And Joachim agreed: “Let’s wait.”

4When the child turned three years of age, Joachim said, “Let’s send

for the undefiled Hebrew daughters. 5Let them each take a lamp and

light it, so the child won’t turn back and have her heart captivated by

things outside the Lord’s temple.” 6And this is what they did until the

time they ascended to the Lord’s temple.

Infancy James 7:7-9:8

7The priest welcomed her, kissed her, and blessed her: “The Lord

God has exalted your name among all generations. BIn you the Lord

will disclose his redemption to the people of Israel during the last

days.”

9And he sat her down on the third step of the altar, and the Lord

showered favor on her. lOAnd she danced, and the whole house of

Israel loved her.

8 Her parents left for home marveling and praising and glorifying

the Lord God because the child did not look back at them. 2And Mary

lived in the temple of the Lord. She was fed there like a dove, receiving

her food from the hand of a heavenly messenger.

3When she turned twelve, however, there was a meeting of the

priests. “Look,” they said, “Mary has turned twelve in the temple ofthe

Lord. 4What should we do with her so she won’t pollute the sanctuary

of the Lord our God?” 5And they said to the high priest, “You stand at

the altar of the Lord. Enter and pray about her, and we’ll do whatever

the Lord God discloses to you.”

6And so the high priest took the vestment with the twelve bells,

entered the Holy of Holies, and began to pray about her. 7And suddenly a messenger of the Lord appeared: “Zechariah, Zechariah, go

out and assemble the widowers of the people and have them each bring

a staff. BShe will become the wife of the one to whom the Lord God

shows a sign.” 9And so heralds covered the surrounding territory of

Judea. The trumpet of the Lord sounded and all the widowers came

running.

9 And Joseph, too, threw down his carpenter’s axe and left for the

meeting. 2When they had all gathered, they went to the high priest

with their staffs. 3After the high priest had collected everyone’s staff, he

entered the temple and began to pray. 4When he had finished his

prayer, he took the staffs and went out and began to give them back to

each man. 5But there was no sign on any of them. Joseph got the last

staff. 6Suddenly a dove came out of this staff and perched on Joseph’s

head. 7″Joseph, Joseph,” the high priest said, “you’ve been chosen by

lot to take the virgin of the Lord into your care and protection.”

BBut Joseph objected: “I already have sons and I’m an old man; she’s

only a young woman. I’m afraid that I’ll become the butt of jokes

among the people of Israel.”

Mary at twelve

Joseph

accepts Mary

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she began to menstruate. The Law consid­ Mary’s characterization for the remainder of

ered a woman ritually unclean during her (he story.

6:12 The meaning of single yet manifold period. See Lev 15:19-24. 9:8 That Joseph has sons and is an old man

before him is obscure. 9:7 This is the first occurrence of the word marks a significant change in the portrayal of

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Infancy James 9:9-11:6

9And the high priest responded, “Joseph, fear the Lord your God

and remember what God did to Dathan, Abiron, and Kore: the earth

was split open and they were all swallowed up because of their objection. lOS0 now, Joseph, you ought to take heed so that the same thing

won’t happen to your family.”

11And so out of fear Joseph took her into his care and protection.

IZHe said to her, “Mary, I’ve gotten you from the temple of the Lord,

but now I’m leaving you at home. I’m going away to build houses, but

I’ll come back to you. The Lord will protect you.”

10 Meanwhile, there was a council of the priests, who agreed:

“Let’s make a veil for the temple of the Lord.”

2And the high priest said, “Summon the true virgins from the tribe

of David.” 3And so the temple assistants left and searched everywhere

and found seven. 4And the high priest then remembered the girl Mary,

that she, too, was from the tribe of David and was pure in God’s eyes.

5And so the temple assistants went out and got her.

6And they took the maidens into the temple of the Lord. 7And the

high priest said, “Cast lots for me to decide who’ll spin which threads

for the veil: the gold, the white, the linen, the silk, the violet, the

scarlet, and the true purple.”

SAnd the true purple and scarlet threads fell to Mary. And she took

them and returned home. 9Now it was at this time that Zechariah

became mute, and Samuel took his place until Zechariah regained his

speech. 10Meanwhile, Mary had taken up the scarlet thread and was

spinning it.

11 And she lOok her water jar and went out to fill it with water.

2Suddenly there was a voice saying to her, “Greetings, favored one!

The Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women.” 3Mary began

looking around, both right and left, to see where the voice was coming

from. 4She became terrified and went home. After putting the water jar

down and taking up the purple thread, she sat down on her chair and

began to spin.

5A heavenly messenger suddenly stood before her: “Don’t be afraid,

Mary. You see, you’ve found favor in the sight of the Lord of all. You

will conceive by means of his word.”

6But as she listened, Mary was doubtful and said, “If I actually

Joseph from that in the canonical accounts.

9:11 That Joseph took her recalls Matt 1:24,

but with this significant difference: there it is

as his wife, here merely as his ward.

10:2 Strictly speaking, there was no tribe of

David. According to Luke, Mary is related to

Elizabeth, who belongs to the tribe of Aaron

(Luke 1:5, 36).

10:9 The time that Zechariah became mute

reflects an attempt on the part of the author

to place his narrative in the context of the

canonical account (see Luke 1:20-22,64).

Infancy James 11:6-13:7

conceive by the Lord, the living God, will I also give birth the way

women usually do?”

7And the messenger of the Lord replied, “No, Mary, because the

power of God will overshadow you. Therefore, the child to be born will

be called holy, son of the Most High. SAnd you will name him Jesusthe name means ‘he will save his people from their sins.'”

9And Mary said, “Here I am, the Lord’s slave before him. I pray that

all you’ve told me comes true.”

12 And she finished (spinning) the purple and the scarlet thread

and took her work up to the high priest. 2The high priest accepted

them and praised her and said, “Mary, the Lord God has extolled your

name and so you will be blessed by all the generations of the earth.”

3Mary rejoiced and left to visit her relative Elizabeth. 4She knocked

at the door. Elizabeth heard her, tossed aside the scarlet thread, ran to

the door, and opened it for her. 5And she blessed her and said, “Who

am I that the mother of my Lord should visit me? You see, the baby

inside me has jumped for joy and blessed you.”

6But Mary forgot the mysteries which the heavenly messenger

Gabriel had spoken, and she looked up to the sky and said, “Who am I

that every generation on earth will congratulate me?”

7She spent three months with Elizabeth. SDay by day her womb kept

swelling. And so Mary became frightened, returned home, and hid

from the people of Israel. 9She was just sixteen years old when these

mysterious things happened to her.

13 She was in her sixth month when one day Joseph came home

from his building projects, entered his house, and found her pregnant.

2He struck himself in the face, threw himself to the ground on

sackcloth, and began to cry bitterly: “What sort offace should I present

to the Lord God? 3What prayer can I say on her behalfsince I received

her as a virgin from the temple of the Lord God and didn’t protect her?

4Who has set this trap for me? Who has done this evil deed in my

house? Who has lured this virgin away from me and violated her? 5The

story of Adam has been repeated in my case, hasn’t it? For just as Adam

was praying when the serpent came and found Eve alone, deceived her,

and corrupted her, so the same thing has happened to me.”

6S0 Joseph got up from the sackcloth and summoned Mary and said

to her, “God has taken a special interest in you-how could you have

done this? 7Have you forgotten the Lord your God? Why have you

brought shame on yourself, you who were raised in the Holy of Holies

and fed by a heavenly messenger?”

Mary & Elizabeth

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know who Elizabeth is. She is the wife of Baptist (see 22:5; Luke 1:5).

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Mary & Joseph

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Infancy James 13:8-15:7

8But she began to cry bitter tears: “I’m innocent. I haven’t had sex

with any man.”

9And Joseph said to her, “Then where did the child you’re carrying

come from?”

lOAnd she replied, “As the Lord my God lives, I don’t know where it

came from.”

14 And Joseph became very frightened and no longer spoke with

her as he pondered what he was going to do with her. 2And Joseph said

to himself, “IfI try to cover up her sin, I’ll end up going against the law

of the Lord. 3And ifI disclose her condition to the people ofIsrael, I’m

afraid that the child inside her might be heaven-sent and I’ll end up

handing innocent blood over to a death sentence. 4S0 what should I do

with her? (I know,) I’ll divorce her quietly.”

SBut when night came a messenger of the Lord suddenly appeared

to him in a dream and said: “Don’t be afraid of this girl, because the

child in her is the holy spirit’s doing. 6She will have a son and you will

name him Jesus-the name means ‘he will save his people from their

sins.'” 7And Joseph got up from his sleep and praised the God ofIsrael,

who had given him this favor. 8And so he began to protect the girl.

15 Then Annas the scholar came to him and said to him, “Joseph,

why haven’t you attended our assembly?”

2And he replied to him, “Because I was worn out from the trip and

rested my first day home.”

3Then Annas turned and saw that Mary was pregnant.

4He left in a hurry for the high priest and said to him, “You

remember Joseph, don’t you-the man you yourself vouched for?

Well, he has committed a serious offense.”

5And the high priest asked, “In what way?”

6″Joseph has violated the virgin he received from the temple of the

Lord,” he replied. “He had his way with her and hasn’t disclosed his

action to the people ofIsrael.”

7And the high priest asked him, “Has Joseph really done this?”

13:10 That Mary is unable to say where it

carne from is surprising, given the explicit

announcement (see II :7). Presumably Mary

forgot, as also in her conversation with

Elizabeth (see 12:6).

14:3 That there could be a death sentence

derives from Deut 22:23-24.

14:4 That Joseph should divorce her quietly

makes little sense here because they are

neither engaged nor married. The author is

clearly dependent on Matt 1:19.

14:5 The command here, Don’t be afraid of

this girl, differs significantly from the parallel

account in Matt 1:20 (“Do not be afraid to

take Mary as your wife”). This difference is

deliberate, reflecting the very different relationship between Joseph and Mary in this

gospel.

15:6 That Joseph should be held responsible

for having violated Mary and made her pregnant is odd because, when he had left to

build, she was twelve years old (see 8:3) but

now she is sixteen (see 12:9).

Infancy James 15:8-17:2

8And he replied, “Send temple assistants and you’ll find the virgin

pregnant.”

9And so the temple assistants went and found her just as Annas had

reported, and then they brought her, along with Joseph, to the court.

IO”Mary, why have you done this?” the high priest asked her. “Why

have you humiliated yourself? IIHave you forgotten the Lord your

God, you who were raised in the Holy of the Holies and were fed by

heavenly messengers? 12You of all people, who heard their hymns and

danced for them-why have you done this?”

l3And she wept bitterly: “As the Lord God lives, I stand innocent

before him. Believe me, I’ve not had sex with any man.”

14And the high priest said, “Joseph, why have you done this?”

ISAnd Joseph said, “As the Lord lives, I am innocent where she is

concerned.”

16And the high priest said, “Don’t perjure yourself, but tell the truth.

You’ve had your way with her and haven’t disclosed this action to the

people of Israel. 17And you haven’t humbled yourself under God’s

mighty hand, so that your offspring might be blessed.”

18But Joseph was silent.

16 Then the high priest said, “Return the virgin you received from

the temple of the Lord.”

lAnd Joseph, bursting into tears….

3And the high priest said, “I’m going to give you the Lord’s drink

test, and it will disclose your sin clearly to both of you.”

4And the high priest took the water and made Joseph drink it and

sent him into the wilderness, but he returned unharmed. 5And he

made the girl drink it, too, and sent her into the wilderness. She also

came back unharmed. 6And everybody was surprised because their sin

had not been revealed. 7And so the high priest said, “If the Lord God

has not exposed your sin, then neither do I condemn you.” And he

dismissed them. 8Joseph took Mary and returned home celebrating and

praising the God of Israel.

17 Now an order came from the Emperor Augustus that everybody

in Bethlehem of Judea be enrolled in the census. lAnd Joseph wondered, “I’ll enroll my sons, but what am I going to do with this girl?

16:2 There is probably a lacuna here, for no finite verb accompanies the

participle bursting. How much has dropped out is difficult to tell, but perhaps

nothing more than “said nothing” is missing.

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16:3 The Lord’s drink test reflects a similar,

yel far from identical, test described in Num

5:11-31. For another such test, outside the

biblical tradition, see Achilles Tatius, Cleitophon and Leucippe, 8.3.3; 6.1-15; 13.1-14.2.

17:1 With the order from the Emperor

Augustus the gospel begins to follow the

sequence of events narrated in Luke 2:1-39,

with some attention to Matt 1:16-2:16. Note,

however, that Augustus’ order here extends

only to Bethlehem of Judea, not to the whole

world, as in Luke 2: I.

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Infancy James 17:2-18:11

Time stands still How will I enroll her? 3As my wife? I’m ashamed to do that. As my

daughter? The people of Israel know she’s not my daughter. 4How this

is to be decided depends on the Lord.”

sAnd so he saddled his donkey and had her get on it. His son led it

and Samuel brought up the rear. 6As they neared the three mile

marker, Joseph turned around and saw that she was sulking. 7And he

said to himself, “Perhaps the baby she is carrying is causing her

discomfort.” sJoseph turned around again and saw her laughing and

said to her, “Mary, what’s going on with you? One minute I see you

laughing and the next minute you’re sulking.”

9And she replied, “Joseph, it’s because I imagine two peoples in

front of me, one weeping and mourning and the other celebrating and

jumping for joy.”

IOHalfway through the trip Mary said to him, “Joseph, help me

down from the donkey-the child inside me is about to be born.”

“And he helped her down and said to her, “Where will I take you to

give you some privacy, since this place is out in the open?”

18 He found a cave nearby and took her inside. He stationed his

sons to guard her 2and went to look for a Hebrew midwife in the

country around Bethlehem.

3″Now I, Joseph, was walking along and yet not going anywhere. 41

looked up at the vault ofthe sky and saw it standing still, and then at the

clouds and saw them paused in amazement, and at the birds of the sky

suspended in midair. 5As I looked on the earth, I saw a bowl lying there

and workers reclining around it with their hands in the bowl; 6some

were chewing and yet did not chew; some were picking up something

to eat and yet did not pick it up; and some were putting food in their

mouths and yet did not do so. 7Instead, they were all looking upward.

s”I saw sheep being driven along and yet the sheep stood still; 9the

shepherd was lifting his hand to strike them, and yet his hand

remained raised. lOAnd I observed the current of the river and saw

goats with their mouths in the water and yet they were not drinking.

“Then all of a sudden everything and everybody went on with what

they had been doing.

18:3 From here on the earliest ms differs sharply from later mss in that it 17:9 omits the vision of Joseph (18:3-11) and has shorter accounts of the incidents

LkZ34 that follow.

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17:4 How this is to be decided: literally, “this ment, which is how it is taken here.

day of the Lord,” an expression that implies a 17:5 No Samuel is mentioned among the

time of judgment or decision. “Day” might brothers of Jesus in Mark 6:3.

refer to some particular day, but, if so, it is 18:1 That Jesus is born in a cave outside

not clear which one. Or it might refer simply Bethlehem differs from Luke’s stable at an

to that day that Joseph travels, since every inn there (Luke 2:7).

day belongs to the Lord. Or it might refer to 18:3-11 Joseph’s vision, which begins with

the series of events culminating in the enroll- his claim to be walking along and yet not

Infancy James 19:1-20:4 393

19 “Then I saw a woman coming down from the hill country, and A child is born

she asked, ‘Where are you going, sir?’

2″1 replied, ‘I am looking for a Hebrew midwife.’ Salome’s folly

3″She inquired, ‘Are you an Israelite?’

4″1 told her, ‘Yes.’

5″And she said, ‘And who’s the one having a baby in the cave?’

6″1 replied, ‘My fiancee.’

7″And she continued, ‘She isn’t your wife?’

S”I said to her, ‘She is Mary, who was raised in the temple of the

Lord; I obtained her by lot as my wife. 9But she’s not really my wife;

she’s pregnant by the holy spirit.’

1°”The midwife said, ‘Really?'”

“Joseph responded, “Come and see.”

12And the midwife went with him. 13As they stood in front of the

cave, a dark cloud overshadowed it. 14The midwife said, “I’ve really

been privileged, because today my eyes have seen a miracle in that

salvation has come to Israel.”

15Suddenly the cloud withdrew from the cave and an intense light

appeared inside the cave, so that their eyes could not bear to look.

16And a little later that light receded until an infant became visible; he

took the breast of his mother Mary.

17Then the midwife shouted: “What a great day this is for me

because I’ve seen this new miracle!”

1sAnd the midwife left the cave and met Salome and said to her,

“Salome, Salome, let me tell you about a new marvel: a virgin has given

birth, and you know that’s impossible!”

19And Salome replied, “As the Lord my God lives, unless I insert my

finger and examine her, I will never believe that a virgin has given

birth.”

20 The midwife entered and said, “Mary, position yourself for an

examination. You are facing a serious test.”

2And so Mary, when she heard these instructions, positioned herself, and Salome inserted her finger into Mary. 3And then Salome cried 19:13

oEx16:1O

aloud and said, “I’ll be damned because of my transgression and my

disbelief; I have put the living God on trial. 4Look! My hand is

disappearingl It’s being consumed by the flames!”

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going anywhere, seems to describe an experience in which everything-the winds, birds,

workers, herds, herders, and himself-are

momentarily frozen in whatever activity they

were engaged in. This moment would seem

to be the time when, back at the cave, Jesus

was born.

19:6 That Joseph should refer here to Mary

as his financee is odd, given the author’s

deliberate attempt elsewhere to depict their

relationship as that of merely guardian and

ward.

19:19 Salome inserting her finger recalls the

language and story of doubting Thomas in

John 20:24-25.

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Infancy James 20:5-21:11

5Then Salome fell on her knees in the presence of the Lord, with

these words: “God of my ancestors, remember me because I am a

descendant of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 6Do not make an example of

me for the people of Israel, but give me a place among the poor again.

7You yourself know, Lord, that I’ve been healing people in your name

and have been receiving my payment from you.”

8And suddenly a messenger of the Lord appeared, saying to her,

“Salome, Salome, the Lord of all has heard your prayer. 9Hold out your

hand to the child and pick him up, and then you’ll have salvation and

joy.”

IOSalome approached the child and picked him up with these words:

“I’ll worship him because he’s been born to be king of Israel.” lIAnd

Salome was instantly healed and left the cave vindicated.

l2Then a voice said abruptly, “Salome, Salome, don’t report the

marvels you’ve seen until the child goes to Jerusalem.”

21 Joseph was about ready to depart for Judea, but a great uproar

was about to take place in Bethlehem in Judea. 2It all started when

astrologers came inquiring, “Where is the newborn king of the

Judeans? We’re here because we saw his star in the East and have come

to pay him homage.”

3When Herod heard about their visit, he was terrified and sent

agents to the astrologers. 4He also sent for the high priests and questioned them in his palace: “What has been written about the Anointed?

Where is he supposed to be born?”

SThey said to him, “In Bethlehem, Judea, that’s what the scriptures

say.” 6And he dismissed them.

7Then he questioned the astrologers: “What sign have you seen

regarding the one who has been born king?”

8And the astrologers said, “We saw a star of exceptional brilliance in

the sky, and it so dimmed the other stars that they disappeared. Consequently, we know that a king was born for Israel. And we have come to

pay him homage.”

9Herod instructed them: “Go and begin your search, and if you find

him, report back to me, so I can also go and pay him homage.”

laThe astrologers departed. And there it was: the star they had seen

in the East led them on until they came to the cave; then the star

stopped directly above the head ofthe child. 11After the astrologers saw

him with his mother Mary, they took gifts out of their pouches-gold,

pure incense, and myrrh.

20:12 The aUlhor seemingly refers to

Joseph’s and Mary’s lasl trip to Jerusalem,

which is narrated in Luke 2:22-39.

21:1 Judea: Here and in v. 12 “Judea” must

refer to the city of Jerusalem.

21:5 It is remarkable that after the words

what the scriptures say the quotation from

Mic 5:1, 3, which follows these very words in

Matt 2:6, is omitted here.

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Infancy James 21:12-23:9

12Since they had been advised by the heavenly messenger not to go

into Judea, they returned to their country by another route.

22 When Herod realized he had been duped by the astrologers, he

flew into a rage 2and dispatched his executioners with instructions to

kill all the infants two years old and younger.

3When Mary heard that the infants were being killed, she was

frightened 4and took her child, wrapped him in strips of cloth, and put

him in a feeding trough used by cattle.

SAs for Elizabeth, when she heard that they were looking for John,

she took him and went up into the hill country. 6She kept searching for

a place to hide him, but there was none to be had. 7Then she groaned

and said out loud, “Mountain of God, please take in a mother with her

child.” You see, Elizabeth was unable to keep on climbing because her

nerve failed her. 8But suddenly the mountain was split open and let

them in. This mountain allowed the light to shine through to her,

9since a messenger of the Lord was with them for protection.

23 Herod, though, kept looking for John 2and sent his agents to

Zechariah serving at the altar with this message for him: “Where have

you hidden your son?”

3But he answered them, “I am a minister of God, attending to his

temple. How should I know where my son is?”

4S0 the agents left and reported all this to Herod, who became angry

and said, “Is his son going to rule over Israel?”

5And he sent his agents back with this message for him: “Tell me the

truth. Where is your son? Don’t you know that I have your life in my

Slaughter of

the infants

Murder of

Zechariah

22:1-2 power?” @Mt2:16-18

6And the agents went and reported this message to him. 22:4

7Zechariah answered, “I am a martyr for God. Take my life. 8The @Lk2:7

23:1-9 Lord, though, will receive my spirit because you are shedding innocent @Mt23:35,

blood at the entrance to the temple of the Lord.” Lkl:5-25

23:7-8 9And so at daybreak Zechariah was murdered, but the people of @Mt23035,

Israel did not know that he had been murdered. Acts7:59

22:4 The strips of cloth and feeding trough

recall Luke 2:12, but here these items are

used in the Matthean context of Herod’s

threat to Jesus’ life. By having Mary wrap

Jesus up and hide him in a trough, the

author can dispense with Joseph’s, Mary’s

and Jesus’ escape to Egypt, which is Matthew’s solution to the threat (Matt 2:3-15).

22:5 For the significance of why Elizabeth

took John and went up into the hill country,

see the Introduction.

22:8 The translation of the phrase This

mountain allowed the light to shine through to

her is very tentative, for the Greek is opaque

and probably corrupt.

23:2 Zechariah’s presence at the altar, where

he will be killed, shows that the author has

apparently identified this Zechariah, the

father of John, with another Zechariah, mentioned in Matt 23:35, who did die at the altar.

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(j) Lkl:21

24:8

(j) MkI5:38,

Mt27:51

24:14

@ Lk2:25-26

Infancy James 24:1-25:4

24 At the hour offormal greetings the priests departed, but Zechariah did not meet and bless them as was customary, 2And so the priests

waited around for Zechariah, to greet him with prayer and to praise the

Most High God,

3But when he did not show up, they all became fearfuL 40ne of

them, however, summoned up his courage, entered the sanctuary, and

saw dried blood next to the Lord’s altar, 5And a voice said, “Zechariah

has been murdered! His blood will not be cleaned up until his avenger

appears,” 6When he heard this utterance he was afraid and went out and

reported to the priests what he had seen and heard, 7And they summoned up their courage, entered, and saw what had happened,

8The panels of the temple cried out, and the priests ripped their robes

from top to bottom, 9They didn’t find a corpse, but they did find his

blood, now turned to stone. l°They were afraid and went out and

reported to the people that Zechariah had been murdered. llWhen all

the tribes of the people heard this, they began to mourn; and they beat their breasts for three days and three nights.

12After three days, however, the priests deliberated about whom they

should appoint to the position of Zechariah. 13The lot fell to Simeon. 14This man, you see, is the one who was informed by the holy spirit

that he would not see death until he laid eyes on the Anointed in the

flesh. 25 Now I, James, am the one who wrote this account at the time

when an uproar arose in Jerusalem at the death of Herod, 21 took

myself off to the wilderness until the uproar in Jerusalem died down. 3There 1 praised the Lord God, who gave me the wisdom to write this

account. 4Grace will be with all those who fear the Lord. Amen.

24:9 They didn’t find a corpse presumably

because the murderers carried the body away

and buried it without a name.

25:1 For the historical problems raised by

having James compose this gospel after the

death ofHerod see the Introductio

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The New Covenant Kingdom.

Each culture has defining features that are unique to it. It is made up of specific components like land defined by borders, a language, with leaders and a legal system to implement the laws that are specific to it. They generally have memorial celebrations to pass on to subsequent generations the things that make them unique. They define, renew and insure their identity. Change these and that people will cease to exist.

An important feature of many nations is a foundational document called a constitution. Constitution is a big word for ingredients. It defines what the citezines are made up of. These people are called constituents. They contain the ingredients in themselves as defined by their constitution that make them unique. Take away these ingredients and you change the people. You have a new constituency and a different people. People who are made up of different laws and values.

This is what Christ did. He came preaching “The Kingdom of God is at hand ” as something different from the Old Law era. He was the revolutionary creating a new constituency different from the old, of a new constitution called The New Covenant, of something that wasn’t understood before. The book of Hebrews says “this was first spoken by the Lord and confirmed by those who heard it.” He spoke first something different from the old covenant a new message to a new people to supersede the old. Hence, “all the Law and the Prophets were till John the Baptist. Now the Kingdom is preached and all are entering it. That is “too as many as received Him, to them He gave power to become His people, even to those who believe in His name, who were born not of te will of men but of God. This is the voice that beacons us to respond to the gospel call.

Such are we.We are this new constituency being the ingredients of The New Covenant “founded on better promises” than the old covenant, Will and Testament that the New one replaced. (Hebrews 8.6) They were not meant to co-exist. Old and New are not to get mixed together.

And the proof that it is something new and distinguishable different? Christ said “Only those who are born again can see the Kingdom and only those borne from above can enter the Kingdom of God [in Christ]. We hope you can see what we are talking about.

“All the law and the prophets (with their city, buildings and feasts) were till John the Baptist”, then stopped. “Now the Kingdom is preached and all are entering?” With these words, Christ drew the proverbial ‘line in the sand’ between His New Kingdom and the kingdom of that Israel saying of it. That “not one stone shall be left one upon another that shall not be cast down” thereby expiring its purpose with its offices, laws, and officers called prophets of  that Jerusalem on earth. With the introduction of their replacement called “Heavenly Jerusalem, the mother of us all”.

This was the contrast that we were given. Christ was the demarcation line and the check point between the old Hebrew/ Judah/Jew kingdom and the new Covenant Kingdom of God that are “in Christ” that “cometh not with (physical) observation”. (Luke 17.22) But never the less, still “at hand”.

“The Kingdom of God at hand” was unveiled, or, revealed then and was never retracted. A covenant is not in force till the death of the testator. Christ went to the cross for this cause. With His death the New Covenant is fully in force and the heirs receive their inheritance by that edict, as they participate in it (because it is “at hand”) and grow in the knowledge of God as we teach, each one of us in the order of our space in time of existence (1 Corinthians 15.23) and need not wait for another saving or the end of the world for us to retrieve are own portion of our inheritance into “The Kingdom of God at hand”.

And “at hand” means within reach to all who “press in to lay hold of why Christ laid hold of  us”, as a continual attitude and effort on our part unto your completion. Then the scripture can be fulfilled in you too that Paul learned to obtain when he talked about being “seated in Heavenly places in Christ” as a concurring reality. And from the book of Hebrews that “there remains a rest (a retirement from work) for the people of God. That they may enter their rest (retirement) as God did from His”. And subsequently so did the Son of God who “having purged our sin, sat down forever at the right hand of the Father, who is now waiting for His enemies to become His footstool”, because now, the rest of the work is up to us. And how do we define our work? To continue to believe in His name, and press in to obtain, until He has given you this assurance of your acquisition of the gift given, of your (Sabbath days rest) resting with them as well as Paul showed us. That our wranglings over this age are over as we also rest while our enemies who appear to be active, are only given a long rope to do so until their eternal judgment is complete with the words of Christ saying “fill up the measure of your fathers guilt”, so that they all may be mutually implicit…. Even as the fallen angels in Enoch 6 made mutual imprecations to do this thing because they knew it would take all that they had if they could do it. But because the New Covenant Kingdom at hand is of a heavenly sort, it shows us how confused the fallen are as they fight for something that is slated to burn with them in it. (2 Peter 3.10)

But for us? The New Covenant is emphatically in force in full as separate from The Old Covenant, so much so in fact that to understand, we were told not to put new wine in old wine skins. (Also Hebrews 9+). The old reached its culmination to bring us to the New. Christ is the demarcation line between the two and the sole mediator for this New creation and needs no help from the prophets of the old whom He replaced as substandard and subservient. (Hebrews 1.1)

Peter said of the prophets “Of this salvation the prophets have inquired and searched carefully (to understand something they did not have), who prophesied of the grace that would come to you, To them it was revealed that, not to themselves, (meaning not to the Old Will and Testament era), but to us (the gentiles from all nations) of which any left over Israelite’s or Jews just become another country with access by the same means being through the promise given to Abraham. That he would be a father of many nations. Hence “the Kingdom of God is at hand”, and “To as many as recieved Him, to them He gave the power to become His people, even to those who simply believed in His name. This should be a startling reminder as to who the enemy is. And again from the Revelation “for you know those who say they are Jews but are not. They are from the synogouge of Satan”, for the very reasons we have just been explaining to you…

“All (of the old) law and the prophets were till John”? Christ introduces a new constitution for a new constituency of those born with ingredients of the Word and of the Spirit. “He came to His own and His own did not accept Him, but to as many as receive Him, to them He gave power to become His Children, even to those who believe in His name”. And also “of those born among women there is none greater than John the baptist.  But those who are least in the New Covenant Kingdom are greater than he.” Such are we. We are “greater than John the Baptist” or any other prophet for John was the greatest of them. And He was the last who said “are you the coming one or do we seek another?”  Because John was beheaded we have are answer. John was the last and the greatest and because he was beheaded, we know that the body of the prophets were forbidden to be retold as having any future relevance.

The “New Covenant” people, are different from the old. A new people with a new make up, distinguishably different from the old. The old was written on tablets of stone and the New on tablets of the heart. (2 Corinthians 3.3)

We are not of the circumcision of the flesh but the heart. The differences have no parallels. The old depicts the New only with contrasts. The law of sin and death is a contrast to “The Spirit of life that is in Christ”. The operative here is “in Christ” not “in Jerusalem” on earth. These too are contrasts as well “for as the Heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts higher than your thoughts says Jehovah God”. This is “rightly dividing the word of truth”. And “if there had been a law given which could have given life, then truly righteousness would have been by the law. The culture of the law only mirrors the truth in contrasts and opposites. “The law having shadows of things to come (in Christ) but not the essence” (Hebrews 10.1)

Scripture says that Christ is the new mediator of a new covenant founded on better promises” than the old. In that He says, “A new covenant,” He has made the first OBSOLETE. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away” and it did. (Hebrews 8.13). That happened with the destruction of Jerusalem which was overturned by Titus, to fulfill Gods word in His Son as conveyed to us in Matthew 24 that “no stone shall be left upon another that shall not be strewn under” being totally unrecognizable.

The old was made up of artifacts of bygone ages founded on temporary fixes and band-aids designed to “make sin exceedingly sinful”. To make us good and dead till Christ comes to each one of us in our own time, throughout time. That “to as many as receive Him (The Son of God) to them He gives the stature to be called His children, even to those who (simply) call on His name. Who were born not of the will of mankind but of God”. He bred a new people for a New Kingdom, a Heavenly Kingdom as those born from above. (John 3)

At the proclamation that “The Kingdom of God is at hand” the deterioration of the old commenced. And if the changes to the Jerusalem of old were to be minor, He would have just had painted the buildings and maybe replaced the roof, but because the changes were so drastic and diametrically opposite, everything had to be redone. “Till not one stone shall be left upon another” was the Jerusalem’s demise (Mt 24.1). When Christ was on the cross, the physical temple was cracked so violently from the top to the bottom that the earth quaked and the bedrock shifted.  (Mt 27.52) Yes clear through the foundation showing it unsafe for use of any sort. And YOU CANNOT BUILD ON A FAULT LINE. That is why scripture says “old things have passed away, all things have become new.” It is irreversible. There is no going back to the old way.

This expiration of that kingdom was so completely fulfilled and put out of business, so much so in fact that all debts were paid and the books were balanced and closed saying “all the deaths of all the Prophets from righteous Able to Zechariah whom you slayed between the porch and the altar shall be required of this generation” to accomplish this reset, because they did not receive Christs offer of forgiveness because they liked the old way better (What about you). And because that kingdom and all the Jews so emphatically rejected the New King of a New Kingdom, the New Law and the New Law giver and the New Mediator of The New Covenant, but of them? “There were none righteous, no not one. All of their mouths are open sceplecures and white washed tombs. So on them was laid all the guilt for all the wrong doing, murders and deaths of all the prophets from Able till then. Why? Because there was not one prophet they listened to. Even as the people said “He is not my king, crucify Him”. And so they did. And so for this they were judged, condemned and annihilated. In this way they rejected the chief cornerstone. They were not recipients of the gift of God but His wrath. The books were settled, the wages of sin were paid. God owes them nothing He hasn’t already given them. God was patient that none would perish but there was none righteous, no not one”. The Jews and Jerusalem are no more. They are fulfilled. Meaning, expired, shelved and put away saying. Now it is said “²⁸ There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus”. Galatians 3. Jews have no preferential treatment.

She was found in total contempt as seen here.“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were not willing! 35 See! Your house is left to you desolate; Meaning condemned, kaput, closed for business, out of commission.

The buildings and the streets were so turned over and so unrecognizable that there was no distinguishing features left. The people were ravaged, killed and trapped in that city because they rejected The King. Josephus and other historians from that era speak of the hellish horror they experienced while they ate each others flesh and gnashed their teeth in pain while Jerusalem was surrounded by armies. They knew not their time. “When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, do not go back in your house to retrieve a coat”. The Jews are gone,. That kingdom was demolished. It was condemned, put out of business and replaced.

Here are the words from God and final judgment of a wayward people from Leviticus 26.

²³ ‘And if by these things you are not reformed by Me, but walk contrary to Me,

²⁴ then I also will walk contrary to you, and I will punish you yet seven times for your sins.

²⁵ And I will bring a sword against you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant;

when you are gathered together within your cities I will send pestilence among you;

and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

²⁶ When I have cut off your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall bring back your bread by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied.

²⁷ ‘And after all this, if you do not obey Me, but walk contrary to Me,

²⁸ then I also will walk contrary to you in fury;

and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.

²⁹ You^[g] shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.

³⁰ I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and cast your carcasses on the lifeless forms of your idols;

and My soul shall abhor you.

³¹ I will lay your cities waste and bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not smell the fragrance of your ^[h]sweet aromas.

³² I will bring the land to desolation, and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.

³³ I will scatter you among the nations and draw out a sword after you;

your land shall be desolate and your cities waste.

³⁴ Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land;

then the land shall rest and enjoy its sabbaths.

³⁵ As long as it lies desolate it shall rest—

for the time it did not rest on your sabbaths when you dwelt in it.

³⁶ ‘And as for those of you who are left, I will send faintness^[i] into their hearts in the lands of their enemies;

the sound of a shaken leaf shall cause them to flee;

they shall flee as though fleeing from a sword, and they shall fall when no one pursues.

³⁷ They shall stumble over one another, as it were before a sword, when no one pursues;

and you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

³⁸ You shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

³⁹ And those of you who are left shall ^[j]waste away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands;

also in their fathers’ iniquities, which are with them, they shall waste away.

You see the law was added only till faith comes and in the fullness of time God sent forth His Son born of a women to redeem those from the law. There is therefore no need for that law and the culture associated with it. It served its purpose of “making sin exceedingly sinful”. To go back to that is like jumping back into the pan on the fire for it will reap the same reward of rejecting the Savior. But many do just that as they look to another coming Jesus and another fulfillment of another Jerusalem and view scripture the same way as the Jews of old were condemned for. But “we have come to know and believe that Christ came to expire and replace the Old Covenant with the New covenant and New Kingdom of God in Christ. We the elect have received it. The rest were hardened. They like the old wine better for “no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine bursts the wineskins, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined. But new wine must be put into new wineskins.”  The Old verse the New. You choose. But woe to those who consider the blood of Christ a common thing and insult the spirit of grace and go back to the old sacrifices, ways and such who anticipate another Jesus for another act to save the world in competition of the saving of the cross. (John 3.16)

The Kingdom of God is At Hand Even Now.

Josephs Coat of Many Colors and The Mark of The Beast.

Josephs coat of many colors that he lost to the solders who cast him into the pit holds clues to the Garments of Christ that were divided among the solders who stripped Him naked at the hour of His carnal death. Like with Joseph, they said “here comes the Heir, let us divide His garments among us. And because the Garments themselves were of Royalty from their respective Fathers, we can understand that what they divided up were the garments related to a carnal mans aspects of Royalty unique to a Kings personal sovereignty as pertaining to this age. And if you remember when Christ was on trial about His Kingship, He was asked if He was King, and He replied “you have rightly called Me King, however My Kingdom is NOT from here”, thereby distancing Himself from that and any Jerusalem on earth.

This shows us His type of Kingdom and Royalty that we are reborn from and meant to emulate. He went on to say; or else I would dispatch a Legion of Angels and they would fight. However My Kingdom is NOT from here” meaning carnally visual and earthly, these are not His. Those are the traps for the gods of this age who left their first estate for something temporary. We say that because temporary things expire, and all the Law and The Prophets with their places, persons, offices and feasts days all had their culmination and conclusion at the cross. As for any such future rendition. This would become a trap because just as the Old Covenant genome of the last days jews had reached their extinction, so too, any such rendition would suffer similar consequences, but even worse because it is not the old testament concepts that they reject but the new by reverting to the old. Yes, the New and living way to the Father called “the Kingdom of God at hand”, of which the access point is the cross of Christ. It is this that they will NOT enter. Even as Christ told that wicked genome. He said “you are not entering the (Kingdom of God at hand) nor are you allowing those to enter who are trying to do so. This is why He told them “you do the deeds of your father the devil”. Christ made this distinction and extinction crystal clear. And for us on whom the ends of the age have come, we got the picture. We have no association with the fruitless works of darkness who keep peoples attention and affections ground bound and looking down, all the while their opportunity to press in to lay hold of the hope set before us, lingers and fades in a preoccupation.

Note; the core of that word is “occupation”, to be occupied and distracted. When someone is occupied as such, isn’t that just a form of demonic possession? Having an “occupant”?  Think about it.

But Christ went to the cross in order for us to reclaim our God given sovereignty, seen first with Adam and Eve, then stolen by satan, to be restored back to us through the gospel of the Christ of the cross, who defeated Satan by dying our death on our behalf, to give us a do-over to what we call “that which was from the beginning”. For us to be free from the task of taking care of a dead man as being the person in the mirror. Not dead as having no life, but having only a carnal life, but dead to the things of  the Heavenly Father that we have access to right here right now because He has NO limitations. Nope, those are yours.

We are born again to go on to pursue our Heavenly calling as being sojourners of a Heavenly sort that has nothing to do with timeframes related to creation, but a process and why we are called sojourners because the steps we take are in the eternal realm, as having to do with our ascension, having been raised up in understanding first.

For this is the “upward calling of God in Christ”, that seats us next to the Father “far above all principalities and powers, seated in Heavenly places and hidden “in Christ., known as Heavenly Jerusalem”. Even as Eve in the beginning was hidden inside of Adam and known as “the rib”. So too, Heavenly Jerusalem, the Mother of us all”, is hidden and tucked inside of Christ” being Adams replacement and the author and finisher of our faith. However His feminine counterpart was never to be exposed in a carnal way and is only made known now by way of revelation. This is  why She is the object and the conclusion of “The Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ” and not the judgments and woes, because She is the veiled image inside Christ. As far as all the catastrophes in that book? Those were the carefully placed redirects for the disingenuous in the faith. That book is not meant for them.. Like the spies who went to rehabs house looking for two people, to be “sent out the other way”. This is why NOT many people know the Holy Spirit is female and also the Bride and Wife of Christ, the parents of those born again. What do the judgments and woes in the book of “The Revelation of Jesus Christ”, have to do with the wedding feast of which we are already participating in? The Judgments and the woes in the book of the Revelation were like fireworks for kids meant to distract the disingenuous, and those not quite ready. This is why Christ was the first to proclaim that “The Kingdom of God is at hand”, as something different then what they were experiencing back then called the Old Covenant Kingdom and again today csnother Jerusalem on earth for carnal satisfaction. This is the delusion to displace the disingenuous..

Christ was the one to reverse the fall by gifting the New Covenant, resurrection based believers and get mankind back on track to be Heaven bound for Heavenly Jerusalem. This is quite opposite of that thing on earth that has distracted sooo many people. To understand this as we do, is to be “raised in understanding” to the New Jerusalem as it pertains to the new you, both of them through receiving the gospel.

The old physical Jerusalem concept appeals to the thinking of the carnal nature mankind adopted from Adam. And the place where the fall took place is where this all happened. And the fall has to do with being distracted by carnal presentations that mimick the invisible.

This is why we are mandated from Romans 12 to “be ye renewed in the spirit of your minds, that you may know what God’s good, acceptable and perfect will is”. This is where this all comes together.

For God made Him who knew no sin, to become our sin for our cause and effect. For Him to neutralize the carnal distractions for us to have His righteousness in us”, credited to us, so that we can “press in to attain to all the riches in Christ, in contrast with the old person we were when we operated by our old programming mode from the fall.

We say this takes place in the spirit of your minds because when Adam and Eve fell, there were no broken bones, bruises or spilled blood. Only un-sooth-able sorrow. Yes, gut wrenching sorrow and agony….

With these clues and these accounts as to what our duty is as becoming saints, we can learn to understand what the game plan is of satan and the lower case gods of this age in their final quest at circumventing the maturation of the Elect. For you see, what they do is NOT about taking over the world, for they had done that with Adam and Eve. And Christ brought in the Thousand Year Reign with the fullness of times and the fullness of the Gospel, whereby He sent out the disciples to the ends of the world “preaching and teaching everything I have commanded you”, to include the Gentiles and “to the ends of the earth”…

And then from that point, even what was left over from the jewish seed that were not in that Jerusalem that was soon destroyed, whichever ones were left, were also included in the collection of “all the nations”. God is no respecter of persons and that includes the Jews, because Christ performed a reset and a restoration to “that which was from the beginning” before the fall. Because the promise given to Abraham was that He would be a father of many nations. And this happened before the Law which was added to make sin exceedingly sinful, because that was Gods original intent. That “all the nations” each one equally as valuable as the other without favorites.

God made promise to Abraham saying “you shall be the father of many nations”, of which the Jews were just one of many, one who already had the opportunities to receive an eternal inheritance, of which they rejected, and subsequently crucified the Lord of  Glory, and received in themselves the consequences of doing so, a certain extermination. “Till not one stone shall be left upon another”. As the armies of Titus completely surrounded Jerusalem to ensure the task was complete. This was NOT a simple chastisement because they “killed all the messengers that were sent to her” was the allegation from Christ as He wept His last tears for that wayward people, to be labeled as expired. Meaning extinct. Make no mistake about it. God was done with them.

Having already replaced that Old Covenant with the New Covenant, that like with wine, they do not mix old and new, and the New was to be sent to the people of the whole world telling His disciples “go ye to the ends of the earth teaching and preaching everything I have commanded from the old. This was a new thing distinguishably different . And John 3.16.  Therefor just as assuredly as He healed the sick, made the cripple from birth walk and dance, opened the eyes of the blind and raised Lazerus from the dead, so too the Disciples, became the Apostles, who completed the command to “go ye therefore to the ends of the age preaching and teaching all that I have commanded you”? That has already been fulfilled as was the book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ because that book opened and closed with the saying “do not deal the prophecies of this book for the time is at hand”. Meaning it was happening to them. And because we are not them. That we are after them. Meaning that the last warning of the Book of The Revelation of Jesus Christ, we were left with this one caveat to iron out that says that “satan will be released one last time to deceive the nations”. There were no clues but be warned. Satans last deception will not enforce “the mark of the beast” like his last deception having to do with the expired book of The Revelation of Jesus Christ”. No the judgment satan received from that “expired” (meaning last breath, expire? Get it?). That time was too harsh and too fast.

Satan now knows that if he gives humanity more of a soft sell to give up their God given sovereignty one edict at a time, that he can get away with more. So now he has terms and conditions for services, savings, safety’s and provisions that make him the provider, or better yet. The controller over provisions made available through the internet.

Christ gave us The New Covenant with no replacement ever referred to as it getting old too. We say this because people are trying to re-incert scriptures expired and brought into fruition with Christ judgment in that bygone era. The Old is not coming back That is the delusion with all lying signs and wonders. Look in all of scripture. There is not a 3rd covenant ever spoken of, and the old is expired!!!

It was through Christs “in that day”, in contrast to Adams “in that day ye shall die” that the gospel according to god-like-ness was renewed to its original intent to be for all of humanity that earthen Israel and last generation (genome) of Hebrews called  the Jews (sons of Satan, brood of vipers, whited tombs full of dead mans bones”, showing us that they were completely apostate to be destroyed. Showing us what to expect at the end of the thousand year reign, and also called the age of the gentiles too.

And we are there! We say this because the Jews have been reinvented are back trying to reinsert the concepts and laws of the old covenant kingdom they were annihilated for for promoting them at the last reset.

You will know when we are at the end of The New Covenant era because it will revert back into the Old Testament expectation of a carnally visual Messiah in the fashion that the last era Jews were destroyed for. And if God honors this bunch of deceivers, He has to apologize and make reparations to the Jews of old. And that is NOT going to happen. And if they were destroyed for their ignorance, a word that doesn’t mean stupid but that they ignored what they were told and what was written about the coming Messiah. And the patience of God had expired with the Law era. No if and or butts about it!

So if they were condemned, and we have “a more sure word then what they heard’. what do you think is the punishment of these final days unbelievers claiming to be believers?

The last days started with the institution of the New Covenant because of the blood of Christ (Hebrews 1.1) And the last of the New Covenant era looks like the last of the Old Covenant era, but much more condemning because not only does it condone the old for want a messiah they could shake his hand and congratulate him for a great campaign, but they do it with greater testimonies than the inaugurated the New covenant. If they rejected Christ back then with the old testimonies they had? With us having the updated testimonies and contracts, signed by the blood of The Son of God. To then go back to the last days Jews?? There will be no mercy. You have been forewarned.

That is why Peter said that “it would’ve been better off not knowing the gospel, then to know it (have it) and turn from it’. But as a true proverb is written “as a pig having been washed goes back to wallowing in the mire, and a dog back to eaing its vomit, so too these go back to their old way of doing things and will be judged more severely. (2 Peter 3)

So today’s end times seekers look for a savior like they did at the end of the Old Covenant. This is the do over “with all lying signs if possible to deceive the Elect. Why? Because they can back it up fully with scripture, but only the expired ones. That is why it is a lie and a delusion which is a conjunction of two words, dilute and illusion. Hence a delusion, being diluted scripture to do so.

We are the Elect, exposing this for you to have you “come out of her My people” again. This is the only “second coming” type of opportunity and warning you are going to have to extract yourself from every and all such claims from the “end times” seekers today.As they look to a modern Israel (The name of a man, to become a people who in their last day became a land) “who say the are Jews and are not but from the synagogue of Satan”.

And they are impersonators because of the genocide of the time of Christ, and whatever was scattered was too few to reassemble. But one of the most condemning facts about the jews of today claiming to be from the Jews of old is that the Jews of old were Shemite. This means they were black!! So YES! We know those who say they are Jews and are not. Satan was the first liar, the father of lies. And every lie and liar is from the wicked one.

And if you think about it, if the Jews get away with there presentation of a renewed Kingdom according to Old Testament and expired prophecies, then what do you suppose Christ came here to expire at His first coming? Check your bible. There is no phrase called “a second coming”, in all of Scripture!!

And from Romans 3 about the Old Testament Law era, “how many were righteous. None, no not one”..

And because Satan already had his day of deception as described in the book of the Revelation that opened and closed with “seal not the prophecies of this book for the time is at hand”. Meaning it happened to that generation, to be played out back then, So that the New Covenant era that went into into effect by the blood of Christ to bring in the New!, to replace the “in that day ye shall surely die”!

“In That Day” explained

It goes like this. Adam lived 970 years to equate with “in that day ye shall surely die. And as Peter wrote “for one day with the Lord is as a thousand years and a thousand years is as one day”. To have “The day of the Lord” also called “the day of Christ”  and “in that day”, would also be a thousand years as well. The carnality of Christ lived until He was 30 to complete Adams 1,000 years because Adam was 30 years short of a thousand and Christ finished the old to conclude it (expired) for the new.   So instead of “in that day ye shall die”, with the reversal of that curse. For us in The New Covenant we have “in the day of Christ we shall live”. To which we attest, we are alive “in Christ” and able to testify to you that, we have received our inheritance. Just as assuredly with any inheritance. As long as the testator lives, the inheritance is in holding. But after the death of the Testator, the heirs receive the inheritance and so we did because in this case, the Only Begotten Son of God who was slain at the cross. It was that death that brought us life. Not just any life, but eternal living that begins the moment we believe, and reinforced over time as we are sojourners on a journey but not on earth  , as often as we enter in. Are you with us?

So then giving in to the end of this age of grace in its final stages has a reversion to a deception, that has its timeline exaggerations as well. Because of this we know we are after “the day of the Lord” that replaced Adams “in that day”.

The Book of the Revelation was meant for “that generation”, not ours.,,,

The book of the Revelation opens and closes with “the time is at hand”. And attached to the end is this clue too, that “the bottomless pit of hell would be opened and Satan would have one more opportunity to test the resolve of mankind, to b by offering them a competing source of godliness equated as being “as in the days of Noah”. That humanity would be eating, drinking and just living life as commonly known. That the last days deception would come like a thief in that the doors would  be closed and the time would be up like the virgins in the wedding parable who spent their time in the world and now not able to get in. Woe are those with that mindset

Now still has to reach its fullness to forever be the burning spectacle of how nt to do it for all of eternity as described in Isaiah 66…

So the lesson here is to expose the enemy of humanities plan to keep all their own personal sovereignty’s from being reached. For him and his know that the longer they can delay, circumvent and subdue humanity from acquiring the gift of godliness as defined in Gods Holy writ, that they can continue, That means they need to keep people subdued under the absurdity of the mundane. And the mundane is daily living and activities. To keep them involved in, and wrapped up and pre-occupied with just living and staying alive. And whereas in the last reset they were more forceful by mandating what was then called “the mark of the beast”, they have broken down mans sovereignty into pieces, to present a soft sell instead of a mandate to do or die with the mark,  and take it from them more slowly, one aspect at a time, one contract at a time, one terms and conditions (conditioning) after another until their personal God given sovereignty to say yes or no…. Their sovereignty, royalty, kingship and kingdom become totally forgotten in the storm of distractions. And you may say which distractions? To which we say the presentations of “wars and rumors of wars”, entertainment and just scratching peoples itches whatever they may be to have them avoid what will be painfully obvious to them the moment the opportunity ceases to exist. That the whole purpose of their lives here is to discover who they are, or who they could be if they just “sought to lat a hold of why Christ laid hold of us” and why “God so loved the world that He sent His … have everlasting life”, being imaged like Him. And for godliness to be real, each person is responsible for their choices and instead of the forced mark, they give into the terms and conditions by way of submitting to them. And with each submission your personal sovereignty becomes smaller and smaller and you become more and more blind to the potential inside of you of being made in the image of God. This is the purpose from the beginning and why Christ restored what Adam lost, “To as many as received Him, to them He gave the option of becoming like Him, even to these who believed in His name, who were not born of the flesh but by the spirit. But in these last days, many think that their sovereignty to be like god is the empowerment of the internet that even in its own presentation pretends to be godlike

Cloud of mystery as seen with Moses at the tabernacle door.  To be miffed and mystified fear that held them back, of which fear is the mode of operation for those who have rejected the gospel for an alternate presentation of godliness/ That people seek to complete themselves with the wares of this age, Of which, all of them are temporary and of no value when your physical existence expires, and you know that for what you are doing with their coats of many colors is the soft sell of the mark and a false sense of godliness. How do you know? Because they all have expiration’s and renewals associated with them but ours are eternal and ours are free. No terms conditions or recalls

That is why it is said “let you yes be yes and your no be no. Anything more than this is from the evil one. That all the clauses added to contracts terms and conditions , are legal and binding. Clauses are claws on your soul that keep you ground bound and looking down. And just like with electrical currents, ground is down. And if all you can see is your carnal existence, then you quite likely have not been born again or borne from above because your focus is carnal and that is what Gods Son gave Himself to do for you through confession. That as He died, we dye too. We see our old person dead there and we become unresponsive to the enemy of our souls threats of you being naked, because if you have not received the gift of God according to godliness, then you are doomed by self preservation. And why scripture says that “Those who seek to save themselves will loose themselves”, and THAT is what terms and conditions in exchange for promises and such do. They keep you negatively polarized and paralyzed to learn, repent and believe the gospel. That John 3.16

And if you don’t believe that, then why do we have more drugs cures doctors hospitals and such and more sick and dying then ever in recorded history

So just as the one was bound to be loosed, so too you need to be free from being bound to the soft sell of the mark called terms and conditions.

The wicked servants say in their hearts, My Lord delays His coming, as if to be on standby for another hand out to help them.

Like the unwise virgins who were invited to the wedding to then go to the world for their wedding attire. This is equivalent to those who pack themselves in the savings, safety and security agencies of this age, to be bound (as in demon possession) to terms and conditions, from covering providers from the gods of this age as though they need to stay plugged in until another visitation from a man named Jesus comes back to rescue them as in a second coming savior, which spits in the face of Him who already gave His life so that we could have His now as transcribed through the gospel as we do for you today because “Today”even still “is the day of salvation”. Harden not your hearts as they did in the wilderness wanderings, which may be a picture of you with one foot in on Sundays but everything else like everybody else pulled hook line and sinker through all the delusional lies from the internet as a barrier between them and heaven itself in the upper regions of the mind and not of this creation. For it is the re-spirited mind of faith that has been expanded by the power of Gd through the gospel and the Holy Spirit. To in turn be expanded wide enough and broad enough for God Himself to comfortable habitate their for constant interaction with us where it counts. Even as Paul spoke on Romans 12 to “be ye renewed in the spirit of your mind, has to do with a way of thinking quite different from those who look to the clouds of creation for another Christ and saving they call a rapture.

John 7.17 Christ states that ”If anyone wants to do Gods will, they shall know concerning the doctrine, whether it is from God or whether I speak on My own authority.

With all the bible variants and the warning that “wicked men and impostors will grow worse and worse deceiving and being deceived”. We must therefor be all the more diligent to watch and to “be on guard”, a word that means something needs special attention, and in this case it is The Word of God.

And if wicked men and impostors abound, this should cause us to covet earlier renditions of Gods words to limit the amount of contamination’s along the way. Yes some may have good intentions to try and simplify Gods word and modify it to modern nomenclature. But if they were having trouble with understanding the earlier renditions, then maybe they were not the ones to try and fix it.

And the truth be told, no one was ever commissioned by God to put together an approved set of texts. No one was authorized to canonize (encapsulate) scripture. And even with King James a civil servant and tyrant?

It is for each one of  us individually on our own to arrive at the truth, and just understand that we were warned that “wicked men and impostors would grow worse and worse deceiving and being deceived”. So as to add credence to earlier renditions of  what is called scripture. And because Christ spoke that “I no longer call you servants because servants don’t know what their master is doing. However as sons and offspring begotten by word and spirit, sanctified and set apart, we are more than qualified even over the Law and The Prophets whose day has come and gone, expired and counted as history. (His Story) We have this permission from Christ Himself who said “ For I say to you, among those born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist; but he who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.”

So for those of us who have responded to the invitation to “the Kingdom of God at hand’ as being the replacement of the gospel of the coming of Christ according to the Old Covenant, we are the “least in the Kingdom” Christ referred to.

We can use “scripture” to support a belief system or denomination and even have our favorite books and verses. This is why we have the parable of fishing for “fishers of men” meaning people. That “the kingdom of heaven is like a dragnet that was cast into the sea and gathered some of every kind”. But for the seekers of truth, we get behind the authors intent of “bringing many sons (and daughters) to glory”, as the purpose of scripture. Even as Scripture opens up with “let us make man in our image and likeness”. To also realize that “flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption” But we know that the re-scripted and re-spirited mind of faith does, as it pertains to godliness, which means, god-like-ness. That “God is spirit and truth and seeketh such”. So you may also find great truths for this life too in scripture, but Gods words go way beyond this life. As Christ said “my words are spirit and they are life”, meaning eternal. And the life it is for is “not of this age”, as having to do with the concerns of religions at large that try to make people good and not necessarily godly or godlike. For if just being a good person was the qualification then Christ gave His life in vain.

That “God so loved the (people) of the world that He sent His only begotten that whosoever believes in Him (from any tribe, language, or nation) shall not perish but have ever lasting life” as living the Eternal life we experience through the gospel where we find our tools for “renewing the spirit of your mind” to do so. That through it “we are being transfigured from (the) glory to (the) glory as by the spirit”. And whereas there is “the letter of the law” and “the spirit of the law”. The spirit and the intent is our focus. And now with the fulfillment and expiration of the Old Testament, Christ was the first to preach that “The Kingdom of God is at hand”, as something different and new. Meaning within reach and attainable throughout the New Testament era that culminates, as Peter puts it “the (final) day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up”, As a testimony to the temporality of creation as we experience it in the flesh, has the intended goal of producing citizens of those borne of the spirit, our new composition. This is the will of the Father and the purpose of all the will of God and not end times, a second coming Jesus or another era for the Jews. These are the distractions, food and fodder for the tares and not the wheat. This is how they both get their sustenance from the same field.

So we do, and so say we again that ,“If anyone wants to do Gods will, they shall know concerning the doctrine, whether it is from God or whether I speak on my own authority

This verse was given because there are many ways to contort the intent of scripture. Even just to try to meld them all together so that thery agree is impossible because the gospel in meant to be progressive. How ever if you don’t believe that then you try to defend your denomination, you are protecting just a particular stage in the progression and have likely settled for a lessor gospel. So that if you believe that you are in limbo waiting for another work of God for your completion, you have only believed in part and quite likely reject verses having to do with “The Kingdom of God is at hand” as having to have nothing to do with manifesting physically in creation itself. For even if you have a future hope of another physical kingdom with a physical Jesus? You have just equated yourself with the Old Testament believers who were condemned for doing exactly that. So much so in fact Christ said “Oh Jerusalem how I morn for you. Now this destruction is upon you for you knew not your time of visitation”, who commenced with the new message of His Kingdom at hand, as being the replacement of the old. As He said when He was on trial, “you have correctly said I am King, however My Kingdom is not from here” and with these words He divorced Himself from the Jews to enter into the gentile era and fulfill the promise to Abraham, the father of many nations but not the Jews, for “we know the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.”

Indeed I will make those of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews and are not, but lie—indeed I will make them come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.

This is the result of the closure of the Old as ineffective, to then open up a New Gospel to all the peoples of the earth with the dispensation of the Apostles who after they abandoned that Jerusalem, were instructed to “go ye therefor to the ends of the earth and of the ages, “preaching and teaching everything I have commanded you” which was and is “The Kingdom of God at hand”, having expired and superseded the old covenant with all its places, persons, fixtures and features.

We know His Kingdom as the one made up of living stones of those of us “wherever two or more are gathered in My name”, These are progenitors of those who are born according to the Spirit. This is “The Kingdom of God at hand” and the single most important message from scripture.

Yes there are plenty of neighborly niceties in Scripture too, but so do all the dominant religions. And we will add that if that is what you expect and believe, then we are quite likely done here. This is not for you. However if you are “reaching out to lay hold of why Christ laid hold of you”, That you are seeking to attain to the upward call of God (displayed) in Christ, then without understanding some of the apparent discrepancies and understanding the will of God. That The Kingdom is preached and the violent take it by force”. That we must be all the more alert, astute, awake and aware to do so. That there are carefully placed re-directs in scripture intended to “send out another way” the spies with selfish or ill intended with Gods Word. Just as Rahab turned the spies out another way when whom they were seeking were above them in the highest spot just out of view of human perception.

So then the intended redirects, all work out to separate the goats from the sheep, the spies from those who are still asleep. Hence, if anyone wants to do the will of God, they shall know”. And they shall know because the Holy Spirit is their guide and not a commentary or seminary instructor or even a preacher or a teacher.

Flat out, if your understanding of the gospel does not provide a completion for you in this age before your body expires, it does not have its intended purpose of reversing the fall of Adam called the resurrection, passed on to all of us, to then ascend to our new potential of godliness in the here and now. This is central to what scriptural Christianity is about and why we are called to receive Christs resurrection by faith first. We say by faith because that is the gift of God given to all of humanity, to be credited to them without works. That “to as many as received Him, to them He gave the power to be called His children, even to those who believe in His name, who were born not by the will (or impetus of) man but by the will (and impetus) of God. In this way we become the recipient”, by way of the resurrection first as erasing our Adamic sinful predisposition of being ground bound and looking down still waiting for a work from the Father when “TODAY is the day of salvation”, to then have your sites set on the prize as having to do with the ascension? Yes, the upward call of God in Christ is the ascension that Adam and Eve were suppose to participate and grow into before their fall. That Adam and Eve were to lay hold of the same truths that pertain to godliness. Meaning, God-Like-Ness. This is the real purpose of scripture in two parts. The first is a reversal of that fall by way of a resurrection, then on to completion through the ascension, to be seated in Heavenly places in Christ. And it is required for you to do so because “there remains a rest to the people of God. For those who have entered their rest, have ceased from their works as God did from His”. And so we do. Have you done that yet?

As we read here in Philippians 3, with Paul still on his journey for his completion, said “ Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, in order to lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. (AS AN OBTAINABLE GOAL) 13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind (BEING EARTH BOUN EXPECTATIONS) and reaching forward to those things which are ahead (MEANING ABOVE), 14 I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

And he further explains here “15 Therefore let us, as many as are mature, have this mind; and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal even this to you. 16 Nevertheless, to the degree that we have already attained (OUR OWN FULLNESS), let us walk by the same rule, let us be of the same mind.

Who also said “17 Brethren, join in following my example, and note those who so walk, as you have us for a pattern. 18 For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: 19 whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame—who set their mind on earthly things. And not the ascension.

It is the will of the Father to duplicate His Son in us. For us to be “full and complete in Him lacking nothing”.

His will is our acceptance into His Kingdom as a completed version imaged like them. That “we have been given everything that pertains to life and godliness through the knowledge of Him who has called us by glory and virtue. That by (believing,) receiving (and implementing) these precious promises, we become partakers of the divine nature having escaped the corruption that is in the world”. How? By Gods Holy Writ re-scripting your mind and Gods Holy Spirit, the Teacher, comforter and Helper” there for your cause. Having all the promises of God as understandable and attainable during our life journey as being “pilgrims and sojourners”. Our journey is to obtain our spiritual posture, and our residency in “The Kingdom of God at hand”. This is the focus and not the ten commands or neighborly niceties or a rapture or a second coming Jesus or another establishment of another Israel from those “who say they are Jews and are not but of the synagogue of satan. But it is Gods will for you and the intent of Gods words that keep us focused on our journey as having to do with acquiring, obtaining, owning, putting on and using “the gift of God accord to godliness”, which once again is not a piety but an ability to know and interact with our Heavenly Father on His terms of faith as, with His tools given to us as having to do with the new you. That you having put off the old body/man/person, of the sins of the flesh and not the very flesh itself, but the old mindset that leave you wanting. God didn’t leave you there.

Remember, it was the religious order of the Jews that was the demarcation line between them and the creator who gave them The Law to condemn them, to have them turn the other way to the right doing of faith. That is why to repent simply means to turn the other way. To do an about face. The is why the law of works is opposite the law of faith and why the Father gave the Mosaic law first, was to bring you to your failure to seek the cure. For how many from the law were made righteous? “None, no not one. Their mouths were open scepelcres spewing out dead things. This was the demise of the Jews and The Law Culture.

So then we can conclude that any other kingdom or any other saving or any other coming of Christ, would be in competition with the saving and “the Kingdom at hand” that Christ proclaimed first, and they were even His last instructions to His disciples before He was lifted out of human view. We know Him now as the “lo I am with you always, even throughout the ages even the end of the world.” This verse here should dissuade you from being a second coming seeker as the deliverer of the goods of God because The Father already sent Him to do so. To be found “in Christ” is to be found “in the promise land” and “in the new creation” from God. You are either there “in Christ” or “in the world” according to Adam. For “you are (called to be) a new creation in Christ, old things having (already) past away. Behold all things have (already) become new and all things are from God” from Heaven. Even as the Revelation describes Heavenly Jerusalem as coming down out of Heaven as the original all others compete with. To no longer be bound by your Adamic weaknesses and fears. This is the true gospel. “For if anyone one is in Christ they are a new creation, old things having passed away, behold all things have become new and all things are from God”, and not of earthen elements. For not if, but since we have been re-imaged like Christ through the Word of God. That as we put off flesh and put on Word in the loins of our minds, you put on the new you now and have no need for a rapture or a second coming one, or the end of the age to get on with your new you like Christ. Not the man, for that was Him becoming one of us to expire that notion, to make us a new creation.

In truth man is the crown of creation. What we call creation is really nothing but our old support system. But now we have Gods Holy Word and Gods Holy Spirit to validate your new you, your dependency on the gods and powers of this age should be put off. This however takes faith because the Father only rewards those with faith. And faith is walking into the unknown. That you may not even see the ground to step on only to find it as your foot hits the ground. This one pleases God and receives from God. And this type of walk takes you past all your previous surrogates and previous dependencies, providing you canceled your terms and conditions as being tethers with weights on your invisible soul that The Father is interested in having free access to. Warning!! There are carefully placed re-directs from the gods of the day that seek to detain you for their empowerment by keeping you from your own empowerment by you employing the Gospel. For this you must step outside your religion, look back into the faith and remove the carefully placed redirects sown in from the enemy. Even as stated in the gospel saying “Lord, did you not sow good seed in your field? And He said, yes, but while men slept (from their responsibility) the enemy came along, sowed his seed and went his way”. Who then said Master shall we pull out the weeds? and the Master said, no, let them grow together and at harvest time we will first bundle (in terms and conditions and all sorts of binding clauses) the weeds to burn, then put the wheat in My barn” (of those of us who have put them off as just works of the flesh), showing us the reality of the enemies seed in our field, our place of spiritual sustenance called the Word of God. Yes the word has “everything that pertains to life and godliness”, but also has enough redirects to wreak havoc on the  the spies, the enemies and the ill intended. That is why we are called to test all things and hold fast to what is good” with nothing but His word, yourself alone, and His Holy Spirit, to come forth and stand seemingly alone on our outside but empowered beyond human understanding on our inside. This one has put on the image given as such a great price. This one has their intel inside without the need of the external serogets.

The Kingdom of God is at hand, in this way ONLY. If you are waiting for another form of completion, you have been sorely misinformed. And we will finish with this quote from the end of the Book Of The Revelation of Jesus Christ.

“8 Now I, John, saw and heard these things. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who showed me these things. 9 Then he said to me, “See that you do not do that. For I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren the prophets, and of those who keep the words of this book. Worship God.”

As we have said, your completion can be accomplished before your expiration of your carnal body, as we’ve just shown a perfected saint as the fulfillment of the work of the gospel in you and not a fulfillment associated with time itself. Eternity has no limitations. That’s the Gospel. And the gospel still is “The Kingdom of God is at hand” for yet a little while. But then the saying will be true that the same glorified saint said that “Then he said to me, “See that you do not do that. [a]For I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren the prophets, and of those who keep the words of this book. Worship God.” 10 And he said to me, “Do not seal the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand. 11 He who is unjust, let him be unjust still; he who is filthy, let him be filthy still; he who is righteous, let him [b]be righteous still; he who is holy, let him be holy still.”

And this is the bad news. The gospel ends with your opportunity to fully convert. “let them be holy still.” That is, if you are getting this.

A,em

The Crass Words of Christ.

Crass meaning lack of sensitivity. That as much as churches pastors and teachers convey the love and acceptance of God through His Son, it was He who offended those looking for their Messiah more than not. Yes, “God sent His Son into the world not to condemn the world but to save”. And “to as many as received Him? To them He gave power to become His Children, even to those who simply believed in His name”. But who might these be? He also said “do not fear little flock, it is the Fathers good pleasure to give you the Kingdom”.  The Father was talking about the New Covenant in contrast to the Old Covenant and its last inhabitants called the Jews.

And there were more Jews offended by Him than not, for it was the whole culture that was condemned. Even as we see with the events that led up to the Jews murdering Him by crucifixion. It was not only the religious leaders in that Jerusalem who rejected Christ, but in essence, the whole culture in that Jerusalem and in that Israel, that only mimicked Heavenly things, like kids with toys and the reason they were called the “children” of Israel some 1100+ times in scripture. Yes, it was even the women and the general public who said “sure, his blood be upon us and our children”, as though what Christ spoke was to be scoffed at and not taken serious. They wanted a King in studly attire but got a pauper riding in on a little pony. Not quite the glamour and glitz they wanted. But they were warned in their scripture that the Messiah would come riding in on the foal of a colt, and there were very few that accepted Him, only a remnant. (Genesis 49. 1 and 10)  So if they had read their books, they should’ve known that their time had come to an end when the Messiah appeared and “to Him would be the obedience of the people”, but not the Jews. For “if they recognized Him for who they had hoped “they would NOT have slain the Lord of Glory”. But they did.

We see because of this, when Christ was sent into the world to save, that He went to the stewards of the Old Covenant first for closure to do a new thing. It was the stewards of replicas of Gods things in that age that rejected Him. For even the women said “yes His blood be upon us and our children” after Christ had told them of the deaths that would happen to their children as seen prophesied here in Leviticus “And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat

That is why He had said “oh Jerusalem, those who stoned and killed ALL the prophets who were sent to Her. And “How I morn for you for NOW this destruction is upon you” letting them know that they were the subjects of His wrath. And they remarked “yes we know, His blood be upon us and our children”, as if to say, sure you are our king and as for our children, that is not gonna happen. And with those words the Law era was forever expired. The culmination and the end of the whole Law era that began with Moses and extended all the way till John the Baptist’s father Zechariah, of which Christ said “whom you killed between the porch and the altar”, and thereby further condemning not just THAT generation, but that whole way of doing things because the Law era failed to convert and begged a replacement. So it was scrubbed and made extinct as not producing any fruit to the Heavenly Father. And you may ask, how can we say that? Because scripture says of them “10 As it is written: “There is none righteous, no, not one; 11 There is none who understands; There is none who seeks after God. And because the promise was made to Abraham that he would be a father to many nations” as Gods intended goal, Meaning saving from all nations. And the proof of this is that the twelve were told to “go ye therefor to all the nations preaching that the Kingdom of God is at hand” as their replacement. This is all the proof we need to know that the Law era was only a temporary addendum meant to prove that, by their own efforts they could only produce death. And so it was over, expired, completed and removed as fruitless and offensive. Even as Paul said “I see the law is good but within me dwells no good thing. Oh wretched man that I am”. Who will free me from the law of sin and death?” The answer to that is, you enter the New Covenant through the blood of Christ, to receive the New Will (in relation to a death and distribution of an inheritance) and Testament, founded on better promises. But this they did not comprehend. Then by protecting the old that Christ went to replace, they then became the enemies of God because their time was over. So Gods son said to them “Oh if you only knew your (appointed) time of visitation (but you didn’t). Now this destruction (and annihilation and extinction) is upon you. In this way they rejected Him.

So then, all the law and the prophets, with all its buildings, articles, persons, places and procedures, that was “added to make sin exceedingly sinful”. And the sin we are talking about has to do with all the NOW, shelved and expired Old Covenant era instruments. The whole Mosaic Law era was a temporary addendum that “was added till faith comes” and the change came. It came by the appearing of The Savior who brought with Him with the invitation saying “repent for The Kingdom of God is at hand”. As scripture also says that “in Him (whom they thought to snuff out), “dwells the fullness of the Godhead body”. So that the case against the Old Testament remnants of the 12 tribes, having been reduced to the one tribe of Yudah, or Judah, these would be irrefutably unmistakably condemned. But today they call themselves Jews, And just like stale, unfit, contaminated expired products in your kitchen needing to be discarded for being rancid, so they are. Just like a sentence past on to a murderer for the execution of the heinous acts they had  done in public display as a warning on how NOT to do it. On how NOT  to do what? Worship the one true God. The Jews failed at this miserably, for in them the Prophecies from Leviticus 26 were fulfilled with God saying “ 27 And if ye will not for all this hearken unto Me, but walk contrary unto Me; 28 Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I will chastise you seven times for your sins. 29 And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat. 30 And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you. 31 And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours. 32 And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it. 33 And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.

And again as He spoke in Matthew “Oh Jerusalem, the one who stones and kills all those who are sent to her. Now this destruction is upon you”. Destruction infers an annihilation as the “one stone shall not be left one upon another” was taking place because of their rejection of The Messiah whom they crucified. And as they scoffed and agreed saying, yes so His blood be upon us and our children”. They found no room for repentance, and yes, they faced a certain extinction. So whatever you think remains today or recovered today as being the original Jerusalem? They are just more lies from the Father of them for “what fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousness? NONE!

This was the undoing of that whole era. And to return to that was to be scorned and shunned as Christ clearly stated that “you cannot put old wine in new wine skins and vise verse, speaking of the expired Law culture. So as not to pass on the same results to any other culture because “God so loved the world (called gentiles of every nation) that He sent His one and only Son into the world, to condemn the old way of doing things. So He offered Himself for the payment of all wrong doing saying “to as many as received Him, to them He gave power to become, and to be adopted into the family of God. And not the Jews, for it was they who claimed to be His, who didn’t only NOT recognize Him, but they shunned, denied, despised, spit upom, hated, tracked down, captured, imprisoned and murdered the prophets of old up till the crucifixion of the Son of God.

So there was a genocide committed in judgment of that whole Jewish era as how NOT to relate to God. If you remember, He called them “brood of vipers” and “sons of Satans”, white washed scepelcures full of dead men’s bones. And also said “not one stone shall be left standing that shall not be cast down” because they knew NOT their time of visitation. (Matthew 24).

So any return to such an era of Law and feasts like they do today is blasphemy. If God the Father disdained it then, then it is God who needs to repent? To change His mind and now exonerate them?

We can verify through scripture that yes, it was their “end times”, last days and extinction because of Jacobs prophecy about Judah, who deteriorated to became the Jews, by saying to the 12 in Genesis 49. And Jacob/Israel called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days. “10 And to the tribe of Judah, Jacob/Israel said, “The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from his lineage, until Shiloh come; and unto him (Shiloh) shall the gathering of the people be. 11 (And you will recognize Him Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass’s colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes: And with the appearance of Christ on the foal of a colt as seen here “5 Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass. 6 And the disciples went, and did as Jesus commanded them, 7 And brought the ass, and the colt, and put on them their clothes, and they set him thereon. So as a result of these expired prophecies, the Jews already faced their “last days” and end times back then. To mean that if you can see and accept this, than it can be said of you too. That “you know those who say they are Jews and are not but are of the synagogue of Satan”, because that is what is taking place in a Modern Jerusalem or any Jerusalem other than the ubiquitous one we are invited to saying “Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb’s wife. 10 And I was carried away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and I was shewed  that great city, the Holy Jerusalem, descending out of Heaven from God, 11 Having the Glory of God: And: He measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.

Does this sound harsh? Does this offend you? This is the truth. And had this not been done with such clarity, then there would be many who could claim the Jews of old were innocent for believing the same nonsense they believe again today. If God honors the Israel, Jerusalam and Jews in our day, then He would have to make reparations to the Old ones too. Isn’t that what these last of the last Jews want? How did the scriptures become so misunderstood that people think the bible is about the reinvention of the Jew? More Blasphemy!!

So we can use their doctrines and beliefs as a measuring stick as to how close we are in regard to another judgement from Heaven on this same genome  because to go back to believing what they believed and to expect what they expected, you should expect the same results. Another round of judgments from the Living God.

How to apply this to history (His-Story)

We can know when the New Testament gospel will have run its course too. It will be when the last of the New Covenant believers believe what those Jews believed. All who do so are in subjection to the same holocaust type judgment the former Jews had because to re-brand the Old is to reject the New Covenant that is irrefutable different than all The Law and The Prophets.

The law is expired, it ran its course. There are no longer any prophets in the same way as the old because “all the Law and the prophets were till John the Baptist” who closed that era. For even John the Baptist stated publicly and said “A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven. 28 Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him. 29 (and so now) He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom (John The Baptist), which standeth and heareth them, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice: because of this my joy is (now) fulfilled. 30 (And amended to the Greek version) THEY must increase, but I (John the Baptist, last bonifide Old Covenant representative) must decrease (along with The Law era persons, places and rituals). 31 He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all.  (Read full chapter here.)  So when the Jews mindset of old becomes common again and the last time believers come together with them as though they should get along. Woe is them but just as a true proverb is written that “Just as a pig goes back to wallowing in the mire, and a dog returns to eat its vomit, so too do these return back to what was removed”. And what was it that was removed? All the Law and the prophets”, their persons places articles and procedures “were added to make sin exceedingly sinful”. That “all the Law and the Prophets were till John the baptist, of whom were condemned, for the lesson to be learned that “flesh and blood does not inherit the Kingdom, but the respirated mind of faith does. And it does it right now as soon as you confess to profess.

Does this sound alarming? untrue? harsh or unreasonable to you? These are the hard sayings from scripture. That there are those in our day who have reverted, and they are many, that side with that whole old rejected Law era order, and believe they still have relevance, showing us that the harvest is nearing an end because if God allows this to continue then He has to apologize to the Old Covenant era for placing the blame of the death of His Son on them. And today they embrace the same old expired message of the Jews of old.

If you really believe scripture from a New Will and Testament perspective instituted with the death and cross of The One Christ/Savior, it would be because you’ve learned to differentiate between the Old and The New Covenant era’s by way of the contrasts, which is why they are not meant to be blended together because of the obvious contrasts. Old wine, new wine. And of Christ at the cross “He took away the first to establish the second” and final contract with the Heavenly Father because the death of the Testator has happened. The heirs have access to their inheritance now because Christ died. But fortunately (literally) for us, He rose too. So then those of us who are raised up (different from the resurrection from the dead) in Heavenly places in Christ”. We see, we hear and we know and NOW! We have the gospel more sure then they for they did not take it as it were by faith but they just wanted the facts of physical findings. The hard core, concrete provable facts. But then how could you ever be able to do like the 12 back then who were instructed to go house to house preaching the Kingdom has come upon you.  For them to then be told to depart from that earth bound Jerusalem that was sleighted for destruction “till not one stone shall be left standing” for them to be instructed to “go and preach to all the gentiles throughout the nations of the earth that The Kingdom of God is at hand”, to have people turn from that to return to the expectation of a construct of a physical city in another stone built Jerusalem, to have their Jesus come back to what. What the Jews previously had? Well then God as some apologizing to do. He has to make reparations to the Jews, not the rest of the world, because it was by His own words that the Jews were genocided as “brood of vipers, sons of Satan, on you shall I require all the blood shed from righteous Abel to The death of John the Baptist father, Zechariah “whom you slayed between tge porch and tge alter. I tell you all these things were required of that generation”. Does this offend you? Then to you too we say these words “fill up the measure of your father’s guilt”. You’ve got the same thing coming.

Because of this the mandate went out to “come out of her (Jerusalem of old testament times) My people lest you partake of her sins and recieve of her judgements for God has remembered her. Meaning again today too. They are filling up to the full too “with all lying signs and wonders if possible to deceive the Elect.”

There is an eternal demarcation line between covenants and the kingdoms associated with them. As for us? Our mother is Heavenly Jerusalem come down of God from Heaven, and not of physical members but “of the measure of a man who is of an angel”. (Revelation 21.17)

Repent and believe the Gospel for the time is short.

Gods Private Reserve and The New Wine The Holy Spirit

There are a places where few may go. But there is A place with God where some go and never come back,,, except to make cameo appearances and to pear at the events unfolding through time to reach creations intended purpose and final outcome of bringing forth “many sons (and daughters) to glory“. To bear fruit to The Father of His look a likes being “made in His image, male and female made He them”. Even as scripture says that “the days will be cut short for the Elects sake” as the intended goal. And that  “we are being transfigured from the Glory to the Glory as by the Spirit“. Meaning that this Glory does NOT take on a visage to please your carnal nature. However the visage of His Glory He shares with us is astounding.

To some this might seem like a fairy tale, to others? It is the events in creation of unfolding judgments and woes “if possible to deceive the Elect”? These are the tales of fallen fairy’s. The tales, partial truths and outright lies from fallen angel’s, intended to detain many from their ascension. It is for those with such end times expectations to occupy themselves with as they look at scripture like  a play book of events still yet to come to reveal destruction, mourning’s and woe’s, instead of Glory. That is the wrong view point and a misuse of scripture.

These words are for those who hear the voice to get off of that merry go-round of end times prophecies that never happen the way they’ve expected it to for years as they regurgitate the same scenarios over and over and they are ALL still wrong.

This is what God has to say about those dreamers. “When a prophet speaks in My name, if the thing does NOT happen or come to pass (as they’ve said)? That is the thing which I HAVE NOT spoken; that prophet has spoken it presumptuously! YOU SHALL NOT be afraid of them (or what they say).

You shouldn’t listen to them at all but turn the other way because that kind of fear was adopted first by Adam with his encounter with the opposition who asked “has God really said?”

Fear God only as He says in Isaiah 8.11-14 saying “11 For the Holy One spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people: 12 “Do not say, ‘A conspiracy,’ Concerning all that this people call a conspiracy, Nor be afraid of the threats (they present to you), nor be troubled. 13 The Lord

 of hosts, you Him shall hallow; Let Him be your fear, And let Him be your dread. 14 He will be as a sanctuary (to you), But a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense To both the houses of Israel, As a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And of those again in our day who do the same thing.

If you have separated from that non stop merry-go-round of end times prophecies? To you we say “Come Up Hither”. Our Father is seated in the Heavens. And of Christ “after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, (He then) sat down at the right hand of God, 13 from that time waiting till His enemies are made His footstool”, and has been waiting for the arrival of “the called” (meaning us) to join Him because “9 There remains a rest for the people of God. 10 For those who have entered their rest have also ceased from their works as God did from His.

Meaning us who have entered our rest with them there with full discovery as we do right now.

And so we joined them and our wrangling and our laboring about events on Earth are over because we rest in Him, “in Christ”. Yes the finished work of the cross of Christ the savior who has made us safe, sanctified and saved from the world while we are “in the world but not of the world”, Like the Only Begotten who is “the Word of God became flesh and dwelt among us” to  demonstrate to us that because “in Him dwelt the fullness of the Godhead body” it can happen to us too, so we testify. “Let God (and His words) be true but every man a liar.”

Here are some sneak previews for you to learn from.

Our first doorway into Gods place we will show you is with Moses and a young Joshua/Yashuah. The account goes like this.

7 Moses took his tent and pitched it outside the camp, FAR from the camp, and called it “The tabernacle of meeting” (as picturing the Eternal original that the Feast of Tabernacles only mimics, Eternal in the Heavens). And it came to pass that everyone who (was inclined) sought YHVH, they went out to the tabernacle of meeting which was outside the camp (unlike those in the camp). 8 So it was, whenever Moses went out to the Tabernacle, that all the people rose, and each man stood at his (own) tent door and (from a distance they watched) Moses until he went into the tabernacle.  And it came to pass, when Moses entered the tabernacle, that the pillar of cloud (of mystery) descended and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and (there) YHVH talked with Moses. And all the people saw the pillar of cloud erected at the tabernacle door, and all the people rose and worshiped, each man in his tent door (miffed and mystified, or maybe just afraid and too bewildered to participate). So (from the Tabernacle) YHVH spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his FRIEND (to allure the others to do so too) And Moses would (go in and out and) return to the camp, but (the mystery is) his servant Yashua the son of Nun, a (new) young man? He did not depart from the Tabernacle (EVER)! This is the mystery! This is the prize! If you remember, Yashuah/Jesus told the disciples “No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but now I call you FRIENDS, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you.

Do you get this? It is as we are more fully in Christ (the same as being in the Tabernacle) that we truly see ”all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you” as being “in the world but NOT of this world” as all things that are new “in Christ”, because eternal things are forever new and never fade. We are His ONLY investment here.

We highlighted “Friends” so that you can see that YES! This is for us who have ears to hear and are no longer bound as “servants” to the Old Testament style pictures as needing to become physical like the end time seekers erroneously do.

HOW TO APPLY THIS TO OUR DAY

There are those who “diligently seek God” (not to to mean end times prophesies, or being good people). Even in rough times who do not turn their backs on God, and God does not turn His back on them either as He did with Moses, who only witnessed a fragmented fray of Gods Glory as God passed by him, leaving only a residual of His “shikinah”. Exodus 33.22 But as Heirs and recipients of The New Will and Testament far superior to the old. We have things Eternally Greater because “we are transitioning from the Glory to the Glory we see (2 Corinthians 3.18)  12 Therefore, since we have such hope, we use great boldness of speech— 13 unlike Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the children (those playing with the toys) of Israel could not look steadily at the end of what was passing away. 14 But their minds were blinded. For until this day (even our day) the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Testament, because the veil is taken away in Christ. 15 But even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart. 16 Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit.)

If you can see this and receive it, them you are of this sort. Or you may ask, “Into His self same image? How? It is only through the gospel and not at some supposed event after a rapture or an illusive second coming or the end of the world event! That is for those who sit and wait for something more to happen as though when Christ at the cross said “it is finished”, but maybe it wasn’t? Like those who did not participate but watched Moses as they stood at the door of their tent at a distance as spectators because they just could not believe what was presented to them as being attainable. The question now is, can you?

Our Lesson from Their Wanderings.

It was that whole generation of Israelite’s with Moshe who were destroyed in the wilderness because in their 40 plus years, they remained “children”. The whole time they failed to enter into “the Tabernacle” to receive these things that Joshua/Yashua.

It was Moses who didn’t stay in the Tabernacle, but went in and out. But better yet is the man who would replace Moses in leading the children into the fruition of the promises being Joshua/Yeshua/, who pictured the New Testament Jesus/ Yahshuah, the “new man” and “creation” and “the New and living way” to the Father. Yes Moses servant Joshua went into Gods Tabernacle and never left it as we just read. And likewise, Gods Tabernacle went into Joshua to never come out from him either. They became one, echad and koinania.

This teaching is meant for us “on whom the ends of the age have come”, because the first shall be last and the last shall be first” and we are right on time.

Note; to be fascinated by these things without change and transfiguration, is to be visited by Gods Holy Spirit. This is different then to be filled with Gods Holy Spirit. That is what this whole lesson is about. We went into the Tabernacle, and the Tabernacle went in us. And just like Joshua/Yashua, we never depart. NEVER! Regardless of what happens around us, we cannot be any closer and more secure than we are RIGHT NOW! If you can receive this? THERE ARE NO SCARY IMAGES to bother you. To relate those to scripture is a misuse and an abuse because the fulfillment of ALL scripture brings us to the same place, and time has nothing to do with it because “Christ is the same yesterday today and forever”, and He said “I will never leave you or forsake you”, why would you believe in the need for another saving called a second coming? Was His blood insufficient? Be careful how you answer that because there is certain retribution to those who don’t. “4 It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, 5 who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age 6 to then fall away (by forgetting these things), to be brought back to repentance. To their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace.

To be “in The Tabernacle” picturing being “in Christ”, To become one also portrays “The Bridal Chamber.

This is the point. The become “ECHAD”, which is the Hebrew word meaning one and inseparable as used here in Deuteronomy 6.4 “ Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is ONE Lord:”. Of whom we became ONE with too.  And to be ONE from 1 John about “fellowship” from the Greek word “koinania“, from Strong’s #G2844 in truth means “to participate in social intercourse, a communication and communion” To have all in common. To be wed as one, INSEPARABLE into an amalgamation of each other, our tabernacle in their Tabernacle. And this is suitably translated as a type of discourse but more so of an intercourse and a genetic transformation of a union borne in the spirit. To be inseparable, just like Joshua at the Tabernacle pictured for our understanding

Even as Paul had stated “now that you have known God, or rather known by God”. In the same way “Adam knew Eve”, showing us that this is about a transfer of genetics and how you are “born again”.

Yes Joshua went into Gods Tabernacle and God went into Joshua’s tabernacle and the two became one because he never left. This is what has been gifted to us through the Gospel of “His Kingdom At Hand!”

This is the mystery of the Feast of “Tabernacles” and “Atonement”, which means “AT-ONE-MENT” and inseparable. And like pictured with Yahshua/Joshua, WE NEVER COME OUT of this relationship of being “in Christ”!

Even as John wrote that “in the beginning was the word, the word was with God and the word was God, He was in the beginning (before creation) with God. Then the word became flesh (something He was not previously) and dwelt (from a word in the Greek concordance #G-4636, in truth means “tabernacled”) among us”. Christ, the firstborn Son of God put on a tabernacle like ours for us to put on our new abode of “abiding “in Christ”.

Yes, we share the same tent and tabernacle resident in the human mind in the midst of our tabernacle. Even as Romans 12.1 says to “be ye renewed in the spirit of your minds”, the place of our “Galgatha” (meaning skull and head). Which becomes suitable for The Holy Spirit as it is etched with scripture, with Gods Son, who is also Gods Word.

This explains the indwelling of Gods Holy Spirit with Joshua, and shows us that Moses had exterior encounters, showing us the difference between Moses and Joshua. He had a better relationship with God than Moses and why at his death God denied Moshe and the children with him, (some 80 years and older) passage into the promise land.

YHVH did however tell Moses that he could view the land of promise in picture form from Mt Nebo as a painful reminder of that generations failure to attain to the next level of the gospel.

God also told Moses at Nebo that “Joshua and Caleb can enter into The Promise Land because they “wholly followed Me” (meaning fully and unconditionally regardless of the physical obstacles or for today, the end times scary things). That they went into the land of the giants undaunted, un-detoured and unafraid, on to their inheritance. Come, let us go up from here.

And the truth be told, the Promise Land, being our place of mentally and spiritually receiving the promises, is always full of giants because the carnal mind is always afraid of the monsters/giants, and mystified by the invisible “Kingdom of God at hand”, because this they cannot physically grasp.

And that is what we are talking about. Even as in Hebrews 11, says that Abraham was called to go out to the land of promise, not knowing where he was going. Because in truth, what Joshua was experiencing was the invisible New Covenant realities of things the Law and the Prophets only eluded too. They were trying to convey in picture form but were not able to convert into the invisible.

And this too this is by design because “the hour that is coming, now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. (And because) God is Spirit, those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” The Kingdom that “was and is and is to come” is not carnal and is looming about us even NOW as “The Kingdom finished from the foundation of the world.” as something Enoch was fully invested into. For Enoch has this testimony. “By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, “and was not found, because God had taken him”; for before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God.  Talk about Tabernacling with YHVH God! And if we can cross over like Enoch did in face of the same obstacles, then maybe it can be said of us too, that we were taken in the same way because we pleased the Father in the same fashion.

It can happen. Even as God said to some in the churches, “Because you have kept My command to persevere, (even so) I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test (all) those who dwell on the earth. Why? Because we like Joshua/Yahshuah, went into the Tabernacle (that speaks of the invisible) and NEVER departed. If this were not true, God would not have given us this revelation to entice others to go onward and upward NOW!

This is how it works. If you can expound Gods things with such clarity, it is likely because you are more than a spectator as was Moses. There are those who watch and those who Testify, and those who testify? “For we cannot help but speak the things which we have seen and heard.” (Acts 4.20)  As touching the invisible things of faith as our “more enduring treasure”. (Hebrews 11)

THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES

This is what the seventh and final feast of their year was all about, called “The Feast of Tabernacles”. This was the finish and the grand finale of that gospel. Yes The Feast of Tabernacles was practiced by the rest of the Hebrews once a year in hopes that more of them would enter in. But what they did was only just a dress rehearsal of them mimicking invisible things by putting up and taking down physical representations, over and over and over for some 40 years and more. But never the less those things were in reach and “at hand” even back then as we demonstrated with Joshua/Yashua/Jesus, as “The Kingdom prepared from the foundations of the world”.

All the feasts were them putting on a plays for “children” as teaching seminars for them to grow up (resurrect).  To give substance to the things Eternal and un-see-able to the carnal senses, from before the foundations of the world. Yes, sounds like, looks like but Eternally greater, but never the less something like.

For this reason they were called “children nearly 1200 times in The Old Covenant, even the adults and the elderly because they just didn’t get it. Their understanding and their attention span was too short to connect the dots. However we do and we re-present to you the important parts to give you a crash course while The Kingdom of God is still at hand. Remember the unwise virgins at the Wedding Feast who went to buy from the world, to come back and find that the doors to the Wedding Feast were closed?

Here then is the conclusion of The Old and New Testament gospel messages. We have already been “given everything that pertains to life and godliness through (by the way of) the knowledge (like Adam knew Eve) of Him who calls us to ( share His) Glory and Virtue. That through these exceedingly precious promises, we are (already) partakers of the divine nature having (already) escaped the corruption that is in the world through inordinate desires” and wicked men. For us to INCLUDE receiving the Glory of God of what we behold that Moses saw it passing by, as we tabernacle and “abide in Him who is head over all”, being at rest and “seated far above all principalities and powers from this age and the one to come (Ephesians 2)

Even as Paul said that this is our “transfiguration from the glory to the glory as by the spirit” (2 Corinthians 3.18) and our destination from our journey through the gospel as sojourners on earth, obtaining the things “whose builder and maker is God. Hebrews 11.

So our measure of maturity is the size of the glory we’ve acquired. And when The Father looks at us and sees His own reflection in us as we’ve just shown you, returning to Himself, your sanctification is complete. As the Psalmist said “I shall NOT be satisfied until I awake in your likeness, and he didn’t mean something after the death of his body. And those around us can not see or understand this, but “even the Heavenly angels behold the face of The Father in (us and) these little ones” and do our bidding. So the recognition is completed there, it is just that some of you that need to learn how to receive it. To “recon it so”, to implement it, to be realized and activated in the here and now. This is what the phrase “at hand” means. Graspable.

We are to behold Gods Glory, look at it, ruminate over it, eat it, and become it. Even as Christ said at the last supper. “Here, take and eat. This is the bread of My body. Eat all of it, (eat all of Me, the Word of God)”, including His essence and Glory.

However to the children like with Moses who stood in the doors of their tents, likely scratching their heads? We walk incognito, for their time is not yet come. But there is still time.

That is why “if anyone is in Christ, they are a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. 18 Now all things (new) are from God, who has (already) reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ (so here we’ve been given what we need to make the mystery complete), and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, to share with you for the same conclusion. We are NOT waiting for a second coming, for He is here in anticipation for you to receive Him now in His original construct of the Kingdom before and after time.

We have rifled through scripture like sifting through the rubble and debris of the wreckage of time of those who question “hath God really said? And with a resounding affirmation of YES and AMEN! The gospel comes into fruition like this in this age only! To the degree you were able to attain? So walk ye in it. The steps you take are always in the Spirit, and why Christ said “follow me”. Because “we have a new and living way” to the Father. And it is not on earth.

HERE IS OUR INVITATION FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT

‘These things says He who is holy, He who is true, “He who has the key of David, He who opens and no one shuts, and shuts and no one opens”: 8 “I know your works. See, I have set before you an open door, and no one can shut it; for you have a little strength, have kept My word, and have not denied My name. 9 Indeed I will make those of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews (and looking for a second coming) and are not, but lie—indeed I will make them come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you. 10 Because you have kept [c]My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth. 11 Behold, I am coming quickly! Hold fast what you have, that no one may take your crown (of Glory). 12 Those who overcome I will make them pillars in the temple of My God, and they shall go out no more. I will write on them the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God. And I will write on them My new name.

And because all of these testimonies are true and reliable even now, we invite you to “THE KINGDOM OF GOD that is still AT HAND!! Amen!!!

The Finish Line of Faith.

This is different than working for rewards.

It is those who have crossed the Finish Line of Faith that are the ones who have cast off the surrogate safety services of the things that the gods and powers of today in this age devised as if to save you incrementally through an assortment of services with subscribing that promises to indemnify you from all loss or harm and be safe-ed, of which harm and safety is the source of all fear. To be “saved”.

Remember, fear was the newly acquired emotion that Adam felt when he fell asleep to faith and trust in God. As evidenced by him feeling naked and needing to be covered. Showing us that fear is the seed that was sown that must be extracted from our thinking for us to feel safe-ed. The Gospel offers us that. That is what it means to be saved in a scriptural way without limitations, cost caps or exuberant co-pays.

Fear was the first symptom experienced first by Adam as the propf that he fell. Fear is the motivating agency that now works in those with an inverted way of thinking of which satan and his agencies play off of to keep you earth focused and spell-bound looking down being mesmerized by their scarry non-stop images presented by their mediums. (Media)

For this we have the Word of God to reverse that wayward way of thinking pf fear we call the fall of Adam. Even as we see here in the Gospel of John saying “ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

And of The Son of God who is also called the Word of God. It is also said that “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

And because of this we understand that “To as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the children of God, even to them that believe on his name:.

To be retroactive from that moment on.

It is in all the various ways for all the assorted short comings mankind has as needing to protect themselves from liabilities or harms of any sort, because of fear. Why? Because “if anyone is in Christ, they are a new creation;(to mean newly created) old things having passed away; behold, all things have become new. And all “these” things are from God”.

Yes, Christ reversed the fall by negating fear. And because “fear involves torment”. You know who is behind the anguish experienced by the mental inquisitions.

It is Gods things He gave to us to be with Him and to be like Him. And it is Gods things that precedes and supersedes all of creation known to common people. And this is our choice and distinction as becoming the Elect. To know and understand that “old things having passed away; behold, all things have (already) become new and all things are from God.

It is not that it is new in the sense that it was just made, but new for you because you didn’t have it before this realization. And it is also new in the sense that because eternal things never fade, wane or wear out, they are always in their illustrious eternal glory.

These things can never really be correctly understood by the carnal mind. For those with that condition, have never truly been “born again” “born from above” or “borne of the Spirit (same things) to truly know what they have. (John 3).

And this is why for them everything is yet future, and they are trying to just hang in and hang by waiting for another (2nd) coming savior to deliver the goods, because they just cannot believe the true gospel. That “God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not (a mind believing to) perish, but have everlasting life (from the moment they are born again). 17 For God sent his Son into the world not to condemn the world; but for (them in) it to be saved.”

And the saving that He performed at the cross has no encore presentation, and definitely needs  no updates or boosters like the agencies from the gods of this age. And since Christ is “seated far above all principalities and powers”, and over the gods of the lower sub sectors of creation and calls us to Himself even now. Then we can “run the race with endurance” and cross the finish line to Rest in Christ before our carnal features fade and expire. That we “reach out to lay ahold of why Christ laid hold of us”. To share in everything He has and is.

In this way we join in with the watchers and the Holy Ones in this great feast because everything Satan and his minions have absconded with, belong to us, and we have been given a do-over for our retrieval.

And the powers that are in creation? It is all the sorted services that have falsely promised to care for peoples safety, health and longevity thereby making themselves as the gods, protectors and caretakers over you in competition with The Gospel. But our God is a jealous God and has said that “you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me.”

And those who are counted as hating God, are those who submit to the lower level god’s, who are “according to the prince of the power of the air (and internet) that now works in the sons of disobedience” to include fallen angels who control the inner net. Which is an under-net.

If you profess to have accepted Christ, and are found under the care of the god’s of this age? You are likely walking out your judgment, and may be “treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God who renders to each one according to what they have done”, as it pertains to your invisible work of the decisions and promptings in faith you have made. Either God or the sub sector God’s of this age. But we’ve subscribed to the realm of faith that God keeps track of. That “faith is the evidence of things hoped for, the evidence of the things that are unseen.”

For us we have a contract with the Father and paid for not by us with monthly installments like for the competitors but with the precious blood of the lamb who took away the sins (and all short comings from those) of the world. As scripture says “10 He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. 11 He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. 12 But to as many as received Him, to them He gave the power to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name: 13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

So it is those of us who “God gave the right to become”… showing us that it is our responsibility to respond and pursue the gift given at such a price of our Savior, because the gift of God of Himself shining through His Son

Many would think that the finish line of faith has to do with death and an after life, however the after life starts with abiding in The New Covenant, as having to do with replacing the Old. That one was known because of Moses caduceus, a pole with the snake or two wrapped around it, which is eerily similar to the one for the health care industry today worldwide, that has more to do with the gods and the powers of this age that require monthly installments in competition with our covenant signed with Christ’s blood. And you can be sure that if you contract or covenant (get coverages) with the gods of this age, they have your permission to do the opposite of what they promise you to do. That is why they are growing in-dust-ries. Dust referring to the flesh, “from dust thou art to dust you shall return” is the product of their produce.

What we are saying is that after putting off all the deeds (think of the  assorted contracts that are legal and binding with the promise for provisions and protections) of the flesh, we are left with One. And competition with none. Meaning that we put off the surrogate gods and powers of this age as competing with the provisional features found in the New (and final) covenant given to us by the Heavenly Father and paid for by the life of His Only Begotten to be retroactive to the beginning of time, and carried forward to the end of time because the Son of God from eternity, qualifies and quantifies His worth as greater than the sum of humanity. Whereas just another man could not pay that price because their quantitative value is only one and a broken one at that, and there is only One who has not been broken. The Only Begotten full of grace and truth. Amen!

So with Enoch who obtained equal stature as the Son by faith, by giving more credence and value to the invisible than the visible, that Enoch had this testimony that he pleased God. And He pleased God as we know because he was taken before the expiration of his body because he crossed the finish line of faith before the need of physically dying. And you may ask, hows that? Because he had this testimony that he pleased God because God took him. For others? Let it be according to your faith, and what you have acquired from the other side before your deathly departure, this is your eternal investment that never fades, wears out or needs renewals. This is the Gospel and the saving by faith.

It means that you acquired by faith, by trusting and believing in the things that are written , thaare unseen, intangible and humanly unknowable. And because Enoch reached that point earlier on, God took him out of the proverbial oven because he was done and left there for our reminder.

For this one you need the unction of the Holy Spirit. Of Enoch? God took him for he was not. That he is a has been on this side of  physical proof. The testimony that he pleased God, means that what he knew about the promises of God of God to be true, reliable and retroactive even in this day and age without any physical proof because “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 2 For by it the elders obtained a good report.

By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. 6 But without faith it is impossible to please God: for those that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that God is a rewarder of those that diligently seek him.

And we seek Him in the visibly unknowable, and carnally intangible things through the word of God which is more than just a description of God and Spirit. Of which the Word in essence carries with it NOT just the power, but the very ingredients to become the thing that is said, the moment it leaves the pages of scripture by the profession from your mouth on your own behalf. Your faith and your breath/spirit doing the same thing the Only Begotten did, to show us how to do it. From that moment on, it is required of you not to keep asking or to try again to implement it the same way for that itself is the act of un-faith  to put you back at the beginning to reiterate the promises again. Doing that just wears away at your resolve and gives credence to another coming one. Even as John the Baptist asked “are you the coming One or do we seek another. That was the judgement and the conclusion of the whole Law culture and Old Testament, Will and Covenant was left wanting. It was fully unable to covert to the spirit and begged the need for the replacement to come. And if the replacement had not come, then yes John the Baptist as the final and the greatest, would’ve left us looking for another. but HE DID NOT!!

Can you believe it? Can you receive this? Because this is the ONLY way for you to EVER cross the finish line of faith and enter into the rest of God, the Testimony we are compelled to adopt to become the adopted. The only difference is that we are NOT taken in a physical sense, But we never the less are accounted as having finished because no one who has NOT entered the rest, has reached the conclusion of the gospel but some have even in our age. Even as again from Hebrews and chapter 4,  Let us therefore fear (and take seriously in hot pursuit), lest a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. 2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. 3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. 4 For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works. 5 And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest. 6 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:

There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. 10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. 11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

Let us be diligent to enter this rest? What do you suppose the consequences are of reaching the conclusion of your carnal life without entering the completion of your faith is?

Paul described it like this to those with Timothy

“the time of my departure is at hand. 7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: 8 henceforth (from this time on) there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.”,

Or better yet, His appearings plural, for His comings are many because as Christ said that “I will never leave you or forsake you”, and “Lo. I am with you even throughout the ages”, even unto the end of time. Meaning that there is not a time, a place or a person for whom this invitation has NOT been extended to and made available to.

In this way, the Kingdom of God is at hand as “The Kingdom prepared from (before) the foundations of the world”. Let us be found there, while we are here. For there were those who acknowledged this in testimony during seemingly times of stress and duress to be met with a different outlook such as Shadrack, Meshack and Abednigo who scoffed at the kings threat of him putting them with the lions or the fiery furnace. There testimony was that there was a forth one on the fire who was  The Word and the Son of God’. And of Stephen who was clobbered with rocks while the words from his mouth were speaking of glorious wonders of the invisible. And that is the point. Unlike the bygone law age that just refused to complete the task at hand.

Remember, Those who seek to save their lives (that they have) will loose it, but those who loose the life they currently have for My sake, will have life eternal”, as something immeasurably greater than the one you are trying to keep, the one you are wrangling to protect and to preserve.

The Kingdom of God is at hand ONLY in this way. The other one that is still to come? Is with all lying signs and wonders if possible to deceive the Elect.” And we will add that the deception keeps you working fret-fully and in fear to protect yourself from the enemies scary images and threats. There are no enemies on this side of the cross as they were all obliterated for the faithful.

As Paul stated in Romans 12. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. 10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

And, “28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. 29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, for Him to be the firstborn among many brethren. 30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, those he also called: and whom he called, those he also justified: and whom he justified, those he also glorified. 31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us! 32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things! 33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth. 34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loves us. 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor any other created thing shall separate us from His love.

And of those who are watching who went before us? They are cheering us on because they know that they know they will not be completed without us.

These are the living stones “made up of the measure of a man who is of an angel”‘ Heavenly Jerusalem come down from Heaven”.These are the body of Christ called “Living stones, built up and assembled as a habitation of God in the spirit.

Amen!