WHAT IS GNOSTICISM?

First let’s look at what “Agnostic” means because someone who is a Gnostic is the opposite. Agnostic means: ag·​nos·​tic ag-ˈnä-stik. əg- : a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable. broadly : one who is not committed to believing in either the existence or the nonexistence of God or a god. : a person who is unwilling to commit to an opinion about something.

TO BE A GNOSTIC SIMPLY MEANS THAT YOU AFIRM THAT YOU KNOW.. And Romans 1.27 has this to say about those who reject knowing (a gnosis of) God. “And even as they did not like to retain God in their know-ledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Showing us that we are accountable to God for what we know/gnosis.

So Gnosticism comes the word Gnostic and simply means To know and be known. There has been a large rejection of true Gnosticism because of the misunderstanding and wrong associations with what gnostic means. Gnosticism is a label given to essentially ALL of the New Testament  texts that were NOT included in the Bible canon for various reasons, and they use that label for real heresy symptoms that have Nothing to do with knowing/gnosis

Gnostic, from gnosis means knowing and is what leads us to knowledge as it pertains to scripture. It is central to the gospel so it is important to know how Gnosis and knowing works, because to correctly know something, means you took the time and the effort to understand something APART from what everyone else says. This one pleases God the Father.

2 Peter sats of God that “ as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, THROUGH THE KNOWLEDGE (gnosis) of (knowing) Him who called us by glory and virtue,

So first off we can see that “through the (by the way of) knowledge of God” by the word “through” indicates that “knowledge is a delivery method like a conduit for the very character and essence of God Himself to be passed to us as joint heirs with Christ. That as we reflect on who God is in the light of His Testimonies, to reflect upon His Glory and His virtue, that a transformation of our own nature takes place for us to share in His Glory and His Virtue right now.

What makes this all possible is this testimony from scripture that “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was (the Son of) God. 2 Word was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by Him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In Him is life; and this life is the light of men. 5 And the light shines in darkness; and the darkness does not comprehended it. 6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John (The Baptist). 7 The same came for a witness, to testify of the Light, for all who listen to believe. 8 John was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. 9 That was the true Light, which lights up everyone that comes into the world. 10 He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and THE WORLD KNEW HIM NOT. 11 He came unto his own, and his own received him NOT. 12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the children of God, even to them that believe on his name:

And from 2 Corinthians 3.18 that  “we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of YHVH, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of YHVH.

So with just these few verses we can see that knowing from “Gnosis” is key and central to the work our Father does in us to become more like Him. And that if we don’t know Him in the light of these testimonies, then the best we can do is to just be good people and the Gospel becomes worth-less and just another religion because there is a lot of other literature out there for us to try to be good people.

So we must first define what Gods word is by what has power to transform and transfigure us into His image.

And fellowship is a more personal method that our transfiguration takes place as we see here that “You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all men; so that even what God has written in our hearts becomes His epistles. People can be that conduit method as well. That as we expound and reverberate our own transforming experiences, we share in the “all things that pertain to life and godliness” through each other. This is Gnostic and a true knowing God.

Paul said in Corinth that Now we have received, NOT the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God, for us to KNOW the things that are freely given to us of God . For us to know through knowing and knowledge = Gnostic and Gnosticism.
We can understand by this text that there are two classes of spirits for two types of Gnostic’s or knowings. Same thing.

And from scripture “But the natural man receiveth NOT the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness to them: neither can they KNOW them (meaning the things of the spirit), because they are spiritually discerned (with the mind where you in your understanding to KNOW.

And herein is the struggle for those who use their human reasoning skills verses being led by the Holy Spirit of God we call “The unction” “1 John 2.20” So that those who use only their carnal reasoning skills, cannot KNOW (gnostic) God correctly so therefor for them knowing God according to the Spirit stands in opposition by thinking that God must come back as a man some call a second coming Jesus (a phrase not found once in scripture). But we know that “flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit in-corruption (to which they argue). And our knowing this is naturally to be a Gnostic because that what Gnostic means.

So for someone to take a stance that un-canonized New Testament era texts are bad or un-approved because they are labelled Gnostic. It is done out of ignorance. And ignorance is not to mean stupid but that they’ve never really objectively examined Gnostic labelled text from a biblical perspective because knowing scripture is knowing God first then knowing your new self more clearly, not of who you were or will be in a next life but who you can be in the here and now by knowing God as clear as you can, as you adopt Gods truths about Himself for yourself to become more godly. For that is what it means to be godly, is to be more like God. And we can only do this through His testimonies and those who testify God correctly. For now we see through a glass, dimly; but then face to face: now I know (gnosis) in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known, (this is a Gnostic verse in scripture). This passage indicates that a transference of character and the “new person”  takes place through the transfer of knowledge or Gnosis about God. “For without faith it is impossible to please Him, for those who come to God must believe (meaning to know or Gnosis) that He is, and that He rewards those who diligently seek Him.

We can display a Gnosis or a knowing here from the beginning of creation here with Adam and Eve where scripture says. ”And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain.”  So we can understand with Adam and Eve that to know has to do with a transfer of genetic information to facilitate a birth. This is what being “born again” and “borne of the Spirit” is all about, a genetic transfer for you to be able to call God your Heavenly Father. Even as scripture“I will be a Father to you, And you shall be My sons and daughters, Says the Lord Almighty.” So we must take on His features. And because another name for the Son of God is “the Word of God”. And as we become more like the Son, we become more like the Father. This is how you do it according to scripture. And we’ve made ALL these points with the truncated 66 books, so that means people are without excuse and will be faced with answering for this to the Father.

In truth a genetic transfer is at the core of what knowing God is all about. Paul elaborates on this in the book of Galatians saying that, “now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known by God (like Adam knew Eve), how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements (as if the genetic transfer of being born of the Spirit is a visual) where unto ye desire again to be in bondage?

Meaning that the mirror we look into call scripture and the word of God, contains genetic information for us to assimilate in the spirit of our minds for us to become godly or god-like. Even as Paul stated in Romans 12. ”do not be conformed to this world, but be transfigured by the renewing of your mind, that you may know what Gods good, acceptable and perfect will is”.

That you adopt His things in this way for you to be qualified as being adopted into the Family of God.

And if you understand our transfiguration correctly, that it is the process whereby we take on our new self like Christ is right now without effecting our outside appearance. Even as 1 John states that “as He is, so are we in the world”. And however true it is that flesh and blood does not inherit the Kingdom, it is the spirit of the mind that does as we’ve just quoted from Romans 12.

And what about 2 Corinthians 3 says that “Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. And  we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed (by knowing Him by the WORD) into the self same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord. And this all takes place by what we’ve come to know and believe.

This is true godliness and not a religious form of piety and false humility as you sit and wait for another coming Jesus.

Did God or did He not “send His only begotten Son into the world, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life?

Then why is it that your ever lasting life comes later? That those who reject the true knowledge and the “Gnosis” of knowing God, why is it that they gather for the most part on Sundays and talk about another coming Jesus? Quite likely because they’ve rejected knowing God in a way that pleases Him and being born by Gods Holy Word and Holy Spirit as they converge inside of us to renew us in a way that is suitable for them because if they really liked the flesh then the flesh and blood would not have been ostersized from a true knowledge and convergence with God the Father now through “The Kingdom of God at hand”. And you quite likely do not believe that phrase either because you are still waiting for Gods Kingdom to appear in a way you can marvel in the flesh. But Christ said that His kingdom comes not with observation. And you forget the words of the Savior on trial with the Sanhedrin who questioned Him about when His Kingdom would appear and He denied not that He is a King (for He was born that way). He simple said “but My Kingdom is NOT from here. If it was my armies would fight for Me but My Kingdom is not from here.” Thereby disassociating Himself from that Jerusalem and and any such notion of a visible structure. However many don’t know that because they rely on the church authorities today that Christ would tell too. That “My Kingdom is not from here” of carnal and earthen components. Flesh and blood has no part but the re-spirited mind of faith does.

So of course being a Gnostic, which means that we have a knowing or Gnostic experience. And quite obviously to continue to feed the craving for the knowledge of God for our completion, we have to continue on in ALL THE WORDS OF GOD!

This we know. Amen. And maybe you didn’t notice but we did not use one Gnostic text to make our case. That should make you wonder what you are really missing out on.

So if someone is held back from all the counsel of God, their transfiguration is truncated and delayed if not lost altogether. Think about it, is scripture really only 66 books? Well maybe today for you but other cultures have had up to 94 accepted books. And what about rejected text by the Protestants (a word that means protesters) that they call the Apocrypha? That’s another botched up concept. And who ever gave King James permission to approve anything as if Christ needed his permission. Blasphemy.

Right before the cross our Savior told the disciples in John 16 “12 I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. 13 Howbeit when the Spirit of truth will come and guide you into all truth: for it shall not speak of its own; but whatsoever it hears, that shall it speak: and it will shew you things to come. 14 It shall glorify me: for it shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you. 15 All things that the Father has are mine: therefore said I, that the Spirit of Truth shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.

The “Spirit of truth” is more sure and secure than anyones authority on any sets of texts. But because the “approved” texts are trust worthy, we used only your bible to make ALL these points, so you decide.

So in conclusion, you can follow the mandates of men but then you have to ask yourself, who do you serve because God in all ages has had his people go against the status quo. We are each individually responsible for pressing to lay hold of the gift from God from the Christ in the bible. And He is the one who told us to go preaching that “The Kingdom of God it at hand”, attainable and within reach through the various testimonies. Have you entered in?

Sufferings and Persecution

Paul said “I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for His body’s sake (meaning us): This does not mean that Christs sacrifice of Himself was insufficient or that “At-one-ment” had NOT been made at the cross for Paul or anyone else to try to complete it, but to more clearly see how each one of us can apply our afflictions today as pertaining to our own maturation and to set an example for those who come after.

When Christ went to the cross for our sins, He successfully  paved the way for our crossover back to The Father. That “No testing of your faith has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tested beyond what you are able, but with the testing will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to stand under  it.

The cross is our proof that payment has been rendered for all our deaths, for the fear of death to be ineffective and inconsequential for us who believe. He paid NOT just for us alone, but for ALL of mankind and their ill effects including pain, (John 3.17) especially as it has to do with our fear of physical death. Which is really just a Faith in Christ who handled death for us. So this becomes our disconnect from the threats of the gods of this age by way of proxy. Meaning Christ was our substitute sacrificed on our behalf to free us from facing death. Of being dead and unresponsive to God’s Holy Spirit.

The way we apply this is like all the other promises to us from the Father, through faith. We have no simpler form of reliability to offer to or receive from God anyway. Therefor faith is our access point and conduit to the Father. For “Now faith is the (invisible) substance of things hoped for, our evidence that there are things that are NOT seen. By acquiring this tge elders gained re pore with God”.  And “without faith it is impossible to please God: for those that come to God, must (first) believe that He is, and that He rewards those that diligently seek him” against any tangible evidence of His existence. 

It is because of these rewards that we get for “pressing in to lay hold of that for why Christ  has also laid hold of us”  By which we learn that when Christ at the cross endured, that we are instructed to “consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls (the part you keep). Lest you become weary too.

What we must ask here is that IF He did not pay for and absorb our penalty for sin, then how could his cross really be our payment, to give us consolation not to fear death? Because if we continue to fear death, then we really don’t understand what the cross is about and that His payment for our death frees us from the very threat and the consequences of death itself. Then of course go ahead and fear death and purchase the worlds products in an attempt to safe guard yourself against  the inevitable death and dying and see if that works, and ignore the very purpose of Christs death which effectually catapults us past that death and the fear of it, to now be able to “walk in newness of life” in the here and now because of Christ sacrificial death, in exchange for a new “life in the spirit” on the other side of death.

As a matter of fact, most people refuse to acknowledge our debt free gift of eternal life, to consider the concept of death as inconsequential and uneventful, of us being past the consequences of that death because He paid for it. And that was done for us to advance into our Eternal inheritance of life in the spirit NOW, and not at a second coming or the end of the world.

This is what it means when we say that “The Kingdom of God is at hand”. That “without faith it is impossible to please God”, and “faith is the (invisible) substance of things hoped for, our evidence that there are things not seen. This describes our keys to the Kingdom, on the other side of death and dying, of something to comprehend, apprehend and to “lay hold of” in the here and now. This is the gospel!

Kind of like if you inherited a piece of land. But if you still had to pay a mortgage. (mort means death, mortgage is a death by degree instrument), then you inherited death and debt that was due to another.  But if you then have that portion of that death instrument obligation marked “paid in full” for you to be free and clear of any encomberances thereof. Then that creditor would no longer have any demands left due for you to pay. That you would enjoy the debt free gift from that moment on beyond the mort-gage (measure of death).

That is what the Gospel provides, a life without death or debt. But then if you ignore the gift of beong counted as alive “in Christ” and go back to making the proverbial mort-gage payments on a sin debt (which would be confessions and such) you have essentially forfeited your inheritance of a life past death by going back to pay the debt of dying with all it’s coersions and fears to keep you here, and thereby insult the Spirit of grace. The one who cleared your debt (Christ) cannot be blamed  for your misery and wrangling against sin, guilt and death. But the man in the mirror can for not “reaching out to lay hold of why Christ laid hold of you.

But because of Christs sacrifice of Himself for our obligation to death has been fully satisfied and paved over, to never need to answer to it again. If we do so, if we go back to our old fears by using our resurrection power to do so, thereby insulting the Spirit of grace.

In this way The Cross of Christ is that “paid in full” declaration that clears you from all debts pertaining to death and dying, as seen further understood here from Romans 6.4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into His death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also can walk in a brand new life. (Like He lives now.)

And Romans 6.6-9 “knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. (No more payments to make) Death no longer has dominion over Him (nor us because He died for us and NOT Himself). 10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all (of us); but the life that He lives even now, He lives to God (EXPECTING US TO DO THE SAME THING ¹¹ Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead to (have to acknowledge) sin, but alive  to God (by placing your hope and trust) in Christ our righteousness, meaning, right way of getting things done. Anytime our morale character is challenged, we point to Him.

And when your old person working off the old principles of sin and dying accuses you? Like Christ showed us to say “get behind me Satan for you are not mindful of the things of God but man”, because only Satan keeps track of that stuff as “the accuser” who gets “cast down” as soon as you apply the provision by faith by reiterating it as a profession of faith. This is how you activate that promise on your own behalf and NOT confessions.

Like 2 Corinthians 4.13 We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore we speak; for a thing to become true.

This is how ALL Gods provisions to us become real for us. Meaning that Gods completed package has been made available for you NOW! So, beware, lest there be in any of you with an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God (by disrespecting these promises and thinking this can’t be so); 13 but exhort one another daily (on how to apply these promises), while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of (the) sin (of unbelief to go back to your old ways). For we are ALREADY partakers of Christ by holding the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end.”

Now that you have seen with your intuitive perceptions, the true gift of Eternal life, which was given to us as a result of our debt PAID IN FULL and retroactive the moment you leave it at the cross. But beware. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

How can you go back to the weak and beggarly acts of repentance and contrition and self abuse and abasement, as though that can clean you better then “the blood of Christ through the Eternal purge your conscience from dead works (of confessionals and sacrifices) to (instead) serve the Living God’, to consider His blood a common thing?  And by doing so, do you think there will be another re-conning as though the cross was insufficient to satisfy the demands of death? before you can detach from the accusations and short falls of this age? That is a form of blasphemy!

So back to our opening statement when Paul said that “I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake (being a body of believers): That which is lacking for the body”, is only because of an imbalance of maturity of those who still fear death because death still has power over them because they are afraid of the pain of death. Paul showed them and us that persecution and suffering belongs at the cross! Paul was NOT making another installment for death as though Christs death was insufficient. That is blasphemy as well!

This is the lesson, and it is the strong who have led by example. And in this case, Paul had been tracked down relentlessly by the Jews. He had been beaten, flogged imprisoned and chased time and again. Keep in mind that he began as “chief among sinners” and “chosen last as least of the Apostles’, because he came from the brood of vipers and needed to be saved, thereby displaying what may be required from any one of us. But not so much us, but “Christ in us” because He bought that privilege with His blood. It pleased Him and it pleased the Father to do this because “He was stricken for us and on Him was laid the iniquity of us all. So we too can quit fearing and running, to stop and for each one of us to say too, that ” I (also) have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live (to protect myself), but Christ lives in me (to deal with my enemies and fears as He sees fit); and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith (trust and peace) in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. To preserve me blameless from the fear of sin and death, to then experience a fulfilled life in the Spirit before a physical death and departure from creation. That the threat of death and dying becomes inconsequential and a mirage or just a bad dream. And NOW we hope you are fully awake to the gift from God the Father of life in the spirit that we can realize, activate and own in the here and now, RIGHT NOW!

So our main point here is that every ill effect that we inherit from Adam and Eve and the spiritual death that they died for trusting another, are all wiped clean for us to be restored to what Adam and Eve had BEFORE trusting another through the wreck we call “the fall”. And because our trust is restored in the spirit of our mind through understanding (Romans 12.1-2( the exchange at the cross to “that which is from the beginning” we are raised back up in the spirit of the mind where the fall took place. And the only way this can be violated as believers in Christ, is if you fail to adopt these methods and to learn how to apply them NOW as the gift from God. The human body was NEVER the problem but your thinking was. Your body was the innocent bystander.

So we say “in your patience possess your soul”, as the only you that makes it through the fire. “For our God is a consuming fire.” Meaning that whatever you hold on to here and whatever attachments and entanglements you have here that you won’t let go of will burn you. They all create resistance and cause complications at your testing called persecution. For if you in fact have NOT learned how to “put off the body of the sins of the flesh” by faith (not the human body but a body of beliefs)” of doubts and fears and methods of self protection and “put on (trusting and believing) Christ” then your testing for departure will have you wrangling with your carnal attachments. So settle it in your hearts ahead of time because if you are Heaven bound, then there should be no reservations to keep you here because you understand that the outcome will be fully pleasing and all your fears have already been worked out on the other side before God ever said “Let there be light”. God is that thorough.

And herein lies the purpose of sufferings and persecutions in their many sorted varieties, your maturation. To test your carnal disconnect capabilities and purity of spirit as you face the fire. And for picture purposes, it is for you to understand more clearly your Heavenly calling. For this we have accounts like Shadrach, Meshack and Abednego who faced the flames of fire. That to those who were watching, they counted 4 men, and one of them was The Savior. And the other 3 were dancing and have a good time on “whose bodies was found no hurt.” It was because they were able to disassociate from their dependencies on Babylon. For if they hadn’t, that fire would’ve had a smoldering effect as it burned the dross, “but not a hair on your head shall be burned!” Is what we have been promised.

And that’s the point. Why? Because as we previously said that all the ill effects of our death was dropped off at the cross. When the Only Begotten said “Eli, Eli! Why have you forsaken Me?” The answer is, FOR US!! Meaning the pain and agony Christ endured was so that WE WOULDN’T HAVE TO! When you understand those cry’s of pain are Him taking them from you, then you truly no longer deal with the sin of unbelief because unbelief is the main obstacle for you to be able to disconnect from the various “FIG LEAVES” that you trust in that come in the forms of coverage’s from the gods of this age who have duped you into thinking they can save you from ANYTHING that threatens to harm you from anything when it comes to safety, wealth, health or life ending. And if you can get this point, and understand the payment rendered on your behalf, and if you can believe in it, why in the world would you insult the spirit of grace that covers you so completely against all loss and harm of those things that really matter. And we will punctuate this by saying “those who seek to save themselves (with their assorted savings and saviors of the world) will loose it (all of it) and those who give up their lives for My sake, will gain life for eternity.” This is a pretty good trade off. And the way that God causes our carnal disconnect we call “death of the old man” and “dying to the world”. We do this one tether at a time, one contract, one terms of service, and one entanglement at a time for us to come clean as we become dead to those service providers for the provisions though applying the promises of God we see in scripture.

Then maybe you can say like Father Abraham when some were trying to give him of the spoils of war and he said “I lift my hand to the Lord God possessor of Heaven and Earth that I will take neither shoes or a stitch of clothing lest you say YOU made me rich”. He considered the promises to be more of a safer place to be.

This is the process that separates the sheep from the goats. That the command to “come out of her (Mystery Babylon) My people lest you partake of her sinful counterfeits to receive of Her judgments for God has remembered Her (Mystery Babylon)”. “Then you shall be My sons and Daughters, says God”. 2 Cor 6

As for a persecution of the saints, there are many documented persecutions and however history  may present them in another light, those that went through those persecutions, likely knew this intuitively and spiritually made the disconnect. That the pains, sufferings and tortures that those bodies endured, was because The Son of God was in them on their behalf taking on that death from them. And just as a caterpillar does not understand the life and the flight of a butterfly (of what a caterpillar becomes), so too our association with the visuals of this age are a huge distraction and the reason we are giving you these transfiguration tools, is so that you are not found fighting for the things of this age that will all just be burned up  anyway. So go through the fire now by putting off the death instruments that promise you false protection for your doubts and fears of health wealth and life because “those who fear have not been perfected in love”, meaning the love of God. “Because fear involves torment” because fear is grounded in unbelief”. But we know Him who said “I will never leaf you as if to be forsaken”.

Here are a couple more verses for confirmation:

And “For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

And For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also abounds by Christ. 6 And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation. 7 And our hope of you is steadfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so you are also of the consolation.

And “we see Christ, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; so that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man (THIS IS THE POINT). 10 For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

Because He takes it from you while you go through it. Think of the stoning of Stephen. Scripture describes Stephen, “and said, “Look! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”

And “11 Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the GLORIES that would follow.

Because God is the Father of GLORIES, we are those glories!!

And  13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.

And 13 I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s seat is: and thou holds fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.

And 6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.

Epilogue

Now then knowing these things, maybe it can be said of you too? 10 Because you have kept 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 victory I’ve already given you). 12 To those 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 (not the silly counterfeit on earth). And I will write on them My new name. 13 “Those who have an ear, let them hear what the Spirit says to the ekklisia.”

The Kingdom of God is always “at hand” if you know what to look for.

Patience and Pressing Into The Kingdom

Our Savior said that “The law and the prophets were until John. Since that time the kingdom of God has been preached, and everyone is pressing into it”. showing us that our acquisition of things from “Gods Kingdom at hand” is a persistence. And may we say we are still pressing in today. That salvation is more than a confession or a professing but a lifestyle of reaching a completion. Even as Paul said ”Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on to lay hold of why Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. 13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do is forget those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are placed in front of me, 14 I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

These were the words of Paul earlier on in his development that started with him being an antagonist as a Pharisee. It was him who was chosen from that lowly estate to give us all hope that anyone can be saved. For you see him authorizing and standing watch over the persecution and death of Stephen before Christ apprehended Paul as “The Bright Light from Heaven”. And lucky for us because if Paul from that “brood of vipers) can be saved, then anyone can. This is why Paul referred to himself as “the least of the apostles”, and “one born in my own time” after the other 11 to replace Judas Iscariot.

The word he used for “born” in the Greek was “ektromah” from trauma and meant an abortion. That was quite likely because of the forcefulness of his being born again, because of his struggle against Christ who said “Saul why do you kick against the goads? As if to prod him into the right direction

We see that Paul was seasoned from the beginning, that this would NOT be an easy transition. Yes, the very one Paul opposed, grabbed him by the proverbial scruff of the neck, blinded him and had him led by the hand to the other disciples who just happened to be avoiding Paul. Even as Paul said “ However, for this reason I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show all longsuffering, as a pattern to those who are going to believe on Him for everlasting life.
Meaning that Paul had to start from the furthest point from grace to be used for this example for an anti-Christ, because Paul was out to kill the followers of Christ. Even as he inquired “who are you Master?” To which Christ answered “I Am the one whom you persecute. Isn’t it hard to kick against the goads?” Christ was referring to His body of beliverers of which He is the Head even in our day.

So what does this all mean? Well number one, it means that everyone is within reach of the grace of our Heavenly Father because Paul was a “chief sinner”. And two, that Paul’s journey and ours, is NOT an easy task. That “to press in to attain to Christ’s fullness” was NOT to be taken lightly and why Christ said that “now the Kingdom is preached and the violent take it by force”. Showing us a certain type of aggression needs yo be used.

So for us this portrays more of a military type of training and effort. Even as Paul told Timothy 2.1-7. You therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ. 2 And the things that you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. 3 You therefore must endure hardships as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that they may please him who enlisted them as a soldier. 5 And also if anyone competes in athletics, they are not crowned unless they compete according to the rules. 6 The hardworking farmer must be first to partake of the crops. 7 Consider what I say, and may Christ give you understanding in all things.

And again This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you may (be empowered to) wage the good warfare,” Showing us the seriousness of our purpose as becoming a saint. Which is to “lay hold of why Christ laid hold of you”.

You may think that this is NOT for you. To which we say maybe, but follow the “unction of the Holy Spirit”. You may be right because this is not for everyone. But we also don’t want to be categorized with the lazy or the slothful steward, or worse yet as “those who are rich and have need of nothing” or are “poor blind and naked”. Or just carried about by the concerns of the day”. Meaning your health, wealth and your current comfort.

We see that Paul acknowledged and understood that part of his role was to endure discomfort saying “11 to which I was appointed a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles. 12 For this reason I also suffer these things (which is a measure of resistance while pressing in); nevertheless I am not ashamed (however foolish this may appear to observers), for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day. Showing us that Paul fully understood his responsibility, duty and aware of the help he would receive where and when neccessary.

And again “10 But you have carefully followed my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, long suffering, love, perseverance (pressing in), 11 persecutions, afflictions, which happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra—what persecutions I endured. And out of them all YHVH delivered me. 12 Yes, and all who desire to live according to God in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

And “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.”

Then we see Paul referring to a more firm grip of his accomplishments while he sojourned here where the obstacles that bring about our maturity are in abundance saying “For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand. 7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 8 Finally, there is (collected and) laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all who have loved His (multiple) appearings.

Meaning that Christs appearances are not just first and second as many suppose for His appearing’s are many. As Paul and Barnabus were sent to  “strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying, “We must through many tribulations enter the kingdom of God”. And not to sit and wait like for a second coming. That is a “slothful steward” approach.

That  Blessed are those servants whom the master, when he comes, will find watching. Assuredly, I say to you that he will gird himself and have them sit down to eat, and will come and serve them. And if He should come in the second watch, or come in the third watch (or the 30th or 400th), and find them so (watching), blessed are those servants. But know this, that if the master of the house (you with your body) had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”

Who also said that He would come as a thief and take all they had, and others “what I say to you, I say to all WATCH!

This is why we were instructed to preach the Kingdom at hand because Christ comings are many and why He comes as a thief as He further instructs:

And the Lord said, “Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his master will make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of food in due (meaning their own) season? Blessed is that servant (maybe you) whom his master will find so doing when he comes. Truly, I say to you that he will (incrementally) make him ruler over all that he has. But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming, (or is found waiting for a second coming)’ and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and be drunk, the master of that servant will come on a day when he is not looking for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in two and appoint him his portion with the unbelievers. And that servant who knew his master’s will, and did not prepare himself or do according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. But he who did not know (or understand), yet committed things deserving of stripes, shall be beaten with few. For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask the more.

So yes, Christ may come in the first, second or third watch and Blessed are those servants who He finds watching.” Even now!

And as often as you need and as often as you “reach out to lay hold of why Christ lay hold of you”? You can see that we are to always watch. And however many are watching for a man from the sky to come and save again? What did Christ look like when He saved Paul? Wasn’t it a blinding light that dropped him to his knees? What was it you were hit with when you first believed? Well this is how we define all revelations. As blinding lights that spot light one thing after another until His Testimony is confirmed in you. That you “reach out to lay hold of why Christ laid hold of you”. Which is a proverbial carbon copy of Him. Except the carbon was the old you, and the light? Is the new you. That “we walk in the light as He is in the light” because we become that light too. This is the new you that you get to keep because “flesh and blood does NOT inherit the kingdom“, but the re-spirrited mind of faith does. This makes useful our time here as sojourners here in the faith, to “put on Christ” one revelation after another until our personal transfiguration is complete. “For you are complete in Him who is head of all principality and power”. Amen!

This is The Kingdom of God at hand. As for the others who sit and wait? Where is there kingdom? Is it on hold keeping you in limbo? You’ve got the wrong savior.

Oh King we have NO need to answer you!

These were words in Daniel 3.16  that  Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego said to the king who threatened them with death. They did not physically respond to the threats of the king because they considering their riches from God to be immeasurably more safe and of greater value to keep them from being concerned about being thrown into the fire or the lions den. But more so showing us that they considered the provisions from God to be a strong tower against their threats.

As scripture says “And our God is able to make all grace abound toward you, so that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, to have an abundance for every good work.” And however scary it may have been for them to be threatened with death by the ruler of that kingdom, they still took control over the situation by employing their confidence in the promises of The Almighty God. So you can be certain that those who stand firm in the word of God? THEY DO NOT STAND ALONE!!

This account like all accounts in scripture has eternal value for us. To fortify our mental and spiritual resolve, to hold on to the assurances of the gifts from God “in Christ”. Which is our new selves re-modified and re-fitted by scripture with His word. Meaning, Gods Son called “The Word of God”. This is the genetic information we need to be like God, then broken down into pictures, pieces, sound bites and parables, for us to understand, assume, assimilate and put to use as co-owners and “joint heirs” of the things of God “in Christ” as outlined in scripture, being things from “The Kingdom of God at hand!”

It is for us to understand, and to receive assistance from the Holy Spirit in our endeavor to be modified by such to become more and more godly. This is how it works. What would Jesus do? This is it. This is our Savior and saving process because this is how we learn to appropriate what is cryptically splayed out in scripture and given to us for our retrieval as becoming saints. And then by the power of The Holy Spirit to implement what you’ve discovered. Here is your empowerment!!

This is how the trade off takes place, Old for New, speaking of covenants, promises and natures. And just as Adam felt naked and exposed and took the first offer to cover himself for the “just in case” with fig leaves, so too, many cover themselves with all types (as adulterers and idolators). It is because of papyrus and contracts, and authorizations of writ, by subscribing authorizing and even paying for services that come freely with salvation and revealed to us from the Gospel. Just read the accounts in scripture of those who were healed, helped, saved and made victorious in various situations and learn to believe too.

Christ would not bow down to such demands and neither should we because “as He is, so are we in this world”. Then that means what you may be thinking that He takes care of later, that later is NOW! Let Him be your dread, let Him be your fear, let Him be your only provider, Because “Today is the day of salvation” of your full coverages in all His various forms, placed over us like Gods tent or tabernacle that the feasts taught us about. None of the provisions did you have to sign up for or pay for. Just profess Him as your only “provider”,lest you find yourself at the end of yourself being “poor blind and naked”. Think of Adam and the apple. Get it? Apple? Is that the right kind of being made wise in Gods eyes?? The God of this age Satan thinks so, because in doing so he can minimize your time with the Father.

Especially when it comes to our new selves, God has provided to us in scripture, to have and to hold till death do you part” because we’ve re-conned it so anyway. This is why we are told, “in your patience posses ye your soul.” So that you can hone in on what is your role and goal is in the grand scheme of things of what is really important from an Eternal standpoint. And that is? The salvation of your souls. For your invisible part to be fitted with “everything that pertains to life and godliness through the knowledge of Him who calls us to His Glory” by His very words we employ. And being blessed with “every spiritual blessing in Heavenly places “in Christ”, who is our new heritage. This is the only you, you get to keep and the things that are written on your heart (your core and not the one that goes thump thump), if you haven’t sold yourself out through subduction to services from the god of this age and Satan, by placing yourself under other providers provisions (think of a tent and tabernacle here) by what you subscribe to, where you sign off to be subject to others and subdued by using your God given personal sovereignty to another all with your own cognitions. Satan knows that he distributes the wrath of God on willing participants when he has you blindly submit. You have been warned!

Who is your covering and what contending over lapses of multiple coverage’s do you have? This is what spiritual adultery is. This is what idolatry is. To depend on false powers of Gods of this age that come to nothing.

Any form of authorization you give to any provider of ANY sort puts you in subjugation as inferior and having to perform and serve that form of writ. Why are there more sick and dying? And with each subjugation you submit to, your covering from God becomes smaller and smaller and you become more and more exposed. Because the more you get bound up by their submission forms, the blinder you get to see who provides for whom.

You may say about some, well it didn’t cost me anything. Not in money, but your soul is subjugated to terms and conditions which has spyware for manipulation and profit benefits for them. “You can not serve God and money, for you will love the one and serve the other”. That is pretty black and white.

That is what they want because they know that as they plant these”conditions of service” and sowing them all together, to provide a full covering of “services”, that in so doing they come between you and God Himself. That’s why they call it “the internet of things” because this is the net of their harvest of the things they’ve subdued from God with your permission because when God made you in His image,, He gave you your own sovereignty to grow into to be like Him. And you go and squander that unspeakable gift submitting (like bowing) yourself to the things that you think are your protection. But what you don’t know is that God’s Word and Holy Spirit are the only providers that are interested in the salvation of your souls. To be whole for your own benefit. For “God has given us everything that pertains to life and Godliness…

And you may think of us like Agrippa said to Paul: you are beside yourself! Your much learning is driving you mad!”

But the true Savior, saving and safe place becomes more and more distant as you invest yourself elsewhere. Then you become numb and unresponsive to the inner unction and motivator of The Holy Spirit. And be more and more subject to the harms, distractions and ills of this age because you sought other forms of protections that in reality exposes you to the very things they say they will save you from. You will know them by their fruits”? That is how it works.

That is why the healers and savings and saviors are huge businesses in our day. And the health, wealth and safety plans keep getting more and more expensive. Like the giants of old they are gobbling up peoples savings with their insatiable appetites.   And like a snowball rolling down hill that becomes bigger and bigger, is indicative of their lust for more and your lack of resistance to the lies. If you can see yourself being sucked into these lies, for this we have a remedy called “repent” which really means just to turn and go the other way towards God. To start whittling away to dissolve their interest in you by coming out of them. You can be sure it’s a soul trap…. You will be met by the warmest most reassuring loving God who is standing with His hand extended to reverse the draw on your soul even now but not for long. Remember Noah and the Ark, and Sodom and Gomorrah. They were living life normal until the door was closed.

So now, how do we put this in context for our lives?

Well simply put, to posses our souls is to first remove the debris and the inroads sown into us by the enemy Satan, described as “the god of this age”, showing us that he has been given control over certain factors as a tool of the True God to exercise our resolve. And for God to “separate the wheat from the tares”. of those who don’t respond. There are those who succumb, and those who rise up to challenge and break the yokes of bondage. For every service they offer, there are scriptures and promises of God that work better because they are Gods plug-in-and-play remedies. Just as simply as people are put under subjective agreements, terms and conditions, so too they break the chain by opting out as an act of repentance. And it is incumbent upon each one of us to exercise our God given sovereignty to rise up (insinuating a resurrection) to them like those in Daniel and say “no more”. And, “get behind me!”. And break free from the tools you agreed to for them to operate on your behalf. Whenever you accept these services, if you read THERE ARE NO TERMINATION DATES whereby they expire their sovereignty over the appointed matter. In essence they are Eternal!!!

Maybe this seems innocuous to you, but what if these terms and conditions are the soft sell to their greater plan of abusing the power you and everyone else gave them by their own submission? If you read the NOT so fine print, they come right out and say that they “reserve the right to change these terms and conditions” anytime they want, And IT IS UP TO YOU to go back and check their updates as often as necessary to make sure that they remain innocuous. That if you don’t then you have zero recourse for rectification and they provide no directions to terminate the relationship if they take advantage of you.

And you say, they haven’t yet and they won’t. Well if you look at the internet as a web, carefully woven overlapping their cross hairs through your various devices on humanity like a net? They have a lot of people pretty well sown up. It is a trap to softly convince everyone that they are safe, until your power to respond is gone and the time to respond was before there was a problem. (It is coming) Think about it! When they do this, they will do it to everybody.

For this reason the mandate went out to “come out of her My people lest you partake of her sins and receive of her judgments for God has remembered her”.

And we say, it is not an “if they do” but “when they do”. Because in truth the internet is a net of capture. Jesus Christ told the disciples “drop your nets and I will make you fishers of men”. For each thing that God has, there is a counterfeit from the enemy for your souls. And as long as he can keep you detained, entertained and maintained, occupied and attached here? Then he can keep you from your salvation, which is your recovery process of your souls that you are suppose to cooperate with the Almighty God on, to become restored images of those who own themselves. That is what it means to be remade into Gods image. Remember those of whom He had said, they were poor blind and naked!! ….. Because they didn’t understand these things. And if you don’t? “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

God should be your ONLY form of dedication, submission, subjection and cooperation. All others are subjective to that one, not the other way around. That “every knee shall bow, every tongue confess that Christ is Lord to the Glory of God the Father.

Meaning when you allocate your time, energy and funds for your day, week or month or whatever, where is God in your line up. Because if He is last, He is likely not there, and you blame Him for things not going as you planned. Then we ask, who serves whom?? Maybe He’s your genie in a bottle? No, you are on your own. But because everything seams to work just fine with those providers, maybe you think that is from God? To this we say, yes, that is your god, and you got what you paid for because “you cannot serve God and money”.  It is because of your contract that you subjected yourself to their promises.  And they will eat you up like fire. When they pull the noose on the net, you won’t be able to get out quick enough. THIS IS THE TRAP. That Mystery Babylon has fallen

Yes there is an invisible harvest taking place and make sure you are being harvested as being a pleasing product to the Father. He has sown His Son into this age, and is expecting His look alikes. Meaning if Christ did not tolerate something, then neither should we. This is also what we learn of through the various pictures of others in scripture. And whereas they had to face literal death in scripture, for the most part we don’t die all at once. But we do have to agree to loose things here to obtain things which are there, which is our trade off of earthen things, in exchange for pieces of Eternity with our new name on it. Even as John the revelator wrote to those who overcome before their body dies “And to them I will give to them a white stone, and on the stone a new name written which no one knows except those who receive it.” ’

So “in your patience posses ye your soul”? Lets start by recovering it first because you have likely been being bound up your whole life and may not know it. (Parable of the dead and bound coming forth)

And because parables are given to make visible invisible bandages, bondage’s and entrapment’s, we are to learn how to unwrap ourselves from the bondage of this age that deceptively make you feel godlike with the instruments they offer you. And much like with Adam and Eve, the moment they started accepting coverage’s and provisions from another, in our case others (meaning plural), to the degree you have, you have become blinded or dead to the provisions from God for “supposed” temporary empowerment’s from other sources of provisions. And let there be no doubt that the words source, sorcery and out-sourcing have more in common then simply spelling and pronunciation. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

If this comes to you as offensive, then this is NOT for you. You have your providers. Let THEM take care of you. But in the end, we will see who is better off. Those who save themselves in this age, or those who accept the saving from God as seen in His promises, cryptically interwoven throughout scripture,  scattered about for our discovery, consumption, absorption and implementation so that when the storms in this life increase and you have the need, then you too can say like Danial and company, that “we have no need to answer you in these matters”. We don’t need to convince or explain anything to anybody but just say “get behind me Satan for you are not mindful of the things of God but the things of men”. If you haven’t done that already. But you don’t need to keep doing that,, if you’ve learned to see him hanging limp and dead at the cross where he was defeated. This too is part of your salvation package you need to learn to implement.

Thank God. Amen!

If You Are Not Faithful in Another’s, Who will Give You Your Own?

In Luke 16 Christ said to His disciples: “There was a certain rich man who had a steward, and an accusation was brought to him that this man was wasting his goods. 2 So he called him and said to him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your stewardship, for you can no longer be steward.’ 3 “Then the steward said within himself, ‘What shall I do? For my master is taking the stewardship away from me. I cannot dig; I am ashamed to beg. 4 I have resolved what to do, that when I am put out of the stewardship, others may receive me into their houses.’ 5 “So he called every one of his master’s debtors to him, and said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ 6 And he said, ‘A hundred measures of oil.’ So he said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’ Then he said to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ And he said, ‘A hundred measures of wheat.’ And he said to him, ‘ take the bill and quickly right down 80’. So the master commended the unjust steward because he had dealt shrewdly. For the sons of this world are more shrewd in their generation than the sons of light (are in theirs). 9 “And I say to you (facetiously), make friends for yourselves by unrighteous mammon, that when you come to your end, your friends may receive you into an everlasting home. 10 Those who are faithful in what is least is faithful also in much; and those who are unjust in what is least is unjust also in much.”

We have here in this parable of “The Steward” a person whose interest and focus is in the here and now! When they were challenged with the loss of their ability to enrich their life with payment on goods, they thought to fortify themselves and extend their ability for self sustenance and conducted short sales on the products that they still had that belonged to another. They did this liquidation of goods  to support themselves and in doing so they demonstrated that they had lost themselves already. Primarily because they lost sight of what belonged to whom and what was really their own. To this we say “In your patience possess your own soul” as your focus and not the fortification of your physical existence. That is just you fighting against the inevitable that blinds you from seeing the greater picture and purpose that we have “in Christ”.

To give you what is really yours in Gods eyes,has to do with your soul, and with Eternal life. And that steward fortified himself on earth to his own Eternal harm. You cannot keep anything of this life because none of it is Eternal.

Had they been faithful in that stewardship, they would’ve received what was their own is what that scripture said. That does seem rather peculiar on the surface, but when we put it in context with “scripture “, that being faithful in another’s to qualify to receive what is yours, has nothing to do with this age because scripture is given to make visible and understandable the invisible realities in the spirit, because if we acquire the eternal things now, we get to keep them forever.  This is us getting to “keep what is our own” are the gifts we learn from scripture to apply now 

Here then is the interpretation and how you can apply this to yourself in the context of what was written and why. This is for your fullness and salvation. You began this by the one time event at baptism whereby you profess to bury your old self by faith, to receive your new self imaged like Christ. Even baptism was only a picture but your vows were real. Because if you associate baptism with the cross and the Old Covenant cross-over pictured at the Red Sea with Moses, you could understand that there is a starting point and a finish line with God’s work in us as we cooperate with Him. We enter the promise land (the scriptures where the promises are) to see what we have inherited and to learn to own and to use those things now. That we are being translated, transferred and in a transition, meaning our transfiguration, with God’s Word telling  us “But we (the) all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord (in scripture and), are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of God. That you work out your own salvation with fear and trembling“. And quit waiting for another act of God on your behalf because it is ALL available right now. This is the Gospel. Showing us that cooperating in this way is your primary importance. This is your gift of Eternal life with God in the Spirit. Even as Christ told the woman at the well that “God is Spirit and truth, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” And such are we, at least that should be our focus and NOT to be fortifying ourselves here on earth as demonstrated with “The Unfaithful Steward”. For if you are not faithful with another’s, who will give you your own? The steward thought the important stuff was physical stuff, and if you vowed at baptism to consider your old person dead, to walk in newness of life”? Then it should be clear that the “who will give you what is your own” is what belongs to the new you on the north side of your baptism, as being eternal and unexpendable.

Meaning that “to give you what is your own has to do with your portion of your inheritance given to you through “The New Will and Testament”. Like all Testaments, they are not in force until there is a death of a testator, and that’s what Christ did at the cross (cross over. Get it?) And He did that back then so that we could experience our inheritance NOW! And not like the ill  informed of those supposing a second coming gathering while they sit and wait for that event to happen all the while “The Kingdom Of God is still at hand”, open, active and operational, even as we speak. And that “as Gods divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, If you are able to read and understand this, that means this message is still relevant for you. If not, pray because “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to them. James 1.5 Meaning the doors are still open and that is how God helps you in your endeavor.

But the unlearned, the unknowing and the ignorant (ignorant, not that they are stupid but they willingly ignore these truths) that The Kingdom of God is at hand. They need to recognize that it takes a different mindset to receive what our Heavenly Father has for us and why the scripture says that “the violent take it by force“. Not that we are stealing, but we take the Father at His word in the face of the obstacles we call “giants in the land”. We do not insult the gift giver by being nonchalant or passive with our inheritance. We “reach out to attain to all the riches in Christ” while we have our mental faculties to do so. This is the age of the acquisition of the things of God. When it is evident, then faith will no longer be necessary and there are no freebies without faith. “For one must first believe that He is and that He rewards those that diligently seek Him”. And so we do.

Unlike the unfaithful steward. Instead of owning up to, applying and using “what is their own” as “Willed” to us through the New (Will and) Testament, that replaced the old, these ignorant sell themselves out for their old self by protecting its fears and fortifying themselves safely here on earth through the various providers therein, showing that their focus and investment is like the unwise steward. And if you are not faithful to your vows at baptism, to in turn fortify yourself with what the Father reveals to you in The Testament, then when the buzzer buzzes and time here is no more, and you take into account the things that you’ve acquired on the other side of the veil of understanding into Eternity and see there is none? It is because you sold yourself out on the wrong self because “flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption.” but the re-spirited mind of faith does.

This is the new you to receive the things that are your own in comparison to the unwise steward who as James put it “3 Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days.”

And as Paul put it that “you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, who awards each one according to their works”. And when it comes time to what you have stored, did you store it up here as if you want to stay here? Well then you have your reward because that was your focus and your investment. So think of the widow who gave her last two coins. What does she look like on the other side? The answer is, something to envy. This is what truly matters.

We can glean this from James 5.1 Come now you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you! 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure for the last days. 4 Indeed the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. 5 You have lived on the earth in pleasure and luxury; you have fattened your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

And here from Romans 2.4-7 And do you despise the riches of Gods goodness, forbearance, and long-suffering, not knowing that His goodness leads you to repentance? 5 But in accordance with your hardness and your impenitent heart, you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, 6 who “will render to each one according to their deeds”: 7 eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good (defined as) seeking for glory, honor, and immortality; ⁸ but to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness—indignation and wrath, ⁹ tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil. Like the unjust steward. Ouch!

So if you are NOT faithful with another’s, who will give you your own”, should put you in check. And if you are afraid of the end of the world in any of its assorted presentations as though you need to fight for and preserve yourself in this age? That you are a type of  your own“savior” by your forms of self preservation and forgetting His promises like, I will never leave you or forsake you), you may be serving your dead man that you should’ve left at the cross when you first believed, as was your vow at baptism. “To bury the old you with its mechanisms and preservations of self, to in turn (that’s what repentance means) be found “in Christ “ where all our riches are true.

For this you are a steward to give an account of on That Day! For each one of us, That Day is different. But for now?  The Kingdom of God is at hand!” Meaning, reachable, attainable and able to implement now. The is the Gospel. Amen! Please DO NOT leave from here empty handed!

The Kingdom of God is at hand!

Sin of The AMORITE’S, Guarding Your Tongue. Knowing Your Enemies and the Tools To Subdue them.

Genesis 15.12 Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold a horror and great darkness fell upon him. 13 Then God said to Abram: “Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is NOT theirs, and will serve them, and the strangers will afflict them four hundred years. 14 And also the nation whom they serve I will judge; afterward they shall come out with great possessions. 15 Now as for you Abram, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried at a good old age. 16 But in the fourth generation your offspring shall return here (to a horror and a great darkness), FOR THE INIQUITY OF THE AMORITE’S IS NOT YET COMPLETE.” 17 And it came to pass, when the sun went down and it was dark (meaning there was no wide spread revelation in the land), that behold, there appeared a smoking oven (a judgment) and a burning torch that passed between those pieces (cut in half and offered as the sacrifice that represents the dividing of times). 18 On the same day God made a covenant with Abram, saying: “To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates—

We read here a passage that is attached to the promise to Abram, that he would be the father of many nations and what to expect as the promise comes into fruition. That his progeny would digress (go down) for four generations. That they would become slaves in Egypt because “the sin of the AMORITE’S was not yet complete”. That after it is, they would be redeemed to enter the land of promise that for us pictures our life in the Spirit.

As we always say that scripture makes visible the invisible realities we find and rely on for our maturation, which is our purpose now “to attain to all the riches of God “in Christ”.

So we must ask ourselves, what does the sin of the AMORITE’S have to do with the seed of Abram that the seed should be subverted and lorded over in Egypt, because that is NOT a posture our Father gave to them or us. And why would Abrams offspring be bound to the sins of another called the Amorite’s? A just God would not judge one on behalf of another’s sins. The only time God sanctioned someone to pay for the sins of another, is when He sent His Only Begotten Son to pay for the sins of the world on the cross. (John 3.17) And that was because of their digression, they proved they couldn’t save themselves.

Our point here is to divert your attention to the reason Abram’s offspring (which means us too) would become slaves and why is it the AMORITE’S were to blame for Abrams seeds future failure?

Well because what scripture does, is it makes visible the invisible things to the naked eye, to put in picture form for instructive purposes only, for us to understand our inner workings because that is where our real enemies are and that’s what we are really accountable for first. And we know that we can’t really blame someone or something else for our shortcomings as if to change them to benefit our outcome. Like here with the Amorite’s because the changes must come from within us. To “work out your own salvation with fear and trembling”. This is where the real Amorite’s exist as we shall demonstrate here.

God designed pictures and parables in His word for us to understand internal spiritual realities, and in this case what our invisible battle is. Which starts with our tongue connected to ignorant thinking. The Amorite’s represent something inside of us that we must battle. For “the weapons of our warfare are mighty through God for pulling down strongholds and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God” in our minds. Showing us that the real battles take place in our heads. This is our own “Galgatha” which means skull for the battle of the mind. Even as Romans 12 says to be “transfigured by the renewing of your mind.

(https://www.abarim-publications.com/Dictionary/a/a-m-r.html)     Amorite’s are the people of Amar and is defined here; אמר The very common verb אמר (‘amar) occurs all over the Sematic language spectrum and basically means to utter, say or tell (Genesis 3:1, Numbers 22:28, Psalm 40:10), command (to speak a thing into being) (Numbers 15:38, Joshua 11:9), promise (1 Chronicles 27:23, Esther 4:7). To this we can add confessions for cleansing and professing for renewals as our first responce.

The things that we say (amar) is what the imagery of the Amorite’s is to do for us. They make carnally understandable internal enemies we harbor within ourselves, masquerading as characteristics of ourselves that we’ve adopted to wear (like a fig leaf), when in reality they represent a false sense of security keeping us from our new selves given to us “in Christ” in the likeness of Christ with all our inner enemies deferred and Gods tools installed, intact and in their place. And that’s why these enemies need to be defeated because they keep us from our internal inheritance “in Christ” to be like Him, not referring to hair color height or weight. This is us “made in the image of God” as intended from the beginning. Are we not instructed to “put Christ on”? He is Adams replacement for our true form of being re-imaged to “that which is from the beginning”.

But before all this, Abrams seed (offspring) would become so entangled with a false self image in destitution, mumbling, grumbling, complaining and being lorded over. They were also accusing and excusing one another when God’s word says “let your yes be yes and your no mean no. For whatever is more than this is from the devil. So much so in fact that they would become an inversion of the gift from God according to godliness of “walking in the light as He is the light”. That is why there was a dark and a burning flame passed through the sacrifices two halves, (Genesis 15) to draw the distinction by way of contrasts (think of your hands side by side are the same but opposites, right and left, this is the picture). And it had to be really dark to be removed for the light to be extremely light to take over, hence the 400 years.

That is why the Amorite’s as a first enemy is about the way we talk because the core word of the name “Amorite” is the Hebrew word “amor” and “amar” and means to speak and say,  because “A perfect man is able to bridal their toungue“ (like a horse with a bit, bridal and reins) This means we have the same tools and features to learn to grow in, to properly use our words. Because “in the beginning was the word, the word was with God and the word was God”.

THIS IS THE MAIN POINT WE ARE SAYING!

Since God said a thing and it was so, and He has gifted us with a self like His self, to do and be imaged like Him, then we have to be that careful as to what we say, and when to say it. Because if Christ spoke an insult to someone like ”hey stupid” they would be more than mad. They would literally be stupid. Remember Christ told the man “be whole” and the maimed arm became just as usable as the other and He healed the lepers, made the blind see and raised the dead and such.

And similarly, to murmur and complain (which was the chief sin in the wilderness) and wallow in your fallen nature DOES NOT produce change to build you up but your negativity brings you down. If you use your old Adamic tools of murmuring and complaining, accusing and blaming, that is self sabotage by building up your hatreds and fears by making a big deal out of things. That is your own fault, you are to blame when things don’t work out maybe you did that. And that is an example of “the sin of the Amorite’s.  You manifest your own negativity in this age, and when this age expires, you have to be done with all your manifestations of your faithlessness and negativity and it starts here. This is your training ground. And every time you grovel, over things, you engage with Satan. And when you answer him you resurrect him. You did that!. Didn’t Christ tell him “get behind me Satan for you are not mindful of the things of God but men” but then you argue with him anyway? The only reason Jesus said that was to show you how to be done with him. But He doesn’t need to defend Himself by engagement and neither do you. It is like ignoring a heckler. They writhe inside when they don’t upset you. But it’s there extreme joy when they do that feeds their persistence. You did that!

This is why Christ said “if you have not been faithful in what is another man’s, who will give you what is your own?” Another mans is your old man, and what is your own is what God has new for you as you correct yourself in what you think and say. Then He reveals these things to you at the behest of the Holy Spirit as the new you,,,. That is after you’ve defeated your Amorite’s being your pre-manifest negative words welling up inside of yourself.

Like God told Cain “6“Why are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen? 7 If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do NOT do well, sin lies at the door. And its desire is for you, but you MUST gain your mastery over it.”

In New Testament lingo, this is putting off the old man and putting on the new man in the image of Christ” because that is why we exploit Gods words. To unlock and to use as our new self like His.

Even as those at the walls of Jericho, they were cued to all follow in synchronicity with Joshua who said.  You shall not shout or make any noise with your voice, nor shall a word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I say to you, ‘Shout!’ Then you shall shout.” You know what happened when they all shouted together as one body. And we are “The Body of Christ” so we should make the connection to be in sync with our Head. To see what He sees and to say what He says. And “wherever two or more are gathered (collected and assembled) there I am in their midst”, were the words of Christ.  I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. What That our word is manifest like Gods. What a tremendous promise from the Father!!

For you see that the word (and the amor)  as our sword too and which realm we are to use it in. “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. 13 And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give an account

So like when Peter wielded a sword and cut off an ear from a member of the Sanhedrin on Christ’s fateful night, Jesus told Peter to put his sword away because, that is the wrong kind of sword. We use not the sword but the s-word of the Spirit which is word, Gods word.

James also says ”

2 For we all stumble in many things. If anyone does not stumble in word, they are a perfected person, able also to bridle the whole body. 3 Indeed, we put bits in horses’ mouths for them to obey us, by which we turn their whole body. 4 Look also at ships: although they are so large and are driven by fierce winds, they are turned by a very small rudder wherever the pilot desires. 5 In the same way the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. See how great a forest a little fire kindles! 6 Likewise the tongue can be a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and is set on fire by hell. 7 For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and creature of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by mankind. 8 But no (common) man can tame their tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. 9 With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the similitude of God. 10 Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so. 11 Does a spring send forth fresh water and bitter from the same opening? 12 Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? [g]Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh.

God is concerned about our inward parts and the reason He showed this to Abram after he divided the sacrifices in half to show the side by side contrasts of carnal verses spirit, fear verses faith, right and left, up and down, falsehood verses truth. We hope you get this picture because that is all they are. The Amorite’s don’t need to be any more real than this, if you get the pictures and learn the lessons.

Gods word is our mirror for perspective for us to become godly. This is the correct use of scripture for our personal transfiguration, transformation and metamorphosis, from a ground bound looking down carnally queued creature following the events.

Even as the disciples were told when they asked Christ “shall we call fire down from Heaven” to smoke these guys? And Christ’s replied “you DON’T know not what manner of spirit you are”, confirming this lesson. He didn’t ask them “who gave you the authority to do that?” He just redirected them from the destructive element of what they wanted to do.

And from Ephesians 6.10-18  Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might. 11 Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For we wrestle NOT against (the visible) flesh and blood, BUT against principalities, against powers, against the (invisible) rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. 13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. 14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; 15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; 16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. 17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the SWORD OF THE SPIRIT, which is the word of God: 

THAT IS HOW YOU DO IT!! These are your instruments of war.

Unlike those who went about unchanged thinking “My master is delaying his coming”. And that was quite likely because their sights were set on the carnally visual and wait for someone else to do something for them, like a second coming savior. They miss out on the changes we can make to ourselves now. This is our responsibility and duty during our pilgrimage here. For the time is coming when the ability to make these changes will disappear. Then the saying will come true that “11 Those who are unjust, let them be unjust still; those who are filthy, let them be filthy still; those who are righteous, let them be righteous still; those who are holy, let them be holy still..”

But for now there is time because “The Kingdom of God (is still) at hand! So please do not face your next obstacle without using these tools that have been presented to you today, lest you be found slothful, forgetful or just to busy.

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THE TRAITS OF THE ELECT

Scripture says that “The first shall be last and the last shall be first” and we are right on time.

It was the first who are last because they had the pure form of the truth of the embodiment of all truth “in Christ” with the expiration of the obstacles (Old Testament relics) to be able to make an easy assessment and a clear distinction without too many distractions.

But It is those who are “more blessed” who have NOT seen yet believe”? This is us who are last who have NOT seen Christ in former fashion of the flesh, or the destruction of that Israel, nor did we see Moses, or hike through the wilderness following the miracles, nor heard the Prophets. Had they have worked, Christ would NOT of had to come to expire them.

“More blessed are we” because we have NOT seen as they did, yet we believe the things that are written. Like “The Kingdom Of God is At Hand” as being central to the gospel and utmost importance of something we are able to press in and attain to now! But NOT with our physical features. Oh no for “Flesh and blood does NOT inherit The Kingdom of God”! But the re-spirited mind of faith does, and it does it NOW. That is why ” the Kingdom is preached and the violent take it by force”. This means we don’t take NO for an answer.

The whole Old Testament only anticipated what was given complete to us “In Christ”, For us who are “in Him” in the here and now, to grow into His likeness. For us to assimilate to postulate, then emulate and apply during our sojourning here on Earth which is our practice field.

This is what it means to be born again. We got our do-over and we are doing it.

All the pictures, patterns and parables are expired in us as the gospel has reached its conclusion. And that is? A re-imaging in us into that of His Son. This is what it means to be Christ-like. A gift that was given in the beginning with Adam, then lost to be restored “in Christ” who is Adams replacement. Christ is our prototype that we pattern ourselves after as participating in “such a great salvation that was first spoken by the prophets and confirmed by those of us who’ve heard it”. This is where the gospel picks up at and why it is to “that which is from the beginning”, as something different from the end times and the law age interlude that was unsuccessful, because how many were righteous? “None, no not one” (Romans 3.10). That “the Law (culture) was added to make sin exceedingly sinful” and “added till faith comes”. Yes Christ was their undoing and replacement.

Paul told the Romans “Therefore, be renewed in the spirit of your mind”. This is where it ALL takes place and not on some silly plot of land. “That you may know (and prove experientially) what Gods good, acceptable and perfect will is” (which is His perfection borne into us.) (Ephesians 4.13).

The Elects Extensive Training.

It is The Elect at the end of the age who have had to sift through the debris that has been foisted on us over the ages. Like an attic of old books and writings moth eaten and eschewed, to then be remodeled and renewed into its original intent of making offspring and images suitably like the Father.

We have had to question EVERY THING including holy days, religions, mass, sabbath days and even scripture as it is rendered and presented to us today in it’s many various versions, and find them ALL lacking.

We’ve had to challenged the 66 books put in place way after the facts, and found many missing. We have examined sentence structure and found that wanting too.

We have challenged the changing of the names of God and come clean in the eyes of The Father. Because “God is light and in Him is no darkness at all”. Meaning, in His presence the obscurities melt away. “And we are in Him this is true” in His Son the Righteous One. Having sifted through the renderings at the behest and the directive of Gods Holy Spirit, we simplify the obscure for “God is not the author of confusion”. And climbing through the rubble of the ages, re-organizing and re-stacking as we go, removing the carefully placed redirects inserted by the ignorant, the misinformed and the flat out enemies of God and the unlearned, who did the best they could with what they had. NOT to give them credence or glory, but these obscurities we’re designed by God the Father for us “on whom the ends of the age has come”.

It is for us to Obtain the Glory which God has intricately woven throughout scripture, and left there for our discovery and retrieval (2 Corinthians 3.18). For us to “put on the loins of our mind”, with the Glory and the fullness of Christ which is found there.  Like mining for gold, we’ve found the mother lode by digging in deep.

For us to rise up to the challenge of the ripening of the age, of “the wheat and the tares maturing together” of which we are right on time. And for us to be seen as the fulfillment of that scripture and the purpose of this age of God bringing forth His offspring similar in all ways like His Only Begotten. NOT as He was as a pauper. Oh no, that was our role He took from us, but as “joint heir’s seated in Heavenly places in Christ’. The One who temporarily “became flesh and dwelt among us”, then put it back off. For us to in turn put off our sin of the flesh and put on word and Spirit. To become what He was before and after He put on the flesh and dwelt among us. Because “in the beginning was the word, the word was with God and the word was God, He was in the beginning with God. We become the purified word of the things He has said and are unmistakably His look alikes and representations in a dying world.

Be not mistaken! When God put creation in motion He had already designed and installed portholes and opportunities for His offspring the Elect to come into fruition and He placed port holes into His Kingdom. For us to be His Sons look a likes, to make this irrefutable claim. Our Father had us do so with the greatest challenges of all time, that Gods word, purpose and completion has endured till the ends of the world IN SPITE of all the clutter from the ages.

And for this purpose “the days will be cut short for the Elects sake”. NOT to save us as though we are weary or need help. No, but because of His Grand Finally is so perfect and complete, against the greatest of obstacles. To God the Father be irrefutable, indisputable Glory! And He’s shared it with us. He is not wiping His forehead and  saying ‘Wew! because we barely got out. That is  Blasphemy!! Everything has gone as planned and the Grand Finale is more than epic as the final numbers come in.

The Father and the Son have both been seated waiting for their enemies to become their footstool”. And because Satan sin and death lay powerless for us as spectacles at the base of the cross, we can clearly see that the only enemies left for us now are peoples doubts, fears and unbelief. Why? Because Christ entered the Fathers Rest to sit and  watch with Him a long time ago (Hebrews 1.1-3). And the Elect also join them there “each one in their own order” as we clamour up the proverbial “Jacobs ladder”.

So some of us get that and Rest with them there even NOW! “For there remains a Rest (retirement) to the people of God? For those who have entered His rest have ceased from their works as God did from His”. But some still ask “Has God really said?”

Finding His word irrefutable, we sat down from our wrangling over what’s next because that doesn’t matter ANY MORE! for those of us who are “in Christ”. We are fast forwarded past the end of time, to “that which is from the beginning” at the place where all time meets and “enter His Rest. We’ve become spectators with the Godhead Body, being joined to that One body whom Christ is the head of. That we are living stones having been built (past tense,) upon the (fully laid) foundation of the Prophets and Apostles with Christ the Chief Cornerstone”. This is “The Kingdom At Hand.” Welcome home if you get this.

As a result of this, we are His authorized versions for others conversions that culminate with all that has been before us, because we have sifted through everything. Then collecting and re-assembling His little morsels laid out cryptically in scripture for our retrieval, to own and to use to become more and more like Him, as “we reached out to lay ahold of why Christ laid hold of us”. In this way “be ye reconciled to the Father” not just in concept but in Truth. With these He is pleased.

Like Satan jump started Adam for his un-godlike quest because of the inversion in thinking at what is called “the fall”. We have been re-inverted and  reinserted  into our upright position for the rediscovery of what ‘hath God really said?” We got the answers. And having covered the gamete of supposed truths presented to us, be it scripture, Holiday’s, religious authorities, historical presentations, health, wealth, the sciences and other religions. We are cemented in and glued to being unmovable and unshakably clinging to every truth that fits neatly joined together like the assembledge of a coat of many colors that exemplifies Royalty Not so much to the onlooker, but to the angels and the Heavenly Father. As scripture says “for even the Angels in Heaven behold the face of the (Heavenly) Father in these little ones”. But we are not so little now.

It is us who have sifted through presentation’s, of the fake and false history (His Story), all of the pseudo sciences, the wealth and health policies and all the religions, all of them. And by the prompting and the behest of Gods Holy Spirit, the Helper, our teacher, the comforter and other parent so that “we were not left orphans” to fend for ourselves. But fortunately for us we had our mentoring moment by moment telling us to do this and do that, turn this page and look at that, turn here and go there, and we did.

It is with this tutelage that We collectively brought all these things up here in this place of sanctification and had them tested by the fire of the Eternal flame and learned to trust and to hold on to ONLY the things that are up here “in Heavenly places in Christ” that all the carnal copies of these things on earth only pointed to as teaching instruments. And casting off all the illusions, partial truths and flat out lies by popular science, news agencies from every perspective and “spiritual wickedness in high (religious and government) places” and found them wanting. Those are ALL meant by the god of this age to create false narratives to distract, detain, to hold back and thwart people from reaching their God given purpose of participating in “The Kingdom of God at hand”.  “While we look NOT on the things of this age, for the things of this age are carnal (temporary) but the things in Heaven are Eternal”.

Meaning for us to reach our destination before our carnal term here in creation expires. To “reach out for the prize of why Christ laid hold of us” as our duty. (1 Corinthians 9.24-25) For you to be fully alive, alert and awake, NOT to the scary images presented by the end time scenario seekers or a second coming message, showing you the assorted dangers and threats to scare you into signing up and prescribing to their various wares and views, to keep you buying this and that to keep you healthy, wealthy and safe. As if thst save you? Or for you just to be mesmerized by the enter-tain-ment. The choice is yours. “Choose you this day who you will serve”.

They can do nothing but offer you a false sense of security. False because they are the counterfeits that have a physical element that you prefer over Gods word. In other words you would rather sign the dotted line or accept terms and conditions instead of giving Glory due to God by believing His promises and instead and say “yes Father” believing by faith “for all the promises of God are yes and amen in Christ”. Our contract is signed with His blood to institute “The New Will and Testament founded upon better promises” than the old.

This is the will of the Father, our inheritance bestowed upon us from the cross of “The Lamb slain from the foundation of the World” and activated one promise after another as you are able to receive them by faith, each in their proper order, until you are found “complete in Him who is head over all principalities and powers”. (Complete means there is nothing more to add.)

Test all things and hold fast to what is good.

It is us who because we’ve had to test everything, and we mean everything, that us seemingly flying solo into the humanly unknown. We have learned to navigate the carnally invisible to arrive at our destination that Scripture has bestowed upon us and given us the affirmation that IT IS TRUE! We have been ALREADY given everything that pertains to life and Godliness. (2 Peter 1.3) And we have ALREADY received every spiritual blessing in heavenly places in Christ. (Ephesians 1.3)

That our carnal experience becomes more like a dream or a story in comparison, where as when we first started to believe, it was the things of faith that we could not physically grasp that seemed surreal. But now the End Times presentations, and they are many, they seem fairy tale-ish, because they are. They are tales of fallen fairy’s meant to distract you and detain you. To have you wait for the coming of another savior and another Jesus in another Jerusalem in another Israel, as though the saving by the sacrifice at the cross was insufficient and incomplete. Blasphemy!

We have even scoured the “Holy Bible” and found it not to be so holy (there is still enough there to hold guilty an onlooker). But that did not detour us because you cannot kill eternal things. And truth is eternal, being an attribute of and from the creator God, passed on to us through the Gospel.

All these things are designed to be obscure for our discovery and for our glory. To attain to the Glory given as our prize and objective.

And from Romans 3, that ALL have sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God”. This condemnation  is from His Tribunal to every human. You could not be charged for something you were not capable of acquiring (meaning glory) so you should probably take these claims serious. For the time is coming when the salvation program for mankind will be over. Then the edict will be true that “(Those who are unjust, let them be unjust still; those who are filthy, let them be filthy still; those who are righteous, let them be righteous still; those who are holy, let them be holy still.)

The door will be closed, time as you know it, will be no more and what you’ve attained to in Christ? Well, you get to keep that. And of the things you occupied yourself in that was NOT for your transfiguration to glory ? That will likely amount to nothing but the amusement you enjoyed while you reveled (gloried) in such.  Oh the shame of missed and lost opportunities. Could’ve, should’ve, would’ve, if you only knew better? And now you do. For the doors to the Kingdom will be locked and “Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name? And then He will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’

Another big lesson here is that if they had been inside on the other side of that door standing face to face, they would NOT of had that conversation. But they were found without because they deemed other things more important. Like self preservation of hunkering down and latching on tightly to the things they had on their side of the door.

So you may ask the question is, how do you know when the Gospel is completed in you as becoming an Elect. When the things of this age have NO power over you in regard to pain, suffering and persecution. Not because of us individually. We have no confidence in the flesh but lay all of our dependencies squarely on the promises from God as being more persuasive then a cashe of weapons.

So we say like Paul in Romans 8

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are “in Christ”, who walk not after the (fascinations of) flesh, but after the (unctions of the) Spirit.

² For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath (already) made me free from the law of sin and death (with all its fears and threats).

³ For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the (temporary) likeness of sinful flesh, and (on our behalf) for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

⁴ For the righteousness of the law to be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the (mandates of the) flesh, but after the Spirit.

⁵ For they that are of the flesh, (set their mind on) the things of (the earth for) the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit (set their mind on) the things (above) of the Spirit.

⁶ For to be carnally minded (for a scriptural fulfillment of Gods things on earth) is death; but to be spiritually minded (focused on The Kingdom of God at hand) 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 (stuck on end time scenarios and such, these) 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 anyone have not the Spirit of Christ (as self evidenced by seeing what we are describing), they are not His. 

¹⁰ And if Christ be in you, your body is (already re conned) dead because of sin; but the Spirit is alive because of (Christ’s) righteousness.

¹¹  And since the Spirit of Him that raised up Christ from the dead dwell in you, He who raised up Christ from the dead, also quickened  your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwells in you (too).

¹² Therefore believers, we owe nothing to the flesh, to live after the (mental infatuations) of the flesh.

¹³ For if ye live after (the appetites of) the flesh, ye shall remain dead (to the unctions of the Spirit): but if ye through the (promptings of Gods Holy) Spirit you mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall have (Eternal)  life.

¹⁴ For as many as (have these) are led by the Spirit of God. These are the children of God.

¹⁵ For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

¹⁶ The Spirit bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

¹⁷ And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

²⁰ For the creation itself was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of Him who hath subjected it to the same hope,

²¹ Because the creation itself shall in the same manner be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty that the children of God (had learned to acquire). Are you getting this?

The Kingdom of God is still At Hand!

To Be Born Again, Or To Be Borne From Above? The scriptural reference for this is “John 3.1-12”

There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. 2 This man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him.” 3 Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is borne again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” 4 Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” 5 Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is borne of water and the Spirit, they cannot enter the kingdom of God. (Because) That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is borne of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ (It’s like this) The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but CANNOT tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is borne (carried about) of the Spirit.” 9 Nicodemus answered and said to Him, “How can these things be?” 10 Jesus answered and said to him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and you do not know these things? 11 Most assuredly, I say to you, We speak what We know and testify what We have seen, and you do not receive Our witness. 12 Since We have told you earthly things (in parables) and you do not believe, how will you believe if We (flat out) tell you heavenly things?

To Be Born again? Or Borne from above? These two words have more in common than just the pronunciation. Then you may ask, isn’t this just a play on words. To which we say yes. It is a parable and a play on words and play means to put on an act or a show for explanation purposes only, be it by words or putting on a play.

In this case like all of scripture, it is to make known the invisible things of God “in Christ” to where we are “The Called and The Elect”. That we are delivered and “borne by the Spirit”.  Like all carnally visual things, they have their Eternal counterparts for fulfillment when you learn what the picture play is all about. That when you understand the comparisons in contrasts, you can receive the re-presentation as of something un-tangible and invisible to the carnal senses, but immensely more substantial in the spirit of your mind. The Spirit becomes your new reality. The reason for the comparisons, is to draw upon the contrasts for the conclusion and the fulfillment of that demonstration to have and to own as the new you!

And here to be “born again” is NOT like Nicodemus who rudely said “what are we suppose to do? Go back into our mothers womb to try again? He was being facetious. For you see to be born is to be brought out, but to be “borne from above”, is to be carried about, presumably from one place to another like “far above all principalities, seated in Heavenly places”! Ephesians 2

We see this again here even in the Old Testament in Exodus 19.4 where The I AM said “You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself.” You didn’t see that one coming did you?

We see here from the dictionary, Both born and borne are forms of bear. Born is commonly used with the sense of bear meaning “to give birth.” Borne is used in reference to carrying something (physically or figuratively), as a combining form with words like air, and, occasionally, in the “give birth to” sense.

And the context of “born again” is also correctly used with birth because as scripture says that “we are begotten (born, borne and brought forth) by a Word of Truth to be a (same) kind of first fruits of His (Gods new) creation.” And again from John of those “borne of the Spirit”. Meaning that we are born again, brought forth, carried about, lifted up and raised up, however different by way of contrasts. Those like all from Adam die and return to the dust and fear such, but we who are borne and carried about by the Spirit we never depart, and “we have past from death to life” the moment we are re-spirited, and “born again” meaning “borne from above”. Death no longer has dominion over us and fear for us is dead because “fear involves torment” and is the dominant  product of being dead to the Spirit and the invisible things of God, and “His Kingdom at hand” that the disciples were instructed to proclaim first.

Like all who are born from Adam and Eve, are born by coming out, but of Christ “The New Creation “ we are borne into (for recognizing the contrasts as) the family of God to be “in Christ” and not out of Eve who came out of Adam. We are borne into the family of God.

In a human way a baby is slapped on the bottom to then cry to jump start its breathing (spirit) to sustain that life. However in contrast God says “So shall My word be that goes forth (borne) from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it. 12 “For you shall go out (and be borne)with joy, And be led forth with peace; No spanking involved.

This all happens before your physical body expires and returns to the dust. Primarily  because your carnal senses and reasoning skills are required to interact with these presentations, parables and plays on words and made knowable by tutorial of The Holy Spirit so that you can respond in kind, being His kind of spirit and truth. “16 Therefore, from now on, we (who are borne of the Spirit) regard no one according to the flesh (and human endeavor). Even though we have known Christ in the likeness of the flesh (and His physical descriptions), yet from now on we know Him that way NO MORE. 17 Therefore, if anyone is (borne) in Christ, they are (already) a new creation; old things have (ALREADY) passed away; behold, all things have (ALREADY) become new. 18 Now all things are (ALREADY) from God, in contrast of what you had from Adam and Eve. And this has to happen before your body expires and returns to the dust, For out of dust you were taken; For dust you are, And to dust you shall return.”  But we are born of the Spirit.

Your limited term here is to acquire this extraordinary gift because without human factors, senses and reasoning skills, with what then shall you use to interact with, process and learn something about  the invisible to transfigure to? For what purpose then we’re you given this life other than for this discovery? And if you do not have the contrasts of creation to compare with, how could you know cold from hot, light from dark, right from wrong, earthen verses Heavenly? And since you are called to be born again and from above, how then can you respond with out the sensors and reasoning skills to do so? And how can you be held accountable to do something you had no body to do it with? And so we plead with you, be reconciled with Christ!!

You may think here that to experience Gods things while we are in a flesh body is an impossible notion. But remember, Christ spoke John 3 as you just read, while He was a man like us, for it is also written that “The (invisible) Word became (born into the) flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld His Glory”. Showing us that it is the re-spirited mind of faith that is to reside in a flesh body that can also possess “the fullness of the Godhead body”. Where it’s also said “and of His fullness we have received, grace upon grace” of heaping helpings of Promises coming true in the composition that endures for Etrernal Life, being Spirit and Truth.

The truth be told, Gods image was given to Adam first but he lost it, and why those who remain “in Adam” and unchanged, they don’t get it either. You are accounted “in Christ”, “in Adam”, “in Satan” or in the middle. You are better off to be in the middle than to reject this Gospel, however when your reasoning skills expire, so do your opportunities to cross over.

Your time frame for discovery is your life span. For the Elect, “we (already) have this treasure in earthen vessel’s (our human vessel) that the Glory and the excellency may be of God (that is in us) and not from ourselves”. (2 Corinthians 4.17)

Even as The Father said through Isaiah “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.“ And as 1 John 4.17 says that as He is (now), so are we in this world”. Who also said “the wind blows wherever it wishes, you can hear the sound of it but you cannot see where it comes from of where it goes, so is everyone borne (brought forth and carried about) by the spirit”. So that we can learn to interact with the things we have of “His Kingdom at hand” as attainable and useable while we have our reasoning factors.

So then the practical application for us is the answer to this question from Psalms 11.1“ How can you say to my soul like a bird, flea to My mountain “ unless we can be “borne by the Spirit” for this task.

And for those who acquire this gift, then like the Christ man who paid for our entrance fee into “The Kingdom of God at hand” by taking our old person by carrying away (and borne) our weaknesses, sin and feebleness to the cross as assimilated in the scapegoat parable. And from Psalms 103.12 who wrote “As far as the east is from the west, So far has Our God removed our transgressions from us“ so that we can not only see The kingdom of God, we can also rise up and enter it and interact therein, as we read in John 3 by being borne of The Spirit as scripture offers. Amen! (John 3. 3-5)

And what about Christ talking with the Samaritan woman at the well who contended with Him about Samaria or Jerusalem as being the approved place to worship God? He told her ”the hour (you think) is (yet)coming, now is, when the true (bona fide) worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. (This is the game changer) 24 For God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and truth.” (apart from the proof your flesh demands) 25 The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah who is (going to) coming”. “When He comes, He will tell us all things.” 26 Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am He.” In others words, she was looking at the One whom she expected to COME later. And if she was willing to accept the word at face value, she would not have needed to see Christ that way for Him to save her. And it is likely that because she saw the man Jesus, she still did not see the Messiah because even the man was just a parable to launch her to the other side.

Remember that just as a caterpillar can NOT understand the life and flight of a butterfly because it is ground bound looking down, so too the un-generated mind of faith whose focus is on a Scriptural fulfillment on Earth as the completion of Gods word, just cannot get this. They cannot enter “The Kingdom of God at hand” that we espouse, because they just cannot see what we are talking about. Even as they asked in Christ’s day “are you the coming One (who is suppose to save us) or should we seek another (one to do so)?” As many do today.

Warning;  If your looking for another Jesus for another saving to have another go at another Jerusalem, you are going to be sorely disappointed. You are ground bound and looking down too like the proverbial caterpillar who is missing out on its transfiguration (from the Greek word metamorphosis) into a butterfly. Since “the Kingdom of God is at hand” even now according to the gospel and our testimony, what then should appear here next that you expect to become a reality later?  That we are talking about “The Kingdom prepared from the foundations of the world” as a pre-existing Eternal place that precedes and supercedes the ground you walk on. (Matthew 25.34) That “those who are borne from above can enter the Kingdom”? Is that you? And of “Christ, the same yesterday, today and forever”? (Hebrews 13.8)

It was as Paul said to those in 2 Thessalonians 2. who were caught up (borne) in the deception of another coming (type of) Christ in a carnal fashion “with all lying signs and wonders if possible to deceive the Elect” whose coming one “shall be consumed by The Breath of His mouth and The Brightness of His coming”, and “the coming whose according to Satan” who is the god of this age.

Even as Christ said when He was chided by the Jews about His kingdom “Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would fight, so that I should not be delivered to the Jews; but now (and still true today) My kingdom is not from here.”

Here then is the 2 Thessalonians 2 riddle explained. The Breath of His mouth is not oxygen but The Holy Spirit, and The Brightness of His coming is NOT like the sun but 7 times brighter, being the same bright light who blinded Paul at his conversion ( Acts 26.13). Paul was of the “brood of vipers” and “sons of Satan”, because he defended the physical Jerusalem (think old wine skins) and even put some to death for leaving  it. However later Pauls testimony to the Thessalonians of (The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, 10 and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, in order to be saved. 11 And for this reason God will send them strong (physical) delusion, that they should believe the lie, 12 that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Was because they rejected The Kingdom of God at Hand for one being built.

Gods one time saving act was the cross, meaning any other such hope of being saved in a different way or a different time is an insult to Christ’s saving of the cross, that amounts to blasphemy. Because (God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but for the world to be saved through Him”. So you have to go back to the cross. To this you may say, well yah He saved back then but what about not? To which we say, forever people are not on a timeframe. Meaning He had to perform His saving once and it is beneficial in that age and any age including our age because He in truth is “The Lamb Slain from before the foundations of the world”. Meaning He’s got you covered, if you can receive it. This is what righteousness means. He did it right the first and only time to be appropriated by you by faith, your first invisible tool. (Hebrews 11.1-3)

If you remember Christ told the disciples, do not depart from Jerusalem but wait until you have heard from Me”. Who also told them that they would preach the Gospel of “The Kingdom of God at hand” to all the nations after they were filled with the Holy Spirit. That then they could depart from Jerusalem to do so. And it was at Pentecost where people from all languages, nations and tongues were speaking the Glories of God because a stewardship change had taken place (Genesis 49.10-11), and a first promise that was made was now being played out that Abraham would be the Father of many nations and not just the Jews who amounted to 1/12 of the 12 tribes.

So you see Paul was not talking about a physical cataclysmic event or the end of the world at all with “the breath of His mouth and the brightness of His coming or he would not have described Christ’s coming with what he had already encountered at his conversion.

Maybe this is your time for your conversion as such and your opportunity  “being  Born above” to see and enter (the Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all. Galatians 4.26). This is the Heavenly Jerusalem in the way Christ was trying to convey to the religiously hardened heart of Nicodemus who came to Him at night, showing us the contrast between Testaments and Kingdoms.

Fortunately for Paul he saw the bright light 7 times brighter than humanly possible on the road to Damascus. The question here is, can you see this too? Can you receive Christ in is natural habitat, because that is your inheritance if can receive it.

And again from Isaiah “How can you say to my soul like a bird to flee ( to be air born) to your mountain?  If you cannot answer this question, DO NOT move forward until you get this because if these truths pass you by and you don’t advance, you will be judged as such, for how will you answer the Judge? But more importantly, if you cannot grasp this reality of being borne into the life in the Spirit, how can you ever hear the same voice that may say to you “come My people and enter your chambers, for God is coming out of His place to punish the inhabitants of the earth” if you don’t know how to do it? He is our Good Shepard and we can “go in and out and find pasture.” We just need to grasp how to do it.

In the same way, “The Kingdom of God is at hand”. Enter into the Joy of God who promised us He’d never leave us or forsake us, just so we know what He looks like. Even as He told the Israelites “remember when I instructed you, you saw nobody and I took on no form”. So Don’t insult Him and His saving ability for even as the Son said “they will say look here and look there, but DO NOT follow them because The Kingdom of God is within you.

So we, like the apostles and as Paul saw, not the man but the blinding light, have seen Christ after His resurrection in accordance with 1 Corinthians 15.5 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; 2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. 3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how 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 (after His resurrection) he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: 6 After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. 7 After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles. 8 And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born (borne) in my own time.

Is this your time to be “borne and carried about by the spirit”? Not as a one time act but a lifestyle in your “own time”? At this time? And on time? To “see The Kingdom? To “enter The Kingdom”. The “Kingdom of God At Hand”? Well that is a lesson from John 3.

Moses, Aaron and Pharaoh are all actors in a play. Exodus 7

Paul the Apostle wrote this to the believers in his day. “When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became an adult, I put away childish things.” He was talking about the Old Testament Law and our conversion into The New Testament realities of the life in the spirit of being “in Christ” as a way to shelve and fulfill the Old Testament Law and the prophets. Even as Paul said that “The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from that OLD law of sin and death.” (meaning The Mosaic Law) showing us thats the demarcation line between the two Testaments, Covenants and their respective Kingdoms. An Earthen one made of earthen brick verses The Heavenly made up of “Living Stones (US) built up a habitation of God in the Spirit”.

If you remember in the wilderness wandering with Moses, the Israelite’s were called “children” some 1200 plus times. Instead of having scripture in written form like we have, they put on plays on Feast Days as dress rehearsals and walking them out over and over for their learning.

This they passed on to us NOT for amusement or for us too, as lessons for them and us to learn certain Eternal truths that the law culture only mimicked with visual toys and put into picture plays for our learning, of invisible realities and Eternal truths “fulfilled in Christ”.

These are for us who are now “in Christ” who is our promise land. Because He is the Son of God and the Israel of God! That is if you have learned to put off the deeds of the flesh.

So in conclusion, to be “in Christ” is to be in the land where the promises come into fruition. That Christ is our land of promises. And because Christ is the Word of God (John 1). That when we are in Gods Word, we are in God the Father’s Israel. And because God’s Son came and expired all the visuals with the coming of Christ, then there is no longer the need for the physical visuals because we have God’s Word, Only Begotten and Christ. To mean to think that the physical visuals to need to be more than just a story, or a picture play, is not accepting and even rejecting Christ’s work of the cross, our crossover into the eternal. That the law era interlude was “added to make sin exceedingly sinful”, and “The Law of the Spirit of life in Christ (Who is the Israel of our Heavenly Father in whom we reside) HAS SET US FREE FROM THE LAW OF SIN AND DEATH AND THAT CULTURE.

So then the book of The Exodus (the cross over from death to life) instructs us in picture form what the ceremony of “Baptism” accomplishes NOT in their 40+ years, but in the events preceding and up to the crossover of The Red Sea. It was the angel of death who came to bring death to them, to “passover” to leave without them, to then have all their enemies (boogie men) that chased them, drowned in the Red Sea, to have them free and clear for their expedition through the “Promise Land” where we learn of God’s promises to us NOT for daily provisions, but for us to put on Christ. To abide in Christ is to abide in God the Father’s Israel and only Begotten Son. That is why believers are called sojourners, not here on tera firma, or in the desert, but through God’s promises which satisfies a parched spirit.

This is us using visible things to teach us invisible realities “in Christ” as opposed to being “in Adam” the old man and old nature. That we crossed over at the cross, to be in “The New Creation” as us being newly created. As Paul said “Old things having past away, behold all things are New and all things are from God” the Father. To be a foregone conclusion.

That  once you’ve learned this lesson and passed the test, then you move on the next set of toys and tests till you learn that lesson too, until you reach “the fullness of Christ “.

As it says in Hebrews, “let us therefore move on (to travel or sojourn) to perfection not laying again the same foundations of dead works towards God”. Dead Works means to repetitively do something over and over and not learn. Kinda like those who’ve acknowledged the feasts but not the lessons. God doesn’t want blind submissions.

Let’s look at our first act in this series of plays here in Exodus 7.

ACT 1. BAPTISM, THE FIRST ACT OF DELIVERANCE.

So God said to Moses: “See, I have made you (to act like a) God to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother shall (play the part of the mouth piece as) your prophet. ² You shall speak all that I command you (as being God like Me). And Aaron your brother (as the prophet) shall tell Pharaoh the evil villain) to send the children of Israel out of his land (where they were in hard bondage as servants under lords) ³ And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart (portraying the god of this age and Satan), and multiply My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt (that symbolizes the world). ⁴ But Pharaoh is NOT going to listen to you, so that I may lay My (invisible) hand on Egypt and bring My ^[a]armies, My people, the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt (of hard bondage being Lorded over) by great judgments. ⁵ And the Egyptians shall know that I AM that I AM, when I stretch out My (invisible) hand on Egypt and bring out the children of Israel from among them.”

This was Act 1 in a play where the Israelite’s (Christ is the Israel of God) were in their huts for the night with the blood of the lamb applied over their door posts, for the angel of death to then pass over them. (think of Feast Days here and The Passover Lamb Celebration and this symbolism of your baptism where we accept the Lamb of God’s payment for us to be renewed).

It is here that they were instructed to “eat their pass over lamb in haste” (meaning that the fruits of baptism wasn’t a long drawn out process or a lifestyle but accomplished in an event. That to overcome Satan sin and death was accomplished with your identifying with Baptism as portrayed here. That the gift was in a completed form, and gifted to us and retroactive from that moment on. As sojourners and pilgrims through the word of God, to learn how to apply the new you and the tools you’ve been given to overcome your obstacles in the faith.

That they were to assemble themselves, to take their trophies of “great wealth” and cross the Red Sea where all of their enemies would be drowned to death in that water, to never need to be dealt with ever again… If you can receive it. For the New Testament fulfillment of this read Colossians 2.11-15

The lesson here for us is that with this one act of faith, of believing something invisible (by Gods written promises) and out of view to the carnal senses, as are all of Gods gifts to us. This then being the reason for parables and stories, is for us to fully understand the gift from God to us from His Only Begotten Son, that “whosoever believes in Him in this way, shall not perish but have everlasting life” from that moment you learn from those Plays.

This is why they were called children, so that receiving these things as facts or truths in the spirit of the mind, we can put away these “festivities as being childhood toys” to experience the real deal of “life in the that sets us free from the law of sin and death” with all it’s presentations and modern agencies pilfering off of the fear of death and dying now with a spirited mind of faith. In this way you have been provided a new world view, a Heavenly one.

Unfortunately for many, they get stuck in the plays and the patterns and man made protections from fear and death.

As Paul teaches in Galatians that “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 guardians and stewards (teaching instruments) until the time appointed by the father. Of which each of us is different.

So it is the slaves under Lords who are stuck serving the law. They cannot receive these because they cannot transfigure into the new. So are you a servant or an heir? If you are doing the feasts without learning, thinking that you are pleasing God through repetition without transfiguring, you are wrong. That is why the whole generation with Moses died in the wilderness except Joshua and Caleb.

BAPTISM TOOLS

It is because Moses name means “one drawn out of water”, like at a baptism and to double stamp the meaning of this parable, that Moses who was put in a small Ark as a baby, to be pulled out after the danger passed, then to be raised by Pharaohs daughter, is you learning these while you are a sojourner and a pilgrim on Earth but for an Eternal purpose.

Now you can understand the purpose for the book of Exodus (meaning to exit the old way of thinking and cross over). And the opening act in the play was just that, a play of words with silly play things. And again “When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became an adult, I put away childish things”. This is how you do it. Put away the bond woman and her son? Yes! The whole thing. All the law and prophets end with the cross of Christ. That is where they crossed over from death to life.

 Testament as our commander and Chief of the armies of God

END OF ACT 1 AND THE INTRODUCTION TO ACT 2

Moses, the prophets and company portrayed the Old Covenant, while Joshua or Yashuah that many today call Jesus, portrays the New Covenant Christ and Savior. And because Joshua and Jesus are both names that are translated  from the same Greek and  Hebrew word Yashuah, from Strongs Concordance number H3091 it should be easy to understand the pictures and the players in the next series of acts in this play from The Book of Joshua as described here is where he is playing the part of The Savior.

Joshua chapter 5. and The Holy Sandals.

¹³ And it came to pass, when Joshua/Jesus (same word) was by Jericho, that he lifted his eyes and looked, and behold, a Man stood opposite  him (think of Joshua as looking at Christ in a mirror) with His sword drawn in His hand. And Joshua went to Him and said to Him, “Are You for us or for our adversaries?”

¹⁴ So He said, “No, but as Commander of the army God I have now come.”

And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshiped, and said to Him, “What does my Lord say to His servant?”

¹⁵ Then the Commander of the Lord’s army said to Joshua, “Take your sandal off your foot, for the place where you stand is holy.” And Joshua did so.”

 If you remember the last place that was described as “Holy ground” was where Moses was instructed to take off his sandals because he too was standing on Holy ground. Meaning that both of these pictures, one with Moses and the other with Joshua, were both giving in picture form for us, to put into a play (as childhood toys) to the Israelite’s, for them to learn Heavenly realities with the lessons they walked out in their real lives as actors in a play and passed on to us in picture play form for our learning and benefit.

And the proof that these toys were part of a play, is that like with Moses and Joshua were cautioned about “the place where you stand is Holy Ground” where Moses was instructed to take off his sandals, there is another account of such Holy sandals with the last Old Testament prophet called John the Baptist. You see He experienced the sandals in a different way. Instead of the ground being Holy, this time the Holiness was in the sandals. For you see he said “I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit [a]and fire.”

The lesson here is that with Moses the sandals were the insulation between the picture play place for Holy Ground and for Joshua the commander of the Israelite’s, the Holiness was found in The Commander and Chief of Gods Army. But the most miraculous and awesome thing about the testimony of John the Baptist about The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world” whose Sandal straps that John was not worthy to loose, was that in this case the Holiness was wearing the sandals.

If you could just stop here for one moment and think about this. Revel and Glory in this because Moses and Joshua experienced Act 1 and Act 2 of a play that carried out all the way to the time of David, who also was the commander and chief of God’s Army, but he was also The High Priest who brought the Ark of The Covent on a New Cart where if a man touched it he dies as did Uzzah for reaching out his hand to help the cart because he thought it too feeble for the rocky road. So God smote him for his arrogance and for not knowing who would save whom and how.

So it was David who after taking all of the articles of faith up on top of Mt Zion to expire them to not need to be used EVER AGAIN in a play like fashion because the play was over.

We know this because when David and his men had taken up to Mt Zion The City of Daved and expired the visible articles of faith in this way, he then took off ALL his clothes and danced unabashedly and naked in the city square in a joyous fashion that sparked a disdain and a jealousy from his earthen wife. As scripture is written here “ And David said unto Michal (his queen and wife), It was before God, who chose me before thy father, and before all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of God, over Israel: therefore will I (be like an actor in a) play before the Almighty God.

For David had dance naked, meaning uncovered, unvailed, naked, exposed and fully “revealed”, which is where we get the word “Apocalypse” and “Revelation” as in the Book Of The Revelation of Jesus Christ”, not so much that He  Christ is naked, but open and exposed in our thinking through the Word of God, because “In the Beginning was The Word, The Word was with God, and The Word was God”. So when we consume The Word of God in this way, we become “godly” meaning like our Father which is the purpose for “The Gospel once and for ALL delivered to the Saints” as our only means and methods of doing so.

And if you can understand that the Book of The Revelation was NOT about mourning, death destruction and woes, no that was the side show to distract the disingenuous onlookers. Like the spies who were looking in the valley’s with Ahab for Elijah, or the 2 spies who were sent out another way by Rehab. They were disingenuous and undeserving of these insights.

You see “The Revelation of Jesus Christ was about a full exposure. And that exposure is NOT for the disingenuous, because The Bride of Christ is the hidden Counterpart of Christ called “Heavenly Jerusalem” the Mother of the elect and Godly offspring of our Heavenly Father. If this were not true, She would not have been the Grand Finally and closing act in the book of “The Revelation of Jesus Christ”, being a play on words for the one who “in the beginning was the Word, The Word was with God and The Word Was God, “Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today and forever!

THE LAST ACT OF THE PLAY.

So David portrayed the final act in the play on words and closing of the curtains on that stage. But we get what the Play only portrayed outside, inside of ourselves as receiving the Bonified Original The Grand Finally, not as the end of the play of “The Revelation of Jesus Christ”, for that too was just a play on words of sounds like, looks like, but not really like because it is light years advanced in purpose as well as composition and design as “The Kingdom prepared from The foundations of the world. Yes Heavenly Jerusalem “The Mother of us all” (Galatians 4.26) is a completed city that is only under construction in your thinking. She gets built up in The Spirit of your minds.

These plays were only broken down in concept while the real ones Eternal in the Heavens, were never taken out of their place. They were never brought to earth to need to be returned to their position but await our arrival, not in a way with physical means but as you accept these truths in the spirit of your minds. This is “The Kingdom Prepared from the foundations of the World.  And if Christ is in you and you are in Him as scripture implies, then maybe you should think of your own sandals or shoes as being an insulation between you and the world as being encapsulated in the love and safety of our Heavenly Father. If you remember when Jesus washed the disciples feet that Peter said. Wash all of me. Then Christ said if you’ve had your feet washed, you are completely clean, John 13.10. Then when you put your sandals or shoes back on? That is your insulation between you and the temporary.

This is our sanctification of God. And if all things are “in Christ”, and you are in Christ, now you have them too because “old things HAVE past away, behold all things are new and all things ARE from God” our Heavenly Father,,,  That is if you’ve quit looking outside for something you have within, then the Old Testament concepts are all expired and shelved because you put away the toys that only portrayed the real.

This is why The Kingdom of God is at hand”. But only to the renewed in the spirit, mind of faith.

Just as John the apostle was in a Hellish place called The Island of Patmos, and also “In The Spirit on The Lord’s Day for The Revelation of Jesus Christ”? So are we! Because wherever we are…

The Kingdom of God is at hand! As being in us.

I HAVE GIVEN THEM YOUR NAME AND THEY HAVE KEPT IT (John 17.6)

These where the words from the Son of God in His dialogue to the Father on His fateful night leading up to the cross. Keeping the Fathers name was this important for us to receive it, so much so in fact that He reported that back to our Father before He left. So the Fathers name should be of monumental importance for us to try to understand in meaning at least if not in spelling but in context.

For you see there is a difference between a name and a title. For example your neighbor could be a man, a husband and a father who is a doctor who believes in God who likes to fish who came from Europe, but none of those descriptions tell us his name. We consider these all to be aspects of character, however each title is only part of who this person is.

So it goes with scripture and the various names, definitions and titles of God. And however, of the whole collection of scripture with all commentaries and sermons , we only talk about NOT Gods names so much, but His tasks, for you see even the name of the Son of God they call Jesus is not a name but a title because the name/title given to Him is just a description of a task He had to perform for our deliverance, saving, protection and sanctification. As scripture attests that “God (already) sent His Son into the world NOT to condemn but to save. But after we are saved, we see Him in another light.

For this reason people call Him “Savior” because that was central to the work that He did for the redemption of humanity. But after He redeems, saves and delivers, that name, task and title no longer clearly depicts who He is to us but something that He did and who He became temporarily to accomplish the task. But He returned to The Father and is now “seated in heavenly places far above ALL principalities and powers”. However His work is still being played out to us today through “the Gospel once and for all delivered to the saints” because that’s the way the Godhead does things. They do them once and they do them right, that’s what righteous means. They don’t modify as they go as though their calculations need corrected.

Christ was only left behind in Word form to be repeated, for our assimilation to be absorbed in the respirated mind of faith to become godly. This is why it is written in Romans 12 to “be ye renewed in the spirit of your mind”. And that word renewed is also translated “transformed” but more correctly from the Greek, it is for us to be “transfigured” from the word “metamorphosis” like a caterpillar to a butterfly. Yes this is the same word “transfiguration” that the disciples saw with Christ on the Mount, that happens to us through scripture.

Yes this is our transformation “into the self same image, from the Glory to the Glory as by the Spirit”, that whisks about you even now being The Comforter and Helper to assist us in our pursuit for our cause. The gospel message in no way infers that Christ will put on the flesh (become a caterpillar) again for “flesh and blood does not inherit The Kingdom. So how can His Kingdom be of Earthen matter? If so, how can it be said that the Kingdom of God is at hand now”

Christ came to reset humanity, to wipe away the obscurities from the Old Covenant and those stewards of the faith, and to make the way to the Father clean, cleared and opened for our unhindered interaction with God In His various titles, but God is one, God is Echad, but broken down in concept only for our spiritual consumption of Word (John 1.1) And now we are called to associate with Him without the surrogate names for they all have the singular purpose to fulfill and expire each in their own order. Even as we read from the Psalms  I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name. In this way Gods Word is like Jacob’s ladder with Bethel, meaning “the House of God” at the top. For in Gods word are His titles, names for tasks and characteristics like rungs on a ladder to clamor up to a seat with your new name on it with the Father, to absorb and be like Him where it counts “in Spirit and Truth”.

And when it comes to the title “Christ” and the name “Jesus”, it comes from the Hebrew name Joshua, or more clearly Yeshua, because if you trace them all back through the obscurities through interpretations, that is where we simply trace that title to, but the Savior who saved, had a different title/name before His saving act. And because “He is the same yesterday, today and forever” He removed His flesh to occupy only the spirit being His original composition of Spirit and Truth . However His saving task is done or He could not have joined The Father in His rest, and why Christ is seated waiting for His enemies to become His footstool because the game is over. Wickedness just does not know that yet. (Hebrews 1)

So in truth Christ and Jesus, Joshua and Yashua describe a task that had to be done because all those names mean the same thing. But now that the saving price was paid at the cross for all of humanity, now who is He? Even as the Godhead conferred and they said “who shall go from among us (to save mankind) and who shall we send and I (The Son of God) said here I am send Me”. And the Son of God came forth during that proverbial Rock, Paper and scissor game. He became The Savior Redeemer and Extractor of evil  because that is what Yashuah, Joshua, Jesus and Christ means, each from their respective language. But more accurately and clearly put “In the Beginning was the Word, the Word was with God and the Word was God, He was in the beginning with God” before God ever spoke a word, who was the Christ? Because that role was not needed until God said so. So it is The Word that Saves with the Witness of the Holy Spirit.

The Son is more clearly the collection of everything about the Father that we’ve inherited as “joint heirs. And because nothing existed outside of God, He assigned to the Son to be NOT the Architect and designer of creation so much but the agency and the power to do so with the impedes of the Holy Spirit. For God said… and His Son called Word came forth for the task, at the behest and the thrust of  Gods Breath called The Holy Spirit who “Brooded over the face of the waters” showing the Holy Spirits role in creation.

So there you see the Engineer being the mind of God before His spoken Word went forth by the power and the unction of the Holy Breath and Spirit of God as being the three who said. But still even with these performing creation, these are examples of tasks that had to be done. They All retired from those titles for those tasks because that is what the Sabbath Days Rest is to remind us. It is the retirement that refers to a job well done. And from the saying of God, “it was good, very good”.

So here you see the tasks for creation distributed among the Godhead Body at creation and redemption. Salvation for humanity is secured to the completion of the harvest as the wheat and the tares mature.

That is why God calls us to His reassembled self, that we too can rest from our works and weary task of trying to find Him. With us now being “living stones assembled as a habitation of God in the Spirit”.

It is as people look for another work as though God forgot or overlooked something, thinking He is like man to return that way. But because He is every where all the time, we just have to clear up our foggy thinking and wake up to these truths and sit down with Them there.

Kind of like the proverbial game of musical chairs. Some of us have already sat in our chair while the music’s playing. Where will you be when the music stops for you and the lights come on?

Because creation was created in 6 days, and  with Them being done, the only thing left to do is for you to be saved, sanctified and set apart not set in limbo to wait for the next Jesus because if that is the case then the Word of God who became the Christ Jesus, Joshua, Yashuah could not have entered His Rest, to be seated with the Father because His saving work would not be done if He has to come again like at a second coming to perform some sort of rescue mission because the Savior of the world already performed His one time rescue act. And too with His Kingdom, since it is “At Hand”. What is it that you still need for that to be true for you? He would then be on standby still working. But because as He said to The Father in John 17 that “Father I have finished the work you have given Me to do. I have given those You have given Me your name and they Have kept it”. He was speaking of more than just a title or titles for tasks to be done, but of those who have collected the various titles and tasks given to the Son, re-assemble them in ourselves, receive the invitation to be seated with them in the Heavens far above all principalities and powers”. We have set aside the wranglings the fretting and wringing of hands in irritation, in exchange for the peace of God .

This is the Gospel completed in us. As James said to be “full and complete lacking nothing”. And James would not have said that if it was not possible. This is the place where we see all the titles for all of the tasks of God reassembled.

This is like Joseph’s coat of many colors. The coat is the first glance with its many colors or patches are His various titles of tasks He had to do to be able to sit back down, having told the Father “it is done”. Eternal beings do things only once and not repetitive like the feasts of God and the Word/words of God, but they are not. For even as the Father said “For so shall My Word be that goes forth from My mouth. It shall accomplish all of My desire and it shall not return to me void, for you will go out with joy and you will be led forth by peace”. And so we do!

The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, (Deuteronomy 29.29) 

The Word of God is given for our own discovery, not just of God, but the components of the Godhead and who we are as “the man in the mirror” as we put on His word for the new creation of our transformation.

For this reason we see in the book of Joshua right before they cross over the River Jordan to topple Jericho with shouts to drop the wall, Joshua sees a man stand opposite him who says “I have now come forth as commander… This one who stood before Joshua was the true deliverer who Joshua was to shadow in temporary things the Son of God in the invisible. As with all the pictures in scripture they have their Eternal counterpart and that’s what Joshua was, a commander, chief a leader and a Savior for Gods Israel. (Joshua 5.13-15)

We know this because as we research the name Jesus, we can trace it directly to Joshua. Do you know that of all the times that the title/name Jesus is translated, there is one only place it is translated correctly and that is with Joshua in the book of Hebrews. Why did they translate it Joshua? Because if they didn’t, if they used the title Jesus, it would not have made the correct association with the character Joshua. But the real lesson here is that the title Jesus is not an accurate rendering from His Old Testament picture.

Think about it, when you go anywhere, you may go as a lest us say “doctor”, and the title “doctor” may have a completely different pronunciation from every other language, but you always use the same name. Meaning that if, and we mean if, if The Son of Gods name was Jesus, wouldn’t that be His name always? Would Matthew introduce himself as Frank or Salvador because he went to a different country or culture? No!

It is for the same reason the name Jesus should not be changed to Joshua or Yehoshuah or any of the variables. Meaning that the titles given to God and His Only Begotten Son may be many, but their names never change. Even as God said though Micah “I am… and I change not!” But we can learn this lesson from His word from Psalms 138.2 “ For You have magnified Your word above all Your name.

”All your Name” because a collection of Gods titles and names is the fuller revelation. For just as His names/titles are many”. However “I Am that I Am and I change not”, and I Am what you need when you need it, as it pertains to us growing and becoming more like Him. And this is all done by putting Word on

And this is the point. What is the difference between a name and a title? In Gods honest truth the name given to Christ is just a title. Jesus derives from Joshua who is derived from Yahshua to Yahshuah,  which originates from the tetronogram of YHVH, which is also the source word for the title “ savior” for that was central to the work The Son of God had to do. But after he saves, He is no longer a savior, and if He has to come and save, make safe again, He did a crappy job. But as He said in John 17. Father, I have completed the work you have given Me to do. I have kept those whom you have given Me out the world, I have given them your name and they have kept it. Now they know truly that I came forth from you, that I return to you and they see Me no more”. It was with these words and the saving savior of the cross expired.

In John 13, this Jesus, Joshua, Yahshua, savior was seated with His disciples and He walked out a parable for them. He was sitting and raised himself up (think of the invisible here). He then took off His robe, wrapped himself with a towel, dipped it in water and washed His disciples and said “if I do not wash you, you have no part IN Me. After washing them, He laid down the towel, put back on His robe and sat back down (Eternally) and said to them “do you realize what I have just done to you? And they ignorantly said “yes lord”. But what He did is to become one of us is that He got up from sitting with the Father, “became flesh and dwelt among us”, He washed us and sat back down. With this task accomplished the titles of Jesus, Joshua, Yeshua were all describing the work that He did to be expired in purpose. He just walked out in John 13 His purpose in parable form for becoming one of us. He rose up from the Father and took off His Deity, Putting on the robe was putting on a temporal purpose such is our time here. Then with the towel his flesh, He cleaned them then returned to His original disposition. And as Christ repeated in John16 that “I go to the Father and you see Me no more”, meaning any of those Savior titles you call Him. We know Him as “The Name no man can say because “eye has not seen nor man heard” nor can they say with their mouth correctly the name of God.

The point here is that if we can understand that none of those titles are names but job descriptions

, then we don’t have to argue about the name, but we do have to recognize them as titles only. And in truth Christ can take on the form of a servant as we’ve just seen, he can take on the form of a bus driver, a passer by on the street or in a store or take on the form of a street person or a child. For even John the Apostle in his book called “The Revelation of Jesus Christ”. He was seen at the end of the boom bowing to an angel thinking it was Jesus, Joshua, Yashuah, the savior and that angel told John “ see that you do NOT do that for I am one of thy brethren of those who keep the testimony of Christ, worship Him.

In closing there are two introductions we should remember. One was the rider on a white horse “11 Now I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And He who sat on him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war. 12 His eyes were like a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns (titles). He had a name written that no one knew except Himself. 13 He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God”.

But lucky for those of us who are born again and borne from above in that, we can see His Kingdom, and we can enter His Kingdom because we have been borne from above of Spirit and Truth.

“The Kingdom of God is at hand” in this way, and we call it “The Word of God” which is the collection of The Names, places and persons of His Kingdom.

Part 1 from Exodus 3.14-16. God Was Self     Introduced As “I AM THAT I AM”.

And God said unto Moses, I Am that I Am:  and He said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, the I Am hath sent me unto you. ¹⁵ And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is My name for ever, and this is My memorial (to NOT forget) for all generations.” 

It was here that God had brought to mind a time when His favor was more obvious to those who are His. You see the time had come for God to make good on His promise to restore the offspring of Abraham as described here, where God told Abraham. (Genesis 15.13-14)“Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is NOT theirs, and they will serve them (as lords), and they will afflict them for four hundred years. ¹⁴ And also that nation whom they serve (Egypt) I will judge (harshly); afterward My children shall come out with great possessions.” (Hence the Exodus)

It is here that we pick up where the Israelite’s had become abject slaves, whereas when there father Jacob had his named change to Israel, it was because “he wrestled with God as a man and prevailed (Genesis 32.28). It was here that Jacob earned the noble name Israel because that’s what this name means, that Jacob prevailed. He got out from under, he was no longer subservient.

So in truth the Israelite’s in Egypt were NOTHING like their grand father “Israel” because they were subservient in all their ways. This demonstrated their need for redemption. For the restored and raising (resurrection) them back up as a self governing sovereigns into “the likeness of God” in the same way Adam was before the fall.

It was Jacob who wrestled with God and prevailed to in turn be called “Israel” because that is what the title “Israel” means. He was in the likeness of God and the purpose of creation is to make completed images of God. This is the gist of salvation. (Genesis 1.26). 

The book of the Exodus means exit and here it’s about the departure from slavery and a return with Gods promise to Abraham to come due as seen here from Exodus 2.23, “Then the children of Israel groaned because of the bondage (as slaves), and they cried out; and their cry came up to God because of their bondage.”

You see it was NOT Gods intention for anyone or anything to lord it over His people. “Our God is a jealous God” and He is jealous for His people not so much to serve Him and call Him Lord. No, for that is still a lowly estate. His aspiration for us is for us to look at Him as if “we (who) are with open face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord are transfigured into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.“. With this one He is pleased.

Moreover He said “I AM the God of your father—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look upon God (an image they once were). And God said: “I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are (being lorded over) in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters (lords), for I know their sorrows. So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians”. To reassert them into a position of understanding themselves, for them to no longer be lorded over, bullied or pushed around. To never call anybody or anything Lord or master again.

Moses then asked God, who shall I say who sent me when I go talk to the Israelite’s?

Exodus 3.14-16, And God said unto Moses, I Am that I Am: and He said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, the I Am hath sent me unto you. ¹⁵ And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me to you: I AM is My name for ever, and this is My memorial for all generations.” 

So the first act of redemption for those enslaved in Egypt was to be restored to the name of God by which He Was Self Introduced As “I AM THAT I AM“. And in New Testament vernacular He is called”HIM WHO WAS AND IS AND IS TO COME”, being Eternally congruent forward and backward without any breaks, intermissions or lapses of coverage’s. The “Great I am” is “the same yesterday, today and forever“. He is still now for us, who He was back then.

Also as it is said of His Only Begotten “The same yesterday, today and forever”. And we know them as One and the same. Christ demonstrated for us that it is possible, not as a long shot but to be expected that since Christ was an I Am and an owner of self in human form, SO CAN WE BE! Set aside your excuses and “reach out to lay hold of why Christ laid hold of you”. Which is equality among family members because “you are complete in Him who is head over all principalities and powers. The Pharaoh was a measly stepping stone into the presence of the fullness of the Father because if you had not availed like Jacob the wrestler, then you need to repeat the test.

WHAT SHOULD OUR MINDSET BE NOW?

It seams that today there is little conflict as to what The Creator Gods name is and most just call Him Lord in the same way the Israelite’s called Pharaoh did in their bondage and captivity.

Do you realize that in The Revelation of Jesus Christ, that Jerusalem was spiritually called Sodom and Egypt because it had elements of both of those kingdoms? That Jerusalem had returned to the mindsets to that of old?

Can you associate that with today with what you’ve learned through these teachings? Do you understand that the call went out to “come out of her My people lest you partake of her sins and receive of her judgments because God has remembered her”?

The truth is if you are bound by anything, if you serve another as superior in some capacity, and many do. They are bound by many contracts, terms and conditions with obligations to perform in various capacities but primarily with continual payments and contributions. They become obligated to perform or loose their right to collect from what they are putting their efforts into by way of these payments. This is a glorified form of slavery because you feel protected. But you insult the Father like Adam did with the fig leaf and because he sought coverage elsewhere, Adam needed to be redeemed, or bought back.

AND SO ISRAELITE’S NEEDED REDEEMED

This is why Gods first act of redemption to the people Israel was to straighten out the difference between titles and names and personal responsibilities.  God doesn’t call anything Lord, and needs to depend on NO MAN to serve Him. We then being in His images, we shouldn’t either. We should appear more like His Son, who is “the same yesterday today and forever”. But moreover He is an I AM too! And because He is the “protos’ meaning prototype, we know who we are to emulate

HOW THEN IS AN “I AM” DEFINED?……

Exodus 6 it is written that God spoke to Moses and said to him: “I am.  God further told Moses, ³ I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty (another title), but by My name Lord (YHVH) I was not known to them. ⁴ I have also ^[c]established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their ^[d]pilgrimage, whereby they were ^[e]strangers. ⁵ And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel (not a country but a people) whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered My covenant. ⁶ therefore say to the children of Israel: ‘I am.

It was because of the Hebrew to English translators that things were added here to say “I AM the Lord. Lord is an early English word that replaced YHVH which was added. And with each consecutive translation that the “I AM” of God god stretched out into more and more names that mean the same thing.

Meaning that in the original Hebrew God simply said “I am” or “I am that I am”  So at this point of a redirect, for those who were calling God “lord”, “Master”, “Yehovah, “Yahweh”, “Jehovah” or any of other variations or extrapolations trying to clarify Gods name, they defeated the purpose for God to simplify announce Himself as. “I AM!”

From here He could simply add on. I am that I am, who was and is and is to come, The First and The Last. These are all variations in concept for our understanding. God is The Great I am, and That I am too!

Since God in fact began a reset with Moses in Exodus, to restore the truths from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob that DID NOT INCLUDE LORD, it was because beliefs in Him got so misconstrued so as to require the slate be cleaned off and go back to the beginning, which is our point today.

The Israelite’s with Moses were slaves! Their understanding was flipped upside down because they served others.

As a result of this specific verse where “Lord” was added to the text by the translators, we can then understand that the title “lord”, “Jehovah”, “Yahovah”, “Yahweh” and ‘YHVH’,  have no right to be in the scriptures from Genesis 1.1 up to this point in Exodus because God just said they didn’t call Him that or He would not have taken offense at the title “lord” with all it’s subsequent variants here but He did. And He cleared this up and said just that “I AM”.

We can understand by this passage in scripture with certainty that every verse prior to the Exodus period that has the title “lord” applied to God, was all erroneously added by the translators because God had just said that previous generations DID NOT CALL HIM Lord with all its variants. And if they did not call Him lord, Lord and all the variables from that one word, the ONLY WAY that The book of Genesis even had the word lord with its variables is because NOT ONE of the assemblies of expository and translators understood this principle and this truth. At least not by the time scripture was rendered complete in English.

So therefore, when God told us His name, He could NOT have said that “I am the Lord” or “I am YHWH” or “I am Yahweh so shall My name be?” No, but simply just that “I AM that I AM, so shall My name be”.

That means we have to remove the verbage of “the Lord” and all its variables from that passage as well as the whole book of Genesis as unnecessary embellishments because God just said  “but by My name Lord (YHVH) I was not known to them”.

How could the translators have inserted that before the book of Exodus? Is God confused here?

For clearly in Genesis 15 God (I Am) told Abraham that after a number of years his offspring would go down into bondage to Egypt and need to be redeemed, and this redemption started with Gods name, “so shall My Name be.”

And just as they went down into bondage to Egypt back then as evidenced by their obscured views of the “I AM that I AM”, so too with Jerusalem in the time of Christ who spiritually called Jerusalem “Sodom and Egypt because they did NOT know Hom or they would not have slain “The God of Glory”…

That there was in That Jerusalem a need for another reset like with Moses in Exodus as an ongoing struggle of the faith of which we find ourselves in again in our day. For if a large portion of believers in Christ are given into today’s Jerusalem as though it is a God approved reconstruction, then they are going to experience the same type of damnation as the Jerusalem back then.

What that means is that the various embellishments associated with “the Lord” as pertaining to God has to be removed up to that point in scripture, and then from there clean up the places Lord was used and simplify the rules, because if God was trying to make this point, we must do our do diligence lest the same thing come upon us on whom the ends of the age has come.

In truth, these Bible accounts are all done for our discovery and our greater glory for “The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed to us belong to us and to our children for ever”.

¹⁴ And God said unto Moses, I Am That I Am: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I Am hath sent me unto you.

¹⁵ And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, the Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.

“I Am that I Am” is a common English translation of the Hebrew phrase אֶהְיֶה אֲשֶׁר אֶהְיֶה‎‎ (’ehye ’ăšer ’ehye; pronounced [ʔehˈje ʔaˈʃer ʔehˈje])– also “I am who I am”, “I will become what I choose to become”, “I am what I am”, “I will be what I will be”, “I create what(ever) I create”, or “I am the Existing One”.[1] The traditional English translation within Judaism favors “I will be what I will be” because the imperfective aspect in Modern Hebrew is normally used for future tense and there is no present tense with direct object of the verb “to be” in the Hebrew language.

For if the trumpet makes an uncertain sound, who will prepare for battle?; 1 Corinthians 14.8

Unless God builds the house, They who labor labor in vain who build it; Psalms 127;1

These sayings address people whose efforts amount to nothing in regard to Gods book keeping of righteousness as if to do something to please our Heavenly Father. Tho they be done with the best intentions and the hardest efforts, if they are done without the proper specs and information, the collection of expended energies and efforts have NO real pay off. All the sincerity’s and energy spent “is in vain” meaning null and void, if it s not for the right cause at the right time. Remember, in the time of Joshua. It was the synchronized and orchestrated works of the collective, at the behest of their leader, to all shout at the same time for the walls at Jericho to crumble into dust.

If you think about when you are lost and late, if you go faster because of anxiety, you are in truth making things worse. That means when you wake up, or get straitened out with your directions, you just have to go back that much more to get back on track. It would be better off to stop and re-calibrate. We should be doing this all along our journey of faith. We do this in our dialogue with our Father through the Holy Spirit and much waiting is required.

And applied to battle, or collected efforts, if everyone is working solo, and everyone is scattered in different directions without a way to synchronize their works, how much effort is lost? How much time and materials and how many disappointments?

To compare lost efforts with a building project, does it make more sense to abandon the project and start over with a new location then to tare it down, clean up and start over? How embarrassing to have that building remain as a testimony on how NOT to do it.

Well essentially that is what the 40 years of  wilderness wanderings and meanderings were about. They were a secession of temporary projects as training exercises that the Israelite’s failed at, then written down to keep future generations (like us) from repeating the same kind of mistakes. If you remember that “The law was added to make sin exceedingly sinful “.  For even Moses before his death was only able to look at the land of promise at a distance from Mt. Nebo. But they NEVER entered or ate of the fruit of the land. Tho the fruit be huge, the giants scared them from the harvest and their inheritance.

So The Law worked, the Israelite’s became exceedingly sinful. Their failure was meant to be evident to promote a re-direct for successive generations. And it was used as a teaching tool until the change would come. But after the replacement with the Son of God called “The New Will and Testament” was established, and it has been for it is “established on better promises”.  For believers to then go back to the old ways of doing things and the old building project and work on that as if to ignore the Holy Spirit and go back to the old way of thinking? That is despicable. To reinvigorate the kingdom of the law on earth, is undeniable proof that they have cart Blanche forgotten  the real meaning of the Gospel message. Woe is them. Woe was the Last Jerusalem too. Why would a modern rendition receive an applaud from God? God would have to apologize for wiping out the last Jerusalem “till not one stone is left upon another”. We know that’s not going to happen. He knew what He was doing.

For this reason The Book of The Revelation described that Jerusalem as being spiritually Sodom and Egypt because it had the same spiritual deficits as both of those cultures, much like today.

Do you know that we were warned of a time when just such a thing would happen? That the Old Testament (testimony), being the way NOT to do it, and the “New Testimony” would be so blurred together as if they are inter-changeably related? We were warned that there would be a time of counterfeits, impostors and posers “as if possible to deceive the Elect? You cannot blend Eternal things with earthen things because that violates God’s law of “kind begat according to kind”.

Even as in the time of Moses they were told by God, “ when you build something for Me, you shall NOT use human instruments on it for when you do you have defiled it. Do NOT associate Me with such”. Our God is a Holy God. This is required of us too. We have to recognize that “we are living stones built up a habitation for God in the Spirit”, (wherever two or more are gathered in My Name” said God Almighty.

Gods building project is NOT for you to do something to habitate Him here on earth. “For as the Heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts are higher than  your thoughts”. And His Jerusalem is the one that comes down from Heaven according to Revelation 21.

The Gospel is for us to cross over and co-habitate with our Heavenly Father there. Even as Paul said, “ I plead with you by the mercies of God (in me) be reconciled to the Father. Because He made Him who knew no sin, to become our sin, in order for us to become His righteousness in Him” and accredited to us as a gift. There is our invitation and empowerment for our cross over.

God is a Holy God, and Holy means invisible, transparent, clear and pure without stain spot or blemish from this world as though He is of this world for He is not. We are His only vested interest, even as He said to the Jewish leaders who put Him on trial “you have correctly called Me a King, however my Kingdom and Kingship is not from here. For if it was I would send for legions of Angels to fight however My Kingdom is NOT from here”.

Let this sink in and if you don’t get this, please STOP, read John 3. and learn what  lesson was given to Nicodemus. If you keep reading you are likely to be more confused or defiant and build up judgment for rejecting these truths. For those who make this distinction and separate the flesh from the spirit, these are the Elect. You see, the Elect are those who are so emphatically certain about the contrasts of covenants and the opposites of the physical verse the Heavenly, so as not to mix or inter-mingle the two. Just like the parable of the old wine skins with new wine cracks and both are ruined.

This is what Paul meant when he said “when I was a child I thought like a child I spoke like a child I played like a child. When I became an adult, I put away childhood things.” He was teaching about shelving the Old Testament in his mind as being expired as should we. The old is ONLY a training manual. That is why the wilderness wanderers were called “children” some 1100+ times because they could NOT expire those notions as having Eternal counter parts available  to replace them. This is why the book of Galatians taught the difference of an Heir of the house from a servant. For the heir to receive their inheritance when they mentally make the transition. They no longer mix in with the slaves belongings  with The Heirs of Promise.

So in our day in the mind of many who call on the name of Christ are alleging themselves to the  atrocities done in the name of God in the Jerusalem of our day in the same way thinking that a modern day Jerusalem is necessary for the sake of Gods Kingdom on earth? We’ll that’s Blasphemy! Everything we’ve pointed out they overlook, as well as it’s Satanic inceptions and war against the largely unarmed as they perform their own Holocaust today to the current residence. If you remember, this is “the time of the Gentiles” for the promises given to Abraham to be crystal clear that he is the father of many nations” and again in Revelation of those before the Thrown room of God from every tribe nation and tongue. God does NOT despise humanity at large but the posers and foolish focused for the sake of a carnal rendition of Heavenly things on earth all built by man.

Flat out! If you are expecting on earth a kingdom for God in the fashion of the Old Testament descriptive’s using old Testament nomenclature? You are believing “The Lie if possible to deceive the Elect” because Christ’s works expired and fulfilled all of what the old foretold.

For us the Elect, our testimony is sure that when Christ at His inquisition being interrogated by the Jews who were breathing fire at the idea that that Christ would be their king. And with Christs own admission told them under trial, “you have said correctly that I am King, however My Kingdom is NOT of this age, if it were I would send legions and they would fight.

Even so today, the Christ and Son of God takes NO pleasure in the project on earth in our day called Jerusalem and those who are waiting for a man name Jesus to walk their streets in admiration of the buildings they have put up, thinking in doing so, that He would come back. Have they never read where He said “I go to the Father and you see Me again no more!” Instead of protecting the Jerusalem today, there is a big X on it meaning; unleash the wrath of God here, when the lie is complete.

For if the trumpet makes an uncertain sound, who will prepare for battle? To this we say that today they are gathering for the wrong event.

Unless God builds the house, They who labor labor in vain who build it; So in vain they build and solicit and brag and expound and deceive. However for the Elect, they are our food for our cause. Why? Because “Wherever the carcass is, there the Eagles shall be gathered”. (Matthew 24.28) Our Heavenly Father has prepared this meal for us saying (Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.)

This is what qualifies the Elect, because we know.

We know that “Those who are born again can see Gods Kingdom” because we do and it is Heavenly., And those who are born from above can enter Gods Kingdom”.  It is from this view things come in crystal clear.

(22 But ye have come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, 23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24 And to His Christ the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things than that of Abel. 25 See that ye refuse not him that speaks . For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from Him who calls us to Heaven: 26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet one last time I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. 27 And this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. 28 Wherefore we are receiving a kingdom which CANNOT be shaken, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: 29 For our God is a consuming fire…

We have been enabled by having a clear rendition of scripture at the behest and the directive of Gods Holy Spirit to discern between good and evil, Heavenly from Earth, Eternal from the temporary and the purposeful verses verses the detours for the disingenuous. We have been able to correctly divide the word of truth and extract the relevant from the obscure and to apply their efforts to what is important to our Heavenly Father. And like the prodigious son, get back on track, to go to the right place with the right focus with the right tools for the right project.

DOING THE WORKS OF THE FATHER

The person called Jesus at a young age, having been unknowingly  left behind. When his parents had realized he was not with them, they headed back to Jerusalem. It was there that they found Jesus with the leaders of that place and time and when his carnal parents asked Him what He was doing He replies “don’t you know I must be about My (Heavenly) Fathers business. Which was to restore to us the way home.

Even as the lost and wayward old Testament leaders were seen in their travels going here and there. Of “putting up and taking down” the articles that defined their faith. If you remember that the word faith is a blanket term referring to “that which is invisible” (Hebrews 11). As they were instructed that “you saw no form” Deuteronomy 4. Showing them where the building was really suppose to take place. But this they forgot and got lost in the patterns over and over as again in these Last Days.

At the inception of The New Covenant, and right before Christ put off the flesh to “return to the Father” and said “you will see Me again no more”. John 14. He gave certain warning for them to NOT get distracted. He told them “many will come in My name (and or titles like mine) saying I am he and deceive many”. They will say “look here and look there’ and in each case they would be wrong “for as the lightning flashes from the east to the west so will the coming of the son of man be???

He warned of times of prosperity and confusion, that it would be like in the days of Noah and as in the days of Lot. 2 Peter describes it like this saying

Meaning NONE of what they are hoping for and investing in is of any REAL importance.

And again from See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven, 26 whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I [a]shake not only the earth, but also heaven.” 27 Now this, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain. 28 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear.

THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS AT HAND

ENSURING OUR COMPLETION AND OUR CROSSOVER. The coming persecution.

There is a promise in scripture that “We are a new creation in Christ. That old things HAVE past away, behold all things HAVE become new and all things ARE from God.” (2 Corinthians 5.17-18)

However we must understand that the “all things are from God” are NOT of this age of “time and matter” but something that pre-existed, before God ever said “let there be light” by which He jump started creation, as something different from the Creator.

We are not saying that God doesn’t bless with tangible things, but the things of this age have an expiration date. That is why we are to “cross over” speaking of our Red Sea, Jordan River or Baptism, all of which signify the same thing of acquiring the invisible.

The point is that “Gods” things remain isolated and away from the infections, sickness, disease, sorrow, death, murder and the destruction’s of “this age”, of which He is our sanctification which protects us from mixing with the ills of “creation” of the parts that we keep in the spirit of our minds, the place of our re-newal that preserves us , sanctifies us and sets us apart even while we are here.

Creation is an enclosed and controlled environment. Creation has purposes and one of them is to filter out, to trap, to contain and hold spell bound all the evil powers in their attempts to steal control over all of humanity and Gods creation. This is their trap. Yes their lust and quest for this is their snare, their blinders and their occupation, their pre- occupation. They are occupied with creation and why scripture calls Satan “the god of this age” as the result of “The Fall” and default ruler after Adam and Eve were tricked away from their godliness and had it stolen from them.

Similarly the evil powers banded together to abscond with creation and left their spots open in the Heavens for our retrieval. They receive what is due for those who have fallen. We know this because scripture says  that “Babylon has fallen and become a snare and a trap for every foul and unclean bird” referring to the fallen angels. And because they are so set in their lust for the things of the earth that were given to mankind, they lost sight of what they had in the Heavens whereby they left a vacancy and a vacuum open for our retrieval, through our ascension.

For this reason we are called “pilgrims and sojourners”. This is not our home because of our cross over and departure from here is to advance to another NOW while “today is the day of salvation”. Meaning Gods stuff restored to us. And His things are Heavenly.

We call this “The Kingdom of God at hand”, because it is within grasp not physically but in our understanding. Through which we are accounted now as being “seated in the heavens “in Christ” far above all principalities”, and being “in the world but not of the world”, of we become spectators, watchers and holy ones because we have a different set of principles and heritage, because we have a restitution to “That which is from the beginning” meaning before the first tic on the clock of time associated with creation.

We who’ve done this are in a secure place called “sanctification“ by implementing all of the safety features outlined in scripture, and having them in effect and operational today. “For today is the day of (the completion of) Salvation”, “if you are able to hear My voice” says The Almighty God. This is “The Gospel once and for all delivered to the Saints” and the Elect. And the completion for this is for NOW. Let no one deceive you because a Will and Testament is in effect after the death of the testator, who for us is Christ. And in that Trust, there is nothing in it to indicate that you need to wait to exercise your right to take possession. How remarkable is that?

Our sanctification and our protection we get from God is also referred to as “Heavenly Jerusalem” because “nothing unclean shall enter Her”? This is our degree of safety. We who are “born again” are “born from above” (Read John 3). We are encapsulated, preserved and protected by Gods word and Holy Spirit in this fashion. This is what scriptural sanctification is. And a fortuitous strong tower and safe haven for all who call upon “The Great I Am” with a pure heart. (untainted by the world and all it’s problems).

The truth be told, creation is the trap because in it will bring forth the contrast and the anti-types and anti-christs being earthen things to mimic things Eternal. It is to imitate the old law culture and why the Israelite’s were called children some 1200 times in The Old Testament, because they just could NOT put away their toys to cross over in their understanding to make the connection. Even as Paul said. “When I was a child, I thought like a child, when I became (past tense) a man I put away (old covenant look a likes) childhood toys”. He was speaking a parable about his own crossover, as we all must do on our own as well (1 Corinthians 15)

Similarly with Moses who spoke to the Israelite’s (not the jews) saying And the God spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. You heard the sound of the words, but SAW NO FORM; you only heard a voice. And “Take careful heed to yourselves, for YOU SAW NO FORM when the I AM spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire”. (Deuteronomy 4).

It was here that they came face to face with the invisible, at least to carnal perceptions. However we have His Spirit to see what human eyes cannot.

This teaches us that our realization of God and His Eternal things gifted to us DO NOT TAKE ON A FORM TO PLEASE OUR CARNAL SENSES. This is why Christ appeared in contrast to a King as a pauper on a donkey, to expire in purpose that (inverted) Jerusalem in that (inverted) Israel on Earth once and for all! As prophecied of in (Genesis 49.1 and 8-10) It was NOT His intention to Glorify the toy model of Jerusalem on Earth, for them to mistake it for His home. It was a teaching toy, a silly play thing. That’s it.

This is why Christ said that “all the law and the prophets were (only) till John. Now the Kingdom is preached and all are entering”. The toys (Old Testament culture) were taken away on purpose as idolistic and adulterous for those who just can’t let go. How many righteous the Law culture produce? “There were none righteous, no not one!” (Romans 3)

OUR APPLICATION

So you can NOW see what kind of mess we are in today with similar factions as back then. Fortunately for us the call is still “Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.” Where they just could NOT make the correlation to cross over into the carnally invisible as being more relevant than the toys they were playing with like now.

As our Heavenly Father said “For My thoughts are not like your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. 9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.’

So don’t expect His things to look like your things made with hammers and chisels except to be used by way of contrasts for training purposes ONLY as we just explained. They are shelved and used for discovery purposes ONLY. That is what expired means.

This is why we were warned of one who would do just that. That there would be a re-make of the physical rendition of what the people were expecting in a carnal way, to make the distinction crystal clear for those who are called to “come up “hither”, to disassociate from the copies on Earth that are adulterous.

THE EXPIRED THINGS OF GOD HAVE COUNTERFEITS

The end times are described as a time when people expect that God will occupy creation by way of what they call “a second coming” which is a phrase that is not found once in scripture. This is designed by God to separate those who reject God who calls us to Himself NOW. But these just love the counterfeits and would just a soon wait for another coming Jesus (Hezuez). That one scripture warns us to dis-associate from as seen here.

 “The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all (visual) power, signs, (imitations) and Lying wonders, with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, in order to be be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe that lie.

The lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.”

Like many who had gone before them, these  just could not comprehend that Gods things CANNOT BE MANIFEST from there original Eternal composition of Spirit and Truth to appease your carnal senses “for no one can see God and live” (Exodus 33.20) But we see Him in a different way and have Eternal Life now.

This is why we were instructed from the beginning to remember that they “SAW NO FORM” and we shouldn’t expect to either. Or God has to apologize and make reparations to the Old Jerusalem for erasing their existence.

And that carnal expectation is the demise to many today. God is going to give it to them because they will not let go of the old to be renewed in their thinking because “the old wine is better”. They will get their “supposed” second coming one in a physical way in a bastardized rendition of Jerusalem as  a sign of the end. “With all lying signs and wonders”?

But We are not giving in to that because we heed the warning, and we know the “Heavenly Jerusalem, the Mother of us all” “that comes down of God from Heaven”.

And as creation is a trap for Satan and his minions, they are the ones to lead the charge and push for a visual “Kingdom of God on Earth”. They do this because they are the unlucky recipients that get smoked through their judgment. For you see, they ALL get caught in it together because they took an oath together that “by mutual imprecations that they would do this together”. (Enoch 6) And if you think about it, who transforms in this End Times gospel? We do and not them, because we know that God the Father and His Son “are seated waiting for their enemies to become their footstool”. (Hebrews 1)

But in their end times scenario, Gods Son must transform into a human again, instead of them being re-newed by faith to be like Him, showing us a full inversion of the gospel message and an un-doing of personal transformation that we are responsible to participate in to be the recipients of “The Kingdom of God at hand”. Meaning it was within reach to the minds of faith in their day and ours too. But because they cannot see it, they reject it and get the counterfeit, if they persist in their endeavor.

If you are understanding this and you need to make a change, you can come clean right now between you and the Father who is also “At Hand” right now by denouncing your associating with the idea that God must become a Jesus man again to save as though the cross was insufficient to do so. Does that make sense?

Every thing God has given us is a fruit of that cross and God will not glorify another Savior or saving event or rescue believers as second coming seekers suppose. THAT IS NOT THE GOSPEL. It is “those who endure to the end will be saved”….

The cross was and is and still remains our crossover point to Eternity. This is the Eternal Life offered to us from the Gospel of The Cross, even as Moses was instructed to lift up the wood with the dead snake on it to provide the victory, so too we lift up the Christ, who has expired that title as a role fulfilled to ware “The Name no man can say”.

God will give them up to themselves to accomplish the desire of their own heart, a Jerusalem on earth in waiting for another Jesus. So these are those who reject the God of creation and His Son in Their original construct of ‘Spirit and Truth‘. If you remember it is written of Christ, that “He became flesh and dwelled among us”, but that is not originally who He is. He put on the flesh to carnally interact with humanity much like a scuba diver would put on the gear necessary to interact with ocean creatures, but a sea creature he is not

THOSE WHO HAD COME OUT OF THE LIES

We see with Noah, with Lot and his family and with believers described in The Book of The Revelation, the bugle call has blasted to flea, to leave and to depart. To come out of her My people because Babylon the world system connected by a www. eye in the sky, worldwide web, with sensors on everything, your name, address, phone numbers, passwords, bank and health records, all of which you have submitted to with terms and conditions and monthly payments. They say “the borrower serves the lender”. In this way many have sold themselves with liens, contracts and terms and conditions on everything when scripture tells us “let your yes be yes and your no be no for whatever more comes from this is from the wicked one”. Why? Because terms and conditions are “legal and binding”. You become restricted, even as it is says again form Genesis 49 ¹⁴ “Issachar is a strong donkey, Lying down between two burdens (choices);
¹⁵ He saw that rest was good,
And that the land was pleasant;
He bowed his shoulder to bear a burden,
And became a band of slaves.

This is how “Babylon has fallen (and inverted in purpose) and become a snare and a trap for every foul bird and unclean thing (because they are lusting for human souls to be subdued so they may cohabit-ate in human bodies, also called demon possession. Paul spoke of these in 2 Timothy 2. 26 and that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will.

For it is Babylon that takes on the contrasts of the eternal in a way to appease the carnal infatuations of those who have not been truly born again because John 3 says that “Only those born again can see the kingdom of God.” And “only those born of water and the Spirit, can enter the kingdom of God. Where does this put you??

Think of the symbology of your baptism here, because if you are not born again “in Christ” you may be subject to Gods wrath by an unnecessary association that you can still be saved from while you can still hear and repent.

Mystery Babylon’s destruction will be “in the blink of an eye” meaning faster then humanly noticeable. That before they fulfill their dream, they will come into full contact with the strong hand of God Who will smite them with a flaming damnation from the Almighty God who has been toying with them (the demonic entities). Their expected but unrealized joy will vaporize like a puff of smoke. (2 Peter 3.10-13).

CREATION WILL NOT GLORIFY ANOTHER!

And this is the view right before it happens ““Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and has become a dwelling place of demons, a prison for every foul spirit, and a cage for every unclean and hated bird!

Then the judgment will be 8 “Therefore her plagues will come in one day—death and mourning and famine. And she will be utterly burned with fire, for strong is the Lord God who [a]judges her.”

NOW FOR THOSE WHO ARE STUCK IN THE MIDDLE AND “THE IN-BETWEEN”

This is why Christ spoke to the woman the well, of which she said erroneously that “you jews say in Jerusalem is the (preferred) place where God ought to be worshiped. And Christ replied “woman I tell you in truth that the time that is coming (of which you speak) is ALREADY HERE when you shall Not worship the Father in (this or that) Jerusalem (on earth, back then or now) but in spirit and truth for the Father seeks such”. (John 4.19-26)

So because of that, that Jerusalem was wiped out “till not one brick shall be left upon another” were the words of Christ (Matthew 24.1-2). And He is the word of God, so be it. Amen.

Where does that put those who again think that TODAY is NOT the day for salvation. Why? Because they are expecting another coming Jesus to another brick built Jerusalem with supposed replications of the important features for more animal sacrifices? To return to the old Covenant as a way of doing things on earth? As though that would make their Jesus happy.

That concept totally defies every quote from scripture new and old as we’ve presented such from the new and the old to expose this fallacy. This is an act of scriptural defiance that calls down the wrath of God from Heaven, and the clock is ticking.

And we were warned; when the son of God comes will He really find faith on earth? He gave some specifics related to the fruition of the harvest, then the end shall come.

Woe is them! It shall not be the place of God’s blessing. It is the cursed defiance and object of the scorn of Eternity for mimicking eternal things to detain humanity from crossing ovet. To keep them from rising up to the call from the Holy Spirit to “come up hither”. Where? To the Jerusalem that comes down from God from Heaven, and seen actively open as described by Paul in Galatians 4.26 as “The Mother of us all” who are now born again, being the original the old was only to teach about with toys.

Let The Original in Heaven be your joy, be your love and aspiration and not the blasphemous rendition built with the bricks of men. Had that of worked, there would have been no need for A New Will And Testament, through the blood of the expiration and fulfillment of ALL sacrifices because of The Son of God, founded with eternal blood and eternal provisions, can never have competition.

For this reason we worship in the True Jerusalem that comes down from God, of God of timeless elements being “the Mother of the all” and The Kingdom Prepared since the foundation of the world” for those who have known Her in Spirit and in Truth, as the woman at the well in Samaria was instructed to do while she was praising a different Jerusalem. The one who had fallen in purpose time after time.

But Her expiration had come because when Christ proclaimed, and what He instructed the disciples to proclaim, was that “The Kingdom of God is at hand”. That is right, remember “the time that (you think) is coming is already here” as we already referenced. That the Jerusalem on earths change had already come. Where? “In spirit and truth” and the one that “comes down from God in Heaven”. This one cannot be compared to brick and mortar. And if you remember, they were instructed NOT to build with hen stone” alone with the Ten Commandments. So what is the confusion?

This is the purpose and the encapsulation of “all the promises to us from God. They are all eternal, they are all “spirit and truth. You see if we have pursued Christ and put Him on as is scripture commands, then you have nothing to worry about as the powers of this age try their last ditch effort to detain you from your inheritance by you trying to preserve yours here. But those who seek to save their lives will loose it and those who loose it for Christs sake, gain it for Eternity.

With all the news and fake news and big bad boogie men of the day that try to keep you distracted through their various forms of fear to buy their products, close your ears to them. They cannot save you or your things.

So we say, Let them have it! We are not saying kill yourself, for you forever live if you live by the Spirit. What we are saying about them, is that their words, warnings and threats of persecutions have no power over us because the Son of God purchased our deaths with “the blood of the Eternal Spirit, be they slow or fast, so they belong to Him. That is why we say when Christ at the cross asked the Father why He forsook Him”? He didn’t. Christ nearly  just tasted death for us so that we wouldn’t have to. He grounded out our agony and pain through His cries at His cross and only pleasing sacrifice to end all others.

Oh the blessedness of such a massive gift of eternal life. And we know that Christ, after paying for the death of all mankind, He walked away unscathed because of the empty tomb, the grave cloths lying on the ground and the head cloth folded and set on a ledge (signifying a scroll on a shelf). Dead people can not do that. And because someone with eternal life did do that, it was sufficient. We know this because if you added together all the years of all the people who have lived and died there is a number and that number which is in the billions, is far short of eternal. But the point here is that not only did Christ take on Himself the count of dead years, He also took to Himself all the pain and agony associated with it, or else the penalty of death in fact has not been paid. But we have come to know and believe that when The Christ on The Cross let out His agonizing, screeching, blood curdling cry’s, they were not His but the collection of ours that He experienced their to set us free from that burden and fear.

That is the Testimony of the cry’s at the cross that He truly bore our sins AND the consequences thereof.

That is why the Apostle Paul could convey to us (if you are willing to receive it) that “Romans 8

That’s the size of the gift of God in His Son. “For God sent His Son into the world nit to condemn it, but to save it. (John 3.17, the verse just after 3.16 that is so heavily popularized)

This should encourage all of us to seriously re-discover the gift of eternal life given by the sacrifice of Gods Son. Had Christ not been eternal and from the Father, He would not have prevailed, but this was all part of the plan from the beginning and why even Adam and Eve experienced a sacrifice showing us that they understood, that the price for life was death, so now you can disenfranchise from the carnal fears and human sufferings because He will not allow you to be subject to more than you can handle.

The fact of the matter is, every hope, every belonging and every entanglement you have with this age, and primarily with the gods of this age, must be put off because any thing you hold on to here is going to weigh heavy on your soul and make it hard for your departure. If you have put off the works of the flesh of self and self preservation, your reservation in the Kingdom is secured. Primarily because there is no mixture of substance you have an easy departure. Christ said “the god of this age that’s coming, has nothing in Me.” So much so in fact that there is nothing left to talk about.

You see every generation had to go through a series of tests to disenfranchise themselves from this age.

“Mark 10.9 So Jesus answered and said, “Assuredly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother [a]or wife or children or [b]lands, for My sake and the gospel’s.

We can start with Noah and the Ark. That family was so withdrawn from that world that they were on the Ark with the doors closed before the first drop of rain fell.

And of Lot and his family with Sodom and Gomorrah. They had Angels tugging them until the last moment. And even then they settled for the low country and would only go up so far. This was their snare. Remember Lots wife? She failed to let go of the old and was turned into a statue of salt for all successive generations to see how NOT to do it.

It was when God spoke through Moses to the Israelite’s that He purposed to them “The Passover”. We see this where the angel of death past over them because of the blood applied to their doorways. Then they were instructed to cross over the Red Sea to start to learn to live in the promises God gave them.

Like us who are “in Christ “ is to mean that we are in Gods promises because the Son of God the Christ is the promise land because the Father had said in Exodus 4 that “Israel is Gods first born”. And God the Father was not referring to a land called Israel or a people. Those were just pictures. And because Gods only begotten is portrayed in that way, you can now see that to be in Christ” is to be in Gods Only Begotten Son, and to be in The Son is to be “in Christ”. So then those who are “in Christ” are in “the promise land” and the place here the promises are activated and realized is “in Christ”, because “if anyone is “in Christ” they are a new creation. That old things have past away. Behold! All things become new and all things are from God”. It is to us who are in Christ “ that are in the promise land where all things new are realized.

All these descriptions define the invisible spiritual realities, picture in a physical way of what we are to do in the spirit, in an invisible way. Simply put, we need to put off the things of this age that make us look like anyone else. If you didn’t have the promises from God, you would have to find other providers, provisions and protections. These differences distinguish us from the rest of the world.

“We are in the world, but not of (like) the world”.

Adam and Eve from the beginning being made in the image of God, was because they had sovereignty over choices but had not made any yet. This is what it means that they were naked. They had no coverage’s or protections that they put on or subscribed to yet so they could see. It wasn’t until they were challenged with an insult and a threat that they saw that they hadn’t made a choice yet. They had not chosen a coverage, provision or protection and felt naked and ashamed.

As the serpent said “has God really said?” Then looking at their naked and bare exterior they could not defend themselves against the accusation. But for those of us who have, “the accuser of the brethren have been cast down“.

You see us made in Gods image infers a will to exercise sovereignty and sovereignty is understood by choices and choices are seen by selections and expressions. These can be words from opinions, or preferences as seen by what they wear, eat, participate in and what they believe. This way they cloth their minds.

We generally think that being naked means you have no external clothes on. However we are instructed to be clothed and renewed in the spirit of the mind showing us where we were truly naked. This is how we put on Christ. And because Christ is the word of God, we can understand that for us to “be clothed in Christ” we must adopt and put on the very words He has spoken as our choices, our products and personal likeness of God by our selecting and choosing. This is why we are told “choose you this day“.

If one can choose they can be an individual and self made in a sense that they chose it and adopted it as their own on their own. This is what makes one a Christian and Christlike. Not just because you believe what you are told by your leaders, Christian leaders or other wise. This is why we are to “test all things, hold on to what is good”“. Essentially. It was the Berean’s“who “tested these things to see if they are true”. Not they are true in the sense that you can make water into wine, But that the silent witness we call the Holy Spirit confirms it for you. The Holy Spirit is the only one qualified to help you choose correctly. Even as 1 John says that “you have an Unction from the Holy One and you know all things (as all professing believes do). Not that you know all things all the time, but you know what you need to know when you need to know it”. Yes we have this trust in our Heavenly Father who has us completely covered

However today we have collective consciences that coalesce around figure heads, leaders and their party’s and constituents for mass mobilization, one against another. This essentially works off the science that there is strength in numbers, but underneath is really nothing more than the Hegelian dialectic of controlling the masses between two polarized belief systems. This puts those who otherwise neglect their obligation to God to be subservient to another type, being re-purposed to be part of a collective conscientiousness. This is really what every political party is. That is what the word “party” means, to be a part of.

Yes, everything is a play off words, and if people knew more accurately the meaning of the of words they align to , they would see how they have shackled themselves from becoming their own self sovereign as God has so freely given each one of us.

There are consequences to what we do and  what we don’t do, to what we accept to what we allow. And to accept as your own another’s set of beliefs, may actually hold you in contempt to God and His gift to you of your own individual sovereignty. In so doing that collection of minds, consciences and souls will be judged as such, as one body, be it a body of beliefs or a political body. A body infers that you are one and  inseparable.

Essentially that is what the body of Christ is. However with Him we don’t loose our personal sovereignty, we gain it. It is the gift of godliness according to the gospel. A banded together collection of co-sovereigns, of those of us you have retrieved what Adam lost on our behalf, to put that off and to put on the gift of godliness  that Christ retrieved for us for the taking. But that is your choice. We do this one revelation at a time until we are complete in Him who is head over all principalities and powers. A collection of co-sovereigns, of those who have taken all things to the counsel of God for a witness and affirm that God is good, God is supreme, and that God is right. This is what righteousness means. And it was not so much that we submitted, we did that too but not by mandate. It was as we tried things the pundits  of the day had said, realizing it changes everyday we looked for a more sure source.

So when it comes to choosing the best between two sides in a political party, each having their own (bad) news agencies, to tow the part line to “save the world”? Scripture says that Christ already did that (John 3.17)

This is The Good News, the Gospel. The Gospel means “Good News”.

Remember when Christ was on trial and they asked Him “so you are a king?’ Christ replied “truly I am King however My kingdom is not from here or I would send angels to fight”. Showing us that there is a demarcation line between worldly things and Heavenly. And if you understood the sovereignty and completeness of God, His Son and their works, that they are seated Eternal in the Heavens waiting for their enemies to become their footstool”. Meaning they are not getting back up to fight. That the end of creation and the victory is assured. It is because Gods words in the garden come true, and the the harvest is over when there are the full number of co-sovereigns called the Elect have been harvested. We know this because scripture says that “Behold the Lord cometh in His saints to be glorified on the earth”. This is referring to those who have the gospel completed in themselves of those who are dressed like Christ, empowered like Him and look like Him.

Yes, Yes we know, you are thinking; blasphemy. But what if we showed you some one who was mistaken as being the Christ of the Cross, and this was done by someone who knew Him best among the disciples, now grown up to be New Testament prophets and bearers of the gospel, who was also seen at the last supper with his head in the bosom of our Savior and model.

It was John who new Christ best, however after John had collected everything for “The Book of The Revelation of Jesus Christ” And in Johns final account it goes like this; Now I, John, [a]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. [b]For I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren the prophets, and of those who keep the words of this book. Worship God.”

So when Christ comes to be glorified in His saints” does this surprise you? Does this offend you? Can you receive it too? Are we not called “The Body of Christ”? “Know ye not that we shall judge angels”? Isn’t the purpose of the gospel given for us to press in to attain to all the fulness of God”? Till we all (the full number) attain to the fulness of Christ”?

Maybe it is because you have your priorities mixed up because if the Elect do not come into fruition, if the wheat and the tares do not grow up together, then the purpose of creation and the purpose of the gospel has failed and we have been found liars and false witnesses, But that is not gonna happen.

The gospel of God is at hand for those willing to receive it, but then it will be taken away in that fashion. Like with Noah the Ark was sealed and the storms intensified. We beg you please; enter into the Ark of the Covenant, with is Gods covenant and testament with us. Then learn to “enter your chambers my people”. Like the Ark of the Covenant is to be safely clothed in Christ, so to is our chamber, which is also The Wedding Chamber where we are all one in Christ and see the things here that are eternally ours simply because He said so. Who? God and His Son whom we call Word and His Blessed Holy Spirit, The Comforter, other parent so that we are not left orphans, the one who leads us into all truth, the one whom Christ said  that would take what is mine and make it pallet able for you.

THE LAW OF CONTRASTS.

The law of contrasts is the first principle of Creation. In the beginning was God. For God to make something was to mean that something would exist other than God. Because God is complete in Himself, there were no gaps or spaces, no vacancies or blank spots just a fullness. Good thing the gospel promises that “of His fullness we have been given” and “you are complete in Him” if you have learned to accept the gift.

For God to make something else, He would have to make it outside of Himself and other than Himself. We don’t mean beyond Him or away from His control “for in Him we live and move and have our being“. When we say outside Himself, we mean of something other than what He is. He “who was and is and is to come” does not and cannot change. For God who is Eternal, immortal, invisible the only wise God” would have to make something that He was not, and this would require contrasts for the Elect to understand for comparative purposes. And if God made another something with His attributes, how would we be able to tell the difference.

For this reason for mankind whom He had placed His likeness on, being a similarity but in a temporary way (being a first contrast was for us to experience images of similarities with opposites. Like Heaven verses Earth, day and night, physical verses the Invisible. And like scripture says “Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.” These are just examples of contrasts starting with the visible in contrast with the Eternal, Immortal, Invisible, Almighty God.

“God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” And He has made an allowance for contrasts for us to more clearly understand more about Him. Knowing the enticements  this would face,  for God had already predetermined the plan and His outcome in a controlled enviroment, taking into consideration all of the variables and possibilities. The outcome was insured and on the other side of human understanding we see His harvest’s and purposes are crystal clear.

Like a big chess tournament, God played out every scenario from all the various players throughout time, how they would play each other, knowing exactly what each one would do all the way up to the final two, the out come was all for-ordained. The placement of each contestant was predetermined. That is why we are called “the foreordained of God” and the Elect as those who were pre-selected.

Or as 1 Peter 2.9 put it “But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness (of our age) into His marvelous light; (from another).

Here he uses the contrast of darkness verse His marvelous Light. And even those who had been truncated or held back from maturity by evil schemes of impostors and impersonators, they too have a place with God and eternal value with the Father. And “Let everyone who names the name of [a]Christ depart from iniquity.” So you know you have a responsibility.

And just as there were those in the time of Noah’s flood who had not acquired as evidenced by the few who were in the Ark, so too in the time Of Christ’s visit into Hades after His stent at the cross, He went into the under world as First Peter says “For this reason the gospel was preached also to those who are dead (and in holding) that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit”. So don’t discredit Gods grace and kindness by your religious predisposition of judgment, of who is deserving and who is not.

This is why during the six days of creating, after each day God concluded saying “it was good”. But at the end of the 6th day and with His final assessment He did not say “it is good”. Instead He said “it is good VERY good” as if if to double stamp it. His success and outcome was assured and creation will not Glorify another, What God desired in the beginning happens to a T.

And there are those who are judged severely and will get exactly what they deserve ( Romans 2.2-11). Likewise for our rewards in the faith, eternal things are a pretty good outcome considering what anyone would really deserve on their own merit, is eternal death. This is why “in is from faith to faith”. your physical contribution is nil. For Known to God from eternity are all His works.”

If you still think God has something to answer you as though He is small, Read the rebuke from God in Job 38

In the grand scheme of things, It was God who discussed this plan with those who were His, who likely had a say so and agreed on this. Yes for it is written that “the sons of God shouted for joy” with the first bright burst when it was said “Let there be light”. The offspring of God knew that their time for waking up had come for their full realization of who they are by way of contrasts, and in a sense they said “let the games begin”.

If you haven’t had that realization or revelation yet, don’t let that detour you. It may be one of the last ones you get as becoming a saint. For our waking up realizations and revelations (same things) are many, providing you stay awake and alert and “pressing in”.

To help you understand a little more of this “for-ordination” we draw upon the lesson of The Prodigal Son who left home, who also had a brother who stayed home to watch from his Fathers Estate.

First off the term prodigal is not a term you want to be described with.

If you remember the Prodigal son was the one who left his Father, the business, the family and the household primarily because he really did not understand what he had and he wanted to go out on his own. However, after taken on a job to obtain shelter, covering and sustenance, he found himself eating slop with the pigs. And after coming to himself, he recollected all that he had at home and scripture says ”But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!

So he turned (that is what repent means, to turn and do an about face). And having done so, he saw his Father a long way off coming to him to receive him, as if to pick him up and help him back to his Fathers house. It is you that has to have this revelation applied to yourself, you can look at our Heavenly Father and see His likeness and learn to call it your own.

THE FATHERS IMAGE IN HIS CHILDREN

Every Father is most proud when they see their best parts in their children. And we say to you that it is with Him for the taking. Like we quote from Ephesians 1; having predestined us to adoption as His offspring by Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will” And “ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, 4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, for us to be holy and without blame before Him in love, 5 having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, 6 to the praise of the glory of His grace by which He [a]made us accepted in the Beloved.

In truth both sons had the same opportunity to experience the contrast from what they had from the beginning. It was the prodigal who lived prodigiously, meaning recklessly and carelessly until he had his own epiphany (something the other son would never have). He had a revelation from Gods alternate reality that made him fully realize to be able to more fully appreciate what he had with his father from the beginning.

The son who stayed home didn’t learn a thing, but the one who did leave can now experience “life more abundantly” by viewing it with the contrast in mind. This is the lesson of the Prodigal son, his prodigious (meaning wasteful) living and his brother who only seemed to be more hardened and unappreciative of what he had in a form of self righteousness.

Now we can look at our sojourning here in creation with a different view and utilize our time here more effectively, not by prodigious (wasteful) living, but by understanding the contrast. It is to put off the things of this age, to confess away the old to profess to be true now, our new form of existence to be found back home, away from the temporary because “flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit in-corruption, but the re-spirited mind of faith owns and accepts the things the Father has given them. These are the Elect.

So we learn to see ourselves with the Father in His Eternal age as decreed in Ephesians 1. But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in trespasses, He made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), 6 and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ,  that in the ages to come (meaning from that day forward) He would show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us (who are) in Christ.”

Just in case you think you’ve been disqualified by something you offend God with, He has given you this return pass Free for the taking. This is the Gospel, a word that means; good news. It is a gift you cannot earn, nor can you buy it or sell it or see it with carnal eyes. “For eye has not seen nor ear heard the things that the Father has for those who love Him, but He has revealed them to us by His Spirit. Yes even the deep things of God”. Does this sound like He has withheld anything from us?

If you remember in the time of Christ, He found fault with the religious zealots of the day, but was content to be with those who did not fit in. Why? Because we each have to get there through our own variations of contrasts. And scriptures say that Christ came not for the righteous, but to seek and safe those who are lost (or stuck in the temporary).  And “Has God not chosen the poor of this world as rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?

Also keep in mind that the Law was added to make sin exceedingly sinful (Romans 7.13). So hopefully you DON,T want to be counted with the prodigals grumpy brother, or worse with the religious zealots who were call “brood of vipers, sons of satan and white washed sculptures full of dead mans bones for whom the cells of Hell are reserved.

THE RELIGIOUS MIND STUCK IN THE OLD

It was The Christ who spoke of wine as a comparison of contrasts, as there are contrasts in the Testaments and Covenants, Old verses New. We see this with Fasting where Christ was asked “Why do we and the Pharisees fast [a]often, but Your disciples do not fast?” Showing us He started doing a new thing. We see this again with the parable of the sowing new clothing with old. “No one puts a piece of un-shrunk cloth on an old garment; for [a]the patch pulls away from the garment, and the tear is made worse.”

And again with wine. “Nor do they put new wine into old wine-skins, or else the wine-skins [a]break, the wine is spilled, and the wine skins are ruined. But they put new wine into new wine skins, and both are preserved.” showing us the contrasts of covenants.

Galatians lesson goes here

Each one of these were given to show the contrasts between the Old Testament Mosaic Law of “thou shalt NOT’s, verses the The New Will and Testament in force since the cross. and the attempted murder of an eternal being. And like all Will and Testaments associated with a death. Not like the old with Testament with the blood of bulls and goats. The new was established with an Eternal one whose blood dripping from the crown of thorns and out of His side and off of His fingers and toes, effectually providing a cleaning of sin to the earth below and all it’s inhabitants. The price now paid, the path now paved. So that “to as many as received Him, to them He gave power to become His children, even to those who simply believed in His name!”

In reality all one has to do, is to do what the prodigal son did. He turned and that is what repent means. And as a result you can continue researching The Will And Testament, given to you to realize who you are, different from who you were. Your change has come. This is the gospel.

And the most important first break for you to do is to separate from being religious by trying to appease an angry Lord, for that is what the old mandated with the “you shalt NOT’s” indicating that if you don’t, beware! That was the Old Covenant.

However we’ve learned “For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.”

That because there was a death covenant in force, that the law was added to make sin exceedingly sinful, that they were all perpetual sinners confessing all the time and just could not get up. “Rise up and walk proud and erect because the high price was “paid in full”. The account that recons (reconciles) sin is closed, and blessed are the angels who see the Fathers face in these little ones who’ve learned to do this. We are in perpetual state of righteous by the same One who said “Let there be light”, and there was no contention or contenders. For this reason scripture Little children, let no one deceive you. Those who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. ” The religious mind cannot wrap itself around that scripture from 1 John 3.7

As always, THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS AT HAND.

TALENTS, EACH ONE ACCORDING TO THEIR OWN ABILITY.

The word “Talents” today refers to personal abilities to perform or do a task. God has made each person in their special contribution to the whole. You may ask what is a whole? It is the sum of the components to make a whole. The whole could be all the mechanisms for a motor, a machine of any sort with specific abilities.

You may hear the term in sports or industry that a person is a machine. They are able to perform. Meaning that there is a noticeable, measurable effect form effort.

in terms of society, we have many mechanisms. That we have sectors and subdivisions. This broken down into talents anymore however unfortunate for us, has blurred the definition, objective and purpose for a talent because people do tremendous tasks by pushing buttons. So we are not talking about that.

The whole idea of talents even today means abilities and more so, special abilities that are unique to a specific person, or persons unique abilities to a trade. It is called a “trade” because with a trade people can do a trade or exchange for for goods and services.

But you see money has not always been the “medium” used for the trading of goods and services and the reason scripture uses the word “Talents” as a payment to render for others goods and services.

We have an example in from Matthew 25. 14-29, of a rich man “who distributed his goods to his servants” for them to multiply their talents and upon his return he commended them for increasing his product.

The point here is that the word “talent” today remains the same. It refers to a purposeful use and contribution to the fabric of families, business, communities and societies as a whole. The term money just became a means of trade. And it starting with scribbling on paper as a form of keeping track (book Keeping). But in the beginning the note itself was only a reminder but otherwise worthless. In all truth, the only reason money today has any more value than the notes back in the day, is because people believe it is so. but back to our topic of talents and contributions, because the world would be a whole lot better if we traded our talents locally without all the tools and instruments of the day.

With that being said we ask, what is a healthy Biblical perspective of a healthy community system? Because even the Biblical instructions spoke of talents and trade in terms of abilities and NOT cash.

Christ said “Money is the root of all evil” and “you cannot serve God and Mammon” because they are competing objectives. The purpose of talents is for people to contribute to the whole based upon their strengths and likenesses. Meaning they like to do a trade because they are good at it and not just because  they can make a lot of money.

Another element that should be part of community and society is continued personal development, that one may grow “each according to their ability, desire and effort. Keeping in mind that we are all in a process of change, and the reason our Heavenly Father has given us this time frame. Ultimately this carnal experience will come to a close, and what you have acquired in personal development and acquiring relationships is the only things you get to keep.

Remember the words of Peter? Your money perishes with you” because they thought the gift of God could be bought with money and Mammon the God of this age. Perishes with you indicates that whatever you have aquired subjectively on this side for dishonest gain, will likely catch on fire a flurry of regrets in your soul.

The moral of this story is that we are to build community by assembling people first. Even as Christ said that “we are living stones built together a habitation of God in the Spirit”. And Gods currency is love first because “all the law and the prophets rest on two things. You shall love God with all your heart, mind and soul. And you should love your neighbor as yourself. Whoever does these things fulfills all the laws of God, Old Testament and New Testament.

So practically speaking, when building with people, be it for family, community, business and such, you must use these principle if for no other reason, God will bless you. Even as scripture says “if God is for us, who could be against us. For He who spared not His only Begotten Son but delivered Him for us all, how shall He not freely give us all things??

We have this analogy from scripture for building and assembling. That “we are living stones being built up a habitation of God in the spirit”. When this is our frame of mind, it is equal to our sanctification, meaning protection and covering of God. Even as the Israelite’s traveled through the wilderness with the Fire by night and a cloud by day”, and as we see the Holy Spirit in Christ saying “Oh how I have wanted to brood over you as a Mother Hen broods over her chicks”. So too, God will bless those whose endeavors are as such. Each one according to their abilities and efforts, each one given the ability to excell and grow, each one working together mutually for these means.