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John Wycliffe, though born in obscurity, would attain high status in Britain. A lifetime student of theology, he would gain the enmity of the pope and the Catholic church because of his writings. What marked this man's faith was his desire to live according to the Received Text of God's Word and not the perverted teachings of the Catholic church.

Justified By Faith (Audio) David Eells 12/11/24 Saints, I know you know this but it is often forgotten because the devil fights against it with all he has. Listen carefully to (Rom 4:2-8)  2  For if Abraham was justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not toward God.  3  For what saith the scripture? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness.  4  Now to him that worketh, the reward is not reckoned as of grace, but as of debt.  5  But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is reckoned for righteousness.  6  Even as David also pronounceth blessing upon the man, unto whom God reckoneth righteousness apart from works,  7  saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, And whose sins are covered.  8  Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not reckon sin. Do you believe in the midst of your failures that Jesus took away your sins and nailed them to the cross and you have them no more? Then you are accounted righteous before you are manifestly delivered from them. (Rom.1:16) For I am not ashamed of the gospel (the “Good News”): for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth.... The Good News is a powerful revelation and when we exercise faith in it, God imparts His power to us, to save us in all things. We know “salvation” in the New Testament is the Greek noun soteria and the verb of that is sozo. It has a wonderful meaning in scripture of deliverance, salvation, preservation, healing and provision. God has already provided our every need, according to Scripture. (Php.4:19) And my God shall supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. I remember when we once asked a local man, who was Greek, what soteria meant to him and he said, “It means, all of my needs supplied, like a little baby.” I've never forgotten that and as I researched the Scriptures, I found out that's exactly what it means – “all of our needs supplied” and it's to the believers. The Gospel is the power of God unto salvation to everyone who believes. (Rom.1:16) For I am not ashamed of the gospel: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. (17) For therein is revealed a righteousness.... This is because we are “counted righteous” by our faith. People who walk by faith are the ones who are justified because “counted righteous” means “justified.” (Rom.1:17) For therein is revealed a righteousness of God from faith unto faith: as it is written, But the righteous shall live from faith. The literal translation there is “from faith” and not “by faith.” God puts a high premium on people who believe and act upon His Word. (Jas.2:17) Even so faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself. (18) Yea, a man will say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: show me thy faith apart from [thy] works, and I by my works will show thee [my] faith. People who act on what the Word says will see results. They will receive power from God. (Heb.10:38) But my righteous one shall live from faith: And if he shrink back (Through unbelief), my soul hath no pleasure in him. (39) But we are not of them that shrink back unto perdition.... “Perdition” is “destruction” and everyone who shrinks back from the walk of faith is being destroyed. They're under the curse; they're subject to all the things that faith delivers us from. (Heb.10:39) But we are not of them that shrink back unto perdition; but of them that have faith unto the saving of the soul. When you first receive salvation, it's not your soul that gets saved; it's your spirit that is saved and as you continue to walk after the Spirit, you bear fruit in your soul. Walking by faith brings us the manifestation of God's salvation in our soul, which is our mind, will, and emotions. And having our mind, will and emotions in tune with Jesus Christ is what this salvation is all about. (Heb.11:1) Now faith is assurance of [things] hoped for, a conviction of things not seen. Some translations say, “Faith is the substance of things hoped for while the evidence is not seen.” The power of God to save you in every circumstance and every situation, which is the Gospel, comes because of faith. It comes when you believe that you have already received these things, which you do not yet see. I want to prove to you and encourage you that you don't have to talk God into anything. He has already made provision for you. It's a free gift that He puts into your hand. He gave it to you 2000 years ago and He will not take it back. You can give it up by not walking by faith, but He won't take it back. Our faith stands in as the “substance” of the thing that we need and the thing that we need in every circumstance is salvation in all its forms. (Heb.11:2) For therein the elders had witness borne to them. (3) By faith we understand that the worlds have been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen hath not been made out of things which appear. Science has proved this is quantum faith. The smallest unseen particles become what we want because we believe before we see as Jesus said, Mar 11:24 Therefore I say unto you, All things whatsoever ye pray and ask for, believe that ye received (Numeric) them, and ye shall have them..   The Word of God has framed the world by the faith of God. God Himself creates through faith and, if we are going to be a son of God, we have to do the same thing. Our words will bring forth the creating power of God through us into every situation and every circumstance. But we need to give God the “substance” of the thing hoped for and that's our faith (Heb.11:6) ... without faith it is impossible to be well-pleasing [unto him]; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and [that] he is a rewarder of them that seek after him. Jesus also said, (Mat.9:29) ... According to your faith be it done unto you, and (Mat.8:13) ... As thou hast believed, [so] be it done unto thee. He constantly made faith the requirement. We, like God, learn to (Rom.4:17) ... calleth the things that are not, as though they were, and our faith has the power to create all of our needs. (Eph.2:8) For by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, [it is] the gift of God; (9) not of works, that no man should glory. We know that grace is unmerited and unearned. It's a free gift, so you can't work for it. It can only come by faith. This is past tense, it says, “have you been saved” because salvation was accomplished at the cross. And it also includes your soul, your body and your circumstances, so that all your needs are met, completely. (Eph.2:9) Not of works, that no man should glory. (10) For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works (And that's the works of the Lord, not the works of the flesh.), which God afore prepared that we should walk in them. Again in (Eph.2:8) For by grace have ye been saved… Remember that this word “saved” used in other places in the Bible, has already been done and it's only going to manifest through faith. “By grace have ye been saved.” God wants us to believe the promises in order for us to have the manifestation of that salvation in our life. There are also “catch-all” verses, such as Mark 11:24. When you receive this revelation and start acting upon it, you have a miraculous life. It is basically saying that salvation covers everything you need. Salvation has already been done and all of it has been provided, as Jesus said. (Mar.11:24) Therefore I say unto you, All things whatsoever ye pray and ask for, believe that ye received (Numeric pattern. Even the Received Text has this as a Greek note.) them.... Note that you are supposed to believe you have received it in the physical realm. Because Ephesians 2:8 says, “by grace have ye been saved,” and “saved” covers everything that we need, through faith. We have a complete agreement here. So “all things whatsoever” have been provided because He tells you, no matter what it is, believe you received. And He tells you that because it was all provided at the cross, turn around and look behind you. This is what faith is. (Rom.4:16) For this cause [it is] of faith, that [it may be] according to grace... (17) [even] God who ... calleth the things that are not, as though they were. It's past tense. It has already been done. Everything about salvation has been completed. If you're waiting for God to do it, you have no faith, or you're not exercising faith and you're not claiming the promise. That's why many people are not growing up in the Lord. If you really believed that you have received it all back there at the cross, what do you think you would say? What do you think you would do? What do you think your imagination would be like? This is a really good exercise. Practice meditating on what you would say and do if you have already received a healing, a deliverance, a provision, a protection, or so on. In other words, practice believing that it's already yours! Faith without works is dead it says in (Jas.2:26) For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead. Many people say, “I believe I received,” but everything else about them is totally backward to what they would be doing if they really believed. Their imagination is only imagining the things of this world, which is the curse and everything negative, and yet they are trying to believe they have received. But a whole part of their being is warring with them because we are kind of a schizophrenic being. We're flesh and we're spirit. However, because we are born-again, we have the power to cast down these vain imaginations. (2Co.10:5) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ. We cast down these vain imaginations, we begin to speak in agreement with the fact that we have received, we act as if we have received, we imagine we have received. We have been made in the image of our Father and our imagination is very powerful when mixed with our faith to do miracles. Believing you have received should take over your whole being from your mouth to your eyes to your feet. Everything that you do should be in agreement with the fact that you have already received. Now if you need a healing for instance, we have this scripture (1Pe.2:24) Who his own self bare (past tense) our sins in his body upon the tree, that we, having died unto sins, might live unto righteousness; by whose stripes ye were healed (past tense). So, we believe we were already healed at the cross. (Col.1:12) Giving thanks unto the Father, who made us meet (or “able”).... We can thank the Father that He made us able through His gift of faith that He has given to us. (2Th.3:2) ... For all have not faith, but He has given to each one of us, that is, to God's elect, the measure of faith. (Rom.12:3) … God hath dealt to each man a measure of faith. So He made us able. (Col.1:12) Giving thanks unto the Father, who made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light. “The saints in light” means the saints who walk in light. We are able to partake of everything that the saints who walk in light are capable of partaking in. (Col.1:13) Who delivered (it's past tense again) us out of the power of darkness.... He has already delivered us, it's already been accomplished. When the devil tells you he has you in bondage, just remember you were already delivered so don't buy the lie. Accept the Good News that sets free and is the power of God to save you. If you do not agree with the Good News, God cannot bring it to pass. People live under the curse all their life, but the Lord delivered us. You're not under the power of the devil. The devil has deceived many people into believing that he has legal power over them, but he doesn't have any power because Jesus told us in (Mat.28:18) All authority hath been given unto me in heaven and on earth. (19) Go ye therefore.... So He sent out His disciples to exercise that same authority over the devil's kingdom. (Col.1:13) Who delivered (past tense) us out of the power of darkness, and translated (past tense) us into the kingdom of the Son of his love; (14) in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins. We already have our redemption. “Redemption” is the Greek word apolutrosis and it means “a release on payment of a ransom.” A ransom is paid when a person is being held captive because of sin and the ransom sets them free. The price has already been paid by our Lord Jesus Christ for us to be set free from bondage to the devil, set free from bondage to the flesh, and set free from bondage to the curse. You can't earn your redemption. Our redemption, our release from bondage, and the forgiveness of our sins have already been accomplished at the cross. Praise be to God! Now, something even greater that we should know about is in (2Co.5:16) Wherefore we henceforth know no man after the flesh: even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know [him so] no more. And why is that? It's because “after the flesh” is like walking by sight. Now, instead, we know people by faith; we know ourselves by faith; we know the people for whom we have prayed by faith. (2Co.5:17) Wherefore if any man is in Christ, [he is] a new creature: the old things are passed away.... They are gone; everything that we have known ourselves as, in the flesh, is gone. All that we have known about ourselves in the flesh is over. We know no man after the flesh anymore. (2Co.5:17) Wherefore if any man is in Christ, [he is] a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new. (18) But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself.... So everything has become new because of what Jesus did at the cross. That was when He provided everything new for us. He provided our life, our deliverance, our healing, our provision, our protection, and on and on. We should see ourselves in the light of what the Bible says about us, which is that all things are new. Going on in (2Co.5:18) But all things are of God, who reconciled us.... Now “reconciled” there is the Greek word katallasso and it means Jesus made an exchange at the cross. He took all of our curse and gave us all of His blessings. He took all of our lack and gave us all of His provision. (Php.4:19) My God shall supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. He has already given us all of our needs because He made an exchange at the cross. And what He took from us is everything we don't want and that we can't enter the Kingdom of Heaven with. Everything has already been accomplished! (2Co.5:19) ... That God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not reckoning unto them their trespasses, and having committed unto us the word of reconciliation. The Lord is not reckoning to us, not attributing our trespasses to us, and He has given us the opportunity to share with other people that God has reconciled them, too. When we give them this Good News of reconciliation and when they become believers in what God has already accomplished, then they can start having miracles, also! That's our ministry that the Lord has called us to. Here's another awesome revelation: (Gal.2:20) I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me: and that [life] which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, [the faith] which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me. You don't have to worry about your “old man” anymore. But think more like this: You have already been crucified. The old you doesn't live anymore. (Rom.6:11) Reckon ye also yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus. This is because it was accomplished at the cross. If you exercise faith in that, the Lord will bring your crucifixion to pass. If you try to do it yourself, you'll be trying to pick yourself up by your bootstraps and you will constantly fail. You will fall short of the glory of God. “I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me ...” Since you're dead and He lives, the reconciliation, the exchange, was accomplished at the cross. You were crucified and Christ is now given to you as the gift of God. Christ is manifesting in you and you are entering into the rest, by resting from your own works through your faith in the promises. (Heb.4:3) For we who have believed do enter into that rest.... You are entering into that rest; God is giving you the promise. The Land of Rest was also called the Promised Land because that's where all the promises are fulfilled. So we've been crucified with Christ and we don't live anymore. He lives in us and we're justified by faith in this promise. (Gal.2:16) Yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ.... “Justified” means “accounted righteous.” When you believe these promises that are contrary to your senses, contrary to your eyes, contrary to the things around you, that is when God says you're righteous. …that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by works of the law: because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. And in (Gal.3:6) Even as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness. Abraham was justified because he believed God and he was reckoned righteous. So when we believe the Good News, we are reckoned righteous and we receive these benefits because we are righteous. It's the unearned favor of God. (Gal.3:11) Now that no man is justified by the law before God, is evident: for, The righteous shall live by (literally, “from”) faith.... Our life is going to proceed from the gift of faith which God has given to us. But we need to remember how to exercise our faith because this is very important. (Gal.3:12) And the law is not of faith; but, He that doeth them shall live in them. In other words, if you're going to try to obtain righteousness by your own works, by doing the works of the Law, then have at it, but God is not going to be in it. Remember in (Gal.3:13) Christ redeemed us .... “Redeemed” is again past tense. It's the Greek word exagorazo and it means “to buy out” or “to purchase a slave with a mind to set him free.” We were slaves of the curse, of the devil, of the flesh and slaves of our circumstances, but the Lord redeemed us. He set us free from that. Do you really believe it? Well, if you do, you're accounted righteous. And if you believe, then that's the power of God unto salvation and God will bring it to pass for you. (Gal.3:13) Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us; for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: (14) that upon the Gentiles might come the blessing of Abraham in Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. Glory be to God! I especially like, (Rom.3:4) ... Let God be found true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, And mightest prevail when thou comest into judgment. We know that the judgment of this world is the curse and we want to prevail every time we come under the judgment of a curse, no matter what the cause. Whether it comes as a trial to build our faith, whether it comes as a chastening for sin, or whatever, we want to prevail when we come under the curse. And God says that there's only one way to prevail: we have to “Let God be found true, but every man a liar.” God is birthing sons of God, the spiritual, born-again man on the inside who is being created in the likeness of Jesus Christ. This is the man who speaks the words and believes the thoughts of the Lord Jesus Christ. This is the righteous man before God. It's very important that we are justified in our words. Without being accounted righteous, we are not able to partake of the benefits of the Kingdom. Jesus said, (Mat.12:37) For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned. If we claim to be Christians but we let that old man speak, he can bring us into an awful lot of judgment and wrath because we are not justified. We have to be careful that we are agreeing with God's Word and trusting in what He says so that we can be justified in our words. When our words agree with God's Words and we confess our faith in every situation, then we're coming into the renewed mind of Jesus Christ, and we are being transformed by that renewed mind. We are coming into His image and we're prevailing when we come into judgment. (Rom.5:1) Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; (2) through whom also we have had our access by faith into this grace (unmerited favor) wherein we stand.... Now that's very clear. Our words of faith and actions of faith give us access to the grace and favor of God. We stand in the favor, benefits and blessings all because our faith gives us access. (Rom.5:2) Through whom also we have had our access by faith into this grace wherein we stand; and let us rejoice in hope of the glory of God. (3) And not only so, but let us also rejoice in our tribulations: knowing that tribulation worketh stedfastness.... The word here for “stedfastness” is also translated as “patience.” Many times we don't want to wait and trust in God or we don't want to endure the struggle or the pain in order to see the manifestation. This is an “instant gratification” society. We want to believe and then see something happen immediately. But if we stand in faith, we have access to His grace, His grace enables us to stand and we eventually receive the thing we are believing for. (Rom.5:3) And not only so, but let us also rejoice in our tribulations: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; (4) and patience, approvedness.... The word “approvedness” is a word for “character.” This is the character of the Lord Jesus Christ, and we are called to come into His Image. (Rom.8:29) For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. If we want His character, we have to walk patiently in our faith. Don't give up! Many people do and it's sad that this is such a major problem among Christians. They don't keep the Word of God before their eyes and the Word of God in their thoughts; they do not pray to God for mercy to write this Word upon their hearts. They are just useless in their faith. We're called to be warriors for the Lord Jesus Christ and warriors for our brethren around us who need the benefits of God's Kingdom. In order to do that, we have to be like Jesus and His disciples were and that is a warrior through faith. We have to be someone who walks justified before God because we speak faith in agreement with the Word of God. (Rom.5:4) And patience, approvedness; and approvedness, hope: (5) and hope putteth not to shame; because the love of God hath been shed abroad in our hearts through the Holy Spirit which was given unto us. How do we know we have the love of God in our hearts? According to this, those who are patient in their faith have hope and that hope does not put them to shame. Some people think that “the love of God hath been shed abroad in our hearts” means “the love that God has for people,” but also I think it's talking about “the love that we have for God.” A person who wants to please God walks by faith because we know (Heb.11:6) without faith it is impossible to be well-pleasing [unto him]. So the people who want to please God are the people who love God. These are the people who are struggling to be patient in their faith. They are justified because it is important to them to endure the trial of their faith. We have proof about the meaning of “the love of God” in verse 5 because it's also found here: (Jas.1:12) Blessed is the man that endureth temptation....  This is spoken of in Deuteronomy 28, where the one who is blessed is the one who “hearkens unto” the voice of the Lord, the one who hears and acts upon the voice of the Lord. The people of faith hear His voice and they act upon it, they speak in agreement with it and their feet prove it. (Jas.1:12) Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he hath been approved (There's that “approvedness” again; we endure temptation in order to be approved of the Lord.), he shall receive the crown of life, which [the Lord] promised to them that love him. Notice that the people who endure temptation are the people who love Him and want to be well-pleasing to Him. They want to be called “righteous” because they walk by faith and faith is submitting humbly to the Word of God, agreeing with the Word of God, speaking the Word of God. These are learning to walk as sons of God in the Kingdom of God. And we read in (Jas.1:2) Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into manifold temptations (or “trials”); (3) knowing that the proving of your faith worketh patience. (4) And let patience (which is so well-pleasing to God) have [its] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing. The person who patiently endures the trial of their faith lacks nothing. Most people will not endure to the end. They endure to somewhere down the trial and then they decide that God's not quite right about this, that He really hasn't answered their prayers. They decide that they can't believe that they have received because their eyes tell them the truth and that God's Word has not told them the truth. They're proving themselves to be unbelievers. They have an “evil heart of unbelief” (Hebrews 3:12) which we all must war against. The person who is patient in their faith will be perfect in their entirety, lacking nothing, so you see how important it is to endure the trial of our faith. (Jas.1:5) But if any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all liberally and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. (6) But let him ask in faith, nothing doubting: for he that doubteth is like the surge of the sea driven by the wind and tossed. (7) For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord; (8) a doubleminded man, unstable in all his ways. You can feel the Lord's feelings about people who are double-minded, those who cannot ask without doubting. Now we all have thoughts that come through our mind that are of doubt, although those are not necessarily our thoughts, but if we give into them and act upon them, then we have doubted. (Heb.10:36) For ye have need of patience, that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise. Everyone starts out asking God and believing, but they don't all endure in their patience to receive the promise. The people who have learned patience are people who have lived miracles. They see answers from God and they awe everybody with their faith. It's not necessarily that their faith is any stronger, but it's that they don't give in to doubts or unbelief. They cast these imaginations down when they come into their mind. They're well-pleasing to God and accounted righteous because they are patient in their faith and they will receive the reward. (Heb.6:11) And we desire that each one of you may show the same diligence unto the fulness of hope (The word “hope” here means “firm expectation.”) even to the end: (12) that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. Obviously, if God speaks so much about this, it must be what is dear to His heart because it is His joy to see His people receive the benefits of the Kingdom. I've had many trials of my faith that I can share with others and I know that the Lord brought me through these things so that I, myself, would learn patience and faith. Some of these were enduring trials that took a while and a lot of wrestling to receive answers. They were a warfare of casting down reasonings, imaginations, dreams and revelations, and these things that are contrary to God's promises. Now, something else that we need to do consistently is, (Jas.5:16) Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed.... Now we know that Jesus said, (Mar.11:24) All things whatsoever ye pray and ask for, believe that ye received them, and ye shall have them, and that's exactly right, but we also know that if our sins are against us, then we're not going to be bold toward God. (1Jn.3:21) Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have boldness toward God; (22) and whatsoever we ask we receive of him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight. Confession is a way to get rid of your unbelief because your conscience is right with God. It's not that God wouldn't heal you. In the Scriptures Jesus healed every single one of those Jews who came to Him because it was a benefit; Jesus called it “the children's bread” in Matthew 15:26. In cases where He wasn't sure if the people had faith, He tried to draw faith out of them, such as with the Syrophoenician woman and with the centurion. Jesus said things to make them speak words of faith because He knew that this person had to agree with Him. In His own hometown, (Mat.13:58) ... He did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief, so we know that Jesus didn't heal because of people's unbelief. Confessing our sins is very important. It's humbling before God and it's necessary in order to get rid of double-mindedness, which is caused by a conscience that's not right before God. We don't know how much we suffer in our faith because of our conscience. (Psa.32:1) Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, Whose sin is covered. (2) Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, And in whose spirit there is no guile. (3) When I kept silence, my bones wasted away (I believe they knew back then that a person's blood which, according to Leviticus 17:11, is “the life of the flesh,” is created in your bones.) Through my groaning all the day long. (Psa.32:4) For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me (Notice it was God Who sent the curse in order to motivate man to repentance, as it says in Deuteronomy 28.): My moisture was changed [as] with the drought of summer. (Psa.32:5) I acknowledged my sin unto thee, And mine iniquity did I not hide: I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; And thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. (6) For this let every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found (That is, before it's too late. Confessing your sin quickly will keep you out of a lot of the curse.): Surely when the great waters overflow they shall not reach unto him. The waters, which represent the curse of the world, will not reach unto this person because he has confessed his sin and so he is accounted righteous and entitled to the benefits of the Kingdom. (1Jn.1:7) But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanseth us from all sin. (8) If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. (9) If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Here is a person who has confessed his sin and is entitled to the benefits of the Kingdom. Now we can partake of the benefits of God because we have faith. The devil tries to sidetrack us from that faith because we are justified by our faith. He is always accusing us of something, but if our heart condemn us not, we have boldness toward God; (1Jn.3:21). The Lord knows that you have to have faith to overcome. He does not want you to waste any time with condemnation when it's not necessary. He doesn't want you to condemn yourself because you cannot have condemnation and faith at the same time, and faith (1Jn.5:4) Is the victory that hath overcome the world. Condemnation does come because of willful disobedience, but not for ignorance or for failure. Through the commandments of God in the New Testament, we come to a revelation of what sin is and now we start being held accountable for it. It says in (Jas.4:17) To him therefore that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin. The Bible says in, (Heb.10:26) For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more a sacrifice for sins, (27) but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which shall devour the adversaries. So a person does not have a blood covering for wilful sin and judgement comes.

Becoming as a Child  (Audio) David Eells – 9/25/24  If we put our trust in man we will fail. I have said for a while that I didn't believe God would give us the victory over our enemies without us first being weak for God's power is made perfect through weakness. He wants us to put our trust in Him as a little child so He can show His power to the World to save us from this beast. He is showing us our inability to save ourselves so we can receive this salvation by grace and not by men's power. Little David refused Saul's armor and weapon to fight with Goliath because he had not proved them. He killed the lion and bear by the power of God not men. Goliath had all the weapons of man. David said, ‘You come to me with a sword and a spear but I come to you in the name of the Lord.' I would, that our leaders in the physical world would proclaim His name before the enemy.   David chose 5 smooth stones but used only one to take down Goliath. The senses are these stones that were polished in the water of God's Word. David chose a stone which he sent on ahead to take down Goliath. In the New Testament we find that Jesus is the rock which the builder rejected. The stone that followed the Israelites was Jesus. When does His power come like this to a little child? The child is weak but trusts in his father. It is our faith that counts, the world and the worldly Church doesn't have any. Their faith is in President Trump but He needs our childlike faith for His power.   The thing about grownups is they're self-confident, self-sufficient, self-dependent. All of those traits the world thinks of as being positive, but in the Kingdom they're not considered that way by God. The Lord says the only way you can enter into the Kingdom is to be a child. Jesus said, “suffer the little children to come unto me; forbid them not: for to such belongeth the kingdom of God (Mar.10:14). Forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God, is what it said in the original. Of such is the kingdom of God. (15) Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall in no wise enter therein. (16) And he took them in his arms, and blessed them, laying his hands upon them.” We each need to become as a child so we can walk with the Lord.  We're entering into the Kingdom here on earth and in reality, the Kingdom is every place in your life. The kingdom of God is within you (Luk.17:21), Jesus said. The Kingdom is every place in your life where God is able to rule. God is not able to rule until you're in agreement with Him. To be a child is to be confident in your Father, not self-confident. It's to be dependent upon your Father, not self-dependent. This is valuable to God. As He said, “my righteous one shall live by (“from” in the Numeric) faith: And if he shrink back, my soul hath no pleasure in him” (Heb.10:38).   What pleases God is that we live from faith, not in our self-confidence, or our self-sufficiency, or our own ability, or the strength of the arm of the flesh, but that we put our trust in God and walk with Him like a little child walks with his father. We must give up being grownups. We must become as children in the Kingdom in order for God to be able to rule everywhere in our lives. (Mat.18:1) In that hour came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who then is greatest in the kingdom of heaven? (2) And he called to him a little child, and set him in the midst of them, (3) and said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye turn and become as little children, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven. And these were His disciples that He was telling this to.   These were not the lost Pharisees; these were the disciples of Jesus who were learning and following Him. He said you will not enter in unless you turn and become as little children. The process of the Christian life is turning and becoming as little children and becoming God-dependent, God-sufficient and God-confident. (Mat.18:4) Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. (5) And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me. You see, Jesus was a little child. That's Who He was. He says, if you receive one of these little children, you receive Me. I.e. That's somebody who's in My likeness; you receive Me. He was a child. He really was. He wasn't a grownup in the ways of the world, in the ways of confidence in the world, the strength of the world.   Grownups are known for making their own way, making their own living, being self-sufficient, being great providers, but the Lord wants to wash all that out of us. He wants us to put all of our confidence and our trust in Him and become as little children. If you receive one such little child, you receive Jesus. He was confident in His Father. I'll tell you, the best way we can help ourselves is by walking by faith in God's Word. You've probably heard the old saying that, “God helps those who help themselves,” but that's not found in the Bible. That saying is credited to Benjamin Franklin in his Poor Richard's Almanac.   No, the best way to help yourself is walking in faith in God's Word. (Rom.14:22) The faith which thou hast, have thou to thyself before God… You can help yourself to everything that God has for you through faith in His Word. (Luk.10:21) In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou didst hide these things from the wise and understanding, and didst reveal them unto babes: yea, Father; for so it was well-pleasing in thy sight. So, the disciples had just come back from being sent out by the Lord to take authority over the works of the devil. They came back rejoicing that God had given them authority over the power of the devil and that they had done the works of Jesus, and they saw that the spirits were subject unto them. Jesus called them babes because it's babes who received this revelation of the authority of Jesus and this revelation of how to use the authority of Jesus.   Let's back up a little in this chapter. (Luk.10:3) Go your ways; behold, I send you forth as lambs in the midst of wolves. (4) Carry no purse, no wallet, no shoes; and salute no man on the way. So, they were babes because Jesus sent them out totally dependent upon the Lord. (5) And into whatsoever house ye shall enter, first say, Peace [be] to this house. (6) And if a son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon him: but if not, it shall turn to you again. He said, “salute no man on the way” because you really don't know people but you find out later who people are. We're going to find out before the end of the tribulation who people really are and who His children are. God sent these disciples out as children, as totally dependent upon the Lord, not self-sufficient, not able to take care of themselves. He deliberately took away their ability to take care of themselves when He sent them by not letting them take any kind of insurance with them.   The only thing they took was His assurance because He said, “the laborer is worthy of his hire” (Luk.10:7), meaning, if you just go, God will always pay His workers. You don't have to worry about it. God is that way. He wants us to go without our own sufficiency or our own insurance so that we can see His provision on the way. I really truthfully believe that Jesus never changed this way of sending out people. Many times, if God says, “Go,” you may go. It doesn't matter if you have the wherewithal to do this. If God says, “Go,” you may go. He will never fail you. He will meet you on the way. He's done it many, many times with me when He said, “Go,” and I've noticed, “But, God, I don't have this” or “I don't have gas” or “I don't have money.” But God doesn't take “no” for an answer. If He says, “Go,” you can go because He will be there.   He'll put gas in your car. He's done it to me several times. Or He'll make it run without gas. He's done that, too. Or He'll put money in your pocket somehow or another. He'll do it. Or He'll make your money stretch. He can surely multiply it. He can do all things. He'll have you meet-up with people whom He has put there specifically to supply your needs, if you go by faith and be obedient to Him. If you go as a child, just trusting in your Father. In America, Christians seem grown-up and have insulated themselves against anything that could happen, as though they don't believe in a sovereign God. The Bible says, “A man can receive nothing, except it have been given him from heaven” (Joh.3:27). God, Who is Sovereign, will make sure that He blesses you, if you go by faith in Him.   Believe me, the time is coming when everybody is going to have to go by faith in God because He's going to take away all the things that people have insured and insulated themselves with from the things that might happen in the world. But God never goes to sleep. He's never fallen off the throne. He's there always. He is going to make sure that His Word comes true. And we can be just like little children. We can cast ourselves on His mercy. Children never even think about where the next meal is going to come from; they just know that it's Momma and Daddy's responsibility; they'll take care of that. And you know, that's the way God is with us. He wants that kind of relationship with us. God's not happy with anything less. (Heb.10:38) My righteous one shall live from faith: And if he shrink back, my soul hath no pleasure in him.   God doesn't have pleasure in self-sufficient people. He has pleasure in people who walk by faith, talk by faith, live by faith. And it is a pleasure to live by faith. I don't yet know all of what living by faith is; God's only shown me the little parts that He's shown me, but I would love to live by faith in every direction. Some directions I've never even thought about and other people will come and say, “Oh, did you try this?” For example, a sister in the Lord once told me that she and some other people just picked up some instruments and started playing them by faith and pretty soon they got better and better at it. They were surprised at how God blessed them. Well, that led us to pray over our children, Nathan and Jennifer, by faith, and God answered that prayer. I tell you, it was just the very next week after that when they started playing music, picking it up quite naturally, by ear.   There is nothing that God can't do and won't do for those who put their trust in Him. I believe this is the reason that He said He revealed these things unto babes. God reveals the authority of God and the power of His name to people who will become children, people who will cast care to the wind and put themselves in His Hands, just trusting in Him, believing in Him. (Eph.3:20) God is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think. God loves it when we are weak but we don't see it that way. But as I said, we do our best to insulate ourselves from any possible mishap, but that doesn't please God when we put our trust in the gods of this world to save us.   The apostle Paul learned that lesson. He was caught up to paradise and he said, “On behalf of such a one (the man who was caught up to paradise) will I glory: but on mine own behalf I will not glory, save in my weaknesses” (2Co.12:5). The King James Version translates that word “weaknesses” there as “infirmities” because they had the idea that the apostle Paul had some kind of sickness or infirmities, but a closer look at this reveals that's not the case at all. Those translators believed the apostle Paul had an eye disease or something like that and that God said, “my grace is sufficient for thee” (2Co.12:9), meaning, “You just keep that because you need to overcome that; or you need that to humble you.” But obviously that would be contrary to a lot of rest of the Word. The Bible says, “by whose stripes ye were healed” (1Pe.2:24). So we were healed all the time.   Let's read on. (2Co.12:6) For if I should desire to glory, I shall not be foolish; for I shall speak the truth: but I forebear, lest any man should account of me above that which he seeth me [to be,] or heareth from me. (7) And by reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted overmuch, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, that I should not be exalted overmuch. So he said “thorn in the flesh” was a messenger of Satan, an angelos. The Greek word there is angelos, which is translated 181 times in the New Testament as “angel” and the other few times as “messenger,” but it means the same thing. Here was an angel of Satan that was sent to buffet Paul so that he wouldn't be proud.   By the way, to “buffet” is not just one blow. It means to beat over and over and over. It's many blows. But a thorn in the flesh, in this case, was an angel of Satan that was sent to buffet Paul. In the Old Testament, for every verse that talks about a thorn in the flesh, never, not once, is it ever a sickness. It was always referring to the enemies of God's people that came against them and in this case it's the same thing. An angel of Satan was sent to buffet Paul so he wouldn't “be exalted overmuch.” (2Co.12:8) Concerning this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. (9) And he hath said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for [my] power is made perfect in weakness. The King James here has that this word is “weakness,” but this word and the word up in verse five are the same Greek word, so one of them can't be “infirmity” and the other one “weakness.”   They have to both be the same thing and they are because they're using the same Greek word in talking about Jesus, the Bible says, “for he was crucified through weakness” (2Co.13:4). Now, nobody would have put “infirmity” there. Jesus wasn't crucified through infirmity, so they had to put the truth there and the King James did use “weakness” in that case. (4) For he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him through the power of God toward you. See, when you are weak in Christ, or be a child in Christ, you're going to live through the power of God. It's when you are not able; being weak in ability to save yourself, weak in ability to deliver yourself, weak in ability to heal yourself. He says when you're in that condition, then God's power is going to be with you.   If we will refuse to be strong and we will put our trust in God, we will see His power there every time. It reminds me of a vision I had years ago, in which Mary and I were sitting in some lawn chairs in front of our house in Louisiana. While we were sitting there, we saw this power line hanging from pole to pole. The strange thing about it, as we were looking at this and studying this, was that the power line was almost touching the ground in the middle because it was sagging so bad. And while we were watching that, a tornado came over that power line and sucked us up out of our chairs. Then the vision changed and I felt like we were over in Florida and the Lord was showing us something about our ministry over there.   But what He showed me about that always stuck with me. As we were sitting there, ceasing from our works and resting in lawn chairs, watching the power of man come to an end (that's the power lines), then the power of God took over. Man's extremity is God's opportunity. God's not ready to move until we do cease from our works because we have faith. Every time you have faith, you can stop and cease from your work, cease from your struggling, cease from trying to save yourself because the Bible says you are saved. God's power is made perfect in our weakness.   Paul said, “most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my weaknesses (not “infirmities” because it's the exact same Greek word), that the power of Christ may rest upon me” (2Co.12:9). We are to glory in our weaknesses so that the power of Christ may rest upon us. A child has all the power of Daddy because he is the provider, he is the deliverer, he is the savior. He takes care of it all and they don't think it should be any other way and we should be that way, too. We've been trained to think otherwise, to be grownups, but you know, God wants us to think like His children. Well, I think that we can see by now that the ‘verse,' “God helps those who help themselves,” is not Godly at all; it's antichrist. It will never allow you to enter into the power of God or the power of Christ to rest upon you.   Paul says he glories in his weaknesses so that the power of Christ may rest upon him. (2Co.12:10) … I take pleasure in weaknesses…. King James says “infirmities.” Nobody takes pleasure in infirmities. That's ridiculous. The word here is the same Greek word again. It's “weakness.” Yes, we take pleasure in weaknesses. It's great to be weak and not have the ability to deliver yourself because then you get to see the miracle of God. And he went on to say, in “injuries,” or actually the word there is “insults,” according to the ancient manuscripts and the Received Text and several others; it's “insults,” not necessarily “injuries.” You don't take pleasure in injuries, but “in insults, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong” (2Co.12:10).   Now, what was this buffeting that this angel of Satan sent his way? Some people say there are no such things as angels of Satan. The Bible says the demons are the angels of Satan, so just forget about what anyone else says because it's wrong. Michael and his angels fought with Satan and his angels (Revelation 12:7). Demons are all fallen angels. That's where they came from.   So what is this buffeting? What are these many different blows that the angel of Satan brought Paul's way in order to make him weak? Or put him into a position of weakness? Well, Paul gives a list of them. (2Co.11:21) I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet whereinsoever any is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also. (22) Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I. (23) Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I more; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths oft.   He's talking about the places where he was weak to save himself. You know, when we get into places where we don't see any possibility of saving ourselves, that's wonderful because we get to see the power of God. If we walk by faith in those places, then we get to see the miracles of God. That's what God wants to teach us. Remember, God was the One Who sent this angel of Satan to humble Paul and we need humbling because we're grownups who need to become children. We need to not be self-sufficient; we need to be God-sufficient. We need to be trusting in our Lord's promises to save us in all these situations. So God brings us into these places and Satan's angel brings us into these places where we're weak, where we need the power of God.   Let's continue reading Paul's list. (2Co.11:24) Of the Jews five times received I forty [stripes] save one. (25) Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day have I been in the deep; (26) [in] journeyings often, [in] perils of rivers, [in] perils of robbers, [in] perils from [my] countrymen, [in] perils from the Gentiles, [in] perils in the city, [in] perils in the wilderness, [in] perils in the sea, [in] perils among false brethren; (27) [in] labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.   God put Paul in those places in order for him to be weak so that he could see the power of God. Being weak is not a time to be anxious or worried; this is a time when you should expect to see the power of God. It's God's purpose and His plan to bring us to weakness in order for us to see His power. Don't ever be cast down because of what you see because what you see are these places that make you weak to save yourself. He wants you to trust in Him and see His power. This is the place where God's power rests upon you.   Paul went on, “besides those things that are without, there is that which presseth upon me daily, anxiety for all the churches (2Co.11:28). (29) Who is weak (that's the word “weak”), and I am not weak? who is caused to stumble, and I burn not? (30) If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things that concern my weakness.” That's another place that the King James calls it “infirmity” but it's the same word! In the same text, if a word is translated one way in one part of the text and another way in another part of the text, that is dishonest and deceiving. It either has to be one or the other. Thank God for the places that He brings us to where we're weak! That's the only place we ever see miracles. Do you realize that?   That is the place we're most tempted to throw up our hands and be anxious or worried or troubled. All miracles are given right there, in a place of weakness, the place where you're unable. Now, if you have the mind of a child and you get in that place, you just expect Father to take over from then on. This is something that He normally does. God normally supplies your need, like in the teaching Jesus gave about the birds and the flowers. He said they don't labor and they don't toil to clothe and to feed themselves (Matthew 6:26,28). You mean, the Lord is saying you don't have to work to bring about this clothing and feeding? That's exactly what He said. Go back and read it. It's so clear.   He knew that you'd get yourself in a situation and He even ordained these situations to come, where you wouldn't be able to provide for yourself. And He said, “are not two sparrows sold for a penny? and not one of them shall fall on the ground without your Father (Mat.10:29). (30) But the very hairs on your head are all numbered. (31) Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.” Look, not even a hair falls out of your head, can you imagine, that God doesn't know it! He knows us so intimately that not one hair can fall out of your head without Him knowing it. I mean, your hairs are always falling out and growing back. That is an intimate God Who can number the hairs of your head. He knows a lot, so how could we possibly get into a situation that He doesn't know about and hasn't planned for? He is our Jehovah-jireh, the Lord our Provider. (Php.4:19) And my God shall supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.   God can do anything. Think about some of the things that God has done in the Scriptures and He really did do them. He stopped the solar system for a day so Joshua could defeat his enemies. And, you know what? The great thing about it is He's “the same yesterday, and to-day, [yea] and forever” (Heb.13:8). He is the same. He will still do anything to meet your needs, if you will be weak and have faith.   Now, the time when you ought to have faith is when you're weak because God doesn't need to meet your needs when you don't have needs. You don't need a miracle until you need a miracle. Don't think that you can avoid a trial of your faith by receiving the miracle before you need it. No. God tries your faith. The miracle doesn't come till the miracle's needed. Trust in Him between here and there because He will be there. He will do what you need. Be confident in Him. Be children in Him. This is what we need to learn and it's not an easy lesson.   It demands the death of self, but religion has trained us up with the mind of the beast because religion has taught that God helps those who help themselves and it trains us to take care of these situations. Religion trains us to trust in the arm of the flesh. They even changed God into a god which He has never been so that they can trust in the arm of the flesh. “Now God does it this way,” they say, as if Jesus doesn't heal the same way He always healed, by laying hands on the sick or by speaking the word of faith. That's the same way He's always healed and He still does it that way.   You can run out and get the strength of the world, make your alliances with the world, get your insurance from the world. They'll change God and go to any extent to let the flesh live. But we have to become as a child, otherwise, Jesus says, you're not entering into the Kingdom of Heaven (Luke 18:17). The Kingdom of Heaven is where God rules, God reigns, God saves, God delivers. He hasn't changed. We have attempted to change Him. God put us here in this weak position. He planned for us always to be in a weak position, so that He could be our Savior.   Back to Paul in (2Co.4:7) But we have this treasure (the treasure is the light of the knowledge of the glory of God) in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves. God put this treasure, this knowledge of God, in such a weak vessel so that when anything happened, it would have to bring glory to Him and not to us. He could have put us in a very knowledgeable, very wise, very strong, and very healthy vessel and we wouldn't have needed His help. He wouldn't have needed to be God, would He? We would have been our own gods.   God didn't choose us because we are able. He chose us because we're not able. He wanted to give us freely His ability through grace and that's unmerited. You can't earn it and you can't pay for it. When you get yourself in an impossible situation, think about it. God put you there and He put you there so that you could see how great He is.   So God put this wonderful treasure in an earthen vessel, a very weak vessel. (2Co.4:8) We are pressed on every side, yet not straitened; perplexed, yet not unto despair; (9) pursued, yet not forsaken; smitten down, yet not destroyed; (10) always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus (which is the death of self), so that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body. God wants Jesus to live through us, but we have to be weak for Him to do that. The power of Christ will rest upon those who are weak. We're powerful only because we have faith in God. We can do all things through Christ who strengthens us (Philippians 4:13) but He doesn't strengthen until you're weak, you see. We have to cease before He will start. We have to keep the Sabbath and cease from our works and enter into His works through faith.   God not only put us in a world that was bigger than us and with an enemy that was a lot bigger than us, He put us in a vessel that was weak to begin with, so that when the salvation came, we would know it was from Him and not from ourselves. We think we're so great and we've been trained to be self-sufficient. Mommas and daddies train-up their children to be self-sufficient. That's not what God wants. He wants a child. Never has He chosen the strong and this gives you hope that when you get in impossible situations, God planned for you to be there so that He could show you His power, so that He could show you His deliverance and His salvation. This is God's plan. It's been His plan from the beginning and He's done it over and over.   We read in (Deu.7:6) For thou art a holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth. God has chosen you above all the peoples that are upon the face of the earth. Did you know that? If He chose you, He chose you above someone else, but He didn't choose you because you're wiser or smarter or more able or mighty because “not many mighty, not many noble, [are called]” (1Co.1:26). God chose the weak. (Deu.7:7) The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all peoples. And it's still that way.   Why did God choose “the fewest of all peoples?” Certainly, if He was fighting battles with all the Canaanites, He would want the greatest number, wouldn't He? No, because when the battle was won, He didn't want anybody to say, “Look what we did!” And when the battle is won in our lives, He doesn't want anybody to be able to say, “Look what we did!” “Look how powerful we are!” “Look how wise we are!” Or, “Oh, we were smart enough to follow God.” You know, all these things that people could say.   We never need to count on our own strength. David did that and brought a curse on Israel (2 Samuel 24; 1 Chronicles 21). He counted the people of Israel and brought a curse on them because God sent a pestilence that killed 70,000 men, just so David couldn't count on his own strength (2 Samuel 24:15; 1 Chronicles 21:14). When you count on your strength, look out because you have trouble coming. God's going to humble you. God's in the humbling process with us. He wants to deliver us from trusting in the arm of the flesh.   You know, we can be as a child. We are unable in so many things. Sometimes we're forced into a position of being unable. But I tell you that what Jesus wants for us is not that we be forced into a position of weakness, but that we walk in that position of our own free will, refusing to be strong. This is the great thing. If we will learn to refuse to be strong, we will see the miracles of God now. Exercise faith for a miracle from God so everyone knows He is the Saviour. 

Endure to Manifest Salvation (5)  (audio) David Eells (7/3/24)  Let's talk about how our faith transforms us as we endure to manifest salvation. Some would say, David, I know this, but many must be reminded in the midst of their trials, of the good news that they forget so easily. Understand that you can keep God's commandments because of grace and not because of your own ability or lack thereof. You can obey Him, because of the reconciliation Jesus made at the cross. He took your sins and He put them on the cross, and He gave you His righteousness. We are to reckon it done by faith and that's why it's called the Good News! Paul said in (Gal.2:20) It is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me: and that [life] which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, [the faith] which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me. Paul was living by faith. He was confessing what the Bible said about him was true, that his old man was now dead. He was confessing that he died at his baptism and that when he came up out of the water, it was Jesus Who now lived in him.   Faith is what empowers you to be obedient to the Word of God and empowers you to see yourself the way the Bible tells you to see yourself. Our problem is that we walk by sight and, if you walk by sight like the world does, that's all you're going to get. We need to see the way Peter says to see and that is by faith. (2Pe.1:3) Seeing that his divine power hath granted (past tense) unto us all things that pertain unto life (God's life) and godliness, through the knowledge of him.... At the cross, Jesus gave you everything you need. It's already yours and you have to accept it by faith. You have to believe that the divine power given to you is everything you need for His life and godliness.   The Bible says that reconciliation was accomplished on the cross. It's a waste of time to not believe what the Bible says is already yours. God is not schizophrenic! He doesn't say one thing in His Word and then do another. He wants you to be (Php.1:6) ... confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ. You see, it's His work in you, through faith in what Jesus gave to you on the cross, but remember (Jas.2:17) Even so faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself. Some people have “faith” that is not faith. What they're calling “faith” is only mentally acknowledging something. We want faith and faith according to (Rom.4:17) calleth the things that are not, as though they were. Faith brings the manifestation we need. If you want more of God's provision, He wants you to have it. Faith does what Jesus said in (Mar.11:24) NENT Therefore I say unto you, All things whatever ye pray and ask for, believe that ye received them, and ye shall have them.   The condition here is faith. It was designed to be so simple that a child can receive it, but worldly wisdom doesn't make sense and will block you from receiving it. God made it this way, in order that only those people who received faith could receive the promise and faith is a gift of God so ask for it. (Eph.2:8) For by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, [it is] the gift of God; (9) not of works (Meaning your works.), that no man should glory. (10) For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works (This second works is God's works.), which God afore prepared that we should walk in them. See, there's a difference between your works and God's works through you. (Php.2:13) For it is God who worketh in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.  People like to teach the “unconditional love of God,” so you may never have heard that God hates anybody, but God hates all those whose works are evil. (Rom.9:13) Even as it is written, Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated. (Psa.5:5) The arrogant shall not stand in thy sight: Thou hatest all workers of iniquity. (11:5) The Lord trieth the righteous; But the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth. There are many verses like that in the Bible. God loves goodness; He does not love sin! God is in the process of creating sons and there must be Christ-likeness born in you. You manifest sonship as you grow in sanctification, which is separation from the world unto God. And if you obey His commandments, you will be separated from the world. (Mat.10:34) Think not that I came to send peace on the earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.  And this is to separate the wicked from the righteous. When you're separated from the world, your works are God's works. God's desire is to manifest sonship in order to have fellowship with you. God's the One doing this. (Eph.1:5) Having foreordained us unto adoption as sons through Jesus Christ unto himself, according to the good pleasure of his will. So, by faith, we believe that God is the One in (Col.1:13) who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love. And have no fear; just believe! The only difference between the person who's chosen and the person who's not chosen is faith, so believe!   People worry, “I wonder if I am one of the elect?” Well, believe that you are one of the elect and take steps toward God! The Bible says in (2Pe.1:10) Wherefore, brethren, give the more diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never stumble: (11) for thus shall be richly supplied unto you the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Did you know that you can't worry and have faith at the same time? If you're anxious, then you're not having faith. Stop worrying about what you have not done; exercise faith in what Christ has done and you will do what He wants. You have no ability to be anything but what you are, unless something from the outside reaches in and changes you. The Holy Spirit reaches in and changes your heart through faith, as you believe what the Bible says you have been given. It's very simple and it's free. It's not by your works; otherwise, you have earned it and that's not grace.   Let's go to (1Jn.3:1) Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God (The KJV says “sons of God,” but the Greek word there is teknon, which means “children.”); and [such] we are. For this cause the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. (2) Beloved, now are we children of God, and it is not yet made manifest what we shall be. We know that, if he shall be manifested (That's Christ being manifested in us.), we shall be like him; for we shall see him even as he is. (3) And every one that hath this hope [set] on him purifieth himself, even as he is pure. If Christ is manifested, we will be like Him; that's what the Bible says.   The KJV translators put “when He shall appear,” thinking that this is a physical coming. The Received Text, the Nestle's Text and the Numeric Bible all say, “if He shall be manifested,” because this is not talking about His coming in the air. This is talking about His manifestation in us. And what does it mean to “see Him even as He is”? The Bible teaches us in (2Co.3:18) But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image.... You have to see the image in the mirror as an accomplished fact before you can be transformed. For Christ to be manifested in you, you have to see Him as He is, not the Jesus men have made Him.   When you look in the Word, you become familiar with the face of Jesus. That's your face. (2Co.3:18) But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit. By faith, you accept that as your gift from God. It's not because you're able to do that because none of us is able; and not because you're worthy because none of us is worthy, but because it's been given to you through the reconciliation, meaning the exchange of His life for your sinful life.. The “glory” is the righteousness of Christ, the truth of Christ, His being, His presence, but you have to behold Him in the mirror and not some other Christ. We want the Jesus of the Bible; if it's not this Jesus, then you're going to be manifesting the wrong image.   Paul warned us about receiving another “Christ” and another spirit: (Gal.1:6) I marvel that ye are so quickly removing from him that called you in the grace of Christ unto a different gospel; (7) which is not another [gospel] only there are some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. (8) But though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach unto you any gospel other than that which we preached unto you, let him be anathema (accursed). (9) As we have said before, so say I now again, if any man preacheth unto you any gospel other than that which ye received, let him be anathema. (10) For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? or am I striving to please men? if I were still pleasing men, I should not be a servant of Christ.  Notice, John says in (1Jn.3:3) And every one that hath this hope [set] on him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.... How can we purify ourselves? You do it through the promises in the Word of God. (Eph.6:14) Stand therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, (15) and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; (16) withal taking up the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one. (17) And take the helmet of salvation.... This is the knowledge that you have been delivered, you have been saved and set free from the curse of sin. It's the knowledge of what Jesus accomplished for you on the cross.   (Eph.6:17) And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. You are to use faith and the Word against the old man, the flesh, the devil and the world. (2Co.7:1) Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit.... You see, “these promises” are the sword with which you purify yourself. (1) … let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. Now that's a good promise! The Bible says to stand and fight! Take up the shield of faith and the sword of the Spirit and use them against your enemies.   Now let's go to (Rom.12:2) And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God. So, you have to learn to think the way God tells you to think. This is repentance. Man fell away from God because of the way he thought and God says not to add to, nor take away from, His Words or the curses of the Book are going to be upon you. (Rev.22:18) I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, if any man shall add unto them, God shall add unto him the plagues which are written in this book: (19) and if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the tree of life, and out of the holy city, which are written in this book.  The way out from under the curse is to be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Change your mind; your thinking is wrong! We have to think the way God tells us to think. (Rom.6:11) Even so reckon ye also yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus. I.e., Consider it done because of the reconciliation that Jesus made. At the cross, you were made free from sin. If you don't think like that, you can't walk away from it and you will never be able to stop sinning! I've heard a lot of people say, “I just can't!” Of course you can't because you don't believe that God gave you the power to do it! In the early Church, they were called “believers.” Believers in the Gospel! What was the Gospel? “You have been set free from sin, by the power of God, because of what Jesus did for you!”   A true believer is going to say, “I can!” (Php.4:13) I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me. Our attitude has to change about our ability. Folks, our ability is nothing, but God's ability through us because we believe is total. Jesus gave you authority. (Mat.18:18) Verily I say unto you, what things soever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and what things soever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. You can change the circumstances around you, if you believe what this Bible tells you to believe. It will change everything, if you think about yourself the way the Bible tells you to think about yourself. “Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” In other words God says, “Think the way I tell you to think.”   If you speak, speak as an oracle of God, which means to speak in agreement with God. This is very important for the manifestation of sonship. (1Pe.4:11) If any man speaketh, [speaking] as it were oracles of God; if any man ministereth, [ministering] as of the strength which God supplieth: that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, whose is the glory and the dominion for ever and ever. Amen. The Greek word for “oracle” is logion and it means “an utterance (of God); a divine utterance.” You don't take away from His Words and you don't add to them; otherwise, you have to live under the curse.   Paul said Christ is coming to be glorified in a group of people. (2Th.1:10) When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be marvelled at in all them that believed (because our testimony unto you was believed) in that day. Jesus is going to be glorified in those people because they are going to believe what the Bible says. (2Th.1:11) To which end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfil every desire of goodness and [every] work of faith, with power; (12) that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you.... The Greek word for “name” is onoma and it means “all that a ‘name' implies, of authority, character, rank, majesty, power, excellence, etc., of everything that the ‘name' covers.”   Paul is praying that the very nature and character of Christ would be glorified in you. (2Th.1:12) That the name (onoma) of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ. Sonship will be manifested because you believe what the Word says. The mind of the natural man is contrary to what the Bible says. (Rom.8:6) For the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace: (7) because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be. When you read the Bible, you have to repent. “Repent” is the Greek word metanoeo and it means “to think differently” or “to change your mind.” Your thinking has been wrong but when you read the Bible and accept what it says, it will change you and it will deliver you. Jesus told us in (Joh.8:32) and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. Exercise faith in what the Bible says and you will be set free. Religion does nothing! Religion is just man's ideas about God. Accept God's own ideas about God! Why take someone else's opinion?   Back to (2Th.1:12) that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you and ye in him,… Where and how do you receive the “glory” that Paul mentions? Religion teaches that you get the “glory” in the next life, but that's not what the Bible says. I have been reading the Bible diligently for a long time and you can't find in the Bible even one instance where God comes and then changes the soul. Most Christians believe that when God comes, He's going to take away your old dirty soul and give you a new one. But the Word says only that God's going to give you a new body. In (Rom.8:23) And not only so, but our selves also, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for [our] adoption, [to wit,] the redemption of our body.   (24) For in hope were we saved: but hope that is seen is not hope: for who hopeth for that which he seeth? (25) But if we hope for that which we see not, [then] do we with patience wait for it. (Eph.1:12) To the end that we should be unto the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ: (13) in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth, the gospel of your salvation,— in whom, having also believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, (14) which is an earnest of our inheritance, unto the redemption of [God's] own possession, unto the praise of his glory. We receive the glory here and we receive it by bearing fruit here. Here is where we bear the fruit of Christ.   Jesus said the 30-, 60- and 100-fold fruit that the righteous would bear has to be born on Earth. He doesn't give it to you in Heaven; you get it here. This is our one chance. We're running the race here. To those who are faithful in that race and bear fruit, He will give a new body, but He didn't say He would give you a new soul in the next life. If you believe that, “One day God will come and change me,” then where is the motivation for you to bear fruit? That lie makes it very easy for the people who just want to be satisfied with where they are and then they sit down and stop running the race. Jesus gave you the gift of Himself, freely! Believe that you have the ability of Christ and that His life is in you. The Gospel can be very simple, but it's not acceptable to the carnal, fleshly mind. The Gospel is made so that a child can receive it and children trust their father.   The apostle Paul said in (Col.3:3) For ye died.... He's speaking to people who are somewhere along the process. (3) For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God. (4) When Christ, [who is] our life, shall be manifested (and that is in us), then shall ye also with him be manifested in glory. And again this “glory” comes as we walk by faith and not sight as in (2Co.3:18) But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory,… Again, the glory is manifested here. And what does he mean by, “from glory to glory”? This is the three different bodies that people are given as a reward for the fruit or glory born by them in this life. (1Co 15:38)  but God giveth it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own. ..(41) There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differeth from another star in glory. (49) And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.   We come into Christlikeness, traveling through those three glories. We go from star glory, to moon glory, to sun glory. If you die or leave this earth as a star glory, you receive a star glory body and star glory is when you are self-righteous. In other words you are not doing things by nature but by religion.  A star has its individual glory shining from it, and there are many, many stars, just as we are separated because of self-righteous denominations when we first come to Christ. Self-righteousness shows star glory. But moon glory is when we become dead to self and become one in unity with each other and only reflect the light of the sun/Son. The moon is dead and does not have its own glory, like the stars, who are separated. This death to self makes us capable of becoming one with each other. Sun glory is then possible. Rom 6:4-7  We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death (moon glory): that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father (Son glory), so we also might walk in newness of life.  5  For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death (moon glory), we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection (Son glory);  6  knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him (moon glory), that the body of sin might be done away, that so we should no longer be in bondage to sin;  7  for he that hath died is justified from sin.   If you are looking at Jesus in the mirror by faith, you will go through these three stages, from glory to glory. So, whatever stage you leave this earth that is the body you will have, among other heavenly benefits.  Paul is saying, When Christ, Who is our life, shall be manifested in us, then shall we also with Him be manifested in glory.” Praise be to God!  Let us see that God is speaking of fruit and glory born in this life and not the next life. (2Co.4: 11) For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh. Mortal flesh is only on earth and is not the new body, so God's purpose is that the life of Jesus would be manifested in this body through the suffering of death to self. The life of Jesus is resurrection life and that's sun glory. You go through death to self and you come to resurrection life. This is what Paul is talking about, the glory of Christ is the righteousness of Christ. We put on Christ by putting on His righteousness!   We put on the robes that the Bride wears. (Rev.19:8) And it was given unto her that she should array herself in fine linen, bright and pure: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints. And as we manifest Christ through faith in what God has given us, the biggest temptation we have is to look in the mirror and see ourselves. We are told in (Jas.1:22) But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding your own selves. (23) For if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a mirror. If you see your natural face in the mirror, you will be a “hearer” of the Word, but not a “doer” of the Word. The devil will condemn you for your past sins and you will have no faith. How are we “doers”? Let's read in (2Pe.1:5) Yea, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence in your faith, supply virtue; and in [your] virtue knowledge; (6) and in [your] knowledge self-control; and in [your] self-control patience; and in [your] patience godliness; (7) and in [your] godliness brotherly kindness; and in [your] brotherly kindness love. (8) For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful unto the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. (9) For he that lacketh these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins. (10) Wherefore, brethren, give the more diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never stumble: (11) for thus shall be richly supplied unto you the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.   He's saying, if you lack any of these attributes of Christ, it's because you are near-sighted. Don't you remember you were cleansed from your old sins? That means the old man is dead! Or, in other words, Peter is saying that if you are lacking these attributes, it's because you see yourself when you look in the mirror. You can't do these things, unless you look in the mirror and see Christ, which is faith. Jesus said in (Luk.6:40) The disciple is not above his teacher: but every one when he is perfected shall be as his teacher. “Perfected” means “matured.” You have to believe that when you are matured, you will walk like He walked, talk like He talked and think like He thought. You have to see it in the mirror by faith so you can have it.   Contrary to popular opinion, there's a difference of reward concerning sonship? Many have been taught that everybody gets the same reward, but that's contrary to the Scriptures. This motivates each of us to be a “doer” and not just a “hearer” of the Word. (Joh.8:31) Jesus therefore said to those Jews that had believed him, If ye abide in my word, [then] are ye truly my disciples. We can see here that if we believe Jesus as the scripture hath said we are now a true disciple? It's not those whom we have loosely called “Christians” who are going to enter into the Kingdom. It's “disciples” who are going to enter into the Kingdom and a disciple is a mathetes, a “learner” and a “follower” of the Word.  It says in (Joh.8:32) And ye shall know the truth.... It's disciples who would know the truth and disciples are those who abide in His Word. (Joh.8:32) And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. Only disciples get set free. Does this give you an understanding of why not all Christians get set free? (Joh.8:33) They answered unto him, We are Abraham's seed, and have never yet been in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free? (34) Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Every one that committeth sin is the bondservant of sin. (35) And the bondservant abideth not in the house for ever: the son abideth forever. We see here that Sonship is the full manifestation of eternal life; a bondservant has not eternal life.   If you ask, “But what if I am a son by faith?” Yes, sonship is two-fold. First of all, it's imputed by faith and, second of all, it's manifested as we walk in that faith. And, if we abide in that faith and walk in that faith, sonship will progressively manifest in us. We abide in the faith that we've been made free from sin, but everyone who continues to walk in sin is the bondservant of sin and the bondservant doesn't abide in the house forever. Paul said the same thing about the bondservant. (Gal.4:30) Howbeit what saith the scripture? Cast out the handmaid (bondservant) and her son: for the son of the handmaid shall not inherit with the son of the freewoman. (31) Wherefore, brethren, we are not children of a handmaid, but of the freewoman. If you are a son, then be a son by faith. And if you're walking in that faith as a disciple, you will be manifesting Christ. If you walk by faith in Him, you will do the mighty works of God. Don't try to attain to Christ by your works because that puts you under the Law and turns you back into a servant.   Let me prove to you that “the bondservant abideth not in the house forever.” If you remember in the Parable of the Marriage Feast, many were bidden to the feast. In (Mat.22:11) But when the king came in to behold the guests, he saw there a man who had not on a wedding-garment. The wedding garments are “white” robes as in Rev 3:4-5, 18, 7:13-14, 19:14. We read of the Bride's wedding garments: (Rev.19:8) And it was given unto her that she should array herself in fine linen, bright and pure: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints. And in (Rom.13:14) But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to [fulfil] the lusts [thereof]. So Jesus told us of a man who didn't have on this wedding garment! He obviously was a Christian of sorts or he wouldn't have made it into the marriage feast.   The king saw this man, (Mat.22:12) and he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding-garment? And he was speechless. (He obviously thought he had a right to be there.) (13) Then the king said to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and cast him out into the outer darkness; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth. (14) For many are called, but few chosen. Notice, he was called. But only the “chosen” got to stay. The merely “called” came, but they didn't get to stay or, in other words, they didn't have eternal life. This man without the wedding garment was called a Christian, but he didn't have eternal life.   When you walk in faith, you're able to put on the Lord Jesus Christ, but this man wasn't walking in faith and he wasn't putting on the Lord Jesus Christ, so he was broken off as a branch. (Rom.11:19) Thou wilt say then, Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in. (20) Well; by their unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by thy faith. Be not highminded, but fear: (21) for if God spared not the natural branches, neither will he spare thee. So, he was called, but he was broken off and not chosen or elect!   Another example that you can be called but not be chosen is in the Parable of the Talents. (Mat.25:14) For it is as when a man, going into another country, called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods. (15) And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to each according to his several ability; and he went on his journey. So these are definitely servants of God who were given the talents. He gave them these talents and the Lord did not return until they brought forth fruit from these talents. The servant who received the five talents brought forth five more and the servant who received the two talents brought forth two more, and their Lord said they were good servants.   But the servant who hid his one talent in the earth and didn't bring forth fruit from what his Lord gave him was an unprofitable servant. (Mat.25:26) But his lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I did not scatter; (27) thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back mine own with interest. (28) Take ye away therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him that hath the ten talents. (29) For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not, even that which he hath shall be taken away. “Hath” and “hath not” here is talking about fruit of that which was given by God. The servant with the five talents brought forth five more; he brought forth fruit of what God gave him. But the servant who “hath not” is going to lose “even that which he hath.”   This is talking about those we've been loosely calling “Christians.” If they don't bring forth fruit of what God gives them, they will lose what they have. You are responsible to do something with what God gives you, whether it's “two talents” or whether it's “five talents.” The man with the “one talent” was just a servant; he was not a son because he did nothing with his one talent. He was called but not chosen and his talent was taken away from him and given to the profitable servant with the 10 talents. This is exactly what God is going to do with us. God's hope is to adopt His servants and make them sons, but every servant will not bear fruit and will not become a son. By faith, the adoption happened 2000 years ago and, manifestly, it's when you bear Christ as 30-, 60- or 100-fold fruit. The adoption is fully manifested when God gives you the new body, but in spirit and in soul, it's manifested while you are here on this earth.  

1 of 2 part series on "Codex Sinaiticus" The Oldest Bible? Or a Modern Hoax? By www.adullamfilms.com.  Thank You, Chris Pinto.  Most Modern translations base their New Testament on Codex Sinaiticus & Vaticanus.  These source texts are not earlier manuscripts and can't be trusted! This is just one of many reasons. The best source text for the New Testament is Textus Receptus, which English versions like Tyndale, LITV, KJV   Codex sinaiticus simonides vs tischendorf Codex Sinaiticus vs Received Text

2 of 2 part series on "Codex Sinaiticus" The Oldest Bible? Or a Modern Hoax? By www.adullamfilms.com.  Thank You to Chris Pinto.  Most Modern translations base their New Testament on Codex Sinaiticus & Vaticanus.  These source texts are not earlier manuscripts and can't be trusted! This is just one of many reasons. The best source text for the New Testament is Textus Receptus, which English versions like Tyndale, LITV, KJV, NKJV, etc. use.  

Suffering Brings Fruit David Eells– 4/21/24 (audio) We must suffer the loss of our old life to bear the fruit of Jesus.  We must take up our cross daily to suffer the death of the flesh in obedience to the Word. Patiently enduring our cross brings quick results. Many have been going through suffering and the Church is about to go through great suffering. We all need to learn how to handle suffering the right way, because it's one of God's greatest tools for bringing about the righteousness of Christ in us. As disciples of Christ, we learn from the examples we have from Him and His apostles and many Christians throughout history.   We are told in 1Pe 2:18 Servants, [be] in subjection to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward (“unreasonable”). 19 For this is acceptable (Greek: “grace”), if for conscience toward God a man endureth griefs, suffering wrongfully. It's okay with God, and should be with us, to endure grief and suffering, even wrongfully, as it was with Jesus. 20 For what glory is it, if, when ye sin, and are buffeted [for it,] ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer [for it,] ye shall take it patiently, this is acceptable (“grace”) with God. 21 For hereunto were ye called (We are called to suffer for doing right): because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that ye should follow his steps:   22 who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: 23 who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, threatened not; but committed [himself] to him that judgeth righteously. He left it all in the hands of His Father. When we're suffering, that's when our lowest instincts – all sorts of pride, rebellion and anger – come up in our mind, especially when we're suffering at the hands of another who we think should know better. But God brings us through suffering because of the lusts of our own flesh. For example, Christ, suffered for doing good and we are going to suffer for doing good, too. 1Pe 3:14 But even if ye should suffer for righteousness' sake, blessed [are ye:] and fear not their fear, neither be troubled; 15 but sanctify in your hearts Christ as Lord … So we get blessed by Father for suffering wrongfully.  Our first temptation when we suffer at the hands of a person or circumstance is to not make “Christ as Lord” in our heart; instead, it's every other fleshly desire that comes to mind. Jesus “committed Himself to Him that judgeth righteously” when He was suffering. In other words, He wasn't taking thought of vengeance or falling into the mind of the flesh; He was leaving it up to God and He tells you the same thing: “sanctify in your hearts Christ as Lord.” 1Pe 4:1 Forasmuch then as Christ suffered in the flesh, arm ye yourselves also with the same mind. Consider it your privilege and Christian duty to suffer in the flesh as Jesus did.  Do we have a mind like that? The fleshly mind is to run from any kind of suffering, to avoid at all cost the thing that we need the most. Christians in the United States, especially, need suffering because God wills it and people need to be delivered from their selfish interests and self-centeredness. 1Pe 4:1 … for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin … When our flesh is suffering, it's because it's not getting its way. When the flesh isn't getting its way, we're not sinning. It's so simple. We're called to suffer in the flesh and we need to know that suffering is our most precious friend. 1Pe 4:2 That ye no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. We need suffering so we can live the rest of your life as a servant of Jesus Christ, free from the bondage of the flesh.   How do you know suffering is from the Lord? When you understand God's purposes in suffering, it makes it a lot easier for you to endure because you see the good purposes behind it. We are no longer deceived by Satan into wrestling with flesh and blood, or into blaming, or anger. 1Pe 4:12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial among you, which cometh upon you to prove you … The problem is that we see it as strange; we think that there is something not quite right about suffering but we need to change our mind. We need to have the mind that is in Christ and we need to expect that we're going to suffer for the name of Christ so that His name, His nature, can be manifested in us to prove, perfect and purify us.   1Pe 4:12 … as though a strange thing happened unto you: 13 but insomuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings, rejoice; that at the revelation of his glory also ye may rejoice with exceeding joy. If we can manage to rejoice in the midst of suffering, it will make it a lot easier. The Bible commands us to rejoice in our suffering. Rom 5:3 … We also rejoice in our tribulations: knowing that tribulation worketh stedfastness (perseverance); 4 and stedfastness, approvedness (character); and approvedness, hope. Suffering is all about bringing about the revelation and manifestation of the glory of God in us.   It goes on to say, 1Pe 4:14 If ye are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed [are ye]. 19 Wherefore let them also that suffer according to the will of God commit their souls in well-doing unto a faithful Creator. Why does it say “Creator”? Basically you're like the clay in the Creator's hands when you do this. It says “Creator” for a purpose because that's how God creates in us the righteousness of Christ.   You know, suffering can be wasted. In the midst of suffering or a trial, you need to commit your soul in “well-doing,” in doing what is right in the midst of that trial. The suffering is coming upon you for a reason to prove you and to bring about the righteousness of Christ in you. Don't waste suffering because you don't want to have to go through it again like the Israelites who had to go back through the wilderness because they didn't pass the test. You need to make it useful by committing your soul in well-doing in the midst of it. We can't stop the suffering but we can do what's right in the middle of it.   1Pe 5:8 Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: 9 whom withstand stedfast in your faith, knowing that the same sufferings are accomplished in your brethren who are in the world. The world suffers from the same things that we suffer from, but here's the difference: 10 And the God of all grace, who called you unto his eternal glory in Christ, after that ye have suffered a little while, shall himself perfect, establish, strengthen you. God has promised that through suffering, He will perfect you.   If you look on suffering as God's method of perfecting you, that makes it much easier to endure the suffering and it also makes you not so willing to run away from it. The thing that we need the most is the thing that we seek to run away from or avoid the most. If you have a mind to please the Lord in the midst of suffering, if you have a mind to live Godly, first of all, you are going to suffer. 2Ti 3:12 … All that would live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. Those who desire to live godly are going to suffer and persecution is only one area of that suffering, but you can't avoid it. Suffering is God's method of deliverance and of setting us free.  There's all kinds of suffering because there's all kinds of flesh that needs to be brought forth. Don't waste the suffering that you go through on self-pity, animosity, anger and, especially, don't waste the suffering that you go through on rebellion. The first rebellion that you have when you go through suffering is you want to run from it. Jesus didn't do that. When Jesus was going to the Cross, He said in (Luk 22:42), Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me. What “cup” was that? It was the “cup” of suffering. Jesus wasn't going to take it away or run from it and, finally, He came to the revelation that it wasn't God's Will to take it away. So He went through it patiently. He didn't stand up for Himself.  He stood up for the people. He stood against the Pharisees. He stood up for the truth they were trying to destroy. They defamed him to try to destroy the credibility of that truth. 1Pe 2:23 Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, threatened not; but committed [himself] to him that judgeth righteously. That's suffering that was not wasted. Suffering that's wasted is if you get in the flesh in the midst of it because then it will just come around again. Jesus didn't waste suffering; all of it was useful and that's what we want. We want all the suffering that we're going through and that we're going to go through, to be useful and to have the right effect in our lives.   You need to stop and think. Php 2:5 Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. When you're suffering in the flesh, you're ceasing from sin. 1Jn 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. You get a cleansing either way. If you're humble enough to confess your sins, He is faithful enough to cleanse you of all unrighteousness, so have faith that you're going to get your cleansing. You cannot waste suffering in depression and self-pity, if you're rejoicing. You can't do both at the same time and that's why He commands you to rejoice in the midst of suffering. If you realize what suffering is for, then you can give thanks because it is for your perfecting.   Even Jesus became perfect through the things that He suffered. 1Jn 3:16 Hereby know we love (agape), because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. Now this speaks of laying down our old life, which is the lusts of the flesh, anger, rebellion; this is agape love. Agape lays down the flesh life; agape is the opposite of the flesh life.  We become perfect, which is obeying the Word and learning to agape, through suffering. Agape comes from the inner nature of the spiritual man and it is conquering the carnal man; it is giving up your life according to 1 John 3:16. Suffering brings about this agape love, which is the nature and way of God's Kingdom. If that is God and what we are looking for is godliness, then we can't help but be as an end result, agape.   In fact, you'll know that love is nothing less than obedience. “If you love me you will keep my commandments.” It's not mushy feelings; it's just obedience. When Paul described agape to you 1 Corinthians 13, he said that it's more important than speaking in tongues, more important than knowledge, more important than faith. In fact, he said that if you had these things but didn't have love, you were nothing. The end result of everything that God wants to do in you is agape. 1Co 13:13 But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three: and the greatest of these is love. Notice, the thing that is going to get you into God's Kingdom is love because the King is Love.   Paul said you can make the greatest sacrifice but if you don't have love, there is no profit. 3 And if I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor,] and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing. Paul says that “love suffereth long.” How do you get longsuffering? You get longsuffering by going through a lot of suffering with people and circumstances; otherwise, you aren't going to get it. 1Co 13:4 Love suffereth long, [and] is kind; love envieth not (because self is the opposite of agape); love vaunteth not itself (not self-centered or egotistical), is not puffed up, 5 doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked …   Do you know how not to get provoked? You can get hardened to being provoked by having an opportunity over and over again to be provoked. You suffer with it so long that you give up. By this repetitive thing that comes against us, we can become hardened to our bad reaction to it. All we have to do is desire to please the Lord and see Jesus in the mirror because He exchanged His life for yours and you will overcome. It is not always overnight like you want, but eventually, if you desire to please the Lord in suffering, you will because suffering has that kind of work on you. That's why nobody is going to escape suffering.  I know people may still have questions about their suffering, but it is necessary, and our actions can determine how and when they end. Suffering is also for the purpose of bringing an end of sin so we can live to the Will of God. 1Pe 4:1 Forasmuch then as Christ suffered in the flesh, arm ye yourselves also with the same mind; for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; 2 that ye no longer should live the rest of your time in flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. Suffering “in the flesh” here is not necessarily in your body but in the carnal nature, the old man. We are partakers of Christ's sufferings to be proven and to manifest His glory.   12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial among you, which cometh upon you to prove you, as though a strange thing happened unto you: 13 but insomuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings, rejoice; that at the revelation of his glory also ye may rejoice with exceeding joy. Christ's sufferings brought Him to obedience and perfection, and they will bring us there, also. Heb.5:8 Though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered; 9 and having been made perfect, he became unto all them that obey him the author of eternal salvation.   Suffering comes in order that our Creator may finish His new creation work in each of us. 1Pe 4:19 Wherefore let them also that suffer according to the will of God commit their souls in well-doing unto a faithful Creator. We must cooperate with God in this process in committing our souls to Him. We will suffer in order to be perfected, established and strengthened. 1Pe 5:10 And the God of all grace, who called you unto his eternal glory in Christ, after that ye have suffered a little while, shall himself perfect, establish, strengthen you. Notice suffering has an end.   Walking by faith and patience in suffering will cause us to be counted worthy. Also, we need to keep in mind that this suffering is only a token of what we deserve. 2Th 1:4 So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which ye endure; 5 [which is] a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God; to the end that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer.   Scripture tells us that all of God's true children will suffer chastening. What is chastening? Chastening is suffering evils and calamities in order to reveal sin and motivate us to serve God. It manifests the fruit of righteousness and causes us to be partakers of holiness. Suffering is necessary if we want to come into sonship. Heb 12:5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which reasoneth with you as with sons, My son, regard not lightly the chastening of the Lord, Nor faint when thou art reproved of him; 6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, And scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. 7 It is for chastening that ye endure; God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is there whom [his] father chasteneth not?   8 But if ye are without chastening, whereof all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. 9 Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? 10 For they indeed for a few days chastened [us] as seemed good to them; but he for [our] profit, that [we] may be partakers of his holiness. 11 All chastening seemeth for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yieldeth peaceable fruit unto them that have been exercised thereby, [even the fruit] of righteousness.   Our attitude in physical suffering should be that Jesus bore our curse on Himself and therefore we are delivered. Gal 3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us; for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: 14 that upon the Gentiles might come the blessing of Abraham in Christ Jesus … The curse here covers all of the curse of the Law mentioned in Deuteronomy 28, which is everything detrimental that came upon man for his sins. If a person in the midst of chastening does not believe that Jesus took away the curse, he will not be delivered in many cases but, instead, suffers from an evil heart of unbelief. Our flesh goes through a suffering as we endure to the end of the trial of faith, to see the manifestation of the healing or deliverance we are believing for. Some get delivered through another's faith – one who has responsibility for them, as with Jairus, the Centurion, the Syrophoenician woman, mom or dad, etc.)   Heb 3:12 Take heed, brethren, lest haply there shall be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God: 14 for we are become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm unto the end. 1Pe 2:24 Who his own self bare our sins in his body upon the tree, that we, having died unto sins, might live unto righteousness; by whose stripes ye were healed. Jas.5:13 Is any among you suffering? let him pray. Is any cheerful? let him sing praise. 14 Is any among you sick? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: 15 and the prayer of faith shall save him that is sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, it shall be forgiven him.   Abraham and Sarah were under a curse of barrenness many years until they believed God's promise. This faith justified, in other words, reckoned or accounted them righteous, and gave them access to grace to be delivered. Rom 4:21 … And being fully assured that what he had promised, he was able also to perform. 22 Wherefore also it was reckoned unto him for righteousness. 5:1 Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; 2 through whom also we have had our access by faith into this grace wherein we stand …   Abraham received grace to be delivered from this Deuteronomy 28 curse because he believed. We are told that we must agree only with the Word of God when we are under judgment in order to be justified and to prevail. Rom 3:4 God forbid: yea, let God be found true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, And mightest prevail when thou comest into judgment. “Prevail” as used here means to come through the chastening victoriously and be delivered from it.   Let's look at Mat 16:21-27 From that time began Jesus to show unto his disciples, that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up. Jesus was willing to suffer at the hands of these wicked men and even lose His life to do the will of the Father. We too must suffer to lose our carnal life to please the Father. 22 And Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall never be unto thee. (And there's your prosperity gospel. It's something we all have to get rid of, and Peter had to get rid of it. He understood suffering before it was over. And we have to understand it too, so we can cooperate with God and thank Him in the midst of it.) 23 But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art a stumbling-block unto me: for thou mindest not the things of God, but the things of men. (Whenever anybody wants to escape the suffering of the death to self, this is where they're at.) 24 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. And that is to the painful death of “self”. Self is who you were before you knew God in His fullness, self is there and dying out as Christians who walk as disciples discover. It's not a sudden thing, it's a progressive thing. You have to make choices to give up the old life and accept the new life. And of course, you've got a lot of people around you that don't like that and don't want that and become angry with you because you don't follow with them anymore. 25 For whosoever would save his life shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake shall find it. Life here is the word, psuchē (Greek) It means soul-life, which is synonymous with self-life.   Comparing this verse to one in Luke where Jesus is talking about us giving up our own self, you see that self is synonymous with the soulish life. Luk 9:25 For what is a man profited, if he gain the whole world, and lose or forfeit his own self?   We have to give up our old soulish self-life. It is identified as the way that we've always been and done things. That person has to die in order to take on the life of Christ. The higher life is the born again soul life of Christ. Well, the devil wants us to grow in the self-life. To gain the things that promote the self-life, to run after the things, the idols, that promote the self-life. But we must go the other way to cooperate with God in the death of self. And this is painful to the old man. And he's out to gain the whole world even after he becomes a Christian. He has to have a renewed mind to understand that he needs to crucify the self-life.  Back to Mat 16:26 For what shall a man be profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? or what shall a man give in exchange for his life? 27 For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then shall he render unto every man according to his deeds. So if we don't take up our cross and follow Jesus, we cannot be his disciple as He said. And this is suffering and painful, but it is the price we pay for bearing fruit unto eternal life. The world comes against us. Sometimes we may think God has forgotten us, or he's left us in the hands of the wicked or whatever. It takes these people to put us on our cross; a crucifixion of the old self life. Of course we can have as much of the new life of Christ as we want but we must expect this suffering. Let's look at Act 9:10-16 Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias; and the Lord said unto him in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, I am here, Lord. 11 And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go to the street which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judas for one named Saul, a man of Tarsus: for behold, he prayeth; 12 and he hath seen a man named Ananias coming in, and laying his hands on him, that he might receive his sight. 13 But Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard from many of this man, how much evil he did to thy saints at Jerusalem:   Well, as you can imagine, Ananias was fearful and questioning the Lord. He was about to put his life on the line here but he decided, the Lord knows best and He'll take care of all that and He did. He was willing to sacrifice his life in order to see the will of God done here. So he was questioning the Lord because Saul was a Pharisee of Pharisees and demanding the penalty of the Law on the Christians who had come to know Jesus. And the nature that Paul had was antichrist, although he was very religious. There are many very religious people out there that are antichrist, and they're quite willing to put you on your cross if you're devoted to the Lord and you're devoted to keeping His word even to the death of self.    Continuing in verse 14 and here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that call upon thy name. 15 But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles and kings, and the children of Israel: 16 for I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name's sake.  (So Paul was going to suffer the same thing as Ananias.) So here's a man that is a about to become a great man who reflects the life of Christ, but he had to give up everything. He considered it all dung for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ, and he was willing to walk away from it all. He had prestige, he had the respect among his people. They, of course, turned on him when he turned to follow Christ and go down that road of bearing his cross, and it was painful. He went through many things. He mentioned them many times, but he was willing to do it for the great result that was coming in his life and for the sake of the elect.  Now look here in Rom 8:12 So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh: 13 for if ye live after the flesh, ye must die; Truly living after the flesh is very simply living the way you always lived to please self. Everybody who doesn't know Christ, even religious people who claim Christ, walk after the flesh. It's the natural thing to do. But Paul said it's the way of death. He's talking to brethren here when he says, but if by the Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live. 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.   When you walk after the Spirit, He will lead you to sonship. He is the Spirit of adoption. He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become a son at the last. We start out a child of God, but as we mature in our death to self, believing we have been given His life, we become sons.  Notice; he that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become a son at the last. First we are a servant who is a child. In a household there are servants but they are certainly not sons who have special privileges and authority over servants.. And that's exactly what he's talking about here in this teaching. 15 For ye received not the spirit of bondage again unto fear; but ye received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.  So it's the Spirit that brings us to adoption, first spirit, soul and then body; the fullness, of course, is the new body. But He brings us to this adoption if we follow His Spirit, if we're led by the Spirit of God, we will manifest our sonship. In fact, we have our sonship by faith if we follow the Spirit, and that's how we're empowered by the Spirit to go and manifest sonship. 16 The Spirit himself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are children of God: (That's where you start out as children of God.) 17 and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; (and here's the condition) if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified with him.   We've talked about glorification many times and how it comes to us as we behold Jesus in the mirror and become transformed into that same image, which is a son of God. 2Co 3:18  But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit.   When we accept the fact that we don't live anymore and Christ lives in us, the Spirit can begin to use that Gospel faith to empower us to grow to the place of sonship. He says, “if so be you suffer with him.” We're going to be joint heirs if we suffer with Him, as Jesus already said in Matthew 16, if you lose your life, you will gain your life.   And you can begin walking that way by faith as a baby in Christ. Every baby Christian should walk that way, denying self in order to obey the word of God. If you obey the word of God, you are bearing your cross because it is contrary to the natural life. If you use your reason that you've received from your natural parents, you'll follow the flesh and you will lose out. You have to drop your reasoning and take on the reasoning of Jesus Christ through the word of God. It doesn't make sense to your carnal man because he's contrary to God. The flesh is actually called the enemy of God. If you want this sonship that we're talking about, you're going to have to receive and be led by the Spirit of God. Romans 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. Read Acts to be filled with the Spirit the Biblical way. Rom 8:18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed to us-ward. Notice: The sufferings are miniscule compared to the glory of sonship. Now I mean when we moan, we groan, we try to avoid suffering all we can and when you avoid suffering, guess what? You're avoiding the death of the old man and the resurrection life of the new man, Jesus Christ in you. You're not choosing to have more of Jesus.  Now there is suffering that we shouldn't glorify because if God says, by whose stripes you were healed and you think, ‘No, I'm going to suffer this infirmity because it will glorify God,' you're wrong because the Bible says by whose stripes you were healed. You're supposed to avail yourself of the healing of God and that's what gives glory to God as Jesus clearly showed. When you read all the wonderful stories of Jesus healing the sick, you glorify Him because He heals the sick. You don't glorify Him because He leaves them sick. And 19 For the earnest expectation of the creation waiteth for the revealing of the sons of God. 20 For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but by reason of him who subjected it, in hope 21 that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.   22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. 23 And not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for our adoption, (The adoption of sons. Yes, we are in this process of crucifixion of our self-life. You've already got a born again spirit so you're a child of God, but the old soul life, the old mind, will and emotions has to die in order that you have the renewed mind of Christ and sonship. And he goes on to say, to wit, the redemption of our body. Now that's the full manifestation of sonship is when you get the new body. In order to get the new body, you need to have the new soul. And this new soul is the mind, the will and the emotions of Christ, and will gain you a new body.   We've already talked about how that there are different bodies; star glory, moon glory and sun glory in the Kingdom, and we all would like to have sun glory, which is a body likened to His body. Not everybody will have that. Not everybody will have the same reward, contrary to popular opinion. 24 For in hope were we saved: but hope that is seen is not hope: for who hopeth for that which he seeth? 25 But if we hope for that which we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. We're entering into this process, and even in the midst of this process, we don't see the end of our salvation. We see the beginning of it and you know Peter called it “the end of your salvation,” and that is the full manifestation of sonship. As long as we're on this earth, we're going to come into this manifestation in spirit and in soul and, to the extent that you have manifested Christ in your soul, you will have a body accordingly.  Now, how many things did the apostle Paul have to suffer in order to become a true representation of Christ? I mean, you can't give away something you don't have. He wasn't the great apostle in the beginning. He had to first learn these things and he learned them very quickly, and he became a great man because he did not refuse the suffering that the Lord sent his way. The suffering of the loss of self and religious life, etc.  Let's look at 1Co 4:9 For, I think, God hath set forth us the apostles last of all, as men doomed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, The more you look like Christ in what you do, say, walk the more the world will hate you and the more the religious world will hate you. As Jesus said, “if they hated me, they will hate you.' Because the natural mind is so contrary to the spiritual mind and the spiritual walk, you're a spectacle, because there are many critical people out there who've refused the way of the cross. They have become persecutors, even though they still call themselves Christians. This is the way, this is the pattern and so these people, of course, are going to criticize you. The more they go down that road, the more corrupt their mind becomes, and they begin to be competitive and to lie and to slander and to come against you.  This is the way it happened to every apostle and Jesus Himself and to all the prophets and all of the men that were men of God, they had to go through this. And so it is with us, you become a spectacle. Your lost friends and lost family look on you critically and you become a spectacle to the world and the worldly church. Now continuing for we are made a spectacle unto the world, both to angels and men. 10 We are fools for Christ's sake, (Yes, if you're going to be a fool to them, follow Christ and count the cost, sonship is great. The suffering is nothing compared to the great glory that is to come as we've seen.) but ye are wise in Christ (Now he's correcting their worldly thinking in a very sarcastic way.); we are weak, but ye are strong; ye have glory (Well, if you have glory in the world, guess who's giving it to you?), but we have dishonor. In other words, if you're going to follow in the steps of Jesus, like the disciples, and the apostles did, you're going to have dishonor in the world and you can count on it.   11 Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place; Now, he's not saying that through faith you can't receive everything you need. My God shall supply every need of yours according to his riches and glory. He's has gone through the trial and the test. And many times you will go through the test too before you receive what you need and you want. It's not that God's going to let you go without if you walk by faith. 12 and we toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure; 13 being defamed, we entreat: Everyone who walks in the steps of Jesus is going to be defamed, just like He was, just like the prophets were, just like the apostles were. You can see who's doing the defaming and it's their job. These are the crucifiers, these are the Judases, these are the apostates. He goes on to say, we are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things, even until now. And so you can see that even in our day, we're following in the steps of people like Paul and all that would live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. If you don't want to suffer, you are not going to be following Christ.  So now let's look at 2Co 4:7-18 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, (The treasure, of course, is that born again man, who is who is in the image of Jesus Christ. It's various sizes in various people because some are given over more or less to Christ. But the outer man's decaying while the inner man is being renewed day by day. We must give Christ room by the death of the old man because you only want one person to live in you and it's your spiritual man. The soul which is your mind will and emotions must be given over to your spirit by the power of the Holy Spirit. That's your spiritual man.) that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves; (What can you do of yourself that is not corrupted and fallen? What we want is the power of God because we are weak to bring about righteousness, purity, good works and so on. Therefore, we must depend upon a higher power which is God to give us this gift as we walk by faith.)  8 we are pressed on every side, yet not straitened; perplexed, yet not unto despair; (Yes, we must suffer these things and it's confusing sometimes, which is the spirit and which is the flesh and which one are we following. The confusion comes in that our soul is somewhat double minded because we're partially in, partially out, partially spiritual, partially carnal, and so it is perplexing. But if we have a desire to live for God, He knows it and He will empower us and give us faith. And He will bring it to pass. But we go through these things to make decisions. Every time you make a decision against the flesh and for the spirit, you're gaining Christ and every time you make a decision for the flesh and against the spirit, you're gaining more flesh.)  9 pursued, yet not forsaken; smitten down, yet not destroyed; 10 always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, (Jesus went to the cross and His flesh died but His spirit man did not die. I don't care what some people say. His spirit man did not die. His flesh bore our curse and died and we also must lose our flesh.) that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body. (Well, if you have Jesus manifested in your body, what is that? Sonship; yes, and to get there, the old self life has to die. You need to make up your mind that you'll believe the promises to obey the word of God. Put your faith in the Lord constantly, because He's the one that brings it to pass by His power. In other words, as we just read the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God and not of ourselves. Self has no way to please God.)   11 For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh. (The false religions deny that Christ cometh in the flesh, which is antichrist. Repentance and faith is the means to come into the image of Jesus Christ, to bear His fruit, as in the parable of the Sower, 30, 60, and 100-fold. This is what we choose to go after and it is sonship.) 12 So then death worketh in us, but life in you. 13 But having the same spirit of faith, according to that which is written, I believed, and therefore did I speak; we also believe, and therefore also we speak; (So when you believe, and you speak it, you can have what you say.)   14 knowing that he that raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also with Jesus, and shall present us with you. 15 For all things are for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound unto the glory of God. 16 Wherefore we faint not; (And of course, you know when we're going through this suffering, the devil's going to tell you that God's forsaken you. But the truth is God is with you. Walk by faith and see the end from the beginning.   Remember, there's an end to every trial and it should be when you overcome it. Because once you overcome it, you don't need it, right? but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day. So there's this reversal process here you see. You're losing the old man, the outer man and you're gaining the new man. The new man's coming to maturity, and the old man's passing away. And ultimately, the end of the process is there's nobody left but the new man, Who is ‘Christ in you, the hope of glory' and the old man has passed away. You must cooperate with God in this process. It's a suffering of a death to self.  17 For our light affliction, (We think it's pretty terrible, but he calls it our light affliction, which is for the moment. In other words, it's not going to last very long. Don't worry God's not going to leave you in the oven. You know you're in there to burn up the wood, hay and the stubble.) which is for the moment, worketh for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory; (Who is Christ in you, the hope of glory. He is the glory. He is the shining forth from us.) 18 while we look not at the things which are seen, (In other words, get your eyes past the problem, and on the salvation that God provided.) but at the things which are not seen (Christ in you): for the things which are seen are temporal (The flesh is temporary); but the things which are not seen (Jesus in you) are eternal.  Let's go back to the apostle Paul again and look at some of the things he suffered, because there are many who say we cannot expect God to always deliver or heal us because of the example of Paul's thorn in the flesh. 2Co 12:7 And by reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted overmuch, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger (Greek: angelos) of Satan to buffet me, that I should not be exalted overmuch. (To humble) 8 Concerning this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it (the angel) might depart from me. 9 And he hath said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for [my] power is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.   10 Wherefore I take pleasure in weaknesses (KJV: Falsely translated “infirmities”), in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong. Notice the four places I have underlined. In both the Received Text and in the ancient manuscripts, these are the same Greek word. The KJV translated only the third word “infirmities,” leading people to believe falsely that Paul had a sickness that God would not heal.   The same Greek word is used in the following verse: 2Co 13:4 For he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth through the power of God. The KJV correctly translated this “weakness” because, of course, Jesus was not crucified through infirmities. We can also find the same Greek word here: 1Co 1:25 … The weakness of God is stronger than men. Since no one can say God is sick, we know this translation is correct.   We do not have to guess what these buffetings are because they are listed in the previous chapter and we can read them. 2Co 11:23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I more; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths oft. 24 Of the Jews five times received I forty [stripes] save one. 25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day have I been in the deep;   26 [in] journeyings often, [in] perils of rivers, [in] perils of robbers, [in] perils from [my] countrymen, [in] perils from the Gentiles, [in] perils in the city, [in] perils in the wilderness, [in] perils in the sea, [in] perils among false brethren; 27 [in] labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. 28 Besides those things that are without, there is that which presseth upon me daily, anxiety for all the churches. 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is caused to stumble, and I burn not? 30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things that concern my weakness (KJV: “infirmities”).   You will notice that not once in his list of weaknesses did he list a sickness! Although the words “weak” or “weakness” are all the same Greek word in all the manuscripts, the KJV translates only the last word “infirmities.” Paul's “thorn in the flesh” was an angel of Satan that “buffeted” him, meaning “to hit with many blows,” not just one blow, such as a sickness that would not depart. Four times in the Old Testament there are references to thorns in the flesh (Numbers 33:55; Joshua 23:13; Judges 2:3; Ezekiel 28:24) and not one of them refers to a sickness.   Was God saying that He would not deliver Paul from these places of weakness? No! 2Co 12:8 Concerning this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. “It” here was the demon that brought the buffetings. Paul said God delivered him out of all these places of weakness where he could not help himself. God's power was made perfect in Paul's weakness and He will be in ours! 2Ti 4:17 But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me; that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion. 18 The Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will save me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom [be] the glory forever and ever. Amen.   As soon as God delivered Paul out of one trial, the demon brought another. Let's let God be found true, but every man a liar (Rom 3:4). Psa 34:4 I sought the Lord, and he answered me, And delivered me from all my fears. 6 This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, And saved him out of all his troubles. 17 [The righteous] cried, and the Lord heard, And delivered them out of all their troubles. 19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous; But the Lord delivereth him out of them all.   The Lord may not keep you from tribulation but He certainly will save, heal and deliver you from it, if you walk by faith. In fact, this is His method for maturing our faith. Am I saying God cannot use sickness to chasten and bring trials? Absolutely not, but God already guarantees your healing if you believe 1Pe 2:24  who his own self bare our sins in his body upon the tree, that we, having died unto sins, might live unto righteousness; by whose stripes ye were healed..  If your sins were taken away and Ye were healed then you are healed. Let God be true and every man a liar. The Father sent the curse to motivate us to repentance and He sent the Savior to bring deliverance from the curse, but only to those who believe. Rom 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth …  Here is a good example of what is happening in these days to bring people to repentance. An angel appeared to Dumitru Duduman (“Three Scrolls” – 7/01/94) and “took out a scroll which he began to unroll very quickly. It was so long that I could not see its end. On this first scroll of paper were written all kinds of names. Beside each name was listed their punishment – a type of disease (all kinds were listed), trial or torment. He said, ‘Those named will have to go through what is listed by their name in order to be cleansed and be able to stand.'”   In the second century, before much of the gifts of the Spirit gave way to ceremony and traditions of men, there lived a prophet named Hermas. His writings were famous among early Church fathers who still believed in prophecy. Many considered his writings a part of the Scriptures. Though I do not hold them on that level of inspiration, I do consider them the finest of the gift. Consider Hermas' revelation on chastening.     Excerpts from The Shepherd of Hermas.   Similitude Sixth   Of the Two Classes of Voluptuous Men, and of Their Death, Falling Away, and the Duration of Their Punishment.   Chapter I   Sitting in my house, and glorifying the Lord for all that I had seen, and reflecting on the commandments, that they are excellent, and powerful, and glorious, and able to save a man's soul, I said within myself, “I shall be blessed if I walk in these commandments, and every one who walks in them will be blessed.” While I was saying these words to myself, I suddenly see him sitting beside me, and hear him thus speak: “Why are you in doubt about the commandments which I gave you? They are excellent: have no doubt about them at all, but put on faith in the Lord, and you will walk in them, for I will strengthen you in them. These commandments are beneficial to those who intend to repent: for if they do not walk in them, their repentance is in vain. You, therefore, who repent, cast away the wickedness of this world which wears you out; and by putting on all the virtues of a holy life, you will be able to keep these commandments, and will no longer add to the number of your sins.   Walk, therefore, in these commandments of mine, and you will live unto God. All these things have been spoken to you by me.” And after he had uttered these words, he said to me, “Let us go into the fields, and I will show you the shepherds of the flocks.” “Let us go, sir,” I replied. And we came to a certain plain, and he showed me a young man, a shepherd, clothed in a suit of garments of a yellow colour: and he was herding very many sheep, and these sheep were feeding luxuriously (Editor's note: that which we cannot afford to do because of the high cost to our soul), as it were, and riotously, and merrily skipping hither and thither. The shepherd himself was merry, because of his flock; and the appearance of the shepherd was joyous, and he was running about amongst his flock. [And other sheep I saw rioting and luxuriating in one place, but not, however, leaping about.]   Chapter II   And he said to me, “Do you see this shepherd?” “I see him, sir,” I said. “This,” he answered, “is the angel of luxury and deceit: he wears out the souls of the servants of God, and perverts them from the truth, deceiving them with wicked desires, through which they will perish; for they forget the commandments of the living God, and walk in deceits and empty luxuries; and they are ruined by the angel, some being brought to death, others to corruption.” I said to him, “Sir, I do not know the meaning of these words, ‘to death,' and ‘to corruption.'” “Listen,” he said. “The sheep which you saw merry and leaping about, are those which have torn themselves away from God forever, and have delivered themselves over to luxuries and deceits [of this world.   Among them there is no return to life through repentance, because they have added to their other sins, and blasphemed the name of the Lord. Such men therefore, are appointed unto death. And the sheep which you saw not leaping, but feeding in one place, are they who have delivered themselves over to luxury and deceit], but have committed no blasphemy against the Lord. These have been perverted from the truth: among them there is the hope of repentance, by which it is possible to live. Corruption, then, has a hope of a kind of renewal, but death has everlasting ruin.” Again I went forward a little way, and he showed me a tall shepherd, somewhat savage in his appearance, clothed in a white goatskin, and having a wallet on his shoulders, and a very hard staff with branches, and a large whip.   And he had a very sour look, so that I was afraid of him, so forbidding was his aspect. This shepherd, accordingly, was receiving the sheep from the young shepherd, those, viz., that were rioting and luxuriating, but not leaping; and he cast them into a precipitous place, full of thistles and thorns, so that it was impossible to extricate the sheep from the thorns and thistles; but they were completely entangled amongst them. These, accordingly, thus entangled, pastured amongst the thorns and thistles, and were exceedingly miserable, being beaten by him; and he drove them hither and thither, and gave them no rest; and, altogether, these sheep were in a wretched plight.   Chapter III   Seeing them, therefore, so beaten and so badly used, I was grieved for them, because they were so tormented, and had no rest at all. And I said to the Shepherd who talked with me, “Sir, who is this shepherd, who is so pitiless and severe, and so completely devoid of compassion for these sheep?” “This,” he replied, “is the angel of punishment; and he belongs to the just angels, and is appointed to punish. He accordingly takes those who wander away from God, and who have walked in the desires and deceits of this world, and chastises them as they deserve with terrible and diverse punishments.” “I would know, sir,” I said, “Of what nature are these diverse tortures and punishments?” “Hear,” he said, “the various tortures and punishments. The tortures are such as occur during life.   For some are punished with losses, others with want, others with sicknesses of various kinds, and others with all kinds of disorder and confusion; others are insulted by unworthy persons, and exposed to suffering in many other ways: for many, becoming unstable in their plans, try many things, and none of them at all succeed, and they say they are not prosperous in their undertakings; and it does not occur to their minds that they have done evil deeds, but they blame the Lord. When, therefore, they have been afflicted with all kinds of affliction, then are they delivered unto me for good training, and they are made strong in the faith of the Lord; and for the rest of the days of their life they are subject to the Lord with pure hearts, and are successful in all their undertakings, obtaining from the Lord everything they ask; and then they glorify the Lord, that they were delivered to me, and no longer suffer any evil.”   Chapter IV   I said to him, “Sir, explain this also to me.” “What is it you ask?” he said. “Whether, sir,” I continued, “they who indulge in luxury, and who are deceived, are tortured for the same period of time that they have indulged in luxury and deceit?” He said to me, “They are tortured for the same time” (Editor's note: compare Revelation 18:7). [“They are tormented much less, sir,” I replied;] “for those who are so luxurious and who forget God ought to be tortured seven-fold.” He said to me, “You are foolish, and do not understand the power of torment.” “Why, sir,” I said, “if I had understood it, I would not have asked you to show me.” “Hear,” he said, “the power of both. The time of luxury and deceit is one hour; but the hour of torment is equivalent to thirty days. If, accordingly, a man indulge in luxury for one day, and be deceived and be tortured for one day, the day of his torture is equivalent to a whole year. For all the days of luxury, therefore, there are as many years of torture to be undergone. You see, then,” he continued, “that the time of luxury and deceit is very short, but that of punishment and torture long.”   Chapter V   “Still,” I said, “I do not quite understand about the time of deceit, and luxury, and torture; explain it to me more clearly.” He answered, and said to me, “Your folly is persistent; and you do not wish to purify your heart, and serve God. Have a care,” he added, “lest the time be fulfilled, and you be found foolish. Hear now,” he added, “as you desire, that you may understand these things. He who indulges in luxury, and is deceived for one day, and who does what he wishes, is clothed with much foolishness, and does not understand the act which he does until the morrow; for he forgets what he did the day before.   For luxury and deceit have no memories, on account of the folly with which they are clothed; but when punishment and torture cleave to a man for one day, he is punished and tortured for a year; for punishment and torture have powerful memories. While tortured and punished, therefore, for a whole year, he remembers at last his luxury and deceit, and knows that on their account he suffers evil. Every man, therefore, who is luxurious and deceived is thus tormented, because, although having life, they have given themselves over to death.” “What kinds of luxury, sir,” I asked, “are hurtful?”   “Every act of a man which he performs with pleasure,” he replied, “is an act of luxury; for the sharp-tempered man, when gratifying his tendency, indulges in luxury; and the adulterer, and the drunkard, and the back-biter, and the liar, and the covetous man, and the thief, and he who does things like these, gratifies his peculiar propensity, and in so doing indulges in luxury. All these acts of luxury are hurtful to the servants of God. On account of these deceits, therefore, do they suffer, who are punished and tortured. And there are also acts of luxury which save men; for many who do good indulge in luxury, being carried away by their own pleasure: this luxury, however, is beneficial to the servants of God, and gains life for such a man; but the injurious acts of luxury before enumerated bring tortures and punishment upon them; and if they continue in them and do not repent, they bring death upon themselves.”      Similitude Seventh   They Who Repent Must Bring Forth Fruits Worthy of Repentance.   After a few days I saw him in the same plain where I had also seen the shepherds; and he said to me, “What do you wish with me?” I said to him, “Sir, that you would order the shepherd who punishes to depart out of my house, because he afflicts me exceedingly.” “It is necessary,” he replied, “that you be afflicted; for thus,” he continued, “did the glorious angel command concerning you, as he wishes you to be tried.” “What have I done which is so bad, sir,” I replied, “that I should be delivered over to this angel?” “Listen,” he said: “Your sins are many, but not so great as to require that you be delivered over to this angel; but your household has committed great iniquities and sins, and the glorious angel has been incensed at them on account of their deeds; and for this reason he commanded you to be afflicted for a certain time, that they also might repent, and purify themselves from every desire of this world.   When, therefore, they repent and are purified, then the angel of punishment will depart.” I said to him, “Sir, if they have done such things as to incense the glorious angel against them, yet what have I done?” He replied, “They cannot be afflicted at all, unless you, the head of the house, be afflicted: for when you are afflicted, of necessity they also suffer affliction; but if you are in comfort, they can feel no affliction.” “Well, sir,” I said, “they have repented with their whole heart.” “I know, too,” he answered, “that they have repented with their whole heart: do you think, however, that the sins of those who repent are immediately forgiven? Not altogether, but he who repents must torture his own soul (Editor's note: compare 1 Corinthians 9:27), and be exceedingly humble in all his conduct, and be afflicted with many kinds of affliction; and if he endure the afflictions that come upon him,   He who created all things, and endued them with power, will assuredly have compassion, and will heal him; and this will He do when He sees the heart of every penitent pure from every evil thing: and it is profitable for you and for your house to suffer affliction now. But why should I say much to you? You must be afflicted, as that angel of the Lord commanded who delivered you to me. And for this give thanks to the Lord, because He has deemed you worthy of showing you beforehand this affliction, that, knowing it before it comes, you may be able to bear it with courage.” I said to him, “Sir, be thou with me, and I will be able to bear all affliction.” “I will be with you,” he said, “and I will ask the angel of punishment to afflict you more lightly; nevertheless, you will be afflicted for a little time, and again you will be re-established in your house. Only continue humble, and serve the Lord in all purity of heart, you and your children, and your house, and walk in my commands which I enjoin upon you, and your repentance will be deep and pure; and if you observe these things with your household, every affliction will depart from you. And affliction,” he added, “will depart from all who walk in these my commandments.” 

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Jesus is Coming in Believers  David Eells – 3/20/24 (audio) Jesus is coming in us. First He will come as the head because the head is born first. This is Jesus' coming both in His day and ours. He is coming in the Man-child reformer head now in order to repeat history and give this revelation to the rest of the Body. As in the natural the brains lead the body. In these last days, God is bringing forth a corporate first-fruits Man-child that walk after the Spirit of God into the image of Christ. There are no heroes here except the Lord. This is all grace to us. The Man-child is a corporate body within the Church which will be the first-fruits in whom the full Word and anointing will be manifested by God's grace and power. They are reformers to lead God's people back to the ways of righteousness from a great falling away. They will rebuild the tabernacle of David in a type of the kingdom of David.   Just as Christ was the first-fruits in His time, the end-time Man-child is the first-fruits of those who manifest Christ after this time of apostasy (falling away). Seeing this full manifestation of “Christ in you” as already accomplished at the cross brings power from God to manifest it in the natural.   (Rev 12:5) And she was delivered of a son, a man child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and unto his throne. (6) And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that there they (the Man-child company) may nourish her a thousand two hundred and threescore days. Jesus in this Man-child will teach the Woman Church for 3 ½ years following the type of Jesus' first ministry. This first-fruits Man-child company will be caught up to the throne of God to minister to the Church in the wilderness, as the types prove. Enoch, Moses, Aaron, Abraham, Jacob, Joseph, Samuel, Gideon, David, Elijah, Ezekiel, Paul and John are all major types of different aspects of the Man-child ministry. The Man-child in whom Jesus lives by Word and Spirit is both the earthly head and a member of the body of the Bride, as David was the head of the Jerusalem Bride and was also a member of it.  The Lord through this head will lead the Bride, the chosen picked from among the Woman, who is also led up to the throne authority under the Man-child. Major Bride types are shown in Esther, the Psalm 45 bride and the Shulamite in the Song of Solomon. Since history always repeats, this will be the experience of the end-time Man-child and Bride.   (Rev3:21) He that overcometh, I will give to him to sit down with me in my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father in his throne. Overcome what? Sin, How? By the gospel which shows that this was already accomplished at the cross. Rom 6:22 But now being made free from sin and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end eternal life.   Notice, not everybody who says unto the Lord, “…Lord, Lord…,” is going to have eternal life. It's those that are being made free from sin. They're bearing the fruit of their redemption that was given to them in Christ. You walk by faith in Jesus, He's going to set you free. He is going to fulfill His redemption in you. You're going to be set free. If it's not faith, it won't work. But if it is faith, it will work. Faith brings fruit in our works. Tit 2:14 who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a people for his own possession, zealous of good works.   The people that are redeemed are going to be zealous of good works. They're going to love to do the works of Jesus. This is the fruit of their redemption. This is what people who are redeemed look like. They love good works, they love to walk in the steps of Jesus.   He is coming in us as we repent and believe. (2 Th. 1:10-12) when he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be marvelled at in all them that believed (because our testimony unto you was believed) in that day. (Which is this day) (11) To which end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfil every desire of goodness and [every] work of faith, with power; (12) that the name (Greek: nature, character, authority) of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.  God's purpose is to completely regenerate our whole being, spirit, soul and body, through His Word. In this way He is glorified in us. (1Th.5:23) And the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved entire, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Only His Word in us is able to completely sanctify us in spirit, soul and body.  How do we receive this glory of Christ in us? (2 Cor. 3:18) But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit. This text shows us that if we see him as he truly is in the mirror (by faith) then we will manifest his image and glory. This image is in our renewed imagination. Christ reconciled or exchanged his life for ours on the cross. So His life is now in us by faith. We have to see Jesus in us! We have to see Him with spiritual eyes and call the things that are not as though they were, because the only way that God does His work is through our faith. (Col. 1:22,23) yet now hath he reconciled (or exchanged) in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and unreproveable before him:  (And here is an “if” we should pay attention to.) (23) if so be that ye continue in the faith, grounded and stedfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel which ye heard, which was preached in all creation under heaven;) That's why we must see him in the mirror by faith in order to manifest him. Here is the gospel or good news we must hold to. (Gal. 2:20) I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me: and that [life] which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, [the faith] which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me. This kind of faith is accounted as righteousness until righteousness is manifested (which means to appear in the physical realm). He who sees his natural face in the mirror will not have power to obey according to Jas 1:23.  (Col. 3:4) When Christ, [who is] our life, shall be manifested (in us), then shall ye also with him be manifested in glory. Notice the life of Christ is His glory and it is manifested or come to be seen in our mortal flesh (2 Cor 4:11) For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh. Notice: He is coming in our mortal flesh now. Here on earth is where the plant is sown in the dirt and here is where the fruit is born. They have lied to us that we can only overcome sin by going to heaven.   Manifested here means to appear in the physical realm; meaning here “in our mortal flesh”. When we come to Christ we accept all of His benefits by faith. (faith is the substance of the thing hoped for while the evidence is unseen. Heb 11:1) This time of exorcising faith is until the sacrifice is manifest in our lives as fruit. According to the parable of the Sower, the seed of the Word is sown in the heart but only one out of the four is good ground who holds to the faith and brings forth fruit 30, 60, 100 fold. The fruit here is Christ, not other souls. The fruit of the Spirit. He is the seed (sperma = Greek) of the word and each seed brings forth after its own kind. A wrong Word is a wrong seed that brings forth a wrong Jesus in you. (Rom. 8:24,25) For in hope (Greek = a firm expectation) were we saved. But hope that is seen is not hope: for who hopeth for that which he seeth? (25) But if we hope for that which we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. In other words we wait in “firm expectation” for the full manifestation of our salvation. When we come to Christ, we receive a new spirit but our soul, our mind, will and emotions, needs transforming. (Rom. 12:2) And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind. and ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.  By faith we say with Paul (Gal.2:20) I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me. As we repent and make this confession of our faith in the exchange, it will be continually manifested in us for we are justified by faith. The Holy Spirit gives power to those who believe.  If we don't repent and believe the word, we cannot have what it says. As long as we are walking by faith in the word, we are acceptable to God for "faith is accounted as righteousness".  Jesus told his disciples in (Luk 6:40) The disciple is not above his teacher but every one when he is perfected shall be as his teacher. Christ wants to live and be seen manifested in us. As we repent, when we see the word we permit this to happen. We give good ground to the seed and bear fruit.  (Luk 9:23,24) And he said unto all, If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. (I.e. die to self) (24) For whosoever would save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.  (2 Cor. 4:10, 11) Always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested (be seen) in our body. (11) For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested (be seen) in our mortal flesh. (Notice: Jesus is coming to be seen in this earthly body.) (2 Pet.1:19) And we have the word of prophecy made more sure; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts. This is the manifested glory of the Word in us.   (2 Pet 1:9-11) For he that lacketh these things is blind, seeing only what is near, (Walking by sight instead of faith) having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins. (Your sins were washed away by faith) (10) Wherefore, brethren, give the more diligence to make your calling and election (chosen) sure: for if ye do these things ye shall never stumble: (11) For thus shall be richly supplied unto you the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.  (Jas.1:23) For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a mirror. If we don't see Jesus in the mirror, then that is not faith and we will not be a doer of the word. A doer of the word is manifesting Christ. 24  for he beholdeth himself, and goeth away, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.  So Christ is being formed or manifested in us progressively. (Gal. 4:19) My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you. We see in this context if a person is under the law this formation of “Christ in you the hope of glory” cannot happen.  (Col. 1:27,28) to whom God was pleased to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: (28) whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ; Since God says in (Mat.5:48) Ye therefore shall be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect, you can have faith in Him and He will do it in you.  We go through trials, troubles and tribulations, as Paul did: (2Co.4:8) We are pressed on every side, yet not straitened; perplexed, yet not unto despair; (9) pursued, yet not forsaken; smitten down, yet not destroyed; (10) always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body. But you can go through trials and you will go through them for nothing, if you don't exercise faith in the midst of the trial. Every trial, every trouble that you go through, is an opportunity to bring forth spiritual seed as you manifest more of Christ. We have to fight or we lose. (1Ti.6:12) Fight the good fight of the faith, lay hold on the life eternal, whereunto thou wast called, and didst confess the good confession in the sight of many witnesses. Fight the good fight of the faith; agree with what the Word says and not with what your carnal senses are telling you. If you don't fight, you will lose but the fight is “the good fight of the faith.”    (2Co.4:16) Wherefore we faint not; but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day. (17) For our light affliction, which is for the moment, worketh for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory. God is going to use all these things that we go through for the Glory of God to be manifested in us. How is the glory of God manifested in us?   He's manifested as we behold the Lord in the mirror. As you do that by faith, you are going to be transformed into His image, from glory to glory, but this process of the inward man ruling over the outward man won't come to pass, unless you pay close attention to the next verse. (2Co.4:18) While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.  Let us pray as Paul did in (Eph. 3:14-19) For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father, (15) from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, (16) that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that ye may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man; (17) that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, (18) may be strong to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, (19) and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled unto all the fulness of God. Paul would not pray an impossible prayer. Notice that Paul prayed in in this text that we "may be strong to apprehend the fullness of God, (Notice, it is not just comprehend, it's to apprehend the fullness of God. – The ancient manuscripts, Received Text and Nestles Text agree on “apprehend”.) ...the breadth and length and height and depth ...of Christ (Notice: apprehend all of Christ)...that ye may be filled unto all the fullness of God".  According to Paul our purpose on earth is to be perfected into the fullness of Christ. (Eph. 4:11-15) And he gave some [to be] apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; (Notice the five-fold ministry is for what?) (12) for the perfecting of the saints, unto the work of ministering, unto the building up of the body of Christ: (13) till we all attain unto the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a fullgrown man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: (14) that we may be no longer children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error; (15) but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, [even] Christ; The Bible clearly states that we're supposed to be growing into “the fullness of Christ” and into the head, which means He will be our mind and will; we will follow Him. (1Co.2:16) For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ. When Jesus is our head, then we have the mind of Christ in us.  Notice, the fivefold ministry is for the perfecting of the saints. That means the one-fold ministry of the Nicolaitan ministries that God hates is not where we are going. The five-fold ministry which historically sprouted from Jesus' apostles and is about to be repeated by the Man-child's apostles is "for the perfecting of the saints...unto a full-grown man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ".  Through faith in the promises we are expected to perfect holiness or sanctification (which are from the same Greek word). 2Co 7:1 Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. Notice we must fear God enough to repent and seek this cleansing. “Flesh” here is that part of you that has been declared in scripture as being in enmity against God, or the enemy of God. “Spirit” here speaks of the defilement of you by resident evil spirits who live in your flesh. They end up there through the blood line or sins committed by you since your birth. We are commanded here to use the word of God to separate from sins.  Look at what the following scriptures say: (1 Th. 4:3-8) For this is the will of God, [even] your sanctification (Same Greek word as Holiness above), that ye abstain from fornication; (4) that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor, (5) not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not God; (6) that no man transgress, and wrong his brother in the matter: because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified. (7) For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification. (8) Therefore he that rejecteth, rejecteth not man, but God, who giveth his Holy Spirit unto you.  Maturity and sanctification are from rejecting these these sins so Christ is manifest in you. 1Jn 2:28 And now my little children, abide in him; that if he shall be manifested (Notice the “If” here is not a “when” because the three most ancient manuscripts of the New Testament, the Nestles text, the A.S.V., the R.V., and the Numeric New Testament agree to this translation. The “when” came about because the ignorant translators thought this spoke of the physical coming of the Lord and not His manifestation in you, which is not a certainty if you ignore this teaching.)   1Jn 2:28 And now my little children, abide in him; that if he shall be manifested we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming. I.e. "If he shall be manifested" or made visible in us, we won't be ashamed when we see him. The reason for the “if” condition here is it all depends on this Gospel getting out and people believing it.  Here is another “If”. 1Jn 3:2 Beloved now are we children of God, and it is not yet made manifest what we shall be. We know that, if he shall be manifested, ("in us" 2 Cor 4:10,11) (The three most ancient manuscripts of the New Testament, the Nestles text, the Received Text, the A.S.V., the R.V., and the Numeric New Testament agree on this translation) we shall be like him; for we shall see him even as he is". Notice: If we don't see Him as He is, we can't be like Him. We study the Scriptures so that we get a vision of the true Christ and we see Him as He is. He had a vision of His Father; that's why He did what He did. We study the Scriptures to get a vision of who Christ is so that we can do what He did, live what He lived, be what He was!   (Rom.10:10) For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. What is salvation if it's not salvation from being a sinner.  I tell you, if you confess with your mouth, you will start believing in your heart because you'll be writing something upon your own heart with your own words. And we believe we have received salvation in sanctification! (Mar.11:24) Therefore I say unto you, All things whatever ye pray and ask for, believe that ye received them, and ye shall have them. NENT  Believe you have received sanctification from sin at the cross. The false prophet leadership has told us that we have to settle for being forgiven sinners in this life instead of overcoming sin as sons and daughters of God. (2Jn 7) For many deceivers are gone forth into the world, [even] they that confess not that Jesus Christ cometh in the flesh. (the true believer's flesh). Note: "is come" or "has come in the flesh" has no foundation in the ancient manuscripts, the Received Text or the Nestles Text. Notice: Those who tell you that Jesus is not coming in your flesh, so be satisfied to be a sinner are deceivers. But we “confess Christ in us.” 1Jn 4:15 Whosoever shall confess (Greek = homologeō, meaning to speak the same as.) that Jesus is the Son of God, God abideth in him, and he in God. 16 And we know and have believed the love which God hath in us. God is love; and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth in him. 17 Herein is love made perfect with us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as he is, even so are we in this world.  (2Th. 1:10) when he shall come to be glorified in his saints (meaning sanctified ones), and to be marvelled at in all them that believed (because our testimony unto you was believed) in that day. This is the day Jesus will be glorified in His saints for they will believe this gospel. (11) To which end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfil every desire of goodness and [every] work of faith, with power; (12) that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.  Be diligent in this work of faith beloved till He comes and you will have born His fruit and have great reward. I hope you will pay close attention to this revelation because as you can see it is the Word of God. We can't reject any Scripture and still say we have the truth. We cannot pick the verses we like in order to justify our fleshly religion. (Psa 119:160) "The sum of thy words is truth." All we have to do is believe what the Word says without invoking the curse at the end of the Book for adding to the word or taking from it. How can sanctification from sin not be attainable in this life when Scriptures says, (Heb. 12:14,15) Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man shall see the Lord: Notice, before you see the Lord you must be sanctified and while you are on the way “faith is accounted as righteousness.” (15) looking carefully lest [there be] any man that falleth short of the grace of God. Holiness and sanctification are the same Greek word. A person who does not believe it is attainable will fall short of the grace needed to receive it because we receive it by faith. (1 Cor. 15:1,2) Now I make known unto you brethren, the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye received, wherein also ye stand, (2) by which also ye are saved, if ye hold fast the word which I preached unto you, except ye believed in vain. We are justified by faith in the sanctification given us at the cross and that faith continually brings us into manifested sanctification. Faith is accounted as righteousness until righteousness is manifested in us. In this way a person can continue under the grace of God as he bears fruit.  1Jn 5:4  For whatsoever is begotten of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that hath overcome the world, even our faith.  And faith is (Rom. 4:17) … "calling the things that are not as though they were". Only in this way will the life we want come to pass. We must be seeing what God promises in (2Pe 1:34) seeing that His divine power hath granted unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness... whereby He hath granted unto us His precious and exceeding great promises that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust. We can do this because Jesus has already given us this gift of faith.  Christ made you "free from sin" (Rom. 6:18,22) so why should you "live any longer therein?"(verse 22) for you were "delivered out of the power of darkness" (Col 1:13) so "reckon yourselves to be dead unto sin but alive unto God" and "let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body that you should obey the lusts thereof "(Rom. 6:11,12). "if you live after the flesh, you must die: but if by the Spirit (God's power) you put to death the deeds of the body, you shall live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God" (Rom. 8:13,14). So believe God's promises and escape the lusts of the flesh.  (1Jn 2:1-6) My little children, these things write I unto you that ye may not sin. And lf any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: (2) and he is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for the whole world. (3) And hereby we know that we know him. If we keep his commandments. (4) He that saith. I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar. and the truth is not in him: (5) but whoso keepeth his word, in him verily hath the love of God been perfected. Hereby we know that we are in him: (6) he that saith he abideth in him ought himself also to walk even as he walked.  The religions of this day and their translators have turned the grace of God into lasciviousness (a license to do what you want to do). As we can see from the above verses grace delivers from sin, not just covers it up. The blood covers our ignorance until we see the light.  (Jas 4:17) To him therefore that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin. (Heb. 10:26) For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more a sacrifice for sins, (27) but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which shall devour the adversaries. Some sins are done in ignorance and failure and are therefore not willful. These are covered by the Blood. For the other sins we will obviously get chastening until we hopefully repent. (Rom.5:13) for until the law sin was in the world; but sin is not imputed when there is no law. You may have sinned a sin of ignorance (not knowing the law) but under Grace God does not reckon it as sin. That is why we cannot say, "we have no sin", (1 John 1:8). We are ignorant of many things that are against His perfect will. When we get light, then we are responsible.  When does the Blood not just cover, but wash away the very nature of sin? (1 John 1:5-7) And this is the message which we have heard from him and announce unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. (6) if we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie. and do not the truth: (7) but if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanseth us from all sin.  This is why the Gospel is the good news. Now we don't have to be content with forgiveness because Jesus is "the Lamb of God that taketh away (not just covers up) the sins of the world". Many of God's people are still trying to live with Old Testament benefits because they don't believe the Gospel.  Our blood passed to us by our parents represented their nature of Adamic sin. We needed a transfusion of Jesus' blood. (Lev.17:11) For the life of the flesh is in the blood… When Jesus turned the water into wine at the marriage, it was a parable for us. The servants of the Lord at His command filled the six clay pots representing our natural life with water which represented His Word. The Lord then turned the Word to Wine representing His blood. (Mat.26:27) And he took a cup (of wine), and gave thanks, and gave to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; (28) for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many unto remission of sins.   The wine was His blood which represents His life, to be exchanged for our fallen blood and life.. (Lev.17:11) For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls (lives): for it is the blood that maketh atonement by reason of the life. This is showing us that if we as servants of God fill our 6 clay vessels with the water of the Word as His servants did, Jesus will turn that “water” into “wine,” or the “blood,” which is the nature of Jesus Christ! God is saying, “You fill your vessel with the Word and I'll turn it into the nature of Jesus Christ.” If you keep being faithful to put the Word in your heart, the Lord will be faithful to exchange your blood for His, which is His nature. 

The Faith Path In Action  (audio) David Eells – 12/20/23  Christ Manifest In Us  David Eells    Examine the related verses and you will see how Jesus is coming in this body. Christ will manifest His life and ministry in us.  (2 Th. 1:10-12) when he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be marvelled at in all them that believed (because our testimony unto you was believed) in that day. (We are still coming out of the dark ages but God will reveal the greater works in our day.) (11) To which end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfil every desire of goodness and [every] work of faith, with power; (12) that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.  (2 Cor. 3:18) But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit.  (Col. 3:4) When Christ, [who is] our life, shall be manifested, then shall ye also with him be manifested in glory.  (Gal. 4:19) My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you.  (Col. 1:27,28) to whom God was pleased to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: (28) whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ;  (2 Cor. 4:10,11) always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body. (11) For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.  (Eph. 3:14-19) For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father, (15) from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, (16) that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that ye may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man; (17) that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, (18) may be strong to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, (19) and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled unto all the fulness of God.  (Eph. 4:11-15) And he gave some [to be] apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; (12) for the perfecting of the saints, unto the work of ministering, unto the building up of the body of Christ: (13) till we all attain unto the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a fullgrown man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: (14) that we may be no longer children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error; (15) but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, [even] Christ;  Maturity is having Christ manifest in you. 1 Jn 2:28 says "And now my little children, abide in him; that if he shall be manifested (the three most ancient manuscripts of the New Testament, the Nestles text, the A.S.V., the R.V., and the Numeric New Testament agree to this translation)   if he shall be manifested we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming." This means that "If he shall be manifested" in us, we won't be ashamed when we see him.  1 Jn 3:2 says "Beloved now are we children of God, and it is not yet made manifest what we shall be. We know that, if he shall be manifested, (Again this means manifested in us 2 Cor 4:10,11) (the three most ancient manuscripts of the New Testament, the Nestles text, the Received Text, the A.S.V., the R.V., and the Numeric New Testament agree on this translation) we shall be like him; for we shall see him even as he is". Notice that we must see the real Jesus to be like Him. The apostates Jesus is nothing like Him and so they do not walk as He walked. 2Co 3:18 ASV  But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit. This shows us that if we “see him as he is” in the mirror (by faith) then we will manifest his glory. According to quantum physics or mechanics we must see what we want and believe we have received it to have it. Christ exchanged his life for ours at the cross. (Col. 1:22,23) yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and unreproveable before him: (23) if so be that ye continue in the faith, grounded and stedfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel which ye heard, which was preached in all creation under heaven;) That's why we must see him in the mirror by faith in order to manifest him. (Gal. 2:20) I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me: and that [life] which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, [the faith] which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me. This kind of faith is accounted as righteousness until righteousness is manifested in bearing fruit. He who sees his “natural face in the mirror” will be a hearer but not a doer because they will not have power to obey (James 1:23).  (Col. 3:4) When Christ, [who is] our life, shall be manifested (in us-same as above), then shall ye also with him be manifested in glory. Now notice the life of Christ is his glory and it is manifested in our “mortal flesh” (2 Cor 4:11) For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh. Notice: mortal flesh on the earth, not glorified bodies.  The false prophet has told us that we have to settle for being forgiven sinners in this life instead of overcoming sons of God. For many deceivers are gone forth into the world, [even] they that confess not that Jesus Christ cometh in the flesh. (This means in the true believer's flesh.) (2 Jn 7). Note: "is come" or "has come in the flesh" has no foundation in the ancient manuscripts, the Received Text or the Nestles Text or Numerics. Paul prayed in Epe 3:18,19 that they "may be strong to apprehend (not comprehend- The ancient manuscripts, Received Text and Nestles Text and Numerics agree) ...the breadth and length and height and depth ...of Christ ...and be filled unto all the fullness of God".  According to Paul in Eph. 4:11-15 the five-fold ministry is "for the perfecting of the saints...unto a full-grown man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ". Through faith in the promises we "cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God" (2 Cor 7:1).  (2 Th. 1:10-12) when he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be marvelled at in all them that believed (because our testimony unto you was believed) in that day. (11) To which end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfil every desire of goodness and [every] work of faith, with power; (12) that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.  Be diligent in this faith beloved, till He comes and you will bear the fruit of His works and have great reward.  Most of you know but I want to briefly explain that Manifest in these texts means to appear in the physical realm. When we come to Christ we accept all of His benefit by faith (faith is the substance of the thing hoped for while the evidence is unseen) until the sacrifice is manifest in our lives as fruit. According to the parable of the sower, the seed is sown in the heart but only one out of the four is good ground and brings forth fruit 30, 60, 100 fold. The fruit here is Christ, not other souls. The fruit of the Spirit. He is the “seed” (sperma = Greek) of the word and each seed brings forth after its own kind; not another Jesus.  (Rom. 8:24,25) For in hope (Greek = a firm expectation) were we saved. But hope that is seen is not hope: for who hopeth for that which he seeth? (25) But if we hope for that which we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. In other words we wait for the full manifesting of our salvation. When we come to Christ, we receive a new spirit but our soul, our mind, will, and emotions, needs transforming. (Rom. 12:2) And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind. and ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.  By faith we say with Paul (Gal.2:20) I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me. As we make this confession of our faith, it will be continually manifested in us for we are justified by faith. The Holy Spirit gives power to those who believe.  If we don't repent and believe the word, we cannot have what it says. As long as we are walking by faith in the word, we are acceptable to God for "faith is accounted as righteousness". Jesus told his disciples in (Luk 6:40) The disciple is not above his teacher but every one when he is perfected shall be as his teacher. Christ wants to live and be seen or manifested in us. As we repent, when we see the word we permit this to happen. We give good ground to the seed and bear His fruit.  (Lk 9:23,24) And he said unto all, If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. (24) For whosoever would save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.  (2 Pet.1:19) And we have the word of prophecy made more sure; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts. This is the manifested glory.  (2 Pet 1:9-11) For he that lacketh these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins. (10) Wherefore, brethren, give the more diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things ye shall never stumble: (11) For thus shall be richly supplied unto you the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.  (Jas.1:23) For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a mirror. If we don't see Jesus in the mirror, then that is not faith and we will not be a doer of the word. A doer of the word is manifesting Christ.  I received this objection to my letter "Christ In You" from a brother. I am using the word perfection as the Greek word implies, to be mature, or fullgrown.  Here is an apostates objection: Dave, Are you suggesting that the Word teaches perfection can be attained in this life? your quote: "perfecting holiness in the fear of God" (2 Cor 7:1). would seem to indicate strongly that it is an ongoing process (known in Scripture as Sanctification) not accomplished in this life. Paul said, "...not as if I had already attained "... - Paul continues that he is still pursuing that higher life which is found in Christ who is "in us". I John says that if we say we sin not we lie. We must be careful to differentiate between the goal we strive for (as close to the life of Jesus as possible) and claiming sinless perfection. Try as you may and believe as much as you wish does not erase the "old man" we must constantly fight against. That fight is by faith, of course, in Christ.  Here is my answer:  I hope you will read this carefully because as you can see it is the Word of God. We can't reject any scripture and still say we have the truth. We cannot pick the verses we like in order to justify our religion. "The sum of thy words is truth".  The whole verse says this: Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. (2 Cor. 7:1) All we have to do is believe what it says without invoking the curse for adding to the word. We are commanded here to use the word of God to separate from worldly thinking and actions.  Look at what the following scriptures say: (1 Th 4:3-8) For this is the will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication; (4) that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor, (5) not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not God; (6) that no man transgress, and wrong his brother in the matter: because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified. (7) For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification. (8) Therefore he that rejecteth, rejecteth not man, but God, who giveth his Holy Spirit unto you.  How can sanctification not be attainable in this life when scriptures says, (Heb. 12:14,15) Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man shall see the Lord: (15) looking carefully lest [there be] any man that falleth short of the grace of God. Holiness and sanctification are the same Greek word. A person who does not believe it is attainable cannot receive it because we receive it by faith.  (2 Cor. 4:11) For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.  (Eph.3:18-20) ....may be strong to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, (in other words all of Christ ) (19) and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled unto all the fullness of God. (20) Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,  (Eph. 4:12) for the perfecting of the saints, unto the work of ministering, unto the building up of the body of Christ: (13) till we all attain unto the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a fullgrown man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: (14) that we may be no longer children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error; (15) but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, [even] Christ;  (Col. 1:22,23) yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and unreproveable before him: (23) if so be that ye continue in the faith, grounded and stedfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel which ye heard,  (1 Cor. 15:1,2) Now I make known unto you brethren, the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye received, wherein also ye stand, (2) by which also ye are saved, if ye hold fast the word which I preached unto you, except ye believed in vain.  We are justified by faith in the sanctification given us at the cross and that faith continually brings us into manifest sanctification. Faith is accounted as righteousness until righteousness is manifested in us. In this way a person can continue under the grace of God as he bears fruit.  Faith is the "victory that overcomes the world" (1 Jn 5:4). Faith is "calling the things that are not as though they were" (Rom. 4:17), until they come to pass. We must be "seeing that His divine power hath granted unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness... whereby He hath granted unto us His precious and exceeding great promises that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust" (2 Pet 1:34).  Christ made you "free from sin" (Rom. 6:18,22) so why should you "live any longer therein?" (verse 22) for you were "delivered out of the power of darkness" (Colossians 1:13) so "reckon yourselves to be dead unto sin but alive unto God" and "let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body that you should obey the lusts thereof "(Rom. 6:11,12). "If you live after the flesh, you must die: but if by the Spirit (God's power) you put to death the deeds of the body, you shall live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God" (Rom. 8:13,14). Believe God's promises and escape the lusts of the flesh. "Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God (2Cor. 7:1).  (1 Jo.2:1-6) My little children, these things write I unto you that ye may not sin. And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: (2) and he is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for the whole world. (3) And hereby we know that we know him. If we keep his commandments. (4) He that saith. I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar. and the truth is not in him: (5) but whoso keepeth his word, in him verily hath the love of God been perfected. Hereby we know that we are in him: (6) he that saith he abideth in him ought himself also to walk even as he walked.  The religions of this day have turned the grace of God into lasciviousness, which is a license to do what you want to do. As we can see from the above verses grace delivers from sin, not just covers it up. The blood covers our ignorance until we see the light.  (Jas 4:17) To him therefore that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin. (Heb. 10:26) For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more a sacrifice for sins, (27) but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which shall devour the adversaries.   Some sins are done in ignorance and are therefore not willful. These are covered by the Blood. For the other sins we will obviously get chastening until we hopefully repent. (Rom.5:13)... for until the law sin was in the world; but sin is not imputed when there is no law. You may have sinned a sin of ignorance (not knowing the law) but under Grace, God does not reckon it as sin. That is why we cannot say, "we have no sin",(1 Jo 1:8) We are ignorant of many things that are against His perfect will. When we get light, then we are responsible.  When does the Blood not just cover, but wash away the very nature of sin? (1 Jo 1:5-7) And this is the message which we have heard from him and announce unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. (6) if we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie. and do not the truth: (7) but if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanseth us from all sin.  This is why the Gospel is the good news. Now we don't have to be content with forgiveness because Jesus is "the Lamb of God that taketh away, not just covers up the sins of the world". Many of God's people are still living with Old Testament benefits because they don't believe the Gospel.  I hope this answer will benefit you in your walk with Christ.    One With Jesus  Anonymous 06/22/23 (David's notes in red)  (Last night I tried going to sleep but God wouldn't let me until I wrote this down, and I asked God if He really wants me to write it down to have some dogs bark, which I don't hear often, and as soon as I thought this in my mind, multiple dogs started barking. After I wrote it down on my phone, I instantly fell asleep PRAISE GOD!  When I had this experience, everything I wrote I felt and saw as if it had fully manifested, and it was so real and alive and true and I DESIRE, that I could have stayed in this experience. It was maybe like 10-30 seconds of seeing and feeling all of this, and it was so real and I am so excited for us all to have this connection with God every moment, no matter what is going on, and to have His Holy connection with each other and being one together, without spot or blemish.)  I was praying in tongues, and I saw that very soon we are all going to be so connected to God (we already are by faith but it will physically manifest), that we hear His voice extremely clear every moment, and we know it is Him without doubt and unbelief. That we will constantly be speaking to Him back and forth, more than we speak to any human, when awake and asleep our soul will be communing with Him just as the Holy Spirit does. That the flesh will be so suppressed and submissive to the Holy Spirit, and we will be so in tune with God, we know and obey what He wants with extreme joy in every moment, without complaint and without the flesh trying to stop us.   We will have such boldness to have Him speak through us, with no fear of man, or fear of rejection (these things that try to hinder us from being and living as Jesus won't even try to hinder us anymore.) That we will know 100% that He is in us, and all around us and we ARE one with Him. (Him literally here in this physical flesh and the flesh in agreement without hindrance.)    That we would know and be, living and breathing His Word, not from our own works but in His strength. It will be from His Spirit and Grace in our soul in our flesh. Every second we will know it is His Grace and we will rest beyond understanding, because we are in Him and Him in us no matter what is going on around us. Our soul will be fully content with this and nothing can stop it and the flesh will submit. That we will know Jesus' authority in us over the enemy, and the enemy will flee with one word or thought, because it's just Jesus in us. No more struggling with the flesh, but just being in Him.  That we can constantly freely praise and worship Him every moment with NO temptation to complain, murmur or doubt. That our soul is completely free to praise as the Holy Spirit does and free to worship God with our body, physically being submitted to doing ALL God wants.  All of this while on earth, and in this physical body. Alive in Christ. I saw that the brethren will be in complete unity, because of Jesus in them, and the enemy won't be able to get in the way of this oneness in Christ.    No jealousy, no pride, no rejection, no battles of the flesh; but pure Holy Love one to another, loving each other as we love our self, and serving each other as Christ serves. We will be one with no separation, no superiority, equal together in Christ. All different members, but all one body working together in unity, like the human body. So connected, it's as if we are reading each other's mind, and in agreement in our minds and souls and spirit, and the flesh is submitted. That everything flows perfectly because we all are constantly connected and in tune with God (and in tune with each other.)   That our Faith is complete with God, that we have not even a tiny doubt, and we know that what we ask, we immediately receive because it's Christ in us. That what we command and speak into the physical, is immediately manifested, because Jesus in us is communing with Father every second. The enemy doesn't even try his normal tactics of unclean thoughts and feelings, because he knows we won't even accept or look at it.  I knew that we will see and experience things we can't even imagine right now, but it is all for God's glory and it will be only Jesus in us. We can't do anything to make this happen, but have faith in His grace to do it through us for His Glory. EVERYTHING IS for Him! Now and forever!  (My husband prayed about this and heard:  “You are now in a new level of training. This is an exercise of the tests and application of My Word. Speak and hold to the miracles I have promised! Many are showing others who are younger in their walk to do this when in doubt or with little experience. See how one who prays and praises in faith, can move a miracle. Then others will try in their belief; suddenly the power will multiply and through many more people. It will spread and go beyond even the first person who prayed, leading by example. The effects go to areas and new heights where no one had even thought. It will go beyond the imagination or thoughts of impossibility. You (all) are My vessel. I will flow through you all as a Holy Army!”  (I landed on: ‘testifying' in 1Th 2:11) Praise the Lord - Forever! 

Peace and Prosperity IS For the Bride  (audio)  David Eells – 12/3/23  My Army, It Is Time We Are Moving Out   The Messenger – 444prophecynews.com  Endtimepropheticmessengers144k 11/25/23 (David's notes in red)  https://youtu.be/CjVmNxM6axM    (These two revelations are about the Man-child reformer ministry and the Bride who is raised up by them. They will be anointed to pick up the pieces after the Church and Babylon are judged.) My son, take these short words down for My Worthy First Fruits Harvesters to hear. My Worthy ones who are ready I am sending My SON, Jesus the Christ to come get you. You are more ready than most, and all of you have a working relationship with Me Your Father, The Creator, Your Abba, Jesus the Christ, My Anointed SON and My Holy Spirit.   Each in My Army, My Holy Spiritual marines are ready to go and do what I have called you to do. It is time it is go time, time to go.  My Worthy, you either know your assignments or will know very shortly, for each of you, I have had long talks with about many things. My Worthy, you have made yourselves ready says, Me, Your Father, Your Creator.  So I just wanted to say, get ready, gird yourselves, get into your posts for My Army, My Holy, ready Spiritual Army of My People My First Fruits are moving out. Get ready, training starts for most in a twinkling of an eye to learn what you will be required and need for the battlefield. Then I Your Father, Your Creator will turn you loose to bring My Wheat into My Barn. I love all of you, much peace love and joy to you, My Worthy, Your Holy Father, Your Creator.       Warning To The Bride  Endtimepropheticmessengers144k - 11/26/23 (David's notes in red)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlqpKyfaWNU    My daughter share this warning with those who have ears to hear. Catastrophic events warned of by many of My messengers are coming to your once great nation and world soon. Not one will be shielded from seeing the destruction. Destruction will come from the elements, fire and water primarily, but you will also experience earthquakes and volcanoes throughout your earth.  However, space will begin colliding with your once great nation and the world, like nothing you've ever witnessed in the past. Things will never go back to what you perceive as normal. Once these things start, the end of the earth as you've known it will begin. Disasters that have taken place in the past and recent past will not hold a candle to what is coming on your earth, My children. You will only have your memories of what once was.   There will be three days of darkness where My bride will be transformed into her new incorruptible body. During this time, she will be visible to others but they will clearly see the changes taking place in My bride. People will look on and off as My Bride puts on the new and discards the old. She will be given a new flesh that is not flesh as you would recognize flesh, an incorruptible flesh. She will be given heightened awareness into the spiritual realm. She will be one in thought with the entirety of My Bride and they will come together to receive their garments and their duties.  There are many to remain here on this earth whom My Bride will be in charge of turning toward their Creator. There will be evil and good hearts, and the good hearts will truly know their Father and will be able to see that My Bride is of Me and that the others are imposters.  My Bride are Spirit-filled believers that have emptied their flesh of this world and surrendered fully to Me. They are My warriors for this time and they will be warring for the hearts and minds of those left on this earth, to either eventually turn to Me or to take the mark of the beast. My Bride is very important and will lead many home to Me. When they see the imposters, when people see the imposters, they will think that they are part of My Bride. But people with Me in their hearts will quickly figure out the truth.  Warn people, the people of light (As they call themselves –  the New agers prophesying peace and safety. Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.) The people of light are truly dark and they are put on this earth to do nothing but deceive. There are very many believers who have never received My Holy Spirit or who have received My Holy Spirit but have quelled Him to where He has never been able to bring them along on their journey towards Me.  There are many who believe in Me but who have become entangled in false teachings and doctrines of men. They will not want to believe that this is the end. My Bride will have to educate them. There are millions and millions of people who know of Me but are seeking to know Me. My Bride will introduce her Groom. The job of the Bride will not be easy but she will be equipped with her new and glorious body filled with My supernatural light and love.   The imposters, though, children of light, will be children of darkness sent to confuse and mislead humans to choosing Satan as their father instead of their actual Father and Creator. These imposters will be arriving on the scene soon. Most of the people of the world are completely unaware of all that is to come and will be totally taken by surprise. Just remember, My children, that there is no man good. Do not be deceived. Come to Me in prayer for answers to all of your questions. The deceivers will try to place an imposter in front of you that is so real, if you did not know My Word, you would be fooled, but many will be fooled. This is why I must use My Bride to convince those that know of Me and just don't know Me or My Word, not to fall for this great deception. My children, I love you so.   My Bride must know she will remain protected until she reveals herself and her new incorruptible body. My Bride needs to be aware of what is coming. I have chosen some very unlikely vessels to be My Bride. Do not doubt your worthiness, My Bride, because no one is worthy but by the blood of the Lamb.   Prepare for battle My Bride. The Man-Child body of 144,000 mature men believers are the First Fruits of the Bride of Christ who will repeat the Life of Christ spiritually on Earth during the first half of the 7-year Tribulation. The disciples will reap the last harvest of souls during the second half.  (We also have had many Impostor Bride dreams.)      Judgment on the Apostate Church and DS Babylon Together David Eells – A day of the Lord is coming to judge those who have persecuted the Bride who are members of the dragon body of Satan who are from both the political and religious backgrounds. The Dragon was also the god of Babylon. We just received by faith at random two texts about the Judgment of the apostate Church leadership by Babylon DS in our morning prayer meeting as we have many times before in different texts: Jer 21:1-7 ASV  The word which came unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, when king Zedekiah sent unto him …  2  Inquire, I pray thee, of Jehovah for us; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon maketh war against us: peradventure Jehovah will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may go up from us.  3  Then said Jeremiah unto them, Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah:  4  Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans that besiege you, without the walls; and I will gather them into the midst of this city. (Babylon judged Apostate Jerusalem representing the apostate church leadership now to be judged. This also paves the way for the people to follow the reformers into the wilderness.)  5  And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation.  6  And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.  7  And afterward, saith Jehovah, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, even such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy. Jer 32:26-35  Then came the word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah, saying,  27  Behold, I am Jehovah, the God of all flesh: is there anything too hard for me?  28  Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will give this city (The apostate leadership) into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it:  29  and the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and set this city on fire, and burn it, with the houses, upon whose roofs they have offered incense unto Baal (The false Jesus), and poured out drink-offerings unto other gods, to provoke me to anger.  30  For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done only that which was evil in my sight from their youth; for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, saith Jehovah.  31  For this city hath been to me a provocation of mine anger and of my wrath from the day that they built it even unto this day; that I should remove it from before my face,  32  because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.  33  And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face: and though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction.  34  But they set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.  35  And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin. And I also received the Judgment of Babylon through Cyrus the Persian who was a type of Trump bringing down the DS. It is a Day of the Lord upon those who persecuted the Bride and those who ignored God's Word to do their own thing. Isa 13:1 ASV  The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see…6-19  Wail ye; for the day of Jehovah is at hand; as destruction from the Almighty shall it come.  7  Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every heart of man shall melt:  8  and they shall be dismayed; pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman in travail: they shall look in amazement one at another; their faces shall be faces of flame.  9  Behold, the day of Jehovah cometh, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy the sinners thereof out of it.  10  For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light; the sun shall be darkened in its going forth, and the moon shall not cause its light to shine.  11  And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity: and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.  12  I will make a man more rare than fine gold, even a man than the pure gold of Ophir.  13  Therefore I will make the heavens to tremble, and the earth shall be shaken out of its place, in the wrath of Jehovah of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.  14  And it shall come to pass, that as the chased roe, and as sheep that no man gathereth, they shall turn every man to his own people, and shall flee every man to his own land.  15  Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is taken shall fall by the sword.  16  Their infants also shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be rifled, and their wives ravished.  17  Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not regard silver, and as for gold, they shall not delight in it. (Cyrus and the Medo-Persians conquered Babylon as Trump will but at a terrible cost.) 18  And their bows shall dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.  19  And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. Also, forget the peace and prosperity for the world forever thing coming through the New Agers, Revelation, which they do not believe in, is coming now.  The Emergency Broadcast System is reported to activate to declass criminals when the Mainstream Media, Internet, Phones, ATMs shut down for Ten Days of Darkness while mass arrests of the criminal leaders goes on. These people have DEW weapons and weather warfare and earthquake weapons, plus invasions of Chinese and other anarchists across the border. (David - I believe this EBS will start soon. After the 10 days of media darkness, or more if necessary, I believe Trump will officially return and the Man-child ministry will spiritually resurrect and be restored and the out-resurrection will resurrect. The Man-child reformer ministry in whom Jesus lives by Word and Spirit, will come to power. God's recompence on the wicked is happening now, as we have seen, and continues. He will reward his Man-child and Bride bodies when He comes. Isa 62:11 ASV Behold, Jehovah hath proclaimed unto the end of the earth (This is world-wide), Say ye to the daughter of Zion (The Bride of our day), Behold, thy salvation cometh (Jesus means salvation); behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.  Isa 40:9-11 ASV O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion, get thee up on a high mountain; O thou that tellest good tidings to Jerusalem, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold, your God! 10 Behold, the Lord Jehovah will come as a mighty one (In the Man-child reformer ministries with signs and wonders), and his arm will rule for him: Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him. 11 He will feed his flock like a shepherd, he will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and will gently lead those that have their young. The Man-child ministry and Bride will lead God's people into the wilderness tribulation as Moses did. Cyrus was a type of Trump who will supply the needs for rebuilding of the Kingdom for those who escape Babylon.)  (Remember God's promises in times of lack. Mar 11:23-24 ASV  Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou taken up and cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that what he saith cometh to pass; he shall have it.  24  Therefore I say unto you, All things whatsoever ye pray and ask for, believe that ye received them, and ye shall have them. He also multiplies necessities for His people in the wilderness as Jesus did.)  It is reported that Project Odin Begins shortly with the new Starlink satellite system which will air the Emergency Broadcast System doing the declass movie during 10 Days of media darkness, X, The New (QFS) Financial System will be running. Then they say Trump officially returns.  It is reported that the Emergency Broadcast System will play an eight hour declass video three times a day for the ten days of darkness. Seven EBS text messages will be sent to all phones alerting the people to tune into TVs. The videos will detail Mass Arrests, Tribunals, Government Fraud & Corruption, plus pedophilia by Elites across the World. Satanists are running the trafficking of women and children. The people must see what they have been pledging allegiance to.)  During those ten days our Internet and phones will only work for 911 calls and Signal App. (They are telling everyone to get this.) ATM's will not work. After the ten days they say we will be connected to the new Quantum Internet. (Which can be accessed by new Q phones and computers being mass produced.)  QFS and Q Phone Set to Take Over! | Alternative | Before It's News (beforeitsnews.com) The DS Kazarian Mafia has worked so hard to stop all of this because it will put an end to their ability to plunder the world with their worthless dollar and crooked banking that is designed to be easy for them to manipulate. Expect war.)  Operation Disclosure Reports that: Around 1 Jan. all gold/asset-backed currencies across the Globe would be on par 1:1 with each other; in the US Social Security benefits will be much higher and the SS restitution and reparation fund payments (Which are considerable) would start on a monthly basis. (Ultimately only digital currency will be allowed, to make it easy for the mark of the beast when Christians will have to opt out or be a member of the beast.)  As of Mon. 20 Nov. US Government Bonds were now worthless, the Federal Reserve literally had no monies, any bank not ISO20022 compliant (Gold backed) was out of business and Banks were failing Worldwide.  Benjamin Fulford Trump to Declare Martial Law For Mass Arrests of Satanists (Video) | Alternative | Before It's News (beforeitsnews.com)  There must be a TEST and then a review of all OCCURRENCES and ACTIVITIES. The possible implications on a NATIONAL and GLOBAL level can be quite COMPLICATED so things must be in ALIGNMENT to the PROTOCOLS. Yes there are many consequences if things aren't done with PRECISION and perfection. This is the PRACTICE run before the REAL ONE to see responses and accuracy to what is FORTHCOMING which changes HUMANITY. (?) People are urged to stock up on at least a month of food and water, toilet paper, generators etc. After EBS and the 8 hours long 24 7, movies all will change. The life support attached to the old and EVIL systems will be pulled. Humanity and Planet Earth simultaneously move to QUANTUM reality consciousness system [PEACE and PROSPERITY]. (see note below) It's the end of financial and human consciousness enslavement. (Is this going to be like people who are honest will love AI control until some new leadership comes along, like the beast? So it's only as good as the people who program it?)  Old systems of GOVERNMENT, EDUCATION, FINANCE, HEALTH, TRADE and COMMERCE etc., will all be DISMANTLED and REPLACED.  We will have new currency called the USN US NOTE and GOLD backed.  It's all a great idea but there is just one problem. The wicked and the self-righteous moralizers need God and He says they never find Him in peace and prosperity so that would put us out of work. Isa 26:10-11 ASV Let favor be showed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness will he deal wrongfully, and will not behold the majesty of Jehovah. 11 Jehovah, thy hand is lifted up, yet they see not: but they shall see thy zeal for the people, and be put to shame; yea, fire shall devour thine adversaries. I.e., “Ye must be born again.” z   Jet Crash Catastrophe  Lana Galchenko 11/15/23 (David's notes in red)  In a dream, stood facing a large pasture that had a typical wooden cross fence around it. I saw a huge Boeing passenger plane coming toward me, it was taking off. (Representing the new economy and government taking over the (3) main factions of the US.) As the jet approached the fence, it started to lift its nose in order to clear the fence but couldn't do it and had to lift its nose straight up into the air. (The fence represents the things the elite satanists have erected to stop this QFS and declass from ruining them.) This made the Jet stand up like a shuttle and it stalled.  The jet started to fall backwards and split into two (lengthwise). (The two are the right and the left) Passengers began falling out onto the ground, screaming in terror. These same passengers then looked up in horror as the jet then split into three sections (lengthwise) and continued to slowly fall over backwards, directly onto them. (This will ruin what started out to be more than a survival of the economy spending all the DS's loot. The third separation is the Christians who were headed towards the wilderness without the other two sects.)  In the next scene about a dozen men, dressed in black suits with white dress shirts (The third separation? 12 is the number of the elect. 12 patriarch's, 12 tribes, 12 apostles, etc. Black suits could represent the church going Christians.) They were sitting around small tables. They seemed shaken and dazed, I understood they were rescued from the plane wreckage. So will this new economy and government last?  I think the interpretation is, the new economy and government will just clear the ground long enough for the kingdom people to get their share of the funds to rebuild the kingdom, which Cyrus' conquering of Babylon supplied. Then the other two factions of the right and the left world-wide and will separate and go to war as Rev 6 indicates. Rev 6:2-4 ASV  And I saw, and behold, a white horse, and he that sat thereon had a bow; and there was given unto him a crown: and he came forth conquering, and to conquer. (Jesus in the world wide Man-child reformer ministries.)  3  And when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, Come.  4  And another horse came forth, a red horse: and to him that sat thereon it was given to take peace from the earth, and that they should slay one another: and there was given unto him a great sword. After the Man-child ministry arrives the third group go into the wilderness tribulation where a place is prepared for them to escape the Dragon/serpent and learn from the Man-child reformers in Rev 12. Remember in Moses' case Egypt was destroyed.  This is what I have been feeling before this dream. The alliance has been hijacked by New Age people who have pushed their heaven on earth because they don't believe the book of Revelation, which warns of catastrophe and depopulation. They are claiming 1000 years of peace. Isa 57:21 ASV There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked. Many Christians will repent and will come out from among them and according to scripture will seek out the bride.  Isa 59:8-21 The way of peace they know not; and there is no justice in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whosoever goeth therein doth not know peace. 9 Therefore is justice far from us, neither doth righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity. 10 We grope for the wall like the blind; yea, we grope as they that have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among them that are lusty we are as dead men.   11 We roar all like bears, and moan sore like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us. 12 For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them: 13 transgressing and denying Jehovah, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. 14 And justice is turned away backward, and righteousness standeth afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness cannot enter. 15 Yea, truth is lacking; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey. And Jehovah saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.  16 And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his own arm brought salvation unto him (Jesus is the arm of the Lord in Isaiah 53 and will come in a body of the spiritual son of David, the Man-child bodies.); and his righteousness, it upheld him. 17 And he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle. 18 According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompense. 19 So shall they fear the name of Jehovah from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come as a rushing stream, which the breath of Jehovah driveth. 20 And a Redeemer will come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith Jehovah.   21 And as for me, this is my covenant with them (The Bride, Zion), saith Jehovah: my Spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seeds seed, saith Jehovah, from henceforth and forever.  Isa 60:1-22 ASV Arise, shine (Bride); for thy light is come, and the glory of Jehovah is risen upon thee. 2 For, behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the peoples; but Jehovah will arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. 3 And nations shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising. 4 Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: they all gather themselves together, they come to thee; thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be carried in the arms. 5 Then thou shalt see and be radiant, and thy heart shall thrill and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be turned unto thee, the wealth of the nations shall come unto thee.  (The Bride) 6 The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come; they shall bring gold and frankincense, and shall proclaim the praises of Jehovah. 7 All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee; they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar; and I will glorify the house of my glory. 8 Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows? 9 Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, for the name of Jehovah thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.   10 And foreigners shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favor have I had mercy on thee. 11 Thy gates also shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the wealth of the nations, and their kings led captive. 12 For that nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted. 13 The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir-tree, the pine, and the box-tree together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.   14 And the sons of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee The city of Jehovah, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel. 15 Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man passed through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations. 16 Thou shalt also suck the milk of the nations, and shalt suck the breast of kings; and thou shalt know that I, Jehovah, am thy Saviour, and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob. 17 For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron. I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness.   18 Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, desolation nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise. 19 The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but Jehovah will be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. 20 Thy sun shall no more go down, neither shall thy moon withdraw itself; for Jehovah will be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended. 21 Thy people also shall be all righteous; they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified. 22 The little one shall become a thousand, and the small one a strong nation; I, Jehovah, will hasten it in its time.  Once again we see Jesus in the Man-childs message. Isa 61:1-11 ASV The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon me; because Jehovah hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; 2 to proclaim the year of Jehovah's favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; 3 to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Jehovah, that he may be glorified.   4 And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations. 5 And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners shall be your plowmen and your vine-dressers.  6 But ye shall be named the priests of Jehovah; men shall call you the ministers of our God: ye shall eat the wealth of the nations, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves. 7 Instead of your shame ye shall have double; and instead of dishonor they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess double; everlasting joy shall be unto them. 8 For I, Jehovah, love justice, I hate robbery with iniquity; and I will give them their recompense in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.   9 And their seed shall be known among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples; all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which Jehovah hath blessed. 10 I will greatly rejoice in Jehovah, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with a garland, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels. 11 For as the earth bringeth forth its bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord Jehovah will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.  Isa 62:1-12 ASV For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until her righteousness go forth as brightness, and her salvation as a lamp that burneth. 2 And the nations shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory, and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of Jehovah shall name. 3 Thou shalt also be a crown of beauty in the hand of Jehovah, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God. 4 Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah-bah, and thy land Beulah; for Jehovah delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.   Once again we see Jesus in the Man-childs message. 5 For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee; and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee. 6 I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that are Jehovah's remembrancers, take ye no rest, 7 and give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth. 8 Jehovah hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy grain to be food for thine enemies; and foreigners shall not drink thy new wine, for which thou hast labored:   9 but they that have garnered it shall eat it, and praise Jehovah; and they that have gathered it shall drink it in the courts of my sanctuary. 10 Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up an ensign for the peoples. 11 Behold, Jehovah hath proclaimed unto the end of the earth, (Once again we see Jesus in the Man-childs message world-wide.) Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him. 12 And they shall call them The holy people, The redeemed of Jehovah: and thou shalt be called Sought out, A city not forsaken.  Once again we see Jesus in the Man-childs message. Isa 63:1-6 ASV Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? (The Edomite sheepfold who hated their chosen brother.) this that is glorious in his apparel, marching in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save. 2 Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winevat? 3 I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the peoples there was no man with me: yea, I trod them in mine anger, and trampled them in my wrath; and their lifeblood is sprinkled upon my garments, and I have stained all my raiment. 4 For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my redeemed is come. 5 And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm (Jesus in the Man-child body by Word and Spirit)  brought salvation unto me; and my wrath, it upheld me. 6 And I trod down the peoples in mine anger, and made them drunk in my wrath, and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.   Isa 64:1-4 ASV Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, (Jesus) that the mountains might quake at thy presence, 2 as when fire kindleth the brushwood, and the fire causeth the waters to boil; to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence! 3 When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains quaked at thy presence. 4 For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen a God besides thee, who worketh for him that waiteth for him.  Isa 9:1-21 But there shall be no gloom to her that was in anguish.(the Bride) In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; but in the latter time hath he made it glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations. 2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined. 3 Thou hast multiplied the nation, thou hast increased their joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the spoil. 4 For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, thou hast broken as in the day of Midian. 5 For all the armor of the armed man in the tumult, and the garments rolled in blood, shall be for burning, for fuel of fire.  6 For unto us a child is born, (The birth of Jesus as a type of Jesus in the Man-child ministry) unto us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from henceforth even forever. The zeal of Jehovah of hosts will perform this…   14 Therefore Jehovah will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm-branch and rush, in one day. 15 The elder and the honorable man, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail. 16 For they that lead this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed. 17 Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is profane and an evil-doer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still…   Isa 66:5-24 Hear the word of Jehovah, ye that tremble at his word: Your brethren that hate you, that cast you out for my name's sake, have said, Let Jehovah be glorified, that we may see your joy; but it is they that shall be put to shame. 6 A voice of tumult from the city (Jerusalem the Bride), a voice from the temple, a voice of Jehovah that rendereth recompense to his enemies. 7 Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man-child. 8 Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day? shall a nation be brought forth at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.   9 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith Jehovah: shall I that cause to bring forth shut the womb? saith thy God. 10 Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn over her; 11 that ye may suck and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory. 12 For thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream: and ye shall suck thereof; ye shall be borne upon the side, and shall be dandled upon the knees. 13 As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.   14 And ye shall see it, and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like the tender grass: and the hand of Jehovah shall be known toward his servants; and he will have indignation against his enemies. 15 For, behold, Jehovah will come with fire, and his chariots shall be like the whirlwind; to render his anger with fierceness, and his rebuke with flames of fire. 16 For by fire will Jehovah execute judgment, and by his sword, upon all flesh; and the slain of Jehovah shall be many. 17 They that sanctify themselves and purify themselves to go unto the gardens, behind one in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, they shall come to an end together, saith Jehovah.   18 For I know their works and their thoughts: the time cometh, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and shall see my glory. 19 And I will set a sign among them, and I will send such as escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the nations. 20 And they shall bring all your brethren out of all the nations for an oblation unto Jehovah, upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith Jehovah, as the children of Israel bring their oblation in a clean vessel into the house of Jehovah. 21 And of them also will I take for priests and for Levites, saith Jehovah…   (This is a text I received by faith at random. It is the destruction of Babylon by Cyrus as a type of Trump destroying the DS Babylon.) Isa 13:1-22 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see. 2 Set ye up an ensign upon the bare mountain, lift up the voice unto them, wave the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles. 3 I have commanded my consecrated ones, yea, I have called my mighty men for mine anger, even my proudly exulting ones. 4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, as of a great people! the noise of a tumult of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! Jehovah of hosts is mustering the host for the battle. 5 They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even Jehovah, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land. 6 Wail ye; for the day of Jehovah is at hand; as destruction from the Almighty shall it come. 7 Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every heart of man shall melt: 8 and they shall be dismayed; pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman in travail: they shall look in amazement one at another; their faces shall be faces of flame. 9 Behold, the day of Jehovah cometh, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy the sinners thereof out of it.   10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light; the sun shall be darkened in its going forth, and the moon shall not cause its light to shine. 11 And I will punish the world for their evil (DS Babylon was over the whole world.), and the wicked for their iniquity: and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. 12 I will make a man more rare than fine gold, even a man than the pure gold of Ophir. 13 Therefore I will make the heavens to tremble, and the earth shall be shaken out of its place, in the wrath of Jehovah of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.   14 And it shall come to pass, that as the chased roe, and as sheep that no man gathereth, they shall turn every man to his own people, and shall flee every man to his own land. 15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is taken shall fall by the sword. 16 Their infants also shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be rifled, and their wives ravished. 17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not regard silver, and as for gold, they shall not delight in it. 18 And their bows shall dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.   19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. 20 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall shepherds make their flocks to lie down there. 21 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and ostriches shall dwell there, and wild goats shall dance there. 22 And wolves shall cry in their castles, and jackals in the pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.  Isa 40:1-5 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. 2 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem (the Bride); and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she hath received of Jehovah's hand double for all her sins. 3 The voice of one that crieth, Prepare ye in the wilderness the way of Jehovah; make level in the desert a highway for our God. 4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain: 5 and the glory of Jehovah shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken it.   9-11 O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion, get thee up on a high mountain; O thou that tellest good tidings to Jerusalem, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold, your God! 10 Behold, the Lord Jehovah will come as a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him: Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him. 11 He will feed his flock like a shepherd, he will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and will gently lead those that have their young.  Zec 9:9-17 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy king cometh unto thee; he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, even upon a colt the foal of an ass. (Typeing Jesus first coming to our day.) 10 And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow shall be cut off; and he shall speak peace unto the nations: and his dominion shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth. 11 As for thee also, because of the blood of thy covenant I have set free thy prisoners from the pit wherein is no water.  12 Turn you to the stronghold, ye prisoners of hope: even to-day do I declare that I will render double unto thee. 13 For I have bent Judah for me, I have filled the bow with Ephraim; and I will stir up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece (The Alexander Beast follows Media-Persia of Cyrus but shall fall also.), and will make thee as the sword of a mighty man. 14 And Jehovah shall be seen over them; and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning; and the Lord Jehovah will blow the trumpet, and will go with whirlwinds of the south. 15 Jehovah of hosts will defend them; and they shall devour, and shall tread down the sling-stones; and they shall drink, and make a noise as through wine; and they shall be filled like bowls, like the corners of the altar. 16 And Jehovah their God will save them in that day as the flock of his people; for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted on high over his land. 17 For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! grain shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.  Isa 35:1-10 The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. (Fruit will be born in the wilderness tribulation) 2 It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing; the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon: they shall see the glory of Jehovah, the excellency of our God. 3 Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. 4 Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God; he will come and save you.  5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. 6 Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing; for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. 7 And the glowing sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water: in the habitation of jackals, where they lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes. 8 And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but is shall be for the redeemed: the wayfaring men, yea fools, shall not err therein.  9 No lion shall be there, nor shall any ravenous beast go up thereon; they shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there: 10 and the ransomed of Jehovah shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.  Mal 4:1-6 For, behold, the day cometh, it burneth as a furnace; and all the proud, and all that work wickedness, shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith Jehovah of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. 2 But unto you that fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings; and ye shall go forth, and gambol as calves of the stall. 3 And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make, saith Jehovah of hosts.   The Spiritual City of God Restored  Vision given to Cheri Watson - 07/06/2005  (David's notes in red)     I had a vision of a castle, with a city surrounding it, suspended just above a mountain in a layer of clouds. The mountain and the city were enshrouded/surrounded by darkness (the mountain and city were black in color in the vision...but it feels more like a presence than a color). I had the feeling that the city would soon touch down onto the mountain...its resting place.  This vision was fulfilled in Jesus' day before God's spiritual city was destroyed and the people taken captive to Babylonish religion and now it is about to be restored as promised. This city and mountain are "heavenly", not physical, for they cannot "be touched". (Heb.12:18} For ye are not come unto [a mount] that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, (19) and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which [voice] they that heard entreated that no word more should be spoken unto them; (20) for they could not endure that which was enjoined, If even a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned; (21) and so fearful was the appearance, [that] Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake: (22) but ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels, (23) to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,  As in Jesus' day spiritual Zion was the firstborn church, meaning "called out ones", so in our day will God call out of Babylon a firstborn. "The things that have been are the things that shall be". The coming "castle" of David's dominion, which is Christ in the body of his "firstborn”, or first-fruits, will soon be established in God's capitol city on the mountain representing His kingdom on earth (see also "Throne on Mt. Zion" below). As in Jesus' day, it will be shrouded in darkness to the world and seen by few of God's people who have only earthly eyes to see. This is a place of safety from the invading beast kingdom.   (Eze.34:22) therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between sheep and sheep. (23) And I will set up one (corporate) shepherd (the man-child) over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd. (24) And I, Jehovah, will be their God, and my servant David prince among them; I, Jehovah, have spoken it. (25) And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil beasts to cease out of the land; and they shall dwell securely in the wilderness (tribulation), and sleep in the woods.   (26) And I will make them and the places round about my hill (of Zion) a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in its season; there shall be showers of blessing. (27) And the tree of the field (God's people) shall yield its fruit, and the earth shall yield its increase, and they shall be secure in their land; and they shall know that I am Jehovah, when I have broken the bars of their yoke (free from bondage to the flesh), and have delivered them out of the hand of those that made bondmen of them (their carnal man). (28) And they shall no more be a prey to the nations, neither shall the beasts of the earth devour them (safe from the beast); but they shall dwell securely, and none shall make them afraid.  In my quiet time I felt impressed of the Spirit to read Isaiah 62:11 which says, "Behold, Jehovah hath proclaimed unto the end of the earth, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him". I had the whole passage underlined so I read the whole passage...10-12 which reads... "Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up an ensign for the peoples. Behold, Jehovah hath proclaimed unto the end of the earth, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him. And they shall call them The holy people, The redeemed of Jehovah: and thou shalt be called Sought out, A city not forsaken".  Just as Jesus did in His day, He will do through the first-fruits in our day. He will make the path to the spiritual City of God, called "the spirits of just men made perfect", plain and the stones of stumbling will be removed through the teaching of the pure unleavened bread of the Word. Then many more will travel the holy road from spiritual Babylon to the "daughter of Zion". She is called the "daughter" because she is the firstborn of original New Testament Zion in Jesus' day.  I felt the need to agree with my Father to walk through the gate so in my mind I imagined a gate in front of me that was opened. It was dark on the other side and I was a little afraid of the darkness but I determined to walk through the gate anyway.  We cannot walk by sight for we have never been this way before. The way is enshrouded in darkness to the natural man. Jesus said, "I am the way". After two millennia of apostasy, to walk in His steps is to be the first-fruits who will show the multitudes "the way" to enter Zion. Through the faith of "Praise" we must enter the "gates" of the fullness of "Salvation" where we will find safety and peace. (Isa.60:18) Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, desolation nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise. {19} The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but Jehovah will be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. Notice that when we walk in the City of God our light is no longer to be the light of the natural man but the light of God, which only the spiritual man knows.  As I stepped through the gate I went into a free fall. I was not afraid at all...I had given myself completely over to my Father. As I fell I felt peace and I felt a fullness that I can't explain. I extended out my arms and as I did they turned into wings and I became an eagle.   To enter that city through faith is to overcome the earthly, natural forces, which cause man to gravitate towards the world and its ways.  I flew to the top portion of a mountain and there I found a nest with eggs in it. I was told to 'sit and nurture the eggs', so I sat. I felt unqualified to do so, but I was completely satisfied in knowing that it was all about Him, NOT me. He was in control. I think the best way to explain how I felt was that it was probably kind of how Moses felt when the Lord told him he was to speak to and lead the Israelites through the desert...  To be an overcomer by God's grace of all that is earthly now is to be prepared to birth others into Zion in the time to come.    Throne on Mount Zion  David Eells   Jeremiah tells us of a spiritual capital city and throne for spiritual Israel, the church. (Jer.3:12) Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel... In this text God is commanding His backslidden people to come out of Babylon in the north. For God's people to live in Babylon instead of Zion was a type of the backslidden state of bondage to the harlot that the church has been in for almost 2000 years. Jeremiah cries for God's people to come out from among them. (14) Return, O backsliding children, saith Jehovah; for I am a husband unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion. Notice that at first only a first-fruits bride is taken from among the backslidden multitudes and joined with her "husband" on His throne in Zion. When this happens all of the New Jerusalem is the throne for the Bride to sit in. (17) At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem. Notice that after the bride sits in her throne "all the nations" (Hebrew: Gentiles) of the elect church will be gathered out of Babylon to submit to their true spiritual capitol city, the New Jerusalem.  The mountain of Zion represents the true kingdom of God, the true church, whereas the New Jerusalem Bride sits on top of Mt. Zion because she is over the rest of the church in the throne. It was revealed to Pastor Shelley that "The Throne of God, the Throne Room, His true Presence is on top of Mt. Zion". As spiritual Jews, the Church, is called to grow up out of the "falsehood" of religion and enter into the Mt. Zion of "a pure heart", "truth", and holiness. (Ps.24:3) Who shall ascend into the hill of Jehovah? And who shall stand in his holy place? (4) He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; Who hath not lifted up his soul unto falsehood... (15:1) Jehovah, who shall sojourn in thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell in thy holy hill? (2) He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, And speaketh truth in his heart... Notice that the church enters "into" the hill of Zion, however the King, His Bride and His throne are "upon" the hill of Zion. (Ps.2:6) Yet I have set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.  This spiritual Mt. Zion and its city are not physical and cannot be touched by carnal man. (Heb.12:18) For ye are not come unto [a mount] that might be touched... When the church was full of apostolic teaching and the Holy Spirit they submitted to the spiritual city of God. (22) but ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels, (23) to the general assembly and church of the firstborn, who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect. Notice that "mount Zion" and "heavenly Jerusalem" are called the "church of the firstborn". Church is from the Greek word "ekklesia" meaning "called out ones". "The firstborn" in Paul's day were being called out of Babylonish religion to this holy mountain and city as we are today. Shortly after this verse was written the church was taken captive to Babylon, having been led astray by the wolves into all sorts of sectarian, religious bondages. A first fruits company is coming back to Zion in these days.  The church's position on earth is in the spiritual, heavenly, New Jerusalem. However, our position is what is given to us at the cross and not necessarily what we have attained to on earth. For instance; "We have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ" but we are told "this is the will of God, even your sanctification...that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor". What we are given at the cross is ours to manifest by faith or to reject. Like the early church, we are born at the foot of Mt. Zion but are quickly led away captive by the lies of Babylonish religion.   (Ps.58:3) The wicked are estranged from the womb: They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies. Instead of climbing the mountain and entering the throne room of the authority of God we go astray. (Isa.53:6) All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned everyone to his own way...  The reason we are hesitant to climb the mountain is because it is holy and represents death to the flesh. (Ex.19:12)... Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death. Moses as the man-child climbed the mountain and heard the Word directly from God, which spiritually put him to death. (Ex.20:19) And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die.   God was weak to the weak in that He put His Word in flesh. Moses as the man-child climbed the mountain and became a pure vessel to bring the Word of God to His people. If we humbly turn and submit to the pure Word from the mountain we will have His throne authority. (Rev.3:21) He that overcometh, I will give to him to sit down with me in my throne...  Notice once again what Paul said. (Heb.12:22,23) ye are come unto... the heavenly Jerusalem... the spirits of just men made perfect. Clearly, while we are in the old body on earth only our spiritual man is being perfected into "the heavenly Jerusalem". We manifest the "New Jerusalem" here as our spirit and soul are born of the Spirit. John said that the city "cometh down out of heaven" in his day as the saints overcame sin. (Rev.3:12) He that overcometh, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go out thence no more: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the New Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God, and mine own new name. The word "cometh" here is spoken to the church in John's day. It is present tense in the ancient manuscripts, the Received Text, and the numeric pattern.   Only the King James falsely translates it "shall come". The New Jerusalem bride "cometh down out of heaven" now in spirit and soul as it becomes born of the bread of the Word. Jesus said: (Jn.6:33) For the bread of God is that which cometh down out of heaven, and giveth life unto the world... Notice that both the "New Jerusalem" and the "bread of God" "cometh down out of heaven". (51) I am the living bread which came down out of heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever. As each saint is being born out of heaven by consuming Jesus, the Word, the holy city is coming down. (Jn.3:3) Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except one be born anew (Greek: "from above"), he cannot see the kingdom of God.  As long as the "New Jerusalem" is only manifested in spirit and soul it is invisible to the creation, which only sees the outer man. (Rom.8:19)... the creation waiteth for the revealing of the sons of God. "Revealing" here in the Greek means the "uncovering". This means the New Jerusalem sons are here but hidden. The full revealing of the sons is seen at "the redemption of our body" (23). We are now being born from above, first spirit, then soul, and then body at the end.   The bride with her new body will be seen by the creation as they are "coming down out of heaven" with Jesus at the end of the day of the Lord. (Rev.21:9) Come hither, I will show thee the bride, the wife of the Lamb. (10) And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God. The bride will manifestly be the "holy city Jerusalem", which the whole church was given by position in Christ when He was resurrected. Sadly, many are selling their birthright by walking after the flesh.  Rev 21:2-8 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband… 5 And he that sitteth on the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he saith, Write: for these words are faithful and true… 7 He that overcometh shall inherit these things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. 8 But for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part shall be in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.   Rev 22:12-21 Behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to render to each man according as his work is. 13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end. 14 Blessed are they that wash their robes, that they may have the right to come to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city. 15 Without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one that loveth and maketh a lie. 16 I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things for the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright, the morning star.   17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And he that heareth, let him say, Come. And he that is athirst, let him come: he that will, let him take the water of life freely. 18 I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto them, God shall add unto him the plagues which are written in this book: 19 and if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the tree of life, and out of the holy city, which are written in this book. 20 He who testifieth these things saith, Yea: I come quickly. Amen: come, Lord Jesus. 21 The grace of the Lord Jesus be with the saints. Amen.     

Apostate Church Witchcraft (1)  (audio) David Eells - 11/26/23  Merchants of Babylon  David Eells  In the book of Revelation, only those that have the mark of the beast can buy and sell. (Rev. 13:17) No man should be able to buy or to sell, save he that hath the mark, [even] the name of the beast or the number of his name. But they will not escape God's wrath in the near future. (Isa. 24:1) Behold, Jehovah maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. (2) And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest to him. (3) The earth shall be utterly emptied, and utterly laid waste; for Jehovah hath spoken this word.  For the true meaning in this parable of buying and selling we must look for the hidden manna. (Rev. 2:17) He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. To him that overcometh, to him will I give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and upon the stone a new name written, which no one knoweth but he that receiveth it. See also (Lk. 10:21). In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou didst hide these things from the wise and understanding, and didst reveal them unto babes: yea, Father; for so it was well-pleasing in thy sight.  The letter kills but the spirit gives life. (2 Cor. 3:6) who also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. Jesus spoke spirit during his ministry to the disciples. (Jn. 6:53) Jesus therefore said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, ye have not life in yourselves; (63) It is the spirit that giveth life; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I have spoken unto you are spirit, are life.   The Book of Revelation is called the testimony of Jesus. (Rev. 1:2) who bare witness of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, [even] of all things that he saw; (9) I John, your brother and partaker with you in tribulation and kingdom and patience [which are] in Jesus, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. (19:10) And I fell down before his feet to worship him. And he saith unto me, See thou do it not: I am a fellow-servant with thee and with thy brethren that hold the testimony of Jesus: worship God; for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy for which the saints are killed by the false prophets who only see the letter.   (20:4) And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and [I saw] the souls of them that had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as worshipped not the beast, neither his image, and received not the mark upon their forehead and upon their hand; and they lived, and reigned with Christ a thousand years. "Revelation" means an uncovering or unveiling and it is the spirit, not the letter, that does this! It is a sign (Rev. 1:1) The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, [even] the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified [it] by his angel unto his servant John; (2) who bare witness of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, [even] of all things that he saw.  The ones who "bought and sold" were destroyed by the fire in Lot's day. (Lk. 17:28) Likewise even as it came to pass in the days of Lot; they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; (29) but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Paul taught that those who do evil are "sold under sin". (Rom. 7:14) For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. (15) For that which I do I know not: for not what I would, that do I practice; but what I hate, that I do. Ahab, a type of the beast, sold his soul to do evil at the instigation of the Harlot Jezebel. (1 Ki. 21:25) But there was none like unto Ahab, who did sell himself to do that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, Jezebel his wife stirred up. (20) And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee, because thou hast sold thyself to do that which is evil in the sight of Jehovah.  In 2 Kings 17:17 those that worshiped the Image of the beast sold themselves and caused their children to go through fire. And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger. (18) Therefore Jehovah was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.   Many in these days are like "Esau, who for one mess of meat (following after flesh) sold his own birthright" (Heb. 12:16) and was rejected. (17) For ye know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected (Greek: reprobate); for he found no place for a change of mind [in his father,] though he sought it diligently with tears.  Jesus rejected those in the temple (Christians in the New Testament) who bought and sold. (Mk. 11:15) And they come to Jerusalem: and he entered into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and them that bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of them that sold the doves. The foolish virgins missed the Lord because they went to buy from them that sold. (Mt. 25:10) And while they went away to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage feast: and the door was shut. They obviously were used to dealing with the hirelings, the "merchants of Babylon".  Jesus told his ministers "freely you have received, freely give. Get you no gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses" (Mt. 10:8-9). They had to walk by faith, with no salaries, no corruption. You can't hire God's ministers but then you can't fire them either. Some will say "Buy the truth and sell it not" (Pr. 23:23) but the truth cannot be bought with money. (Isa. 55:1) Ho, everyone that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. (2) Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which satisfieth not? Hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. (3) Incline your ear, and come unto me; hear, and your soul shall live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.   If the truth could be bought with money, the rich would have an unfair advantage, which contradicts what Jesus said: (Mt. 19:23) Verily I say unto you, It is hard for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven. (24) And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. We can only buy the truth with the cost of our own life and way. (Jn. 7:17) If any man willeth to do his will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it is of God, or [whether] I speak from myself. Peter said, "Thy silver perish with thee because thou hast thought to obtain the gift of God with money." (Acts 8:20)  To buy a lie, you must sell your soul. In a way, all those who buy and sell the merchandise (teaching, thinking, actions) of Babylon (apostate religion) are the merchants of Babylon. (Rev. 18:11) And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, for no man buyeth their merchandise anymore; (15) The merchants of these things, who were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and mourning. The rich young ruler was bribed (bought) by materialism to not follow Jesus.   Many buy convenient Babylonish doctrines like this and sell their eternal lives. (Lk. 14:18) And they all with one [consent] began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a field, and I must needs go out and see it; I pray thee have me excused. (19) And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them; I pray thee have me excused. (Mt. 13:22) And he that was sown among the thorns, this is he that heareth the word; and the care of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful. They sell their soul for the pleasures of sin for a season. The treasures of Egypt are worth more than the reproach of Christ to them. (Heb 11:25) choosing rather to share ill treatment with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; (26) accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt: for he looked unto the recompense of reward.   We must sell our worldly life to buy our heavenly life, which is made possible by the sacrifice of Jesus' life. The body of Christ was sacrificed so that the corporate body of Christ would have power to sacrifice their lives. (Mt. 16:24) Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. (25) For whosoever would save his life shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake shall find it. (26) For what shall a man be profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his life? Riches will soon be worth nothing but wrath.   (Eze. 7:12) The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof; (19) They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Jehovah: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels; because it hath been the stumbling block of their iniquity. (20) As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty; but they made the images of their abominations [and] their detestable things therein: therefore have I made it unto them as an unclean thing. (Rev. 6:6) And I heard as it were a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, A measure of wheat for a shilling, and three measures of barley for a shilling; and the oil and the wine hurt thou not.  One reason there is such an emphasis on buying and selling is because Christians don't obey God's word and walk by faith in the area of giving and receiving. Jesus commanded us to "give and it shall be given unto you, good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, shall they give into your bosom" (Lk. 6:38). An opportunity to give is an opportunity to receive it back multiplied or it is an opportunity to sit on or eat the seed. God gives to us not to make us rich but to "multiply your seed for sowing" (2 Cor. 9:10). (2 Cor. 9:6) He that soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly, and he that soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. God follows this with this promise: (8) And God is able to make all grace abound with you, that you having always all sufficiency in everything may abound unto every good work).  On the other hand, he that sits on or eats his seed will have to buy and sell because he is disobedient and has no faith. This is where the merchants of Babylon are. They make "the Father's house a house of merchandise" (Jn. 2:16) when they peddle the word for salaries like the world. Peddling books, tapes, trinkets, chicken dinners, tours, etc., is the way of the world and for those who have an impoverished God. They make "merchandise of the word of God" (2 Cor. 2:17 in Greek). Why would anyone who believed the above promises do this? When a person is not sent by God he does not have faith that God shall supply every need (Phl. 4:19). Where God sends, He supplies. Without God's supernatural supply, people have to resort to other tactics to support "their ministry", like buying and selling.  Another tactic these ministers use is to put God's people under the law to support them when the scripture clearly states that our giving is "not of necessity" (2 Cor. 9:7). Let each man do according as he has purposed in his heart (not according to law); not grudgingly, or of necessity (not according to law), for God loveth a cheerful giver. In the New Testament, God wants an offering from the heart from those born of His Spirit. God made the Old Covenant with the Jews, not the church. If a doctrine like tithing is not in the new covenant, then it was never made with you!   Jesus, rebuking those under the Old Covenant, said "Woe unto you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye tithe mint and anise and cumin (even their seasoning), and have left undone the weightier matters of the law, Justice and mercy, and faith: but these you ought to have done (past tense in all ancient manuscripts and the Received Text) and not to have left the other undone" (Mt. 23:23). Jesus said tithing was of the law and in the past. Some say tithing was before the law. Yes, circumcision and animal sacrifice were before the law too but they were included in the law, and we are not under law to do them anymore. Paul also said tithing was of the law. (Heb. 7:5) And they indeed of the sons of Levi that receive the priest's office have commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though these have come out of the loins of Abraham: (6) but he whose genealogy is not counted from them hath taken tithes of Abraham, and hath blessed him that hath the promises.   (7) But without any dispute the less is blessed of the better. (8) And here men that die receive tithes; but there one, of whom it is witnessed that he liveth. (9) And, so to say, through Abraham even Levi, who receiveth tithes, hath paid tithes; (10) for he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchizedek met him. (11) Now if there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for under it hath the people received the law), what further need [was there] that another priest should arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be reckoned after the order of Aaron?   There is no New Testament command or request to tithe because we are no longer stewards of ten percent. Jesus taught that we have to renounce ownership of the other ninety percent or we cannot be his disciple. (Lk. 14:33) So therefore whosoever he be of you that renounceth not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple. "All" here means all possessions, rights, and will.   We even must renounce "our" doctrine! It must be the Lord's doctrine. Since we have the Spirit we don't need a law; we are under the law of the Spirit. (Rom. 8:2) For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death. The Spirit will tell where to give and how much and to whom. If everyone gave according to the Spirit the kingdoms of men would crumble and true ministers would be supported.   A person who is under the tithing law robs God because he will disobey the Spirit's command to meet the needs of the brethren around him in order to bring his "tithes into the storehouse", which to them is usually an apostate religious system that won't meet the brethren's needs. The storehouse in the Old Covenant was in the temple. (1 Kings 7:51) Thus all the work that king Solomon wrought in the house of Jehovah was finished. And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated, [even] the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of the house of Jehovah...   In the New Testament the storehouse is in the people, who are His temple. (Mt. 25:34) Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: (35) for I was hungry, and ye gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in; (36) naked, and ye clothed me; I was sick, and ye visited me; I was in prison, and ye came unto me. (37) Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungry, and fed thee? or athirst, and gave thee drink? (38) And when saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? (39) And when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? (40) And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of these my brethren, [even] these least, ye did it unto me.   (41) Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels: (42) for I was hungry, and ye did not give me to eat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink;(43) I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. (44) Then shall they also answer, saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungry, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?  (45) Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, In as much as ye did it not unto one of these least, ye did it not unto me. (46) And these shall go away into eternal punishment: but the righteous into eternal life. You see we are called to meet the needs of the brethren. (1Jn. 3:16) Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. (17) But whoso hath the world's goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him?   Giving according to the Spirit causes one to fulfill the law without being under the law. (Mt. 5:17) Think not that I came to destroy the law or the prophets: I came not to destroy, but to fulfil. (18) For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass away from the law, till all things be accomplished. For instance, a person who gives bountifully will fulfill the ten percent and more, but they do it from the heart and are not seeking to earn God's approval as those under the law. We are not righteous before God when we attempt to please Him by the law, whether tithes, observing the Sabbath, circumcision, abstaining from meats, etc.   (Gal. 2:16) yet knowing that a man is not justified (Greek: accounted righteous) by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified and (3:11) Now that no man is justified by the law before God, is evident: for, The righteous shall live by faith. If we rest every day from our own works we certainly fulfill the Sabbath, without being under the letter of the law.  The righteousness of the law is self-righteousness because it is powered by self but "The righteous shall live from faith" (Gal. 3:11). When ministers of Babylon put you under the law they separate you from God's righteousness and bring you under a curse. Except your righteousness shall exceed that of the scribes and Pharisees (law of tithe included), you shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven (Mt. 5:20). The law is "a yoke of bondage". (Gal. 5:1-3) For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage. Behold, I Paul say unto you, that, if ye receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing. Yea, I testify again to every man that receiveth circumcision (or tithing, Sabbath, meats, etc.) that he is a debtor to do the whole law.  If you are under any part of the law you are under the curse of having to keep the whole law and since that is impossible you are separated from Christ. (Gal. 3:10) For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse: for it is written, Cursed is everyone who continueth not in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them. (5:4) Ye are severed from Christ ye who would be justified by the law; ye are fallen away from grace. Notice: those who put you under the law cut you off from Christ and grace. You cannot hear the voice of Christ and the voice of the law at the same time. "You are not under the law" (5:18).   The merchants of Babylon say, "you are not under the law", when they are talking about obedience to the word, but "bring your tithes into the storehouse," when they talk of money? "In covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you" (2 Pet. 2:3). In verse one of this text we are told this is the false prophets and teachers who bring in destructive heresies (law) and deny Jesus. They deny Jesus by separating Him from His body. "Forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam... who loved the hire of wrong doing" (15).  Friends, if you know a minister, one of the few, who walks by faith and freely gives the true doctrine of God, support him as the scriptures teach. (1 Cor. 9:6) Or I only and Barnabas, have we not a right to forbear working? (7) What soldier ever serveth at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not the fruit thereof? Or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? (8) Do I speak these things after the manner of men? or saith not the law also the same? (9) For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. Is it for the oxen that God careth,   (10) or saith he it assuredly for our sake? Yea, for our sake it was written: because he that ploweth ought to plow in hope, and he that thresheth, [to thresh] in hope of partaking. (11) If we sowed unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we shall reap your carnal things? (12) If others partake of [this] right over you, do not we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right; but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ. (13) Know ye not that they that minister about sacred things eat [of] the things of the temple, [and] they that wait upon the altar have their portion with the altar? The Word will be our judge as to whether we are buying and selling with the world.   Witchcraft In Apostate Churches  Tianna Fire 12/8/22 (David's notes in red)    I dreamt that we were driving through a town, but we stopped to get paper and pens from a shop. Samuel waited in the car. There was only one shop in this town that sold items, like a general store. It looked like it used to be white, but it was now a dark and dirty white and it was very old and didn't look like it was well taken care of. The building was an 1800s style house that had been converted into a shop. (The old dirty store represents the apostate church where the true Gospel that was once given is now sold. It has been polluted by religion and false leadership.) Mat 23:27 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.   Luk 11:39 And the Lord said unto him, Now YE the Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter; but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.)  When I got into the shop it was packed with people all standing around and there was also a very long queue. (There are many people looking for the Truth but they are not getting it from the false apostate leaders.)  They had a few items for sale in the part where everyone was waiting but most of the items were kept out in the back of the shop and also in the basement, which was blocked off to the customers. (Like Mormons and JW's they hide a lot of teachings that they know are unacceptable to other Christians. They only reveal these things after they feel they have you on the hook. The false leadership in the apostate churches merchandise very little truth which they sell to the sheep because they don't have the real Gospel to give them. Mat 23:13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye enter not in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering in to enter.)  (Col 1:26-27 even the mystery which hath been hid for ages and generations: but now hath it been manifested to his saints, 27 to whom God was pleased to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: 1Co 2:6-7 We speak wisdom, however, among them that are fullgrown: yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nought: 7 but we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, even the wisdom that hath been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds unto our glory:)   So, to get what you wanted you had to wait in line to ask the cashier lady if they stocked it and if they did, you had to wait around until she went and got it. (Waiting around for supplies represents the Nicolaitan error.) Rev 2:14-17 But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there some that hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication. 15 So hast thou also some that hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans in like manner. 16 Repent therefore; or else I come to thee quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth. 17 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. To him that overcometh, to him will I give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and upon the stone a new name written, which no one knoweth but he that receiveth it.)  There were also people in the queue who hadn't even found out if the shop stocked or even sold their item yet. (People go to the same church for years, looking for Jesus, waiting and never find what they came for and become lukewarm there just accepting what they hear.)   Everyone seemed very distressed, because it was taking such a long time and there were so many people. While I was there, I didn't see anyone receive the item they were waiting for. (Many in apostasy are in distress, continuously praying for healing and provisions and for God to answer prayer, never learning how to receive their needs by faith in prayer. No one learns how to minister to others. They expect the pastor to do everything, because “he is the one in charge” in their churches. This is a part of the Nicolaitan error.)   As I waited in line, I overheard someone talking about Jesus which made me very excited. I joined in their conversation, and they professed to love Jesus, however they seemed to be religious and not understanding spiritual things. But I was still so happy to be able to speak about Jesus and God's Word! Then many other people in there heard us talking about God and they confessed to love Jesus too. I was so happy that there were so many people who loved our Lord.  I started speaking with this married couple who had young children and I blessed and prayed for the children. I then stood closer to them on their right. As I did, I accidentally came too close to a man with his son. This man got very angry and upset with me and I apologized, and I told him that I loved him and his son and I desired God's blessings and love and joy to be upon them both. He became offended at that, and he said he was a Christian and he thought I was rude. (NENT Php 1:9-10 And this I pray, that your love abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment; 10 so that ye may approve the things excellent; that ye be sincere and void of offence unto Christ's day.)  (Some people are easily offended, unable to come closer to those who are full of the love of Christ. Pro 18:19 A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city; And such contentions are like the bars of a castle.)  (Pro 19:11 The discretion of a man maketh him slow to anger; And it is his glory to pass over a transgression.)  So I spoke blessings on him and moved on, speaking with other Christians and sharing The Real Good News. It turned out that every person in this shop was a professing Christian. The lady who worked there said that because everyone there were Christians that we should all discuss a topic. Someone shouted to discuss God's Glory! She then brought up a slideshow on a big giant screen that was behind her which had Bible verses related to Glory.  People started sharing their man-made doctrine that used only partial scripture, and not the sum of thy Word. (1Ti 6:3-5 If any man teacheth a different doctrine, and consenteth not to sound words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; 4 he is puffed up, knowing nothing, but doting about questionings and disputes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, 5 wranglings of men corrupted in mind and bereft of the truth, supposing that godliness is a way of gain.) (Psa 119:160 The sum of thy word is truth; And every one of thy righteous ordinances endureth for ever.) Someone said that as soon as we start believing in Jesus that we then have God's Glory and nothing else needs to be done. Someone else said that God loves everyone, and everyone will be saved. I felt love for all the people, but I knew what they were saying wasn't true and I desired for them to know the Truth.  (Mat 15:9 But in vain do they worship me, Teaching as their doctrines the precepts of men. 2Ti 4:3-4 For the time will come when they will not endure the sound doctrine; but, having itching ears, will heap to themselves teachers after their own lusts; 4 and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside unto fables.)  I was sharing testimonies about what God has done for me and what He has shown me, and as much Truth I could without getting into teaching. They brought up scriptures and used them out of context to say that we are saved automatically when we start believing in Jesus and that nothing else is required. They also spoke about how we are already purified and it doesn't need to manifest on earth. That we will all be the same in Heaven. (The apostate church has very little truth and see only the letter, but error after the teachings of their leadership who are not filled with the Holy Spirit and many times aren't even saved. The “once saved always saved” is just one of their false doctrines. 1Ti 4:1 But the Spirit saith expressly, that in later times some shall fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons.)   I was then reminded of these verses: NENT 1Co 15:39-44 All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another flesh of birds, and another of fishes. There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differeth from another star in glory. So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: it is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: it is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.)   I knew that these verses revealed what they believe wasn't correct, I wanted to quote these verses to them but then I realized it might be teaching so I didn't say anything. I stood there confused about why all these Christians who profess they love Jesus are twisting the Word and are unaware of the real meaning. I asked God why He didn't want them to know about the star, moon, sun glory and about spirit, soul, body manifesting Jesus on earth. I then heard Him clearly say, "It's not for everyone to know." (Jesus spoke in parables to keep the truth hidden from the religious leaders and those who want to be self-justified in His day and He still does it today. Mat 13:13 Therefore speak I to them in parables; because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. But those who have ears to hear, will hear and understand.)  So, I walked out of the shop and spoke to Samuel about what happened and we both agreed that we desired for all of them to come into the Kingdom of God, so we interceded on their behalf. (Our Lord interceded for us and we are to pray for others.) 1Ti 2:1 I exhort therefore first of all to make supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, for all men. 4 who would have all men to be saved, and come to the knowledge of the truth.)  Then Samuel called David Eells to ask for advice. David Eells then physically appeared in front of us. David was a little shorter than I have seen him in videos, and his eyes were a bright blue. (Psa 8:5 For thou hast made him but little lower than God, And crownest him with glory and honor; Blue eyes represent heavenly discernment of the light of truth. Mat 6:22 The lamp of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.)  I was surprised that he appeared instantly, but I was so happy to see him and I gave him a big, long hug and I felt so much spiritual love for him and I didn't want to let go of hugging him. I felt love, peace and gentleness radiating from him. (Php 1:8 For God is my witness, how I long after you all in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.)  He then said, "You need to go back in there and testify of the Truth." (Sharing a testimony of what a truth did for you is permissible for women. Especially when you are speaking to lost religious people. Teaching the younger women is also permissible. Tit 2:4-5 ASV  that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,  5  to be sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed:  Teaching men the Word should be left to the men. 1Ti 2:12 ASV  But I permit not a woman to teach, nor to have dominion over a man, but to be in quietness.) So, I walked to go back into the shop, and I heard David and Samuel interceding and speaking the Word as I walked away. (As an example to us Jesus sent out the 12 and then the 70 men to teach the Word of the Kingdom.  They were commissioned to go to all and be bold and stand with God and His Word. Act 22:15 For thou shalt be a witness for him unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard.)   (Deu 31:6 Be strong and of good courage, fear not, nor be affrighted at them: for Jehovah thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. Psa 118:6 Jehovah is on my side; I will not fear: What can man do unto me?)  I walked past a building that was right next to the Christian store. I looked through the door and I saw a lady lying on her back on a couch. I instantly saw in spirit that she was a witch. But in the natural she looked like an attractive woman. She wasn't selling anything in this building, but it looked like she lived there. She had dark hair and light, white-blue eyes (Dark hair represents submitted to darkness. Her eyes represent a false light, which is similar to what I have seen in people in real life who are involved in the occult.) (This woman could represent church denominations and we know that rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft. 1Sa 15:23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim….)  She was dressed very seductively with red lipstick, heavy eye makeup and she was wearing a crop top, a short purple skirt and long black boots. I saw into her soul and saw she was intending to do evil. (Job 15:35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, And their heart prepareth deceit. Pro 12:20 Deceit is in the heart of them that devise evil; Mar 7:21 For from within, out of the heart of men, evil thoughts proceed, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries…)  I saw that she would physically be resting in her shop but through witchcraft in the spiritual realm, she would seduce random people who walked past this building and would come into her. She wouldn't always sleep with the people, but she would give them even more demons and lead them into deeper sin. (Demons are transferred through sex and by accepting the thoughts of lies, slander, gossip, etc., and by words of agreement with the sensual desires. (Temptations of the lust of the flesh.) We have protection from all this when we obey God and keep His commandments.)  (Pro 7:5-13 That they [My commandments and wisdom] may keep thee from the strange woman, [Harlot] From the foreigner that flattereth with her words. 6 For at the window of my house I looked forth through my lattice; 7 And I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, A young man void of understanding, 8 Passing through the street near her corner; And he went the way to her house, 9 In the twilight, in the evening of the day, In the middle of the night and in the darkness. 10 And, behold, there met him a woman With the attire of a harlot, and wily of heart. 11 She is clamorous and wilful; Her feet abide not in her house: 12 Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, And lieth in wait at every corner. 13 So she caught him, and kissed him, … (The kiss represents her words.)   Pro 14:12 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man; But the end thereof are the ways of death.)  She then tried to project witchcraft onto me and I saw the witchcraft, which kind of looked like frequencies or rays of electricity come out of her to touch me. It was blocked a few feet in front of me because there was a bubble of protection all around me in the spiritual, and nothing could get through the bubble. She was surprised at this and couldn't comprehend what happened. (Those who love the Truth will be protected from their deceptions. Eph 6:10-13 ASV  Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength 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 our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. 13  Wherefore take up the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, to stand.)  I blessed her and kept walking to the Christian shop. I was wondering why they set up a shop right next to a witch. (The apostate church is compared to a harlot because they receive not the seed of her husband. This is witchcraft.)  I went back into the store and I stood at a specific corner where I could see everyone in the room. I spoke to everyone who would listen, giving my testimony of the Truth of the Word. I could see in the spirit, and through walls. I saw witchcraft projecting from the witch directly into this shop; it came out like tentacles and would wrap around a person and quickly pull them into where she was. It seemed that if the person's will and desire was to go where the woman was, they'd be taken. People were left in the shop if it wasn't their will to follow her. (1Sa 15:23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because thou hast rejected the word of Jehovah,... Hos 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge…)   (2 Cor 11:3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity and the purity that is toward Christ.)   I saw the long tentacle grab onto one Christian man, and he became aroused, and he ran out of the shop and into the other women's shop. I then saw it happen again, but differently. This next person was not taken by physical arousal, but they had a weak spot of coveting, and they were convinced that by going to the witch, they would get all the money they wanted. It was as if this witch knew every person's weak spot and she would attract each person using their weak spot. (The demons see and know in the spirit realm how to work in spirit groupings of seduction using the lusts of the flesh and the sin nature. But if they would submit to God's Word and resist the devil he would flee. I have seen people drawn into faction through selfish ambition, jealousy and rejection.)  I watched this lady in spirit attract each Christian out of the store one by one, like an octopus using its tentacles to draw its prey. When the witchcraft would come upon each person, they would quickly change and would run over to where the witch was, not thinking about anything else. Every time the witchcraft would come into the store, I would be supernaturally lifted up high to the roof where I could see everything. I was up so high that it couldn't touch me, nor could any human touch me. (Dwelling in heavenly places in Christ, we are protected from evil.)  I watched every person in the store get taken in the spirit into where the witch was until I was left alone in the store. (The Christians in this shop were part of the apostate church and not equipped with the Spirit and Word. Having no ability to fight against the temptations of the flesh. They were seduced by the harlot and her witchcraft, so they gave into their lusts. God sovereignly protects His elect and He will deliver them from the works of darkness at an appointed time. The enemy works to tempt people away from the Kingdom of God and cause them to fall away.)      Apostate Church Vanity   Tianna Fire 1/26/23 (David's notes in red)     I dreamt that Samuel and I were driving, and we saw this giant building to our left, sitting on a very large area of land, and it had a big cross on it. There were no cars parked outside, so it looked like no one was there. Because we saw the cross, we thought that we should leave them a Sovereign God book. So, we parked out front and went up to a window and looked inside the building. A few women were there and when they saw us, they came out quickly. We did not want to talk to them, only to just leave the book and go.   One of the women that came out, was a woman that worked at the grocery store, and she was always there when Samuel went to get groceries, so Samuel knew her. Another woman was the wife of a man that kept inviting us to his church, but we didn't want to visit his church. We now realized that this building was his church.    They urged us to come inside and we didn't want to hurt their feelings, so we said we would come in quickly just to see the place. When we went inside, it appeared 20 times bigger than what the outside looked like. (Like the megachurches.) One of the ladies told me to go to the children's section because I was carrying David. I honestly didn't want to, but I didn't want to upset her so I just did what she said. (Pro 29:25 The fear of man bringeth a snare; But whoso putteth his trust in Jehovah shall be safe.) I walked to the back of the building and entered this large colorful room that had an indoor children's playground, and many children running around and there were a couple of people watching them play.  I felt this was vanity and a distraction from Jesus. I then saw a poster listing different activities during the week for children and one of them was like child daycare. All the activities were vanity and had nothing to do with Jesus. Samuel and I prefer having David always with us, so I said, “Well there's no reason for me to be here because we aren't doing the daycare thing, and we only want to do things involving Jesus.”  So, I turned to leave and go find Samuel, but I got lost in the large building. There were so many different rooms and hallways and everything was set up weird. (The apostate church system causes confusion to ensnare people.)  Then a man came running out of a room and said something with much excitement for me to go look where he just came from. I didn't want to be rude to him, so I just followed him and he led me into a massive library, and all the walls and shelves were all sorts of bright colors. I commented on how I love all the bright colors, especially the bright yellow. (The attraction of bright colors arouse the senses and emotions to please the flesh. Pro 14:12 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man; But the end thereof are the ways of death.)   There were people sitting around a table discussing a book that wasn't the Bible and there were many large shelves with thousands of books. I asked him about the books and about Jesus, and he said most books here are not really about Jesus and if they were, they contained incorrect doctrine. Which confused me because this was a church, so I expected everything to be about Jesus. (The apostate church leaders write many books about another Jesus, another Gospel and merchandise the people. It's all their works of the flesh. 2Co 11:4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or if ye receive a different spirit, which ye did not receive, or a different gospel, which ye did not accept, ye do well to bear with him. 1Ti 6:3 If any man teacheth a different doctrine, and consenteth not to sound words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; 4 he is puffed up, knowing nothing…)   I wondered what type of Bibles they had, and I couldn't find Bibles anywhere. I thought maybe I should leave a Sovereign God book here so God can lead the right person to find it. (Hos 4:1 Hear the word of Jehovah, ye children of Israel; for Jehovah hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.)   The man that led me into this room started hitting on me, and I thought this was crazy, this is a church and supposed to be brethren in Christ, and I am married. I ignored the man and ran out of there to go find Samuel, but I couldn't find him anywhere. I walked around the entire place searching for Samuel, and I saw all different types of people, supposedly Christians, although no one was talking about Jesus. I was wondering, ‘Jesus where are you? I can't find you anywhere in this place, although they say that you are here.' (Like the Shulamite in Song of Solomon: Son 5:6…I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer. 7 The watchmen that go about the city found me, They smote me, they wounded me…)  I felt this whole place which claimed to be a house of God, had all the world mixed in it and the place felt corrupted and defiled and I couldn't see or feel the presence of God anywhere or in anyone. (The apostate church is a mixed multitude; the world is Babylon, from Babel, which means confusion and includes the harlot churches.) (Mat 23:28 Thus ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but inwardly are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.)  The whole building layout was completely confusing and so easy to get lost but I finally found the way to get out. Once outside I noticed heaps of people all gathered around at a café, and others standing around. And there were about 20 different small shops set up with many people everywhere. (This is how the megachurches are set up to draw the multitudes to network, socialize and merchandising.)   I was confused as to why no one is talking about Jesus; I felt no Spirit of God there, and I wondered why Samuel is missing? At this point I was disappointed that no one here really loves Jesus. I no longer cared what anyone thought of me anymore. I didn't want to do what they all wanted me to do, or think I had to be kind to them and agree to their requests.  So, I looked up at the sky and screamed out, "Jesus!” “Jesus where are you, Jesus?!” I think everyone around me thought I was crazy but I wanted Jesus and all these people claimed to be following Jesus but clearly were not. (Some in the apostate harlot churches are looking for Jesus, but don't always find the real Jesus...  Son 3:1-4 By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. 2 I said, I will rise now, and go about the city; In the streets and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. 3 The watchmen that go about the city found me; To whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth? 4 It was but a little that I passed from them, When I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, Until I had brought him into my mother's house, And into the chamber of her that conceived me.)  I started walking past the shops, when this toddler ran up to me and told me that his father needed a new wife and asked me to be his new mum. I kindly told him that I already have a husband and he ran back to his father. I thought this place was so strange.     I looked into the shops as I continued to walk by. In one of the stores people were fighting and I thought this isn't how children of God are to behave. In another store they were selling cigarettes and things like that, and I was shocked as we knew those things were wrong. Another store had people looking at me strangely as if I wasn't from this world. (We are not of this world, as Jesus said in Joh 17:16 They are not of the world even as I am not of the world. To the average Christian, we appear out of place.) Then in another store, a man catcalled. At every store everything was completely overpriced and had nothing to do with Jesus, and no one was manifesting the fruit of Christ. I kept saying, “vanity, vanity, all is vanity.” (Ecc 1:2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; vanity of vanities, all is vanity.)  Everything in this ‘supposed church' was corrupt and had nothing to do with Jesus and I couldn't understand why. I just wanted to leave but I couldn't find Samuel anywhere. I finally got through these shops and into an area where there were no people. I asked God what He wanted me to do. He told me to go back there, and I said, “Lord nothing there has anything to do with You, and it's all corrupt and I don't want to go back.” He told me to go back and tell them all about His real Son Jesus and the Truth. So, I turned around and walked back the exact same way I came.  I opened the door to the first store and shared the real gospel, and they rejected it so I went to the next store and told them, and they wanted nothing to do with it either. (Mat 10:40 He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me. Luk 10:16 He that heareth you heareth me; and he that rejecteth you rejecteth me; and he that rejecteth me rejecteth him that sent me.)  I turned around and saw two police officers going around into the exact same stores I had just left. It was as if they were following my steps, however I felt they were going to the places where I shared the Truth and we're exposing the corruption and arresting the evil. (The police may be the angels. Eph 5:11 and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them;)  I went into each shop sharing the Truth, but they all rejected it. So, I went into the café area and shared the Truth there, but everyone just wanted to go on with what they were doing and justifying their sin and corruption. I walked back into the children's area and library and testified of Jesus. (Like Jesus taught His disciples and the apostle Paul says in Act 20:21 testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. 24 … that I may accomplish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God. Ministering the Gospel of Christ.)  I went to every person I saw and told them the Truth which finally led me to finding Samuel who was speaking to the leaders of this church. As soon as I got next to Samuel we walked straight out to the car and left.       UBM House Sanctified And Protected  Tianna Fire 4/25/23 (David's notes in red)  I dreamed that Michael, David and other brethren and I were living in my gramps Alan's old house. (Alan means harmony, little rock, and precious. This house represents the house of God's chosen or the elect, who are built on the Rock, which is Jesus Christ. 1Co 10:4 and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them: and the rock was Christ. 1Pe 2:6-8 Because it is contained in scripture, Behold, I lay in Zion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: And he that believeth on him shall not be put to shame. 7 For you therefore that believe is the preciousness: but for such as disbelieve, The stone which the builders rejected, The same was made the head of the corner; 8 and, A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence; for they stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.)  On one side of the house was a very large lounge room where all the brethren would gather for prayer, Bible studies and fellowship. There was a long hallway that led to the other side of the house where all the bedrooms were located. David's and Michael's rooms were located upstairs on the next level. (In an upper room, as overseers, overlooking the others.) Upstairs, David and Michael had their own small living room area to seek the Lord and write up their teachings received from Jesus. I remember they spent very much time there seeking God together, and individually, praying and studying the Word; but they would share the Word with everyone in the lounge room in God's perfect timing.   The brethren who cooked meals, would sometimes bring food up to Michael and David because they were at times so focused and absorbed in the Word and Spirit of God. All the brethren had specific chores around the property, such as cleaning, cooking and gardening and other important tasks, relieving Michael and David and others, so they could spend more time with the Lord in prayer, worship and the Word. (All the members of the Body of Christ have their gifts and individual roles to serve and edify each other. (1Co Ch. 12 and 14) Act 6:2-4 And the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not fit that we should forsake the word of God, and serve tables. 3 Look ye out therefore, brethren, from among you seven men of good report, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business. 4 But we will continue stedfastly in prayer, and in the ministry of the word.)  The kitchen area was in the center of the house. (Where the unleavened bread is prepared. 2Ch 7:7 Moreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the court that was before the house of Jehovah;) The house was set up on a hill (Mt Zion) on a large amount of land, approximately five acres. (grace) Outside the house was a large, covered area for gathering, and there was a lake located at the bottom of the hill. The whole property was fenced. (Protected by sanctification.) On the adjoining neighbors' side were many trees and much bush so there was decent privacy. The neighbors were not able to come over the property line even if they wanted to; it was as if there was an invisible shield or wall. (The wall is sanctification from the worldly.)   They could only come in contact with us if we were off our private property or if we gave them permission to come onto our property. (If we are “off the private property” or “giving permission” this represents giving place to the enemy by any sin of unbelief, rejection, criticism, unforgiveness, willful sin, etc. When we walk in holiness (sanctification, abiding in Christ, in heavenly places) the enemy is bound and cannot legally be on our “property” (promised land.) 1Pe 5:8 Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour, 9 whom withstand stedfast in your faith…)   (Isa 35:8 And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for the redeemed: the wayfaring men, yea fools, shall not err therein.)  One time I went into the large lounge room and towards the right of the room. Michael, David and some other brethren were there deep in prayer. On a table sat a laptop computer which was turned on. I looked at the screen and saw they were watching a live conference of satanists gathered from around the world. All the brethren in the lounge room were in intense spiritual warfare and prayer against it. (I felt the conference being live online represents all evil being brought into the light and nothing is hidden before God. Also, the Man-Child and Bride body are in spiritual warfare, praying down satan's faction, witchcraft and D-S attempts.)   As I watched, HRC (Hillary Clinton) appeared on the laptop screen and I saw the pure evil and high level fallen angels inside of her and the presence of evil was so intense, that I had to turn away from looking at it. Sometimes the evil spiritual realm is too intense for me, so I couldn't bring myself to look at the conference anymore, but I instead just sat further away, and prayed in tongues and I was in complete agreement with what the brethren prayed, and I knew that our prayers would be answered.   (We also send the angels to bring down satan and his angels dominion. We have been gaining great victories this way with much less effort as in Rev 12:7-11 ASV  And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels going forth to war with the dragon; and the dragon warred and his angels;  8  and they prevailed not, neither was their place found any more in heaven. 9  And the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent, he that is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world; he was cast down to the earth, and his angels were cast down with him.  10  And I heard a great voice in heaven, saying, Now is come the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, who accuseth them before our God day and night.  11  And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony; and they loved not their life even unto death. All the brethren were in intense prayer all day until it was just David, Michael and myself and my son David, still praying at around 3am. Then I took my son David into our room at the other end of the house.   Later, some brethren had to drive somewhere, and two men that I felt were like our bodyguards (angels) came to us and said the enemy was waiting for us. From the house there was a long driveway down the hill to the main road, where we could only go right to leave, we couldn't go left, there was only one way. (The Word of God, Who is Jesus, the one way path of righteousness.) Suddenly, our eyes were opened, (anointing) and we could see through walls, bushes and everything and we were able to see on the main road where some people who were against us were hiding behind a bush waiting for us (an ambush). But because we were able to see the enemy's plans, we were able to avoid the danger, pray it down and knew what to do and what not to do. (The Lord reveals the enemy and their traps, and the hidden dangers by the spiritual gifts, in words of wisdom, words of knowledge, visions and gift of discernment and the angels also tell us of them.) When it was clear they were able to continue.  The neighbors in the house next door did not like us, and they were always devising plans of attack against us in some way, but by God's grace, their plans were exposed and always failed. (God reveals the curses and witchcraft of the factious and apostate leaders to us through dreams and visions, so we can pray it down.) I remember in the dream how one of these men repented to follow Jesus and he joined us. The wife of one these men also decided to follow Jesus and she was on fire for God. She was pregnant and would regularly fellowship with us bringing her five children with her. She didn't want to leave her unbelieving husband because she believed God would soon reveal Himself to him too so he would be saved. (1Co 7:13-14 And the woman that hath an unbelieving husband, and he is content to dwell with her, let her not leave her husband. 14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.  1Pe 3:1-2 In like manner, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives; 2 beholding your chaste behavior coupled with fear.)  There was another UBM camp a little further away in a wooded area (The wooded area represents the wilderness.) and the house was a large wooden cabin. We would regularly meet together for fellowship with the few brethren who lived there. I don't remember what their area of ministering was, but it was different from the one we were in. I remember they had a slide that went off the cabin deck and it went further down onto the property. (This cabin in the woods represents the many other places of refuge that God has provided that are scattered all over the world. Some of these may be part of the UBM ministry.) 

Son Of Perdition  Hello Brethren! God bless you. Thank you for joining us. We've been into some deep studying here of the end times and revelations of the Word and Father, we just ask You in Jesus name that You would be here with us today. Lord, anoint me to be able to get these points across to my brethren Lord, and that You would bless them to be able to perceive and understand these revelations and we trust in You, Lord because You're the Great Revelator, we're not. We trust in You to open our understanding into blessings today in Jesus name. Amen.  Well, brethren, I think that what I'm going to share with you today is concerning the real true nature, and the real true story of the Son of Perdition. You know, years ago when I was writing an article called the Son of Perdition in my in my book on our site, America's Last Days and the book is called Hidden Manna For The End Times. I was writing the article on the Son of Perdition. I was in the midst of it and a brother with the gift of prophecy called me. He said he found out about me because he sat down his computer one day and the Holy Spirit spoke to him the address to type in. And in those days I had a very complicated address. It wasn't simple at all, and he typed in this address and ended up at my website. And he was very enthused with some of the things he found there.   And so he called me and he said, “David, you'll never guess how I found out about you?” I said no, so tell me. So he explained to me how the Holy Spirit gave him the address and then he started sharing something else with me, he said, “You know, the Lord told me that next month I'm going to see the Son of Perdition.”  And I kind of came back at him, I said, “Well, I don't know how that's possible that you should see the Son Of Perdition next month.” Because I knew what the Bible had to say about when the Son of Perdition was going to be revealed, so on and so forth. And when I said that the Holy Spirit just said, “Be quiet.” “You're writing this article on the Son of Perdition,” (which I was doing at that particular time.) “And when you get through with it, he's going to read it and he's going to see the Son of Perdition.” I said, Okay.   So I didn't say anything to the brother, but, sure enough, it was the next month when I got through with it and I sent it to him and he read it and he said, “I see it, I see it!” Because it has been hidden, folks, it's been hidden from the wise and prudent, and revealed unto babes, that's God's way. And I want to tell you something that the Son of Perdition is a corporate body of people. I shared with you a few teachings back, how that the Lord gave me a word of knowledge and wisdom years ago. He said to me, “Everything that happened in the Gospels and in the Book of Acts will be repeated in the end time, except the cast of characters will be multiplied many times over.” And what the Lord showed me is what happened in the Gospels and Acts. That whole scenario is repeated except the characters like Jesus and like the apostles and like Judas and like the Sanhedrin and the Roman government; these all became multiplied on a worldwide scene. And they're being enacted again now.   I want to remind you of Isa 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. which means “God with us.” The word sign there is the word “oth” and it means, “to come” literally means to come. “Oth” is like the word, omen. It's a sign of something to come, and in Chapter 7 and Chapter 8 it speaks about Immanuel several times.   And but in verse 17, there's another sign. In Isa 8:16 Bind thou up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. (Disciples is not the common word in the whole testament.) 17 And I will wait for Jehovah, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him. 18 Behold, I and the children whom Jehovah hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel. As you know, Jesus did signs and wonders and his children did too. He called them his children, his disciples, His signs and wonders.   If these people were for signs also, a sign of something to come, then Judas Iscariot was a sign of something to come. He represented also a large corporate body in our day. Fathers pass on to larger and larger groups in a geometric progression. Like Israel at the beginning was a man, but Israel, as you went on, was a corporate body of people. So we had this sign of Judas, and the Lord told me that this was a sign of a corporate body of people to come, and that everything that happened there is going to happen again.   So let's examine this a little bit. Now Jesus said in Joh 17:12 While I was with them, I kept them in thy name which thou hast given me: and I guarded them, and not one of them perished, but the son of perdition; (That was Judas.) That the scriptures might be fulfilled. Only one of the people that the Lord had chosen to walk with him, the Son of Perdition perished. You know in Joh 13:18 …he that eateth my bread lifted up his heel against me. Judas represented a corporate body of people. That in our day will lift up their heel against the people of God, their brethren. Jesus told us that this would be a corporate body in Mat 24:10 And then shall many stumble, and shall deliver up one another, and shall hate one another. Notice that Jesus said many would stumble and deliver up, just like Judas delivered up Jesus. But now it's delivering up one another. It's delivering up the corporate Body of Christ, and since the Body of Christ needs to go to its cross, it needs a corporate body of Judas. And this is God's plan, folks.   We're going to study a lot in 2 Thessalonians. This also speaks of a Son of Perdition that I'm convinced that almost nobody knows about. 2Th 2:1 Now we beseech you, brethren, touching the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together unto him; Notice it's talking about the coming of the Lord and the rapture the Saints.  3 let no man beguile you in any wise: for it will not be, except the falling away come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition. Notice what he said, folks. The very opposite of what most people say it says here, is what he's saying. He said, “the coming of the Lord for his Saints is not going to happen except the falling away comes first and this man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition.” People say what they're never going to see this contrary to what the scripture says. The word falling away here is the word apostasia, where we get our word, apostasy. It means, “a defection from the truth.” Just as Judas was hidden in the midst of the Body of Christ in that day, and “one revealed until there was a falling away.” The same thing is going to happen in our day.   Judas represents a corporate body of the Son of Perdition who's hidden in the midst of the Body of Christ today, that will be used to deliver up one another. This I'll tell you, in the name of Jesus and I think we can prove it pretty well from the Scriptures too. Jesus at the time of the Last Supper, for instance, when Judas did end up delivering the Lord up, Jesus was asked by the disciples, who it was that would betray him? And of course, they all said, “Is it I?” and “Is it I?” That I they weren't sure of themselves even.  Joh 13:26 Jesus therefore answereth, He it is, for whom I shall dip the sop, and give it him. So when he had dipped the sop, he taketh and giveth it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. 27 And after the sop, then entered Satan into him.  Notice two things entered into Judas here, Satan and the SOP. There's a connection here; it's a type and a shadow. The Lord said to me when I was reading this one day, He said, “SOP, S.O.P. Son of Perdition.” I thought, “Wow!” You say, David, that's just in English. I know it, but I don't care. I know what the Lord said to me and it really makes sense, SOP, S.O.P. Son of Perdition. That's what He said.  You know Satan entered into Judas at that time making him the mark. We studied the mark a while back. We found out that the mark represented both the word and the name. It was the character of God that He used to recreate His image in His Body. Well, this is what was created in Judas and it wasn't the image of Christ. It was the image of Antichrist. And you know what he became? He became an abomination of desolation. And I'm going to explain that to you.   First, I want you to look at a little bit of timing here with me. Jesus taught these disciples, including Judas for 3 1/2 years. At the end of that 3 1/2 years, the son of perdition fell away. He was revealed to the disciples who he was and he betrayed the Lord, and he became desolate. The word desolate in the text means without God, he became desolate, in that God forsook him, he became reprobate and as you know, he hung himself. Well, in accordance with this type, the Man-child is going to teach for 3 1/2 years, the corporate Man-child. Remembered that Jesus was going to be manifested in our day as a first fruits corporate body too, called the Man-Child in Revelation 12. So the Man-child is going to teach also for 3 1/2 years the disciples among whom is, I might say, some “Sons of Perdition” and this will bring us to the mid tribulation, when the Bible teaches that the mark, the image and the abomination manifests. Now what I'm going to prove to you is that that mark and that image and that abomination has to do with Judas in the Body of Christ. It happens at the exact same time according to the Scriptures.  Now first I want to point out to you that, that God used the hand of Judas; it was his plan. God put him in the midst of that body. Jesus answered them, Did not I choose you the twelve, and one of you is a devil? (Joh 13:21). See, He knew from the beginning, the Bible says who it was that would betray him. He told the disciples, “One of you shall betray me.” He said, “One of you.” He had faith that was going to happen because it was supposed to happen. One of you shall betray me, he said. …And what thou doest do quickly? (Joh 13:27) He told Judas at the last moment. See, this is a job that God wants to done. God is using the hand of Judas. It's his plan. He's not going to depart from it. Act 2:23 him being delivered up by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, (This was God's plan.) Ye by the hand of lawless men, did crucify and slay. God used the hand of lawless men. Now this is the word lawless here just happens to be the same word in 2 Thessalonians where it says  2Th 2:3 …the man of sin. (The word sin there, is lawlessness, the same word.) …berevealed the son of perdition. The son of perdition is the man of lawlessness and God used the hand of the son of perdition. Notice, He used the hand of a man of lawlessness to crucify the Body of Christ, and so it's going to be in our day. I've seen many of these folks. I've seen quite a few of them come against me in this ministry. And of course, they do humble you, they do crucify you. They do have a wonderful work in your life.   The Lord said to me one day when I was looking into this, one of those words of knowledge He gave me, He said, “Look up Judas Iscariot.” So I did and Judas is a Hebrew word that means, “to use the hand.” Wow! There it is again, “to use the hand.” So I looked up Iscariot and I found that Iscariot came from two words. Is, which is a Hebrew word for “man.” And “cariot” is a Babylonian word for “city.” Now if you put that all together, here's what you come up with, “to use the hand.” (Hebrew in this case it's Christian because we've been grafted into the olive tree.) “To use the hand of a Christian man who is a Babylonian city.” This was proven to me all through the scriptures after the Lord showed me this about this city that's in the midst of God's city. You know the Son of Perdition is a city of Babylon, a corporate body of people that are hidden in the corporate body of the City of God; God's people. So you've got an evil city, an evil corporate body of people in the midst of a righteous city. In other words, you've got a Babylonish temple in the midst of a true Temple of God.   Mat 5:14 ye are the light of the world. A city, that set on a hill cannot be hid. He said his disciples were a city. And here you've got this Babylonian city, “Iscariot,” a man who is a Babylonian city in the midst of them that doesn't belong there. You know the falling away and the mark will separate the spiritual harlot city from the true city of God. It will separate the spiritual harlot temple from the Temple of God. This is God's plan. The Body of Christ won't be ready to meet him until this happens. I'm going to prove that to you.   Judas was a type of the end time, Son of Perdition who betrayed Christ to the Sanhedrin. And the Sanhedrin in that day was the corporate false prophet. That's right, there was a corporate false prophet in Jesus's day and it's a much larger corporate false prophet in our day. There's no place in the Bible that says that there is one false prophet, not any place. There is a symbol of the false prophet in Revelation Chapter 13 and people call it the false prophet. But there's no words to say that. Jesus said there were many false prophets. That's a body there, a body of people. The second beast in Revelation 13 and we'll talk about that a little later.   Well, like Babylon was guilty of the blood of the Body of Christ and Revelation 18:24, so Judas was guilty of the blood of the Body of Christ. You see the parallel there? And Mat 24:9 Then shall they deliver you up unto tribulation… (See, it's happening in a corporate way. It's going to happen in a corporate way) and shall kill you, and you shall be hated of all the nations…. (That's the Beast Kingdom) for my namesake. And then shall many stumble. (Which is to fall away. Remember the falling away of the Son of Perdition?) Many shall stumble and shall deliver up one another and shall hate one another 11 and many false prophets shall arise. And she'll lead many astray. So you see, folks, it is going to happen just the way Jesus said. The people are looking at the types and the shadows, and they're basically repeating the types and the shadows, but not interpreting them. Jesus interpreted them for us.   Paul said in 2Th 2:4 (the son of perdition)he that opposeth and exalteth himself against all that is called God or that is worshipped; so that he sitteth in the temple of God, setting himself forth as God. Twice he talked about exalting self and setting self forth as God. We'll look at that in a minute. First, I want to look at this word, he says “Sitteth in the Temple of God.” The word for Temple here is the word “naos” and it is used nine times by the apostle Paul, like in this case. And in every case that it is used, it is speaking about the spiritual temple of God's people in every case. Now the word temple, by the way, is used 71 more times, but it's the word “hereon”. And it's always used as the literal temple. What are we saying? What we're saying is that the Son of Perdition sits in the temple, but it's not a physical temple, it is the temple of God's people. Just like Judas sat in the midst of a temple. It was the Temple of God's people, the Body of Christ. And of course, the people who see only the letter they're pointing you towards something that's going to happen over there in the Middle East, they think. Which has nothing to do with your life and will be no help to you in the situation that you're about to find yourself. “The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.” (2Co 3:6)   Just as Judas was in the body of the believers, the latter day, Son of Perdition will take the mark, (Which of course identifies him as a member of the body of the Beast.) and will sit in the midst of the Temple of God's people. So you've got a personal temple of Judas himself being in the midst of the Temple of God's people.   And this verse goes on to say, an abomination, which maketh desolate. It is an abomination for the beast to be in the Temple of God's people. And that's exactly who Judas was, and that's who Judas, the Son of Perdition in the future will be, because he will take the mark of the beast. He will have an abomination that maketh desolate. Everybody who takes that mark, as you know, will be desolate. God will depart from them. They will be what the Bible calls reprobate. Reprobate is a word used in the New Testament for the departure of God from an individual temple. But desolate is the term that's used for the corporate temple.   Tit 1:16 They profess that they know God; but by their works they deny him, being abominable... There it is. These people who claim to know God, but their works don't prove that they don't agree with that. They claim to know God, but their works proved them to be abominable. That's an abomination in the midst of God's temple, when a person that does this, they profess they know God, but by their works, they deny Him being abominable and disobedient. There's not any premium put on obedience today. But if you're not obedient, you're abominable. And profess they know God. But by their works, they deny being abominable and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate. And there is the word for desolate that concerns the individual temple. See, we are a body of temples that that is made into a holy temple according to Ephesians.   Notice that the son of perdition “exalts himself” in the verse that we just looked at “and he sets “himself” forth as God.” Do you know that that's pretty common? With the people who are disobedient and abominable whenever they go their own way, do their own thing, who is ruling in that temple? The Beast or God? Well, the flesh is, self is ruling in that temple. And you know, these parables are meant to hide these wonderful revelations from the wise and prudent, but revealed unto babes. He doesn't want the Pharisees to find out about it, and he don't want their people to find out about it. Because this is revelation that He's reserved for His children. So he “exalts self” to rule as God in his individual temple, which is in the corporate temple. So you've got a Babylonish temple in the midst of God's temple here. And by the way, there are many sons of perdition. So you're talking about a corporate temple in the midst of a corporate temple.   Rom 16:18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Christ, but their own belly; You know what your belly represents? Something that cries out to be served and I tell you what, you serve it pretty good too, don't you? The belly represents “self” to the Jews that represented “self” They don't serve Christ, they serve their belly just like it says. He exalts “himself” he sets “himself” forth as God; Where? In the temple of the People of God. and by their smooth and fair speech, they beguile the hearts of the innocents. Oh yes, these sons of perdition, some of them are pretty smooth talkers. And they might be pretty impressive to some people, but they won't be to the right people, Php 3:18 For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: You know the cross, of course, is something we need to embrace. It is the death of self. You know why they don't want the death of self is because their belly is their God. They want to serve “self.” They don't want to serve Christ. If you don't take up your cross and follow Him, you will serve self, but you will also be reprobated at the end.   And in verse 19 whose end is perdition. (There they are, the sons of perdition. They serve self rather than serving Christ.) …their end is perdition, which is a word meaning destruction. They will be destroyed. whose God is the belly. They're sitting in the Temple of God serving “self” “Self” is ruling in the people of God. …whose God is the belly and whose glory is their shame, who mind earthly things. What is this? This is what we talked about earlier. About the spiritual mark of the beast. The mark on the hand or on the forehead? The forehead, meaning the mind. Those who walk after the mind of the flesh serve their belly. They have the spiritual mark of the beast, and as we saw earlier, they will take the physical mark of the beast.   Now Judas also was an apostle. He was ordained to be a leader in the corporate temple. As some sons of perdition will also be in our day. The Beast will be ruling in the temple. See, if you have the spiritual mark of the Beast and you mind earthly things and you're walking after the mind of the flesh, which Paul said in Romans chapter 8, you must die if you do that. So if you mind these earthly things and you're sitting in the Temple of God, that's the Beast ruling in the Temple of God because you've got the “mark of the Beast” that identifies you as a member of the body of the Beast.   Now folks, let me tell you, we've got a corporate temple worldwide and in the midst of this temple, increasingly, the Son of Perdition will be coming to rule. You say, “David it looks like pretty much like that, now.” “Yes, I agree with you.” That is absolutely right.  Before the end, we're going to prove which of these people will repent and which of them will go on into perdition as Sons of Perdition ruling in the body.   Now the Son of Perdition will take the mark, which is the final abomination that maketh him desolate. Kind of like the straw that breaks the camel's back. God says, thus far and no more, basically. They become the image of the Beast in the apostate temple, in the corporate apostate temple of all of the Sons of Perdition. And here's the proof, Dan 9:27 and he shall make a firm covenant with many for one week. We saw this was the spirit of the Roman Empire. The principality that that brought Rome together and ruled over the world. Because the rest of that text also speaks about the Prince of Greece and the Prince of Persia, and they're all talking about all the Princess there are principalities. And he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease. And upon the wing (or pinnacle) of abominations shall come one that maketh desolate.  Now, back up a little bit. Let's look at this, He shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease. We found out what the sacrifice was of the true Christian. It is to present their bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God, which is our reasonable service. (Rom 12:1) But when you take the mark of the beast, you no longer serve God because you're a member of the Beast you're now serving “self”. You're serving the beast; you're serving the flesh. And so, a person that goes into this covenant comes into agreement in this covenant, and takes the mark of the beast, that is causing “the sacrifice and the oblation to God to cease.”   Folks, there is a continual burnt offering that has been offered since the time of Jesus, and it is the Christians who have sacrificed their life taking up their cross to follow him. They are continually a burnt offering. They go through the fiery trials to burn up the wood, hay, and the stubble in their life. That is their sacrifice of their body. But I want to tell you that there are others in our midst that will not touch that with a 10-foot pole. That is not their plan. They don't want to lose their life in this world. Jesus said, if you don't lose your life in this world you won't gain your Zoe life, your higher life, your heavenly life.   So this covenant and this mark that identifies these people is the cause of the sacrifice and the oblation to cease. And on the wing (or pinnacle) of abominations… Let me tell you that the pinnacle of abominations is the mark. Because just like Revelation 14 tells us that anybody that takes this mark is reprobated. They are going to be tormented day and night forever and ever in the presence of the angels. They are reprobated.   So, upon the pinnacle of abomination shall come one that maketh desolate. That is, the mark of the beast. And I want to say that for the corporate temple it is the image of the beast in the temple. The image of the beast, as we saw, the image or the icon, is created by the charagma or character. And the character is the word of God, Jesus Christ for our Kingdom. But the Beast also has his character. And it is being imprinted on the people who walk after the flesh, the mind of the flesh and the works of the flesh. They are serving their fathers, like Jesus told the leaders, “You're of your father, the devil.” That was the leaders of Judaism.   So this makes them desolate, which means, of course, deserted by God. Even unto a full end and that determined shall wrath be poured out upon the desolate. There they are, these people will go through the wrath of God, not the righteous. They'll go through the tribulation, but they won't go through the wrath. The wrath is that year in which the Sons of Perdition will go into and be destroyed. And of course Judas hanged himself, which is a spiritual thing, of cutting off the breath, or the spirit of life. He cut himself off from the spirit of life. The word, breath and spirit are the same in Hebrew. That's the spiritual type there.   Now the corporate Son of Perdition will take the mark and he will go back to his Christian assemblies to fulfill the word. Mat 24:15 When therefore ye see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let him that readeth understand). Watch carefully now, When you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken by Daniel standing in the holy place.? No, literally the Greek word here is “a” holy place, but since people thought well, there is only one holy place, their theology got in there, so they just put it the way they wanted it. But did you know the Textus Receptus, which so many people rely on and commend, the ancient manuscripts, and the numeric pattern or the Numeric Bible all say, “a” holy place. “The” is not in their, the Received Texts, ancient manuscripts or numeric pattern; it's not there. “A” as opposed to “the” holy place implies individual bodies of believers that the son of perdition are in the midst of. When you see the abomination of desolation standing in a holy place; what did he tell you? Flee! That's the time of Great Tribulation, great tribulation. That means the 2nd 3 1/2 years. When you see that, that's the end of the peaceful time of being taught for 3 1/2 years by the Lord.  2Th 2:6 And now ye know that which restraineth, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season. Now what keeps, or what restrains the son of perdition from being revealed? We have verse 3 Accept the falling away come first, the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition. See the thing that restrains the revealing of the Son of Perdition is the falling away, it has to happen first. When Judas fell away, everybody knew, Aha, it's Judas! They were asking the Lord moments before. Well, so the thing that restrains the revealing of the. Son of tradition is the falling away. Just as the pattern with Judas clearly shows, he was hidden in the midst of the body, and the disciples didn't know it until the falling away happened. Then suddenly they realized Judas was the one Jesus was talking about.  2Th 2:7-8 for the mystery of lawlessness doth already work: only there is only there is one that restraineth now, until he become out of the midst. See the one that's restraining the coming of the Lord is the Son of Perdition in the midst of the body. I'm going to explain this in just a minute.  …until he become out of the midst, he is restraining the coming of the Lord because he has to come out of the midst of the Body of Christ first. And this “become out of the mist” is what it says in the Greek numeric pattern. It's what it says in the Received Text, and it's what it says in the ancient manuscripts. So why did they translate it differently? Well, in the original is very clear what we're talking about here.   And the verse goes on, 8 And then shall be revealed the lawless one, whom the Lord Jesus shall slay with the breath of his mouth, and bring to nought by the manifestation of his coming; And truly, when the Lord comes into your life, He is putting to death that old son of perdition, because there's a little bit of him in all of us, true. And he is in the body; he has to be put to death in the Body so that the body is spotless and blemishless.   Notice that the Lord is restrained from coming until the Son of Perdition “become out of the midst” of God's people, the temple. Peter said the lawless are them that walk after the flesh, in the lusts of defilement. There is a defilement in God's temple. The lawless being in the mist of God's temple, they are a defilement. They are a spiritual mark of the beast. An image of the beast in God's temple. They shall, in their destroying, be destroyed. Then what did he call them? Spots and blemishes. Wow, the man of lawlessness, the son of perdition is spots and blemishes in the Body of Christ. Revelling in their deceivings while they feast with you. Yes, they are deceivers. They are in our midst; they're not committing to discipleship. They walk after the flesh, they're not denying their life and they're not taking up their cross, but they feast with us. [2Pe 2:8-13]   God is coming for a spotless and blemishless bride. How can it be? We have spots and blemishes. Well, what did it say? …Until he become out of the midst. That's restraining the Lord from coming because in the body there are spots and blemishes. These people in the corporate body are the spots and blemishes. Clearly, the Bible says that in Matthew 13. It says that the Lord's going to gather the tares and bundle them into bundles to burn them, but he's going to gather the righteous into his barn. Listen, a portion of the Antichrist beast is in the midst of the true Temple, and they have to come out. 1Jn 2:18 Little children, it is the last hour: and as ye heard that antichrist cometh, even now have there arisen many antichrists; Notice, they heard the same thing we've heard, that Antichrist cometh, but I want to tell you, even now, there are many antichrists and many of them are in the Body of Christ too, because he's fixing to say that right here, you have heard that Antichrist cometh, and even now have there is many antichrists whereby we know that it is the last hour. And some people argued that probably John didn't really know what the last hour was, but I want to tell you it was the last hour of the covenant that the Jews were being reprobated from who had disobeyed Christ and refused to step over into the faith era. It was the last hour of their covenant. Now we're coming to the last hour of our covenant. The last hour then was a type and a shadow of the last hour now.   And what did he say? Listen very carefully. “They” who was they? These many Antichrist. 1Jn 2:19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; They went out from us. Antichrist. We recognize Antichrist as the beast in the world, and that's true. The whole world is Antichrist, according to 1Jn 4:3 and every spirit that confesseth not Jesus is not of God: and this is the spirit of the antichrist, lives in them, is Antichrist. That's what John says. If that be true then the whole world is Antichrist and we know that that's true.   But let me point out to you that that body of Antichrist is also in the Temple of God. They are these people who walk after the mind of the flesh and the works of the flesh and have his mark, just as the people of God have the mark of God in the mind and in the forehead. In the mind and in the hand, that is the works of Christ and the mind of Christ. The people of the devil are the same way, “they went out from among us and they were not of us.” Didn't Jesus say, did not choose you, the 12 and one of you is a devil. 19 …for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they all are not of us. Now, why did they have to come out? Because in that day, just as in our day, the Son of Perdition has to come out of the midst because he is that Babylonish temple that's in God's temple that defiled temple, that's in the midst of God's temple. The spots and blemishes that are in the midst of God's people.   Now let me read this to you. Some of you probably have never really understood this text in Mat 13:24 Another parable set he before them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man that sowed good seed in his field: 25 but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares also among the wheat, and went away. So we know that there's tares among the wheat. Notice it said, the Kingdom of heaven, not the kingdom of the world. The kingdom of heaven, is likened to a man that sowed good seed and among this good seed was sown tares. You know what that means? Among the Body of Christ there are these tares. 26 But when the blade sprang up and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. Why? How can you tell the difference? Because a tare has a very tiny little fruit, there's very little fruit compared to the great big fruit of the of the wheat. 27 and the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field? Whence then hath it tares. 28 And he said unto them, an enemy had done this. That's right, these people are sowed into the Body of Christ by the enemy. They are not true members of the Body of Christ, but they're hidden in the midst, just like Judas was a son of perdition, a son of destruction, a son that will be destroyed, so to speak.   And the servants say unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? 29 But he saith, Nay; lest haply while ye gather up the tares, ye root up the wheat with them... Now, why do you mean that? Because folks, let me tell you, the wheat needs the tares to come to maturity. We need the sons of perdition to bring us to our cross; that's their job. Jesus knew that. That's why he chose 12 and one of them was the devil. So here's what he says in verse 30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather up first the tares,… Now this bothers somebody cause he's talking about gathering up the first the tares. Folks, that's what's going to happen. There is going to be no rapture before the son of perdition is revealed before the falling away. That's what we just read very clearly in the black and white. It's not even deep, you see. …Gather up first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn. Well, that's God's Kingdom. That's God's temple we're talking about here, “gathered up first the tares.” See the mark of the beast in the middle of the tribulation, is to gather up first the tares and bundle them. Birds of a feather flock together. When Judas came out of the midst, guess who he gathered around with? When he came out of the mists, as a matter of fact he gathered with the Pharisees, didn't he?   Now when he gives the interpretation of this in verse 40As therefore the tares are gathered up and burned with fire; so shall it be in the end of the world. 41 The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom…  All things wasn't in the original folks. There's no Greek word for things. They shall gather out of his Kingdom all that cause stumbling and them that do iniquity. Do you believe it? Yes, the whole reason for the tribulation and the mark of the beast and these things is so that God gathers together into bundles these people that cause stumbling and do iniquity and he's going to do that first before He gathers the Saints, did you notice? 42 and shall cast them into the furnace of fire. He's bundling them up in order to throw them into the wrath of God. …there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Then shall the righteous shine forth as the son in the kingdom of their Father. Notice, He gathers the tares into bundles first, in order to throw them in the fire. But then, because they're bundled together because the birds of a feather have flocked together, suddenly God's people shine forth in the Kingdom of their Father. Why is that? Because now the spots and blemishes are gone. The bride has now become the spotless and blemishless bride. You see, folks, they're leaving our Kingdom. Remember the parable at the beginning? He said, the Kingdom of Heaven is likened to a man that's so good seed in his field. But while men slept, the enemy came and sowed tares in the man's field, the Kingdom of heaven.   Look, folks, we're not talking about who flies away first here, it's talking about who's leaving whose kingdom. They are leaving our Kingdom, the spots and blemishes. Not only corporately, but individually are going to be washed away. In your individual temple you've got spots and blemishes too. You know, it's little bits and pieces of the son of perdition in there I suspect. At any rate, he'll come to nought by the manifestation of the coming of Christ in you. And that was 2 Thessalonians says basically. Not just in you individually, but in you the corporate body. Boy, it's neat that things God's hidden in His word, it's just so awesome.   You know, he says that they're going to shine forth as the sun. Sun glory they've grown from star glory to moon glory to sun glory. The Bible says if we behold as in a mirror the glory of the Lord will be transformed into that same image, from glory to glory, even as from the Lord's spirit, and Paul explains, these three glories in 1 Corinthians 15. You know what that's saying? That God is going to cleanse his individual bodies in the temple. He's going to cleanse the corporate body of the temple. He's going to cleanse the spots and blemishes that are in His Body so that it is a beautiful, glorious church, complete and ready to serve Him. We're going to know these sons of perdition when we see them. They're going to do the same thing that the first Son of Perditiondid. There will be no reasoning with these people. They don't have the Spirit of God in them to give them a conscience, or at least they won't act that.   Jesus was the most righteous man on the face of the earth, obviously. And yet Judas very unreasonably turned against Him, tried to manipulate Him and turn against Him and turned to the harlot and the beast to crucify Him. The harlot of that day, of course, was apostate Judaism and the false prophet was the Sanhedrin, and the beast was the Roman Empire that was ruling over the people of God. Judas used the harlot of that day and used the beast to crucify Jesus. That's exactly what's going to happen today. They're going to deliver up one another and many shall stumble. Many are going to fall away, in which the son of perdition will be revealed, and at that time they will use the harlot of our day, which is not necessarily apostate Judaism, but apostate Christianity, is the harlot you're going to worry about. They're going to use the harlot of our day to crucify the Body of Christ. They're going to use the beast of our day, the revived Roman Empire, the worldwide revived Roman Empire that's coming on the scene right now. They're going to use that to crucify the Body of Christ. I suspect folks that most everybody, every local body will have some of these people; at least one. You know the local body that Jesus chose to have together as a type and a shadow, there was one in the midst. He had a purpose. They have purposes in our day.   We generally don't choose to go to our cross without help. God is sending us help. I'm not talking about a physical cross. I'm talking about the cross Jesus said we would have to take up. The Cross of death to self. We're called to die to self. Jesus was as a lamb led to the slaughter. Many times these people will mercilessly persecute us, speak against us, rail about us, lie about us, you know, accuse us to everyone around us. But they're just a bunch of lions, sons of perdition that are there to bring us to our cross. They have a good work. They are bad, demon possessed people, but they have a good work. You know that God works all things together for our good. That has to include these people. They are for our good or He wouldn't permit them. Jesus wouldn't have chose one purposely knowing he was the son of the devil. Oh, he was very religious, let me tell you. Judas went out there and did miracles with the best of them or they would have all suspected him. They didn't suspect him, they even suspected themselves before they suspected him. “Is it I, Lord? Is it I?”   See the son of perdition wasn't revealed until the falling away came, and that happened about the middle of the tribulation period. When the mark of the beast is demanded, these people who have no Christian fortitude, who have no power from God in their life will take the mark. Judas was a thief, he was a liar. He proved he had no power of God in his life. These people will take the mark of the beast. They will be doing it for 3 1/2 years if you ask me. The beginning of it will be in the middle, but they will be attempting to put this on everybody and these people because they don't want to face their wilderness, they don't want to face death to self in the wilderness. They're going to do this, they're going to be an abomination that maketh desolate. These spots and blemishes are going to be cleansed out of the body. That evil Babylonish temple that's in the midst of God's temple will be removed. They will be bundled together. They will be their own Babylonish temple and Judas being an apostle and leader in the church. Let me tell you that the Babylonish temple has a bunch of leaders that are just like that. And I can tell you God has a plan for him. He's got what He calls the wrath of God. He will give them time to repent during the Tribulation period that is coming to prove who's who, who's the wheat and who's the tares. But at the end of that time, He will destroy him. God bless you, brethren. 

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Get Ready! He's Coming Soon (2) (audio) David Eells 7/02/23  The Lord Shaking the School  Marie Kelton 6/26/23 (David's notes in red) During the meeting, I had an open vision. I saw a big school, that was made of yellow or gold bricks (The school is big because it is world-wide. The bricks are gold or the color of the sun/Son, because it is a righteous school where the righteous grow into the image of Christ and not religion.)  The sky was a pretty blue and there were no clouds (Which represents an unhindered view of heavenly things, which the righteous have.) I then saw the hands of the Lord come out of heaven and pick up the school, He turned it upside down and began shaking the school and things started falling out of it.  (The Lord shakes all the dross and impurities out of His people through trials and  persecution from the factious, so that all that is left remaining in us is pure gold, which represent the most valuable nature of Jesus. The trials and shakings that The Lord sends, cause the factious to fall away from the midst of the righteous, as these factious impersonators are really just ‘fool's gold'.)  Marie got this word: Heb 12:27 And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain. (All that is of man and not God must go for that belongs to the apostates.) Shaking  Tianna Fire 5/28/23 (David's notes in red) I had this experience where the ground started moving heavily, as though it was shaking like an earthquake. (I thought that this was really happening, it felt more real than a vision.) I started having many thoughts and feelings of fear, and imaginations of the ground beneath me breaking, causing me to fall or that something would fall on me. I also had thoughts of dying and other crazy thoughts. All these thoughts and feelings jumped on me so quickly and suddenly and unexpectedly.   I didn't like or accept any of those thoughts, so I cast them down and thought, "No! God will protect me, even if He just lifts up the bed with me on it, and it floats in the air, while everything else gets destroyed.” “Or maybe God's going to translate me to the brethren now.” “Oh! I must go get dressed!” “Or will God dress me during the translation!?" (We replace the evil negative thoughts of unbelief with those of faith in the promises.)  2Co 10:4-5 (for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the casting down of strongholds), 5 casting down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;)  Php 4:8-9 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. 9 The things which ye both learned and received and heard and saw in me, these things do: and the God of peace shall be with you.  Then the shaking stopped, and I realized nothing else was physically shaking anymore. I then heard the Lord ask me, "How are you going to react when these judgments really start manifesting? How will you respond when you see everything physically start crumbling and being destroyed? Will you stay in Me or run into the arms of fear? Will you stand on My Word and in bold Faith in the things you don't yet, see? Or will you give into doubt and let the enemy overcome you? I Am coming but many things must come first. I Am already here even though you don't yet (physically) see Me. Are You ready? Be ready in season and out of season. Every moment. Stay with Me, no matter what is going on around you. I Am your only hiding place.”  One And The Same  Marie Kelton 6/26/23  During the meeting, The Lord gave me an open vision. I saw my spirit man sitting down in a dark tunnel. My spirit man was reading a book that had a black cover on it. I saw the Lord walk up to my spirit man in the tunnel and hand her a sword and a book with a white cover on it (the bible). My spirit man then got up and walked next to the Lord in the tunnel. (He is our Light in the tunnel of darkness.)  I asked the Lord what the black book was and He said, "Learning about darkness". (I was looking at videos from John Ramirez an ex satanist learning about spiritual warfare and the tactics of the enemy. Also watching videos about people exposing celebrities etc.) (We should be babes when it comes to learning about the things of darkness.) 1Co 14:20 Brethren, be not children in mind: yet in malice be ye babes, but in mind be men. (If we study good we will know all evil.  But you cannot study enough evil to know all evil.  And the study of evil does not bear fruit like the gospel of the good news. Rom 16:19 ASV  For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I rejoice therefore over you: but I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple unto that which is evil. The Lord spoke to me about the sword and the book with white cover, He said that, "They are one and the same." (The Sword is both the Word of God and its ability to destroy the works of darkness like a sword. The books are the source of power and information, a dark source has dark power, and can lead into darkness. The Bible is the Word of Truth, which gives Life and freedom from darkness. The knowledge of good and evil.)  2Ti 2:15 Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, handling aright the word of truth.  A Sign of End Times  Tianna Fire 5/23/23  I dreamed I was walking around outside on a journey somewhere. I looked up at the sky and I saw Pegasus's (satan disguises himself as an angel of light) unicorns, (perversion spirits) dragons, (satan principalities) and witches, (witchcraft from humans) flying all around the sky. (The residence of these enemies is normally in the 2nd heaven. But the sky is the first heaven.  They are being cast down.) I felt a strong urge to contact the Brethren. (These perversion and witchcraft spirits are everywhere in the world today and they are blatantly obvious in the open, for everyone to see. Just as in the days of Sodom.) (Rev 12:7 ASV  And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels going forth to war with the dragon; and the dragon warred and his angels; 8 and they prevailed not, neither was their place found any more in heaven. 9 And the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent, he that is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world; he was cast down to the earth, and his angels were cast down with him.) I took shelter in a white concrete double garage that was empty. (White represents holiness and a double garage represents our human vehicles at rest and unity.) I pulled out my phone and went to the Brethren group chat to tell them what I saw, and I felt strongly that this was a sign that the end is closer than we think. (This casting down is at the beginning of the tribulation.)   I tried writing up what I saw, but my phone kept lagging and mis-typing, and it wasn't working properly, and not letting me write the message and send it properly. I accidentally clicked send as my phone was glitching but what was written was not what I meant to write. (The enemy attempts to hinder our communications that expose their plans.) So, I just did a voice message recording of what I saw and I was able to properly send it off. The Brethren responded that it is definitely a sign of the end times, as evil is now much greater and increasing, and no one can ignore it (NENT Joh 1:5 And the light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness apprehended it not.)   I then heard a sound outside, so I went out and saw a father who had 15 daughters of all different ages, and they all had brown eyes. They were from New Zealand. (New Zealand means New Land of the Long White Cloud. Could this represent the glory cloud of God's presence? It is made up of over 700 islands in the sea unified as one nation. 1Pe 2:9  But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession..) I asked where their mother was, and they said they all left her, and they are trying to find somewhere safe to go. (Leaving the harlot church system for safety.) I told them I knew where a refuge that brethren operate is located and that I would take them there, and they followed me back to the refuge.  Creation Groans  Tianna Fire 6/11/23  I physically kept feeling like the ground was moving gently and constantly, but like shivering. I kept feeling it for 6 hours no matter where I went. (The flesh is enmity against God, so it feels the judgement cometh.) Then I asked The Lord what this is I am feeling, and I saw in the Spirit that the earth and all of creation are breathing for God and all the earth is desperately waiting on and crying out to God, and I heard "All creation is groaning for the Sons of God to be made manifest". I felt this moving and shaking I was experiencing, was the creation and ground desperately wanting Jesus to manifest.   I then got these verses in context: NENT Rom 8:19-23 For the earnest expectation of the creation awaiteth the revelation of the sons of God. (The first manifestation of the sons of God is the first fruits Man-child reformers because the Son of God is manifested in them.) 20 For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but by reason of him who subjected it, in hope 21 that the creation itself also shall be freed from the bondage of corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. 23 And not only so, but ourselves also, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, WE ourselves also groan within ourselves, awaiting our adoption, the redemption of our body.  Ray of Light  Tianna Fire 4/12/23  I saw a Holy Angel representing Jesus and he was standing very close to me so He looked very big. I couldn't see too much behind him because He was so close to me. (He is closer than our breath.) But suddenly I was able to see behind him and there were dark storm clouds surrounding the entire sky, except for a tiny ray of light shining through or in between a cloud. Everything else was dark, and I felt like an urgency, and He said "I Am coming". I felt He is so very close already, and not far away.  Rev 22:7 And behold, I come quickly. Blessed is he that keepeth the words of the prophecy of this book.  Rev 22:12 Behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to render to each man according as his work is.  A Quick Change  Anonymous 6/21/23 (David's notes in red)  “There will be a quick change coming soon and more of My Son will be manifesting through you and those that choose ALL of Me. I am increasing and quickly, be ready each moment. LET GO OF EVERYTHING that is NOT Me. Let go of ALL doubt and unbelief. Let go of all carnal and worldly thinking. Everything you think you know and what you know is changing into Me. You will begin to not recognize yourself, but you will see Me in you (and our other Brethren.)   Completely in unity in Me you will soon be, closer and closer each moment becoming one together fully in Christ. Time is now. Stop thinking and looking to the future (planning the future) or past but focus on each moment you are in now. I Am now. Time is now. My Son focused on this moment, His Mind was and is on all of you.   Let go of all the distractions that stop you from bathing in My presence. Let go of all those little sins you think are hidden, I see all, and I want all evil out of you. No evil is in My son as there will be no evil in His Bride, now and for eternity. Time is ticking and passing quicker than you think, things will start proceeding more rapidly. In an instance I will be; don't look back.   Let go of all your carnal desires and senses and interests in this world. Face Me only. Look to Me. Think of Me. Communion with Me every moment. I Am in you and for you and everything is from Me. Look to Me and you will keep my peace, my joy and my pleasure that is beyond anything in the natural.   I am coming sooner, get ready now. Don't miss out on the things I have for you. Each minute and second, I have a gift for you and when you aren't in Me you miss out on what I wanted to give you. Don't look away or to the enemy. Only Me. I Am coming and am already here; look and see”.   (I sense that this is going to be coming and happening quicker than we expect.)  The Lion Of Judah Comes To David's House  Vanessa Weeks about 5/23/23 (David's notes in red)  In a dream, we of UBM were at David's house for a meeting in the day time. (Representing the David Man-child's house.) The house looked different on the outside. It was in a neighborhood and had white steps going up to a white front door that had a screen door that opened from the right. (The white steps mean only those who walk righteously can come up and into the door to the right.)   Psalm 15:1-5 A Psalm of David. Jehovah, who shall sojourn in thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell in thy holy hill?  (Zion) 2 He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, And speaketh truth in his heart; 3 He that slandereth not with his tongue, Nor doeth evil to his friend, Nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbor; 4 In whose eyes a reprobate is despised, But who honoreth them that fear Jehovah; He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not; 5 He that putteth not out his money to interest, Nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.   I saw people coming to David's house that I did not know. (Revival of people to come to a true house of God.) As people were coming in, some would put money in a basket that was attached to the bottom of the screen door. I knew in the dream that the money was for the ministry. I also saw Leon coming up the steps and into the door. (The lion of Judah - Jesus in the Man-child.) When he came in, he put bills in the basket. (His reward is with him, and that is in the scripture I received for the dream.)  I was surprised to see the money in the basket, because people in the neighborhood could see the money and I thought they could take it. No one was concerned about this, and then I woke up. (Isa 61:8 For I, Jehovah, love justice, I hate robbery with iniquity; and I will give them their recompense in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.)  I received by faith at random for this dream, Isa. 40:7. In context Isa 40:6-11 The voice of one saying, Cry. And one said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. 7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the breath of Jehovah bloweth upon it; surely the people is grass. 8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand forever. 9 O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion, get thee up on a high mountain; O thou that tellest good tidings to Jerusalem, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold, your God! 10 Behold, the Lord Jehovah will come as a mighty one, and his arm (Jesus, the arm of the Lord) will rule for him: Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him. 11 He will feed his flock like a shepherd, he will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and will gently lead those that have their young.   Father, thank You that Your breath blows on the fleshy people so their plans to steal or hurt us will fail. Thank You also that You are coming with Your reward, and Your recompense is before You.   One Body  Tianna Fire 4/21/23 (David's notes in red)  I cut my finger and there was a lot of blood. I felt faint so I went and sat down. I was thinking about how something so small could hurt and affect me so much.  Then in response, I heard: "This is how My Body should feel when another member (brethren) gets hurt, going through a trial or suffering. When something in the body isn't functioning how it is meant to, it doesn't just hurt that area, but all other areas. It also affects the mind and a person's thinking, and the body tries its hardest to fix or heal the hurting or broken area. When the body is in unity it quickly heals and restores what is broken. So, it is as when the brethren are in unity in order to help other brethren in need, the healing and deliverance manifests quicker. In unity there is much power, in unity the sick are quickly healed and captives are set free. There is much power in unity in the physical and spiritual. I Am one body, one Mind and so are My people. When the body relaxes and rests, it heals quicker; just as when you rest in Me your healing manifests. Be one mind, one soul, one spirit and one body. I Am One.”  Psa 133:1 A Song of Ascents; of David. Behold, how good and how pleasant it is For brethren to dwell together in unity! 2 It is like the precious oil upon the head, That ran down upon the beard, Even Aaron's beard; That came down upon the skirt of his garments; 3 Like the dew of Hermon, That cometh down upon the mountains of Zion: For there Jehovah commanded the blessing, Even life for evermore.  Eph 4:4-6 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as also ye were called in one hope of your calling; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in all.  1Co 12:12-31 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ. 13 For in one Spirit were we all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all made to drink of one Spirit. 14 For the body is not one member, but many. 15 If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; it is not therefore not of the body. 16 And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; it is not therefore not of the body. 17 If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?  18 But now hath God set the members each one of them in the body, even as it pleased him. 19 And if they were all one member, where were the body? 20 But now they are many members, but one body. (of Christ. He lives in His body by Word and Spirit.) 21 And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of thee: or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. 22 Nay, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be more feeble are necessary: 23 and those parts of the body, which we think to be less honorable, upon these we bestow more abundant honor; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness; 24 whereas our comely parts have no need: but God tempered the body together, giving more abundant honor to that part which lacked;  25 that there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another. 26 And whether one member suffereth, all the members suffer with it; or one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it. 27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and severally members thereof. 28 And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, divers kinds of tongues.  29 Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles? 30 have all gifts of healings? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret? 31 But desire earnestly the greater gifts. And moreover a most excellent way show I unto you.  Mat 11:28-30 Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest to your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden light.  Supernatural Experience: Lights  Raynaldo Portela 2023  My grandma died a few months ago, and I was so sad. My wife and I decided to go to San Diego, and while I was driving, beautiful thunders followed us for 6 hours. Then when we arrived in San Diego, I went to sleep, and I dreamed that I was praying for my grandma while she was dead in the bed. I prayed a few times, and she came to life, and she looked bright and beautiful, and she said, “My son, don't cry. I'm more alive than ever,” and she flew away. Then I looked to the sky and it was full of green, beautiful lights. I think those lights are called Auroras. (Even though this is a beautiful dream to comfort Raynaldo in the physical, there's a spiritual revelation, in that the original Gospel, represented by the grandmother, is going to be revived by the fervent prayers of the saints for the end-times.)  UBM, Refuge from the Storm   David Eells In a vivid dream an elderly white-haired man sat at His desk looking at some papers. He was also watching me with an expression of pleasant approval as I lay on a couch next to Him, also looking at some papers. It was revealed to me that He was leaving me with a billion dollars to take care of His house and property. There were household servants who looked on. (The elderly white-haired man represents our heavenly Father who will provide Unleavened Bread Ministries with everything necessary to care for that portion of His house and property that He has left us to care for. The house represents His holy people and His property represents those who are under the blood and in the process of becoming holy. I represent UBM, which is a body of saints committed to preparing the elect to walk in the steps of Jesus. The papers we were looking at represent the Biblical, legal contract between the Father and us that guarantees all these things. The servants are the angels who serve His people to bring this to pass. I was lying down in a restful position, signifying that it would not be by the works of UBM. but as we rest from our own works the grace of God will bring it to pass.)   Afterward I saw myself walking through the house and looking out a front window. I saw that a storm was raging and that the property outside the boundaries of our property was being devastated. (Curt had a very similar dream that a fire burned right up to our property line but no further.) Trees were being blown away and the landscape was becoming desolate. (Looking out the front window is to look into the future, or what is before the house. The raging storm is tribulations to come. The world outside the property will be devastated to prepare a wilderness to motivate God's people to flee to the Kingdom of God through repentance and faith. This is abiding in Christ, the secret place of the Most High God. Trees blown away represent people's lives being destroyed who do not abide in the shelter of Christ.)   Next, I saw that inside the boundary of the property were all kinds of animals. I knew that the billion dollars was given to shelter and take care of these. (After the dream I thought how much this seemed like the beasts who fled to Noah's ark for safety from the storm to come. Solomon taught that men are as beasts. Ecc 3:18-19 I said in my heart, [It is] because of the sons of men, that God may prove them, and that they may see that they themselves are [but as] beasts. 19 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; and man hath no preeminence above the beasts: for all is vanity. I have shared in our teachings that the different peculiarities of the animals represent the different strengths and weaknesses of men. The different species can also be seen as different unclean sects, divisions or denominations.)   Peter was being prepared by a trance vision to accept into the Kingdom those men he considered to be unclean beasts. Act 10:11-16 and he beholdeth the heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending, as it were a great sheet, let down by four corners upon the earth: 12 wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts and creeping things of the earth and birds of the heaven. 13 And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill and eat. 14 But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common and unclean. 15 And a voice [came] unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, make not thou common. 16 And this was done thrice: and straightway the vessel was received up into heaven. (Immediately after this vision Peter was invited to the house of Cornelius and he perceived that God had revealed to him that He had cleansed the lost, unclean Gentiles through the sacrifice of Jesus.)   10:28 and he said unto them, Ye yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to join himself or come unto one of another nation; and [yet] unto me hath God showed that I should not call any man common or unclean... 34 And Peter opened his mouth and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: 35 but in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is acceptable to him. (At this point Peter preached the Gospel to all who were in Cornelius' house and they were saved and filled with the Holy Spirit.)  Many unclean beast people will be fleeing the judgments on the world and apostate Christianity and coming into the shelter of the kingdom through our ministry. These were sanctified of their beastly character by the sacrifice of Jesus and we will have to deal with those peculiarities by faith and the Word. Some of them will ultimately not be saved for they will not continue in the faith and endure to the end to be delivered of their beastly appetites.   Next, I saw as I looked out of a front window, a rhinoceros charging towards the window. At the last minute it veered off and went down the left side of the house. (Where the goats go) I turned and ran to the back of the house and looked out the back window to see lions and a rhino calf peacefully in the back yard together with other animals. I supposed that the rhinoceros was thinking to protect its own but there was no threat; they were all at peace. (We believe the rhino lifting up its horn on high is the factious predators who are never at peace with the righteous.) Notice that the animals are at peace like they must have been in Peter's sheet and Noah's ark. This symbolizes the one flock with one shepherd that Jesus said would come. Mat 5:9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called sons of God.   In Isaiah 11:1-5 the Branch is Jesus in the man-child ministry as in Jer.23:1-6. Then it also speaks of the animals being at peace and protected and led by the man-child. Isa.11:6-9 And the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them (man-child). 7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. 8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den. 9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain (Kingdom of God); for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of Jehovah, as the waters cover the sea.   The rest of this speaks of gathering God's people to their spiritual Land of Promise and bringing peace between them while conquering the old man in the land. Chapter 12 speaks of them drinking freely of God's salvation. And chapter 13 is the day of the Lord and fall of America. Here the shepherds and their flocks are gone but the "wild beasts," especially "goats" (wicked and apostates) and "wolves" (apostate false leaders) are left to "cry in their castles" (churches). 13:19-22 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. 20 ...neither shall shepherds make their flocks to lie down there. 21 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and ostriches shall dwell there, and wild goats shall dance there. 22 And wolves shall cry in their castles, and jackals in the pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.)   Looking out the front window in this dream represents seeing into the future, and the left side, where the rhinoceros went, represents where the goats walk. Just as it is now, some self-righteous, competitive, ambitious, sectarian, factious, domineering types will seek to separate those of their own kind and their own thinking from the body when in reality they are in the safest place to be. This also may be speaking of a larger future scenario that involves the new world order religion seeking to separate those who may be proven to belong to them from those at peace with God and each other.   They will not be ashamed to use the weapon at their disposal to gore those who have been given authority. The rhinoceros first aimed at me and then at those who agreed with me. Some like Judas will go to the place ordained for them because of their selfish ambition and because they abuse their freedom in Christ until they are reprobated. Gal 5:10 I have confidence to you-ward in the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be... 13 For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only [use] not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another. 14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, [even] in this: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. 15 But if ye bite and devour one another (as the wild beasts normally do), take heed that ye be not consumed one of another (as the wild beasts). 16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.... 19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousies, wraths, factions, divisions, parties, 21 envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; of which I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that they who practice such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.  The Church Called Brotherly Love  Mark Fritts 12/26/04 (David's notes in red)  I woke up and this question came to my mind. What church is the church I am visiting today, for the second time, in relation to Revelation two? I don't know why I asked this but the Lord immediately said, "number three," which I discovered to be the Church of Pergamos. (They were rebuked for the Nicolaitan error of being lords over God's flock and the Balaam error of following idols (like a false Jesus) and feeding God's people greasy grace doctrines.) I asked the Lord to show me if I should tell the pastor of this church and He led me to Acts 18: 9 "Be not afraid but speak and hold not thy peace”.  So, I left the pastor a letter explaining what I thought the Lord was saying to this "Word of Faith" church. (Many of these lack the crucified life.) Why do things like this continually happen to me? My wife is tired of me having tough words for churches. She wants us to settle down in a church and find a good youth group for our kids. I asked the Lord to show me what I should say to this church if they don't repent and I believe he said, "Ezekiel fourteen". (In this chapter strong delusion came upon those who set up idols in their heart.)  Then I asked the Lord what church Unleavened Bread Bible Study represented and I heard, "number six". I did not know Philadelphia was the sixth church. (Philadelphia is the only church that was not rebuked but was promised, "I also will keep thee from the hour of trial". Philadelphia means "love of the brethren," Philo = love; adolphos = a brother. It is interesting that "adelphus" means "first from the womb," A = alpha - first; delphus = the womb. The man-child ministry will be the first-born from the womb of the church.)  Rev 3:7-10 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth and none shall shut, and that shutteth and none openeth (Authority to bind and loose): 8 I know thy works (behold, I have set before thee a door opened, which none can shut) (The wicked try but fail), that thou hast a little power, and didst keep my word, and didst not deny my name.  9 Behold, I give of the synagogue of Satan (Because they worship satan but they think he is God), of them that say they are Jews, and they are not, but do lie; (Not circumcised in heart) behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. 10 Because thou didst keep the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of trial, that [hour] which is to come upon the whole world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.  Jas 1:3-4 knowing that the proving of your faith worketh patience. 4 And let patience have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.  The kind of faith seen in this Galatians text causes us to "dwell in heavenly places in Christ". Gal 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.  (Our text in Revelation 3:7-13 shows that the Philadelphia Church will escape the hour of trial that would "try them that dwell upon the earth", rather than dwelling "in Heavenly places in Christ". This Church represents the Bride who, like the Shulammite in Song of Solomon, the Bride in Esther and the Bride in Psalm 45, will escape in the King's house on earth. This is no pre-trib rapture, for the Bride will raise up the virgins, as in these cases.)  I believe the Words to the Churches in the Book of Revelation represent the condition of the seven churches. Some have not died to self at all and need a crucifixion. And some had died a little but still have a long way to go. The tribulation will perfect those who are willing to go to their cross for their crucifixion. Mat 16:24-25 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. 25 For whosoever would save his life shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake shall find it.  Back to the Philadelphia Church in Rev 3:11-13 I come quickly: hold fast that which thou hast, that no one take thy crown. 12 He that overcometh, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God , and he shall go out thence no more: (Meaning to Abide continually in Jesus, the Word) and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem (The Bride), which cometh down out of heaven from my God, and mine own new name. 13 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches.  Is the Son Coming in You?  David Eells (2Cor.3:18) But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit. If our face is truly unveiled, we accept what happened at the cross and see by faith the finished work of Christ in the mirror. Only in this walk of faith are we "transformed into the same image". We accept by faith that God made an exchange of Christ's life for our life. (Col.1:22) yet now hath he reconciled (Greek: "exchanged") in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and unreproveable before him: (23) if so be that ye continue in the faith, grounded and stedfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel.... Through this exchange we died and Christ now lives in us by faith. (Gal.2:20) I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. Only seeing the real Jesus in the mirror by faith will transform us into the "same image". Aspiring to be like "another Jesus", as Paul called it in 2 Corinthians 11:4, will not bring forth Christ but antichrist in us. Having our eyes on self, our ability, our failure, is to see our "natural face in a mirror" and is not walking by faith. This will bring no power to obey but will make us hearers and not doers of the Word. (Jas.1:23) For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a mirror. These are the ones who do not unite faith with the Gospel so that Christ can be manifested in them. (Eph.4:13) [T]ill we all attain unto the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a fullgrown man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ. Paul is confident in the power of God to do this declaring "that ye may be filled unto all the fulness of God" (3:19).   Those who wish to live the old life believe that it is not possible that Christ could be manifest in this body. (2Cor.4:10) [A]lways bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body. (11) For we who live are always delivered unto death (to self) for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh. Notice he speaks of Jesus coming in this mortal flesh, not glorified bodies. In Paul's day they were falling away from this truth, which led to many dark centuries of apostasy. (Gal.4:19) My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you.   (Gal.2:20) I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me: and that [life] which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, [the faith] which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me. I am learning that it is not I, living the Christian life and doing the works of Christ, but it is I accepting my death and exercising faith so that Christ may live and do His works through me. Jesus gave up a natural body in order to take up a corporate body so that He could continue on a much larger scale His deliverance of this fallen creation.   (1Cor.12:27) Now ye are the body of Christ, and severally members thereof. We are not the body of "another Jesus", a weak and worthless Jesus. We are the body of the same Jesus Who walked in that first body, exercising God's power to set the captives free. (Heb.13:8) Jesus Christ [is] the same yesterday and today, [yea] and forever. It is sad that most do not agree that Christ's plan is to continue exercising the sovereignty that He had in His first body, in His second. (Amos 3:3) Shall two walk together, except they have agreed? We must agree with Jesus working through His body today to do the Fathers' work, that the body of Jesus today, would walk as Jesus did in His first body 2000 years ago.  Through faith in the Gospel we can expect the life of Jesus to be manifested in our human bodies. The life of Christ is not only His fruit but also His ministry, as we shall see. Those who teach that we cannot expect the life of Christ in this life are deceivers. Those who preach that as long as we are in this body we will always be in bondage to sin are deceivers. (2Jn.7) For many deceivers are gone forth (from the Church) into the world, [even] they that confess not that Jesus Christ cometh in the flesh. The KJV falsely says "is come in the flesh" because they thought this spoke of His first body. There is no manuscript that says this. Even the Received Text says "coming in flesh". The ancient manuscripts also say this and the numeric pattern proves it to be true. When Jesus physically comes again, He will have a glorified body, not one of flesh, however, He is coming now in the flesh of His body of true believers.   Those who preach that our ultimate hope here is only to be forgiven, and not transformed, are deceivers. Paul explained that he was revealing a mystery with the words "Christ in you, the hope of glory" (Col.1:27). He said that the wisdom in this mystery was to "present every man perfect (complete or mature) in Christ" (28). The seed of Christ must become manifested (bear fruit) in us "from glory to glory". (Col.3:4) When Christ, [who is] our life, shall be manifested, then shall ye also with him be manifested in glory. Christ manifested in us has power over sin and the curse around us. (See our book Sovereign God, For Us and Through Us) As we come to realize the purpose of Christ is to live in us, our faith in what He can do in us and through us grows exponentially. (Phm.1:6) [T]hat the fellowship (Greek: "sharing in common") of thy faith may become effectual, in the knowledge of every good thing which is in you, unto Christ. The seed of Christ that we have received has the potential for the whole plant but it must have the fertile ground of repentance and faith.   Suffering brings about this repentance, which is the suffering on our own spiritual cross of death to self. (Rom.8:16) The Spirit himself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are 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 with [him]. Notice that "we are children of God" and we will be heirs if we suffer the death of self that Christ may be glorified in us. "Child" is the Greek word teknon, which is always distinct from the word for "son", which is huios. Jesus is always called the "huios" of God. Vine's Expository Dictionary describes the difference. "Teknon, a child...gives prominence to the fact of birth, whereas 'huios' stresses the dignity and character of the relationship". A born again spirit makes us a child of God but only a born again soul gives us a pure and mature relationship with Him that a son like Jesus has. Our soul is our character, our mind, will, and emotions. Our spirit is reborn through an initial gift from God of repentance and faith. The soul is born from above by obedience to the Word given to that spirit. (Jas.1:21) Wherefore putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with meekness the implanted (or rooted) word, which is able to save your souls. "Christians" who will not be ruled by the Word are deluded. (22) But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding your own selves.   Paul speaks of salvation as a process that Christians must cooperate in by standing in the faith of the Gospel to "hold fast the word" or else they "believed in vain". (1Cor.15:1) Now I make known unto you brethren, the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye received, wherein also ye stand, (2) by which also ye are (Greek: "are being") saved, if ye hold fast the word which I preached unto you, except ye believed in vain. The ancient manuscripts, the numeric pattern, and the Received Text say, "are being saved" here. Peter teaches us to see the soul as already saved by faith but he also shows us that obedience to the Word is the method of manifesting soul salvation.   (1Pet.1:22) Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the heart fervently: (23) having been begotten (born) again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God. We are to endure in our faith to see the manifestation of soul salvation. (9) [R]eceiving the end of your faith, [even] the salvation of [your] souls. The soul that is born again manifests the nature of Jesus or the nature of son-ship. It is a soul submitted to the spirit that is led by the Spirit of God. (Rom.8:14) For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. To manifest Jesus, the huios of God, is to manifest son-ship. The Scriptures do not teach the lying gospel of "just accept Jesus" that fills churches with tares. Jesus is the One Who does not accept anyone who does not repent, meaning change their mind, and believe the Word.   Just as in Jesus' day the creation of God was waiting for a Son to come with the Word of deliverance from the curse of corruption, so it is in our day. (19) For the earnest expectation of the creation waiteth for the revealing of the sons of God.... (21) that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God. In Jesus' day spiritual children had led His creation into bondage to corrupt religion and sin but God sent His Son to deliver them with the unleavened bread. So it will be in our day. The foundations have been destroyed by many generations of children put in positions of leadership by those who have wanted their ears tickled. In times of apostasy God gives them what they want. (Isa.3:4) And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them. (5) And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor: the child shall behave himself proudly against the old man (mature), and the base against the honorable. ... (12) As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they that lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths. God's solution will be to reveal His sons whom He will use to restore a repentant remnant with the truth that sets free. Jesus in His first body offered this deliverance to "the lost sheep of the house of Israel" before there was a great falling away, but Jesus in the corporate man-child will offer it to the called of the "whole creation" to restore the elect.   (Rom.8:22) For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. The work of the Spirit is to bring us to adoption: spirit, soul, and ultimately body. Jesus was the Son of God abiding in the Son of Man. He was the Son in Spirit and Soul when He still inhabited a body of the seed of David (Rom.1:3). His ability to fully walk in the kingdom came when He received His redeemed, glorified, body. So shall it be with the man-child manifested sons. They will first manifest son-ship in spirit and then progressively in soul through persecution and suffering as it was with Jesus. (Heb.5:8) though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered; (9) and having been made perfect, he became unto all them that obey him the author of eternal salvation.... Through this stage the man-child sons will minister in power to the called of God as it was with our pattern, Jesus. Then back in Romans we see the last step of full adoption through the new body. (Rom.8:23) And not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for [our] adoption, [to wit], the redemption of our body.   Our faith, like our Father's faith, "calleth the things that are not as though they were" (Rom.4:17), so we must claim our son-ship before we see it. (Gal.3:26) For ye are all sons of God, through faith, in Christ Jesus. The manifestation will come to those who walk by faith beholding the Son in the mirror. However, as long as we walk as a child we are servants in bondage and do not realize our heritage of being lords of our Father's domain. (4:1) But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he differeth nothing from a bondservant though he is lord of all; (2) but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed of the Father. Servants do not serve for love as sons do and they do not have authority over a father's domain. All sons are servants of their father but not all servants are sons. Christians who are children are in bondage to the principles of the world. They walk by their physical senses instead of by faith. Sons live according to faith principles of the kingdom. (3) So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the rudiments (Greek: "first principles") of the world: (4) but when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, (5) that he might redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.   Paul exhorts children, who walk under law to religion, to receive the gift of son-ship by faith in what Jesus did. Those who seek to be justified by the works of the Law (whether man-made or Old Testament) are children of bondage and cut-off from Christ and grace. (Gal.5:4) Ye are severed from Christ, ye who would be justified by the law; ye are fallen away from grace. For this reason Paul said unto them: (4:19) My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ (son-ship) be formed in you. Those who claim their son-ship and the authority and privileges that go with it because of the redemption wrought in Christ are accounted as sons. We are "justified (Greek meaning accounted righteous) by faith in Christ" (2:16). If I believe that "I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me" (20), then I am a son by faith even if I am not yet by manifestation. (3:6) Even as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness. (7) Know therefore that they that are of faith, the same are sons of Abraham.   Therefore, if we have received the Spirit of Christ and believe that He now lives in us to do His works, we are sons by faith. (4:6) And because ye are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father. (7) So that thou art no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God. Those who live as joint-heirs with Christ are walking in the faith of son-ship and will manifest His works by God's power. Jesus said, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater [works] than these shall he do; because I go unto the Father (Jn.14:12). God is carefully bringing His servant/children who walk by faith to manifest son-ship, first the man-child and then those disciples who follow in His steps. (Pr.29:21) He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become a son at the last.   While the apostates were waiting for the coming Messiah, He was being manifest in their midst as a man-child born to a woman. According to this type the apostates in our day are waiting for Jesus to come in the sky to save them. The do not understanding that He will come first manifested in the man-child just as He did in Jesus' day. The Son will come to be manifested only in those children who "abide in Him". This is what the manifestation of son-ship is. Those who do not manifest son-ship will be "ashamed" like the man without the wedding garment, when they physically see Jesus. (1Jn.2:28) And now, [my] little children, abide in him; that, if he shall be manifested (in us as son-ship), we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming (Greek: Parousia, meaning His physical "presence"). Both the ancient manuscripts and the numeric pattern say, "if He be manifested" here. "If" shows that only the "children" who manifest Jesus or son-ship will not be "ashamed" when He comes. The KJV translated this "when He shall appear" because they thought this was a reference to Jesus' physical coming, which truly is a "when" and not an "if". A major problem with this translation is it has Jesus' coming twice at the same time. "When he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming". However "manifested" here is the Greek word Phaneroo, meaning "to appear or make visible". It comes from the root word Phan meaning "to shine".   The same word used in many other places plainly shows us that the glory of Jesus will "shine" out of our "mortal bodies" to "appear" to the world. (2Cor.4:11) For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested (Phaneroo meaning "shining appearance") in our mortal flesh. Obviously this is a spiritual shining of the righteous glory of God out of us but sometimes God allows even lost people to see it. Around 1984 I was witnessing to a man who said, "I saw you some years ago and there was a light shining out of you wherever you went and I wondered what it meant". Recently, I did some conferences that were video taped and went all over the country. On the same day two people contacted me, one from Washington and the other, a prophet from Florida. They both said that as they watched the video they saw a light shining out of me. (6) Seeing it is God, that said, Light shall shine out of darkness, who shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Notice in the same text that if we know the true "face of Jesus Christ" in the mirror by faith His glory will shine in us. (3:18) But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory. (Col.3:4) When Christ, [who is] our life, shall be manifested (in us), then shall ye also with him be manifested (shining appearance) in glory.   Back in our 1 John text, we see that when we are children He has not yet made His shining appearance in us. (1Jn.3:2) Beloved, now are we children (teknon) of God, and it is not yet made manifest (shining appearance) what we shall be. (If He makes His shining appearance in us "we shall be like him".) We know that, if he shall be manifested (shining appearance, i.e. in us), we shall be like him; for we shall see him even as he is (in the mirror). The ancient manuscripts, the numeric pattern, and the Received Text all say "if he be manifested" here. Notice also that those who "see him even as he is" in the mirror by faith "shall be like him". We must believe that "as he is, even so are we in this world" (1Jn.4:17).   The rest of this text confirms this manifestation of Jesus will come in those who have "confident expectation" of it. (1Jn.3:3) And every one that hath this hope (Greek: "a good, confident expectation") [set] on him purifieth himself, even as he is pure. Can we purify ourselves as "as he is pure"? Those who have a "confident expectation" of this manifestation of Christ in them will receive grace to walk in it. (Titus 2:11) For the grace of God hath appeared, bringing salvation to all men, (12) instructing us, to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and godly in this present world; (Only those who are "looking for" the "shining appearance" of Jesus' glory from them will have it.) (13) looking for the blessed hope and appearing (Greek: Epiphaneia meaning "a shining forth") of the glory of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; (Notice that this does not speak of the coming of the Lord but of the coming of His glory. Epiphaneia here speaks of Jesus' coming in us and is distinct from Parousia, which speaks of His personal "presence" or coming. In other words, He will come for those from whom He is "shining forth". He is coming in His saints before He comes for His saints. To this end He sacrificed Himself.) (14) who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a people for his own possession, zealous of good works.   The man-child is those who are the First-fruits company to manifest the glory of this purity. Those who fight the good fight of faith shall have this epiphany of Jesus, either as the man-child or as the woman He leads into this understanding. (2Tim.4:7) I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith: (8) henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give to me at that day; and not to me only, but also to all them that have loved his appearing (Epiphaneia). Like Paul, those who have loved His "shining forth" in them shall have the "crown of righteousness".   There are many who reject these awesome promises of "Christ in you" satisfied merely to get their toe in the door, but God has no interest in promoting the lukewarm. Those who justify their "just accept Jesus" religion in order to live as they like will not have eternal life, much less be in the First-fruits man-child. They may be servants but are not sons. (Jn.8:34) Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Every one that committeth sin is the bondservant of sin. (35) And the bondservant abideth not in the house for ever: the son abideth forever. Those who have imputed son-ship through their faith in the true Gospel are included with these eternal sons. Both sons and servants have been given the First-fruits of their inheritance here on earth but the sons will keep their inheritance and the servants will not. (Eze.46:16) Thus saith the Lord: If the prince (Jesus) give a gift unto any of his sons, it is his inheritance, it shall belong to his sons; it is their possession by inheritance. (17) But if he give of his inheritance a gift to one of his servants, it shall be his to the year of liberty; then it shall return to the prince; but as for his inheritance, it shall be for his sons. Notice that when Jesus returns to set at "liberty" His own, He will take the gift He had given to the servants who had not born the fruit of son-ship, and give it to the sons. Jesus confirmed this in several parables. He described Himself giving gifts of His inheritance called "talents" to His servants. (Mt.25:14) For [it is] as [when] a man, going into another country, called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods. (15) And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to each according to his several ability; and he went on his journey.... (19) Now after a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and maketh a reckoning with them.   He finds that two of these servants have used their talents and brought forth hundred-fold fruit; the servant with the five talents brought forth five more and the servant with the two talents brought forth two more. The servant with the one talent reported that he "hid thy talent in the earth: lo, thou hast thine own". In other words he kept what was given and used it for earthly purposes but bore no fruit. Jesus will accept no excuses from these fruitless servants. (28) Take ye away therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him that hath the ten talents. You see, the inheritance of the fruitless servants will be taken away and given to the sons. (29) For unto every one that hath (fruit) shall be given (inheritance), and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not (fruit), even that which he hath shall be taken away. (30) And cast ye out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.    Printer-friendly version     © 2017 UBM | Unleavened Bread Ministries. All rights reserved.    [ Fair Use Notice ]

God Will Lead and Empower the Weak (Audio) David Eells - 4/16/23 A Coming Age of Change Samuel Fire - 3/19/23 (David's notes in red)   I sought The Lord regarding what period of time we are in. “What point in time are we in?”  What I heard Him say, “There is a coming age of change soon. Get ready”. (I felt there is something very serious to be the priority, the life of Christ in us. There is a short time frame left to be completely on His side. No fence-sitting! Get away from the fence and come into the flock of the Shepherd.) I then saw a seed sprouting. I saw it from a side point of view, and I could see partway into the soil. It was planted at the correct depth and the soil looked rich, fertile, and well-watered. The seed had only just broken open and a first shoot sprouted and started to take root. (I felt this was the beginning of the next phase of the Father's perfect plan, where the birth of the Man-Child is to come forth.) I then heard Him say, “That is the time we are in”.  (Well, then we are at the beginning of the Tribulation as the new time period of change.) Rev 12:1-6 And a great sign was seen in the heaven: a woman arrayed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars; 2 and she was with child; and she crieth out, travailing, and in pain to be delivered. 3 And another sign was seen in the heaven: and lo, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his heads seven diadems.  4 And his tail draweth the third of the stars of the heaven, and he cast them to the earth: and the dragon standeth before the woman about to be delivered, that when she is delivered, he may devour her child. 5 And she was delivered of a son, a male, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and unto his throne. 6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath there a place prepared of God, that there they may nourish her a thousand two hundred threescore days.  Being near the beginning of the first 3 ½ years in Samuel's revelation above, confirms very well the next two revelations.   America: A 10-Year Prophetic Word Prophet Ken Dewey - 10/22/20 (David's notes in red) According to Ken Dewey, the most current 10-year prophetic cycle, begins with January 2021. We will start with a previous 10-year period. As we will see, I have made some educated guesses with his time periods which seem to fit. The LORD said I could write this commentary of End Time Events. The ten years is ending, [spoken in 10/22/20] and another begun! The LORD has been speaking to me now in 10-year periods of time. Events in my life have been involved, then He has taken up the coming years and included prophetic 10-year periods. I have known it now for a long time. Personally, I have been moving in those time periods and hearing Him talk to me about what is happening and what is coming.  Just to bring it forward, I had a Word from The LORD back in the middle of 2009 that said God had determined 10 years upon America, beginning with January 1, 2010. That prophecy did come true, and I saw the whole ten years, and much the LORD said about the 10 years. We are now [in 2020] coming to that end....I then heard The LORD speak about another 10 years, beginning with January 2021, after the first 10 year passed by. He said there would be another ten years in America, after 2020, ending in 2030. The LORD said there would be a great revival like never before after January 2021. And the thing I have heard is that it would be during a time of darkness, yet light. In other words, the world will still be reeling from the events happening. (I believe following the coming election time, when U.S. President Donald J. Trump is going to win!) (He did win, and it is going to be proven.) I am saying to you, this has been a Prophetic Word for ‘America', for I am an American prophet.  I have heard The LORD talk about Obama and why he became president, and I have heard about President Donald Trump, and why he was elected. I have been through all of this... and The LORD has told me what was happening. I am but one who has been told, and I am blessed to hear. I must be only His Voice and speak only what He says. There will be a great War breaking out of Civil Unrest in America in the coming 10 years. (This fits with all we've seen after the Man-child comes, the red horse of war comes in Rev. 6:4.) But just know that this will work in favor of the Revival...because God will use this backdrop of Civil War to awaken many people in America. The Church is awakening and will awake to new life as we move into this coming time. The Church in America has been sleeping for some time, but The LORD said to me, the Church will awaken and rise up, even as the children of Israel in Egypt rose up and walked out of Egypt [and into the Tribulation]. What I have been hearing in 10-year increments is about America. I have not heard that it is for all the world, but what happens in America will affect all the world, because of the prominence of America in the world. What happens to America will definitely affect the other nations. the LORD did not... I repeat ...did not.... say at the end of 2030 He was coming back. As a matter of fact, He has never told me anything about that...except that there will not be a ‘traditional rapture,' but that there would be a hiding of many people on the earth for protection. (There is no pre-trib rapture, but Father will hide “those who are alive and remain” in the secret place of the Most High.)…He is not telling anyone when He is coming back again. He said to me: “Only My Father knows the time.” But I will say this: He has talked to me about there being more time to work than men think. He said that there would be time to build my assignment in the desert. He talked much about the coming Kingdom of Heaven coming down and him setting up a 1000-year Kingdom on this earth that He would rule over. The building of Desert Zion is tied to that prophetically because He talked about how he would need thrones set up over the world, from where He would rule in the Kingdom. (There is more than one Zion.) He said to me, “I will walk right into Desert Zion in those days!” He said He wanted it to be a beautiful place, and He has said, “Do not build anything, except My Way.” He has not let me put up anything like temporary buildings [such as metal buildings or shipping containers or trailer houses.] He has given me a small 16-foot-long trailer [an old 1965 Forrester], but He said it is only a place “to rest while you build.” I wait every day, hoping to get “the go ahead” on building in Desert Zion, but I hear Him keep talking about not building until something happens out there, (I believe underground), which will change the whole area. (We have heard the same thing, earthquakes.) This is one reason for waiting, and I have pressed into building, but it keeps moving out in the future....I cannot write this Commentary of Prophetic Events without talking about what God is doing with me personally, and with Desert Zion, and the messages He is giving me for the End Time days.  There is definitely coming a Kingdom, and with it, a King —The King of kings and LORD of lords. I believe some here now will watch it come, and they/we [God willing, and we are worthy] will rule with Him in that Kingdom. This day in which we live is right now... dovetailing into that coming Kingdom and all the Tribulation will precede its coming. We are living at the threshold of the Tribulation now, and after that time of seven years, His Kingdom will begin on earth. Right now, we are just waiting for the events to happen. (At that time His kingdom will rule over those in physical bodies.)    Go to Set My People Free!  Prophet Ken Dewey - 12/01/22 (David's notes in red)   Desert Zion What The LORD said to me about being now (12/01/22) almost 80 years old… Back in 2007 I was talking with The LORD out in the remote desert, and I heard Him say to me: “You KD will be my “Moses man” and you will go to set my people free!” (That would be a Man-child) I told him then, “LORD, but I am not Moses, and is it but vain to think I ever can be”. But He insisted, and then proceeded to tell me I would do certain things to help his people be free from bondage. Now it is years later, and I heard him talking about Moses and his age, and Moses' call. He said, “Moses was born and raised in Egypt, and he lived there for 40 years before he fled Egypt to go into the desert. (Moses didn't set the people free until after his 40 year trial.) Moses landed upon a desert place called Median, and there he became a common sheep herder. He lived in Median until he was some 80 years old, then he saw the Burning Bush and heard God say, “I will send you, Moses, to set my people free who are in bondage in Egypt.” At the time The LORD told me the above about Moses, I ask Him, “But LORD, I am a washed-out preacher, living on the backside of the desert, and I have no means to go to set anyone free?” He said, “Nevertheless, you will go for Me, so I AM telling you now, so you will know. Just plan on going! Do as I tell you, and I will show you what to do, even as I did Moses!” I asked The LORD, (just the other day, or a few days ago) “LORD, are you now going to wait for me to turn 80 (in Feb. of 2023) to help me go set the people free? Is this what I am waiting for?  Will I have to be 80 to fully see again “Egypt land” from which I came out here into this desert from?” I heard Him saying, “Yes!  When you turn 80, you will be sent with great power and blessings, and you will see the work accomplished that I AM sending you to do.” Oh LORD.. But I will be 80!  Am I not too old to build in the desert? “No!” He said… “You are only as old as you think you are!  Just move forward and I will bless you, even as I did Moses with good health.” He then said to me, “You know Moses lived to be 120?” “Oh LORD” I said, “Am I going to live that long?” He said, “I AM that I AM, and I can do whatever I want with My People.” I know this sounds like a very personal Word. Some here may even think I am being vain. But believe me, I have no intention of that. I want to only share what God has said to me, and I want to walk out on His Word by Faith, believing. I want to tell you, on February 28, 2023, next year, which is only 90 days away. — I will turn 80. (So, we have a time period here from Feb. 28th of 2023 – Feb. 27th of 2024 when He can become a “Moses”.) I have been living here in this desert land of New Mexico for some 35 years and counting. This personal Word is mine, and I now walk out on it. I am believing that God is going to help me with supernatural health, strength, and all in accomplishing the building of Desert Zion in this desert. I am believing God, that He will set His People free from bondage, and they will go out to serve the LORD! Even if I am old and 80!   Waiting For Our Wilderness Assignments Tiannah Fire - 2/5/23 (David's notes in red)   I dreamt that Samuel and I, and many brethren were living together in a building that was like a motel. It had separate bedrooms but had a joint kitchen, a lounge room, and other main areas. In the dream we were waiting for David Eells to come to where we were. (This represents communal living as in the original Church in Acts).  Each of us could individually contact David personally anytime, however we wouldn't leave this place without David being here with us or without specific instruction from him. (David represents the Man-child David reformers who will lead the Body through the wilderness Tribulation.) Rev. 12:6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath there a place prepared of God, that there they (the Man-child/Moses) may nourish her a thousand two hundred threescore days.  I would message and call with David for advice anytime and he would always answer, and other brethren did the same. We all kept asking David when he will come, and he always said he will come soon. So, we all kept seeking The Lord each day, awaiting patiently for him to come. We were desiring David to come so much, and we battled impatience for we were excited for him to come and for us to be sent out and used for God's work. All of us were so eager to go out but we knew we couldn't go unless David was here and unless he said for us to. (The Man-child will come first and the Woman will be ready to follow.) David came to where we were when we least expected it and we were all so excited that he was now here with us. Mat 24:44 Therefore be YE also ready; for in an hour that ye think not the Son of man cometh.   David said that we needed to get food, so all of us together drove to the grocery store in three cars. (The food representing the Word). We were all packed in close together as there was so many of us. I kept asking David many questions about the future and what's going to happen and what we are going to do. He assured me that God has the perfect plan, and we need to trust Him and in His perfect timing. When we arrived at the grocery store there was nobody there, although the doors were open and unlocked, but the lights were off. When we walked inside the lights turned on and David said for us to get what we want and need and it's all free because he owns it. (Yes, we give our spiritual food away for free like Jesus commanded.) We all went and grabbed everything we needed and wanted. We didn't get more than we needed but what was good for this time, not for the future. Exo 16:18-19 And when they measured it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating. 19 And Moses said unto them, Let no man leave of it till the morning.   We all went back to the motel with David, and we all tarried for a few weeks, seeking the Lord together. Then David started assigning specific tasks to couples or small groups of people. David told each of them where they will be going and what they will be used for, and he was assigning them their tasks. It was made known that no one was going to stay here now but that we were all being sent out to different areas, but we will be together again one day, and we can each contact David anytime. We had all this time together but now God wanted to use us all apart. Some people were sent to other first world countries, some to communist countries but few stayed in our home country. Mat 5:14-16 YE are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hid. 15 Neither do men light a lamp, and put it under the bushel, but upon the lampstand and it shineth unto all those in the house. 16 Thus let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in the heavens. (Too much salt in one area is bad for the earth and for food. In the book of Acts brethren were scattered. Jesus sent people into different areas.) Most brethren had now left to fulfill their mission in the areas they were told. Some went in groups of threes, some twos, and some fours. David called Samuel and I to him and I noticed that Samuel was much shorter in the dream than he is in real life. (Representing humility) David told us that we are being sent to other countries to share The Real Word as missionaries. I said, “That makes sense because I always preferred the people in third world countries and their simple living, rather than western countries.”  We weren't told which country we were being sent to first but were told we were being relocated to a new motel in the desert (Wilderness) where we would await instruction on when to go to the other countries. I felt this was the start of something big, but we were being trained and seeking the Lord. The next thing I remember was, we were in a small brick motel in a desert and there were no other people around except a few brethren that were also staying in the motel. David called us and said he would visit soon but we are to wait for him. Then I woke up.    He Leads Me Beside Still Waters Marie Kelton - 2/10/23 During the worship at the meeting, the Lord spoke to me and said, "I will lead you to green pastures, and still waters for I am the Good Shepherd.” I had a vision while the Lord was speaking of a grassland. I saw Jesus as a shepherd with a Shepard's staff and a sheep walking beside Him. I saw other sheep coming up behind Him and following Him. The Lord then came to a creek and sat down with His staff and the sheep came up close to Him.  These verses came to my mind: Psa. 23:1-2, Jehovah is my shepherd; I shall not want . He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; He leadeth me beside still waters And John 10:11, I am the  good shepherd: the  good shepherd layeth down his life for the sheep .   A Bigger Supply of Living Waters Eve Brast - 4/11/23 (David's notes in red) I dreamed I was back down in Texas on a sunny day standing on Calendar Rd. in front of the property with the two mobile homes that my dad (representing the Father) had given me for an inheritance. (Texas means, “house of friends”. The sunny day represents the light of the Son/sun shining down upon the just and the unjust. Calendar Rd. represents a time frame in which God is currently working, as we will see. The land for an inheritance was what God promised Abraham and his faithful seed.) On the front 1/4 acre was an old, dingy, off-white double wide that was quite dilapidated. (This dilapidated house represents the apostate church that has fallen away from God.) It was over grown with shrubbery and vines and there was an old hillbilly family standing out on the front deck with their arms folded glaring with resentment and disapproval at what was going on around the ditch at the front of the land. (In real life my dad had sold that portion of our land to an old widow that belonged to our church, and she moved her double wide trailer onto it. She and my dad did not get along and were in a subtle feud for many years afterward. He told me when he was still alive that he had always regretted selling it to her.) (The apostate church has been in a feud with true Christianity for centuries and they have made themselves enemies of God. They like their dead religions and resent the true living waters of the "sum of His Word.") I was watching a construction crew with safety vests and hard hats using a backhoe to dig out the old water pipes that had been feeding the property and they were laying down much larger water pipes to service the land now. (This represents more power of the living waters for revival and miracles, signs, and wonders. The latter and former rain anointings.) They were having to tunnel underneath the dilapidated double wide at the front of the property in order to by-pass it and provide a much larger quantity of water to my dad's land. (The apostate church will miss out on what God is doing in these last days if they don't repent of their waterless doctrines and come out of her [meaning, the Harlot].) This was one of the reasons they were unhappy, because they were no longer going to have any water connection. (God will take away what anointing they do have.) Then I woke up.   The Heavenly Golden Fluid Train  Claire Pienaar - 1/31/23 (David's notes in red)  I had a quick dream. I saw Riaan and I in a train with many cars. (In this dream, I represent the Bride because my name means “brilliant” and the Bride's garments are bright and pure like in, Rev. 19:8 And it was given unto her that she should array herself in fine linen, bright and pure: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints. Riaan represents the Man-Child as his name means “little lion king”. Riaan: Trains only go on tracks that have already been laid out before them. Representing the predestined, called and elect traveling the narrow way laid out for us by following Christ. This train however is traveling in the heavenlies. It's a spiritual journey.)  It was traveling above the air, there were no wheels. (Riaan: Thus, it is not works, but by faith that this train moves). It had a golden glow that intensified the higher up it went (Riaan: Representing purified gold). We were collecting others along the way. It was a fluid train, not rigid. I would say it was a spiritual train. I saw some being left behind, but I saw others, brand new to the gospel, come in and journey with us. (“Let no man take thy crown.”)    Holy Spirit Prayers Bring Power Matthew Stewart - 2/1/23  When I had this dream, I was in that area where you are half-asleep and half-awake.  In the dream, this thought popped into my head, “How powerful it is to be on your knees.” As soon as I thought this, I immediately saw a vision in the dream of a man and this man was going onto his knees. When his knees got to about four inches above the ground, my vision zoomed in to watch his knees slowly go to the ground, until they touched the ground. And when his knees touched the ground, I immediately felt the power of the Holy Spirit in my physical body while I was sleeping. While this man was on his knees, he was praising and praying to the Lord in the power of the Holy Spirit. Then I woke up.    The Fire of the Holy Spirit Surrounds Us Tiannah Fire - 2/13/23 I felt to write this testimony down of what I have seen to encourage others that the Lord uses us even when we don't think He is, and He gets all Glory, and everything is about Him. I have seen this in the Spirit a few times when driving and today when I was walking out in public. I saw in spirit hot and bright fire everywhere where we were standing and driving, everywhere behind us where we walked. As we walked along, the fire followed and left a trail of sparks from the fire. The fire would cleanse and sanctify the area and unclean spirits would flee, and the fire would leave a cleaner presence. I felt strongholds breaking in the area around us just because of the presence of Jesus in us. In spirit I saw the fallen angels and principalities of the area look and see the fire in the spiritual realm. I believe the fire is Jesus or The Holy Spirit and I believe this happens with all us brethren and all that have Jesus living in them. When praying in Holy Tongues or speaking The Word in Spirit the fire burns brighter and has a more powerful affect on the area we walk on and the area around us. But even when not praying the presence is still there. I felt the fire or presence pushing back the darkness and the evil spirits roaming about can see it and so can the evil spirits inside of people. Also, when we are around people in public, I can see how the fallen angels inside people know who Jesus in us is and that the Holy Spirit is in us without us doing anything but standing there. The human soul can see it too and either people completely reject the light and can't look at us, or they start manifesting demons or avoiding us.  Some people don't understand the light but are interested and I believe they are the people that God is drawing. Sometimes there are people that are so attracted to the light that they come up to us to speak with us, wanting to know about the light that we have. We have had times when children come up to us and stared at us or talked to us as they don't understand that it is Jesus, but they can sense it spiritually. Sometimes their parents want nothing to do with the light. There have been times when people involved in new age, or illegally accessing the spiritual realm, have seen the light in us, but I don't think they quite understand that the light is Jesus. Even if we don't say or do anything, just the presence of Jesus and The Holy Spirit in us, is working and affecting the area around us, breaking strongholds, and bringing peace.   This One Thing I have Learned About God  Prophet Ken Dewey – 4-9-23 (David's notes in red) In all my life of learning, mostly the hard way in the “School of The LORD” or the “Dear School of Hard knocks”, it is this: The LORD has His Own way of doing things! The things The LORD does are, for men, past finding out, because He is God, and God is not limited to man's ideas or notions. No, the Knowledge of God is all consuming, for He knows everything!  The LORD knows both the beginning and He knows the end..  and, I might add, He knows all the things in between… God is not even a man. The Scriptures tell us in Num. 23:19, “God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?” So, we should not be amazed to the “Ways of God” when it comes to doing things. God can take all before him and make it work for his Glory and for his Good. God can. He is more than able — and nothing is impossible for Him. God can do it all, and when it is finished, He will say [along with] everyone else who stands by and see's what he has done, “It is finished and it is good!” Men look at the present troubles that are happening right now in this world around us and wonder what or how can it all be changed? Men may think they know the answers, only to find out later their ideas fall far short of solving of all the problems! The ways of God are higher than the heaven above men's heads! Men, left in their own understanding, are told: The natural man cannot even know or understand spiritual things, or earthly things. The fact that men today are in perplexity, not even knowing what sex they are! Is this a small matter? I think not, because all any person must know is how to identify the sex, … by looking between their legs. Well, dumb and ignorant men try to even understand God, but they cannot even understand themselves! Our text today says or describes God in Isa. 55:8-11 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith The LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.”    And this goes for what goes on in the Nation. Men cannot even understand how to govern men, for they are ignorant and unlearned in the way of righteousness. We conclude that men can think and even say they know the answers…. but we all know they really don't. They are as lost as a ball in high weeds!   Our Weakness is the Way to God's Power David Eells   To all those who have struggled to please the Lord and do His Will, this will be good news. It will be a rest and refreshing, a casting down of the burden of salvation, in all its many facets, by self-works. It is not in us to do these things but in Him. Personal strength and determination will not be enough. As a matter of fact, it will get in our way and His. He will wait until we give up so that He may give the free gift through faith that He also supplies the benefit.  Gideon was faced with an army that was “like locusts for multitude.” He gathered together all the manpower at his disposal. All of this human strength stood in the Lord's way of doing a miracle for His glory. Man would certainly take the credit and then others would not see the true source of our physical and spiritual salvation. (Jdg.7:2) And the Lord said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.  At this point, the Lord proceeded to chose only 300 men and then gave them trumpets for weapons. In the natural, there was none weaker than this army. Now the Lord could show that His “power is made perfect in weakness.”  And what of David, who was naturally the youngest, smallest, and weakest of Jesse's sons? When Samuel anointed him with the power of the Spirit, he went on to slay Goliath with a sling. How often is this scenario repeated throughout the scriptures so that we might know that personal weakness is a true strength, and it qualifies us for the Lord's power. We should refuse to size up the opposition, knowing that when the “odds” are against us they are in our favor. Our victory is assured by the fact that it was accomplished already at the cross. What we each must do is become as a child because we can walk with the Lord if we become as a child. The thing about grown-ups is they're self-confident, self-sufficient, independent. All those traits the world thinks of as being positive, but in the Kingdom, they're not considered so by God. The Lord says the only way you can enter the Kingdom is to be as a child. Jesus said, “suffer the little children to come unto me; forbid them not: for to such belongeth the kingdom of God (Mar.10:14). Forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God, is what it said in the original. (15) Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall in no wise enter therein. (16) And he took them in his arms, and blessed them, laying his hands upon them.”  Now we tend to think of the Kingdom as some place that we're going to, so that we can enter into it, but actually we're entering into the Kingdom here. In reality, the Kingdom is every place in your life. Jesus said, The kingdom of God is within you (Luk.17:21). The Kingdom is every place in your life where God is able to rule. God is not able to rule until you're in agreement with Him. To be a child is to be confident in your Father, not self-confident. It's to be dependent upon your Father, not self-dependent. This is valuable to God. As He said, “my righteous one shall live by (“from” in the Numeric) faith: And if he shrink back, my soul hath no pleasure in him” (Heb.10:38).  What pleases God is that we live from faith, that we do not live from our self-confidence, or our self-sufficiency, or our own ability, or the strength of the arm of the flesh, but that we put our trust in God and walk with Him like a little child walks with his father. In other words, there's no other way to enter the Kingdom. We must give up being grown-ups. We must become as children. For God to be able to rule everywhere in our lives, we must become as children. (Mat.18:1) In that hour came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who then is greatest in the kingdom of heaven? (2) And he called to him a little child, and set him in the midst of them, (3) and said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye turn and become as little children, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven. These were His disciples that He was telling this to. These were not the apostate Pharisees; these were the disciples of Jesus, those who were learning from and following Him.  He said you will not enter in unless you turn and become as little children. The process of the Christian life is this process of turning and becoming as little children and becoming God-dependent, God-sufficient and God-confident. (Mat.18:4) Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. (5) And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me. You see, Jesus was like a little child. That's Who He was. He says, if you receive one of these little children, you receive Me. That's somebody who is in His likeness.  He wasn't a grownup in the ways of the world, in the ways of confidence in the world, the strength of the world. Grown-ups are known for making their own way, making their own living, being self-sufficient, being great providers, but the Lord wants to wash all that out of us. He wants us to put all our confidence and our trust in Him and become as little children. If you receive one such little child, you receive Jesus. That's the way He was. He was confident in His Father. The best way we can help ourselves is by walking by faith in God's Word. You've probably heard the old saying, “God helps those who help themselves,” but that's not found in the Bible. That saying is credited to Benjamin Franklin in his Poor Richard's Almanac.  No, the best way to help yourself is walking in faith in God's Word. (Rom.14:22) The faith which thou hast, have thou to thyself before God. That's what the Bible says. You can help yourself to everything that God has for you through faith in His Word. (Luk.10:21) In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou didst hide these things from the wise and understanding, and didst reveal them unto babes: yea, Father; for so it was well-pleasing in thy sight. (Those considered wise and understanding in the ways of the world can not receive this, as a matter of fact, they scoff at it.) What was He talking about? Reveal what things to the babes? Well, the disciples had just come back from being sent out by the Lord to take authority over the works of the devil. They came back rejoicing that God had given them authority over the power of the devil and that they had done the works of Jesus, and they saw that the spirits were subject unto them. But why did Jesus call them babes? Well, it was babes who received this revelation of the authority of Jesus, and it was babes who received this revelation of how to use the authority of Jesus.  Let's back up a little in this chapter. (Luk.10:3) Go your ways; behold, I send you forth as lambs in the midst of wolves. (4) Carry no purse, no wallet, no shoes; and salute no man on the way. So, we see they were babes because Jesus sent them out totally dependent upon the Lord. (5) And into whatsoever house ye shall enter, first say, Peace [be] to this house. (6) And if a son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon him: but if not, it shall turn to you again. And so, he said, “salute no man on the way” because you really don't know people, but you find out later who people are.  We're going to find out before the end of the tribulation who people really are and who His children are. God sent these disciples out as children, as totally dependent upon the Lord, not self-sufficient, not able to take care of themselves. He deliberately took away their ability to take care of themselves when He sent them by not letting them take any kind of provision with them. … He can do all things. He'll cause you to meet people whom He has put there specifically to supply your needs if you go by faith and be obedient to Him. If you go as a child, just trusting in your Father.  Everybody in America wants to insulate themselves against anything that could happen, as though they don't believe in a sovereign God. The Bible says, “A man can receive nothing, except it have been given him from heaven” (Joh.3:27). God, Who is Sovereign, will make sure that He blesses you, if you go by faith in Him. Believe me, the time is coming when everybody is going to have to go by faith in God because He's going to take away all the things that people have insulated themselves with from the things that might happen in the world. But God is God. He never goes to sleep. He's never fallen off the throne. He's there always. He is going to make sure that His Word comes true and we can be just like little children.  We can cast ourselves on His mercy. Children never even think about where the next meal is going to come from. Little children don't worry about those things; they just know that it's Mom and Dad's responsibility; they'll take care of that. And you know, that's the way God is with us. He wants that kind of relationship with us. God's not happy with anything less. (Heb.10:38) My righteous one shall live from faith: And if he shrink back, my soul hath no pleasure in him. God doesn't have pleasure in self-sufficient people. He has pleasure in people who walk by faith, talk by faith, live by faith. And it is a pleasure to live by faith.  I don't yet know all of what living by faith is; God's only shown me the little parts, but I would love to live by faith in every direction. …There isn't anything God won't do for those who put their trust in Him. There is nothing that God can't do and won't do for those who put their trust in Him. I believe this is the reason that He said He revealed these things unto babes. God reveals the authority of God and God reveals the power of His name to people who will become children, people who will cast care to the wind and put themselves in His Hands, just trusting in Him, believing in Him. (Eph. 3:20) God is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think.  God loves it when we are weak but, we don't see it that way. We like to be strong, and we do our best to make sure that we're strong in every situation that we can get in. As I said, we do our best to insulate ourselves from any possible mishap, but that doesn't please God. It doesn't please God that we put our trust in the gods of this world, the saviors of this world. The apostle Paul learned that lesson. He was caught up to paradise and he said, “On behalf of such a one (the man who was caught up to paradise) will I glory: but on mine own behalf I will not glory, save in my weaknesses” (2Co.12:5).  The King James Version translates that word “weaknesses” there as “infirmities” because they had the idea that the apostle Paul had some kind of sickness or infirmities, but a closer look at this reveals that's not the case at all. Those translators believed the apostle Paul had an eye disease or something like that and that God said, “my grace is sufficient for thee” (2Co.12:9), meaning, “You just keep that because you need that; you need that to be an overcomer; you need that to humble you.” But obviously that would be contrary to a lot of the rest of the Word. The Bible says, “by whose stripes ye were healed” (1Pe.2:24).  It doesn't say that we're healed only when we really need it, and it doesn't say that we're healed only sometimes. You were healed all the time. (2Co.12:6) For if I should desire to glory, I shall not be foolish; for I shall speak the truth: but I forebear, lest any man should account of me above that which he seeth me [to be,] or heareth from me. (7) And by reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted overmuch, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, that I should not be exalted overmuch. So, we see that he said what the “thorn in the flesh” was. He said it was a messenger of Satan, an angelos.  The word there is angelos, which is translated 181 times in the New Testament as “angel” and the other few times as “messenger,” but it means the same thing. It's the same Greek word, angelos. Here was an angel of Satan that was sent to buffet Paul so that he wouldn't be proud. Paul didn't say it was a sickness that was sent to buffet him. And, by the way, to “buffet” is not just one blow, like a sickness. It's to beat over and over and over. It's many blows. But a thorn in the flesh, in this case, was an angel of Satan that was sent to buffet Paul.  In the Old Testament, for every verse that talks about a thorn in the flesh, not once, is it ever a sickness. It was always referring to the enemies of God's people that came against them. …(2Co.12:8) Concerning this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. (9) And he hath said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for [my] power is made perfect in weakness. The King James here has this word as “weakness,” but this word and the word up in verse five are the same Greek word, so one of them can't be “infirmity” and the other one “weakness.”  They must both be the same thing and the truth is they are because using the same Greek word in talking about Jesus. The Bible says, “for he was crucified through weakness” (2Co.13:4). Now, nobody would have put “infirmity” there. Jesus wasn't crucified through infirmity, so they had to put the truth there and the King James did use “weakness” in that case. (4) For he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him through the power of God toward you.  See, when you are weak in Christ, you're going to live through the power of God. It's when you are not able. It's being weak in the ability to save yourself, being weak in the ability to deliver yourself, being weak in the ability to heal yourself. He says when you're in that condition, then God's power is going to be with you. This is the same thing Paul said back in 2 Corinthians 12:9. I'm pointing out this verse because in the King James they used the word “weakness” here and it could not be possibly put in as “infirmity” because we can't read anywhere in the Scriptures that Jesus was infirm, nor was He crucified because He was infirm.  Now, that's the same word that's being used over here and over in 2 Corinthians 12:9. He said, “My grace is sufficient for thee: for [my] power is made perfect in weakness.” You know, if we will be weak as a little child, God's power will be there. Most often, God's power is not there because we refuse to be weak. We want to be strong in a circumstance. We see what we think needs to be done and we run to do it, and we are not ceasing from our works. We are not entering into the Sabbath (Hebrews 4:11). If we will refuse to be strong and we will put our trust in God, we will see His power every time.  … Man's extremity is God's opportunity. God's not ready to move until we cease from our works because we have faith. Every time you have faith, you can stop, you can cease from your work, you can cease from your struggling, you can cease from trying to save yourself because the Bible says you are saved. It doesn't say He will save you. If it said that, you'd wonder what method He wanted to use, but since His method is past tense and you believe it, you must stop, you must cease. And so, God's power is made perfect in our weakness. Paul said, “most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my weaknesses (not “infirmities” because it's the exact same Greek word), that the power of Christ may rest upon me” (2Co.12:9).  …That's the way a child is. They have all the power of Daddy because he is the provider, he is the deliverer, he is the savior. He takes care of it all and they don't think it should be any other way and we should be that way, too. We've been trained-up to think otherwise, to be grown-ups, but we shouldn't be thinking in any other terms than the way a child thinks. This is the way God wants it. Well, I think that we can see by now that the ‘verse,' “God helps those who help themselves,” is not Godly at all; it's antichrist. It will never allow you to enter the power of God. It will never allow the Spirit and the power of Christ to rest upon you. So, Paul says he glories in his weaknesses so that the power of Christ may rest upon him.  …Yes, we take pleasure in weaknesses. It's great to be weak. It's great to not have the ability to deliver yourself because then you get to see the miracle of God. And he went on to say, in “injuries,” but the word there is “insults,” according to the ancient manuscripts and the Received Text and several others; not necessarily “injuries.” You don't take pleasure in injuries, but “in insults, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong” (2Co.12:10). … He's talking about the places where he was weak to save himself.  When we get into places where we don't see any possibility of saving ourselves, that's wonderful because we get to see the power of God. If we walk by faith in those places, then we get to see the miracles of God. That's what God wants to teach us. He brings us into those places. Remember, God was the One Who sent this angel of Satan to humble Paul. Why do we need humbling? We need humbling because we're grown-ups and we need to become children. We need to be humble. We need to not be self-sufficient; we need to be God-sufficient. We need to be trusting in our Lord because His promises are in the Word to save us in all these situations.  So, God brings us into these places and Satan's angel brings us into these places where we're weak, where we need the power of God. If we will be weak, we will see the power of God. Many times, we want to look for man's help, man's way, man's wisdom. … Being weak is not a time to be anxious or worried; this is a time when you should expect to see the power of God. It's God's purpose to bring us to weakness for us to see His power. This is His plan. Don't ever be cast down because of what you see because what you see is the places that tempt you to be strong in the flesh. It's God's plan for you when you get into these places that you put your trust in Him and that you see His power. This is the place where God's power rests upon you. This place of weakness, the place of your own inability to save yourself or deliver yourself, is the place you can look for the promise of God and trust in Him. … Thank God for the places that He brings us to where we're weak to self! That's the only place we ever see miracles. Do you realize that? It's the only place we ever see miracles and yet that is the place we're most tempted to throw up our hands and be anxious, worried, or troubled. That is the place where all miracles are given, right there, in a place of weakness, the place where you're unable and you must lean on God.  Now, if you have the mind of a child and you get in that place, you just expect Father to take over from then on. This is something that He normally does. God normally supplies your need, like in the teaching Jesus gave about the birds and the flowers. He said they don't labor, and they don't toil to clothe and to feed themselves (Matthew 6:26,28). The Lord is saying you don't have to work to bring about this clothing and feeding. You don't have to toil. It's so clear. He knew that we'd get ourselves into situations and He even ordained these situations to come, where we wouldn't be able to provide for ourselves.  And He said, “are not two sparrows sold for a penny? and not one of them shall fall on the ground without your Father (Mat.10:29). (30) But the very hairs on your head are all numbered. (31) Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.” Not even a hair falls out of your head that God doesn't know it! He knows us so intimately that not one hair can fall out of our head without Him knowing it. I mean, our hairs are always falling out and growing back. How can He number the hairs of your head? That is an intimate God Who can number the hairs of your head.  He knows a lot, so how could we possibly get into a situation that He doesn't know about and hasn't planned for? He is our Jehovah-jireh, the Lord our Provider. (Php.4:19) And my God shall supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. You can't get so far out that God can't reach you. You can't get in such an impossible situation that He can't take care of it. He can pay your taxes out of a fish's mouth (Matthew 17:27). Think about some of the things that God has done in the Scriptures and He really did do them. He stopped the solar system for a day so Joshua could defeat his enemies. God can do anything and the great thing about it is He's “the same yesterday, and to-day, [yea] and for ever” (Heb.13:8). He is the same. He will still do anything to meet your needs if you will be weak and have faith.   Now, the time when you ought to have faith is when you're weak because God doesn't need to meet your needs when you don't have needs. You don't need a miracle until you need a miracle. Don't think that you can avoid a trial of your faith by receiving the miracle before you need it. No. God tries your faith. The miracle doesn't come till the miracle's needed. Trust in Him between here and there because He will be there. He will do what you need. Be confident in Him. Be children in Him. This is what we need to learn and it's not an easy lesson. It demands the death of self, but religion has trained us up with the mind of the beast because religion has taught that God helps those who help themselves and it trains us to take care of these situations.  Religion trains us to trust in the arm of the flesh. They even changed God into a god which He has never been so that they can trust in the arm of the flesh. Apostates limit God's ability to heal by Doctors who don't know God or medicine which is pharmakeia. “Now, God does it this way,” they say, as if Jesus doesn't heal the same way He always healed, by laying hands on the sick or by speaking the word of faith. That's the same way He's always healed, and He still does it that way but, you see, they've changed God so that you can trust in the arm of the flesh, so that you can be strong. You can run out and get the strength of the world, make your alliances with the world, get your insurance from the world. They'll change God and go to any extent to let the flesh live. Now those who trusted in their preachers and doctors and took the vaccine are sick or dead. What a rebuke to their doctrine. Suddenly, their god makes so many mistakes. But we must become as a child, otherwise, Jesus says, you're not entering into the Kingdom of Heaven (Luke 18:17). To become as a child is entering into the Kingdom of Heaven. The Kingdom of Heaven is where God rules, God reigns, God saves, God delivers. He hasn't changed. We have attempted to change Him. God put us here in this weak position. He planned for us always to be in a weak position, so that He could be our Savior. (2Co.4:7) But we have this treasure (the treasure Paul is talking about is the light of the knowledge of the glory of God) in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves. God put this treasure, this knowledge of God, in such a weak vessel so that when anything happened, it would have to bring glory to Him and not to us.  He could have put us in a strong vessel. He could have put us in a very knowledgeable, very wise, very strong, very healthy vessel and we wouldn't have needed His help. He wouldn't have needed to be God, would He? We would have been our own gods. If we watch all the children's superhero shows, we'll notice the thing that's super about them is they're their own gods. They do what they want to do. They are able. That's not what God ever wanted. God didn't choose us because we are able. He chose us because we're not able. He wanted to give us freely His ability through grace and that's unmerited. You can't earn it, you can't pay for it. He wanted to give it to us freely.  When you get yourself in an impossible situation, think about it. God put you there and He put you there so that you could see how great He is. So God put this wonderful treasure in an earthen vessel, a very weak vessel. (2Co.4:8) We are pressed on every side, yet not straitened; perplexed, yet not unto despair; (9) pursued, yet not forsaken; smitten down, yet not destroyed; (10) always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus (which is the death of self), so that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body. God wants Jesus to live through us, but we must be weak for Him to do that. The power of Christ will rest upon those who are weak. We're powerful only because we have faith in God. We can do all things through Christ who strengthens us (Philippians 4:13) but He doesn't strengthen until you're weak, you see. 2Co 12:19 And he hath said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my power is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. We must cease before He will start. We must keep the spiritual Sabbath, cease from our works, and enter into His works through faith. God not only put us in a world that was bigger than us and with an enemy that was a lot bigger than us, but He also put us in a vessel that was weak to begin with, so that when the salvation came, we would know it was from Him and not from ourselves. We think we're so great and we've been trained to be self-sufficient. Mommas and Daddies train up their children to be self-sufficient. That's not what God wants. He wants a child. He's always chosen the weak (1 Corinthians 26-29).  Never has He chosen the strong and this gives you hope that when you get in impossible situations. God planned for you to be there so that He could show you His power, so that He could show you His deliverance and His salvation. This is God's plan. It's been His plan from the beginning, and He's done it over and over. (Deu.7:6) For thou art a holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth. And did you know that God still does that? God has still chosen you above all the peoples that are upon the face of the earth. If He chose you, He chose you above someone else, but He didn't choose you because you're wiser or smarter or more able or mighty because “not many mighty, not many noble, [are called]”. 1Co.1:25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.  26 For behold your calling, brethren, that not many wise after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called : 27 but God chose the foolish things of the world, that he might put to shame them that are wise; and God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong; 28 and the base things of the world, and the things that are despised, did God choose, yea and the things that are not, that he might bring to nought the things that are: 29 that no flesh should glory before God. 30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who was made unto us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption: 31 that, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. God chose the weak and God called the weak “above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.” (Deu.7:7) The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all peoples. And it's still that way, isn't it? God chose “the fewest of all peoples.” Why did He do that? Certainly, if He was fighting battles with all the Canaanites, He would want the greatest number, wouldn't He? No, because when the battle was won, He didn't want anybody to say, “Look what we did!” And when the battle is won in our lives, He doesn't want anybody to be able to say, “Look what we did!” “Look how powerful we are!” “Look how wise we are!” Or “Oh, we were smart enough to follow God.”  …No. God said He didn't choose us because we were the mightiest but because we were the fewest. It's still that way today. The true Christians are few. Don't think that the Christians in this country are the many. What do they call them? The “moral majority.” That is just totally ridiculous! The proof of that is to look at the people we have in elected office. If there was a moral majority, believe me, you would always have a government that was moral and good because that's the way democracy works. There's no moral majority. Never was.  God chose us because we were the fewest of all peoples. (Deu.7:8) But because the Lord loveth you, and because he would keep the oath which he swear unto your fathers, hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, and from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. (17) If thou shalt say in thy heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them? (18) thou shalt not be afraid of them: thou shalt well remember what the Lord thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt.  (19) the great trials which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, whereby the Lord thy God brought thee out: so shall the Lord thy God do unto all the peoples of whom thou art afraid. And so shall the Lord thy God do to all of the curse that you come against, and to all of the flesh that you have to conquer, and to all the principalities and powers that you have to conquer. They are made strong and you are made weak for a purpose, so that you can see the power of God move against them.  … God's in the humbling process with us. He wants to deliver us from trusting in the arm of the flesh. In almost every battle that Israel won, they were outnumbered. Isn't it amazing that God demanded that they be outnumbered before He would give them the victory? For example, in Judges we're told that the Israelites had an army coming against them that the Bible says were as the sands of the sea for multitude (Judges 7:12). The Midianites, the Amalekites and the children of the east were coming against them and all the men of Israel who could be gathered together weren't enough to do the job and they knew it.  At first they were counting on their own ability and the numbers that they had but they were ridiculously outnumbered. (Jdg.7:2) And the Lord said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me. Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand. Well, that was just the beginning of God whittling down the people and those people who are fearful will not be the ones who have the victory over the enemy.  Being weak is one thing but being fearful is quite another. Being fearful is not trusting in the power that God has given us to come against our enemy. Being fearful is judging by your own ability. It's looking at your own ability or your own inability, but that's where God is putting us on purpose. This is God's plan to put us in a position of weakness, to make our enemy look big. He sent the Israelites into a promised land where the enemies were giants, and they were vastly outnumbered. It was God's plan for it to look like an unfair contest. In every trial that we go into, it's going to look that way so that when we get the victory, we know it's God's power, not our own. 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This week I respond to a message from Selena… Hello Brother Malcolm, I was just reading Romans chapter 16 NIV. It's missing verse 24 . Do you think this is on purpose or a misprint? Kindly, YLSIC, Selena “At this point, as RSV margin says, ‘Other ancient authorities insert verse 24, The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.' The western text, which lacked the doxology (verses 25–27), brought the letter to an end with this benediction (omitting that in verse 20b). The Byzantine text (followed by the Received Text and AV) took over the western benediction here as well as the earlier one in verse 20b.A few witnesses (codices P 33 104 365 436, with the Syriac Peshitta and Armenian versions, and Ambrosiaster's Latin text) put this benediction after the doxology (as verse 28) and not before it (as verse 24). In its present position the benediction should not be too readily dismissed as unauthentic; if the dox-ology is not original (either absolutely or in its position at the end of chapter 16), the benediction forms a very fitting conclusion to the letter.” Tyndale CommentarySimilar issues can be found with the ending of Mark, in John 8:1-11 and Acts 8:27. The verses are not ‘missing', it is unlikely they were there in the first place. However, they do not contradict anything else the Scriptures teach. Please add your comments on this week's topic. We learn best when we learn in community. Do you have a question about teaching the Bible? Is it theological, technical, practical? Send me your questions or suggestions. Here's the email: [malcolm@malcolmcox.org](mailto:malcolm@malcolmcox.org). If you'd like a copy of my free eBook on spiritual disciplines, “How God grows His people”, sign up at my website: http://[www.malcolmcox.org](http://www.malcolmcox.org/). Please pass the link on, subscribe, leave a review. “Worship the LORD with gladness; come before him with joyful songs.” (Psalms 100:2 NIV11) God bless, Malcolm

Restoration for the Saints (5) (Audio) David Eells - 2/27/22   The Spiritual City of God Restored Vision given to Cheri Watson - 07/06/05(David's notes in red) I had a vision of a castle, with a city surrounding it, suspended just above a mountain in a layer of clouds. The mountain and the city were enshrouded/surrounded by darkness (the mountain and city were black in color in the vision...but it felt more like a presence than a color). I had the feeling that the city would soon touch down onto the mountain...its resting place. (The city is the Bride as John was told in Revelation and the head of the city is the David Man-child company. The city is shrouded in darkness because it is not yet come down to be revealed. Rev. 3:12 He that overcometh, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go out thence no more: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God, and mine own new name.) (This vision was fulfilled in Jesus' day before God's spiritual city was destroyed and the people taken captive to Babylonish religion and now it is about to be restored as promised. This city and mountain are "heavenly", not physical, for they cannot "be touched". (Heb.12:18} For ye are not come unto [a mount] that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, (19) and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which [voice] they that heard entreated that no word more should be spoken unto them; (20) for they could not endure that which was enjoined, If even a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned; (21) and so fearful was the appearance, [that] Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake: (22) but ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels, (23) to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, As in Jesus' day spiritual Zion was the firstborn church, meaning "called out ones", so in our day will God call out of Babylon a firstborn. "The things that have been are the things that shall be". The coming "castle" of David's dominion, which is Christ in the body of his "firstborn", or first-fruits, will soon be established in God's capitol city on the mountain representing His kingdom on earth.  As in Jesus' day, it will be shrouded in darkness to the world and seen by few of God's people who have only earthly eyes to see. This is a place of safety from the invading beast kingdom. (Eze.34:22) therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between sheep and sheep. (23) And I will set up one (corporate) shepherd (the Man-child) over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd. (24) And I, Jehovah, will be their God, and my servant David prince among them; I, Jehovah, have spoken it.  (25) And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil beasts to cease out of the land; and they shall dwell securely in the wilderness (tribulation), and sleep in the woods. (26) And I will make them and the places round about my hill (of Zion) a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in its season; there shall be showers of blessing. (27) And the tree of the field (God's people) shall yield its fruit, and the earth shall yield its increase, and they shall be secure in their land; and they shall know that I am Jehovah, when I have broken the bars of their yoke (free from bondage to the flesh), and have delivered them out of the hand of those that made bondmen of them (their carnal man and the faction against them.). (28) And they shall no more be a prey to the nations,neither shall the beasts of the earth devour them (They will be safe from the Beast); but they shall dwell securely, and none shall make them afraid.) In my quiet time I felt impressed of the Spirit to read Isaiah 62:11 which says, "Behold, Jehovah hath proclaimed unto the end of the earth, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him". I had the whole passage underlined so I read the whole passage...10-12 which reads... "Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; (or stumbling blocks) lift up an ensign for the peoples. Behold, Jehovah hath proclaimed unto the end of the earth, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him. And they shall call them The holy people, The redeemed of Jehovah: and thou shalt be called Sought out, A city not forsaken". (Just as Jesus did in His day, He will do through the first-fruits in our day. He will make the path to the spiritual City of God, called "the spirits of just men made perfect", plain. And the stones of stumbling will be removed through the teaching of the pure unleavened bread of the Word. Then many more will travel the holy road from spiritual Babylon to the "daughter of Zion". She is called the "daughter" because she is the firstborn of original New Testament Zion in Jesus' day.) I felt the need to agree with my Father to walk through the gate so in my mind I imagined a gate in front of me that was opened. It was dark on the other side and I was a little afraid of the darkness but I determined to walk through the gate anyway. (We cannot walk by sight for we have never been this way before. The way is enshrouded in darkness to the natural man. Jesus said, "I am the way". After two millennia of apostasy, to walk in His steps is to be the first-fruits who will show the multitudes "the way" to enter Zion. Through the faith of "Praise" we must enter the "gates" of the fullness of "Salvation" where we will find safety and peace. (Isa.60:18) Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, desolation nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise. {19} The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but Jehovah will be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. Notice that when we walk in the City of God our light is no longer to be the light of the natural man but the light of God, which only the spiritual man knows.) As I stepped through the gate I went into a free fall. I was not afraid at all...I had given myself completely over to my Father. As I fell I felt peace and I felt a fullness that I can't explain. I extended out my arms and as I did they turned into wings and I became an eagle. (To enter that city through faith is to overcome the earthly, natural forces, which cause man to gravitate towards the world and its ways.) I flew to the top portion of a mountain and there I found a nest with eggs in it. I was told to 'sit and nurture the eggs', so I sat. I felt unqualified to do so, but I was completely satisfied in knowing that it was all about Him, NOT me. He was in control. I think the best way to explain how I felt was that it was probably kind of how Moses felt when the Lord told him he was to speak to and lead the Israelites through the desert... (To be an overcomer of all that is earthly now, by God's grace, is to be prepared to birth others into Zion in the time to come.)   The Throne on Mount  Zion Jeremiah tells us of a spiritual capital city and throne for spiritual Israel, the church. (Jer.3:12) Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel... In this text God is commanding His backslidden people to come out of Babylon in the north. For God's people to live in Babylon instead of submitting to Zion was a type of the backslidden state of bondage to the harlot that the church has been in for almost 2000 years. Jeremiah cries for God's people to come out from among them. (14) Return, O backsliding children, saith Jehovah; for I am a husband unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion.  Notice that at first only a first-fruits bride is taken from among the backslidden multitudes and joined with her "husband" on His throne in Zion. When this happens all of the New Jerusalem is the throne for the Bride to sit in. (17) At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem. Notice that after the bride sits in her throne "all the nations" (Hebrew: Gentiles) of the elect church will be gathered out of Babylon to submit to their true spiritual capitol city, the New Jerusalem. Also, we see here that Jerusalem has manifested the Name of the Lord. Name, in Greek means, nature, character and authority of the Lord. The mountain beneath Zion represents the true kingdom of God, the true church, whereas the New Jerusalem Bride sits on top of Mt. Zion because she is over the rest of the church in the throne. It was revealed to Pastor Shelley that "The Throne of God, the Throne Room, His true Presence is on top of Mt. Zion". As spiritual Jews, the Church, is called to grow up out of the "falsehood" of religion and enter into the Mt. Zion of "a pure heart", "truth", and holiness. (Psa.24:3) Who shall ascend into the hill of Jehovah? And who shall stand in his holy place? (4) He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; Who hath not lifted up his soul unto falsehood... (15:1) Jehovah, who shall sojourn in thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell in thy holy hill? (2) He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, And speaketh truth in his heart... Notice that the church enters "into" the hill of Zion, however the King, His Bride and His throne are "upon" the hill of Zion. (Psa.2:6) Yet I have set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. As we saw, this spiritual Mt. Zion and its city are not physical and cannot be touched by carnal man. (Heb.12:18) For ye are not come unto [a mount] that might be touched... When the church was full of apostolic teaching and the Holy Spirit they submitted to the spiritual city of God. (22) but ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels, (23) to the general assembly and church of the firstborn, who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect. Notice that "mount Zion" and "heavenly Jerusalem" are called the "church of the firstborn". Church is from the Greek word "ekklesia" meaning "called out ones". "The firstborn" in Paul's day were being called out of Babylonish religion to this holy mountain and city as we are today. Shortly after this verse was written the church was taken captive to Babylon, having been led astray by the wolves into all sorts of sectarian, religious bondages. A first fruits company is coming back to Zion in these days. The church's position on earth is in the spiritual, heavenly, New Jerusalem. However, our position is what is given to us at the cross and not necessarily what we have attained to on earth. For instance; "We have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ" but we are told "this is the will of God, even your sanctification...that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor". What we are given at the cross is ours to manifest by faith or to reject. Like the early church, we are born at the foot of Mt. Zion but are quickly led away captive by the lies of Babylonish religion. (Psa.58:3) The wicked are estranged from the womb: They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies. Instead of climbing the mountain and entering the throne room of the authority of God we go astray. (Isa.53:6) All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way... The reason we are hesitant to climb the mountain is because it is holy and represents death to the flesh. (Exo.19:12)... Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death. Moses as the man-child climbed the mountain and heard the Word directly from God, which spiritually put him to death. (Exo.20:19) And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die. God was weak to the weak in that He put His Word in flesh. Moses as the man-child climbed the mountain and became a pure vessel to bring the Word of God to His people. If we humbly turn and submit to the pure Word from the mountain we will have His throne authority. (Rev.3:21) He that overcometh, I will give to him to sit down with me in my throne... Notice once again what Paul said. (Heb.12:22,23) ye are come unto... the heavenly Jerusalem... the spirits of just men made perfect. Clearly, while we are in the old body on earth only our spiritual man is being perfected into "the heavenly Jerusalem". We manifest the "New Jerusalem" here as our spirit and soul are born of the Spirit. John said that the city "cometh down out of heaven" in his day as the saints overcame sin. (Rev.3:12) He that overcometh, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go out thence no more: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the New Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God, and mine own new name. The word "cometh" here is spoken to the church in John's day. It is present tense in the ancient manuscripts, the Received Text, and the numeric pattern. Only the King James falsely translates it "shall come”.  The New Jerusalem bride is born from above as she "cometh down out of heaven" now in spirit and soul. She becomes born of the bread of the Word. Jesus said: (Jn.6:33) For the bread of God is that which cometh down out of heaven, and giveth life unto the world... Notice that both the "New Jerusalem" and the "bread of God" "cometh down out of heaven". (51) I am the living bread which came down out of heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever. As each saint is being born out of heaven by consuming Jesus, the Word, the holy city is coming down. (Jn.3:3) Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except one be born anew (Greek: "from above"), he cannot see the kingdom of God. As long as the "New Jerusalem" is only manifested in spirit and soul it is invisible to the creation, which only sees the outer man. (Rom.8:19)... the creation waiteth for the revealing of the sons of God. "Revealing" here in the Greek means the "uncovering". This means the New Jerusalem sons are here but hidden. The full revealing of the sons is seen at "the redemption of our body" (23). We are now being born from above, first spirit, then soul, and then body at the end. The bride with her new body will be seen by the creation as they are "coming down out of heaven" with Jesus at the end of the day of the Lord. (Rev.21:9) Come hither, I will show thee the bride, the wife of the Lamb. (10) And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God. The bride will manifestly be the "holy city Jerusalem", which the whole church was given by position in Christ when He was resurrected. Sadly, many are selling their birthright by walking after the flesh.   Bride Packs Light; Man-Child Saves Her From the Curses Claire Pienaar - 6/18/21 (David's notes in red) I dreamed I was packing a suitcase as I would be leaving the place I was at in three days. It looked like the garden of the retirement home my gran used to live in. Both of my grans were there, smiling and so happy to see me! (I represent The Bride, the retirement home represents being “at rest” and my gran represents the ancient true Church). I was sitting on a ledge, looking out over the old age home. Then my name was called, and I had to go. I went into my gran's room, and she said to me, “Open the suitcase so I can check that you have everything you need”. (Everything you need to go in to the wilderness.) I smiled and did so.  She laughed at the contents of my case, not in an ugly way but more out of astonishment. There was almost nothing inside the case! The suitcase was a royal blue color on the outside (The case belongs to the heir of the kingdom. We are not bondservants but sons of God. Romans 8:14-17: For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. 15 For ye received not the spirit of bondage again unto fear; but ye received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. 16 The Spirit himself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are 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 with him.).  On the inside of the case were some books. Picture books, chapter books for my children, and my bible journals and all kinds of bibles. My gran said, “This will be heavy to take”. I replied, “But this is who I am now. I am always learning more and I can't not take this with me”. Then I picked it up and said, “See? It's not heavy because there's nothing else in it.”. (Mat 11:30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.). The scene changed. I was in the hull of a big black boat or ship. I could see women dressed in black trench coats on the shore, cursing. These were not swear-words but actual curses that were exactly like witchcraft or magic. (This is the apostate church who resent us being freed from their system of slavery. They are always so contrary to what God's people are called to do and be.) I looked down and realized I was tied to the ship with light brown rope. David Eells was untying the rope. (This represents the Man-Child saving His Bride [from the slavery of religions]). I was watching this scene in the spirit from outside my body. I could move or fly around and I knew the thoughts of myself tied up, as well as my own thoughts as the spirit man outside my body. My spirit man was thinking, “They are going to be fine, but David will need to untie that rope quicker”. (This will be accomplished by the anointing on the Man-child David's. Isa. 61:1 The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon me; because Jehovah hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound.) Then my bound self was thinking “I don't want to die down here. Hurry up!”. (We don't want to die in the slavery of apostate religion where we do not bear fruit unto Christ-likeness.)   The black boat looked like an old ship that was used to carry slaves over the trans-Atlantic many years ago. But now it was docked and completely in darkness. It was falling apart, and it had many cracks. (Paul realized that his time in religion was darkness and he had to leave it behind. Php.3:8 Yea verily, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but refuse, that I may gain Christ.) I could see the women in black on the shore. (These women in darkness represent the denominational groups.) I knew they wanted us killed. I could feel the death in the air, but I was not scared of the death, I just did not want to die in the darkness of the hull of the ship.  David freed me and we walked out of the ship, under water, onto 5 steps. (Under water represents baptized in the water of the Word unto death to self by grace represented by the number five.) While we were under water, we could breathe completely perfectly like we were outside in plain air. (All who are baptized unto death to self, live unto Christ.) David did some strange things on the stairs. At each stair, which was almost two meters wide and about seven meters long, he lay down and rolled over the stair. It was like he was marking the stair or the sealing the stair with his body. (Laying down is a position of rest which comes by grace and not man's works. The sealing represents those who are filled with the Spirit. Eph. 1:13 in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth, the gospel of your salvation,? in whom, having also believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise. The Bride will follow in the steps of the Man-child being filled with His anointing.)  David did not expect me to do this (roll around and “mark” it). However, he wanted me to follow him onto each stair afterwards. At the fifth stair the waters appeared, and now I could see that we'd actually never been underwater, but we were only now getting into the water. (The water of the ship of apostasy before the steps of grace represents their words and is not as the living waters of truth and freedom.)  The water was the most amazing color despite there being no light around. The only way I can explain this is that the old boat had no light coming in, save for the slivers of light that escaped through the wooden boards of the boat that I peeked through earlier in the dream. On this fifth stair, David said, “Time to swim out”. The waters became deep and dark and both my body and me floating around watching all of this from a higher vantage point saw a pile of car tires in the water. I knew not to swim anywhere near there, even if the current swept me away. Those car tires were bad news. I don't know what lurked beneath them but in the dream those were dangerous. (Car tires are powerless like the dead slavery religions. We want to avoid at all costs those that "have a form of godliness but deny the power thereof.")  I could feel the current trying it's best to sweep me away. It was like the current had an actual assignment on my life. But David got into the water after me and wrapped me in a white rope around and pulled me really close to himself.  We just waited there in the dark water. We didn't have to swim against anything or struggle as long as I was right there next to David. Then I woke up. (The Man-child Jesus said in John 17:12 While I was with them, I kept them in thy name which thou hast given me: and I guarded them, and not one of them perished, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.)     I asked God for a word by faith at random and received Zec 2:9 with my finger on “hand over them” and “be a spoil”, (in context 8-11)  For thus saith Jehovah of hosts: After glory hath he sent me unto the nations which plundered you; for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye. (The Man-child is raising the Bride up to go first to the nations of apostate Christianity which will be a spoil to them.) 9 For, behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they shall be a spoil to those that served them; and ye shall know that Jehovah of hosts hath sent me. 10 Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion; for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith Jehovah. 11 And many nations shall join themselves to Jehovah in that day, and shall be my people; and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that Jehovah of hosts hath sent me unto thee.    We Hear that Everyone in Your Fellowship was Healed! Sandy Shaw - 6/9/21 (David's notes in red) I dreamed I was standing in front of U.T. Medical. I was there to show Dr. Freedman that God gave me my leg! (Sandy had lost a leg to diabetes years ago but had many promises from the Lord to give her back her leg. The medical profession was always trying to drag her down into the physical sight realm. In this way, of course, they would steal her supernatural leg.)  As I was walking through the hospital, a nurse yelled out, “There she is, the girl who got her leg!” They started running toward me. I took off running trying to find the doctor's office. More people started chasing me, I ran down the hallway and there was another hallway crossing it. And this doctor grabbed me in a headlock, saying, “We're going to cut off your leg. God didn't heal you, you're lying. We're going to put this new electric leg on you.”  I said, “No you're not! Let go of me!” He said, “You're never going to leave this hospital.” He grabbed me tighter and I opened my mouth and bit him. So I put my chin down and squeezed it behind his arm. And yes I was healed completely because I had teeth! He let go and I ran. And there were a lot of people chasing me. I ran into a room where there was no way out. Then I was in a corner. People were asking me questions. “We hear that everyone in your fellowship was healed. (Something we have seen in dreams when the Man-child comes at the restoration.) Where is your fellowship at? We can't find it. God didn't really heal you guys, your leg was never amputated. Why are you lying? What's the name of everyone in your fellowship? If you don't tell us, we'll have all of you arrested.” “We heard you have a lot of dreams. Who's Eve? So, who are you and Eve? Mediums? You might as well tell us, because you can't come out of here.” A man was walking through the crowd with a big stick in his hand. Then I said, “Lord Jesus, only you can get me out of this. Then I was standing outside the hospital. There was a big, white limo. I ran into it and woke up. (God made a way of escape through the promises but they talked her out of it and, in effect, they stole her leg. The factious made war against her constantly with witchcraft and her blood is upon them but "the curse that is causeless abideth not". As we have seen with the vaccines, many will die trusting in man. Rom. 3:4 God forbid: yea, let God be found true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, And mightest prevail when thou comest into judgment.) I received this text by faith at random. Eze 32:11-12  For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee.  12  By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall; the terrible of the nations are they all: and they shall bring to nought the pride of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed. (Egypt represents trusting in the arm of the flesh. Of Babylon it was said in Rev. 18:23 …for thy merchants were the princes of the earth; for with thy sorcery (or Pharmakeia in Greek, also translated witchcraft) were all the nations deceived.)   Revival Beginning at UBMCharlie Smith - 12/12/12 (David's notes in red) Notice the date of this dream: 12/12/12, the fullness of the elect. In the early hours of the morning, the Lord gave me this dream. In it, suddenly, I appeared in a large room where I saw brother David (representing the David Man-child reformers) and about 10 or 12 brethren standing around. (I asked the Lord if this was 12 and got a yes, which fits with Jesus and his 12 when revival began then.)  I knew David but his features had changed some. I mean, he really looked great. I could really see God in the man like I never had before. (David here is a type of the Man-child ministry which will start this revival, just as Jesus, the Son of David, did in His time. The things that have been are the things that will be.)  And I knew him but the other brethren I did not recognize, although I really knew who they were. As I stood looking, a man came over to me and He was the Lord! The brethren were being taught how to minister to the needs of the people. Brother David walked across the room to pray for a man who came for healing. And he stood before the man and said, "Be healed", and the man was healed instantly. David turned and walked back to the other side of the room. (God's power is made perfect in man's weakness, so that no flesh can glory.) The brethren, as well as myself, were amazed that the man was healed and we started praising God and giving thanks. As we rejoiced, another man came forward for healing. I believe the man was blind. One of the brethren came forth and laid hands on the man's head, saying, "Receive your sight". And the man cried out, "I'm healed and I can see!" Other people in the room who were in need came forth immediately, some with missing or deformed limbs, twisted bodies, crippled, all such of humanity that was so pitiful; they came up and every one of them were healed instantly.  I said, "Oh, God, how is it that everyone was healed instantly, so fast, so easily? Some had hands laid on them and others did not, but they were all healed". The Lord smiled and said, "You could not see". The Lord opened my spiritual eyes and said, "Now look". And He showed me again the part where David said to the man, "Be healed". This time I could see the words "Be healed" coming out of David's mouth, like a mist, and entering into the man. And as the word went into the man, he was instantly healed.  I received a few scriptures that go with this dream: (Isa.55:11) So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth. It shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please; and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. (Jer.1:12) I watch over my word to perform it. (Eze.12:25) For I am Jehovah and I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall be performed. (Rom.10:8) The word is nigh thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart. And I was still wondering about the mist that I saw and I got (Joh.6:63) The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life. So I understood, like Jesus spoke the Word and it came to pass, so did these brethren operate on that level. Then there was a scene change. This time in a different, larger room, David and about 100 or more other brethren were gathered together. The brethren were being taught how to minister and were then sent forth. They went forth preaching the Word and healing the sick everywhere. The brethren covered much of this area. You couldn't go anywhere without seeing these brethren.  And then the scene quickly changed again and we were at another place outside. It was a large, grassy area with parking nearby, but I don't know where it was. Brother David and maybe as many as 500 brethren were gathered together and crowds of people were coming from everywhere. It looked like thousands or even hundreds of thousands were coming. The meetings ran day and night. One night, all the people saw a pillar of fire burning in our midst. They were being drawn by the Lord and it definitely was a holy move of God. So many saints were now coming together. Again, the scene quickly changed and I was lifted up, looking down on the earth, and I saw the saints running through all the earth, spreading the gospel and the light shining all over the earth. I think what I saw was a revival to prepare the saints to manifest sons of God in the earth to do the will of the Father. I also believe that this is a revival for the Man-child because every one of those scenes David and the brethren were gathered but they were being taught how to minister the Word and heal the sick.  And I noticed that everything was on a higher level than what we're used to now. They didn't spend a lot of time, a lot of words when they prayed; they just commanded it and it was immediately done. And when they gave the Gospel, they didn't have to stand there for hours trying to nail a point down. It was just like the glory of the Lord fell. When these brethren got around people out here on the streets to witness, the glory of the Lord was so strong that they just automatically fell down and cried, "Save me!" This was definitely a sign to us all that God's getting ready to do something wonderful here. I'm just like my brothers and sisters here. I want to be a part of it because I know God's going to do a fantastic work here and it's going to spread worldwide because I saw the lights cover the whole earth. I don't know when this is going to happen but I know it will. Amen. We are informed by the Lord in many more dreams and scriptures that there is coming a great revival here and across the country and world. It will be in the midst of darkness and turmoil and many will come out of darkness. {Isa.60:1} Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of Jehovah is risen upon thee. {2} For, behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the peoples; but Jehovah will arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. {3} And nations shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising. {4} Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: they all gather themselves together, they come to thee; thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be carried in the arms. {5} Then thou shalt see and be radiant, and thy heart shall thrill and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be turned unto thee, the wealth of the nations shall come unto thee. We have a part in this. The principalities and powers of darkness have been put under our feet but we must fight the good fight of the faith and cast them down from over UBM and this area and the U.S. {Luk.10:18} And he said unto them, I beheld Satan fallen as lightning from heaven. {19} Behold, I have given you authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall in any wise hurt you. {20} Nevertheless in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rejoice that your names are written in heaven. Let us have fasting and prayer and praise meetings and confess our sins and cast down these powers. Let us decree freedom from bondage and darkness. I received this a few days ago: {Job 22:28} Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee; And light shall shine upon thy ways. {29} When they cast [thee] down, thou shalt say, [There is] lifting up; And the humble person he will save. {30} He will deliver [even] him that is not innocent: Yea, he shall be delivered through the cleanness of thy hands.   A prophet named Phillip shared this vision with us:  I have prayed for three days now for the Holy Father's will in this matter of sharing the vision I received during a meeting with David as the speaker (in Phoenix, a type of resurrection life). I am permitted to share the following: As I prayed with David at the start of the meeting, I saw the room change into a stadium filled with people and David was at the podium shouting through a microphone that was in the shape of a shofar. He wore a silver yarmulke that glowed as he spoke, and from above it came a white golden light pouring down from the sky as a beam of glory growing brighter with each outpouring. From David's clothing came the same glory lights pouring though the tzit-tzit on his garment flowing like fingers through the people. They touched the forehead and were grabbed by the right hand of people who became pregnant and began shouting as they were covered in glory. This is the vision I had at the meeting. The Holy Father says that David would know its meaning, if not now very soon.   Months after that meeting we received this from Phillip: Holy Yahweh is forming this ministry into His Image to spearhead the Man-child Ministry Birthing and Delivery to the World! Amen! He has given this to me in a mighty vision that ran continued for three nights along with some other things that I can't say just yet. In short brethren the "white golden light pouring down from the sky as a beam of glory" will flow through obedient servants in whom Christ is manifested through the latter rain and belief in the truth. It will flow first through the man-child and then through the witnesses to the Church at large. (This light is pouring down from the sky upon the giant body of Christ below in Tommy Hick's revelation.)    TOMMY HICKS' END-TIMES VISION July 25, 1961 (The following is a stunning vision given to American preacher Tommy Hicks (who was a major figure in the powerful 1954 Argentina Revival).VISION OF THE BODY OF CHRIST AND THE END-TIME MINISTRIES.(My message begins July 25, about 2:30 in the morning at Winnipeg, Canada. I had hardly fallen asleep when the vision and the revelation that God gave me came before me. The vision came three times, exactly in detail, the morning of July 25, 1961. I was so stirred and so moved by the revelation that this has changed my complete outlook upon the body of Christ, and upon the end-time ministries.The greatest thing that the church of Jesus Christ has ever been given lies straight ahead. It is so hard to help men and women to realize and understand the thing that God is trying to give his people in the end times.I received a letter several weeks ago from one of our native evangelists down in Africa, down in Nairobi. This man and his wife were on their way to Tanganyika. They could neither read nor could they write, but we had been supporting them for over two years. As they entered into the territory of Tanganyika, they came across a small village. The entire village was evacuating because of a plague that had hit the village. He came across natives that were weeping, and he asked them what was wrong.They told him of their mother and father who had suddenly died, and they had been dead for three days. They had to leave. They were afraid to go in; they were leaving them in the cottage. He turned and asked them where they were. They pointed to the hut and he asked them to go with him, but they refused. They were afraid to go.The native and his wife went to this little cottage and entered in where the man and woman had been dead for three days. He simply stretched forth his hand in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and spoke the man's name and the woman's name and said, "In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I command life to come back to your bodies." Instantaneously these two heathen people who had never known Jesus Christ as their Savior sat up and immediately began to praise God. The spirit and the power of God came into the life of those people.To us that may seem strange and a phenomenon, but that is the beginning of these end-time ministries. God is going to take the do-nothings, the nobodies, the unheard-of, the no-accounts. He is going to take every man and every woman and he is going to give to them this outpouring of the Spirit of God. In the book of Acts we read that "In the last days,” God said,"I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh." I wonder if we realized what he meant when God said, "I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh." I do not think I fully realized nor could I understand the fullness of it, and then I read from the book of Joel: "Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain -" (Joel 2:23). It is not only going to be the rain, the former rain and the latter rain, but he is going to give to his people in these last days a double portion of the power of God!)As the vision appeared to me after I was asleep, I suddenly found myself in a great high distance. Where I was, I do not know. But I was looking down upon the earth. Suddenly the whole earth came into my view. Every nation, every kindred, every tongue came before my sight from the east and the west, the north and the south. I recognized every country and many cities that I had been in, and I was almost in fear and trembling as I beheld the great sight before me: and at that moment when the world came into view, it began to lightning and thunder.  As the lightning flashed over the face of the earth, my eyes went downward and I was facing the north. Suddenly I beheld what looked like a great giant, and as I stared and looked at it, I was almost bewildered by the sight. It was so gigantic and so great. His feet seemed to reach to the north pole and his head to the south. Its arms were stretched from sea to sea.  I could not even begin to understand whether this be a mountain or a giant, but as I watched, I suddenly beheld a great giant. I could see his head was struggling for life. He wanted to live, but his body was covered with debris from head to foot, and at times this great giant would move his body and act as though it would even raise up at times. And when it did, thousands of little creatures seemed to run away. Hideous creatures would run away from this giant, and when he would become calm, they would come back.All of a sudden this great giant lifted his hand towards heaven, and then it lifted its other hand, and when it did, these creatures by the thousands seemed to flee away from this giant and go into the darkness of the night.Slowly this great giant began to rise and as he did, his head and hands went into the clouds. As he rose to his feet he seemed to have cleansed himself from the debris and filth that was upon him, and he began to raise his hands into the heavens as though praising the Lord, and as he raised his hands, they went even unto the clouds.Suddenly, every cloud became silver, the most beautiful silver I have ever known. As I watched this phenomenon, it was so great, I could not even begin to understand what it all meant. I was so stirred as I watched it, and I cried unto the Lord and I said, "Oh Lord, what is the meaning of this." and I felt as if I was actually in the Spirit and I could feel the presence of the Lord even as I was asleep.And from those clouds suddenly there came great drops of liquid light raining down upon this mighty giant, and slowly, slowly, this giant began to melt, began to sink itself in the very earth itself, and as he melted, his whole form seemed to have melted upon the face of the earth, and this great rain began to come down. Liquid drops of light began to flood the very earth itself and as I watched this giant that seemed to melt, suddenly it became millions of people over the face of the earth.  As I beheld the sight before me, people stood up all over the world! They were lifting their hands and they were praising the Lord. At that very moment there came a great thunder that seemed to roar from the heavens. I turned my eyes toward the heavens and suddenly I saw a figure in white, in glistening white; the most glorious thing that I have ever seen in my entire life.  I did not see the face, but somehow I knew it was the Lord Jesus Christ, and he stretched forth his hand, and as he did, he would stretch it forth to one, and to another, and to another. And as he stretched forth his hand upon the nations and the people of the world -men and women- as he pointed toward them, this liquid light seemed to flow from his hands into them, and a mighty anointing of God came upon them, and those people began to go forth in the name of the Lord.I do not know how long I watched it. It seemed it went into days and weeks and months. And I beheld this Christ as he continued to stretch forth his hand; but there was a tragedy. There were many people, as he stretched forth his hand, that refused the anointing of God and the call of God. I saw men and women that I knew. People that I felt would certainly receive the call of God.  But as he stretched forth his hand toward this one and toward that one, they simply bowed their head and began to back away. And each of those that seemed to bow down and back away, seemed to go into darkness. Blackness seemed to swallow them everywhere.I was bewildered as I watched it, but these people that he had anointed, hundreds of thousands of people all over the world, in Africa, England, Russia, China, America, all over the world, the anointing of God was upon these people as they went forward in the name of the Lord.I saw these men and women as they went forth. They were ditch diggers, they were washerwomen, they were rich men, they were poor men. I saw people who were bound with paralysis and sickness and blindness and deafness. As the Lord stretched forth to give them this anointing, they became well, they became healed, and they went forth exactly as the Lord did. And this is the miracle of it - this is the glorious miracle of it . It seemed as if there was this same liquid fire in their hands - those people would stretch forth their hands and said, "According to my word, be thou made whole." These people continued in this mighty end-time ministry, I did not fully realize what it was, and I looked to the Lord and said, "What is the meaning of this?" And he said, "This is that which I will do in the last days. I will restore all that the cankerworm, the palmerworm, the caterpiller - I will restore all that they have destroyed. This, my people, in the end times will go forth. As a mighty army shall they sweep over the face of the earth."As I was at this great height, I could behold the whole world. I watched these people as they were going to and fro over the face of the earth. Suddenly there was a man in Africa and in a moment he was transported by the Spirit of God, and perhaps he was in Russia, or China or America or some other place, and vice versa. All over the world these people went, and they came through fire, and through pestilence, and through famine. Neither fire nor persecution, nothing seemed to stop them.Angry mobs came to them with swords and with guns. And like Jesus, they passed through the multitudes and they could not find them, but they went forth in the name of the Lord, and everywhere they stretched forth their hands, the sick were healed, the blind eyes were opened. There was not a long prayer. And after I had reviewed the vision many times in my mind, and I thought about it many times, I realized that I never saw a church, and I never saw or heard a denomination, but these people were going in the name of the Lord of Hosts. Hallelujah!As they marched forth in everything they did, as the ministry of Christ in the end times, these people were ministering to the multitudes over the face of the earth. Tens of thousands, even millions seemed to come to the Lord Jesus Christ as these people stood forth and gave the message of the kingdom, of the coming kingdom, in this last hour. It was so glorious, but it seems as though there were those that rebelled, and they would become angry and they tried to attack those workers that were giving the message.God is going to give the world a demonstration in this last hour as the world has never known. These men and women are of all walks of life, degrees will mean nothing. I saw these workers as they were going over the face of the earth. When one would stumble and fall, another would come and pick him up. There were no "big I's" and "little you's," but every mountain was brought low and every valley was exalted, and they seemed to have one thing in common - there was a divine love, a divine love that seemed to flow forth from these people as they worked together, and as they lived together.  It was the most glorious sight that I have ever known. Jesus Christ was the theme of their life. They continued and it seemed days went by as I stood and beheld this sight. I could only cry, and sometimes I laughed. It was so wonderful as these people went throughout the face of the whole earth, bringing forth in this last end time.As I watched from the very heaven itself, there were times when great deluges of this liquid light seemed to fall upon great congregations, and that congregation would lift up their hands and seemingly praise God for hours and even days as the Spirit of God came upon them. God said, "I will pour my Spirit upon all flesh,"and that is exactly this thing. And to every man and woman that received this power and anointing of God, the miracles were without end.(We have talked about miracles. We have talked about signs and wonders, but I could not help but weep as I read again this morning, at 4 o'clock the letter from our native workers. This is only the evidence of the beginning for one man, a "do-nothing, an unheard-of," who would go and stretch forth his hand and say, "In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I command life to flow into your body.” I dropped to my knees and began to pray again, and I said, "Lord, I know that this time is coming soon!”)  And then again, as these people were going about the face of the earth, a great persecution seemed to come from every angle. Suddenly, there was another great clap of thunder, that seemed to resound around the world, and I heard again the voice that seemed to speak, "Now this is my people. This is my beloved bride.” (In Rev. 19:7-8 we see the Bride in her “lampros" garment who has been doing miracles all over the world. John the Baptist saw Jesus' first fruits disciples and called them the Bride for he said, “He that hath the Bride is the Bridegroom.” This Bride went forth to do miracles in the gospels and Acts and to pass this anointing on to the rest of the church. Then in Rev. 19:14 we see the rest of the church in a “leukos" garment who are invited to the marriage. And then below we will see in Tommy's revelation the dead in Christ rising at the end of the 7 years to join them. ) And when the voice spoke, I looked upon the earth and I could see the lakes and the mountains. The graves were opened and people from all over the world, the saints of all ages, seemed to be rising. And as they rose from the grave, suddenly all these people came from every direction. From the East and the West, from the North and the South, and they seemed to be forming again this gigantic body. As the dead in Christ seemed to be rising first, (Before the rest of the “leukos” body of Christ.) I could hardly comprehend it. It was so marvellous. It was so far beyond anything I could ever dream or think of. But as this body suddenly began to form, and take shape again, it took shape again in the form of this mighty giant, but this time it was different. It was arrayed in the most beautiful gorgeous white. (In Rev. 19:14 the white garments are the “leukos" garments.) Its garments were without spot or wrinkle as its body began to form, and the people of all ages seemed to be gathered into this body, and slowly, slowly, as it began to form up into the very heavens, suddenly from the heavens above, the Lord Jesus came, and became the head, and I heard another clap of thunder that said, (Jesus is the head of the Bride, Jerusalem, in whom David ruled. In this way Jesus is the head of the rest of the Body of Israel; a type of the church. We see this same relationship of Esther as the Bride head of the body of Israel and the Shulammite in Song of Solomon as the Bride head of Israel.) "This is my beloved bride for whom I have waited. She will come forth even tried by fire. This is she that I have loved from the beginning of time."As I watched, my eyes suddenly turned to the far north, and I saw  destruction of men and women in anguish and crying out, and buildings in destruction. Then I heard again, the fourth voice that said, "Now is My wrath being poured out upon the face of the earth."From the ends of the whole world, the wrath of God seemed to be poured out and it seemed that there were great vials of God's wrath being poured out upon the face of the earth. I can remember it as though it happened a moment ago. I shook and trembled as I beheld the awful sight of seeing the cities, and whole nations going down into destruction.I could hear the weeping and wailing. I could hear people crying. They seemed to cry as they went into caves, but the caves in the mountains opened up. They leaped into water, but the water would not drown them. There was nothing that could destroy them. They were wanting to take their lives, but they could not.Then again I turned my eyes to this glorious sight, this body arrayed in beautiful white, shining garments. Slowly, slowly, it began to lift from the earth, and as it did, I awoke.What a sight I had beheld! I had seen the end-time ministries - the last hour. Again on July 27, at 2:30 in the morning, the same revelation, the same vision came again exactly as it did before. My life has been changed as I realised that we are living in that end time, for all over the world God is anointing men and women with this ministry. It will not be doctrine. It will not be a churchianity. It is going to be Jesus Christ. They will give forth the word of the Lord. I heard it said so many times in the vision, "And according to my word it shall be done." 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In this episode of the podcast, Zachary Groff interviews Pastor Brett Mahlen -Associate Pastor, Covenant OPC - Orland Park, IL- and Pastor Christian McShaffrey -Five Solas Church OPC - Reedsburg, WI- about the -Kept Pure in All Ages- conference on confessional bibliology and arguments in favor of the Received Text. The -Kept Pure in All Ages- Conference will be held on July 22-23, 2022 at Five Solas Church in Reedsburg, WI. For more information on the Conference and how to register yourself or your congregation, please visit https---keptpure.com.-Resource Link- https---www.fivesolas.church-received-text-reading-list-

In this episode of the podcast, Zachary Groff interviews Pastor Brett Mahlen -Associate Pastor, Covenant OPC - Orland Park, IL- and Pastor Christian McShaffrey -Five Solas Church OPC - Reedsburg, WI- about the -Kept Pure in All Ages- conference on confessional bibliology and arguments in favor of the Received Text. The -Kept Pure in All Ages- Conference will be held on July 22-23, 2022 at Five Solas Church in Reedsburg, WI. For more information on the Conference and how to register yourself or your congregation, please visit https---keptpure.com.-Resource Link- https---www.fivesolas.church-received-text-reading-list-

In this episode of the podcast, Zachary Groff interviews Pastor Brett Mahlen (Associate Pastor, Covenant OPC - Orland Park, IL) and Pastor Christian McShaffrey (Five Solas Church OPC - Reedsburg, WI) about the "Kept Pure in All Ages" conference on confessional bibliology and arguments in favor of the Received Text. The "Kept Pure in All Ages" Conference will be held on July 22-23, 2022 at Five Solas Church in Reedsburg, WI. For more information on the Conference and how to register yourself or your congregation, please visit https://keptpure.com. Resource Link: https://www.fivesolas.church/received-text-reading-list/

A new MP3 sermon from Christ Reformed Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Lecture 1: The Received Text (Origins, Transmission, and Preservation) Subtitle: 2021 Kept Pure Conference Speaker: Jeff Riddle Broadcaster: Christ Reformed Baptist Church Event: Conference Date: 3/26/2021 Bible: 2 Timothy 1:13-14 Length: 74 min.

2021 Kept Pure In All Ages Conference, Five Solas OPC, Reedsburg, WI, March 26-27, 2021.

2021 Kept Pure In All Ages Conference, Five Solas OPC, Reedsburg, WI, March 26-27, 2021.

The Truth About Born Again Book  https://ubm1.org/books/pdf/TABA.pdf   Salvation Instant and Progressive Book https://www.ubm1.org/books/pdf/SIP.pdf   The Truth About Born Again, Pts. 1 & 2    Greetings saints! God bless you. Thank you for joining us today for the Unleavened Bread Bible Study. Father, in Jesus’ name, we ask You to give us wisdom and understanding today concerning the real revelation of “born-again,” what it really means and what a born-again person looks like. Father, we just thank You for doing this. We thank You for opening our understanding. We thank You for causing us to overcome any traditions of men, Lord, which are pretty rampant out there, concerning this. So, we just thank You, Lord, for doing it. In Jesus’ name, amen. Okay, I think I’m going to start in (Joh. 1:12) But as many as received him, to them gave he the right to become children of God,… It is “children of God” here, not “sons of God” as some versions put. They’re two different words and we have to separate the two. The Bible says, (Pro. 29:21) He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become a son at the last. The whole creation is waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God. (Romans 8:19) The sons of God look like Jesus. He is the only born Son of God, and we have to be re-born sons of God in Him. But, when we first come to God, we are a teknon, not a huios. A teknon is a child and a servant because of their relationship to the Lord. A son doesn’t have the servant’s relationship to the Lord, a huios. So, He gave them the right to become children of God …[even] to them that believe on His name: 13 who were born,… So, we’re talking about a re-birth here, right? The word, born, here is gennao. It is translated two main ways, “begotten” and “born”. So, when you see the word, begotten, suspect that it’s the same word, born, because it almost always is. A child is someone who is born-again in spirit. They have a new spirit from God, a born-again spirit in the image of Jesus’ born-again Spirit. The Holy Spirit wants to create in us the life of Christ. First in spirit, then soul, then, ultimately, body. That’s the job of the Holy Spirit, (Joh. 16:14) …for he shall take of mine, and shall declare it unto you. But the beginning of this process is being a child of God. Now, maybe we can go into that later in more depth. The beginning of this process is a born-again spirit. When you hear people talking about “born again” in the, I would say, apostate church, most often they think there’s nothing more to it than a born-again spirit. They actually say, sometimes, “You’ve got everything you’re going to get.” Well, nothing could be further from the truth. It’s a big fat lie. Because there is the manifestation of the sons of God. And we’ll talk about what manifestation means, which means a child growing up to be a son, manifesting in his soul what was put in his spirit. I want to say something about your spirit. Your spirit is clean, it’s fresh, it’s holy, it’s righteous, but it has to be educated. Very much a part of your spirit is your conscience. Your conscience tells you what’s right and what’s wrong, but your conscience won’t tell you what’s right and wrong if you don’t teach it, train it. We, by the Word of God, should be training our conscience to tell us what is right and wrong. If you obey your conscience, which is in your spirit, you will grow up to be a son of God. If you disobey it, you will not. You will not manifest sonship. We are sons of God. We’re all sons of God through faith. Faith calls the things that be not as though they were. (Romans 4:17) Faith is believing you have something because of the Word of God that you don’t manifestly have. Manifestation, of course, is talking about the shining-forth from, the glories of God, shining forth from His people who walk in His steps. So, again, I’m going back to verse 13 here. Remember that. Children are born-again in spirit; sons are born-again in soul. And your soul is your mind, will, and emotions. It is what makes you you. But your spirit is the most holy part of you, and it’s your connection to God because God is Spirit. So, (Joh. 1:13) who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. “Born of God” is synonymous with “born-again”. Now, there is a born-again at the beginning of your experience. It’s receiving this new spirit, this enlightenment. But, you’re also heading towards another born-again, which is called “born-again in soul”. When God, generally, speaks about “born-again,” He’s talking about the whole process, and many people think they’ve got everything right up front, which is a lie, because they haven’t studied the Word. (Joh. 1:14) And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us… Now, sons of God are always the Word made flesh. When you study the Word of God, it is to get it down in your soul. You devour it. It’s a food. It’s a Manna out of heaven, it is Jesus Christ, the Word of God. As you devour that Manna out of heaven, you become what you eat, as they say. The Seed which manifests sonship of God is the Word of God. It is His sperma. In some places, that’s the Greek word, sperma. It is His sperma, the Word. If you don’t receive the Word into your soul…the Bible says (Rom. 12:2) …be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind,… Your mind, your will and your emotions are a part of your soul. So, to be transformed, you must humble yourself to the Word of God. That is receiving it into yourself, that’s a breaking up of your fallow ground so that it can receive the seed instead of rejecting the seed. That represents repentance. A person must repent when they read the Word of God so that it goes into them and recreates in them Jesus Christ, “…Christ in you, the hope of glory.” (Colossians 1:27) Which glory? Well, Paul talked about three glories that are three different bodies that a person receives. There’s star glory, moon glory, and sun glory. Yes, there are differences of people in heaven. (Joh. 1:14) And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten (This is, again, the word, gennao, which is “born.”) [born] from the Father), full of grace and truth. Well, if He’s the only One “born of the Father”, the only “born Son”, how do we get to be sons? We abide in Him, in His body. We are one in His body as we abide in Him by faith. And we’re sons of God through faith. Meaning, that as we believe we have received what God gave to us at the cross, which is reconciliation, which is a total exchange, God begins and will finish putting that all together. Because it is the power of God, not the power of man that does this. People say, “You can’t do that.” I know. That’s true. But we can believe God, and He can do it. I’m going to read one more verse to you just because we’re there. (Joh. 1:18) No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten (Some versions say, “Son.”) Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. Now, the most ancient of manuscripts has the word, God, there instead of Son. And the numeric pattern proves that. It proves that “God” is correct. So, you’re really looking at ...the only begotten [God], who is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. Now, if someone’s born of God, what does God bring forth? What does a human bring forth? Humans. What does God bring forth? God. Who is that living in you? God. He’s the only begotten or born God. So, don’t say it’s blasphemy, unless you don’t believe that’s God in you, unless you don’t believe Christ is in you, in which case, you are, indeed reprobate, the Bible says. (2 Corinthians 13:5) So, if you have God in you, then a part of you is God and a part of you is not. You can be son of man and son of God. If God has a son, what is it? If man has a son, what is it? It’s a human. That’s what you call “son of man.” Jesus was, according to (Romans 1:3), both son of man and Son of God. And we, too, are both son of man and son of God. We are created in His image. And this process is continuing. When you say, “born again”, in a lot of cases in the Scriptures it’s talking about more than just the initial born-again of your spirit, because some people don’t obey their spirit, which is in agreement with the Holy Spirit. Sometimes they don’t obey, so therefore they don’t grow up. Of course, you’re taught by apostate religion that you don’t have to obey. But, everybody who has faith can obey, because when you believe, God gives you power. And if you don’t believe the gospel and you’re believing you’re always going to be a sinner, then you’re always going to be a sinner because the Bible says, “…be it unto you according to your faith”. That’s what Jesus said. (Mat. 8:13) …as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. So, if you want to believe that, go ahead, but there’s no faith involved and you’ll never manifest sonship. Let’s go to (Joh. 3:1-3) Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: 2 the same came unto him by night, and said to him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs that thou doest, except God be with him. 3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except one be born anew, (or from above, or of God; they’re all synonymous) he cannot see the kingdom of God. We must be born again, or from above, to see the kingdom of God. You have no spiritual sight or insight unless you’re born from above. And if your soul is born of God, you know Him better than anyone because that’s your mind, your will, and your emotions, coming into the image of Jesus’ mind, will, and emotions. Praise be to God. So, “born”, here, is the same word for “begotten” in the scriptures, and as we read on down: (Joh. 3:4) Nicodemus saith unto 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? So, He’s not talking about a rebirth of the natural man, but a rebirth of the spiritual man, right? Except one be born anew… This is somebody that’s already alive. Except one be born anew or from above, except a person…so we’re starting out with the person here, we’re starting out with a human, but they have to be born anew from above, or born from above as the translation actually says. But he can’t see the Kingdom of God. Why? Because the Kingdom of God is within you. And the Kingdom of God is something that the natural man has no understanding of, can’t comprehend.  He (1 Cor. 2:14) …receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him… So, he can’t see the Kingdom of God, and Nicodemus asked if he’d have to go back into his mother’s womb. No, we’re not talking about that kind of born-again. (Joh. 3:5) Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except one be born of water… (again, “except one,” this is talking about someone that’s already born. Now, this person that’s already born has to be born of water. There are people that say that the water represents the natural birth. No, it has nothing to do with that, whatsoever. Nothing. This is somebody who has already been naturally born, and they’ve already come through that water. He’s talking about another water.) …and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. Well, the water, I believe is probably…let’s read (1 Jn. 5:7-8) And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is the truth. 8 For there are three who bear witness, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and the three agree in one. The Spirit, of course, is the Spirit of God, the Omni-present Spirit of God, Almighty. And that is in agreement with the Water, which the Bible calls in (Ephesians 5:26) the “washing of the water with the Word”. This is the Word of God. And the Blood, of course, is not the blood of man, it’s the Blood of Jesus. The blood of man that we inherited through our parents is full of sin. The sins of the parents are passed on to the children, the Bible says. But Jesus is the last Adam. He is the born-again creation, Adam, the One who spiritually fathers all of us. It is He and the Word that He is that is sown into our heart and recreates Him in us. You must agree with the Word. Don’t agree with religion. It’s a farce. The devil always leads people astray with religion. Which one is right? None of them are right. The only One that’s right is in this Word. You can find out the truth if you seek for it and you love it. If you love it, God will show it to you. (Joh. 7:17) If any man willeth to do his will, he shall know of the teaching,… If you’re not willing, if you’ve got an idol of church or religion or a preacher, then you’re probably not going to know the truth. (Rom. 6:16) …his servants ye are whom ye obey;… (Luk. 6:40) …but every one when he is perfected shall be as his teacher (or master.) You better make your master Jesus. You better make your master the Holy Spirit. If you make it a man or you make it a religion…because Jesus didn’t start any religion, He departed from every religion that was in His time, there’s nothing that has changed, there is no new thing under the sun. No religion has the truth. Oh, they’ve all got pieces of the truth, but they don’t want to see each other’s pieces. So, the best thing to do is to go straight to the Lord. Get it right out of the Word. Don’t trust any man. Seek out your own salvation with fear and trembling. (Philippians 2:12) You say, “My version has a little different word there in 1 John 5:7-8.” Yes, that’s true. This one is much closer to the numeric, and it’s pretty close. I would say that you need to pay attention to this. (1 Joh. 5:7-8) …there are three who bear witness, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood:… Notice that this has nothing to do with the natural water, it has to do with the water of the Word, the washing of the water with the Word. (Ephesians 5:26) Born-again is washing away your old man, drowning him in the baptism of Water of the Word, and it’s a symbol. Your baptism is a symbol of drowning that old man in the Water of the Word, putting him to death. When you humble yourself to this Word, you put that old man to death and the new man that comes up is in the image of Jesus Christ. So, let’s go back, since we’ve looked at that. (Joh. 3:5) …Except one be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. Truly so. (Joh. 3:6-7) That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. So, if you’re born of the Water and the Spirit, these two agree, it can’t be born of the flesh, which is the natural. So, that’s just more religious hog-wash. 7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born anew. Amen. You must be born anew. “Begotten,” by the way, is the same word. So, I’d like to do a little study with you on that word, begotten, to see what it is to be born-again, because you don’t just pick out one or two verses and twist them out of context. We can see that many have already done that with this. So, let’s go to (1 Jn. 2:28) And now, my little children, (And it is “children”, and a little further down, he says, “Now are we the children of God,” teknon, not huios. And if they say “sons,” it’s because they just thought it sounded good, that’s all, because that word is wrong.) (1 Jn. 3:2) … now are we children of God, and it is not yet made manifest what we shall be. We know that, if he shall be manifested, we shall be like him;.. There it is. Oh boy. So, we’re coming into the image of Jesus. Now, let’s go back to (1 Jn. 28) And now, my little children, abide in him; that, if he shall be manifested,… Oh my goodness, Him, manifested, and the word, manifested, here is the word, phaneroo, which means “to make visible or cause to shine.” It’s actually making visible and causing to shine forth, the glory of God. As you come into the manifestation of the Son of God, you shine forth. Paul gives us three stages; he called it the star glory, the moon glory, and the sun glory. I’m not going to explain that to you, but it’s a progressive stage, and the sun is the greatest glory because it represents the Son. Star glory is separate from one another. Moon glory is coming into unitedness, because the moon is one, but also, the moon is dead, and we have to go through death to have resurrection. The moon is dead. It reflects only the light of the sun. That is a stage that we go through. First, we have our own glory, like the star glory, then we have the moon glory, which is death, but it’s unity, because you can’t become one with your brother unless you’re dead to self. A lot of people haven’t made it through that one yet, and maybe never will. And then, of course, the next one is to once again have your own glory, but it’s the glory of the Lord in you, the third stage and the greatest stage of the glory of God, manifested in you. So, …if he shall be manifested… This means to make visible, to cause to shine. He is shining out. I’ve actually had this experience. Once, many years ago, when I was young in the Lord, but running fanatically after the Lord, I had a man who wasn’t even a saved person working with me, and he was watching me closely, he was learning from me. He was a worldly person, but I met him again, some years after I was teaching him how to do his job, and he said, “You know David, I never told you this, but I saw you one time, walking across the pipestill unit at Exon, and there was a glow all around you.” I told him, “You know, Christians have that glow. It’s the glory of God, and sometimes it can be seen, if God enables us to see it. And it grows as we grow.” He was awed at that. It made an impact on him. I noticed, as an apprentice, he watched me very closely. I could see questions in his face and in his eyes. I always talked about the Lord. He was raised a Catholic, and they put that halo around the head of Jesus and the apostles and so forth, and there is a glory that shines forth out of God’s people. Sometimes it can be seen, but it’s always seen in the spirit realm, always. So, anyway, this glory grows and it’s a process, but it grows. And born-again is a process, and it grows too, because your soul is your mind, will, and emotions, and it all needs to come into the image of Jesus. The Received Text, by the way, also has a footnote that said that this word is “if,” not “when.” (1 Jn. 2:28) …if he shall be manifested… It’s not talking about the coming of the Lord, physically, in the sky. We know that’s a “when”. He’s talking about His manifestation in you. That’s an “if.” So, they changed it, because they knew the Lord was coming, so, “that couldn’t be right.” Ha! Now, the numeric pattern is in “if” He shall be manifested. …we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming. If there’s this glory shining forth from you, you will not be ashamed at the coming of the Lord. And that is the parousia, the physical coming of the Lord. The manifestation is that epiphaneia, the coming of the Lord in you. The Lord comes first in His people as an epiphaneia, the last part of that, “phaneia,” is like this word, “phaneroo,” which means “to shine forth from.” This is spoken of about the children of God as they grow up in the Lord, the epiphaneia. The epiphaneia is the coming of the Lord in you, and the parousia is the coming of the Lord for you. Of course, He doesn’t want to come for you before He comes in you, because then you would be ashamed before Him at His coming. (1 Jn. 2:29) If ye know that he is righteous,… Hey, what is this “righteous?” It is that “shining forth” of the Lord. How do you define “righteous?” Righteous is being in right standing with the Word. Remember, we talked about the Word being the Seed of God. The Word is manifested in you. Glory be to God. …ye know that every one also that doeth righteousness is begotten (born) of him. That’s right, the word, begotten, there, is genao, the word, born. Now, I favor translating a word the same way throughout the Bible so that you connect things. Now, you see, this is “born again” right here. It’s the same thing. So many times when the Lord speaks, whether He’s speaking through John or whomever, when He says “born of Him” or “born again” or “born from above,” He’s talking about the whole process, not just the beginning of the process. You can do nothing unless you have a born-again spirit. With a born-again spirit, you are then empowered to hear the voice of God through His Spirit, you have a relationship with God through His Spirit. It’s Spirit to spirit, you see. So, Jesus was born of God. He had a born-again Spirit, He had a born-again soul, and He received a born-again body because He had a born-again soul. If you get a born-again soul, you’ll have a born-again body. If you don’t get a born-again soul, to some extent, (30, 60, or a 100-fold) you won’t have a born-again body. When Jesus spoke about those that bore fruit, 30, 60 and a 100-fold, He was talking about the manifestation of sonship, as 100-fold. You’re in this process. We’re all sons of God through faith. You must believe that the Son of God exchanged His life for yours, which is reconciliation, so that now, by faith, you are a son. How do you get sonship? You have to first be a son by faith. So, don’t give up. When you look in the mirror, see Jesus. That’s what the Bible says in (2 Corinthians 3:18). We’ll talk about that a little later. He that doeth righteousness is born of Him. (1 John 3:7) That which is born of Him in you is doing righteousness. The old man doesn’t do righteousness, neither can he go to heaven. Flesh and blood shall not inherit the Kingdom. (1 Corinthians 15:50) That’s what Jesus said. So, he has to die. You have to lose your life to gain your life. By the way, they inhabit the same territory, which is your body, the old man and the new man. Therefore, when the new man takes ground, he has to do it at the expense of the old man. The old man has to die in order to give more ground to the new man. You have to lose your life to gain your life, Jesus said. (Matthew 10:39; 16:25; Mark 8:35; Luke 9:24, John 12:25) The outer man is decaying, the inner man is being renewed, day by day. (2 Corinthians 4:16) As the outer man decays, the inner man is renewed. If you’re not going to die to self when you read His Word, if you’re not going to repent, believe, and act on His Word, you are not going to grow up into the manifestation of the sons of God. The whole creation is waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God, Paul said, in (Romans 8:19). Because that’s the only hope that creation has to be delivered from the curse. Jesus went around, delivering the creation from the curse, and so do his sons. The sons of God do the same work that Jesus did. So now we’re seeing that “born of Him” is a much bigger picture. But, it’s part of the process, and also, you see the end from the beginning. You receive the end from the beginning, as the Lord taught you to do. We’re accounted righteous through faith. If you believe He took away your sins and He gave you His life, that’s faith. Then, you must cooperate with Him in this death process of the waters of baptism, putting to death your old man. That is the Word of God, putting to death your old man so that your new man can live. The old man is drowned and the new man comes up, and that’s Christ in you, the hope of glory. And that glory that you have a hope of, of course, is that star, moon and sun glory. I want to continue to tell you what this born-again person looks like. I’m going to start in (Joh. 3:2). Beloved, now are we children of God, and it is not yet made manifest what we shall be. It’s not yet manifested. You’re children. You’re a servant.  (Pro. 29:21) He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become a son at the last. You’re a servant of God, a child of God, but you’re not yet manifesting sonship. You are a son of God by faith, but you’re not manifesting. It’s not shining forth yet.  …We know that, if he shall be manifested, (if He shines forth in us, if He’s caused to become visible, shining forth in us) ...we shall be like him;… Oh my goodness, isn’t that awesome? We shall be like Him. So, the manifestation of sonship is to be like Him! And, again, it’s the word, “if,” in the original. …for we shall see him even as he is. How do you see Him as He is? When we look in the mirror (2 Corinthians 3:18) we behold in the mirror the glory of the Lord and we’re transformed into that same image from glory to glory. That’s faith! It’s faith to look into the mirror and see Jesus, but it’s the Word of God. You don’t look in the mirror and see your old man, you don’t look and see yourself as a sinner, you see yourself as a saint. Jesus said, (Mar. 11:24) All things whatsoever ye pray and ask for, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. You have to believe that you’ve received it. That’s how faith works. People don’t even know what faith is. Faith is believing something you don’t see until you do see it. The same goes for healing and everything else you get from God. (1 Jn. 3:2) …we shall be like him; for we shall see him even as he is. Some people have another Jesus and they’re quite content to grow up into this other Jesus because He kind of favors them as they live in their old ways. Of course, that’s not the Jesus that exists, it’s another Jesus and another spirit and another gospel. And with that, you can’t manifest the 30, 60, and 100-fold. Jesus said that 1 out of 4, in the parable of the sower, did. One out of four manifested 30, 60, and 100-fold. You can’t do that if you’ve got another Jesus. You might come into the image of that other Jesus, but that’s not the Jesus. Anything that’s another Jesus is anti-Christ. (1 Jn. 3:2) And every one that hath this hope set on him purifieth himself, even as he is pure. Let’s just believe it like it says it. Now, I know there’s lots of preaching that is anti-Christ preaching that’s against this, but I’m just telling you what the Bible says. It’s the only Seed that will bring forth Christ. It’s the Bible. (1 Jn. 3:4-5) Every one that doeth sin doeth also lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness. 5 And ye know that he was manifested (There’s that word again.) to take away sins; and in him is no sin. So, when you sin, are you in Christ? Well, no, you’re not in Christ. There’s no sin in Him. You say, “Well, I abide in Christ.” Well, then you have to walk as He walked. That’s what He said. And if you walk as He walked, are you sinning? No, you’re not. And you know that He was “manifested to take away sins.” People think, “Well, we’ll just keep our sin, but we get forgiven.” No, they had that in the Old Testament. You haven’t come into the New Testament if you believe that. He was manifested to take away sin. Now, this isn’t just the action of sin, it’s the very nature of sin. He took it away. He nailed it on the cross. He delivered you. He exchanged your life for His life. Will you accept this exchange? It is a matter of you giving up your life and accepting His life. And in him is no sin, so when you sin, you step out of Him. You can’t grow that way because you’re growing the flesh instead of the spirit. (1 Jn. 3:6) Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither knoweth him.  So, when you abide in Him, you don’t sin. Who is the man that abides in Him? It’s your spiritual man. Who is the man that does not abide in Him? It’s your carnal man. It’s the fleshly man. You must die. If you feed the spiritual man, he will grow; if you feed the carnal man, he will grow, and you won’t bear the fruit 30, 60, and 100-fold, and you won’t be accepted in the kingdom of God. (1 Jn. 3:7) My little children, let no man lead you astray: (Now, this is so simple.) he that doeth righteousness is righteous, (Well, I know a lot of people don’t like to read 1 John 3, it just doesn’t fit their theology, but it’s the truth and you can ignore it, but you won’t grow up and bear fruit, and you know what He says about those that don’t bear fruit. So sorry. So much for your “once saved always saved” and other such goofy doctrines as that.) …even as he is righteous: (It stands alone. It’s all the Word of God.) 8 he that doeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. (Your old man is from the devil. He is born from beneath, as Jesus said of the Pharisees, the very leadership of His people in that day.) (Joh. 8:23) And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above:… (So, in you, there is a man that is born from beneath and is of the devil, and in you there is man that is born from above, and is of God, born of God. Who’s going to win? It’s up to you.) (1 Jn. 3:8b) … To this end was the Son of God manifested,… (And also, you must be manifested as a son of God. He must shine forth from you.) …that he might destroy the works of the devil. And that, He did. He became a sacrifice, He bore your sins upon that cross so that He could give you His life. He made an exchange, which is the word, reconciliation. He made this exchange. And now you don’t live anymore, Christ lives in you. That’s what Paul said. That was his good confession in the sight of many witnesses. (Galatians 2:20) That’s our good confession too. Jesus lives in me. I look in the mirror and I see Him by faith, not because of my righteousness or my ability or anything else, but because He said it. And because He said it, I’m going to believe it, and because I believe it, I’m going to have it. Jesus said, (Mar. 11:24) Therefore I say unto you, All things whatsoever ye pray and ask for, believe that ye [received] them, and ye shall have them. “Received” is past tense. “All things whatsoever.” Have you asked God for the manifestation of sonship? Are you believing Him for it? If you believe that He took away your sins, then you have it by faith. Because when the sin is gone, guess who’s left? (1 Jn. 3:9) Whosoever is begotten (born) of God… This is a truth about being born again. …doeth no sin,… So, that sin that you do is keeping you, in that part of your life, from being born of God. If you continue on with that, you cannot bear fruit in that area and other areas where you let the old man live instead of taking him to the cross.  …because his seed… which is, according to the parable of the sower, the Word of God. There it is, the water, “the spirit and the water.” ...abideth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is [born] of God. Well, what’s born of God is God. Does God sin? God cannot sin, the Bible says. And if you’re a son of God and that baby that’s being born in you that’s coming to fruition and is about to be birthed to be seen by the world – that’s the fruit of Jesus Christ in you. You may have had dreams like that. Many people have dreams about having babies, even men. What it’s talking about is your spiritual man. Don’t mistreat your spiritual man. He must grow. He needs the breath of God, which is the Spirit of God (same word), he needs water, he needs food, (the Word of God, right?) You’ve got to feed him, or else he just dies in the womb. (Jde. 1:12) …twice dead, plucked up by the roots;… And it’s your fault if you do that. So, “born of God” is not sinning, and that man in you that’s born of God cannot sin. Have you noticed that you’re not tempted with some things you used to be? Can God finish that process and do it with everything in your life? He’s God. Don’t say, “He can’t do this.” You can say that you can’t do it, but that’s okay. But, you can’t say, “He can’t do it,” and if you believe He’s done it, then you have to believe that He’s done it. He took (past tense) away your sin. (1 Jn. 3:10) In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil:… Can you have a born-again spirit and continue to walk as a son of the devil? Of course you can. People do it all the time, but they won’t bear fruit 30, 60, and 100-fold. And why did He stop at 100-fold? Because that’s 100%. (Luk. 6:40 KJV) …but every one that is perfect shall be as his master.  Again, you don’t want to look at a preacher or a religion. They’ve always all been wrong. In Jesus’ day, they were all wrong. You have to go to the Word of God to seek out your own salvation with fear and trembling. (Philippians 2:12) There are two manifestations happening: the manifestation of the son of God and the manifestation of the son of the devil, and the manifestation of the children of God and the manifestation of the children of the devil. (1 Jn. 3:10b) …whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God,… That’s the same thing as “not born of God.” As it says, he is “begotten” or “born of God.” So, if you’re not of God, you’re not born of God. How long do you want that guy who is not of God to hang around? Because you’re running out of time. You’re in this in order to crucify the old man and bring life to the new man. Obey your baptism. It was an act of faith, believe it or not, and you have to believe it. If you believe that at your baptism the old man died and the new man came to life, then from then on you say, “It’s no longer I that live, but Christ that liveth in me, and the life that I now live, I live by the faith of the son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me.” (Galatians 2:20) You must agree with the good confession. Don’t be talking about how you’re a sinner. Repent. If you sin, repent. Go to God and ask Him to deliver you and continue to believe that He has. Once again, whosoever doeth not righteousness is not (born) of God, (He is not born-again. That’s the old man.) …neither he that loveth not his brother. A person that doesn’t love his brother is not born of God, he’s not a son of God. The hatred is the old man. The sin is the old man. It’s not the new man, he cannot sin. (1 Jn. 3:11) For this is the message which ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another: So, if you’re born of God, that part of you which is born of God loves your brother. If you continue to hate your brother, criticize your brother, slander your brother, if you continue to do things against your brother, speak against your brother, which is the word, blasphemy, (to speak against), then you’ll never be born of God. (1 Jn. 3:12) not as Cain was of the evil one, and slew his brother… There’s a lot of people called Christians that are slaying their brother. …And wherefore slew he him? Because his works were evil, and his brother’s righteous. It’s always that way. He that is born of the flesh always persecutes he that is born of the Spirit, as Paul said. They hate you because that spirit that’s manifested in them is not the same spirit that’s manifested in you. They are contrary. They are enemies. So, what about this love? Let’s go down to (1 Jn. 4:7) Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God;… Yes, God is love. Who must we be? Love. We must be love. Go read (1 Corinthians 13) and find out what love is and just know that that’s what God is creating. That’s the end process. …and every one that loveth is begotten (born) of God, and knoweth God. 8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. If you want to be accepted by faith, through grace, but you don’t want your brother to be, you don’t love. If you’re criticizing your brother instead of praying and believing for him, you don’t love. You want grace for yourself, you want to be accepted, you want to be blood-covered, but you don’t want him to be blood-covered? Then you don’t love and you don’t know God. If you’re factious, you don’t know God and you don’t love and you’ll never bear fruit and you’re running out of time. We have proven (1 John 3:11) and (1 John 4:7), and we know what “born-again” is. Born-again is love. Born-again is righteousness. Born-again is not sinning. Okay, we’re finding out what this is. What is “born-again”? Can you be born-again and continue to do those things? Well, the part of you that’s doing those things is not born of God and I’m going to prove that. Let’s read in (1 Jn. 3:13): Marvel not, brethren, if the world hateth you… Jesus said that if they hate you, they hated Him first. (John 15:18) All that live godly lives in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution. If you’re not being persecuted by “God’s people,” you’re not walking before the Lord. Read the Bible. Find out that every person that came and represented a son of God, all the prophets and so on, look at how they were hated. If you’re not walking with God, you’re not going to draw any hatred. If you are walking with God, those who are not born of God in their soul will be your enemy. … 14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren… You who don’t love the brethren, who criticize and judge the brethren, who don’t pray and believe for the brethren, are not born of God in that area. …he that loveth not abideth in death. You can’t abide in life if you abide in death. 15 Whosoever hateth his brother… And by the way, this is not the fierce hatred that everyone wants to make it be. The Lord said that His people hated Him. He threatened to kill them, speaking to Moses, and make of him a greater nation because the witnesses came back and only two of them agreed with God. Those two loved God and went to the Promised Land in their bodies. That’s a spiritual type. The rest of them died in the wilderness because they hated God. If you don’t agree with God, if His Word is not more important to you than your word, or the word of man, you hate God. …Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: And people murder in more than one way. They murder a person’s reputation, for example. He that hateth his brother is a murderer. …and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.  I’m sad to say it, folks, but those are the facts. (1 Jn. 4:7) …and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God. 8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. And His children are love, too. When you’re born of Him, that part of you that’s born in Him is God. I’m going to prove that to you also. If you say that God doesn’t dwell in you, well, you’ve got a problem. You need to be born again. (1 Jn. 3:16) Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. Yes. You are no good to anyone if you don’t lay down your life. That old carnal man has to die. As the outer man is decaying, the inner man is being renewed day by day. (2 Corinthians 4:16) The more you die, the more you live. It’s just that simple. So, if you love the people around you, if you love your children, your wife, your husband, you will die. If you don’t, you will live and you’re selfish. You want the old man to live. If he lives, you die. Twice dead, plucked up by the roots. (Jude 1:12) You have to be twice-born to be twice-dead. And if you have a twice-born spirit, you can still die. Yes, you can still die, because you have a soul to be born again. Your fruit, 30, 60, and 100-fold, is born in your soul. You already have fruit in your spirit, it’s a brand-new spirit. Thirty, sixty, and one hundred-fold, has to be born of the mind, the will, and the emotions in your soul. (1 Jn. 3:17) But whoso hath the world’s goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him?... If you don’t have the love of God, remember, you’re not born of Him. …18 My little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue;… There’s a lot of people that do that. They say, “I love you,” and then they turn around and stab you in the back. They’re fakes. They know what it takes to be acceptable, and they know the lingo, they just don’t have the walk. And lots of times you know that they’re fake, but you give them the benefit of the doubt, you hope in God for them and you pray for them, but ultimately, if there’s a problem, their claws will come out. … but in deed and truth. 19 Hereby shall we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our heart before him:… Amen. Let’s go over to (1 Jn. 5:1) Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is begotten of God:… Do you really believe that the real Jesus is the Christ? Well, you don’t even see Him unless you’re born from above. You can’t see the Kingdom of God if you don’t. …and whosoever loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him… So, that part of you is born-again if you love your brother, if you love him as much as you love yourself. If you want grace and the blood-covering, but don’t want him to have it, but want to reveal his sins and be angry with him because of his sins, if you want to judge him, but don’t judge yourself, you’re a hypocrite. ...2 Hereby we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and do his commandments… If you don’t do God’s commandments, you don’t love God, according to Jesus, and you don’t love His children, because you’re leading them astray. You’re leaven that’s leavening the whole lump. You have to be kicked out because of your leaven. God does that regularly. He turns people over to the devil for the destruction of their flesh so that their spirits might be saved in the day of the Lord. (1 Corinthians 5:5) If they don’t grow and are just leaven, He just turns them over to the devil and they go berserk and they’re gone. By the way, they’ll crucify you too. …3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. 4 For whatsoever is begotten of God overcometh the world:… He didn’t say, “whosoever”, he said “whatsoever” is born of God. In other words, whatsoever part of you is born of God overcomes the world. …and this is the victory that hath overcome the world, even our faith. So, again, a person who walks in faith will be born of God, and whatsoever part of him walks in faith, will be born of God. Whatsoever part of him loves his brother will be born of God. And, if he doesn’t, he won’t bear any fruit. He’ll stop growing right there and won’t bear a fruit. (1 Jn. 5:18): We know that whosoever is begotten of God sinneth not; but he that was begotten of God keepeth himself, and the evil one toucheth him not. You may argue about who this is; it is Christ in you. Because he is born of God, he keepeth himself, and Christ in you is able to keep Himself in you. We know that whosoever is begotten of God sinneth not; but he that was begotten of God… That is your spiritual man. He was begotten of God and he is in the image of Jesus, and Jesus was begotten of God. People argue whether this is Jesus or whether it’s you, but you had better hope it’s both. …keepeth himself, and the evil one toucheth him not… You don’t have to sin. God gave you power over sin. …19 We know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in the evil one. The whole world lieth in the evil one, and quite a few people that are called Christians. You can’t imagine how many Christians are going to take the mark of the beast. You can’t imagine. Let’s go to (1 Pe. 1:21): who through him are believers in God, that raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God. 22 Seeing ye have purified your souls… This is a born-again soul that’s he’s talking about, as you’re going to learn here. …in your obedience to the truth… What is the truth? It’s the Word of God. It’s the washing of the Water with the Word. Every time that you get faced with a decision to obey your flesh or to obey your spiritual man, you can grow in your spiritual man, or you can grow in your flesh. It depends on whom you obey. If you continue to obey the carnal man, you’ll die, you won’t grow. He says that you purify your souls in your obedience to the Truth. Now remember, in order to have the power to obey the Truth, you must believe the Gospel, the Good News that you don’t live anymore, that sin has no more power over you and that the Lord has given you His life. You must believe the Gospel. You must look in the mirror and see Jesus. …unto unfeigned love of the brethren,… That means “un-faked” love. Everyone in the church says they love you, but do they? If they walk in sin, they don’t love you. If they judge you instead of put faith in your heart to overcome, they don’t love you. If they criticize you and cast you down and cast away your faith, they don’t love you. If you are in willful disobedience and you claim that you’re under the blood, and they don’t tell you, they don’t love you.  …love one another from the heart fervently: 23 having been begotten (born) again,… There it is, born-again. That love, that purification of your soul, that born-again soul, which is your mind, will, and emotions. That born-again soul is what you have to have to manifest sonship. I know there’s a big false doctrine out there about the manifestation of the sons of God, I’m just telling you the truth about it. Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. If God says it, believe it. The Bible talks about the manifestation of the sons of God. It’s a good thing. Do you want to be like Jesus? That’s the manifestation of the sons of God, and it’s going to happen in these days. You’re going to see Jesus walking around here in the epiphany, the shining- forth from his sons, doing the same thing that He did, living the same life, loving people, just like He did, walking in righteousness, which is shining forth from them in the glory of God. Oooooh! This is good stuff. I love it. …not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God,… This is the incorruptible seed. This seed, which is the Word of God, when it goes into you, can only create one thing; each seed brings forth after its own kind. That which is born of flesh is flesh, that which is born of spirit is spirit. (John 3:6) This seed of the Word of God can only create in you, God. That’s all. God’s seed does not bring forth man. God’s seed brings forth God. God in you. And you want Him to take over, and that’s what the sons of God are, because they’re born of God. Sons of God, where do they come from? They’re born of God, born out of heaven, born of the Seed. It’s an incorruptible seed, it can’t bring forth anything but God. Anything that’s of God can only bring forth God. It can only bring forth love. It can only bring forth righteousness; it can only bring forth deliverance from sin. If it’s born of God, that’s all it can do. It can’t make man; man comes from man. That which is born of flesh is flesh; that which is born of spirit is spirit. …which liveth and abideth. 24 For, All flesh is as grass, And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower falleth: 25 But the word of the Lord abideth for ever. What is it that’s going to last? The Word of the Lord. Who is the Word of the Lord? Jesus. Remember the sign He had on Him? The Word of God. He is the Word of God. What is eternal life? What is temporal? Temporal life is that grass. Eternal life is Christ in you, the hope of glory. It is the Word manifested in you. Eat the Word. Become what you eat. Devour the Word. Let it go into you and recreate in You that born-again man. The Spirit, the Water (which is the Word), and the Blood. …And this is the word of good tidings which was preached unto you. It’s the Good News. Many don’t know what the Good News is, the Gospel, which is the power of God to save. They don’t know what that is. You’re looking at it. What does a saved person look like? Jesus. What does a son of God look like? Jesus. What does a born-again person look like? Jesus. We’re all ending up in the same place here. It’s just different ways of describing the same situation, which is Jesus Christ in you, the only hope of glory. I put the word, only, in there, but that’s the truth. The only hope of glory is Christ in you. How does He get in you? You receive the Word, which is born out of heaven, that Manna that came down out of heaven, and gives life to the world. If you don’t receive God’s Manna, His Word, you will not be renewed, you will not be transformed by the renewing of your mind. (Romans 12:2) Every day, the most important thing is to study the Word of God and obey it. If you’re having trouble obeying it, go to the One Who gives you the gift of faith. (Eph. 2:8) …for by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9 not of works, that no man should glory. For in Christ, we were made for good works. One work comes from God, the other one is your own. (1 Pe. 2:1) Putting away therefore (therefore, since all this is true) all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, 2 as newborn babes, long for the spiritual milk which is without guile, that ye may grow thereby unto salvation;… Unto salvation. He’s talking to saved people who are saved by faith, but salvation has to come by manifestation. What is the manifestation of salvation? Christ in you. You receive Him by faith when you come to Him. Now, many think that they’ve already manifested Christ and have all they’re ever going to get. That’s because they don’t understand what faith is. As long as you’re saved by faith, you’re not saved by manifestation. As long as you’re a son of God by faith, you’re not a son of God by manifestation. Faith comes before manifestation. Faith is believing you have something because God said you have it, because He gave it to you at the cross. But, the manifestation is when it comes to pass. That’s when the baby’s born. That’s when the world gets to see Christ in you, right? Are you longing after the world? You’ve been distracted. If you get distracted, you will not make it to the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. You will not make it. Don’t get distracted. There’s nothing out there that’s important like this is. Now, God knows if you’re after the prize. Just look at that Shulamite in Song of Solomon, she’s after the prize of the high calling. And all the queens and the concubines, all of Solomon’s girls there are all distracted and they think she’s a fanatic. No, she’s the one that’s going to make it. She’ll be the Bride. Don’t get distracted. If you are distracted, ask God to put it in your heart to make you run the race. A lot of people are losing the race; they’re running against the clock, and every distraction they’ve got is causing them to lose the race. You have a certain amount of time to manifest that 100-fold fruit, and if you’re distracted, you won’t make it. The Shulamite wouldn’t be distracted. They all tried to distract her. Notice it, go read it, they all tried to distract her. “No, I don’t have time for you, I’m running after Jesus.” …that ye may grow thereby unto salvation;… There is a manifestation of salvation. It looks like Jesus. It looks like holiness. It looks like deliverance from sin. That’s what salvation is. Let’s look at (1 Pe. 1:3) Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy begat us again… That’s that same word, “bore.” …unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,… When He was resurrected, we were resurrected. We accept that by faith. We only see it by manifestation when we’re willing to give up the old life. We died with Him. So, die! You can’t have resurrection life without death. Lose your life. You can’t gain your life without losing your life. Remember, there’s only enough room in you for one. As the old man dies, the new man comes to life. When they went into the Promised Land, they had to kill the old man to take their house and live in their house and raise their own fruit in their fields. That’s a picture. So, he begat us at the cross unto a living hope. A firm expectation is what the word, hope, means. …4 unto an inheritance incorruptible,… Everybody thinks that’s just what they’re going to get in heaven. You’d better get it down here. This is where the fruit is born. You have to turn dirt to plant seed, and the fruit comes out of the dirt. …and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,… We’ve been given a gift in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. In Christ, you are abiding in heavenly places. In Christ, you’re going to have every gift that you’re going to get. Abiding in Him, you bear fruit. That’s what He said. If you don’t abide in Him, you don’t bear fruit and they pluck you up and throw you in the fire. That’s what He said. (Matthew 7:19) …5 who by the power of God are guarded through faith unto a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time… “Oh, I thought I already had salvation!” You have it by faith. You must have it by manifestation. Everything that you believe for from God, you receive it first by faith before it is manifested. You receive the glory of Jesus by faith. As you walk that faith out and you’re willing to die, then He shines forth from you. This is the shining-forth, the glory of God. It’s like the Bride, with the lampros garment, which is the righteous acts of the saints. She has a lampros (Revelation 19), which means a glowing, a shining. Notice, those that are invited to the marriage feast have a leukos, which just means “white.” White is good; lampros is shining. It’s the glory of God. She’s the bride, she is shining with the glory of God. Read (Revelation 19). It’s the same with you. It’s the righteous acts of the saints. That glory that shines forth out of you is the righteous acts of the saints. (1 Pe.1:6) Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, ye have been put to grief in manifold trials,… Yes, trials are the way to Jesus. You have decisions to make in trials. The trial is about whom you will obey, the old man or the new man. That’s what a trial is. And, of course, if you love Him, you’re going to keep His commandments. So, what we’re really proving is who loves Him. The ones who love Him are going to manifest. They’re going to have that shining forth from them. They’re going to have that phaneroo, that ephiphaneia. Because they love God, they’ve proven through the trials that they’re going to keep His Word. It’s worth it to them to lose their life and gain that heavenly life and sit next to the Father. (1 Pe.1:7) that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold that perisheth though it is proved by fire,… You go through the fire and you come out with the gold if you love Him. …may be found unto praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ:… Notice that He’s already told us that it’s the revelation at the last time. The manifestation of your salvation is not the beginning, it’s the end. …8 whom not having seen ye love; on whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory: 9 receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls… It’s not your spirit. Your spirit’s already saved. In (Ecclesiastes 12:7), it says that when you die, the spirit goes back to God, who gave it. If you don’t overcome, the spirit goes back to God, who gave it. Your soul is your mind, your will, and your emotions. It is who you are. …10 Concerning which salvation the prophets sought and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: 11 searching what time or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did point unto, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that should follow them. It’s just fun to study this stuff and to just have a hunger and a thirst for it. Look at (Jam.1:19): Ye know this, my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: 20 for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God... Remember, the born-again are righteous because the born-again don’t sin. The born-again don’t go out in wrath. …21 Wherefore putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness,… This sounds just like what Peter said. If you can’t put it away, why would he tell you to do something that you can’t do? If you’re walking by faith that Jesus is the One Who lives in you, He’s got all power. When you look in the mirror and see Jesus, you don’t see someone that has no power. Guess what? You’ve got power. The devil’s trying to tell you that you don’t. You do have power because you believe in Him. You believe that His life is your life, and therefore, His power is your power and you have power over sin. Anyone who tells you differently is telling you the anti-Christ gospel. …receive with meekness the implanted word, (This word, “implanted,” is the same word as “inborn” or “ingrafted.”) which is able to save your souls. Now, who is he talking to? Look back to verse 2: …count it all joy my brethren. He’s talking about us saving our souls. And what is the salvation of your soul? It’s the end of your faith, not the beginning of your faith. As long as you have faith, you’re still waiting for it to manifest. When it’s manifested, you don’t need faith anymore; you’ve got it. (Heb. 11:1 KJV) Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Faith is only good until the answer comes. If you’re saved by faith, it means you’re not saved by manifestation. So, we’re working towards this manifestation. As we die, we gain. (Jam. 1:22) But be ye doers of the word,… Again, that’s what the spiritual man does. He does the Word. He is righteous; he loves. …and not hearers only, deluding your own selves. The people that say, “We don’t have to obey,” and “that’s salvation by works,” are deluded. They’re deceived. They don’t want to change. They don’t want to be delivered of the old man. They want to continue on in their sins. And so, they’ve justified this by having a doctrine that’s goofy. ...23 For if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a mirror:… Yes, if you’re constantly looking at the old man, “Oh, woe is me. Look at that,” you’re never going to get there because there’s no faith involved, and the righteous shall live, literally, from faith. (Romans 1:17) You must believe you have received, Jesus said. All things, whatsoever you pray and ask for, believe you received them and you shall have them. (Matthew 21:22) That is faith. If you see your natural face in the mirror, you will be a hearer of the Word and not a doer of the Word, as it says. …24 for he beholdeth himself, and goeth away, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was… Act when you have the decision to act. When you are in a trial, which is, again, a war between your spiritual man and your carnal man, act in the Spirit. If you walk after the Spirit, you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh. If you walk after the flesh, you must die. That’s what it says. He forgets what manner of man he was. He forgets it until the next time God brings it up in front of his face, and if he doesn’t obey it then, he’ll forget it until the next time. But guess what? You’re running out of time. Repent. Follow the Lord. Pray and ask Him for everything and believe that you’ve received everything. After all, we’re trying to find out who is a believer. Not everyone that’s a Christian is a believer. Those who don’t believe don’t go very far. …25 But he that looketh into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and so continueth, being not a hearer that forgetteth but a doer that worketh, this man shall be blessed in his doing. 26 If any man thinketh himself to be religious, while he bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his heart, this man’s religion is vain. 27 Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world. In other words, a doer. If you see your brother in need and don’t help him, how does the love of God abide in you? If you don’t have the love of God, you’re not born again. So, we have this awesome thing that we’re waiting to see. Let’s go to 2 Corinthians and we’ll see the reward that God has for you if you lose your life in this world. (2 Co.3:18-20) But we all, with unveiled face (That is if you’re not blinded, if you haven’t been deceived into not seeing what the gospel is.) beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit. So, notice that you see Jesus in the mirror by faith. It takes some imagination. It’s an image, “into the same image.” You see Jesus by faith, because He gave His life for you and you don’t live anymore, but Christ lives in you.  And you confess the good confession in the sight of many witnesses. Your faith without works is dead, so when you believe, you speak it. When you believe that you’ve received this gift from God, this free gift, not any of your works, then you’re going to be what? Transformed into the same image from glory to glory. That’s star glory, moon glory, and sun glory. You’re going to go through the process and you’re going to manifest Jesus Christ. (2 Co. 4:3): And even if our gospel is veiled,… And it is. You don’t find this in the dead churches out there; that’s the reason they’re dead. They don’t have any power and that’s the reason they don’t have any power, because they don’t believe the Gospel. The Gospel brings Christ in you. …it is veiled in them that (literally)perish: Wait, he’s talking about (yes, the people of God) perishing! …4 in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn upon them… This is the Light of the Gospel, the Good News that you don’t live anymore and He lives in you.  You see Him in the mirror and are transformed into that same image from glory to glory. The devil is in the churches to deceive you about the Gospel and what it does and what it is, even. They don’t even know what it is. They say it’s “accept Jesus as your personal Savior.” No, it’s not. There’s not a verse in the Bible that says that, not one. He demands you repent and believe the Word. They don’t believe the Word. They don’t know what “born-again” is. Get out of there. A little leaven leavens the whole lump. Get your Word. Read the Word. Get it straight from the Lord. Don’t believe these liars. Seek out your own salvation with fear and trembling. They didn’t have that problem in the first Church back then. Those people were all trained by Jesus. But they said that there was coming a great falling away, and we’re still looking at it. It won’t dawn upon them. …5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake. 6 Seeing it is God, that said, Light shall shine out of darkness,… That light, first of all, is your spirit-man, shining forth through that soul, that mind, will, and emotions that are not yet coming into the image of Jesus Christ. In other words, the manifestation of salvation. …who shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. There it is again. So, if you’re not blinded by the devil, you can get this revelation. (2 Co 3:18) But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory,… We’re not looking at the natural man in the mirror, because he’s dead. We confess him as dead because we were baptized. The old man died right there. Remember that. The old man died right there. If you haven’t been baptized, you need to get baptized. It’s an act of faith. You’re accepting the fact that the old man is dead and the new man now lives. Read it. (Romans 6) (2 Co.4:7): But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from o

The Faction Election War Won (5) (Audio) Trust God as a Child David Eells - 12-13-20 If we put our trust in man we will fail.  I have said for a while that I didnt believe God would give us the victory over the DS without us first being weak for God's power is made perfect through weakness. He wants us to put our trust in Him as a little child so He can show His power to the World to save us from this beast. Lately the Trump administration has lost every battle. He is showing us our inability to save ourselves so we can receive this salvation by grace and not by mens power. Little David refused Sauls armor and weapon to fight with Goliath because he had not proved them.  He killed the lion and bear by the power of God not men. Goliath had all the weapons of man. David said You come to me with a sword and a spear but I come to you in the name of the Lord. I would that our leaders in the physical world would proclaim His name before the enemy. David chose 5 smooth stones but used only one to take down Goliath. The senses are these stones that were polished in the water of God’s Word. David chose a stone which he sent on ahead to take down Goliath.  In the New Testament we find that Jesus is the rock which the builder rejected. The stone that followed the Israelites was Jesus. When Does His power come like this to a little child? The child is weak but trusts in his father.  It is our faith that counts, the world and the worldly Church doesnt have any.  Their faith is in President Trump but he needs our childlike faith for his power.  At the moment no grace is being shown so we know that we must exercise faith like a child. What we each have to do is become as a child because we can walk with the Lord if we become as a child. The thing about grownups is they’re self-confident, self-sufficient, self-dependent. All of those traits the world thinks of as being positive, but in the Kingdom they’re not considered that way by God. The Lord says the only way you can enter into the Kingdom is to be a child. Jesus said, “suffer the little children to come unto me; forbid them not: for to such belongeth the kingdom of God (Mar.10:14). Forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God, is what it said in the original. Of such is the kingdom of God. (15) Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall in no wise enter therein. (16) And he took them in his arms, and blessed them, laying his hands upon them.” Now we tend to think of the Kingdom as someplace that we’re going to so that we can enter into it, but actually we’re entering into the Kingdom here. In reality, the Kingdom is every place in your life. The kingdom of God is within you (Luk.17:21), Jesus said. The Kingdom is every place in your life where God is able to rule. God is not able to rule until you’re in agreement with Him. To be a child is to be confident in your Father, not self-confident. It’s to be dependent upon your Father, not self-dependent. This is valuable to God. As He said, “my righteous one shall live by (“from” in the Numeric) faith: And if he shrink back, my soul hath no pleasure in him” (Heb.10:38).  What pleases God is that we live from faith, that we not live from our self-confidence, or our self-sufficiency, or our own ability, or the strength of the arm of the flesh, but that we put our trust in God and walk with Him like a little child walks with his father. In other words, there’s no other way to enter into the Kingdom. We must give up being grownups. We must become as children. In order for God to be able to rule everywhere in our lives, we have to become as children. (Mat.18:1) In that hour came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who then is greatest in the kingdom of heaven? (2) And he called to him a little child, and set him in the midst of them, (3) and said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye turn and become as little children, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven. And these were His disciples that He was telling this to. These were not the lost Pharisees; these were the disciples of Jesus, those who were learning and following Him. He said you will not enter in unless you turn and become as little children. The process of the Christian life is this process of turning and becoming as little children and becoming God-dependent, God-sufficient and God-confident. (Mat.18:4) Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. (5) And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me. You see, Jesus was a little child. That’s Who He was. He says, if you receive one of these little children, you receive Me. That’s somebody who’s in My likeness; you receive Me. He was a child. He really was. He wasn’t a grownup in the ways of the world, in the ways of confidence in the world, the strength of the world.  Grownups are known for making their own way, making their own living, being self-sufficient, being great providers, but the Lord wants to wash all that out of us. He wants us to put all of our confidence and our trust in Him and become as little children. If you receive one such little child, you receive Jesus. That’s the way He was. He was confident in His Lord. I’ll tell you, the best way we can help ourselves is by walking by faith in God’s Word. You’ve probably heard the old saying that, “God helps those who help themselves,” but that’s not found in the Bible. That saying is credited to Benjamin Franklin in his Poor Richard’s Almanac. No, the best way to help yourself is walking in faith in God’s Word. (Rom.14:22) The faith which thou hast, have thou to thyself before God. That’s what the Bible says. You can help yourself. You can help yourself to everything that God has for you through faith in His Word. (Luk.10:21) In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou didst hide these things from the wise and understanding, and didst reveal them unto babes: yea, Father; for so it was well-pleasing in thy sight. What was He talking about? Reveal what things to the babes? Well, the disciples had just come back from being sent out by the Lord to take authority over the works of the devil. They came back rejoicing that God had given them authority over the power of the devil and that they had done the works of Jesus, and they saw that the spirits were subject unto them. But why did Jesus call them babes? Well, it was babes who received this revelation of the authority of Jesus and it was babes who received this revelation of how to use the authority of Jesus.  Let’s back up a little in this chapter. (Luk.10:3) Go your ways; behold, I send you forth as lambs in the midst of wolves. (4) Carry no purse, no wallet, no shoes; and salute no man on the way. So we see they were babes because Jesus sent them out totally dependent upon the Lord. (5) And into whatsoever house ye shall enter, first say, Peace [be] to this house. (6) And if a son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon him: but if not, it shall turn to you again. And so he said, “salute no man on the way” because you really don’t know people but you find out later who people are. We’re going to find out before the end of the tribulation who people really are and who His children are. God sent these disciples out as children, as totally dependent upon the Lord, not self-sufficient, not able to take care of themselves. He deliberately took away their ability to take care of themselves when He sent them by not letting them take any kind of insurance with them. The only thing they took was His assurance because He said, “the laborer is worthy of his hire” (Luk.10:7), meaning, if you just go, God will always pay His workers. You don’t have to worry about it. God is that way. He wants us to go without our own sufficiency or our own insurance so that we can see His provision on the way. I really truthfully believe that Jesus never changed this way of sending out people. Many times, if God says, “Go,” you may go. It doesn’t matter if you have the wherewithal to do this. If God says, “Go,” you may go. He will never fail you. He will meet you on the way. He’s done it many, many times with me when He said, “Go,” and I’ve noticed, “But, God, I don’t have this” or “I don’t have gas” or “I don’t have money.” But God doesn’t take “no” for an answer. If He says, “Go,” you can go because He will be there.  He’ll put gas in your car. He’s done it to me several times. Or He’ll make it run without gas. He’s done that, too. Or He’ll put money in your pocket somehow or another. He’ll do it. Or He’ll make your money stretch. He can surely multiply it. He can do all things. He’ll have you meet-up with people whom He has put there specifically to supply your needs, if you go by faith and be obedient to Him. If you go as a child, just trusting in your Father. In America, there are far too few children. Everybody in America seems grown-up. Everybody in America wants to insulate themselves against anything that could happen, as though they don’t believe in a sovereign God. The Bible says, “A man can receive nothing, except it have been given him from heaven” (Joh.3:27). God, Who is Sovereign, will make sure that He blesses you, if you go by faith in Him. Believe me, the time is coming when everybody is going to have to go by faith in God because He’s going to take away all the things that people have insured and insulated themselves with from the things that might happen in the world. But God is God. He never goes to sleep. He’s never fallen off the throne. He’s there always. He is going to make sure that His Word comes true. And we can be just like little children. We can cast ourselves on His mercy. Children never even think about where the next meal is going to come from. Little children don’t worry about those things; they just know that it’s Momma and Daddy’s responsibility; they’ll take care of that. And you know, that’s the way God is with us. He wants that kind of relationship with us. God’s not happy with anything less. (Heb.10:38) My righteous one shall live from faith:  And if he shrink back, my soul hath no pleasure in him.  God doesn’t have pleasure in self-sufficient people. He has pleasure in people who walk by faith, talk by faith, live by faith. And it is a pleasure to live by faith. I don’t yet know all of what living by faith is; God’s only shown me the little parts that He’s shown me, but I would love to live by faith in every direction. Some directions I’ve never even thought about and other people will come and say, “Oh, did you try this?” For example, a sister in the Lord once told me that she and some other people just picked up some instruments and started playing them by faith and pretty soon they got better and better at it. They were surprised at how God blessed them. Well, that led us to pray over our children, Nathan and Jennifer, by faith, and God answered that prayer. I tell you, it was just the very next week after that when they started playing music, picking it up quite naturally, by ear. So there isn’t anything God won’t do for those who put their trust in Him. There is nothing that God can’t do and won’t do for those who put their trust in Him. I believe this is the reason that He said He revealed these things unto babes. God reveals the authority of God and God reveals the power of His name to people who will become children, people who will cast care to the wind and put themselves in His Hands, just trusting in Him, believing in Him. (Eph.3:20) God is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think. God loves it when we are weak but we don’t see it that way. We like to be strong and we do our best to make sure that we’re strong in every situation that we can get in. As I said, we do our best to insulate ourselves from any possible mishap, but that doesn’t please God. It doesn’t please God that we put our trust in the gods of this world, the saviors of this world.  The apostle Paul learned that lesson. He was caught up to paradise and he said, “On behalf of such a one (the man who was caught up to paradise) will I glory: but on mine own behalf I will not glory, save in my weaknesses” (2Co.12:5). The King James Version translates that word “weaknesses” there as “infirmities” because they had the idea that the apostle Paul had some kind of sickness or infirmities, but a closer look at this reveals that’s not the case at all. Those translators believed the apostle Paul had an eye disease or something like that and that God said, “my grace is sufficient for thee” (2Co.12:9), meaning, “You just keep that because you need that; you need that to be an overcomer; you need that to humble you.” But obviously that would be contrary to a lot of rest of the Word. The Bible says, “by whose stripes ye were healed” (1Pe.2:24). It doesn’t say that we’re healed only when we really need it and it doesn’t say that we’re healed only sometimes. You were healed all the time. Let’s read on. (2Co.12:6) For if I should desire to glory, I shall not be foolish; for I shall speak the truth: but I forebear, lest any man should account of me above that which he seeth me [to be,] or heareth from me. (7) And by reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted overmuch, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, that I should not be exalted overmuch. So we see that he said what the “thorn in the flesh” was. He said it was a messenger of Satan, an angelos. The word there is angelos, which is translated 181 times in the New Testament as “angel” and the other few times as “messenger,” but it means the same thing. It’s the same Greek word, angelos. Here was an angel of Satan that was sent to buffet Paul so that he wouldn’t be proud.  Paul didn’t say it was a sickness that was sent to buffet him. And, by the way, to “buffet” is not just one blow, like a sickness. It’s to beat over and over and over. It’s many blows. That’s what buffet means. But a thorn in the flesh, in this case, was an angel of Satan that was sent to buffet Paul. In the Old Testament, for every verse that talks about a thorn in the flesh, never, not once, is it ever a sickness. It was always referring to the enemies of God’s people that came against them and in this case it’s the same thing. An angel of Satan was sent to buffet Paul so he wouldn’t “be exalted overmuch.” (2Co.12:8) Concerning this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. (9) And he hath said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for [my] power is made perfect in weakness. The King James here has that this word is “weakness,” but this word and the word up in verse five are the same Greek word, so one of them can’t be “infirmity” and the other one “weakness.” They have to both be the same thing and the truth is they are because using the same Greek word in talking about Jesus, the Bible says, “for he was crucified through weakness” (2Co.13:4). Now, nobody would have put “infirmity” there. Jesus wasn’t crucified through infirmity, so they had to put the truth there and the King James did use “weakness” in that case. (4) For he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him through the power of God toward you. See, when you are weak in Christ, you’re going to live through the power of God. It’s when you are not able. It’s being weak in ability to save yourself, being weak in ability to deliver yourself, being weak in ability to heal yourself. He says when you’re in that condition, then God’s power is going to be with you.  This is the same thing Paul said back in 2 Corinthians 12:9. I’m pointing out this verse because in the King James they used the word “weakness” here and it could not be possibly put in as “infirmity” because we can’t read anywhere in the Scriptures that Jesus was infirm, nor was He crucified because He was infirm. Now, that’s the same word that’s being used over here and over in 2 Corinthians 12:9. He said, “My grace is sufficient for thee: for [my] power is made perfect in weakness.” You know, if we will be weak as a little child, God’s power will be there. Most often, God’s power is not there because we refuse to be weak. We want to be strong in a circumstance. We see what we think needs to be done and we run to do it, and we are not ceasing from our works. We are not entering into the Sabbath (Hebrews 4:11). We’re not refusing to be strong. If we will refuse to be strong and we will put our trust in God, we will see His power there every time. It reminds me of a vision I had years ago, in which Mary and I were sitting in some lawn chairs in front of our house in Louisiana. While we were sitting there, we saw this power line hanging from pole to pole. The strange thing about it, as we were looking at this and studying this, was that the power line was almost touching the ground in the middle because it was sagging so bad. And while we were watching that, a tornado came over that power line and sucked us up out of our chairs. Then the vision changed and I feel like we were over in Florida and the Lord was showing us something about our ministry over there.  But what He showed me about that always stuck with me. As we were sitting there, ceasing from our works and resting in lawn chairs, watching the power of man come to an end (that’s the power lines), as we watched the power of man come to an end, then the power of God took over. Man’s extremity is God’s opportunity. God’s not ready to move until we do cease from our works because we have faith. Every time you have faith, you can stop, you can cease from your work, you can cease from your struggling, you can cease from trying to save yourself because the Bible says you are saved. It doesn’t say He will save you. If it said that, you’d wonder what method He wanted to use, but since His method is past tense and you believe it, you have to stop, you have to cease. And so God’s power is made perfect in our weakness. Paul said, “most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my weaknesses (not “infirmities” because it’s the exact same Greek word), that the power of Christ may rest upon me” (2Co.12:9). Glory in our weaknesses so that the power of Christ may rest upon us. That’s the way a child is. They have all the power of Daddy because he is the provider, he is the deliverer, he is the savior. He takes care of it all and they don’t think it should be any other way and we should be that way, too. We’ve been trained-up to think otherwise, to be grownups, but you know, we shouldn’t be thinking in any other terms than what a child thinks. This is the way God wants it. Well, I think that we can see by now that the ‘verse,’ “God helps those who help themselves,” is not Godly at all; it’s antichrist. It will never allow you to enter into the power of God. It will never allow the Spirit and the power of Christ to rest upon you.  So Paul says he glories in his weaknesses so that the power of Christ may rest upon him. (2Co.12:10) … I take pleasure in weaknesses…. King James says “infirmities.” Nobody takes pleasure in infirmities. That’s ridiculous. The word here is the same Greek word again. It’s not “infirmity”; it’s “weakness.” Yes, we take pleasure in weaknesses. It’s great to be weak. It’s great to not have the ability to deliver yourself because then you get to see the miracle of God. And he went on to say, in “injuries,” or actually the word there is “insults,” according to the ancient manuscripts and the Received Text and several others; it’s “insults,” not necessarily “injuries.” You don’t take pleasure in injuries, but “in insults, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong” (2Co.12:10). Now, what was this buffeting that this angel sent his way, this angel of Satan? Some people say there are no such things as angels of Satan. You know that the demons are angels. Some people say the demons are not angels, but no, that’s not what the Bible says. The demons are the angels of Satan, so just forget about that theology. Whoever brings that to you, don’t believe it; don’t go down that road because it’s wrong. Michael and his angels fought with Satan and his angels (Revelation 12:7), the Bible says. Demons are all fallen angels. That’s where they came from. They are the fallen angels, the non-elect angels. So what is this buffeting? What are these many different blows that the angel of Satan brought Paul’s way in order to make him weak, in order to bring him into a position of weakness? Well, Paul gives a list of them. (2Co.11:21) I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet whereinsoever any is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.  (22) Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I. (23) Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I more; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths oft. He’s talking about the places where he was weak to save himself. You know, when we get into places where we don’t see any possibility of saving ourselves, that’s wonderful because we get to see the power of God. If we walk by faith in those places, then we get to see the miracles of God. That’s what God wants to teach us. He brings us into those places. Remember, God was the One Who sent this angel of Satan to humble Paul. Why do we need humbling? We need humbling because we’re grownups and we need to become children. We need to be humble. We need to not be self-sufficient; we need to be God-sufficient. We need to be trusting in our Lord because His promises are in there to save us in all these situations. So God brings us into these places and Satan’s angel brings us into these places where we’re weak, where we need the power of God. If we will be weak, we will see the power of God. Many times we want to look for man’s help, man’s way, man’s wisdom. Let’s continue reading Paul’s list. (2Co.11:24) Of the Jews five times received I forty [stripes] save one. (25) Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day have I been in the deep; (26) [in] journeyings often, [in] perils of rivers, [in] perils of robbers, [in] perils from [my] countrymen, [in] perils from the Gentiles, [in] perils in the city, [in] perils in the wilderness, [in] perils in the sea, [in] perils among false brethren;  (27) [in] labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. He was in all these places in order to be weak so that he could see the power of God. God put him in those places, like He brought the Israelites into those places in the wilderness so that they could see the power of God. Being weak is not a time to be anxious or worried; this is a time when you should expect to see the power of God. It’s God’s purpose to bring us to weakness in order for us to see His power. This is His plan. Don’t ever be cast down because of what you see because what you see is these places that make you weak. It’s God’s plan for you when you get into these places that you put your trust in Him and that you see His power. This is the place where God’s power rests upon you. This place of weakness, the place of your own inability to save yourself or deliver yourself, is the place you can look for the promise of God and trust in God. Paul went on, “besides those things that are without, there is that which presseth upon me daily, anxiety for all the churches (2Co.11:28). (29) Who is weak (that’s the word “weak”), and I am not weak? who is caused to stumble, and I burn not? (30) If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things that concern my weakness.” That’s another place that the King James calls it “infirmity.” It’s the same word! In the same text, if a word is translated one way in one part of the text and another way in another part of the text, that is dishonest. That is deceiving. That is wrong. It either has to be one or the other. If you look at this word in other parts of the Bible, the conclusion is that it’s talking about weakness, not infirmity. Weakness. Thank God for the places that He brings us to where we’re weak! That’s the only place we ever see miracles.  Do you realize that? It’s the only place we ever see miracles and yet that is the place we’re most tempted to throw up our hands and be anxious or worried or troubled. That is the place where all miracles are given, right there, in a place of weakness, the place where you’re unable. Now, if you have the mind of a child and you get in that place, you just expect Father to take over from then on. This is something that He normally does. God normally supplies your need, like in the teaching Jesus gave about the birds and the flowers. He said they don’t labor and they don’t toil to clothe and to feed themselves (Matthew 6:26,28). You mean, the Lord is saying you don’t have to work to bring about this clothing and feeding? You don’t have to toil? That’s exactly what He said. Go back and read it. It’s so clear. That’s exactly what He said. He knew that you’d get yourself in a situation and He even ordained these situations to come, where you wouldn’t be able to provide for yourself. And He said, “are not two sparrows sold for a penny? and not one of them shall fall on the ground without your Father (Mat.10:29). (30) But the very hairs on your head are all numbered. (31) Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.” Look, not even a hair falls out of your head, can you imagine, that God doesn’t know it! He knows us so intimately that not one hair can fall out of your head without Him knowing it. I mean, your hairs are always falling out and growing back. How can He number the hairs of your head? That is an intimate God Who can number the hairs of your head. He knows a lot, so how could we possibly get into a situation that He doesn’t know about and hasn’t planned for? He is our Jehovah-jireh, the Lord our Provider. (Php.4:19) And my God shall supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.  You can’t get so far out that God can’t reach you. You can’t get in so-impossible a situation that He can’t take care of it. He can pay your taxes out of a fish’s mouth (Matthew 17:27). He can do anything. Think about some of the things that God has done in the Scriptures and He really did do them. He stopped the solar system for a day so Joshua could defeat his enemies. God can do anything. And, you know what? The great thing about it is He’s “the same yesterday, and to-day, [yea] and for ever” (Heb.13:8). He is the same. He will still do anything to meet your needs, if you will be weak and have faith. Be weak and have faith. Now, the time when you ought to have faith is when you’re weak because God doesn’t need to meet your needs when you don’t have needs. You don’t need a miracle until you need a miracle. Don’t think that you can avoid a trial of your faith by receiving the miracle before you need it. No. God tries your faith. The miracle doesn’t come till the miracle’s needed. Trust in Him between here and there because He will be there. He will do what you need. Be confident in Him. Be children in Him. This is what we need to learn and it’s not an easy lesson. It demands the death of self, but religion has trained us up with the mind of the beast because religion has taught that God helps those who help themselves and it trains us to take care of these situations. Religion trains us to trust in the arm of the flesh. They even changed God into a god which He has never been so that they can trust in the arm of the flesh. “Now God does it this way,” they say, as if Jesus doesn’t heal the same way He always healed, by laying hands on the sick or by speaking the word of faith. That’s the same way He’s always healed and He still does it that way but, you see, they’ve changed God so that you can trust in the arm of the flesh, so that you can be strong.  You can run out and get the strength of the world, make your alliances with the world, get your insurance from the world. They’ll change God and go to any extent to let the flesh live. But we have to become as a child, otherwise, Jesus says, you’re not entering into the Kingdom of Heaven (Luke 18:17). To become as a child is entering into the Kingdom of Heaven. The Kingdom of Heaven is where God rules, God reigns, God saves, God delivers. He hasn’t changed. We have attempted to change Him. God put us here in this weak position. He planned for us always to be in a weak position, so that He could be our Savior. (2Co.4:7) But we have this treasure (the treasure Paul is talking about is the light of the knowledge of the glory of God) in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves. God put this treasure, this knowledge of God, in such a weak vessel so that when anything happened, it would have to bring glory to Him and not to us. He could have put us in a strong vessel. He could have put us in a very knowledgeable, very wise, very strong, very healthy vessel and we wouldn’t have needed His help. He wouldn’t have needed to be God, would He? We would have been our own gods. If we watch all the children’s superhero shows, we’ll notice the thing that’s super about them is they’re their own gods. They do what they want to do. They are able. That’s not what God ever wanted. God didn’t choose us because we are able. He chose us because we’re not able. He wanted to give us freely His ability through grace and that’s unmerited. You can’t earn it, you can’t pay for it. He wanted to give it to us freely. When you get yourself in an impossible situation, think about it. God put you there and He put you there so that you could see how great He is.  So God put this wonderful treasure in an earthen vessel, a very weak vessel. (2Co.4:8) We are pressed on every side, yet not straitened; perplexed, yet not unto despair; (9) pursued, yet not forsaken; smitten down, yet not destroyed; (10) always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus (which is the death of self), so that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body. God wants Jesus to live through us, but we have to be weak for Him to do that. The power of Christ will rest upon those who are weak. We’re powerful only because we have faith in God. We can do all things through Christ who strengthens us (Philippians 4:13) but He doesn’t strengthen until you’re weak, you see. We have to cease before He will start. We have to keep the Sabbath and cease from our works and enter into His works through faith. God not only put us in a world that was bigger than us and with an enemy that was a lot bigger than us, He put us in a vessel that was weak to begin with, so that when the salvation came, we would know it was from Him and not from ourselves. We think we’re so great and we’ve been trained to be self-sufficient. Mommas and daddies trainup their children to be self-sufficient. That’s not what God wants. He wants a child. He’s always chosen the weak (1 Corinthians 26-29). Never has He chosen the strong and this gives you hope. This gives you hope that when you get in impossible situations, God planned for you to be there so that He could show you His power, so that He could show you His deliverance and His salvation. This is God’s plan. It’s been His plan from the beginning and He’s done it over and over.  (Deu.7:6) For thou art a holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth. And did you know that God still does that? God has still chosen you above all the peoples that are upon the face of the earth. Did you know that? If He chose you, He chose you above someone else, but He didn’t choose you because you’re wiser or smarter or more able or mighty because “not many mighty, not many noble, [are called]” (1Co.1:26). God chose the weak. God called the weak “above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.” (Deu.7:7) The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all peoples. And it’s still that way, isn’t it? God chose “the fewest of all peoples.” Why did He do that? Certainly, if He was fighting battles with all the Canaanites, He would want the greatest number, wouldn’t He? No, because when the battle was won, He didn’t want anybody to say, “Look what we did!” And when the battle is won in our lives, He doesn’t want anybody to be able to say, “Look what we did!” “Look how powerful we are!” “Look how wise we are!” Or, “Oh, we were smart enough to follow God.” You know, all these things that people could say. No. God said He didn’t choose us because we were the mightiest but because we were the fewest. It’s still that way today. The true Christians are few. Don’t think that the Christians in this country are the many. What do they call them? The “moral majority.” That is just totally ridiculous! The proof of that is to look at the people we have in elected office. If there was a moral majority, believe me, you would always have a government that was moral and good because that’s the way democracy works. There’s no moral majority. Never was.  God chose us because we were the fewest of all peoples. (Deu.7:8) But because the Lord loveth you, and because he would keep the oath which he swear unto your fathers, hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, and from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. (17) If thou shalt say in thy heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them? (18) thou shalt not be afraid of them: thou shalt well remember what the Lord thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt; (19) the great trials which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, whereby the Lord thy God brought thee out: so shall the Lord thy God do unto all the peoples of whom thou art afraid. And so shall the Lord thy God do to all of the curse that you come against, and to all of the flesh that you have to conquer, and to all the principalities and powers that you have to conquer. They are made strong and you are made weak for a purpose, so that you can see the power of God move against them. We never need to count on our own strength. David did that and brought a curse on Israel (2 Samuel 24; 1 Chronicles 21). He counted the people of Israel and brought a curse on them because God sent a pestilence that killed 70,000 men, just so David couldn’t count on his own strength (2 Samuel 24:15; 1 Chronicles 21:14). When you count on your strength, look out because you have trouble coming. God’s going to humble you. God’s in the humbling process with us. He wants to deliver us from trusting in the arm of the flesh.  You know, in almost every battle that Israel won, they were outnumbered. Isn’t it amazing that God demanded that they be outnumbered before He would give them the victory? For example, in Judges we’re told that the Israelites had an army coming against them that the Bible says were as the sands of the sea for multitude (Judges 7:12). The Midianites, the Amalekites and the children of the east were coming against them and all the men of Israel who could be gathered together weren’t enough to do the job and they knew it. At first they were counting on their own ability and the numbers that they had but they were ridiculously outnumbered. (Jdg.7:2) And the Lord said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me. Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand. Well, that was just the beginning of God whittling down the people and those people who are fearful will not be the ones who have the victory over the enemy. Being weak is one thing but being fearful is quite another. Being fearful is not trusting in the power that God has given us to come against our enemy. Being fearful is judging by your own ability. It’s looking at your own ability or your own inability, but that’s where God is putting us on purpose. This is God’s plan to put us in a position of weakness, to make our enemy look big. He sent the Israelites into a promised land where the enemies were giants and they were vastly outnumbered. It was God’s plan for it to look like an unfair contest. In every trial that we go into, it’s going to look that way so that when we get the victory, we know it’s God’s power, not our own.  If you’re thinking, “Yeah, but God chose Gideon, a great man of valor, to bring this about.” Well, let’s go back and look at Gideon. (Jdg.6:12) The angel of the Lord appeared unto him, and said unto him, The Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of valor. The Lord tells you the same thing. He’s with you. His authority is behind you whenever you walk for Him. Whatever we do, we do in the Name as representing Him. His power and His authority are behind us when we act on the Word. (Jdg.6:13) And Gideon said unto him, Oh, my lord, if the Lord is with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt? but now the Lord hath cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian. Have you ever thought, “Where are the mighty works of God?” Well, I’ll tell you where they are. They’re waiting on people to be weak. If people won’t be weak, they won’t see them. As long as we’re strong to save ourselves, we don’t need God. There’s no faith involved in that. So now Israel had just gotten itself into a position of weakness and do you know what? God chose just as weak a man to lead them. (Jdg.6:14) The Lord looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and save Israel from the hand of Midian: have not I sent thee? “This thy might”? What is the Lord talking about? He’s talking about because God sent Gideon. This kind of reminds you of Peter. “Lord, you just bid me to come to You on the water.” And when the Being Weak Gives All Glory to God 31 Lord said, “Come,” Peter stepped out of the boat. The Lord said he could do it and just on the word of the Lord, Peter did it (Matthew 14:28,29). He stepped out of the boat by faith. Nobody else stepped out of the boat. He did. You know, if the Lord told you in the Word, that’s all you need. “In this thy might.”  God’s always going to be behind His Word. If you step out on His Word, exercising faith in His Word, then His might is going to be there. You’re always going to be weak but His might is going to be there. “Have not I sent thee?” It’s the same thing the Lord did to Moses, when he protested, “O Lord, I’m not an eloquent speaker” (Exodus 4:10) and God answered him with, “Who hath made man’s mouth?” (Exodus 4:11) God chose Moses not because he was great; God chose him because he was weak. (Jdg.6:15) And he said unto him, Oh, Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house. Gideon wasn’t listening, was he? “My family is the poorest in Manassah, and I am the least of my father’s house.” There it is. God chose the weakest and the least. Don’t expect God to send superman. That’s not what He’s looking for. This will not accomplish the purpose that He has. God is going to send someone who’s weak, someone who is like a child. That qualifies some of us. You know, we can be as a child. We are unable in so many things. Sometimes we’re forced into a position of being unable. But I tell you that what Jesus wants for us is not that we be forced into a position of weakness, but that we walk in that position of our own free will, refusing to be strong. This is the great thing. If we will learn to refuse to be strong, we will see the miracles of God now. 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Reformed. Jolly. Salty. Spicy. Long. But so worth it. A long caveat on the Overton Window: SPICY ALERT: Part of our Goal here at Reformed Operator is to open the Overton window, and by that we mean reforming the window to somewhere reasonable. In a culture dead-set on never being offended, we need to discuss things that are offensive to a culture offended by Christ. The term Patriarchy gets a bad rap because of twisted men abusing it. The way we understand biblical patriarchy is covenantal headship stemming from the difference in nature of men and women. RO does not reject complementarianism, but rather some of the unique sects emerging i.e., “thin comp.” We argue that “thin comp” creates unbiblical intersectional distinctions driven by gross caricatures. Most of the examples given in this episode stem from several episodes of a popular women’s theology podcast. Their understanding is driven by intersectional distinctions that drive at voluntary roles and a bizarre idealism, rather than driven by distinct natures and duties. Feminism has created a straw man of the scriptural understanding of patriarchy and is dangerously close to removing the term completely from the church, effectively making something that is used in scripture into a heinous caricature. Ultimately demeaning scripture by perverting hermeneutics through dialectical idealism and shifting the system of covenantal headship in a “progressive” way. We don’t believe the term patriarchy should be surrendered to abusers and we understand the recoil of some at the mere mention of the word. Thus ends our qualification, now go get a water. It’s about to get spicy. If you have questions, comments, or suggestions email us at ReformedOperator@gmail.com or reach out to us on twitter. Everyone's favorite passage in scripture! 1 Corinthians 11:1-16. Shots Fired. It's a 4 out of 5 jalapeño on the SPICY!!!!! scale. Dave’s guest this week is Pastor Sean of The Response Church- who came on to discuss a topic hotter than election (or the presidential race).  Yes, we went there! You guessed it! Our episode name is a pun poking fun at two "Thin Complementarian" books and a bonus head coverings reference.   They run the gauntlet, head (re)coverings, authority, submission, servant lordship, and some spicy asides that might stun you.  Sean (and Baptist Dave) holds to the Textus Receptus or "Received Text view." Check out "The Amazing Dr. Ransom's Bestiary of Adorable Fallacies"  We smash the common complaints against the "Father Rule" laid out in scripture. The flames of the Straw People rise high. Domestic abuse? Weird views on the Lord's Supper?  -Patriarchy as (Presby) Dave and Sean understand it has taken some hard hits. It's sloppy, and often completely misused, abused, and taken to extremes. Their argument? Don't throw the baby out with the bath water. Patriarchy could also be called simply covenantal headship. The man is the head of the home and is the breadwinner.  -Complementarianism (a synthesis, or golden mean, of sorts) is currently splitting into two camps according to the trends: THICK- Men and Women have distinct natures that give forth roles (or duties) THIN- Men and Women have distinct but voluntary roles. These roles are voluntary and are categorized as "should" not must.  -Egalitarianism Simply put, this is androgyny. Men and women are the same and can do as they please. There is no distinction in capacity in the church or home.  Sean throws in a Baptist Catechism for use in your household if you feel the inclination. You can find Dave's recommended Children's Catechism here. Reformed Operator discriminates, but not too hard on our 1689 pals. The missing members from Sean's Baptist Church rolls aren't actually dead people... they're Presbyterians (we stole them)!  We talk status and value in the world's eyes. What is true glory? We talk Westminster Larger Catechism with selections from between 123-133.  Independent Fundamentalist Baptists (IFB) takes heavies all around.  Dave gives a crash course on Hegel's Dialectical Idealism, Marx's Dialectical Materialism. The postmodern assault on faithful biblical hermeneutics is put on notice. ESV takes heavies for its μαλακοὶ translation. (See 1 Cor 6:9 where'd effeminate go?) The baptists go back to Calvin to bring "libidinous" back into the conversation. Ask your doctor about your libidinous.  Dave busts out some parity in the federal (covenantal) government systems, military, common law, and the christian life.  Get after it, men. You need to die daily and lovingly honor your wife  while protecting, honoring, cherishing, and serving her.  Dave also started our twitter awhile back and has some clever Dog Whistle commentary.  Don't be better with balls than a bible, football fans. Dave mentions the origins of fan, fanatic, and fanum. You can't call cadence with the church if you aren't in one. Don't be a coward at home. We know it's hard, but we also know you don't take excuses. You just get after it.  You need the finished work of Christ by grace through faith. Pray. Strive. Stand Firm. Get in a church now.  Godspeed.  

Before we can understand how textual scholars do their work today, it’s important to understand the history of how they have endeavored to reconstruct the Greek New Testament over the years.  In this episode you’ll learn about the rich and important history of how our understanding of the Greek New Testament changed over the last Read more about 338 Bible 9 Reconstructing the New Testament[…]

Before we can understand how textual scholars do their work today, it’s important to understand the history of how they have endeavored to reconstruct the Greek New Testament over the years.  In this episode you’ll learn about the rich and important history of how our understanding of the Greek New Testament changed over the last Read more about 338 Bible 9 Reconstructing the New Testament[…]

Dueling Bible Opinions -- Put your thinking cap on -- Chick Tracts publisher David Daniels defends his KJV-Only views, followed by guest host Faith Defenders' Dr. Robert Morey taking the other view

A history of the beginning of modern english Bible versions from the 19th century to today. A look at the critical apparatuses that came out regarding the Textus Receptus / Received Text / Traditional Text, and then the Critical Text editions that came out following. The Revised Version of 1881 was supposed to be based upon the Received Text and simply update some archaic words in the Authorized King James Version, but with a vow of secrecy they instead chose to use Westcott and Hort's Critical Greek Text based upon the corrupt Codex Vaticanus and Codex Sinaiticus. John Burgon and others opposed the switching of the texts and produced scholarly research works regarding the purity of the Traditional Text and the depravity of the newly found texts.

[a.d. 30–100.] Clement was probably a Gentile and a Roman. He seems to have been at Philippi with St. Paul (a.d. 57) when that first-born of the Western churches was passing through great trials of faith. There, with holy women and others, he ministered to the apostle and to the saints. As this city was a Roman colony, we need not inquire how a Roman happened to be there. He was possibly in some public service, and it is not improbable that he had visited Corinth in those days. From the apostle, and his companion, St. Luke, he had no doubt learned the use of the Septuagint, in which his knowledge of the Greek tongue soon rendered him an adept. His copy of that version, however, does not always agree with the Received Text, as the reader will perceive. Schaff, Philip. Ante-Nicene Fathers Volume 1 - Enhanced Version (Early Church Fathers) (Kindle Locations 97-103). Christian Classics Ethereal Library. Kindle Edition. The date of this Epistle has been the subject of considerable controversy. It is clear from the writing itself that it was composed soon after some persecution (chap. i.) which the Roman Church had endured; and the only question is, whether we are to fix upon the persecution under Nero or Domitian. If the former, the date will be about the year 68; if the latter, we must place it towards the close of the first century or the beginning of the second. We possess no external aid to the settlement of this question. The lists of early Roman bishops are in hopeless confusion, some making Clement the immediate successor of St. Peter, others placing Linus, and others still Linus and Anacletus, between him and the apostle. The internal evidence, again, leaves the matter doubtful, though it has been strongly pressed on both sides. The probability seems, on the whole, to be in favour of the Domitian period, so that the Epistle may be dated about a.d. 97. This Epistle was held in very great esteem by the early Church. The account given of it by Eusebius (Hist. Eccl., iii. 16) is as follows: “There is one acknowledged Epistle of this Clement (whom he has just identified with the friend of St. Paul), great and admirable, which he wrote in the name of the Church of Rome to the Church at Corinth, sedition having then arisen in the latter Church. We are aware that this Epistle has been publicly read in very many churches both in old times, and also in our own day.” The Epistle before us thus appears to have been read in numerous churches, as being almost on a level with the canonical writings. And its place in the Alexandrian ms., immediately after the inspired books, is in harmony with the position thus assigned it in the primitive Church. Schaff, Philip. Ante-Nicene Fathers Volume 1 - Enhanced Version (Early Church Fathers) (Kindle Locations 141-153). Christian Classics Ethereal Library. Kindle Edition. St. Clement is commemorated on November 25th.

[a.d. 30–100.] Clement was probably a Gentile and a Roman. He seems to have been at Philippi with St. Paul (a.d. 57) when that first-born of the Western churches was passing through great trials of faith. There, with holy women and others, he ministered to the apostle and to the saints. As this city was a Roman colony, we need not inquire how a Roman happened to be there. He was possibly in some public service, and it is not improbable that he had visited Corinth in those days. From the apostle, and his companion, St. Luke, he had no doubt learned the use of the Septuagint, in which his knowledge of the Greek tongue soon rendered him an adept. His copy of that version, however, does not always agree with the Received Text, as the reader will perceive. Schaff, Philip. Ante-Nicene Fathers Volume 1 - Enhanced Version (Early Church Fathers) (Kindle Locations 97-103). Christian Classics Ethereal Library. Kindle Edition. The date of this Epistle has been the subject of considerable controversy. It is clear from the writing itself that it was composed soon after some persecution (chap. i.) which the Roman Church had endured; and the only question is, whether we are to fix upon the persecution under Nero or Domitian. If the former, the date will be about the year 68; if the latter, we must place it towards the close of the first century or the beginning of the second. We possess no external aid to the settlement of this question. The lists of early Roman bishops are in hopeless confusion, some making Clement the immediate successor of St. Peter, others placing Linus, and others still Linus and Anacletus, between him and the apostle. The internal evidence, again, leaves the matter doubtful, though it has been strongly pressed on both sides. The probability seems, on the whole, to be in favour of the Domitian period, so that the Epistle may be dated about a.d. 97. This Epistle was held in very great esteem by the early Church. The account given of it by Eusebius (Hist. Eccl., iii. 16) is as follows: “There is one acknowledged Epistle of this Clement (whom he has just identified with the friend of St. Paul), great and admirable, which he wrote in the name of the Church of Rome to the Church at Corinth, sedition having then arisen in the latter Church. We are aware that this Epistle has been publicly read in very many churches both in old times, and also in our own day.” The Epistle before us thus appears to have been read in numerous churches, as being almost on a level with the canonical writings. And its place in the Alexandrian ms., immediately after the inspired books, is in harmony with the position thus assigned it in the primitive Church. Schaff, Philip. Ante-Nicene Fathers Volume 1 - Enhanced Version (Early Church Fathers) (Kindle Locations 141-153). Christian Classics Ethereal Library. Kindle Edition. St. Clement is commemorated on November 25th.

[a.d. 30–100.] Clement was probably a Gentile and a Roman. He seems to have been at Philippi with St. Paul (a.d. 57) when that first-born of the Western churches was passing through great trials of faith. There, with holy women and others, he ministered to the apostle and to the saints. As this city was a Roman colony, we need not inquire how a Roman happened to be there. He was possibly in some public service, and it is not improbable that he had visited Corinth in those days. From the apostle, and his companion, St. Luke, he had no doubt learned the use of the Septuagint, in which his knowledge of the Greek tongue soon rendered him an adept. His copy of that version, however, does not always agree with the Received Text, as the reader will perceive. Schaff, Philip. Ante-Nicene Fathers Volume 1 - Enhanced Version (Early Church Fathers) (Kindle Locations 97-103). Christian Classics Ethereal Library. Kindle Edition. The date of this Epistle has been the subject of considerable controversy. It is clear from the writing itself that it was composed soon after some persecution (chap. i.) which the Roman Church had endured; and the only question is, whether we are to fix upon the persecution under Nero or Domitian. If the former, the date will be about the year 68; if the latter, we must place it towards the close of the first century or the beginning of the second. We possess no external aid to the settlement of this question. The lists of early Roman bishops are in hopeless confusion, some making Clement the immediate successor of St. Peter, others placing Linus, and others still Linus and Anacletus, between him and the apostle. The internal evidence, again, leaves the matter doubtful, though it has been strongly pressed on both sides. The probability seems, on the whole, to be in favour of the Domitian period, so that the Epistle may be dated about a.d. 97. This Epistle was held in very great esteem by the early Church. The account given of it by Eusebius (Hist. Eccl., iii. 16) is as follows: “There is one acknowledged Epistle of this Clement (whom he has just identified with the friend of St. Paul), great and admirable, which he wrote in the name of the Church of Rome to the Church at Corinth, sedition having then arisen in the latter Church. We are aware that this Epistle has been publicly read in very many churches both in old times, and also in our own day.” The Epistle before us thus appears to have been read in numerous churches, as being almost on a level with the canonical writings. And its place in the Alexandrian ms., immediately after the inspired books, is in harmony with the position thus assigned it in the primitive Church. Schaff, Philip. Ante-Nicene Fathers Volume 1 - Enhanced Version (Early Church Fathers) (Kindle Locations 141-153). Christian Classics Ethereal Library. Kindle Edition. St. Clement is commemorated on November 25th.

A new MP3 sermon from Bible For Today Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Early Versions & The Received Text Printed Subtitle: History of the Bible Speaker: Daniel Waite, M.A., M.Div. Broadcaster: Bible For Today Baptist Church Event: Special Meeting Date: 1/13/2017 Bible: 1 John 5:7-8; Mark 16:9-20 Length: 87 min.

A new MP3 sermon from Bible For Today Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Early Versions & The Received Text Printed Subtitle: History of the Bible Speaker: Daniel Waite, M.A., M.Div. Broadcaster: Bible For Today Baptist Church Event: Special Meeting Date: 1/13/2017 Bible: 1 John 5:7-8; Mark 16:9-20 Length: 87 min.

SEEING BEYOND THE OBVIOUSEph. 1:8 “Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;”The word “prudence” needs definition.  It is amazing how we will read our Bible and do a kangaroo over what we don't understand.  Sometimes that part of God's Work lies dormant because of the neglect of the reader to take time to examine.  The word “prudence” is found in 2 Chronicles 2:12, "Huram said moreover, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, that made heaven and earth, who hath given to David the king a wise son, endued with prudence and understanding, that might build an house for the LORD, and an house for his kingdom."“Prudent is defined as, “Cautious; circumspect; practically wise; careful of the consequences of enterprises, measures or actions; cautious not to act when the end is of doubtful utility, or probably impracticable. The prudent man looketh well to his going.  Prov.14.”  — Commentary by John GIll.THE CHRISTIAN LIFE IS LIVED ON A HIGHER PLANEJohn 8:23, “And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.This was a strange message to the unbelievers.  The disciples must have had some insight but they did not let it show. Christianity is to be lived with a constant pull toward heaven.  That is where the Christian belongs.  When we were saved, we changed our homeland.  We are now engaged in the Work of the Lord, until He comes again.THE CHRISTIAN LIFE IS LIVED UNDER HIS SUPERVISIONThe Lord Jesus didn't have to come.  He is a volunteer.  This is the way He wants us to live.  But He has now made himself available to all who call upon His name.  In one way Christianity is easy.  It is just a matter of trust.  When an unsaved man goes to the Lord in desperation and asks for salvation, He is always welcomed at the throne of grace.Do not make the mistake of thinking that the Lord Jesus is not in constant contact with His children.  He knows who they are, what they are enduring, and is with them through it all. Hebrews 13:5‑6, "Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.  So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me."The Greek text (the Received Text) from which we get our King James Bible inserts the strongest possible negative in this verse: “I will never, no never, never, never, leave thee, nor never forsake you. . . So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me." Think of the worst thing man could do to you. Take your life?  Jesus emphatically says, “I will never, never, no never leave the, I will never, never, no never forsake you.  You are mine and if the enemy should take your life, I will be there for you when you step over the great divide.”There is the proof of this in the history of the Church.  Many have sung hymns and witnessed to their enemies as their flesh burned off their bones.  I can hear someone say, “I don't think I could do that.” No, and they didn't either.  The Lord was with them, strengthening them, and gave to them a song to sing at their graduation service!!!!THE CHRISTIAN LIFE IS REWARDED WITH ETERNAL REWARDSThe rewards we get here are temporal in nature.  They are certainly thrilling to receive.  It is always good to get small blessing from Him.  They let us know that He is watching and pleased with what we are doing. But man!!!! those temporal blessings will fade into the tomb of time never to be remembered, when we get the blessings that have no end.We need to be good business people.  I believe it was Jim Elliot who said, “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose.” A man is a lunatic to put his whole emphasis on his physical body, and do it in exchange for his eternal soul.Matthew 16:26, “For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world,

2 of 2 part series on "Codex Sinaiticus" The Oldest Bible? Or a Modern Hoax? By www.adullamfilms.com.  Thank You to Chris Pinto.  Most Modern translations base their New Testament on Codex Sinaiticus & Vaticanus.  These source text are not earlier manuscripts and can't be trusted! This is just one of many reasons. The best source text for the New Testament is Textus Receptus, which English versions like Tyndale, LITV, KJV, NKJV, etc. use.     Sinaiticus Codex vs Received Text

1 of 2 part series on "Codex Sinaiticus" The Oldest Bible? Or a Modern Hoax? By www.adullamfilms.com.  Thank You Chris Pinto .  Most Modern translations base their New Testament on Codex Sinaiticus & Vaticanus.  These source text are not earlier manuscripts and can't be trusted! This is just one of many reasons. The best source text for the New Testament is Textus Receptus, which English versions like Tyndale, LITV, KJV   Codex sinaiticus simonides vs tischendorf Codex sinaiticus vs Received Text