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Chickapee

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Hi Wheeler ,
Yes,, warning against unbelief !


For the gifts and calling of God [are] without repentance.

Rom 11:30For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:

Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy

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Rom 11:32For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.


I am going to be gone for a few days my son is coming home , its been almost 6 months and he will be in Alaska for 3 years ...
I will come when I can
God bless in Jesus name .........C
 
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[FONT=&quot]Chickapee, [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Glad to hear your son is coming home! Take care and hopefully we’ll see you in a few days![/FONT]



[FONT=&quot]Both the Jews and Gentile church have become “unprofitable” in this time…..we have come full circle and need to be renewed by His knowledge. The “earth”…the hearts of religious men have become “without form and void” and “darkness” is upon the deep. We, the Gentile church, have been not better than they…..for there is NONE righteous. [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Romans 3:9-12 KJV[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot](9)[FONT=&quot] What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;[/FONT][/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]The Jews pursue righteousness by the works of the Law….[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot](10)[FONT=&quot] As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:[/FONT][/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]The Gentiles pursue righteousness with their own understanding….desiring to be “wise.” But there is NONE that understand.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot](11)[FONT=&quot] There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.[/FONT][/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]ALL [FONT=&quot]are gone out of the Way……[/FONT][/FONT]

[FONT=&quot](12)[FONT=&quot] They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.[/FONT][/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Yet, God is merciful…..He sends His Son….the revealed Truth….to save us from our religious vain, empty ways and thoughts. He sends the Light of His knowledge to the dark hearts of His people who know nothing at all about Him…..for religious man has all together (both Jews and Gentiles) BECOME “without form and void.” We ALL need to be renewed…recreated…. by His knowledge…the Light. He mercifully sends His Truth to those hearing Gentiles so that we may preach that revealed Word of Truth to the Jews…..through our mercy they may also obtain mercy. We will reciprocate the salvation that has come to us by preaching the Truth to them in this last day. And this is not the “current” truth being preached by the gentile religious man who has leaned upon his own understanding of the Scriptures. [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Romans 11:31-34 KJV[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot](31)[FONT=&quot] Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot](32)[FONT=&quot] For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot](33)[FONT=&quot] O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out![/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot](34)[FONT=&quot] For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?[/FONT][/FONT]


[FONT=&quot]We are “debtors” to them….we are to reciprocate them being cut off for our benefit in sharing the spiritual Truth to them. We are to minister unto them in “carnal things”….that is to teach the spiritual meanings of the parables of Moses and the Prophets. That is our duty in this last day when we have received the Truth in BELIEF. [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Romans 15:27 KJV[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot](27)[FONT=&quot] It hath pleased them verily; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things.[/FONT][/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]As the Gentile Christian church, we are to hear and believe in the revealed Truth in this last day. That will be credited to us as righteousness….even though we had previously become “without form and void” in the worship of Him. All of our misses of the Truth are forgiven of us….for we know not what we do. We are to hear the Truth and see how badly we have missed the mark. Many have wrested the Scriptures….marring their meanings beyond recognition. The Gentiles have been like the woman in the garden…desiring to be wise…inventing righteousness for their selves. [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Genesis 3:4-7 KJV[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot](4)[FONT=&quot] And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot](5)[FONT=&quot] For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot](6)[FONT=&quot] And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.[/FONT][/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]With our own knowledge, we have made and covered ourselves with our own works of “righteousness”…..[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot](7)[FONT=&quot] And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.[/FONT][/FONT]

[FONT=&quot] But no one is righteousness…..no not one. The wisdom of man has brought envy, strife, divisions, hatred into the churches. We exist in many, many divisions….fighting and arguing among ourselves about who is correct in his private interpretation of the Bible. But His mercy is shown to us by the giving of His Son…who is the revealed Truth that will be preached in this last day. Those who will believe and humble their hearts shall not be judged but it shall be credited to them as righteousness. They shall be justified by the belief in His knowledge and not their own. [/FONT]
 
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The Lord comes to open up our understanding to the Scriptures so that we may know our sins and know His will and His commands…..and to do them. The many that have gone astray after their own ways and thoughts are to be justified in the belief of His revealed knowledge in this last day.



[FONT=&quot]Isaiah 53:11 KJV[FONT=&quot][/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot](11)[FONT=&quot] He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.[/FONT][/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]We are like sheep who have all gone astray….turning every one to his own way….away from the Way of righteousness. We have leaned upon man’s erroneous private interpretations of the Scriptures that has brought divisions, envy, strife and hatred into the churches. Man’s wisdom has brought the sword, the spiritual famine, the pestilence and death and Hades into the churches. But we are forgiven for we know not what we do. We need to have His Light shine in the darkness of our own vain, religious hearts and imaginations so that we may understand our sins of ignorance….so that we may turn BACK to Him. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Isaiah 53:6 KJV[FONT=&quot][/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot](6)[FONT=&quot] All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.[/FONT][/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]We have BECOME “without form and void” in our worship of Him…..for we have NO true UNDERSTANDING of His ways and thoughts. We are children who need to be instructed and corrected and guided back into the Way of righteousness…..back to truly loving one another in Christ Jesus. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Jeremiah 4:22-23 KJV[FONT=&quot][/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot](22)[FONT=&quot] For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.[/FONT][/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]The hearts of the many in the church have become “without form and void”…..empty and unprofitable….in the worship of God. Religious man’s understanding has brought the “works of darkness” into the churches….works that are based on NO TRUE UNDERSTANDING. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot](23)[FONT=&quot] I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]But God sends His Son….the Truth…the Light….to give us His knowledge so that we may return to Him….so that we may be recreated by the renewing of the Holy Spirit within us. We are to be regenerated by His knowledge…..we are to be RENEWED in the mind by His knowledge. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Genesis 1:2-4 KJV[FONT=&quot][/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot](2)[FONT=&quot] And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot](3)[FONT=&quot] And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot](4)[FONT=&quot] And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.[/FONT][/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]He comes to give us His knowledge by the opening up of our understanding of the Scriptures. The Light shall shine a “dark place”….our hearts and minds. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]2 Peter 1:19-20 KJV[FONT=&quot][/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot](19)[FONT=&quot] We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot](20)[FONT=&quot] Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.[/FONT][/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]As a church, we are to “awake” out of the sleep of religious man’s erroneous ways and thoughts. We are to cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of Light….the knowledge of God…our Lord Jesus Christ. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Romans 13:11-14 KJV[FONT=&quot][/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot](11)[FONT=&quot] And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot](12)[FONT=&quot] The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]We are to no longer walk with those who preach and do error in the church. “Drunkenness” = covetous ways and thoughts. Those who make merchandise of the church with their covetous teachings are those who are “rioting and drunken”….who are in “chambering and wantonness”….[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot](13)[FONT=&quot] Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot](14)[FONT=&quot] But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.[/FONT][/FONT]
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By His knowledge, we shall “wake up” and see this….wake up to see the “abomination of desolation”….covetousness….standing where it ought not be. The “abomination of desolation” is the covetousness of religious man who stands in the temple (we are the temple)….making merchandise of the sheep. Jesus found the abomination in the temple….those who were selling their goods to the people of God. They desolated the temple by making it into a “house of merchandise.” NOTHING is different today.



[FONT=&quot]John 2:14-16 KJV[FONT=&quot][/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot](14)[FONT=&quot] And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting:[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot](15)[FONT=&quot] And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables;[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot](16)[FONT=&quot] And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.[/FONT][/FONT]
 
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[FONT=&quot]Someone once asked me to summarize all my long-winded babbling in here. Well, the entire chapter of Acts 12 does just that for me. [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot] The 2000 year old events of Acts 12 provide the framework of the past, the present and future events of the church. In my opinion, the people mentioned in Acts 12 represent groups of people. For example, “Herod the king” represents Satan and his ministers of so-called “righteousness” who have come into the church to “steal, destroy and kill.” The church has been “vexed” by Satan…..in order to test it. Job was tested by Satan…. Peter was tested…. Jesus was tested….and so the church is to be tested….it has been “vexed” by his ministers who preach falsehoods which are motivated by man’s covetousness for wealth, power and the souls of their listeners. [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Acts 12:1-3 KJV[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot](1) [FONT=&quot]Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church.[/FONT][/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]“James” means “Jacob” and is likened to the Jews who were “cut off” because of their unbelief. Their leaders (the children of the wicked one) took away the key of knowledge so that others could not enter in. They “shut up” the kingdom of heaven to those they led. They hung Jesus on the cross (the Truth…the Knowledge of God) and they prevented others from entering into the kingdom….and thereby “killing” them with the “sword” of their mouths. To this day, Moses and the Prophets can not be understood because they took away the KEY…JESUS….the Truth. [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot](2) [FONT=&quot]And he killed James the brother of John with the sword.[/FONT][/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]It was their hour….the hour of the power of darkness that temporarily prevailed against the Truth. And so Satan and his ministers proceeded further to take Peter also. “Peter” is likened to the Gentile church. The “days of unleavened bread” represent the early church where most were of one mind and one body in Christ Jesus. It didn’t last long….for as Paul stated, the wolves would enter in not long after sparing not the flock. Satan’s ministers…. “Herod”….would take many in the church (Peter) and put them into prison in order to test them. Many have gone down the broad way leading to ruin. The “wide gate” is collectively the mouths of false teachers who have deceived many and have led them away from the doctrine of Christ….which is to have unfeigned love for one another.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot](3)[FONT=&quot] And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.)[/FONT][/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Satan’s ministers would apprehend many in the church and put them into a spiritual prison. The “four quaternions of soldiers” are the “four winds”…..meaning every wind of doctrine which are currently being taught in order to deceive the many of the church into their “prison.” [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Acts 12:4-6 KJV[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot](3) [FONT=&quot]And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.[/FONT][/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]The “four quaternions of soldiers” = every wind of doctrine that are currently taught by deceitful men….by the “Herods” of the churches….which lead many into the “prison” of Satan. They have and do lie in wait to deceive those of the church…..so that they may enrich themselves by their falsehoods that they teach. The MANY in the church are in a “prison.” Many any are living as carnal children….living in divisions….arguing over erroneous teachings of men….being tossed to and fro. They need to be delivered…redeemed…saved from ungodly men who are in their presence and have exercised their authority over them. Only the FEW have been spared….only the FEW have entered through the narrow Way of righteousness. Only the FEW of the church truly love one another….the rest of the flock who have been scattered need to be saved. [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Ephesians 4:14 KJV[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot](14)[FONT=&quot] That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;[/FONT][/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]And so “Peter”….who is likened to the church….was kept in prison. But prayer is made for those many in the church who have been snared by Satan’s trap. [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Acts 12(5)[FONT=&quot] Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him.[/FONT][/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Jesus prayed for Peter…that his faith will not fail him. Satan has taken the many of the church so that he may sift them as wheat…to test them. [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Luke 22:31-33 KJV[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot](31)[FONT=&quot] And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat:[/FONT][/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]The “test” comes in this last day…..at the revelation of the Truth. The wheat shall be separated from the chaff by the revealing of the Scripture of Truth. [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]The spiritually poor condition of the church has been prepared and achieved by Satan’s ministers for the grand test to come at the end. This “preparation”….the putting it in to the spiritual prison where there is envy, strife and hatred…has been going on now for the last 2000 years. The Light comes while it is darkest.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot] The revealing of the Truth is to be preached in this last day which will come to the ears of the many in the churches who have fallen into Satan’s trap. It is at this critical time that the church is to have FAITH in the revelation of the Truth and not desire to stay in the things of Satan and his ministers. Satan is only concerned with the things of religious man….his own ways and thoughts. [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot] It will be at this crucial time that the many shall hear and have FAITH in what they hear and will be able to escape from those who have been teaching and living in error. Jesus and His few true followers (those having love for one another) have not ceased to pray for the many of the church who are currently in a “prison”…hoping that their faith shall not fail in the most critical time: at the revelation of the Scripture of Truth. The church is likened to Peter who was counseled by Jesus to strengthen the brothers after it is converted back to God. And when many are “converted” by the hearing of the Truth in this last day, they are to preach the Truth to the JEWS….. “strengthen thy brothers.”[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot](32)[FONT=&quot] But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.[/FONT][/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Indeed, many of the church have gone into “prison” and to “death.” “Death” is the condition of hating one another over false doctrines that pit one group against the other. One denomination judges another because of erroneous teachings of man. They are in “death”….hating one another. [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot](33)[FONT=&quot] And he said unto him, Lord, I am ready to go with thee, both into prison, and to death.[/FONT][/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]The putting of the many in the church into “prison” is for the testing of the FAITH of them in this last day. We are to hear the revealed Truth and have FAITH in it…by which we can then put to “death” the old man of religion and escape from those who are living and preaching errors. [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Revelation 2:10 KJV[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot](10)[FONT=&quot] Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.[/FONT][/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]....summary continued in next post....
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.....summary continued from previous post...

[FONT=&quot]The many of the church are “asleep” as Peter in the prison. They are sleeping in religious man’s envy and strife…..the “two soldiers.” Their religious works of darkness that they do with their hands….their own dark understandings…. are the “two chains.” The “keepers” of the prison are the ministers in the pulpits. They are before the “door”…the mouth. They preach erroneous doctrines that keep the “prisoners” in the “dark”….shackled by the works of darkness….which are motivated by envy and strife…..man’s covetousness. Religious man needs to be delivered from the prison keepers and from their works of darkness. [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Acts 12(6)[FONT=&quot] And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison.[/FONT][/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]The many in the church who are “asleep” in the dark prison that Satan and his ministers have put them in and to be DELIVERED in this last day by the coming of the revealed Truth….the LIGHT…the Knowledge of God….Jesus Christ. The preaching of the Truth by His chosen….the “angel of the Lord” ….comes in this last day to preach the Light to those who are in the “prison” of religious man. The angel smote Peter on the side and raised him up. Jesus was also smote on the side….where the blood of the atonement comes from and the Water of Life shall cleanse us from all of religious man’s errors. We are to be “raised up” by His revealed Knowledge….the Light…Christ Jesus. The “chains”…the works of darkness shall be cast away as we “wake up” to the Truth. We are to “arise up quickly”….stand up. [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Acts 12:7 KJV[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot](7)[FONT=&quot] And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands.[/FONT][/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]In the revealing of the Truth…the Light of the knowledge of God…in this last day, we are to “awake” out of the sleep of religious man’s ways and thoughts….and cast his works of darkness away from our hands. And we are to “gird” ourselves in His righteousness…putting on Jesus Christ….and to follow Him. [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot](8)[FONT=&quot] And the angel said unto him, Gird thyself, and bind on thy sandals. And so he did. And he saith unto him, Cast thy garment about thee, and follow me.[/FONT][/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]We are to have FAITH in the Truth. The revealing of the Truth shall set us free….[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot](9)[FONT=&quot] And he went out, and followed him; and wist not that it was true which was done by the angel; but thought he saw a vision.[/FONT][/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]This is directly compared to what Paul wrote in Romans. We are to be like Peter and “awake out of sleep” by the Light of the knowledge of God. It is “high time to awake out of sleep”….for the salvation…the rescue… from the prison of Satan and his ministers is near. [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Romans 13:11-12 KJV[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot](11)[FONT=&quot] And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.[/FONT][/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]The Light brightened the prison that Peter was in before his departure….the Day of salvation is at hand in this last day for the church. Peter’s chains fell off of his hands….and so the works of darkness are to be cast off from the churches’ hands. And we are to “gird ourselves”….putting on the armor of Light and follow Him out of the prison of religious man. [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot](12)[FONT=&quot] The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.[/FONT][/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]We are to “gird ourselves” in the armor of God for the departure from religious man’s prison….for they will speak evil against those who do escape from them. OUR FAITH IN THE TRUTH WILL BE TESTED AS WE MAKE OUR ESCAPE FROM THEIR PRISON. Like Peter, we are to awaken and stand up in the prison first in order to walk out of it. [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Ephesians 6:11-18 KJV[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot](11)[FONT=&quot] Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.[/FONT][/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]The prison keepers shall speak evil of those who will escape from their prisons…as we follow Him out of their presence. They will seek to keep those who are escaping their prison by any means….through alluring words of falsehoods….through evil speaking…through peer pressure from others in their church. [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot](12)[FONT=&quot] For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.[/FONT][/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Our faith in the Truth shall be tested in the “evil day”…as we make our escape from those living in error.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot](13)[FONT=&quot] Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.[/FONT][/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]We are to gird ourselves…..with the Truth….as our FAITH IN IT SHALL BE TESTED.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot](14)[FONT=&quot] Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;[/FONT][/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Like Peter, we are instructed to bind on our sandals….having our feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace. The escaping church will have its FAITH in the Truth TESTED by the rulers in the high places of the church. We are not to render evil for their evil. [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot](15)[FONT=&quot] And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;[/FONT][/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]The “fiery darts” shall be the words that will be directed at us as we escape from them. Our FAITH in the revealed Truth…the Light…shall be tested by those who will seek to keep us in their prison of darkness. [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot](16)[FONT=&quot] Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot](17)[FONT=&quot] And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot](18)[FONT=&quot] Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;[/FONT][/FONT]

Like Peter was instructed in the prison, we are to cast about us our “garment”….that is we are to be clothed in Jesus Christ…so as to not make provision any longer to fulfill the lusts of religious men in high places.

[FONT=&quot]Romans 13:14 KJV[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot](14)[FONT=&quot] But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.[/FONT][/FONT]


[FONT=&quot]Summary to be continued…..[/FONT]
 
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Just another thought to add about Peter's escape from prison which is a living parable of a greater spiritual truth for us today.



Peter passes the first and second ward and the iron gate opens by itself. The “first and second ward” are the commandments of God that we are to fulfill in order to enter into His rest…into His kingdom…into His heavenly wisdom and knowledge and counsel…into the spiritual “city” where we are to be His citizens under His rule. He is to rule our hearts in the spiritual city of New Jerusalem.

Acts 12: KJV
(10)
When they were past the first and the second ward, they came unto the iron gate that leadeth unto the city; which opened to them of his own accord: and they went out, and passed on through one street; and forthwith the angel departed from him.

Blessed are those who do His commandments (passing the first and second ward) so that they may have the right over the Tree of Life (to understand His Word) and may enter in through the gates into the city. The commandments are the greatest two commandments which are the “first and second ward” that we are to “pass” so that we may enter through the gates of the city.

Revelation 22:14-16 KJV

(14) Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.


Those who will not receive the love of the Truth will stay outside of the city....ever learning but not being able to acknowledge the Truth because of their unbelief and their love for their own religious ways and thoughts. They would rather stay in the darkness of their minds because they will love their dark ways and thoughts more than the Light of the knowledge of God.




(15)
For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.

The angel of the Lord....His Word of Truth... comes to brighten the spiritual prison that many are currently in. He comes to preach the Truth for our deliverance from those who are living in error. He comes to give us understanding so that we may see our transgressions. His “angel”…His messenger…is sent to testify to the churches these things. The Truth is the Light….the “bright and morning Star” that will shine in the darkness of many hearts in this last day.

(16)
I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.

The first and second “ward” that we are to pass in order to enter into His “city” are the first and second of all commandments as shown here in Mark 12. Only if we do His commandments with our entire hearts can we then enter in to the kingdom of God. God can then dwell in and rule over our hearts. We can then understand Him...for His ways and thoughts become ours.


Mark 12:28-29 KJV

(28)
And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all?
(29)
And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
(30)
And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
(31)
And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
(32)
And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he:
(33)
And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
(34)
And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that durst ask him any question.

The message is the gospel of salvation….the deliverance from all of organized, religious man’s erroneous thoughts and ways….the “prison.”

Acts12:11
And when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a surety, that the Lord hath sent his angel, and hath delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews.
 
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