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The Word of God is like a “great supper” to which many are invited.

Luke 14:15-20 KJV
(15) And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these things, he said unto him, Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.
(16) Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many:
(17) And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready.

And yet some began to decline to attend because they did not have time….for they were seemingly too preoccupied with other things and had no real interest in attending. With one consent, they all began to make excuse for their not accepting His invitation to His great supper…..the marriage supper of the Lamb.

(18) And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go 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.
(20) And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.

The “marriage supper” of the Lamb = the speaking of the true sayings of God. The Scriptures are opened up to our understanding and we are invited to hear His voice speaking to us the wonderful things of God and keep the things we hear.

Revelation 19:9 KJV
(9) And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.

Blessed are those servants whom the Lord when He comes shall find “watching”. He comes in an HOUR when we are not expecting Him. Perhaps this “hour” will not be convenient for some who will not be watching. We have to always be ready. Will we have time for Him when He comes speaking to us?

Those watching will hear His voice knocking upon the door of their hearts and they will open up unto Him immediately. He shall gird Himself and make them to sit down to meat and will come forth and serve them. He will serve them a “great supper”…not hors d'oeuvres. He will give them the full course….the mysteries of the kingdom.

Luke 12:35-40 KJV
(35) Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;
(36) And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.
(37) Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.
(38) And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.
(39) And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.
(40) Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.

He stands at the “door” and knocks. If we hear His voice and open the door, He will come in to our hearts and will sup with Him and He with us.

Revelation 3:20 KJV
(20) Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

Even those who will receive Him into their “house” need to cease from their own works in order to sit at the feet of Jesus in order to hear His Word. Martha was anxious and troubled about many things. She was too busy being cumbered about much serving to really sit down and hear His Word.

Luke 10:38-42 KJV
(38) Now it came to pass, as they went, that he entered into a certain village: and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house.
(39) And she had a sister called Mary, which also sat at Jesus' feet, and heard his word.
(40) But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me.
(41) And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things:
(42) But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.

The cares of this world…or age… can rob us of the time and attention to hear the Word and keep it. We can hear the Word but the anxiety of this age can choke it out and it becomes unfruitful.

Matthew 13:22 KJV
(22) He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.

There is a great reward in receiving His Word and keeping it.

Our Lord opens up the Scriptures to our understanding so that we may know Him who is true.

1 John 5:20 KJV
(20) And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

In the last day, the great day of this feast of understanding, he that will believe on Him “as the Scripture has said….that is, His opening up of the Scriptures to our minds, shall have rivers of living water flow out of his belly. We are to believe in Him as He opens up the Scriptures in our hearing.

John 7:37-43 KJV
(37) In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
(38) He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

We are to glorify Him and receive the Spirit. Whoever glorifies the Son glorifies the Father.

(39) (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)

Some shall confess Him while others will doubt.

(40) Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this is the Prophet.
(41) Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, Shall Christ come out of Galilee?
(42) Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was?

So there will be a division because of Him between the believers and the nonbelievers of the churches.

(43) So there was a division among the people because of him.

Luke 12:51 KJV
(51) Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:

We are to receive the “meat” of the Truth with THANKSGIVING. We are to believe and when hearing the Truth and be thankful for receiving it. Nothing is to be refused of this great supper of the Lord.

Yet, some shall doubt and will depart from the belief in what they will hear as they will instead listen to those who will deceive them with their feigned words. They will join with others in their vilification of what they will hear….commanding others to abstain from the knowledge of the Truth.

1 Timothy 4:1-7 KJV
(1) Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
(2) Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
(3) Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
(4) For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
(5) For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
(6) If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.
(7) But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.

Every man is to be slow to speak, slow to wrath…..and quick to hear what is spoken by Him. The “sacrifice of fools” is their evil speaking of what they will hear.

Ecclesiastes 5:1-3 KJV
(1) Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.

They will be rash with their mouth as their hearts will be hasty to speak evil of the revealed things of God. Out of the mouth shall overflow the evil in their hearts…..and yet they will NOT consider that what they do is evil. We are to let our words be few….for by our words we are condemned when we speak against the preaching of our Lord and Savior.

(2) Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
(3) For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.

Instead of the “sacrifice of fools”, let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually….giving thanks to His name. The “fruit of our lips” is being thankful for what we receive…praising Him for His knowledge.

Hebrews 13:15-16 KJV
(15) By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.
(16) But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Let us not sin willfully after receiving the full knowledge of the Truth. Let not presumptuous sins have dominion over us so that we shall be innocent from the coming great transgression…..the great falling away from the Truth…..For many shall hear but not receive the Word because of unbelief while others shall waver and be led astray by the unbelieving.

Psalms 19:13-14 KJV
(13) Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.

Let the words of our mouths and the meditation of our hearts be acceptable in His “sight”….the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

(14) Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.

Let us receive Christ Jesus the Lord and be rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith…having been taught of Him. We are to abound in THANKSGIVING for what we receive.

Colossians 2:6-7 KJV
(6) As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:
(7) Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

Let us glorify God for the knowledge of the Truth that He gives us. Let us be thankful instead of becoming vain in our imaginations and our foolish hearts be darkened and not glorify Him. Others will not glorify Him nor will they be thankful…..as they will sacrifice the sacrifice of fools.

Romans 1:21 KJV
(21) Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

In everything we are to give THANKS….for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning us.

1 Thessalonians 5:16-23 KJV
(16) Rejoice evermore.
(17) Pray without ceasing.
(18) In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

Let us “hold fast” and repent…..change our minds. Let us “awake” to His righteousness and not be found sleeping in wrath, pride and covetousness.

Revelation 3:3 KJV
(3) Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.

Let us hear and receive the Truth and cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light. Let us not behave towards the revealing of the Truth in our strife and envying….but put off the “old man” and put on the Lord Jesus Christ. The “night” of men’s ignorance is over and the day is at hand.

Romans 13:12-14 KJV
(12) 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.
(13) Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
(14) But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

Our Lord comes to give us His understanding so that we know Him who is true…..the true sayings of God. Let us not think that He “delays His coming”….not understanding the time…. and begin to beat upon His servants who are sent to speak His words and join with the covetous in deriding others in their envying and strife.

Luke 12:45-46 KJV
(45) But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;
(46) The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.

The eyes of our understanding shall see His knowledge…..and the ears of those who hear shall hear it. Those who will hear what the Spirit says shall understand knowledge and our tongues shall speak plainly of the Father.

Isaiah 32:2-7 KJV
(2) And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
(3) And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.
(4) The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.

But those who will refuse to hear shall speak evil and their hearts will work iniquity…..as they practice hypocrisy and utter error against Jehovah and will seek to delude others who will hear. The wicked will devise devices to destroy the poor with lying words even when they will receive the Truth. Let us not be led astray with the wicked and fall from our steadfastness.

(5) The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.
(6) For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
(7) The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.

His people shall know His name. Those who will hear shall know that it is “I am”. It is He that speaks: “Behold it is I”. He does not "delay His coming" as He comes to recover His people from those who rule over them and take them away for naught.


Isaiah 52:5-7 KJV
(5) Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.
(6) Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I.

He speaks through His messengers who are sent by Him to speak the good news of peace and salvation.

(7) How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!

Those who are of God shall hear and not deride.

1 John 4:5-8 KJV
(5) They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
(6) We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
(7) Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
(8) He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

The Lord comes to give us His knowledge …the knowledge of the Truth…so that we might be delivered from the kingdom of darkness….the ignorance of men who lead us astray. He is the wisdom of God that we are to hear.

But the scorners will delight in their scorning against what they will hear. Fools will hate knowledge. They will refuse to come to the Light. How long will they delight in their unrighteousness?

Proverbs 1:22-33 KJV
(22) How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

Instead, let us turn at His reproof. Let us not refuse Him who calls us….who speaks from heaven to our ears in the words of life and spirit that we hear. He will make known His words unto us. He will pour out His Spirit unto us….His Breath that speaks the words of life and spirit. Why resist the Spirit? Why quench what it says and refuse to hear? Why refuse to come to the Light?

(23) Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

Nothing is to be refused but to be received with thanksgiving.

(24) Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;

We are to FEAR GOD and keep His commandments…showing love toward the Truth and toward those who will speak it. Why hate true knowledge? Why would anyone not choose to fear the Lord when He speaks to us today?

(25) But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
(26) I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
(27) When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
(28) Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
(29) For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
(30) They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
(31) Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

Let us not depart from the living God with an evil heart of unbelief. Let us not turn away from Him who speaks to us.

(32) For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

We are to hear Him and fear Him….receiving His words with meekness…..and so dwell safely.

(33) But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.

The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom and the knowledge of the holy is understanding. By our receiving the knowledge of the Truth in all joy, thanksgiving and love, our days shall be multiplied and the years of our lives shall be increased….in the HERE AND NOW!

Proverbs 9:10-11 KJV
(10) The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
(11) For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.

The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil: pride, arrogance, the evil way and the froward mouth. Why misbehave in like manner when one will hear His voice speaking to us in the words of knowledge?

Proverbs 8:12-18 KJV
(12) I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.
(13) The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
(14) Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.
(15) By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
(16) By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.
(17) I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.
(18) Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.

We are to depart from those who will not receive the love of the Truth…..who will behave badly in their evil speaking of the knowledge of Truth. What will we have in common with them that hate the Truth? We are to come out from among them. How long will they hate knowledge and love their scorning?

Isaiah 52:11-15 KJV
(11) Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD.
(12) For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rereward.
(13) Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.
(14) As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:

What their private interpretations of the Scriptures have contorted….what they have wrested….what they have marred….what they have retailed as they preach themselves, shall be interpreted by men sent by Him who will speak what they will hear the Spirit saying. “Kings” shall shut their mouths at Him for that which had not been told them shall they see. That which they have not heard before shall consider.

(15) So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider.

But not everyone shall love the knowledge of the Truth. How long will they hate knowledge? The fear of Jehovah shall prolong our days…..but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

Proverbs 10:27-32 KJV
(27) The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
(28) The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.
(29) The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
(30) The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.
(31) The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.
(32) The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness.

Let us NOT respond to His voice in evil, but instead we are to lay apart all of the bad things and receive with meekness the engrafted Word which is able to save our souls. We are to be doers of the Word…..having love.

James 1:19-22 KJV
(19) Wherefore, my beloved brethren, 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.
(21) Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
(22) But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

Today, if we will hear His voice, we are not to harden our hearts against the words we hear…and speak evil in our envy and strife because we do not believe in what we hear.

Hebrews 3:7-8 KJV
(7) Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,
(8) Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

We are to take heed, lest any of us with an evil hear of unbelief shall depart from the living God. Let us not provoke as many did in the past.

Hebrews 3:12-16 KJV
(12) Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
(13) But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
(14) For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
(15) While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
(16) For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

The Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ shines in our hearts….let there be Light.

2 Corinthians 4:5-6 KJV
(5) For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.
(6) For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Light is come into the world but men shall love the darkness rather than the Light of the knowledge of God in the face of Jesus Christ. The darkness comprehends it not. They will refuse to come to the Light. Everyone who will do evil in the hearing of the knowledge of the Truth shall show that they hate the Light. The Light shall expose their deeds and condemn them.

John 3:18-21 KJV
(18) He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
(19) And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
(20) For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
(21) But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

There will be a rebellion against the Light….a great falling away.

Job 24:13-17 KJV
(13) They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

The false prophets will rise with the Light to seduce those who will hear the knowledge of the Truth.

(14) The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
(15) The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.

They know not the Light. The darkness comprehends it not.

(16) In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

For the “morning” of the dawning of the knowledge of our Lord after a long “night” of men’s ignorance shall be to them as the “shadow of death”. They will be terrified of their deeds being exposed and condemned by the Light and will not come to it.

(17) For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

The “beasts of the forest” creep forth in the “darkness” of ignorance. The “young lions” roar after their prey….as they go forth to deceive the simple. They peddle the Word of God....as they seek their meat from God. But the “sun” arises……

Psalms 104:20-22 KJV
(20) Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.
(21) The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.
(22) The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens.

He makes manifest the savor of His knowledge by the words of the prophets and apostles in every place….in ALL of the Scriptures. Kings shall shut their mouths when they will hear His knowledge.

2 Corinthians 2:14-17 KJV
(14) Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.

But for those who will hate what is said, the revealing of His knowledge shall be a savor of death unto death. The “morning” to those who peddle the Word of God for unjust gain shall be as the “shadow of death” and they will avoid it. They will continue to preach themselves.

(15) For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:
(16) To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

Many retail the Word of God for their covetousness. They lead people astray into the darkness….leading them away from having love for one another and into denominations of envying and strife and hatred of one another. But those who speak the Word of God in the Spirit preach not themselves but speak in sincerity . They will speak in Christ in the “sight” of God….in His knowledge…manifesting His knowledge in all places of the Scriptures.

(17) For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.

Grace and peace are to be multiplied unto us through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. He calls us to glory and virtue.

2 Peter 1:1-4 KJV
(1) Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:
(2) Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
(3) According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:

By His knowledge, we are to escape the corruption that is in the world through lust and are to grow in His grace and knowledge.

(4) Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

We are to hear the Spirit and be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding. Let us hear those who are sent as faithful ministers of Christ….having love for them even though what they will preach what will sound “strange” at first. Let us “entertain” strangers….for they might be the messengers of God…..faithful ministers of Christ.

Colossians 1:7-14 KJV
(7) As ye also learned of Epaphras our dear fellowservant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ;
(8) Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.

If we show love toward the brother who will preach Christ in sincerity, the prophets and apostles’ words will not cease in giving forth His knowledge in our hearing. They will not cease to “pray” for us and desire that we might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing….being fruitful in every good work…as we increase in the knowledge of God. Let us hear and believe and show forth good fruit toward the knowledge of the Truth and so grow in His grace and knowledge.

(9) For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
(10) That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

He shall strengthen us with all might according to His glorious power as we shall endure persecution for our receiving of His knowledge….having faith in what we will hear. We are to be patient and longsuffering with joyfulness as we know that the persecutions by the unbelieving church members and denominations we leave behind shall not be comparable to the glory that shall follow for us in Him.

(11) Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;

We are to give THANKS unto the Father who makes us partakers of the inheritance of the saints in Light. We shall preach their words in the knowledge of God and of our Lord Jesus Christ to this dark world. We shall shine as the sun in the kingdom of the Father when all of the erroneous teachings of men that cause people to stumble into the grave and all of those who do iniquity are removed.

(12) Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:

He delivers us from the power of the darkness with the revealing of the hidden knowledge of the words of the saints as preached by the Spirit in the brothers who are sent by God. We who hear and believe are then translated into the kingdom of His dear Son…..not only now….but we are also transported to see the kingdoms of this worlds become His kingdom. We are transported with LIFE NOW so that we may remain here and inherit the earth.

(13) Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
(14) In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:

He that hears His Word and believes on Him who sent the Son shall have life to the Age and of the coming Age. We are to be translated unto the next age with having LIFE now. We pass from the death unto life NOW.

John 5:22-24 KJV
(22) For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son:
(23) That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.
(24) Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

We are to have FAITH in what we will hear….and so be translated….transported…so that we shall not see death to the coming Age. We are to believe and receive His words of life and spirit in all holiness….pleasing God. Without faith in what we will hear, it is impossible to please Him.

Hebrews 11:5-6 KJV
(5) By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
(6) But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

We are to love the brothers who will tell us the Truth. We are to love all of the brothers. By this we know that we have passed from the death unto life…. “eternal life”…life to the coming Age and of the Age (the glory that shall follow).

1 John 3:13-15 KJV
(13) Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
(14) We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
(15) Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.

The brothers are sent in our Lord to tell us the Truth which they have heard of God…..just as Jesus did with the Pharisees and the religious people of the day. Men are sent to tell the Truth which they have heard of God. If we are believers (Abraham’s children), then we will not seek to “kill” those who are sent by Him for we shall do His Word….having love toward the brethren. If we are the children of FAITH, then we shall be hospitable to the strangers who approach with the Word of Truth….and not deride and defame them…. “killing” them with evil words and false accusations.

John 8:38-56 KJV
(38) I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father.
(39) They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham.
(40) But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.
(41) Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

If God is our Father, then we shall show love toward a man who tells the Truth which he has heard of God…for God sent him. A brother who preaches the Truth does NOT preach himself but Jesus only.

(42) Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
(43) Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
(44) Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

But history will repeat itself. Many shall not believe in the Truth when they will hear it no matter what their religious professions shall be. If a man will not bridle his tongue when he hears the Truth, then that man’s religion is in vain.

(45) And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
(46) Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?

He that is of God shall hear God’s words….they will not bad mouth what they will hear but shall entertain the strangers who are sent to preach His words to them. Abraham was very hospitable to the 3 men who approached him with the words of God.

(47) He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.

Those of the spirit of error…the breath of error…shall defame those who are sent by Him to preach His words of life and spirit. They will not listen to the Truth but will instead “kill” with false accusations.

(48) Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?

They will dishonor those who are sent by Him. Those who are sent by Him will not seek their own glory but there is One that does seek His glory from all men. Let us worship God and glorify Him giving thanks to Him for His revealed knowledge.

(49) Jesus answered, I have not a devil; but I honour my Father, and ye do dishonour me.
(50) And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth.

If a man keep His saying….having love for the brothers, he shall not see death to the coming Age. It is a poor translation here in verse 51: “he shall never see death” should be saying “he shall not see death into the Age”….the coming Age in which all of the kingdoms of this world become His kingdom.

(51) Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.

If we keep His Saying in faith….to have love for one another, we shall not taste of death unto the coming Age. We are “translated”…transported…by the power of God to live in the here and now to see the coming Age.

(52) Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death.

Yet, the scoffers shall come forth scoffing saying “where is the promise of His coming” for since the fathers have fallen asleep all things have continued as they were from the beginning.

(53) Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself?
(54) Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God:
(55) Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying.
(56) Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.

The witnesses have all died in faith….not having received the promises but had seen them from afar off and were persuaded of them and embraced them……

Hebrews 11:13-14 KJV
(13) These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
(14) For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.

All the things that were written of them are for our benefit and admonition upon whom has come upon the end of this age. They are the “cloud of witnesses” that we are compassed about with as their words …their testimonies…are interpreted by Christ. We are to lay aside all of the evil that may come out of our mouths.

Hebrews 12:1 KJV
(1) Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

They are with us in “spirit”….in the BREATH that we speak as we speak their words in Christ Jesus. Though they be absent in the flesh, they are with us in the Spirit….in the Breath…..joying and beholding our order and the steadfastness of our faith in Christ. We are to receive Christ Jesus the Lord into our hearts and walk in Him.

Colossians 2:4-6 KJV
(4) And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.
(5) For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.
(6) As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:

Unto us did the prophets minister the things which are now reported to us by those who are sent to preach the gospel unto us with the Holy Spirit sent down from heaven. They are the “angels”…or messengers that desire to look into the things…the grace, the salvation, the sufferings, the glory that should follow.

1 Peter 1
(12) Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.

So we are to take heed how we hear the things that are reported to us….as we are to gird up the loins of our minds and be sober….not being “drunk” in our wrath, pride and covetousness in response to what we will hear. He that calls us is holy. We are to be holy as He is holy in our hearing of the revelation of Jesus Christ.

(13) Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

We are to be obedient children and not disobedient according to the former lusts in our ignorance. For before we received the knowledge of the Truth, we behaved in envying, strife and lived in divisions as we warred with each other over carnally-minded private interpretations, commandments and teachings of men that lead us astray from the Truth.

(14) As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
(15) But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
(16) Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

He promises us “eternal life”….life to the coming Age and of the coming Age.

1 John 2:24-26 KJV
(24) Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.
(25) And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.

We look forward to the coming new heavens and a new earth wherein dwells righteousness.

2 Peter 3:13-14 KJV
(13) Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
(14) Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.

Our Lord Jesus Christ is come to give us knowledge so that we might know Him who is true and that we might be delivered from the kingdom of darkness in which men have deluded us away from having love for one another.

Many have entered through the wide gate of false prophets’ feigned words of so-called “righteousness” only to perish from off the face of the earth just as the outside world. The commandments and doctrines of men have led many away from the Truth and into their envying, strife, divisions and hatred of one another. Many have perished under the “care” of those who bring us into bondage….being children of wrath even as others. .

But by His grace, we are saved from the ignorance of men. By His grace we are saved from wrath. Before we knew the Truth, we were “sometimes darkness”, but now that we know we are Light in the Lord…..and we are to walk as children of Light and no longer being partakers with those who deceive others with their vain words.

Ephesians 5:5-8 KJV
(5) For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
(6) Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
(7) Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
(8) For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:

In times past, we walked with the deceived and were “dead” in trespasses and sins. We fulfilled the lusts of our flesh as we fought in our religious pride over who is “accounted the greatest” among the denominations and who the betrayer of Jesus is. We lived according to the lusts of men in the high places of the churches. We were by nature the children of wrath, even as others….for we perished from the earth even like the outside “sinners” of the world.

Ephesians 2:1-9 KJV
(1) And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
(2) Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
(3) Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

But our God is rich in mercy. By GRACE we are saved. He commands the Light to shine in the darkness so that we might know our sins and return to Him and be saved.

(4) But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
(5) Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved
(6) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
(7) That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.

For by grace we are saved through faith….faith in what our Lord says in the preaching of the knowledge of the Truth.

(8) For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
(9) Not of works, lest any man should boast.

Turn us again, O God, and cause your face to shine and we shall be saved…

Psalms 80:3-7 KJV
(3) Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
(4) O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?
(5) Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
(6) Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.
(7) Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

For God commands the Light to shine out of the darkness in men’s hearts to give the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

2 Corinthians 4:5-11 KJV
(5) For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.
(6) For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
(7) But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
(8) We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
(9) Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
(10) Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.

And whoever shall believe in Him shall be saved and not PERISH off the earth but shall have THE life to the Age and of the coming Age wherein we partake of His glory. His life shall be manifest in our mortal flesh as the Spirit shall give us His life.

(11) For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

We have access by FAITH in what we hear into His grace wherein we shall STAND….not perish to the grave. We shall STAND and rejoice in the hope of the coming glory of God.

Romans 5:1-5 KJV
(1) Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
(2) By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

But in the meantime we have LIFE as we await the coming Age. We shall glory in tribulations also….in this present age as we wait upon His glory.

(3) And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
(4) And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
(5) And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

As Saul/Paul….who was a “blasphemer, persecutor, and injurious”…. was given the exceeding grace of God according to His rich mercy, so we also are to partake of that same abundant grace.

Even though we may have preached error leading many astray as we “persecuted” the church with our words, that same grace that was shown to Paul (who called himself “chief” of the sinners) is also to be obtained as a gift….because we have did these things ignorantly in unbelief. By FAITH in Christ Jesus who gives us His knowledge do we obtain mercy.

1 Timothy 1:12-17 KJV
(12) And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry;
(13) Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
(14) And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.

(15) This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.

Paul obtained mercy so that in him first Jesus Christ might show forth all longsuffering for a pattern to them that should hereafter BELIEVE on Him to life “everlasting”…life to and of the coming Age.

(16) Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me firstJesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.
(17) Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the Truth is not in us…the Word is not in us.

1 John 1:5-10 KJV
(5) This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare 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 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 Christ 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 just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
(10) If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.


Ephesians 3:1-2 KJV
(1) For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,
(2) If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:


Even though we might be zealous for our fathers’ religious traditions….being great adherents to our denominations’ teachings and commandments, our God calls us to be separated from them…..from the “mother’s womb”…from Babylon. He calls us by His grace to reveal the Son within us so that we might preach Him among the nations of the world.

Galatians 1:13-16 KJV
(13) For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:
(14) And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.
(15) But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,
(16) To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:

His glory shall be revealed in us……and the earnest expectation of the “creature” waits for the manifestation of the Sons of God.

Romans 8:17-21 KJV
(17) And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
(18) For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
(19) For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
(20) For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
(21) Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

We have this treasure in our EARTHEN vessels. By His power we are not destroyed even though others will persecute us for our faith in Him.

2 Corinthians 4:7-11 KJV
(7) But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
(8) We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
(9) Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

We are to bear about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus for we shall be persecuted by those who will not agree with us. The outward man is to perish DAILY so that the life WITHIN us (the Spirit of Christ) might be made MANIFEST in our body.

(10) Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.

The Life within us (Christ within us) is to be made manifest in our mortal bodies for the world to see….as we shall continue to live a long life….having “eternal life”….life to and of the coming Age.

(11) For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

He calls us according to His own purpose and grace which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began. He has brought to light the good news of life and “immortality” (undecaying because of continuance of life). Death has been “abolished”…being rendered idle unto those who will hear and believe…receiving His gift of grace.

2 Timothy 1:8-10 KJV
(8) Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
(9) Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
(10) But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:

The victory and sting of death has been removed as we shall live out our lives to the fullest and shall depart in peace according to His Word. We shall live to see this entire world covered in the knowledge of God as this earth shall be the home where righteousness dwells…reigning over all of its occupants…and be thoroughly satisfied with life.

Luke 2:25-32 KJV
(25) And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him.
(26) And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ.
(27) And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law,
(28) Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said,
(29) Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word:
(30) For mine eyes have seen thy salvation,
(31) Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people;
(32) A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.

Whoever shall eat of His words of life and spirit in FAITH shall have “eternal life”…life to the Age …NOW. We shall have “eternal life” NOW and He will raise us up IN GLORY at the last day after we have suffered persecutions from the unbelievers. But this is a “hard saying” for some as they will not believe and will be “ashamed” of His words.

John 6:53-54 KJV
(53) Then Jesus 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 no life in you.
(54) Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.

This is a “hard saying” for many when they will hear it because of their lack of belief.

John 6:60-61 KJV
(60) Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?
(61) When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you?

But where are we going to go? To whom shall we go….for He has the words of “eternal life”.

John 6:66-71 KJV
(66) From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.
(67) Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away?
(68) Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
(69) And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.
(70) Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?
(71) He spake of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon: for he it was that should betray him, being one of the twelve.

Let us not be ashamed of Him and His words of life and spirit.

Mark 8:37-38 KJV
(37) Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
(38) Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.

Let us not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord……

2 Timothy 1:6-15 KJV
(6) Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.
(7) For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
(8) Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
(9) Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,

For this is His testimony to us in the HERE AND NOW…..He has abolished death and has brought life to light through the gospel….the good news.

(10) But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:
(11) Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
(12) For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
(13) Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

But some shall turn away….

(14) That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us.
(15) This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.

We are to go out into ALL the world and preach the good news of LIFE….holding forth the Word of Life for all of the world to see. This was the “great commission” from the beginning.

Mark 16:15-16 KJV
(15) And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
(16) He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

But men….having been made upright…..went to seek out many “inventions” as they used their tongues (the “woman”) to deceive others for unjust gain. They have deceitfully handled the Word of God after their own covetousness and have strayed away from Him.

Ecclesiastes 7:25-29 KJV
(25) I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:

The “woman” is the flattering tongue of men (Babylon) whom they have employed to snare others with. Sinners have been taken by “her”. But those who please God shall escape from “her”.

(26) And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
(27) Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:
(28) Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
(29) Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

Their mouths are the “wide” gate that lead many to their destruction from off the earth. If we do not fulfill the Law and the Prophets….by having love for one another, we shall be led astray by their feigned words of “righteousness” as they lead us into their denominations of envy, strife, and hatred of one another.

Matthew 7:12-15 KJV
(12) Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
(13) Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
(14) Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
(15) Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

We are “swallowed” up by them. Their throats are like open tombs…as they lead many to their destruction. Destruction and misery are in their ways. With their flattering tongues (the “woman”), they have deceitfully lead people away from LIFE and to the grave. Their commandments and doctrines of men lead us away from the Truth and cause us to perish from off the face of the earth.

Romans 3:10-18 KJV
(10) As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
(11) There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
(12) They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
(13) Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
(14) Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
(15) Their feet are swift to shed blood:
(16) Destruction and misery are in their ways:
(17) And the way of peace have they not known:
(18) There is no fear of God before their eyes.

But our God is merciful. His grace is abundant as He sends His Son to deliver us from their corruptible things that cause us to perish under the law of sin and death. God delivers us from the “body” of this death through Jesus Christ our Lord who comes to give us the understanding of Him who is true.

Romans 7:21-25 KJV
(21) I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
(22) For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
(23) But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
(24) O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
(25) I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

There is NOW no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus who do NOT walk after the flesh but after the Spirit. We are not judged and perish if we sow according to the Spirit. We reap the LIFE in the here and now.

Romans 8:1-2 KJV
(1) There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
(2) For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

Are MANY not living after the flesh today as they have among them envying and strife and divisions?

1 Corinthians 3:1-4 KJV
(1) And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
(2) I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
(3) For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
(4) For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?

Be not DECEIVED by men…for God is NOT mocked.

If we sow what they are sowing, that we shall also reap…..corruption….perishing…..death from off the earth. But if we sow according to the Spirit, we shall reap life to the Age in the HERE AND NOW. We shall not perish but have LIFE NOW.

Galatians 6:7-10 KJV
(7) Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
(8) For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
(9) And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
(10) As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

BUT we must come out from among them. If we are joined together in their envying and strife under the flattering tongues of men who preach the Word deceitfully (the “harlot”) for unjust gain, then we are ONE with them in flesh. We perish.

1 Corinthians 6:15-17 KJV
(15) Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
(16) What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit….one breath….having the Spirit of love.

(17) But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

Who shall deliver us from the body of this death?

We are to pray unto our God for deliverance from the floods of deceitful men who have led us astray. No longer shall we by children tossed to and fro as we are carried about with every wind of doctrine by the sleight of men and their cunning craftiness whereby they lie in wait to deceive.

Ephesians 4:14-15 KJV
(14) 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;
(15) But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:

Our God is merciful and “speaks unto the fish”. Death will vomit us out as it will no longer have a hold of us so that we might properly preach to ALL of the world and to every creature. Our Lord has tasted death for us…so that we may truly LIVE without the fear of death.

Without the fear of death, we can then be free to fulfill the “great commission” as Jonah was instructed to go and preach to Nineveh.

Jonah 2:1-10 KJV
(1) Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly,
(2) And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.

No longer will men toss us to and fro with their mouths which are like open tombs ready to swallow those who stray from having love for one another.

(3) For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.
(4) Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
(5) The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.
(6) I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.

REMEMBER the Lord our God. REMEMBER our Creator. Fear God and keep His commandments.

(7) When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.

Those who observe “lying vanities”….doctrines and commandments of men….forsake their own mercy. God is not mocked.

(8) They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

Let us sacrifice unto Him with the voice of THANKSGIVING….and do His commandments. SALVATION is of the Lord…of Jehovah. Let us do His commandments and LIVE.

(9) But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD.

Who shall deliver us from the body of this “death”? God is the One who delivers us and is rich in mercy….showing us abundant grace.

(10) And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.

“Jonah” means “dove”…signifying living after the Spirit.

If we shall live after the Spirit, we shall reap THE LIFE in the here and now so that we may preach to ALL of the world (Nineveh) wherein men do not know their right hand from their left. The Law of the Spirit of life (Jonah) in Christ Jesus makes us free from the law of sin and death (the great fish) that has swallowed up MANY.

Romans 8:1-2 KJV
(1) There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
(2) For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

So Jonah “arose” and went to preach unto Nineveh according to the word of Jehovah.

Jonah 3:1-10 KJV
(1) And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying,
(2) Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.
(3) So Jonah arose,and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey.

On the surface, Jonah seems to not be saying much as he “preached” to Nineveh.

(4) And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

But the people of Nineveh believed God….

(5) So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
(6) For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

Jonah was the message himself to Nineveh as he had “eternal life”. WE are the message to the world as we have Christ within us who gives LIFE to our mortal bodies. WE are the epistle known and read of ALL men. We are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by the prophets and apostles by having love for one another which gives life to our mortal bodies….which the world shall behold .

2 Corinthians 3:2-3 KJV
(2) Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
(3) Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.

We shall hold for the “Word of Life” for all of the world to see.

Philippians 2:14-16 KJV
(14) Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
(15) That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
(16) Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

We shall shine as LIGHTS IN THE WORLD in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation because we shall hold forth the Word of Life….as we continue to LIVE according to the Spirit within us which gives our mortal bodies LIFE…the outward manifestation of us being His disciples that is presented to the world. The "great commission" can then be VERY effective.


Matthew 16:4 KJV
(4) A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.

We are to keep His commandments and LIVE. By doing these things, we shall have “eternal life” in the here and now.

Luke 10:25-28 KJV
(25) And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
(26) He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?
(27) And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.

Do this and we shall LIVE….have “eternal life” NOW.

(28) And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.

We are to keep His commandments and LIVE.

Proverbs 7:1-27 KJV
(1) My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
(2) Keep my commandments, and live;and my law as the apple of thine eye.
(3) Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
(4) Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:

We are to love God with all of our hearts, strength, minds and souls and love each other as our Lord loved us and gave Himself for us. In remembering to do these things always, they may keep us from the “strange woman” which is the flattering tongue of religious-sounding men who lead us astray from having love and into their envying, strife and divisions. The hearts of the simple are deceived by the “good words” and “fair speeches” of religious-sounding men who serve not our Lord but their own belly (Romans 16:18). If we do not abide in Him, we are cast forth as a branch and MEN gather us up in their falsehoods and divisions and we are “burned”….we PERISH from this earth.

(5) That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
(6) For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,

Religious-sounding men always gather up those who do not abide in Him….doing His commandments. They….false prophets…will rob you of your youth….of your LIFE.

(7) And 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, in the black and dark night:

These are men who will use every wind of doctrine….every sleight of hand….in their cunning craftiness to deceive. They use their tongues (the “woman”) to speak flattering words….good words and fair speeches to entice you into their fold.

(10) And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.


They are busybodies. They do not abide in Him where they should.

(11) (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
(12) Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
(13) So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,
(14) I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.
(15) Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
(16) I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
(17) I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
(18) Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
(19) For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
(20) He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.

With their fair speeches, they cause many to yield. With the flattering tongues (Babylon), they lead MANY astray away from LIFE. They know not that it is for their LIFE.

(21) With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
(22) He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
(23) Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.

We are to hear NOW and attend to the words of His mouth for “she” has cast down many. Many strong men have been slain by her. They have perished and are no longer with us here in this earth.


(24) Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
(25) Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
(26) For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.

If we go to her “house”, we go to our graves…..for the wide gate of false prophets lead us to our own destruction. We perish from off this earth because of the good words and fair speeches of men who serve their own bellies and not our Lord Jesus Christ. MANY have gone to “her” and to their destruction.

(27) Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

Proverbs 22:14 KJV
(14) The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.

But our God is MERCIFUL. By His GRACE are we saved from “her”. We are to come out of “her” so as not to share in her sins and plagues.

Revelation 18:4-6 KJV
(4) And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
(5) For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
(6) Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.

We are to hear NOW…..and remove our way FAR from “her” and come not near the “door” of her house. Come not near their mouths to hear when they will try to allure you back in.

Proverbs 5:7-14 KJV
(7) Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
(8) Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:

Let us give honor to God and not unto others.

(9) Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
(10) Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;

For their ways and thoughts shall consume our flesh and body as they shall rob us of His life and we shall mourn at the last….because we did not obey the Voice of our teachers. Let us not hate instruction to come out from among them and be separate.

(11) And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
(12) And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
(13) And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
(14) I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.

Let us REMEMBER NOW our Creator in the days of our youth….BEFORE those evil days come upon our mortal bodies.

Ecclesiastes 12:1-7 KJV
(1) Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;
(2) While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:

Let us remember Him and DO His commandments before the hands tremble and the legs bow themselves and the teeth cease because they are few and our eyes grow dim and are darkened.

(3) In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,

Let us remember Him before we return to the dust. Let us DO His commandments and LIVE.

(4) And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low;
(5) Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:
(6) Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.
(7) Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

Jonah…..after his “resurrection” from the belly of the great fish…. cried and said, “yet 40 days and Nineveh shall be overthrown”.

He held forth the Word of Life…..and so the people of Nineveh believed God and changed their minds (repented) and humbled themselves. Jonah was a ‘”sign” to the people of Nineveh.

Jonah 3:4-5 KJV
(4) And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
(5) So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

Jesus also showed himself ALIVE for 40 days after His resurrection by many “infallible proofs” …that is, sure signs or tokens of him being alive. He spoke of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.

Acts 1:1-3 KJV
(1) The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,
(2) Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen:
(3) To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:

We are to hear what the Spirit says as the Lord speaks of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God. If the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in us…..by our receiving and keeping the words of life and spirit, then He that raised Christ from the dead shall also “quicken”…or make ALIVE…our MORTAL (which means “liable to die”) bodies in the here and now.

As He is ALIVE, we are made ALIVE NOW so that we may hold forth the Word of life to others…..and speak of the things that pertain to the kingdom of God in the ears of those who will hear. His life shall appear in our mortal bodies as we are made infallible “signs” to all people of Him being ALIVE.

Romans 8:11-14 KJV
(11) But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
(12) Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

If we hear and receive the Spirit and do deaden the deeds of the body, we shall LIVE.

(13) For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
(14) For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

We are to put away covetousness. We are to separate ourselves from those who call themselves “brothers” but are covetous. Those who are covetous….who call themselves “brothers”…shall not inherit the kingdom of God. They shall perish from off the earth in their own corruption because of their lack of belief in the Truth. We are not to be DECEIVED by them nor by our own hearts to think otherwise.

1 Corinthians 6:9-11 KJV
(9) Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
(10) Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
(11) And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

But the wicked will not hear as they will not be persuaded even if one has risen from the “dead”. They will not fulfill the law and the prophets by having love for those who will preach the Truth. They will not hear Moses and the prophets nor one that has rose from the dead.

Luke 16:27-31 KJV
(27) Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house:
(28) For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
(29) Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.
(30) And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.
(31) And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.

We are to put off all of those things that we will want to say in our wrath and religious pride at the hearing of what the Spirit says. Let us acknowledge the “name”…the authority of the Lord Jesus over our own thoughts and ways. We are to humble ourselves and overcome these things and put on the “new man” which is RENEWED in knowledge.

Colossians 3:8-10 KJV
(8) But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
(9) Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
(10) And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledgeafter the image of him that created him:

If we put off the old man with his deeds….being “dead” with Christ, we shall also LIVE with Him. Death shall have no more dominion over us as it does not Christ.

Romans 6:8-9 KJV
(8) Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
(9) Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.

The old things are passed away and all things are become new….

2 Corinthians 5:17 KJV
(17) Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

There shall no more death. We shall not fear death for it shall not have dominion over us as we shall live to the Age and have life of the coming Age. All former things are passed away NOW….if we take of the fountain of the water of Life freely….hearing what the Spirit says…. and OVERCOME. We shall inherit all things.

Revelation 21:3-7 KJV
(3) And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
(4) And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
(5) And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new.And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
(6) And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
(7) He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.

There were 40 days between the resurrection of Jesus and His ascension. He was raised up in glory in the “last day”….the ascension….being exalted and sitting at the right hand of God.

Acts 1:7-9 KJV
(7) And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.
(8) But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
(9) And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.

He makes intercession for us at the right hand of God. Christ is ALIVE….and He makes us ALIVE with His life in the here and now. All those which shall believe….all of which He has given him, shall not be lost….for they shall have “everlasting life”….life to the Age.

We shall not perish from this earth as we hold forth the Word of Life in the “40 days” so to speak after we have been “quickened” . We shall not be lost but shall live unto the “last day” where we shall be raised up together in His glory and have the Life of the coming age as we will inherit the earth. We will follow the pattern....the footsteps of Jesus.

John 6:38-40 KJV
(38) For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
(39) And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.
(40) And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.

He does NOT pray that we should be taken OUT OF THE WORLD….but that we should be kept from the evil of it. We are IN the world but not OF the world as we shall continue to live in the here and now.

John 17:14-17 KJV
(14) I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
(15) I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
(16) They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
(17) Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

Our Lord has POWER OVER ALL FLESH. He gives us “eternal life” in the here and now…IN this world…so that we may glorify God and the Son. His life within us shall appear in our mortal bodies as a sign to the world as we shall shine as lights in the world.

John 17:1-3 KJV
(1) These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:
(2) As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
(3) And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

Isaiah 8:18 KJV
(18) Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.

We shall be as “lights in the world”….holding forth the Word of Life. The greater and lesser lights are the 2 greatest commandments in which we keep and become “stars” that lead others to His righteousness. They are for SIGNS and for seasons and for days and years. They are for “eternal life” and those who do them inherit “eternal life” as they are for “days and years”.

Genesis 1:14-19 KJV
(14) And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
(15) And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
(16) And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
(17) And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
(18) And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
(19) And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

If do not forget His law….the law of Christ and our hearts keep His commandments, they shall add length of days ….”eternal life”….long life and peace. His commandments are for “days and years” and we are to appear as “signs” shining in this dark world.

Proverbs 3:1-2 KJV
(1) My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
(2) For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.

We shall shine as the brightness of the firmament….as the “stars”. Why? Because we will have “everlasting life”….life to the Age in this dark world….

Daniel 12:2-3 KJV
(2) And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
(3) And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.

Caleb and Joshua LIVED to see the “promised land”…the promised EARTH. Caleb BELIEVED God and was kept alive in the desert for 40 years without the fear of death as God promised that he should live.

We also shall live to inherit the earth….the earth wherein shall dwell righteousness. But those who will “murmur”….the complainers and murmurers of the churches….shall not inherit the earth for they shall NOT BELIEVE and will continue to walk after their own lusts and using their mouths to speak “great swelling words” to deceive others….having men’s persons in admiration because of gain.

Many remain “babes in Christ” as they never grow into completeness in Him. They are kept that way by deceitful men who have crept in unawares….while men were “sleeping”. They have come and taken away the manifestation of the life of the Lord in our mortal bodies (the Son of man) with their “swords and staves”….with their deceitful tongues that cause many to perish from off the earth because of divisions, envying , strife and hatred of one another.

A “great multitude” have come while men were “sleeping” to take His life from our mortal bodies with their deceit. Many have entered through their wide gate to their destruction because of the words of false prophets. Our flesh perishes but our spirit is saved but we are missing out in keeping our whole man alive….BODY, soul and spirit…in the here and now.

Mark 14:41-44 KJV
(41) And he cometh the third time, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: it is enough, the hour is come; behold, the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
(42) Rise up, let us go; lo, he that betrayeth me is at hand.
(43) And immediately, while he yet spake, cometh Judas, one of the twelve, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders.

And they do this with a “kiss”….with flattering lips. They honor God with their lips and so deceive us and take His life away from being manifested in our mortal bodies. They “lead us away” from Him.

They honor God with their lips but their hearts are far from Him as they are only after their own bellies….their own covetousness…..the abomination of desolation. They take away the “daily” sacrifice of having love for one another and set up covetousness….idolatry. We can NOT keep company with them….or we perish…the abomination of DESOLATION. We are to FLEE from the abomination of desolation….idolatry. We can NOT eat at the same table with them.

(44) And he that betrayed him had given them a token, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he; take him, and lead him away safely.
They betray Him with a “kiss”….and all for money.

Matthew 27:8-9 KJV
(8) Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day.
(9) Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value;

It is called a “field of blood”….for many have perished because of the open tombs of their mouths as they deceive many with their “good words and fair speeches”. They lie in wait for “blood”. They have “swallowed” up many alive as the grave and whole as those that go down into the pit.

Proverbs 1:10-19 KJV
(10) My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
(11) If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
(12) Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

And all for what? Covetousness as they seek to find precious substance….to fill their houses with spoil….

(13) We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
(14) Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
(15) My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

Their feet run to evil and make haste to shed blood. Yet, it if for their own lives as well….for every one who is greedy of gain has their life also taken away. They also do not inherit “eternal life”.

(16) For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
(17) Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
(18) And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
(19) So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

If any man shall defile the temple of God by preaching themselves…covetous teachings, then it is for their own lives as well….for He takes the wise also in their own craftiness. Every one who is greedy of gain is taken away by their own craftiness as they also perish. The people they deceive perish and the deceivers perish also.

1 Corinthians 3:16-19 KJV
(16) Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
(17) If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
(18) Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
(19) For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.


But by His GRACE….He makes us ….who were “dead in sins”…. ALIVE NOW. He delivers us from deceitful men who take away “eternal life” from our mortal bodies. He forgives us of our sins....and what abundant grace does He show to those who turns from their evil ways.


Ephesians 2:4-7 KJV
(4) But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
(5) Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved

And He shall raise us up together in His glory….

(6) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
(7) That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.

The life of Christ has not been manifested in the mortal bodies of many because of those who betray Him. They deny Him with their works….and many perish.

Luke 22:21-22 KJV
(21) But, behold, the hand of him that betrayeth me is with me on the table.
(22) And truly the Son of man goeth, as it was determined: but woe unto that man by whom he is betrayed!

Judas was “guide” or “teacher” of those who took Jesus. He still is a “teacher” to those who still take the body of Jesus of whom we are as many follow after his way.

Acts 1:16-20 KJV
(16) Men and brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus.
(17) For he was numbered with us, and had obtained part of this ministry.

Many have acquired a “field” out of the reward of iniquity. They have acquired a “field” of people with their flattering lips …a people who perish because of falsehoods. They condemn and kill the just and those who do not resist them. Their “field” is a “field of blood”…for many have entered through the wide gate to destruction. They have fallen “headlong” after their covetousness and their “bowels” of mercy for those they afflict have gushed completely out.

(18) Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.

Their habitation is desolate and no man dwells therein. All that go to them perish in the “field of blood” for they have taken away THE Life of Jesus that should manifest in our mortal bodies through having love for one another.

(19) And it was known unto all the dwellers at Jerusalem; insomuch as that field is called in their proper tongue, Aceldama, that is to say, The field of blood.
(20) For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his bishoprick let another take.

A lying tongue hates those that are afflicted by it and a flattering mouth works ruin.

Proverbs 26:28 KJV
(28) A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.

The “possessors” who have acquired a “field of blood”….the flock of the slaughter….pity them not. The “bowels” of mercy have gushed out as they “slay them” and hold themselves not guilty. “Judas” means “praised”….as they say “Blessed be Jehovah, for I am rich”.

Zechariah 11:4-5 KJV
(4) Thus saith the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter;
(5) Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not.


“Judas” cared not for the poor….nor do his followers. They have the “bag”. The Greek word for “bag” comes from “tongue” and “world”. They use their tongues to enrich themselves at the expense of those they deceive and those who are deceived perish from off the face of the earth.

John 12:4-8 KJV
(4) Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him,
(5) Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?
(6) This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.
(7) Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.

They always have the “poor” with them….but Jesus they do not. They do not preach Jesus but only themselves.

(8) For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.

“Iscariot” meaning “dagger man” shows how those who use their tongues deceitfully for unjust gain follow after Judas. They care nothing for the “poor” as they use their speaking like the piercings of a sword and those who hear them perish.

Proverbs 12:17-19 KJV
(17) He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.
(18) There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
(19) The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

“Cain” meaning “spear” used his tongue as a weapon in the “field”. The field became a “field of blood” as Cain rose up against Abel his brother and slew him.

Genesis 4:8-10 KJV
(8) And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
(9) And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?

How much blood has dropped to the ground because of the deceitful tongues of men that pierce like a sword? The voice of the blood of their victims cries from the ground as they have been robbed of “eternal life”.

(10) And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.

The cries of them that reaped down the fields of the rich among the churches have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth for many have been condemned and killed by the piercings of the deceitful tongue.

James 5:1-6 KJV
(1) Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
(2) Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
(3) Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
(4) Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
(5) Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
(6) Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.

Open the doors of the mouth O heart. Weep and howl for the miseries that shall come upon you.

Zechariah 11:1-5 KJV
(1) Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
(2) Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down.
(3) There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.
(4) Thus saith the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter;
(5) Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not.

Our mortal bodies are made ALIVE in the here and now if we are led by the Spirit of God. The Spirit is LIFE because of righteousness.

Romans 8:10-14 KJV
(10) And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
(11) But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
(12) Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
(13) For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
(14) For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

But there are MANY who are transformed as ministers of righteousness….who lead many astray from having love for one another and into their covetous ways where exists envying, strife and divisions….and ultimately DEATH to our mortal bodies.

2 Corinthians 11:13-15 KJV
(13) For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
(14) And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
(15) Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

They lead us away from fulfilling all righteousness….fufilling the law and the prophets….fulfilling the law of Christ….to have love for one another.

Matthew 7:12-15 KJV
(12) Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

They lead us away from the Truth and into their falsehoods….doctrines and commandments of men that only produce envy and strife. They lead us to the destruction of the mortal body from off this earth.

(13) Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
(14) Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

The false prophets come to us posing as ministers of righteousness….but inwardly they are ravening wolves and we are their PREY.

(15) Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

They deny that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh.

1 John 4:1-3 KJV
(1) Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
(2) Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
(3) And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

We are His flesh and bones….the Son of man. If we live after the Spirit, our mortal bodies are given LIFE in the here and now.

Ephesians 5:29-30 KJV
(29) For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
(30) For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

But the Son of man is delivered into the hands of men…..deceitful men….who deny that the life of Jesus manifests in our flesh in the here and now. No, their thinking is that we “die and go to heaven” to have “eternal life”.

Mark 9:31-35 KJV
(31) For he taught his disciples, and said unto them, The Son of man is delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and after that he is killed, he shall rise the third day.
(32) But they understood not that saying, and were afraid to ask him.

WE are led to destruction by the disputing of who should be the greatest….envying and strife.

(33) And he came to Capernaum: and being in the house he asked them, What was it that ye disputed among yourselves by the way?
(34) But they held their peace: for by the way they had disputed among themselves, who should be the greatest.
(35) And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all.

The church has been in “great tribulation” as many have entered into temptation. Men have fallen asleep and led astray…and great drops of blood have fallen down to the ground. Men have been deceived by the kiss of Judas…..the flattering lips of men who come to take us with their “swords and staves”.

Luke 22:
(40) And when he was at the place, he said unto them, Pray that ye enter not into temptation.
(41) And he was withdrawn from them about a stone's cast, and kneeled down, and prayed,
(42) Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.
(43) And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him.
(44) And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
(45) And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow,
(46) And said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.
(47) And while he yet spake, behold a multitude, and he that was called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them, and drew near unto Jesus to kiss him.
(48) But Jesus said unto him, Judas, betrayest thou the Son of man with a kiss?

Death and life are in the power …or “hand”….of the tongue.

Proverbs 18:20-22 KJV
(20) A man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled.
(21) Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
(22) Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.

Our Lord came into this world to speak the words of life and spirit so that we might have life in the here and now and to have it more abundantly in the coming age. His words are the tree of life.

But the thief comes only but to steal and KILL and to DESTROY. They come to deceive others and lead them away from His commandments and into their denominations of envying, strife, hatred and into the grave….. death. They preach for doctrines the commandments of men. Their followers perish and die.

John 10:9-11 KJV
(9) I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
(10) The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy:I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

Their preachers transform themselves into the apostles of Christ…as messengers of Light….as ministers of righteousness. Their “good words” and “fair speeches” lead many astray from having love for one another…..from the commandments of Life…from the words of life and spirit.

They have the power of death in their mouths through deceptive words. They hold their prisoners with the fear of death: “you will die and go to hell if you do not follow our teachings and commandments”. Little do their prisoners know that they are already in the “grave” even while they sit with them. But our Lord came and partook of flesh and blood so that He might destroy him that has the power of death over our mortal bodies.

Hebrews 2:14-15 KJV
(14) Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
(15) And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

Our God loves us and sends His Son to speak to us so that we might know Him who is true….so that we might worship Him in spirit and in Truth. He makes us alive with His knowledge.

In our ignorance, we once walked according to the course of this world…according to the prince of the power of the air….the breath that now works in the children of disobedience. But now because of His rich mercy and great love He saves us from those who lead us astray with their deceptive words….which travel through the air and into our ears and hearts. What comes out of the heart….envy, strife, hatred, etc….defiles the “man”. We cannot any longer partake of their religious things with them but must come out from among them. We must not touch the “dead body” of the teachings of men….the “grave”.

Ephesians 2:1-5 KJV
(1) And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
(2) Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

We were by nature the children of wrath even as others. We were perishing away to the grave without His life manifested in our mortal bodies because of following men.

(3) Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

But by His grace we are saved. We are made alive in the here and now and do not perish away to the grave as so MANY have did because of being led astray.

(4) But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
(5) Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved

The hour is now when the “dead” in sins shall hear the voice of the Son of God and they that “hear” shall live because they will BELIEVE on Him that was sent. They shall not come into condemnation but shall pass from death unto life NOW.

John 5:24-30 KJV
(24) Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
(25) Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.
(26) For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;
(27) And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.

All that are in the “graves” of religious-sounding men shall hear His voice. Some shall come forth and do good. They will hear what is said and believe on him that was sent to speak. Others will reject what will be said. It will seem like foolishness to them and they will vilify the preaching of the Word of Truth. As He hears, He judges and His judgment is just.

(28) Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
(29) And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
(30) I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.

The Lord sends His messengers out to speak to the churches…and those who will hear will hear Him.

Luke 10:16-18 KJV
(16) He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.
(17) And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.

Satan shall lose his power of death over those who will hear. His ministers’ words will no longer have power to deceive those who will hear and believe. He shall no longer have the power to lead them toward the grave as we are delivered from the kingdom of darkness and translated unto the kingdom of the Son.

Satan shall fall quickly….as lightning from heaven…. as those who will hear the Word of Truth shall no longer give ear to those who have led them astray. The prince of the power of the air shall fall very quickly in the ears of those who will hear and believe.

(18) And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.

We are delivered from the power of darkness which has the power of death in their flattering mouths which work destruction and misery in our lives. Their throats are like open tombs that swallow any who will be led astray by them.

We are made partakers of the inheritance of the saints in Light…as we will preach the words of the apostles and prophets in the knowledge of Christ.

Colossians 1:12-15 KJV
(12) Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
(13) Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
(14) In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:

He comes to teach us….to give us understanding…and we are to keep His law with our whole heart when we will hear His voice.

Psalms 119:33-40 KJV
(33) HE. Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end.
(34) Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
(35) Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.

We are to depart from covetousness….the abomination of DESOLATION…for it brings many to their ruin.

(36) Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.
(37) Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.
(38) Stablish thy word unto thy servant, who is devoted to thy fear.
(39) Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are good.

We are "quickened" in His righteousness....

(40) Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.
We shall be as the “angels” …that is, messengers…of heaven in the standing up..being "quickened". We shall preach the words of all the apostles and prophets in the Light of the knowledge of God.

We shall no longer being given in “marriage”….that is, being married to the “strange doctrines” of covetous men who lead us away from following God with all of our hearts.

Hebrews 13:9 KJV
(9) Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.

All that are “married” to the strange doctrines of men DIE. All that have had “her” have died and they pass along their traditions and teachings.

Matthew 22:23-32 KJV
(23) The same day came to him the Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection, and asked him,
(24) Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
(25) Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto his brother:
(26) Likewise the second also, and the third, unto the seventh.

But as soon as the “woman” dies….we shall know the Scriptures and the power of God that keeps us standing in the HERE AND NOW. We shall not marry nor be given in marriage but shall as the messengers of God in heaven…as we will preach to others the Word of Truth in their hearing (in the air where words fly).

(27) And last of all the woman died also.
(28) Therefore in the resurrection whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her.
(29) Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.
(30) For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.

Commandments of men are “strange doctrines”…strange “wives” that turn us from the Truth and lead us to our graves. Teaching for doctrines the commandments of men do not profit those who are “married” to them….for they perish…they die with their using. They turn us away from having love for one another…from following God whole heartedly. God is LOVE.

Titus 1:14 KJV
(14) Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.

Let us not have our faith stand in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.

1 Corinthians 2:4-8 KJV
(4) And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
(5) That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
(6) Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:

Remember king Solomon who loved many “strange women”. We are not to be carried about by many strange doctrines of men who preach in their covetousness. They turn away our hearts after their “gods”….the flattering lips of those who preach for their covetousness.

1 Kings 11:1-10 KJV
(1) But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;
(2) Of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.
(3) And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.
(4) For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.

The flattering tongue….Babylon…has dwelled upon many waters. She has led many astray with her confusing, covetous teachings. They sound religious….as they pose as ministers of righteousness but their words are motivated by what is in the 7 abominations in their hearts.

Proverbs 26:24-28 KJV
(24) He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him;
(25) When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for there are seven abominations in his heart.

Their hatred is covered by deceit….the flattering tongue. But Babylon shall fall and become a mouth full of all evil words and evil things when the Truth is preached. They will vilify the way of Truth those who will preach it. Their wickedness shall be showed before all. We are to come out from among them so as not to share in their evil speaking (sins) and plagues.

(26) Whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be shewed before the whole congregation.
(27) Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.
(28) A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.

Her end comes and the measure of her covetousness….the abomination of desolation.

Jeremiah 51:12-13 KJV
(12) Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon.
(13) O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.

Hi drstevej,

Thanks…lol! Nice to hear from a fellow long-timer.


As you can tell by the length of the posts, I have a lot on my mind.

Thanks for the thought and suggestion. Maybe a blog would be a more suitable place but I have been on these forums for a while and am more comfortable to stay here in familiar territory. Thanks Bro!


Wheeler


1 Timothy 4:13-16 KJV
(13) Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
(14) Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.
(15) Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.
(16) Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.

The abomination of DESOLATION….ruin….is the covetousness of religious-sounding men.

With their flattering mouths do they deceive MANY…MANY…MANY into their congregations…their denominations…their graves. And once they are there, they perish from off the earth without the life of Christ being manifest in their mortal bodies. We can NOT associate with them at all….we must come out from among them and be separate. Our very fellowship with them causes our own destruction. We die just like what is common to the rest of men who are on the outside….the sinners of the world. But by the grace of God, He cuts these days short….or NO flesh would be saved.

Matthew 7:12-15 KJV
(12) Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
(13) Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
(14) Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
(15) Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

Paul knew that the church was going to enter a period of great tribulation….for 3 years did he warn every one with tears that after him would come grievous wolves IN among us who would not spare the flock. We were to “watch and remember” so that we would not be deceived by those who would come and remove our inheritance from our mortal bodies…. “eternal life”…life to the Age.

Acts 20:28-35 KJV
(28) Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
(29) For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
(30) Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
(31) Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.
(32) And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.

The abomination of desolation is covetousness. Even sitting in their company causes us to perish.

(33) I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel.

Paul worked with his own hands to sustain his personal needs. He served others in the Word of Truth while not burdening them. He did not “tax” his hearers to support his “kingdom”. He did not rule as a “king” over his hearers.

(34) Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.
(35) I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

The church has been under a great persecution by those who have entered in among us. They have caused MANY to follow after their pernicious…ruinous…ways. They have removed the daily sacrifice to have love for one another as they replace it with their own covetous ways and thoughts which gender envying, strife and divisions.

2 Peter 2:1-3 KJV
(1) But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
(2) And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

The abomination of our desolation is covetousness. We can not live according to the lusts of men. We can not follow after them and have His life manifested within our mortal bodies. We are being destroyed even while we sit with them in their reveling….their abominable teachings and their covetous practices. The judgment does not linger…..damnation does not slumber…as we remain under the wrath of God as others.

(3) And through covetousnessshall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

The abomination of desolation drowns men in destruction and perdition. It is the root of all evil that happens to us. Who are we keeping company with? What kind of men are we listening to?

1 Timothy 6:8-12 KJV
(8) And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
(9) But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
(10) For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
(11) But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
(12) Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.

Covetousness is idolatry and it sits in the holy place where it ought not be. When we realize that we are sitting among them and perishing with them, we are to FLEE from it and be saved.

1 Corinthians 10:14 KJV
(14) Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.

Covetousness is idolatry. It is very serious.

Colossians 3:5-7 KJV
(5) Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
(6) For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:
(7) In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.

We MUST not keep company with them. Even though we once walked together with those who call themselves “brothers” in Christ and lived in their ways and thoughts, those days must end if we want to be saved. We must come out from among them and take nothing of theirs with us.

1 Corinthians 5:9-12 KJV
(9) I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
(10) Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
(11) But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
(12) For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?

Covetousness is not be named among us at all. It is the abomination of desolation. We perish if it even is in the mouth of one individual that we associate with. It causes us all to perish if we let a man deceive us with vain words. The wrath of God comes upon the children of disobedience.

Ephesians 5:1-7 KJV
(1) Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
(2) And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
(3) But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
(4) Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.
(5) For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
(6) Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
(7) Be not ye therefore partakers with them.


Remember the valley of “Achor”…which means “troubled, roiled, afflict”. The valley of “Achor” is the mouth that speaks guile and causes all of our troubles. “Achan” which means “trouble” COVETED and took a Babylonian garment, silver and a gold wedge. He used his mouth for flattery….teaching for filthy gain which caused trouble for the entire people. He trespassed in the “accursed” thing…..the abomination of desolation.

Joshua 7:1-26 KJV
(1) But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against the children of Israel.
(2) And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Bethaven, on the east side of Bethel, and spake unto them, saying, Go up and view the country. And the men went up and viewed Ai.
(3) And they returned to Joshua, and said unto him, Let not all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and smite Ai; and make not all the people to labour thither; for they are but few.
(4) So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai.
(5) And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men: for they chased them from before the gate even unto Shebarim, and smote them in the going down: wherefore the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.
(6) And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the LORD until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads.
(7) And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan!
(8) O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies!
(9) For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name?
(10) And the LORD said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face?

Covetousness causes many to have no love for one another as they fight in their envying and strife and divisions. We must see the presence of the abomination of desolation and put if far away from it. We must destroy it. We must flee from it and not keep company with the covetousness….for it is the source of our troubles.

(11) Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it even among their own stuff.
(12) Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accursed: neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the accursed from among you.
(13) Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow: for thus saith the LORD God of Israel, There is an accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the accursed thing from among you.
(14) In the morning therefore ye shall be brought according to your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which the LORD taketh shall come according to the families thereof; and the family which the LORD shall take shall come by households; and the household which the LORD shall take shall come man by man.
(15) And it shall be, that he that is taken with the accursed thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath: because he hath transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and because he hath wrought folly in Israel.
(16) So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken:
(17) And he brought the family of Judah; and he took the family of the Zarhites: and he brought the family of the Zarhites man by man; and Zabdi was taken:
(18) And he brought his household man by man; and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken.
(19) And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to the LORD God of Israel, and make confession unto him; and tell me now what thou hast done; hide it not from me.
(20) And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned against the LORD God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done:
(21) When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.
(22) So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran unto the tent; and, behold, it was hid in his tent, and the silver under it.
(23) And they took them out of the midst of the tent, and brought them unto Joshua, and unto all the children of Israel, and laid them out before the LORD.
(24) And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor.
(25) And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.
(26) And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day.

If any one is reading this thread and cares to continue, I have and will continue to post in the blog section under the title "The chariots of God are myriads..."

The current topic: the abomination of desolation.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Peace,

W