Peace unto you.
The mystery of iniquity is already at work in every “church” gathering.
The man of sin is the son of perdition…the son of destruction… and has already been given over to the destruction of the flesh and those who are sitting together with him are perishing along with them. They defile the flesh…the mortal flesh.
Through covetousness (the abomination of DESOLATION) do they make merchandise of us. Their judgement does not linger and their condemnation does not slumber as they are actively perishing away from this earth. They are going down to the grave without His life being made manifest and they are taking those who sit together and support them down with them.
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.
(3) And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
The life of Jesus is not being made manifest in the mortal bodies of any church gathering as ungodly men have slipped in “unawares” and are turning the grace of our God into “lasciviousness” and denying the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ. They are “antichrist” as they prevent the life of Jesus (the Son of man) from appearing in the mortal flesh of anyone that they are deceiving…..and all of this for money. They follow in the footsteps of Judas and come to take the “daily” sacrifice out of our lives so that His life is never made manifest in our mortal flesh ( the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners). Woe unto those who betray the Son of man.
Jude 1:3-5 KJV
(3) Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
(4) For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Believing is DOING His commandment to have love for one another. Those who become forgetful in DOING are being destroyed by the false prophets that lead them astray into their church bondage of the doctrines and commandments of men where they make money from those they are deceiving. If we sit together with them, we are committing “fornication”. We become “one flesh” with them.
(5) I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
They come forth and speak “great swelling” words of emptiness towards those who are just escaping the pollutions of the world (“Egypt) through the knowledge of our Lord. They allure through the lusts of the flesh with much “wantonness” those who are just escaping.
2 Peter 2:17-22 KJV
(17) These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
(18) For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
They want to bring us into their church bondage to keep their church dogmas (the handwriting of ordinances) where MANY are setting aside the commandment of God to have love for one another and serve the doctrines and commandments of men instead.
They worship Him in vain by teaching the doctrines and commandments of men that are not saving the mortal flesh of anyone as MANY are perishing by the using of them.
(19) While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
(20) For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
(21) For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
(22) But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
These men have slipped in unawares and their presence is according to the working of Satan with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that are perishing from off this earth because they received not the love of the Truth that they might be saved.
If they love the Way of righteousness, then they would not have turned away from the Holy Commandment (to have love for one another) that was delivered by the Lord Jesus Christ unto us to KEEP.
2 Thessalonians 2:9-12 KJV
(9) Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
(10) And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
(11) And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
(12) That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
The thief only comes to steal, to kill and to destroy. He comes deceptively preaching the doctrines and commandments of men in order to get paid rather than work with his own hands in order to support his own necessities. All of those who are being deceived by him are being destroyed as the thief is being destroyed himself.
John 10:8-10 KJV
(8) All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.
(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.
They speak feigned words in order to lead us astray. They make merchandise of us. We must not sit together with those who are called “brothers” but are covetous.
Deuteronomy 24:7 KJV
(7) If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you.
Their judgment is not lingering nor is their condemnation as they are actively perishing away from off this earth for such things. The life of Jesus is not being made manifest thereby saving them. Instead, they are perishing from off this earth under the wrath of God and they are in the “dark” about His judgment upon them.
2 Peter 2:3 KJV
(3) And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
We must not keep company with them. We must put away from among ourselves that wicked person…..putting away evil from among us.
1 Corinthians 5:9-13 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?
(13) But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
Their job is to catch and destroy those who receive not the love of the truth so that they might be saved. These “natural brute beasts” are MADE TO TAKE and destroy those who become forgetful in having brotherly love as they beguile the unstable souls and MANY are following their pernicious (ruinous) ways.
The destroyers themselves are being destroyed as they utterly perish from off this earth in their own corruption.
2 Peter 2:12-15 KJV
(12) But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
(13) And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
(14) Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
(15) Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
These men are the spiritual “Amaleks”…meaning “people who lick”…as they flatter us with their tongues speaking good words and fair speeches in order to lead astray many who have become “weary” in well doing (having love for one another).
They come forth to meet us just as we are escaping the pollutions of the world…”Egypt”. They meet us by the “Way”…the Way of righteousness…in order to cut us off from the road that leads to His eternal life in this earth.
Deuteronomy 25:17-19 KJV
(17) Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt;
(18) How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.
(19) Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it.
Let us not become weary in well doing. If we love our neighbor as ourselves, then we “do well”.
James 2:8 KJV
(8) If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
These natural “brute” ( irrational) beasts walk after their own ungodly lusts. They deny that Jesus IS COMING in our mortal flesh which gives us His eternal life in the here and now. They scoff: “where is the promise of His coming?” Where is the manifestation of the Lord’s life in the mortal flesh of anyone?
2 Peter 3:1-4 KJV
(1) This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
They do not remember the commandment of the original apostles of the Lord and Savior.
(2) That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:
(3) Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
(4) And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
The “commandment” of the apostles is to work with our own hands to support our own earthly necessities just as the apostles of the Lord and Savior did. They made themselves an example for us to follow them in this. They did not eat any man’s bread for nothing but worked with labor and travail night and day so that they might not be chargeable to anyone.
2 Thessalonians 3:7-15 KJV
(7) For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;
(8) Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:
(9) Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.
(10) For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
The scoffers will continue to walk disorderly after their own lusts. They will continue to preach things that they ought not be for money’s sake rather than quit stealing and work with their own hands to support themselves.
(11) For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.
They are counseled to hear what the Spirit is saying and be quiet in their response as they are commanded and exhorted to work and eat their OWN bread.
(12) Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
(13) But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.
But the scoffers shall continue to walk disorderly after their lusts for money’s sake .
We are commanded not to keep company with those who will not obey the word by this letter. In doing so, we are not to treat them as an enemy but admonish them as brothers. We are not be weary in “well doing”…having love for others.
(14) And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.
(15) Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
They walk disorderly and not followers together of Paul (who worked with his own hands to support his own necessities as a tentmaker). We have them (the original apostles of the Lord who worked day and night so as not to be chargeable to any) as an example.
Philippians 3:17-21 KJV
(17) Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.
Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you: Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.
But MANY are walking as the enemies of the cross of Christ as they are preventing His “daily” sacrifice from being kept in those who they are deceiving in their church gatherings.
(18) (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
The natural brute beasts end is destruction as they seek after the earthly things (what to eat, what to drink, what to wear).
(19) Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
They have no understanding as their minds have been blinded to the good news of Christ (by the “god of this world”…their belly that they are really serving for) who shall change our mortal, humiliated-by-sin bodies to be fashioned like unto His.
(20) For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
(21) Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
Paul did not shun to declare unto us all of the counsel of God.
Acts 20:26-35 KJV
(26) Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.
(27) For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
(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.
(33) I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel.
His hands did minister unto his own necessities …and we are to be followers together with him in this (and the rest of the apostles who did so). They are the example that we are to follow.
(34) Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.
Paul showed us all things….how so laboring (with our own hands to support our own necessities rather than preaching for a paycheck) we ought to support the “weak”. The outside world blasphemes His name and the gospel when they see the preaching for money….taking advantage of the flock.
It is more blessed to give than to receive.
(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.
Let us hear the command of the apostles through the Lord and work with our own hands for our own earthly necessities so that we may truly be able to preach the sincere Word of God to those who need to hear it.
We are to hear and be found seeking first the kingdom of God and His righteousness….and all of the earthly things shall be added unto us.
Matthew 6:31-34 KJV
(31) Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
(32) (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
(33) But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
(34) Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Let us hear and not sin…speaking evil against what we hear. Let him that “steals” (preaching deceptively for a paycheck) steal no more…but instead labor working with our own hand that thing which is good.
Ephesians 4:26-28 KJV
(26) Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
(27) Neither give place to the devil.
(28) Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
Let us hear and “do well” when we hear the Spirit speaking to us as men speak as they are moved by the Holy Spirit. Let not the “sun” go down upon our wrath.
2 Peter 1:19-21 KJV
(19) We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
(20) Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
(21) For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
We are to “do well” and be accepted. We are to rule over the sin that so easily wants to come out of our mouths when we hear something that we do not agree with or do not want to hear. If we do not “do well”, then sin lies at the door of our mouths.
Cain let sin rule over him. Cain was a “tiller of the ground” as he minded earthly things.
Genesis 4:1-10 KJV
(1) And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
(2) And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
(3) And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.
But Abel sought first the kingdom of God and His righteousness.
(4) And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:
The wrath of man does not work the righteousness of God. Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil.
(5) But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
(6) And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?
(7) If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
Let us not think of our brother who speaks what he hears the Spirit saying a “fool” or an “empty head”. “Abel” means “empty, vain.” We "slay" other men made in the image of God by calling them "fools" for what they speak.
(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?
(10) And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
We are to hear and be swift to hear and slow to speak and slow to wrath.
James 1:16-26 KJV
(16) Do not err, my beloved brethren.
(17) Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
(18) Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
(19) Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
The wrath of man does not work the righteousness of God.
(20) For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
Instead of acting out in wrath, Let us "do well" and be accepted
(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.
(23) For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
(24) For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
(25) But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
If we do not well, then sin lies at the door of our mouths as we are tempted to speak evil against what we hear and those who preach it (calling them "fools"). There is no respect for the “offerings” of the man that speaks evil as that man’s religion is vain.
(26) If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
The mystery of iniquity is already at work in every “church” gathering.
The man of sin is the son of perdition…the son of destruction… and has already been given over to the destruction of the flesh and those who are sitting together with him are perishing along with them. They defile the flesh…the mortal flesh.
Through covetousness (the abomination of DESOLATION) do they make merchandise of us. Their judgement does not linger and their condemnation does not slumber as they are actively perishing away from this earth. They are going down to the grave without His life being made manifest and they are taking those who sit together and support them down with them.
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.
(3) And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
The life of Jesus is not being made manifest in the mortal bodies of any church gathering as ungodly men have slipped in “unawares” and are turning the grace of our God into “lasciviousness” and denying the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ. They are “antichrist” as they prevent the life of Jesus (the Son of man) from appearing in the mortal flesh of anyone that they are deceiving…..and all of this for money. They follow in the footsteps of Judas and come to take the “daily” sacrifice out of our lives so that His life is never made manifest in our mortal flesh ( the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners). Woe unto those who betray the Son of man.
Jude 1:3-5 KJV
(3) Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
(4) For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Believing is DOING His commandment to have love for one another. Those who become forgetful in DOING are being destroyed by the false prophets that lead them astray into their church bondage of the doctrines and commandments of men where they make money from those they are deceiving. If we sit together with them, we are committing “fornication”. We become “one flesh” with them.
(5) I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
They come forth and speak “great swelling” words of emptiness towards those who are just escaping the pollutions of the world (“Egypt) through the knowledge of our Lord. They allure through the lusts of the flesh with much “wantonness” those who are just escaping.
2 Peter 2:17-22 KJV
(17) These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
(18) For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
They want to bring us into their church bondage to keep their church dogmas (the handwriting of ordinances) where MANY are setting aside the commandment of God to have love for one another and serve the doctrines and commandments of men instead.
They worship Him in vain by teaching the doctrines and commandments of men that are not saving the mortal flesh of anyone as MANY are perishing by the using of them.
(19) While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
(20) For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
(21) For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
(22) But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
These men have slipped in unawares and their presence is according to the working of Satan with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that are perishing from off this earth because they received not the love of the Truth that they might be saved.
If they love the Way of righteousness, then they would not have turned away from the Holy Commandment (to have love for one another) that was delivered by the Lord Jesus Christ unto us to KEEP.
2 Thessalonians 2:9-12 KJV
(9) Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
(10) And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
(11) And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
(12) That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
The thief only comes to steal, to kill and to destroy. He comes deceptively preaching the doctrines and commandments of men in order to get paid rather than work with his own hands in order to support his own necessities. All of those who are being deceived by him are being destroyed as the thief is being destroyed himself.
John 10:8-10 KJV
(8) All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.
(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.
They speak feigned words in order to lead us astray. They make merchandise of us. We must not sit together with those who are called “brothers” but are covetous.
Deuteronomy 24:7 KJV
(7) If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you.
Their judgment is not lingering nor is their condemnation as they are actively perishing away from off this earth for such things. The life of Jesus is not being made manifest thereby saving them. Instead, they are perishing from off this earth under the wrath of God and they are in the “dark” about His judgment upon them.
2 Peter 2:3 KJV
(3) And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
We must not keep company with them. We must put away from among ourselves that wicked person…..putting away evil from among us.
1 Corinthians 5:9-13 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?
(13) But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
Their job is to catch and destroy those who receive not the love of the truth so that they might be saved. These “natural brute beasts” are MADE TO TAKE and destroy those who become forgetful in having brotherly love as they beguile the unstable souls and MANY are following their pernicious (ruinous) ways.
The destroyers themselves are being destroyed as they utterly perish from off this earth in their own corruption.
2 Peter 2:12-15 KJV
(12) But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
(13) And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
(14) Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
(15) Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
These men are the spiritual “Amaleks”…meaning “people who lick”…as they flatter us with their tongues speaking good words and fair speeches in order to lead astray many who have become “weary” in well doing (having love for one another).
They come forth to meet us just as we are escaping the pollutions of the world…”Egypt”. They meet us by the “Way”…the Way of righteousness…in order to cut us off from the road that leads to His eternal life in this earth.
Deuteronomy 25:17-19 KJV
(17) Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt;
(18) How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.
(19) Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it.
Let us not become weary in well doing. If we love our neighbor as ourselves, then we “do well”.
James 2:8 KJV
(8) If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
These natural “brute” ( irrational) beasts walk after their own ungodly lusts. They deny that Jesus IS COMING in our mortal flesh which gives us His eternal life in the here and now. They scoff: “where is the promise of His coming?” Where is the manifestation of the Lord’s life in the mortal flesh of anyone?
2 Peter 3:1-4 KJV
(1) This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
They do not remember the commandment of the original apostles of the Lord and Savior.
(2) That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:
(3) Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
(4) And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
The “commandment” of the apostles is to work with our own hands to support our own earthly necessities just as the apostles of the Lord and Savior did. They made themselves an example for us to follow them in this. They did not eat any man’s bread for nothing but worked with labor and travail night and day so that they might not be chargeable to anyone.
2 Thessalonians 3:7-15 KJV
(7) For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;
(8) Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:
(9) Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.
(10) For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
The scoffers will continue to walk disorderly after their own lusts. They will continue to preach things that they ought not be for money’s sake rather than quit stealing and work with their own hands to support themselves.
(11) For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.
They are counseled to hear what the Spirit is saying and be quiet in their response as they are commanded and exhorted to work and eat their OWN bread.
(12) Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
(13) But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.
But the scoffers shall continue to walk disorderly after their lusts for money’s sake .
We are commanded not to keep company with those who will not obey the word by this letter. In doing so, we are not to treat them as an enemy but admonish them as brothers. We are not be weary in “well doing”…having love for others.
(14) And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.
(15) Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
They walk disorderly and not followers together of Paul (who worked with his own hands to support his own necessities as a tentmaker). We have them (the original apostles of the Lord who worked day and night so as not to be chargeable to any) as an example.
Philippians 3:17-21 KJV
(17) Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.
Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you: Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.
But MANY are walking as the enemies of the cross of Christ as they are preventing His “daily” sacrifice from being kept in those who they are deceiving in their church gatherings.
(18) (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
The natural brute beasts end is destruction as they seek after the earthly things (what to eat, what to drink, what to wear).
(19) Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
They have no understanding as their minds have been blinded to the good news of Christ (by the “god of this world”…their belly that they are really serving for) who shall change our mortal, humiliated-by-sin bodies to be fashioned like unto His.
(20) For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
(21) Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
Paul did not shun to declare unto us all of the counsel of God.
Acts 20:26-35 KJV
(26) Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.
(27) For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
(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.
(33) I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel.
His hands did minister unto his own necessities …and we are to be followers together with him in this (and the rest of the apostles who did so). They are the example that we are to follow.
(34) Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.
Paul showed us all things….how so laboring (with our own hands to support our own necessities rather than preaching for a paycheck) we ought to support the “weak”. The outside world blasphemes His name and the gospel when they see the preaching for money….taking advantage of the flock.
It is more blessed to give than to receive.
(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.
Let us hear the command of the apostles through the Lord and work with our own hands for our own earthly necessities so that we may truly be able to preach the sincere Word of God to those who need to hear it.
We are to hear and be found seeking first the kingdom of God and His righteousness….and all of the earthly things shall be added unto us.
Matthew 6:31-34 KJV
(31) Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
(32) (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
(33) But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
(34) Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Let us hear and not sin…speaking evil against what we hear. Let him that “steals” (preaching deceptively for a paycheck) steal no more…but instead labor working with our own hand that thing which is good.
Ephesians 4:26-28 KJV
(26) Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
(27) Neither give place to the devil.
(28) Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
Let us hear and “do well” when we hear the Spirit speaking to us as men speak as they are moved by the Holy Spirit. Let not the “sun” go down upon our wrath.
2 Peter 1:19-21 KJV
(19) We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
(20) Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
(21) For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
We are to “do well” and be accepted. We are to rule over the sin that so easily wants to come out of our mouths when we hear something that we do not agree with or do not want to hear. If we do not “do well”, then sin lies at the door of our mouths.
Cain let sin rule over him. Cain was a “tiller of the ground” as he minded earthly things.
Genesis 4:1-10 KJV
(1) And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
(2) And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
(3) And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.
But Abel sought first the kingdom of God and His righteousness.
(4) And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:
The wrath of man does not work the righteousness of God. Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil.
(5) But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
(6) And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?
(7) If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
Let us not think of our brother who speaks what he hears the Spirit saying a “fool” or an “empty head”. “Abel” means “empty, vain.” We "slay" other men made in the image of God by calling them "fools" for what they speak.
(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?
(10) And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
We are to hear and be swift to hear and slow to speak and slow to wrath.
James 1:16-26 KJV
(16) Do not err, my beloved brethren.
(17) Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
(18) Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
(19) Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
The wrath of man does not work the righteousness of God.
(20) For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
Instead of acting out in wrath, Let us "do well" and be accepted
(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.
(23) For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
(24) For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
(25) But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
If we do not well, then sin lies at the door of our mouths as we are tempted to speak evil against what we hear and those who preach it (calling them "fools"). There is no respect for the “offerings” of the man that speaks evil as that man’s religion is vain.
(26) If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
