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Solomon “hated life” when he came to the realization that all of the work of his hands were grievous….for all is vanity and vexation of spirit. And so is religious man's works of his own hands....grievous...heavy laden....works of vanity.


(Eccl 2:17 KJV) Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Those that will “hate” their “life”…or “soul”…shall keep it. The “life in this world” is the religious thoughts and ways of erroneous men…whose works are profitless. We are to no longer partake with them.

(John 12:25 KJV) He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.

The “wine” of covetousness has led many to work the religious works of man’s folly. But the Lord comes to give us His understanding….so that we can keep His “law”….His INSTRUCTION. With His Light, we can observe it with our whole hearts.


(Psa 119:34 KJV) 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.

With His revealed instruction, we can turn away our eyes from beholding “vanity”…the covetous works of religious man. For all of religious man’s works….his denominations, his teachings, his commandments, his riches….are vanity and vexation of Spirit. With His instruction, we can be made ALIVE in the Way.

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.

A covetous church leader is one without true heavenly understanding. He is a great “oppressor” of the congregation. But he that hates covetousness shall prolong his days as the Lord’s servant.

(Prov 28:16 KJV) The prince that wanteth understanding is also a great oppressor: but he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days.

Many covetous, rich leaders have ruled over the churches and the teachings….the “many waters.” They have grown rich with the “wine” of Bablyon….the “wine” of her fornication….COVETOUSNESS.

(Rev 17:1 KJV) And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will show unto thee the judgment of the great harlot that sitteth upon many waters:
2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.

Her end is coming though….and the measure of her COVETOUSNESS…the “wine” of Babylon.

(Jer 51:13 KJV) O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.

Those that love her “wine”…covetousness…shall not be truly rich.

(Prov 21:17 KJV) He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.

For if we are drunk with the “wine” of her fornication…covetousness…(being unfaithful)…who will commit to our trust the TRUE RICHES?

The mysteries of the kingdom....the true riches.
(Luke 16:11 KJV) If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
12 And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own?
13 No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Yet, there will be those “Pharisee” leaders of the church who will “deride” the Truth when they will hear these things…..for they will not be able to separate themselves from their “great possessions” and their covetousness.

14 And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.

But God will know their hearts…by how they will react to the Truth….by the “deriding” of the Truth. They will be those who will seek to justify themselves before other men. What is highly esteemed among men is the ABOMINATION in the “sight” of God….in the face of His knowledge. Man shall rise up in his pride and covetousness to deride the Truth in the time of the revealing of His knowledge….the “sight” of God. The “abomination of desolation” is covetousness.

15 And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.

Covetousness is in the place where it should not be…in the temple of God…as shown by Jesus driving out those moneychangers and those who sold oxen, sheep and doves in the temple. Covetousness should not be in our hearts….nor in the church body of Christ.

(John 2:13 KJV) And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,

And what is found in the temple…in the holy place? The covetousness of religious man…selling and making merchandise of His people….selling the “sheep.” They will preach “peace and safety”…selling “doves”…as Jesus comes to drive them out.

14 And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting:
15 And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables;

Covetousness is the “abomination of desolation” that will make its stand against the Truth… “deriding” him as the covetous Pharisees did. It has desolated the Father’s house…by making it a “house of merchandise.” But the desolators shall be desolated themselves…as Jesus shall drive them out of the temple yet again.

16 And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.

When we see the “abomination of desolation” standing where it ought not be….in the temple…we are to flee from the covetous “false prophets.” They shall make merchandise of the “sheep”..the people…selling “doves”….preaching “peace and safety”….teaching the heresies.

(2 Pet 2:1 KJV) 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.

And through COVETOUSNESS….the abomination of desolation…they shall seek to make merchandise of you…the “sheep.” They shall seek to keep you from the revelation of the Truth. But the Lord comes to drive them out.

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.

When we UNDERSTAND this, those who are in “Judaea”….Christ Jesus…the TRUTH….are to flee to the “mountains.”

(Mark 13:14 KJV) But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains:

Forget the religious things of man altogether….the things of man….his teachings….his “garment” that he uses as a cloak for his covetousness.

15 And let him that is on the housetop not go down into the house, neither enter therein, to take any thing out of his house:
16 And let him that is in the field not turn back again for to take up his garment.

We are to “take heed” and BEWARE of COVETOUSNESS….the abomination of desolation. A man’s life consists not of his religious riches…his doctrines…his “garments”…his commandments….his great works.

(Luke 12:15 KJV) And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.

Let us go to the “mountain of Jehovah” instead. He shall teach us His ways…instead of man’s ways. We will walk in His paths…instead of religious man’s.

(Isa 2:3 KJV) And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

Let us flee to His mountains….to His righteousness…and away from man’s works of “righteousness” which are motivated by the covetousness in his heart.We shall be preserved in the Day of His wrath upon those who will love their religious lives in this world.


(Psa 36:6 KJV) Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.

Let us trust in God rather than what religious man says.

7 How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.

Then we shall understand the mysteries of the Scriptures….we shall drink of the “river” of His pleasures. His revealed knowledge shall satisfy us.

8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.

In His revealed knowledge is the fountain of Life…in His Light shall we truly understand. That Light is Christ Jesus…the Truth…the Way…and the Life.

9 For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.


The Light of His knowledge comes to save us from religious, covetous men. But some men shall love the "darkness" rather than the Light....because their religious works are evil. The

(John 3:19 KJV) And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

The Light REPROVES religious man...his works are works of darkness....they are in vain...vanity and vexation of spirit.

20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

But those who will love the Light of the Truth and DO it...shall be saved. They will not refuse the Truth when they hear it....they will come to it.

21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
 
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As Moses went into the midst of the cloud and went up into the mount….

(Exo 24:18 KJV) And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.

…so also Jesus also was “taken up” and a “cloud” received him out of their “sight.” Jesus….the Truth…is hidden in the “cloud” of witnesses’ words.

(Acts 1:9 KJV) And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.

It is the “cloud of witnesses” of the Bible that has received him out of our “sight.”

(Heb 12:1 KJV) 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,

But he comes back with the “clouds”…..the revelation of the witnesses’ words in the heavenly testimony of Christ Jesus. He comes so that we may have His knowledge.

(Mark 14:62 KJV) And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.

The Greek word for “heaven” is “ouranos” which comes from “oros” which means “a lifting up, mountain

Moses came back from the mount with the instructions on how to build the tabernacle…..likewise, Jesus comes to build His church with the revelation of the Truth….the heavenly revelation….as opposed to what religious man has built…the gold calf of religion.

Exo 25:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

And every man who hears the Truth is to WILLINGLY WITH HIS HEART offer the “gold, silver, brass….”….which are the works of man to be sacrificed. The religious thoughts and ways of each man are to be ceased from in order to be built into His living temple.

2 Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering.
3 And this is the offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and silver, and brass,
4 And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair,
5 And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse]tim wood,
6 Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense,
7 Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breastplate.

We are to be built into His sanctuary in the TRUTH….so that He may dwell among us.

8 And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.

We are to lay aside ALL malice, guile, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speakings… the “goats’ hair”…the rams’ skins dyed “red”….the badgers’ skins….
…..that religious man has actively participated in….so that we may be built into a true spiritual house….a sanctuary for Him.

(1 Pet 2:1 KJV) Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

We are to desire the SINCERE milk of the Word….as compared to the falsehoods religious man teaches.

2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
3 If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
4 To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,

By these offerings, we can then be built into a true spiritual house….so that we may offer up true spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

Religious man’s works…his offerings…are not acceptable. He has broken off the “golden earring” from his ear and has formed his own doctrines and commandments of men…..just as the children of Israel did while Moses was away. Jesus had gone away into heaven….the “mount”….and the people have strayed from the Truth.

(Exo 32:3 KJV) And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.

Religious man has not endured sound doctrine…he has not listened to the “wise reprovers”…he has broken off the “golden earring.”

(Prov 25:12 KJV) As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.

Religious man has formed his own doctrines and commandments with his own wisdom and knowledge….a “graving tool.” Religious man has formed a “molten calf” for his religion….thinking that the works of his hands are truly worshiping God.

Exo 32:4 And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

Religious man thinks that the true worship of God is with the works of his own hands. Yet, he is in ignorance….he knows not what he worships. He worships the “unknown God” with his own wisdom and knowledge. The “altar” of religious man is inscribed by his “graving tool”… “to the UNKNOWN God”….whom he has ignorantly worshiped.

(Acts 17:23 KJV) For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.

The “altar” of religious man is built upon his own earthly wisdom and knowledge.

Exo 32: 5 And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the LORD.
6 And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

But our Lord Jesus Christ…the Truth… comes from heaven in order to save us from the corruption of religious man. He comes to save us from religious man’s denominations…his doctrines…his commandments…his works of darkness....his offerings which do not profit. We are to save ourselves from this wicked generation by hearing and doing the Truth that comes from heaven.

7 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves:
8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

Like Moses coming down from the mount , the Lord himself shall descend from heaven. He comes with a “shout”…with power and great glory.

(1 Th 4:16 KJV) For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

Joshua and Moses also heard a “shout” coming from the people as they descended from the mount. It was a shout of those who took pleasure in their own religious ways and thoughts. For them, Moses came like a “thief in the night”…for they were not expecting him. All of the things of religious man shall disappear with a "great noise."


(Exo 32:17 KJV) And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp.
18 And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome: but the noise of them that sing do I hear.
19 And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.

We are not to be like the children of Israel who ate and drank and rose up to play…and were not watching for Moses’ return. We are to take “heed” to ourselves….lest at any time our hearts be “overcharged” with the “drunkenness”…the covetousness of religious man and the cares of religious man’s things so that the Day will come upon us unawares.

(Luke 21:34 KJV) And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.

We are to watch for the preaching of the Truth by our Lord so that we may save ourselves from this corrupt generation. The children of Israel are our examples to learn from.

36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

In the “Day time,” Jesus comes to preach to us the revealed Truth. At “night”…the “night season” of the church…he has abode in heaven…in the “mount.” Religious man has fallen asleep in the “night”…he stumbles around because he does not have the true Light….the knowledge of God.

37 And in the day time he was teaching in the temple; andat night he went out, and abode in the mount that is called the mount of Olives.

We are to watch for His preaching of the Truth in this “morning”…the dawning of His Truth. The “Day” is coming…and the night is nearly over.

38 And all the people came early in the morning to him in the temple, for to hear him.

The “night” is far spent….and we are to KNOW THE TIME. It is HIGH TIME to “awake” out of religious man’s sleep.

(Rom 13:11 KJV) And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

The “DAY” is at hand….so let us cast off the works of darkness by religious man….and put on the armor of Light. Let us go in the “morning” to hear Him preaching in the temple…in the Scripture of Truth. We are to be His church built upon the foundation of the apostles and the prophets….Jesus Christ being the chief corner stone….the heavenly Truth of the words of them.

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.

We are to remember the children of Israel who ate and drank and rose up to play…..they were in rioting and drunkenness…..in strife and envying. Likewise, religious man is no different today. It is high time for religious man to wake up and cast off the works of his own hands.

13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

We are to put on the Lord Jesus Christ and no longer make provision for the flesh….the works of darkness by religious man.

14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.




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The religious leaders have taken away the “garment” of righteousness from the people….just as Aaron had made the people naked.

(Exo 32:25 KJV) And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:)

We are to no longer worship God in ignorance….to the “unknown God”….being “strangers and foreigners.”

(Eph 2:19 KJV) Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

For like Moses, Jesus Christ comes from heaven (the "mount") to build His church in true righteousness….in true holiness…in the revealing of the Truth. We are to be built upon the spiritual Truth (Jesus Christ) of the witnesses’ words…the cloud of witnesses…the apostles and prophets.

20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;

Moses came down from the mount with the instructions on how to build the tabernacle….likewise Jesus Christ…the Truth…comes from heaven so that we may be built into a holy temple in Him. We are to be assembled in Him by His knowledge and not religious man’s. Religious man’s knowledge….his “graven tool”..has built a religious gold calf for him to worship. He worships the works of his own hands. The denominations and teachings of religious man are the works of his own hand.

21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:

We are to be built together for a habitation of God through the Spirit.

22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

If we can overcome, then we are to be built into the “tabernacle of God.” He will dwell with us and we shall be His people.

(Rev 21:3 KJV) 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.

And all of religious man’s strife and envy and hatred shall pass away…..for the “former things”…the things of religious man….are to pass away. We can truly coexist in true peace, love and joy….in One mind and One Spirit in the revealing of the Truth.

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.

His heavenly interpretation of the Scriptures is true and faithful….and so are His promises.

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.

Let us drink of the fountain of the pure water of life freely….His revealed Truth. We are to thirst after His knowledge…His Truth….His righteousness.

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.

Let us remember what happened to the children of Israel who were not watching for Moses’ return…..they were made to drink the bitter water of their burnt gold calf. All of religious man’s works are likewise going to be burnt in the fire and ground into “powder.”

Exo 32:20 And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strowed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.

Moses came in a time that many of the children of Israel were not expecting….and so the Day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night for the sleeping church who will not wake up to the Truth. And all of the works of religious man are to be burned up….and men are going to complain, weep and lament…the “great noise”..as they see their things coming to an end.

(2 Pet 3:10 KJV) But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

All of the things of religious man are to be dissolved….ground to powder.

11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
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.
 
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The churches have been “camped” in the “wilderness of Sinai” before the “mount.” “Sinai” means “hatred”….and so the churches have been living in divisions, envying and strife…..hatred of one another….while we are waiting for Jesus to descend from heaven…the “mount.” We have been waiting for His revealed heavenly Truth to open up our understanding of His ways and thoughts. We have come out of our sins (Egypt) only to go into the "wilderness of Sinai."


(Exo 19:1 KJV) In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai.
2 For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount.

The churches have been “camping” in the “wilderness of Sinai”….the wilderness of “hatred” = the foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another:

(Titus 3:3 KJV) For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

But AFTER that…..the kindness and love of God our Savior will appear toward man. He saves us from this “wilderness”….the envying, strife, divisions, hatred. He shall come from heaven...the mount.


4 But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,

The gold calf of man’s religion …..his “works of righteousness”…does not save us. His mercy save us….by the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Spirit. Religious man needs RENEWED again….so that he may live in peace and love with all of his brothers and sisters.

5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;

Jesus Christ ….the heavenly Truth….shall come to save us.

6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;

Just as the children of Israel were to wait for the return of Moses…..we are to be patient for the Lord…waiting patiently….for him to return.

(2 Th 3:5 KJV) And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.

But many have formed the gold calf of religion as they grew impatient for his return. They have formed their own doctrines and commandments of men….their denominations…their own ways and thoughts….their own “gold calf.” They grew impatient…..they saw that Moses had “delayed” to come down out of the mount.

(Exo 32:1 KJV) And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.

(Exo 32:23 KJV) For they said unto me, Make us gods, which shall go before us: for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.

Many pastors and church leaders also had grew impatient and leaned upon their own understanding of the Scriptures in order to form their own doctrines, commandments and denominations….which brings forth the divisions, hatred, envying and strife. They have been “drunken” on the “wine” of Babylon….COVETOUSNESS….as they say the “Lord” had delayed His coming. Like the children of Israel, they have “ate and drank” and rose up to “play.”

(Luke 12:45 KJV) 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;

The Lord of that servant pastors will come in a Day when he looks not for him….just as many did not look for Moses to arrive from the mountain.

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 children of Israel sat down to “eat and drink” and rose up to play…..because they said in their hearts that Moses delayed his coming….

(Exo 32:6 KJV) And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

Religious man has corrupted himself….before the “gold calf” of religion. He had been saved from his sins (Egypt) only to corrupt his way in man's religion. Religious man needs forgiven and renewed.


(Exo 32:7 KJV) And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves:

Religious man has turned aside quickly out of the way in which He commanded us…..to LOVE ONE ANOTHER. Religious man has made his own religion with his own wisdom.

8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

Before Jesus had gone away into heaven….the “mount”….he left this commandment for His church…..to LOVE ONE ANOTHER. All else has been evil.

(John 13:33 KJV) Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you.

He had given us this new commandment….the “new testament”…the new covenant to keep…..to love one another as he has loved us.

34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

By doing this, we show ALL men that we are his “disciples”….learners….pupils.

35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

For the Lord has gone away to heaven and is going to return…so that we shall follow Him afterwards. He returns to build His church in the revealing of the Truth.

36 Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered him, Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards.

Religious man ignorantly worships God…not knowing what he does. But just as Moses interceded on the behalf of the children of Israel, Jesus Christ intercedes for our sins of ignorance.

(Exo 32:30 KJV) And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the people, Ye have sinned a great sin: and now I will go up unto the LORD; peradventure I shall make an atonement for your sin.

He has given himself for our sins….so that he might deliver us from this present evil world….the religious world that worships the “gold calf” of man’s religion.

(Gal 1:4 KJV) Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:

He comes so that we may be partakers of the divine nature….love, peace, joy, oneness, knowledge, wisdom, power, understanding, counsel. He comes so that we may escape from the corruption of religious man.

(2 Pet 1:4 KJV) 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.

He comes to talk to us from heaven….through the opening up of the Scriptures for our understanding.

(Exo 20:22 KJV) And the LORD said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.

And we are to understand that God is not the works of our own hands…our own religious ways and thoughts.

23 Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold.

And we are to humble ourselves at this realization…at His revealing of the Truth. We are to humble our hearts….the “altar of earth”…and we are to be of a contrite and humbled heart….the true sacrifices.

24 An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.

The true sacrifices of God are a broken spirit…a broken and contrite heart. We are to hear the revealed Truth and humble ourselves and confess our sins of ignorance.

(Psa 51:16 KJV) For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

And we are to be built into a spiritual house where we can sacrifice the true sacrifices that are acceptable. Man must not use his own wisdom to make the “altar of stone”….his own tool will pollute it.

Exo 20: 25 And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.

We are to be that spiritual house….the lively stones…the “altar of stone”…so that we may offer up true spiritual sacrifices.

(1 Pet 2:5 KJV) Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
6 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.
Man must not use his own tool to build upon it….religious man must not use his own wisdom and knowledge which are in error.

(1 Cor 3:12 KJV) Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.

Religious man must not rise up in his religious pride against the Truth…..to “go up by steps unto mine altar.” For those who do shall have their folly manifest for all to see.

Exo 20:26 Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.

We must not rise up in our own wisdom…our own religious pride…against His revealing of the Truth. We must not resist His Truth that will be revealed from heaven.

(2 Tim 3:8 KJV) Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.

For their folly shall be manifest unto ALL men….their “nakedness” shall be discovered.

9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.
 
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God and the Son consider most of what is called Christianity repugnant. It began wandering off course over nineteen centuries ago, while following the Trinitarian blasphemy...After the Church began committing fornication with Constantine, she lost her soul. Since then, some of the Church's daughters married Western ideals, while most of the others gave themselves to Americanism. Now, so-called Christianity is a travesty clothed in worldly ways, carousing with politicians, sleeping with wealth and power, and worshipping idols of pride, vanity, hypocrisy, greed, selfishness, materialism, and hedonism. A day of reckoning approaches. The Abyss waits to welcome her. Satan laughs at his great triumph. He managed to pervert the victory of Yeshua and turn it into his plaything. Alas....
 
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Here, string these out in your thoughts, and ponder them for a while:

" But unto this day, whensoever Moses is read, a veil lieth upon their heart."

"Let not the Kingdom of Heaven wither away. For it is like a date palm shoot whose fruits poured down around it. It put forth leaves and, when they budded, they caused the productivity of the date palm to dry up. Thus it is also with the fruit which came from this single root; when the fruit was picked, fruits were collected by many harvesters. It would indeed be good if it were possible to produce these new plants now; for then you would find the Kingdom. "

""No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit."

"And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him, Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away."

"Already the axe is laid at the root of the tree"

“Know what is in front of your face, and what is hidden from you will be disclosed to you. For there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed.”
 
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Before Moses went up into the mountain, he left Aaron and Hur in charge so to speak. “Aaron” means “mountain” and “Hur” means “white linen.” Likewise, Jesus has left his servants (the “Aarons”) in charge of the churches….he has made them overseers of the church of God. And also “white linen” represents the fruits of the Spirit….love, peace, joy.

(Exo 24:13 KJV) And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up into the mount of God.
14 And he said unto the elders, Tarry ye here for us, until we come again unto you: and, behold, Aaron and Hur are with you: if any man have any matters to do, let him come unto them.
15 And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount.

But when Moses was away the children of Israel had corrupted themselves. Likewise, the churches have been corrupted by the errors that are preached by the leaders of the churches as Jesus is away in heaven. When Moses returned, he saw that the people were “naked”…for Aaron had made them like that unto their shame. Notice there is no mention of “Hur” whatsoever after Moses’ return from the mount. He seemed to have disappeared in all of this. That is because “Hur” represents the righteousness of the Spirit that His people are to be “clothed” in. “Hur” had vanished….and they were no longer “clothed.” "Hur" means "white linen."


(Exo 32:25 KJV) And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:)

Likewise, there are many in the churches that are also not “clothed” because of the falsehoods that are taught by their leaders. The errors have robbed them of the fruits of the Spirit….the love, the peace, the joy. They have become “poor in Spirit.” Many of the churches need to be “visited” and “clothed” by preaching the revealing of the Truth to them.

Jesus had left us with this “new commandment”….the “new testament”…the “new covenant”….that we are to love one another as he has loved us. He gave himself for us….he laid down his life for us. This is the true SPIRITUAL Lord’s supper: to LOVE ONE ANOTHER. Yet, there are many that do not….they are “naked” so to speak. They eat and drink of this supper unworthily…not discerning the body of Christ. And so many of the churches are “sick” and weak…..and need to be healed with the Truth.

(John 13:34 KJV) A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
36 Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered him, Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards.


We are to love one another as he was away in heaven…that is the true Lord’s supper…to love one another. We are the body of Christ…and we are to love one another as he loves us. We were to do this as Jesus was away in the "mountain"....heaven. He returns...like Moses...and we are to be watching for him.


(Luke 22:19 KJV) And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.
20 Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.

He laid down his life for us…so also the many divided in the churches are to lay down their religious “lives” for each other. We are to lay down our false doctrines and commandments of men in order to receive each other in the revealing of the Truth.

(1 John 3:16 KJV) Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

Those that can overcome their own religious thoughts and ways and the desire to speak against the revealing of the Truth, shall be clothed in white raiment….. “HUR.” Hur = white linen. We are to deny religious selves.....our religious lives....and follow after Him in the revealing of the Truth. We are to confess our sins….and confess the Truth of the matter. We are to put off the old, corrupt man of religion and put on Christ Jesus.

[FONT=&quot](Rev 3:5 KJV) He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.[/FONT]
 
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Many in the churches are “weak and sickly” and are “asleep.” The denominations and church leaders have not taken care of His flock as they should. The “flock” is His body…..we are the body of Christ. Many pastors have not FED the church of God as they should have.


(Acts 20:28 KJV) 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.

The flock has not been spared. Many in the churches are like sheared sheep…..they are “naked” and need to be clothed with true works of righteousness…..instead of the corrupt works of religious, covetous man.

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.

Paul knew that this was coming to the church. It moved him so deeply that he had wept for three years….ceasing not to warn every one “night and day.” The church has been living in the “night” season when the wolves have entered in not sparing the flock. The flock has been divided into denominations. Even now, Paul’s letters warn us…even now… in the “night” season of the churches….when Satan’s ministers pose as ministers of “righteousness” and have led many astray. We were supposed to WATCH…stay “awake”… and REMEMBER.

31 Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.

But the Lord comes with the revealing of the Scripture of Truth to religious man. He comes to awaken those who have fallen asleep. He comes with His revealed Word of His grace….which is able to build us up into a true spiritual church….not one as divided as it is by man’s covetousness.

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.

And here is the bane of the current status of the divided churches…..COVETOUSNESS. Covetousness is THE abomination of desolation. Covetousness in religious man’s heart has desolated the temple. It has turned it into a “house of merchandise”….a “den of thieves”….desolation.

33 I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel.
34 Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.

We are to REMEMBER the words of the Lord Jesus….. It is more blessed to give than to receive. The Spirit of Truth comes to us in order to bring us into the remembrance his words. We are to hear what the Spirit says. Church leaders have it backwards because of their own covetousness.

35 I have showed 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.

It is the church leaders who were made overseers of the church who have caused many to stray from the Way of righteousness….they have caused many to err. They are like “children”….carnal children who have ruled over the churches.

(Isa 3:12 KJV) As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

The “babes” that rule are carnal. They have brought envying, strife and divisions into the churches. Paul’s letters have not been able to “speak” to us in its spiritual wisdom because of the current condition of the churches….its divisions, envying and strife.

(1 Cor 3:1 KJV) 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?

Like the woman in the garden…..religious man has desired to be wise…leaning upon his own understanding of the Scriptures. They “desired”…they covet. Man’s religious wisdom of the Bible has brought “death”….the hating of one another in denominational divisions. Whoever hates his brother abides in “death.” They strive about words that profit not. Religious man has been wise in his own eyes.


(Gen 3:5 KJV) For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

Religious man has given into the temptation to be wise for himself and has sewed together his own “works of righteousness. He has made them like “aprons” to cover himself with. He has made his own commandments, doctrines and traditions of man to cover himself with.

7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

Like the woman in the garden, religious man has been drawn away of his own covetousness…lust…and enticed.

(James 1:14 KJV) But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

Covetousness brings forth sin…..the missing of the mark….error. Sin when it is finished brings forth “death.” In the day that you eat of it, you shall surely “die.”

15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
16 Do not err, my beloved brethren.

And those many in the churches who have fallen for religious man’s teachings and ways …his error….have fallen “asleep” in the “death”….the living in divisions, hatred, envying and strife of religious man’s world. They have only been “sleeping” though and need to be “awakened” up by the revealing of the Truth. Those that hate their brothers because of religious man’s thoughts and ways abide in “death.” But the Lord comes so that they may have true Life. Many will hear and believe the revealing of the Truth in this last day. They shall pass from “death” into true Life.

(1 John 3:14 KJV) We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.

Now the end of the commandment is to love each other out of a PURE heart…unfeigned love of each other. Religious man only feigns his love for others who do not agree with his particular erroneous beliefs.

(1 Tim 1:5 KJV) Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:

Religious man has swerved from loving each other because he relies upon his own understanding of the Scriptures. Religious man has turned aside unto his “vain jangling”…his own teachings of error concerning the Truth. His own striving over words of the Bible do not profit him.

6 From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling;

Like the woman in the garden….they have desired to be wise in their own eyes. They desire to be teachers of the "law"….their own teachings of “righteousness” based on what they read in the Scriptures. Yet, they do not really understand what they say nor what they affirm of.

7 Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.

The “law”…or instruction…is to be used to correct religious man from his sins and transgressions. The law is to be understood spiritually in this last day. The law has a specific purpose in this last day...to correct religious man from his errors.


8 But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;

All that is in the current religious world of man is of the world. The lust of religious man….the lust of his eyes…and his pride of his life are not of the Father.

(1 John 2:16 KJV) For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

Jehovah shall declare unto us our religious “righteousness” and our “works”….that they are NOT profitable.

(Isa 57:12 KJV) I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.

In the wisdom of religious man, man has covered himself with his so-called “righteous” works. And yet in Truth, they are works of iniquity by which they try to cover themselves with. The “act of violence” is in their hands….it has brought hatred, divisions, envy and strife into the churches.

(Isa 59:6 KJV) Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
8 The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
9 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

The church has stumbled in the “night”….in “desolate places as dead men.”

10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.

For MANY pastors have destroyed His vineyard…..they have made it a “desolate wilderness…

(Jer 12:10 KJV) Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
11 They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.


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....continued from previous post.

They have not “discerned” the body of the Lord…..they do not feed His poor sheep the Truth….they do not clothe His people with His righteousness….they do not “visit” the “sick” within the church….those who are living in envy, strife and hatred. They do not minister unto the churches the Truth when the “due season” to preach it arrives.

(Mat 25:41 KJV) Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
42 For I was an hungered, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?

We are to discern the body of the Lord….and take care of him. WE are his body….his sheep….his church. We are to feed His sheep and clothe them in God’s righteousness.

45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

The pastors…the “wolves”…have entered into the churches and have made His house a house of merchandise….a desolation.

(John 2:16 KJV) And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.
17 And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.
18 Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign showest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?

They have “destroyed” His temple…His body…..but He comes to raise it up in the revealing of the Truth. Paul wept for three days and nights knowing that the wolves would enter in not sparing the flock….destroying the temple.

19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?

He comes to reveal His Truth from heaven by which His temple…His body…can be built….and the “gates of Hades” shall not prevail.

21 But he spake of the temple of his body.

The Spirit of Truth comes to bring his words into our remembrance…..by opening up the Scriptures for our understanding. We are to believe His interpretation of the Scriptures over man’s erroneous biblical teachings. The testimony of Jesus from heaven is the Spirit of prophecy. Jesus comes to open up the Scriptures and we are to believe in His words that interpret them in this last day.

22 When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.

For our Father reveals His hidden Scripture of Truth from heaven. He will reveal His hidden knowledge by opening up the Bible for our TRUE understanding of it. This heavenly revelation is what the Lord shall build His church upon. What man has built….that which has been built by flesh and blood man….that religious house upon the sand…shall collapse.

(Mat 16:17 KJV) And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.

Upon the “rock” of the heavenly revelation of the Scriptures is what His church shall be built upon. The heavenly interpreted words of the apostles and saints of the Scriptures is the foundation of the coming heavenly built temple…His body…His church. He shall raise it up from its desolation by covetous pastors. The “gates of hell” shall not prevail against it……meaning that the mouths of erroneous religious man shall not prevail against the preaching of the revealed Truth and the rebuilding of His temple.

18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

For the Lord will give the disciples of the Truth a mouth and wisdom by which religious man (who will seek to resist the Truth) will not be able to gainsay nor resist. The “gates of Hades” shall not prevail……the mouths of unbelieving religious man who will seek to contradict the revealing of the Truth shall not prevail.

(Luke 21:15 KJV) For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.

The “Libertines” of today’s churches shall arise in their pride against the Truth. They will profess they are “libertines”….free men…but yet are servants of their own corruption. They shall be “Alexandrians”…which means “defender of man”…..they shall seek to defend their teachings, denominations, commandments of man against the revealing of the Truth. They shall “dispute” the Truth.

(Acts 6:9 KJV) Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen.

But their mouths….the “gates of hell”…shall not prevail…for they will not be able to resist the wisdom that comes from the Spirit of Truth within.

10 And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake.

And these men who shall resist the Truth shall bring false accusations against those who preach the Truth.

11 Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.
12 And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and caught him, and brought him to the council,

But blessed are those who are reviled and persecuted because of the preaching of the revealed Truth….

(Mat 5:11 KJV) Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
 
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Just as the men who rose up against Stephen, there shall be those of the church who shall rise up against the preaching of the Truth in this last day. They shall be as the “Libertines”….. meaning they will say that they are “free men” but are yet servants of their own religious corruption.

(2 Pet 2:18 KJV) 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.
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.

They shall be like the “Cyrenians”…which means “wall, strength”….meaning they will be stubbornly join together to resist the preaching of the Truth. They shall be as the “Alexandrians”…..which means “defender of man.” They shall defend their denominations, doctrines, and commandments of men in the face of the revealing of the Truth. They will be like those of “Cilicia”….which means “to overthrow”….and of “Asia” which means “resurrection, sunrise.” They shall be the men of the church who shall rise up to resist the Truth….the “resurrection of the unjust” against the Truth….but shall be "overthrown" by God. They shall dispute with “Stephen”….which means “crown.” They will dispute the King of kings….the revealing of the Truth….the revealed Word of God.They shall despise His government over their hearts.


(Acts 6:9 KJV) Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen.

Yet, the “gates of hell”…which is another way of saying the mouths of these men…shall not prevail. They will not be able to resist the wisdom and Spirit of Truth that shall speak in this last day.

10 And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake.

Instead, these men of the church who shall rise up against the Truth (the resurrection of the unjust) shall resort to false accusations and evil speaking of those who will believe and do the Truth.

11 Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.
12 And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and caught him, and brought him to the council,

They shall set up false witnesses against those who will speak out against the religious organizations of man.

13 And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:

They shall cast their “stones” at those who will preach the Truth. They shall hate and speak evil…the “stoning” ….of those preachers. they shall be gathered together for this purpose...with one accord.


(Acts 7:57 KJV) Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,

They shall cast out of their company those who will preach the Truth in this last day. They shall speak evil of those who will preach the Truth…. “stoning” them.

58 And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul.

But blessed are those who will be hated because of the Truth….blessed are those that shall be separated from the company of the “Libertines”….the “Cyrenians and the Alexandrians”….. “cast out of the city” like Stephen was. Blessed are those who shall be reproached…. “stoned” like Stephen.

(Luke 6:22 KJV) Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.
23 Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.

Blessed are those who will falsely accuse you for believing in the revealed Truth….Christ Jesus….like Stephen was falsely accused.

(Mat 5:11 KJV) Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

REJOICE and be exceedingly glad. “Stephen” means “crown”…a crown of JOY. Great will be our reward in heaven….just as Stephen saw into heaven.

12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

We are to have a “crown” of joy …the meaning of “Stephen”…when they will hate and speak evil of us because of the preaching of the revealing of the Truth in this last day. Great will be our reward in heaven: for we shall see his “face” at his presence (at his coming.)

(1 Th 2:19 KJV) For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?

Great will be our reward in heaven….just as Stephen saw as he was being stoned. We shall be FULL of the Spirit. We shall see the glory of God and Jesus standing on the right hand of God. We shall see the “heaven open”…..meaning we shall see all of the Scripture of Truth being opened up to our understanding. Christ Jesus is the Truth that we shall see being revealed in the Scriptures. We shall read the Bible with complete spiritual understanding and have all fruits of the Spirit.

(Acts 7:55 KJV) But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,
56 And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.
57 Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,

These men shall seek to forsake their congregations from hearing and believing in the revealing of the Truth. They shall seek to forsake the assembly of His people in the Truth. We are to be built into a spiritual house by the revealing of the Scripture of Truth….we are not to forsake this last day assembly.

(Heb 10:24 KJV) And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

Let us remember those who had come out of Babylon to rebuild the city. Let us remember the copy of the letter that was sent to king Artaxerxes urging him to command the work to be ceased of this building.

(Ezra 4:11 KJV) This is the copy of the letter that they sent unto him, even unto Artaxerxes the king; Thy servants the men on this side the river, and at such a time.

We are to be built into a spiritual house for the Lord…yet there will be those of the church who will resist this building.

12 Be it known unto the king, that the Jews which came up from thee to us are come unto Jerusalem, building the rebellious and the bad city, and have set up the walls thereof, and joined the foundations.

And this is what these men of the church will be worried about…..their riches…their “toll, tribute and custom.” They will worry about the “revenue of the kings”….the tithing…the money…all of which they covet after. They will worry about losing their power over the people also.

13 Be it known now unto the king, that, if this city be builded, and the walls set up again, then will they not pay toll, tribute, and custom, and so thou shalt endamage the revenue of the kings.
14 Now because we have maintenance from the king's palace, and it was not meet for us to see the king's dishonour, therefore have we sent and certified the king;
15 That search may be made in the book of the records of thy fathers: so shalt thou find in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful unto kings and provinces, and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time: for which cause was this city destroyed.
16 We certify the king that, if this city be builded again, and the walls thereof set up, by this means thou shalt have no portion on this side the river.

They shall preach “peace and safety.”

17 Then sent the king an answer unto Rehum the chancellor, and to Shimshai the scribe, and to the rest of their companions that dwell in Samaria, and unto the rest beyond the river, Peace, and at such a time.
18 The letter which ye sent unto us hath been plainly read before me.
19 And I commanded, and search hath been made, and it is found that this city of old time hath made insurrection against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made therein.
20 There have been mighty kings also over Jerusalem, which have ruled over all countries beyond the river; and toll, tribute, and custom, was paid unto them.

Unbelieving preachers, pastors, reverends, leaders shall bind together in order to command others not to assemble in the Truth...forsaking the assembly of the building.

21 Give ye now commandment to cause these men to cease, and that this city be not builded, until another commandment shall be given from me.

They will be afraid of losing their positions over the congregations. They will be afraid of losing their “revenue of kings.”

22 Take heed now that ye fail not to do this: why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?

They shall come with all “force and power” in order to deceive those who would assemble into the building of the Truth….the great “signs and wonders.”

23 Now when the copy of king Artaxerxes' letter was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power.

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They shall arise and show great signs and wonders….the “force and power” …in order to keep those who are escaping from them from assembling into a spiritual house in the revealing of the Truth.

(Mat 24:23 KJV) Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
25 Behold, I have told you before.

They shall seek to allure back those who are escaping from them with their “great swelling words of vanity.” They shall show great signs and wonders: their growing churches, their growing church prosperity….thinking that gain is godliness. We can already see this “mystery of iniquity” at work.

(2 Pet 2:18 KJV) 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.

The “mystery of iniquity”…..how the wicked in the church prosper but seemingly are not punished for it. Their church riches have a purpose…to reserve them for punishment because they will not believe in the Truth and be saved.

(Psa 73:1 KJV) A Psalm of Asaph. Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.
2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.

Their prosperity shall destroy them in the end.

3 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
4 For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.
5 They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.
6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.

They will speak out against the Truth…. “against the heavens.”

8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.

But the “gates of hell”…the mouths of unbelieving church men…shall not prevail.

9 They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
10 Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.
11 And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?

Their great signs and wonders…..their increase in church riches…shall be used to entice those who are escaping back into their corruption.

12 Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.
13 Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.
14 For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
15 If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.

The mystery shall be solved…..their riches are a means to reserve them unto punishment for their rebellion against the revealing of the Truth. It seems as a “mystery”… “when I thought to know this, it was too painful for me.”

16 When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;

Until we enter into His knowledge…assembling into the Truth.

17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.
18 Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
19 How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
20 As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.

The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of the temptations that shall come from those false preachers who will seek to forsake the assembly of the church in the Truth by great “signs and wonders”…. “force and power.” And He knows how to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished for their resistance to the revealing of the Truth. They are trapped by their own church growth and prosperity which they will not give up in order to follow Him.

(2 Pet 2:9 KJV) The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:


They will "despise government"....disputing "Stephen"...which means "crown."

10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
 
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In this last day the Lord will send forth His “angels” or messengers of the revealed Truth….the preachers of the revealed Truth…to gather together His elect from the “four winds” with a great sound of a trumpet. They will preach what they hear the Spirit of Truth saying in this last day….the “trumpet.”

(Rev 3:22 KJV) He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

The voice of the Lord sounds through the Spirit of Truth…like a “trumpet.” He will open up a “door in heaven”… our mouths are to be opened to preach what we hear the Spirit of Truth saying in the Scripture of Truth. We are to repeat what the Spirit is saying in this last day. The Spirit of Truth shall show us things to come by the correct interpretation of the Word of God. What is to come is all ready written…it just needs to be correctly understood in the mind of Christ.

4:1 After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will show thee things which must be hereafter.
2 And immediately I was in the spirit; and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.

The Spirit of Truth shall guide us into ALL Truth….he shall speak not of himself but what he hears from the Lord. We follow the SAME PATTERN by repeating what we hear the Spirit saying to the churches in this last day. The Spirit of Truth shall show us things to come….as repeated in Revelation 4:1. We “prophesy” by repeating what we hear the Spirit saying in the revealed Scripture of Truth. We preach the Truth. The "trumpet" does not make sound on its own.


(John 16:13 KJV) Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come.

The Lord shall send those forth who will hear what the Spirit is saying this last day. They will be His messengers of the Truth…repeating what they hear the voice like a “trumpet” saying. We are to be gathered together into ONE mind and ONE Spirit….in Christ Jesus who is the Truth.

(Mat 24:31 KJV) And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

His people are scattered about in every denomination…in every corner….by the erroneous, deceptive preaching of men. Every wind of doctrine= the “four winds.” But the Lord will send out His “angels”….His messengers of the Truth…to gather us together in that Truth. There will be unity and peace by the hearing and doing of the revealed Truth. The “angels” are the “apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers” of the revealed Truth in this last day. The “angels” or messengers are “sent”….Greek = “apostello.” In Ephesians, it spells out who the “angels” are that are sent forth to gather together His elect from the “four winds”….apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers.

(Eph 4:11 KJV) And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

These ministers will not be the hirelings of the churches appointed by men but shall be divinely appointed. Some current pastors shall also be preachers of the Truth. Their job is to preach the revealed Truth (the true ministry)…for the perfecting of the saints…..for the “edifying” of the body of Christ. They will be the “angels”…or messengers. “Edifying” means to “build” the body of Christ….His temple….in the revealing of the Truth. We are to be built into His true spiritual house….as opposed to what religious man has built…Babylon….houses of confusion, strife, envying and every evil work.

12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:

He sends His “angels” to preach the Truth so that all of those who are scattered in the many different denominations can come together in the unity of the faith. We are to believe in that revealing of the Truth and be saved…coming together in one mind , spirit and body…Christ Jesus. We will all come together in the FULL knowledge (Greek: EPIgnosis) of the Son of God who opens up the Scriptures for our understanding and salvation. We are to come together as ONE man….in the fullness of Christ.

13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

His messengers are sent forth to gather together His elect from the “four winds”….which is every WIND OF DOCTRINE taught by religious man who only preaches deceptively for the lusts of his own heart. We shall all be gathered together from every wind of doctrine…the “four winds”….every direction that they blow in all denominations….from the four quarters.

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:

The whole body is to be fitly joined TOGETHER in the mind of Christ……

16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

And when we come together in Him….we are to NO LONGER (“henceforth”) walk as the others of the denominations still do….in the vanity of their own mind. For not all of the church is going to believe in the Truth. Some will continue in their own religious thoughts and ways….the vanity of their mind.

17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

They will not believe in the Truth when they hear it….the “blindness of their heart.”
They will be willfully ignorant of the revealed Word of God…choosing their own religious ways and thoughts over His.

18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

Instead, they will give themselves over to their own evil, “religious” works…working them with all uncleanness with greediness….covetousness.

19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
20 But ye have not so learned Christ;

We are to hear His preaching of the Truth in this last day…..for He opens up the Scriptures to our understanding. We are taught by Him….the Truth is in Jesus. Christ Jesus IS the Truth.

21 If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:

And by His revealing of the full knowledge (epignosis) of God in the Scripture of Truth, we can then ACT to put away the former behavior of religious man….his envying, strife, hatred, divisions.

22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;

We are to be RENEWED in the Spirit of our mind……that mind is Christ Jesus.

23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;

We are to put on the new man. We will come together as ONE man…Christ Jesus….who is created in righteousness and TRUE holiness. We can then work the true righteous works of God in this world.

24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

We are all members of one another….ONE man

25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

We are to wake up from our “sleep” that religious man has lulled many into. Those that “sleep” sleep in the “night”…those that are “drunken” in covetousness are “drunken” in the night….

(1 Th 5:7 KJV) For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.

Let us be of the “Day”…in the Light of His knowledge. Let us be “sober”…not “drunken” in religious man’s covetousness.

8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.

He comes to gather His elect so that we may have salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ….the revealing of the Truth.

9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

Whether we “wake” or “sleep”….we shall LIVE TOGETHER…with Him. He shall come to awaken those elect from their “sleep” so that they may live together in true unity and peace and love for one another.

10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
11 Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

Let us NOT love the “sleep” of religious man….his hatred, his envying, strife and divisions, his covetousness. Those that will love the “sleep” of religious man will come to their own poverty in the judgment of God. But let us “open our eyes” and be satisfied with the Bread of heaven….Christ Jesus…who is the Truth. Let us hunger after His knowledge…His righteousness.

(Prov 20:13 KJV) Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

Let us “awake to righteousness” and “sin not.” Let us not speak against that revealing of the Truth in this last day….to “sin.” Those of the churches who will speak out against the Truth shall not have the knowledge of God….for they will not believe in it in their hearts when they will hear it…to their own shame. We must overcome our desire to speak out in defense of our own religion…our own teachings…our own commandments…our own denominations…our own church leaders. Some will not awake…but shall love the “sleep” of religious man. Instead they shall speak out against the Truth….the “sin” that desires to have them.

(1 Cor 15:34 KJV) Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.

There are a few psalms of “Asaph” in the book of Psalms. “Asaph” means to “gather together, collector.” These psalms are very relevant to the awakening church in this last day as we are to gather together…..

(Psa 50:1 KJV) A Psalm of Asaph. The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.

From a psalm of “Asaph”…..we are to call upon Him in the day of trouble and He will deliver us and we shall glorify Him. We shall preach His revealed Truth…glorifying Him.

(Psa 50:15 KJV) And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

But to those “religious” unbelievers of His revealing of the Scripture of Truth…..

16 But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?

The unbelievers of the church will not heed the instruction….they shall cast His words behind them. They will hear His Word of Truth but not take it to heart…they will not believe and DO His Truth.

17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.

Instead they will continue to preach the Word of God deceitfully for the lusts of their own hearts. They will continue to preach for their worldly lusts….money, greater church buildings, great ministries, growing churches, glory among men…etc, etc, etc.

18 When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.

Instead, they will speak against the revealing of the Truth.

19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.

They will speak against those brothers and sisters who will believe and do the Truth.

20 Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.

But those who will believe can take the “shield of faith”….the strong belief in the revealing of the Truth and quench all the “fiery darts of the wicked”…the evil speaking by those who will not understand why you would believe in the Truth.

(Eph 6:16 KJV) Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
 
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Some further thoughts to ponder about “angels”….

When many hear the word “angel,” many people default in their thinking to images of heavenly beings floating upon clouds perhaps playing harps and singing. But, the focus should be on the meaning of the word alone. The Greek word for “angel” is “aggelos”…which means “messenger, to bring tidings.” The Hebrew word for “angel”….”malak”… means exactly the same thing…. “messenger.” An “angel” or messenger only repeats the message given to him. He is not the source of the message but just a repeater of what is heard with the ears. Men in the here and now can be “angels” by repeating what they hear the Spirit saying in this last day. Men have been considered “angels” in the past. An example of a human “angel” is John the Baptist. John was the “messenger” before His face….the Greek word is “aggelos” or angel here in Mark 1:2. John the Baptist was and is still an “angel”….a messenger of God. His witness is still recorded in the Bible and still speaks to those who are listening with their “ears.” He is still an “angel”…although he is not here in the flesh.

(Mark 1:1 KJV) The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God;
2 As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.
3 The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
4 John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.

Religious man has not been consistent in the translation of “aggelos” and “malak.” Religious man could not fathom the idea that a human being can be an “angel” in the here and now and so has picked and chosen where he would translate these words as “messenger” instead of “angel.”

Another example of human beings in the flesh being “angels” is found in Luke 9:51 when Jesus sent his “messengers”….his “angels”….before his face to enter into a village of the Samaritans to make ready for him.

(Luke 9:51 KJV) And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem,

“Messengers” = “angels”….because they had a message from Jesus that they went and preached. He sent them…..apostles….”sent”…with a message.

52 And sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him.
53 And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem.

James and John = messengers = angels.

54 And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did?
55 But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of.
56 For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them. And they went to another village.

Will many in the churches also not receive the “angels’” message in this last day? Jesus will send forth (apostello) his “angels” …or messengers….to gather His elect together. They will be human beings coming to preach the revealed gospel…the good tidings of the Truth to those who are bogged down in religious man’s bondage….his envy and strife….denominations…hatred. The Truth shall set free those who hear and believe in that message.

Even John the Baptist sent “angels”…or messengers…out to determine who Jesus is. The “messengers of John” = the “angels…Greek: aggleos…of John.

(Luke 7:24 KJV) And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to speak unto the people concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness for to see? A reed shaken with the wind?

Again, the human spies who were sent out to spy the land and Jericho were also “angels” or messengers. Will the unfaithful church (Rahab the harlot) also receive the message in this last day? “Rahab” perhaps means “proud or spacious”…will the prideful of the church humble themselves at the hearing of the revealed Word of Truth? Will they receive Him into their hearts….being “spacious?” Rahab had received the preaching of the Truth by the “messengers”…. “angels.”

(James 2:25 KJV) Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?

(Josh 2:1 KJV) And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse]tim two men to spy secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into an harlot's house, named Rahab, and lodged there.

Jacob also sent “angels”… Hebrew: “malak” =messengers…before him to Esau his brother. Messengers = “angels.”

(Gen 32:3 KJV) And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom.

David also sent out his “angels”…messengers….to Nabal.

(1 Sam 25:14 KJV) But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he railed on them.

Will the “Nabals” of the church also rail upon the messengers that Jesus will send out with the gospel of the Truth in this last day? These are all “pictures” of Jesus sending out his HUMAN messengers in this last day to preach to the churches the revealing of the Truth. How will religious man respond to that message? Will he respond wickedly like Nabal? “Nabal” means “stupid, wicked.”

Likewise, Jesus will send out his “angels” to preach the message of the Truth to the churches…to those who have been tossed to and fro by every “wind of doctrine” (the “four winds”) that religious man deceptively preaches. He shall gather together his elect into one mind and one spirit…in Christ Jesus….the new man that will be created in this last day. He shall gather them from one end of heaven to the other….in other words, both Jew and Gentile shall be gathered together from both seemingly irreconcilable extremes into ONE NEW MAN. Then there will be no distinction between the two groups in Christ Jesus….the Truth.

(Mat 24:31 KJV) And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

These “angels” or messengers are the last day called-by-God apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers that shall come forth to preach His Word of Truth to the lost, scattered sheep of Israel….both to the Jews and the Gentile churches.

(Eph 4:11 KJV) And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

They will repeat what they hear the Spirit of Truth saying in the revelation of the Scripture of Truth. The Lord shall build His church through that revealed message. We are to be “perfected”…as He will finish the work of building us into a spiritual temple.

12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:

We shall all come together in the unity of the faith….in the belief of the revealed knowledge of the Son of God.

13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

We shall be gathered from the “four winds”….from every wind of doctrine that are preached by the “sleight of men.” We shall no longer be carnal children…babes in Christ…envying, hating, striving with one another. But we are to grow up in Him….in the fullness of Christ into a perfect MAN. We are to “man up” and quit acting like children after we hear the revealing of the Truth.

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;

Men in the here and now are to be His “angels” of the Truth. Let us not be forgetful to “entertain strangers.” Let us consider what a “stranger” may say…..though it seems “strange” to our ears. It may seem like “strange things” when compared to religious man’s teachings.

(Heb 13:2 KJV) Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

Paul was and still is an “angel”…a messenger of God. He was “entertained” by the men of Athens….they “entertained” his teachings. Some did not.

(Acts 17:18 KJV) Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.

They considered this “new doctrine”….they “entertained” a stranger…Paul….with his “strange things” that they heard with their ears. Paul was and is an “angel”…a messenger of Christ Jesus. The church is to do likewise in this last day….entertain the “strangers” who are His messengers…the “angels” of the Lord. We are to entertain angels even though we may do so “unawares.” Listen and consider what they have to say in all hospitality.

19 And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is?
20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.

The Athenians wanted to hear some “new thing”…and Paul’s message was “new” to them. They considered what he had to say. They had their own internet “forum” so to speak to hear new things.

21 (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)

Some mocked….but others wanted to hear more of the matter.

(Acts 17:32 KJV) And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter.


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We have all read Paul’s epistles in the fleshly mind. We have heard Paul’s letters preached by the unlearned and unstable men of the churches who have twisted and distorted what he had to say….the “infirmity of the flesh.” But even so, Christ is still preached in his “infirmity.”

(Gal 4:13 KJV) Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.

Even so…many have received him as an “angel of God”…even as Christ Jesus…as the Truth.

14 And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
15 Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.

But Paul’s letters are to be opened up to our understanding by the revealing of the knowledge of Christ Jesus. His letters shall speak to us that message of the revealed Truth…and we are not to consider him as our enemy. The Truth is that man's religious works are works of vanity and profitless and we need to repent. Let us entertain what Paul says in the Light of the knowledge of God. Let us no longer see him in the flesh of man’s minds.

16 Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

All the saints of the Bible are the “angels in heaven”…for they will “speak” His knowledge in our understanding in this last day. They shall “sing” the Truth. We shall understand their words in the Spirit of Truth that Christ Jesus sends to us. Moses is an “angel”….Abraham is an “angel”…they will all speak to us in the revelation of the Truth in a new understanding of their words. They are all "messengers" of the Truth.


(Gal 3:19 KJV) Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.

We shall no longer err… because of not knowing the Scriptures in their spiritual, heavenly knowledge.

(Mark 12:24 KJV) And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?

But we shall awake from our “sleep”…from the sleep of religious man…from his hatred, envying and strife. We shall not “marry” man’s strange doctrines….his strange wives…in the “resurrection”…in the standing of the Truth. The resurrection: We shall be RAISED up TOGETHER in His revealed knowledge as a NEW MAN. Although His temple has been “destroyed ” by robber and thief pastors, He shall raise it again. Then, we shall be as the “angels” which are in heaven…for we will preach the revealed Truth of Moses and Abraham…and all the prophets and the apostles (those angels in heaven)…in Christ Jesus.

25 For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.

We are to be partakers of the inheritance of the Bible saints…those “angels in heaven.” In Light = in the Light of Christ Jesus who is the knowledge of God as revealed in the Scriptures. We will preach the revealed Scripture of Truth…that is our inheritance with the saints in Light…knowledge.

(Col1:12 KJV) Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:

There is JOY in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who will repent when he will hear and believe in the revealing of the Truth. There is joy among Moses and all of the prophets and the biblical saints when we will heed their words as interpreted by Jesus. We, the church, are the sinners that need to repent. We know not the Scriptures correctly…we miss the mark of its Truth.

(Luke 15:10 KJV) Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.

If we will believe in their words as interpreted by the Spirit of Truth…in the presence of Christ Jesus, they will REJOICE over us. There is joy in the presence of the “angels” of heaven….Paul, Peter, Moses every biblical saint.

(1 Th 2:19 KJV) For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?
20 For ye are our glory and joy.

As Paul points out, although he is absent from us in the flesh…he is with us in the Spirit….JOYING as an “angel of God” over us. When we come together in the Truth in this last day….they shall behold our “order” and faith…and will rejoice.

(Col 2:5 KJV) 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.

We are to be like the man who was crucified on the cross along with Jesus. He had confessed his erroneous deeds and affirmed that Jesus does nothing amiss. We have missed the mark with our “interpretations”…Christ Jesus preaches on the mark.

(Luke 23:41 KJV) And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss.

For Jesus will come into his kingdom…..the living Word of God…the properly interpreted Word of God. The man who was crucified along with Jesus....his witness is recorded in the Scriptures….in “heaven” so to speak. We are to remember his words…his confession…and do likewise.

42 And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.

Jesus had granted that man to be included in the writings of the Scriptures (the paradise)….and that man speaks to us today in the heavenly witness of Christ Jesus. Today…his witness is still in the paradise of the Scriptures for Jesus had allowed his witness to be recorded for all of us to read and remember….even until TODAY.

43 And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.

The same thought applies to the woman with the alabaster box. The entire world remembers this woman and her message because of what she had done for Jesus. Her name was written in “heaven”…in the Word of God…as a memorial of her. We are to remember her for her reception of Jesus…and do likewise.

(Mat 26:13 KJV) Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her.
 
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More thoughts on the “angels”….


The “archangel” contended with the devil about the body of Moses. He did not bring against him a “railing accusation.”

(Jude 1:8 KJV) Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.

The “archangel”….or chief messenger…is Christ Jesus. He contended with the Pharisees (the devil…the children of the wicked one) over the writings of Moses (the “body” of Moses). Jesus did not bring a “railing accusation” against them….but stated that Moses’ own writings would accuse them. Moses’ writings came directly from the Father…and so it is the Lord using Moses writings for accusing them for their unbelief.

(John 5:45 KJV) Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust.
46 For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.

They disputed about the “body” of Moses….his writings. The Pharisees contended that they believed but in reality they did not. They believed that they were Moses’ disciples whom God spoke to. If they had believed in Moses’ writings, they would have recognized immediately the Truth….Jesus Christ….when he spoke.

47 But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?

Christ Jesus is the “chief messenger”….he speaks what he hears the Father speak. A messenger repeats what is heard. He IS the Word of God.

(John 12:49 KJV) For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
50 And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.

(John 7:16 KJV) Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.

The messenger or “angel” repeats what is heard from God.

(John 14:10 KJV) Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.

Jesus is sent to speak the Word of God. He IS the Word of God…..the Word of Truth.

(John 3:34 KJV) For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.

But the Pharisees did not hear him….for they were of their father…the devil. The devil…the Pharisees….contended with the “archangel”…Jesus Christ….over the “body of Moses”….the writings of Moses whom they did not truly believe in.

(John 8:43 KJV) Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.


The Pharisees were the "devil" that the "archangel"...Jesus Christ contended with.


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.

Jesus told the RELIGIOUS Pharisees the Truth but they believed him not.

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?

And it will be no different today for the churches. The Truth is going to be revealed…but there will be those in the churches who will not hear His Word because of the hardness of their hearts….their unbelief in it. They will be “antichrist”…opposing the Truth in their unbelief of it…just as the Pharisees of yesterday. History repeats itself.

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

The Lord will make us His “angels” or messengers of the Truth who will be sent to all of the denominations of man to preach. Those that will “hear what the Spirit says” in this last day can overcome and be an “angel”…a messenger of the Truth.

(Rev 2:1 KJV) Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks;

Those that hear what the Spirit says and repeat what it says are the messengers of that revealed Truth.

Rev 2:7 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.

The Spirit of Truth will reveal ALL truth to us. When we hear the Spirit of Truth speaking the words of Jesus….his interpretation of the Scriptures….we are also to speak in the Light of His knowledge. What we “hear in the ear,” we are to preach upon the “housetops.” We are to be His messengers….His “angels” of Light… of His knowledge.

(Mat 10:27 KJV) What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.

Jesus will send his “angel”…or messenger…to testify unto the churches the things in the churches…..

(Rev 22:16 KJV) I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.

And those who hear the Spirit and bride say “come”…are to repeat what they hear….being the messengers. We are to repeat the invitation to those who are bogged down in the awful things going on in the churches. We are to invite them to the Word of Truth…the Water of Life….by the preaching of it.

17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.

We are to overcome the religious world of religious man…his doctrines, commandments, traditions, denominations, etc.

(1 John 4:4 KJV) Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

Satan’s ministers will continue to preach after their own things in their minds…the things of religious man….his religious empires…his glory among men…his own religious wisdom and knowledge. They will be concerned with the things of man FIRST. They will not seek His kingdom first.


(Mark 8:33 KJV) But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men.

They will not hear “us”…the messengers of the Truth. They will show themselves of the “devil”…of the spirit of error. Those that will “hear” the preaching of the Truth shall be of the Spirit of Truth….those who will not hear the revealing of the Truth because of their unbelief will be those who are of the spirit of error. Just like the religious Pharisees exposed themselves by their opposition to Jesus’ words….so will the “man of sin” reveal himself against the preaching of the Truth.

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.

They will neither love the Truth nor those who will accept the Truth and be saved from the coming wrath.

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.

We are called to a “vocation”….to be a messenger of God….an “angel” of the Truth….the voice of the “archangel” collectively.

(Eph 4:1 KJV) I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
2 With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
3 Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

The book of Ephesians is especially written for this called group of messengers in this last day. “Ephesians” means “first”….and is written to those who will “first” trust in Christ….in the hearing of the revealed Word of Truth. He will make known to us the mystery of His will….in the revelation of the Scripture of Truth.

(Eph 1:9 KJV) Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:

We are to be the stewards of His mystery….the preachers of the Truth….to all those who are scattered abroad in many denominations of men. He is to gather TOGETHER in ONE all things in Christ…in the revealed Truth. He gathers both which are in heaven and which are on earth in Him:

10 That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:

That is the job of the “Ephesians” in this last day. Those who will first trust in the revealing of the Truth are to be His “angels”…or messengers of the Truth….to all of the churches and the Jews in order to gather them all together in that Truth. The messengers are sent with the Truth in order to gather everything from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven in Him.

(Mark 13:27 KJV) And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.

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That is the inheritance of the “Ephesians”…of those who will “first” trust in Christ….the revelation of the Truth. We have a purpose in Him.


Ephesians 1:11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

We, as the messengers, are to be the “praise of His glory”….we are to preach His Word of Truth to the churches which is the true “praising” of Him.

12 That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.

When we hear the revealing of the Truth….the Word of Truth…and trust in that Word, we are then sealed with His Spirit of Truth so that we may be messengers….repeating what we hear the Spirit saying.

13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

That is the “earnest of our inheritance” UNTIL the FULL redemption of the “purchased possession” which is all of the scattered sheep of the churches and the Jews. We are to preach His revealed Truth UNTIL all of His possession is gathered TOGETHER into ONE NEW man.

14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

He will give His messengers who will first trust in the revealed Word of Truth gifts of the Spirit for the purpose of assembling His purchased possession together into ONE. These are the last day “angels” that are sent for the “edifying of the body of Christ”…the TRUE building that is to be built in this last day. What man has built is the “gold calf” of religion….a house that will collapse in this coming time.

(Eph 4:11 KJV) And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:


The messengers are sent with the gifts of the Spirit to preach UNTIL ALL of His purchased possession...both Jews and Gentiles.... comes TOGETHER in the UNITY of the faith:


13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
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;

He will bless those who will FIRST trust in the revealing of the Word of Truth with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ.

(Eph 1:3 KJV) Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:

He has chosen us in Him…. who will FIRST trust in the revealing of the Word of Truth. He has chosen us BEFORE the “foundation” of the world. The Greek word here in this verse for “foundation” is “katabole” which comes from “kataballo” which means “to throw down, to cast down.” He will have chosen us BEFORE the CASTING DOWN of religious man’s world.

4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

It is Babylon that gets cast down…and we are chosen as His messengers BEFORE this happens. The messengers’ job is to preach the Truth to those who are in Babylon…to urge them with the preaching of the Truth to come out of her and be gathered into ONE…Christ Jesus.

(Rev 18:21 KJV) And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.

As His messengers….we shall “wrestle” with the rulers of the darkness of this world….the modern-day Pharisees of the churches….the modern-day Sadducees and scribes. Jesus wrestled with the “devil and his messengers”…the Pharisees, etc. We shall do likewise.

(Eph 6:10 KJV) Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

We won’t wrestle the body of Christ that needs to be rescued (his flesh and blood)….but the pastors, church leaders, priests and reverends who will rise up to oppose what will be preached….the Word of Truth. They have been the "rulers" over his body in the darkness of man's own wisdom.


12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

The “evil day” is coming in which church men shall revile you because of the preaching of the Truth.

13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

We are to be as “Michael’s” angels…the messengers of Christ Jesus….who shall fight against the pastors of Satan who will oppose the revealing of the Truth in this last day. Those who will not listen to the Truth will be those of the spirit of error. and there was war in heaven....


(Rev 12:7 KJV) And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,

The modern-day Pharisee pastors shall not keep their places over His sheep. They shall not prevail….the “gates of hell” shall not prevail against the revealing of the Truth. They will not prevail with their mouths nor keep their positions of power over His people. They shall fall like the “stars in heaven” to the earth.

8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
 
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The preaching of the revealed Truth in this last day shall reveal what is in the hearts of men. The revealed Word of God will be a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. It will reveal what is in men’s hearts by their reaction to the hearing of the revelation of the Truth.

(Heb 4:12 KJV) For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

All things are to be “opened” unto the “eyes of Him.” The “eyes of Him” = His revealed knowledge as shown in the Scripture of Truth. Religious man’s response to that revealing of the hidden knowledge will manifest what is in his heart….whether there is love, joy and peace towards the Truth or wrath, hatred and evil speaking against it.

13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

He searches all hearts….and understands the imaginations of the thoughts of man. If we eagerly search for Him with all our hearts, we shall find Him. But if we forsake His revealing of the Truth because of our unbelief, He will cast us off.

(1 Chr 28:9 KJV) And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.

The Pharisees had revealed what was in their hearts by their negative reactions to Jesus. They revealed themselves as the children of the “devil.” The Greek word for “devil” is “diabolos” which means “false accuser, slanderer.” They hated Jesus without cause and falsely accused him as an evildoer. They were the revealed “man of sin” because of their hateful, unbelieving words spoken from the hardness of their hearts. To “sin” is to speak out against the Truth from a hardened and unrepentant heart. To sin is to hate your brother because he speaks the Truth….as they did to Jesus…their brother. They followed in the way of Cain as they talked with Jesus and rose up against him to slay him.

(John 8:44 KJV) 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.
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?
47 He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.

They slandered and falsely accused Jesus….they were of the “devil”…the “false accuser.”

48 Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?
49 Jesus answered, I have not a devil; but I honour my Father, and ye do dishonour me.

They hated him because Jesus testified that their “religious” deeds were evil while Jesus was righteous. Again, what happened between Cain and Abel was a foreshadowing event to be repeated.

(John 3:19 KJV) And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

This will all be repeated in this last day also by those in the church who will speak out against and hate those who will preach and love the Truth. They will commit “sin”….speaking against those who will love the Truth. They will speak out evil against the Truth….which is committing sin…. and speak evil of the brothers who do the Truth in His righteousness. It is of the “devil”….being false accusers….slandering of those who will love and do the Truth. They will falsely accuse those who will follow the Truth as “evildoers.”

(1 John 3:8 KJV) He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

Those who will receive the love of the Truth and be saved shall not “commit sin” because he will not be motivated in his heart to speak against it. He can not speak against something that he believes in and loves…..the Truth. He can not “sin” against it. His seed will remain in him….he will keep the Word of Truth within his heart and be saved.

9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

The revealing of the living Word of God shall manifest who the children of God are and who the children of the “devil” are. The children of the “devil” will open their mouths to falsely accuse and slander those who will receive the love of the Truth. They will not show any love towards the Truth nor to those who will love the Truth. They will be busy defending religious man’s thoughts and ways and will speak in hatred to those who will no longer partake with them in their church things.

10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
11 For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

Like Cain, who was of that wicked one, they shall “slay” their brothers with their hatred and malicious words. They will not love those who will believe and DO the Truth….His righteousness.

12 Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

Marvel not if the church world of men shall hate you over the Truth. Their works are evil and they will not want to hear that truth.

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.

To hate your brother is to “murder”….like Cain.

15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.

Church men in high positions shall rise up against those who will receive the revealing of the Truth. They shall say “all manner of evil against you falsely”….being of the “devil”…“falsely accusing” you. “devil” = “ false accuser, slanderer.”

(Mat 5:11 KJV) Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

We are not to be afraid of their “terror”…the evil speaking out against us. Some people of the churches shall reveal themselves as the children of the “devil” as they will speak evil of those who will receive the love of the revealed Truth. They will speak evil of those who are escaping from them…from their erroneous church gatherings.

(1 Pet 3:14 KJV) But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;
15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:

They that will falsely accuse you (who will receive the love of the Truth ) as “evildoers” shall be ASHAMED in the end. It is coming to the churches….the revealing of the “man of sin”…..those children of the “devil”…the “false accusers, slanderers” of those true children of God. The preaching of the Truth shall reveal them as they will vocally oppose it.

16 Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.
17 For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.

Out of the mouths of children of the “devil” shall come evil things… false accusations, slandering, hatefulness…towards the preaching of the Truth. For out of the abundance of the heart will the mouth speak.

(Mat 12:34 KJV) O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

A good man shall receive the love of the Truth…he shall speak peace and love for it.
But those who are of an evil heart shall speak bad things against it.

35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.

And that is how religious man shall be judged…by how he will respond to the preaching of the revelation of the Truth. An evil heart will seek to cling onto to his own religious ways and thoughts. In his pride, he shall rise up and speak evil against the Way of Truth and against those who will love the Truth.

36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

By our words shall we be justified and by our words shall we be condemned.

37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

Like Cain, we are given instruction to overcome the desire to speak out against the revealing of the Truth. Religious man must overcome his wrath after he hears the Truth…..that his religious works and denominations are nothing but works of iniquity….works of vanity….being profitless. Religious man worships God in ignorance and knows not what he does. His “offerings” will not have respect in the time of the revealing of the Truth. Religious man shall be angry when he hears this….and the wrath of man works unrighteousness.

(Gen 4:6 KJV) And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?

“Sin” lies at the “door” of religious man’s mouth in his wrath. To speak out against the Truth and those who will receive the Truth is to commit “sin.” Religious man must rule over this desire to lash out with his words against the preaching of the Truth. He must overcome….he must “doeth well” and receive the Truth in meekness.

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.

But the “man of sin” will let sin rule over him. Cain slew Abel his brother. He hated him.

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.


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Likewise, there will be those men of the church who will hate their own brothers (the Cains of the church) who will receive the love of the Truth (the Abels of the church.) They shall cast those “Abels” out of their congregations. They will think that they will be doing God service by doing so. They will seek to defend their own teachings and commandments and shall consider those who will love the Truth as “evildoers.” The time is coming.

(John 16:2 KJV) They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.

Like Diotrephes, there will be men in the high places of the churches who will love to have the preeminence among men. They will not receive the preachers of the revealed Truth in this last day.

(3 John 1:9 KJV) I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not.

They shall “prate” against the messengers of the Truth with malicious words. They will let sin rule over them in the “doors” of their mouths. They will cast out of the church any person who will receive the revelation of the Truth…those who will receive the messengers’…the “angels” …message of the Word of Truth.

10 Wherefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doeth, prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth them out of the church.

Those that will do such evil will not have “seen God”….not understanding His Truth. God is love….and those who will not love their brothers over them accepting the Truth does not know God.

11 Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.

But blessed are you when these men shall separate you from their company….over the believing of the Truth. Blessed are you when church men shall hate you and cast out your name as evil. They shall falsely accuse you of being an “evildoer.” They will reveal themselves as the Pharisee children of the “devil”….the “false accuser, slanderer.”

(Luke 6:22 KJV) Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.
23 Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.

We are to be swift to hear the revealed Word of Truth and slow to speak…slow to wrath. Remember Cain.

(James 1:18 KJV) 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:
20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

Religious man must lay apart his desire to speak evil of the Way of Truth and humbly receive the engrafted Word into his heart. The preaching of the revealed Word of Truth is able to our souls.

21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

Remember the Pharisees who could not lay aside their evil. They did not believe in the Truth and sought to hold onto their own religious ways and thoughts. They falsely accused and slandered. They were angry with their brother Jesus who had told them the Truth….that their religious deeds were evil. By our words shall we be judged.

(Mat 5:22 KJV) But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.

The tongue shall set those who will speak against the Truth on “fire of hell.”

(James 3:6 KJV) And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:

For the “man of sin” shall speak all kinds of evil against the Truth….unruly evil…being full of deadly poison.

8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

They will think they will be doing God service by cursing the men who will have received the Word of Truth in belief of it. They will curse the men who have been made after the similitude of God….by putting on Christ Jesus who is the express image of Him. Those who are made after the similitude of God are those who will receive the love of the Truth.

9 Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.

We can not bless God and curse the men who will receive the love of the revealed Truth. The man who will not bridle his tongue….his religion is vain.

(James 1:26 KJV) 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.

Seemingly “religious” men of the churches shall mock the messengers…the “angels”…of God and will despise His Word of Truth.

(2 Chr 36:16 KJV) But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.

They shall “sin”….speak against the revealing of the INSTRUCTION ….the “law”….of the Way of righteousness. They shall be lawless in their opposition to His Word of Truth.

(1 John 3:4 KJV) Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

The “law” = “torah” which means INSTRUCTION. He comes to instruct us into the Way of righteousness in this last day by opening up the Scriptures for our understanding. We are to come out of Babylon. By hearing and NOT doing His instruction as revealed by the Word of Truth is lawlessness….rejecting His Word and instruction.

(Jer 6:19 KJV) Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.

If His children forsake His “law”….or INSTRUCTION….then He will visit their “transgression”…their rebellion….their great falling away…with the rod and their iniquity with “stripes.”

(Psa 89:30 KJV) If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;
31 If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;
32 Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.

When His Word of Truth is preached in this last day….then we are without excuse for not following the “law”….the INSTRUCTION…of God. Those that will know His will by the revelation and will NOT prepare themselves shall be “beaten with many stripes.”

(Luke 12:47 KJV) And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

Remember the rebellion of the Pharisees. Those who reject the Truth with their evil speaking…their own tongues shall set them on “fire.”

(Mat 23:33 KJV) Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

For there is no believe in their mouths by their evil speaking against the Truth.

(Psa 5:9 KJV) For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

The man of sin shall rebel against the Truth. The “great falling away” is coming in which they will not hear and DO the instruction of the Truth. They shall fall by their “own counsels.”

10 Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.

God will defend those children who will trust in the Truth. He will defend them from the false accusations of the wicked.

11 But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee.
 
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All those who will live godly in Christ Jesus….in the revelation of the Truth…shall suffer persecution from fellow church members who will stubbornly not believe in that Truth.

(2 Tim 3:12 KJV) Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

They…. “church” people….will speak evil of you in this last day because you will no longer partake in their denominations…and their doctrines and commandments….and the giving of “tithes.” The Truth shall set us free from them…..and they will think it “strange” that you will run with them no longer in their erroneous religious thoughts and ways.

(1 Pet 4:4 KJV) Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:

We are not to be afraid of their “terror”….neither be troubled. Be happy instead to suffer for the sake of the Truth.

(1 Pet 3:14 KJV) But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;

Let us see what motivated Peter to write these things about not being afraid of their terror. Let us remember what happened to him as he walked up on the water to go to Jesus….the Truth. We are to confess Him...the Truth...before men....the waters.


(Mat 14:28 KJV) And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water.
29 And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus.

But Peter saw the wind “boisterous” and he was afraid and began to sink. The “wind boisterous” is the evil speaking of religious man that will seek to terrorize you back into their religious thoughts and ways….back into their “mire.”

30 But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me.

But we are to have faith…belief…in the revelation of the Truth.

31 And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?

He shall deliver us and not let us sink if we have faith. We shall be delivered from them in the churches that shall hate us because we are coming to the Truth and departing from their errors. He shall rescue us out of the “deep waters.”

(Psa 69:14 KJV) Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.

The words of a man’s mouth are as “deep waters.” And He will rescue us from their evil speaking out against us so that no harm can come to us.

(Prov 18:4 KJV) The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook.

Peter has written about his experience upon the water. He knew ahead of time what would happen to those who will receive the Truth…those who are coming to Jesus…the revelation of the Truth. Men shall speak evil of us….as “evildoers”…for departing from their religious denominations for the Truth of God. Religious man’s evil speaking will be like the “deep waters” that will try to “sink” us by their “boisterous” speaking. They shall “falsely accuse” our good behavior in Christ….the anointed Truth.

(1 Pet 3:15 KJV) But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
16 Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.

The “wind” of religious man’s evil speaking shall be “boisterous” against you. But be happy instead of fearing what they say. They shall speak evil of the revelation of the Truth because it does not conform to their preconceived religious “truths.” Peter has written his books from the experience upon the sea. We preach the revealed Truth....on our part He is glorified. They...religious man....speaks evil of the Truth.


(1 Pet 4:14 KJV) If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.

Peter knew by his firsthand experience of sinking in the “deep waters” that religious man shall scoff at the Truth in order to keep his own religious deeds.

(2 Pet 3:3 KJV) 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.

He knew beforehand that false prophets would be among us….to try to deceive us back into their “pernicious ways.” He knew that they would deny…contradict…the Lord that had bought them. They would arise to oppose, contradict and speak evil of the Way of Truth in this last day….to their own destruction.

(2 Pet 2:1 KJV) 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.

And many shall follow their pernicious ways….and they shall speak evil of the Way of Truth…..the “boisterous wind” of religious man’s evil speaking.

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.

But the Lord knows how to rescue us from “sinking”….He knows how to deliver us out of their temptations...their deceptive preaching and prating.

(2 Pet 2:9 KJV) The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

The words of religious man are like the “deep waters”…and they shall speak “great swelling” words of vanity in order to allure those who are escaping from them back into their erroneous religious thoughts and ways which are motivated by covetousness.

(2 Pet 2:18 KJV) 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.

We are not to “sink” because of their words….and be overcome by the “waves” and “boisterous winds” of their preaching.

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.


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Peter has written about his experience of sinking into the sea for our benefit. We now know these things before they will happen….so that we are not tempted and led away with the error of the wicked of the church who will not believe in the revealing of the Truth because of their hardness of heart. We are not to fall from our own stedfastness in the belief of the Truth. We are not to “sink” because of the fear of what religious man says.

(2 Pet 3:17 KJV) Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.

The Lord is our helper…and we shall not fear what religious man shall do to us…in their evil speaking.

(Heb 13:5 KJV) Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
6 So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.

Let us not be “carried about” with religious man’s boisterous winds of strange doctrines. Let us have faith in the Truth and be saved.

(Heb 13:9 KJV) 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.

For he that wavers in the belief after hearing the revealing of the Truth is like a wave of the sea driven with the “wind” of religious man’s preaching and tossed. We are to be strong in the faith of His revealed wisdom in the Scripture of Truth.

(James 1:6 KJV) But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

We are to hold on to the faith in His revealed Truth in this last day. Some will reject the Truth when they will hear it…..they will be “shipwrecked” by the angry seas of religious man…driven by his erroneous strange doctrines that are motivated by covetousness.

(1 Tim 1:19 KJV) Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:

And as Peter says, it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness….AFTER they have known it…..and turning away from the holy commandment delivered to them. They are turned from the revealing of the Truth that was shown them back into man’s religious corruption…thereby being shipwrecked.

(2 Pet 2:20 KJV) 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.

We are to remember Lot’s wife…and not look back to religious man’s thoughts and ways.

(Luke 17:32 KJV) Remember Lot's wife.
33 Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.

The Lord shall make the “wind” of religious man to cease. We are not to doubt.

(Mat 14:31 KJV) And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?
32 And when they were come into the ship, the wind ceased.
33 Then they that were in the ship came and worshipped him, saying, Of a truth thou art the Son of God.

The religious “wind” of man has been contrary to us loving one another.

(Mat 14:24 KJV) But the ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with waves: for the wind was contrary.

The Lord shall arise and rebuke the “wind” of religious man…and there shall come a great “calm.” The “sea” of man shall have peace in His Truth.

(Mark 4:39 KJV) And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
40 And he said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? how is it that ye have no faith?

He shall cut off all the “flattering lips” of those false teachers who will seek to bring us who are escaping back into their erroneous religious ways and thoughts. He shall cut off the “tongue that speaketh proud things” against the revealing of the Truth and against those who will be escaping from them. He shall rebuke the “wind” of religious men so that it will cease.

(Psa 12:3 KJV) The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:

The “gates of hell”…the mouths of religious men who will resist the revealing of the Truth shall not prevail.

4 Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?

The “lying tongue” is but for a moment…for it shall cease…as the wind ceases after the Lord’s rebuke.

(Prov 12:19 KJV) The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

Jehovah shall utterly destroy the “tongue of the Egyptian” sea….those religious men who will promise liberty in this last day but are really servants of corruption. They shall preach that there is freedom in the religious bondage of men’s denominations but they shall not prevail against His revealing of the preaching of the Spirit Truth….His mighty “wind.” He shall smite the preaching of of religious men…his bondage of doctrines and commandments of men (the tongue of the Egyptian sea) in the “seven streams”…the seven Spirits of God.

(Isa 11:15 KJV) And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty windshall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.

His “mighty wind”…the Spirit of Truth…comes to us from heaven so that we may preach His revelation of the Truth which will destroy the current erroneous preaching of bondage by religious man.

(Acts 2:2 KJV) And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

And we shall rightly divide the Word of God…preaching it in its heavenly Truth which will burn away the falsehoods preached by religious man for the last 2000 years. God shall destroy the “tongue of the Egyptian sea” with His “mighty wind” of the Spirit of Truth that shall reveal His knowledge in the Scripture of Truth and we can preach what we “hear.”

3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire,and it sat upon each of them.


And we are to be filled with the Spirit....the seven Spirits of God =completeness.


4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
 
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