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He will put down all rule and all authority and power...

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Peace in Christ.

The righteous shall dwell in the “land”…that is, the earth…and the perfect/complete shall remain in it. They will have an age-lasting life (aka “eternal life”). They shall not be mortally removed from this earth. They will not perish but shall have an age-lasting life.

Pro 2:21-22
(21) For the upright shall dwell in the land (earth), and the perfect shall remain in it.

The wicked though shall perish. They shall be cut off from the earth… and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it. They do not have an age-lasting life and will perish mortally from this earth.

(22) But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.

He that does the will of God abides “forever”….that is, into the age (throughout this present evil age). We are not to be removed from this earth like those who are conformed to this world.

1Jn 2:16-17
(16) 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.

(17) And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever (into the age).

What we have witnessed so far in the churches of men have been the vessels of His wrath as no mortal flesh has been saved. They have all mortally perished without inheriting “eternal life”…that is, an age-lasting life in their mortal bodies.

They are and were the “flock of the slaughter”….the “many” who went down the broad way to their destruction….the “generation of His wrath” (Jeremiah 7:29)….the house of Esau.

They were the “vessels of wrath” that were fitted to destruction.

Rom 9:21-24 KJV
(21) Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

(22) What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:

But now He makes known the riches of His glory on the vessels of His mercy….on the “few” who find life (find age-lasting life)…on the “little flock”….on the house of Jacob (both Jews and gentiles) …the “remnant” ...those who are left here abiding in this earth.

(23) And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
(24) Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?

The many before us went after “other gods”….other judges. They have made their “gods” to serve: their church handwritings of ordinances (church constitutions, bylaws, statutes, etc) which they use to self-govern and self-judge themselves just like the “gods” of the people which are around us.

The outside nations have their “gods”…their handwritings of ordinances that form their governments…their “constitutions” and laws that they use to govern and judge themselves with as they do not serve God in His kingdom/government...whose writings are within our hearts and minds.

Deu 6:14-15 KJV
(14) Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you;

Our LORD our God…our Judge…is a jealous God/Judge. What we have witnessed is His wrath upon the many who “go to church” and submit themselves to “other gods”….to the church handwritings of ordinances which are “images” … “idols”. They are being destroyed mortally off the face of the earth as our God (our Judge) is a consuming fire. They are saved but as through the fire of His wrath which consumes them mortally from off this earth. The "first" shall be last in the resurrection...as the dead (those who mortally perished) shall be resurrected AT the last day of this age (at the "last trump"). They will miss out on the reigning with Jesus upon this earth.

(15) (For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.

We are not to make to ourselves any “graven image”….any graven-by-the-pen of the church scribes handwritings of ordinances/dogmas. We are not to bow down to them nor serve them. Why go and willingly and humbly submit yourselves to a “church” where they are serving their images?

Exo 20:3-6 KJV
(3) Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

(4) Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

The MANY are being mortally destroyed for such things which are being passed down from the church fathers to their future generations.

(5) Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

But the FEW (the many thousands)….the vessels of His mercy…are shown mercy. They love God and KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS….and do not bow down and serve the doctrines and commandments of men contained in their handwritings of ordinances.

(6) And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

The FEW….the vessels of mercy…the house of Jacob…shall be shown mercy. He will set us in our own “land”. We shall rule in/with Christ over the people of this earth.

Isa 14:1-2 KJV
(1) For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.

(2) And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.

Jesus must put down all rule and all authority and power. And we are to rule with Him in this. The governments of the nations of this world will be put down as the global government of God is coming. They will rage.

1Co 15:24-25 KJV
(24) Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.

(25) For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.

The nations will rage at Him....but He that sits in the heavens shall laugh at them and will have them in derision.

Psa 2:1-6
(1) Why do the nations rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
(2) The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
(3) Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

(4) He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
(5) Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.

(6) Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.

Jesus will give us His power (which He received of the Father) over the nations of this world.

Rev 2:26-29 KJV
(26) And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:
(27) And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.
(28) And I will give him the morning star.

(29) He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches

Those who are left remaining here on this earth….the “remnant” of Jacob….shall be as a lion among the nations of this world…as a lion among the “beasts” of the forest….as a young lion among the flocks of sheep…who, if he goes through, both treads down and tears in pieces and none can deliver.

Mic 5:8 KJV
(8) And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver.

Whoever blesses you shall be blessed and whoever curses you shall be cursed.

Num 24:9 KJV
(9) He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee.

He will give us who overcome the “morning star”.

Num 24:17-19 KJV
(17) I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.
(18) And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies; and Israel shall do valiantly.
(19) Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion, and shall destroy him that remaineth of the city.