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Our Lord shall speak from heaven in these last days….He shall interpret the Scriptures in His heavenly wisdom. We are not to “refuse”… meaning: “to beg off, to deprecate, to shun, to REJECT, to refuse” what will be preached. Religious man will need to make a choice because this revealing of Truth is not going to be like his church fathers’ religion. The revealing of the Scripture of Truth is not going to be like what his pastor has been preaching to him all these years….it will not be like the commandments, doctrines and traditions of religious man. The Truth shall set you free from all that man has built upon the sands of the earthly, fleshly understanding. We are not to reject His living Words and turn away after our own religious thoughts and practices….which all have been in vain.

(Heb 12:25 KJV) See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:

And we are to REMEMBER what Jehovah has said to Moses….when we understand that He has talked with us from heaven by opening up the Scriptures to our understanding…so that we may understand His will and our sins.

(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.

Our “religious” organizations are in vain….they worship Him in vain because of the doctrines and commandments of men….which are motivated by the covetous hearts of men in high places. Their religious works are but “gods of silver” and “gods of gold.” God is not like their works. They worship in vain which they know not.

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

We are to humble ourselves at His revealing of the Truth from heaven. The “altar of earth” is our humbled heart…..the contrite heart. He shall come unto our hearts and abide with us.

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 sacrifices are a broken spirit and a contrite heart……offered upon the “altar of earth”….a humbled heart towards His revealing of the Truth. We are to be “broken” because of our sins.

(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.
We are to be built up into His temple….living stones….the “altar of stone.” This temple will not be built with man’s earthly wisdom. It shall not be built of “hewn stone” where man lifts his earthly wisdom up to build.

Exodus 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 built up as “lively stones”….into a spiritual “house”….the “altar of stone”….so that we may offer up to Him spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to Him. The current sacrifices of religious man are not acceptable….for the works of his own hands are nothing but gods of silver and gold.

(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.

Religious man shall not exalt himself….to “go up by steps”…. against the revealing of the Truth…..or his “nakedness”…his folly shall be exposed for all to see.

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

Religious man can not claim that he has the Truth of the Scriptures….he is not to exalt himself in the temple as the purveyor of the Truth. He shall not exalt himself against the spiritual interpretation of the Scriptures which will come from heaven…the spiritual testimony of Jesus Christ.

(2 Th 2:3 KJV) Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

The man of sin shall not go up by steps unto His altar….to exalt himself against the Truth from heaven.

4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?

They shall be “manifest” to all that they are not part of us…they are the “tares”…the goats. They will be “antichrist”…opposing the heavenly Truth of God who will speak to us from heaven.

(1 John 2:18 KJV) Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
2:19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.

Their folly….their “nakedness” ….shall be manifest for all men to see because they will resist the revelation of the Truth. They will not accept that their religion has been all for naught….in vain.

(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.
9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.
 
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Good posting Wheeler
we are to Remember
and its by the Holy Spirit that brings to our remeberance !!! Thank God for the wonderful Holy Spirit and comforter !Jhn 14:26But the Comforter, [which is] the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.


Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

Peace C .
 
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Chickapee,

Indeed….the Spirit of Truth teaches us by stirring up our minds to remembering all of what was spoken through all of the prophets, apostles and Jesus.

(2 Pet 3:1 KJV) This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:

We are to be “mindful of the words” which were spoken.

2 That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:

We are to know this FIRST: that in these last days there will be scoffers in the churches who will continue walking after the covetousness in their hearts when the Truth is being revealed.

3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

These men shall be WILLINGLY “ignorant”….forgetful….NOT REMEMBERING the Word of God.

5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:

Our Lord Jesus shall “manifest” himself to us by the Spirit of Truth who shall reveal all of the hidden mysteries of the Scriptures to us.

(John 14:21 KJV) He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
22 Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?

Jesus shall speak to us His living, spiritual Word….the revealed Word of Truth….and we are to keep them. Jesus is that Truth….the living Word of God.

23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

The willingly forgetful do not keep his sayings. They choose to NOT remember.

24 He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.
25 These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you.
26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

Religious man will continue to do his “religious” activities and works which are motivated by his own covetousness when the Son of man is being revealed. They will not want to hear the revealing of the Truth…..they will not remember….not KEEP his sayings.

(Luke 17:28 KJV) Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.

Jesus comes not to destroy the law or the prophets….he comes to fulfill those words….so that we may have knowledge of them to fulfill them…so that we may walk according to the Spirit and not the flesh….so that we may overcome. We have been living in ignorance of the revealed Word of Truth….but he comes to instruct us into the Way of life. We have been forgiven because of the ignorance, but the time comes when we are to hear His instruction to cleanse ourselves in the pure Water of Life…the revealing of the Truth.

(Mat 5:17 KJV) Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

Nothing passes until we fulfill the royal law.

(James 2:8 KJV) If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:

If we are led of the Spirit, then we are not under the law….the instruction. Transgressors are to be instructed about the works of the flesh….covetousness…in order to overcome. There is no such instruction to those who are living according to the Spirit.

(Gal 5:18 KJV) But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

If we fulfill the law by loving one another…it passes away for us….because there is no law against love, joy, peace, goodness, faith…..

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

The “least of these commandments”= the tenth commandment : you shall not COVET. It is “least” because it FIRST affects only our own hearts. It affects YOU only.

Matthew 5: 19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

Coveting is the “least” commandment but it is the one that leads to all other sins. It is the leading cause for hating our brothers.

(Rom 7:7 KJV) What shall we say then? is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

Lust = covetousness = the least commandment….because it happens in our own hearts first…..we are drawn away of our OWN lust.

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

Coveting brings forth SIN…..sin eventually brings forth “death.”

15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

The “death” is the lack of love for our brothers and sisters. When we covet after the “gold, silver and apparel” of other men….then we preach things that are not based on love.

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


And if we hate our brothers, how can we say we love God?


(1 John 4:20 KJV) If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

But we have been forgiven because we know not what we do….the sins that are done in ignorance of the Truth. Our Lord comes to instruct us in the Way, the Life and the Truth….the commandment is coming….. “thou shall not covet” ….the least commandment. Coveting is the gateway sin to “death.” Then we are without excuse if we willingly forget....and willingly sin. He comes to speak to us…..to give us the full knowledge (epignosis) of the Truth.

(Heb 10:26 KJV) For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,

He comes to speak to us from heaven….so that we may understand our sins…so that we may overcome. But after we have received the knowledge of the Truth, then there will be no more sacrifice for sins.

(John 15:22 KJV) If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin.

If we say we have no sin, then the Truth is not in us. We are to KEEP His sayings.

(1 John 1:8 KJV) If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

As Christians, we are to confess our sins….and He will forgive us and cleanse us from all unrighteousness….we can OVERCOME.

9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
 
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Hi Wheeler

I can see our minds first must be pure
Rom 7:25I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.


in order to serve the Lord we have to be given a new heart / mind for the law of God to dwell within us

this is the same Spirit of Christ and His mind right ?

Rom 14:20For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed [are] pure; but [it is] evil for that man who eateth with offence.
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Tts 1:15Unto the pure all things [are] pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving [is] nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
1Cr 1:10Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and [that] there be no divisions among you; but [that] ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
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1Cr 2:16For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
Phl 2:5Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

we are to take up our cross and follow Him , where the Spirit of Christ leads us to go ....
we are to dwell on pure and holy things that is in Gods will and not our own wills /desires that is earthly sensual and devilish in nature


peace C ........
 
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Yes Chickapee, the same Spirit is the Spirit of Christ and his mind. Our God writes His laws upon our hearts AND MINDS…..He comes to give us His knowledge so that we may FULLY know.

(Gal 4:6 KJV) And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

For MANY, that Spirit needs to be RENEWED. It has been “quenched” by the works of the flesh….by covetous, religious works. Jesus comes to preach the revealed Truth to us so that those who are bogged down in sins and trespasses….the religious, fighting, envious, divided, “old man” ….can OVERCOME.

(Eph 4:21 KJV) If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:

The “old man” of religion is “corrupt according to deceitful lusts”…..COVETOUSNESS….which is the “abomination of desolation” that we are to flee from.

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

Many need to have the Spirit renewed within them by the writing of the laws in their minds……by His revealing of His Word of Truth that has been hidden.

23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;

This is the current condition of the churches: foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving “divers LUSTS and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another. Those many that are bogged down in these things are to hear His revealing of the Truth in this last day and be saved from them.

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

We are not saved by our religious works of “righteousness”…our denominational doctrines and commandments…..but by His mercy does He save us…..by giving us the full discernment of the Truth…writing it upon our MINDS. We are to be washed in the REGENERATION and have the Holy Spirit RENEWED within us….which saves us from the “old man” of religious man who is corrupt in his covetousness.

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;
6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

The “regeneration” is coming…..

(Mat 19:28 KJV) And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

And those who can forsake their “houses”…their fellowship with the “old man” of religious man shall receive a “hundredfold”….and inherit everlasting life. No man will ever rob us of the fruits of the Spirit again. The old man shall be crucified by His knowledge.

29 And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.

By His knowledge….His writing of the laws upon our MINDS…..are we to be justified. We are not justified by our churchiness….which is corrupt. By His mercy do we receive the knowledge of the Truth and are saved from religious man’s bondage.

(Isa 53:11 KJV) He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.

The sin of MANY does he bare.

12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

He puts the laws into our hearts AND will write them in our MINDS….by the revealing of the Scripture of Truth….so that we may FULLY UNDERSTAND the eternal gospel.

(Heb 10:16 KJV) This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;

When we will fully understand His Truth with our minds, then there is no more sacrifice for sins.

17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.

For if we sin WILLFULLY……AFTER receiving the full discernment of the Truth (the writing of His laws upon our MINDS,) then there will remain no more sacrifice for sins.

(Heb 10:26 KJV) For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,

We are forgiven for our sins of ignorance….BEFORE the “regeneration.” Jesus is our sacrifice and priest for our sins of ignorance.

(Num 15:27 KJV) And if any soul sin through ignorance, then he shall bring a she goat of the first year for a sin offering.

Jesus is the Priest who makes atonement for the souls who sin in ignorance of the Truth. The heart is desperately wicked.

28 And the priest shall make an atonement for the soul that sinneth ignorantly, when he sinneth by ignorance before the LORD, to make an atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven him.
29 Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance, both for him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them.

But those who will sin willfully…. “presumptuously”…..will have DESPISED the revealed Word of God…His knowledge. He comes to write His laws upon our MINDS…..He comes to reveal fully His knowledge to us by opening up the Scripture of Truth. We are to overcome….and have the Holy Spirit RENEWED within us.

30 But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
31 Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.

Those who can overcome and be led by His Spirit are truly FREE….the Truth shall set one free from the lusts of the flesh…from covetousness…from envying and strife.We are to be RENEWED in His Spirit.
 
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That was a great post ! Amen
to me its the same thing Paul said that we have fallen from grace when we willfully sin and there is no more sacrifice / Blood of Jesus to cover sin in us
it is by the grace of God we are saved after all ..and are poor blind miserable and naked when we try to do all the law by our own/ self righteousness and still debtors to the law of moses which Paul called the ministration of death

Jesus Christ gospel is the ministration of Life in the Spirit .


Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
Gal 5:4Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.


seems there is a huge difference between the old Covenant and the New one by faith in what God has done by sending Jesus Christ and His sacrifice / holy blood shed for sin that being established within us makeing us free and servants to the Lord Jesus Christ ...


Hbr 8:13In that he saith, A new [covenant], he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old [is] ready to vanish away.
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Hbr 12:24And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than [that of] Abel.
Gal 4:24Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

seeing its the things above / holy things , pure and righteous and faithful Spirit and truth
that we are to trust and have faith in , believe in and DO walk in
nothing of this world / realm compares or comes close to Gods glory
Isa 42:8I [am] the LORD: that [is] my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
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Isa 43:7[Even] every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.


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Isa 46:13I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.


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Isa 48:11For mine own sake, [even] for mine own sake, will I do [it]: for how should [my name] be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another.


good thoughts .. Praise God ! peace C
 
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Amen Chickapee, we are truly FREE from the “bondage” if we are led by the Spirit of Christ. Our works of “righteousness” can not save us….we can not trust in our own “religious” righteousness when He reveals the Truth to us in this last day. We have all fell short of the glory of God in our man-made religions…our doctrines and commandments of men…our works of man’s own religious wisdom. Our God comes to drive out those pastors and church leaders who make merchandise of the people of God…who make merchandise of the Word of God….those who buy and sell their religious goods and falsehoods in the “temple.” He comes to weed out the “tares.” It is not for our “righteousness” that He will do this…but for their wickedness.

(Deu 9:4 KJV) Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee.

It is not for our “righteousness” that He comes to drive them out of the temple….but for their wickedness.

5 Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

The many in the churches have been a “stiffnecked” people. But by His GRACE are we saved.

6 Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.

And here again is the key word ….REMEMBER and forget not. We have to remember these things…for they apply to us today. Not every one who departed out of the land of Egypt was saved…..because of their UNBELIEF. We are to believe in His revealing of the Truth in this last day. No one has been good….

7 Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD.

ALL have sinned and have come short of the glory of God. We are not saved by our “righteous” works….we are not saved by observing certain days….we are not saved by tithing….we are not saved by holding on to man’s religious traditions and commandments, etc.

(Rom 3:21 KJV) But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

This is the true righteousness of God….to believe in His revealed Word in this last day. We are to have faith in Jesus Christ….who is that revealed Truth. We are to believe, believe, believe and not trust in our church works of “righteousness.” Abraham BELIEVED God and it was credited to him as righteousness.

22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

How do we do the works of God?

(John 6:28 KJV) Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?

The work of God is to BELIEVE on Jesus Christ who is the revealed Truth. He is the Way in which we are to go. He is the Life we are to be living.

29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.

All of our church works of “righteousness” is all for naught. They are vain…worthless…..and we have all erred from the Truth by doing them. We judge each other over whose “righteousness” shall get them into heaven. We have all been equally wrong…all have sinned.

(Isa 64:6 KJV) But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

Our Lord Jesus Christ comes to open up our understanding to His knowledge and we are to whole-heartedly receive His spiritual testimony in this last day. We are to BELIEVE. He comes to interpret unto us all what is in the Scriptures…just as he did with the two disciples in Luke 24:

(Luke 24:27 KJV) And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.

He opens up our minds to His mind…to His understanding…and we are to BELIEVE in His Truth. We are to receive the love of the knowledge of the Truth….we are to let our hearts “burn” within us.

(Luke 24:32 KJV) And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?

He comes to open the “ears” of the spiritually “deaf”….He comes to open up the “eyes” of our understanding. We are to “hear with our ears”…we are to “bow down our ears”….to hear the revealed Words of the wise….and APPLY our HEARTS to His knowledge. We can hear but not receive the love of the Truth within our hearts through our own unbelief in what we are “hearing.”

(Prov 22:17 KJV) Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.
18 For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.

We are to give our HEARTS to His wisdom…to His revealing of His knowledge and understanding. When we do this, we give up our own wisdom and understanding for His in this last day. We “deny” ourselves. We admit we have been living in error of the Truth.

(Prov 23:26 KJV) My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.

TODAY….if we “hear” His “voice”…His interpretation of the Scriptures, we are not to harden our hearts with unbelief in what we are hearing. We “hear” with the “ears” of our mind…our intellect…our thoughts. We can “hear” what is said and yet not believe it….we can “harden” our hearts to going any further with it.

(Heb 3:7 KJV) Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,
8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

Let us not err in our hearts….by not believing in His teaching when we hear it in this last day. For not everyone who was delivered from Egypt was saved…..because of UNBELIEF in the Truth.

10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)

We are to “take heed”….lest any of us with an evil heart of unbelief, depart from the living God….the living Word of God. We will hear the “living” interpretation of the Word of God…..and not the Word of God that religious man has preached with his own wisdom. Man keeps the Scriptures in a “tomb” when he relies upon his own wisdom and knowledge. It becomes “alive” in the interpretation of Jesus….the revelation of Jesus Christ.

12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
15 While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

There will be those people in the churches who will “provoke” when they hear His revealed Truth. Those Christians who will provoke will be the unbelievers.


16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

We are to let our hearts retain His Words….the preaching of the LIVING Word of God. In doing so, we shall LIVE. Let His words be retained in our hearts…..which is the “book of life.”

(Prov 4:4 KJV) He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.

We are to hear His sayings…..we are to attend to His Words….we are to sit at the “feet of Jesus” and hear the living interpretation of the Scriptures….for His words are SPIRIT and they are true LIFE. We are to keep His sayings within our hearts…..the “book of life.”

(Prov 4:20 KJV) My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.

His spiritual testimony of the Word is LIFE.

22 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

Wisdom shall rest in the HEART of him who keeps God’s understanding.

(Prov 14:33 KJV) Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding: but that which is in the midst of fools is made known.

The Light of the eyes….the revealed Truth of Christ Jesus….rejoices the heart. The believing heart shall rejoice in hearing His revealed Word.

(Prov 15:30 KJV) The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart: and a good report maketh the bones fat.

But there will be those in the churches who will not receive the love of the Truth in their hearts. They shall DESPISE the instruction. In their hearts they will despise the reproof of Christ Jesus….who will instruct us in the living Way.

(Prov 5:12 KJV) And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

They shall not obey the voice of the Teacher…but will instead harden their hearts with an evil heart of unbelief….and so will not be found written in the “book of life.” They will resist the Truth in order to keep their own denominational, religious, covetous understanding and practices….their works of “righteousness.”

13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!

They shall NOT retain the KNOWLEDGE of God in their minds because of their evil heart of unbelief. Instead, they will be given over to a reprobate mind….a rejected mind…to be filled with all unrighteousness….which is the “lake of fire.”

(Rom 1:28 KJV) And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

The “lake of fire:”

29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

We are to believe in His revealed knowledge….and retain it within our hearts….being found written in the “book of life.” Those who will not believe in His knowledge, will not retain it….and so will not be found written in the “book of life.” Such are cast into the “lake of fire”…the reprobate mind….to be filled with all unrighteousness.


(Rev 20:15 KJV) And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

The day of wrath and the revelation of the righteous judgment of God comes upon those who will have a hard and “impenitent” heart toward the revealing of His knowledge of the Truth.

(Rom 2:5 KJV) But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
6 Who will render to every man according to his deeds:
7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:

The tribulation and wrath shall come upon every soul of man that will not hear and obey the Truth. The hardened heart will be against the revealing of the Truth.

8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;

We are to KEEP His Words….within our hearts….the “book of life.” Write them upon the table of your hearts.

(Prov 7:1 KJV) My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.

We are to be RENEWED….we are to be TRANSFORMED by the renewing of our minds…in the mind of Christ. By doing so, we can whole-heartedly believe in His knowledge of the Truth and do the will of God instead of the lusts of men in the church.

(Rom 12:2 KJV) And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
 
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Hi Wheeler I read John 12 ,
it seems to hold an answer for them things I have wondered about for years if the Light is Knowledge of God , that Light would be burning within them than , being truth burning the lies away ..

35Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you.


Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you:

for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.



36While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light.


These things spake Jesus, and departed,

and did hide himself from them.


37But though he had done so many miracles before them,

yet they believed not on him:


38That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled,

which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report?


and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?


39Therefore they could not believe,

because that Esaias said again

,
40He hath blinded their eyes,

and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.
41These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of him.


42Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him;

but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him,

lest they should be put out of the synagogue:
43For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.


44Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me.


45And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me.
46I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.
47And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
48He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words,

hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
49For 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. 50And I know that his commandment is life everlasting:

whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.

Yes, the unbelief of Israel and for the cause and that Gods prophecy be Truth ., that other nations would also be given

'' grace of God though Jesus Christ '' in the fulness of time .....Gal 4:4But when the fulness of the time was come,

God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,



To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
peace C
 
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Hi Chickapee,

The Light of the knowledge of God will burn in those who truly believe in His revealed Word in these last days. Christ Jesus is that Light that is sent into the hearts of those who will believe. The Truth does burn away the falsehoods. The Truth heals us. We can hear the Truth in this last day….we can grasp what we hear, and yet NOT BELIEVE in it with our hearts. It applied to the Pharisees and scribes of 2000 years ago….and it will be repeated in the Christian churches. Many are “sick and weak” in the church in their strife and envying and hatred of one another. They are to hear His revealed Truth in this last day and be “converted” and healed. They should understand with their hearts. Jesus’ words were not directed to the outside world….the Egyptians, the Assyrians, etc….but to the RELIGIOUS people who should hear and understand these things. It is a “heart” thing….how shall religious man receive the revealed Word of the Truth in this last day? Remember…….Jesus spoke this to the RELIGIOUS people of his day….and for the religious of TODAY.

(Mat 13:15 KJV) For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.

When our Lord opens up the Scriptures to our understanding, then we “see” and “hear” things that many prophets and righteous men have not seen. Many in the churches of the past have not heard these things before. It is a “new song” that will be sung.

17 For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.
18 Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower.

When one hears the Word of the kingdom in this last day and understands it not because of an evil heart of UNBELIEF , then the wicked one comes and catches away what he has heard. He does not think it worthwhile to go any further with it….the spiritual things are foolishness to him. He does not let the revealed Truth into his heart because of UNBELIEF in it….he keeps it in the “street”…by the “way side”…instead of opening the door of his heart in BELIEF of the Truth. He is blinded by his own covetousness. The Pharisees of 2000 years ago fit into this category….and so will the modern day Pharisees of the churches. These are the UNBELIEVERS who shall have their part in the “lake of fire”…..the judgment for their unbelief in the revealing of the Truth.

19 When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.

They will be the “scoffers” in these last days who will continue to walk after the covetousness of their hearts….not believing in the holy things of God that shall be revealed to them.

(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.

Those who will receive the seed of the revealed Word of Truth with joy within their hearts, will believe in it….yet, they will be afraid of what their fellow church people and pastors will say. They will be afraid of being cast out of their churches. They will not confess that Jesus Christ is that revealed Truth before other church people. They will be fearful of the persecution by those unbelievers in the revealing of the Truth in this last day. They shall “hide” the Word of Truth in the earth of their hearts and will not be productive with it. These are the “fearful” who will also have a place in the “lake of fire.”

Mathew 13: 20 But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it;
21 Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.

There will be many “chief rulers” among the churches who will believe in the revealing of the Truth….Christ Jesus….but they will not confess him before the others for fear of persecution….for fear of being cast out of their churches. They will fear losing their positions…their prestige…their glory among church men. They will fear those in the first category….the unbelieving “Pharisees” of the church.

(John 12:42 KJV) Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue:

They shall fear man more than God….they shall love the praise of men more that the praise of God. Again, this was and IS written to the RELIGIOUS people of God.

43 For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.

There will be those of the churches who will also receive the revealed Word of the Truth within their hearts….but the cares of this church world and the deceitfulness of church riches will choke the Word out of their hearts and they will become unfruitful. These would be the “Marthas” of the church who will continue busying themselves in churchiness activities instead of sitting at the feet of Jesus to hear the Truth. These would be the “abominable”….the “idolaters”…who will go back to their covetousness of their hearts. These would be the people who will listen to the “scoffers” words and be lured back into their bondage of corruption.

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

They will have escaped from the pollutions of this CHURCH world….the religious organizations of man…through the FULL KNOWLEDGE (epignosis) of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and yet will AGAIN…AGAIN…AGAIN…be entangled and overcome. They will have received the Word among the “thorns"....they will become "entangled" in the "thorns" again.


(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.

For it would have been better for them NOT to have KNOWN the Way of righteousness……than AFTER having known it, to turn away from the holy commandment that was delivered to them.

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.

The “thorns” will choke out the Word that was sown in their hearts. They will turn back to the “vomit” again….to wallowing in the mire….to be allured back by the scoffing unbelievers of the church back into their bondage…into their corruption…into the deceitful lusts of pastors who will not receive the love of the Truth.

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.

The unbelieving pastor-Pharisees shall speak great swelling words of vanity in order to allure those church people back ….who will have “clean” escaped from them. Those who will be allured back will be those who had received the Word into their hearts but the “thorns” will have choked it out.

(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.

REMEMBER the book of Galatians. This book is a warning to those who would be lured back by false preachers. As a church in darkness, we did service to them which by nature are no gods….our church doctrines and commandments are worshiping God in vain. We are to escape from these things through the revealing of the Word of Truth in this last day.

(Gal 4:8 KJV) Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.

For when we have KNOWN Him through the receiving of the knowledge of the Truth, how can we turn back to the “weak and beggarly elements” of man-centered religious teachings. Religious man goes about trying to establish his own righteousness by his own worthless religious works…..doing service to those things that are not of God. AFTER you have KNOWN God….

9 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?

This is not literally about “observing days, months, times and years”….this is spiritually speaking about listening to those pastors who seek to lure us back into the bondage of man’s commandments and doctrines.

10 Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.

Those pastors are the “stars”…the “lights” who preach to men. They teach those underneath them as “lights” upon the hearts of men.

(Gen 1:14 KJV) And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

When we receive His knowledge of the Truth, we shall no longer need their “light” any longer…for we shall KNOW God fully. He shall give us the true LIGHT. We will never need man to teach us to know God again…for we shall all know God within our hearts…if we receive the love of the Truth.

(Rev 22:5 KJV) And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.

We will not need the teachings of man any more...we will not need their "light"...for God shall be our Light within our hearts.

(Jer 31:34 KJV) And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

The "sun" for a Light by Day...is Christ Jesus. In His Truth, there is no "night."

35 Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:


And if we BELIEVE in that Light, we may become the children of the Light. The Light is the knowledge of God in His Truth….Christ Jesus. When we become the “children of Light” through knowing Him, then we do NOT need the teachings of religious man…we do not need their “candle”…their “light” …their commandments that “beat” upon us as the sun.

(John 12:36 KJV) While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them.

There will be those who will whole-heartedly receive the love of the Truth….and KEEP…KEEP….KEEP…His Word…His Light… in their hearts. They shall seek His Kingdom FIRST! They shall bear fruit and be productive with His revealed Word. They shall share it with others in the churches…leading them to His righteousness. They shall lead them away from man’s erroneous works of establishing his own righteousness.

Matthew 13:23 But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

These are the “wise” who shall shine as the brightness of the firmament. These will be those who will turn many to His righteousness….as the “stars.”

(Dan 12:3 KJV) And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.

Then shall they shine forth as the “sun” in the kingdom of the Father. There will be no “tares” within their hearts…for the revealing of the Truth weeds out all of the falsehoods of man which made them previously stumble around in the “night.”

(Mat 13:43 KJV) Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

But those who are unbelieving and fearful and who return back to the corruption of religious man shall have their part in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone. They shall be consumed in the sins and plagues of those who will not believe and overcome.

(Rev 21:8 KJV) But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
 
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Amen !!the Light of the world is the knowledge of Christ the Spirit of truth burning in you
Jesus said to the last day church that These works of ours to be hot or cold NOT LUKEWARM .. :(

Hot would be on fire obedience to Gods will , by Christ Spirit
being babtized in Holy Spirit and Fire

Rom 8:9But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

here we see that being speued out of His mouth is cast out of His Body of works to me :(

Rev 3:16







Because thou sayest, I am rich,
So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth








and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed,

and [that] the shame of thy nakedness do not appear;


and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent

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

this must be our hearts door than ......

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Hi Chickapee,

For me….the church of “Laodicea”…which means “people of judgment”…. are the pastors of the churches in these last days who are blinded by their own church works and riches. It is the pastor-class of the church that is being counseled to. They are to enact equity….judgment….according to His will and not their own. They are to preach to the sheep the revealed Truth. They have been “lukewarm” because they profess they know God but in their reprobate, covetous works they deny Him. In other words, they are hypocrites. They honor Him with their lips but their covetous hearts are far from Him….they are “lukewarm.” They are to be ZEALOUS for Him in their hearts and minds and speaking….HOT.

(Rev 3:15 KJV) I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.

Pastors are to be preaching the revealed Word of Truth in “due season.” They are to be repenting of their ways and preaching the Truth instead of preaching for the things they covet after. Those who will not repent and depart from their ways will be “spewed” out of His mouth….they lose their jobs as preachers to the flock of God.

16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.

Many pastors today preach out of the covetousness of their hearts. They covet after money, bigger church buildings, bigger congregations, bigger ministries, religious merchandise, etc, etc. They are “lukewarm”….they profess that they know God, but in their covetous works they deny Him. As said in Titus…which is one of the “pastoral” letters:

(Titus 1:16 KJV) They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

Pastors are to speak the things which become “sound doctrine.”

2:1 But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:

They are “lukewarm”….they honor Him with their lips but their hearts are far from Him = lukewarm. They worship Him in vain…teaching nothing but the doctrines and commandments of men. They preach the Bible with man’s mouth and man’s covetous heart. They are "hypocrites."


(Mark 7:6 KJV) He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
7 Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

They are to speak with the mouth of Christ…the revealed Truth…. and not be the unruly, vain talkers and deceivers that they have been. They are of the “circumcision”…in other words they go about trying to establish their own righteousness through the things they preach. They preach commandments and doctrines of men that are motivated by man’s covetousness. They seek to establish their own righteousness by following man’s wisdom. This is not about literal circumcision….but those works of “righteousness” that are just a show in the flesh.

(Titus 1:10 KJV) For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:

Again, the epistle to Titus is a “pastoral” letter. The “pastoral” letters (1st and 2nd Timothy, Titus) are written to the PASTORS of the church. Many pastors teach things that they should not….and they teach them for their own covetousness…. “filthy lucre’s sake.” Those mouths will be stopped....spewed out of His mouth.


11 Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.
12 One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.

They are to be rebuked “sharply”….so that they may be “sound” in the faith:

13 This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;

Jesus will rebuke and chasten those covetous pastors whom he loves. They are to be “zealous”…..HOT….and repent. They are to be zealous in their hearts for His Truth.

(Rev 3:19 KJV) As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

He shall openly rebuke them…..for open rebuke is better than hidden love. He rebukes openly those whom he loves.

(Prov 27:5 KJV) Open rebuke is better than secret love.

Those that will continue in their sin shall be rebuked before all to see….so that others may also fear:

(1 Tim 5:19 KJV) Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses.
20 Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.

Their chastening shall not seem pleasant…..but it shall yield the peaceable fruit of righteousness:

(Heb 12:11 KJV) Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

Pastors are to hear the message today: be zealous for His Truth and REPENT….change the mind.

Rich pastors can not trust in their own church riches. They can not trust in their own works of “righteousness.” Gain is not a sign of their godliness. They can not say they “have need of nothing”….that they do not have sin….that they do not need to repent. They can not say that they are “ rich” and increased with goods and have no sin. Their works are but works of iniquity.

(Hosea 12:8 KJV) And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin.

They must hear His knowledge and wake up to His righteousness. They must see their current condition: wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked.

(Rev 3:17 KJV) Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

Again, this is all written to the church pastors of today who are the “overseers” of the body of Christ. They are the “eyes” of the body that need to have the eye salve of the Truth anointed to their “eyes” of their understanding. Their church glories have blinded them to the Truth. They must see and understand their sins and their spiritually poor condition. They are to clothe themselves in His righteousness….not their own covetous works which do not cover them one bit.

18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

Again, the pastors of the church that he loves will be rebuked and chastened so that they may be able to partake in His divine nature…so that they may preach the revealed Truth in this last day.

19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

Those poor in Spirit…those who have been robbed of the fruits of the Spirit by the erroneous teachings of covetous pastors….shall NOT hear the REBUKE that will be directed at the rich pastor. The ransom of the rich pastor’s life is his riches that he has unjustly gathered in these last days by the dishonest handling of the Word of God. He must give up his lifestyle of living as a king over the poor.

(Prov 13:8 KJV) The ransom of a man's life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke.

In order to receive His mercy that is offered, they are to renounce the hidden things of dishonesty….not handling any more the Word of God deceitfully. They have this ministry: to preach the manifestation of the Truth…in the “sight” or knowledge of God.

(2 Cor 4:1 KJV) Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

It is the rich pastors who oppress the poor in Spirit.

(James 2:6 KJV) But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?

The rich pastors exercise their authority over the poor…..they “rule” over the poor:

(Prov 22:7 KJV) The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

The rich pastor is wise in his own conceit….he says “I am rich” and that he has “need of nothing.” His pride blinds him to the truth of his condition.


(Prov 28:11 KJV) The rich man is wise in his own conceit; but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out.

Woe unto the rich pastors and church leaders….for they have received their reward in this life. But they can be zealous and REPENT.

(Luke 6:24 KJV) But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation.

Woe unto the rich pastors and church leaders who are “full” now in this religious system. Their thinking is that they have all they need now. They think they have need of nothing…for they are rich and increased with goods.

25 Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.

Woe unto those rich pastors and church leaders who have all men speak well of them. They glory in each others praise. All men look up to them as "great men of God" and many are treated as celebrity pastors.

26 Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.

They “slay” those whom they posses. They do not feed the sheep…but only themselves in this day of slaughter for they say “I am rich” and have need of nothing. The shepherds make merchandise of the sheep….they sell them….and pity them not. And yet they think themselves not guilty of anything.


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

The rich pastors have been living in pleasure on the earth. They have wrested the earthly witness of the Scripture for their own covetousness. They nourish their own covetous hearts and have condemned and killed the just and those poor in Spirit who do not resist them.

(James 5:5 KJV) Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
6 Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.

But blessed are the poor in Spirit…..for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Our Lord comes to deliver the poor out of the rich hands of covetous pastors who will not feed the sheep with the revealed Truth in this last day. He shall feed them and lead them to the living water of the Truth.

(Mat 5:3 KJV) Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

The rich pastor can overcome though. He can be made clean by putting away the evil of his own doings.

(Isa 1:16 KJV) Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

He can preach the revealed Truth to the sheep…..and thereby relieving the “oppressed.” They are the church of the “Laodiceans”….the “people of the judgment”…..they can seek judgment.

17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

But the rich pastor must open the door of his heart to the Lord. He must be willing and obedient to the Truth….and he shall know the mysteries of the gospel…the “good of the land.”

19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
 
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The parable of the sheep and the goats in Matthew 25 shows the final judgment of God upon the pastors…the shepherds of the churches. One pastor will have taken care of the body of Christ…the church…by feeding them the Truth. Another will only continue to feed himself. The Son of man comes to reveal His Truth….to sit upon the throne of His glory….the Scriptures are to be opened up for our understanding. How one pastor reacts…his works….to the opening up of the Truth is how he will be judged. Will he feed the sheep with this unveiling of the Truth?

(Mat 25:31 KJV) When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:

The “nations” = those heads of the church = the pastors who have been in charge while the Lord has been away. The preaching of the revealed Truth shall divide the good pastors from the bad. The Truth shall reveal what is in each pastor’s heart…whether he be a good pastor…a sheep….or stubbornly covetous, bad pastor….a goat.

32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

The sheep-pastors shall feed His people the Truth. They shall feed the spiritually hungry….give drink to the spiritually thirsty….and take in the spiritual “strangers.” They shall lovingly accept the government of God….the KING. He is King of kings. He is the King of the pastors who are His true servants. They shall inherit the kingdom….they shall sit down with Him in His throne. The “foundation” = the casting down of this present religious system of man.

34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

His true servants shall feed His sheep….. “feed my lambs.”

35 For I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:

Many in the church are “weak and sick” and need to be visited with the revealed Truth. They are “naked”…without the true works of God’s righteousness. The church has been in “prison”….in the prison of man’s burdens…man’s grievous and heavy-laden, denominational commandments and doctrines.

36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?

Those that will feed the sheep the Truth shall have done it for Him.

40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

But the other pastors…the goat-pastors…prove themselves as the messengers… “angels”… of Satan. They only feed themselves and will not feed the sheep with the revealed Truth in “due season.” They will be too busy working the covetousness of their hearts to bother with the Truth. They shall despise the government of God…..the KING….and continue to follow after their lusts.They will not have Him rule over them.


41 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?
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.

These pastors shall be cut “asunder” with the hypocrites….and shall perish in their own corruption. Their own lusts…their own wickedness… shall bring about all the bad things that will happen in their lives here in this world.

46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

And after “Jesus had finished all these sayings”….meaning we are to pay close attention to what follows the parable of the goat/sheep judgment….for they are completely related to what he was teaching.

26:1 And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said unto his disciples,
2 Ye know that after two days is the feast of the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.

The “nations” shall be assembled before the Son of man. These “nations” are the chief leaders of the churches…..the “chief priests…the scribes…the elders of the people” of the churches.

3 Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,

Jesus is the revealing of the Truth. The goat-pastors will not feed the sheep the Truth. They will not want the people to hear the Truth….forbidding the “meat” of the Truth to be fed to them which should be received with thanksgiving. They, as the man of sin, shall consult together in order to suppress the Truth….as the chief priests intended to take Jesus by “subtlety” and kill him 2000 years ago. “Subtlety”= deceit…to beguile. They shall seek to deceive those who will be escaping their errors with great swelling words that allure them back through the lusts of the flesh. They will seek to “take Jesus”…..we are his body. They will seek to take us with their erroneous, lustful words of deceit in these last days.

4 And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtlety, and kill him.
5 But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people.

They will use their “subtlety” to try take his body…the church….in the “feast day.” The “feast day” is the coming “day” of the revealing of the Truth. They shall sport themselves with their own deceptions while they will “feast” with us in the revealing of the Truth.

(2 Pet 2:13 KJV) And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;

Their “subtlety” shall be the “great swelling words of vanity” that will be aggressively preached by goat-pastors in these last days. We are to beware of the goat pastors who will not have our best interest in mind in the time of the revealing of the Truth.

(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 to beware of the “leaven” of the modern-day Pharisees….beware of their hypocrisy….their “great swelling words” of vanity....that shall rise up.

(Luke 12:1 KJV) In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

We are instructed to beware of the great swelling words of Pharisee-pastors….their “leaven”…before it comes to pass. They shall promise liberty to us….but they themselves are the servants of corruption….the hypocrisy. They will seek to “kill” the body with their “subtlety.”

(2 Pet 2:19 KJV) 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.

We know this beforehand….we are to BEWARE of the hypocrisy that will be preached in the coming great falling away of those who will resist the revealed Truth. We are to BEWARE of those who will try to lead us away from the Truth with their errors. We are to beware of the messengers of Satan.

(2 Pet 3:17 KJV) Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, bewarelest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.

We are to grow in His mercy…and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

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.

It has been foretold by Jesus…that false Christs and false prophets shall arise and show signs and wonders to seduce if it were possible even the elect. They shall “rise” in their pride against the Truth and preach false things in order to keep people from the revealing of the Truth.

(Mark 13:22 KJV) For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall show signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.

We are to take heed….to beware…of the coming temptation of error-filled pastors who will seek to lead us away from the revealing of the Truth.

23 But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.

The “latter times” are coming when those goat- pastors in our churches shall not believe in the revealing of the Truth. They shall preach things in order to lead/ seduce many back into their errors. They shall depart from the faith…giving heed to the seducing spirits and doctrines of devils. The word “devils” is the Greek word “daimonion” which ultimately comes from “daio” which means “to distribute fortunes.” The lying signs and wonders are their church “growth”…their growing fortunes….their heaping up of riches…all done in the name of God of course. They will suppose that their GAIN is a sign of their GODLINESS….the LIE.

(1 Tim 4:1 KJV) Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;

We are to beware of their lies….which are spoken in hypocrisy. We are to beware of the “leaven” of the Pharisee-pastors in this last day that will arise to reject the revealed Truth….just as they rejected the words of Jesus 2000 years ago. “Leaven” rises…and so does their hypocrisy. History repeats itself…this time for the Christian church.

2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

This is not about literal marriage…or literally abstaining from literal meat. This is about the spiritual “meat” of the revealed Truth. This is about marrying the Truth so that we may become ONE….to be assembled together in the TRUTH that will be revealed in these “latter times.” We shall be united together in Christ Jesus…in ONE mind and ONE Spirit. We are to become ONE in Him….married in the Truth. The latter times goat-pastors shall seek to forbid us to “marry”…to come together in Christ Jesus as ONE….they will command their followers to abstain from the “meats” of the Truth that should be RECEIVED with thanksgiving…instead of REJECTION. They will NOT feed the sheep. We are to believe in the revealing of the Truth.

3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.

His revealing of the Truth in these latter times is not to be REFUSED…for EVERY WORD OF GOD IS GOOD and is the true spiritual “meat.” We are to receive His Truth in these latter times with thanksgiving…with love…with joy…with zeal.

4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.

We are not to fall for the lying signs and wonders of the rich pastors who will rise up in their leaven of hypocrisy against the Truth. Be not “afraid”….do not “revere” them…when they display their lying signs and wonders....when they are made rich in church growth and mega churches are sprouting up everywhere under their teachings. Do not be amazed at their “gain”….for the glory of their “house” which is increased shall not descend after them.

(Psa 49:16 KJV) Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;
17 For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.
18 Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.
19 He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.
 
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We are not to be led away with their error…..in their lying signs and wonders of riches and church growth. We are not to let our steps slip. The mystery of iniquity…lawlessness… is already at work in the church. Its working is so very evident today as pastors rush into reward just as Balaam.

(Psa 73:2 KJV) But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.

The prosperity of wicked pastors = the lying signs and wonders. They seem to be getting away with their lawlessness…prospering in their covetous ways….in their pride. Such a mystery indeed! Wicked rich pastors seem to get away with all of their lawlessness.

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.

“When I thought to know this”…..this mystery of why they prosper in their lawlessness….it was “too painful for me.” Meaning: it is a mystery that could not previously be understood. The mystery of iniquity shall be explained.

(Psa 73:16 KJV) When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;

We shall understand His will in the revealing of the Scriptures, then we shall know their end. “Until I went into the sanctuary of God” = entering into His Scripture of 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.
 
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When they (the covetous pastors who shall scoff at the revealing of the Truth…despising the government of God) shall say “peace and safety”….then sudden ruin shall come upon them. The word “peace” also implies “prosperity.” It is the preaching of prosperity….peace and safety… that will be their downfall. It is saying within their hearts that they shall safely continue to follow their covetous ways and preaching AFTER hearing otherwise.

(1 Th 5:3 KJV) For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

For the prosperity of foolish pastors shall destroy them.

(Prov 1:32 KJV) For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

Their riches shall not profit them in the day of wrath. Their “wonderful works” shall not save them.

(Prov 11:4 KJV) Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.

They suppose that GAIN IS GODLINESS….they will trust in their own riches…believing a lie because they will not have received the love of the Truth.

(Prov 11:28 KJV) He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.

The covetous pastors who will despise the revealing of the Truth (the government of God) in these latter times shall trust in their own riches instead….believing in a lie that their gain is a sign of their godliness…..lying signs and wonders. They will not receive the love of the Truth and be saved.

(2 Th 2:10 KJV) And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

The “lie” is supposing that gain is godliness. They shall not receive the love of the Truth…and so will be destitute of the Truth. We are to withdraw from such. We have been keeping company with these people in our churches.

(1 Tim 6:5 KJV) Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.


The righteous….those that will believe and do the Truth…shall withdraw from them…which will bring about their destruction.

(2 Th 2:7 KJV) For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

Like Lot, we are to “haste thee and escape thither”……when the righteous believers shall be taken out of the way…then shall the Wicked by revealed. We are to withdraw from their company so as not to partake of their sins and plagues that shall come upon them.

(Gen 19:22 KJV) Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

Their folly shall be revealed for all men to see….as they perish in their own unrighteousness. Their “smoke” shall rise up for all to see as they are tormented by the plagues of their own corruption. They will not have received the love of the Truth and be saved…instead they will trust in their own riches…in their own gain…in their own prosperity…which will destroy them.

(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.
9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.

Like Abraham, if we believe in His Truth we shall be able to stand before Jehovah.

(Gen 19:27 KJV) And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD:

And we shall see the Wicked revealed…for their folly shall be revealed for all men to see….rising up as “smoke.” The smoke of their torment shall rise up for all to see….as the smoke of a furnace.

28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
29 And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.

There shall be distress….anguish…tribulation….as they perish in their own corruption. Their folly shall rise up as smoke…all will see their distress….the anger…the weeping and gnashing of teeth in their congregations….all because they will not have received the love of the Truth and be saved.

(Mat 13:49 KJV) So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just,
50 And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

The Wicked shall perish in their own sins…in their own corruption….into “smoke shall they consume away” for all to see.

(Psa 37:20 KJV) But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.

They shall have no rest as they continue on following after their covetousness. The Wicked shall not know His peace…His rest…as they will perish in their own corruption…in their own lust for the things of this religious world. Their folly shall be manifest for all to see….as the smoke of their torment shall rise up for all to see.

(Rev 14:11 KJV) And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.

The Greek word for “truth” is “aletheia”…which comes from “alethes”….which means “true as not concealing.” The Truth shall be revealed in these last days…it shall not stay concealed. And religious man shall be rewarded according to his work either for or against the revealing of the Truth. Christ Jesus is the Truth. It is the glory of God to conceal a thing in the Scriptures….but the honor of kings to search out His Truth.

(Prov 25:2 KJV) It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.

He shall reveal the “secret things to us”….and those things of the Bible that are revealed will belong to and enable us to do all of the words of His “law.” The Hebrew word for “law” is “torah” which means “instruction, to hit the mark.” Christ Jesus is the Way….the “law”…the “instruction”…which shall be revealed in the Scriptures. We are to hear and obey His revealed instruction in this last day. We are to be zealous and repent.

(Deu 29:29 KJV) The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

We are to hear and obey the King. We are to receive the government of God…to hear His instruction and live. Every one that is of the revealed Truth hears the voice of our King.

(John 18:37 KJV) Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.

With His instruction, we can overcome this world’s religious system of man…his covetousness…his doctrines and commandments of bondage. The world’s religious system of man will not hear the Truth….for the Truth destroys that which man has built upon the sands of earthly wisdom.

(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.
5 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.

He that knows God shall hear the Truth…and those covetous pastors who despise the government of God shall not hear and obey. They will despise His government. We are to withdraw from such.


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.

If any man determines to truly seek after His wisdom and knowledge shall know that the teaching of the Truth is from God.

(John 7:17 KJV) If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.

Those that will not hear the Truth only preach themselves….for their own glory and riches which deceive those who do.

18 He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.

We are to seek His Truth…with all of our hearts, mind and souls…and He shall give it to us. He shall reveal His Truth to those who do. He shall open up the Scriptures for our understanding.

(Mat 7:7 KJV) Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:

We are to incline our ears unto wisdom…we are to HEAR His Truth.

(Prov 2:1 KJV) My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;

We are to apply our hearts to understanding…to seek and retain His wisdom with our hearts.

2 So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;

We are to SEEK after His knowledge and lift up our voices for His understanding. We are to receive the love of the revealed Truth and be saved.

3 Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;
4 If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;
5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.

Jehovah shall give His wisdom…out of His mouth shall come knowledge and understanding. We shall understand His Word….the Bible…in His spiritual knowledge…and then we can worship Him in Spirit and in Truth. We are to hear His “torah”…His “law”…His instruction and LIVE.

6 For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.

We are to seek….to ask for His wisdom…and He shall give it to us. But man must not “unbraideth” what is given to him. Religious man must not defame…belittle…despise…the wisdom that God will give. We are not to despise His government over our hearts, minds and spirits.

(James 1:5 KJV) If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

Religious man must BELIEVE in what he is to receive…..believe in the knowledge of the REVEALED Truth and be saved. Man must not waver back and forth between man’s wisdom of the Scriptures and God’s wisdom. He that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed…..tossed about with every wind of doctrine of covetous pastors who only preach themselves.

6 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.
7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

With faith…BELIEF…in the knowledge of the Truth….we shall no longer be children who are tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine that comes out of the mouths of deceitful preachers. We are all to come together in the BELIEF of the KNOWLEDGE of the Son of God.

(Eph 4:13 KJV) 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;
15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
 
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Thank you Wheeler , for your answer yo my questions and keeping in the right direction
I have been ill that past couple of days
But come on CF Christian scriptures to see if you replied
and you have ! :)
Thanks ,I do agree that their are two types of ministries and those preachers /teachers
one of death and the other of Life

we should not ''mix '' the two or make them lukewarm

death message being we are to be put to death for our sins , it is truth

But we can repent and be saved Jesus come to save not destroy ..
Peace ..C
 
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Hi Chickapee, sorry to hear you have been sick….I hope you are starting to feel better now.

Indeed, we can repent of our ways and be saved. It was the religious people 2000 years ago who were preached to….in order that they might repent of their own thoughts and ways. It will be no different in these last days. Those of the Christian church are called to repent of their ways and thoughts and put on His ways and thoughts….which are much higher than ours. The Son of man comes to save men indeed….through the revealing of His Word…the preaching of the revealed Truth.

(Mat 18:11 KJV) For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.

(Luke 9:56 KJV) For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them. And they went to another village.

But religious man must be warned of the consequences of rejecting of the Word of Truth that shall be revealed for our salvation. He that will reject the revealed Word of Truth and receives not His words has one that judges…..the Word itself that comes from the Father.

(John 12:48 KJV) He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
49 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.

We, the Christian churches, are supposed to bear fruits of repentance when we will hear His Truth….we are to believe in His Truth…..to receive the love of the Truth…to DO the Truth.

(John 15:1 KJV) I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

His revealed Word of Truth shall make us clean from all our envy, strife, hatred, and divisions in the churches.

3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.

We are not to be “ashamed” of His revealed Word of Truth. The Christian church is living in an “adulterous and sinful generation.” WE are that generation today…and we are to hear, be zealous, repent and be saved.

(Mark 8:38 KJV) Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.

We are to receive His Truth. We are to be justified by how we receive it in this last day…..in the Day of Judgment. By our words shall we be justified and by our words shall we be judged….either for or against the revealing of the Word of Truth.

(Mat 12:33 KJV) Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.
34 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…..an evil man will reject it and revile 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.

For every idle word that men shall speak against the revealing of the Word of Truth, they shall give an account thereof:

36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

His reward is with Him…to give every man according as his work SHALL be. How religious man receives or rejects the revealing of the Word of Truth is how he will be justified or condemned. Either make the tree good and his fruit good…or else make those trees who will reject the Truth corrupt and his fruit corrupt.

(Rev 22:11 KJV) He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.

Those who will speak evil of the revealed Truth shall utterly perish in their OWN corruption. They will bring it upon themselves because of their unbelieving hearts. Those “trees” shall be made extremely corrupt in their own corruption….because they will not have received the love of the Truth and be saved. Their own wickedness shall be upon their own heads.

(2 Pet 2:12 KJV) But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;

They shall receive the reward for their works of unrighteousness.

13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;

God will give these men…. the “trees”….over to their own lusts of their own hearts to work all unrighteousness. The “trees” will be made completely corrupt with corrupt fruit….because they will not have received the love of the Truth and be saved.

(Rom 1:24 KJV) Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

He will give them over to a rejected mind to be filled with all unrighteousness….the reward for their not unbelieving hearts:

The “trees” shall be made corrupt…and their fruit corrupt. This is the “lake of fire”…the being filled with all unrighteousness. Wickedness shall burn as the “fire.”

(Rom 1:28 KJV) And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

The religious men who will reject the Truth in this last day shall be given over to their own lusts of their hearts in order to be filled with ALL unrighteousness…..these “trees” shall be made completely corrupt. Their “worm” shall not die…neither shall their fire be quenched…and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh. These men shall become completely obnoxious to every one around them as they perish in their own corruption.

(Isa 66:24 KJV) And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.

Their “worm” shall not die….the Hebrew word for “worm” is “towla'” and comes from the word “yala” which means “to blurt or utter inconsiderately.” Their own teachings…their words…their profane and vain babbling…shall consume them in ever greater wickedness and hatred of each other. Their word will eat as does a “canker.” A “worm” also eats….as their own vain babbling will increase unto more ungodliness. The “fire” shall be increasing wickedness.

(2 Tim 2:16 KJV) But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
17 And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;

They shall “wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived” as they burn in the “fire” of their own wickedness.

(2 Tim 3:13 KJV) But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

All evil comes out of the heart…and the mouth speaks what is abundant in the heart. And what comes out of the mouth defiles a man….it sets his whole life on “fire.” His rejection and contradicting of the Truth shall spark the fire of wickedness...which will start to burn out of control.


(James 3:5 KJV) Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
6 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:
8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

Man’s church organizations are going to implode. They going to become full of wickedness….hatred, quarreling anger, envying, prideful men….. “weeping and gnashing of teeth.” They shall never recover. And everyone in this world is going to see this….the “smoke” that shall ascend up for everyone to see. Their folly shall be manifest for all to see. They shall become an abhorring to all mankind as they behave in ever increasing ungodliness. The pursuit after their own lusts of their hearts (brimstone) shall flame the “fire” of wickedness into all unrighteousness. Their own words shall lead them into greater ungodliness in which there is no relief. The wicked shall not know His peace…for they will have rejected His instruction….His Truth. We are to get out from among them so as not to be consumed in the “fire” of their iniquities….in the “iniquity of the city”….just as Lot was INSTRUCTED.

(Gen 19:15 KJV) And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.

We are to DEPART from the tents of the wicked men who will not receive the love of the Truth….lest we be CONSUMED in all their sins….the giving over of them to a reprobate mind that shall fill them with all unrighteousness. We are to follow Moses’ instruction in Christ Jesus: DEPART from them or be consumed in ALL their sins.

(Num 16:25 KJV) And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him.
26 And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their sins.
27 So they gat up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood in the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little children.

We are to be merciful and preach the revealed Truth to those who are in the “tents”…the churches… of wicked men. We are to be like the men who pulled Lot out of Sodom by the hand. We are to save…with fear…pulling them out of the “fire” of man’s increasing wickedness in the churches….hating the covetousness teachings of man.

(Jude 1:23 KJV) And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.



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Those that will reject the Truth with an evil heart of unbelief shall perish in their own corruption….their own sins will lead to greater and greater unrighteousness for which there will be no remedy. Their “fire” shall not be quenched. But God is not willing that any shall perish…but that all men may come to the repentance of the Truth.

(2 Pet 3:9 KJV) The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

As messengers of God, we are to instruct religious men with all meekness….hoping that God will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the revealed Truth.

(2 Tim 2:24 KJV) And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
25 In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;

so that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil….

26 And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.

But in these last days… perilous times shall come….as men who will not receive the love of the Truth shall burn in the fire of their own unrighteousness.

3:1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,

They shall be ever learning and will never be able to come to the full knowledge of the Truth….because of their evil, unbelieving hearts.

7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

They shall mock the messengers of God in these last days….they will despise His Word of Truth that will be preached to them…until the wrath of Jehovah shall arise against these corrupt trees….and there will be no remedy then. Make the tree utterly corrupt.


(2 Chr 36:15 KJV) And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:
16 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.

(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.


There will be no remedy….and their calamity shall come suddenly. Their “fire” shall not be quenched.

(Prov 6:12 KJV) A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
13 He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;
14 Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.
15 Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.

(Prov 29:1 KJV) He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
 
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It is better to humbly receive the love of the Truth now….willingly….obediently. For whosoever will exalt himself against the revealing of the Truth in these last days shall be humbled….and that humbling process will be unpleasant.

(Luke 14:11 KJV) For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

For every knee shall bow and every tongue shall swear…..

(Isa 45:23 KJV) I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.

All that are “incensed against Him” shall be ashamed. The pride of religious man shall be humbled one way or another….either willingly or through the wrath of God.

24 Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength: even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed.
25 In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.

The pride of religious man shall be brought low….because he will not believe on his own in the revealing of the Truth. His own wickedness shall correct him….because he will have had no fear of God when he will hear the revealed Truth.

(Jer 2:19 KJV) Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.

How much sorer will be the punishment for those who will not receive the knowledge of the Truth humbly....who will not have the FEAR of God within them.

(Heb 10:26 KJV) For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,

Religious man will learn the fear of God one way or another. I

27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
30 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.

For it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. The pride of religious man shall be humbled….and he will learn to fear the living God.

31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

The pride of men who will exalt themselves against the revealing of the Truth shall be humbled.

Isa 2:11 KJV) The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
12 For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:
13 And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,
14 And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up,
15 And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,
16 And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.
17 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
18 And the idols he shall utterly abolish.


Every knee shall bow….every man shall fear Jehovah….

19 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

Then religious man shall get rid of his idols…his works of his own hands that he worships.

20 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
22 Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?
 
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That Day of wrath shall not come except there come a falling away first…..the rejection of the revealed Truth by church pastors, leaders and the followers who will agree with their teachings.

(2 Th 2:3 KJV) Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

In their pride, they shall oppose the Truth. They shall exalt themselves against the teaching of the revealed Truth. These men will choose man’s outward wisdom of the Scriptures over God’s revealed knowledge in them.

4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

These men shall not consent to “wholesome words”….which will be the teaching of the revealed Word….the word of our Lord Jesus Christ who is the Truth. They will teach in opposition of the teaching of Christ….they will be “antichrist.” They will be teaching “otherwise”….in contradiction to the revealed Truth in these latter times.

(1 Tim 6:3 KJV) If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;

They will rise up against the Truth in their pride….disputing and contradicting it. They will know NOTHING…for the spiritual things of God shall be foolishness to them.

4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

These men shall be part of the great falling away from the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. They shall dispute the Truth with their corrupt minds….being destitute of the Truth. They will cling onto their own covetous ways and practices. These will be church men who shall rise up against the Truth. We, as believers in the Truth when it comes, are to withdraw ourselves from their company…..or share in their sins and plagues as the wrath of God shall come upon them.

5 Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.

In the great falling away that is coming, they shall deny the Lord that had bought them. They shall “deny”…as in contradict and oppose….what the revealing of the Word of Truth instructs. This will bring the swift destruction upon them…the wrath of God.

(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.

MANY shall follow their “pernicious” ways….and they will all speak evil of the Way of Truth that God will open up to them for our salvation.

2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

The abomination will stand where it ought not…..covetous men shall make their proud stand against the revealing of the Truth. The abomination of desolation = covetousness. Their judgment shall not linger not when they do rise up against His Truth.

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

The Lord comes to execute judgment upon all….and to convict all those ungodly men who will oppose the revealing of the Truth.

(Jude 1:14 KJV) And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,

Their “hard speeches” will be their vocal opposition to the Truth as revealed by our Lord Jesus. They will be the “ungodly” sinners of the church….those who will think to oppose the revealed Word of Truth.

15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

They shall murmur and complain against the Truth. They would rather keep the old man of religion and his corrupted, covetous-motivated teachings. They will think that the old is better than the new.

16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.
17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;

They shall mock…scoff…at the messengers of the Truth in the “last time.”

18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.

The “man of sin” will be many pastors and their followers who will not receive the love of the Truth and be saved. They shall be united as one man in their hatred of it...in their vocal opposition to this “new” teaching. They will not want the “new wine” of the Truth….but will instead want to keep the “old wine” of religious man who is corrupt. We must put on the “new man”….Christ Jesus and accept His revealed Truth. The “new” will not agree with the “old” garment of covetous, religious man’s teachings….the garment stained by the flesh. The “new” song is not like the old. The new boss is same as the old though…..and we won’t get fooled again (the Who.)

(Luke 5:36 KJV) And he spake also a parable unto them; No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old; if otherwise, then both the new maketh a rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new agreeth not with the old.

Religious man must “empty” himself of the “old man” of religion……and be a “new bottle” in Christ Jesus. We must humble ourselves at His revealing of the Truth. We must receive the love of the Truth and be saved.

37 And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish.

If we can deny ourselves…our own religious thoughts and ways…and put on the new man of Christ…then we are “preserved.”

38 But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved.

But there will be those complainers in the churches who will say that the “old is better”….and will not desire the Truth.

39 No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better.

He makes all things “NEW”….the words of the Bible shall speak in Christ Jesus the words that are TRUE and FAITHFUL…..and not in the wisdom of religious man…..which is the “old.” The preaching of the revealed Word of God is the “new.” Behold, He makes all things NEW:

(Rev 21:5 KJV) 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.

We are to empty ourselves of man’s religious wisdom and thirst for His Water of Life.

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.

Then we can feast on His Truth….having the finest of wines….His revealed Truth that makes the heart of man joyful….that preserves man’s life.

(Isa 25:6 KJV) And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.

We are to preach this “new” teaching…sing this “new song”… which is the revealed Truth. We are to preach it to the church world…this arrangement now that will pass away.

(Mark 16:15 KJV) And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.

All those in the church who will believe and be baptized into the revealed Truth….be fully immersed into His teachings…meaning to DO THE TRUTH…. , shall be saved. Being “baptized” means DOING THE TRUTH….instead of just hearing and NOT doing it.

16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

Then we shall speak with “new tongues”….preaching the Truth that has not been heard before. What man preaches now is confusion…gibberish….but we will preach with clarity.

17 And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

We are to be full of the “new wine” from above.

(Acts 2:11 KJV) Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.

Many will be in doubt….as they will be “slow of heart” to believe.

12 And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What meaneth this?

Others in the churches will just mock the messengers of God.

13 Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine.
14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words:

But we will not be “drunken” as THEY suppose….as they think and understand. The Greek word for “suppose” means “to take below”….they will think with their own earthly wisdom from below that those who will speak the revealed Truth in this last day are crazy…. “drunken”…according to their standards.

15 For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day.
 
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Like the religious people of 2000 years ago from Jerusalem and Judaea and all the region around Jordan, we are to also come to repentance in the knowledge of the Truth. We are to hear and believe and DO the Truth….be baptized. Notice that they went out TO him. We also are to willingly receive the love of the Truth and DO it…be baptized.

(Mat 3:5 KJV) Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan,

“Jordan” means “descend”….we are to WILLINGLY humble ourselves at the hearing of His Truth in these last days….we are to hear, believe, humble and confess our sins. Those who can humble themselves at hearing His Truth shall be exalted…..they shall rise up out of the “water” having the Spirit of Truth ...whom we are to hear….. descend upon them.

6 And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.
7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

We are to bring forth fruits meet for repentance….putting away the old man of religion who is corrupt, envious, strife-filled, hateful, etc….and put on the new man of Christ Jesus in peace, love, joy, kindness.

8 Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:

Like Jesus showed us….we are to WILLINGLY come to this “baptism”….to hear and do the Truth….so that we may FUFILL all righteousness.

(Mat 3:13 KJV) Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him.
14 But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?
15 And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.

Like Jesus showed us….we will rise up straightway out of the “water”…out of many people who are living in denominations and strife…out of many “tongues” wherein there is much confusion over the interpretation of the Scriptures. We shall leave all that behind as we see the “heavens” open for us…..as we learn from the Spirit of Truth all the hidden mysteries of the Bible being revealed in the mind of Christ Jesus.

16 And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:
17 And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
It is better to humbly receive the love of the Truth and be saved then to rise up in religious, denominational man’s pride against the revealing of the Truth. It is better to VOLUNTARILY come to the baptism rather than being INVOLUNTARILY “baptized” in the fire of God’s wrath. Those who shall not bring forth good fruit after hearing the revealing of the Truth are to be “baptized” in “fire.”

(Mat 3:10 KJV) And now also the ax is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

Those who will willingly do the Truth shall be baptized in the Spirit of Truth….and those who will not receive the Truth shall be humbled…. “baptized” in the “lake” of fire.

11 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:
12 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

It is better to come to the baptism of the revealed Truth willingly…humbly… in order to fulfill all righteousness rather than being involuntarily “baptized”….cast….into the “lake” of fire.

(Rev 20:15 KJV) And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

We are to hear and DO His words that He speaks in these last days. The Truth shall set us free from the bondage of man’s religious burdens…his commandments and doctrines that do not profit us one bit. Religious man goes about working his own “righteousness” with his teachings and commandments.

(John 8:28 KJV) Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.
29 And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.
30 As he spake these words, many believed on him.
31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
33 They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?
34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
35 And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever.
36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

Those who will willfully continue to work the works of religious man’s “righteousness” after the hearing of the Truth shall be cast out….they shall not inherit the things of the truly free.

(Gal 4:30 KJV) Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.
31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.
5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

To be “circumcised”= working the works of religious, denominational man’s “righteousness.” Religious man’s works are nothing but a show of the flesh….they do not profit.

2 Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
 
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