Matthew 10:28

 11/5/23

Matthew 10:28 “Fear not those who can kill the body  but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear Him who can destroy both soul and body in hell fire”

The above verse was incorrectly translated due to the translator’s ignorance of the fact that the soul is the complete human being composed of spirit and body. A person, a human being is a soul. The soul is not a third part but the whole man.  James 2:26 (first part) As the body without the spirit is dead…….  The spirit is what gives life to the flesh or body.  John 6:63 The spirit gives life, the flesh profits nothing.   The verse Matthew 10:28 should read; “fear not those who can kill the body but cannot kill the spirit. Rather fear Him who can destroy both body and spirit in hell fire.”  At death the human spirit also called the breath of life returns to God while the body returns to dust.  The body is destroyed but the spirit is not. In this sense only we all came from heaven and return there at death. 2 Corinthians 5:1 “For we know that if this body we live in is destroyed we have a body from God an everlasting body in heaven not built by human hands.” The human spirit is the real you and the body is temporary.  Your spirit in heaven is totally inoperative because it must have a body in which to operate.  In the first resurrection your spirit will have a spirit body to live in forever.  The destruction of both body and spirit in hell fire refers to the lake of fire reserved for those who commit the unpardonable sin.  To destroy the soul  would be destroying the complete person both body and spirit but destruction of only the body has the spirit remaining. Most churches believe that man is three parts; body, soul and spirit and then compare this to the trinity of Father, Son and Holy Spirit saying this is how man was made in the image of God. In Genesis 1:27  the word “image” is in Strongs concordance article #H6754 and the Hebrew word is “teslem” and that means a phantom or illusion a resemblance, a representative figure, an idol.  Adam was created to be the Elohim of the world, a god with the little “g”.  God gave Adam dominion over the Earth. Genesis 1:26  In this sense only was Adam “in Gods image”. Satan became the Elohim or god of this world when Adam sinned against God and rendered himself to obey Satan and eat the forbidden fruit. 2 Corinthians 4:4  Adam lost dominion and Satan gained it.  Luke 4:6 , Romans 6:16   Adam harkened to the voice of his wife rather than of his God because Adam loved Eve more than God.  Eve was deceived but Adam was not and yet he still knowingly sinned.  This proves that neither Adam or Eve had the Holy Spirit as their sin would have been unpardonable.  Also the Holy Spirit was in the tree of life from which they were cut off from after they sinned.  Adam and Eve when first created had no knowledge of what good and evil is.  Adam only knew it was wrong to eat the fruit of the forbidden tree.  It was only after Adam ate of the forbidden fruit that the eyes of both of them were opened in spite of the fact that Eve ate first. Genesis 3:6   Adam was present during the entire conversation Eve had with the serpent and at that time while still having dominion could have ordered the serpent out of Eden, but he did not.  Adam failed to be the leader and use the authority God gave him to protect his wife.  In everything Adam failed to do and everything Eve failed to do God would command them both to do by assigning them their roles and responsibilities as man and woman.  These commands apply to all , even to this day.  The nature of innocence was the original nature of Adam and Eve but the human nature humans have today is from Satan. Acts 26:18  1 John 3:10  Matthew 13:38  2 Corinthians 4:4 .   It is a fact of history that the New Testament scriptures fell into the hands of pagans masquerading as Christians who crept in unawares bringing with them damnable heresies thus giving birth to what claims to be the Christian churches today.   A Catholic priest was asked what he thought about Protestants.  He replied, they are just bad Catholics.  The Catholic Church is a bad tree and over the years was recognized as such by those of the Protestant reformation and in spite of this Protestants failed to identify all the false doctrines of Catholicism therefore how should Protestantism be viewed ?  Here is how Jesus judged on this matter.  Matthew 7:17-23  the evil tree, Catholicism produced Protestantism or as that priest said, bad Catholics.  From the reformation forward splinter groups formed by the thousands, about 55,000 last time I checked.  What should this tell you about the worlds churches ?  

GOVERNMENT CONTROL LEADS TO CORRUPTION

 11/04/23

The media; television, newspapers and radio were to serve as a watchdog over the Federal government and report to the citizens anything government would do that was unacceptable.  The media is protected by the first article of the constitution. The media is to be unbiased, nonpartisan and fair and honest in their reporting. This is not the case today.  Without an honest media no nation will have freedom for long.

As the media is to be the watchdog the church is to be the moral conscience of a nation but this too has been discarded.  The Federal government now determines what a church is and has rules against the church speaking out against immorality in government or supporting any political party or cause.  According to the same article in the constitution that protects the media , article one, contains protection for religion or churches.  Government cannot interfere in churches or prevent them from expressing their faith and beliefs or establish a state religion. This however is a sham now because of unconstitutional government control. This government control of the churches is called 501 C3 under title 26 of the U.S. code of nonprofit organizations.  Without the church having the ability to directly be involved in a nations governance to act as a moral compass the government operates outside of morality and can lead a  nation into abominations and perversions.  This is what has happened in the U.S. and the world as it is very obvious to those who keep informed that the world is a cesspool of perversion and evil.  If a church would violate the 501 C3 rules their tax exempt status would be revoked and that church would be taxed on all monies and property that would in effect bankrupt them.  So then we have both the watchdog and the moral conscience of the U.S. , the media and the church under government control.  This is only part of the reason nations fall and the fall of the U.S. is near.  The church you attend, in order to be a recognized church, must be under the government’s 501 C3 rules.  To find out about your church go online and ask about your church by name and you will find that it is controlled by the government.  My church is the invisible church and it is not controlled by the government, it is controlled by Jesus by the will of God.  This church does not entangle itself in the affairs of men and has no man as their leader or teacher as God and Christ lead them and teach them.  Worldly politics and religion have no place in this invisible church because the invisible church is not of this world.  Their citizenship is in heaven.

ELIJAH TO COME IS THE HOLY SPIRIT

 11/02/23

The Elijah to come will restore all things. Matthew 17:11  It will be necessary to restore what massive deception by Satan has done since Jesus preached the gospel. John 14:15-16 , the spirit of truth. The world cannot receive the Spirit of truth because the church is not of the world and has the Holy Spirit. The world has 55,000 churches that are separated by their beliefs which was caused by Satan.  John 14:25-26 , the Spirit teaches you all things, restores all things and reminds the saints of everything Jesus said.  John 15:26 , the Holy Spirit from the Father testifies about Jesus.  John 16:7-11 Jesus had to ascend and be glorified in order to send the Elijah to come, the Holy Spirit.  Jesus was not glorified when raised from the dead but when he ascended because the Holy Spirit could not be given until Jesus was glorified. John 7:39  The Spirit will do all the things in verses 8 through 11.  John 16: 12-15 , the Spirit of truth , not some preacher, will guide you into all truth and expose all the great deception that is in all the worlds churches.  The Spirit will declare what is to come and glorify Jesus.  Zechariah 4:6 , it is the Spirit of the Father not the might or power of men that will accomplish Gods will.  The shepherds of Israel, in this prophecy spiritual Israel, will be removed from feeding the flock, the church.  Read Ezekiel 34: 1-19 with this in mind.  When Ezekiel wrote this prophecy both Israel and Judah were in captivity;  this is not about carnal Israel but to the 12 tribes scattered abroad. James 1:1   The carnal Jewish people deny Jesus as the son of God and messiah. 2 John 1:7 , 1 John 4:3 , 1 John 2:22  Messianic Jews believe Jesus is the messiah and God the Son.  The deception in the world is tremendous but God has called and chosen a small remnant of believers who do not associate with the worlds deceived churches as Gods call is to come out of the synagogues of Satan  John 4:21-24 ,  Revelation 3:9  remember how Paul defined a true Jew, Romans 2:29 , this is describing the church.  Worldly churches have preachers that think they can do what only the Holy Spirit can do.  This post should speak to those of the Israel of God .

THE HOPE WITHIN US

   11/01/23

What is the only answer to all the horrible things we see in this world ?   Should we vote for better leadership ?  Should we become involved in a group or organization to fight these evils ?

Should we March in demonstrations to protest these evils ?  Should we give money to groups or organizations that want to address and solve these evils ?  How about starting our own organization to address these evils ?  

All these things have been tried for many years and none of them have eliminated these evils, they are all still with us and seem to be growing.   As Christians we see all these horrible things and our hearts are broken over them but we should know that we have no power or authority to change any of it.  All the evil we see was prophesied to happen by the Prophets, Jesus and the Apostles but we should know that whatever Satan has done God can and will undo.  Revelation 7:17 ,  Revelation 21:4   This is the Christian hope, not only for themselves but for all people.  In this current evil world we can do nothing and the desire to become an activist will only lead to folly.  We should never attempt to intervene into things that only God has the power to change because if we do we become part of the problem rather than the answer.  The answer, as I have said in other posts is, thy kingdom come thy will be done on Earth as it is in heaven.  When Moses was a young man he already knew that God was going to use him , Acts 7:22-29 to deliver the Israelites out of Egypt and Moses thought his brethren understood this but they did not.  Moses jumped the gun, acted when God was not ready to act.  What we see in the world now is not for us to act upon because God is not ready yet to act.  It was after 40 years that God was ready and we read,  Acts 7:30-36 .  

The time for us to act will be when Christ returns and our part in that event is recorded in Psalm 149:1-9 .   Luke 21:19 , is good advice given by Jesus to the elect saints, we must have patience and wait and continue our struggle despite all the evil around us without losing the hope that is within us.   

A MAN LIKE US IN EVERY WAY

This post is written in response to anyone who teaches or believes that Jesus was a man just like us in every way.  Hebrews 2:17  is the verse that is used to say that Jesus could be tempted to sin and was capable of sin and that when faced with his death he did not want to go through with it. 

Both of these ideas are assumptions based on carnal thinking and not understanding scripture.

In every way.  This would mean he was born into sin and was child of the devil as we all are when we are born into this world. Acts 26:18  Jesus would be as weak as we are and ignorant of spiritual things.  Jesus would have been cut off from God and in need of a messiah just like we are.  Ephesians 2:12  It should be obvious that Jesus was not like us in every way but how then are we to interpret Hebrews 2:17 ? It should be clear that we should not take “in every way” in the way many have.  Hebrews 2:17 is only saying Jesus was a human being, he was a soul composed of body and human spirit and biologically exactly the same as we are, in every way physically.  It is the human spirit of Jesus, that while definitely human, that was created by his God and Father as our spirits will be when we are in the kingdom of God. 

Let’s review and compare the human spirit of Jesus to any other human.

When was the last time someone worshipped you ?  Matthew 14:33. When was the last time you said I and my Father are one ?  John 10:30. When was the last time you said, if you have seen me you have seen the Father ? John 14:9.  Were you born of a virgin ? Isaiah 7:14  Are you being used to heal the sick or raise the dead ?   Are you a mediator between God and men ?  When was the last time you walked on water ?  Can you tell me that in your entire life you have never sinned ?  Are you worthy of the same honor as God ?  John 5:23. Do you have direct access to God without a mediator ?  Have you been righteous since your mothers womb ?   Psalm 22:10   Could you go head to head one on one with Satan and win ?  John 14:30  Does this sound like an ordinary man ?   According to scripture there has never been a righteous man,  Romans 3:10-12 ,  Isaiah 53:11  ,  Jesus was the first and only righteous man who has ever lived.  The unrighteous are you and me and because of what God did through the man Jesus you and I can have the righteousness of God imputed to us because of faith in what Jesus did.  Do you know of anyone else that could have done all these things ?  Do you still think Jesus was exactly like us in every way ?  Hebrews 1:3 describes Jesus the man as the brightness of Gods glory and the express image of Gods person and Peter in 2 Peter 1:4  The divine nature, the nature of the Father was in the Christ and in the future will be in us when we enter the kingdom of God.  This is why it says in Revelation 3:14 , Jesus was the beginning of the creation of God. This is not about Genesis and Adam but of Genesis 2 and the second Adam.  All of the first Adams children are dead but all of the second Adams children are alive.  Jesus was not of the first Genesis, this world or creation but was the second Adam of what Gods will is for humanity.  John 8:23 ,  John 3:31 , John 17:14 ,  Hebrews 9:11 , 2 Corinthians 5:1   God’s ultimate will for man is to be recreated in the image of His son, Jesus the man, who is our example and model to follow.  Jesus is the first human to fulfill what God said in Genesis 1:26 , to truly be created, not recreated like you and me need to be, but created from his mothers womb the very first new man, the beginning of what God is doing.  You and I must follow this new man, put him on like a garment, Ephesians 4:22-24 , Colossians 3:2-4 ,   to say Jesus was exactly like us in every way is to assassinate his God given character.  We are to be transformed to be in the image of this man Jesus so then how can he be exactly like us in every way?  We need a change in both body and spirit to enter the kingdom.  Jesus only needed a change in body because his human spirit was already kingdom quality.  In the process of proving Jesus is not God but human men have gone to far and make the Christ himself one of those he came to save. They make Jesus to much like us spiritually.  Biologically Jesus was exactly like us in every way but spirituality Jesus was obviously far above us.  Can you not see this when reading the scriptures about him ?   Yes, Jesus was not God, but he was created in the image of the invisible God,  Colossians 1:15,  Jesus had the divine nature, character of his God that we hope to achieve by faith in Jesus.  Romans 8:29   We are to have the mind of this man Jesus who had the mind of his God.   To not understand these things is to not fully know the gospel , Christ or God.  Jesus was born a true son of God, you and I were not. We must be recreated in the image of Jesus who was  created in the image of the invisible God and have faith to believe this to have hope in our salvation.

 

Restoration  ?

9/7/23

In many churches today there is a goal of restoring the church to what it was in the first century.  This can never happen because God has made changes to the church that these restorers do not know and would not believe even if someone told them.  The truth of pure doctrine to the church was foretold by Jesus when he said, “Elijah shall come and restore all things.”  Matthew 17:11   The obvious question is why restoration was needed. The answer to this question is Matthew 24:4-5 .  Many would come in the name of Jesus and deceive many.  This verse is not saying that many would come saying they were Jesus but that they would come IN HIS NAME preaching that Jesus is indeed the messiah but at the same time deceive many people.

Just think about it, how many churches do you know that preach false doctrines but do not deny that Jesus is the messiah?  Also if someone “comes in your name” do they claim to be you?

This is why God had to make changes in the organization of the church as Ezekiel 34:1-19 prophesied.  There are today in the Pentecost church no human ministry because God removed them totally and He and His son Jesus took over COMPLETELY.  This had to be done to combat the extreme deception that God knew would come and was also affirmed by the prophets and Apostles. Then Gods Holy Spirit would through Jesus the mediator teach the saints directly thus eliminating any opportunity for deception.  What is seen in all churches today is a very poor attempt to imitate what they think is the truth but all of it is Satanic deception of carnal minds.  In todays churches one person ,on a day they think is holy , is in charge. He or she speaks while the flock listens and obeys.  Deceive  that one person and the rest will follow.  No one in the churches can stand up and question or challenge what the pastor says.  They sing songs and perhaps pass the collection plate say some prayers then go home two fold more a child of the devil than when they went in. Satan and his ministers do not come with horns and a pitch fork but as angels of light as wolves in sheep’s clothing.  The churches are the synagogues of Satan that God calls people out of not into.  Scripture is very plain that near to the end of the age people will be deceived, Revelation 12:9 , but the people in the churches do not believe this. In that day there will be only a very small remnant of true Christians left alive that have the promise of Gods protection from the hour of trial that will come upon the whole Earth.  Revelation 3:10 .  There are some people who are beginning to understand that organizations of men are false but yet still have issues with making a clean break from them.  None will ever be truly free until they do.  Worldly churches have an extra mediator called pastor, preacher, minister or reverend who the people view as a spiritual guide that God uses to teach them. Do I need to show the scriptures that plainly disprove all of this ?  The first century church did have these offices but today they are gone and replaced by God and His Son and the saints taught and led by them only.  How valuable is your salvation to you ?  Most place their salvation into the hands of some man who comes in the name of Jesus but is a deceiver.  Would you give over your physical life to some man, why then your spiritual?

Hebrews 11:6   Do YOU diligently seek God, do you, or have you turned that over to some man.  Your faith should never be in any man to be the seeker for you.  You are to seek, you are to have faith and believe to be rewarded.  You nor I can subcontract out our responsibility to do these things, invest ourselves in them and hunger and thirst for them.  The Apostles, Prophets and Jesus all emphasized how we all have our own duty to seek God diligently because no one will ride into the kingdom on the coattails of some preacher or even any of the Apostles.  This is what a personal relationship with God and Christ is all about.    I have read posts here on Simply Christian where people have written how frustrated and helpless they feel when churches they had attended preached things they knew scripture refuted.  They ask, where can I go to receive Gods truth ?  The answer is to God and eliminating all human ministry.  God will teach you, His Elijah Spirit through Jesus will restore what has been lost from many years of false preaching.  It will require a lot of faith to do this because it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Humble yourself, feel Godly sorrow about your sins and repent and in sincere prayer ask for forgiveness and for God to teach you His truth. Your choice is God or man, what will it be ?

A MAN AFTER GODS OWN HEART

 

A MAN AFTER GODS OWN HEART

Acts 13:22  Describes how God viewed King David

1 Samuel 13:14  Saul was rejected by God and David chosen as King

It seems that God had a high praise for David because of his not failing to keep any of Gods commands all the days of his life.  There was only one thing that was an exception, the case of Uriah the Hittite.   1 Kings 15:5   Why would this one act be a stain on an otherwise perfect record?  1 Samuel 18:7 indicates that David killed many people so why would Uriahs case be any different?  

The Ten Commandments define what sin is : 1 John 3:4 

The 6th commandment states; You shall not murder .  The Hebrew word for murder here is plain and the command in Hebrew is lo tirtach,  the word for killing is , harag and the word for murder is , ratzach.  Scripture has a different word and meaning for the words kill and murder.  Strongs #H7523 “ratzach” is the unlawful killing of a human by another human. Motives for murder are based is premeditated lust and hate.  This is the attitude that King David had when he plotted Uriahs murder but his other killings were, Strongs H2026, not murder .  In both killing and murder someone dies but what separates the two are the thoughts and intents of the killer or murderer.  All murder is killing but not all killing is murder.  Jesus told us to love all people and not to seek vengeance or retaliation but did Jesus teach that we must allow ourselves, a loved one or a stranger to be murdered while we stand by and do not resist.  The golden rule of do to others what you would want them to do to you is taught to the church but the world doesn’t operate like that, so in dealing with the world follow the advice of the Apostle Paul, Romans 12:18  the words , ”if it be possible “,  proves that in some circumstances it will not be possible to live at peace with all men.  Paul continues with exhorting us not to seek revenge and to love our enemies but not a word is said about allowing an evil person to murder us. 

Scripture has the account of Abraham and his killing of the army of Chedorlaomer, not murder but killing. Genesis 14:15-20 and the priest of the most high God blessed Abraham for his actions .  Elijah killed the prophets of Baal, 1 Kings 18:40  and also King David’s tens of thousands.  All these men and others killed but they did not murder, except David in the case of Uriah.  All these will be in the kingdom of God at the return of Jesus Christ.  The argument that some things changed in the transition from Moses to Christ with respect to this matter violates that basic understanding in the law and in the Fathers of the faith and in the prophets that murder is always a sin but killing for self defense or for defense of others has precedent that carries into the new covenant and due to this fact it never became necessary to directly state that self defense was acceptable when everyone knew it was from historical precedent just as there was no need to define the soul or what death is.  In this matter the actions of the saints will be judged by Christ on the thoughts and intents of our human spirit at the time we take the action to kill.  

Speaking for myself I would hope and pray that God would never allow me to be in a situation where I would have to take a life.  However if it did come to it I also pray that God would guide my spirit so that my actions would be justified and grant me victory over evil.  Just as God takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked, neither do I, but that the wicked would repent and turn from their evil ways, will they, if not God will kill the wicked and so will I.

Psalm 149:1-9 , Isaiah 66:16 , 1 Thessalonians 3:13