WHAT WILL GODS ELECT SAINTS DO DURING THE GREAT TRIBULATION

 We know that GODS seal on the foreheads of the elect protects them from the hour of trial that comes upon the whole Earth. The great tribulation. Revelation 3:10  

Just before the tribulation becomes violent the living elect , those who are alive and remain, are sealed in their foreheads. Revelation 7:1-4  In Isaiah God said, 

“No weapon formed will prevail against you, you will refute every tongue that accuses you.  This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord” Isaiah 54:17

   Romans 8:31  Psalm 91:4-7  2 Timothy 4:18 

Take note that the innumerable multitude comes from every nation, tribe, people and tongue, Revelation 7:9  They are the people who came out of the great tribulation,  Revelation 7:14  These are the people tried in the fire, the church of GOD at Laodicea. Revelation 3:18  

The Philadelphia and Laodicean churches both exist together but under separate conditions in the end time and the elect Philadelphians are also scattered to the four winds, to the same places as the innumerable multitude are, both churches are scattered among all nations.  The elect will inform and warn the innumerable multitude of their poor spiritual condition and their need to repent and willingly accept martyrdom (Daniel 11:32-35) , they love not their lives unto death, to be in the first resurrection with the elect. (Revelation 12:11) & (Revelation 14:13)  As many as Jesus loves he rebukes and chastens.  Revelation 3:19

Daniel 11:32-35  The elect will instruct many but those they instruct will fall by sword, flame and spoil many days.  Remember the elect are sealed and protected from this hour of trial but the innumerable multitude is not.  The innumerable multitude are mentioned in, Zechariah 13:9  Revelation 12:11 and Revelation 14:13

Those who repent and willingly and give their lives will be blessed and they will rest in death and their deeds remembered .  In this day the spirit of the FATHER will speak through HIS elect saints to this innumerable multitude, Matthew 10:19-22  The elect must always remember that it will be GOD working in you to perform all the things that happen during the tribulation and because you are sealed will not be martyred in doing so.  

The elect are a small remnant of the 144,000 who are alive before the tribulation and return of Jesus. 

There is no rapture of the elect saints to heaven before the tribulation begins, that is a lie many people believe.  This lie attempts to use the method of how we meet Christ in the air at his return to slip in the lie of going to heaven before the tribulation.  The truth is that the saints after meeting Jesus in the air then descend to earth to conquer it for the kingdom of GOD (Psalm 149) and then rule and reign with Jesus on the earth for 1,000 years.  There is no mention of going to heaven before the tribulation.  

Then there is the confusion as to the timing of the resurrection and return of Christ, events that occur at the same time.  There are the pre tribulation, mid tribulation and post tribulation ideas but the truth is recorded in Matthew 24:29-30 

 “Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.  Then will appear the sign of the son of man in heaven. And then all of the peoples of earth will mourn when they see the son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.”

So, there is the proof that both the resurrection and return of Jesus Christ are one event that happens IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE GREAT TRIBULATION, not before or in the middle. 

ONE WAY FALSE DOCTRINES ORIGINATE

 

The Greek language was used to write the New Testament. In the time of Jesus and the Apostles the type of Greek language is called "Koine".  The original Koine Greek language was written in all upper case letters and had no spaces or punctuation. The modern translations of the bible today must place punctuation where they think it belongs. The problem with this is that these translators were either not converted people with GODS holy spirit or false Christians and this led to many incorrect ideas that severely affected doctrines.  I will give several examples of these punctuation errors.

Matthew 24:5 "For many will come in my name saying, that I am Christ, and will deceive many."

 Notice where the translators placed the comas in the above scripture.  I have in bold blue the words "will come in my name" to demonstrate the error.  If you came in another persons name do you claim to be that person ?  No you do not.  If you are on trial for a crime and you hire a lawyer to represent you, to come before the court "in your name" would your lawyer claim he is you ?  This verse is incorrectly understood to say that many would come claiming to be Jesus but that cannot be the case.  The truth of this verse is that many people would come "in the name of Jesus", telling people they come in his name, they will say that Jesus was the messiah but in the process deceive many people.  This was a prophecy of Jesus about the modern day preachers, who come in the name of Christ, but deceive many with a false gospel.  

Hebrews 5:6-7 "As HE says in another place: You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek; who in the days of his flesh, when he offered up prayers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears to HIM who was able to save him from death, and was heard because of his GODLY fear," 

 The dark red words show that the word "who" is not referring to Jesus but Melchizedek, it is a well know rule of grammar that "who" in this sentence refers back to the last person mentioned in the sentence.  The dark blue words especially "vehement cries and tears" are nowhere used to describe how Jesus behaved in Gethsemane where he prayed before his crucifixion. There is no mention of Jesus vehemently crying with tears in any of the scriptures. This was actually Melchizedek doing the vehement cries with tears.  

 The words in dark green say that whoever it was that prayed with vehement cries and tears "was heard" indicating that he was saved from death which we know that GOD did not save Jesus from death but HE did save Melchizedek by sending Abraham to defeat  Chedorlaomer and three other kings.  Melchizedek was king of Salem and realized that Salem was only about 15 miles from Sodom and Gomorrah which were two of the five cities that stopped paying tribute to Chedorlaomer.  Melchizedek  was terrified that his city of Salem would also suffer destruction.  This has nothing to do with Jesus until verse 8.  Some bible translations actually take the liberty of  changing verse 7 to say "During the days of Jesus' earthly life.." when none of the literal translations do this.  

Luke 23:43 "Jesus answered him, truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise." 

Even Jesus did not ascend to paradise until 40 days after his resurrection. 

Acts 1:9 "After saying this he was taken up as they watched and a cloud received him out of their sight." 

This fact alone shows the incorrect placement of the commas in Luke 23:43.  In order to make the other events in scripture agree with Luke 23:43 so as not to have scripture broken.  

John 10:35 "If HE called them gods to whom the word of GOD came - and scripture cannot be broken-" 

The false translation of Luke 23:43 breaks the truth of the scripture therefore it is an incorrect translation  and should be: 

Luke 23:43 "And Jesus said to him, truly I say to you today, you shall be with me in paradise."

The above true translation will then agree with other verses of scripture like;

John 20:17 "Jesus said to her, do not cling to me for I have not yet ascended to my Father." 

Jesus said this after his resurrection from being 3 days and 3 nights dead in the tomb.  So, where was the thief  if not even Jesus went to Paradise until his ascension 40 days later. The uninspired commas of the translators change the truth of this verse.

A person that has the holy spirit is enabled by the spirit to discern these translation errors and there are many more than these three examples I have given. There are also errors in the translation of words or the order of words in a sentence.  Remember that even if some translators were false Christians the false beliefs they had would greatly influence their translations. If any modern translation violates the flow of GODS truth then it is in error. These bad translations are the cause of all the false doctrines in all the false churches.

 

IS A RIGHTEOUS GOVERNMENT POSSIBLE ??

 

Every four years and every two years the political system in the U.S. seems to go through drastic changes that happens when one political party wins over the other.  Haven’t you ever noticed that when the new president is elected that is from another party that immediately they begin to undo almost everything the previous president did.  Then every two years the house and senate undergoes the same process.  When voters elect one party into the white house and then the other party in control of congress gridlock is the result, nothing gets done. Just when the citizens get accustomed to one way of life then another president or congress comes along and changes things.  Both parties blame the other for all the problems and chaos reigns.  

The U.S. voter has changed dramatically in the last 20 years because the younger crowd now seems to embrace communism / socialism and politicians from both sides are seeing this increased popularity of communism/ socialism as the wave of the future and in order to get re-elected will betray their oath of office to support these extreme left candidates running for political offices.  

Politics is a filthy thing and if the founders of this nation could see what politicians have done to the nation they would vomit.  They way things are in the operation of the government are not what the founders intended.  Voting is now an act of futility because they vote over and over again expecting things to get better results but things seem to get worse.  Voting is irrelevant if the people your voting for care more about gaining power and personal wealth than they do about the good of the nation.  

I am one who is on the outside looking in and this gives me an advantage over those caught up in the mess called politics.  I don’t support one candidate over another, one party over another because from my perspective it’s all insanity.  It’s not just the U.S. that is this way, all human governments are.  

I long for a government that comes from above, a righteous government led by a righteous being who truly rules in love for all people.  All the nonsense you see in human governments will be ended and things will be set right and never change.  

Is a righteous government possible ?  Yes it is.  That government is called the kingdom of GOD and it is the only hope humanity has.  

THE PRESENT AND FUTURE OF THE CHOSEN SAINTS

 According to the scriptures there is a very small group of people that are called the elect saints.  These saints are not a part of the organized churches that are seen in this world.  The organized churches do not know these saints.  Most of the organized churches believe they are the true church that they think began on the day of Pentecost.  

The scriptures also tell us that there is a great deception that has taken root and grown much worse overtime since Pentecost.  Revelation 12:9  This is one reason why there are so many different church organizations today.  These organizations are all led by human preachers and the members of them follow their preacher.  Most members of these many churches do not even understand the teachings of their church.  The doctrines of these churches are not the same and this is why they are separated.  According to Wikipedia there are approximately 45,000 different denominations.  Which one is the true church ?  The answer is none of them but the deception they all are infected by will not allow them to accept that.  All these churches think they have the Holy Spirit but none of them do.  They have no idea they are deceived.  Their “faith” is either inherited from their parents or a matter of choosing a church they like.  Their meetings are repetitive and they love being entertained with a live band while they wave their hands and sing.

The condition described above is what the elect saints endure because they are living in a world that is deceived, a world they were called out of spiritually but are yet in it physically.  These elect saints are taught by the FATHER through Jesus Christ by divine revelation and understand the truth of GOD. John 6:45  The elect have no human leader or teacher therefore they are immune to the deception of Satans ministers.  They have no part of the things the world highly esteems.  The vast majority of carnal churches do not believe in the existence of the elect .  This is the way things have been throughout history.   

The first recorded elect saint was righteous Able who was followed by Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.  Later Moses, Aaron and Joshua. Then all the prophets .  All these were Christian elect saints before Christ.  These saints are part of the 144000 in Revelation 7 .  Hebrews 11 gives the names of many but not all of these ancient Christian elect saints.  

Pentecost was not the beginning of the church but a continuation to include the calling of the gentiles.  

The carnal nation of Israel were the elect under the law, the old covenant, but the church is the election according to grace, the new covenant. Romans 11:5   Grace is older than the law because Abraham was 400 years before Moses.  Romans 3:20  by the law is the knowledge of sin because it defines good and evil, the knowledge of the forbidden tree.  When Jesus came he magnified the law to include the thoughts and intents of the heart (mind).  Isaiah 42:21  Matthew 5:27  This magnification makes your thoughts the source of your sin and your body only the vehicle you use to carry out your thoughts.  Mark 7:20,21,22,23   GOD did not create Adam and Eve with an evil heart but by disobedience in eating the forbidden fruit they both gained the knowledge to sin and acquired the nature of Satan, all humanity is now the children of Satan.  The elect saints have been called out of all of this, given repentance, forgiveness and the Holy Spirit to empower them to grow spiritually.  The only reason I know these things is because GOD through Christ taught me.  John 6:45   

Most of GODS elect saints are dead and their spirits asleep unconscious awaiting the resurrection when Jesus returns.  Today there is only a remnant of the elect yet alive and there is to be a remnant alive when Jesus returns.  Now the total umber of the elect both dead or alive will be 144,000.  They will all be sealed in their foreheads just before the great tribulation becomes very violent.  The living elect during the great tribulation help the innumerable multitude repent and prepare them for martyrdom. 

This information will not be believed by the carnal world and indeed cannot be because having the Holy Spirit is required to believe.  After Jesus returns the elect will rule the world with Jesus for a thousand years.  They will take the place of demons who currently rule the world under Satan.  Then after all things have been subdued and subjected to Christ, then Christ turns the kingdom over to his GOD and FATHER and the kingdom will continue on forever without end.  

THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST

 

What is the gospel of Jesus Christ ?  In a few words here it is below.

True Christians, GODS chosen elect saints, actually heard and understood the true gospel. 

Ephesians 1:13 “And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation.  When you believed you were marked in him with a seal, the promise of the Holy Spirit.”

If you don’t know the true gospel then you are not marked in Christ, not sealed and do not have the Holy Spirit.  Anyone preaching a lying gospel is cursed. 

 Galatians 1:8 “but if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel contrary to the gospel we preached to you let him be under a curse.”

The true gospel of Jesus Christ is: that when you are converted and given the Holy Spirit you have the hope, the promise , the guarantee of immortality and become an heir with Christ having access to forgiveness of your sins upon sincere repentance. You will receive salvation which is everlasting life as an immortal, impeccable spirit being in the kingdom of GOD when Jesus returns. 

 Even if you die before Christ returns you will be raised from the dead to live again as an immortal spirit being. It is the one who endures to the end that is saved. When you die you die in this hope, to receive salvation, which is everlasting life, to inherit the kingdom.  The only way to live again is by a resurrection from the dead that happens at the last day, the appearing of Jesus the second time or the second advent.  The Apostle Paul explains this thoroughly as follows;

 1 Corinthians 15:2 “by this gospel you are saved”

  then verses 35-49. 

35 But someone will say, “How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come?” 36 Foolish one, what you sow is not made alive unless it dies. 37 And what you sow, you do not sow that body that shall be, but mere grain—perhaps wheat or some other grain. 38 But God gives it a body as He pleases, and to each seed its own body.

39 All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one kind  of flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds.

40 There are also celestial bodies and  terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. 41 There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differs from another star in glory. 42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption. 43 It is sown in dishonor, it is raised (resurrected) in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised (resurrected) in power. 44 It is sown a natural body, it is raised (resurrected) a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. 45 And so it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

46 However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual. 47 The first man was of the earth, made  of dust; the second Man is the Lord from heaven. As was the  man of dust, so also are those who are made of dust; and as is the heavenly Man, so also are those who are heavenly. 49 And as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall (In the resurrection at the last day) also bear the image of the heavenly Man.

 then we have verses 51-54

51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep (that is be unconsciously dead) , but we shall all be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”

The seventh trumpet is the return of Jesus, the last day Jesus spoke about in the gospels, and this is when the dead live again.

 1 Peter 1:10 Concerning this salvation, the prophets, who foretold the grace to come to you, ...

1 Peter 1:3-5

 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heaven for you, 5 who through faith are shielded by God’s power for the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.

This change Paul describes is the resurrection of the elect saints at the return of Christ and at that time is when the dead in Christ are made alive again and have put on immortality, at the last trump. Then see 1 Corinthians 15:52  “For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.” 

2 Corinthians 5:1-5 “For we know that if this earthly body is destroyed we have another body from GOD, a body not made with human hands everlasting in the heavens. For this body we groan earnestly desiring to be clothed with our new body which is from heaven. if indeed having been clothed we shall not be naked. For in this physical body we groan not because we want to be unclothed but further clothed that mortality may be swallowed up by life. Now HE that prepared us for this very thing is GOD who also has given us HIS spirit as a guarantee.” 

John 14:2-3 “In my FATHERS house are many mansions, if it were not so I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.  And if I go and prepare a place for you I will come again (the return of Jesus) and receive you to myself that where I am there you may be also.”

It is at THE RETURN OF CHRIST that the saints live again, not before, therefore all who believe in instant life after death are wrong and deceived.

In the book of Job read this scripture, Job 14:13-15

 13 “Oh, that You would hide me in the grave,
That You would conceal me until Your wrath is past, That You would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
14 If a man dies, shall he live again?
All the days of my hard service I will wait,
Till my change comes.
15 You shall call, and I will answer You;
You shall desire the work of Your hands.

 Job knew about the first resurrection and that he would be dead, have no life, until the resurrection at the last day when Christ returns.  No human being, including Jesus, survived in any manner after death. To say anyone has is a lie, a false gospel. 

Hebrews 9:28

27 Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment, 28 so also Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many; and He will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who eagerly await Him.

Colossians 3:3-4

  3 For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.

John 6:39-40

 39 And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that I shall lose none of those He has given Me, but raise them up at the last day. 40 For it is My Father’s will that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have everlasting life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”

It is the last day, the return of Jesus, when the dead are made alive again and immortal by the first resurrection .

Anyone who teaches or believes that somehow either Jesus or any of the saints survives death and exists consciously is under a curse for preaching a different gospel.  

Righteous anger is motivated by the desire to protect the truth, not just to cause harm out of selfish ambition.

Mark 3:5  “Jesus looked around at them in anger being grieved by the hardness of their hearts….”

Acts 17:16   “Now when Paul was waiting for them in Athens his spirit was greatly angered to see the city was full of idols.”

The true gospel of Jesus Christ must be defended by GODS elect if one who comes among them blasphemes the gospel message.  Righteous anger may flare up if this person refuses to hear the truth and yet attempts to bring a lie into the church. The People of this world we leave alone, it is only a person who comes among us that we concern ourselves with.  Then depending on how that person responds to the correction of the elect, they will either listen to us or be offended a leave fellowship.

The gospel is the most precious message of all and we elect saints have been greatly blessed to have been taught it by GOD through Jesus Christ.  

THE MYTH OF A CHRISTIAN NATION

 

I realize this article will anger many people and they will totally ignore the facts given in it.  There is one thing I can say about the U.S. government that is in a worldly sense is positive.  Of all the carnal human governments in all of history the U.S. government with its republic and constitution is the best form of government ever devised by carnal men.  However, when compared to the kingdom of GOD it is nothing.  

Since the dawn of time there has only been one nation that GOD ALMIGHTY has ever directly created…..the carnal nation of ancient Israel.  The idea that the United States was created by GOD  a Christian nation is a myth created by false churches, politicians and society.  There is a nation that GOD is in the process of creating, it is the church.  The chosen elect saints of GOD are today ambassadors of that nation that has yet to come to the earth.  Jesus in his model prayer said, 

“Thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”  Matthew 6:10

The only Christian nation that exists on earth today is the one and only true church of GOD.  The Apostle Peter confirms this;

“But you (the church) are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, A HOLY NATION, HIS own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of HIM who called you out of darkness into HIS marvelous light.”  1 Peter 2:9

Then the Apostle John recorded ;

“who made us a kingdom of priests unto his GOD (Jesus’s GOD) and FATHER…….”  Revelation 1:6

To believe the United States is a Christian nation is a lie.  In reality the principal of self government or men ruling over men is antiGOD. The proof of this, if you can see it, is in The book of Samuel.

“But when they said, Give us a king to rule over us, this thing greatly displeased Samuel.  So Samuel prayed to the LORD and the LORD said to Samuel, Heed the voice of the people in all that they say to you for they have not rejected you but they HAVE REJECTED ME that I should not reign over them.”

Hopefully you can see that human governments, all of them, including the government of the United States is in rebellion against GOD ruling over them.  The claims of the founding fathers that GOD inspired them to create the United States is not true.  

Just as Israel rejected GOD all human governments have done the same.  The chosen elect of GOD, the true Christians, sojourn in whatever country they are in and are ambassadors not citizens of that country.  They obey the laws, they pay the taxes but under no circumstances do they participate in their governments. 

 The elect of GOD are citizens of the kingdom of GOD and their names are recorded in heaven.  

The elect owe their total and complete allegiance to GOD and Christ and to no earthly government.  Jesus told us that he was not of this world and those who are truly In Christ are not of this world either.  For any true Christian elect of GOD to involve themselves directly in any earthly government has in effect committed spiritual treason.  An elect of GOD cannot serve two governments, cannot have dual citizenship.  We elect understand that GOD purchased us with the blood of HIS son, GOD owns us, we are HIS property, HIS possession.  

Satan is the god of this world and sets up its rulers and governments and this is proven by the offer Satan made to Jesus;

“Then the Devil taking him up on a high mountain showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. And the Devil said to him, All this authority I will give you and their glory for this has been delivered to me and I can give it to whomever I wish. Therefore if you will worship before me all will be yours.”  Luke 4:5-7

Do you understand what these verses are saying ?  

In the time of Jesus and the Apostles the Devil had authority over all nations and kingdoms and that is the same to this day, look at more proof of this;

“The kingdoms of the world have become the kingdom of our GOD and HIS messiah.” Revelation 11:15

“To the one who is victorious and does my will to the end, I will give authority over the nations. That one will rule them with a rod of iron and will dash them to pieces like pottery, just as I have received authority from my FATHER.”  Revelation 2:27

Here you plainly see that in the future, at the return of Christ, GOD will take authority away from Satan and give it to HIS son.  From ancient times to the present time GOD has had this opinion about the nations and governments of men; 

“Surely the nations are like a drop in the bucket, they are regarded as dust on the scales, HE weighs the islands as though they were fine dust.”  Isaiah 40:15

“All the nations are as nothing before HIM; HE regards them as nothingness and emptiness.” Isaiah 40:17

This is how GOD ALMIGHTY sees all the nations of the earth including the United States.  The U.S. has never been a Christian nation but is a pagan heathen nation populated by people in rebellion against GOD.  The people of the U.S. support homosexuality, transgenderism, abortion, other heathen religions, commit horrific crimes but escape Justice, allow homosexuals, lesbians and transgender individuals to be ministers in their false churches.  What do they then say ?   “I’m a good person.”  Really!!!  The entire world is deceived into thinking horrific abominations and then go out and practice them. 

 “As it was in the days of Noah so shall it be at the coming of the son of man.”  Matthew 24:37

Satan has deceived everyone on earth except GODS elect saints for many centuries and they are yet deceived all the way up to the return of Jesus. 

There has NEVER been a Christian nation among carnal men.  The only Christian nation is the one and only true church of the living GOD, those who have been called and chosen by GOD and put into HIS church and are taught by GOD through Jesus Christ the mediator between GOD and the church.  

The Jewish people are not GODS chosen nation anymore but were long ago a shadow nation under the old covenant but GOD divorced Israel because of idolatry and disobedience.  

“I gave faithless Israel her certificate of divorce and sent her away because of all her adulteries…..” Jeremiah 3:8

Being GODS true nation and special people is not based upon physical decent of the flesh but the true people of GOD are the children of Abraham, the children of the promise. 

“In other words, it is not the physical descendants who are the children of Abraham but the children of the promise are the seed of Abraham.”  Romans 9:8

Remember that the Jewish people do not believe Jesus is the son of GOD and the messiah.  The Apostle John says  this about people that think this way;

“Who is a liar ?  It is whoever denies that Jesus is the messiah.  Such a person is antichrist, denying the FATHER and the Son.” 1 John 2:22

Does this sound to you like the Jews are GODS chosen people ?  The church has always been GODS true chosen people since the day of righteous Able to this day.  There is no replacement theology here.  Israel was only a shadow of the good things to come in Christ , not the very image.  The church is in the process of becoming the image of Jesus.

“And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lords glory, are being TRANSFORMED INTO HIS IMAGE with ever increasing glory which comes from the spirit of GOD the FATHER.” 2 Corinthians 3:18

Therefore, there has never in the history of the world been any carnal nation of men that has been a Christian nation.  The true Christian nation is the true church of GOD.

THE PLAN OF GOD

GOD did not create Adam and Eve sinners nor did HE create them righteous.  Adam and Eve were spiritually neutral.  Before eating the forbidden fruit sin had not yet entered the world.  Adam and Eve did not possess the knowledge of good and evil which is what is required to sin. 

 “To know to do good and do it not is sin.”  James 4:17   

Another way to say what James wrote in the scripture above is; “Whatever is not of the love of GOD is sin.”

Adam and Eve were spiritually ignorant.  GOD warned Adam about the tree of the knowledge of good and evil saying that “in the day Adam ate it he would surely die.”  So then the two trees had a very important function, they were the test that GOD would give Adam and Eve, a test of love and obedience for their GOD or failing the test. 

 GOD in eternity already knew all things as HE alone is omniscient.  GOD wanted the man to make his own independent decision thus showing free will in man.  Questions that need asked;  why would GOD put the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the garden and why would GOD allow Satan access to Adam and Eve ?  If GOD knew the outcome in advance why would HE have created humans in the first place ?  GOD knew all the pain, suffering and death that would result from sin but did nothing to stop it, why ?  GODS plan required free will I human beings. Think, it is impossible to commit the unpardonable sin without free will.

GOD, in eternity had seen the entire human experience, all of it, from the smallest to the greatest of the thoughts and intents of all human spirits.  GOD had the power to make all things work together for good in the end and HIS will would be accomplished.  Would we rather that GOD had not created us ?  We know Adam sinned with knowledge but Eve was deceived and GOD held the man responsible because it is as in Adam all sin not Eve.  

Adam was given dominion over the Earth and all things in it.  Adam had authority.  Notice that when Eve first ate of the forbidden fruit her eyes were not opened until Adam ate. Genesis 3:6-7  Before Adam ate he still had authority even over the serpent and could have voided all that his wife did (See Numbers 30:10-15) but Adam loved his wife more than his GOD and harkened to her voice and ate.  Satan knew to confront Adam directly was not the way to achieve his plan so he would get to the man through the woman and Satan was successful.  

Some say Adam fell from grace, but this is impossible because grace comes after sin not before it.  Adam never even knew grace or good and evil.  Adam failed by disobeying GOD and eating the fruit from the wrong tree.  

If Adam had obeyed GOD he had the authority to void Eves sin and cast the serpent out of Eden (again  Numbers 30:10-15) and later eat the fruit from the tree of life thus gaining for himself and his wife the Holy Spirit and all the awesome things that come with it.  Numbers 30:6,7,8   Adam would have done all this without ever having sinned.  Adam would have been the messiah of humanity and all his offspring would have been born children of GOD.  

At some point afterwards Adam would be changed into a spirit being as would throughout time all his descendants.  The kingdom of GOD would have been on the Earth from Eden forward.  All of what we know as the old covenant and new covenant would have never happened.  Jesus would have never happened.  This we know did not take place because Adam sinned.  Over time GOD, in love, attempted to deal with sinful man time and time again and again but man’s heart for the vast majority of humanity did not respond.  GOD punished humanity for their sins pleading with them to repent and obey HIM but very very few ever did.  None of the suffering, pain and death that resulted in this world was GODS fault it was Adams and Satans.  One man brought sin and death into the world.  

Jesus Christ was born into a world that he was spiritually not part of.  The virgin birth isolated Jesus from the sin of Adam and when GOD created Jesus in his mothers womb HE created Jesus righteous and full of agape (GODS love) thus creating Jesus incapable of sin as Jesus was an exact copy of GODS righteousness and love.  This is why scripture says Jesus was separate from sinners and that in Jesus was no sin.  Jesus proved this to us in his confrontation with Satan in Matthew 4:1-11 as Jesus emerged triumphant over Satan.  The FATHER dwelled in Jesus and Jesus dwelled in the FATHER  the two were one in spirit.  1 Corinthians 6:17   Jesus was the second Adam and was a success whereas the first Adam was a failure.  The prophets declared Jesus would be successful and reign as king of the kingdom of GOD  before Jesus was even born.  Jesus was not GOD, he was a human being but totally in-dwelt by the spirit of his GOD and FATHER.  There has never been neither will there ever be another human being like Jesus Christ.  

We as Christians must measure up to this Jesus and with the power of his GODS spirit in us be transformed in the resurrection to be immortal, impeccable spirit beings just as Jesus is today.  

We will no longer be human because if we are to be truly made after GODS image and likeness we must be spirit because GOD is spirit not flesh and blood as flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of GOD.  We will truly be a new creation of which Jesus was the first, the first born son of GOD.  Jesus experienced this bodily change when he ascended to his GOD and we will too when we ascend to him at his return.  

This will be the first stage of humanities salvation, the first resurrection.  The second stage are the people in the millennium and lastly the second resurrection.  Each stage is progressively larger in number.  The number of the first stage called the elect is extremely small with only 144000 beginning with righteous Able to the last of the elect that is called and chosen and the group called the innumerable multitude.  Then the second stage is the people that repented during the great tribulation that live into the millennium that has ten generations of saints. Lastly the second resurrection will contain all people that have ever lived but never knew the truth.  These are the three measures of meal Jesus spoke about in Matthew 13:33KJV   Salvation is not all at once but in three different times, today is not the only day of salvation. 

 Throughout the entire history of humanity the vast majority have not been given the Holy Spirit and the mysteries of the kingdom of GOD as all this is only for the church, the elect saints, and the rest of the world is blinded until GODS assigned time for them.  Only the FATHER knows what time is right for all people and will deal with each one accordingly.  

This in a few words is the plan of GOD.