THE SIN OF ADAM - THE LAW - AND GRACE

The way that sin applied to humanity was not always the same.  The sin of Adam passed on to all people until the time GOD gave the Ten Commandments.  Romans 5:12-14  Before the Ten Commandments were given all people died because of Adams sin but the entrance of the law, the Ten Commandments, changed this.  Ezekiel 18:20-32  Here GOD speaks of repentance, of turning away from sin.  The children under the law died for their own sins and no longer died because of the sin of one man, Adam.  Death reigned from Adam to Moses before the law because of Adams sin but under the law this changed, now everyone would die for their own sin.  The law made our sins personal to us rather than a generational curse. All people still die because no one can keep the law but they do so as individuals.  Sin became a personal responsibility. This projects us to the idea of grace also being a personal responsibility.  Once under grace we are no longer under the law.  Just as the the law removed sin because one man’s sin, Christ removes sin from one man who receives him.  

Therefore, from Adam to Moses death reigned on all because of one man’s sin. Then with Moses and the law sin became personal to each of us. Then by the new covenant in Christ sin can finally be removed through grace.  Everyone still dies but do they die under the law or under grace.  

GOD elects in this age the people HE knows will repent and submit their lives to HIM.  The spirit of GOD accomplishes for us what we need and cannot do of ourselves.  This Holy Spirit is sown as a seed in us and when sown is sown in a perishable body of flesh and sown in dishonor, sown in weakness but at the resurrection is raised in honor and power in a spirit body.  1 Corinthians 15:42-44  Even though the responsibility for sin and payment for it, the wages of sin is death, has changed from guilt by association to guilt by personal guilt the penalty is the same and whether before the law or after the law the grace in Christ is the only saving vehicle GOD has given.  Therefore all indeed have sinned and have fallen short of the glory of GOD. The law entered to make sin even more sinful because it specifies what sin is and makes each person responsible.  The new covenant is our willingness to give up this responsibility and turn it over to GOD and Christ.  Then HE who began a good work in you will complete it in the day of Christ Jesus.  Your life now totally belongs to GOD and it is GOD who will work in you both to will and to do HIS good pleasure. 

We have went from Adam to Moses to Christ and GOD has in all these times had a number of HIS elect saints; before the law Able, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph.  The after the law; Moses, Joshua, Caleb, Aaron, Miriam, Samuel, David and all the prophets.  Then from Christ forward as many as the Lord our GOD shall call and add to HIS church.  These people are your spiritual family in Christ.  We along with them all will be glorified together in the day of the Lord Jesus.

THE MYSTERY OF THE GENTILES

 What I am about to tell you is totally unknown by the false churches of this world. 

The New Testament was written specifically for the purpose of the calling out of the Gentiles. Jesus did come “to his own people” but the vast majority of them rejected him and murdered him.  This was carnal Israel’s last opportunity for salvation in this current age.  Haven’t you ever wondered why the Apostle Paul’s writings dominate the New Testament writings ?  James, Peter and John also wrote to the churches but were writing to Gentile Christians.  When comparing what they wrote none of it was geared to Jews (Israelites).  None of the Apostles wrote to anyone else except the church proven by who the Apostles addressed their writings to. 

Paul explained this as a great mystery, Colossians 1:26-27  The calling of Cornelius, Acts 10:45-48 was done to show Peter and the other Apostles that the Gentiles were also to be converted and receive GODS spirit.  Paul did teach the Gentiles about the law but not for the purpose of trying to keep the old covenant but to educate them about what Jesus saved them from just as he did those few Jews that believed.  Because of carnal Israel’s rejection of their messiah they were broken off the olive tree, symbolic of the church, and Gentiles were grafted in. Romans 11:20-21  GOD placed a veil on the minds of Israel so that they were made dull, hardened to the gospel, to the point they were they enemies of the gospel.  Romans 11:28 Romans 12:7-8  Therefore from sometime in the first century AD no more Jews (Israelites) were called and chosen.  Over time the number of Gentiles exceeded that of Jews and those Jews that were converted died, leaving only the Gentiles.   Today all of GODS elects saints are Gentiles. Romans 11:25

 Unbelieving Israel will live again, Ezekiel 37:1-14 is a prophecy about carnal Israel being raised from the dead in human form to live again in the second resurrection.  This is when GOD will graft them back into the olive tree.  This is GOD keeping HIS promise to Abraham regarding Abrahams carnal decedents.  Romans 11:28 “On account of the patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.”  Genesis 17:8   Genesis 12:7 Genesis 13:15  Leviticus 26:38-45  GOD will remove the curses on Israel  for their disobedience,  Revelation 22:3,  and they will have a continual everlasting existence as a united nation in the endless ages after the great white throne judgment.  

So then, this is the mystery Paul wrote about, that two distinct people would come through Abraham, carnal Israel, the fig tree,  that failed in this age to acquire what they were seeking but spiritual Israel, the olive tree obtained it.  Romans 12:7  Romans 9:31-32  Isaiah 44:18   Deuteronomy 29:4  Matthew 13:14-15  John 12:37-40

The Lord our GOD has done marvelous things and has allowed HIS saints to see and understand some of them.  May HE continue teaching us through HIS son Jesus Christ.  John 6:45

2 Thessalonians 2:11 WHAT IS THE LIE ?

 

In 2 Thessalonians 2:11 it says, “And for this cause GOD shall send them strong delusion that they should believe the lie.”   What is that lie people believe ?  It is that the man of sin is GOD.  The beginning of this chapter focuses on “the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ” and a deception by the man of sin who, “sits in the temple of GOD showing himself that he is GOD.”

                                          

  This event is also called “The abomination of Desolation.”   Therefore, the people believe this lie and follow the antichrist.  Revelation 13:3,4,8 2 Thessalonians 2:9-11 

                                 

 This day of the lie is being held back until a specific time and for a specific purpose determined by GOD.  This is what 2 Thessalonians 2:6 says, “And now you know what is holding the man of sin event back, so that he may be revealed in his time.”  Verses 7 and 8  GOD is holding back the man of sin event until the man of sin is taken out of the way,  verse 8, the man of sin will be revealed for who he is and will be taken out of the way by the return of Jesus Christ. 

                                           

 Verses 13-17 assures GODS saints who were chosen from the beginning to be saved by the seal of the Holy Spirit, faith and truth. 

                    

 The saints are to stand firm in the things the spirit has taught us.  We were called by the gospel to share in the glory of Christ.  GOD has given us grace,  comfort and hope encourages our spirits and strengthens us in good words and deeds.

This is the explanation of this section of scripture that GOD has taught me about.  

TWO OF MY PERSONAL REVELATIONS FROM GOD

 Hello, my name is Coni.  I want to share with you two of my revelations that GOD gave to me.  All my life I believed in the traditional teachings by the churches that good people went to heaven when they died but bad people went to hell.  In heaven the good people met with others who died before them and they could interact with Jesus and the Apostles.  The bad people in hell were tortured in anguish forever. 

                       

 I was very worried about not only myself going to hell but my family members too.  After receiving the Holy Spirit and then being baptized in the name of Jesus I wanted to know the truth about what happens when we die.  I asked my husband about this and he showed me several scriptures, John 3:13 “No one has ascended to heaven except the one who came from heaven the son of man.” 

                        

  Ecclesiastes 9:5 “For the living know that they will die but the dead know nothing.”  I suddenly became aware that when people die they are not conscious and can’t do anything.  I learned that humans are mortal and don’t have immortal souls. In Genesis 2:7 “GOD formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul.” 

      

 So, humans are a soul, not immortal but living until we die.  Then I saw In Ecclesiastes 12:7 “Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was and the spirit will return to GOD who gave it.”  I realized that the human spirit does go to heaven with GOD but totally unconscious and unable to do anything and awaits a resurrection from the dead. There was no mention of an immortal soul anywhere, and humans are consistently called mortal throughout the scriptures.  I had read these verses many times before but never understood them but in my study about life and death the spirit of GOD gave me the truth.  There was much more that was later revealed about this that came to me but this was just the beginning.  There are articles on this blog that go into more detail and I encourage you to read them.

The second time GOD opened my understanding involved the trinity. 

                            

  Again, the church I was in taught this and I just believed it, never questioned it. When our small fellowship began to study this we all needed GODS help to know the truth.  I was shown this scripture,  1 Corinthians 11:3 “But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, the head of every woman is the man and the head of Christ is GOD.”  

                   

 Then another scripture, John 20:17 “Jesus said, Do not cling to me for I have not yet ascended to the FATHER. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, I am ascending to my FATHER and to your FATHER, to my GOD and your GOD.”  How could Jesus have a GOD ?  Jesus says this multiple times in the book of Revelation and when writing their letters to the churches the Apostles used the phrase, “The GOD and FATHER of our Lord Jesus Christ.”   Look at the following scriptures:

Ephesians 1:3 & 17  2 Corinthians 11:31  1 Peter 1:3  Romans 15:6   1 Corinthians 8:6  John 17:3

 Jesus could not be GOD.  Jesus is our messiah but he is not part of a trinity, Jesus is a separate being who was 100% human but filled without measure by his GODS spirit, the Holy Spirit.  I never knew any of these things before, the thoughts in my mind were showing me these things.  This was GOD teaching me, this was GOD in my thoughts, divine revelation.  

These are only two examples that I experienced in my life, I have since had many more.  

I was blessed to have fellowship with others of GODS elect saints that were taught these things in the same way I was taught.  In the sharing of GODS truth among brothers and sisters in Christ iron sharpens iron.

                                   

  All the truth we know came to us from GOD through Jesus Christ and none of us can boast over another.  

This article was about my beginning in the true faith, but only the beginning, there is so much more to learn from GOD.   I encourage all who read this to give up on men, human ministry, and go to GOD, it is the only way to the truth.