MATTHEW 24:1-22 THE OLIVET PROPHECY

 The following is my interpretation of  Matthew 24:1-22

When Jesus left the second temple and was walking away his disciples came to him and were pointing out its buildings.  Jesus said, all these things will be destroyed. Then later on the Mount of Olives the disciples were wondering when the temple would be destroyed so they said, tell us when will the temple be destroyed and what is the sign of your return and the end of the age ?  Jesus knew that there would be deceptions about what he said concerning the destruction of the temple, that false ministers and prophets would confuse the second temple for the third, and warned them about this.  He also told them that many would come actually saying that Jesus was the messiah but at the same time deceive many people.  That wars and rumors of wars would happen after Jerusalem and the second temple would be destroyed but they were not to be alarmed by this, that is the destruction of the second temple, (they were not to be alarmed by the destruction of the second temple—think about that) as these things must happen but the end is still long after that.  Jesus told us plainly that the destruction of the second had nothing to do with the end times.  Later in his remarks Jesus mentions the third temple saying; 

“the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place, the holy of holies of the third temple.” Matthew 24:15

Jesus said there would be wars by nations and kingdoms with famines and earthquakes but this is only the beginning of sorrows and troubles.  Carnal people who worship Satan will deliver true Christians to persecution, death and being hated because of Jesus. This will cause many people to fall away and hate one another because they will have false shepherds rise and start false churches that hate each other and they will all have their false ministers, doctrines and prophets.  Wickedness will multiply and the love of most grow cold as they will be rich and increased with goods having need of nothing.  

But the remnant of the elect 144000, that have persevered to the end will be saved.  Then this gospel of the kingdom will be preached as a witness to the nations by two witnesses and an angel of heaven and then the end shall come.  So, When those elect of that day see the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (the third temple) they will know that Jesus was not speaking about this second temple being destroyed but the one that comes after, the third.   You will know the great tribulation is coming and if you happen to be in Judea get out because Jerusalem will soon be surrounded by armies and it will be horrific times and the worst in all of human history.  This tribulation will be shortened by 220 days for the sake of the elect remnant still alive and remaining in those days otherwise no human would be left alive.  

ACCORDING TO DANIEL AND REVELATION THERE ARE 2520 DAYS IN THE COVENANT ANTICHRIST MAKES. THE FIRST THREE YEARS ARE THE FALSE MILLENNIUM BUT IN 70AD THERE WAS NO FALSE MILLENNIUM. THERE WAS NOT EVEN AN ANTICHRIST OR A TEN NATION COVENANT.  THE TEMPLE ANTICHRIST DEFILES MUST BE STANDING AND NOT A HEAP OF RUBBLE.  THE EVENTS FOLLOWING THE SECOND TEMPLES DESTRUCTION IN NO WAY FOLLOW WHAT JESUS TOLD HIS DISCIPLES IN MATTHEW 24. THEREFORE THE BOOK OF REVELATION WAS NOT WRITTEN PRIOR TO AD 70 AND THE EVENTS AFTER  AD 70 WERE ONLY MORE WAR AND RUMORS OF WAR.  THERE WAS ONLY ONE TYPE OR SHADOW EVENT THAT DIFFERS FROM THE FUTURE THIRD TEMPLE AND THE SECOND TEMPLE IS/WAS DESTROYED IN 70AD BUT THE THIRD IS STILL STANDING IN THE FUTURE WHEN CHRIST RETURNS AND WILL BE CLEANSED. 

DANIEL 8:14  “AND HE SAID UNTO ME, UNTIL 2,300 DAYS THEN SHALL THE SANCTUARY BE CLEANSED.”  

The tribulation temple is not destroyed therefore the second temple cannot be connected in any way with end time events.  This fact alone destroys Preterism. 

Ezekiel 40:5-49  &  Ezekiel 41 to 43:6-9   describes the third temple that will exist throughout the millennium.  Later, after the millennium there will be no temple.  Revelation 21:22  “But I saw no temple in the city.”  

TAKE HEED THAT NO MAN DECEIVE YOU.

SPIRITUAL BALANCE BETWEEN SIN AND GRACE

 

With respect to sin, what all of GODS elect saints must remember is Romans chapter 7.  

“So this is the principle I have discovered; when I want to do good, evil is present with me.  For in my inner being I delight in GODS law.  But I see another law at work in my body warring against the law of my mind (human spirit) and holding me captive to the law of sin that dwells within me.”  Romans 7:21-23

All of GODS elect saints have a strong will and desire to do good which is governed by our thoughts.  If we think good we do good but if we think evil we do evil.  What Paul is saying here is that we go against our own will and think and do the evil because of the desires of the flesh, the body of death.  Verse 24 continues; 

 “What a wretched man I am !  Who will save me from this BODY OF DEATH ?”  

The answer to this question is verse 25; 

 “Thanks be to GOD through Jesus Christ our Lord.” 

 Willful sin is when a person is in agreement with the body of death to have their thoughts in agreement with their words and deeds. The other side of this is a person who truly desires to do good but because of the body of death our thoughts are not always pure thus having the opportunity to lead us into words and or deeds that are evil.  The conclusion of this condition is given in the last part of verse 25; 

 “So then, with my mind (human spirit) I fulfill the law of GOD but with my flesh (the body of death) I serve the law of sin.

The elect are yet sinners but under grace that allows for repentance and forgiveness of sin.  This is what Paul is explaining here. We need not live in fear of sin but rather as conquerors of it because of GOD and Christ.

“No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through HIM who loved us.” Romans 8:37

 Romans7:4-6. “Therefore my brothers, you died to the law through the body of Christ that you might belong to another, to him who raised Christ from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to GOD.  For when we lived according to the flesh the sinful passions (evil thoughts an desires) aroused by the law were at work in our bodies bearing fruit for death.  But now, HAVING DIED TO WHAT BOUND US WE HAVE BEEN RELEASED FROM THE LAW SO THAT WE SERVE IN THE NEW WAY OF THE SPIRIT AND NOT THE OLD WAY OF THE WRITTEN CODE (the Ten Commandments).”  

This is not a license to sin because if we died to sin and now live in Christ how can we any longer live in sin.

The elect saints are not under the law because the life, death, resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ has purchased us out of the old covenant and brought us into the new covenant.  We have PASSED-OVER.  We are dead to the law so that we may live in Christ. 

Galatians 2:19 “For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to GOD.”

Romans 6:11 “So you too must count yourselves dead to sin but alive to GOD in Christ Jesus.”

As GODS elect saints we know that we still sin but because of what GOD did through Jesus these sins are forgiven upon sincere repentance.  This body of death is going to be replaced with a body of life, a spirit body, and we live even now in this hope.

  “We have been sacrificed with Christ and no longer live but Christ lives in us.” Galatians 2:20

That deserves a repeat.

“The life we now live in the body, we live by faith in the son of GOD who loved us and gave himself for us.” Galatians 2:20 

As long as we do not commit the unpardonable sin this amazing grace is always there for us; so then, in the matter of sin and how this grace applies we have no worries, no fear.  If GOD through Christ forgives then we are confident and secure in this to the end. 

Excess worry over sin is against the confidence that we have in Christ.  The message of the gospel is this very thing.  We must always rely on the grace provided in the gospel message and we believe that GOD forgives us.  We are the clay in the potters hands and are being reshaped to be in the image of Christ.  This good news should make us joyful and happy not sad and gloomy.  Its not taking advantage of GODS grace if GOD is the one who invented grace to give us.  “

“What shall we say in response to these things . If GOD be for us who can be against us ?” Romans 8:31

 There are times that we can be our own worst enemy when we fail to remember that the sin condition has been solved no matter if conscious or unconscious.  To doubt is to come close to calling GOD a liar. 

 It requires spiritual balance to properly view sin and forgiveness. We should be concerned about our sins but not to where it cripples us in the grace given to us. We should always repent and ask forgiveness and then accept that forgiveness and move forward with a clear and clean conscience.  This process can be repeated millions or billions of times.  GOD knows we are weak; 

“HIS spirit was sown in our weakness but if we obey the gospel we will be raised in power.” 1 Corinthians 15:43

I am fully aware that I sin and I have lost many battles in this warfare but Christ has won the victory because alone by myself I cannot. 

“But thanks be to GOD !  HE gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” 1 Corinthians 15:57

 This is faith that leads to imputed righteousness.  GOD wants us all to believe HIM.  We were not like the messiah when first converted but are to grow to eventually be an exact duplicate of him in love and righteousness. We are mortal flesh and still weak so we need changed in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye.  

How many of GODS elect saints want to fail, want to perish forever, want to live a life dedicated to Satan and sin continually ?  How many want to willfully and deliberately desire to be evil ?  How  many will refuse to repent or ask for forgiveness ?  Are you one like this ?   Of the elect that I personally know and fellowship with none of them.  If anything we tend to worry to much about sin and forgetting that Jesus conquered sin in the flesh.  As I said before, it requires spiritual balance to deal with the concepts of sin and grace.  

YES OR NO OR AN ANSWER

 Do the scriptures say that the Ten Commandments are the old covenant ?  YES

Are the Ten Commandments the ministry of death ? YES

Do the Ten Commandments have an inferior glory to the ministry of the Holy Spirit ?   YES

Were the Ten Commandments the ministry of the Holy Spirit ?  NO

Will keeping the Ten Commandments give you salvation ?  NO

Will keeping the Ten Commandments make you righteous ?   NO

Will keeping the Ten Commandments justify you in GODS eyes ?  NO

If you violate the Ten Commandments, in accordance with the terms and conditions of the old covenant , what is your fate ?    DEATH      

 Could you repent, be shown mercy and be forgiven for breaking the Ten Commandments ? NO

Have any of the terms and conditions of the old covenant Ten Commandments been changed or altered in any way ?  NO

Do the old covenant Ten Commandments survive even today to condemn all sinners to death ?   YES

Is there any way we can escape the death that the Ten Commandments demands of us for breaking them ?   YES

Once this escape is provided for us should we then return to keeping the old covenant Ten Commandments ?    NO

What is the escape provided for us from the Ten Commandments death sentence ?  JESUS CHRIST, HIS GOSPEL, HIS SACRIFICE, HIS RESURRECTION AND ASCENSION 

If we are offered this escape from death for breaking the Ten Commandments, that have not changed and remain the same even to today, should we go back to keeping them only to be condemned to death again ?  NO

Will we be an heir with Jesus if we keep the Ten Commandments under the terms and conditions of the old covenant ?   NO

Did the Ten Commandments have a way to determine if a person was lusting or coveting ?  NO

Could two human witnesses offer testimony that a person was lusting or coveting in their mind ?   NO

Is lusting or coveting, evil thoughts in your mind, sin that defiles you according to Jesus ?    YES   

  If so, how could the Ten Commandments really address the true problem of sin when lust, the true cause of sin, was unable to be detected by human witnesses in accordance with the terms of the old covenant Ten Commandments ?   THEY COULD NOT AND DID NOT 

Does GOD know the thoughts and intents of the human mind, or is Hebrews 4:12 incorrect ?  YES, GOD KNOWS ALL THINGS.     

 Is the very thing that GOD will judge us by, thoughts and intents of the mind, the very thing that thing the Ten Commandments could not detect, lust ?   YES

Did the Ten Commandments then address the true problem with humanity, sin, lust, in our minds ?  NO  

If not then what commandments did Jesus give that could,   THE TWO GREATEST  COMMANDMENTS OF LOVE  

And how would his commandments be fulfilled ?  WITH GODS LOVE BY THE HOLY SPIRIT     

Who would fulfill them, the man or the GOD ?  THE GOD      

Would this “work” be done in us by GOD or do we do it on our own ? ITS DONE BY GOD       

  If we do it will GOD consider it to be our righteousness or will HE consider it filthy rags ?  FILTHY RAGS 

Is there an obvious problem with the Ten Commandments when they cannot address the true problem of sin in us and gives us no hope but only kill us ?  YEAH A BIG ONE  

  Should not the Ten Commandments at least teach us these things and show us our need for a messiah ?  YES THEY DO IF YOU HAVE THE HOLY SPIRIT TO UNDERSTAND 

Should not the Ten Commandments be our schoolmaster to lead us to Christ ?  YES

Once the schoolmaster, the Ten Commandments, leads us to Christ are we yet under them or are we now under the two commandments that Jesus gave ?  ONLY THE 2 JESUS GAVE 

So then, once I am in Christ I am no longer under the Ten Commandments but the two greatest commandments Jesus gave and by GODS love in me by HIS spirit the works of love seen in me are really from GOD. I am an heir with Jesus in GODS kingdom and have access to forgiveness of my sins upon sincere repentance and will be changed into an immortal impeccable spirit being when Jesus returns but until that day I will sleep in death totally unconscious. WOW, YOU GOT IT

DOES GOD CHANGE HIS MIND ABOUT DOCTRINE ?

 

Does GOD change the doctrine that HE has already established ?  

Ephesians 4:4-6  “There is ONE body, ONE spirit, just as you were called TO ONE HOPE when you were called; ONE Lord, ONE faith, ONE baptism, ONE GOD and FATHER of all, who is over all and through all and in all.”

These verses say there is only ONE of all the things GOD has given, ONE.  How about these verses;

“Sanctify them by the truth, Your word is truth.” John 17:17

Isaiah 40:8 “The grass withers and the flowers fall but THE WORD OF GOD ENDURES FOREVER.”

1 Peter 1:25 “but the word of GOD stands forever, and THIS IS THE WORD THAT PROCLAIMED TO YOU.”

Matthew 24:35 “Heaven and Earth will pass away but my words will never pass away.”

Psalm 119:160 “The entirety of your word is truth and all your righteous judgments endure forever.”

Psalm 33:11 “The counsel of the LORD stands forever, the purposes of HIS heart to ALL GENERATIONS.”

2 Timothy 3:16 “ALL SCRIPTURE IS GOD BREATHED and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction and for training in righteousness”

1 Peter 1:23 “Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of GOD which lives and abides forever.”

Do these verses say that GODS word or will changes with time or circumstances ?  Does GOD “change HIS mind ?  If you know GOD then you know that HE is omniscient, GOD knows absolutely everything in eternity, why would HE need to “change HIS mind ?”   People who say this are extremely ignorant and would render Ephesians 4:4-6 very differently.  

Did GOD at some point change HIS mind and allow some or all people to either suffer consciously in torment and others enjoy being in Abrahams bosom?

Did GOD change HIS mind to bypass HIS sons sacrifice that gives immortality to the saints and decide to give it to both saints and sinners immediately after death ?   Is judgement day now immediately after death or in the future at the great white throne judgement ?  Even the message of the gospel itself is no longer needed if immortality and judgment is immediately after death.  

Just where are these “dead but somehow alive people” and how can they function when they have no body ?

GOD sealed off the tree of life from humanity after Adam sinned, the living breathing creature called man is a soul that isn’t immortal but when do any humans receive immortality?

1 Corinthians 15:42  “So it will be with the resurrection of the dead.”  Verse 44 “it is sown a natural body it is raised a spiritual body.”  Verse 53 “this mortal must put on immortality.”  When do these things happen ? Verse 52 “in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, AT THE LAST TRUMPET.”  

1 Thessalonians 4:16 “For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel and WITH THE TRUMPET OF GOD and THE DEAD IN CHRIST WILL RISE FIRST.”

Dear readers, GOD does not change HIS mind.  GODS doctrines and prophecies stand forever.  As an omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent GOD has no need to change HIS mind.  However, there are very spirituality ignorant people that actually think HE does.  

CONSCIOUSNESS IS REQUIRED IN ORDER TO SIN

 

Do you know why the Apostle Paul said,

  “For he who has died is free from sin.” Romans 6:7

Not only do you have to be alive to sin you must also be conscious, that is aware of self and others, and possessing intelligence far above the other animals.  If you cannot think in this way then you cannot sin.

The lower animals cannot sin because they are incapable of intelligent thinking and a dead person cannot think either because at death we are unconscious, we are incapable of thoughts. 

 Psalm 146:4 King James “His breath goes fourth, he returns to the dust, in that day HIS THOUGHTS PERISH.”  

Dead people cannot think therefore they cannot sin.  This should be proof that sin is a function of how people think and that will determine what they say or do.  If a person can’t think evil then they will not do evil but if they can think evil then they will do evil.

Solomon said,  “As he thinks in his heart so is he:”  Proverbs 23:7

The word heart is referring to your human spirit, the source of your life and intelligence and inspiration.

Job 32:8  Youngs Literal Translation “Surely a spirit is in man and the breath of the MIGHTY ONE doth cause them to understand.”

The real you is your human spirit, your body is only the temporary dwelling while you are mortal.  All of your memories and intelligence is in your human spirit and none of these abilities are in the brain because matter, what your brain is made of, isn’t alive or intelligent.  Dust isn’t alive, dust can’t think.

When Jesus said that what comes out of us is what defiles us he used the word “heart” which is the human spirit.

  Matthew 15:18  “But the things that come out of a person’s mouth come from the heart and THESE DEFILE THEM.” 

Luke 6:45  “The good man brings good things out of the good treasures of his heart and the evil man brings out the evil treasure of his heart.”

Mark 7:21-23  “For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance and foolishness.  ALL THESE EVILS COME FROM WITHIN AND THESE ARE WHAT DEFILE A MAN.”

Our human spirit is what receives salvation, not the fleshly body, so evil in our spirit can not be tolerated by GOD.  Our human spirits must be changed to take on the divine nature and character of GOD that was demonstrated to us by HIS son the Christ who was created by GOD after GODS own character of love and righteousness.  It will be the SPIRITS OF JUST MEN MADE PERFECT that will inherit the kingdom of GOD.

Sin begins in our human spirit when the things Jesus listed in the verse above are our thoughts.  We don’t have to say or do anything, just think it, and we have sinned.  Even the Ten Commandments had a prohibition against coveting , the tenth commandment said “Thou shalt not covet” but all sin is coveting and lusting and that is why the Apostle James said,

 “For whoever shall keep the whole law yet stumbles in one point is guilty of all.”  James 2:10

And the Apostle Paul said,

  “For I would not have known what sin is unless the law had said thou shalt not covet.”  Romans 7:7

Lusting or coveting is a function of the mind, the human spirit and it involves no words spoken or deeds done, just thinking the evil is the sin.  This is why it is impossible for mortal flesh and blood people to not sin.  In fact if you say, “I have no sin”, the Apostle John says this;

  “If we say we have no sin we make HIM a liar and the truth is not in us.”  1 John 1:10

I do hope that you may understand that sin is a result of how we think and the words or deeds that follow are only exposing us to other humans as sinners, but GOD has always known we all are sinners.  The cause of sin is thought, the effect of sin is words and deeds that are evil.  I hope you understand that the word “heart” isn’t the organ that pumps blood through the body but is the mind or human spirit which is the source of our life, memories and intelligence.  

I am fully aware that this is a very difficult subject to grasp.  If it’s GODS will the you will understand if not then you will not understand.

DO I HAVE ENOUGH OF GODS LOVE AND AM I GROWING IN GODS LOVE

 

Psalm 51:10 “Create in me a clean heart O GOD and renew a steadfast spirit within me.”

Create in me a pure human spirit O GOD and renew, repair and restore a steadfast, loyal, unchanging human spirit within me that does your will.

After committing adultery and murder King David humbly and sincerely repented and this Psalm 51 is a prayer of repentance seeking GODS forgiveness.  

Sin, as understood by GODS elect saints, is whatever is not of GODS love because HIS love is the only thing that will fulfill the intent of the Ten Commandments.  The saints know that spiritual perfection does not come until our change comes. Until that day we will still sin and if we say, I have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.  The truth here being that we all still sin.  

John tells us in 1 John 2:2

“and HE (Jesus) is the propitiation for our sins….”

Propitiation means to turn away the wrath of GOD by genuine repentance thus regaining favor and goodwill.  This is an ongoing cleansing, not just a one shot deal. Which of us, the saints, can at all times keep a pure mind or clean heart (human spirit)?  King Solomon asked the same question.

“Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin ?” Proverbs 20:9

Again In Ecclesiastes 7:20 “Surely there is no righteous man on Earth that does good and never sins.”

King David knew that if GOD was not willing to forgive our sins and kept a record of them to use against us then no one would ever have salvation.

Psalm 130:3 “If you O LORD kept track of our iniquities then who O LORD could stand ?”

GOD judges the saints after the thoughts and intents of our human spirit and HE knows that we all have an overwhelming desire to please HIM and receive salvation.  This is what GODS sees and takes notice of when HE judges us, where our hearts truly are.  In eternity GOD knew we would sin and as long as we are in the flesh we will sin.  Our flesh is in a spiritual warfare with our human spirit that is joined with the spirit of GOD. In Romans 7:17 

“Now then, it is no longer I who do it (sin) but sin that dwells in me.”

When the saints are in Christ it is as Paul said in Romans 6:11

“In the same way count yourselves dead to sin but alive to GOD in Christ Jesus.”

In this process we experienced GODS love for us and we return that love by obedience to the gospel message.  Then as GOD has shown love to us we show love to HIM and our fellow human beings, our neighbors.  If we desire mercy and forgiveness from GOD then we must have mercy and forgiveness towards our neighbors.  

To doubt these spiritual truths is to call GOD a liar.  If GOD said, humble yourself and sincerely ask ME and I will forgive you.  Do you think GOD would lie about this ?  Sometimes we allow ourselves with help from Satan to think thoughts that contradict this truth of GOD.  We begin to have doubts that we are not good enough or that we don’t love enough.  Who truly knows these things ?  The opportunity to show GODS love to our neighbors comes from GOD, who has prepared them in eternity for us. 

“For we are GODS handiwork created in Christ Jesus to do good works which GOD has prepared IN ADVANCE for us to do.” Ephesians 2:10

These works are unplanned by us but planned by GOD for us. They will come at us out of the blue , by surprise.  In this way it is completely confirmed that the works are not ours.  We have learned these spiritual truths and are fully aware that this showing of GODS love to our neighbors is not for bragging rights, to show off for a crowd but for no other reason than to just show GODS love. 

You don’t need to ask how can I show more of GODS love if GOD is the one who plans the works in ADVANCE to do it ?  We elect don’t even know how to judge our own growth in the spirit

“But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by a human court. In fact I DO NOT EVEN JUDGE MYSELF.  My conscience is clear but that does not make me innocent. It is the LORD who will judge me.”  1 Corinthians 4:3-4

“All a man’s ways seem right to him but the Lord weighs the heart.”  Proverbs 21:2 

“Do you have faith ?  Have it to yourself before GOD.  Happy is he who does it condemn himself in what he approves.”  Romans 14:22

Spiritual wisdom is required to know the limits of all things.  We are to love a chicken thief but we do not keep company with immoral people.

  “Do not be deceived : bad company corrupts good morals.” 1 Corinthians 15:33

In love we give when we are asked but there are spiritual limits to this as well.  

“And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more IN KNOWLEDGE AND DEPTH OF DISCERNMENT.”  Philippians 1:9

Galatians 6:10 “Therefore as we have opportunity (as we are able) let us do good to all people, especially to those who are of the household of faith.”

You cannot continually second guess yourself or others.  You cannot fear about things that you don’t control and are unable to judge.  If you feel you lack GODLY love then ask the FATHER for more of it.  If we lack wisdom we can ask for more, so why not love ? 

“If any man lacks wisdom let him ask of GOD who gives to all generously and without reproach and it will be given.”  James 2:5 

We must ask in faith not doubting.

“But let him ask in faith with no doubting, for he who doubts is like the wave driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the LORD.”  James 1:6-7

Remember, GOD has prepared works of love for us IN ADVANCE, and is the only one who can judge us, that GOD always forgives a truly repentant person and that if we lack wisdom or love ask GOD in faith without doubting and GOD will give it. 

CARNAL UNCONVERTED PEOPLE MUST KEEP THE LAW, THE OLD COVENANT TEN COMMANDMENTS

 

It is the responsibility of every carnal person to keep the Ten Commandments.  Carnal people are not in Christ, not converted and do not have the Holy Spirit.  Carnal people must keep the old covenant, which is the Ten Commandments.  The Ten Commandments are holy, just and good because GOD gave them in response to all the evil that people think about.  The last or tenth commandment says, “Thou shalt not lust or covet”, and all people break this commandment and along with it the other nine because if you break one commandment you have broken them all.  James 2:10

The law is called a schoolmaster in the scriptures and this is because it has a lesson to teach.  If GOD did not give the law the lesson could not be learned.  The Ten Commandments also served as a powerful deterrent to sin because in most cases if you are caught breaking them you die without mercy.  No one has ever been able to keep the Ten Commandments because ALL have sinned and have fallen short of the glory of GOD.  All this and more are some of the lessons the law can teach a person if they have the Holy Spirit.  The law was designed to lead a person to Christ when they see their utterly hopeless condition under the law.  

Since the Ten Commandments cannot provide salvation, forgive sin, produce GODLY righteousness, show mercy or provide immortality then GOD had to have another covenant, a new covenant, that would provide all these things.  

In order for the carnal world to have any hope of being led to Christ they must keep the Ten Commandments and if a person responds in the proper manner then GOD may want to choose them and put them in HIS church.  GOD opens the mind of the people HE elects to become a saint and the person begins to experience true repentance by realizing the letter kills but the spirit gives life.  The guilt experienced under the law is to produce a GODLY sorrow and repentant attitude in a person.  The person comes to a basic understanding of the gospel and now, with knowledge, loves GODS law, HIS Ten Commandments, because they have learned the lesson of the schoolmaster.  Now they must PASSOVER from the law, the Ten Commandments, into grace and the two commandments of Jesus Christ, love GOD and love your neighbor.  This person now is in the new covenant.  The love of GOD is shed abroad in the human heart by the spirit of GOD empowering the person to fulfill the laws intent.  To love with GODS love will cause no harm to anyone and this love was not possible under the Ten Commandments.

To add clarification to my articles on this blog I now say that if you are a carnal person you should be keeping the old covenant, the Ten Commandments, because it is your hope of being drawn to Jesus Christ.  As Jesus said, 

“No man can come to me unless the FATHER who sent me DRAWS THEM and I will raise them up at the last day.”  John 6:44

This is how ideally the Ten Commandments are to operate but most carnal people use them to become self righteous.  In this they deceive themselves thinking that their keeping the Ten Commandments somehow justifies them when they can only condemn them.  No one is justified by keeping the Ten Commandments.  Galatians 5:4

So then, all you carnal people out there, keep the Ten Commandments, all of them,  perfectly and be honest with yourself in the doing.  Keep an accurate truthful account of your progress, because GOD will.  Then read all of Romans chapter 7:1-25 and if you see yourself in the verses then there may be hope for you.

I LOVE GODS LAW BECAUSE IT LED ME TO CHRIST

 

Scripture says, “The wages of sin is death…” Romans 6:23

Under the Ten Commandments and the law of Moses people were put to death, who were by the testimony two or more witnesses, found guilty of violating the Ten Commandments. 

 The Ten Commandments were the statutes and the law of Moses contained the judgments. The Ten Commandments said nothing about the punishment for their violation, it was the law of Moses that gave the prescribed punishment for the violation of the Ten Commandments.  Under the law, the old covenant, which is the Ten Commandments, the guilty person died without mercy upon the testimony of two or more witnesses.  Hebrews 10:28

There was no repentance or forgiveness of sin under the Ten Commandments, you died without mercy.  The carnal world today operates under these Ten Commandments but rarely enforces them and this is the reason why there is so much evil in the world. 

  Ecclesiastes 8:11 “Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.”

This verse is saying that because sin is not punished by death there is no fear of death therefore there is no deterrent to sin. If you know your not going to die for breaking the law, the Ten Commandments, there is no motivation to stop breaking the law.   

Jesus taught that it is the thoughts and intents of our human spirit that violates the law and that the actions taken to carry out the thought are only the result of these thoughts.  In other words the thought is the cause of sin the resulting action is the effect.  If humans could not think then they could not sin. Other animals cannot think therefore they cannot sin. 

Sin is the breaking of the Ten Commandments that demands the death penalty and there is no way out, you were killed without mercy.  Everyone born into this world is born under the law, the Ten Commandments.  The only exception was Jesus Christ who was salvation in the flesh, the messiah of GOD, who was created after GODS nature of righteousness and love.  This is what qualified Jesus to be the messiah.  Until a person is “in Christ” and partakes of the same divine nature of Christ they have none of the blessings that Christ provides.  2 Peter 1:4 

People yet in the world, carnal people, are yet under the Ten Commandments but those in Christ are not.  This means that people in Christ are no longer in the old covenant, the Ten Commandments.  These people are called and chosen saints with the Holy Spirit and live by the law of love to GOD and neighbor.  The saints are no longer under the Ten Commandments but are under the two greatest of all commandments, this is called being under grace and not law.  All the unconverted world is still under the Ten Commandments and because they have all sinned they are all condemned to death.  Later, in the future, after Jesus returns these condemned will also learn the lesson of the schoolmaster of the Ten Commandments and receive mercy in the second resurrection where they will be given the Holy Spirit and first opportunity for salvation.  

The carnal world has butchered the Ten Commandments due to ignorance and Satanic deception.  The law goes mostly ignored and is used by carnal people to become self righteous.  The Ten Commandments were given to humanity to show how they are hopelessly trapped in sin and when under the Ten Commandments condemned to death. When the Ten Commandments are used lawfully they show us our problem but only the new covenant provides the answer to the problem.  There is no grace in the Ten Commandments just death. In order to escape the condemnation of the Ten Commandments a person must be called and chosen by GOD and placed into HIS church.  None of the world’s churches are GODS church because these churches are all false and creations of Satan to deceive carnal people.  

The ignorance of the law and of grace in the carnal world remains yet today and many false ministers of Satan in the false churches teach people to keep the Ten Commandments which is the old covenant not the new covenant.  Some false ministers teach that the Ten Commandments have been done away with which is also a lie.  

The carnal people cannot understand how to avoid sin if they don’t keep the Ten Commandments and fail to understand that the Ten Commandments are what condemns them to death in the first place.  The only way to fulfill the Ten Commandments is by something that the Ten Commandments did not have and cannot give, the love of GOD. GODS love is the fulfillment of the Ten Commandments.  The Ten Commandments made nothing perfect but the bringing in of GODS love (the better hope) is the only way to perfection that is achieved at the second advent of Christ.   

Personally I love the Ten Commandments because they are the schoolmaster that led me to Christ but once in Christ I no longer need the schoolmaster.  What we cannot do by commandments we do by a change in nature where the Holy Spirit of GOD works in the saints both to Will and to do GODS good pleasure.  It is GOD who works in the chosen saints with HIS love to begin to change our nature to be like HIS nature, a nature demonstrated to us in Jesus Christ.  

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.