The Restrainer
Tuesday, October 14, 2014

There are different ideas about who or what is the restrainer, withholder, of the appearing of the antichrist.
This paper will address the issue with spiritual logic to gain wisdom on the subject.
KJV 2 Thessalonians 2:1-17
 1.  Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
 2.  That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.

Paul was writing to the saints to assure them that the first resurrection was still future and had not happened yet as some had falsely reported.

KJV 2 Timothy 2:17-18
17.  And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;
 18.  Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.

Paul continues by giving the saints information of events that must happen first before the return of Jesus and the gathering of the elect saints in the resurrection.

3.  Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
 4.  Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
 5.  Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?

These comments completely prove false the idea of a pre or mid tribulation rapture because Paul plainly says the antichrist will be revealed before the saints are gathered to Jesus.

6.  And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.

The time of the revealing of the antichrist is yet future therefore Paul cannot be the restrainer because he is dead.


 7.  For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

A better understanding of verse 7 can be seen if we look at the Young’s literal translation.  The He who allows or letteth is God; the he that is “taken out of the way” is the antichrist.  “Until out of the middle it comes” may refer to when God  brings all iniquity to an end and removes the antichrist and Satan from the scene. This does not speak of the removal of the Holy Spirit from the Earth; the Holy Spirit is God our Father and the Fathers spirit is omnipresent therefore it cannot be “removed”.
LIT 2 Thessalonians 2:7
7.
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   |3466| mystery
   |2235| already
   |1754| works
   |3588| of
   |0458| lawlessness,
   |3440| only
   |3588| he
   |2722| restraining
   |0737| now,
   |2193| until
   |1537| out of
   |9999| {the}
   |3319| middle
   |1096| it comes.

For the mystery of iniquity is already at work: only God who now allows it will allow it until the antichrist is taken out of the way.  God allows Satan to do what Satan will do in the future, no one else does.  The times and the seasons are in Gods power.

This more agrees with the truth of what we know than any other idea currently held by others.

 8.  And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:  (This is taking the antichrist out of the way)
 9.  Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
 10.  And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
 11.  And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
 12.  That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. (This is how God will allow or let)
 13.  But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
 14.  Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
 15.  Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
 16.  Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,
 17.  Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.

COMPARISON SCRIPTURES

  

 PLEASE CONSIDER THE CONNECTION SCRIPTURE MAKES.  THERE ARE TOO MANY FOR IT TO BE CHANCE.  THE STUDY OF TODAY'S JEWISH MESSIANIC BELIEF REVEALS MUCH ABOUT THE ANTI CHRIST.  THERE ARE MANY THEORIES ABOUT WHO THE BEAST NATION IS AND THE HARLOT, IF THE READER WILL SERIOUSLY STUDY AND CONSIDER WHAT SCRIPTURE ALONE REVEALS IT WILL SHED LIGHT ON THIS SUBJECT.

MAKE THE CONNECTION-LOOK UP THESE SCRIPTURES-

OLD COVENANT                                             NEW COVENANT

JEREMIAH 5:26-27                                  REVELATION 18:2

ISAIAH 40:2                                               REVELATION 18:6

ZEPHANIAH 2:15                                      REVELATION 18:7

JEREMIAH 3:3, ISAIAH 57:3                  REVELATION 17:5

PSALM 106:34-39,  JEREMIAH 3:34       REVELATION  18:24
                                                                      MATTHEW 23:37
                                                                                LUKE 13:34


EZEKIEL 23:25-27                         REVELATION 17:16

ISAIAH 1:21                                   REVELATION 17:1

JEREMIAH 25:15-18                    REVELATION 17:2-4

JEREMIAH 4:6 and  6:1-8        REVELATION 18:4
                                                         MATTHEW 24:16
                                                         MARK 13:14
                                                         LUKE 21:21-22



IN THE END TIMES IT IS JERUSALEM THAT IS SURROUNDED BY ARMIES.  IT IS JERUSALEM THAT KILLED THE PROPHETS.  JERUSALEM IS LIKE A CAGE FULL OF UNCLEAN BIRDS WHO WILL DRINK A DOUBLE PORTION OF THE CUP OF GOD'S WRATH.  JERUSALEM IS TYPED AS BABYLON "THAT GREAT CITY"

JEREMIAH 22:8 "AND MANY NATIONS WILL PASS BY THIS CITY; AND EVERYONE WILL SAY TO HIS NEIGHBOR, WHY HAS THE LORD DONE SO TO THIS GREAT CITY?"
AND IT WILL BE IN JERUSALEM THAT THE TWO WITNESSES ARE KILLED. (REVELATION 11:8)
 
THE ANTICHRIST SETS UP HIS THRONE IN JERUSALEM AND DEFILES THE TEMPLE THAT WILL BE BUILT THERE.
THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION IS IN JERUSALEM, THIS WOULD HAVE TO MEAN THAT THE PEOPLE ARE DECEIVED TO THINK THAT SATAN, POSING AS CHRIST, IS CHRIST.  REMEMBER THAT SATAN DECEIVES THE WHOLE WORLD. REMEMBER THAT THE JEWS ARE LOOKING FOR A MESSIAH. JERUSALEM HAS A WHORE'S FOREHEAD AND WILL COMMIT SPIRITUAL ADULTERY WITH THE ANTICHRIST.  JERUSALEM HAS HARLOT DAUGHTERS THAT ARE MODERN DAY FALSE CHRISTIAN CHURCHES. CHRISTIANITY SPRANG FROM JERUSALEM AND NOT ROME. JUDAISM IS THE MOTHER OF FALSE CHRISTIANITY.
 

REVELATION 17:5 "THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH."

EZEKIEL 16:44 "INDEED EVERYONE WHO QUOTES PROVERBS WILL USE THIS PROVERB AGAINST YOU, LIKE MOTHER LIKE DAUGHTER!"

GOD COMPARES JERUSALEM TO AN UNFAITHFUL WIFE OR A WHORE UPON WHOM HE WILL POUR OUT HIS FURY.
BABYLON IS NOT ROME, GERMANY, THE UNITED STATES OR THE ANCIENT CITY IN MODERN DAY IRAQ.  BABYLON IS JERUSALEM. IF YOU CHECK THE TOPOGRAPHICAL MAPS OF JERUSALEM YOU WILL FIND THAT IT IS A CITY CIRCLED BY SEVEN HILLS OR MOUNTAINS. GOD SAID THAT HE WOULD, AGAIN,  BRING ABOUT THE CAPTIVITY OF HIS PEOPLE AND THAT IS YET FUTURE.  THE WOMAN IN REVELATION IS IN THE WILDERNESS AND DRESSED IN ALL THE RICH CLOTHING THAT GOD HAD GIVEN TO HER BUT IS DRUNKEN WITH THE BLOOD OF THE SAINTS.  PSALM 79:1-3 SHOWS HOW GOD SEES PRESENT DAY JERUSALEM. READ EZEKIEL 5:5-9 AND COMPARE TO MATTHEW 24:21. THERE CAN NOT BE TWO TIMES IN HISTORY THAT IT CAN BE SAID, THE LIKE OF WHICH I HAVE NEVER DONE OR TO THIS TIME NOR EVER SHALL BE.  ROME IS ONE OF THE HARLOT DAUGHTERS BUT JERUSALEM IS HER MOTHER. GOD DIVORCED HIS HARLOT WIFE, (ISAIAH 50:1), BUT GOD HAS A PLAN TO REDEEM HER IN THE FUTURE.
GOD WILL PURGE AWAY THE SIN AND ABOMINATIONS OF JERUSALEM WHEN CHRIST RETURNS AND JERUSALEM FROM ABOVE WILL BE THE MOTHER OF US ALL. (GALATIANS 4:26)

IN JEREMIAH 25 GOD OUTLINES HIS PUNISHMENT AGAINST ALL NATIONS.  THE FIRST TO BE PUNISHED IS JUDAH AND JERUSALEM FOLLOWED BY ALL OTHER NATIONS.  THIS MESSAGE IS FOR THE END TIME. 

Notice the same words and phrases are used in speaking of Babylon and Jerusalem.
KJV Jeremiah 25:10
 10.  Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle.
KJV Revelation 18:23
 23.  And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.

THE EXACT SAME WORDS ARE USED TO SPEAK ABOUT BABYLON AS JERUSALEM.  THE WRATH OF GOD IS UPON ALL NATIONS AND THIS HAS NOT YET BEEN FULFILLED.  THE TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM WILL BE CLEANSED AND RESTORED AT THE RETURN OF CHRIST WHO HAS THE RIGHT GIVEN TO HIM FROM GOD TO RULE. Daniel 8:14

KJV Ezekiel 21:26-27
 26.  Thus saith the Lord God; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high.
 27.  I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.

THIS PROPHESY IS SPEAKING OF THE THREE TEMPLES, THE FIRST TWO WERE DESTROYED ON AV THE 9TH THE THIRD WILL NOT BUT BE CLEANSED AND RESTORED IT MAY BE THE EZEKIEL TEMPLE.

IN THE KINGDOM, AFTER THE GREAT WHITE THRONE  JUDGMENT THERE WILL BE NO TEMPLE.

KJV Revelation 21:22
 22.  And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.
 
THE TYPE OF DECEPTION MAY BE THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE OLD COVENANT LAW UPON THE WORLD BY THE ANTI CHRIST.  THE JEWS ARE LOOKING FOR THE SON OF DAVID AS MESSIAH WHO THEY SAY WILL BRING BACK THE LAW.  THE LAW IS BIBLICAL AND WILL NOT PROVIDE SALVATION AS ITS LETTER KILLS. THIS MAY SERVE AS THE PERFECT DECEPTION. THE LAW IS THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL.  THE WORLD WILL DENY GRACE AND THE LORD WHO BROUGHT IT.  I CAME OUT OF A DECEPTION THAT INVOLVED LAW KEEPING AND WHILE I WAS IN IT I THOUGHT I WAS RIGHT BUT I WAS WRONG, DEAD WRONG, AND SO WILL BE THE WORLD.  THERE IS A WAY THAT SEEMS RIGHT UNTO A MAN BUT THE END THEREOF IS DEATH.  THIS IS HOW THE LAW WORKS IN A SELF RIGHTEOUS CARNAL MIND.  THE CHURCHES HAVE FOR THE MOST PART EMBRACED THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND THINK THAT THE JEWS ARE THE ELECT. THEY BELIEVE THEIR ROOTS ARE IN THE CARNAL NATION OF ISRAEL.  THEY HAVE EVEN BEGUN PRACTICING SOME OF THE LAW OF MOSES. THE JEWS ARE AN ANTICHRIST PEOPLE, THEY REJECT JESUS.  HOW FAR WILL IT GO?  

In the Chukas below a Hebrew/Jewish Doctor Belk explains the number 666 is holy to the Jewish people. IT IS ONE WAY THEY IDENTIFY THEIR MESSIAH.


Chukas
Numbers 19:1 - 22:1

The Six Sixty Six of Chukas ©

By Dr. Akiva G. Belk

This study of mysticism in Hebrew Gematria is dedicated in the loving memory of Isadore and Fanny
Pannitz, may they rest in peace.
We read in this week's parsha, "This Statute of the Torah that Hashem commanded, saying, Speak to B'nei
Yisroel, And they shall take to you [the] perfect red cow with nothing deformed in it, with no lifting up,
going up upon it [no yoke]. Numbers 19:2
Chassidim, notice the words:
Ah Shehr - Ayin - Bawh - Moom, meaning "{the red perfect cow} with nothing deformed in it."
Occasionally I like to point out the utter theological confusion surrounding the number 666. Christians /
Messianics teach that this is the mark of the beast. They teach anyone receiving this mark on their hand or
forehead will be doomed to eternal hell. THIS IS THE ABSOLUTE OPPOSITE OF WHAT PARSHAS
CHUKAS TEACHES!
First we know that the command of Chukas at first glance appears to be a paradox. Those who prepare
the perfect red cow become unclean so those who are unclean will become clean. This seems to coincide
with the Christian / Messianic thought that the False Prophet who works with the False Jewish Messiah
will lead 2/3rd's of Kal Yisroel and much of the world to accept the mark of the beast and as a result, G-d
forbid, be tormented in the fires of hell for eternity! That is what they believe...
Thank G-d we do not share that mistaken theology!!
Holy readers, according to Rashi the perfect place, the clean place where some of the Parah Adamah {the
perfect red cow's ashes} will be placed outside of the camp {outside of Jerusalem} refers to the Mount of
Olives. Christians / Messianics believe this is the location of their proclaimed messiah's {Jesus'} second
coming.
Now, Chassidim, notice that the purpose of the Parah Adamah is for cleansing... for purification. In other
words, for sprinkling upon one's forehead and upon one's hand {and body} which are the very places
Christians / Messianics claim to be EVIL!! These acts... these marks... {in Hebrew meaning} these signs...
are the very acts... signs... marks of Jewish purification using the Parah Adamah!
The ashes {of the beast, the perfect red cow} stored on the Mount of Olives are there for the Kohen
Godal to use in preparation of another Parah Adamah. According to our sages the first Parah Adamah
lasted till the time of Ezrah. After the return from Babylonian captivity a second Parah Adamah was
prepared. Seven more Parah Adamos were needed before the destruction of the second Bais Ha Mik
Dosh. The tenth Parah Adamah will be prepared by the Moshiach on the Mount of Olives.
In addition to this the Gematria Kotel of Ah Shehr - Ayin - Bawh - Moom, meaning "{the red perfect
cow} with nothing deformed in it" is 666, the very number Christians / Messianics associate with the mark
of the beast.
Now isn't it interesting that Christians / Messianics have Jesus first appearing on the Mount of Olives... Yet
Jesus is NOT a Kohen {"PRIEST"}! Jesus was a Nazzerite born to the tribe of Judah, according to the
New Testament. So according to the Torah Jesus cannot under any circumstances ever be the Kohen
Godal {"High Priest"} as Christians / Messianics claim. Jesus could NEVER enter the most holy place,
NEVER prepare the Parah Adamah and NEVER make atonement for sins. Only a Kohen descended from
Levi and from Aharon can fulfill these Torah commands!!
So the teachings of the New Testament are in complete contradiction to the teachings of preparation of the
Parah Adamah as commanded by Hashem for the purification process, as taught in Parshas Chukas! The
New Testament teaches that Jesus is the purifier. The Torah teaches that the ashes of the Parah Adamah
prepared in accordance with the Torah are required for purification.
Mystically speaking Chukas warns all Jews of false and erroneous teachings that oppose and contradict the
Torah! The Gematria 666 represents the perfect red cow as commanded by Hashem. It also represents
"Our Righteousness." Neither the perfect red cow nor Hashem {"Our Righteousness"} is the mark of the
beast.
Ah Shehr - Ayin - Bawh - Moom {the red perfect cow with nothing deformed in it}
655 = Mem 40 Vav 6 Mem 40 - Hey 5 Bais 2 - Nun 50 Yud 10 Aleph 1 - Reish 200 Shin 300 Aleph 1
666 = 655 + 11 letters
Tzeed Koh Say Nu {[G-d] Our Righteousness}
666 = Vav 6 Nun 50 Yud 10 Sav 400 Vav 6 Kuf 100 Dalet 4 Tzaddi 90
Blessings and peace!
Dr. Akiva G. Belk
 
Dr. Belk is dead wrong and his holy number of the red cow may be the mark of the beast.  The Antichrist may use this mark, as fraud, to replace the blood of Jesus with a red cow.  The blood of a beast replaces the blood of Jesus, could this be the mark of the beast?  The mark, the name or the number of his name and the number of his name has something to do with 666, which is the number of a man.  

DEATH

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

　

　

No matter how you try to lengthen your life you are going to die. You may add a few years by healthy living but in the end death will win.

KJV Hebrews 9:27
27. And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

KJV Genesis 2:17
17. But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

KJV Job 10:20-22
20. Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
21. Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
22. A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
　
KJV Job 14:10
10. But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the Ghost, and where is he?

KJV Psalms 6:5
5. For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?

KJV Psalms 89:48
48. What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.

Death stalks us like a lion stalks his prey and when our time comes he devours us all.

Are you afraid of death?

When fear of death becomes an obsession, to the degree where we cannot enjoy life, is to be out of balance and if your are a Christian, lacking in faith.

You should know that physical death is as temporary as our physical life and that through Jesus all humanity that has not committed the unpardonable sin is guaranteed a resurrection from the dead.

KJV Psalms 48:14
14. For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.

With God, your fear of death should not be excessive or crippling so as to terrify you and cause you to forget Gods promise. This would be like calling God a liar.

What if I could show you a way to avoid death entirely; to never die, but to be changed from what you are now into another life form. It would happen in an instant, in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye. Would you be interested?
You would never even lose consciousness and you will shed the flesh and take on the spirit.

KJV 1 Corinthians 15:51-52
51. Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

KJV 1 Corinthians 15:44
44. It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

When Jesus returns, those saints who have died are referred to as being asleep and will be resurrected from the dead but the saints who are alive at this time are instantly changed from flesh to spirit without ever having died.

KJV 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
13. But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep(The saints who have died), that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.(Do not fear or be terrified about death)
14. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.(This is our faith to believe God)
15. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.

Here is the proof that there are two groups of saints, those who are alive at the return of Jesus and those who have died.

16. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17. Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
18. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

If you have experienced Gods spirit working in you, if you desire to obey God and Christ and follow the message of the gospel then you have the hope of being one of those who will never die.

When we examine the world today we see many signs Jesus gave of the end times. Things are happening that have never happened before and we are approaching a worldwide catastrophe of horrific proportions. We are not like the carnal people of this world with no real idea of how close we are to the return of Jesus.

KJV 1 Thessalonians 5:1-5
1. But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.
2. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
3. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
4. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
5. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

The saints of God will know when Jesus is near to his return but the carnal world will be clueless.
Now, this change from flesh to spirit is dependent on our will and desire for it and our obedience to God to receive it. Let no one think they will ever become spirit if they do not have and live in the love of God. The change to spirit has conditions God demands from us and that is to grow in His love that He gives us by His Holy Spirit. Without this love no one will ever be spirit. Without this love we will be nothing.

ASV 1 Corinthians 13:1-8
1. If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
2. And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
3. And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.
4. Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
5. doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil;
6. rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth;
7. beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
8. Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall be done away; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall be done away.

ASV 1 Corinthians 13:13
13. But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

ASV 1 John 4:8
8. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

Paul describes what Gods love is like.

4. Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
5. doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil;
6. rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth;
7. beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
8. Love never faileth:

This love is an absolute requirement for anyone to escape death and experience the instantaneous change from flesh to spirit.

So, if you never want to die, you better have and live in Gods love.
God gives us a portion of this love, His love, when we receive His holy spirit. God plants this seed of love in us, the good Earth, so that it will grow and bear fruit to God.

ASV 2 Thessalonians 3:5
5. And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of Christ.

ASV 1 John 2:5-6
5. but whoso keepeth his word, in him verily hath the love of God been perfected. Hereby we know that we are in him:
6. he that saith he abideth in him ought himself also to walk even as he walked.

ASV 1 John 3:16-19
16. Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
17. But whoso hath the world's goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him?
18. My Little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.
19. Hereby shall we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our heart before him:

ASV 1 John 4:9-12
9. Herein was the love of God manifested in us, that God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him.
10. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
11. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
12. No man hath beheld God at any time: if we love one another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us:

ASV 1 John 4:19
19. We love, because he first loved us.

ASV Jude 1:20-21
20. But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,
21. keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto everlasting life.

Brothers and sisters in Christ, the love of God in us and acting through us is the way to life everlasting without ever seeing death. If any of us have issues where we are failing in this love we need to go to God and ask Him for help, God will give help. We need to examine ourselves and be honest with ourselves before God concerning our thoughts, conduct, actions and words; asking ourselves, are these of the love of God.

ASV 2 Corinthians 13:14
14. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.

Salvation                 

 Salvation is being in the kingdom of God as an immortal spirit being, unable to sin or be tempted with evil;
repentance, grace, faith and the sacrifice of Jesus is not salvation; these are the things that reconcile us to God and place us on the straight and narrow way that leads to the kingdom, to salvation. Once we are in the kingdom we do not need repentance, grace, faith and the sacrifice of Christ because we will have achieved we will have attained we have salvation. 

No one has ever experienced salvation, it is promised to us with conditions. When converted and given the Holy Spirit we have entered into a covenant with God. This covenant has conditions to meet in order to have the promised salvation. When you are in the kingdom this is salvation and then you cannot lose salvation. At this time you do not have salvation and it is possible that you can lose the offer of it if you commit the unpardonable sin. God will withdraw His offer if you do not honor the conditions God requires for you to have salvation. You must love and obey God and Christ when you have the Holy Spirit or you blaspheme that spirit. If one third of the angels sinned against God what about human beings? If Lucifer could convince angels to rebel humans would be far easier. At this present time you are an heir of salvation, if you continue in the requirements God has in the new covenant, but if not God will disinherit you. You do not inherit the kingdom/salvation; when converted you are only an heir. Keep in mind as you read the scripture below that our inheritance is the kingdom which is what salvation is and that we do not have salvation at present but it is promised to us if we obey Gods requirements. Remember that you cannot lose salvation once you have salvation and you do not have it now; you have the opportunity, the hope, the promise and you will be judged by what you do with it. 

KJV Matthew 5:5 
5. Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. 

KJV Matthew 19:29 
29. And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.

KJV Luke 10:25-28 
25. And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? 
26. He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?
 27. And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself. 28. And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live. 

KJV 1 Corinthians 6:9 
9. Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? 

KJV Ephesians 1:11-14 
11. In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: 
12. That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ. 
13. In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, 
14. Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory. 

KJV Ephesians 5:5 5. For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

 KJV Colossians 3:24-25
 24. Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ. 
25. But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.

 KJV Revelation 21:7 7. He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. 

The most important first step in the hope of salvation is for God to give you His Holy Spirit and begin to teach you the truth of spiritual knowledge bringing you out of the worlds lies and set you free. This is what brings you out from under the old covenant law and into the new covenant grace so that you have access to repentance and forgiveness of sins. As you stand in faith and grace God begins to work with your human spirit to conform it into the image of Jesus who God made an exact image of Himself. This image is that of love and righteousness that is incapable of sin and is the ultimate quality the saints must achieve to have salvation which is immortality. You must be made incapable of sin first before you can become immortal. 

In this human existence you will always sin because you have only a portion of the Holy Spirit but you can grow in the spirit and overcome sins as you mature bearing fruit unto God. God can see your progress as all of us are an open book to Him and He will know if we grow with the gift of His spirit or not. What God looks for is where our heart is; is it with Him, is our burning desire to obey Him and love Him beyond all else having faith in His son as you have faith in Him. It is this desire and our growth in overcoming sin that pleases God and no matter how much growth is produced, as long as there is growth, when we die God will then seal our human spirit in total righteousness and we will be incapable of sin. Then when the resurrection happens this perfected human spirit will be placed into a glorified spirit body thus we will then be immortal, have salvation, and then we can never lose it. Jesus came into the world with a human spirit that God had already made perfect in righteousness and love so that Jesus was incapable of sin. All Jesus needed was a glorified body to be immortal which he received when he ascended to heaven. Jesus was Gods way of saying to us, “This man, my son, is what I will transform you to be like if you are willing and obedient so that you will be worthy of the salvation, the immortality, I have offered you through him.” God loves and values the life of His son Jesus to the point where He will forgive all manner of sin that is common unto man but God will not dishonor the sacrifice of His son by forgiving those who blaspheme His Gods Holy Spirit. Gods spirit is the spirit of grace and to blaspheme His spirit is to spit in His face and the face of His son, it is going to far and is the only sin God will not forgive. 

By Grace Through Faith

How many of you are righteous?

When we repent and God forgives us, God imputes His righteousness to us.

KJV Romans 4:3-8
3. For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
4. Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
5. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
6. Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
7. Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
8. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
Grace keeps us in a continual state of righteousness by faith.
KJV Romans 5:20
20. Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
Our spiritual condition is maintained by a constant cleansing of our sins.
KJV 1 John 1:9
9. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
This keeps the spots, blemishes and wrinkles out of our garments.
KJV Ephesians 5:26-27
26. That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
27. That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
We need to be further clothed with the white robe of righteousness that we receive when we enter the kingdom. This will be our own righteousness and not imputed by God. This is the change.
KJV 2 Corinthians 5:1-4
1. For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
2. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
3. If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
4. For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
Now, because of our faith, God calls us righteous, it is the righteousness of God by faith. At present the righteousness in us is not ours, it is Gods imputed to us.
KJV 2 Corinthians 5:21
21. For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
It is as if we wear baby clothes now but formal attire when in the kingdom.
KJV Matthew 22:11-14
11. And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:
12. And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.
13. Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
14. For many are called, but few are chosen.
We maintain the baby clothes with the gospel message; if we dirty ourselves God will change our diaper.
KJV 1 John 2:1-2
1. My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
2. And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
In the kingdom, God will have full grown sons and daughters that cannot dirty themselves anymore. When we are baptized into Jesus, this is our first new diaper, our first cleansing of all past sins but we continue to dirty ourselves to the end of this life; however the frequency of those times we need changed should decrease as we grow talents. This is bearing fruit to God, growing in His spirit. This is how we, the saints, are the righteousness of God through Jesus Christ.
For a broken spirit is to God a sacrifice and a broken contrite heart God will not despise.
KJV Psalms 51:17
17. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
God knows our heart and that our sins break it as we feel sorrow and disgust over it, we repent, ask forgiveness and God forgives.
KJV 1 John 3:19-21
19. And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
20. For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
21. Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.
All of this is Gods doing, it is His will. Our broken human spirit because of our sins is a living sacrifice to God who knows we have a contrite heart. Contrite means grief and sorrow over doing wrong, Godly sorrow, that leads us to repent. King David committed adultery and murder; Psalm 51 was written to express David’s extreme sorrow over these sins, he repented deeply and we know God forgave him. God will forgive us too.

This is the gospel, this is Gods will. Our part in this is to believe and through our lives of experiencing this love and mercy be made stronger spiritually.
KJV Romans 5:1-2
1. Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
2. By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
This grace is always present for us and we should boldly go to God to obtain mercy and forgiveness at any time.
KJV Hebrews 4:16
16. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

Love and God

Most people today when hearing the word “love” think of sexual intercourse. Love is not sex. Sex is a method of showing, expressing love in a marriage and any other use of sex than this is sin.

KJV Hebrews 13:4
4. Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
 
So then people who think love is sex are of a sinful mind, carnal minded.
 
KJV Romans 8:5-7
5. For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
6. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
7. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
　
 The carnal mind has no understanding of what love is and operates under lust and not love at all. Carnal minds mistake lust for love. God is love and is the only true kind of love that is not selfish or conditional. The word charity in the verses below is the word “love”.
 
KJV 1 Corinthians 13:1-13
1. Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
2. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
3. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
4. Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
5. Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
6. Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
7. Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
8. Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
9. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
10. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
11. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
12. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
13. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
 
In the Greek language the words for love are; agape, philia and eros. Agape is the love God and Jesus have, philia is human level love for friend and family and eros is love that includes sexual intercourse in a marriage. Both philia and eros love are a shadow of agape. Agape is what we need.

 The scripture tells us that God loves the entirety of human kind and in order to provide for them a future that their minds cannot even imagine gave the only righteous human being that ever lived, His son, as our messiah. God wants to change us to be like Jesus. Jesus, when on this Earth, gave us the example of the kind of character and love God wants us to have and this is how Jesus was Gods image and one with God. Godly love was shown to us, demonstrated to us by Jesus.
 
Love your enemies, pray for your enemies, do good to your enemies and to those who treat you with hatred and persecute you.

 If someone were to rape and kill your wife would you be able to respond to that person in the manner Jesus spoke about?

 It is just not in our nature to have the mind to respond to these evils with love.

Jesus gave his life for people like this; Adolf Hitler, Osama Bin Laden, Barack Obama, You and me. Many people think that since they have not committed the horrible sins of Hitler or Bin Laden they are “good people” but the truth is that all people sin and in the eyes of God sin is death to the sinner. If the prophets say that no one is righteous, no not one, then no one is good either. We are all evil and deserving death for the sins we do. This is where the love of God enters by the man Jesus Christ. Jesus gave his life for us while we were still sinning, still doing things worthy of death.
Our minds are not like the minds of God and Jesus that have a form or type of love that is as far above human love as heaven is above the Earth. In stark contrast our love when compared to God and Jesus does not even exist. This Godly love must be given to us, placed into our human spirit by the Holy Spirit of God. This Godly love is how Jesus fulfilled the law and enabled Jesus to be incapable of sin and shows to us what we must be changed into to be in the kingdom of God.

The saints of God, the elect, the 144,000 have been given a portion, a measure of the Holy Spirit and Godly love to the degree that we only have a beginning in this process of spiritual transformation to become like God and Jesus. This is the spiritual Genesis unlike the physical Genesis of Adam and is the true creation God desires of which Jesus was the first born. While saints we still sin and even though grace will cover the sin it remains that we are yet capable of sin our entire life in the flesh. Scripture says that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God and that all unrighteousness is sin. This means that in the kingdom of God sin nor the potential to sin will not exist at all. So then, how will the saints ever be in this kingdom if they are yet capable of sin all their lives?
The truth is that the saints die as sinners and while they were alive grace did cover their sins but in the kingdom there is no grace because there is no sin. This raises a very important question; How can sinning saints enter a kingdom where sin does not exist? There is an answer to this question and it is one of the many deep things of God.
 
It is necessary to define spiritual terms to understand.
 
Grace is the program under the new covenant in Christ whereby the sins of a saint are forgiven because of faith.
 
Faith is an unseen hope, the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. The saints believe God and Jesus in the message of the gospel.
 
Salvation is when you are an immortal spirit being incapable of sin in the kingdom of God.
 
Righteousness is the character quality of being unable to sin and currently God, Jesus and the holy angels are the only beings with this quality.
 
Impute is to give something to another that is not their own as when God imputes His righteousness to the saints because of the faith and grace mentioned above.
 
Sin is whatever is not of Gods love. Sin is of the mind, it is thoughts and intents of evil and when the thought is acted upon reveals the sin but if not acted upon hides the sin in the heart of the sinner where it is still sin and worthy of death.
 
Gospel is the good news God sent Jesus into the world to preach which contains all the elements described above and many more.
 
Love is God and God is love. All things that are good and wonderful that have no evil at all given freely, by free will, from the one who loves to the one loved.
 
Godly sorrow is having our minds opened by God to see how short we fall from His love.
 
Repentance is the desire in us, once we experience Godly sorrow, to desire to be changed by God into the image of Jesus who God created in His own express image and likeness of love.
 
All these things combined in the saints is a beginning only and not the finish as we are yet like clay in the hands of the potter. If we live our lives to the end holding fast to them we can to a degree overcome some of the nature of the old man we once were and for God to build the new man in us, this is bearing fruit unto God. This process must be of our own free will choice as all of our heart, mind, body and spirit must desire Gods will for us and be in total agreement with God as to what God intends to do to us, the change He must make in us, so that we can be in the kingdom of God.

The way God created Jesus Christ was different from us as Jesus was born directly of God and not through the human reproductive act. Jesus was without measure filled with the Holy Spirit and was incapable of sin because he was the exact character of God in love.
God had to do this because the perfect life of Jesus would be the only acceptable sacrifice for sin. This is why Jesus was the first born. Jesus at birth already had the mind of what we hope to have to be in the kingdom. During his life on Earth Jesus did not have to struggle to not sin because he was the first born with a kingdom mind. God, through Jesus, has proven to us that He can change us if He already created Jesus as our example and it is extremely important to God that this change is what we ourselves desire with all our heart.
Let this mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus; a mind like God Himself, of true love, incapable of sin. Jesus was created this way but we were not and must be changed. God can see our heart and our struggles with sin and our love for Him and even though we still sin and are weak God shields us with His grace so we can grow spiritually and bear fruit, change even a little, for he who is faithful in little is faithful in much. God can see that we want what He has offered us even though we are weak and have little understanding of it.
 
KJV Hebrews 4:13
13. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
 
KJV 1 Corinthians 2:9-10
9. But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
10. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
 
God, through Jesus, has provided for us everything we need for now and for the future while we yet remain in a weakened state still sinning.
 
KJV 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17
16. Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,
17. Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.
 
KJV 2 Timothy 1:9-10
9. Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
10. But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:
 
KJV Romans 8:28
28. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
 
KJV Romans 8:37-39
37. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
38. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39. Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
 
There is not a one of us that by our own merit deserves this. This was all done by love.
 
Every time you and I sin all of these things should flood into our minds as a witness of the great love of God who is willing to forgive and keep us in this hope we have.
 
While the agape love of God may seem a far away thing from us that seed has been planted in us and while we are not able to see any growth in ourselves God can see all things. We have been commanded by God, Christ and the Apostles to love with a love that we have never had until receiving the Holy Spirit. What this love asks of us may seem impossible, but all things are possible with God.
 
KJV Romans 12:9-21
9. Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
10. Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
11. Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
12. Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;
13. Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
14. Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.
15. Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
16. Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.
17. Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.
18. If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
19. Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
20. Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.
21. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
　
When we were carnal the love described above was impossible and even now with Gods spirit we struggle against our old man. Love is the key, the power and the knowledge to produce in us the will of God.
 
KJV Ephesians 3:16-19
16. That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
17. That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
18. May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
19. And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
　 
God is love and that is why He made us and what He is transforming us to become. We are only at the Genesis of this looking for the Revelation.

At that day when the sons of God will be revealed the human spirits of just men will be made perfect weather dead or alive and will be sealed in righteousness and placed into a glorified spirit body, immortal and unable to sin and we will be in the image and likeness of God and Christ. 

This is the kingdom of love.