God asked Hosea to serve him in a unique way: Hosea was to take a wife of whoredoms and to have children of whoredoms (Hosea 1:2). This precarious act was purposed to conjure up images of an unfaithful, and an offensive church. Hosea’s willingness to serve the Lord in this fashion earned him the privilege of announcing the new names of Zion’s children: Jezreel, Lo-ruhamah, and Lo-ammi. These are parable names which are given to believers, who, when they learned of religion's mistakes, they followed the Lord and forsook the traditional teachings of their religion. Before their conversions these children went by the names of Ephraim, Judah, and Israel. "To him that overcometh will I give... a new name (Revelation 2:17)." Calling believers that obeyed his voice by their new names, separated them from the traditionalists, thus making it possible for God to prophesy blessings upon the obedient, and cursings upon the rebellious.
“Ephraim is my firstborn (Jeremiah 31:9).” The parable name of Ephraim was used in prophesy to represent the followers of Jesus Christ. His followers were given an opportunity to receive the Holy Spirit, therefore they are God's first begotten of the dead (Revelation 1:5). Unto Ephraim, but specifically unto those Christians, who, after learning of their religious mistakes, turned from them, God gave the new name of, Jezreel. This truth was revealed to believers by a physical depiction. When Hosea and Gomer had their firstborn son, God said: “Call his name Jezreel (Hosea 1:4).”
“I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu (Hosea 1:4).” In order to correctly interpret this prophecy, believer's must study the life of Jehu. Jehu was a prophet who was divinely anointed to be king over Israel (1Kings 19:16). After being anointed king, Jehu killed the reigning king of Israel, as well as the king of Judah, and then he caused the deaths of Ahab's seventy sons, and he killed all of Ahab's relatives, including all the priests that were associated with Ahab's house (2Kings 9:24; 9:27; 10:6-7; 10:14; 10:25). These violent acts were done because Jehu was zealously preforming God's will. “Thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master… for the whole house of Ahab shall perish (2Kings 9:7-8).” “So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men, and his kinfolks, and his priests, until he left none remaining… He came to Samaria, he slew all that remained unto Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed him, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake to Elijah (2Kings 10:11, 10:17).” This violence is recorded for our edification. It a pattern which should cause believers to wonder: How can believers judge what is righteous in God's eyes when it comes to acts of violence being done in the name of Lord? “I considered in my heart even to declare all this... no man knoweth either love of hatred by all that is before them (Ecclesiastes 9:1).”
To more fully understand why God chose to put Jehu's name in prophecy, believer's must investigate what happened to Jehu after he was crowned king. “Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the Lord God of Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin (2Kings 10:31).” In other words, Jehu continued to uphold those same religious practices which had caused the house of Ahab to be destroyed. After being appointed king, Jehu had a decision to make: would he serve God with his whole heart and clean up the mistaken practices of Israel's religion, or not? Jehu's heart was divided. He chose to support the ways of the people, and he forgot the Lord. Causing a "divided heart" is God's quarrel against religion (Hosea 10:2, 13:6). These lessons offer meaningful understanding to the prophecy: "For yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu; and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel (Hosea 1:4)." God is testifying that in the day of his wrath he will avenge the blood of Christians that were bringing forth the truth, upon every leader and supporter, who, after being shown the truth of his word, and after being anointed by his Holy Spirit, forgot God and returned to the former ways and practices of religion. God will not spare them in the day of his wrath. These believers have, in essence, sanctioned violence, and in that day, not only will God destroy them, but he will also destroy every deceitful practice of their religion, forever.
Hosea prophesied disturbing and alarming evidence against Christianity under the name of Ephraim: He prophesied that Ephraim compassed God daily about with lies, and that those lies are increasing more and more (Hosea 11:12; 12:1). According to the word of God by Hosea, Christian's are being given bad counsel, and they will receive shame (Hosea 10:6, 11:6). "The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up, his sin is hid. The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he is an unwise son (Hosea 13:12-13)." "As for Ephraim... Woe to them when I depart from them (Hosea 9:11-12)." "Woe to them! For they have departed from me: Destruction to them! Because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet have they spoken lies against me (Hosea 7:13)." Despite their rebellious ways, God has sworn that he will not execute the fierceness of his anger upon Christians, neither will he utterly destroy them forever: however the prophesied punishments of affliction and pestilence will come upon Ephraim's priests, for the good of the people (Hosea 11:9). "I will chastise them, as the congregation hath heard (Hosea 7:12)."
A second child was born to Hosea and Gomer, a daughter, and this daughter was given Israel's new name. “Call her name Lo-ruhamah: for I will no more have mercy on the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away (Hosea 1:6).” When the name of, Israel, appeared in prophecy, it was used as a parable name representing believers of the Islamic and Jewish nations: believers within these nations generally never receive the Holy Spirit, wherefore they were given a separate name. Proof of this is written in the verse: "Israel is an empty vine... they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the Lord; what then should a king do to us (Hosea 10:3)?" So, according to the evidences of scripture, the parable name of Lo-ruhamah applies to believers within the Jewish and Islamic faiths, who, although they believe the news that is coming from the covenant message, they still need to learn of Jesus. Hosea's prophecy concerning Lo-ruhamah insinuates that when Lo-ruhamah is born, God will rise up against every believer of the Islamic or Jewish nation, that will not receive the truth of their messages, or that tries to come against these converts. "I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away (Hosea 1:6)."
Homer conceived again and bare Hosea a third child, a son, and he was named, Lo-ammi. This name represents Zion's converted priests. When Lo-ammi was born, God delivered a reprimand against unbelievers: “Call his name Lo-ammi: for you are not my people, and I will not be your God. Yet the number of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea (Hosea 1:9-10).” Through teachings pertaining to the covenant message, these priests have been set free from the laws of their traditional religious teachings. "I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the Lord their God (Hosea 1:7)." Their new understandings will come before the congregation, and they will cause many to return unto the Lord, and to serve him in righteousness (Hosea 6:11). "It shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God (Hosea 1:10)." “The consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness (Isaiah 10:22).”
"Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband... I will not have mercy upon her children: for they be the children of whoredoms (Hosea 2:2; 2:4)." God is calling for true believers to plead with the corrupted church. The corrupted church is not framing its doings to return to him (Hosea 5:4), it is transgressing against his covenant (Hosea 6:7), and it is relying upon inaccurate teachings, and mistaken teachers (Hosea 10:13). Plead with these believers, and let them know that God's wrath is purposed against their iniquities, and against the hatred that some of them have for God's people of other religions (Hosea 9:7). Plead with, and for, every deceived soul: "Oh Israel, return unto the Lord thy God: for thou hast fallen by they iniquity. Take with you words, and turn to the Lord: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips... For in thee the fatherless findeth mercy. I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him... His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree (From Hosea 14:1-6)."
“Then said the Lord unto Hosea, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress... So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver… I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for another man: so will I also be for thee (Hosea 3:1-3).” This act is a portrait of redemption. Although persons of Jewish and Islamic faiths have not known the truth, Jesus Christ already paid the price for his bride. God is overturning every religion, and his people will be rejuvenated, because God is establishing a new covenant for them. "In that day will I make a covenant with them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely (Hosea 2:18)."
“I will betroth thee unto me forever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in loving kindness, and in mercies. I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the Lord (Hosea 2:19-20).” What better promises can believers get than the promises of peace which come from God? Or what better proof is there that the covenant message is truth, than the prophesies of Hosea? Praise God for what he has done: for Hosea prophesied that they shall hear Jezreel! "The earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel (Hosea 2:22)." Simply put, the earth shall hear God's people, and God's people shall hear the converts of Christianity!
"Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel (Hosea 1:11)!"
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Behold, the Prophet
“Where shall wisdom be
found? And where is the place of understanding? Man knoweth not the
price thereof (Job 28:12-13).” Wisdom is found in studying God's word, but did you ever stop to wonder why God said in his word that there is a price for
wisdom? Could the price of wisdom be, suffering for God? "Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard (Ecclesiastes 9:16)." "In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow (Ecclesiastes 1:18)."
“If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God... Why do you not understand my speech? Even because ye cannot hear my word (John 8:42-43).” The priests and elders of Jesus' day didn't believe Jesus because their traditional teachings didn't allow for a carpenter's son to teach them God's ways. God anticipated their pride: Their deeds were recorded as a pattern for our edification (Ecclesiastes 3:15). End times are not going to be according to what the majority of believers think that God word says, end times will be according to the true interpretations of the revealed truths of prophecy.
If you could speak to the ancient prophets and ask them whether or not suffering is the price of wisdom, they would probably tell you that when
God gave them something new to prophesy, their counsel was not appreciated, their motives were misunderstood, and their prophesies were not fulfilled immediately. “I sat alone because of thy
hand... wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and waters that
fail? (from Jeremiah 15:17-18).” The painfulness of waiting on God, and suffering the unbelief of fellow believers is the price that marks God's prophets, even as they are given the
honor of delivering God's word. Truly it is only by God's signs and wonders that truth is ever accepted by his people. “The righteous, and the wise, and
their works, are in the hand of God (Ecclesiastes 9:1).”
Moses could teach you something about the price of wisdom. This well respected prophet of the Lord was accused of making
life more difficult for the Hebrew people, he was murmured against, and even his own sister and brother doubted whether God was exclusively speaking through him (Exodus 5:21; 15:24;
Numbers 12:2; 14:4). Moses was eventually given honor, but the price of wisdom did not escape Moses. “If, when
you do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is
acceptable with God (1Peter 2:20).”
God told Israel that he would raise them up another prophet, a prophet that they would eventually be required to hear. To send a prophet to Israel meant that God would be sending them someone who would suffer the price of wisdom, as Moses did. Jesus Christ satisfied that requirement. "Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that we should follow his steps (1Peter 2:21)."
Jesus knew the price of wisdom. “Thou,
child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest (Luke 1:76).” He
referred to himself as a prophet, saying, "A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country, and in his own house (Mathew 13:57)." When
Christ walked the earth, he suffered misunderstanding. “Who, when he was reviled,
reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not (1Peter
2:23).” Jesus told his apostles that he must suffer
(Mark 8:31; 9:12; Luke 17:25)? Why did it behove Christ to suffer
(Luke 24:46)? Some might suggest that he suffered to make himself a
merciful High Priest (Hebrews 2:17), and others might argue that he
suffered to fulfill scripture (Isaiah 52:14), but there is yet another more pressing reason why Jesus was made to suffer: Jesus needed to verify to the world, and especially to the Jewish people, that he was that prophet. "I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him (Deuteronomy 18:18)."
Why should Jewish and Islamic believers turn from their traditional teachings and embrace Jesus Christ, and his teachings? “He hath no
form of comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty
that we should desire him (Isaiah 53:2).” Because God desired Jesus for his people. "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased (Matthew 3:17)." God's teachings of grace and truth came through the prophet Jesus Christ. Embracing Jesus and his teachings is our the new covenant, and only by trusting Jesus and receiving his teachings will a believer receive the gift of the Holy Spirit (John 14:16; 14:23). "Hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us (1John 3:24)."
Jesus knew and prophesied that he was to be rejected by the Jewish people of his generation (Luke 17:25; Isaiah 53:3), nevertheless, he was the fulfillment of Moses' prophecy. Just as Moses preformed miracles before Israel and those miracles testified that he was a prophet of God, so Jesus Christ performed miracles, and those miracles testified that Jesus was a prophet of God (John 5:36). But in case your ancestors missed the evidence, miracles are coming again, and they will once again bear witness that Jesus Christ is that prophet that Israel is required to hear. "It shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people (Acts 3:22)." After performing the miraculous signs and wonders of end times, God will destroy the souls of believers that refuse to receive and obey Jesus' teachings. Receiving Jesus' teachings comes with evidence of doing righteousness. “When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things (John 8:28).”
Jesus knew and prophesied that he was to be rejected by the Jewish people of his generation (Luke 17:25; Isaiah 53:3), nevertheless, he was the fulfillment of Moses' prophecy. Just as Moses preformed miracles before Israel and those miracles testified that he was a prophet of God, so Jesus Christ performed miracles, and those miracles testified that Jesus was a prophet of God (John 5:36). But in case your ancestors missed the evidence, miracles are coming again, and they will once again bear witness that Jesus Christ is that prophet that Israel is required to hear. "It shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people (Acts 3:22)." After performing the miraculous signs and wonders of end times, God will destroy the souls of believers that refuse to receive and obey Jesus' teachings. Receiving Jesus' teachings comes with evidence of doing righteousness. “When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things (John 8:28).”
Prophets will be used by God during end times. Through their messages God will give priests time to study the scriptures, and time to get their churches prepared for change. Their messages will help guide the righteous, and they will separate the servants of the Lord from the hypocrites (Proverbs 3:6). “The house of Israel will not
hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me (Ezekiel 3:7).” "They refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear (Zechariah 7:11)." Although hypocrites will refuse to hear, leaders that have spent time in God's word will recognize the truth; and they will hear the prophet's words, and they will follow the prophet's instructions. Together, believing priests and prophets will safely guide congregations through the prophesied judgments of end times.
“If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God... Why do you not understand my speech? Even because ye cannot hear my word (John 8:42-43).” The priests and elders of Jesus' day didn't believe Jesus because their traditional teachings didn't allow for a carpenter's son to teach them God's ways. God anticipated their pride: Their deeds were recorded as a pattern for our edification (Ecclesiastes 3:15). End times are not going to be according to what the majority of believers think that God word says, end times will be according to the true interpretations of the revealed truths of prophecy.
Friday, March 22, 2013
Ariel
“Woe to Ariel, to Ariel,
the city where David dwelt (Isaiah 29:1).”
The Jerusalem
Post published an article which drew attention to the unjust actions of President Barack
Obama as he singled out and excluded Ariel University students from
attending his presidential speech. The feelings of the Ariel University students are prophesied in the book of
Isaiah (Isaiah 29:2). In prophesies of Ariel, God likened the building of Ariel unto the
building of mount Zion. Like the people who are working against the building of Ariel, and there are people working against the building of mount Zion (Isaiah 29:8).
Before proceeding on with this message it is beneficial to understand God's parable meaning of the words, mount Zion. Mount Zion is an understanding wherein all three nations originating from the seed of Abraham, including Islam,
Judaism and Christianity, are all working together to build God's
kingdom. In Mount Zion, God has established one covenant for the purpose of uniting all three of these nations together. "They that trust in the Lord shall be as Mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever (Psalm 125:1)."
Isaiah likened mount Zion's distresses to that of Ariel. “I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it will be to me as Ariel. And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee (Isaiah 29:2-3).” Ariel's existence is as a pattern that is meant to help believers interpret certain end time understandings. Men can see that troubles are coming against Ariel, and therefore they can perceive that there are people that scorn her existence. Through Ariel's existence and the pattern that she instigated, God is allowing believers to know that not only is he in Ariel, but he is also in the armies of those that are fighting against her, for God has said: "I will distress Ariel." For now Ariel has sorrows, but God also advertised that Ariel's, as well as Zion's enemies will be removed in an instant. "Yea, it shall be in an instant suddenly (Isaiah 29:5)."
Ariel's prophesies provide evidence God is in those believers that are fighting against the covenant message, while at the same time he is also in believers that are working to help establish it. This is because deceived believers need time to recover themselves: it will take time to convince them of the truths of the covenant message. “Keep silence before me, O islands; let the people renew their strength (Isaiah 41:1).” Since God is at work on both sides of this conflict, why should believers concern themselves with changing their religious beliefs? Because mount Zion is the peace that believers have been praying for (Psalms 122:6; 37:11; 46:9). It is the everlasting kingdom, it is our blessed hope, and it is our rest. "The Lord hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation (Psalms 132:13)." Another reason that believers should willingly leave their religious practices to follow the Lord, is because God instructed them to do so. "Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with sore destruction (Micah 2:10)." “They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth to battle: for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof (Ezekiel 7:14).” This battle is about converting the religious beliefs of every believer, and it's about God causing his people to proclaim the covenant message.
Isaiah likened mount Zion's distresses to that of Ariel. “I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it will be to me as Ariel. And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee (Isaiah 29:2-3).” Ariel's existence is as a pattern that is meant to help believers interpret certain end time understandings. Men can see that troubles are coming against Ariel, and therefore they can perceive that there are people that scorn her existence. Through Ariel's existence and the pattern that she instigated, God is allowing believers to know that not only is he in Ariel, but he is also in the armies of those that are fighting against her, for God has said: "I will distress Ariel." For now Ariel has sorrows, but God also advertised that Ariel's, as well as Zion's enemies will be removed in an instant. "Yea, it shall be in an instant suddenly (Isaiah 29:5)."
Ariel's prophesies provide evidence God is in those believers that are fighting against the covenant message, while at the same time he is also in believers that are working to help establish it. This is because deceived believers need time to recover themselves: it will take time to convince them of the truths of the covenant message. “Keep silence before me, O islands; let the people renew their strength (Isaiah 41:1).” Since God is at work on both sides of this conflict, why should believers concern themselves with changing their religious beliefs? Because mount Zion is the peace that believers have been praying for (Psalms 122:6; 37:11; 46:9). It is the everlasting kingdom, it is our blessed hope, and it is our rest. "The Lord hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation (Psalms 132:13)." Another reason that believers should willingly leave their religious practices to follow the Lord, is because God instructed them to do so. "Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with sore destruction (Micah 2:10)." “They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth to battle: for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof (Ezekiel 7:14).” This battle is about converting the religious beliefs of every believer, and it's about God causing his people to proclaim the covenant message.
“Thou shalt be visited of the Lord of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire. And the multitude of all the
nations that fight against Ariel, even that fight against her and her
munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night
vision... So shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion (Isaiah 29:6-8).” Unbelieving and rebellious priests, these verses prophesy a rebuke against you! This word argues that one day you are going to wake up, and you are going to perceive and know that the covenant message that you've been fighting against, is of God! Everything that you perviously believed about end times is going to come to nothing, like a dream. You are deceived priests which have been blinded by religion, and you are without the Lord's guidance. "The vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed (Isaiah 29:11)." “In that day shall the
deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see
out of obscurity, and out of darkness (Isaiah 29:18).”
One final word of encouragement for the people that are helping to build mount Zion, as well as unto those that are helping to build Ariel: God's secret which he affirmed through the existence of Ariel, is that he will make haste to fulfill his word. "They that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine (Isaiah 29:24)." “Behold, all they that were incensed
against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as
nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish (Isaiah 41:11).”
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Summarizing the Covenant Message
Welcome to a
brief summarization of covenant message. I ask you to read this
entire message before labeling it nonsense. Pray for the guidance and be ready with
your bibles open.
To begin with,
what is meant by the word covenant? A covenant is a forever promise between two parties. God made covenants with men, and along with those covenants God wanted there to be something that he and his people could look
upon that would bring his covenants back to remembrance. For instance, when God set the rainbow in
the sky, it was a token of his covenant with Noah
(Genesis 9:16).
God made three covenants with Abraham (Genesis 15:18; 17:10; Hebrews 6:13-14), and he made two covenants with Moses
(Exodus 31:16; Deuteronomy 29:1). God also made a covenant with Isaac
(Genesis 17:21), and one with Jacob (Leviticus 26:42), and one with David (2Samuel 23:5),
and there was a covenant for the priesthood which was given to Aaron (Number 18:19,
Malachi 2:8). In all likelihood, God made a covenant with Islam and recorded it in
the book of Isaiah (Isaiah 59:21). And Jesus Christ was given for a
covenant (Isaiah 42:6). Along with all these covenants, God delivered a promise: “I will establish my covenant with you (Genesis 17:7;
Leviticus 26:9; Ezekiel 16:62).”
The blood of Jesus Christ is the promised establishment of all these covenants (Colossians 1:20;
Hebrews 10:29; 13:20). In other words, God made the blood of Jesus Christ his
reminder, so that when he looks upon Jesus' blood, the blood of one spotless lamb, he remembers all the covenants that he made with Abraham, and with his children (2Corinthians 5:18).
God made all these covenants knowing that they would generate the Islamic, Jewish, and Christian faiths. God also promised that in the last days he would unite his people into one everlasting covenant (Jeremiah 32:39-40; Hosea 2:18). Religion raised up certain scripture verses that men set up as rules to govern salvation, but scripture verses can be misinterpreted, and misrepresented. God triumphed over man's mistakes by basing salvation upon covenants (Jeremiah 11:3). Yes, Jesus said, "I am the way," and his life does show believers the way to inherit eternal salvation, but in order for Christians to champion that
Christ is the only way, they must ignore that God testified that his own hand has the power to save (Isaiah 59:1). It is a lie to think that Jesus Christ or his teachings could obsolete any of the truths which are written in the old testament (Matthew 5:17).
God upholds all the covenants that he ever made, even the covenant of circumcision which confirms that persons of the Jewish and Islamic faiths are his sons and daughters (Genesis 17:25). Persons of these faiths bare evidence in their flesh that they belong to God (Jeremiah 31:1; Isaiah 13:2).
Scripture reveals that God calls himself by various names (Psalm 68:4; 83:18). Muslim's call him Allah because their forefathers disobeyed the Lord, and God swore against them saying that his name, "the Lord God liveth" would no longer be named in their mouths (Jeremiah 44:26). But God, in his mercy, also testified that the children of the
rebellious would not be held accountable for the mistakes of their fathers
(Ezekiel chapter 18:14-17). Would God, who calls himself by various names, take offense at being called Allah?
Why is radical
Islam so violent? As is the case of believers in every faith, Islamic teachers have been misrepresenting and misinterpreting God's word, and Muslim believers are being deceived into believing inaccurate representations of God's word (Jeremiah
9:26). A unique challenge which is facing Islam, is that Muslims have not known the perfecting teachings of Jesus Christ, nor have they ever eye witnessed the disciplining evidences of God that Israel was made to suffer as she was guided through the wilderness for forty years (Jeremiah 48:11). During end times converting every believer and changing their mindset is not optional: every religion is going to have its laws overturned by God, and this includes the laws of the radicals of Islam (Ezekiel 21:27; Obadiah 8). Nevertheless, a remnant from every religion will escape God's judgments (Jeremiah 44:28).
Do you know if
you're in covenant? Are you interested in learning the new
covenant? Study on to find out more answers. Thank you for reading this. Tell
your family, friends, and don't forget your pastors.
May the Lord
bless you and increase your knowledge.
Monday, January 14, 2013
Prophesy More Precious Than Rubies
Oh that man would hear the covenant messages. These messages are filled with revealed prophesy. “There is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed;
and hid, that shall not be known (Matthew 10:26).” Scripture never
suggested that God would reveal prophesy through predictable channels:
“God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the
wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound
the things which are mighty (1Corinthians 1:27).” These messages sound to incredible to be true, but when you comprehend the miracle of what God
is about to do, then these messages will rejoice your soul! These messages glorify God by bringing news of Jesus Christ to the hearts and minds of believers within the Islamic and Jewish faiths! “Behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work
among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder: for the wisdom
of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their
prudent men shall be hid (Isaiah 29:14).” Prudent men are already toying with news that has come from the covenant message. “Whatsoever ye have spoken
in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops
(Luke 12:3).”
Oh, that men
would see the rest that God has prepared for his people (Hebrews 4:8). In light of
religion, is it any wonder that there is no peace and harmony among the nations (1Corinthians
8:2)? “Let us go on to perfection (Hebrews 6:1).” Perfection is
the trump which nullifies decades of flawed religious beliefs, and which destroys the fruitfulness of religion. “When that
which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done
away (1Corinthians 13:10).” “Whether there be knowledge, it shall
vanish away (1Corinthians 13:8).”
Perfection has everything to do with verifying that
faithful Muslims, Jews and Christians, along with their endless entourages of denominations, have by faith in the God of Abraham, through his covenants, been baptized into one body, by one spirit, according to
evidences of scripture. “For by one spirit are we all baptized into
one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free
(1Corinthians 12:13).” This beloved collective body of covenant
believers, is the purchased possession (Ephesians 1:14). In other
words, this is Christ's bride. “What if some did not believe?
Shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect (Romans
3:3)?”
“Study to
show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be
ashamed, rightfully dividing the word of truth (2Timothy 2:15).” End time understanding was hidden, therefore that which is being revealed, is new: study is required before believers can discern whether or not it is the truth. These newly revealed truths are not according traditional teachings and beliefs (2Peter 3:7). “It is the glory
of God to conceal a thing: but the honor of kings is to search out a
matter (Proverbs 25:2).” If you blatantly disregard these pleas for consideration, then you will be judged. “If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that ponders
the heart consider it? He that keepeth thy soul, doth he not know it?
Shall he not render to every man according to his works (Proverbs
24:12)?”
When God says
something twice in his word, “It is because the thing is
established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass (Genesis
41:32)” (Hebrews 6:18). Therefore, every interpretation of scripture is provable. “Make full proof of thy ministry (2Timothy 4:5).” Every
step of the way this message was established upon verified proof. Don't be a sluggard. “Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep
(Proverbs 19:15).” Sluggards offend Christ. “Thou wicked and
slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and
gather where I have not strawed (Matthew 25:26).” Make some time to study these messages, even as a child. “Except ye be converted, and
become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of
heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as a little child,
the same is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 18:3-4).”
The covenant message contains information and clues which will help you to unveil the
truth.
On the infamous date of December twenty first two thousand twelve,
something indeed did happen. That day God confirmed and proved unto me through his word, that the marriage covenant which he had shown me, is the
long anticipated new covenant. God gave us this covenant to halt religious warfare, and to cause believers everywhere to know Christ. “In that day will I make a covenant for them
with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with
the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the
sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down
safely (Hosea 2:18).” My rejoicing on December twenty first was bitter
sweet, because I was unable to share it with many others. But the good news
is that on that day I knew that believers everywhere would be sharing the good news of the new covenant before
the great and terrible day of the Lord is come! Deceived believers are without the Holy Spirit, so therefore God's messengers will be unable to convince them to accept a new covenant apart from God's signs and wonders. God will cause believers, by faith, to rise up before that day and declare the truth of the new covenant, so that their messages will be for a sign: their messages will prove unto the deceived that this new understanding is from God.
“The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ (2Thessalonians 1:7-8).” Judgment is against people who do not know God: do you know God? Would God make void an everlasting promise which he made with Abraham? “This is your covenant which you shall keep, between me and you... Every man child among you shall be circumcised... and I will be their God (from Genesis 17:8-10).” This covenant and this information is abundantly clear: it is a promise that God made with Abraham, and with his seed. Because of this promise Abraham was circumcised, and likewise, so was Ishmael and Esau. Jews and Muslims are still being circumcised today. In accordance with God's promise, every believer that is circumcised and that seeks after the God of Abraham, belongs unto the Lord God, regardless of the name that they call him by (Jeremiah 9:25-26).
“The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ (2Thessalonians 1:7-8).” Judgment is against people who do not know God: do you know God? Would God make void an everlasting promise which he made with Abraham? “This is your covenant which you shall keep, between me and you... Every man child among you shall be circumcised... and I will be their God (from Genesis 17:8-10).” This covenant and this information is abundantly clear: it is a promise that God made with Abraham, and with his seed. Because of this promise Abraham was circumcised, and likewise, so was Ishmael and Esau. Jews and Muslims are still being circumcised today. In accordance with God's promise, every believer that is circumcised and that seeks after the God of Abraham, belongs unto the Lord God, regardless of the name that they call him by (Jeremiah 9:25-26).
In the days when Jesus Christ walked the earth, multitudes, including priests, witnessed the miraculous healing's which he preformed. Yet even that wasn't enough evidence to bring down the strongholds of generations of religious teachings. The things that are written, are written for
our example: they are our pattern. Never rely upon the teachings of mankind, observe with your eyes,
and hear the scriptures, then judge righteously. “Little children, let
no man deceive you: he that doth righteousness is righteous, even as
he is righteous (1John 3:7).” Jesus Christ laid aside his garments, and he washed men's feet: he gave his life to deliver believers from this
present world. His life is our pattern. Jesus commanded his followers to love one another
(John 15:12), and he warned his followers what would happen if they didn't forgive
every man their trespasses (Matthew 6:15). Trespasses are mistakes.
Religion has deceived believers, and because of its deception men made mistakes. We, as believers, are commanded
to forgive those mistakes. “O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee
all that debt, because thou desireth me: Shouldest not thou also have
had compassion on thy fellow-servant, even as I had pity on thee
(Matthew 18:32-33)?”
“Why should you be stricken any more? Ye
will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole
heart faint (Isaiah 1:5).” What are we waiting for? The wisdom of
the covenants will not disappear. “Verily I say to you, Till heaven
and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the
law, till all be fulfilled (Matthew 5:18).” Believers are being given the truth's of revealed prophesy for a reason: It is time to blow the trumpet, and halt religious warfare. “Hear, ye that are far off, what I have
done; and, ye that are near, acknowledge my might (Isaiah 33:13).”
This is not optional: “The fearful, and unbelieving... and all
liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and
brimstone: which is the second death (Revelation 21:8).”
“The king by
judgment establishes the land: but he that receives gifts overthrows
it (Proverbs 29:4).” Abraham didn't take so much as take a thread or shoe-latch when he returned the goods which were stolen from Sodom and Gomorrah
(Genesis 14:23); Elisha took nothing from Naaman, when Naaman was healed (2Kings 5:16); and Paul refused to be burdensome to the
churches (2Corinthians 12:13). “A gift destroys the heart
(Ecclesiastes 7:7).” Many years and much time and prayerful study was put into these messages. From the beginning I agreed with God to receive
nothing from men for my work. “For his name's sake they went
forth taking nothing of the Gentiles. We therefore ought to receive
such, that we might be fellow helpers to the truth (3John 7-8).”
The covenant message is filled with glorious answers concerning prophecy, therefore its worth is far above rubies. “Henceforth there is laid
up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord the righteous
judge, shall give me in that day: and not me only, but all them that
love his appearing (2Timothy 4:8).” Thanks be to God for all the believers who have faithfully read or will read these messages, and who will take time to study on and know prophecy. “I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled
me, that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry
(1Timothy 1:12).”
“All things
are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the
thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God (2Corinthians
4:15).”
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Mercy of Redemption
God has an agenda. “To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant (Luke 1:72).” The promises of end times must be fulfilled, wherefore God will perform the miraculous signs and wonders that will shake even the powers of heaven (Matthew 24:29). Great healings, as well as other tremendous signs took place in Jesus' day, but the signs and wonders which are prophesied for end times are likened to that of Moses’ days. In those days God revealed himself to Israel by sending great plagues upon Egypt, and he parted the Red Sea and brought his children safely through it, and then he allowed the sea to destroy their enemies. After Israel witnessed all of these miracles, God turned and wiped out those people among them that ungratefully refused to believe his prophet, and accept his word. However far removed these miracles may seem, they are relevant to end times. The historic portions of scripture are recorded for our edification, and they are patterns which help believers discern the future.
When Moses prophesied about the tribulation and the required obedience of end times, he encouraged Israel to prayerfully turn unto God, and think upon the steadfastness of God's mercy and forgiveness, as well as upon the promises that God gave unto the forefathers. “When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the Lord thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice; (For the Lord thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them (Deuteronomy 4:30-31)”
Moses prophesied that there would be day in which Israel would again see God taking a nation out of a nation by mighty signs and miracles, like the miracles that they saw in Egypt. When Israel saw these mighty signs and wonders, she was to perceive and know that God was speaking to her, and Moses encouraged her to follow the Lord's instructions. “Hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? Unto thee it was showed, that thou mightest know that the Lord he is God; there is none else beside him. Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee (from Deuteronomy 4:34-36).” The people of Israel are to take heed and obey God's instructions after they see God's mighty signs, and after they witness the terrors, and the wars.
God is going to bring about these mighty signs and wonders to establish the new covenant (Psalms 107:13). “In that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and I will make them lie down safely. And I will even betroth thee unto me forever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in loving kindness, and in mercies. I will betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the Lord (Hosea 2:18-20).”
“Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me (Matthew 11:29).” These words were spoken by Jesus Christ, and they are our new covenant. The new covenant was a mystery that was kept hidden for the latter days, however, evidence of its mysterious elusiveness was prophesied by a psalmist: “The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him; and he will show them his covenant (Psalms 25:14).” The new covenant works like a marriage covenant. Believers wishing to unite with the spirit of God must vow to learn of Jesus Christ, and if they that keep that vow, then the Holy Spirit of God will unite with their spirit, and the two of shall become one flesh. Christianity was unaware of its participation in this covenant, but all Christians who learned of Jesus, and who kept the commandments, were saved by it (Isaiah 42:6).
All of the old covenants are about to be dissolved. "In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away (Hebrews 8:13)." “If the first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah (Hebrews 8:7-8).”
God's new covenant will crown Jesus Christ, the great High Priest over all believers (Psalm 110:4; Hebrews 5:10). Under the old covenants, ordained priests were required to offer a sacrifice for their own sins, and then afterwards they were required to offer sacrifices for the sins of the people (Hebrews 5:1-3). According to that law, Christ, who had no sin, would still be required to offer sacrifices for the sins of the people. "For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer (Hebrews 8:3)." The offering that Christ offers for the sins of the people, is the works of his body, the church, for his people preformed righteous works which were done in order to make God known to the nations (1Corinthians 12:13; Hebrews 10:5). Their sacrifices were acceptable, and they were well pleasing unto God (Philippians 4:18).
The laws of sacrifice are changing under the new covenant: God is taking away the need for priests to offer sacrifices for their own sins, as well as for the sins for the people. "For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law (Hebrews 7:12)." In other words, priests won't have to sacrifice their lives in order to cause believers to know the Lord. The new covenant will teach all believers how to receive the holy Spirit, and it will insure that all believers are being taught by the Lord. "They shall not teach every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest (Hebrews 8:11)."
“He shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and obligation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate (Daniel 9:27).” We are already in the midst of the week in which God is confirming the covenant message, therefore God has already caused the sacrifices and the obligations to cease. Now which ceased, is the works that righteous believers were doing in order to strengthen religion. According to the afore mentioned verse, God has already brought spiritual death upon congregations whose leaders ignored the covenant message, and have continued to uphold religion's traditional teachings: they are desolate. Desolation will remain upon them until the prophesied pestilence of correction is poured upon these priests (Revelation 14:10).
“O Lord... have respect for thy covenant: for the dark places of earth are full of the habitations of cruelty. O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name (Psalms 74:20-21).” By orchestrating end times in this way, God made it possible for the faithful believers of every religion to come and learn of Jesus Christ, without shame. Mercy and grace will be lavished upon believers of every faith when they acknowledge that Jesus' blood established all of God's covenants (Hebrews 8:12; 10:29). “Kiss the son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little (Psalms 2:12).”
“Though it be but a man’s covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto (Galatians 3:15).” This verse is implying that although the new covenant is a prophesied message, it will be confirmed by the certainty of God's verification. God will protect all believers who help to forward the covenant message, and through their faith the new covenant will be established. “Be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them (Jeremiah 10:2).” “He sent his word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions. Oh, that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men! Let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing (Psalms 107:20-22).” The forthcoming signs and wonders are something to be praised, for they mark the end of religion's reign on earth, and the beginning of God's peace among the nations (Psalms 37:11).
Call upon God and ask him to give you understanding for end times, for our God is good, and he is powerful, and he is about to achieve the impossible! “We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned (Revelation 11:17).”
When Moses prophesied about the tribulation and the required obedience of end times, he encouraged Israel to prayerfully turn unto God, and think upon the steadfastness of God's mercy and forgiveness, as well as upon the promises that God gave unto the forefathers. “When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the Lord thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice; (For the Lord thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them (Deuteronomy 4:30-31)”
Moses prophesied that there would be day in which Israel would again see God taking a nation out of a nation by mighty signs and miracles, like the miracles that they saw in Egypt. When Israel saw these mighty signs and wonders, she was to perceive and know that God was speaking to her, and Moses encouraged her to follow the Lord's instructions. “Hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? Unto thee it was showed, that thou mightest know that the Lord he is God; there is none else beside him. Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee (from Deuteronomy 4:34-36).” The people of Israel are to take heed and obey God's instructions after they see God's mighty signs, and after they witness the terrors, and the wars.
God is going to bring about these mighty signs and wonders to establish the new covenant (Psalms 107:13). “In that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and I will make them lie down safely. And I will even betroth thee unto me forever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in loving kindness, and in mercies. I will betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the Lord (Hosea 2:18-20).”
“Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me (Matthew 11:29).” These words were spoken by Jesus Christ, and they are our new covenant. The new covenant was a mystery that was kept hidden for the latter days, however, evidence of its mysterious elusiveness was prophesied by a psalmist: “The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him; and he will show them his covenant (Psalms 25:14).” The new covenant works like a marriage covenant. Believers wishing to unite with the spirit of God must vow to learn of Jesus Christ, and if they that keep that vow, then the Holy Spirit of God will unite with their spirit, and the two of shall become one flesh. Christianity was unaware of its participation in this covenant, but all Christians who learned of Jesus, and who kept the commandments, were saved by it (Isaiah 42:6).
All of the old covenants are about to be dissolved. "In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away (Hebrews 8:13)." “If the first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah (Hebrews 8:7-8).”
God's new covenant will crown Jesus Christ, the great High Priest over all believers (Psalm 110:4; Hebrews 5:10). Under the old covenants, ordained priests were required to offer a sacrifice for their own sins, and then afterwards they were required to offer sacrifices for the sins of the people (Hebrews 5:1-3). According to that law, Christ, who had no sin, would still be required to offer sacrifices for the sins of the people. "For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer (Hebrews 8:3)." The offering that Christ offers for the sins of the people, is the works of his body, the church, for his people preformed righteous works which were done in order to make God known to the nations (1Corinthians 12:13; Hebrews 10:5). Their sacrifices were acceptable, and they were well pleasing unto God (Philippians 4:18).
The laws of sacrifice are changing under the new covenant: God is taking away the need for priests to offer sacrifices for their own sins, as well as for the sins for the people. "For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law (Hebrews 7:12)." In other words, priests won't have to sacrifice their lives in order to cause believers to know the Lord. The new covenant will teach all believers how to receive the holy Spirit, and it will insure that all believers are being taught by the Lord. "They shall not teach every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest (Hebrews 8:11)."
“He shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and obligation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate (Daniel 9:27).” We are already in the midst of the week in which God is confirming the covenant message, therefore God has already caused the sacrifices and the obligations to cease. Now which ceased, is the works that righteous believers were doing in order to strengthen religion. According to the afore mentioned verse, God has already brought spiritual death upon congregations whose leaders ignored the covenant message, and have continued to uphold religion's traditional teachings: they are desolate. Desolation will remain upon them until the prophesied pestilence of correction is poured upon these priests (Revelation 14:10).
“O Lord... have respect for thy covenant: for the dark places of earth are full of the habitations of cruelty. O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name (Psalms 74:20-21).” By orchestrating end times in this way, God made it possible for the faithful believers of every religion to come and learn of Jesus Christ, without shame. Mercy and grace will be lavished upon believers of every faith when they acknowledge that Jesus' blood established all of God's covenants (Hebrews 8:12; 10:29). “Kiss the son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little (Psalms 2:12).”
“Though it be but a man’s covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto (Galatians 3:15).” This verse is implying that although the new covenant is a prophesied message, it will be confirmed by the certainty of God's verification. God will protect all believers who help to forward the covenant message, and through their faith the new covenant will be established. “Be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them (Jeremiah 10:2).” “He sent his word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions. Oh, that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men! Let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing (Psalms 107:20-22).” The forthcoming signs and wonders are something to be praised, for they mark the end of religion's reign on earth, and the beginning of God's peace among the nations (Psalms 37:11).
Call upon God and ask him to give you understanding for end times, for our God is good, and he is powerful, and he is about to achieve the impossible! “We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned (Revelation 11:17).”
Friday, December 21, 2012
Christmas and the Blessed Hope
Jesus Christ is the alpha and omega, the first and the last, the author and finisher of our faith. These expressions foreswear the inevitability of his return. God's people should not only be anticipating his return, but they should also be looking for the blessed hope. “Looking for that blessed hope, ‘and’ the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ (Titus 2:13).”
The mystery of the blessed hope was prophesied by the apostle Paul (Colossians 1:23). “We are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? (Romans 8:24).” One clue into the mystery of our blessed hope, is that believers are to be hoping for something that they haven’t seen. “If we hope for that we see not, then we do with patience wait of it (Romans 8:25).” Our blessed hope is for the redemption of the body. “When these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh (Luke 21:28).” If you think redemption is passé, think again.
Christ is our redeemer, but the redemption hasn’t happened. “You were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise which is the earnest of your inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession (Ephesians 1:13-14).” Redemption happens when the Islamic, Jewish and Christian faiths, unite their understandings and their hopes together as one. Paul put it this way, “Not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body (Romans 8:23).” Redemption is about Christ claiming his bride, and all believers are to be hoping for that day. "We through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness that is by faith (Galatians 5:5)."
Jesus' death was not only for Christianity, but his death was for the iniquities and the transgressions of all of Abraham's seed. “That by means of his death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance (Hebrews 9:15).” Christians are fellow-heirs with Jewish and Islamic believers (Ephesians 3:6). The Islamic and Jewish faiths are receiving their inheritance by promise, while Jesus' followers are receiving their inheritance by hope. “Ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: But now in Christ Jesus ye who were sometimes far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ (Ephesians 2:12-13).” The blood of Jesus' sufferings, cleanses Christianity. “He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed (Isaiah 53:5).” Jews and Muslims are cleansed by the blood of Christ's death. “Christ hath made of one blood all nations (Acts 17:26).” “He is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace (Ephesians 2:14-16).” Jesus' second coming will forever abolish the laws of every religion, and it will unite believers together in one understanding, thus making peace within the elect.
There is one hope of the believer's calling. “There is one body, and one spirit, even as ye are called in the one hope of your calling (Ephesians 4:4).” Paul prophesied details of the believer's calling, and prayed that men everywhere might know the hope of their calling (Ephesians 1:18): “To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in Christ (Acts 26:18).” In other words, when believers are hoping for the redemption of the body, what is really hoping for is the salvation of religion's deceived people. There are believers within every religion that did believe God, and that have kept his ways, therefore God is fulfilling his promise to bring redemption. Redemption is about knowing how to lead others in truth, and the new covenant will cause believers to know how to acurately tell others how that they too can receive salvation, and inherit God's blessings. Receiving eternal life is marked by evidence: believers are to inherit a quickened spirit, which is the gift of God.“That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father (Romans 15:6).”
Teaching the covenant message before the day of salvation will take patience, because God is changing something that everyone deems unchangeable. “The servant of the Lord must be gentle unto all, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God will give them repentance to the acknowledging of truth; and that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil (from 2Timothy 2:24-26)." Insulting and accusing one another, displeases God. "If a man strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully (2Timothy 2:5)." Share the mystery of salvation boldly and without fear (Romans 12:1). “You have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God… joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be glorified together (Romans 8:15-17).” The sufferings that believers suffer as they promote the covenant message will turn into blessings, because of their love for the Lord. "For as the sufferings of Christ abounded in us, so our consolation also abounded by Christ... As ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation (2Corinthians 1:7)."
The hope of our calling will overturn religion, and it will change the world. Fear not, consult the scriptures: every time that God moved to do a new thing, his followers were called to fearlessly go from faith, to faith, and their acts were recorded for our edification. The difference between their decisions and those of end times, is that end time conversions are not going to be optional. God prophesied promises of reward to strengthen believers, and just as his promises stood firm through the challenges of our forefathers, so they shall stand firm through the challenges of end times.
“Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light (Ephesians 5:14).” Help promote the covenant message and teach others how to receive the Holy Spirit. “So is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption… It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body (1Corinthians 15:42;15:44).” Then all God's people can receive God's gift of new life. “Neither can they die anymore: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being children of the resurrection (Luke 20:36).” “Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God (1Peter 1:23).”
“Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me... even the messenger of the covenant (Malachi 3:1)." The covenant message is the truth: Don't take it lightly. “It had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they had known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them (2Peter 2:21).” “Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done dispite to the Spirit of grace (Hebrews 10:29).”
“Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ (1Peter 1:13).”
The mystery of the blessed hope was prophesied by the apostle Paul (Colossians 1:23). “We are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? (Romans 8:24).” One clue into the mystery of our blessed hope, is that believers are to be hoping for something that they haven’t seen. “If we hope for that we see not, then we do with patience wait of it (Romans 8:25).” Our blessed hope is for the redemption of the body. “When these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh (Luke 21:28).” If you think redemption is passé, think again.
Christ is our redeemer, but the redemption hasn’t happened. “You were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise which is the earnest of your inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession (Ephesians 1:13-14).” Redemption happens when the Islamic, Jewish and Christian faiths, unite their understandings and their hopes together as one. Paul put it this way, “Not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body (Romans 8:23).” Redemption is about Christ claiming his bride, and all believers are to be hoping for that day. "We through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness that is by faith (Galatians 5:5)."
Jesus' death was not only for Christianity, but his death was for the iniquities and the transgressions of all of Abraham's seed. “That by means of his death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance (Hebrews 9:15).” Christians are fellow-heirs with Jewish and Islamic believers (Ephesians 3:6). The Islamic and Jewish faiths are receiving their inheritance by promise, while Jesus' followers are receiving their inheritance by hope. “Ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: But now in Christ Jesus ye who were sometimes far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ (Ephesians 2:12-13).” The blood of Jesus' sufferings, cleanses Christianity. “He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed (Isaiah 53:5).” Jews and Muslims are cleansed by the blood of Christ's death. “Christ hath made of one blood all nations (Acts 17:26).” “He is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace (Ephesians 2:14-16).” Jesus' second coming will forever abolish the laws of every religion, and it will unite believers together in one understanding, thus making peace within the elect.
There is one hope of the believer's calling. “There is one body, and one spirit, even as ye are called in the one hope of your calling (Ephesians 4:4).” Paul prophesied details of the believer's calling, and prayed that men everywhere might know the hope of their calling (Ephesians 1:18): “To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in Christ (Acts 26:18).” In other words, when believers are hoping for the redemption of the body, what is really hoping for is the salvation of religion's deceived people. There are believers within every religion that did believe God, and that have kept his ways, therefore God is fulfilling his promise to bring redemption. Redemption is about knowing how to lead others in truth, and the new covenant will cause believers to know how to acurately tell others how that they too can receive salvation, and inherit God's blessings. Receiving eternal life is marked by evidence: believers are to inherit a quickened spirit, which is the gift of God.“That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father (Romans 15:6).”
Teaching the covenant message before the day of salvation will take patience, because God is changing something that everyone deems unchangeable. “The servant of the Lord must be gentle unto all, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God will give them repentance to the acknowledging of truth; and that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil (from 2Timothy 2:24-26)." Insulting and accusing one another, displeases God. "If a man strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully (2Timothy 2:5)." Share the mystery of salvation boldly and without fear (Romans 12:1). “You have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God… joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be glorified together (Romans 8:15-17).” The sufferings that believers suffer as they promote the covenant message will turn into blessings, because of their love for the Lord. "For as the sufferings of Christ abounded in us, so our consolation also abounded by Christ... As ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation (2Corinthians 1:7)."
The hope of our calling will overturn religion, and it will change the world. Fear not, consult the scriptures: every time that God moved to do a new thing, his followers were called to fearlessly go from faith, to faith, and their acts were recorded for our edification. The difference between their decisions and those of end times, is that end time conversions are not going to be optional. God prophesied promises of reward to strengthen believers, and just as his promises stood firm through the challenges of our forefathers, so they shall stand firm through the challenges of end times.
“Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light (Ephesians 5:14).” Help promote the covenant message and teach others how to receive the Holy Spirit. “So is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption… It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body (1Corinthians 15:42;15:44).” Then all God's people can receive God's gift of new life. “Neither can they die anymore: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being children of the resurrection (Luke 20:36).” “Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God (1Peter 1:23).”
“Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me... even the messenger of the covenant (Malachi 3:1)." The covenant message is the truth: Don't take it lightly. “It had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they had known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them (2Peter 2:21).” “Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done dispite to the Spirit of grace (Hebrews 10:29).”
“Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ (1Peter 1:13).”
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