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Book of Revelation

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BOOK OF REVELATION

The book of Revelation, written by the Apostle John in exile on the Isle of Patmos, is perhaps the most misunderstood book in the entire canon of scripture. The amount of confusion that has come out of the teaching of this, New Testament book, is more than just a little disturbing. As a child growing up, I was terrified. You see, when it comes to the things of God, Ignorance is NOT BLISS it is dangerous.

Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge:

It would be some 30 years later that the truth of this wonderful book opened up to me, and now I am going to attempt to share some of that with you.

Without proper understanding people will believe any old thing that comes out of the mouths of the Religious Leaders of the world. For example there was a time I believed without a shadow of a doubt that I needed to have my son baptized when he was born, for fear that if he died, he would be sent to a place of endless torture. How sad it is that man has twisted the Good News of God in such a way, that everything we now do is simply because we are motivated by fear to do it instead of being motivated by love.

There are so many voices out there today, saying so many different things that it would be hard for anyone to truly know which way is “The Way”, which of course is another description of Christ (The power and wisdom of God). So instead of going right to God, mankind has been taught to go to “church buildings”, perhaps they were raised in a certain philosophy and brainwashed since birth that what their particular faith states is the only truth there is, regardless of how wrong it could be.

As I said, I bought into many religious doctrines and fear tactics as a child, but when I became a man I put away these childish things and I searched for the truth for myself. I simply hungered for God’s truth, I was thirsty for the truth, so I begged God daily, “TEACH ME THE TRUTH NO MATTER WHAT THE COST!”

I didn’t want to be wrong, I didn’t want to be misled, I wanted to know the truth. And this led me to the study of many holy books, as well as the scriptures which I cut my teeth on and till this day still use as my main source to relay what I now know to be true. But I always leave open the possibility that I could be wrong, the moment I think I know it all and that I alone have the answers is the very moment I will learn no more, and become deceived.

Proverbs 16:17-19
17 The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.
18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
19 Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud

So, today we examine a book that people for years now have, in my opinion, truly misinterpreted… that of course being the last book in the cannon, “The Revelation Of Jesus Christ to John”.

First a brief history lesson: You see, people don’t know that their beliefs today actually were designed to contradict another belief that was designed to tear a certain religion down. In other words, the enduring beliefs about revelation today were simply strategic moves by members of RELIGION to further their RELIGIOUS agenda. And in doing so millions have now fallen into these erroneous teachings. SO LET’S TEAR THEM DOWN SHALL WE?

REVELATION’S HISTORY:

In the 3rd century AD, the dispute began over whether or not this book of symbols, and prophesies, written by John should be taken literally or figuratively.

Clement of Alexandria and Origen (two of the greatest theologians of their time) taught that Revelation COULD ONLY be seen as an ALLEGORICAL and that it DOES NOT REFER TO HISTORICAL OR FUTURE EVENTS. You’ll find I agree.

However, after the Reformation in 1517, The Book of Revelation became a weapon in the hands of religious men, using it to discredit those in opposing faiths. Three new interpretations came out of this, Historicism, Preterism, and Futurism.

“Historicism, states the prophesies of Revelation has begun to unfold in ancient times, and basically claimed the Papacy and the Pope were the Anti-Christ. ”

In defense of this, three Jesuits created two differing views, Luis de Alcasar, Francisco Ribera, and Robert Bellarmine came up with these two doctrines, Preterism, and Futurism.

Alcasar originated “Preterism”, which states the whole of Revelation was fulfilled by the fall of Jerusalem in 70 A.D, or, in another reading, by the fall of Rome in 410 A.D.

Ribera came up with the view that is wildly popular today, “Futurism” which states that the Apocalyptic events will occur at the end of time/humanrace, hence the idea of the Final Days or End Times. And today you don’t have to go far to hear about these dreaded “End Times” we are living in.

So which is it? You ask.

Well I will tell you that, the CLUE as to what is going on here is found right smack dab in the middle of the first page, THE TITLE.

You see many people will call it the “Book of Revelation”, this is why I titled this essay as such, but that is NOT the title JOHN gave. The title John Gave offers us GREAT INSIGHT. I want you to just look at that title for a moment. REALLY LOOK AT IT.

“The Revelation of Jesus Christ unto his servant John”

This is the ACTUAL title of the book. The Title does not say, the Future vision of scary things to befall mankind, or the past events of the fall of Rome, BUT, it states… this book is the… REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST UNTO HIS SERVANT JOHN.

Let me put this in words you best can understand. The title of the book LITERALLY refers to how the truth of Jesus Christ was REVEALED TO JOHN.

Dictionary.com defines REVELATION as such:
the act of revealing or disclosing; disclosure.
2. something revealed or disclosed, especially a striking disclosure, as of something not before realized.
3. Theology a. God’s disclosure of Himself and His will to His creatures.
b. an instance of such communication or disclosure.
c. something thus communicated or disclosed.
d. something that contains such disclosure, as the Bible.

If you are still unclear on what revelation is. Well, think of it like this, imagine a chair is covered with a blanket and all anyone knows is that blanket, but the chair is always there waiting for that blanket to be pulled off it. Revelation is what happens when that blanket is pulled away and the chair is revealed. You realize the chair was always there, you just didn’t know it until it was revealed, until the very thing keeping it hidden from you was pulled away.

You see, there is a great TRUTH within us all which has been HIDDEN and one day the VEIL/EVIL (the flesh=carnal mind/ignorance) which was keeping this great truth hidden is removed. Once the Veil/Flesh/Carnal Mind is removed the TRUTH is known.

This is what this last book in the scriptures is about, the revealing of the great truth which is CHRIST, which is IN YOU, which is the HOPE OF GLORY.

But how does one explain so great a truth? Jesus always taught in parable. There was a great reason for this. If Jesus were to come out and say things plainly it would not be received very well. Those that have had the revelation of Christ know that you can’t just go up and tell someone what you have learned, they would attack you, tear you down, and put you out. So, like Jesus, John wrote symbolically.

Mark 4:11
And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, ALL these things are done in parable

So “Revelation” is a book of allegorical symbols and shadows written to try to explain, that which cannot be literally explained. This book is John’s account of how HE finally understood the truth. It is a poetic documenting of his journey from Ignorance to Revelation (understanding).

Why so many people take this book literally is beyond me. I know how Elijah must have felt, everywhere he turned people were worshipping Baal and he alone had the wonderful truth, which was simple and wonderful, not filled with all the hocus pocus and yet the world wanted him dead.

Nevertheless, God prepared 7000 (not a literal number people) who have not bowed down/FOLLOWED/WORSHIPPED Baal (this LORD the world loves). This remnant is standing up today and shouting, “WAKE UP WORLD YOU ARE BELIEVING LIES!”

Throughout the years there have been “Profits” of doom, claiming the world would end, or Christ would literally appear. Whether it was Jim Jones, Benny Hinn, The Hale Bop cult, or most recently Harold Camping, we see the terrible fall out because of it all. People are desperate today to find peace, they want to escape a world where they only know misery and pain. So they believe in fairy tales where they are whisked away and everyone who is not like them is tortured. This belief is the very heart of the Carnal Man (do as I say, believe what I believe, OR ELSE).

The spiritual man knows that God is LOVE and will have ALL come to the knowledge of the truth.

Ephesians 4:13
Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ

There Religious Leaders SEEM TO speak with such authority, that those who are desperate for a way out of the misery of their lives, they will buy into what they are selling hook line and sinker. And boy do these Religious leaders serve it up, itching people’s ears and giving them exactly what they want.

The sad part is, deceived and deceiving religious leaders will tear down and attack other deceived and deceiving religious leaders for their deceit. As we recently saw with the Harold Camping fall out. Almost every Evangelical teacher condemned the man for his false prediction of the Rapture, stating that they know scripture says no one knows the day or the hour, not even the son.

The irony is the Rapture teaching is a lie as well, and they are no better than the Harold Campings of the world. They are selling escapism, as opposed to teaching the truth which is the only path to freedom. There is no quick fix, no prayer to pray to be saved, no way out of our suffering without GOING TO THE CROSS (symbolically of course of crossing from our ignorance into enlightenment, hell to heaven). We need to put the son of man (ego man) to death, and allow the SON OF GOD to be revealed. For that is who we all actually are. But that is not what this paper is about.

So back to REVELATION:

This is what this book deals with, symbolic and allegorical stories of how Christ is revealed to MAN. And what wonderful symbolism John used. So let’s start diving in, by looking at one of the most misunderstood, fear inspiring, chapters. Chapter 10. I will simply state the verse and beneath it reveal what I believe is really going on there. I do this by searching the scriptures for witnesses of the words stated. For example if you want to find out what a “Thorn” represents go through the scriptures and read everything that is written about that thorn, and you will find it is an allegorical representation of “the cares of the world” – the Thorn strangles the Word/Logos/Logic/Wisdom/Truth/Christ.

REVELATION 10

1And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:

Who is this angel, what is an Angel? Well the word, ANGEL is literally translates as MESSENGER/MESSAGE/ENVOY. Look it up. 🙂

You see, an Angel is not some winged creature. An Angel is simply a messenger of God, it could be anyone who has been brought into a higher (heavenly) realm of understanding. An Angel is one who has the revelation of Christ and then relays this information to those in the Earth… In fact in most literal translations, the word Angel is never even used, it is replaced by Man or Men or Messenger, or Envoy…. Meaning an Angel delivers Gods truth to those who haven’t ascended into the understanding of God’s truth yet.

This is what Jacob’s Ladder is all about, going up to a place of enlightenment and then coming down to reveal it to others.

I want to remind you, Revelation is a book of “symbols” and so this description is symbolic as well.

This Angel is Clothed in a Cloud… A cloud is symbolic of the witnesses in the world. A literal cloud hangs directly in between Heaven and Earth. It receives the WATER (doctrine) and Releases the RAIN (doctrine/teaching). Clouds are a GREAT SYMBOL of the believers. Don’t believe me?

Hebrews 12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a CLOUD of witnesses.

The CLOUD (Those who witness to the world the things of God) led Israel through the wilderness during the DAY (a symbol of understanding/being about to see. When people can see what is beinG said they can follow it). As Many Men and Women of God lead others through the wilderness of this world. But not all CLOUDS (Witnesses) have the revelation of Christ and deliver truth.

Jude 1:12
These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots.

Those witnesses (clouds) had not the TEACHING/DOCTRINE of the Truth.

So we see the CLOUD is symbolic of the people who WITNESS the things of God to others. The ANGEL is the Message of Truth. So it is easy to see, that this ANGEL CLOTHED WITH A CLOUD, a WITNESS who had the TRUTH OF GOD (message of God) within to share.

The Glory of God was always found inside a CLOUD, clothed with a cloud…

Exodus 16:10
While Aaron was speaking to the whole Israelite community, they looked toward the desert, and there was the glory of the LORD appearing in the cloud.

A lot of people don’t understand what this GLORY of God revealed in the cloud is. Well the Glory of God is to CONCEAL SOMETHING. God’s Glory is the HIDDEN TRUTH within us all.

Proverbs 25:2
It is the glory of God to conceal a matter

This Angel (Message of truth/Messenger of truth) REVEALS the GLORY (hidden things) OF GOD to others, because it is first revealed to them, and it resides WITHIN THEM.

This great treasure is in EARTHEN VESSELS! Let’s look at that verse again with new eyes.

1And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:

Now for the second part of this verse… A rainbow is upon his head. Now a head represents the thinking of a person, the authority of a person. So to understand what a rainbow on someone’s head means, we must first understand what a rainbow represents. A RAINBOW shows all the glory of the light, it reveals the entire color spectrum. And hows does this do this? Because the Sunlight hits the water just right. Do you see the allegory? … The head represents the thinking or the authority of a man. So this Witness, reveals all the glory of the light (TRUTH/CHRIST) and by looking at him it was as if we were looking at the Son of God…

This Angel is A MANIFESTED SON OR DAUGHTER OF GOD. Their FEET, which is a representation of our WALK with the LORD. And witness in the world, is as a FIRE which is symbolic of purification. Fire burns away everything that is not true. So the Feet as pillars of Fire another symbol of this Messenger’s walk and witness in the world.

Romans 10:15
And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things

So now that we know, this Angel is not some supernatural creature, but simply a Manifested Son or Daughter of God sent to witness what they themselves have learned we can move on.

And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth, m>

The book, or scroll, is written so whatever is DOCUMENTED will be REMEMBERED and NOT FORGOTTEN.

A CLOSED/SEALED book is one whose knowledge cannot be known until it is OPEN… An OPEN BOOK is easily read, it is a TRUTH that is no longer hidden from men. It is an Epistle read of all men.

This MESSENGER of God is not keeping anything away from mankind. “He or She” is an OPEN BOOK to be read of all MEN.

They will set their Foot (ministry or walk) on the Sea (those who do not know God) and on the Land (those that may know God but still live in the carnal realm of the earth)

Let me show you, that the SEA AND WATERS are always a representation of the multitudes that don’t know God. This is what we must FISH MEN OUT OF, their ignorant thinking.

Revelation 17:15
And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.

The whore of Babylon which sits upon the waters, is simply mankind’s Carnal Beliefs. Which keeps people drunk (intoxicated), and when people are drunk they can’t think clearly can they. False Beliefs and Ignorance is the very essence of what we find in the Sea. Which is why this Angel stands on both the Sea and the Land. These Manifested Sons and Daughters of God, Messengers of God will put their FOOT on both, in other words they will bring the GOSPEL of TRUTH to both, with authority.

Yes, these messengers are just regular old people, like you and me, who have the truth revealed to them, so they in return can reveal it to others, freely. As Jesus did, (as He is so are We in this world “1st john”) This is what John learned and tried to reveal in symbolic language, so those who were meant to understand would, and those that weren’t couldn’t. Because there is an order to God’s plan, and each man comes to the truth in his or her order.

3And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.

These SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF GOD boldly proclaim what the Lion of Judah proclaimed when he cried out on the cross… FORGIVENESS and LOVE! Seven, of course the number of completion. Thunder is what you hear after you see lightning. In other words these messengers will bring a completed and perfected message of truth and people will HEAR IT!

When the truth is sounded, as scripture tells us (God’s words are like THUNDER)… and these SEVEN THUNDERS are the “perfected and completed” total all-encompassing truth of God’s message TO ALL. On the seventh day God rests. This is the FINAL MESSAGE OF TRUTH, that is declared.

His Messengers DECLARE this TRUTH to all.

4 And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.

Now this message isn’t for everyone. There are MANY that cannot HEAR THE TRUTH, SEE THE TRUTH, or WALK IN THE TRUTH. For some, it just makes complete sense, for others, however, the book is SEALED. Here John is basically saying, he had to write the book of Revelation symbolically, it had to be sealed up. The completed and perfect message of truth came to him, but he knew not everyone would receive it, so he understood it had to be sealed, or should I say concealed from those that would probably kill him for saying what today many are beginning to say.

Mark 4:12 That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.

A mature believer understands who he or she can share the TRUTH with. A Mature believer never wastes their pearls before swine (carnal believers). In your walk you have to veil you revelations for many. Moses did this, he veiled his face, which was symbolic of hiding the truth from people. Listen the fact of the matter is you can’t just go into any old church and say, HEY EVERYONE, ALMOST EVERYTHING YOU ALL BELIEVE IS A BIG LIE! Can you? No, you can only share the truth with those that can hear the truth. To those whom have been prepared to hear it.

John 10:27
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:

Despite the simplicity of Gods all-encompassing love and forgiveness… This is why this Message of seven thunders (God’s perfect Truth) is sealed up… Each man in his order will receive it when they are ready. And remember, God is no respecter of persons. If you have this understanding don’t get all puffed up with pride thinking yourself to be special. Don’t believe you have done better, or more, than those who do not understand. For God blinds those he blinds for good reason.

Romans 11:32
For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.

God makes EVERYTHING BEAUTIFUL in IT’S time. So for some, the BOOKS (understanding of God’s truth) are closed, for others they are wide open. And one day, they will be OPEN FOR ALL.

5And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, 6And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:

This messenger, when he or she speaks, the hearer of his or her words knows that this message of God is true… The HAND is symbolic of AUTHORITY… There is power in these MESSENGERS WORDS. So those who hear what these SONS AND DAUGHTERS of God say, have no doubt that this “Angel” is telling the absolute truth.

And when we hear the TRUTH of the MESSAGE as John heard it … that is when the great MYSTERY of the KINGDOM OF GOD comes to an end. It is no longer a mystery to us but now it is OPEN and CLEAR. This is the time, we will UNDERSTAND that the MYSTERY is “CHRIST IN US”. And when we understand this, the THINGS WE LEARNED before ARE NO LONGER VALID.

This last passage and the next are really a throw back to what Daniel said. Notice the similarity.

Daniel 12:7
And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished

When there is TIME NO MORE, then people understand that all we have is the MOMENT! And in that MOMENT as Jesus said before giving up the ghost, we understand IT IS FINISHED. Meaning, if you can hear it, whatever is now has already been. No one will be lost, nothing can fail, because it is FINISHED!

and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:

We don’t have time for the lies we once believed. The TRUTH is at HAND (in our grasp/understanding)… The Hope of Glory is finally understood. “Christ IN YOU”. Old things (traditions/beliefs) pass away and EVERYTHING BECOMES NEW (Alive) And we exist only for the MOMENT!

7But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.

Well, that should be confirmation for you. All of this is a symbolic telling of how the TRUTH is revealed to us, and how it is revealed to others who in return share it with the rest of the world. Shouting, IT IS FINISHED!

This next verse, really proves this article. The SEVENTH ANGEL (which is the complete/finished message of God understood) when it is HEARD (believed) … THE MYSTERY OF GOD IS FINISHED… There is no more mystery, no more spooky demons and ghouls, no more worries of eternal torture, or fears of monsters crawling out of some literal pit. No more being tossed too and fro with every WIND OF DOCTRINE. No more worrying about what to eat, what to wear, how to act, how to pray, fasting, etc etc… When you finally understand the TRUTH as John did… IT IS FINISHED.

You become as GOD’S CHILD, because that is who YOU HAVE ALWAYS BEEN but forgot (died) the instant you took upon yourself the cares of the world/SIN mentality/ignorance. But in this moment we understand that everything that came before this moment MUST BE PUT AWAY! As God revealed his truth to the Prophets of the past, now that TRUTH is revealed to us and we no longer need to go back and forth looking for it.

Now we must BECOME ONE WITH IT (assimilate it)… We must digest it and make it known to the world.

8And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.

The day God enlightens us with the TRUTH, the day the BOOK IS OPENED FOR US to understand… is the SAME DAY that we MUST TAKE that BOOK… We must TAKE THAT KNOWLEDGE… In that moment, we want to TAKE WHAT WE’VE LEARNED, and share this great REVELATION to all.

9And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.

And when we take this book, we then have to DEVOUR IT WHOLE! We can’t pick and choose which part of the truth we want to believe… We have to take the ENTIRE MESSAGE and we eat it up.

When you eat something, like an apple, the APPLE becomes YOU. The same is true for the THINGS OF GOD. We must allow the truth of God to become ONE WITH US… Christ MUST take over.

John 3:30 He must increase, but I must decrease.

We must BECOME ONE with it, we must CHEW ON IT (think about it, contemplate it)… we MUST DIGEST IT! And this truth, when we first take it in is sweet as honey, this TRUTH is the PROMISE LAND, it is ENLIGHTENMENT… It is a LAND FLOWING OF MILK AND HONEY and at first yes we embrace it and we revel in the wonder of how much God loves us, and how God will complete creation in Victory… And when those Words are in our mouths and they are spoken to others… They are sweet indeed.

But when that TRUTH hits our bellies (Our carnal nature, our worldly side) It makes it bitter. Your old man is not going to want to give up the throne. This GREAT FINISHED TRUTH AND WORK will make your belly bitter. Who you THINK YOU ARE (your carnal soulish nature) is your BELLY! God formed you there, as he formed Adam in the Dust. But the BELLY (who you think you are, will not readily and happily receive WHO YOU REALLY ARE) – because that means the OLD CARNAL MAN must be cast off.

Psalm 44:25
For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth

The serpent (carnal soulish nature of man) goes about on it’s belly.

Genesis 3:14
And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life

The Truth is not EASILY digested. At first it may sound great, but when you really take it in (Ingest it) it changes everything. Your carnal nature has only known deceit, it won’t readily receive TRUTH.

Job 15:35
They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit

Our lives become different after eating this Book… Our lives now seem to be filled with trials, and loneliness, and suffering… But we must remember, it is the path of the cross that leads us into the kingdom and this is what makes our bellies bitter… we don’t want to be filled with the knowledge that we must love all, put others first, and forgive even the most heinous of criminals.

strong>And I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter

When we first hear the truth, we understand how life may be hard, we hear how we may be persecuted, hated, forsaken, and despised for simply knowing and preaching a GOD OF LOVE. We hear how will be become men and women of sorrows… But when the TRUTH is heard much like JOHN, we DON’T CARE!

Give us the book we say… Give us the TRUTH… When we hear the Truth of the Kingdom it doesn’t matter what we suffer because it will be nothing compared to the glory that will be revealed in us after the dust has settled and the light is shown.

11 And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.

Now we have the Truth, now we know everything there is to know about God… Now we ARE the SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF GOD… and NOW we MUST PROPHESY to EVERYONE…

We MUST become A MIGHTY ANGEL ourselves! The First thing that happens is we begin to look at the world through different eyes… We begin to see everything that is right and everything that is wrong with humanity.

Revelation 11
1And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.

Now we begin to measure, examine, test and try everything inside of us. We measure the TEMPLE (OUR SOUL)

1 Corinthians 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

Judgment begins IN us, for us. The MESSAGE OF TRUTH casts out all that is a LIE. We begin to see the worst parts of us, and slowly the Temple is rebuilt (we are cleansed)

2But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.

We understand that anything OUTSIDE OF US, is of no importance. We no longer put our faith in something far from us, our faith is now SOLELY PLACED WITHIN. We don’t need to JUDGE OTHERS outside of us, we only judge and measure WITHIN THE TEMPLE.

The outer court is ALSO our Flesh, or carnal and worldly desires. This is OUTSIDE THE TEMPLE and it is NOT TO BE MEASURED… it is NOT TO BE COUNTED! The Flesh profits nothing… and this is why the Flesh is left to destroy itself… And yes for a time the FLESH does trample and torment THE TRUTH OF GOD… The Flesh does persecute the Spirit… But, at this point in our walk, God tells us, his MESSENGERS, HIS SONS, HIS ANGELS! To leave the FLESH, LEAVE worldly thinking people alone, for NOW! He only wants the REMNANT, the first fruits. We are told to MEASURE the TEMPLE and only the TEMPLE.

I hope you enjoyed this look into Revelation Chapter 10. I encourage you all to visit my dear friends, Mary and Ernie Kroeger’s website… http://www.thegoodseed.org. They have been studying and dissecting the book of Revelation for years. We may see some things differently, but I believe their breakdown of the book of revelation is definately worth a look, as I probably won’t break down the entire book as they have.

Peace to you all, Jacob
http://www.JacobIsrael.org

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“THE “BE” ATTITUDE!”

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THE “BE” ATTITUDE”

It is now 1:45pm Eastern time as I sit down to write this. The reason I give you this time, is because I want to show you how very little thought I put into these essays. Now, that isn’t to say I don’t research, and have in the past, for years I had my nose buried in the Scriptures, as well as other holy books and I do have a good memory. Which does help in calling up those particular passages that are needed to back up a “feeling” you have about a certain thing. Sure I can post what I simply believe to be true, but it is a whole other thing to have a feeling in your heart that something you have felt is actually something you can prove and back up, using the “touchstone” of the bible. For those that don’t know what a touchstone is, it is a stone that is used in the TESTING of precious metals. And interesting enough it is the DEFINITION and literal meaning of the word “Torment” in scripture.” So in the future when people quote scriptures like this one below…

Revelation 14:11
And the smoke of their torment will rise for ever and ever. There will be no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and its image, or for anyone who receives the mark of its name.”

Now you can tell all your friends that the imagery in scripture isn’t literal, and some of the words we believe means “Torture” actually means “to Test until pure”… There is NO rest day or night, for people who WORSHIP WHO THEY THINK THEY ARE. The longer you believe YOU (jane, Jeremy, David, Helen, or whatever name your name is), the longer you believe “Who you think you are” is IN CONTROL, you will HAVE NO REST! You will suffer, because you will never be content and when things happen you will believe they are your responsibility and that it is your fault if things go wrong. The longer people believe they somehow EXIST outside of God, they will be TORMENTED (tested) for ever (aoinos=period of time, ages, age)… In other words the longer you worship your ignorant ego and believe you have no power over your circumstances, you will find no REST, because you will be TESTED again and again until you are pure. There is no rest for the carnal man. 

So how do we find REST? By ceasing from our own labor. By STOPPING the belief that everything is our fault, and we can’t do this, or that because we are limited and separated from God, the longer we feel insecure the more we will hate. But the INSTANT, in that TWINKLING OF AN EYE when the LIGHT SWITCH from SLEEP to WAKE inside you! In that moment you will be caught away by the amazing TRUTH of who you are, and you will realize that you ca do NOTHING but what God does. You will be able to find peace, because regardless of what happens you know HAD TO HAPPEN! Good, bad, or indifferent, you see it is all part of the plan. That is the day you will stop being WHO YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE (bob, helen, jeronimo) and you will just BE!

Which is a really nice segway into the essay that I just came up with. It is called the “BE” attitudes. Now, did this article come to me last month, last week, today? The answer is NO! Nope! I had NO IDEA what I was going to write about, so I said to my wife. I WANT TO WRITE! And when she asked what will you write about, I said it will come to me when I sit to write.

This by the way is all a true story 🙂 So I sit down, not too long ago and I look at my facebook page. I say to myself “What should I write about?” I see a picture of my old pastor, long, long ago. I say to myself, I WILL FIND WHAT I AM GOING TO WRITE ABOUT ON HIS PAGE! Seriously people I do this. Whatever we speak in faith, become. Try it!

Now this man is not someone I look to, or want to learn from, he was what I needed for a couple of months over a decade ago. But I keep tabs on people in my life, and he is a nice enough man who has a very nice church. Obviously, we don’t share a great deal of shared beliefs. But that didn’t matter, he was a Pastor. And I figured, since his face popped up on my screen there had to be a reason. And BOY WAS THERE!

So I click over to his page, and THERE IT IS!

THE REASON

THE TITLE

THE ESSAY

IT WAS ALL THERE IN HIS PROFILE PICTURE. I couldn’t believe it. In one moment, like LIGHTNING from heaven, which is actually how THOUGHT is perceived as an electrical storm in the brain… In any event, I SAW WHAT IT WAS I WAS TO WRITE ABOUT AND THAT MADE ME HAPPY!

So, I immediately came over here, opened up wordpress and wanted to bring you all in on how I come to write these essays. By the way according to my clock, it is now 2:07… So about twenty minutes ago I sat down with nothing to write, then two minutes later I have it and I am here writing to you,now it is 2:08 to give you an idea of how fast I type. It’s easy when you don’t think but you just write the words that pop into your head as you do that.

You see that people, is FREEDOM! The ability to create, when you want to create, without worrying about failing, because you know it is already done and there is a reason for it all. Now all you get to do is sit back, roll up your sleeves and enjoy your purpose for the moment. Which you actually desired, but had no idea what you would do, or how you would do it. HOPING for major insight, simply hoping and then BAM! There it is, on an old pastors page… A PICTURE OF OSAMA BIN LADEN and a CROWD of people cheering, and the word “JUSTICE” written, while a patriotic christian man I suppose is cheering over the death of this man. So you can see, that it wasn’t a passage of hope that I found on his page that I could glean from. No, in fact it was the exact opposite of what I would believe I would find on a “shepherds” page. A man who teaches Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. But then to see the profile picture, which was so opposed to the entire message of Christ.

As you can see, as I then saw, I immediately thought, “man I should make a comment on that” – You see that is MY OLD MAN speaking. To openly rebuke someone, would not be take the right way. Only a person who did NOT have such a picture on his page could receive such a message. So I realized, that of course I wasn’t meant to stand in judgment of him. For he can only do as his heart treasures, as the man did that was proudly displayed as being killed. I cannot stand in judgment over this man, and I should not, this is a great lesson I learned. People are where they are, and me telling them what is wrong will not help them, but GOD has a funny way of reaching people through other means. You see, it will be my attitude, and my love, and NOT MY CONDEMNATION that will be a witness for him, which will lead him to realize in a very private manner that he needs to re-evaluate his walk and beliefs. MAY WE ALL DO SUCH, GOD WILLING.

It’s now 1:16, and yes I am continuing to ramble on. I will get to the point, after seeing that picture I IMMEDIATELY thought of what we call the “BE” attitudes… You know the whole “Blessed are the… and so and so :)”

Because any Pastor should know, as any religious leader in any religion, ISLAM INCLUDED people, it is misunderstood. Another allegorical spiritual book that some Muslims take literally, because the truth is, ALL HOLY BOOKS are allegorical and their CORE MESSAGE IS UNITY AND PEACE AND LOVE for ALL! Regardless of what you have been taught, read another holy book and you will see, that if you look at things allegorically it much easier to rectify things like “Thou shalt not kill” in one moment, and then understand why God commanded MANY to be KILLED… God is not double minded, everything is allegory. And so if more religious leaders would understand this they would stop celebrating the death of who “they” consider an enemy and they will instead “Mourn” the loss, and embrace their brothers and sisters so we may only know life. BUT THAT IS NOT WHAT WE FIND TODAY!

No, we find all RELIGIOUS LEADERS approving of the murder of whoever they consider an enemy. For the Christians, Jewish, and yes Hindu’s, and Buddhist’s (as crazy as that sounds, even the Dalia Lama who would not swat away and kill a fly, approved of Bin Laden’s murder)… WHAT IS GOING ON PEOPLE? Is there ANYONE we can turn to today that has that ever elusive “BE” attitude.

Well let’s dissect this chapter line by line. I will give you my feelings on an alternate view of what they may mean. And I want you to really question why these are called the “BE” ATTITUDES? The reason is, if you do this, and see this, you will stop trying to be someone you are not, and you will SIMPLY BE! And no one will threaten your standing, no hardship will prove to trying, no amount of loss or illness will steal the hope of GLORY that is now YOU, because you will BE!

So let’s start to look at this, and see what it really means? And then question, why every major religion and almost every one of their leaders are so far from that “BE” ATTITUDE.

Matthew 1 And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him:

Like Jesus there will come a time, we will see the world the way it is. We, a chosen few, will see the multitudes and it will trouble us. So we will go higher, we will seek God as to what we should do. We will understand that before we can speak to others, we must first be taught ourselves. And as we are there, those that know us will come to us for answers. They will have questions, so we needed to go to the Mountain of Truth to beg for the words to say, and in faith we will know when it is time to say them, or write them, we will be given the words. We won’t think of what we should say when we are brought before big names and important people, we will just speak what is put on our heart. Because we will understand, after being to the mountain that whatever we do or say, so long as love it at the helm, is meant to be and will bring about a perfect work.

2And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,

When that moment comes, and they ask us we will speak a simple yet profound message. One that has been spoken before us. One that has always been spoken by those who enter the Kingdom. And we will begin by saying the obvious…

3Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Those that don’t think higher of themselves and see themselves as low in God’s eyes. Those that don’t esteem themselves higher than others will always put others before themselves and because of this they will know Righteousness, Peace, Joy, and Power in the Holy Ghost.

4Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

Those that mourn the loss of their false beliefs. Those that mourn the loss of possessions, loved ones and friends for the sake of the Kingdom of God will be comforted. They that cry out for more will have more. Those that want to know the truth because they mourn the life they have lived ignorantly, THEY WILL BE COMFORTED! Because they understood who they thought they were is not who they want to be, and they will learn to simply BE who they are.

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

Those that are gentle and seek to do no harm, and simply learn that “it is what it is” and accept things as they are meant to be, shall actually be able to live the life they want. They shall possess their souls and will rest because of it.

6Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

Anyone that REALLY WANTS THE TRUTH, anyone that REALLY WANTS TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THIS WORLD, will be filled with the wisdom to do all that and more. We are all being tempted in the wilderness of our lives in this world, but when we have overcome the temptation to be like everyone else, we will HUNGER, as Jesus hungered. Blessed is any man who hungers, for just like Jesus the ANGELS (MESSENGERS/THOUGHTS OF GOD’S TRUTH) will feed you, until you are filled with WISDOM so you can begin the ministry set before you, as Jesus did. Remember “as he is so are we in this world”

7Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

Those who have forgiveness, love, and mercy on others, shall obtain every single thing they give out. Yet they will also realize how much better it is to give than receive. They will be BLESSED going in and coming out, it will please them more to help another than to be helped, but all they give they will certainly get.

8Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

Those who have no alternative motives, those that aren’t seeking approval or praise or wealth at the name of God’s expense, shall know the full depth of God, they shall see God face to face and KNOW AS THEY ARE KNOWN!

9Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.

Only those Born of God can bring peace to the world, to another’s heart, to a debate, to a relationship. For peace is the very heart of Love, Love gives birth to peace. And these born of Love will bring peace to many.

10Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

When many are attacked for not going along with the multitude. When they are challenged and attacked for their beliefs or for their heart and actions, they will learn from it all. They will not suffer, because Righteousness, peace, joy, and Power in the Wisdom of God is theirs. They will realize THEY WERE PERSECUTED so they could become RIGHTEOUS, and their end will be better than their beginning. The last state of a man is always better than his first.

11Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. 12Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

You will understand that everything that has happened to you, has happened FOR YOU! The reason… so you could become CHRIST MANIFESTED through your SOUL, the two become one… For THE SAKE OF CHRIST, these things happen. So when trouble comes, you MUST remember it is for your benefit! When you realize this you will not return evil with evil, you will return evil with good.

13Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.

Salt is so important. It CURES the meat, IT PRESERVES the MEAT (WHICH is an allegory for the wisdom of God) – You all are the ones who will CURE and PRESERVE the truth and wisdom of God in the world, BUT if you are not “BE”ing the authentic child of God, peacemaking, meek, and filled vessel of God, how can you CURE the LAND and the PRESERVE the TRUTH?

What I am saying to you people, is IF YOU AREN’T BLESSED than you have lost your CURING AND PRESERVATION powers, you have to USE to forward the Kingdom of God. In other words, if people aren’t showing you the above “BE” attitudes they are NOT THE PEOPLE YOU SHOULD BE TURNING TO… TO KNOW GOD! YOU DON’T NEED THEM!!!!!!!!

14Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.

Your very LIFE is CHRIST, you are THE POWER AND WISDOM OF GOD in this EARTH! You who can hear these words are CHOSEN VESSELS! You have no choice but to SHINE THE TRUTH to the world! BECAUSE YOU HAVE BEEN CREATED THAT WAY!

15Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.

In other words people, it’s time to stop HIDING! It’s time to grow up and wake up and know who you are! You don’t exist for NO REASON! You’re very reason for existence is to “BE”! And you will!

16Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

So love your enemies, do good to them that hurt you, be a LIGHT in this world. Let people ONLY SEE GOOD, let people only see LIFE AND TRUTH AND LOVE. Let people only see GOD IN YOU! Because your good works reveal GOD IN YOU and in so doing you light the way for others to do the same! The mystery will be revealed!

17Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

And don’t think, as some say that when you come to this understanding, that God is all in all, and does all, and is all, and that all will come to this, don’t be ignorant and think you can act anyway you want. I am not saying you can act any old way you want, you can act ONLY AS IS MEANT TO BE, AND THEN you can TRULY LIVE! But the ONLY WAY to LOVE GOD AND LOVE OTHERS is to believe you must. But you cannot if you think your “carnal nature” is you! The truth of who you are, doesn’t set you free to live your life anyway you want, NO, you can’t act of think foolishly, you can only LOVE GOD AND LOVE OTHERS, because this is FULFILLED in YOU by the REAL YOU, which is YOUR TRUE LIFE!

18For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. 19Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.

If you don’t love God and love others you will continue on in this world. Until who you think you are passes away, whatever you sow you will reap. You’ll understand that anyone that doesn’t truly love has the least amount of Righteousness, Peace and Joy. And it will be clear, your righteousness better exceed that of the Religious teachers in the land. Anyone who isn’t teaching LOVE GOD, LOVE OTHERS is not fulfilling the law, and there is no way into Righteousness, Peace, Joy and Power in the Holy Ghost unless you LOVE GOD AND LOVE OTHERS!

21Ye have heard that it was said of them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment: 22But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.

This is the point here people. Humanity is still killing, and even from the pulpit rejoicing over such. Look, it’s as bad as killing to want another killed in your heart. And too many people today want to destroy others because of differing beliefs and this needs to end. The longer this nonsense continues the longer those acting this way will suffer. YOU CANNOT KNOW RIGHTEOUSNESS, PEACE AND JOY without LOVING GOD AND LOVING OTHERS… So don’t even mock people who are ignorant of the Truth or you will pay too.

23Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee; 24Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.

So if your going to go out there and try to spread the “gospel” if you will, you BETTER not hate. It doesn’t mean you may not be hated, but don’t let it bother you. This happens for Christ’s sake, You are blessed remember that. Which is why you can reconcile your feelings and offer the TRUTH without an agenda or trying to simply prove you’re right and they are wrong.

25Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.26Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.

Because if you don’t. And you go blow for blow with whoever has a problem with you, you will suffer because of it. And you will not be free from reaping what you have sown, until you have reaped what you have sown. So don’t go there, it isn’t worth it.

27Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: 28But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Don’t ever entertain the world’s religious belief, stay true and united to the Spirit of God within you. Don’t even want what those seemingly wealthy religious leaders seem to have. Stay the course, stay true, and you will be blessed to simply “BE”. But if you constantly want more, than you will never be content.

29And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. 30And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

So in other words, if you think a certain teaching or religion will profit you more, don’t even entertain the idea. Get rid of it immediately. Because to leave the Truth of God, to leave that hunger and thirst for something else, when GOD is all there is, you will NEVER BE FULL! And you will suffer, because you will never be content, so don’t want more and be content with where you are and what you are meant to do and you will know joy!

It is now 2:20pm and I am now tired of typing. I think that about does it for today. There is more instruction with the next couple of chapters, but it really all boils down to this. Whatever you do to others you do to yourself. Trust that everything is going according to plan and that you can’t change it even if you want to, but know that NO TRUE HARM will come to any of you, especially when you come to this understanding. The “Be” attitudes, are a way for us to FINALLY BE WHO WE ARE instead of trying to be someone we think we are. And when that day comes, you will see all you have been through and you will be happy, because your end will be greater than you beginning, and you will see you beginning from the end. Ultimately, here is the BEST ADVICE if you can hear it!

48Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

Be Perfect, as God is perfect! BE LIKE GOD because you are GOD’S IMAGE and to BE anything less, is a LIE!

It’s 2:26 as always I won’t edit this for a while. So forgive any mistakes and I pray this essay had a purpose. I believe it did. And I hope you can see that all one needs to do is to BE and BELIEVE that ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE!

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END OF THE WORLD?

Jacob Israel14 Comments

“END OF THE WORLD?”
“I go before you!”

A couple of days ago a friend of mine wrote something on my facebook page that really sent me off thinking. Flashes of what the scripture quoted meant came to me, like “lightning” from heaven. A quick word on that by the way. Lightning in the natural at night briefly lights up your surroundings. Whatever is closest to you, you will see clearly and understand it is right before you because for a brief moment the light from the Lightning revealed it to you. Lightning is a wonderful allegory of revelation, short bursts of insight.

Luke 17:24
For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day

Now what should be noted about this, is we are not reading here about the SON OF GOD, but the SON OF MAN. Because in the SON OF MAN’S DAY his/her revealing is as Lightning. Which doesn’t last long, but comes in bursts, in other words the son of man knows in part, the son of God knows the whole.

1 Corinthians 13:12
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

So for the time being, insight will come to us, a revealing will take place. Things will simply begin to make sense. And, as they say, like layers of an onion little by little these insights are helping us get to that sweet core (Christ In Us) – Which comes without observation. So for those that are waiting for a literal Jesus to return outside of being revealed within them, then they will be waiting until the revelation of this mystery hits them. And Jesus understood this, he understood mankind would be waiting for a “son of man” to return, instead of understanding the son of God is revealed IN THEM.

Luke 17
22 And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it. 23 And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not after them, nor follow them.

Even Jesus knew that his disciples would desire to literally SEE one of the days of the SON OF MAN, but he tells them, LOOK YOU WON’T SEE IT PHYSICALLY! Remember he also reminded them in this chapter the Kingdom of heaven doesn’t come with literal observation. And now, as in times past, we have yet another false belief that “Jesus is going to return” May 21, 2011. And many, many people are DESIRING TO LITERALLY SEE THIS. But as Jesus said, THEY WON’T! He even warned that when they say, look over here, see over there, get prepared, do this, do that, GO NOT AFTER THEM, NOR FOLLOW THEM!

That is the problem today in a nutshell, too many people are following other people as opposed to follow the SPIRIT WITHIN THEM. I have often challenged people to stay away from their churches for just a week or so, stay in quiet contemplation and simply ask God to show them the truth and soon that Lightning will begin to illuminate things they never saw or heard before. It may not happen immediately, but it will happen. You can’t force revelation, but when you ask for it, IT WILL COME! But it comes when you least expect it.

1 Thessalonians 5:2
For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night

Of course this is NOT speaking of a literal physical return of Jesus the man from thousands of years ago, returning when you least expect it. But it speaks as to the revelation that takes place within you, and breaks through your house of false beliefs, and takes away the false beliefs you once held, so you can be free from your worldly beliefs.

This is why we are encouraged to KEEP WATCH! Simply put, when you ask for revelation, when you are seeking God’s truth you WILL KEEP WATCH FOR IT, and it will come (be revealed within you)… when you least expect it. I’m sure if you are reading this article you already know what I mean. You have experienced it.

Paul gave some great advice in Thessalonians, he said STAY AWAKE (be enlightened) because if you don’t know that God is in control of all things when trouble comes you will be hurt, sad, and won’t see the point in it. But if you are AWAKE you know that all things work together, so you do not consider the fiery trial set before you but you have HOPE! Those who are asleep (ignorant of the truth) are being fed a constant diet of ear tickling, people telling them that if they tithe, accept their jesus, do what they say, then only good things will come their way. But these people are ignorant, and when God begins working in their lives it will seem as if they are being cursed by God, as opposed to seeing that God is merely getting them to a place where they trust only in God.

1 Thessalonians 5
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.

Now this verse has been taught that the SUDDEN DESTRUCTION that comes upon people is THE END OF THE WORLD! However, if anyone takes the time to re-read the next verse, we will see what this destruction is likened to… AS THE TRAVAIL UPON A WOMEN WITH CHILD! This has NOTHING to do with the destruction of the literal world around you people, it has to do with the destruction of the carnal world within you, like being pregnant, at first you don’t know you are pregnant, soon you get excited, but right before you give birth it is so painful you want to die! And yes, that is how it is spiritually! WE WILL HAVE TRIBULATION IN THIS WORLD! This is so we will learn to let go of the OLD MAN (Carnal ignorant ego) for the NEW MAN (Who we really are/God’s child).

But notice the next line… “But you are NOT IN DARKNESS that that day should overtake you as a thief” – There are many that are doing as I recommend. Many who are asking God “Teach me the truth no matter what the cost”, many who are leaving man-made religions and beliefs to find the truth within. They are the ones FAITHFULLY WAITING for their MASTER TO RETURN (be revealed). The day of this revelation will NOT come to them as a thief, because they are expecting the break in (break through).

We have way too many gloom and doom preachers out there teaching… “THIS IS THE END OF DAYS!” Oh my goodness, if they would only find out what the END OF THE WORLD really was… Take a look at what the WORLD is below.

1 John 2:16
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

This is what is coming to an end, OUR LUSTS! The very lusts that caused us all to fall (from the truth of who we are). This is the world that is coming to an end, OUR LUSTS! Because it is our LUSTS that pull us away from the truth and lead us into temptation.

James 1:14
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed

What is it that KILLS THE WORD OF GOD again? The Thorns which are the CARES OF THE WORLD that strangle the truth of God.

Mark 4:19
And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful

This is what Christ (The Truth and Way and Light) destroys with the brightness (enlightenment) of Christ’s (power and wisdom of God) coming (revealing).

Yes the WORLD will come to an end, but the physical world is going nowhere. The only thing destroyed is the OLD NATURE. And it has too, because we are being tempted and drawn away from the truth of who we are because of it. (only a few will catch this next verse)

Psalm 106:14
But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert

Yes it is our LUSTS and our OLD NATURE that is destroyed!

Now there is a lot of talk about this May 21, 2011 date, where they say a Rapture will happen. First of all, there is no Rapture the way people teach, secondly the end is not yet IF YOU BELIEVE IN SUCH THINGS. Because the END is when you put all things under the CONTROL OF GOD. You know that GOD IS ALL IN ALL.

Let’s take this next part line by line, so you can see clearly what the END is!

1 Corinthians 15
24 Then cometh the END, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.

The end comes when HE/WE (for we are the body of Christ) shall have the Kingdom of God (righteousness, peace, joy and power in the holy ghost) revealed IN US, and God revealed IN US, when WE enter God’s rest by putting down ALL RULE AND AUTHORITY… in other words, the moment we realize “who we think we are” is NOT IN CONTROL. The moment we realize is, the END OF OUR CARNAL NATURE, the END OF OUR LUSTS (WORLD) is come (revealed to us).

25 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. 26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

The Power and Wisdom of God (Christ) will rule until all enemies are put under foot. And the last is DEATH. And no, we are not reading about living forever in this flesh body, for we are already eternal. The ENEMY that is put beneath God is not literal flesh, it is our CARNAL THINKING, which is the LAST ENEMY DESTROYED.

Romans 8:6
For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace

And in that moment all things will be delivered to you, you will understand that everything is beneath you, and you then will put yourself beneath God, so God is all there is. And you will then be set free.

1 Corinthians
27 For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him. 28 And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

If you have ears to hear it. When God is all in all, God is all there is. Now that is the END OF CARNAL MAN. But not the END of the physical world. And there will not be any physical rapture. Everything that happens, happens WITHIN the heart of man, and everything outside of man is a projection of that. If anything this world will turn into a paradise when we return within to paradise. Oh how I long to see that day. But as I said earlier, we only know in part.

Yes there are two men in one bed, two women at the mill… This is the double nature of man. The carnal and the Christ. The older and the younger nature of mankind. One is Taken (joins to the truth) the other is left (cast off) – look up the meanings in Strongs, and you’ll see it has nothing to do with being taken from one place physically to another, but being taken from one place spiritually to another. Your older nature you will cast off, to allow the younger Christ nature to rule!

Ephesians 4:22
That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts

We need to cast off the OLD NATURE, we have to let go of the belief that WE (OUR CARNAL EGO/WHO WE THINK WE ARE) is in control, and submit ourselves to the TRUE NATURE within us, which IS in control. It’s time we get rid of our ignorance and pray for the TRUTH!

Romans 13:12
The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

So don’t worry about a literal this and a literal that. And remember that who we are at our very core is INFINITE! You may be able to say that there is a beginning and end to the SON OF MAN. Our first Lord has a beginning and an end, but our True Lord has none. So in fact the END is truly the END of something that doesn’t really exist to begin with. If it has an end and a beginning, it is created and destroyed. And God is the one who does that creating.

Notice the SON OF GOD is defined very differently. No beginning, No End.

Hebrews 7:3
Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.

We have no beginning or end, for God is all in all, so there is never a need to worry about the soul of a lost loved one. Eventually God will bring all to this knowledge, and all will then revealed to be the Child of God an infinite priest.

So how do we get there? Well it is not our doing. Jesus said I go before you to prepare a place for you. Which really was the spark that birthed this article, but as always I go wherever the words lead me. 🙂

You see there is another way of look at these next passages. Read these carefully and for those that don’t like to be challenged, I suggest here is where you should stop reading.

John 14
2 In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
4 And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
5 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?
6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.

Right off the bat, let me tell you the FATHER’S HOUSE is the TEMPLE OF GOD, which YOU ARE! So let go of that belief that Jesus is a cosmic carpenter building you a mansion. Because that word mansion means tabernacle or dwelling place. And we, all of us, are that dwelling place.

Jesus said he was going somewhere to prepare a place for them. You could say that Jesus was going within all of them (the father’s house) to prepare them. Which is why he says, where I am there you will be. In other words, Christ In you, and You in Christ… BUT, something greater clicked for me.

Now let me share how I see this passage, and I will simply translate it as I see fit.

“We are all where God dwells, if this wasn’t true I wouldn’t tell you that. Now I am going to God to learn more, to understand more, so I can prepare a way for you to understand how to do the same. And if I go to this place of enlightenment then I will be able to reveal this to you, so that where I am spiritually you may be also. And then where I went spiritually you will know, and the way to get there you will know, because I went there first and relayed this great truth to you….”

Now this is where Thomas comes in and asks the big question. 5 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?

Thomas is saying, we don’t understand where you are going, how then can we know how to get there….

The great revelation comes in Jesus’ response.

6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Notice Jesus said, I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE, no one comes to the Father but by Me… He DOESN’T SAY he that believes that I am the way, the truth and the life can get to the Father…. What he is saying is UNLESS YOU BECOME ME, AND ARE WHERE I AM, GO WHERE I GO you cannot COME TO THE REALIZATION of the Father. The only way to know the FATHER is to be THE SON.

John 1:18
No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.

The SON is in the Bosom (instruction/leading/teaching) of the Father.

Isaiah 40:11
He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.

And HOW DOES THE SON declare the FATHER?


7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.

The SON declares the FATHER by saying, if you have UNDERSTOOD BEING THE SON, then you will UNDERSTAND THE FATHER, and then he says because I GO TO THE FATHER (The perfect understanding and Union with God) you have known God and seen God, because in that day, the SON is put beneath the FATHER and GOD IS ALL IN ALL.

Now, I’m not going to go into much more detail about all of this, but I want you all to understand that if YOU GO TO THE FATHER, you will RETURN AGAIN and help others do the same. You will be able to lay the groundwork for them, and the work God has already done within them will bear witness and you will be able to be where The SON is also. And you too will understand that it is not FAITH in a Son, but BECOMING THAT SON that you begin to know the Father and salvation.

So go to the Father already, and I promise you I am going with you, before you, or after you, because there is no way to the Know the TRUTH without the TRUTH becoming you!

P.S. for those who want more information on why the literal physical Rapture is not true, here is a video I did awhile ago which does explain more of it. But there is also more information on this website as well. Enjoy, Jacob

Much love, Jacob
http://www.JacobIsrael.org

WE WHO KNEW NO SIN

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WE WHO KNEW NO SIN
Until we created it of course

This essay is going to be a very difficult one for some. For others perhaps a mind-blowing ride, and then for a chosen few, who have already seen this, for “them” it will be confirmation that they are not insane for thinking such thoughts.

That being said, why don’t we get into this essay curiously called “We who knew no sin… UNTIL WE CREATED IT!” That, right off the bat should send chills up some of your spines. How dare Jacob say, Mankind created SIN. The very same man who writes almost weekly about how God is in control of all things. If God creates all things and has created all things, then surely God must have also created SIN. I mean, doesn’t scripture teach that God made ALL THINGS?

Ephesians 3:9
And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ

YES GOD CREATED ALL THINGS… but here is the key word. BY Jesus Christ. Meaning everything was created by God through Jesus. Which, you will soon learn is a symbol for us all. We were given dominion over everything. And as Jesus is SO are we in this world. Scripture states ALL things were made by the SON, for the SON.

John 3:35
The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand.

So here we see God has given EVERYTHING into the son. And God made all things BY Christ Jesus. In other words, God made all things THROUGH the son, which in turn, is actually the SON CREATING ALL THINGS. Because the SON can only do what the FATHER DOES. Which is to create!

Hebrews 1:2
2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;

Now what am I getting at here? And so if God creates ALL things through the son, then that must also mean God created SIN, LIES, and IGNORANCE through us. And for good reason. And if you doubt that ALL things mean EVERYTHING that is and is not, then read this scripture closely..

Colossians 1:16
For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him

Both VISIBLE and INVISIBLE – You can’t see THOUGHT, you can’t see FEAR, you can’t see LOVE, you can’t see SIN! – So it is obvious ALL THINGS were made BY GOD THROUGH THE SON.

Now, if you can hear this. If God creates everything by the SON, then the SON is creating non-stop. Regardless of whether or not he or she knows it or not.

Oh yes, that’s right I said HE or SHE. The reason is, as you’ll see, God only has one SON, ADAM (Humanity) the 1st and the last, the 1st Adam = The 1st nature of man. And the LAST ADAM is the last nature of Man which is CHRIST.

Now that wasn’t the hard part. The hard part is accepting, that if everything is made by Jesus Christ, and “AS HE IS SO ARE WE IN THIS WORLD” – then in fact, God is creating THROUGH US ALL!

Now you say, “How can that Be? Only God makes everything through Jesus Christ.” – And my answer is, Is the man Jesus Christ creating this ESSAY, or is the man Jacob Israel? Did the man Jesus Christ create the first apple computing system or did the man Steve Jobs?

Well if Jesus Christ is the first BORN among many BROTHERS AND SISTERS, then we are ALL ONE AND THE SAME. Are we not?

Romans 8:29
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren

Now how can ONE BE MANY? How can God only have one SON (as is literally written in scripture, or so many think) and how can that ONE SON be EVERYONE?

The answer is we are the ALL, and the ALL is everyone. Which is why we reap what we sow.

What we do to one, we do to ourselves. Because we are all part of ONE BODY.

The rest of this essay should help in understanding, that GOD is creating ALL THINGS through US (Jesus Christ) – Of which we have the mind of, we are the body of, and are even called by this name.

This if you can hear it, are the “GREATER THINGS THAN THESE” you shall do.

You see when Jesus arrived on the scene they wouldn’t accept the Messiah would come as a single humble man.

Well today, as they wait for the RETURN of that single humble man, they will never find that single humble MAN, because that CHRIST is IN THEM, and we are the BODY in which the SON IS RESSURECTED FROM.

Which means, (Catch this) The SON had to DIE and FORGET who he was, to be RESSURECTED to life.

The SON had to take upon himself the SINS OF THE WORLD, to save.

To know SALVATION one must first have something that needs saving.

Now how did this death COME UPON US ALL. Well the same way it is revealed in the Genesis story. SIN had to be CREATED, for HE(them) THAT knew no sin.

So who created Sin?

Let me answer the rumbling question in your mind with a simple answer that only a few will understand. the answer is “YES”. Yes, to what? To your question? To both. If we are the SON and we can only do as the Father does, and our Father and Us are one, than what God does we do. We are an extension of God, each of us. We are all the same. Cut from the same “cloth” as they say.

This should give people hope. This means, whatever we have done God has done through us, IF WE ARE THE SON (which scripture says all of humanity is). We can do nothing but what we have done. Otherwise we wouldn’t have done it.

Now here is how SIN is created in one sense.

This is hard for many to grasp. If something exists, if we did something, if there is something that we have done in our lives that we regret… the truth of the matter is, IT IS SIN to think that we could have ever done anything different. Because the only thing that exists, the only thing that was created is THE NOW. And God creates ALL things through us, for us. So when we begin to get caught up in the foolishness of the law, and begin to believe that things in our lives shouldn’t have gone the way they have gone… YOU WILL ENTER INTO SUFFERING AND PAIN, because you will believe you are a failure. HOWEVER, your situation is what it is and couldn’t be any different. Now if you understand this, than you can be at peace with whatever you have done, or where ever you are. And because of that you WONT FIGHT for more. You’ll understand whatever has been is now, and what is now will always be. There is NOTHING NEW under the sun, as Solomon wrote.

To grasp this is to know freedom. To be able to look back on your life and say, I COULDN’T HAVE CHANGED A THING, NO! To look and be able to say, I WOULDN’T CHANGE A THING is to know you had no choice. And if you had no choice, then regardless of what it was, it was an important part of your development.

Perhaps you hurt someone and that haunts you today. Well, the action of hurting that person taught you that you shouldn’t hurt others. But until you come to terms with the fact that regardless of what you have done in your life, couldn’t have been done any other way, you will never be free. You will continue to do the things that you hate.

Romans 14:22
Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves.

This is what Paul was trying to get across. The is a law at work in him, and there is a law at work in us all, and sometimes we will do the things we don’t want to do, but we do them so we can come to the place where we stop condemning ourselves, and when we stop condemning ourselves or trying to be better than we are free to be who we truly are. GOD’S ONLY CHILD, the one that has created all things, but at the command of the Father.

Now I am not saying you can go on and do whatever you like, because it’s all meant to be, God forbid. The truth is people can not act against their nature, only a murderer who believes himself to be a murderer can murder, and until he or she realizes that they don’t need to kill to know peace, the sooner they understand hurting others is in fact hurting them more, then they will be free of the terrible act they have committed. They will cease to be the person they are not.

I’m not saying that we should go out and do wrong, God forbid. We cannot do what we aren’t capable of, and the things we do that we hate, we will only stop doing those things when we don’t hate who we are. When we stop thinking we have to be perfect, we will be perfect and whole, lacking nothing. But in the DEATH we have created for ourselves, that takes time. The good news is whatever has already happened was MEANT TO HAPPEN. And if it was meant to happen then it was for our eventually good, or the good of the collective (everyone else = the same as us).

Let me give you my definition of what SIN is. It’s definition means to “miss the mark” or “Miss the point”. I like the second. Because it jives better with many other scriptures that explain what SIN is. But I think Sin is best describe in the Proverb below.

Proverbs 24:9
The thought of foolishness is sin

To think foolishly is SIN. In other words, if you are told that it is “unlawful” to drink any alcoholic beverage, smoke a cigarette, wear makeup, wear skirts that are too short… and you believe that it is A SIN (the way man has defined SIN which is very different.) Religion has defined SIN as a terrible act, when in fact it is merely missing the TRUTH of a matter.

Well if that person has been taught you can’t wear makeup, they will feel guilt and condemnation WITHIN themselves every time they do what it is, the world and religion has brainwashed them into thinking was bad. The irony is, the longer we SEE this or that as SIN (the way religious man defines it) the longer you will be a slave to it.

SIN truly means you have missed the point. An open-minded person knows you are not offending some supreme being by having a glass of wine. (Not that I am endorsing drinking/smoking etc just using this as an example.) Once mankind decides that this or that is SIN, like to “Not go to Church every sunday” those who believe such things, when they miss church FEEL LIKE THEY ARE DOING SOMETHING WRONG. And the irony is, missing Church is not SIN, it’s A SIN to think that MISSING CHURCH is a SIN. Isn’t it funny how that works? 🙂

I ask people many times, “what do you believe”, “is there more to life”. And 99% of the time I get the same answer. I believe in God BUT I DON’T GO TO CHURCH OR READ THE BIBLE AS OFTEN AS I SHOULD. As if going to man-made church or reading the bible is what we have to do or else.

And so, in that moment when they answer they condemn themselves as if they have done something wrong, when in fact they have not. A guilt or condemnation rises in them because someone told them along the way that the only way you can know God and be a good child of God is if you read the bible or go to Church. Oh boy what a crock that is!

Oh I know what some of you will think. YOU NEED TO READ THE BIBLE AND GO TO CHURCH! Well, take that up with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, and that many, many others who had no holy book, and had no temple or church to go to, BUT HAD FAITH!

The one thing I find when asking this, is 99% of people believe there is more. And I tell them THAT IS ENOUGH! Because I know when the time is right, they too will go where they need to go and believe and know what they need to believe and know.

So really the SIN, is NOT THE ACTION, but thinking the action is wrong. Now let me be clear. To hurt others goes against the law of reaping and sowing, so unless you want to reap pain don’t put it on others. But to build a shed in your back yard without getting a slip from the town isn’t breaking God’s law, which is LOVE GOD, LOVE OTHERS, it is breaking MAN’S LAWS!

The problem is religious mankind has made so many LAWS (LAWS that are impossible to follow to a tee). And if you believe, because you have been taught by some Religious leader that to break the law of the land is a great SIN, the only SIN would be to believe that JAY WALKING is a great offence to the God, which is the Life of all humanity. So long as you are not hurting others, you aren’t hurting yourself. And to believe that JAYWALKING is a SIN because it is against man’s law doesn’t mean that it is breaking God’s law. Truly the ONLY SIN you have committed was the thought that you sinned.

When you realize this you find Liberty. The problem is, once this mindset of SIN (right and wrong, good and evil) enters the mind of man, MAN DIED. He can no long live the amazing life that was set before him.

So I am hoping that this essay will help free some of you from your past, and open your eyes to a much greater truth. The TRUTH that who you “are right now” IS who you are meant to be. And the longer you try to be somebody else, or try to be a better version of yourself, the longer you will be in the shackles of the SIN (foolish thinking) that you were brainwashed to believe you need to be something you are not. this doesn’t mean hateful people learn, HEY THIS IS WHO I AM AND I WILL CONTINUE TO HATE! No, these people HATE because they believe they need to be better than who they already are. So they project that HATE and PREJUDICE onto others, saying in the ignorance of the temporal world that they are better than people of a different skin color, or sexual orientation, or sex. You see these people FEEL A SENSE OF LACK! That is their sin. They began to believe WHO THEY WERE ISN’T GOOD ENOUGH, but once they find the TRUTH OF WHO THEY ARE, and realize they ARE GOD’S CHILD, they will no longer hate. Because they will be at peace, and peace begets peace, as hate begets hate.

The longer you believe you need to be a better person, you will NOT be the better person you could be if you stopped condemning yourself and accepted that you are already perfect within.

The longer you try to be somebody you are not, the more misery you will have, because YOU ALREADY ARE SOMEBODY!

So let’s get into this essay, WE WHO KNEW NO SIN, until we created it!

So who does scripture say brought sin into the world. And the real question is, were we BORN INTO THIS SIN? Did we inherit it as so many say? Do we have a “Sin Nature”? Or is that a LEARNED BEHAVIOR? I believe it is very clear that this is a learned behavior. And the rest of this article is why. But as all things that happen in this world and our lives, SIN was a vital part of our growth. We couldn’t be overcomers without having something to overcome. But few know that the only thing we need to overcome is ourselves, the foolish thoughts of who we think we are.

Romans 5:12-14
12Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

The answer given here is that by ONE MAN sin entered the world. And of course, you have been taught that ONE MAN, was ADAM, which in actuality is not a single literal man but is exactly what the name means in Hebrew (Mankind as a whole). ALL OF MANKIND God made and by this ONE RACE OF MAN which has many members, SIN came into the world.

Don’t believe that ADAM is speaking of everyone of us? Do you believe that there was a single Man and Woman in the garden? Well if you do that’s cool. I once believed that as well. But I was perishing for my lack of understanding. The more I studied the more I learned. The more I asked God teach me the truth the more I was taught WITHIN. Now, I have written on this “ADAM=MANKIND” subject before, but here’s a quick refresher.

Genesis 5:1
This is the written account of Adam’s family line. When God created MANKIND, he made THEM in the likeness of God.

It doesn’t say when God created one single man, but MANKIND.

Oh I get it, you want me to go a little farther back than Genesis 5, you’re thinking if ADAM is all of mankind, it should be mentioned in Genesis 1. AND YOU WOULD BE RIGHT!

Genesis 1:26
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let THEM have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Right there in black and white… Let US make MANKIND after OUR LIKENESS, and let THEM – Notice the word THEM, plural. But wait it get’s better.

The name ADAM IN HEBREW, the word origin is ” ed) ” which means MANKIND, anyone and everyone. So much for the single man in a literal Garden doctrine. The fact is ADAM is ALL OF US, every single one of us on this planet. This is the beginning of OUR story. An allegorical telling of the human experience, from our being made sin and falling into the DEATH (carnal ignorance) that goes along with us, to returning to our rightful place in Christ.

Like Adam we too were formed from the DUST of the earth. Dust is a wonderful allegory, of lies and foolish thinking. It’s compared to ignorance, sin, and false beliefs. And indeed we were all FORMED by this dust, which is our experiences, and what we have believed about ourselves. Our parents named us, and began to teach us, and slowly but surely this world formed you and me into what many therapists would call an EGO. A being who believes himself or herself to BE something.

The problem is, like ADAM we are too busy trying to be SOMEBODY, because since childhood we have been taught. “when you grow up you have to be somebody” “You have to make a name for yourself” or “you’ll never amount to anything”, “you are such a screw up”. Either way, both ways of parenting is wrong. Parents and teachers put their children and students under the same curse that they are under. The BELIEF that you have to BE SOMEBODY else, because WHO YOU ARE ISN’T GOOD ENOUGH. No matter if you are being told “You have to make a name for yourself in this world” or “You’ll amount to nothing” both brainwash us into HATING WHO WE ARE. That is how DEATH truly enters the world. We are taught we need to do something, to BE BETTER! And believe me when I say that this is the cause of all the suffering in the world!

When we begin to try to justify our existence by following the laws of the land, and trying to do everything that people say is right instead of wrong with our works and deeds we have forgotten that we ALREADY are made in the LIKENESS of God. And it doesn’t get any better than that! There is no improving on that!

We didn’t, and don’t, need to do a thing to be who we already were. The longer people try to be somebody else they will never be content with who they are. AND THAT MY FRIENDS IS NOT LIVING! THAT IS DEATH!

Job 40:13
Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret

The good news is we will wake from this slumber of ignorance. We will find that who we are, we have always been. We will look at all we created in our life and acknowledge that it is good and we will accept ourselves as who we are and we will rest. Yes those that are living in the DEATH (ignorance) or DUST (imagination) will rise from it. BECAUSE….

1 Corinthians 15:22
For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

In the thoughts of Mankind, following the rules and beliefs of mankind all DIE (become ignorant and life becomes a burden), but this is a necessary part of the journey because after this death, in CHRIST (The power and Wisdom of God) shall ALL be made alive.

In other words, when you stop trying to be something you are not. When you stop believing yourself to be someone you are not. When you see who you really are and understand the amazing power entrusted to you, you begin to LIVE! You leave this WORLD (The lusts there of), because you know WHO YOU ARE is NOT FROM THIS WORLD. You are NOT YOUR LUSTS.

1 John 2:16
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

YOU ARE OF THE FATHER AND THE FATHER AND YOU ARE ONE! That was Jesus’ prayer, that you may come to the same understanding that he came to understand.

John 10:30
I and my Father are one.

I just want to point out. The ONLY thing the NUMBER ONE can be divided by is THE NUMBER ONE. You can NEVER MAKE two out of one. Only ONE comes from ONE. You can divide ONE an infinite amount of times and the answer will always be the same, ONE. Now if I and my Father are One, there is no difference between the Father and I.

John 14:9
Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father

But that is a different essay for another day. The point is, we need to GO TO THE FATHER!

John 16:16
A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father

The disciples didn’t understand what this meant. Many today teach that he was going to literally die and then literally rise from the dead. But what did Jesus say? “If you have seen ME you have seen the Father”. He is telling them, that one day they will understand that they are not seeing the EGO MAN JESUS but they will see JESUS’ true being, who JESUS really is, and then they will be able to see the FATHER, because they are ONE. (Once again I know I am getting ahead of myself)

Look the point is we need to WAKE UP from this madness, we need to wake up from all of our fear, worry, religious, political, social beliefs and take the shackles of religions and this worlds law off our hearts and finally be FREE.

Read this next verse carefully!

Isaiah 52:2
Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion

Now look at that verse the way I see it!

“Wake up from the ignorance of trying to be someone you are not, rise up out of your fears and ideals, and REST! Live your life FREE from worry, fear, condemnation, laws, and KNOW WHO YOU ARE a child of God who is now a slave to your ignorance and fear.

This is who you are now!

Galatians 4
1 Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a slave, though he be lord of all

You are the HEIR, you are LORD OF EVERYTHING but you are like a child ignorant of who you are, so you are no different from a slave. And you are a slave to this word SIN!

Look there was a time we were alive, there was a time we DID NOT KNOW SIN. Regardless of what you were taught, when MANKIND came to this planet, MANKIND did not know SIN (which by the way, is missing the truth of who you are, it is called the FOOLISH THOUGHT as I stated earlier).

Mankind (ADAM) did not know SIN until he began to eat from the TREE OF KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL. Right after he ate, he realized he was NAKED, AND HE BECAME ASHAMED OF WHO HE WAS! – Does that sound like anyone’s story here?

We came into the world as happy babies and then life gets to us, we are told what is right what is wrong. How to act, how not to act, we are brainwashed into thinking we have to be SOMETHING that someone else tells us we should be, as opposed to just ENJOYING BEING YOU!

The scriptures say, TRAIN UP A CHILD IN THE WAY THE CHILD SHOULD GO, it doesn’t say, train them up in the way you THINK they should go.

All these rules are placed on us. All these things we must do and must not do.

We begin to understand what is good and what is evil in this world. And some of these “laws” man creates are down right ridiculous. It’s no different today than Moses day, when he was saying don’t eat shrimp. Here is a great foolish example of how man takes something innocent and pure and collectively decides it is EVIL.

If you give the Thumbs up to someone, you are approving them. BUT, if you raise the Middle finger at them then you are doing something mean and bad and vulgar. You are SINNING!

Now how is it that raising a simple finger can have such drastic contrasts? Why is the Thumb Good, but the middle finger is Bad? Well how did you find this out?

Like me, you probably were a child and one day raised only your middle finger quite innocently, but your parents, or a teacher or relative, says “STOP! YOU CAN’T DO THAT!” – Then we ask “Why?” – They reason with us and explain that it means something very, very, bad and we believe it. That’s the problem. WE BELIEVE what others tells us about the world, God, life, and ourselves. As opposed to going WITHIN!

Man made up that foolish rule and pounded it in our head. Now that child, you and I, don’t have the liberty to raise our middle finger in a mall, because man’s LAW says it is evil to do such a thing and we cannot.

And so, little by little everything that makes being a kid fun is taken away from us. We can’t shout in the house, that’s impolite. We have to attend certain events, its called responsibility. We have to get schooling or you can face criminal charges, and of course you have to be taught what man has decided is worth teaching and what is unacceptable. Mankind has created all of these laws, many silly, some necessary, and each day mankind is creating more and more laws to add unto the list.

You can’t drive without a seat belt, you can’t talk on the phone, you can’t text and drive, you can’t turn right on red, you can’t cross the road unless it is in a designated place. You can’t stand in one place on a public sidewalk too long, you can’t do this, you can’t do that. The list goes on and on. Mankind loves to make laws, even better is mankind’s religious nature. These are INVISIBLE laws, and make your life even more miserable.

Not only do we have all these man-made laws for the physical world, no you see that isn’t enough to suck the life out of us. Mankind went so far as to create spiritual laws, religions, denominations, traditions, and like teaching your children to make the sign of the cross before you pray, or to always end your prayer with “in jesus name”, you have to be baptised, you have to tithe, you have to believe exactly what you are taught, and you MUST NEVER QUESTION of THINK INDEPENDANTLY. You have to be straight, you can’t be gay, can’t dress different, can’t have long hair, you can’t BE YOU! And that is NOT LIVING, that is DEATH!

And the religious and political system, that mankind created, BECAUSE THEY WERE ASHAMED OF WHO THEY WERE! — Mankind didn’t believe they could be who they were, they believed they have to do something WORTHY of being who they already were. And the instant you begin trying to be who you are, YOU STOP LIVING YOUR LIFE and you DIE. You existence becomes a futile chore, you lose all hope, because everywhere you turn you fun and enjoyment is being sucked away from you. That is ONLY of course, IF YOU ARE IN THAT SYSTEM. You see you can find the truth of who you are, and LIVE by the many ridiculous laws of this land and LIVE your life, instead of letting your life live you. You can be OFF THE WORLD, but not IN THE WORLD. Jesus said that. But he also said, that once you are enlightened to the TRUTH of who you are. YOUR ENJOYMENT OF LIFE will irritate the hell out of people. LITERALLY!

John 15:19
If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you

When you understand that YOU ARE NOT A PRODUCT OF THIS WORLD, but that THIS WORLD IS A PRODUCT OF YOU… then you will be free!

John 17:16
They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world

That’s right, WE CREATE! Whether you know it or not you are creating your life, whether that is a life of misery and defeat or one of peace, YOU CREATE IT. You create what you BELIEVE! Whatever a man believes in his heart, that he becomes! If you had faith you could move the mountains of pain out of your life, but that starts by giving up TRYING to remove it, and just knowing it will be removed.

ADAM (mankind)Adam was born WITHOUT the knowledge of sin, he ONLY knew sin after he ate OF THAT TREE. We ONLY know sin once we start believing all the rights and wrongs, and this and thats, and what everyone says we must do and become, and what everyone says we are. Once we buy into this, once we ASSIMILATE (eat/become one with) what is produced by the almost infinite amount of LAWS man has created, we reap the fruit of it which is DEATH.

We didn’t know sin, until some taught us about sin. Paul said he didn’t know sin, until the Law came…

Romans 7:9
For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died

The LAWS of the land are meant to frustrate us. They are meant to kill us. They are meant to drive us to the point where we don’t want to live in this hell of a world anymore. The reason there is war, prejudice, hate, famine, poverty, disease, and more is because mankind created LAWS that we cannot possibly follow. And because of out insecurity in not being able to “measure up” as we have been taught to, we try to compensate by outwardly becomes a fanatic about things. And then in ANYONE threatens the laws that you believe you must follow… LIKE THE BELIEF IN ETERNAL TORTURE, if anyone threatens this false belief that you have been conditioned to believe in OUR ELSE, than you will want to silence that voice!

You are not a SINNER that is hell bound people. You are in hell (suffering/ignorance/vanity) because you have SINNED (FOOLISHLY THOUGHT) you were a SINNER FROM BIRTH in need of a SAVIOR.

But every single person on this planet is a child of God.

1 John 3:9 – whoever is born of God cannot sin, for his seed remains in him and he cannot sin.

AREN’T WE ALL BORN OF GOD? And when we realize this then we can be free from SIN. And the only way to do this, is to stop trying to be something you are not. Take a look back at your life, accept that where you are is what you have created for yourself, and begin to LIVE your life!

Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE.

He is simply a picture of us. He was telling his disciples a great truth, I am the way, the truth, and the LIFE. I am LIFE! The reason is he knew HE AND THE FATHER WAS ONE! He didn’t have to do anything but LAY DOWN THE LIFE HE HAD. And all we need to do is the same. Give up trying to be someone you are not, get the revelation that you are GOD’S CHILD, and if God’s child that ONE WITH GOD.

You can only do what the Father wants you to do, because you are one. You grab hold of this and you will know the joy of the LIFE YOU HAVE. And you will no longer let your life live you, you will live your life. And you will be able to look back on everything that you have created in your life and say IT IS GOOD! In that moment, when you can accept that ALL THINGS HAVE WORKED TOGETHER FOR THE GOOD OF THOSE THAT LOVE GOD, than you will LIVE!

There will come a time in your life, or has come, when you will do as God did.

Genesis 6:6
And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart

You will hate the LIFE you have created for yourself (which was God creating within you) because you and the Father are ONE. And it will grieve your heart, that your mind is on pain and suffering and evil all the time. And you will want that MAN that you created DEAD!

Genesis 6:7
And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them

You will LAY DOWN YOUR LIFE so you can finally take up LIFE. You will ENTER THE ARC, you will go within for the answers and you will go through a time of being tossed back and forth with everything that comes your way. But when peace arrives at your door to heaven (your mind) you will see the world in a new light and you will be free!

GO TO THE FATHER! (This phrase alone does not mean go to a separate God, for you and God are one) – It means accept that! And trust that everything in your life was a necessary, and is a necessary part of the plan to get you to where you are RIGHT NOW! Then put off the conversation with your old ignorant nature and begin a new one!

Peace Jacob
http://www.JacobIsrael.org

WHAT IS TRUTH

Jacob Israel10 Comments


“WHAT IS TRUTH?”

Who is God using today? Is God using people standing behind an alter, temple, mosque, kingdom hall, you get the point. Is God speaking to the world today from the Podium or High seat of your place of worship?

We hear so many messages and have so many differing ideas as to what the truth is, what God is, Allah, Brahmin, it really doesn’t matter what you call the creative force of us all. If the truth be told there is only one CREATOR. Only One, all things come from ONE. ONE large circle cannot create an equally large circle of it’s own size and dimension, but within that circle there are infinite possibilities. Just as the one CREATIVE FORCE of the universe, which I like to call God, or even Father, can only be ONE GOD but out of this ONE GOD ALL THINGS EXIST. The purpose of me pointing this out to you is to also state, that if there is ONE CREATOR than there is only ONE TRUTH about that creator. There is ONE CONSTANT that cannot be changed.

Malachi 3:6
For I am the LORD, I change not

This ONE GOD, as I said does not change, and there is nothing greater than this God.

Hebrews 6
13For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself

So since there is ONLY ONE GOD, ONE TRUTH, ONE IMMERSION into this truth, you would think there wouldn’t be so many divisions in belief. But there are, regardless of understanding there is only ONE. ONE GOD of which all of humanity is ONE BODY that came out from this ONE GOD.

Ephesians 4:4-6
4There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;
5One Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

Notice, how this ONE GOD is above all (nothing greater) through all and in all, meaning we simply exist IN THIS ONE SPIRIT. So why so many divisions? And where will the truth be found? Who should we listen to? Is a religious leader the way to go? Or is there another way?

Today because so many go to RELIGIOUS LEADERS, who let on that THEY ALONE have this ONE TRUTH we see countless divisions. In the name of God we see people hating each others, fighting each other, attacking each other, cheating each other, stealing from each other, the list goes on and on. The religious world is in an uproar. And for many that follow this religious leader they follow without question and believe themselves to be right as well. And if they have the power they will force what they believe to be right on everyone. This is why we have laws against same-sex marriage, drug use, etc, and many other laws that man has made not because these things hurt other people, and I am not endorsing drug use by any means, but many of these laws were created because a certain religion decided it was “immoral” and so the land begins to enforce what this certain religious group in power demands. In Muslim countries we see how women are treated, and there are still some in our country that say it is immoral for women to wear jeans, men to grow long hair etc. But the fact is, these are man’s interpretation and ideas of what is right and wrong. And when Mankind decides what is good and what is evil, it doesn’t create liberty, it creates bondage! The sad thing is, many will use force, condemn, will even kill so that what they BELIEVE to be true, isn’t threatened or disregarded. A war between faiths isn’t anything new. Mormons were slaughtered for simply being slaughtered. Pagans were slaughtered for being pagans. Free thinkers were tortured and slaughtered as heretic, Lutherans were burned at the stake in England, women were called witches and drowned and hung and burned to death for simply appearing different, perhaps for having a voice. Wars between the Muslim and Christian faith has been going on for centuries, and is still going on today. This has to end. We have to put aside our differences, and see our similarities, we are all ONE. When we see that what we do to one we do to ourselves then this world will know peace.

But since there are so many different faiths, and many roads don’t lead to the way, although I do believe many roads can lead you to the ONE ROAD which leads to the KINGDOM (rule of God). But since there are so many division, we must consider that EVERYONE CANNOT BE RIGHT.

And if this is true, which you don’t need to be a Rocket scientist to see many differing views don’t equal one view, so it’s a good call that many are deceived, then we are left with the question, “WHAT IS TRUTH?”.

Pontius Pilate was left with the same question. “WHAT IS TRUTH?” when the FATE OF CHRIST is given into his hands. The irony is the FATE OF CHRIST is also given into our hands. Religion wants the TRUTH put to death, because it threatens the kingdom religious men and women have created. If people leave the churches, temples, mosques, the religious leaders will not be able to live in the lap of luxury anymore. If people turned to the TRUTH and GOD instead of turning to Religious Men and Women, Religion would no longer be needed. And when the great TRUTH is spoken, the RELIGIOUS MINDED hate this truth because it is opposed to everything Religion teaches. It confounds the WISE (those who claim to know it all).

And so like Pilate we too are given a chance to decide the fate of the CHRIST (power and wisdom) of God. We desperately need to know what the TRUTH IS! But for many instead of listening to our hearts, as Pilate knew in his heart, Christ did NO WRONG.

Luke 23:4
Then said Pilate to the chief priests and to the people, I find no fault in this man.

We too may hear the TRUTH, Love God, Love Others, and we find no fault in this. Simple, no tithing, no handing out flyers about the coming judgment, no infinite torture, everything has purpose, God is in control. We see all that Christ is, we FIND NO FAULT IN IT! But the RELIGIOUS do. They don’t want to lose their stranglehold over the world and their ignorant flocks. And these religious leaders will do EVERYTHING they can to not lose one of those, they made TWICE THE CHILD OF HELL (ignorance) they are.

Today from the pulpit we see many people attacking anyone who begins to speak differently. The latest victim of this is ROB BELL for his book LOVE WINS. Rob had a glimpse that perhaps God could in fact save everyone. Christ(the power and wisdom of God) was given into his hands, and when the Religious Rabble Rousers began to spew their hate and opposition, condemning Him and his book, did Rob Bell stand firm on his belief or did he cave? Sadly he caved, and gave a confession of faith saying “I believe in heaven and hell, and I believe God gives us a choice.” Rob washed his hands of CHRIST. In his heart, he KNOWS THERE IS NO FAULT in this GREAT TRUTH of SALVATION for all. But it was so new to him, and he is so young in this belief and so used to being the King of his large manmade kingdom, he doesn’t want to lose that. Once the people turned against him, he wanted to make it clear, HE BELIEVED IN HELL AND PEOPLE HAVE A CHOICE. We Rob Bell, I’m sorry to hear you say that because I see differently. Just do the research man, no such thing as infinite torture, Hell is simply our ignorance, our carnal death, the truth hidden from our view and so we suffer. And Heaven is finally entering into God’s PEACE, PURPOSE, WISDOM, AND POWER.

This is the problem with many so-called believers today. We want community, God wants unity. So instead of breaking away from what EVERYONE IS SAYING IS THE WAY, and seeking God to find the way yourself, many listen to what everyone else is saying. Because it isn’t convenient to speak against the status quo. So many, wash their hands, and allow the RELIGIOUS ELITE CONTINUE to scream and lead the way for the DEATH (putting away of) OF THE TRUTH, WAY, AND LIFE!

And instead of listening to the TRUTH WITHIN, we wash our hands of it, because SO MANY PEOPLE have so much against it.

Matthew 27:13
Then said Pilate unto him, Hearest thou not how many things they witness against thee

This is the parable of the sower. The seed is happily taken in, we find no fault with it, but then comes everyone else and since we are not properly prepared to face this adversity we fold our arms, and allow the TRUTH to be killed, and we no longer consider it. How many religious people, won’t even accept simple teaching when it is clearly defined and explained with irrefutable proof. It doesn’t matter, “look at all the people and how they are all against it.” – this is what matters, what others think. Religion has taught us to seek the approval of MANKIND and not GOD!

Many are blindly following, wanting acceptance and staying with the status quo. Many others don’t want to leave their wilderness of beliefs and end up going to their grave in this lifetime without ever entering the Land of Promise. The Land of Promise being the WISDOM AND POWER OF GOD, entering into salvation from your fear, condemnation, worry, doubt, and the demons of lies you’ve believed as true your whole life.

What I have learned over the years, many leading a congregation don’t want to hear what anyone without “credentials” has to say. As if going to O.R.U. or some other Christian University and getting your degree or doctorate in what man has decided should be taught and what should be forgot, makes you a greater vessels of truth than one who with a sincere heart turns to God and begs “TEACH ME THE TRUTH NO MATTER WHAT THE COST.” Which is ironic because they put their faith in a man who received no schooling at all.

John 7:15
15 The Jews there were amazed and asked, “How did this man get such learning without having been taught?”

So it should be clear, that we don’t need to LISTEN to someone who simply have a DEGREE in Religion to learn about God. We simply need to turn within and seek God. Those that seek will find.

Now here is something to consider. If you have left the manmade religious system and no longer go to a manmade church, it is a good call, you have also left the teachings of man and now are seeking God for answers. Perhaps you have been enlightened to more, and if you shared what you learned if it threatened what your “home” church taught you may have even been kicked out for it. I have a new friend who lost his job for seeing the TRUTH. Religion is a killer of spirits indeed.

Now of course not all churches, temples, mosques are bad. I know out there, THERE MUST BE sincere seekers. But if they are looking to one single man or woman to lead them, then they are not seeking God themselves.

You have to get to a point in your walk where you actually are disgusted by the beliefs that reared you. Your religious father, mother, brothers, sisters who taught you, molded you, formed you. If you don’t get to a point where you can no longer stomach them raising you, YOU will find the Truth and it will set you free.

Luke 14:26
If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple

Because regardless of a religious leaders intentions, if they are teaching others from the pulpit in a man-made church they haven’t ALLEGORICALLY left the PHYSICAL WORLD OF WORSHIP. God wants us to go to God, not a minister. God wants your voice to be heard, not the voice of someone who someone else has said “this person is approved to teach the things of God”.

Let me be real clear on this, we do not need MAN’S APPROVAL to speak or teach the things of God. God ALWAYS chooses the FOOLISH THINGS of this world to confound the wise…. In other words, those that consider themselves wise are confounded by the foolish things they believe, and cannot know the Truth when presented, because they can’t yet hear it. (I know that last verse has been taught differently, but people who God’s wisdom revealed to them are not foolish) – the foolish ones have no OIL (wisdom)

So who is approved of God? Who has the right to speak about the things of God? Who is to say who is right or wrong? NO ONE! No one is to say who is approved of God. We are to call NO MAN FATHER on this earth. So much for having a SPIRITUAL FATHER OR MOTHER in the Faith.

Wake up people, there is so much more to learn. You have the voice to spread what you learn. And you can ONLY TRULY LEARN alone with God. God said he wanted all of Israel to come to the MOUNTAIN (a HIGHER ALTITUDE of belief) and Israel didn’t want to go, because they knew to do that they would have to DIE to who they thought they were and who they have been. So they tell Moses, you go, and you tell us. And guess what, NOT ONE ENTERS the promise of God, the whole lot of them died in the wilderness.

YOU EACH NEED TO FORSAKE GOING TO A MAN OR A WOMAN for spiritual leadership, and simply ask God to teach you, then start searching. You will in that time, BE TRANSFORMED! Now let me be clear, I am not saying leave you church family, that would be me putting you under a law. God forbid, stay where you are welcome, but seek GOD, listen to what others say, but don’t drink the kool-aid without first checking to see with God if it is poison or not.

I am not a prophet, not a bishop, not a guru, not a priest, not a pastor, not a saint… I simply am who I am, and I am doing what I believe I am supposed to do. I am not a perfect man, many say I am humble and kind and charitable, they say that I am a good man, but I tell you I feel like I am chief of all sinners. Not because I do so much wrong, but because I can’t seem to ever feel that I have done enough right. I want to be a light in this world, I want to be a candle that is passed to other candles until millions of candles are burning bright in this world. This is my desire. And I pray it is yours.

The reason I wrote my book is because I believed I was meant to, to open the eyes of those who could not see before (my day-dream and desire if you will). I wanted to, in a fiction show the world that loving others is the only way, that everything that happens has purpose, and that we are all GOD’S ONLY BEGOTTEN SON (humanity).

Romans 12:5
So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.

With that being said, don’t look to me, or others in a higher light than you should. We are ONE AND THE SAME, sharing the same experience, learning the same things, but each of us in a different order.

The good news is NO ONE WILL PROCEED another. We are all in this together, for better, for worse, and then for a perfect universe. And this plan cannot fail, but the only way to find it is to find God within you. You have to enter that SHEEP GATE and become the SHEPHERD!

John 10
1Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. 2But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

There is only one way in, THE DOOR, Christ, and CHRIST IS WITHIN YOU! And once you enter in YOU BECOME THE SHEPHERD. And you didn’t need a degree to do so, and become so.

You will NEVER find the truth if you aren’t willing to pray, Teach me the truth, take away every false beliefs no matter how much it costs, teach me the truth. I believe when people get to this point, it is because that is what God has already begun within them and their prayer is in fact a temporal witness of what is already being done within them.

I want for all of you, to have hope, don’t be discouraged because of what you have heard in religion or from religious leaders around the world. We are the LIGHTS OF THIS WORLD, and you will ONLY FIND THIS LIGHT SHINING BRIGHT when you LOOK WITHIN! Look within! CROSS THE JORDAN! Take us the CROSS! –

And now a message for all you religious leaders.

Philippians 3
4Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more:

(If you think you have credentials, THINK AGAIN!)

5Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee; 6Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.

(You may think you are doing everything right, and are not at fault… THINK AGAIN!)

7But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. 8Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,

The things YOU THINK are benefitting you are actually KEEPING YOU FROM THE TRUTH of CHRIST. You can count all of those things, your “salvations”,”alter calls”,”miracle healing”,”falling out”,”prophetic words”,”dancing”, “singing”,”Praying”, “Traditions” — COUNT THEM ALL AS SOMETHING TO LOSE for the KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST (power and wisdom of God) – count it as waste that you may WIN (overcome) Christ. (The truth is in you not in a building)

10That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;

So you may know him (the way, the truth, and the life) and the power of the way, truth, and life’s resurrection IN YOU and the suffering tha accompanies this, and the laying down of the life you once lived for the TRUE LIFE of who you really are!

11If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.

So that YOU may also, ATTAIN the same RESURRECTION out of your DEATH (Ignorance) as Jesus did.

12Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.

Not that you have already attained this, or have I in this life. But we follow after this life, if need be to apprehend this resurrection.

13Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

So forget everything you used to know. Reach forward to what you are now to know.

14I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Move beyond your traditions, religious buildings, and everything you thought you knew, and press on to the HIGH CALLING OF GOD, which is to become CHRIST. (his power and wisdom manifested)

20For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

Heaven is WITHIN, so where would the SAVIOR BE FOUND? Within, not without. Our conversation is within, our thoughts are the key, the truth will set us free. Even though we may feel like the chief of sinners.

21Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

Then we the Chief of Sinners, will no longer see our body (soul/being) as VILE, we will see it a glorious. Every fear and negative thought will be ripped away, we will feel secure, loved, and we will no longer need the approval of others, or be hurt by others, because all our thoughts will be God’s thoughts.

So who is God using today? Is it you? Is it me? Does it really matter who? I believe not. For God uses us all in different ways. Some like Pharoah whom he hardens to test and push Israel out of bondage, and some like Joseph who soon rule Egypt and store up enough grain (understanding) to feed the world. We are all part of the same plan, so we must LOVE ONE ANOTHER. Turn to God to learn about God, don’t have any gods before God within. Not a religious book, religious leader, not a philosophy, not anything. Let your conversation be in HEAVEN and HEAVEN will be in your EARTH (HEART).

Jacob
http://www.Jacobisrael.org

LET PATIENCE HAVE HER PERFECT WORK

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LET PATIENCE HAVE HER PERFECT WORK

James 1:2-4
2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; 3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. 4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

Yeah right, easier said than done right? Well the truth, as they say, hurts but it also heals. So settle into this essay with an open mind and remember there is no such thing as coincidence, and everything has purpose.

This is a topic I have briefly touched on before in the past. But today, I am going to really dive into this and point out some things that jumped out at me (revelation you see:)) Hopefully what I write will help you to see that there is much bigger picture that we are working with here. Hopefully you will see by the end of this essay that there is a reason for everything you go through. Hopefully you will understand that nothing good comes easy, as they say, but everything good comes to those that faithfully wait for their promise. Hopefully you will understand everything has purpose, the good and the bad, and in the end everything will be brought to the knowledge of the truth and peace.

Now I wasn’t planning on writing an essay this morning, when I woke up at 5am and sat down at this computer. In fact, I was simply going to revise an older essay but I began to write and below is what came out of it. As always I just go with the flow when I write and I rarely go back and edit so forgive me for any mistakes you may find. I look forward to your comments and I hope you enjoy it.

So let’s begin shall we.

If you’ve been to this site before you know I write much about the allegory of scripture. I write about the same thing the apostles and prophets of old wrote and spoke about. Paul said the “Letter” kills, which basically means if you take everything that is written literally, it will keep you in the darkness of death (ignorance/carnal mind). In a story, it’s never about whether or not there was a real Little Red Riding Hood or a Wolf, it is what we learn from the story that is important. Which is why Jesus spoke to the masses only in parable.

Matthew 13:34
All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them

Remember the things of the Kingdom (reign/rule) of God is a mystery. And a mystery is something that must be revealed, understood, and found out. God has always spoke to us in allegory.

Psalm 78:2
I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old

We should always seek God to reveal the deeper meaning of the stories we read in the scriptures. Because when you do, you will find the stories you are reading about have more to do with you and your life than they do about literal people from thousands of years ago. It’s all about finding out the mystery, which is not of private interpretation, but insight given by God, who wants us to come to the understanding of these things and in fact He will be succesful. As ALL WILL COME TO THE UNITY OF THE FAITH, AND KNOWLEDGE AND STATURE OF THE PERFECT MAN.

Proverbs 1
5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: 6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings

The only way to increase in learning is to seek God, and allow God to reveal the interpretation of the proverb, parable, and dark saying (which are basically words that can’t been perceived naturally).

I want to point out that the word “God” I am using is the same spirit of love and truth that is within each and everyone of us, it is the beginning and end of all things and then some. God is everything seen and unseen, God is all in all. And who you are is God’s child. Or should I say, who you think you are is a creation of something that your conscious mind cannot fathom, God, or who we all really are the offspring of. Jesus’ prayer was that mankind would become ONE with God, which he called the “Father”. “That they may be one, as we are one.” Now, if you are ONE with something there is no seperation between who you are and who God is. For you are IN THE FATHER AND THE FATHER IS IN YOU. However, for the sake of this paper, I will use the word God to make my point. It is my hope that one day we too will be able to say we are one as Jesus did.

The scriptures state that it is impossible to know the mind of God. Much like it is impossible for the conscious mind to know what the subsconscious mind is up to. And that my friends is what the mystery is all about, finding our way home, finding our way to the truth of who and what we are, which is salvation indeed.

What few people are able to grasp is that their own lives are in fact a road map toward their own salvation. – Salvation mind you, is not freeing you from some future suffering in the afterlife, but freeing you from your ignorance and suffering in the here and now. For those that say, oh everyone is saved already, in my opinion they are terribly wrong. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have been taught to WORK OUT OUR SALVATION.

Philippians 2:12
Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation

You have to understand the future is not something we need salvation from. The FUTURE does not yet exist does it. We need salvation in the HERE AND NOW! Salvation is all about the NOW. It is about being freed from your fears, worries, hang ups, addictions, anger, sadness, etc… and I’m sorry to say but for those that say, “we already overcame because of what one man did two thousand years ago”, I say, I believe strongly you are wrong. For those who say we are perfect as we are, the murderer and the saint, I say you are wrong. There is only one way to salvation and that is coming to the fullness, the knowledge and wisdom of who you are in Christ. And when you understand this, and the DAYSTAR has risen in your heart, then you are no longer ruled by your carnal fears and hang ups but you are set free. It is a dangerous teaching to tell people that you can be anything you want to be, even if that hurts others, and you can still enter the kingdom. I believe one day ALL WILL ENTER IN, BUT, and that is a very big BUT, it will only happen when they have been set free from their carnal old man, and have reaped what they have sown. This is why we are told to love others, to do unto others as we want done to ourselves. So don’t be fooled thinking you are already perfected, if you were, you would FEEL IT, you would KNOW IT! And it isn’t as simple as just turning on a switch, this is a process. This is why we MUST have patience and faith, because I am confident that God will bring us all to the knowledge of the truth, but EACH MAN IN HIS ORDER.

Philippians 1:6
Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ

So how does God do this? How do we find the path?

Well, the answers are all around us, from the car we drive, to how messy or clean our home is, to our relationship, enemies, friends, and illnesses. Now this is hard for many to grasp. But the answers are all around us, in world events, natural disasters, to the television programs and movies we watch. God has inspired it all, to bring us all to a place of understanding and ultimately peace.

I know many of you will say, NO THERE IS TOO MUCH PAIN IN THIS WORLD, how can God possibly be using this to bring us to a place of peace and rest. Well consider how God chose to perfect us according to scripture.

Isaiah 48:10
Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction

In fact if we think of many precious things in the world, there is a great torment (testing/and trying) of these things. To produce the perfect pearl the oyster suffers its whole life and has to die for that pearl to be harvested. To create WINE (which is such a wonderful allegory) choice grapes ar ripped from the vine, that they are trampled under foot, pressed, scraped, left to stew in their torment, all the flesh is taken away, left to sit some more until that SPIRIT is ready to drink. All precious metals are held under the hottest part of the flame until all the impurities bubble to the surface. In fact in the refining of silver, the way the smith knows the silver is pure is when he or she sees their reflection(image) in the silver. The same is true for us. Let’s face it the easy road is never the road we benefit the most from. It is climbing the mountain and enduring the storms and escaping death and finally ending your journey on the mountain’s peak that you feel that sense of awe and accomplishment. If it was easy, no one would bother. Where’s the fun in that? Also consider the things you remember the most in life, things you are MOST PROUD of, they are usually the things you have overcome. In fact that is what our “testimony” is all about. All we have been through and where we stand today, what we have learned from our journey, and why others should be encouraged in their time of trouble.

I understand life can be so hard. I am not immune to the cares of this world (thorns) and the death (pain, ignorance, and suffering) it causes. I have been abandoned, attacked, hurt emotionally/physically, I have lost everything, I have suffered great depression and still do at times, I have been deathly ill for years thanks to my Crohns disease, but because of it all I am here today writing this article to encourage you that no matter what you are going through, IT IS ALL FOR YOUR BENEFIT! Now I understand it may not seem that way but trust me when I say it is.

1 Peter
12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: 13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.

There is a teaching out there, that Jesus took all of our suffering and we need not suffer anymore. Let me tell you that is the farthest thing from the truth. As hard as this is going to be for many of you to hear, there is no difference between you and Jesus. When he was crucified we were crucified.

Galatians 2:20
I am crucified with Christ

Just who do you think the TWO THIEVES that were crucified with Christ were. They were the two natures in man. The one that is TAKEN (embraces the truth) and the other that is LEFT (cast off/divorced). – By the way, those are the actual definitions of those words, look them up.

Matthew 24:40
Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left

Remember CHRIST in you is the HOPE OF GLORY. Christ IN IN IN you. Your life is HID in Christ.

Proverbs 25:2
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter

Yes, and we ALL HAVE this TREASURE, PROMISE, LIFE, LOVE, POWER, AND WISDOM within us.

2 Corinthians 4:7
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us

Notice the last part of that verse. This truth has been HIDDEN from our understanding, so that when it is revealed we would know it was of GOD and not ourselves. THIS IS WHY OUR THIEVES need to be crucified. Because yes, once again, a THIEF is an allegory.

John 10:1
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber

The THIEVES are those natures in man who believe we can enter the Kingdom of God by any other way, than the straight and narrow door of BECOMING CHRIST.

Matthew 10:38
And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me

Let me first point out what the word “WORTHY” means in the Greek. Because it will open your eyes to a much deeper meaning. It doesn’t mean, “If you don’t do this you’re not good enough for me to love you.” God forbid, it actually means, if you don’t do exactly what Jesus did (laying down his old man) you cannot be as he is. DON’T BELIEVE ME… well look at what the word “WORTHY” means.

WORTHY – aàciov – having the weight of another thing of like value, worth as much

It means if you don’t embrace your suffering in this world, you will not have the same WORTH as Christ. The good news is, in the end of days (the last days of your ignorance, not the last days of this literal world) all will come to this understanding. And it is our suffering and trials that bring us there. This is why, we are told to rejoice in our sufferings because they are doing a great work within us.

1 Peter
6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: 7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ

And yes that word APPEARING DOESN’T mean Jesus is going to come again soon and stand before you in a separate body. Wake up people YOU ARE THE BODY OF CHRIST. That word appearing, once again when properly translated makes it clear. That the trial of your faith is precious so Christ can and will be manifested IN YOU and Made known to the world THROUGH YOU.

APPEARING: a)poka/luyiv – a disclosure of truth, instruction, concerning things before unknown,
used of events by which things or STATES OF PERSONS hitherto withdrawn from view ARE MADE VISIBLE to all.

There it is in black and white. Do you believe it?

I know, I know this is a hard saying, as they say. But would you rather think that all you are going through is totally pointless, that you have a dark cloud over your head, and your unlucky… OR, would you rather believe that ALL THINGS ARE WORKING TOGETHER FOR YOUR GOOD. That even the most difficult of experience, and most devastating of events are here simply to push us to the revelation of who we truly are in Christ.

Romans 8:18
For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

Notice, it DOES NOT say the glory is revealed OUTSIDE OF US. But within us! We are where it all takes place, the beginning and the end, the last and the first, it is all part of our journey. As HE was SO ARE WE IN THIS WORLD. We need to take our eyes off of the Jesus man from two thousand years ago, and go to GOD AS HIS CHILD. For we are HIS CHILD. Even Jesus instructed that there will come a time in your walk WHEN YOU WILL NO LONGER GO TO HIM but you will KNOW GOD LOVES YOU!

John 16
23And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.

When you come to this understanding. You will no longer pray to Jesus, or pray in “jesus’ literal name” because you will be ASKING IN HIS NATURE, which is what the word “name” literally means. You will be asking as CHRIST. So you won’t need to ask Jesus, you’ll be asking as Jesus (in other words). Look at this next line.

John 16
24Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.

The scripture says, YOU HAVE NOT ASKED “IN” my name. This doesn’t mean you pray, and then say, “I ask this in Jesus name…. To be IN something, it to be ONE with that something. When you ASK you MUST ASK knowing that YOU AND CHRIST ARE ONE!

John 17:22
And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one

Read that again.

John 17:22
And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one

Now what glory did God give Jesus. It was the revelation that he was the only begotten son of God, and savior of the world. THIS IS THE SAME GLORY WE ARE GIVEN. And how are we given this Glory. Did Jesus wave his hand and magically impart this to us…. NO! What is the GLORY OF GOD AGAIN?

Proverbs 25:2
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.

Christ comes (is revealed) in the Glory of God (the Hidden truth with us). When Jesus is saying the Glory God gave give, he is saying God made known the TRUTH to him, and this he relayed to his disciples, and the glory given to them they gave to those God gave them, and the Glory given to me and you, we give to those God gives us… why? SO THAT WE MAY BE ONE! So we may all come to the understanding, that no one is better than another, no man or woman regardless of if there name is Jesus or Mohammed or Siddhārtha is greater than Bob, Sally, Antoine, Jacob, or Sue. FOR WE ARE ALL ONE and there is no DIVISION in ONE. There is no one greater than another IN ONE. For they are ALL THE SAME. Different members, different gifts, different purposes, but all ONE. As the hand is not greater than the foot, Jesus is not greater than you. The CHRIST in US, the CHRIST IN JESUS (which he was speaking out of and from) IS however greater than our carnal nature. Our HIGHER SELF is greater than our lower ignorance self.

When you understand this, then you begin to see other scriptures in a different light.

John 14:12
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father

What do you think Jesus meant when he said, the THINGS I DO YOU SHALL DO… the reason is, you and Christ are the same. So what Christ does you do, and what you do Christ does. Because when you have LIFTED UP THE SON OF MAN then you shall know THE “I AM”, and that you too can do NOTHING OF YOURSELF, BUT EVERYTHING THAT FATHER HAS TAUGHT YOU. Taught you by what you have gone through, experienced, through the allegory of your physical life.

Still having problems with this? Well look at this next verse.

2 Corinthians 1:5
For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ

Christ sufferings ABOUND IN US… Not outside of us, not many years ago, but NOW! But the best part is so our CONSOLATION also abounds BY CHRIST. In other words, we may SUFFER to attain the POWER AND WISDOM OF GOD, we may Suffer for Christ. But it is so our COMFORT ABOUND BY CHRIST. There is a point and purpose for it all. Every broken bone and every broken heart, it is working a FAR GREATER THING in us. And when we trust in God, regardless of our circumstance, and understand that it is for our good. When we learn to love even those that hate us, help even those that hurt us, and lift up those that tear us down, we will not only be growing in grace and allow Christ to rule our hearts, but we will be saving those we help, lift, and love from their own ignorance.

Consider for a moment, if we are ALL INFINITE beings, then does it really matter what is happening for the moment. If we are all Infinite beings, than no one who has died, has truly died, no one who has suffered will not one day be comforted, and no one’s life will be lived in vain. The world right now is a scary place, but consider that everything is a natural allegory of what is universally going on in the hearts of those around the world. Dictators are being overthrown, great earthquakes, terrible storms, wars, and rumors of wars, everything that is happening outside of us is also happening within us. Our carnal nature is being overthrown by Christ, our foundational error is being broken up, and there is indeed a war within us, one that will end with our peace.

And just remember you are NOT ALONE in your suffering. Your suffering is there to get you to LET GO and LET GOD RULE! Your suffering is working out a great salvation in you. This is why you have people coming against you, so you can learn to return their attacks with Love because you will then be able to see that it isn’t happening to you (as my friend Dave Fields always says) it is happening FOR YOU! And no one is immune to it, and everyone will go through the fire. But BLESSED ARE THOSE that have taken part of the First resurrection because the FIRE DOESN’T hurt as much. Because you understand what you are going through is for the greater good for yourself and the world.

2 Corinthians 1:6
And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the SAME SUFFERINGS WE ALSO SUFFER: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation

The last thing I want you to take away from this, is the GREAT AND EXCEEDING PROMISE we were given in 2nd Peter. It shows us an order of things. How one thing we experience, leads to another thing, and that things leads to another and so on and so on.

2 Peter
4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. 5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; 6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; 7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. 8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ

Once we reach a point in our walk when we begin to understand that God is in control of every single thing in our lives, we will change, and we will do this by the above list and notice how brotherly kindness and charity is close to last on this list. It is because we must understand diligence, faith, virtue, patience, temperence and godliness and partake of the divine nature, and see that what we do to one we do to ourselves for we are one. And WHEN these things abound in us, AND THEY WILL, we will be fruitful and come to the same knowledge and stature of Jesus Christ, for we shall see him as he is and we shall be LIKE HIM, we shall know as we are known, which means, we shall know ourself in Christ, as Christ, and we shall never again care about the testing of our faith, the second death will not hurt us, it will be a fruitful walk in the park.

So hang in there, let patience have its perfect work, and know that whatever you are going through is for you. So ask God what am I to learn from this. Ask God who am I. Ask God teach me the truth and then trust that God delivers. Because God does!

I hope this essay helped a bit. Peace to you and yours,
Jacob
http://www.JacobIsrael.org

THE PRINCIPAL THING

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THE PRINCIPAL THING

Over the years many Christians have been taught that the most important thing for them to do is to go around and get people to come to their particular churches, and then get them to confess Jesus as Lord. It doesn’t matter if you are Catholic, Pentecostal, Baptist, Lutheran, Jehovah Witness, Mormon, Non-denominational, shoot the list goes on and on, there are so many division in this faith we call Christianity, but the point is, every single denomination teaches the same thing, “get those people to our faith, and get them to confess Jesus.” Now of course, each have different ways of doing this, different means of getting people into “heaven” as they say. For the Catholics its infant baptism then confirmation, for the Church of Christ baptism as an adult is the key, for the Pentecostal’s it’s all about confessing and then getting “spirit filled”, as if somehow the spirit of God is outside of us just waiting for us to say, “Come on in.” For many Evangelicals it’s the same, it’s the sinner’s prayer. You simply ask Jesus to come into your heart. Which of course places the spirit of God’s son somewhere far away, and renders God’s spirit powerless unless you first ask for it and want it. Let me let you all in on a little secret, God doesn’t need an invitation, and the Son of God is closer to all of you then you have ever thought. In fact, this essay is about getting that understanding for yourself. Because it is Wisdom and Understanding that brings you into the Kingdom of God, which by the way is NOT some Kingdom in the sky like the palaces and kingdoms man has made. The Kingdom of God is WITHIN YOU, and scripture tells us clearly what it is.

Romans 14:17
For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost

The word “Kingdom” in fact doesn’t mean a literal kingdom, but denotes a RULE OF AUTHORITY. The literal translation is “Reign or Rule”. Here is the Greek word for it, “basileiða” and it’s definition, royal power, kingship, dominion, rule not to be confused with an actual kingdom but rather the right or authority to rule over a kingdom

I know that alone is a wake up call for some of you, but look it up. The Kingdom of God, simply means the RULE OF GOD, and that is WITHIN YOU ALREADY. But back to our essay.

So, for many the key is getting people to come to their places of “worship” and getting them to go up for an altar call, or to “accept Christ in their heart”. Then some churches, ironically will put these people through a training program and test them to see if they are “ready” to truly be baptised in their churches tap water. But the question I have, and you should have, is this what God meant when we read about preaching the Gospel. Is the good news to simply accept a man from two thousand years ago into your heart, get dunked, go to Church, tithe, and scour the earth to find others to join that church?

Matthew 23:15
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves

Back in the day, it wasn’t much different. It was all about getting people to join the club. The problem Jesus saw with this is that these religious leaders were actually doing more harm than good.

Ecclesiastes 1:9
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

Is Solomon right, could the same thing be happening today? Are religious leaders really bringing people into the Kingdom of God, which is the Rule of God, which is the Righteousness, Peace, Joy, and Power of God’s spirit? Well, for many that I know in the “religious system” the answer is no. Of course that doesn’t mean that everyone that goes to man-made “church” is in error, but let’s just say many, many people are missing the PRINCIPAL THING, many are missing the TRUTH, many are missing SALVATION. In fact, many people believe they are saved from some future event, they think that since they literally said “Jesus is Lord” that their afterlife is secure. How wrong they are. Salvation has nothing to do with avoiding a place of infinite torture (since such a place doesn’t exist read my article “to hell with hell” or “lake of fire revealed” for more info on that topic). No Salvation is for the HERE AND NOW!

Luke 19:9
And Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham

2 Corinthians 6:2
(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)

Yes, SALVATION is for the here and now. And if truth be told Salvation and Resurrection go hand in hand. In fact they are two sides of the same coin. Because to be Saved is to be Born from Above, and to be Born from Above (which means, a higher understanding of the things of God), is to be Resurrected. And like salvation it is in the HERE AND NOW!

John 11:25
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

So if we are not saved from some scary place after we literally die, what are we saved from?

Revelation 12:10
And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.

We are saved from our CARNAL OLD MAN, the FALSE IMAGE, the FATHER OF ALL LIES, we are saved from OURSELVES. The reason is, we have become ignorant of the TRUTH of who we are in Christ. We have forgotten who we are and believed ourselves to be something we are not. Ephesians puts it beautifully, both how we became LOST and what is done so we are SAVED.

Ephesians 4
18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: 19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

Notice what the problem is, and was? Our understanding, like the Gentiles of past, was DARKENED. In other words we no longer understood the Light of the Truth, and because out understanding was Darkened, because we became ignorant we became ALIENATED from the LIFE OF GOD through our ignorance. And we began to believe God was somehow far from us, angry at us, we believed ourselves to be unworthy and because of this insecurity and fear we began to act ignorantly.

And unfortunately, religion perpetuates this darkness. As the scripture states, making the congregation TWICE THE CHILD OF HELL (ignorance) that their leaders are. Most churches only reinforce the belief that you need to work for God’s approval, when the OPPOSITE is true. We need to stop believing we are in control and simply put off the WORKS of the OLD IGNORANT MAN and come to the knowledge of the TRUTH OF WHO WE REALLY ARE!

Ephesians 4
13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.

We MUST come to the measure of the STATURE of the FULNESS of CHRIST. We must become the PERFECT MAN. And you can’t do this if you only believe there is one from two thousand years ago. We can’t do this if we continue to believe Jesus is somehow special and we are not AS HE IS IN THIS WORLD. And we only come to understand this when we put off the former conversation of the OLD MAN, when we stop accusing ourselves and condemn ourselves and others, when we finally LOVE GOD, AND LOVE OTHERS, and our love is perfected. When this happens we understand, there is no difference between Jesus and Ourselves, in fact we are all ONE.

1 John 4:17
Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because AS HE IS, SO ARE WE in this world.

If you have brothers or sisters, you don’t esteem one greater than another. The First Born isn’t somehow better than the middle child or the youngest. They are all the same.

Romans 8:29
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren (siblings).

Now, I know this is new for a lot of you. Jesus was condemned for saying he was God’s son. Years later, Christians said, okay, “It’s okay for Jesus to be God’s son, but he’s special and we are definitely not (as he is).” – You see today a greater mystery is unfolding. Many are coming to the knowledge of the truth and the stature of the perfect man. Many are beginning to see that Jesus is the pattern son, meaning we are the same, his story is our story, what he did we must do. And no I don’t mean literally be crucified, but spiritually we are to crucify this Flesh (carnal thinking).

Matthew 16:24
Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Look at that verse carefully. Jesus took up the Cross, so must we, sure that is easy to see. But what you are missing is the most important part… YOU NEED TO DENY YOURSELF (old belief/ego/carnal nature).

Now this doesn’t mean DEPRIVE yourself which many have taught. It doesn’t mean that at all. In fact the definition of the word a DENY according to any dictionary is to “REFUSE to acknowledge something or someone EXISTS” – (de·ny/diˈnī/Verb 1. Refuse to admit the truth or existence of (something).

Now that opens the floodgates of revelation for those who have eyes to see. If any many will come after me, he must first deny that HE AS HE THINKS HE OR SHE IS does NOT EXIST! And then after the great revelation that who you think you are is nothing, and doesn’t really exist, you TAKE UP THE CROSS and you put that old nature to death and FOLLOW THE SAME PATH AS JESUS. – This my friends is how salvation is found, it is in PUTTING OFF your former beliefs and the belief in who you once thought you were and understanding that YOU ARE GOD’S CHILD! And if a child a JOINT HEIR IN ALL THINGS!

Ephesians 4
22That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; 23And be renewed in the spirit of your mind.

We have to stop thinking of ourselves as less than, and start seeing ourselves through the eyes of grace. We need to stop condemning ourselves and listening to people who say “you aren’t worthy, you’re worthy of hellfire you darn sinner.” We need to stop listening to people who say, “Do this, join us, and you’ll be saved.” Because the truth is not found there and it never will be found there.

Matthew 7:21
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven

You can say Jesus is your Savior until you’re blue in the face. You will never KNOW SALVATION in you don’t know who you are in CHRIST, and the only way to do that is to DO THE WILL OF THE FATHER. And notice how Jesus DOESN’T say, whoever does the WILL OF THE FATHER is my servant or slave.

Mark 3:35
For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother

Once again we see, Jesus saying, WE ARE AS HE IS, brothers and sisters. The question is, what is GOD’S WILL?

John 7
16Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but His (FATHER’S) that sent me. 17If any man will do GOD’S will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.

To do God’s Will is to know the DOCTRINE OF GOD, to know the TRUTH of GOD! This, this is the principal thing. This may come as a shock to you, but the PRINCIPAL THING, means MOST IMPORTANT THING. And according to the scriptures, the PRINCIPAL THING IS WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING.

Proverbs 4:7
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding

This is what we MUST get. WISDOM! It is a TREE OF LIFE! We MUST understand who we are and DENY who we thought we were to know Salvation. I know many will say, “Oh this is gnosticism!” and to be honest it doesn’t matter what you think, what matter is what you know and can confess!

When Jesus was saying “I am the way, the truth, and the life”, he was saying YOU MUST BE AS ME. He wasn’t saying worship me Jesus, he was saying BELIEVE IN ME AND WHAT I AM TELLING YOU! Many looked to Jesus (the man) as being the most important thing there is. The Rich man said…

Matthew 19
16And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life? 17And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God

Jesus always pointed to God, always pointed away from himself. He taught us how to pray “Our FATHER” not as some churches have you praying “our jesus”. We must come to the understanding the ONLY HOPE for our salvation is WITHIN US ALREADY! This is the mystery that has been hidden. Not Christ outside of you, but Christ within you.

Colossians 1:27
To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory

Yes my friends it is all about wisdom and understanding. Some will say NO! It is about Christ, to which I will point out what Christ is….

1 Corinthians 1:24
But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God

To which I will point out what Christ BECOMES for us.

1 Corinthians 1:30
But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption

OF HIM YOU ARE – in Christ Jesus! Jesus means (God is Salvation) – And in understanding you are God’s child and in no need of having to WORK YOUR WAY TO HIM. God delivers you IN HIM, through wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption.

The very SPIRIT of God is WISDOM AND UNDERSTANDING! When God’s spirit is revealed in you, it is UNDERSTANDING THE TRUTH OF WHO YOU ARE IN GOD THROUGH CHRIST that delivers you.

Exodus 31:3
And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship.

So many people are waiting for their savior to come. They wait and they wait. But the longer you believe in salvation outside of you to come, the longer you will be deceived. Many are questioning to this day, WHEN WILL JESUS COME, and they did the same thousands of years ago.

Luke 17
20And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: 21Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

In other words, STOP WAITING AND LOOKING IN THE SKY and start looking within, because salvation is here and now. And it is only found in understanding and having the faith that WITHIN YOU is every answer you will ever need.

Jesus never said, I MADE YOU WHOLE… He always said “YOUR FAITH” made you whole.

Luke 8:48
And he said unto her, Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace

It’s time for everyone to stop listening to mankind and religion. It is time for people to turn to God and ask God to teach them the truth, to lead them into the truth. You don’t need to check with your Pastors or Religious teachers to find out if what God is revealing to you is truth, you simply need to continue to ask God and seek God and have faith. Because it is your FAITH that makes you whole. And that FAITH comes from the CHRIST IN YOU! The POWER AND WISDOM of God WITHIN YOU!

This is what every single apostle, disciple, prophet, etc, desires for you to know.

Colossians 1:9
For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding

Like them, I too want you to know the TRUTH, I desire to know the TRUTH. But the only way to know the TRUTH is to have WISDOM and UNDERSTANDING.

Psalm 51:6
Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.

And why does God desire us to have WISDOM and TRUTH? Why is WISDOM the principal thing? Because without it, you can never be free.

John 8:32
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free

The TRUTH is, YOU ARE GOD’S CHILD and you died (became ignorant) as Adam did when he began to think he had to do something to be like God, when Adam was like God all along!

So pray for wisdom already! And don’t go to man for it, go to God!

James 1
5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

Jacob
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REAL RESURRECTION OF CHRIST NOW!

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REAL RESURRECTION OF CHRIST NOW

Recently, I, and a group of new friends, have been discussing a very important topic, the resurrection. I posted an essay on this subject awhile ago which laid out many reasons that I believe the resurrection takes place inside of us, and may not necessarily be something that happens after we physically die. Not that I don’t believe in an after life, or that we may in fact return to earth in a new body, as Elijah did, to carry out our purpose if not complete. The truth is no one really know what happens after we die, but there is plenty of evidence out there with Near Death Experiences and the study of brain activity to prove that after we die physically, who we are spiritually lives on.

But today’s paper is not about what happens after we physically die, it is about what is happening in the here and now. I believe the problem with most religions is they are too focused on what happens after you die. What they don’t teach is that experiencing Eternal Life and the Kingdom of God is not a future event but a NOW event.

Luke 17:19-21
19 And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way: thy faith hath made thee whole. 20 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: 21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you

So while many religious leaders and religious organizations focus everyone’s attention to what happens after they die, I will focus people to the here and now. Because NOW is where salvation is, it has nothing to do with something you experience after you die.

Luke 19:9
And Jesus said unto him, THIS DAY is salvation come to this house

And what is salvation? Is salvation being set free from something that happens in the future? Or is salvation something that saves you now? Use your head, if you are drowning you don’t need a lifeguard after you drown, you need to be saved in the here and now. And SALVATION is a now event. It is the moment you cross over from the death of your suffering, ignorance, fear, and struggle, into the life of liberty, peace, truth, and hope.

You will find that this is what the resurrection of Christ is, as well. You become a new creature, the old you was dead (ignorant) and the new you is born again (resurrected)…. This essay will show you how that is possible.

Now I will not condemn anyone as ignorant if they say there IS a literal flesh and bone resurrection. You never know, the ways of God are beyond us all. But once again, I am not focused on the future which is not here or even real, I am focused on the here and now, which is all we have. And so is God…

However, regardless of whether you believe in a literal physical bodily resurrection from the literal grave there is still much that can be spiritually learned from this essay. And if you understand that the TOMB is mankind’s ignorant soul, that Christ (The power and wisdom of God) rises out of than, yes indeed this essay is for you as well.

Matthew 23:27
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited tombs, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.

So regardless of what your particular belief is you will benefit from this essay. Personally I am moving past the old teaching of resurrection unto perfection (the whole truth and wholeness of God) – This is my desire, to know the truth no matter what the cost. I pray it is the same for you.

Hebrews 6
1 Therefore LEAVING the principles of the doctrine of Christ, LET US GO UNTO PERFECTION; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, 2 Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD…

We do find clearly spelled out in scripture that FLESH can never inherit the Kingdom of God, so I question why so many believe there will be a physical flesh resurrection after literal death. With that being stated, if you’re still with me, we’re about to move on to some insight that I hope will open your eyes wide and get you saying, “Wow, I never saw that before!”… Then again you may not say that at all, but I ask only that you read with an open heart, and if you really want to know the truth I know you will one day KNOW the Truth/Word/Christ.

First of all, I am neither better or worse for stating there is no literal resurrection (the way it is taught in churches I mean). For, if there is a literal physical resurrection like something out of the movies than good, and if not, well then… good. I cannot prove either and neither can anyone of you. It all boils down to what we’ve been taught or what we have been allowed to see and believe. Seeing as I cannot prove there is not, and neither can anyone prove there is a literal flesh and bone resurrection I will instead make a strong statement of my faith using the scriptures. I will say that the RESURRECTION of CHRIST takes place WITHIN US and while many are CRAVING THE DEAD BODY OF JESUS to return again alive and well, I understand that Christ is resurrected in HIS BODY, but that HIS BODY IS ALL OF US. We are the hosts, the lord of Hosts is revealed in. Our life is Christ, Our life is hid in Christ. Christ IN US is the Hope of Glory, not Christ outside of us coming again in the future. Christ is not returning, for…

Hebrews 13:5
Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I (CHRIST) will NEVER LEAVE YOU, nor forsake thee

Since, Christ (The power and wisdom of God) NEVER LEFT, that means it is still within us.

Colossians 1:27
To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ INSIDE you, the hope of glory

Notice, this is a MYSTERY, scripture goes on to explain that it has been HIDDEN. After all it is the Glory of God to hide a thing!

Proverbs 25:2
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing

And Christ comes (which literally means REVEALED) in the Glory of God. In other words, the Truth of who we are in Christ is revealed in our understanding of this great mystery. WHICH believe it or not is the mystery of who we really are.

I believe it is more important for us to consider what this resurrection means in the here and now. What does any doctrine benefit me, if it is a future thing. Christ said, I am the resurrection and the life, he who believes in me, THOUGH HE WERE DEAD, will live! I hope you understand literal physical dead people cannot believe anything, because THEY ARE PHYSICALLY, LITERALLY DEAD… I hope you can see the allegorical DEATH Jesus was talking about is mankind’s ignorance, or being ruled by their carnal mind.!

Romans 8:6
For to be carnally minded is DEATH; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

It’s simple really, for many life is more like death than living at all. For many their days are filled with misery and no hope at all. When trouble comes they think the worst and believe “well that’s just my life”.

Everyone that is not LIFE that is DEATH. Life is understanding who you are, that all things (even the bad) work together for the good. LIFE is following the desires of your heart, loving others, and knowing love yourself. LIFE doesn’t mean you’ll always be happy, but it does mean you understand that there is a reason for all things and that all things are meant for our learning and our enlightenment.

So DEATH, in scripture is not explaining the literal physical decay of the body, where the LIGHT (Life force) of that body has fled and only a dead shell remains. NO! The Death scripture explains is very clear, it is being ignorant to the truth of God and who you are. But there is hope for those who are living a life of Death. The Dead will RISE as scripture promises. The way for this to happen is when you are enlightened to the TRUTH/WORD of GOD, and the Power and Wisdom of God (which is Christ) is active in your thinking and evident in your life. The Dead RISE, when the Ignorant to BELIEVE the TRUTH OF GOD and become spiritual minded.

Romans 8:6
For to be carnally minded is DEATH; but to be SPIRITUALLY MINDED IS LIFE and peace.

Now I understand, a lot of you are waiting for JESUS to return in his LITERAL BODY. To which I say, you need to fully understand just who JESUS CHRIST’S BODY IS. YES, Christ will be resurrected in His literal Body… which is ALL OF HUMANITY.

“Know you not that YOU ARE THE BODY OF CHRIST” 

Oh I know, some will say, “How can that be, there is only ONE JESUS… and that is not ALLEGORICAL but LITERAL.” I in no way am saying that there was no Jesus of Nazareth. Not at all. In fact without his example, and the gospels we would not be able to discern who we are. His life was a pattern of our life. he clearly said, if you do not take up the cross and follow in the same steps you are none of his. the scripture go so far as to say, AS JESUS IS SO ARE WE.

1 John 4:17
Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because AS HE IS SO ARE WE in this world.

Jesus said he is the Light of the World, and told his disciples WE TOO ARE THE LIGHTS of the World.

Matthew 5:14
Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid

Now this many people aren’t ready to handle. But it doesn’t make it any less true.

1 John 3:2
Beloved, now are WE the SONS(offspring) of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, WE SHALL BE LIKE HIM

At the moment it may not appear that we are who we are in Christ. But when THIS GREAT TRUTH, this GOSPEL is revealed to us, this LIFE IS RESURRECTED in us, then WE SHALL BE LIKE HIM. Because AS JESUS CHRIST IS SO ARE WE.

Pay attention to this next verse. Right now we are as sheep following a Shepherd, but look WHO WE BECOME when we enter into this understanding.

John 10
1Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. 2But he that entereth in by the door IS THE SHEPHERD of the sheep.

Now here is the reason that we must all come to the UNITY OF THE FAITH. Because in fact we are all ONE IN CHRIST.

Romans 12:5
So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another

We are ALL ONE BODY! This is why a majority of scripture teaches to do unto others as you want done to yourself. In fact, when you hurt others you are indeed hurting yourself. When you love and lift up others you are loving and lifting yourself up. Notice how scripture states, Love others as you love YOURSELF.

Romans 13:9
YOU shall love your neighbour as YOURSELF.

The entire law rests on these two things, Loving God, Loving Others. And the others you love are to be loved as yourself, for you are ONE WITH THEM!

According to scripture God only has one SON (child of God) – ADAM & CHRIST, the 1st child and the last child. But ONLY ONE begotten SON of God.

Adam, which literally means MANKIND, is the first NATURE OF MAN (Ignorant) and the second ADAM (Mankind) is RISEN, ENLIGHTENED…. So even though you see many, many people, we, the MANY make up the ONE SON (CHILD OF GOD)

Romans 12:5
So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.

Should the hand say to the foot, you’re not Christ. Should Bob say to Bertha, you’re not Christ? I think not… Although, not all have CHRIST RISEN (revealed) in them… HOWEVER, CHRIST is in all.

Meaning most are still DEAD IN ADAM (ignorant of who they are, which is of course God’s child) but when you BELIEVE THE TRUTH you will LIVE (Be resurrected in Christ, as Christ) — too much for some to comprehend, I understand. But think about it, we are given the NAME OF CHRIST, THE MIND OF CHRIST, AND WE ARE THE BODY OF CHRIST… who truly are we?

The instant we ate of that TREE OF KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL. The POWER AND WISDOM of God was buried underneath the lies of who began to believe ourself to be. Then we put God outside of us far away from us and we DIED (Became Ignorant).

Look, the Hope of Glory is not Christ outside of me returning soon. The Hope of Glory is CHRIST IN ME. It does not say the Hope of Glory is for Christ to resurrect in a separate literal flesh body outside of our own. In fact, before Jesus died he told everyone where he was going and where he, and we, would be.

John 14
1Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. 2In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

Now many will say THE FATHERS HOUSE is some place far away, a place called Heaven, where Jesus (the great carpenter that he is, will be building us a mansion of gold) — However, people the FATHERS HOUSE is not outside of us, in fact, WE ARE THE FATHERS HOUSE. The Temple of God – US!

Luke 19:46
Saying unto them, It is written, My house (the Temple) is the house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of thieves.

This is an allegory. Jesus, had to go before his followers made him God himself. And today that is exactly what a majority of Christians have done. Made Jesus separate from us, and called him God, instead of seeing Jesus as a brother.

Romans 8:29
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

This false belief takes the focus of God and finding the truth of who we are in God. Jesus always put the focus on the Father, and he also said we would do greater things than he, “Greater things than these we shall do”, that as he is a Light in this world, we are the Lights of this world, that as John put it “As Christ is, so are we in this world”. Jesus understood that we were no different from him, he was just the First born among the DEAD (Ignorant), the First Born among many brethren… – which means people, we are all ONE IN GOD. Which was the very nature of Jesus’s prayer in the Gospel of John.

John 17:11
And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.

The prayer basically means, God let them understand that WE ARE THE SAME!

There is NO DIVISION in ONE. Meaning we are ALL ONE, all the SAME, all united. Think about how much better the world would be if we saw each other as a part of ourselves. If we knew what we did to them, we do to ourselves. This is a great mystery, because so many people are selfish and think they are separate from others, when in fact, as Jesus said, “Do unto others as you would like them to do unto you.” – Meaning what you do to others, will most surely be done to you, because we are all ONE.

In truth, Hosea puts the 3rd day resurrection wonderfully and it paints a clearer picture of how this truly speaks of all of us.

Hosea 6
1 Come, let US RETURN to the LORD. He has torn us to pieces but he will heal us; he has injured us but he will bind up our wounds. 2 After two days he will revive US; on the THIRD DAY he will restore US, that WE may live in his presence.

The resurrection spoken here is about restoring ALL OF US to the Power and Wisdom of God (Christ), after being stricken by the darkness of our vain imagination. It is all about RETURNING TO GOD (Truth).

But, I will answer, in a nutshell, why I am not worried, or concerned, that I do not hold onto a belief that “Literal Decaying Bodies or skeletons in the ground” will rise again in the judgment. And why I am only concerned with our RISING from the DEATH of our ignorance, as judgment begins at the house of the Lord. (ME and YOU). And if judgment begins IN US then that means God is going to destroy everything IN US that is not IN HIM (GOD/TRUTH/SPIRIT) until CHRIST is formed in us, as Paul said. Every false belief (portrayed as goats, tares, etc in scripture) will be destroyed, burned away (spiritually), when Christ is RESURRECTED IN US.

Galatians 4:19
My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you

Look at a very similar passage in Revelation.

Revelation 12:2
And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.

Just who do you think that WOMAN is… The WOMAN is our SOUL, who is going to deliver CHRIST. So the WORD will be RESURRECTED in our FLESH.

I spent a good deal of my life in carnal practices and principles. There was a time that I believed I had to baptize my son thanks to Catholic guilt. But I wised up and did not do the same for my daughter Shiloh, who according to the Catholic church is damned until she does so. Ah, the foolishness of vain traditions built on fear and shame.

Carnal mankind has made a god in their image. A god they can control. A god they can give birth to every year, persecute and crucify every year, and raise again every year. This is what many are celebrating today. The resurrection of Jesus, which takes all of the focus off the TRUE RESURRECTION that is to take place within us all. They look OUTSIDE OF THEMSELVES and WAIT. When God looks WITHIN and MADE CLEAR through Jesus RESURRECTION IS IN THE HERE AND NOW! So please tell me why everyone is looking to the sky and waiting and not wanting the kingdom to come (be revealed) on earth (in our waking life) as in heaven (the true spirit life/God’s ways and wisdom)

Ephesians 3:10
To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God

But now, I am moving unto perfection and I challenge you all to at least question and possibly do the same. Even though I understand “Each Man in His Order”.

Look, like Paul, there was a time that I, too, knew Jesus after the FLESH (My carnal mind) but No longer. Now I find it hard to know anyone, or anything, after the Flesh. In fact, if you’ve read my articles enough times it should be pretty clear I’m all about the “spirit” of a thing. I look for the “spirit” of what the scriptures teach, and I leave the literal (letter) because it doesn’t profit me, or anyone, at all.

In the discussion I mentioned earlier a new friend raised an important point. “What about those that witnessed Jesus placed in the Tomb, and witnessed his disappearance and ascension, etc.”

This point is the genesis of this essay and deals specifically with what was “quickened” to me about this event. Quick note of that, look again at what I wrote, “what was QUICKENED to me”. You when reading this had no problem understanding I meant, what was revealed to me, what was made clear to me. Yet, there are many people who will say a “Quickening” spirit is a spirit that will re-animated a literally physically dead body. As opposed to understanding it is all about QUICKENING (giving understanding and wisdom which is a tree of life to one who had previously been ignorant.)

1 Corinthians 15
45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. 46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.

Our first nature is all about our five senses, it’s all about the temporal, sensual world. The first man, in other words, is NATURAL. (Get it?) Our second nature (after the truth has been RISEN within us) was made a quickening spirit. In other words, we don’t look to the nature, literal letter of things, we see to the SPIRIT of things. We don’t say the parable is literal, we say, “this is what the parable is teaching us.”

But I digress, I am going to attempt to show you that the events after Jesus’ death, where Joseph and Nicodemus begged for the dead body of Jesus from Pilate and buried him is ACTUALLY a picture of carnal Christians who CRAVE that DEAD JESUS (who they continue to worship today as a Dead Man from two thousand years ago). You find an image of that Dead Man hanging from crosses in Churches, in paintings, in movies, on tv, on tee-shirts, jewelry, etc… And then many go so far as to say that Dead Man Jesus is God. Knowing full well, Jesus never taught this, and that the scriptures are pretty clear we are not to place an image to what God looks like at all. He shouldn’t be likened to anything in the sea, in the air, in the earth, beneath the earth, and most definitely not in the IMAGE OF CORRUPTIBLE NATURAL MAN!

Romans 1:23
And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man

You see God is not Man, God is the SPIRIT WITHIN MAN! God was IN JESUS, God is in CHRIST reconciling the world to himself.

2 Corinthians 5:19
To wit, that God was IN Christ, reconciling the world unto himself

You see, most today ignorantly worship a Dead Flesh Man from 2000 years ago, as opposed to worshipping the LIFE GIVING SPIRIT that is the SON OF GOD, which is the WORD OF GOD, which is the LIGHT OF ALL MANKIND, which we ALL HAVE OUR LIFE HID IN (Christ). This WORD is what LIVES and is RESURRECTS WITHIN US and BECOMES US and we BECOME HIM.

John 17:22
And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one

This is like me praying, God please let them understand what I understand that we are one, so that they can understand that they are one, that we are all ONE! You in me, I in them, etc, etc. ONE! Please tell me how this leaves room for a resurrection outside of us, separate from us?

No, Christ is FORMED/BIRTHED in us. Christ is revealed in us! Christ is resurrected IN US!

“Until Christ be formed IN you.”

But the many that call themselves Christians today, are just like Joseph of Arimathaea and Nicodemus. They don’t want CHRIST resurrected WITHIN THEM! They want the DEAD JESUS MAN. And so they take this belief and tuck it away in their Tomb (hearts/soul/ignorant understanding) and of course when people come looking for the WAY, TRUTH, AND LIFE it is nowhere to be found. Because you can’t find the LIVING (enlightened) among the DEAD (carnal/ignorant).

 John 19
38 And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus. 39 And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pound weight.  40 Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury. 41 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid.

Here we see the picture of two men, Joseph and Nicodemus. Let’s first look at Joseph of Arimathaea.

JOSEPH OF ARIMATHAEA

1) Joseph was a disciple in SECRET – He was ashamed of knowing the living Jesus. — And we know how that goes over with Christ.

“Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed”

2) Joseph was STILL WAITING for the Kingdom of God to come.

“He was of Arimathaea, a city of the Jews: who also himself WAITED for the kingdom of God.” Luke 23

I guess Joseph missed Jesus’ lesson that the KINGDOM of GOD is here now and WITHIN. Perhaps that is why he was still waiting.

Now onto Nicodemus.

NICODEMUS

1) Nicodemus was also ashamed of the TRUTH (Jesus) this is why he came to Jesus at NIGHT. A symbol of seeing Jesus in the DARK (carnally)

“There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:  The same came to Jesus by NIGHT” John 3

2) Nicodemus was ignorant of the truth, much like Joseph of A.

Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?  

Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?

Both Joseph and Nicodemus were ignorant and ashamed of Christ. But BOTH CRAVED THAT DEAD BODY of JESUS. Isn’t this what so many so-called Christians are doing today. Aren’t they waiting for that Dead Jesus to return. Isn’t that REALLY what the Easter celebration is all about. One day every year getting together to celebrate something that happened in the past (whether literal or allegorical) it is obvious this was something that happened in the past. And Mankind re-peat the past again and again. Yet, we are clearly instructed to FORGET ABOUT THE PAST and MOVE UNTO PERFECTION.

Philippians 3:13
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are BEHIND, and reaching forth unto those things which are before

Paul said, he FORGOT what happened in the past and reached for what was to come. Why do most people today continue to live in the past. Why does mankind continue to look back and wait for the future, instead of looking within in the here and now? The reason is, “they know not what they do.”

So in their ignorance, ignorant mankind does what Joseph of A and Nicodemus did. They dress up dead Jesus, by wearing dead Jesus jewelry, talking about how Jesus died, acting it out and getting everyone to put their faith in past events instead of NOW. It’s a faith based on Death (THAT WHICH NO LONGER EXISTS/LIVES). Yes, carnal/ignorant mankind also CRAVES THE DEAD BODY OF JESUS…

They just can’t wrap their minds around the truth of the resurrection which is unto LIFE IN THEM. But the DEATH of someone in the past, and that dead man’s resurrection they say is literally true. And so instead of reaching for Christ within, they keep looking behind and say he is coming again.

Like many today, Joseph, and Nicodemus, didn’t have a clue about the things of God. If they did, they probably would not have been so concerned about “preserving” and “storing” the DEAD BODY of Jesus after following a bunch of vain religious burial rites and traditions. However, many today elevate these men as faithful disciples. They talk about how AWESOME NICK AT NIGHT AND JOSEPH A are, for taking that Dead Body of Jesus and parading it around, wrapping it all nice with sugar and spice and burying that dead body away in their new tomb. But people, they didn’t know the first thing about the truth. They wouldn’t be seen in public with the LIVING CHRIST, but the DEAD JESUS they were all about. That should say something.

Just like I will say, look we are all ONE WITH CHRIST, CHRIST’S LIFE IS OUR LIFE, CHRIST IS YOU AND I when that Daystar is risen in our heart(understanding)… people don’t want to have a part of this LIFE! No, they only want the version where Jesus is dead and gone and coming again. Just like Nick at Night and Joseph A.

These two ignorant men followed the ritual LAW for burial. Something that they would NOT DO had they the slightest understanding of CHRIST WITHIN. In Fact, I don’t think they would have paid much attention to the Dead Flesh Body of Jesus at all, if they knew the truth.

But, Joseph and Nicodemus are like many today that focus on the OUTWARD MAN which perishes, and ignore of the inward man, that is renewed. They worship the Creature, as opposed to the CREATOR. Which NO MAN can literally see!

“No one has seen the Father at any time” “God is spirit and truth”

Now a side note about what Jesus said we will be like in the Resurrection, for those who are waiting for us to rise again as immortal flesh bodies that we have right now.

29Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do ERR, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. 30 For in the RESURRECTION they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are AS THE MESSENGERS of God in heaven.”

In the Resurrection we are AS THE ANGELS (MESSENGERS OF GOD’S TRUTH), not as we are now (SELFISH CARNAL SOULS)… When we are RESURRECTED we are as God’s messengers, as Sons and Daughters of the most high! (United in God’s spirit) 

So, now that we have a clearer picture of Joseph and Nicodemus. We see that they were two ignorant, howbeit well-meaning, good men, who CRAVED the LITERAL DEAD BODY of Jesus, and then followed the DEAD LAW and BURIED their DEAD JESUS in a TOMB for the DEAD.

Had they paid attention in the “Living” Jesus school, they would not have done such a thing.

Matthew 8:22
But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.

Joseph and Nicodemus must have missed that day. Since they were BURYING DEAD JESUS. And as I mentioned earlier many today are the same. On Easter many are acting out the death and resurrection of that man who died two thousand years ago, never once understanding that Christ and they are in fact one.

There are carnal people who will wrap, bury, and protect that DEAD JESUS, they crave that DEAD BODY (The flesh man) and yet, they will NEVER admit that CHRIST Resurrects IN THEM. Like Nicodemus and Joseph they are ashamed of the LIVING CHRIST. Because this wisdom has not yet been quickened to them. But one day it will, each man in his order. They see themselves separate from Christ, not realizing it is impossible to be separate from Christ, as everything has its existence in the Power and Wisdom of God’s Holy Spirit.

Romans 8:39
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.

Look we can NEVER be separate from CHRIST (which is God’s word/truth/wisdom/spirit/son). We can only be DEAD (ignorant) to the TRUTH of that.

Now, I want to tell all of you what and who CHRIST is. We know many say, it means annointed ONE. But really, what does CHRIST MEAN, and what does CHRIST DO, and why Christ? Well check out what scripture says, Christ is made to become for us!

1 Corinthians 1:30
But OF him are YOU -IN- Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

Re-read that people. The WORD OF GOD is TRUTH, a LAMP to our FEET, LIFE. And Christ is MADE to become for us, WISDOM, RIGHTEOUSNESS, SANCTIFICATION, AND REDEMPTION. Christ is TRUE LIFE. And we are OF HIM meaning our very essence is GOD’S HOLY SPIRIT revealed in CHRIST. But no one seems to want this, they want and crave that DEAD BODY OF JESUS.

The Natural man cares only about Natural things. So it makes sense that so many are waiting for a literal natural appearance of Jesus Christ. But the Spiritual Man, which is our SECOND NATURE, knows nothing naturally, waits for nothing, and looks for nothing, for everything is WITHIN!

2 Peter 1:19
We have also a more SURE WORD of prophecy; whereunto YOU DO WELL THAT YOU LISTEN, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the DAY STAR ARISE IN YOUR HEART.

Notice, it doesn’t say, the DAYSTAR coming again from a far off distant place. This SURE WORD OF PROPHECY speaks ONLY OF Christ RISING IN YOUR HEART to become Wisdom, understanding, righteousness, redemption, sanctification. CHRIST ONLY RESURRECTS IN YOU PEOPLE!

Few will believe Peter’s “SURE WORD” of prophesy. Because they have been taught since they were children, the same error they continue to teach today to their children. And if you dare say a word otherwise, you will be threatened, attacked, torn down, because the Darkness (Ignorant) hate the Light. (Truth)

“Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:”

“Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.”

It’s all about the OUTSIDE with those stuck in Adam (The natural carnal man). They worship the Flesh, which is why they condemn and attack, as these are fruits of Carnality. To the carnal religious it’s all about the Flesh. They are right in their own carnality and pride and the rest who believe differently (In “their” eyes will burn for all of eternity)

Now, does that sound like they worship a God of Love? A God, who teaches humility, long-suffering, patience? A Teacher is to be apt in these areas, not quick to judge and condemn. Christ did NOT come (rise/revealed) into the world to CONDEMN it but to SAVE it. And when Christ RISES in each of us, we too will be saved! Saved from our own ignorance, not some future torture.

Today on Easter, many may dress up their DEAD BELIEFS and do all they can to make their false beliefs look, and smell good. They want to “PRESERVE” their error and hold unto it forever. No matter how you slice it, the Jesus they are working so hard to “PRESERVE” is DEAD. Then, like the ignorant and ashamed Joseph and Nicodemus, MANY want to make sure their TOMB is sealed so they can KEEP THAT DEAD JESUS safe, so no one will take what they now own away. And they do this by ROLLING A GREAT STONE in front of the TOMB.

And what does this stone represent? Their works, beliefs and laws!

Consider, how the STONE needs to be rolled away to water he sheep. The STONE needs to be thrown to kill the Giant. The STONE is used to KILL and PUNISH. The STONES are what the LAW is written on to begin with. Joseph, and Nicodemus are pictures of those who worship a DEAD JESUS and keep that DEAD JESUS tucked away and covered by their works of the law, which is all death.

How do I know this? Well, what did the ANGEL say when everyone was looking in a TOMB (Carnal soul) for the RISEN CHRIST? Mind you they were NOT looking for the dead Christ at this point but the RISEN CHRIST and they could not find Christ there… and what did the ANGEL SAY?

“Why seek you the living among the dead?”

You cannot FIND THE TRUTH in DEAD BELIEFS or CARNAL UNDERSTANDING. You will NEVER find the TRUTH if you continue to look for DEAD FLESH to be raised. No matter how many Easter services you attend.

The good news is even this GREAT STONE (works, carnal beliefs, laws and traditions) will be rolled away when the TRUTH descends from a higher place of understanding and is revealed to us. And it will shake our beliefs and traditions to the very core, breaking apart every foundational belief we once put our faith in.

Matthew 28:
2 And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.

And when that day comes, we will know Christ as we are known by Christ!

1 Corinthians 13:12
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.

News flash people, when you know as you are known, YOU KNOW YOUR TRUE SELF!

Colossians 3:
4 When Christ, who is OUR LIFE, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.

Jacob
http://www.JacobIsrael.org
“The Truth Will Change You”

DO THIS OR ELSE? HAVE I DONE WRONG?

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DO THIS OR ELSE? HAVE I DONE WRONG?

On my last trip while traveling I like to do some reading, and almost every time things will jump out at me that never did before. I end up having one of those moments, where I think, “Wow, what a dummy I was to not see this before.” Of course, that’s the wrong attitude to have because we can only learn what we learn when we are meant to learn it.

Habakkuk 2:3
For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.

There is a time for everything. Not everyone will be where you are, and you won’t be where others are, we are all in the process of coming to the knowledge of the truth, and each person according to their order. Which is why, we shouldn’t worry if people we speak to don’t hear what we hear or agree with what we say. It is not our job to prove anyone wrong and prove ourselves right. Despite what the religious mind has taught us over the years, we don’t need to fight for or defend the truth, the TRUTH stands on its own without our help. In fact, it’s vanity to think that we can lead anyone to Christ. All any of us can do is bear witness of the good news, we can plant, others can water, but it is God that gives the increase. So for all those religious leaders out there that brag about how many salvations, alter calls, and how many people they led to Christ they are really only fooling themselves and those that believe them. For NO ON can come to the knowledge of the truth UNLESS THEY ARE MEANT TO!

John 6:44
No man can come unto me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

It is always the Creator that creates, we are the clay, the Potter has power over the clay to make it as it pleases. In fact, this is great news. This is why we must not worry about others who may not believe what we believe, or see what we see. We must not get upset when we are attacked, persecuted, tempted, and accused for being who God has made us to be, for truly they know no better. In addition, their torment (testing) of us is always for our good.

Ephesians 4
12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
13 TILL WE ALL COME IN THE UNITY OF THE FAITH, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

There it is again, Till we ALL come to the unity of the Faith and Knowledge of the Son of God (in us/as us), unto the perfect man (whom we are and become), and to the fulness of Christ (power and wisdom of God). We need not worry about defending out faith, we need not worry about leaving any behind in knowledge because they cannot hear unless God has opened their ears to hear, they cannot see unless God has opened their eyes to see. So it is a fruitless and vain endeavour to try to convert anyone. Something to consider is, if you still believe you MUST do this then you still have much to learn yourself. We are not meant to force anyone to believe what we know to be true, we are meant to share the Gospel (good news of who humanity is, how not one will be lost, how God is in control, how everyone has purpose, how our trials and hard times pave the way for greater days, how our life and everything that has happened to us was meant for us, how forgiveness, compassion, and love is the key to the kingdom of God.)

I know this may come as a shock, to say, it’s not our job to convince anyone of anything. But it is nevertheless true. And what a relief it is to know this. We are simply meant to be LIVING EPISTLES for all of mankind to read, we are to be LIGHTS in this world. Our words and reciting of scripture is not what saves anyone, God saves, and he does this by letting his LIGHT shine through us.

Acts 13:47
For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth.

We are meant to be LIGHTS in this world, living examples of God’s mercy, love, and forgiveness. A tall order, one we all fall short on I understand that all to well. But we move on to what is ahead, never looking back on the failures of yesterday or what we believe to be our shortcomings. So if you lose your temper, or you tell a fib, or you eat one too many pieces of cake 🙂 don’t beat yourself up. In fact, you would be surprised to know that sometimes God will provoke you to do what you believe God does not want you to do, so His Will is done in another. Yes, God can harden our hearts and provoke us to do anything God wills, and when you understand this, it becomes easier to live your life. In fact, it is impossible to do anything outside of God’s will. It’s written nothing can thwart God’s plan and will. You see, it is impossible for us to know what God is doing in our lives, what God has done in our lives, so worrying about what we consider our past mistakes, or dwelling in the “should have, could have, would of’s” is in direct opposition to the very heart and will of God. Because his ways are past our finding out.

Isaiah 55
8For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
9For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

We all struggle and suffer with some of the choices we have made. We all have replayed things in our minds, asking for forgiveness for things we have said or done. But we MUST understand that if that wasn’t part of God’s plan for our life, IT WOULDN’T HAVE HAPPENED. All of these actions are there for our learning, and for the benefit of others. I know that sounds radically different. And by no means am I saying, we can go buck wild and live anyway we want, GOD FORBID! I would never want anyone to take that away from what I am saying. What I am saying is there is no profit in dwelling in our past. We must put our past behind us, as I have written in the past, the accused of the brethren, the DEVIL spelled backwards is LIVED. What you have LIVED is not LIVING, is is death. It is dwelling in Death. We must move onto the promise of tomorrow, and live for the moment. We can’t get stuck on the things we do in life and constantly question if it was right or wrong, for only God knows, if we feel bad and you need to acknowledge it, than do that and move on. You don’t need to repent of something more than once.

Worry and Doubt are strangling the very life out of us all. It is this worry that people so vigorously fight to get people to believe what they believe. Because if everyone agrees with them, then they feel better about their own personal beliefs. I hope you can see the vanity in this and how this line of thinking has nothing to do with God. Sure we are to share the Gospel, but if it isn’t received, or if it is questioned and attacked we aren’t commanded to stay around and defend it. True love doesn’t need to prove itself. It needs to simply accept people are where they are at, and be patient, long-suffering, meek, gentle, and not seeking to strive or fight or debate.

Matthew 10
13And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you. 14And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.

Those that will hear the truth, will receive the peace that you have in your faith, but if they will not hear then keep your peace, don’t let it bring you down and don’t stick around trying to prove them wrong. Simply shake the Dust (hurt, lies, idolatry that was put on you while trying to share), shake that dust from your feet (your walk/journey in Christ). So much for sticking around for a back and forth sword/words fight about what the bible really means and says.

But as I stated earlier, we all allow worry and doubt to kill our spirit. We constantly worry, “did I make the right decision”,”should I have said this or that”,”why did I do that, now I made things worse”,”should I have left that job”,”should I have stood up for myself”, “should I have sold my house”…. the list goes on and on. We worry about everything. We second, third, fourth, and fifth guess almost everything we do, NEVER ONCE considering that God wouldn’t have allowed us to do this or that, unless it was meant to be.

We have been sold this lie, that is we are suffering we have done something wrong. We have been sold a lie that if we do everything right life will be perfect for us. But that wasn’t the case for any of God’s chosen vessels, and it isn’t the case for any of us.

2 Corinthians 2:4
For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears

We will have trials, we will have anguish, we will cry, and yes we will have doubts and fears. Which is why we MUST REMEMBER that even if a decision we have made brings sorrow to our heart, that we should rejoice instead trusting that God is big enough to work all things together for the good, and that if God didn’t want you to say or do what you did, he wouldn’t have had you make the decision you made.

Let me give you a great example of how I believed I had sinned greatly against God, but years later realized God had provoked me to do what I did to get me to where I am now. Years ago I have a very large fight with a family member that I was allowing to stay at our home. I ended up screaming and yelling, I kicked her out of the house (she had many others homes of her own to stay at anyway). This caused a greater rift in my relationship with my wife’s family than was already there. The fallout would only get worse. I would be attacked, I would attack back, and all of it was so very foolish. And even though in the natural I could have said I was completely in the right, and even though my wife would tell me this, in my heart I had done wrong. I cursed, I yelled, I screamed, I thought bad about her in my heart, and I SUFFERED TERRIBLY BECAUSE OF IT! I asked God multiple times to forgive me for kicking her out. But today, that was the catalyst for the next two years of our lives. Because of that fight we would sell our house, and end up moving into my wife’s dream home. A larger home for less money. With an apartment that our family members in need are now sharing, and yes even enough room to create a room for my Mother in law, who gets along with me now famously.

The point is, what seemed to be a work of wickedness and pride was actually a necessity, because without it we would have never sold our home, and moved here. And now, we have three family members in need living here and helping us with out needs. God was working through it all. I realized that God does inspire us to act the way we must to motivate us to go where God needs us to be. God will use our suffering and fear to move us from place to place. And when we understand this, we can finally REST! Knowing that no matter what we have done, or do, regardless of the cost we may have to pay because YES WE DO REAP WHAT WE SOW, but even in reaping what we have sown God opens our eyes, heals our hearts and moves us to the place we need to be.

Micah 4
9Now why dost thou cry out aloud? is there no king in thee? is thy counsellor perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail. 10Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.

We need to know that God is in control of our lives, every aspect of our lives. We need to know that we will make decisions, or do and say things that we may question and believe to be wrong, but in so doing we MUST KNOW that even though we may cry and scream God is within us, working all things for us, and we will be delivered from our ENEMIES!

Enemies, by the way, are not people coming against us. Our enemies are our negative thoughts, the lies we have believed, our fears, our hatred, our bias. When people literally seem like our enemies and are doing things to truly hurt us, the TRUE ENEMY is our negative feelings toward these people. Regardless of what anyone does to us, the real enemies are the carnal thoughts within us. Our enemies are found in our own house (temple/our soul).

Luke 12
53The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

In the natural sure we may have problems with family members, but this scripture is not speaking of that. It is speaking of what gives birth to our thoughts. Christ came to bring division, to divide the lies we have believed and been taught from the truth of God. And this is the separation that is written about in Genesis.

Genesis 2:24
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

The wife we cleave unto is WISDOM! Wisdom which is a tree of life. We will leave our old beliefs that gave birth to who we think we are, and we shall become ONE with the WISDOM AND TRUTH OF GOD.

Proverbs 3
13 Happy is the man that findeth WISDOM, and the man that getteth understanding.
14 For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
15 SHE is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
16 Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.
17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
18 SHE is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.

Mark 10
11 And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.

Is this speaking of literal marriage, sure why not. I pray all marriages will be blessed. But since God doesn’t look to the outward man, but the inward man, TRULY what is being taught here is an allegory. HE WHO PUTS AWAY THE WISDOM/UNDERSTANDING AND TRUTH OF GOD for OTHER BELIEFS commits adultery. This is the adultery God is speaking of in the Ten Commandments. And yes, of course you SHOULDN’T CHEAT ON YOUR SPOUSE, because if you do one day you will feel the same betrayal.

And the BELIEFS that make us worry, fear, and doubt. The BELIEFS that make us believe we have to prove everyone wrong and convince everyone what we believe, is actually MARRYING ANOTHER. Everytime we allow our worries and doubts and fears to take over our thoughts, we are leaving the TRUTH OF GOD for an adulterous relationship. In fact, we BECOME ONE with these false beliefs by leaving the truth of God. The good news is, God will even use the torment this caused to put us back on the right track. But how much better would be to cast away every thought of fear because you know….

2 Timothy 1:7
God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

So if God doesn’t give us thoughts of fear, then our fear isn’t coming from God now is it? So we need to learn how to take these thoughts captive and accept things that have happened in our lives, accept things that we have or have not done and just know God is in the middle of it all, and will work all things after the COUNSEL OF GOD’S WILL. Which means, WE CAN’T FAIL! EVER!

Ephesians 1
5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will

We are pre-destined, pre-programmed, no we are not robots but we are led and drawn, and yes we make decisions and have consequences for our actions but all of this is in accordance to what God has purposed for us. Which is why it is time to stop debating, looking down on others for their beliefs, thinking we know more or are somehow more blessed, as well as stop worrying, doubting, and repenting again and again of what we have done. It is time to walk into the promise of tomorrow’s light, it is time to lay our cares upon Christ… Meaning it is time to let go of our worries and fears and beliefs and just rest in the power and wisdom of God.

There is a great burden to carry when you believe you are the one at the helm. There is a light burden to carry when you know it is God directing your steps.

You can choose this…

Proverbs 14:12
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death

Or this…

Psalm 37:23
The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.

So trust in God. Let the truth stand for itself. Stop worrying about whether you have done right or wrong and simply seek the Lord in every way. The road won’t always be easy, you may question whether what you have done was God’s will or not, His ways are above ours, understand that and also understand that if God didn’t want whatever it is you are going through in your life, you wouldn’t be going through it. But above all else, know that he who endures until the end OVERCOMES, and every one of you are overcomers and will overcome because you have all been predestined to do so!

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Much love and peace,
Jacob
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WHAT WE’RE REALLY WRESTLING AGAINST

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WHAT WE’RE REALLY WRESTLING AGAINST
PRINCIPALITIES AND POWERS… BRING IT!

Ephesians 6:12
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

This above scripture has been used to suggest that there are spooky demonic forces OUTSIDE of us, battling for our very souls… Sounds scary right? Well of course it is, bad religion is all about instilling fear. Sort of the opposite of why people get sucked into bad religion to begin with. People want to find peace, and they believe to do this they must find God, and they believe that the only way to do this is to go to whatever church their upbringing deemed fit. Most people don’t know any better, and so when they go to their new churches they believe whatever those religious leaders say… And they love to tell you about the devil and his spooky demons. The problem is, none of what bad religion teaches is true. By the end of this paper you will “see” what we we are really wrestling against, find out what a demon really is, and find out why freedom is found within.

So first let me address this “demon” teaching, that there are evil beings that are trying to possess us and keep us from knowing God. We’ve all seen movies about this nonsense, and probably heard about priests, pastors, and others casting out demons in their services, once again I say, nonsense. Now if you want an in-depth teaching on Demons, I have an article that you can find to the left of the screen that will open your eyes to what they are.

Let me simply tell you, all a demon is, is a FALSE BELIEF, A LIE. We’ve all heard the expression, “They are battling with their demons”. And we understand those “demons” are the problems they have. Well that is much closer to the truth than what you see in the movies and hear from the pulpit today.

This is simple way of clearing things up for you. According to scripture a demon is a messenger of Satan. Satan is the FATHER OF ALL LIES, so any messenger birthed from Satan, would be….. a LIE. Satan is the Father of all LIES, hence his demons are LIES. (That is pretty simple, but I understand many need more explanation – my article will help that).

People will say, they are WICKED SPIRITS, and they are correct. But most people don’t know what a SPIRIT is to begin with. Scripture gives us a very clear answer.

John 6:63
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

Did you catch that, the SPIRIT QUICKENS (makes you aware of things/brings life to your understanding). He then explains that the Words he speaks are SPIRIT. And so they are, WORDS are SPOKEN THOUGHT. And that very simply put is what a SPIRIT is, a THOUGHT! There are thoughts of truth and thoughts of lies. There are Angels and there are Demons.

Jesus said “I am the way, the TRUTH, and the life” – His words are SPIRITS (spoken thoughts) of TRUTH. When you have this understanding, you easily understand how it is that Jesus cast out demons.

People believed in LIES, these LIES ruled their thinking, Jesus revealed to them the TRUTH, and the TRUTH always trumps the Lie, and once the TRUTH is understood the LIE is cast out.

For example, there was a time people believed the world was flat, and the center of the universe. LIES! They believed it do deeply they thought it blasphemy to state differently. But now thanks to satellite imaging there are few on this planet that believe the world is flat, much less that it is the center of the universe. The TRUTH cast out that LIE.

If you can hear it, this is what it means when…

2 Thessalonians 2:8
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

The wicked, are the wicked thoughts of LIES within us, that shall be consumed with the words of truth spoken to them, and these lies shall be destroyed with the enlightenment of the TRUTH.

Oh I know what some are thinking, the WICKED are evil people who do bad things. Well, that’s part right, when you believe a bunch of lies about yourself and others, you can do some pretty terrible things to yourself and others (Because you know no better). But believe me when I say, a PERSON ONLY BECOMES WICKED when they believe LIES. But don’t take my word for it.

Proverbs 29:12
If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked

So, that gives you some groundwork about what demons are. Demons=Lies period. They aren’t Intellectual beings outside of you entering you and making you do bad things.

Jesus said. Mark 7:15 There is nothing from OUTSIDE a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.

No everything wrong with man, is already within the heart of man. Because of all the lies mankind has believed about themselves, about the world, and mainly about God.

So now to the heart of the paper. What are we really wrestling against? You’ve heard it said that it is a spooky battle taking place outside of us all around us, these principles and powers that we wrestles against, many religious teachers say are demonic forces… well if they mean the lies of religious leaders they would be right. But trust me when I say, there is no literal spiritual battle taking place outside of us for our souls. In fact, it is pretty simple to find out what we wrestle against, by simply looking us what scripture tells us principalities and powers are.

Okay, so for those that believe there is some spiritual war waging above our heads in the “invisible realm” get ready to get over it! Those are nothing more than fairy tales, false beliefs of men and women dead set on scaring people into submission. And doing a good job I may add… As I child I was horrified there were demons outside my window, trying to possess me.

Now try to catch this “Church” — God does NOT give us the SPIRIT (THOUGHTS) OF FEAR! But religion is all about Fear tactics, they say do this, or do that, OR ELSE! They get you to fear everything from invisible creatures outside of you, people of others faiths, terrorists, an imaginary place of infinite torture, and more. But GOD doesn’t give us these THOUGHTS, so why is everyone so scared? The answer is, these principalities and powers!

We must remember there is a war is WITHIN. Two nations at war in your womb/soul (Carnal Man and Spirit Man) – (Flesh and Spirit) (Adam and Christ) (Dead and Life) (Ignorance and Truth)

Now granted, this demon stuff makes for great scary movies. With all the scary monsters and screams and stuff, but all of those images are coming from the HEART OF MAN, which is on evil (ignorance and lies) pretty much twenty-four seven.

You see, everything INSIDE OF US already possesses us and the only way out of these LIES in our head is CHRIST (the TRUTH) – Christ (The TRUTH reveals the Lie for what it is, and destroys the LIE with the BRIGHTNESS (Enlightenment) of its coming (revealing).

As I stated earlier it didn’t matter how many people agreed it the world was flat, the TRUTH was and is, IT ISN’T… And once the TRUTH reveals this LIE, the LIE is destroyed, and now we know THE EARTH is NOT FLAT but is actually resting on the back of a GIGANTIC TURTLE 🙂 … GET IT? GOT IT? GOOD! 🙂

So let’s move onto this passage in Ephesians and let me show you what it REALLY MEANS, (or what I pray and hope it means, as you all know I could be completely off my rocker and this is why you MUST take everything to GOD) – But I’ll back up these statements with many biblical witnesses that will make it hard for you to disagree… And if you do, well it’s always your right to believe what you will.

Ephesians 6:12
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Okay, so let’s start at the beginning of Ephesians 6 to get an idea of where Paul was coming from.

He starts by explaining, 1Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

First of all, he isn’t speaking of literal children here. Paul is saying to those NEW TO THE FAITH, listen to those who are instructing you into the truth. Then he goes on to say many other things very similar to this. Honor mother and father, do good to all men, as if doing it to the Lord and not men. (Good advice)

Ephesians 6:8 Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free. Another great and IMPORTANT LESSON – REAPING AND SOWING. You always get what you put out… But let’s continue.

Ephesians 6:9And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him. 10Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. 11Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

The whole of this chapter up till this point is how we are to act toward OTHERS in and out of the faith. Up till this point there is nothing spooooky about what Paul is teaching here. It is simply a lesson in how to deal with PEOPLE period.

But it is the next line that every go bananas over! And in some cases I do mean that literally.

Ephesians 6:12
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Now if we were to take this to mean demonic forces like the movies depict it would be out-of-place in relation to the rest of this epistle. Let’s put in simple terms as to what Paul is basically saying up to that point.

Pretend for a moment, I am Paul writing this letter.

“Hey everyone, remember to listen to those who are instructing you. Honor those who have Fathered and Mothered you in the faith. And you Fathers of the Faith don’t provoke those you teach, don’t mess with their heads or treat them in poor fashion, otherwise they may grow in the Lord and start to despise you. But nurture them and be gentle with them. Those who serve others, do it as if you are doing it to God, don’t be fake, be real, genuine, show them love and let the light of Christ show in all things you do. Knowing that whatever you sow you will reap, so do good and you’ll get good. And you bosses, don’t threaten, be kind, knowing God is no respecter of persons and you are no better than the one serving you. So give your employees a big fat raise, don’t be cheap! 🙂 … Finally brothers and sisters, be strong in God who is Love, and in the power of his might, be quick to forgive and encourage. Put on the whole thinking of God dwell in the complete truth so you won’t fall victim to the lies of your carnal mind, which are LIES spoken against us, and the lies we may fall victim to if we listen to our carnal mind.”

This letter, that I loosely translated is clear, Paul is instructing people how to act and how not to act.

So what does the next line mean? Does Paul all of a sudden dive off the deep end and start talking about scary monsters and evil spirits… Is he one moment is giving good advice and then says, but BEWARE there are EVILLLLLLL SPIRITS CIRCLING YOUR HEAD, they want to EAT YOUR HEART AND BRAINS… So WRESTLE THEM?… OR, is PAUL speaking about the literal RULERS OF DARKNESS of his day (The Pharisees and Religious of the land) those who were seeking to have them all killed for the liberty they all found, in the great mystery of CHRIST WITHIN.

Would it not make more sense that Paul is speaking of SOME OF the RELIGIOUS LEADERS, who were liars and deceivers of Paul’s day, that his students should be weary off.

Ephesians 6:12
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Well everyone that is EXACTLY what this verse means. It has NOTHING to do with monsters that go bump in the night, but it has everything to do with the MONSTERS of the day who would KILL THE TRUTH OF GOD rather than allow it to be spread.

Don’t believe me? Well let’s just take a look at who these RULERS are?

Luke 24:20
And how the chief priests and our RULERS delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him.

The RULERS of this DARKNESS (Ignorance/lies/idolatry/false beliefs/tradition) are the RELIGIOUS RULERS of the land. Who scour the earth to make one proselyte twice the SON OF HELL THEY ARE! These RULERS we indeed wrestle against… They don’t like our type.

Think about it, how hard was it to let go of all the false beliefs you once to come to where you are today. We are all wrestling to break free from our ignorance, our idolatry, we are all wrestling against all those religious, political, matriarchal, and patriarchal rules and beliefs we have been force-fed since birth.

John 3:19
And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved DARKNESS rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

Darkness has no LIGHT (TRUTH) – The Darkness is IGNORANCE. And the RULERS of this DARKNESS are those spouting the lies and error from the altar, pulpit, public office, and our own homes, who are convincing the world to worship the lies they believe and spread instead of God within.

Now Ephesians 6:12 also mentions “principalities” and yes again mankind has taken a cue from Dante’s inferno and assumed that these also represent DEMONIC GHOULS, MONSTERS as opposed to the badddddd RELIGIOUS/POLITICAL MEN AND WOMEN who are in a position of authority, who are out to smother the TRUTH of GOD, for what they believe to be true.

Titus 3:1
Put them in mind to be subject to PRINCIPALITIES AND POWERS, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,

Principalities and Powers are PEOPLE IN POSITIONS OF AUTHORITY and CONTROL. Religious and/or Political leaders that did not like a gospel going around that promised salvation WITHIN and WITHOUT Religion. A Gospel that says to love your enemies, to do good to those that hurt you, to love everyone, especially those in need. These principalities and powers don’t like that. Which is why we have war, famine, poverty, racism, prejudice, condemnation, hate crimes, and worse.

Now these RULER of DARKNESS were OF THIS WORLD. They were CARNAL and is it not true that even today these are who we wrestle with? Maybe not literally wrestling with them but do we not wrestle with what religion and politics is saying is right and wrong. Don’t we wrestle with the beliefs, traditions, and lies, bad religion, or those who claim to be the end all be all when it comes to knowing God, spout?

Aren’t some of you reading this right now wrestling to hear (comprehend) some of the new things God is revealing in even this essay? And aren’t those who have had these great truths revealed, aren’t some even scared to speak these TRUTHS openly for fear of what might happen? Aren’t MANY worried what will happen if anyone finds out THAT THEY believe in a GOD THAT IS IN CONTROL, a GOD that WILL HAVE ALL MEN TO BE SAVED?

Are these not the “principalities AND powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” Paul is speaking of?

And let’s take it a bit farther. What are the HIGH PLACES where all this spiritual wickedness is taking place?

Leviticus 26:30
And I will destroy your HIGH PLACES, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcasses of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.

These HIGH PLACES are the sanctuaries, temples, churches, and altars made to false gods(Beliefs).

1 Kings 3:2
Only the people sacrificed in HIGH PLACES, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.

2 Chronicles 14:3
For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the HIGH PLACES, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:

Psalm 78:58
For they provoked him to anger with their HIGH PLACES, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

Starting to put it all together now everyone? Can we now throw out the Harry Potter magic nonsense, put away the scary teaching of spooky monsters out to get us all, and know our enemy for what it is…. LIES/FALSE BELIEFS spoken by people in positions of authority.

These HIGH PLACES are the very places where the RULERS OF DARKNESS (Ignorant religious/political teachers) say YOU MUST GO TO OR ELSE! – Sound familiar?

I can name a bunch of religions that say if you don’t go to their HIGH PLACE you can’t inherit the Kingdom of Heaven. But we, who are waking up to this great gospel understand that the KINGDOM OF HEAVEN is WITHIN. And the HOPE OF GLORY is CHRIST, who is OUR LIFE. And we don’t need to go anywhere but WITHIN! For that is where our hope lies!

Ephesians 6:12
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Okay, so now we know Paul was NOT talking about ghouls and monsters but about Religious, Political, Mean Men and Women who stand in the way of the GOSPEL being spread.

Luke 21:12
But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and RULERS for my name’s sake.

If you STILL have a problem believing that this verse in Ephesians has nothing to do with monsters, ghosts, ghouls then READ ON, YE OF LITTLE FAITH!

Ephesians 6:13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. 14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; 15And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;

This is Paul’s advice, he is telling us when we go out to preach the TRUTH we need to keep the whole truth in our heart and mind. So we will be able to stand with the TRUTH in the face of adversity… He teaches above all else to have PEACE and to make peace with all, even the wicked (ignorant)

But truly it is verse 16 that should give most of you that smack on your head, like you forgot to have your V8 today.

Ephesians 6:16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.

And what are the FIERY DARTS of the WICKED? They are the words, accusations, and condemnations of those who say you are decieved. This is why we need the SHIELD OF FAITH. Without Faith it is impossible to please God. Without Faith you will never be able to walk in this Truth. Your FAITH makes you whole and keeps you from be ruined, hurt, or even believing that somehow you have made a mistake. Your Faith should always be that GOD IS IN CONTROL, NOT MAN!

This morning early, this scripture came (revealed) to me. And now I put it to all of you. So you also can have liberty from this ancient lie. And the only thing that could keep you from this liberty are the PRINCIPALITIES, POWERS, AND RULES OF DARKNESS OF THE WORLD. (Who are simply ignorant men and women who want to be in control, instead of admitting God is ALL IN ALL)

But don’t take this LIBERTY lightly, even though it has…

Colossians 2:14 Blotted out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; 15And having spoiled PRINCIPALITIES and POWERS, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

SOOOOOOOO,

17 LET NO MAN therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days.

I pray one day we will no longer need to wrestle against these vain beliefs, traditions, and errors of the day. But that we will walk in newness of life knowing that WE AND CHRIST are ONE! In the meantime, spread the GOOD WORD. 🙂

Peace to you all,
Jacob
http://www.JacobIsrael.org
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