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Eternal Security: An Examen in the Doctrine of Salvation and the Wesleyan Effect

***The water of the Holy Spirit washes our soul and spirit bringing us out of the dry land of sin.***

By James G. Owen

Jesus is the author of eternal salvation having first established the kingdom of a spiritual type on earth fulfilling two covenants, namely the Davidic Covenant, and the New Covenant. He is the author having taught the law in his ministry to the people of moral behavior to live righteously, raised the dead, healed the sick, lame, deaf and blind. In his ministry he has set the captive spirit free of all types of bondages including demon possession. The best qualifier of his authorship is his death on the Cross as a perfect sacrifice, and his resurrection after being crucified on the Cross three days later as prophesied by the story of Joel and the whale. This not only established his authorship, but also fulfilled the promise given to Eve in Genesis.

“And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.”

Genesis 3:15

This scripture tells of two seeds. One is of the serpent in the garden that we know is identified as Satan, and the other seed is the Messiah who later is revealed as Emmanuel, God is with us, prophesied by Isaiah 7:14 and revealed to Joseph in a dream to accept Mary as his wife. Jesus fulfilled this promise by overcoming Satan’s temptations of turning a stone into bread, and not accepting the kingdoms that Satan could give him thus placing enmity between Satan and Jesus began. The furtherance of the defeat of Satan would be in the miracles, and the casting out of the demons in the town of Gadarene. The ultimate fulfillment in which salvation was established permanently was the bruising of Satan’s head by Jesus being nailed to the Cross. Salvation was brought to every man present and future from the place of Golgotha.

What is salvation?

Salvation was a plan created by God before the foundation of the world and creation. He knew his creation would be defiled by sin because of man and their sin of disobedience, so a plan was put in place. That plan was to redeem man through the atoning blood of Jesus to save men from their sin through the grace of God. This enabled the relationship that was severed in the Garden of Eden by sin to be reestablished through man asking for the forgiveness of his sins and becoming “born again”, meaning the spirit of the man being changed from the old sinful man to a new creation, thus being changed from the corruption of sin to incorruption spiritually. It is through salvation that we can receive eternal life.

How does the plan of salvation work?

First, for salvation to come into our lives we must acknowledge God the Father in who he is. He is our creator, the one and only true God. We acknowledge him through believing upon him and the proof he exists is that he has placed a desire to worship in our hearts. That desire is innate. We also see proof he exists in looking all around us in the intricate design of creation, including ourselves made in his image. Secondly, we must realize that all of us, mankind, are guilty of sin, that none of us are righteous, and that sin (original sin, being inborn in man) is a curse from the disobedience of Eve and Adam in the Garden of Eden. Next, in Romans 5:8 we read that God exhibited his love by extending salvation to us, a way to correct ourselves to become new again, and this is his plan for us to escape eternal death which is hell.

“But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”

Romans 5:8

It is our decision to make whether to choose God, or not. If we choose his way, then we are to confess our sins, and call up on the name of Jesus in prayer asking him to forgive us of all our sins while believing and enacting our faith that we are being changed. When we call upon the name of Jesus believing we will be saved. In this aspect of explaining salvation, we are being changed on the inside, our hearts and mind.

“That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.”

Romans 10:9-10

“For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”

Romans 10:13

Believe, trust, and faith, an interaction.

When we begin to believe what we have heard, read, or seen, then we trust that source as being truth. There is an interaction going on here I think between the three upon hearing the gospel. Our heart and mind tell us its truth because the Holy Spirit is working about us convicting us of our sins and speaking to us to come to repentance. Within ourselves we may be fighting the truth, we may question, but that is the flesh fighting our decision. Our flesh wants the desires of this world, but our mind says we must change. It is a war, a battle of carnality and flesh that is going on here. Once we believe then the three begins its interaction because we have made the decision to change because we have believed, trusted the source as truth, and faith has entered the decision by becoming loyal to God and his son Jesus. Belief, trust, and faith are similar, yet separate enough to understand how God has created us to think and make decisions. The result of the interaction of belief, trust, and faith is hope. We now have hope to continue living after we pass from this world to eternal life, and that hope also tells us we will be with our Heavenly Father in a restful, peaceful place. Having believed and trusted we reacted by stepping out in faith feeling secure and acting with confidence. Faith is loyalty, and that faith has become a spiritual marriage. Faith is a structure of doctrinal beliefs. Those beliefs should come from strict scriptural study being literal, historical, and cultural. Faith through doctrine is a statement of our morality and values.

This is the basics of salvation, but this is not all that we can receive from God. There is always more. We will discuss this later in the article. Next let us discuss a doctrine that many of us has heard in discussion or reading, and others may have been told at the time we were saved.

The Doctrine of Eternal Security: Unconditional Security

As I begin to examine the doctrine of Eternal Security, I will explain it in two forms. One as unconditional and secondly as conditional. The unconditional form comes to us from Calvinism in which I will address from the TULIP, which is an acronym for total depravity, unconditional election, limited atonement, irresistible grace, and the perseverance of the saints. There is an additional portion to the unconditional form, and that is the five points of Calvinism. I will not include it here, but I may choose to discuss it in another article so that I may have the time to research it fully.

Total depravity I will explain as a man in a boat fishing on a lake. The lake is sin, and the boat is man’s ark of safety. When man disobeyed God in the Garden of Eden, he capsized the boat and Adam and Eve fell into the lake being totally submerged. Sin had caused a separation of God and man by placing the veil of sin between them, and it made all of creation imperfect and impure. We were totally soaked in sin from the outside to the inside. From skin to the mind and heart of man. There was no way out in our perspective and ability, but God the Father had a plan of salvation to defeat sin and depravity.

Unconditional election is a doctrine of works, that our salvation is based on good deeds. It furthers itself by stating that God had determined who would be saved and who would receive damnation, and who would be in a relationship with him and this was known before the foundation of the world.

Limited atonement is explained that atonement would be for some, but not for all. That some would be excluded. The unconditional election and limited atonement cause me to think of the interpretation of predestination by some to mean that God had predestined an elect to be his Church and those would serve in his kingdom.

Irresistible grace is the calling of people he had chosen to come to repentance and extended grace to them.

The perseverance of the saints is explained by the adage, “once saved, always saved”, that once a person is in God’s saving grace they will always stay within the hand of God until the person achieves eternal life. In my understanding, this is the unconditional part of this Calvinist doctrine, along with unconditional election, meaning no matter what action is taken in life after accepting Jesus, even sinning while claiming salvation one will go to heaven regardless of how they have lived their life.

The Doctrine of Eternal Security: Conditional Eternal Security

Simply, salvation is provided for all mankind and is given freely by the grace of God because he loved us all enough to give us the chance and make the decision for ourselves whether to choose him, or to choose eternal damnation. Whether to be in a loving, free relationship with God the Father, or choose the life and the pleasures of sin. In my explanation, this form will begin in John 3:16, that God loved us so much he gave his son Jesus and believed upon him as their Savior would have eternal life. Further in my discourse it is explained in the Roman road to Salvation at the beginning of this article. That we have all sinned and must come to that knowledge of being born into sin and acknowledging that we have a God that we must answer to for how we are living our lives. We must confess our sin and live a righteous and holy life to enter heaven. Also, know that God calls us to repentance, and he does so by the drawing of the person by the Holy Spirit. In Pentecostal terminology we call it conviction. He draws us by convicting us of our sins. Scripture tells us he must draw us by his Spirit, and I think that is what Calvin failed to bring out in his irresistible grace doctrine. In differing with unconditional security, I would state God calls all men, and gives us all the chance to repent and have eternal life, not an elect populace.

“No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.”

John 6:44

The Roman Road to Salvation is the basic form of coming to the Lord for eternal security, but there is more to salvation than living the basics form of salvation. We are to live our lives without spot, or wrinkle. We must show good fruit in loving people by helping them or ministering to any kind of need. We must live a life of holiness, and it will take the Holy Spirit to help us live in holiness for we cannot make ourselves holy by living and doing good works. Living in holiness and salvation has conditions, and boundaries that we must not cross to achieve eternal life.

Losing the Eternal Security Gained

The question asked many times is can one who confessed his sin, became saved, lose their salvation? In my experience and belief is yes one can. My experience having been saved and then time passes by, I find myself not resisting the temptation that faced me, or the mocking I received when I confessed my faith. When I succumbed to the mocking and the temptations my conscience told me I had done wrong. If I had just asked God for forgiveness then, the dirt and the dust that came spiritually on my soul and conscience would not have settled.

The bible tells us that we cannot enter heaven with sin in our lives, and to be able to come into God’s presence to receive of him we cannot proceed with the sin in our lives. Yes, Christians can sin, and that sin will cause you to no longer be in the Kingdom of God if you do not take responsibility and take care of it.

“And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.”

Revelation 21:27

“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”

Galatians 5:19-21

“Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,”

1 Corinthians 6:9

Turning our back on God after being saved and going back into the sin we found ourselves out is called backsliding. We have slidden from God’s kingdom back into Satan’s kingdom and have found ourselves in bondage again. The turning back towards our past and committing sin is marital unfaithfulness, that our relationship between God and us is like a marriage, intimate relationship in that we confide in him about our needs, times when we need to feel safe, and just want to worship him. Sin separates us from that relationship. The sinful life will be a form of idolatry because we have our minds and hearts in sin and not on God who created us.

The story of Elisha and Elijah in 1 Kings 19:20 illustrates backsliding. Elisha is called by Elijah to go with him to minister the word of God, but Elisha wants to say goodbye to his mother and father before following him, but Elijah says go on back for I have done to you. Elijah, a prophet of God had chosen Elisha for service in God’s kingdom. His purpose was to look forward and not backward. What was before him in God’s kingdom and is wonderful and full of life, but he looks backward to what he had, and had not look forward to the riches and eternal life he would gain. Jesus teaching to the people on this subject told them what he thought of backsliding and was teaching them to move forward in life and follow him.

“And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.”

Luke 9:62

Jesus statement in Luke 9 is blunt. Sometimes bluntness is needed to get people to understand the consequences of sin. The spiritual situation can be remedied if we repent of our sin and move forward.

“Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.”

Revelation 2:5

Eternal Security is continuous only if we stay within the grace of God and his boundaries. Sinning has consequences and that consequence is eternal damnation in the lake of fire, which is Satan’s kingdom headquarters. Paul, the apostle gives us words of encouragement in his letter of Philippians.

“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,”

Philippians 3:13

His words are to move forward, never looking backwards. Life is going to be tough, but we are to have faith, to keep the faith, and understand that God will bring us through every situation, and that we have the victory already won. The victory was won on the Cross by Jesus’s death.

So, here in this part of the examen the doctrine that I live by and I believe is the most scriptural to keep myself in holiness is the conditional eternal security. I know I cannot live life in sin, and to say I am saved, then go live a life of sin I cannot excuse that kind of life, nor will I be able to defend myself before God in his court. As I told you earlier, there is more to salvation. What should we expect next in our walk-in salvation? Let us look at what I am naming the Wesleyan Effect.

The Wesleyan Effect. What is it?

John Wesley had met the Moravians in his travels between American and Europe. He was told of a doctrine of justification (justification by faith is also Martin Luther) and what is known now as sanctification. He was intrigued with the doctrine, that was new to him, and wandered why his mentor had never told him of this doctrine. When he studied in his scriptures to see about this new knowledge he began to believe and seek a joy he had not known. As time went by, he found the joy he was seeking, and from this experience that was profound to him, he considered himself not a Christian until his new spiritual experience. In this life changing event, John Wesley had found what it meant to be truly born again. Here, he found what St. Paul was talking about in the scriptures of the peace with God through Jesus. He also found that to be justified we would not only need to believe in Jesus, but to have the fulness of faith of which our hearts can hold. To believe in Jesus with zeal. Our justification does not come by works, but by faith, even though good works is showing fruit of out testimony, it is the light of faith that shows our souls have been forgiven and that the Holy Spirit reigns within our hearts. In justification it is meant that we are not held guilty for our sins, and justification is the action in the process of salvation that is after our prayer of confession of sins, and before sanctification. Justification is the pardoning of sin, that God as the judge in his court found us not guilty and giving us grace and love forgiving us of our trespasses. Justification must occur before the action of sanctification.

Sanctification is the process of washing of the spirit of man to wash away the sin, trespasses, transgressions, iniquities, and abominations that have spotted and trashed the spirit of man. The action is done by the Holy Spirit washing us in the blood of Jesus that takes every sin away.

“Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:”

Romans 5:1

“Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.”

Galatians 2:16

If we continue to see God after knowing we have had the experience of sanctification, we will experience the infilling of the Holy Spirit in which we will speak with tongues and fire. This is the experience of the disciples of Jesus and the people gathered in the Upper Room in Jerusalem in Acts 2. Some people believe that tongues has ceased, but they have not. It continues unto this day and will continue until the Last Day that the book of John speaks. How do we know that we are sanctified? John Wesley preached it as assurance, in other words by the experience you will know by faith and know without a doubt that your temple has been swept cleaned. You will know intellectually.

Sanctification, the Wesleyan Effect, is described above as the instantaneous sanctification. We are responsible for keeping our temple clean, and we do this by prayer asking God to take away any sin, spot, or wrinkle, that we may have done unknowingly. This is called purging. We must keep our souls washed every day spiritually and is called daily sanctification. What helps us to stay pure is to abstain from sin. To keep ourselves separate by not participating in other people’s activities in which we know they do not have the salvation experience. We are to witness to them to bring them to Christ, but we must not fellowship with them lest we be led astray. The purging is also explained by the transformation of our minds, that we are changed, made anew, a new creation in Christ, and being born again. We have come to a position that we are no longer separated from God, and a relationship has opened between God and us.

“But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.

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

Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.

Be not ye therefore partakers with them.”

Ephesians 5:3-7

“And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.”

Ephesians 5:11

We are to witness to them in love telling them we no longer participate in sin, and that we have found salvation in Jesus and found a new love that will lead us to eternal life. We are to disapprove of the sin and not partake of it being the light and witness to draw them into the love of God. By living our testimony in front of them we are showing them a life of holiness.

How do we become holy? We ourselves cannot make ourselves holy, but we can live righteous and by the work of the Holy Spirit he brings us into holiness. The purging of sin daily assures us that we will remain in holiness.

“Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.”

2 Corinthians 7:1

“That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;

“And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.; Neither give place to the devil.”

Ephesians 4: 22,24, 27

The works of justification by faith, instantaneous and daily sanctification, purging and living a life in holiness is the Wesleyan Effect. I pray that you will come to know this experience after reading this article, hoping the Roman road will lead you to salvation if you do not know Jesus. I invite you to read the scriptures for yourself and then ask God for confirmation if needed. This is the path in which I was raised and taught as a youngster, and now I am older and still believe this is the scriptural path of full salvation, the conditional form of eternal security, the gift that God has given us. He wanted us to have this full gift, and the power of the Holy Spirit by coming into our body and changing our spirit. It is the Holy Spirit that gives us boldness and anointing to stay on the path, to give us strength and knowledge in situations when we will need that knowledge and gives us the power (dunamis) to serve.

Notes:

All scripture used was taken from the King James Version, Public Domain, BibleGateway.

biblestudytools.com/dictionaries/bakers-evangelical-dictionary/faith.html

reformed.org/calvinism/tulip-an-introduction-by-jonathan-barlow/

reformed.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/RLDabney5PointsofCalvinism.pdf

churchofgod.org.s3.amazonaws.com/downloads/doctrine-and-polity-papers/Martin-Repentance-English.pdf

John Wesley, by John H. Overton M.A., Methuen & Co. 18, Bury Street, London, WC, 1891.

A Dianoetic Process: Seeking an Answer That Evades a Profound Question About Healing

By James G. Owen

The question that evades or flummoxes a biblical scholar or an average person when asked. Why does God heal one person, but another person does not get healed? Can this question that bewilders the people queried be answered? In my opinion, there is an answer, but we must investigate the scriptures for the answer.

In seeking an answer for this question lets discuss healing from a scriptural point of view, and how it is received.

Healing in scripture begins in the Old Testament. The first healing experience that comes to my mind is the brazen serpent (nahash nehoshet) in Numbers 21:8-9. Here, the people were being bitten by fiery serpents. Some had died because of the bite. It was the Lord God, Jehovah that told Moses to construct a serpent on a pole. So, Moses had a fiery serpent and pole constructed and informed the people to go before the brazen serpent and look up on it and those bitten would live.

There is symbolism here of the serpent being placed on a pole. The pole is the symbolism of the cross that Jesus was sacrificed upon at his crucifixion. This portion of scripture causes me to think of the promise in the book of Genesis of a promised Messiah and his actions.

“And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.”

Genesis 3:15

By placing the serpent on the pole shows the beginning of the defeat of Satan. It is the Messiah who will bruise the head of the serpent and the serpent to bruise his heel. So, when the people went before the brazen serpent and looked up on it, they were acknowledging Satan’s defeat and the presence of the Lord who heals, and a gain in salvation because they were spared from the effects of the poisonous venom of the serpent. What was the action of healing in the scripture in Numbers 21? The action of the smitten people was they “looked upon” as they went before the brazen serpent on the pole. When we go to get healing, whether we present ourselves at the altar, or in another manner, we are coming before the one who was crucified and the sacrifice that provides for our healing as prophesied in Isaiah. Here in the action of looking upon an acknowledgment of God is made known and we present ourselves to him. In this presentation of ourselves we are asking for grace.

“But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.”

Isaiah 53:5

Here in this prophetic scripture the provision of salvation was promised by the atoning blood of Jesus because he was the Son of God shedding his blood for our sins. He was the perfect sacrifice because he had the DNA of God the Father within him as well as the DNA of mankind. By providing for our salvation, he also provided for the healing of people so that they would be able to perform the spreading of the gospel to the world by destiny and purpose.

What happens when a person is healed? In an unbeliever coming to God for healing, two things should occur, that is the salvation of the person being forgiven of their sins after asking for forgiveness which is a witness that God work within their lives, but also a witness to others in the congregation, or gathering group of changes taken place. Changes in the spirit of the person from spiritual death to life, and the physical healing of the person’s body.

What other things will facilitate healing? First is belief in God. Healing is facilitated by believing that God is the only God and that he is all powerful, and that he provides grace sufficient for every need. How do we come to believe in God? We come to believe in God and who he is by reading the bible and encountering people who know him through the experience of his saving power, salvation, and by their own testimony. The child of God can point you to scripture of how to know God and his Son Jesus. It is through believing that God’s word is true, and that he is present in his creation, and by faith we come to believe. Second is grace. We are saved by grace through faith. After receiving salvation, it is our responsibility to keep ourselves purged of sin daily through sanctification through prayer. Living a righteous life before him our grace increases along with our faith and knowledge because we are spending time searching and reading the scriptures in the bible. We are growing and becoming greater by our increased affection for God and the blessings he has given us, the provision he brings, and by the fruits and proof of our newfound morality. Grace comes by obedience and gratitude.

Healing came to the people following Jesus because they had seen others healed. Those healed believed what Jesus taught and trusted him fully. They knew by his works that he was from God because no man could perform such miracles that they witnessed. The people believed because of the wisdom and the fruits of his life that he remained sinless. He could not be tested and fail or deceived because Jesus was part God because he was born of a virgin and his father was Almighty God, the Great I AM. To be clear he was tested by Satan after his baptism by John the Baptist, but he was victorious! So, his healing comes to us as a promise and through the fulfilling of the new covenant.

So, what is the answer to the perplexing question that people ask? Why some are healed instantly, and others are put on hold, so to speak? This is my answer while working the dianoetic process. Those who are healed instantly are ones who are needing salvation. Those who are saved have a purpose that God wants them to fulfill by working in the kingdom of God and it is his will, and desire for them to be instantly healed to continue to serve. Those who are not healed instantly should make sure they are obedient in their spiritual walk and growing in the knowledge of Jesus, and that their walk shows the fruits of the Spirit. While conducting my study for this article those who are disciples, he wants us to persist. Make sure our hearts are right and all in in order. Work your faith by believing, keeping your petition before God, and placing full trust in him. We must also realize that he may not heal because we may not remember him, and in the example of Paul may use this as a thorn to keep our minds upon him, never giving up while we are continuously working for the kingdom. It is through the pain of trials, sicknesses, tribulations, and the experiences of living that he refines us.

“But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.”

1 Peter 5:10-11

“And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.”

Zechariah 13:9

“But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.”

2 Peter 3:18

“And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.”

2 Corinthians 12:9

In conclusion, there may be other solutions to this profound question. I do believe that any other answer will be shown in the scriptures of the bible and by revelation through prayer or a word from the Lord. So, we must keep searching the scriptures for answers while placing our faith totally in him knowing that everything is done according to his will and mercy. He has a purpose for everything. Keep searching.

Notes

https://www.abarim-publications.com/Meaning/Nehushtan.html

https://www.biblehub.com/greek/5485.htm

Grace, the Greek definitions for grow G 837 and grace G5485. Tecarta Bible.

All scripture used is from the King James Version, Public Domain, BibleGateway.

The Devil, Disease, and Deliverance: Origins of Illness in New Testament Thought, CPT Press Cleveland, Tennessee, by John Christopher Thomas, 2010.

THE PROTESTANT DENOMINATIONAL CHURCHES COME TOGETHER IN UNITY

by James G. Owen

There are more denominations than choices of fishing tackle. Since the Protestant Reformation the Protestant Movement has grown in number of denominations. Churches split over various reason, but one reason is doctrine.

The denominations have different views for:

Water baptism.
Different millennial positions, such as Premillennialism, Amillennialism, and Postmillennialism.
Pretribulation, Mid-tribulational, and Post-tribulation.
Trinitarian or non-Trinitarian
Eternal Security
Predestination differences
Dispensational vs Non-Dispensational
Belief in the Speaking of Tongues and Baptism of the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in tongues.

There are more differences in the denominations than the list I created I think, but we will carry on to making my point of unity. In today’s world, a bizarre year has unfolded, and there is an attack on the Christian Church—Christianity. The churches are not united in doctrine, nor united in spirit and the spiritual battle we are facing globally, and especially here in the United States must be defeated. This means that all differences in doctrine and of any kind must cease and find common ground in fighting this battle together. In numbers we will have victory, being split we are defeated.

The Protestant churches should respect one another and come to the basic of doctrines in scripture, and that is to preach Jesus born of a virgin, ministered, taught, healed, delivered, and raised the dead as spoken in the Gospels of the New Testament. We are called to make disciples of men. We are not to bicker over eschatological opinions and views, or for any other doctrine. Lay these differences down and preach Jesus as the Messiah the only way to salvation and eternal life. This is my point for unity. There may be other avenues for unity among the Protestants and Evangelicals, but we must stand together to fight the spiritual battle we are in globally. We are in a battle for the very soul of the nation of the United States of America. What happens here in this year of 2020 will determine the outcome for the whole world. In the last few months, I have seen reports of using a virus to bring global change, and that change has a name—the Great Reset. A name that I believe has changed from the original term I saw earlier in the year, and that was Tikkun Olam, meaning to fix the world.

To fix the world from the globalist view is to reconstruct the economy, set new rules for environmental issues such as climate change. I see an attack on the Christian churches of shutdown, and the outlawing of bibles. I am aware of the vaccines being produced that have been fast tracked and not taking the usual number of years to develop. For years I have been watching for a new world government to arise, and a new world religion, all set to become a One World System, and I believe I have seen the fundamentals being established using a virus to attain their goals.

So, I am making a clarion call to all Protestant Churches to assemble and to unite in a battle of good versus evil, a spiritual battle that will affect all mankind. Push back the differences and put on the Ephesians 6: 11-18 armor.

“Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

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.

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.

Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;

And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;

Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;”

Centuries ago, there was a Dark Age and there were differences of doctrine and beliefs. Martin Luther came to the forefront of the Reformation Movement and wrote his 95 Theses. Today, we are seeing a New Dark Age coming now being called a Dark Winter, and I have heard this term from a presidential Democratic candidate. The result is the same, but I believe we are into a more difficult time, an indignation because of a political ideology that was not present in the current form we have witnessed in my lifetime.

So, concluding let all Christians who love Jesus project, teach, preach, and evangelize Jesus. Fulfill the evangelical call and go into all the world and preach the gospel.

Notes: All scripture used was taken from the King James Version, Public Domain, BibleGateway.

The Religion of the Pharisees: The Star God Chiun and the Temple of Moloch

To understand Judaism, we must examine the beliefs of the Pharisee and their pagan gods, and to understand the gods of the Pharisee will determine why the Babylonian Talmud was written, its influence, and how the Noahide Law came into existence. The religion of the Pharisee is known as Judaism, and the Rabbi’s involved in interpreting and teaching the Babylonian Talmud are called Talmudists. Judaism’s rise comes during the exile of the Hebrews into Babylon.

The Israelites have a long history of idolatry and disobedience. Their start as a nation began while they were in captivity in Egypt. It was there Israel lived in the culture of Egypt and participated in the culture of religions. Within Egypt were many gods, but as they made their exodus from Egypt under the leadership of Moses, and found themselves in the land we know as Saudi Arabia they came to a place at the foot of Mt. Sinai and began to fashion a golden calf while Moses was on the mountain receiving the laws of Yahweh. The scriptures tell us it was a golden calf, maybe what is known as a bull that was worshiped in the land. No matter it was idolatry and that is a sin.

The nation of Israel worshiped gods as they journeyed for forty years, and as they went through the lands wondering near Moab and Ammon, they learned of their gods Moloch and Chemosh, the fire gods, and known as fertility gods as well. These were the gods that scripture tells us the Hebrew people sacrificed their children by passing them through the fire. In these lands, the sacrifices were to ensure good agricultural crops by gaining favor from the pagan gods.

Years later, we progress into Israel and the people are established, and a temple is built. Destruction comes to the temple because of the people’s disobedience of not letting the land rest and are exiled to Babylon under Nebuchadnezzar. It is here in this period that a group of Hebrew people become a sect within the religious population, and we know them in scripture as the Pharisee. The people are exiled to Babylon for seventy years. It is here, the Pharisee are influenced and learn the pagan and occultic religions of Babylon. There were many religions in this area, but there is one that we will concentrate on from Babylon that is spoken of in scripture, that is in Amos 5:26.

Yea, ye have borne the tabernacle of your king and the shrine of your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
Amos 5:26

Years before the Hebrews were exiled into Babylon and wandering in the desert, Moses had warned the Israelites not to worship the stars of the universe, but did they listen? It appears that not all listened to Moses because we find in Amos, they have partaken in the worship of Chiun, and Sikkuth. Chiun is a star god that is represented by the planet Saturn and was worshiped on the sabbath day of the week. How could they have attributed the planet Saturn to Chiun? Maybe the knowledge of Saturn in accordance with Chiun came from the fallen angels because of the attribution of the hexagram to the worship of Chiun. Within the hexagram is a six-pointed shape in the middle of the hexagram. This shape is attributed to Metatron the chief fallen angel within kabbalah at the top of the sefirot. He is the prince of the universe, and of the air. Among Christians we would identify this fallen angel as Satan, or Lucifer. While looking at the Nasa space pictures, I saw the shape of the six-pointed shape within the hexagram taken of Saturn’s north pole. It was at this moment, for me, this was confirmation of some knowledge that was given to those who worshiped Chiun. Within the pagan and occult religions, the people are worshipping fallen angels and demons. As you do your own research you may find that Metatron is also associated with the Zoroastrian god Mithra, which is identified in this religion as a sun god. Satan is a fallen angel that uses confusion, and he does like to mix things up because it makes the deception deeper, and hard to disprove.

Sikkuth is the temple of Moloch and is in the country of Elam in Der. As mentioned above Moloch is a fire and fertility god but is attached to the marzeah feast that possibly is described in Ezekiel 8. As I study the religions having a fertility god there is sexual activity, like temple prostitution, within, and these activities I would believe would be the abominations that Saint Paul described in the book of Romans.

What is a marzeah feast? Looking further into research I found that its origin is in the 14^th century BC in the Ugarit culture and finds its presence in Samaria and Judah during the 8^th and 7^th century BC. It is a cult that deifies one person, has exclusive membership, and is within a house built near a vineyard. It is a party of drunkenness, an orgy, with drinking and eating on ivory couches carved with the icons of the marzeah feast. Within the feast is the anointing of oil practiced in their ceremonies, and some scholars have described the feast to be housed within a house of burlesque. Here, the members come to memorialize their dead whom they mourn, playing loud music and singing loud songs.

that lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;that sing idle songs to the sound of the viol; that invent for themselves instruments of music, like David; that drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief oils; but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
Amos 6:4-6

Within these houses the participants show their revelry and rebellion against God displaying acts of pride, and Jehovah God hates the sight of it because it is against his commandments to us all. They pagan worshipers lay in their parlors, and I can imagine doing so while the common people of that nation worked to support them. This is the essence of pride and is my thought on the subject as I study the deceptions within the world trying to lead the Christian and the people of the world into a web of deception. This study I have embarked on is deep and takes a lot of time to study the subject out, but this gives one a window in which to peer into the religion that has seven laws for the gentile that is being promoted to us. As I think on the subject, the idolatry in the one world system will be the worship of a man that we know as Antichrist, and those who take his mark will be his slaves for his short-lived kingdom.

Notes

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/4345-chiun

https://www.biblestudytools.com/dictionary/remphan/

http://www.arcalog.com/baal-peor-and-the-marzeah-feast

Beach, Eleanor Ferris. “The Samaria Ivories, Marzeaḥ and Biblical Texts.” The Biblical Archaeologist 55, no. 3 (1992): 130-39. doi:10.2307/3210292.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn%27s_hexagon

https://infrakshun.wordpress.com/2015/05/01/occult-zionism-vii-hexagrams-and-comets/

https://books.google.com/books?id=RkXrVJbHcQIC&pg=PA62&lpg=PA62&dq=sikkuth+temple&source=bl&ots=6Rq9F6iP6Y&sig=ACfU3U1rCHfebuB6Ggn06rRtqxwWzylcxw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj98r3tlZDjAhUDB50JHY01D4kQ6AEwD3oECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=sikkuth%20temple&f=false

The Qumran Commnity by Michael A. Knipp pp. 62-63

Beach, Eleanor Ferris. “The Samaria Ivories, Marzeaḥ, and Biblical Text.” The Biblical Archaeologist 56, no. 2 (1993): 94-104. doi:10.2307/3210252.

https://books.google.com/books?id=Sew9Lby_MVsC&pg=PA907&lpg=PA907&dq=marzeah+in+the++talmud&source=bl&ots=ysZINunEMk&sig=ACfU3U0TTFl5gS9hirwas7Zv9feQ88n0Sw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjYu8yp8qrjAhX8B50JHT5cBTMQ6AEwC3oECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=marzeah%20in%20the%20%20talmud&f=false

‘Al Kanfei Yonah by Jonas Carl Greenfield pp 451-452, 454

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avdat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obodas_I

All scriptures have been taken from the American Standard Version, Biblegateway, Public Domain

Baal Peor and the Marzeah Feast

The Noahide Laws: Will the Laws Be Used By the Antichrist?

The Noahide laws I believe I have read about in the past, but a friend of mine sent me a link to read, and to watch the video on the website. Through this page I was made aware of some things I did not realize, and it caused me to stop, think, and then read some more about these laws.

So, this writing is a report of the laws, the points that were made during my research. During my reading I sometimes pause to think. I could see a scenario how the Antichrist could use such laws against every ethnic group in the world, and especially to a religious group, namely Christians.

First, what are the Noahide laws? Where did they originate? They originated in the Talmud and its sections of the Sanhedrin, Avodah Zarah, Baba Kammah, and Chulin. As I read I found the laws were different among the sources. I will list the seven laws and their differences in a way that will make sense.

People are not to worship idols and laws will be created governing idolatry.
If people want to have children, or children to be born, they must not have sexual activity through incest, or adultery. People are to have children within marriage. Also, illicit sexual activity is not to be performed, like homosexuality or bestiality.
God is not to be cursed.
While eating meals people are not to consume blood, nor eat meat from a living animal.
Not to steal or murder, nor bear false witness.

Why would I become reflective when I read these laws? Later, in the research I heard that people who believed in Jesus and worshiped him would be seen as idolatry. Being a believer and a disciple of Jesus, this was ludicrous because he came as our messiah, to bring grace and salvation through the redemptive power of his blood, but there are groups of people who do not believe in Jesus, or he as a messiah. They think of him as a man only, and their belief is that he is not to be worshiped.

Secondly, the peoples of the earth will not have a choice. If we do not agree to obey these laws then the penalty will be beheading. All will have to adhere to the Noahide laws, and these laws will be governed by a system of courts, which means courts established all over the world in a world system. Yes, there are international courts established now, and these courts may be used to enforce these laws.

Thirdly, during my reading I learned that the U. S. Congress had passed the Noahide laws in 1991, and that caused thoughts that other countries may have passed these laws as well. I have not answered this question, but I may research it further.

Another point that caused concern is that these laws have not been spoken of since the Jewish people lived in Israel until the 20th century. These laws were known during the time the Jewish people held the land and the Temple was still in existence. For the Gentiles to live in the land they had to agree to abide by these laws. At the dawn of the 20th century it is believed that the messianic age was at hand, and that these laws will create a harmonious world without chaos, and provide justice. In other words, a Utopian world. A type of world upon the planet earth that Karl Marx and Engels envisioned as they created the philosophy of Marxism.

Why would this group consider all ethnic groups to be included under these laws? When the world flood, Noah’s flood ended the earth was repopulated and all of us became his descendants, thus placing us under the name Noahide because of the take on Noah’s name.

How does this fit into the eschatology of biblical scripture? Here, I can see a one world religion to emerge using these laws, but I also have to consider that the One World System to come may include all the religions of the world. I have told people I have conversed with that the Antichrist will mimic Jesus. In other words, be a counterfeit, and create a counterfeit kingdom that will look like the Kingdom of Christ, yet will deceive many people. Those that do not know the Bible, nor have the knowledge of prophecy and eschatology will be deceived. The religion will be a worship of the image of the Antichrist. Those who do not accept his mark on their right hand, nor the forehead will be beheaded. To continue living in the present world one will have to take the mark to be able to buy and sell. The taking of the mark of the beast is the statement of the renouncement of Jesus.

And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Revelation 20:4 KJV

And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Revelation 13:17 KJV

I will continue to study this subject and its validity while I study the subject I am currently studying. A study of the beast of Daniel and Revelation. All things should be considered and reviewed. That is merely what I am doing, that is, investigating this trail, and how it could be considered in the World Government that scripture describes. The One World government may come another way, but I will be vigilant! The study the beast, the Antichrist, so far as been a year long, and keeps enlarging, certainly a behemoth and a leviathan.

Notes:

All scripture given is taken from the King James Version Public Domain, Biblegateway.

The Noahide Laws -Seven Laws of Noah – They Should Terrify You

https://www.gotquestions.org/Noahide-laws.html

https://www.congress.gov/bill/102nd-congress/house-joint-resolution/104/text

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Laws_of_Noah

The Noahide Laws

https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/62221/jewish/The-7-Noahide-Laws-Universal-Morality.htm

http://www.noachide.org.uk/html/history.html

Dr Lorraine Day Tells About the Passing of the Noahide Laws, a YouTube Video.

The Galilee: Why Did Jesus Spend So Much Time In This Land?

The word Galilee. It has a meaning that I believe has a spiritual meaning to it leading us to a deeper understanding of scripture. The Hebrew word galil means a valve, or a folding door. After discovering its meaning what spiritual meaning could be tied to it. As I studied this week, and over the years I have read there is much demonic activity that occurred before and during the time of Jesus. It is in this land, whether in the Upper Galilee, the mountains, or in the Lower Galilee, the fertile plains there was pagan worship of many gods in this area. The gods worshiped were the Canaanite gods the Baalim and Asherah, and of course during Jesus’s time the Romans worshiped their gods of Zeus, Artemis, Aphrodite, and Pan,especially in the area of Gadarene.

And they arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which is over against Galilee.
²And when he went forth to land, there met him out of the city a certain man, which had devils long time, and ware no clothes, neither abode in any house, but in the tombs.
Luke 8: 26-27 KJV

As we use our imagination working upon the Hebrew meaning given above as a folding door the area possibly could work as a portal for pagan activity. The portal would be opened by the worship of these idols and the lives of the people would be affected by its worship thinking they would benefit from worshiping their gods to attain favor for their agricultural crops for the year, but instead witness torment, destruction, demon possession, sickness, disease and death.

And there came a leper to him, beseeching him, and kneeling down to him, and saying unto him, If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be thou clean.
Mark 1:40-41 KJV

Another Hebrew word to describe the land of Galilee is the word galiyl, which means circuit. In this land of the Gentiles, a land given to them by Solomon who hired King Hiram of Tyre in payment for the timber used in the Temple, there was also a population of Israelites as well. Jesus spent most of his time going from place to place freeing people from torment, sickness and disease, raising the dead, stilling the storm, and feeding the hungry. It was in this land that he showed he was greater than Satan by defeating him in the deliverance of the tormented people and brought healing to the infirmed and sanity to those who were mentally ill, or demon possessed. It was in this land that many miracles happened. News of Jesus went through the nation of Israel by the word of mouth. This land he showed his power to a nation and to the satanic armies that wanted to destroy God’s creation, man.

And it came to pass the day after, that he went into a city called Nain; and many of his disciples went with him, and much people.
Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.
And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not.
And he came and touched the bier: and they that bare him stood still. And he said, Young man, I say unto thee, Arise.
And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he delivered him to his mother.
And there came a fear on all: and they glorified God, saying, That a great prophet is risen up among us; and, That God hath visited his people.
And this rumour of him went forth throughout all Judaea, and throughout all the region round about.
Luke 7:11-17 KJV

The land of Galilee was home to Jesus as well, having been raised in Nazareth, and he knew the land very well, and it is the area that his first miracle was performed was in Cana, as he turned pitchers of water into wine. The land that was used for pagan worship now had a revival going in the land. People being freed, stories written for future generations for the Jew and the Gentile. These stories of salvation, deliverance, and victory are being read about in scripture to this very day and has given hope to so many. This is the reason why Jesus spent so much time in the land of Galilee. There may be other reasons as well, but this is one aspect I have had on my mind this week.

Notes: All scripture given was taken from the King James Version, Public Domain Biblegateway.

https://www.messie2vie.fr/bible/strongs/search.php?search=h1551

https://www.messie2vie.fr/bible/strongs/search.php?search=h1550

https://www.christianity.com/jesus/life-of-jesus/miracles/what-miracles-did-jesus-perform.html

http://www.abarim-publications.com/Meaning/Galilee.html#.XH82dyhKiUk

https://www.thattheworldmayknow.com/fertility-cults-of-canaan

A Nation with Morality God Blesses

Look all around us. Trouble everywhere. Not only sins are being committed but horrible crimes, theft, and corruption. Sexual immorality going through the roof in its various forms. We see the news reports, hear it from the neighbor, or some experience it personally.

We live in a nation whose charter began with a covenant to establish a civil government in which to follow laws to keep prevent trouble among those who had traveled with the Puritan’s. The Puritan’s had come to America so they could worship God freely and in the manner they wished and understood from scripture. This agreement is called the Mayflower Compact.

Earlier in history, God established a morality code with Adam, which simply was not to eat of the Tree of Good and Evil for which there would be a penalty, and that penalty was spiritual death, and included a physical death also. Later, at Mount Sinai in Exodus 19, God gave Moses the law which was to govern the Israelite’s in the section of laws of Morality, Sacrificial, and Ceremonial. Within these laws governed how the Tabernacle would be constructed, its furniture, and accessories needed for worship. Also, within the law was the commandments for government. Man cannot function without a moral government under God. As we obey God, worship him, and live within his law code, then a nation will be prosperous and successful. Outside of God’s government will be chaos, immorality, crime, and a spirit that says anyone can do as he pleases with no consequence. In the book of Judges we see in scripture that the land did not have a government, was not blessed, and did not produce safety. The land was full of idolatry as well.

Looking at more modern history, we see the spirit of anything goes among nations like Babylon where this spirit originated. I will call it the spirit of Nimrod, or Nimrodism. Later, in Europe this spirit comes to the surface under a different name, and that name is Marxism. All the countries that it has influenced people have become serfs, later some starving, or executed because they refused to be controlled. These nations were in chaos, and a leader who thought of himself as God. This spirit, which many call and a Antichrist spirit, which it is, has found its way around the world. Many have excepted it, and many reject it. It is a spirit that intimidates, manipulates, and controls. It places people in bondage, liberty and freedom is no longer present. The spirit advocates hate and all that hate influences. It is full of pride, thirsts for power, and will do anything to reach its goal, and that is total domination.

Here in America we have seen the rise of the Antichrist spirit within. It has taken many years working in stealth. The problems of division is because of its influence. Immorality is rampant and increasing. All the things of its character I have mentioned above. There was a time in America that this spirit wasn’t present and this nation prospered. Yes, our nation has had problems and its people, but as long as we live within God’s law, bless Israel, God will bless this nation. The road on which we are traveling is a dangerous one, and if we stay on this road our nation that we have enjoyed many freedoms, and capitalism will be destroyed and a feudal government will take its place.

How do we as a nation prevent this from happening? The answer is simple. All of us must repent of our sins and come to God, live in righteousness, proclaim the gospel to every creature, change the laws that are contrary to his word, like abortion, and those laws that champions immorality as written about in Romans chapter 1 and 2.

If we do not, then this nation will be part of a world order, a order that is evil and will dominate not only our nation but the world.

Notes

Note: http://mayflowerhistory.com/mayflower-compact/

Note: https://www.loc.gov/resource/dcmsiabooks.americanhistoryg00wood/?sp=79

The Lands of Israel

God gave a promise to Abraham of many nations. These nations would come from his seed. Abraham was old, in his nineties to one hundred when his wife Sarai bore their son Isaac. The promise made to Abraham would come through Isaac. It is through Isaac’s son Jacob that the tribes of Israel were to come to fruition later to help establish the lands of Israel.

What are these lands of Israel? How many miles approximately do they cover? Approximately 1500 by 2000 miles. In today’s world, these lands that were promised to Israel have gentile ethnic groups living within them, and claimed by them, but in the end these lands will be established from the promise God made to Israel. These lands are in identified in our times as Egypt (east of the Nile River), Sudan, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Turkey, all of Israel as we know it, the area of Gaza, and the West Bank. This is a large piece of land, approximately 1500 by 2000 miles. Why would God give such a large piece of land to Abraham? It is possible that all the lands identified is the area of the Garden of Eden, and it his will is to reestablish the Edenic paradise and fellowship with mankind.

In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
Genesis 15:18-21 KJV

As I looked at the areas mapped with borders it took shape of a partial pyramid—a mountain. Upon seeing this shape I thought of the New Jerusalem in the book of Revelation. This new city will cover most of the area described in the amount of about 1500 miles square. Many preachers I have heard have thought that the city of the New Jerusalem to come would be in the shape of a cube, but I don’t believe it will be, but will be in the shape of a pyramid. Why? Because I see this city as the mountain of God, and the Mountain of Eden restored in future times after the old earth is destroyed, and the new earth established.

And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
Revelation 21:2 KJV

So, the lands being fought over today are between the two sons of Abraham, Ishmael—the Arabs, and Isaac —the grandfather of Israel. As we go further, we see two more sons have a division. These two sons are Jacob and Esau, the sons of Isaac. It was God’s will that the nation of Israel would be established through Jacob with the 12 tribes, but Esau by tradition and first born was to receive the blessing. However, God’s will is to be done. This is one of the many reasons why this land is being fought over because of the traditional blessings, but Satan knows that God wants to bring the world we live in to a close, place Satan, his army of fallen angels, and his seed into the pit for warring against God. This means his final defeat and judgement. This is an eternal sentence.

God is reestablishing his creation and his kingdom to be enjoyed by the nations of people who have accepted his son Jesus and have been given the privilege to live in an “heaven”, a new earth that is not defiled by sin, as this earth we live in is defiled.

This nation of Israel, and the lands that have been promised will be the center of the world to come. A place where Ezekiel’s temple will be established for all nations to come to worship God. A nation of lands promised to Abraham. A eternal covenant, and God bringing his promise to fruition. This is what all generations have seen. God’s will and purpose coming into being, that is, a eternal kingdom with man.

Notes:

curtlandry.com/whose-promised-land-is-it-part-1-ancient-borders/

theisraelbible.com/biblical-boundaries-land-israel

All scripture used is taken from the King James Version Public Domain Biblegateway

The Messiah Birthed in Bethlehem

The Messiah birthed in Bethlehem probably during the time of the Feast of Tabernacles to Hanukkah. Whenever he was birthed it would be six months after the child of a Temple priest named John. This child is the one who cries in the wilderness, the forerunner of the Messiah, and he brings all who come to him to salvation through baptism—the act of sanctification, and foretelling a resurrection to come through the Messiah.

But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
Micah 5:2 KJV

Six months later, Miriam whom we know as Mary gave birth to a child in Bethlehem Ephrahthah, which means the House of Bread and Fruitful. This child was foretold to be birthed in this tiny country town in Micah 5. He would be transferred after the Roman census to be raised in Nazareth as a Nazarene, and this child would be raised in the synagogue yeshivah’s, the bible schools of the day. As he begins to mature we find him in the synagogue reading aloud, answering questions, and astonishing those present. Would he become fruitful? Would he be dispensing bread among the people of Israel, the Gentiles, and through the ages to our current world? The answer would be yes because of his ministry of shepherding to the people, teaching them the law, of God, and salvation. We read about him training his disciples the same law and counseling them so that they would be ready for the world when the Holy Ghost would come to dwell within men. He was readying the disciples and disciples from that day to ours the same ministry we would find in the Holy Ghost, and from the ministries we have authority through his name-Yeshua—Jesus.

The meaning of the House of Bread, Bethlehem begins to be tied together in scripture as he declares his identity as Messiah in the book of John by stating in the I AM’s, ” I AM the bread of life.” His fruitfulness is in his works of the thousands of healings, casting out demons, and raising of the dead that defines him as the Messiah that was to be birthed in Bethlehem. This babe went to be this man, and he gave his life on a cruel cross outside of Jerusalem on Golgotha, the hill of the skull, the place that David buried the skull of Goliath of Gath.

And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
John 6:35 KJV

I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
John 6:51 KJV

This babe that was birthed in Bethlehem whom was prophesied of through the prophets is the Messiah we celebrate in this season of Lights! May those who know the Messiah be blessed, and for those who do not know him currently I ask you to discover Jesus and come to know him as Messiah and God.

Notes: All Scripture used is taken from the King James Bible Public Domain Biblegateway

The Infinity of Intelligence

Intelligence. It is not just having the genetic ability of being smart. There are many words in our language that would define this powerful word. They are reason, insight, knowledge, wisdom, understanding, and discernment. So, where does the infinity of intelligence originate? It is with God, the creator of the universe and all that is. Have you ever asked yourself I would like to know it all? You begin on your quest to do so, and soon realize there is so much knowledge to understand, so much wisdom, and so much to discern about people’s behavior and how to analyze their actions. Soon you will become overwhelmed. We soon discover that we will never know it all because there is so much, and it is very deep.

Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
James 3:13

Man has endeavored over the centuries, throughout his timeline to learn everything there is to learn about our surroundings. Many of this learning comes through the avenues of science, but the very action of intelligence among all of us is one main factor that trumps all, that is the realization that God exists.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
Proverbs 9:10

This is the highest definition of intelligence. With God we begin a quest and a relationship to search out the infinity of his intelligence—to learn all that is about him and our surroundings, and even those things we cannot see, for example the science of the universe, quantum physics, and microbiology.

To learn more about our world and to gain knowledge and intelligence into the deeper things, the mysteries, especially in God’s word we must have a relationship with God. With all the learning we do every day in research there is more to research than knowledge, and that is building a relatioship with God. How do we do so? By prayer and study in his word. Here, we discover a new level of intelligence, we discover his mysteries that are hidden by him for us to discover. God does get glory out of all we do learn and discover, but he gets more glory from our actions in searching for what he has hidden in his word, and those hidden things are about him.

No matter how much we learn, the more we discover that it will take eons to learn everything. This is what I describe as the infinity of God’s Intelligence because there is no end.

Notes: All scripture used is from the King James Version Public Domain Biblegateway.

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