A Wheel Within A Wheel
Chapter 15
The Gospel of Peace
The Gospel of Peace Preface
The “Gospel of Peace” is referenced in the Bible in two separate verses directly and indirectly in two additional verses as follows.
Ephesians 6:15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
This first verse located in Ephesians 6:15 is located in the armor of God passage. This verse has direct relevance to the 144,000 for they are the ones that will be delivering “The Gospel of Peace” to the Multitude at the end of time, which is extremely close at hand.
The 144,000 have their feet shod with the preparation of “The Gospel of Peace”. Their ‘feet shod’ indicates not only the path that the 144,000 walk but also the message that they carry with them.
Also notice the word ‘preparation’ of “The Gospel of Peace” is used. What could that mean? Very simply, it means that the 144,000 are to get themselves prepared to deliver the message of “The Gospel of Peace” to its recipients, the Multitude.
How does one prepare or get prepared to deliver this message? First, the message must be made ready for delivery. This has been done. Following this message or preface is “The Gospel of Peace” which is the message that is to be delivered to the Multitude.
Secondly, you need to prepare yourself for delivering this message. Print “The Gospel of Peace”, study it, learn it, pray about it, and seek the Lord. More on how this message will be delivered to the Multitude following the rest of the verses that speak about what “The Gospel of Peace” is.
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!
In Romans 10:15 there is the second direct reference to “The Gospel of Peace”. This verse is again referencing the feet of them, the 144,000 that preach “The Gospel of Peace”. It is a message that the 144,000 bring to the Multitude for “The Gospel of Peace” is preached.
This verse now adds something to or about “The Gospel of Peace”. The 144,000 that carry this message is also bringing glad tidings of good things which then takes us to this next verse that expands upon that premise.
“The Gospel of Peace” can be likened to glad tidings of good things. There is also a direct reference to ‘preaching’ “The Gospel of Peace”. Paul says “how shall they preach, except they be sent?” Who are they that preach? The 144,000 preach “The Gospel of Peace”?
Who sends them to preach “The Gospel of Peace”? The Lord God Almighty sends them. He tells us through His Word what the 144,000 are supposed to do. We now proceed to the next verse.
Isaiah 52:7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
In Isaiah 52:7 we have the tie in to the Gospel of Peace directly referenced in Ephesians 6:15 and Romans 10:15. Again it is the feet of them upon the mountains that bring good tidings. This would be the 144,000.
This verse in Isaiah continues to expand what the message of “The Gospel of Peace” is. Here is a second reference to bringing good tidings and bringing good tidings of good. What is added here is the 144,000 with “The Gospel of Peace” will be publishing peace and publishing salvation and saying unto Zion, which is the Multitude the 144,000 will be speaking to, that “Thy God reigneth!”
Publishing can include printing out “The Gospel of Peace” to leave with the Multitude or the word ‘publish’ can also mean proclaim. What is “The Gospel of Peace”? It is a proclamation that God reigns. He has brought all of this about to save His remnant of Israel just as He has promised us. One more verse to go that is another companion verse.
Nahum 1:15 Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off.
Again, the feet of him, which is the 144,000, brings good tidings and publishes peace. It then gives further instruction to keep thy solemn feasts and perform thy vows. The keeping of the solemn feasts and performing vows will be accomplished when the wicked have been taken out of the way.
When the wicked are cut off is referring to the judgment of the goats, the judgment of the Serpents and the Scorpions and all who do iniquity.
The Lord will reclaim what is His when He brings an end to this world as we know it. He will be taking it back from the iniquity of Satan and will vanquish him forever into the lake of fire. He will judge His church and then He will deal with the ungodly.
The lives of the 144,000 have each been guided and pulled, sometimes pushed, to align with His Truth. We have been chosen by God not only to fulfill scripture but to be His end time prophets and mouthpieces proclaiming His Glory.
Each of us has been chosen by Him to deliver this message so He can fulfill His promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that He would always save a remnant of Israel. We are to deliver that message in the form of “The Gospel of Peace” to the Multitude.
Think of this. How do you deliver a message to one person to an entire group of people that God is mad at them, that they are going to be killed, and all of their hopes and dreams are out the window? Pretty glum to say the least. That is not good news or glad tidings. That is not peace.
Instead, we will be delivering a message telling the Multitude that they have transgressed against the Lord. And that the Lord is angry with them but loves them so much that He has made a way for them to receive eternal life with Him. Yes, they will lose their physical lives but will receive the reward of eternal salvation with the Lord. That is good news! That is glad tidings! That is peace!
It is like a father dealing with an insolent child that He loves dearly. He cannot allow them to destroy themselves and has to deal with them in a very stern but loving way. This is how He does it. And He needs His people, the 144,000 to deliver this message to the lost sheep of Israel.
We are the mouthpieces, we are the prophets of the Lord, we are the ones that the Lord has chosen to deliver this message of hope and peace to the Multitude that is currently heading towards hell.
We are nothing special. He is the one who has brought each one of us to this place at this time. It is through Him that we even exist. We were once in one of, or all of the lies that the church is now guilty of. He has cleansed up to make unto Himself pure vessels, virgins with their lamps burning, with plenty of oil to keep them lit. He has done this; all we have done is just to be willing vessels for Him to work through.
Let us prepare for delivering this message to the Multitude. This message will most likely be delivered in the form of preaching or a sermon in the prisons or concentration camps or if you will, re-education camps.
This will be the final message that the Multitude will hear before their death, telling them where they have erred and how they each can be redeemed. The Lord chastises those He loves but He also gives them hope for life eternal. We are the ones to deliver that message, and that message is “The Gospel of Peace”.
The Lord will make the way for each of us to have the blessed opportunity to deliver this message to those who will be desperate to hear. He will open the gates and doors that will need to be opened for this message to get through.
Here is a verse that speaks not only about the 144,000 but includes the Multitude also. This verse is soon to be fulfilled by each one of us.
Isaiah 30:20-22 And though the Lord give you (The Multitude) the bread of adversity, (The Multitude is sitting in prison with no way out) and the water of affliction, (The Multitude is sitting in prison with no way out) yet shall not thy (The Multitude) teachers (144,000) be removed into a corner any more, (The Multitude has poo-pooed what the 144,000 have tried to tell them about Christmas and Easter being pagan holidays and the physical Jews are not the chosen people, and the rapture is a fable, it’s never going to happen – The Multitude shunned you and pushed you away but no longer will) but thine eyes (The Multitude) shall see thy (The Multitude) teachers: (144,000) And thine ears (The Multitude) shall hear a word behind thee, (The message the 144,000 had preached to them , “The Gospel of Peace”) saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, (The Multitude will remember what was told to them by this messenger that God had sent to speak to them) when ye (The Multitude) turn to the right hand, (The right hand is referencing the Scorpion. So, when they turn and see a Scorpion who likely ratted them out, the Multitude will realize why the Lord chose the Scorpions to deliver them into captivity.) and when ye (The Multitude) turn to the left. (The left hand is referencing the Serpent. So, when they turn and see a Serpent who likely will be murdering them, the Multitude will realize why the Lord chose the Serpents to deliver them unto death.) Ye (The Multitude) shall defile (The Multitude will repent and throw away all of their false gods) also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: (This is referencing the four transgressions in regards to Christmas, Easter, the Rapture, and the physical Jews as the chosen people) thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; (The Multitude will discard their gods that they worshiped and cast them away) thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence. (The Multitude will want nothing to do with them for it is by them that they are where they are.)
Hear O’ Zion. Thy God Reigneth!
Ephesians 6:15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
This first verse located in Ephesians 6:15 is located in the armor of God passage. This verse has direct relevance to the 144,000 for they are the ones that will be delivering “The Gospel of Peace” to the Multitude at the end of time, which is extremely close at hand.
The 144,000 have their feet shod with the preparation of “The Gospel of Peace”. Their ‘feet shod’ indicates not only the path that the 144,000 walk but also the message that they carry with them.
Also notice the word ‘preparation’ of “The Gospel of Peace” is used. What could that mean? Very simply, it means that the 144,000 are to get themselves prepared to deliver the message of “The Gospel of Peace” to its recipients, the Multitude.
How does one prepare or get prepared to deliver this message? First, the message must be made ready for delivery. This has been done. Following this message or preface is “The Gospel of Peace” which is the message that is to be delivered to the Multitude.
Secondly, you need to prepare yourself for delivering this message. Print “The Gospel of Peace”, study it, learn it, pray about it, and seek the Lord. More on how this message will be delivered to the Multitude following the rest of the verses that speak about what “The Gospel of Peace” is.
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!
In Romans 10:15 there is the second direct reference to “The Gospel of Peace”. This verse is again referencing the feet of them, the 144,000 that preach “The Gospel of Peace”. It is a message that the 144,000 bring to the Multitude for “The Gospel of Peace” is preached.
This verse now adds something to or about “The Gospel of Peace”. The 144,000 that carry this message is also bringing glad tidings of good things which then takes us to this next verse that expands upon that premise.
“The Gospel of Peace” can be likened to glad tidings of good things. There is also a direct reference to ‘preaching’ “The Gospel of Peace”. Paul says “how shall they preach, except they be sent?” Who are they that preach? The 144,000 preach “The Gospel of Peace”?
Who sends them to preach “The Gospel of Peace”? The Lord God Almighty sends them. He tells us through His Word what the 144,000 are supposed to do. We now proceed to the next verse.
Isaiah 52:7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
In Isaiah 52:7 we have the tie in to the Gospel of Peace directly referenced in Ephesians 6:15 and Romans 10:15. Again it is the feet of them upon the mountains that bring good tidings. This would be the 144,000.
This verse in Isaiah continues to expand what the message of “The Gospel of Peace” is. Here is a second reference to bringing good tidings and bringing good tidings of good. What is added here is the 144,000 with “The Gospel of Peace” will be publishing peace and publishing salvation and saying unto Zion, which is the Multitude the 144,000 will be speaking to, that “Thy God reigneth!”
Publishing can include printing out “The Gospel of Peace” to leave with the Multitude or the word ‘publish’ can also mean proclaim. What is “The Gospel of Peace”? It is a proclamation that God reigns. He has brought all of this about to save His remnant of Israel just as He has promised us. One more verse to go that is another companion verse.
Nahum 1:15 Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off.
Again, the feet of him, which is the 144,000, brings good tidings and publishes peace. It then gives further instruction to keep thy solemn feasts and perform thy vows. The keeping of the solemn feasts and performing vows will be accomplished when the wicked have been taken out of the way.
When the wicked are cut off is referring to the judgment of the goats, the judgment of the Serpents and the Scorpions and all who do iniquity.
The Lord will reclaim what is His when He brings an end to this world as we know it. He will be taking it back from the iniquity of Satan and will vanquish him forever into the lake of fire. He will judge His church and then He will deal with the ungodly.
The lives of the 144,000 have each been guided and pulled, sometimes pushed, to align with His Truth. We have been chosen by God not only to fulfill scripture but to be His end time prophets and mouthpieces proclaiming His Glory.
Each of us has been chosen by Him to deliver this message so He can fulfill His promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that He would always save a remnant of Israel. We are to deliver that message in the form of “The Gospel of Peace” to the Multitude.
Think of this. How do you deliver a message to one person to an entire group of people that God is mad at them, that they are going to be killed, and all of their hopes and dreams are out the window? Pretty glum to say the least. That is not good news or glad tidings. That is not peace.
Instead, we will be delivering a message telling the Multitude that they have transgressed against the Lord. And that the Lord is angry with them but loves them so much that He has made a way for them to receive eternal life with Him. Yes, they will lose their physical lives but will receive the reward of eternal salvation with the Lord. That is good news! That is glad tidings! That is peace!
It is like a father dealing with an insolent child that He loves dearly. He cannot allow them to destroy themselves and has to deal with them in a very stern but loving way. This is how He does it. And He needs His people, the 144,000 to deliver this message to the lost sheep of Israel.
We are the mouthpieces, we are the prophets of the Lord, we are the ones that the Lord has chosen to deliver this message of hope and peace to the Multitude that is currently heading towards hell.
We are nothing special. He is the one who has brought each one of us to this place at this time. It is through Him that we even exist. We were once in one of, or all of the lies that the church is now guilty of. He has cleansed up to make unto Himself pure vessels, virgins with their lamps burning, with plenty of oil to keep them lit. He has done this; all we have done is just to be willing vessels for Him to work through.
Let us prepare for delivering this message to the Multitude. This message will most likely be delivered in the form of preaching or a sermon in the prisons or concentration camps or if you will, re-education camps.
This will be the final message that the Multitude will hear before their death, telling them where they have erred and how they each can be redeemed. The Lord chastises those He loves but He also gives them hope for life eternal. We are the ones to deliver that message, and that message is “The Gospel of Peace”.
The Lord will make the way for each of us to have the blessed opportunity to deliver this message to those who will be desperate to hear. He will open the gates and doors that will need to be opened for this message to get through.
Here is a verse that speaks not only about the 144,000 but includes the Multitude also. This verse is soon to be fulfilled by each one of us.
Isaiah 30:20-22 And though the Lord give you (The Multitude) the bread of adversity, (The Multitude is sitting in prison with no way out) and the water of affliction, (The Multitude is sitting in prison with no way out) yet shall not thy (The Multitude) teachers (144,000) be removed into a corner any more, (The Multitude has poo-pooed what the 144,000 have tried to tell them about Christmas and Easter being pagan holidays and the physical Jews are not the chosen people, and the rapture is a fable, it’s never going to happen – The Multitude shunned you and pushed you away but no longer will) but thine eyes (The Multitude) shall see thy (The Multitude) teachers: (144,000) And thine ears (The Multitude) shall hear a word behind thee, (The message the 144,000 had preached to them , “The Gospel of Peace”) saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, (The Multitude will remember what was told to them by this messenger that God had sent to speak to them) when ye (The Multitude) turn to the right hand, (The right hand is referencing the Scorpion. So, when they turn and see a Scorpion who likely ratted them out, the Multitude will realize why the Lord chose the Scorpions to deliver them into captivity.) and when ye (The Multitude) turn to the left. (The left hand is referencing the Serpent. So, when they turn and see a Serpent who likely will be murdering them, the Multitude will realize why the Lord chose the Serpents to deliver them unto death.) Ye (The Multitude) shall defile (The Multitude will repent and throw away all of their false gods) also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: (This is referencing the four transgressions in regards to Christmas, Easter, the Rapture, and the physical Jews as the chosen people) thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; (The Multitude will discard their gods that they worshiped and cast them away) thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence. (The Multitude will want nothing to do with them for it is by them that they are where they are.)
Hear O’ Zion. Thy God Reigneth!
The Gospel of Peace
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Hello, my name is _____________________ and we are here today to hear a message from the Lord Jesus Christ that you need to hear. There are many questions that all of you have as to why you are here and what your future is. Questions such as ‘Are we in the Tribulation, why haven’t you been raptured, why have you been betrayed by either a friend, family member, or your own government?
What could you have possibly done to get you here by standing up to tyranny?
Why is God not answering your prayers? And most importantly, has God forgotten you? God has heard your prayers and your cries and, no, God has not forgotten you. Whatever situation has occurred to get you here, you are exactly where God wants you. He wants you to not only hear the message He has sent me here to tell you, but He also wants you to receive it.
Let us begin with a prayer. Lord Jesus Christ, the Alpha and Omega, the Creator of all creation, we come before you today humbly to ask you for guidance through these tumultuous times. We ask that we have the ears to hear the Truth, and eyes to see the Truth. Open our ears and eyes, open our understanding, help us to accept the Truth and receive this message that you want us to hear. Give us the strength and courage that we will need to overcome. Minister to each of us through your Holy Spirit, comfort us, and be with us. For you are King of Kings and Lord of Lords. You are the Lamb of God and are worthy to be praised! Amen.
Matthew 18:20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
There are more than two or three here. We are gathered together in His name. Jesus Christ is here amongst us. His Holy Spirit is here. Listen and absorb His words.
John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
The Bible, both the Old and the New Testament are the infallible Word of God. The King James Bible is the Bible you need to be reading. The King James Bible was transcribed from the original manuscripts. All other versions have corrupted God’s Word. All verses quoted today are from the King James Bible.
Today you will be hearing many verses. Some you will be familiar with, and they will take on new meaning. Other verses will be new to you. Not that they have been added for they have always been there.
The Bible, both the Old and the New Testament are the Word of God. They are inseparable. With both, a story is told. The Bible is the same story told a thousand different ways. The story that is told, spans from the creation of Adam and Eve to the culmination of the final battle for God’s creation that occurs in the Book of Revelation.
Jesus tells a parable to the disciples in Matthew 13:47-51 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind: Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away. So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just, And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Jesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord.
Jesus then continues to tell the disciples in Matthew 13:52 Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
Jesus just stated that out of His treasure things old and new are for those that are instructed about things in the kingdom of heaven. Obviously, the Lord is referring to both the Old and the New Testaments. There is much in the Old Testament that unlocks the understanding of the New Testament for they are both the infallible Word of God.
Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians 10:11,12 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
Paul also states the same thing in Romans 15:4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
What Paul is telling us is that everything written in the Old Testament were examples and are written for our admonition. Admonition in the Strong’s Concordance is defined as calling attention to or a mild rebuke or warning.
In other words, we need to heed this. Things that happened in the Old Testament were written for us upon whom the ends of the world have come. The ends of the world are here so we had better pay attention. For Paul then says that “Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
The message being delivered to you today is to those that think they are in good standing with the Lord. Take heed lest you fall and lose your soul to eternal damnation. Take heed and you will receive eternal life though Jesus Christ.
There are verses that your preachers and pastors would not go near for either they did not understand them, or it was contrary to the teaching they were taught in seminary and contrary to the message they wished to deliver to their parishioners. The Lord wants you to hear those verses and passages now for your very soul depends on it.
The questions that all of you have will be answered; however, this is a hard saying. If you do not want to hear this message the Lord has for you, you are free to leave. Although I admonish you to listen, hear, and embrace this message.
From the time of the fall of Adam and Eve until now, there has been a battle between good and evil. God’s creation, man and woman has been the object of that battle. You have read the stories of that battle in the Old and New Testaments. The final battle for all creation is occurring right now, that would be the Tribulation. Yes, this is the tribulation that has been foretold of in the Bible.
This final battle is for your soul. What is the most important thing about each of your lives that goes past personal belongings, your family, your home, your job, your life? It is where you are going to spend eternity. Eternal life with the Lord Jesus Christ is the ultimate goal of every Christian. Satan wants to snatch that away from you so Hell can be enlarged to hold your soul. Satan’s goal is to take away as many souls from God as he can. Your soul is at risk and is on the table right now. But the Lord has made a way.
What first needs to be established is who you are in Christ. Not what you think you are or where you think you stand, but where you actually are in the eyes of the Lord. That is what matters. Are you where you need to be? You better know the answer to that question. Where you are going to spend eternity depends on where you stand with Christ.
Throughout the Bible, the Lord has promised that He would save a remnant of Israel. He will make good on that promise. But all Israel is not Israel. There is only a remnant or a portion of that Israel that is saved. Paul states this in Romans 9:6-8
Romans 9:6-8 Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
Who are the children of the promise? Paul answers that question.
Galatians 4:28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
Galatians 3:29 And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
Christians who have repented and follow the Lord Jesus Christ are the children of the promise. What is the promise that we are the children of?
Acts 3:25 Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
The covenant which God made with our fathers was the first covenant. God made a second covenant because they broke the first covenant by not following God.
Hebrews 8:6-10 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
Hebrews 8:13 In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
Hebrews 13:20, 21 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
The children of the promise are the Christians whom the Lord made an everlasting covenant with through Jesus Christ. With His death and resurrection, we became new creatures. The flesh is no longer. A new creature is born when one repents and accepts Jesus Christ as their savior.
2 Corinthians 5:16, 17 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more. Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
The house of Israel and the house of Judah were both guilty of backsliding and playing the harlot. The Lord divorced them and made a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.
Jeremiah 3:6-8 The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot. And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it. And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
Hebrews 8:8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
The Lord divorced the house of Israel and the house of Judah and made a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. The new covenant was established at the cross. The Lord opened up the new covenant to the Gentiles. The Lord also changed the laws of God to not be written on stone tablets but in our minds and our hearts.
Hebrews 8:9-13 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
2 Corinthians 3:3 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
Christians who have repented and accepted Jesus Christ as their savior are the new house of Israel and the new house of Judah. Both are one in the same. The old house of Israel and house of Judah at the time when Paul wrote Hebrews was vanishing away.
Why did the Lord divorce the house of Israel? Because they played the harlot just like the house of Judah did in Jeremiah 3:6-8. Let’s read that again.
Jeremiah 3:6-8 The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot. And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it. And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
The Lord divorced the house of Israel because Israel went upon every high mountain and under every green tree and played the harlot. The house of Judah followed Israel and did the same thing, playing the harlot.
What is a harlot? Any definitions of words in the Bible will be quoted from the Strong’s Concordance. Within the definitions pertaining to location of the definition within a sentence, all of the definition or part of the definition, or maybe only one word within that definition will apply. It depends on the context of the verse that it is located in.
Harlot 02181 zanah, zaw-naw' a primitive root (highly-fed and therefore wanton); to commit adultery (usually of the female, and less often of simple fornication, rarely of involuntary ravishment); figuratively, to commit idolatry (the Jewish people being regarded as the spouse of Jehovah):--(cause to) commit fornication …(be an, play the) harlot, (cause to be, play the) whore, (commit, fall to) whoredom, (cause to) go a-whoring, whorish.
Within this definition of Harlot is actual physical adultery, to commit idolatry which is spiritual adultery for the Christians are the Bride of Christ and married to the Lord. There are additional definitions of playing a harlot, causing to be or playing a whore, committing or falling to whoredom, or causing to go a-whoring or being whorish.
When the house of Israel and the house of Judah played the harlot, they broke God’s covenant causing Him to divorce them. What the house of Israel and the house of Judah did was to commit idolatry.
The house of Israel and the house of Judah were committing spiritual fornication with idols committing adultery against their husband, the Lord. When they went upon every high mountain and under every green tree, they were committing idolatry.
They broke the covenant the Lord made with them. We can find confirmation of this in Deuteronomy. Deuteronomy chapters 30 and 31 are a layout of God’s covenant with the people that were led out of Egypt.
Love the Lord and follow Him and all will be well with you. Do not follow the Lord, break the commandments given to them and things will go bad. It is that simple. The Lord told Moses that this people getting ready to cross over the Jordan was going to be playing the harlot, causing them to break the covenant.
Deuternomy 31:16-20 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them. Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us? And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods. Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel. For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.
The Lord told Moses and Moses wrote the words the Lord had given him foretelling of what the children of Israel were going to do. They were going to commit adultery, committing fornication with other gods. They were going to commit idolatry and worship other gods. Let’s reread Jeremiah 3:6-8.
Jeremiah 3:6-8 The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot. And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it. And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
When the people of God worshipped other gods, they broke the commandments, which broke the covenant. The Lord had no choice but to divorce them. But there is another warning in Deuteronomy 31:29, 30
Deuteronomy 31:29,30 For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands. And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until they were ended.
Did you catch that? “Evil will befall you in the latter days because you will do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.”
Just as when the Lord told Moses that many evils and troubles will befall the people when they went to go a-whoring after other gods, the Lord also told Moses that the same thing was going to happen in the latter days. Deuteronomy chapters 30 and 31is ‘The Song of Moses’ is spoken about in the book of Revelation. That will be covered later.
Evil will befall the people of God because they will do evil in the sight of the Lord. That evil provokes the Lord to anger. What evil provokes Him to anger? It is the work of your hands. The work of your hands is the worshipping of other gods.
All of the verses in the Bible that speak about the craftsman and the work of his hands is referring to the making of idols. Worshipping of idols brings evil upon His people. The Lord brings the evil or more appropriately allows the evil to befall them as we see in Amos 3:6.
Amos 3:6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?
When you see the words harlot, whore, fornication, and any derivatives of those words, they will be speaking of committing idolatry or more appropriately worshipping of other gods. The craftsman and the items he makes, are also referring to worshipping of other gods.
Worshipping of other gods is one of the commandments of God that you are not supposed to do. Ah, but Jesus did away with the law. Or did He?
Matthew 22:34-40 But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together. Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
What Jesus just affirmed in this passage is that within these two commandments hangs all the law and the prophets. In other words, the Ten Commandments were not done away with at the cross, nor were the words of the prophets done away with at the cross. They were fulfilled at the cross. The law and the words of the prophets remain.
The law and the words of the prophets remain to this day. When you take the greatest commandments that the Lord stated “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.” And “Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” Then you are not going to steal, or lie, or commit adultery, or worship other gods. When you love the Lord with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind, you are not going to do any of those things. You are walking with the Lord for you are the temple of the Living God.
1 Corinthians 6:19, 20 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
1 Peter 2:4, 5 To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. Your bodies, as the temple of God are also members of Christ.
1 Corinthians 6:15, 16 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
One cannot be a member of the body of Christ and join to a harlot which is the worshipping of other gods. When one worships other gods, they are no longer a member of the body of Christ. The spiritual temple has become defiled. God forbids it!
1 Corinthians 10:21, 22 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils. Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
2 Corinthians 6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
What these verses tell us is you cannot mix the two. You are either one or the other; righteous or unrighteous, light or darkness, temple of God or a harlot. Continuing in 2 Corinthians.
2 Corinthians 6:15-18 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
Worshipping of idols and following other gods is forbidden by the Lord. One cannot have within the temple of God, your body, anything having to do with idols. The Lord says to come out from among them and don’t touch the unclean thing. The unclean thing is idols. When you turn your back on worshipping of other gods, the Lord will receive you back into the fold.
Matthew 15:24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
The lost sheep of the house of Israel are sheep that at one time were with the flock of sheep but have now become lost. Jesus was and is sent to find and gather those lost sheep.
Luke 19:10 For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
Just as the story of the prodigal son that Jesus spoke about in Luke 15. A man had two sons. One wanted to take his inheritance and go out into the world. One son stayed with his father and worked the fields. The other son spent his inheritance until he was broke and eating the food that he was feeding the swine. He came to his senses and returned to his father. You’ve probably heard this parable. There is an important message you need to hear located within this parable.
Luke 15:18-32 I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants. And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son. But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet: And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry: For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry. Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard musick and dancing. And he called one of the servants, and asked what these things meant. And he said unto him, Thy brother is come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound. And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him. And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends: But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf. And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine. It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.
Luke 15:3-7 And he spake this parable unto them, saying, What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it? And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost. I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.
Just as the lost sheep, the son became lost when he left his fathers household. He spent his inheritance on harlots. As we have learned earlier, when one is joined to a harlot (following after other gods) they have left behind being a member of Christ.
Jesus seeks out those lost sheep, they return as they are brought back into the fold.
Jeremiah 50:6 My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.
Who are the lost sheep? And who are the shepherds that have caused the lost sheep to go astray? And how did the shepherds cause them to go astray? Since things that have been written about aforetime are written for examples upon whom the end of the world has come, we go to a story in the Old Testament that will answer those questions.
2 Kings 4:38-41 And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets. And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not. So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O thou man of God, there is death in the pot. And they could not eat thereof. But he said, Then bring meal. And he cast it into the pot; and he said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat. And there was no harm in the pot.
This story in the Old Testament gives us a very important example of what has happened to today’s church. There was dearth in the land at the time this occurred. Dearth is defined as hunger or famine. More on the dearth or famine in a bit.
Elisha asked for a large pot to be set up to feed the sons of prophets that were before him. One of them went out to forage and picked some wild gourds from a wild vine. He shred them and added it to the pot not knowing that these wild gourds were poisonous.
They ate the pottage in the pot and became ill. They cried to Elisha “There is death in the pot” and Elisha proceeded to cast meal into the pot. It then counteracted the poison in the pottage and it became edible. Elisha provided the antidote for the death or poison in the pot.
The shepherds of the flock have been feeding them poison; the poison of Satan’s lies and deception. They did not do this on purpose. They didn’t know because they had also been fed the poison by the ones that taught them the same lies in the seminaries. This goes way back. Jesus warns of this.
Matthew 24:3-5 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
In the time of the end, the end of the world, Jesus tells us the many will come in my name. This is not saying that people will come saying that they are themselves Jesus, they will come saying Jesus Christ is Lord. They are the preachers and the pastors of the churches. The pastors and preachers are going to be the ones that are doing the deceiving. They are going to deceive you as they have been deceived themselves.
2 Timothy 3:13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
The deceivers, the pastors and the preachers are themselves deceived. Deceived by whom? Ultimately Satan. For Satan is the father of lies. Jesus spoke this to the Pharisees that were seeking to kill him.
John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Jesus comes to seek the lost sheep of Israel. The lost sheep of Israel are lost because they have been deceived. They have been taught by the deceivers to follow other gods. Without you knowing, you have been taught lies. You have believed those lies.
And you are not alone. As I speak to you today, I can tell you that I too once was taught those lies. I too believed those lies. Until the Lord showed me what those lies were that I had believed. He brought me out of those lies and I returned to Him. He showed me the Truth. Jesus Christ is the way, the truth and the life. I now am showing you the Truth.
Those lies have caused you to become the lost sheep of Israel. The lost sheep of Israel are not saved for they are lost. Jesus is seeking you out to bring you back to the fold. The end is here that is caused by a famine in the land.
Amos 8:11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:
The famine spoken about in this verse is not referring to physical bread, food or physical water. You are not hungry for food or thirsty for water. Physical food and water are being consumed every day.
The famine that is in the land is the hearing of the words of the Lord. If you have been deceived and have believed the lies and lies cannot be mixed with Truth, then it is the Truth that is not being heard for Truth is the Word. You are spiritually malnourished and starving.
John 1:1-5 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
Jesus is the Word. Jesus is with God, Jesus is God. Jesus made all things. In Jesus is life and that life is the light of men. Jesus is also other things. The Word is also other things.
John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Jesus Christ is the way, the narrow path. You have to walk that narrow path through the Truth to receive life. You have to be in Truth to receive life. Jesus Christ is that Truth. Truth cannot be in company with lies.
Matthew 7:13, 14 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
The famine in the land of the hearing of the words of the LORD is a famine because the famine in the land is devoid of the TRUTH, meaning Jesus Christ is absent from the land. Jesus Christ is absent in the famine because they don’t want to hear the TRUTH.
The absence of Jesus Christ, the Word is the famine. In the next couple of verses, we will find that Jesus Christ is the cure to that famine. Of course, it is not only the willingness to hear the Truth but also embracing the Truth. When one embraces the Truth, they receive spiritual bread and spiritual water. They will hear the words of the LORD.
John 6:35 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.
Revelation 21:6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
If you, having been deceived and having believed the lies, then you are in that famine; lies cannot be mixed with Truth. It is the Truth that is not being heard. The Lord tells us that Jesus is the bread of life and the water of life. Jesus is also the Word and that being the Words of the LORD. The Truth is the antidote for the poison that you have ingested.
Matthew 7:13, 14 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Continuing in Matthew 7.
Matthew 7:15-20 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
In this passage above, you have one or the other, either a good tree or a corrupt tree. A good tree cannot give evil fruit. A corrupt tree cannot give good fruit. There is no mixing of the two. The evil fruit are the lies and deception. The good tree remains True. There is no evil fruit (lies and deception) that comes from that good tree. The corrupt tree is destroyed.
Continuing in Amos chapter 8. The verse speaking about the famine in the land (and additional verses) you will find answers to some of the questions that each of you have. Questions of why you have not been hearing from the Lord? Why are your prayers not being answered? Why has the rapture not happened yet? God’s Word tells you why those questions are not being answered.
Amos 8:12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.
Amos 8:12 speaks about the ones in the famine trying to find the word of the LORD and can’t find it. Here are other verses saying the same thing.
Ezekiel 14:3 Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them?
Ezekiel 20:31 For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day: and shall I be enquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of by you.
The Lord will not hear nor answer your prayers for the idols have put enmity between you and the Lord. Following other gods provokes the Lord to anger.
Jeremiah 7:16-18 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee. Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
Christians are supposed to be a chaste virgin to Christ, one husband. That chaste virgin cannot be chaste nor a virgin if coupled with a harlot. The Lord becomes jealous for He is a Jealous God.
2 Corinthians 11:2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
A chaste virgin is pure, clean, and perfect. This is what Paul says to the saints at Corinth. The saints of God are to be pure, clean, and perfect to be married to Jesus Christ. A saint that has committed adultery by worshipping other gods has defiled herself and become impure, unclean, and is not perfect. God is jealous for that saint has been deceived to do these things.
Jesus speaks about ten virgins and what happens to them when some of them don’t have oil in their lamps. The Truth/oil has run out. They are told to go elsewhere to buy some oil. After they leave to try to find some, the chaste virgin goes into the marriage and is married to their espoused husband.
Matthew 25:10-12 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut. Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.
These five virgins are trying to get into the marriage, but the door is shut. They are not allowed in. The Lord answers them and says He doesn’t know them. Why doesn’t he know them?
They have defiled themselves by not having the Truth. They have defiled themselves by following after other gods. The Lord cannot know somebody that is not in the Truth and is following after other gods. In this next passage we can find why He is a Jealous God.
Exodus 34:12-17 Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee: But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves: For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God: Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice; And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods. Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
In this passage, the Lord gives a warning “Take heed to thyself” warning them to not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land. Following after other gods becomes a snare and a trap. When one follows other gods, they have broken that fellowship with God and the Lord cannot hear them through their sin as we find in the next verse.
John 9:31 Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.
The Lord hears those that worship God and do His will. Those that do not do His will do not worship God. When one worships other gods they become a sinner, they are no longer pure or clean. An unclean thing is following after other gods. Those that worship other gods touch the unclean thing. The Lord states to come out from among them and touch not the unclean thing in 2 Corinthians 6:17.
The Lord also warns in Exodus 34:12 to not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land. Today’s Christians have made a covenant with another party.
Isaiah 28:13-18 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem. Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste. Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place. And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
The covenant with Death and the agreement with Hell is the snare of lies and deception that has caused the sheep of the fold to become lost. Take note that the fourth horseman of the fourth seal in the book of Revelation is named Death and Hell follows with him. The overflowing scourge is referring to the Tribulation.
Revelation 6:7,8 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
The overflowing scourge is the Tribulation. The lies of refuge and the falsehoods where the lies are hidden is the deception and the poison that has been consumed. The lies preached by the pastors and preachers are the lies of Satan himself. Remember, Satan wants as many souls in hell as he can get. This battle is for your soul and where you spend eternity. The Tribulation that is here right now is the Lord’s judgment of the church.
1 Peter 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
The time is come for judgment. It begins with the house of God. This is where it starts. What is the house of God being judge for? For believing the lies told to them and being deceived by the deceivers. By not studying to show themselves approved. By not accepting the Truth for the Truth exposes the lies and they are not willing to part with those lies. Let’s go back to Amos chapter 8.
Amos 8:1,2 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit. And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.
The Lord is stating that the end is come upon my people of Israel and He will not again pass by them anymore. The end is speaking about the Tribulation. There is another passage that has the same exact wording with the Lord stating that He will not again pass by them anymore. It is located in a vision the Lord showed to Amos.
Amos 7:1-2 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings. And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
In this vision the Lord shows grasshoppers eating all of the grass of the land. Then Amos pleads with the Lord and says by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small. Amos is referring to the Remnant of Israel. Note that it is not all Israel but only a portion of Israel as stated in Romans 9:6 “For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:” “For he is so small” is referring to the Remnant.
The Lord is so disgusted by Israel abandoning the Truth and following after other gods that he destroys all of Israel in this vision that he shows Amos. When the Lord pleads for Jacob who is so small, that being the remnant, he is letting the Lord know that He had promised to always save a remnant. The Lord then repents of wanting to destroy all of Israel.
Amos 7:3-5 The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD. Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part. Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
The Lord shows Amos the next part of the vision. The Lord destroys the great deep by fire, again destroying all. Again, Amos pleads with the Lord reminding the Lord about His promise of saving a remnant. Again, the Lord repents of this.
Amos 7:6-8 The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD. Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand. And the LORD said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumbline. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more:
Finally, the Lord settles with a plumbline set in the midst of Israel. The plumbline represents a line in the sand so to speak.
On one side of the line is following the Lord Jesus Christ and loving the Lord with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, following the Lord in Truth, and eternal salvation.
On the other side of the line is being in lies and deception, not following Jesus, and ultimately eternal damnation.
Go back to what we looked at earlier; Christ on one side, Belial on the other. Members of Christ on one side, members of a harlot on the other. Drinking the cup of the Lord on one side, drinking the cup of devils on the other. Partakers of the Lord’s table on one side, partakers of the tables of devils on the other. Righteousness on one side, unrighteousness on the other. Light on one side, darkness on the other. Believer on one side, infidel on the other. Temple of God on one side, idols on the other. Good tree on one side, corrupt tree on the other. Good fruit on one side, evil fruit on the other.
Deuteronomy 30:19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
Add to that list; blessing on one side, death on the other and most importantly, life on one side, death on the other. The plumbline is the division line.
The plumbline that the Lord set in the midst of Israel divides the Godly from the ungodly. This plumbline set in the midst of Israel is set in the midst of the church for today’s Christian church is Israel. Israel is the house of God. The house of God is where judgment begins. Which side of that plumbline are you on?
The plumbline was also spoken about in Isaiah chapter 28 in the passage about the covenant with death and the agreement with hell, the covenant the Lord is going to disannul. The Lord is in the process right now to disannul that covenant with death.
Isaiah 28:16, 17 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste. Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
The line and plummet spoken about is the plumbline the Lord sets in the midst of Israel. The plumbline is two parts. A line, and a plumb bob or plummet. This plumbline is judgement and righteousness. All of the previous examples that we just looked at are the opposites of each other. Both sides of the plumbline are compared using judgment and righteousness. You want to be on the proper side of that plumbline.
The hail that sweeps away the refuge of lies is the first trumpet. The waters overflowing the hiding place are the falsehoods or fables that one hides under. The waters overflowing is a destroying storm. Both of these terns are found in the following verse.
Isaiah 28:2 Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.
The Tribulation and the parts therein are the judgment of God. He judges the house of God, the church with a tempest of hail, a destroying storm, a flood of mighty waters overflowing, and an overflowing scourge.
Why does He do this? Because Christians have been fed the poison of lies and believed in fables. They have one foot on one side of that plumbline thinking they are following God partaking of the Lord’s table.
While at the same time they have their other foot in the lies and deception believing they are on the blessing side of the plumbline. Their foot is actually on the opposite side of that plumbline partaking of tables of devils bringing upon them the cursing.
You can’t have a foot on each side of that plumbline. You are either on one side of that plumbline that the Lord has placed in the midst of the house of Israel, or it is on the other side. This next verse puts that into perspective.
Revelation 3:16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
When a person has their foot on one side of that plumbline and the other foot on the other side of that plumbline, that person is lukewarm. Not hot, nor cold, but a mix of the two, lukewarm. The Lord spews that person out of his mouth into the Tribulation.
Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
The Christians are destroyed for lack of knowledge because they rejected knowledge. They have rejected the Truth for the Truth is knowledge.
2 Timothy 4:3, 4 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
A fable is defined as a tale, fiction, or a myth. If you are not believing the Truth, you are believing fables. That is the false god’s that are followed. Those are the lies. That is the poison.
Matthew 7:15-23 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. 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. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Luke 13:25-28 When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are: Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets. But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.
Many Christians doing the work of the Lord and believing they are in the will of the Lord are not going to make it to heaven. Why are they not going to make it?
They are not going to heaven because they are lukewarm. They have one foot on each side of that plumbline. They are also the ones that never come to the Truth or accepted the Truth when told to them and never repented of their works.
Revelation 9:20, 21 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
These people in this passage do not repent. Notice that idol worship is equated to devil worship that they didn’t repent of with other sins added. Also notice the timing of when this is stated in Revelation. This is stated at the sixth trumpet.
The sixth trumpet is well into the Tribulation. They did not repent of their worship of idols among other things. The Lord also equates idol worship as an abomination.
Deuteronomy 27:15 Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.
The Tribulation is referred to many times as an evil, an only evil, and evil day and the end. The evil comes upon the people, also the end comes, the believers in Jesus Christ, the Christians due to the idol worship, their abominations.
Ezekiel 7:2-6 Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD unto the land of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land. Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense upon thee all thine abominations. And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and ye shall know that I am the LORD. Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come. An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come.
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.
Amos 3:6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?
Jeremiah 16:10 And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?
What are those lies that they are not willing to part with? Those lies are the following of other gods and believing fables. They are the four transgressions that the Lord has against today’s house of God, today’s church, today’s Christians.
The punishment for the four transgressions is outlined in Amos chapters one and two. It continues throughout the entire book of Amos.
Amos 3:1,2 Hear this word that the LORD hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying, You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
The children of Israel are today’s church, the Christians. The iniquities are the lies and deceptions that you have believed which is the worshipping of idols and false gods. The Lord has no choice but to punish His children for disobedience. He chastises those He loves. Let’s look at the Old Testament of how the Lord chastises His people before Jesus Christ and the New Covenant.
Leviticus 26:27-33 And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me; Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins. And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat. And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you. And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours. And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it. And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
That is harsh. These are the laws that the Old Testament house of Israel had to abide by. Thankfully, Jesus Christ brought us a New Covenant however, the sin that the old house of Israel committed is still deemed by the Lord and transgression of His Law and statutes. There is forgiveness after repentance but with forgiveness comes chastisement.
Hebrews 12:11-13 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees; And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
Hebrews 12:18-26 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more: (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart: And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:) But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel. See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven: Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
The Lord knows that all of you truly love Him. He also knows that you have been deceived. He also loves you but cannot accept you through the sin of idols. He will forgive you but with that forgiveness comes chastisement.
Hebrews 12:5-8 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
The Lord chastises you because He loves you. Accept His chastisement for you are his sons and daughters. Those He doesn’t chastise are not the children of God but the children of the wicked one.
What is the Lord going to be chastising you for? The worship of other gods and the believing of fables which are idols in your hearts. Let’s look at those now.
There are four transgressions that the Christians are guilty of. You may have believed or practiced all of them or maybe only some of them. You may have believed or practiced them to only some degree or you may not have really believed in them but practiced them anyway. In any of those cases, you are on the wrong side of that plumbline. God has no choice but to chastise you even if you believe and only practice one.
Remember, I also once believed all of these lies. The Lord graciously pulled me out of them one by one. Just as he wants to pull you out of those lies. In His gracious mercy He will pull you out and bring you into the Truth where there is everlasting life.
The punishment for the four transgressions is found in Amos chapter one and two as stated earlier. The transgressions themselves are outlined in Ezekiel chapter eight.
Ezekiel 8:3-5 And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy. And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain. Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.
There is an image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy seated in the entry of the inner gate to Jerusalem. Jerusalem is the company of believers, the church, the Christians. The inner gate leads to the temple.
What is the image of jealousy? It would be an idol of some type. It provokes the Lord to jealousy for He is a jealous God.
Ezekiel is told to then look towards the north. At the gate of the altar there is another image of jealousy in the entry. The gate leads to the court which is where the temple is located. You have to pass through the entry to get to the temple.
Ezekiel 8:6 He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations.
The Lord is now asking Ezekiel what they are doing. They are committing abominations here. ‘Here’ is the Christian church. Then the Lord asks Ezekiel “that I should go far off from my sanctuary?”
The Lord cannot abide with sin present. The Lord cannot be in the same place where idols are worshipped. The Lord cannot be where abominations are present where the people are committing sins. The Lord cannot be in today’s churches for those abominations of idols are within the Christian church. The Lord has left the Christian church long ago.
He then tells Ezekiel to turn again to see greater abominations.
Ezekiel 8:7, 8 And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall. Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door.
The Lord then brings Ezekiel to the door of the court and Ezekiel sees a hole in the wall. The Lord then tells Ezekiel to dig through the wall and he finds a door. Notice the Lord does not want him to go through the normal door of the temple. Why? Ezekiel would have to go through the image of jealousy to enter the temple. He would become unclean and defiled.
Ezekiel 8:9, 10 And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here. So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about.
The Lord tells Ezekiel to go in through that door and see all of the wicked abominations and idols that the house of Israel does.
Ezekiel 8:11,12 And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up. Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth.
This passage is a bit cryptic but coincides with passages in Numbers 11 where 70 elders were selected by Moses to represent the Lord. These seventy men of the ancients are the opposite of the original seventy men. These seventy men are facing idols and abominations and worshipping them as evidenced by the censers in their hands.
These seventy men of the ancients of Israel are making things up in their minds in their imagery thinking that the Lord does not see them and the Lord has abandoned them. If they are facing the wall, their backs are to the altar of the Lord. They have turned to idols and abominations.
But because they are all the ancients of Israel, what is being conveyed here is that they believe they can do what they want because they will not lose their place with God. They are the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. They are the chosen people.
Transgression one is the belief that the physical Jews are the chosen people, and the State of Israel is the chosen nation. You must bless the physical Jews and the State of Israel so you can be blessed. This is your duty to God to do this. The deceived Christians hold up the Jews and the State of Israel in a level of preeminence. The physical Jews also believe this.
This is a false belief. The physical Jews are not the chosen people. The State of Israel is not the chosen nation. It is the Spiritual Jews that are the chosen people. It is the Spiritual Israel that is the chosen nation. Here is what the Word of God says.
Romans 9:6-8 Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
Paul says all Israel is not Israel. Just because they are of the seed of Abraham does not mean they are the children of God. The children of the flesh, those that are born physical Jews by blood are not the children of God. The children of the promise are counted for the seed. The children of the New Covenant are the children of the promise.
John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Jesus states that the only way to get to the Father is through Him. Jesus represents the New Covenant. The physical Jew and the Christian church seem to forget or more likely ignore that God gave the physical Israel and the physical Jews a bill of divorcement. God divorced physical Israel.
Acts 3:13-15 The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go. But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you; And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.
The physical Jews delivered up Jesus to be killed. The physical Jews denied Jesus before Pilate when Pilate wanted to let him go. The physical Jews denied Jesus, the Holy One and the Just, desiring instead a murderer. The physical Jews killed Jesus, the Prince of life. The physical Jews murdered the Son of God whom the Father sent to take away the sins of the world. The physical Jews were seeking to prevent the New Covenant from coming to Life because they wanted to keep for themselves that physical lineage to stay as the chosen people. The physical Jews were unsuccessful.
Romans 2:28-29 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
Paul tells us that one is not a Jew which is one outwardly in the flesh nor with physical circumcision. Paul is stating that a physical Jew is not a Jew. He then goes on to state that a Jew is a Jew inwardly with circumcision of the heart in the spirit. This is a spiritual Jew with the circumcision of the heart.
Jesus Christ was a physical descendant of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob fulfilling the law. Jesus brought in the new covenant not doing away with the law and the prophets but fulfilling the law and the prophets.
Jesus Christ brought in the New Covenant doing away with the physical lineage of the Jewish line and opening it up to all to come and be saved through circumcision of the heart. To this day, the physical Jews deny Jesus Christ. If you have to go through Jesus Christ to come to the Father, then how can a physical Jew be saved? They can’t until they accept Jesus Christ as their savior.
The story in the Old Testament of Jacob and Esau needs to be mentioned. Esau sold his birthright to Jacob for a bowl of pottage.
Genesis 25:29-34 And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint: And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom. And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright. And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me? And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob. Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.
Esau was the firstborn to Jacob. Esau held the birthright as the first born son. Esau sold his birthright to Jacob for a bowl of soup. Jacob then claimed the birthright. Esau despised his birthright.
Hebrews 12:16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
Esau sold his birthright to Jacob. A fornicator as we found out earlier commits adultery by following other idols and other gods. A person that follows other gods gives away their birthright.
The Lord loved Jacob because he did what he had to do to take the birthright. He thought it to be a great gift.
Malachi 1:2 I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,
Because Jacob cherished the birthright and Esau despised the birthright, the Lord hated Esau.
Malachi 1:3 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
The Lord hated Esau. Why did the Lord hate Esau? The Lord hated Esau because Esau sold and gave away his birthright.
When you originally repented for your sins, asked forgiveness, and accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, you became an heir as a child of God. You were given the birthright as children of the Promise counted for the seed with the circumcision of the heart. You were pure in the eyes of the Lord in His perfect will. Jesus Christ became your first love.
Then the lie of Satan crept in. You were taught that the physical Jews were the chosen people. You were taught that the State of Israel was the chosen nation by the pastors and the preachers of your churches.
You were told that you need to bless the Jews and Israel. You were told that if you did this, you would be blessed. You were told that if you didn’t bless the Jews and Israel you would be cursed. This was the poison that was given to you. This was the poison soup that you ate.
When you ate this poisoned soup, you gave your birthright away to another. You gave away your inheritance and were no longer an heir according to the promise. You also raised the physical Jews and the physical State of Israel into a level of preeminence. This became an idol that you revered. This became a god. You then became one of the lost sheep that the Lord wants to bring back into the fold.
This is the first transgression that the Lord has against you. But the Lord is a merciful God, He is a loving God, He is a just God. You need to repent of this lie of the devil and reclaim your rightful heritage. You can reclaim your inheritance and become an heir to the Promise as a spiritual Jew and spiritual Israel. That promise brings you back into the Kingdom of Heaven and Eternal Salvation. He will hear you. Come back to your first love.
There are three more transgressions we need to go through. Back to Ezekiel, chapter eight.
Ezekiel 8:13, 14 He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do. Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD'S house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.
The Lord tells Ezekiel that there are greater abominations that the house of Israel does. The Lord brings Ezekiel to the door of the gate of the Lord’s house, the temple again towards the north. Ezekiel sees women sitting there weeping for Tammuz.
Who is Tammuz and why are they weeping?
Tammuz is defined as ‘a Phoenician deity’ in the Strong’s Concordance. The women weeping are weeping for his premature death. Around the winter solstice a tree is cut down signifying his premature death. There is scripture about cutting down a tree.
Jeremiah 10:1-5 Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
What does that description sound like? A Christmas tree.
Jeremiah tells us to NOT learn the way of the heathen. The heathen worship other gods. A tree is cut out of the forest with an axe. It is borne or carried out of the forest. It is fastened with nail and hammers putting a tree stand on it, so it won’t fall over, so it stands upright like a palm tree.
They deck it with silver and gold. The tinsel that one puts on a Christmas tree is silver. The gold would be the gold bulbs that are placed on the tree. Jeremiah continues.
Jeremiah 10:8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
Jeremiah is referring to the heathen as being brutish and foolish. He then continues as he states that the stock which is referring to the Christmas tree; is a doctrine of vanities. Jeremiah continues.
Jeremiah 10:11 Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.
Jeremiah states that the Christmas tree is a god, little g. Jeremiah continues.
Jeremiah 10:14, 15 Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Jeremiah states that the Christmas tree is a graven image. A molten image is falsehood which is a lie. They are vanity reiterating the stock, Christmas tree, is a doctrine of vanities. It is a work of error. In the time of their visitation, which would be the Tribulation, they will perish.
It is the gods that have been worshipped that will perish. When the Christian discover the true nature of the errors they have been in, they will throw away their pagan idols and gods that they have followed.
Isaiah 2:20 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
Isaiah 30:22 Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.
Jeremiah wrote this about 650 years before Jesus Christ was born. ‘Christmas’ was being celebrated way before Jesus Christ. The is another passage in Isaiah we need to look at.
Isaiah 40:20 He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.
Isaiah states that a person that doesn’t have a lot of money will choose a tree that doesn’t rot. That tree that doesn’t rot is a graven image. What is a tree that doesn’t rot? This verse is describing an artificial Christmas tree. This verse was written about 800 years before Jesus was born. So Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Christ. NOT SO. It is the worshipping of a pagan diety, a graven image, another god. There is more.
Isaiah 44:19 And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?
When you have a Christmas tree in your house and you wrap all of the gifts, you walk to the tree and bow down to place the presents at the base of the tree. When it is time to open the presents, you again approach the tree and bow down to retrieve those presents. You may even sit down in front of that tree to pass out the gifts. When a person does that, you are bowing to a deity, a graven image.
This graven image of a Christmas tree is directly connected to those women weeping for Tammuz. The Lord calls this an abomination.
As a side note, the physical Jews and physical Israel have as the fourth month on their calendar, the month of Tammuz; the name of a Phoenician deity as one of their months. Even though the physical Jews don’t celebrate Christmas, they are still connected to Tammuz.
There is more. An ancient pagan ritual included a giant stone statue dedicated to god called Molech. This stone statue of Molech was in a sitting position. In the winter before the new year. The ritual included building a fire in the lap of this statue until the stone lap was red hot.
The sacrifice of a child, a baby, was tossed into the lap of this pagan deity. The people would also make a list of their wishes for things they desired for the new year hoping their wishes would be fulfilled. This pagan deity was also adorned with a Phrygian cap.
Let’s look at the similarities. Santa Claus wears a Phrygian cap. Santa Claus wear a red suit that is a bright red. Santa Claus takes wishes of what children are wanting as presents. Parents bring their children to see Santa Claus and place their children on his lap and hope it will bring them their wishes.
There are verses that are directly linked to children sitting on the lap of Santa Clause, or more appropriately Molech.
Jeremiah 32:35 And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
Jeremiah states that they built high places of Baal. Baal worship is Satan worship. They worshipped to Satan by causing their sons and daughter to pass through the fire to Molech. Jeremiah then states that this is an abomination and causes Judah to sin. Who is Judah? That would be the house of Judah, the church, the Christians.
To tie all of this together we go to another verse located in Jeremiah, chapter 50. Jeremiah chapters 50 and 51 are all about Babylon. For our day it is still all about Babylon, the spiritual Babylon. Spiritual Babylon is today’s church, the Christians.
Jeremiah 50:38 A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.
The drought that is upon the waters is referring to the Truth that is non-existent in the church. Jesus is the water of life.
Revelation 21:6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
In spiritual Babylon there is a drought for the hearing of the word of the Lord. Why? Because it is the land of graven images, idols, and abominations. They are also mad upon their idols.
The word ‘mad’ of ‘mad upon their idols’ is the Hebrew word 01984 in the Strong’s Concordance. This word has within its definition the word ‘celebrate’.
The word ‘idols’ of ‘mad upon their idols’ is the Hebrew word 0367 in the Strong’s Concordance. This word has within its definition the word ‘an idol (as a bugbear)’.
What the heck is a bugbear? The definition of bugbear in the Webster’s New World Dictionary is “An imaginary hobgoblin or terror used to frighten children into good conduct.”
That is a description of Santa Claus. Santa Claus is a fictitious character used to frighten children into good behavior. Let’s look at some of the lyrics from the song ‘Santa Claus is Coming to Town’ that is sung at Christmas time.
“You better watch out, you better not cry
You better not pout, I'm telling you why, 'cause
(Santa Claus is coming, is coming to town)
He's making a list and checking it twice
He's gonna find out who's naughty or nice, 'cause
(Santa Claus is coming, is coming to town)”
Mad upon their idols is the celebration of Santa Claus. It is Christmas and is a celebration of pagan idols. Santa Clause wearing the Phrygian is used to frighten children into being good. If they’re bad Santa Claus won’t bring them a present, he will leave a lump of coal in their stocking.
You have been told and believe that Christmas is the celebration of Jesus’ birth. What? NO. Jesus was born sometime probably in September based upon the story of the three wise men. There were sheep in the field grazing. The shepherds of sheep were invited into the fields after the fall harvest to eat the straw left behind.
However, the early church and the apostate leaders of the apostate church covertly switched the sun worship day of Rah and the death of Tammuz into the birthday of Jesus Christ which just happened to be December 25th.
Nowhere in scripture is there any hint that we are to worship the date of Jesus’ birth.
You have been told and believe that Christmas is for the children. What? NO. There is a very unsettling fact that the Bible tells us about the children at Christmas time. A parent will bring their child to see Santa Claus to give them their wish list. They sit on Santa’s lap. Santa is today’s rendition of Molech.
When a child is placed on the lap of Santa, the parent is spiritually passing their child through the fire.
This is another lie that Satan has convinced the church, the Christians, to partake in. The churches bring the pagan idol of the “Christmas” tree (Tammuz tree) into the sanctuary. They have gift exchanges in the church. They bring Santa Claus (Moloch) into the church. They have caused their children to be brought through the fire continuing the pagan practices and corrupting the church. They are following and worshipping other gods.
Ezekiel 23:37 That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them.
Jesus has left the church for what communion does the light of Jesus Christ have to do with the darkness of Satan.
Deuteronomy 27:15 Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.
The Lord says that any man that makes a graven image which is an abomination is cursed. This is where the Christians and church is this day.
Again, the lies of Satan crept in. You were taught that the Christmas was the celebration of Jesus’ birth. You were taught that Christmas is a Christian Holiday.
You were told that you need to partake, or you were a grinch. You were told that if you did this, you would be blessed. This was the poison that was given to you. This was the poison soup that you ate.
When you ate this poisoned soup, you were worshipping a graven image, a god. Your Christmas became an idol that you revered. Christmas became a god. You again became one of the lost sheep that the Lord wants to bring back into the fold.
This is the second transgression that the Lord has against you. But the Lord is a merciful God, He is a loving God, He is a just God. You need to repent of this lie of the devil and come back to the fold. You can become one of the lost sheep that is found. Renouncing what you have participated in brings you back into the Kingdom of Heaven and Eternal Salvation. He will hear you. Come back to your first love.
There are two more transgressions we need to go through. Back to Ezekiel, chapter eight.
Ezekiel 8:15 Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than these.
The Lord tells Ezekiel to turn again to see greater abominations the house of Israel does. That the Christians do.
Ezekeil 8:16 And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD'S house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.
The Lord now brings Ezekiel to the inner court to the door of the temple. Between the porch of the temple and the altar there was about twenty-five men with their backs to the altar. They were not facing the altar, facing the Lord, they have their backs to the altar, their backs to the Lord.
They are all facing the east and worshipping the sun towards the east. What does that sound like? This is Sunrise service on Easter morning. The Lord calls this an abomination also.
Easter is not a Christian holiday. It is a pagan holiday. It is a day that is celebrated by Christians that the Lord abhors, another Christian holiday that you have been taught that you are to celebrate and revere.
Easter is mentioned only one time in the Bible. It is also capitalized showing that Easter is a proper name. It is a proper name of an ancient pagan holiday that Satan has convinced believers that they are worshipping Jesus when in fact they are worshipping another god, not the God of Glory.
Acts 12:4 And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.
This verse in Acts is speaking about when Herod had arrested Peter and put him in prison. Herod wanted to bring Peter before the people after Easter. Herod had just had James, the brother of John killed and saw that the Jews liked what he had done. After Easter, Herod was likely planning the same fate for Peter.
In this verse one might say, Easter is in the Bible, it must be okay. After all, it was being practiced back then. But who was practicing it? It was Herod as he wanted to wait until after Easter to bring out Peter before the people. It might cause an uprising if Herod killed Peter before this sacred pagan holiday.
Christian from way back then until now equate that Easter is the Passover. It even says it in the definition of the word Easter, that it is also Passover, or could also be the Passover.
But if you dig a little deeper, you will find within the Bible, a proof that Easter is not the Passover, but is an entirely different holiday. One only has to back up only one verse for that answer to reveal itself. We'll back up three verses to give the entire context.
Acts 12:1-3 Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church. And he killed James the brother of John with the sword. And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.)
This passage tells us that king Herod was not a good guy. King Herod proceeded to kill the true Christians. When Herod arrested Peter, he arrested him in the “Days of the Unleavened Bread). What is the ‘Days of Unleavened Bread?
Before we determined when the ‘Days of the Unleavened Bread’ are, a short lesson about calendars. You will never have heard this taught in the churches by your pastors or preachers.
There are two calendars that have been established that the Judeo - Christians and the world follows: the Gregorian calendar and the Jewish calendar.
The Gregorian calendar was established by Pope Gregory XIII of the Catholic papacy in 1582 as a reform of the Julian calendar established by the Romans. The roots of this calendar may actually date back to the Babylonian empire, or at least a form of it.
The Gregorian calendar is based upon the cycles of the seasons based upon the sun. There are 365 and ¼ days in that cycle. There are twelve months. Every 4 years there is a leap day to correct this calendar to keep it in sync.
The Gregorian calendar’s days and months are named after pagan gods. From Monday to Sunday and from January to December all have their roots in Roman or other pagan gods.
The other calendar is the Jewish calendar that the Jews and the state of Israel follow. It is based on the cycle of the moon. This calendar also has twelve months. The Jewish calendar is based upon the moon or the lunar cycle.
Every few years they add an additional month to correct their calendar to keep it in sync, for the lunar year is shorter than the solar year. The Jewish calendar begins each month on the appearance of the sliver of the moon. That is their first day of each month.
There is a third calendar that none of the world follows. It is the Lord’s calendar. It is also based upon the lunar cycle. The Lord appointed the moon for seasons.
Psalm 104:19 He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.
The first day of each month begins with a new moon. The new moon is the complete dark of the moon. No part of the moon is visible.
Isaiah 66:23 And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.
The definition for new moon ‘is to be new, to repair, to rebuild. It begins with the dark of the moon and then begins to wax towards a full moon exactly two weeks later.
A day in the Bible is different than what we are accustomed to with each new day beginning at midnight. The Lord’s calendar established at the creation of the world starts with the evening which begins the next day.
Genesis 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
These are the rules the Lord has established in His Calendar. His calendar was forgotten long ago. The world has forgotten even the calendar that He established. The Jewish calendar starts their new month on the sliver of the moon. The Lord has established the new moon, the complete dark of the moon is the start or the first day of the next month.
The Word of God establishes that the Jewish calendar is off by one day dating all the way back to the time of the crucifixion of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Jesus and the disciples observed the Passover meal. The Passover is observed in the first month. It was at this meal that Judas left and betrayed Jesus to the ruling Jews of that day. After the Passover meal, Jesus and the disciples went to the Garden of Gethsemane where Jesus prayed to the Father.
It was at that time that the Roman soldiers led by Judas Iscariot came and arrested Jesus. Jesus was tried and convicted that night in the dark of the early morning hours. Jesus was hanging on the cross by 9 AM that next morning.
As the day drew on and it came close to evening, the ruling Jews needed Jesus to be taken down off the cross for they did not want to be unclean for the observance of the Passover. Read the story in all the gospels. It is there.
The Jews of that day observed the Passover the night after the Passover that Jesus and the disciples observed. Do you not think that Jesus Christ knew when the Passover was? Jesus and the disciples observed Passover on the correct day.
The Jews of that day were observing the Passover based upon them beginning the first day of that month on the sliver of the moon. Today’s Jews still observe the sliver of the moon as their first day of the month. Both the Gregorian calendar and the Jewish calendar are wrong.
The Passover is observed in the first month of the Lord’s calendar. It is observed on the evening of the fourteenth day of the month. The evening of the fourteenth day of the month is the beginning of the fifteenth day of the month. The fifteenth day of the month begins the Feast of Unleavened Bread. The Feast of Unleavened Bread is seven days.
The days of the Feast of Unleavened Bread are referred to as the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the second day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread all of the way to the seventh day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. These seven days of the Feast of Unleavened Bread is what is being referred to in Acts 12:3. “(Then were the days of unleavened bread.)
Exodus 12:15 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
The Feast of Unleavened Bread begins with the Passover. In the days of unleavened bread the Passover has already occurred. King Herod who just arrested Peter wanted to hold Peter in prison until after Easter.
This passage clearly is speaking about Easter that King Herod observed. King Herod was an evil man. King Herod was a king over the Jews of that day. King Herod observed Easter. The disciples observed Passover and the Days of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. This passage clearly separates Easter from Passover. Easter is not the Passover.
In our day, Easter is observed on a Sunday after the first full moon of the spring equinox. It can be any day between March 22 and April 25th. The Jewish Passover is observed a day later than it should be according to the Jew’s calendar. The Jewish calendar is a false calendar. The Jewish calendar has a month in the calendar named Tammuz, a pagan deity. Neither calendar is correct nor is the Truth.
The Christians center Easter around whatever day it comes up on the Gregorian calendar based upon the sun that is appointed for the seasons, the spring equinox. The Easter observance begins with Ash Wednesday around forty-three days before Easter.
The Christian church then observes Palm Sunday, the Sunday before Easter Sunday. Good Friday is the Friday before Easter Sunday, the day Christ died on the cross. Easter is the day the Christians observe the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Jesus then rose three days later on Easter Sunday, the third day.
Easter that is observed as the third day after Good Friday is not the third day the Lord established in the Bible. Jesus was taken right after the Passover meal when in the Garden of Gethsemane. The date on the Lord’s calendar was the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month.
The evening of the fourteenth day is also the beginning of the fifteenth day. The fifteenth day is also the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread and begins with the Passover. Jesus was crucified and died on the cross that day. He was placed in the grave before nightfall.
The evening, he was placed in the grave was the beginning of the sixteenth day of the first month which was also the second day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Jesus was in the grave that day and that night. The next morning was when Mary and Martha came to His grave and Jesus was not there.
That evening before the morning when Mary and Martha arrived at His grave was the seventeenth day of the first month which was also the third day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Jesus Christ rose the third day just as scripture had said.
Luke 24:7 Saying, The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.
Jesus Christ rose the Third Day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread just as He said He would. The Jews of that day didn’t see it as they were a day off. Their third day was not until the next day.
In 313 A.D. Constantine of the Roman Empire put forth a decree legalizing Christianity. From the martyrdom of Stephan to that present time, Christianity was a constant thorn in the side to the Jewish ruling class and the Romans.
When Christianity was legalized, most Christians of that day had been imprisoned, persecuted, and killed. Legalizing Christianity was welcomed. This was the advent that combined the pagan worship with the worship of God. By combining the two, there could be peace. And so the whore was born.
If we just look at scripture, it will confirm the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
Revelation 5:12 Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.
Jesus Christ was our Passover Lamb with our names written in heaven from the foundation of the world. The Death Angel passes over us.
Jesus Christ rose the Third Day, the Third Day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
Easter is always on a Sunday. The Third Day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread is always two days after a full moon of the first month on the Lord’s calendar. It will fall on any day of the week each year. It will never be on the same day every single year.
The Feast of Unleavened Bread was and is in observance of the children of God escaping out of Egypt. They were to take no leaven with them no eat any leaven that entire seven days. Jesus warned us about leaven.
1 Corinthians 5:7,8 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
If unleavened bread is sincerity and truth, then leaven is falsehoods and lies, the opposite of sincerity and truth.
Galatians 5:9 A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
Just a little bit of falsehoods and lies makes the whole body full of falsehoods and lies. What communion does light have with darkness?
Jesus said in Mark 8:15 And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.
The Pharisees and Herod had leaven making their entire being leavened. The Pharisees murdered Jesus. Herod mocked Jesus. Herod also observed Easter.
Easter is leaven, just as giving one’s rightful heritage to another, just as celebrating Christmas is leaven. Easter just as Christmas is the worship of other gods. The lies that have been brought through the ages to add leaven to all of the Christian church believers. The traditions of men, the ways of the heathen, Satan has done it again with today’s believers.
Easter is the worshipping of other gods, an abomination to the Lord. The goddess that represents Easter stretches from the earliest days of the Old Testament in the book of Genesis all the way to the last book of the New Testament, the book of Revelation.
In the book of Acts, chapter 19 there is an encounter that takes place between the disciples and goddess worshippers in the town of Ephesus.
Acts 19:35 And when the townclerk had appeased the people, he said, Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?
This great goddess Diana was worshipped throughout Asia and the world.
Acts 19:27 So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.
The definition for Diana in the Strong’s is ‘Artemis’. Artemis came from the Greeks. Acts 19:35 states that an image fell down from Jupiter; Jupiter, a god of Rome was Zeus of the Greeks.
Any of these gods or goddesses date back to Baal worship and the prophets of the groves in the Old Testament.
1Kings 18:19 Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's table.
The definition of Baal is a Phoenician deity. The definition of groves is a Phoenician deity named Astoreth.
1 Kings 11:33 Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in mine eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father.
Ashtoreth is the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh is the god of the Moabites, Milcom is the god of the Ammonites. The definition of Milcom is Molech. The pagan god directly associated with Christmas and the passing of their children through the fire.
Ashtoreth is the goddess of love and increase. Ashtaroth is also the same goddess, a Phoenician deity. Ashtaroth is where king Og lives. King Og is a remnant of the giants. The giants date back to Genesis.
Joshua 12:4 And the coast of Og king of Bashan, which was of the remnant of the giants, that dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,
The giants date back to Genesis.
Genesis 6:4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
King Og was king of Bashan that dwelt at Ashtaroth. He was a part of what was left of the giants of those days. Looking into the definition of king Og gives us a direct link to the gods of the Zidonians, Ashtaroth and a direct link to the celebration of the pagan holiday, Easter.
Og is defined in the Strong’s as “round”. Drilling down the next definition is “to bake round cakes on a hearth”. Drilling down to the next definition is “an ash-cake (as round)".
What does round ash cakes have to do with Easter? Ash Wednesday. All of the Christians out there who place ash upon their forehead is associating themselves with the ancient pagan deity Ashtoreth. The first three letters of the goddess's name should be a huge clue, “Ash”.
These cakes made of ash are a direct link to Easter. There are other verses in the Bible that refer to cakes.
Jeremiah 7:18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
These people that Jeremiah is describing are making cakes to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to other gods provoking the Lord to anger.
Strong’s definition for the word cakes is “something prepared, i.e. a sacrificial wafer:--cake.”
Ash cakes, cakes, sacrificial wafers and drink offerings offered unto other gods are an abomination to the Lord. Jeremiah continues.
Jeremiah 44:26, 27 Therefore hear ye the word of the LORD, all Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith the LORD, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, The Lord GOD liveth. Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them.
All Judah that dwell in Egypt are all of the Christians, Judah, that worship other gods, dwell in Eqypt. The Christians that worship other gods shall be consumed by the sword and the famine until there is an end to them.
How do we know that the gods that were worshipped in the Old Testament are the gods that are worshipped in the New Testament?
1Kings 18:19 Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's table.
The prophets of Baal and the prophets of the groves eat at Jezebel’s table.
1Corinthians 10:21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.
Jezebel’s table is the table of devils. We find Jezebel mentioned in the book of Revelation in one of the letters to the churches.
Revelation 2:20 Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
Jezebel was the wife of Ahab. She did not come to a good end. In this letter the Christians have permitted the gods that Jezebel followed to permeate into the church.
The Strong’s definition of Jezebel is a false teacher. Jezebel who was married to Ahab was the daughter of the Zidonian king. The Zidonians followed Ashtoreth.
In another letter to a different church in Revelation is practically the same wording.
Revelation 2:14 But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.
Balaam in the Strong’s is again defined as a false teacher, the same as Jezebel. The two common denominators with both of these verses is committing fornication and eating food sacrificed to idols.
As we learned earlier, committing fornication is the worshipping of other gods. There is a word in the Old Testament that is very close to the word Balaam. It is the word Baalim.
1 Samuel 12:10 And they cried unto the LORD, and said, We have sinned, because we have forsaken the LORD, and have served Baalim and Ashtaroth: but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve thee.
Baalim is a god or goddess just as Ashtaroth is. The definition of Baalim in the Strong’s is the same as Baal. Leading this back to the prophets of Baal. Jezebel calls herself a prophetess. She is, a false prophetess.
There is another goddess of ancient times. Her name is Eostre. She is what is referred to as the ‘goddess of eggs’ or the ‘egg goddess’.
This is quoted from History Cooperative “Eostre: The Mystery Goddess Who Gave Easter Its ”. “ is generally associated with themes of fertility, renewal, and the changing of the seasons, as her name is etymologically linked to words related to dawn and the east, where the sun rises. She is often depicted with symbols of spring, such as eggs and hares, which have become integral elements of the modern Easter celebration.”
Remember in Ezekiel 8:16 the twenty-five men facing the east worshipping the sun in the east? Eostre is depicted with eggs and hares. Today’s rendition of this ancient goddess is colored Easter eggs and Easter bunnies.
Eostre sounds very close to Easter. But whether the goddess or goddesses are named Eostre, Astarte, Ashteroth, Ashtaroth, Ishtar, Isis, Diana, queen of heaven, Milcom, Chemosh, Molech, etc.; they are all pagan gods that permeated not only the Christian Church but all of society. No matter what name they called them or what name they call them today, they are all false gods.
These gods that were worshipped date back all of the way to the land of the giants in Genesis. The Lord wiped out mankind save Noah and those in the ark because of the evil wickedness of man. Hence the flood of Noah, but those gods and goddesses reemerged and are with us today being worshipped in the churches that have Jesus on their entrances. What does light have to do with darkness?
Children participating in an Easter egg hunt at their local church, is the equivalent of passing their children through the fire. Eating Easter eggs and chocolate bunnies is eating food sacrificed unto idols. Eating candy canes or sipping eggnog is eating food sacrificed unto idols. The modern Christian holidays of Easter and Christmas and linked together in the Bible again in Ezekiel chapter 8.
In Ezekiel 8:16 the twenty-five men facing the east worshipping the sun is the goddess worship of Easter. The next verse links the pagan holiday of Easter to pagan holiday of Christmas.
Ezekiel 8:17 Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.
The Lord is asking Ezekiel if this is a light thing or not so bad by them committing these abomination filling the land with violence and provoking the Lord to anger for, He is a Jealous God.
The Lord then states that they, the men celebrating Easter put the branch to their nose. What does that phrase mean, putting the branch to their nose?
The Lord is referring to the branch of a Christmas tree. Ah, the fragrance of freshly cut fir, pine or cedar. Have you ever smelled the fragrance of a Christmas tree? Why is Easter and Christmas linked in this verse?
Worshipping gods is an abomination to the Lord. He abhors it. He destroyed the earth with a flood in the days of Noah and He is going to do it again. This is the final time. Remember the Plumbline?
The Lord sets a plumbline in the midst of Israel and says that He will not pass by them anymore.
The Lord is done. This cycle of worshipping other gods, then punishing them, then their repenting, then them coming back to Him, and then going back to worshipping other gods is over. This is the last time. This is the end of the age, the end of the world, the end.
Ezekiel chapter 8 ends with this verse.
Ezekiel 8:18 Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.
The Lords says that the time of the end will be like the days of Noah. In the time of Noah, there were giants in the land. The giants and the people of that day were wicked and followed other gods. The wickedness is the following of other gods.
After the flood of Noah, the Lord placed a bow in the air which signified His promise that He would never flood the earth again. This bow is the rainbow. There is significance with this symbol. The rainbow (referred to as bow in the Old Testament) is found in the New Testament two times.
The first time is in Revelation 4:3 referencing a rainbow about the throne that looks like an emerald.
The second time a rainbow is mentioned is in Revelation chapter 10.
Revelation 10:1-3 And 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: 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, And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.
In Revelations 10:1-3 there are two messages that we need to focus on, but first there is another message in Revelation 10:7 we need to look at.
Revelation 10:7 But 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.
The mystery of God should be finished is speaking about the end. This is it. This message is that the Lord will not pass by Israel anymore. The Lord has set the Plumbline in the midst of Israel. Which side of the Plumbline are you on?
The fist message given in Revelation 10:3 is about the little book in the angel’s hand. This little book is the Book of Life.
Revelation 21:27 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.
The Lamb’s book of life is a little book for there are few names written in it.
Matthew 7:14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Those few have to walk in the Truth, those few cannot be worshipping other gods, those few cannot be committing fornication with other gods, those few must be in the Truth. If they are not, their names could be removed or blotted out of the book of life.
Revelation 3:5 He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
So much for once saved, always saved.
The second message is the rainbow upon the angels head. In the Old Testament, the Lord referred to the rainbow, His promise that He would never again flood the earth with water was always referenced as a bow.
The Strong’s definition for that word bow is a curved arch. That is what the rainbow is, a curved arch. The Strong’s definition for the word rainbow in the book of Revelation is “as a symbol of the female messenger of the pagan deities).
The rainbow which was God’s promise to never flood the earth with water has now been perverted into something else. The rainbow today represents “Woke”. This is the wickedness of the days of Noah that is everywhere around us right now.
Just as in the days of Noah is here today. “Woke” goes back to the Garden of Eden.
Genesis 3:4-7 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
Adam and Eve had their eyes opened. They ‘woke’ up. The serpent beguiled Eve and then Adam followed suit. One of the definitions of beguiled is “lead astray” and also “seduce”. Does not Jezebel in Revelation teach and seduce the servants of God to commit fornication and worship idols?
These lies and worshipping of other gods comes from Satan himself. From the Garden of Eden until now, Satan has been battling for souls, enlarging hell.
These are the lies taught to you by the pastors, preachers, and priests of your churches. These lies come from Satan himself. Your pastors, preachers, and priests whom are also deceived have been deceiving you. Feeding you the poison to commit fornication with other gods and eating foods sacrificed unto idols causing you to pass your children through the fire.
You have been taught all these lies. You have believed all these lies thereby removing yourself from Judah and dwelling in Egypt with all the gods of Easter and Christmas. You have given away your rightful heritage. You must repent. You must be in the Truth in Jesus Christ for your name to be included in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
Easter is the third transgression of four. There is one more transgression the Lord has against you.
There are no more transgressions in Ezekiel, chapter 8. There are the verses in Amos, chapters 1 and 2 that speaks about the four transgressions. It does not however state what those transgressions are. Amos does have some interesting wording thou.
It has this wording: “For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four” in every mention of the four transgressions. The only change is a name change. It then lists Gaza, Tyrus, Edom, Ammon, Moab, Judah, and Israel.
The format stays the same, “For three transgressions.., and four. Then the Lord gives the judgment for those transgressions. We know what the first three transgressions are; giving away of the birthright, Christmas, and Easter. But what is the fourth?
We need to look at the structure of the sentence. Three transgressions and four separated by a comma. Jesus actually spoke about jots and tittles.
Matthew 5:8 For 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.
This verse is stating that not one jot or tittle shall pass from the law until all is fulfilled. Since all things are not fulfilled, every jot and tittle must remain in place. Every jot and tittle must have meaning.
A jot is a period. A tittle is a comma. In either case, a comma is there for a reason. A comma is a pause. If this comma is a pause, which it is, there is a separation from the three transgressions which are grouped together and the fourth transgression.
All of the Old Testament and the New Testament are focused on the giving away of the birthright and worshipping other gods. Is there something that is different from these but is still a transgression? It also must be separated for a period of time to fulfill the pause.
It also has to be something within the church that the Lord is upset with. What would fit that criteria? Perhaps there has been a pause of a couple thousand years or more? Ezekiel was written about six hundred years before Christ. It has been a little more than two thousand years since the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
There is a new doctrine that has surfaced somewhat recently. It is called eschatology and dispensationalism which is more commonly known as the pre-tribulational rapture theory. This theory became a doctrine in the mainstream Christian church referred to as the rapture.
In 1827 John Nelson Darby came up with this new revelation that prior to the tribulation beginning, believers in Jesus Christ would be ‘taken up’ in the rapture.
There are some people that believe that this would occur in the middle of the tribulation which is called the mid-tribulation rapture theory. Others believe that the believers would go through the tribulation and be taken up at the end of the tribulation in the post tribulation rapture.
In 1830 a woman named Margaret MacDonald had a vision that she recounted. It is said that in this vision, she described the rapture and that Darby took that vision and ran with it. This is a not true. Margaret MacDonald’s vision said nothing of the sort. Her vision was reprinted which removed a couple of statements that contradict any type of a rapture.
What really happened was in 1827, three years before Margaret MacDonald’s vision, John Nelson Darby started floating around the pre-tribulation theory. When her vision was given to her in 1830, John Darby Nelson discounted her vision as demonic. There is nothing in her vision that contradicts scripture. It does contradict the pre-tribulation rapture though.
John Nelson Darby is the author and originator of the pre-tribulation theory. Darby brought this theory to America during 5 visits from 1846 to 1877. The Scofield Reference Bible was first printed in 1909 and became the largest selling Bible at that time as it is still very popular today. The Scofield Reference Bible ran with this theory. It is still the best selling Bible in England and Scotland.
From the Scofield Reference Bible, the Dallas Theological Seminary furthered the theory of the pre-tribulational rapture. This is the first seminary that began teaching this theory to the pastors and preachers of our day.
There are other theories of the mid-tribulation and the post-tribulation theories.
John Hagee, Hal Lindsay, Edgar C. Whisenant and Tim LaHaye, wrote books and became famous preachers derived from this theory of the pre-tribulation rapture. Tim LaHaye wrote the best selling series called “Left Behind”.
Based upon this theory of dispensationalism and eschatology, the Christians will be taken up in the rapture and then the Lord can deal with those that are not in the Truth including the physical Jews which the Lord will graft back into the spiritual Israel.
Is this theory of the pre-tribulation rapture Truth or is it another lie of Satan? You better be sure of that for your soul depends on it.
What Jesus says is supreme. The scriptures of the Bible are not only our guide, but the law.
Matthew 5:8 For 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.
This verse says that not one period or comma will pass from the law, that all is to be fulfilled, till heaven and earth will pass. The first heaven and first earth passes at the end of the world, at the end of the age, at the end of the Tribulation for a new heaven and a new earth are coming.
Revelation 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
At the end of chapter 22 of the book of Revelation, there is a dire warning that Jesus gives us. This warning is at the end of chapter 22 in Revelation. This is the last verses of the book of Revelation.
Revelation 22:18-21 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
Jesus declares that if anybody adds to the words of the book of this prophecy, the Lord will add to that person the plagues of the book of Revelation. If anybody takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, the Lord will remove or blot out his name from the Book of Life, they will not enter into New Jerusalem, the holy city, and they will not partake of any of the promises to the remnant that are contained within the book of Revelation.
Do you see the Plumbline in those verses? You better be sure which side you are on. Your soul and where you spend eternity depend on it.
There are accounts of a passage that is used to support this theory that is found in Matthew 24 and also in Luke 17.
Matthew 24:40-42 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
Luke 17:34-36 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left. Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
This passage is one of many passages that are used to substantiate the theory of the pre-tribulation rapture. We see that there is one that is taken and the other that is left. The theory states that the one that is taken is taken in the rapture. The one that is left is the one that will go through the Tribulation, poor soul.
Strong’s definition of the word ‘taken’ can be anything from just the word take to violently seize or remove. Strong’s definition of ‘left’ means to send, send forth, lay aside, leave, etc.
There are verses and passages that are used to support this theory of the pre-tribulation rapture. They are quoted time and time again. But there is something left behind, other verses. There are verses and passages within and throughout the Bible that they don’t quote. They leave out the verses and passages that go against the theory of the pre-tribulation rapture.
You will be hearing those verses and passages now. Nothing will be added and nothing will be taken away from what is stated in the Bible. You will be hearing verses that the pastors, preachers, and priests of the Christian church won’t tell you. Verses and passages that they conveniently left out for it would destroy their entire belief system that financial empires have been built upon.
Looking at this passage, the one that is taken and the one that is left need to be correctly identified. For Scripture tells us to rightly divide the Word of Truth by studying. We will study to determine who these two groups of people are.
2 Timothy 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
The answer follows this next passage. This is what the pastors and preachers omit. The disciples asked Jesus where they were taken. Jesus’ response is found in this next verse.
Luke 17:37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.
Jesus tells the disciples that the ones that are taken will be where the eagles are gathered together. Jesus goes on to state in Matthew the following.
Matthew 24:28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
The carcase is a dead body. It is over the dead bodies that the eagles are gathered. The definition on the New Testament for eagle doesn’t give us any clue as to what the eagles represent, however the eagle is a bird of prey. If you look up verses with an eagle in it, you will find the following verse.
Hosea 8:1 Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.
This verse is stating that the Lord will come as an eagle against the house of the LORD. That would be the end times Christian church, the Christians. Why?; because you have transgressed His covenant by committing adultery and giving away your birthright. You have trespassed His laws by worshipping other gods.
The eagle coming against the house of the LORD is judgment for transgressing His covenant and trespassing against His law.
1Peter 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
The Strong’s definition in the Old Testament for the word eagle is to lacerate, the eagle (or other large bird of prey):--eagle. The word eagle can be another bird of prey, a falcon or a vulture. Vultures especially are known for circling above dead carcases.
There are many verses in the Old Testament that speak about being taken. Here are a couple of those verses.
Ezekiel 12:13 My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.
Ezekiel 17:20 And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me.
The ones that are taken in these verses are taken because they have trespassed against the Lord. How did they trespass against the Lord? They trespassed against His law. The Lord shall come against all who trespass against His law as an eagle. The eagles are gathered where the dead bodies are. This is where the one grinding at the mill, working in the field, or sleeping in the bed have been taken to.
Jesus also lays out other statements that are grouped with the verses of one taken and one left.
Matthew 24:37-44 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
As the days of Noah, so will the coming of the Son of man be. The coming of the Son of man, Jesus, doesn’t start with Him coming out of heaven with his angels and all the saints.
The coming of the Son of man is compared or shall be like the days of Noah when the Lord had shut Noah up in the ark and everybody else didn’t know what was about to befall them. The flood came and swept all of them away. They were taken in judgement.
Jesus then states the passages of one taken and one left. Jesus then goes on to talk about the thief in the night. This thief that came to this goodman’s house broke up his house because the goodman wasn’t watching.
John 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
The thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy. The Lord warns to watch for the thief.
Mark 13:33-37 Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is. For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch. Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.
1 Thessalonians 5:6, 7 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
The Lord tells us to watch and be sober. He tells us that others sleep. He tells us to be watching for the thief so our house won’t be broken up. What are we to be watching for?, The coming of the Son of man. The coming of the Son of man is the Tribulation. The tribulation is the flood that takes them all away while the goodman of the house and Noah are safe and secure. Noah was left while everyone else was taken.
The ones that are left are the righteous that the Lord preserves through the Tribulation. The Lord preserved Noah through the flood. He did not remove Noah from the flood. David slew the giant, he was not removed from that situation. The Lord preserved him through it.
The Lord did not remove Daniel out of the lion’s den but preserved him through it. The Lord did not remove Moses from the land of Egypt, He bought Moses through the Red Sea. The Lord did not remove Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego from the fiery furnace, He delivered and preserved them through it.
The Lord always preserves a righteous remnant. Just as the things that happened to them are examples for us upon whom the end of the world are come, the ones that are left are left to go through the Tribulation being preserved through it by the Lord. The ones that remain are the righteous remnant who claimed their rightful heritage and who would not bend a knee and worship other gods.
Then you go to the parable of the ten virgins. They were all asleep until the cry of the Bridegroom came forth. The cry of the Bridegroom is the announcement of the Coming of the Son of Man, the Tribulation.
The ten virgins all woke up but only five of those virgins had the oil in their lamps that would allow them to enter into the chamber for the marriage to the bridegroom. They were all virgins. They all had lamps. They all had oil but the other five lamps went out. They did not have oil in their lamps to keep them lit.
They had to go out and try to find some more oil while the five that had oil went into the chamber for the marriage to the bridegroom. The oil represents the Truth. The Truth is claiming their rightful heritage and not worshipping other gods. The five unwise virgins had Truth at one time, but the oil, or the Truth ran out. Their lamps went out. There was no more light guiding them through the darkness. They left their first love by following other gods and giving away their birthright. They became a harlot and was not allowed into the wedding as the bride of Christ.
The marriage the five wise virgins that occurred when they went into the chamber is the preservation of those that are left taking them through the Tribulation under His protection from the judgment that has come to the House of God.
The Lord will also preserve you, just as He promised. However, there is a purification that must take place. A cleansing must occur to rid yourself of the other gods. A renouncing of those gods, a reclaiming of your heritage must occur, and repentance must occur.
Zechariah 13:8, 9 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. 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.
The two thirds that are cut off and die is referring to not only a physical death of dying but also a spiritual death by being cut off from ever getting to heaven. These will go to outer darkness, the Lake of Fire, where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth. These are the ones that put you here.
The other third the Lord brings them through the fire, refining them. This third of the church are purified by renouncing other gods and reclaiming their rightful heritage.
1 Peter 4:12, 13 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: 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.
The fiery trial which is to try you is the same as being brought through the fire and refining as silver is refined and trying as gold is tried. Peter even says that don’t think it strange that this is happening to you. He tells you to rejoice for you are a partaker of Christ’s sufferings.
What were Christ’s sufferings? Jesus Christ was persecuted. Jesus Christ was prosecuted and found guilty of their laws. Jesus Christ was executed for standing against the lies of that day and standing for the Truth.
His glory shall be revealed when the Lord returns. You are to rejoice and be glad with exceeding joy that the Lord Jesus Christ has not only promised to save a remnant, but He will give you the courage and strength to endure what is coming.
One of the passages used extensively substantiating a ‘rapture’ is found in 1 Thessalonians.
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
This passage is obviously speaking about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. This is one of the mostly used passages to substantiate the rapture of the church. They always use ‘caught up together with them in the clouds’, stating that this is when people are going to magically disappear into the clouds to meet the Lord.
There is a misconception with this passage. They leave out the understanding of who the dead in Christ are. The dead in Christ shall rise first before the catching up, or the “rapture”. To understand who these dead in Christ are, we need to understand when they rise for them rising first is a precursor to the ones that are caught up.
The pastors and preachers usually leave out the verses that precede this passage. The verses preceding this passage are necessary to understand who the dead in Christ are.
1 Thessalonians 4:13-17 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
This passage speaks about those that sleep in Jesus and that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord will not prevent them which are asleep. The definition of the word ‘prevent’ in Strong’s means to anticipate or precede.
This definition tells us that the dead in Christ, the ones that sleep in Jesus will occur before we which are alive and remain shall be caught up. The pastors and preachers don’t pay much attention to that, do they?
What is the coming of the Lord mean and what does it mean to sleep in Jesus?
The coming of the Lord is the coming of the Son of man, which is the Tribulation. To sleep in Jesus is referring to a person that dies a physical death in the Truth of Jesus Christ. The dead in Christ rising began at the cross when Jesus died.
Matthew 27:50-53 Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Many of the bodies of the saints which slept arose when the graves were opened. Not all of the saints, but many of the saints. These would be the saints that were in the Truth that died in the Old Testament that would not bow the knee to other gods.
They would include all of the prophets and those that followed the Lord in Truth. Not all arose though. Those are those that were not in the Truth but called themselves saints.
Revelation 20:5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
The first resurrection is not speaking about the rest of the dead. The dead that lived not again until the thousand years were finished are all of the dead that thought they were saints but died in lies and deceit, worshipping other gods.
They have transgressed the Lord’s covenant, and have trespassed against the Lord’s law. These are they which did not have the Truth and walked in lies. What is the first resurrection? We need to back up to the preceding verse.
Revelation 20:4 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.
The first resurrection is dying in the Lord Jesus Christ in Truth. However this verse is speaking about the saints that that are killed during the Tribulation. These are the souls that had the witness of Jesus Christ and the Word of God. These are the souls who will not worship the beast, his image, or receive his mark.
Revelation 20:6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
Revelation 20:14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
The first resurrection is being present with the Lord Jesus Christ for eternity. The second death of condemnation to the lake of fire has no power for the ones risen in the first resurrection, for they have been delivered from that second death. The second death is eternal condemnation and being cut off and separated from the Lord Jesus Christ for eternity; never even being able to get even a drop of water from heaven just like in the rich man and Lazarus parable.
The graves being opened at the time of Jesus’ death fulfilled a passage in Ecclesiastes.
Ecclesiastes 12:5-7 Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets: Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
When a person dies, their spirit returns to God who gave it. Up until the cross, any saints that died in the Truth went to sleep. Their spirit arose when Jesus died on the cross.
But things changed at the cross. The graves were opened. The saints arose in the first resurrection and have been continuing to rise ever since then. The thief on the cross was promised by Jesus to be with Him in paradise that same day that Jesus died on the cross.
Luke 23:39-43 And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us. But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation? And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss. And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.
Then we see Stephen being killed. He sees Jesus standing on the right hand of God. Stephen was received up into glory as he died.
Acts 7:54-60 When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth. But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God. Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord, And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul. And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
Paul in 2 Corinthians states that it is better to be dead in the body and present with the Lord.
2 Corinthians 5:8-10 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
The ones that are alive and remain are the ones that are spiritually alive and physically alive. The dead in Christ are the ones that are spiritually alive but physically dead. Paul says that the ones that are spiritually alive and physically alive will not precede those that are spiritually alive but physically dead. In other words, the dead in Christ shall rise first.
If the dead in Christ rise first, then all those that have spiritual life, will die before those that are alive and remain can be caught up. The dead in Christ rising first are referring to the last of the dead in Christ. The last of the dead in Christ are the souls that do not worship the beast, his image, or receive his mark and are murdered because they will no.
Your pastors and preachers never discussed that in any of the numerous sermons preached about the rapture. Satan has again tricked and deceived those in the churches.
Here is another verse used to substantiate the rapture.
1 Corinthians 15:51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
This is another verse that is used to substantiate the rapture. Paul is showing us a mystery. A mystery is defined in the Strong’s as a secret. In that secret, Paul tells us that we shall not all sleep. Not sleeping means, you are still alive bodily. The ones that are sleeping are raised incorruptible. The ones that are sleeping are no longer alive bodily.
They will be raised incorruptible means they are not corrupted. Not being corrupted as established is being pure. Not worshipping other gods and being a child of God by claiming your rightful heritage making you a child of God. These are incorruptible for they have been purified through the fire.
The ones in this verse that are changed are the ones that have been left. They are the ones that do not worship other gods and have already claimed their rightful heritage. This is the righteous remnant that the Lord takes through the Tribulation.
The ones that are taken are the ones that are purified by throwing away their gods and claiming their rightful heritage as a child of God. These are the ones that sleep in Jesus. These are the ones that their souls go back to the One who gave it. These are the dead in Christ and the dead that are raised incorruptible. These are the ones that rise first before the ones that are left are changed and caught up into the air to be with the Lord forever. In this next passage, there is further clarification.
2 Thessalonians 2:1-4 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
Paul states in this passage that you shouldn’t be taken by surprise about the day of Christ which is the coming of the Son of Man, the Second Coming, the Tribulation. The coming of our Lord Jesus Christ is the Second Coming. The gathering together unto Him would include both the dead in Christ that rise first and the change and caught up of those that remain.
There is a very important statement in this passage that most preachers and pastors either don’t cover or attribute to something else than what it really is. Paul states that day shall not come. What day, the day when all the saints of God are gathered unto Him. That day will not come until there comes a falling away first. What is the falling away the Paul speaks about?
The falling away is the falling away from the Truth. When one goes to follow other gods they fall away from the Truth. The man of sin, the son of perdition must also be revealed. So much for getting out of here before the bad stuff starts to happen.
Paul is telling us that before the Lord gathers His people, a move of going into apostasy will occur and evil will take over. The antichrist spirit will flourish. This is the signpost Paul tells us to look for. Once this occurs, the gathering begins just as Jesus told us it would occur in the parable of the wheat and the tares.
Matthew 13:35-43 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world. Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field. He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Jesus interprets this parable. The good seed in the field, the wheat are the children of God. The bad seed, tares are the children of the devil. The angels will gather out of the Lord’s kingdom all things that offend and them that do iniquity. Who are those that offend and do iniquity?
Strong’s definition of offend includes the words snare, Exodus 34:12, Isaiah 28:13, Ezekiel 12:13 and 17:30 we have previously covered all speak about a snare being a trap that is the covenant of death and agreement with hell which is the worshipping of other gods. Worshipping of other gods offends God.
Within the definition of offend is also the following: (figuratively, cause of displeasure or sin):--occasion to fall (of stumbling), offence, thing that offends. Worshipping of other gods and giving away one’s birthright are things that offend. They shall be gathered out of His kingdom.
Iniquity is defined in the Strong’s as illegality, i.e. violation of law or (genitive case) wickedness:--iniquity, X transgress(-ion of) the law, unrighteousness. Again, this definition of a violation of law, transgression of the law and unrighteousness describes those that worship other gods and gives away their birthright.
Both of these definitions cover those that are on the wrong side of the Lord’s Plumbline. The ones that offend and them which do iniquity are gathered first. The apostate Christians who worship other gods and gives away their birthright are deemed the same as the tares or children of the wicked one.
There is one major difference though, the Lord gathers those apostate Christians and casts them into that furnace of fire to purify them. Once purified, once their unrighteousness has been cast behind them, they become righteous and shine forth as the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. These are the Remnant of Israel the Lord has made a promise to save.
The tares are also thrown into a furnace, not the furnace the Lord brings the Christians through that are taken, but the furnace of the Lake of Fire where there is wailing and gnashing of teeth, eternal separation from God.
The coming of our Lord and our gathering together unto Him is further explained in the following verses.
Matthew13:30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
The harvest is the end of the world. First the tares, the children of the devil are gathered. Remember the verse where the dead bodies are is where the eagles are gathered together. The gathering of the tares is the collusion of the children of the wicked one going forward with their plan to wipe out the Christians at the end of the world, the Tribulation.
The Lord gathers the wheat, the children of God into His barn. The next verse expounds upon the gathering of the wheat, the children of God.
Luke 3:17 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.
Strong’s definition of garner is a repository or a barn. The Lord thoroughly purges his floor. Strong’s definition of purge is to cleanse perfectly, i.e. (specially) winnow:--thoroughly purge.
The wheat, the apostate Christians are gathered into the garner or barn. Wheat is beaten to separate the chaff from it. The chaff is the false beliefs that the wheat is separated from. This is the separation of the wheat and the chaff. The chaff is the refuse or garbage of the worshipping of other gods and fables. That belief system will be completely destroyed and burned up with unquenchable fire.
During the separation process or purging, the wheat is cleansed perfectly, and thoroughly purged.
The ones that are taken are the apostate Christians that are then purged of their gods and take back their rightful heritage. They are cleansed perfectly. There is a large group of people found in Revelation that have been purged and cleansed perfectly.
Revelation 7:9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
Revelation 7:13-17 And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they? And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
This great multitude comes out of the great tribulation. They have washed and cleansed their robes. Their robes are made white in the blood of the Lamb, Jesus Christ. If their robes are washed in the blood of the Lamb, that means their robes were dirty. Their robes were dirty and stained and blemished from the gods they followed.
Ephesians 5:27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
Right now, His glorious church is not so glorious. It has spots, wrinkles, blemishes, and is unholy for the entire Christian church; save a few, have gone a whoring after other gods. The entire Christian church, save a few, have fallen away, having left their first love, are unstable and unlearned, being led away with the error of the wicked. Peter describes this perfectly.
2 Peter 3:11-17 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless. And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction. Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
1 Peter 4:18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
The righteous will include both the ones that are left and the ones that are taken for both are the Remnant of Israel that the Lord has promised to save for they are the children of the promise counted for the seed.
The coming of the Son of Man, the Second Coming, the Tribulation is the fulfillment of His promise to redeem unto Himself a glorious church. This is also that blessed hope that we look for.
Titus 2:12-14 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
Pastors and preachers use this passage to substantiate the theory of the rapture when it is really speaking about the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. They also use this next passage to again substantiate their theory of the rapture.
1 Thessalonians 5:9, 10 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
The Lord has not appointed us to wrath, the children of the promise as long as we walk and stay in His Truth. When we turn away from the Truth and walk after lies and fables thereby stepping onto the other side of that Plumbline, one puts themselves under the wrath of God.
Salvation is through the Lord Jesus Christ, but it must be in Truth, without lies, not worshipping other gods which leads to death and destruction.
1 John 2:21-29 I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth. Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father. And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life. These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you. But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming. If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.
Only the righteous will not be ashamed before Him at His coming. If a person is in lies, deception, worshipping of other gods, that person has become unrighteous.
Ezekiel 33:18 When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby.
When the righteous turns from righteousness and worships other gods, they commit iniquity and will not only die a physical death but a spiritual death also. They will not longer receive the promise of eternal life and salvation. They will be appointed unto the wrath of the Almighty God.
John 4:23, 24 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
The true worshippers of the Lord Jesus Christ and the Father must be in the Truth, the whole Truth, and nothing but the Truth. Worshipping other gods is not part of that equation.
Luke 21:8 And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them.
Many come in the name of Jesus that will say that Jesus Christ is Lord. Follow the Lord Jesus Christ and celebrate His birth at Christmas. Celebrate His Resurrection at Easter. Stand up for the Jews and support them and the Lord will bless you. Be ready for the rapture that can happen at any time. It is the pastors and the preachers that come in the name of Jesus saying that Jesus Christ is Lord preaching false doctrine.
Matthew 24:4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
Men deceiving you are the pastors and the preachers of today’s churches that you sit in the pews of every week.
2 Corinthians 4:2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
The pastors and preachers handle the Word of God deceitfully. Deceiving you and being deceived themselves. They were deceived in their seminaries unknowingly learning how to feed you the poison of the serpent. Satan has been at work for a long time.
2 Timothy 4:4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
It is the church and all its parishioners that have turned their ears from the Truth, turning their back on Jesus Christ unknowingly. Listening to the pastors and the preachers dressed in sheep’s clothing cunningly devising fables.
2 Peter 1:16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
They turn from the Truth, they heed Jewish fables and turn their back on the Lord Jesus Christ, causing their pure white robes to become dirty, spotted, and blemished.
Titus 1:14 Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.
They give heed to seducing spirits, doctrines of devils, departing from the faith of the Lord Jesus Christ. They turn from righteousness in the latter days leaving their first love.
1 Timothy 4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Timothy 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
When one turns their back on Truth and is seduced into eating the poison of doctrines of devils, they also turn their back on eternal salvation. Because they do this, the Lord sends them a strong delusion that they believe a lie. These people might be damned unless and until they turn from their unrighteousness.
2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
When they find themselves in the Tribulation and trouble is all around them, they will say to their gods to save them.
I’m a good Christian, I go to church every Sunday, I celebrate the birth and resurrection of Jesus Christ, I support the chosen people, I do all the things a good Christian does. These gods will not help you. The rapture that you are looking for is not coming.
Jeremiah 2:27 Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.
There is no rapture that is going to arise and save you. These are all cunningly devised fables, doctrines of devils, seducing spirits disguised as wolves in sheep’s clothing.
There is only one way to eternal salvation and the kingdom of heaven.
John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Jesus Christ is the way. One has to be in the Truth of Jesus Christ to receive the life of eternal salvation.
Jesus has come for the lost sheep of Israel. Jesus will welcome back the sinner just as the prodigal son was welcomed back.
But there is a price to pay for not being a good steward. There is a price to pay for not studying to show yourself approved. There is a payment that the Lord requires for worshipping other gods and turning away from the Truth.
It is a chastisement that will need to be endured, the purification of the saints of God.
The Lord Jesus Christ has not heard your prayers for the rapture for the Lord cannot grant what does not exist. He has not answered your questions as to why you are here for the Lord cannot cross over through the gods and dirty robes. The Lord has brought you here to plead with you.
Ezekiel 17:20 And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me.
He can only hear you when you hear Him. You must rid yourselves of each and every one of your gods that you have followed and worshipped. You must repent to be saved.
There are four transgressions the Lord has against you. You may be guilty of one or all, it matters not. If you are guilty of one or all, you are guilty. You have transgressed His covenant He made with you. You have transgressed His law and there is a chastisement or punishment for transgressing that law and covenant.
Repent and accept the chastisement, He will again graft you back into that olive tree called Israel, spiritual Israel. He will fulfill His Promise to the children of Israel by saving the Remnant of Israel.
The Lord instructed the apostle John, the revelator to write a letter to each of the seven churches of that day. Those letters to the seven churches are also written for today’s church and believers. The Lord recognizes the works that you have done and that you do.
He also recognizes that you are in sin and His wrath coming down upon His church is for your correction. If He didn’t correct you, your soul would be cut off for eternity and His promise of saving a remnant would not be fulfilled. The Lord is calling you home. You are the overcomers.
Revelation 2:1-7 …These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks; I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, (These are the preachers and pastors dressed in sheep’s clothing and others that say they are Christians but are not) and hast found them liars: And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted. Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; (Repent and come back to the Lord) or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, (Having the candlestick removed out of his place means spiritual death) except thou repent. But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, (The tree of life is eternal life with Jesus Christ) which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
Revelation 2:8-11 …These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive; I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, (These are the preachers and pastors dressed in sheep’s clothing and others that say they are Christians but are not) and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan. Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, (The word some was added into the text, remove this word and it reads that the devil shall cast you into prison. This is where you are sitting right now.) that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. (The crown of life is eternal life with the Lord Jesus Christ) He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death. (The second death is the death of the soul.)
Revelation 2:12-17 …These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges;I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth. But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication. (The doctrine of Balaam is the teachings of a false prophet leading his parishioners to follow other gods) So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate. (The doctrine of the Nicolaitans is the worshipping of the physical Jews as the chosen people. God hated Esau. The physical Jews are and always will be the chosen people, is a false doctrine that goes way back.) Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
Revelation 2:18-29 …These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass; I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first. Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not. Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds. (Jezebel worshipped other gods.) And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works. But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden. But that which ye have already hold fast till I come. And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father. And I will give him the morning star. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
Revelation 3:1-6 …I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, (You say that you are a Christian) and art dead. (You have worshipped other gods.) Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God. Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee. Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy. He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, (Your name can be blotted out. Be an overcomer) but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
Revelation 3:7-13 …These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth; I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name. Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; (These are the preachers and pastors dressed in sheep’s clothing and others that say they are Christians but are not) behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, (The hour of temptation is the temptation of Satan to give you escape from your chastisement your are receiving. By just relinquishing your belief and faith, you can escape where you are. Just turn your back on the Truth and you will be okay, or so you think. The Lord will keep you from that by bringing you through the fire) which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown. Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
Revelation 3:14-22 …These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, (Face what is coming with determination to become an overcomer) that thou mayest be rich; (You will receive eternal life.) and white raiment, (You will wash your robes) that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
The letters to the seven churches are letters from the Lord to each of you. He is imploring you and pleading with you to return to Him.
There has at one time or another or on several occasions someone that has told you that Christmas and Easter were pagan holidays. That the physical Jews were not the chosen people, and that the rapture was not true.
You may have read scripture and thought ‘This does not pertain to me’, ‘This is speaking to those that will have to go through the Tribulation, those poor souls’, I’m going up in the rapture’.
You discounted their information and the words of the Bible for it went contrary to the doctrine that you have embraced. You were fed the poison of the lies of Satan himself stealing away your gift of eternal life with Jesus Christ.
There are passages concerning your fate that the preachers and pastors never had as subjects of their sermons. They never warned you of the coming judgment because that wasn’t for you or them. They handled the Word of God deceitfully.
Revelation 14:12-16 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them. And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle. And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe. And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.
The Lord warned of this going all the way back to Moses.
Deuteronomy 31:28,29 Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to record against them. For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.
Deuteronomy 4:29-31 But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul. When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice; (For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.
The Lord gave warnings all through the Bible of what would befall those that went to follow other gods. Deuteronomy 31 is the song of Moses the Lord told Moses to write as a record against the house of Israel. In Deuteronomy 4 the Lord provides the antidote to the poison of other gods.
Seek the Lord they God and you will find Him. Seek Him with all thy heart and with all thy soul. If you turn to the Lord thy God, he will not forsake thee. He will not destroy thee by cutting off your soul from eternal life with Him. He will not forget the covenant He swore to your fathers. You will have victory over Death and Hell. You will have victory over the beast. You will sing the song of Moses and the song of the Lamb.
Revelation 15:2-4 And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God. And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, Saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints. Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest.
The final battle is on. Satan wants your soul in hell. The Lord wants your soul in heaven with the gift of eternal life. The great deceiver has led you here. Let the Great Redeemer lead you out of here into eternal glory with Him.
Revelation 12:7-12 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. 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. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
Satan wants to destroy you. He has made war with you. He wants to overcome you. He wants to have your name blotted out of the book of life. There are many names that will be blotted out of the Book of Life.
The ones that put you here will have the same fate but will not be redeemed. The ones that will kill you will also be killed and will not be redeemed. They are the children of the wicked one and are wicked themselves. The Lord will avenge you.
Revelation 13:3-10 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. If any man have an ear, let him hear. He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
The Christian church of today is the spiritual Babylon spoken about in the Bible in Jeremiah chapters 50 and 51 and in the book of Revelation, even throughout the Bible. Judgment begins at the house of God. Babylon the great, the house of God is being judged.
The Lord tells you to come out of her so you are not partakers of her sins and you don’t receive of her plagues. Some did come out of her and were not partakers of her sins of worshipping other gods. Those that came out of her will not receive of her plagues. Those are the ones that are left or if you will, left behind.
Those that are taken shall receive of her plagues because they were partakers of her sins of fornication, worshipping of other gods. She, Babylon the great, the Christian church is being judged and is found wanting.
Revelation 18:1-8 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double. How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.
The Lord has waited as long as He could but could wait no longer. This time was destined to come. He warned that it was coming. He can wait no longer for all would perish into everlasting darkness if He did not intervene with the Tribulation.
2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Are we really in the end times? Is this really happening? Timothy speaks about the last days.
2 Timothy 3This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith. But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was. But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience, Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me. Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
Yes, that describes where we are today. Become wise and not silly women led away with divers lusts of worshipping other gods. All scripture will make thee wise unto salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. Peter gives some words of encouragement.
1 Peter 4:12-19 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: 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. If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified. But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters. Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf. For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.
The Lord is longsuffering towards those He loves, the Christians. He cannot love them though when they have other gods in their hearts. You must cast them away so He can receive you. In His word, He says that you will.
Isaiah 30:18-26 And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him. For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee. And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers: And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left. Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence. Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures. The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan. And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall. Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Jesus Christ is the way, walk ye in it. Jesus Christ is the Truth, embrace it. Jesus Christ is the Life, accept it.
Jesus Christ will bind up the breach of His people. Jesus Christ will heal the stroke of your wound. Repent now for you are an overcomer. The Word of God is Faithful and True. The Word of God will be fulfilled.
Revelation 3:19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
You have a difficult path in front of you. The Lord will be there with you and beside you as you walk this path for He loves you. He wants you in His kingdom. Come out of the lies, repent, and He will give you the gift of eternal life in New Jerusalem, forever with the Lamb of God. Be of good cheer for Jesus Christ has overcome this world and you too shall overcome for you are victors in this last battle for your soul. Enter thou into the Kingdom and into the Glory of the Lord Jesus Christ and the Father.
The questions that you had have been answered. You now know why you are here, why the Lord has brought you here, and most importantly, where you are going. He brought you to this place so you would hear and receive this message from Him. Ask of the Lord for the strength and the courage in the days ahead. Ask that your eyes see the Truth, your ears hear the Truth, and your hearts receive the Truth.
John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
This is the way, walk ye in it.
Amen
What could you have possibly done to get you here by standing up to tyranny?
Why is God not answering your prayers? And most importantly, has God forgotten you? God has heard your prayers and your cries and, no, God has not forgotten you. Whatever situation has occurred to get you here, you are exactly where God wants you. He wants you to not only hear the message He has sent me here to tell you, but He also wants you to receive it.
Let us begin with a prayer. Lord Jesus Christ, the Alpha and Omega, the Creator of all creation, we come before you today humbly to ask you for guidance through these tumultuous times. We ask that we have the ears to hear the Truth, and eyes to see the Truth. Open our ears and eyes, open our understanding, help us to accept the Truth and receive this message that you want us to hear. Give us the strength and courage that we will need to overcome. Minister to each of us through your Holy Spirit, comfort us, and be with us. For you are King of Kings and Lord of Lords. You are the Lamb of God and are worthy to be praised! Amen.
Matthew 18:20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
There are more than two or three here. We are gathered together in His name. Jesus Christ is here amongst us. His Holy Spirit is here. Listen and absorb His words.
John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
The Bible, both the Old and the New Testament are the infallible Word of God. The King James Bible is the Bible you need to be reading. The King James Bible was transcribed from the original manuscripts. All other versions have corrupted God’s Word. All verses quoted today are from the King James Bible.
Today you will be hearing many verses. Some you will be familiar with, and they will take on new meaning. Other verses will be new to you. Not that they have been added for they have always been there.
The Bible, both the Old and the New Testament are the Word of God. They are inseparable. With both, a story is told. The Bible is the same story told a thousand different ways. The story that is told, spans from the creation of Adam and Eve to the culmination of the final battle for God’s creation that occurs in the Book of Revelation.
Jesus tells a parable to the disciples in Matthew 13:47-51 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind: Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away. So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just, And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Jesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord.
Jesus then continues to tell the disciples in Matthew 13:52 Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
Jesus just stated that out of His treasure things old and new are for those that are instructed about things in the kingdom of heaven. Obviously, the Lord is referring to both the Old and the New Testaments. There is much in the Old Testament that unlocks the understanding of the New Testament for they are both the infallible Word of God.
Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians 10:11,12 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
Paul also states the same thing in Romans 15:4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
What Paul is telling us is that everything written in the Old Testament were examples and are written for our admonition. Admonition in the Strong’s Concordance is defined as calling attention to or a mild rebuke or warning.
In other words, we need to heed this. Things that happened in the Old Testament were written for us upon whom the ends of the world have come. The ends of the world are here so we had better pay attention. For Paul then says that “Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
The message being delivered to you today is to those that think they are in good standing with the Lord. Take heed lest you fall and lose your soul to eternal damnation. Take heed and you will receive eternal life though Jesus Christ.
There are verses that your preachers and pastors would not go near for either they did not understand them, or it was contrary to the teaching they were taught in seminary and contrary to the message they wished to deliver to their parishioners. The Lord wants you to hear those verses and passages now for your very soul depends on it.
The questions that all of you have will be answered; however, this is a hard saying. If you do not want to hear this message the Lord has for you, you are free to leave. Although I admonish you to listen, hear, and embrace this message.
From the time of the fall of Adam and Eve until now, there has been a battle between good and evil. God’s creation, man and woman has been the object of that battle. You have read the stories of that battle in the Old and New Testaments. The final battle for all creation is occurring right now, that would be the Tribulation. Yes, this is the tribulation that has been foretold of in the Bible.
This final battle is for your soul. What is the most important thing about each of your lives that goes past personal belongings, your family, your home, your job, your life? It is where you are going to spend eternity. Eternal life with the Lord Jesus Christ is the ultimate goal of every Christian. Satan wants to snatch that away from you so Hell can be enlarged to hold your soul. Satan’s goal is to take away as many souls from God as he can. Your soul is at risk and is on the table right now. But the Lord has made a way.
What first needs to be established is who you are in Christ. Not what you think you are or where you think you stand, but where you actually are in the eyes of the Lord. That is what matters. Are you where you need to be? You better know the answer to that question. Where you are going to spend eternity depends on where you stand with Christ.
Throughout the Bible, the Lord has promised that He would save a remnant of Israel. He will make good on that promise. But all Israel is not Israel. There is only a remnant or a portion of that Israel that is saved. Paul states this in Romans 9:6-8
Romans 9:6-8 Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
Who are the children of the promise? Paul answers that question.
Galatians 4:28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
Galatians 3:29 And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
Christians who have repented and follow the Lord Jesus Christ are the children of the promise. What is the promise that we are the children of?
Acts 3:25 Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
The covenant which God made with our fathers was the first covenant. God made a second covenant because they broke the first covenant by not following God.
Hebrews 8:6-10 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
Hebrews 8:13 In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
Hebrews 13:20, 21 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
The children of the promise are the Christians whom the Lord made an everlasting covenant with through Jesus Christ. With His death and resurrection, we became new creatures. The flesh is no longer. A new creature is born when one repents and accepts Jesus Christ as their savior.
2 Corinthians 5:16, 17 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more. Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
The house of Israel and the house of Judah were both guilty of backsliding and playing the harlot. The Lord divorced them and made a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.
Jeremiah 3:6-8 The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot. And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it. And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
Hebrews 8:8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
The Lord divorced the house of Israel and the house of Judah and made a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. The new covenant was established at the cross. The Lord opened up the new covenant to the Gentiles. The Lord also changed the laws of God to not be written on stone tablets but in our minds and our hearts.
Hebrews 8:9-13 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
2 Corinthians 3:3 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
Christians who have repented and accepted Jesus Christ as their savior are the new house of Israel and the new house of Judah. Both are one in the same. The old house of Israel and house of Judah at the time when Paul wrote Hebrews was vanishing away.
Why did the Lord divorce the house of Israel? Because they played the harlot just like the house of Judah did in Jeremiah 3:6-8. Let’s read that again.
Jeremiah 3:6-8 The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot. And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it. And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
The Lord divorced the house of Israel because Israel went upon every high mountain and under every green tree and played the harlot. The house of Judah followed Israel and did the same thing, playing the harlot.
What is a harlot? Any definitions of words in the Bible will be quoted from the Strong’s Concordance. Within the definitions pertaining to location of the definition within a sentence, all of the definition or part of the definition, or maybe only one word within that definition will apply. It depends on the context of the verse that it is located in.
Harlot 02181 zanah, zaw-naw' a primitive root (highly-fed and therefore wanton); to commit adultery (usually of the female, and less often of simple fornication, rarely of involuntary ravishment); figuratively, to commit idolatry (the Jewish people being regarded as the spouse of Jehovah):--(cause to) commit fornication …(be an, play the) harlot, (cause to be, play the) whore, (commit, fall to) whoredom, (cause to) go a-whoring, whorish.
Within this definition of Harlot is actual physical adultery, to commit idolatry which is spiritual adultery for the Christians are the Bride of Christ and married to the Lord. There are additional definitions of playing a harlot, causing to be or playing a whore, committing or falling to whoredom, or causing to go a-whoring or being whorish.
When the house of Israel and the house of Judah played the harlot, they broke God’s covenant causing Him to divorce them. What the house of Israel and the house of Judah did was to commit idolatry.
The house of Israel and the house of Judah were committing spiritual fornication with idols committing adultery against their husband, the Lord. When they went upon every high mountain and under every green tree, they were committing idolatry.
They broke the covenant the Lord made with them. We can find confirmation of this in Deuteronomy. Deuteronomy chapters 30 and 31 are a layout of God’s covenant with the people that were led out of Egypt.
Love the Lord and follow Him and all will be well with you. Do not follow the Lord, break the commandments given to them and things will go bad. It is that simple. The Lord told Moses that this people getting ready to cross over the Jordan was going to be playing the harlot, causing them to break the covenant.
Deuternomy 31:16-20 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them. Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us? And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods. Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel. For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.
The Lord told Moses and Moses wrote the words the Lord had given him foretelling of what the children of Israel were going to do. They were going to commit adultery, committing fornication with other gods. They were going to commit idolatry and worship other gods. Let’s reread Jeremiah 3:6-8.
Jeremiah 3:6-8 The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot. And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it. And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
When the people of God worshipped other gods, they broke the commandments, which broke the covenant. The Lord had no choice but to divorce them. But there is another warning in Deuteronomy 31:29, 30
Deuteronomy 31:29,30 For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands. And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until they were ended.
Did you catch that? “Evil will befall you in the latter days because you will do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.”
Just as when the Lord told Moses that many evils and troubles will befall the people when they went to go a-whoring after other gods, the Lord also told Moses that the same thing was going to happen in the latter days. Deuteronomy chapters 30 and 31is ‘The Song of Moses’ is spoken about in the book of Revelation. That will be covered later.
Evil will befall the people of God because they will do evil in the sight of the Lord. That evil provokes the Lord to anger. What evil provokes Him to anger? It is the work of your hands. The work of your hands is the worshipping of other gods.
All of the verses in the Bible that speak about the craftsman and the work of his hands is referring to the making of idols. Worshipping of idols brings evil upon His people. The Lord brings the evil or more appropriately allows the evil to befall them as we see in Amos 3:6.
Amos 3:6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?
When you see the words harlot, whore, fornication, and any derivatives of those words, they will be speaking of committing idolatry or more appropriately worshipping of other gods. The craftsman and the items he makes, are also referring to worshipping of other gods.
Worshipping of other gods is one of the commandments of God that you are not supposed to do. Ah, but Jesus did away with the law. Or did He?
Matthew 22:34-40 But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together. Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
What Jesus just affirmed in this passage is that within these two commandments hangs all the law and the prophets. In other words, the Ten Commandments were not done away with at the cross, nor were the words of the prophets done away with at the cross. They were fulfilled at the cross. The law and the words of the prophets remain.
The law and the words of the prophets remain to this day. When you take the greatest commandments that the Lord stated “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.” And “Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” Then you are not going to steal, or lie, or commit adultery, or worship other gods. When you love the Lord with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind, you are not going to do any of those things. You are walking with the Lord for you are the temple of the Living God.
1 Corinthians 6:19, 20 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
1 Peter 2:4, 5 To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. Your bodies, as the temple of God are also members of Christ.
1 Corinthians 6:15, 16 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
One cannot be a member of the body of Christ and join to a harlot which is the worshipping of other gods. When one worships other gods, they are no longer a member of the body of Christ. The spiritual temple has become defiled. God forbids it!
1 Corinthians 10:21, 22 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils. Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
2 Corinthians 6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
What these verses tell us is you cannot mix the two. You are either one or the other; righteous or unrighteous, light or darkness, temple of God or a harlot. Continuing in 2 Corinthians.
2 Corinthians 6:15-18 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
Worshipping of idols and following other gods is forbidden by the Lord. One cannot have within the temple of God, your body, anything having to do with idols. The Lord says to come out from among them and don’t touch the unclean thing. The unclean thing is idols. When you turn your back on worshipping of other gods, the Lord will receive you back into the fold.
Matthew 15:24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
The lost sheep of the house of Israel are sheep that at one time were with the flock of sheep but have now become lost. Jesus was and is sent to find and gather those lost sheep.
Luke 19:10 For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
Just as the story of the prodigal son that Jesus spoke about in Luke 15. A man had two sons. One wanted to take his inheritance and go out into the world. One son stayed with his father and worked the fields. The other son spent his inheritance until he was broke and eating the food that he was feeding the swine. He came to his senses and returned to his father. You’ve probably heard this parable. There is an important message you need to hear located within this parable.
Luke 15:18-32 I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants. And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son. But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet: And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry: For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry. Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard musick and dancing. And he called one of the servants, and asked what these things meant. And he said unto him, Thy brother is come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound. And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him. And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends: But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf. And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine. It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.
Luke 15:3-7 And he spake this parable unto them, saying, What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it? And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost. I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.
Just as the lost sheep, the son became lost when he left his fathers household. He spent his inheritance on harlots. As we have learned earlier, when one is joined to a harlot (following after other gods) they have left behind being a member of Christ.
Jesus seeks out those lost sheep, they return as they are brought back into the fold.
Jeremiah 50:6 My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.
Who are the lost sheep? And who are the shepherds that have caused the lost sheep to go astray? And how did the shepherds cause them to go astray? Since things that have been written about aforetime are written for examples upon whom the end of the world has come, we go to a story in the Old Testament that will answer those questions.
2 Kings 4:38-41 And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets. And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not. So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O thou man of God, there is death in the pot. And they could not eat thereof. But he said, Then bring meal. And he cast it into the pot; and he said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat. And there was no harm in the pot.
This story in the Old Testament gives us a very important example of what has happened to today’s church. There was dearth in the land at the time this occurred. Dearth is defined as hunger or famine. More on the dearth or famine in a bit.
Elisha asked for a large pot to be set up to feed the sons of prophets that were before him. One of them went out to forage and picked some wild gourds from a wild vine. He shred them and added it to the pot not knowing that these wild gourds were poisonous.
They ate the pottage in the pot and became ill. They cried to Elisha “There is death in the pot” and Elisha proceeded to cast meal into the pot. It then counteracted the poison in the pottage and it became edible. Elisha provided the antidote for the death or poison in the pot.
The shepherds of the flock have been feeding them poison; the poison of Satan’s lies and deception. They did not do this on purpose. They didn’t know because they had also been fed the poison by the ones that taught them the same lies in the seminaries. This goes way back. Jesus warns of this.
Matthew 24:3-5 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
In the time of the end, the end of the world, Jesus tells us the many will come in my name. This is not saying that people will come saying that they are themselves Jesus, they will come saying Jesus Christ is Lord. They are the preachers and the pastors of the churches. The pastors and preachers are going to be the ones that are doing the deceiving. They are going to deceive you as they have been deceived themselves.
2 Timothy 3:13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
The deceivers, the pastors and the preachers are themselves deceived. Deceived by whom? Ultimately Satan. For Satan is the father of lies. Jesus spoke this to the Pharisees that were seeking to kill him.
John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Jesus comes to seek the lost sheep of Israel. The lost sheep of Israel are lost because they have been deceived. They have been taught by the deceivers to follow other gods. Without you knowing, you have been taught lies. You have believed those lies.
And you are not alone. As I speak to you today, I can tell you that I too once was taught those lies. I too believed those lies. Until the Lord showed me what those lies were that I had believed. He brought me out of those lies and I returned to Him. He showed me the Truth. Jesus Christ is the way, the truth and the life. I now am showing you the Truth.
Those lies have caused you to become the lost sheep of Israel. The lost sheep of Israel are not saved for they are lost. Jesus is seeking you out to bring you back to the fold. The end is here that is caused by a famine in the land.
Amos 8:11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:
The famine spoken about in this verse is not referring to physical bread, food or physical water. You are not hungry for food or thirsty for water. Physical food and water are being consumed every day.
The famine that is in the land is the hearing of the words of the Lord. If you have been deceived and have believed the lies and lies cannot be mixed with Truth, then it is the Truth that is not being heard for Truth is the Word. You are spiritually malnourished and starving.
John 1:1-5 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
Jesus is the Word. Jesus is with God, Jesus is God. Jesus made all things. In Jesus is life and that life is the light of men. Jesus is also other things. The Word is also other things.
John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Jesus Christ is the way, the narrow path. You have to walk that narrow path through the Truth to receive life. You have to be in Truth to receive life. Jesus Christ is that Truth. Truth cannot be in company with lies.
Matthew 7:13, 14 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
The famine in the land of the hearing of the words of the LORD is a famine because the famine in the land is devoid of the TRUTH, meaning Jesus Christ is absent from the land. Jesus Christ is absent in the famine because they don’t want to hear the TRUTH.
The absence of Jesus Christ, the Word is the famine. In the next couple of verses, we will find that Jesus Christ is the cure to that famine. Of course, it is not only the willingness to hear the Truth but also embracing the Truth. When one embraces the Truth, they receive spiritual bread and spiritual water. They will hear the words of the LORD.
John 6:35 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.
Revelation 21:6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
If you, having been deceived and having believed the lies, then you are in that famine; lies cannot be mixed with Truth. It is the Truth that is not being heard. The Lord tells us that Jesus is the bread of life and the water of life. Jesus is also the Word and that being the Words of the LORD. The Truth is the antidote for the poison that you have ingested.
Matthew 7:13, 14 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Continuing in Matthew 7.
Matthew 7:15-20 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
In this passage above, you have one or the other, either a good tree or a corrupt tree. A good tree cannot give evil fruit. A corrupt tree cannot give good fruit. There is no mixing of the two. The evil fruit are the lies and deception. The good tree remains True. There is no evil fruit (lies and deception) that comes from that good tree. The corrupt tree is destroyed.
Continuing in Amos chapter 8. The verse speaking about the famine in the land (and additional verses) you will find answers to some of the questions that each of you have. Questions of why you have not been hearing from the Lord? Why are your prayers not being answered? Why has the rapture not happened yet? God’s Word tells you why those questions are not being answered.
Amos 8:12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.
Amos 8:12 speaks about the ones in the famine trying to find the word of the LORD and can’t find it. Here are other verses saying the same thing.
Ezekiel 14:3 Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them?
Ezekiel 20:31 For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day: and shall I be enquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of by you.
The Lord will not hear nor answer your prayers for the idols have put enmity between you and the Lord. Following other gods provokes the Lord to anger.
Jeremiah 7:16-18 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee. Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
Christians are supposed to be a chaste virgin to Christ, one husband. That chaste virgin cannot be chaste nor a virgin if coupled with a harlot. The Lord becomes jealous for He is a Jealous God.
2 Corinthians 11:2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
A chaste virgin is pure, clean, and perfect. This is what Paul says to the saints at Corinth. The saints of God are to be pure, clean, and perfect to be married to Jesus Christ. A saint that has committed adultery by worshipping other gods has defiled herself and become impure, unclean, and is not perfect. God is jealous for that saint has been deceived to do these things.
Jesus speaks about ten virgins and what happens to them when some of them don’t have oil in their lamps. The Truth/oil has run out. They are told to go elsewhere to buy some oil. After they leave to try to find some, the chaste virgin goes into the marriage and is married to their espoused husband.
Matthew 25:10-12 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut. Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.
These five virgins are trying to get into the marriage, but the door is shut. They are not allowed in. The Lord answers them and says He doesn’t know them. Why doesn’t he know them?
They have defiled themselves by not having the Truth. They have defiled themselves by following after other gods. The Lord cannot know somebody that is not in the Truth and is following after other gods. In this next passage we can find why He is a Jealous God.
Exodus 34:12-17 Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee: But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves: For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God: Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice; And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods. Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
In this passage, the Lord gives a warning “Take heed to thyself” warning them to not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land. Following after other gods becomes a snare and a trap. When one follows other gods, they have broken that fellowship with God and the Lord cannot hear them through their sin as we find in the next verse.
John 9:31 Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.
The Lord hears those that worship God and do His will. Those that do not do His will do not worship God. When one worships other gods they become a sinner, they are no longer pure or clean. An unclean thing is following after other gods. Those that worship other gods touch the unclean thing. The Lord states to come out from among them and touch not the unclean thing in 2 Corinthians 6:17.
The Lord also warns in Exodus 34:12 to not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land. Today’s Christians have made a covenant with another party.
Isaiah 28:13-18 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem. Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste. Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place. And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
The covenant with Death and the agreement with Hell is the snare of lies and deception that has caused the sheep of the fold to become lost. Take note that the fourth horseman of the fourth seal in the book of Revelation is named Death and Hell follows with him. The overflowing scourge is referring to the Tribulation.
Revelation 6:7,8 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
The overflowing scourge is the Tribulation. The lies of refuge and the falsehoods where the lies are hidden is the deception and the poison that has been consumed. The lies preached by the pastors and preachers are the lies of Satan himself. Remember, Satan wants as many souls in hell as he can get. This battle is for your soul and where you spend eternity. The Tribulation that is here right now is the Lord’s judgment of the church.
1 Peter 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
The time is come for judgment. It begins with the house of God. This is where it starts. What is the house of God being judge for? For believing the lies told to them and being deceived by the deceivers. By not studying to show themselves approved. By not accepting the Truth for the Truth exposes the lies and they are not willing to part with those lies. Let’s go back to Amos chapter 8.
Amos 8:1,2 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit. And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.
The Lord is stating that the end is come upon my people of Israel and He will not again pass by them anymore. The end is speaking about the Tribulation. There is another passage that has the same exact wording with the Lord stating that He will not again pass by them anymore. It is located in a vision the Lord showed to Amos.
Amos 7:1-2 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings. And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
In this vision the Lord shows grasshoppers eating all of the grass of the land. Then Amos pleads with the Lord and says by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small. Amos is referring to the Remnant of Israel. Note that it is not all Israel but only a portion of Israel as stated in Romans 9:6 “For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:” “For he is so small” is referring to the Remnant.
The Lord is so disgusted by Israel abandoning the Truth and following after other gods that he destroys all of Israel in this vision that he shows Amos. When the Lord pleads for Jacob who is so small, that being the remnant, he is letting the Lord know that He had promised to always save a remnant. The Lord then repents of wanting to destroy all of Israel.
Amos 7:3-5 The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD. Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part. Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
The Lord shows Amos the next part of the vision. The Lord destroys the great deep by fire, again destroying all. Again, Amos pleads with the Lord reminding the Lord about His promise of saving a remnant. Again, the Lord repents of this.
Amos 7:6-8 The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD. Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand. And the LORD said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumbline. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more:
Finally, the Lord settles with a plumbline set in the midst of Israel. The plumbline represents a line in the sand so to speak.
On one side of the line is following the Lord Jesus Christ and loving the Lord with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, following the Lord in Truth, and eternal salvation.
On the other side of the line is being in lies and deception, not following Jesus, and ultimately eternal damnation.
Go back to what we looked at earlier; Christ on one side, Belial on the other. Members of Christ on one side, members of a harlot on the other. Drinking the cup of the Lord on one side, drinking the cup of devils on the other. Partakers of the Lord’s table on one side, partakers of the tables of devils on the other. Righteousness on one side, unrighteousness on the other. Light on one side, darkness on the other. Believer on one side, infidel on the other. Temple of God on one side, idols on the other. Good tree on one side, corrupt tree on the other. Good fruit on one side, evil fruit on the other.
Deuteronomy 30:19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
Add to that list; blessing on one side, death on the other and most importantly, life on one side, death on the other. The plumbline is the division line.
The plumbline that the Lord set in the midst of Israel divides the Godly from the ungodly. This plumbline set in the midst of Israel is set in the midst of the church for today’s Christian church is Israel. Israel is the house of God. The house of God is where judgment begins. Which side of that plumbline are you on?
The plumbline was also spoken about in Isaiah chapter 28 in the passage about the covenant with death and the agreement with hell, the covenant the Lord is going to disannul. The Lord is in the process right now to disannul that covenant with death.
Isaiah 28:16, 17 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste. Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
The line and plummet spoken about is the plumbline the Lord sets in the midst of Israel. The plumbline is two parts. A line, and a plumb bob or plummet. This plumbline is judgement and righteousness. All of the previous examples that we just looked at are the opposites of each other. Both sides of the plumbline are compared using judgment and righteousness. You want to be on the proper side of that plumbline.
The hail that sweeps away the refuge of lies is the first trumpet. The waters overflowing the hiding place are the falsehoods or fables that one hides under. The waters overflowing is a destroying storm. Both of these terns are found in the following verse.
Isaiah 28:2 Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.
The Tribulation and the parts therein are the judgment of God. He judges the house of God, the church with a tempest of hail, a destroying storm, a flood of mighty waters overflowing, and an overflowing scourge.
Why does He do this? Because Christians have been fed the poison of lies and believed in fables. They have one foot on one side of that plumbline thinking they are following God partaking of the Lord’s table.
While at the same time they have their other foot in the lies and deception believing they are on the blessing side of the plumbline. Their foot is actually on the opposite side of that plumbline partaking of tables of devils bringing upon them the cursing.
You can’t have a foot on each side of that plumbline. You are either on one side of that plumbline that the Lord has placed in the midst of the house of Israel, or it is on the other side. This next verse puts that into perspective.
Revelation 3:16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
When a person has their foot on one side of that plumbline and the other foot on the other side of that plumbline, that person is lukewarm. Not hot, nor cold, but a mix of the two, lukewarm. The Lord spews that person out of his mouth into the Tribulation.
Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
The Christians are destroyed for lack of knowledge because they rejected knowledge. They have rejected the Truth for the Truth is knowledge.
2 Timothy 4:3, 4 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
A fable is defined as a tale, fiction, or a myth. If you are not believing the Truth, you are believing fables. That is the false god’s that are followed. Those are the lies. That is the poison.
Matthew 7:15-23 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. 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. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Luke 13:25-28 When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are: Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets. But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.
Many Christians doing the work of the Lord and believing they are in the will of the Lord are not going to make it to heaven. Why are they not going to make it?
They are not going to heaven because they are lukewarm. They have one foot on each side of that plumbline. They are also the ones that never come to the Truth or accepted the Truth when told to them and never repented of their works.
Revelation 9:20, 21 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
These people in this passage do not repent. Notice that idol worship is equated to devil worship that they didn’t repent of with other sins added. Also notice the timing of when this is stated in Revelation. This is stated at the sixth trumpet.
The sixth trumpet is well into the Tribulation. They did not repent of their worship of idols among other things. The Lord also equates idol worship as an abomination.
Deuteronomy 27:15 Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.
The Tribulation is referred to many times as an evil, an only evil, and evil day and the end. The evil comes upon the people, also the end comes, the believers in Jesus Christ, the Christians due to the idol worship, their abominations.
Ezekiel 7:2-6 Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD unto the land of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land. Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense upon thee all thine abominations. And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and ye shall know that I am the LORD. Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come. An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come.
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.
Amos 3:6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?
Jeremiah 16:10 And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?
What are those lies that they are not willing to part with? Those lies are the following of other gods and believing fables. They are the four transgressions that the Lord has against today’s house of God, today’s church, today’s Christians.
The punishment for the four transgressions is outlined in Amos chapters one and two. It continues throughout the entire book of Amos.
Amos 3:1,2 Hear this word that the LORD hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying, You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
The children of Israel are today’s church, the Christians. The iniquities are the lies and deceptions that you have believed which is the worshipping of idols and false gods. The Lord has no choice but to punish His children for disobedience. He chastises those He loves. Let’s look at the Old Testament of how the Lord chastises His people before Jesus Christ and the New Covenant.
Leviticus 26:27-33 And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me; Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins. And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat. And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you. And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours. And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it. And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
That is harsh. These are the laws that the Old Testament house of Israel had to abide by. Thankfully, Jesus Christ brought us a New Covenant however, the sin that the old house of Israel committed is still deemed by the Lord and transgression of His Law and statutes. There is forgiveness after repentance but with forgiveness comes chastisement.
Hebrews 12:11-13 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees; And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
Hebrews 12:18-26 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more: (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart: And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:) But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel. See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven: Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
The Lord knows that all of you truly love Him. He also knows that you have been deceived. He also loves you but cannot accept you through the sin of idols. He will forgive you but with that forgiveness comes chastisement.
Hebrews 12:5-8 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
The Lord chastises you because He loves you. Accept His chastisement for you are his sons and daughters. Those He doesn’t chastise are not the children of God but the children of the wicked one.
What is the Lord going to be chastising you for? The worship of other gods and the believing of fables which are idols in your hearts. Let’s look at those now.
There are four transgressions that the Christians are guilty of. You may have believed or practiced all of them or maybe only some of them. You may have believed or practiced them to only some degree or you may not have really believed in them but practiced them anyway. In any of those cases, you are on the wrong side of that plumbline. God has no choice but to chastise you even if you believe and only practice one.
Remember, I also once believed all of these lies. The Lord graciously pulled me out of them one by one. Just as he wants to pull you out of those lies. In His gracious mercy He will pull you out and bring you into the Truth where there is everlasting life.
The punishment for the four transgressions is found in Amos chapter one and two as stated earlier. The transgressions themselves are outlined in Ezekiel chapter eight.
Ezekiel 8:3-5 And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy. And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain. Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.
There is an image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy seated in the entry of the inner gate to Jerusalem. Jerusalem is the company of believers, the church, the Christians. The inner gate leads to the temple.
What is the image of jealousy? It would be an idol of some type. It provokes the Lord to jealousy for He is a jealous God.
Ezekiel is told to then look towards the north. At the gate of the altar there is another image of jealousy in the entry. The gate leads to the court which is where the temple is located. You have to pass through the entry to get to the temple.
Ezekiel 8:6 He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations.
The Lord is now asking Ezekiel what they are doing. They are committing abominations here. ‘Here’ is the Christian church. Then the Lord asks Ezekiel “that I should go far off from my sanctuary?”
The Lord cannot abide with sin present. The Lord cannot be in the same place where idols are worshipped. The Lord cannot be where abominations are present where the people are committing sins. The Lord cannot be in today’s churches for those abominations of idols are within the Christian church. The Lord has left the Christian church long ago.
He then tells Ezekiel to turn again to see greater abominations.
Ezekiel 8:7, 8 And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall. Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door.
The Lord then brings Ezekiel to the door of the court and Ezekiel sees a hole in the wall. The Lord then tells Ezekiel to dig through the wall and he finds a door. Notice the Lord does not want him to go through the normal door of the temple. Why? Ezekiel would have to go through the image of jealousy to enter the temple. He would become unclean and defiled.
Ezekiel 8:9, 10 And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here. So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about.
The Lord tells Ezekiel to go in through that door and see all of the wicked abominations and idols that the house of Israel does.
Ezekiel 8:11,12 And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up. Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth.
This passage is a bit cryptic but coincides with passages in Numbers 11 where 70 elders were selected by Moses to represent the Lord. These seventy men of the ancients are the opposite of the original seventy men. These seventy men are facing idols and abominations and worshipping them as evidenced by the censers in their hands.
These seventy men of the ancients of Israel are making things up in their minds in their imagery thinking that the Lord does not see them and the Lord has abandoned them. If they are facing the wall, their backs are to the altar of the Lord. They have turned to idols and abominations.
But because they are all the ancients of Israel, what is being conveyed here is that they believe they can do what they want because they will not lose their place with God. They are the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. They are the chosen people.
Transgression one is the belief that the physical Jews are the chosen people, and the State of Israel is the chosen nation. You must bless the physical Jews and the State of Israel so you can be blessed. This is your duty to God to do this. The deceived Christians hold up the Jews and the State of Israel in a level of preeminence. The physical Jews also believe this.
This is a false belief. The physical Jews are not the chosen people. The State of Israel is not the chosen nation. It is the Spiritual Jews that are the chosen people. It is the Spiritual Israel that is the chosen nation. Here is what the Word of God says.
Romans 9:6-8 Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
Paul says all Israel is not Israel. Just because they are of the seed of Abraham does not mean they are the children of God. The children of the flesh, those that are born physical Jews by blood are not the children of God. The children of the promise are counted for the seed. The children of the New Covenant are the children of the promise.
John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Jesus states that the only way to get to the Father is through Him. Jesus represents the New Covenant. The physical Jew and the Christian church seem to forget or more likely ignore that God gave the physical Israel and the physical Jews a bill of divorcement. God divorced physical Israel.
Acts 3:13-15 The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go. But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you; And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.
The physical Jews delivered up Jesus to be killed. The physical Jews denied Jesus before Pilate when Pilate wanted to let him go. The physical Jews denied Jesus, the Holy One and the Just, desiring instead a murderer. The physical Jews killed Jesus, the Prince of life. The physical Jews murdered the Son of God whom the Father sent to take away the sins of the world. The physical Jews were seeking to prevent the New Covenant from coming to Life because they wanted to keep for themselves that physical lineage to stay as the chosen people. The physical Jews were unsuccessful.
Romans 2:28-29 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
Paul tells us that one is not a Jew which is one outwardly in the flesh nor with physical circumcision. Paul is stating that a physical Jew is not a Jew. He then goes on to state that a Jew is a Jew inwardly with circumcision of the heart in the spirit. This is a spiritual Jew with the circumcision of the heart.
Jesus Christ was a physical descendant of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob fulfilling the law. Jesus brought in the new covenant not doing away with the law and the prophets but fulfilling the law and the prophets.
Jesus Christ brought in the New Covenant doing away with the physical lineage of the Jewish line and opening it up to all to come and be saved through circumcision of the heart. To this day, the physical Jews deny Jesus Christ. If you have to go through Jesus Christ to come to the Father, then how can a physical Jew be saved? They can’t until they accept Jesus Christ as their savior.
The story in the Old Testament of Jacob and Esau needs to be mentioned. Esau sold his birthright to Jacob for a bowl of pottage.
Genesis 25:29-34 And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint: And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom. And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright. And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me? And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob. Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.
Esau was the firstborn to Jacob. Esau held the birthright as the first born son. Esau sold his birthright to Jacob for a bowl of soup. Jacob then claimed the birthright. Esau despised his birthright.
Hebrews 12:16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
Esau sold his birthright to Jacob. A fornicator as we found out earlier commits adultery by following other idols and other gods. A person that follows other gods gives away their birthright.
The Lord loved Jacob because he did what he had to do to take the birthright. He thought it to be a great gift.
Malachi 1:2 I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,
Because Jacob cherished the birthright and Esau despised the birthright, the Lord hated Esau.
Malachi 1:3 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
The Lord hated Esau. Why did the Lord hate Esau? The Lord hated Esau because Esau sold and gave away his birthright.
When you originally repented for your sins, asked forgiveness, and accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, you became an heir as a child of God. You were given the birthright as children of the Promise counted for the seed with the circumcision of the heart. You were pure in the eyes of the Lord in His perfect will. Jesus Christ became your first love.
Then the lie of Satan crept in. You were taught that the physical Jews were the chosen people. You were taught that the State of Israel was the chosen nation by the pastors and the preachers of your churches.
You were told that you need to bless the Jews and Israel. You were told that if you did this, you would be blessed. You were told that if you didn’t bless the Jews and Israel you would be cursed. This was the poison that was given to you. This was the poison soup that you ate.
When you ate this poisoned soup, you gave your birthright away to another. You gave away your inheritance and were no longer an heir according to the promise. You also raised the physical Jews and the physical State of Israel into a level of preeminence. This became an idol that you revered. This became a god. You then became one of the lost sheep that the Lord wants to bring back into the fold.
This is the first transgression that the Lord has against you. But the Lord is a merciful God, He is a loving God, He is a just God. You need to repent of this lie of the devil and reclaim your rightful heritage. You can reclaim your inheritance and become an heir to the Promise as a spiritual Jew and spiritual Israel. That promise brings you back into the Kingdom of Heaven and Eternal Salvation. He will hear you. Come back to your first love.
There are three more transgressions we need to go through. Back to Ezekiel, chapter eight.
Ezekiel 8:13, 14 He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do. Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD'S house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.
The Lord tells Ezekiel that there are greater abominations that the house of Israel does. The Lord brings Ezekiel to the door of the gate of the Lord’s house, the temple again towards the north. Ezekiel sees women sitting there weeping for Tammuz.
Who is Tammuz and why are they weeping?
Tammuz is defined as ‘a Phoenician deity’ in the Strong’s Concordance. The women weeping are weeping for his premature death. Around the winter solstice a tree is cut down signifying his premature death. There is scripture about cutting down a tree.
Jeremiah 10:1-5 Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
What does that description sound like? A Christmas tree.
Jeremiah tells us to NOT learn the way of the heathen. The heathen worship other gods. A tree is cut out of the forest with an axe. It is borne or carried out of the forest. It is fastened with nail and hammers putting a tree stand on it, so it won’t fall over, so it stands upright like a palm tree.
They deck it with silver and gold. The tinsel that one puts on a Christmas tree is silver. The gold would be the gold bulbs that are placed on the tree. Jeremiah continues.
Jeremiah 10:8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
Jeremiah is referring to the heathen as being brutish and foolish. He then continues as he states that the stock which is referring to the Christmas tree; is a doctrine of vanities. Jeremiah continues.
Jeremiah 10:11 Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.
Jeremiah states that the Christmas tree is a god, little g. Jeremiah continues.
Jeremiah 10:14, 15 Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Jeremiah states that the Christmas tree is a graven image. A molten image is falsehood which is a lie. They are vanity reiterating the stock, Christmas tree, is a doctrine of vanities. It is a work of error. In the time of their visitation, which would be the Tribulation, they will perish.
It is the gods that have been worshipped that will perish. When the Christian discover the true nature of the errors they have been in, they will throw away their pagan idols and gods that they have followed.
Isaiah 2:20 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
Isaiah 30:22 Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.
Jeremiah wrote this about 650 years before Jesus Christ was born. ‘Christmas’ was being celebrated way before Jesus Christ. The is another passage in Isaiah we need to look at.
Isaiah 40:20 He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.
Isaiah states that a person that doesn’t have a lot of money will choose a tree that doesn’t rot. That tree that doesn’t rot is a graven image. What is a tree that doesn’t rot? This verse is describing an artificial Christmas tree. This verse was written about 800 years before Jesus was born. So Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Christ. NOT SO. It is the worshipping of a pagan diety, a graven image, another god. There is more.
Isaiah 44:19 And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?
When you have a Christmas tree in your house and you wrap all of the gifts, you walk to the tree and bow down to place the presents at the base of the tree. When it is time to open the presents, you again approach the tree and bow down to retrieve those presents. You may even sit down in front of that tree to pass out the gifts. When a person does that, you are bowing to a deity, a graven image.
This graven image of a Christmas tree is directly connected to those women weeping for Tammuz. The Lord calls this an abomination.
As a side note, the physical Jews and physical Israel have as the fourth month on their calendar, the month of Tammuz; the name of a Phoenician deity as one of their months. Even though the physical Jews don’t celebrate Christmas, they are still connected to Tammuz.
There is more. An ancient pagan ritual included a giant stone statue dedicated to god called Molech. This stone statue of Molech was in a sitting position. In the winter before the new year. The ritual included building a fire in the lap of this statue until the stone lap was red hot.
The sacrifice of a child, a baby, was tossed into the lap of this pagan deity. The people would also make a list of their wishes for things they desired for the new year hoping their wishes would be fulfilled. This pagan deity was also adorned with a Phrygian cap.
Let’s look at the similarities. Santa Claus wears a Phrygian cap. Santa Claus wear a red suit that is a bright red. Santa Claus takes wishes of what children are wanting as presents. Parents bring their children to see Santa Claus and place their children on his lap and hope it will bring them their wishes.
There are verses that are directly linked to children sitting on the lap of Santa Clause, or more appropriately Molech.
Jeremiah 32:35 And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
Jeremiah states that they built high places of Baal. Baal worship is Satan worship. They worshipped to Satan by causing their sons and daughter to pass through the fire to Molech. Jeremiah then states that this is an abomination and causes Judah to sin. Who is Judah? That would be the house of Judah, the church, the Christians.
To tie all of this together we go to another verse located in Jeremiah, chapter 50. Jeremiah chapters 50 and 51 are all about Babylon. For our day it is still all about Babylon, the spiritual Babylon. Spiritual Babylon is today’s church, the Christians.
Jeremiah 50:38 A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.
The drought that is upon the waters is referring to the Truth that is non-existent in the church. Jesus is the water of life.
Revelation 21:6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
In spiritual Babylon there is a drought for the hearing of the word of the Lord. Why? Because it is the land of graven images, idols, and abominations. They are also mad upon their idols.
The word ‘mad’ of ‘mad upon their idols’ is the Hebrew word 01984 in the Strong’s Concordance. This word has within its definition the word ‘celebrate’.
The word ‘idols’ of ‘mad upon their idols’ is the Hebrew word 0367 in the Strong’s Concordance. This word has within its definition the word ‘an idol (as a bugbear)’.
What the heck is a bugbear? The definition of bugbear in the Webster’s New World Dictionary is “An imaginary hobgoblin or terror used to frighten children into good conduct.”
That is a description of Santa Claus. Santa Claus is a fictitious character used to frighten children into good behavior. Let’s look at some of the lyrics from the song ‘Santa Claus is Coming to Town’ that is sung at Christmas time.
“You better watch out, you better not cry
You better not pout, I'm telling you why, 'cause
(Santa Claus is coming, is coming to town)
He's making a list and checking it twice
He's gonna find out who's naughty or nice, 'cause
(Santa Claus is coming, is coming to town)”
Mad upon their idols is the celebration of Santa Claus. It is Christmas and is a celebration of pagan idols. Santa Clause wearing the Phrygian is used to frighten children into being good. If they’re bad Santa Claus won’t bring them a present, he will leave a lump of coal in their stocking.
You have been told and believe that Christmas is the celebration of Jesus’ birth. What? NO. Jesus was born sometime probably in September based upon the story of the three wise men. There were sheep in the field grazing. The shepherds of sheep were invited into the fields after the fall harvest to eat the straw left behind.
However, the early church and the apostate leaders of the apostate church covertly switched the sun worship day of Rah and the death of Tammuz into the birthday of Jesus Christ which just happened to be December 25th.
Nowhere in scripture is there any hint that we are to worship the date of Jesus’ birth.
You have been told and believe that Christmas is for the children. What? NO. There is a very unsettling fact that the Bible tells us about the children at Christmas time. A parent will bring their child to see Santa Claus to give them their wish list. They sit on Santa’s lap. Santa is today’s rendition of Molech.
When a child is placed on the lap of Santa, the parent is spiritually passing their child through the fire.
This is another lie that Satan has convinced the church, the Christians, to partake in. The churches bring the pagan idol of the “Christmas” tree (Tammuz tree) into the sanctuary. They have gift exchanges in the church. They bring Santa Claus (Moloch) into the church. They have caused their children to be brought through the fire continuing the pagan practices and corrupting the church. They are following and worshipping other gods.
Ezekiel 23:37 That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them.
Jesus has left the church for what communion does the light of Jesus Christ have to do with the darkness of Satan.
Deuteronomy 27:15 Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.
The Lord says that any man that makes a graven image which is an abomination is cursed. This is where the Christians and church is this day.
Again, the lies of Satan crept in. You were taught that the Christmas was the celebration of Jesus’ birth. You were taught that Christmas is a Christian Holiday.
You were told that you need to partake, or you were a grinch. You were told that if you did this, you would be blessed. This was the poison that was given to you. This was the poison soup that you ate.
When you ate this poisoned soup, you were worshipping a graven image, a god. Your Christmas became an idol that you revered. Christmas became a god. You again became one of the lost sheep that the Lord wants to bring back into the fold.
This is the second transgression that the Lord has against you. But the Lord is a merciful God, He is a loving God, He is a just God. You need to repent of this lie of the devil and come back to the fold. You can become one of the lost sheep that is found. Renouncing what you have participated in brings you back into the Kingdom of Heaven and Eternal Salvation. He will hear you. Come back to your first love.
There are two more transgressions we need to go through. Back to Ezekiel, chapter eight.
Ezekiel 8:15 Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than these.
The Lord tells Ezekiel to turn again to see greater abominations the house of Israel does. That the Christians do.
Ezekeil 8:16 And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD'S house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.
The Lord now brings Ezekiel to the inner court to the door of the temple. Between the porch of the temple and the altar there was about twenty-five men with their backs to the altar. They were not facing the altar, facing the Lord, they have their backs to the altar, their backs to the Lord.
They are all facing the east and worshipping the sun towards the east. What does that sound like? This is Sunrise service on Easter morning. The Lord calls this an abomination also.
Easter is not a Christian holiday. It is a pagan holiday. It is a day that is celebrated by Christians that the Lord abhors, another Christian holiday that you have been taught that you are to celebrate and revere.
Easter is mentioned only one time in the Bible. It is also capitalized showing that Easter is a proper name. It is a proper name of an ancient pagan holiday that Satan has convinced believers that they are worshipping Jesus when in fact they are worshipping another god, not the God of Glory.
Acts 12:4 And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.
This verse in Acts is speaking about when Herod had arrested Peter and put him in prison. Herod wanted to bring Peter before the people after Easter. Herod had just had James, the brother of John killed and saw that the Jews liked what he had done. After Easter, Herod was likely planning the same fate for Peter.
In this verse one might say, Easter is in the Bible, it must be okay. After all, it was being practiced back then. But who was practicing it? It was Herod as he wanted to wait until after Easter to bring out Peter before the people. It might cause an uprising if Herod killed Peter before this sacred pagan holiday.
Christian from way back then until now equate that Easter is the Passover. It even says it in the definition of the word Easter, that it is also Passover, or could also be the Passover.
But if you dig a little deeper, you will find within the Bible, a proof that Easter is not the Passover, but is an entirely different holiday. One only has to back up only one verse for that answer to reveal itself. We'll back up three verses to give the entire context.
Acts 12:1-3 Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church. And he killed James the brother of John with the sword. And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.)
This passage tells us that king Herod was not a good guy. King Herod proceeded to kill the true Christians. When Herod arrested Peter, he arrested him in the “Days of the Unleavened Bread). What is the ‘Days of Unleavened Bread?
Before we determined when the ‘Days of the Unleavened Bread’ are, a short lesson about calendars. You will never have heard this taught in the churches by your pastors or preachers.
There are two calendars that have been established that the Judeo - Christians and the world follows: the Gregorian calendar and the Jewish calendar.
The Gregorian calendar was established by Pope Gregory XIII of the Catholic papacy in 1582 as a reform of the Julian calendar established by the Romans. The roots of this calendar may actually date back to the Babylonian empire, or at least a form of it.
The Gregorian calendar is based upon the cycles of the seasons based upon the sun. There are 365 and ¼ days in that cycle. There are twelve months. Every 4 years there is a leap day to correct this calendar to keep it in sync.
The Gregorian calendar’s days and months are named after pagan gods. From Monday to Sunday and from January to December all have their roots in Roman or other pagan gods.
The other calendar is the Jewish calendar that the Jews and the state of Israel follow. It is based on the cycle of the moon. This calendar also has twelve months. The Jewish calendar is based upon the moon or the lunar cycle.
Every few years they add an additional month to correct their calendar to keep it in sync, for the lunar year is shorter than the solar year. The Jewish calendar begins each month on the appearance of the sliver of the moon. That is their first day of each month.
There is a third calendar that none of the world follows. It is the Lord’s calendar. It is also based upon the lunar cycle. The Lord appointed the moon for seasons.
Psalm 104:19 He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.
The first day of each month begins with a new moon. The new moon is the complete dark of the moon. No part of the moon is visible.
Isaiah 66:23 And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.
The definition for new moon ‘is to be new, to repair, to rebuild. It begins with the dark of the moon and then begins to wax towards a full moon exactly two weeks later.
A day in the Bible is different than what we are accustomed to with each new day beginning at midnight. The Lord’s calendar established at the creation of the world starts with the evening which begins the next day.
Genesis 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
These are the rules the Lord has established in His Calendar. His calendar was forgotten long ago. The world has forgotten even the calendar that He established. The Jewish calendar starts their new month on the sliver of the moon. The Lord has established the new moon, the complete dark of the moon is the start or the first day of the next month.
The Word of God establishes that the Jewish calendar is off by one day dating all the way back to the time of the crucifixion of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Jesus and the disciples observed the Passover meal. The Passover is observed in the first month. It was at this meal that Judas left and betrayed Jesus to the ruling Jews of that day. After the Passover meal, Jesus and the disciples went to the Garden of Gethsemane where Jesus prayed to the Father.
It was at that time that the Roman soldiers led by Judas Iscariot came and arrested Jesus. Jesus was tried and convicted that night in the dark of the early morning hours. Jesus was hanging on the cross by 9 AM that next morning.
As the day drew on and it came close to evening, the ruling Jews needed Jesus to be taken down off the cross for they did not want to be unclean for the observance of the Passover. Read the story in all the gospels. It is there.
The Jews of that day observed the Passover the night after the Passover that Jesus and the disciples observed. Do you not think that Jesus Christ knew when the Passover was? Jesus and the disciples observed Passover on the correct day.
The Jews of that day were observing the Passover based upon them beginning the first day of that month on the sliver of the moon. Today’s Jews still observe the sliver of the moon as their first day of the month. Both the Gregorian calendar and the Jewish calendar are wrong.
The Passover is observed in the first month of the Lord’s calendar. It is observed on the evening of the fourteenth day of the month. The evening of the fourteenth day of the month is the beginning of the fifteenth day of the month. The fifteenth day of the month begins the Feast of Unleavened Bread. The Feast of Unleavened Bread is seven days.
The days of the Feast of Unleavened Bread are referred to as the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the second day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread all of the way to the seventh day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. These seven days of the Feast of Unleavened Bread is what is being referred to in Acts 12:3. “(Then were the days of unleavened bread.)
Exodus 12:15 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
The Feast of Unleavened Bread begins with the Passover. In the days of unleavened bread the Passover has already occurred. King Herod who just arrested Peter wanted to hold Peter in prison until after Easter.
This passage clearly is speaking about Easter that King Herod observed. King Herod was an evil man. King Herod was a king over the Jews of that day. King Herod observed Easter. The disciples observed Passover and the Days of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. This passage clearly separates Easter from Passover. Easter is not the Passover.
In our day, Easter is observed on a Sunday after the first full moon of the spring equinox. It can be any day between March 22 and April 25th. The Jewish Passover is observed a day later than it should be according to the Jew’s calendar. The Jewish calendar is a false calendar. The Jewish calendar has a month in the calendar named Tammuz, a pagan deity. Neither calendar is correct nor is the Truth.
The Christians center Easter around whatever day it comes up on the Gregorian calendar based upon the sun that is appointed for the seasons, the spring equinox. The Easter observance begins with Ash Wednesday around forty-three days before Easter.
The Christian church then observes Palm Sunday, the Sunday before Easter Sunday. Good Friday is the Friday before Easter Sunday, the day Christ died on the cross. Easter is the day the Christians observe the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Jesus then rose three days later on Easter Sunday, the third day.
Easter that is observed as the third day after Good Friday is not the third day the Lord established in the Bible. Jesus was taken right after the Passover meal when in the Garden of Gethsemane. The date on the Lord’s calendar was the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month.
The evening of the fourteenth day is also the beginning of the fifteenth day. The fifteenth day is also the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread and begins with the Passover. Jesus was crucified and died on the cross that day. He was placed in the grave before nightfall.
The evening, he was placed in the grave was the beginning of the sixteenth day of the first month which was also the second day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Jesus was in the grave that day and that night. The next morning was when Mary and Martha came to His grave and Jesus was not there.
That evening before the morning when Mary and Martha arrived at His grave was the seventeenth day of the first month which was also the third day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Jesus Christ rose the third day just as scripture had said.
Luke 24:7 Saying, The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.
Jesus Christ rose the Third Day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread just as He said He would. The Jews of that day didn’t see it as they were a day off. Their third day was not until the next day.
In 313 A.D. Constantine of the Roman Empire put forth a decree legalizing Christianity. From the martyrdom of Stephan to that present time, Christianity was a constant thorn in the side to the Jewish ruling class and the Romans.
When Christianity was legalized, most Christians of that day had been imprisoned, persecuted, and killed. Legalizing Christianity was welcomed. This was the advent that combined the pagan worship with the worship of God. By combining the two, there could be peace. And so the whore was born.
If we just look at scripture, it will confirm the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
Revelation 5:12 Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.
Jesus Christ was our Passover Lamb with our names written in heaven from the foundation of the world. The Death Angel passes over us.
Jesus Christ rose the Third Day, the Third Day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
Easter is always on a Sunday. The Third Day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread is always two days after a full moon of the first month on the Lord’s calendar. It will fall on any day of the week each year. It will never be on the same day every single year.
The Feast of Unleavened Bread was and is in observance of the children of God escaping out of Egypt. They were to take no leaven with them no eat any leaven that entire seven days. Jesus warned us about leaven.
1 Corinthians 5:7,8 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
If unleavened bread is sincerity and truth, then leaven is falsehoods and lies, the opposite of sincerity and truth.
Galatians 5:9 A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
Just a little bit of falsehoods and lies makes the whole body full of falsehoods and lies. What communion does light have with darkness?
Jesus said in Mark 8:15 And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.
The Pharisees and Herod had leaven making their entire being leavened. The Pharisees murdered Jesus. Herod mocked Jesus. Herod also observed Easter.
Easter is leaven, just as giving one’s rightful heritage to another, just as celebrating Christmas is leaven. Easter just as Christmas is the worship of other gods. The lies that have been brought through the ages to add leaven to all of the Christian church believers. The traditions of men, the ways of the heathen, Satan has done it again with today’s believers.
Easter is the worshipping of other gods, an abomination to the Lord. The goddess that represents Easter stretches from the earliest days of the Old Testament in the book of Genesis all the way to the last book of the New Testament, the book of Revelation.
In the book of Acts, chapter 19 there is an encounter that takes place between the disciples and goddess worshippers in the town of Ephesus.
Acts 19:35 And when the townclerk had appeased the people, he said, Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?
This great goddess Diana was worshipped throughout Asia and the world.
Acts 19:27 So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.
The definition for Diana in the Strong’s is ‘Artemis’. Artemis came from the Greeks. Acts 19:35 states that an image fell down from Jupiter; Jupiter, a god of Rome was Zeus of the Greeks.
Any of these gods or goddesses date back to Baal worship and the prophets of the groves in the Old Testament.
1Kings 18:19 Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's table.
The definition of Baal is a Phoenician deity. The definition of groves is a Phoenician deity named Astoreth.
1 Kings 11:33 Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in mine eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father.
Ashtoreth is the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh is the god of the Moabites, Milcom is the god of the Ammonites. The definition of Milcom is Molech. The pagan god directly associated with Christmas and the passing of their children through the fire.
Ashtoreth is the goddess of love and increase. Ashtaroth is also the same goddess, a Phoenician deity. Ashtaroth is where king Og lives. King Og is a remnant of the giants. The giants date back to Genesis.
Joshua 12:4 And the coast of Og king of Bashan, which was of the remnant of the giants, that dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,
The giants date back to Genesis.
Genesis 6:4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
King Og was king of Bashan that dwelt at Ashtaroth. He was a part of what was left of the giants of those days. Looking into the definition of king Og gives us a direct link to the gods of the Zidonians, Ashtaroth and a direct link to the celebration of the pagan holiday, Easter.
Og is defined in the Strong’s as “round”. Drilling down the next definition is “to bake round cakes on a hearth”. Drilling down to the next definition is “an ash-cake (as round)".
What does round ash cakes have to do with Easter? Ash Wednesday. All of the Christians out there who place ash upon their forehead is associating themselves with the ancient pagan deity Ashtoreth. The first three letters of the goddess's name should be a huge clue, “Ash”.
These cakes made of ash are a direct link to Easter. There are other verses in the Bible that refer to cakes.
Jeremiah 7:18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
These people that Jeremiah is describing are making cakes to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to other gods provoking the Lord to anger.
Strong’s definition for the word cakes is “something prepared, i.e. a sacrificial wafer:--cake.”
Ash cakes, cakes, sacrificial wafers and drink offerings offered unto other gods are an abomination to the Lord. Jeremiah continues.
Jeremiah 44:26, 27 Therefore hear ye the word of the LORD, all Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith the LORD, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, The Lord GOD liveth. Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them.
All Judah that dwell in Egypt are all of the Christians, Judah, that worship other gods, dwell in Eqypt. The Christians that worship other gods shall be consumed by the sword and the famine until there is an end to them.
How do we know that the gods that were worshipped in the Old Testament are the gods that are worshipped in the New Testament?
1Kings 18:19 Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's table.
The prophets of Baal and the prophets of the groves eat at Jezebel’s table.
1Corinthians 10:21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.
Jezebel’s table is the table of devils. We find Jezebel mentioned in the book of Revelation in one of the letters to the churches.
Revelation 2:20 Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
Jezebel was the wife of Ahab. She did not come to a good end. In this letter the Christians have permitted the gods that Jezebel followed to permeate into the church.
The Strong’s definition of Jezebel is a false teacher. Jezebel who was married to Ahab was the daughter of the Zidonian king. The Zidonians followed Ashtoreth.
In another letter to a different church in Revelation is practically the same wording.
Revelation 2:14 But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.
Balaam in the Strong’s is again defined as a false teacher, the same as Jezebel. The two common denominators with both of these verses is committing fornication and eating food sacrificed to idols.
As we learned earlier, committing fornication is the worshipping of other gods. There is a word in the Old Testament that is very close to the word Balaam. It is the word Baalim.
1 Samuel 12:10 And they cried unto the LORD, and said, We have sinned, because we have forsaken the LORD, and have served Baalim and Ashtaroth: but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve thee.
Baalim is a god or goddess just as Ashtaroth is. The definition of Baalim in the Strong’s is the same as Baal. Leading this back to the prophets of Baal. Jezebel calls herself a prophetess. She is, a false prophetess.
There is another goddess of ancient times. Her name is Eostre. She is what is referred to as the ‘goddess of eggs’ or the ‘egg goddess’.
This is quoted from History Cooperative “Eostre: The Mystery Goddess Who Gave Easter Its ”. “ is generally associated with themes of fertility, renewal, and the changing of the seasons, as her name is etymologically linked to words related to dawn and the east, where the sun rises. She is often depicted with symbols of spring, such as eggs and hares, which have become integral elements of the modern Easter celebration.”
Remember in Ezekiel 8:16 the twenty-five men facing the east worshipping the sun in the east? Eostre is depicted with eggs and hares. Today’s rendition of this ancient goddess is colored Easter eggs and Easter bunnies.
Eostre sounds very close to Easter. But whether the goddess or goddesses are named Eostre, Astarte, Ashteroth, Ashtaroth, Ishtar, Isis, Diana, queen of heaven, Milcom, Chemosh, Molech, etc.; they are all pagan gods that permeated not only the Christian Church but all of society. No matter what name they called them or what name they call them today, they are all false gods.
These gods that were worshipped date back all of the way to the land of the giants in Genesis. The Lord wiped out mankind save Noah and those in the ark because of the evil wickedness of man. Hence the flood of Noah, but those gods and goddesses reemerged and are with us today being worshipped in the churches that have Jesus on their entrances. What does light have to do with darkness?
Children participating in an Easter egg hunt at their local church, is the equivalent of passing their children through the fire. Eating Easter eggs and chocolate bunnies is eating food sacrificed unto idols. Eating candy canes or sipping eggnog is eating food sacrificed unto idols. The modern Christian holidays of Easter and Christmas and linked together in the Bible again in Ezekiel chapter 8.
In Ezekiel 8:16 the twenty-five men facing the east worshipping the sun is the goddess worship of Easter. The next verse links the pagan holiday of Easter to pagan holiday of Christmas.
Ezekiel 8:17 Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.
The Lord is asking Ezekiel if this is a light thing or not so bad by them committing these abomination filling the land with violence and provoking the Lord to anger for, He is a Jealous God.
The Lord then states that they, the men celebrating Easter put the branch to their nose. What does that phrase mean, putting the branch to their nose?
The Lord is referring to the branch of a Christmas tree. Ah, the fragrance of freshly cut fir, pine or cedar. Have you ever smelled the fragrance of a Christmas tree? Why is Easter and Christmas linked in this verse?
Worshipping gods is an abomination to the Lord. He abhors it. He destroyed the earth with a flood in the days of Noah and He is going to do it again. This is the final time. Remember the Plumbline?
The Lord sets a plumbline in the midst of Israel and says that He will not pass by them anymore.
The Lord is done. This cycle of worshipping other gods, then punishing them, then their repenting, then them coming back to Him, and then going back to worshipping other gods is over. This is the last time. This is the end of the age, the end of the world, the end.
Ezekiel chapter 8 ends with this verse.
Ezekiel 8:18 Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.
The Lords says that the time of the end will be like the days of Noah. In the time of Noah, there were giants in the land. The giants and the people of that day were wicked and followed other gods. The wickedness is the following of other gods.
After the flood of Noah, the Lord placed a bow in the air which signified His promise that He would never flood the earth again. This bow is the rainbow. There is significance with this symbol. The rainbow (referred to as bow in the Old Testament) is found in the New Testament two times.
The first time is in Revelation 4:3 referencing a rainbow about the throne that looks like an emerald.
The second time a rainbow is mentioned is in Revelation chapter 10.
Revelation 10:1-3 And 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: 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, And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.
In Revelations 10:1-3 there are two messages that we need to focus on, but first there is another message in Revelation 10:7 we need to look at.
Revelation 10:7 But 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.
The mystery of God should be finished is speaking about the end. This is it. This message is that the Lord will not pass by Israel anymore. The Lord has set the Plumbline in the midst of Israel. Which side of the Plumbline are you on?
The fist message given in Revelation 10:3 is about the little book in the angel’s hand. This little book is the Book of Life.
Revelation 21:27 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.
The Lamb’s book of life is a little book for there are few names written in it.
Matthew 7:14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Those few have to walk in the Truth, those few cannot be worshipping other gods, those few cannot be committing fornication with other gods, those few must be in the Truth. If they are not, their names could be removed or blotted out of the book of life.
Revelation 3:5 He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
So much for once saved, always saved.
The second message is the rainbow upon the angels head. In the Old Testament, the Lord referred to the rainbow, His promise that He would never again flood the earth with water was always referenced as a bow.
The Strong’s definition for that word bow is a curved arch. That is what the rainbow is, a curved arch. The Strong’s definition for the word rainbow in the book of Revelation is “as a symbol of the female messenger of the pagan deities).
The rainbow which was God’s promise to never flood the earth with water has now been perverted into something else. The rainbow today represents “Woke”. This is the wickedness of the days of Noah that is everywhere around us right now.
Just as in the days of Noah is here today. “Woke” goes back to the Garden of Eden.
Genesis 3:4-7 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
Adam and Eve had their eyes opened. They ‘woke’ up. The serpent beguiled Eve and then Adam followed suit. One of the definitions of beguiled is “lead astray” and also “seduce”. Does not Jezebel in Revelation teach and seduce the servants of God to commit fornication and worship idols?
These lies and worshipping of other gods comes from Satan himself. From the Garden of Eden until now, Satan has been battling for souls, enlarging hell.
These are the lies taught to you by the pastors, preachers, and priests of your churches. These lies come from Satan himself. Your pastors, preachers, and priests whom are also deceived have been deceiving you. Feeding you the poison to commit fornication with other gods and eating foods sacrificed unto idols causing you to pass your children through the fire.
You have been taught all these lies. You have believed all these lies thereby removing yourself from Judah and dwelling in Egypt with all the gods of Easter and Christmas. You have given away your rightful heritage. You must repent. You must be in the Truth in Jesus Christ for your name to be included in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
Easter is the third transgression of four. There is one more transgression the Lord has against you.
There are no more transgressions in Ezekiel, chapter 8. There are the verses in Amos, chapters 1 and 2 that speaks about the four transgressions. It does not however state what those transgressions are. Amos does have some interesting wording thou.
It has this wording: “For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four” in every mention of the four transgressions. The only change is a name change. It then lists Gaza, Tyrus, Edom, Ammon, Moab, Judah, and Israel.
The format stays the same, “For three transgressions.., and four. Then the Lord gives the judgment for those transgressions. We know what the first three transgressions are; giving away of the birthright, Christmas, and Easter. But what is the fourth?
We need to look at the structure of the sentence. Three transgressions and four separated by a comma. Jesus actually spoke about jots and tittles.
Matthew 5:8 For 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.
This verse is stating that not one jot or tittle shall pass from the law until all is fulfilled. Since all things are not fulfilled, every jot and tittle must remain in place. Every jot and tittle must have meaning.
A jot is a period. A tittle is a comma. In either case, a comma is there for a reason. A comma is a pause. If this comma is a pause, which it is, there is a separation from the three transgressions which are grouped together and the fourth transgression.
All of the Old Testament and the New Testament are focused on the giving away of the birthright and worshipping other gods. Is there something that is different from these but is still a transgression? It also must be separated for a period of time to fulfill the pause.
It also has to be something within the church that the Lord is upset with. What would fit that criteria? Perhaps there has been a pause of a couple thousand years or more? Ezekiel was written about six hundred years before Christ. It has been a little more than two thousand years since the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
There is a new doctrine that has surfaced somewhat recently. It is called eschatology and dispensationalism which is more commonly known as the pre-tribulational rapture theory. This theory became a doctrine in the mainstream Christian church referred to as the rapture.
In 1827 John Nelson Darby came up with this new revelation that prior to the tribulation beginning, believers in Jesus Christ would be ‘taken up’ in the rapture.
There are some people that believe that this would occur in the middle of the tribulation which is called the mid-tribulation rapture theory. Others believe that the believers would go through the tribulation and be taken up at the end of the tribulation in the post tribulation rapture.
In 1830 a woman named Margaret MacDonald had a vision that she recounted. It is said that in this vision, she described the rapture and that Darby took that vision and ran with it. This is a not true. Margaret MacDonald’s vision said nothing of the sort. Her vision was reprinted which removed a couple of statements that contradict any type of a rapture.
What really happened was in 1827, three years before Margaret MacDonald’s vision, John Nelson Darby started floating around the pre-tribulation theory. When her vision was given to her in 1830, John Darby Nelson discounted her vision as demonic. There is nothing in her vision that contradicts scripture. It does contradict the pre-tribulation rapture though.
John Nelson Darby is the author and originator of the pre-tribulation theory. Darby brought this theory to America during 5 visits from 1846 to 1877. The Scofield Reference Bible was first printed in 1909 and became the largest selling Bible at that time as it is still very popular today. The Scofield Reference Bible ran with this theory. It is still the best selling Bible in England and Scotland.
From the Scofield Reference Bible, the Dallas Theological Seminary furthered the theory of the pre-tribulational rapture. This is the first seminary that began teaching this theory to the pastors and preachers of our day.
There are other theories of the mid-tribulation and the post-tribulation theories.
John Hagee, Hal Lindsay, Edgar C. Whisenant and Tim LaHaye, wrote books and became famous preachers derived from this theory of the pre-tribulation rapture. Tim LaHaye wrote the best selling series called “Left Behind”.
Based upon this theory of dispensationalism and eschatology, the Christians will be taken up in the rapture and then the Lord can deal with those that are not in the Truth including the physical Jews which the Lord will graft back into the spiritual Israel.
Is this theory of the pre-tribulation rapture Truth or is it another lie of Satan? You better be sure of that for your soul depends on it.
What Jesus says is supreme. The scriptures of the Bible are not only our guide, but the law.
Matthew 5:8 For 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.
This verse says that not one period or comma will pass from the law, that all is to be fulfilled, till heaven and earth will pass. The first heaven and first earth passes at the end of the world, at the end of the age, at the end of the Tribulation for a new heaven and a new earth are coming.
Revelation 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
At the end of chapter 22 of the book of Revelation, there is a dire warning that Jesus gives us. This warning is at the end of chapter 22 in Revelation. This is the last verses of the book of Revelation.
Revelation 22:18-21 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
Jesus declares that if anybody adds to the words of the book of this prophecy, the Lord will add to that person the plagues of the book of Revelation. If anybody takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, the Lord will remove or blot out his name from the Book of Life, they will not enter into New Jerusalem, the holy city, and they will not partake of any of the promises to the remnant that are contained within the book of Revelation.
Do you see the Plumbline in those verses? You better be sure which side you are on. Your soul and where you spend eternity depend on it.
There are accounts of a passage that is used to support this theory that is found in Matthew 24 and also in Luke 17.
Matthew 24:40-42 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
Luke 17:34-36 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left. Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
This passage is one of many passages that are used to substantiate the theory of the pre-tribulation rapture. We see that there is one that is taken and the other that is left. The theory states that the one that is taken is taken in the rapture. The one that is left is the one that will go through the Tribulation, poor soul.
Strong’s definition of the word ‘taken’ can be anything from just the word take to violently seize or remove. Strong’s definition of ‘left’ means to send, send forth, lay aside, leave, etc.
There are verses and passages that are used to support this theory of the pre-tribulation rapture. They are quoted time and time again. But there is something left behind, other verses. There are verses and passages within and throughout the Bible that they don’t quote. They leave out the verses and passages that go against the theory of the pre-tribulation rapture.
You will be hearing those verses and passages now. Nothing will be added and nothing will be taken away from what is stated in the Bible. You will be hearing verses that the pastors, preachers, and priests of the Christian church won’t tell you. Verses and passages that they conveniently left out for it would destroy their entire belief system that financial empires have been built upon.
Looking at this passage, the one that is taken and the one that is left need to be correctly identified. For Scripture tells us to rightly divide the Word of Truth by studying. We will study to determine who these two groups of people are.
2 Timothy 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
The answer follows this next passage. This is what the pastors and preachers omit. The disciples asked Jesus where they were taken. Jesus’ response is found in this next verse.
Luke 17:37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.
Jesus tells the disciples that the ones that are taken will be where the eagles are gathered together. Jesus goes on to state in Matthew the following.
Matthew 24:28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
The carcase is a dead body. It is over the dead bodies that the eagles are gathered. The definition on the New Testament for eagle doesn’t give us any clue as to what the eagles represent, however the eagle is a bird of prey. If you look up verses with an eagle in it, you will find the following verse.
Hosea 8:1 Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.
This verse is stating that the Lord will come as an eagle against the house of the LORD. That would be the end times Christian church, the Christians. Why?; because you have transgressed His covenant by committing adultery and giving away your birthright. You have trespassed His laws by worshipping other gods.
The eagle coming against the house of the LORD is judgment for transgressing His covenant and trespassing against His law.
1Peter 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
The Strong’s definition in the Old Testament for the word eagle is to lacerate, the eagle (or other large bird of prey):--eagle. The word eagle can be another bird of prey, a falcon or a vulture. Vultures especially are known for circling above dead carcases.
There are many verses in the Old Testament that speak about being taken. Here are a couple of those verses.
Ezekiel 12:13 My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.
Ezekiel 17:20 And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me.
The ones that are taken in these verses are taken because they have trespassed against the Lord. How did they trespass against the Lord? They trespassed against His law. The Lord shall come against all who trespass against His law as an eagle. The eagles are gathered where the dead bodies are. This is where the one grinding at the mill, working in the field, or sleeping in the bed have been taken to.
Jesus also lays out other statements that are grouped with the verses of one taken and one left.
Matthew 24:37-44 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
As the days of Noah, so will the coming of the Son of man be. The coming of the Son of man, Jesus, doesn’t start with Him coming out of heaven with his angels and all the saints.
The coming of the Son of man is compared or shall be like the days of Noah when the Lord had shut Noah up in the ark and everybody else didn’t know what was about to befall them. The flood came and swept all of them away. They were taken in judgement.
Jesus then states the passages of one taken and one left. Jesus then goes on to talk about the thief in the night. This thief that came to this goodman’s house broke up his house because the goodman wasn’t watching.
John 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
The thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy. The Lord warns to watch for the thief.
Mark 13:33-37 Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is. For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch. Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.
1 Thessalonians 5:6, 7 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
The Lord tells us to watch and be sober. He tells us that others sleep. He tells us to be watching for the thief so our house won’t be broken up. What are we to be watching for?, The coming of the Son of man. The coming of the Son of man is the Tribulation. The tribulation is the flood that takes them all away while the goodman of the house and Noah are safe and secure. Noah was left while everyone else was taken.
The ones that are left are the righteous that the Lord preserves through the Tribulation. The Lord preserved Noah through the flood. He did not remove Noah from the flood. David slew the giant, he was not removed from that situation. The Lord preserved him through it.
The Lord did not remove Daniel out of the lion’s den but preserved him through it. The Lord did not remove Moses from the land of Egypt, He bought Moses through the Red Sea. The Lord did not remove Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego from the fiery furnace, He delivered and preserved them through it.
The Lord always preserves a righteous remnant. Just as the things that happened to them are examples for us upon whom the end of the world are come, the ones that are left are left to go through the Tribulation being preserved through it by the Lord. The ones that remain are the righteous remnant who claimed their rightful heritage and who would not bend a knee and worship other gods.
Then you go to the parable of the ten virgins. They were all asleep until the cry of the Bridegroom came forth. The cry of the Bridegroom is the announcement of the Coming of the Son of Man, the Tribulation.
The ten virgins all woke up but only five of those virgins had the oil in their lamps that would allow them to enter into the chamber for the marriage to the bridegroom. They were all virgins. They all had lamps. They all had oil but the other five lamps went out. They did not have oil in their lamps to keep them lit.
They had to go out and try to find some more oil while the five that had oil went into the chamber for the marriage to the bridegroom. The oil represents the Truth. The Truth is claiming their rightful heritage and not worshipping other gods. The five unwise virgins had Truth at one time, but the oil, or the Truth ran out. Their lamps went out. There was no more light guiding them through the darkness. They left their first love by following other gods and giving away their birthright. They became a harlot and was not allowed into the wedding as the bride of Christ.
The marriage the five wise virgins that occurred when they went into the chamber is the preservation of those that are left taking them through the Tribulation under His protection from the judgment that has come to the House of God.
The Lord will also preserve you, just as He promised. However, there is a purification that must take place. A cleansing must occur to rid yourself of the other gods. A renouncing of those gods, a reclaiming of your heritage must occur, and repentance must occur.
Zechariah 13:8, 9 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. 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.
The two thirds that are cut off and die is referring to not only a physical death of dying but also a spiritual death by being cut off from ever getting to heaven. These will go to outer darkness, the Lake of Fire, where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth. These are the ones that put you here.
The other third the Lord brings them through the fire, refining them. This third of the church are purified by renouncing other gods and reclaiming their rightful heritage.
1 Peter 4:12, 13 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: 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.
The fiery trial which is to try you is the same as being brought through the fire and refining as silver is refined and trying as gold is tried. Peter even says that don’t think it strange that this is happening to you. He tells you to rejoice for you are a partaker of Christ’s sufferings.
What were Christ’s sufferings? Jesus Christ was persecuted. Jesus Christ was prosecuted and found guilty of their laws. Jesus Christ was executed for standing against the lies of that day and standing for the Truth.
His glory shall be revealed when the Lord returns. You are to rejoice and be glad with exceeding joy that the Lord Jesus Christ has not only promised to save a remnant, but He will give you the courage and strength to endure what is coming.
One of the passages used extensively substantiating a ‘rapture’ is found in 1 Thessalonians.
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
This passage is obviously speaking about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. This is one of the mostly used passages to substantiate the rapture of the church. They always use ‘caught up together with them in the clouds’, stating that this is when people are going to magically disappear into the clouds to meet the Lord.
There is a misconception with this passage. They leave out the understanding of who the dead in Christ are. The dead in Christ shall rise first before the catching up, or the “rapture”. To understand who these dead in Christ are, we need to understand when they rise for them rising first is a precursor to the ones that are caught up.
The pastors and preachers usually leave out the verses that precede this passage. The verses preceding this passage are necessary to understand who the dead in Christ are.
1 Thessalonians 4:13-17 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
This passage speaks about those that sleep in Jesus and that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord will not prevent them which are asleep. The definition of the word ‘prevent’ in Strong’s means to anticipate or precede.
This definition tells us that the dead in Christ, the ones that sleep in Jesus will occur before we which are alive and remain shall be caught up. The pastors and preachers don’t pay much attention to that, do they?
What is the coming of the Lord mean and what does it mean to sleep in Jesus?
The coming of the Lord is the coming of the Son of man, which is the Tribulation. To sleep in Jesus is referring to a person that dies a physical death in the Truth of Jesus Christ. The dead in Christ rising began at the cross when Jesus died.
Matthew 27:50-53 Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Many of the bodies of the saints which slept arose when the graves were opened. Not all of the saints, but many of the saints. These would be the saints that were in the Truth that died in the Old Testament that would not bow the knee to other gods.
They would include all of the prophets and those that followed the Lord in Truth. Not all arose though. Those are those that were not in the Truth but called themselves saints.
Revelation 20:5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
The first resurrection is not speaking about the rest of the dead. The dead that lived not again until the thousand years were finished are all of the dead that thought they were saints but died in lies and deceit, worshipping other gods.
They have transgressed the Lord’s covenant, and have trespassed against the Lord’s law. These are they which did not have the Truth and walked in lies. What is the first resurrection? We need to back up to the preceding verse.
Revelation 20:4 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.
The first resurrection is dying in the Lord Jesus Christ in Truth. However this verse is speaking about the saints that that are killed during the Tribulation. These are the souls that had the witness of Jesus Christ and the Word of God. These are the souls who will not worship the beast, his image, or receive his mark.
Revelation 20:6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
Revelation 20:14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
The first resurrection is being present with the Lord Jesus Christ for eternity. The second death of condemnation to the lake of fire has no power for the ones risen in the first resurrection, for they have been delivered from that second death. The second death is eternal condemnation and being cut off and separated from the Lord Jesus Christ for eternity; never even being able to get even a drop of water from heaven just like in the rich man and Lazarus parable.
The graves being opened at the time of Jesus’ death fulfilled a passage in Ecclesiastes.
Ecclesiastes 12:5-7 Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets: Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
When a person dies, their spirit returns to God who gave it. Up until the cross, any saints that died in the Truth went to sleep. Their spirit arose when Jesus died on the cross.
But things changed at the cross. The graves were opened. The saints arose in the first resurrection and have been continuing to rise ever since then. The thief on the cross was promised by Jesus to be with Him in paradise that same day that Jesus died on the cross.
Luke 23:39-43 And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us. But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation? And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss. And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.
Then we see Stephen being killed. He sees Jesus standing on the right hand of God. Stephen was received up into glory as he died.
Acts 7:54-60 When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth. But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God. Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord, And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul. And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
Paul in 2 Corinthians states that it is better to be dead in the body and present with the Lord.
2 Corinthians 5:8-10 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
The ones that are alive and remain are the ones that are spiritually alive and physically alive. The dead in Christ are the ones that are spiritually alive but physically dead. Paul says that the ones that are spiritually alive and physically alive will not precede those that are spiritually alive but physically dead. In other words, the dead in Christ shall rise first.
If the dead in Christ rise first, then all those that have spiritual life, will die before those that are alive and remain can be caught up. The dead in Christ rising first are referring to the last of the dead in Christ. The last of the dead in Christ are the souls that do not worship the beast, his image, or receive his mark and are murdered because they will no.
Your pastors and preachers never discussed that in any of the numerous sermons preached about the rapture. Satan has again tricked and deceived those in the churches.
Here is another verse used to substantiate the rapture.
1 Corinthians 15:51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
This is another verse that is used to substantiate the rapture. Paul is showing us a mystery. A mystery is defined in the Strong’s as a secret. In that secret, Paul tells us that we shall not all sleep. Not sleeping means, you are still alive bodily. The ones that are sleeping are raised incorruptible. The ones that are sleeping are no longer alive bodily.
They will be raised incorruptible means they are not corrupted. Not being corrupted as established is being pure. Not worshipping other gods and being a child of God by claiming your rightful heritage making you a child of God. These are incorruptible for they have been purified through the fire.
The ones in this verse that are changed are the ones that have been left. They are the ones that do not worship other gods and have already claimed their rightful heritage. This is the righteous remnant that the Lord takes through the Tribulation.
The ones that are taken are the ones that are purified by throwing away their gods and claiming their rightful heritage as a child of God. These are the ones that sleep in Jesus. These are the ones that their souls go back to the One who gave it. These are the dead in Christ and the dead that are raised incorruptible. These are the ones that rise first before the ones that are left are changed and caught up into the air to be with the Lord forever. In this next passage, there is further clarification.
2 Thessalonians 2:1-4 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
Paul states in this passage that you shouldn’t be taken by surprise about the day of Christ which is the coming of the Son of Man, the Second Coming, the Tribulation. The coming of our Lord Jesus Christ is the Second Coming. The gathering together unto Him would include both the dead in Christ that rise first and the change and caught up of those that remain.
There is a very important statement in this passage that most preachers and pastors either don’t cover or attribute to something else than what it really is. Paul states that day shall not come. What day, the day when all the saints of God are gathered unto Him. That day will not come until there comes a falling away first. What is the falling away the Paul speaks about?
The falling away is the falling away from the Truth. When one goes to follow other gods they fall away from the Truth. The man of sin, the son of perdition must also be revealed. So much for getting out of here before the bad stuff starts to happen.
Paul is telling us that before the Lord gathers His people, a move of going into apostasy will occur and evil will take over. The antichrist spirit will flourish. This is the signpost Paul tells us to look for. Once this occurs, the gathering begins just as Jesus told us it would occur in the parable of the wheat and the tares.
Matthew 13:35-43 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world. Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field. He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Jesus interprets this parable. The good seed in the field, the wheat are the children of God. The bad seed, tares are the children of the devil. The angels will gather out of the Lord’s kingdom all things that offend and them that do iniquity. Who are those that offend and do iniquity?
Strong’s definition of offend includes the words snare, Exodus 34:12, Isaiah 28:13, Ezekiel 12:13 and 17:30 we have previously covered all speak about a snare being a trap that is the covenant of death and agreement with hell which is the worshipping of other gods. Worshipping of other gods offends God.
Within the definition of offend is also the following: (figuratively, cause of displeasure or sin):--occasion to fall (of stumbling), offence, thing that offends. Worshipping of other gods and giving away one’s birthright are things that offend. They shall be gathered out of His kingdom.
Iniquity is defined in the Strong’s as illegality, i.e. violation of law or (genitive case) wickedness:--iniquity, X transgress(-ion of) the law, unrighteousness. Again, this definition of a violation of law, transgression of the law and unrighteousness describes those that worship other gods and gives away their birthright.
Both of these definitions cover those that are on the wrong side of the Lord’s Plumbline. The ones that offend and them which do iniquity are gathered first. The apostate Christians who worship other gods and gives away their birthright are deemed the same as the tares or children of the wicked one.
There is one major difference though, the Lord gathers those apostate Christians and casts them into that furnace of fire to purify them. Once purified, once their unrighteousness has been cast behind them, they become righteous and shine forth as the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. These are the Remnant of Israel the Lord has made a promise to save.
The tares are also thrown into a furnace, not the furnace the Lord brings the Christians through that are taken, but the furnace of the Lake of Fire where there is wailing and gnashing of teeth, eternal separation from God.
The coming of our Lord and our gathering together unto Him is further explained in the following verses.
Matthew13:30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
The harvest is the end of the world. First the tares, the children of the devil are gathered. Remember the verse where the dead bodies are is where the eagles are gathered together. The gathering of the tares is the collusion of the children of the wicked one going forward with their plan to wipe out the Christians at the end of the world, the Tribulation.
The Lord gathers the wheat, the children of God into His barn. The next verse expounds upon the gathering of the wheat, the children of God.
Luke 3:17 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.
Strong’s definition of garner is a repository or a barn. The Lord thoroughly purges his floor. Strong’s definition of purge is to cleanse perfectly, i.e. (specially) winnow:--thoroughly purge.
The wheat, the apostate Christians are gathered into the garner or barn. Wheat is beaten to separate the chaff from it. The chaff is the false beliefs that the wheat is separated from. This is the separation of the wheat and the chaff. The chaff is the refuse or garbage of the worshipping of other gods and fables. That belief system will be completely destroyed and burned up with unquenchable fire.
During the separation process or purging, the wheat is cleansed perfectly, and thoroughly purged.
The ones that are taken are the apostate Christians that are then purged of their gods and take back their rightful heritage. They are cleansed perfectly. There is a large group of people found in Revelation that have been purged and cleansed perfectly.
Revelation 7:9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
Revelation 7:13-17 And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they? And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
This great multitude comes out of the great tribulation. They have washed and cleansed their robes. Their robes are made white in the blood of the Lamb, Jesus Christ. If their robes are washed in the blood of the Lamb, that means their robes were dirty. Their robes were dirty and stained and blemished from the gods they followed.
Ephesians 5:27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
Right now, His glorious church is not so glorious. It has spots, wrinkles, blemishes, and is unholy for the entire Christian church; save a few, have gone a whoring after other gods. The entire Christian church, save a few, have fallen away, having left their first love, are unstable and unlearned, being led away with the error of the wicked. Peter describes this perfectly.
2 Peter 3:11-17 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless. And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction. Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
1 Peter 4:18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
The righteous will include both the ones that are left and the ones that are taken for both are the Remnant of Israel that the Lord has promised to save for they are the children of the promise counted for the seed.
The coming of the Son of Man, the Second Coming, the Tribulation is the fulfillment of His promise to redeem unto Himself a glorious church. This is also that blessed hope that we look for.
Titus 2:12-14 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
Pastors and preachers use this passage to substantiate the theory of the rapture when it is really speaking about the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. They also use this next passage to again substantiate their theory of the rapture.
1 Thessalonians 5:9, 10 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
The Lord has not appointed us to wrath, the children of the promise as long as we walk and stay in His Truth. When we turn away from the Truth and walk after lies and fables thereby stepping onto the other side of that Plumbline, one puts themselves under the wrath of God.
Salvation is through the Lord Jesus Christ, but it must be in Truth, without lies, not worshipping other gods which leads to death and destruction.
1 John 2:21-29 I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth. Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father. And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life. These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you. But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming. If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.
Only the righteous will not be ashamed before Him at His coming. If a person is in lies, deception, worshipping of other gods, that person has become unrighteous.
Ezekiel 33:18 When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby.
When the righteous turns from righteousness and worships other gods, they commit iniquity and will not only die a physical death but a spiritual death also. They will not longer receive the promise of eternal life and salvation. They will be appointed unto the wrath of the Almighty God.
John 4:23, 24 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
The true worshippers of the Lord Jesus Christ and the Father must be in the Truth, the whole Truth, and nothing but the Truth. Worshipping other gods is not part of that equation.
Luke 21:8 And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them.
Many come in the name of Jesus that will say that Jesus Christ is Lord. Follow the Lord Jesus Christ and celebrate His birth at Christmas. Celebrate His Resurrection at Easter. Stand up for the Jews and support them and the Lord will bless you. Be ready for the rapture that can happen at any time. It is the pastors and the preachers that come in the name of Jesus saying that Jesus Christ is Lord preaching false doctrine.
Matthew 24:4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
Men deceiving you are the pastors and the preachers of today’s churches that you sit in the pews of every week.
2 Corinthians 4:2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
The pastors and preachers handle the Word of God deceitfully. Deceiving you and being deceived themselves. They were deceived in their seminaries unknowingly learning how to feed you the poison of the serpent. Satan has been at work for a long time.
2 Timothy 4:4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
It is the church and all its parishioners that have turned their ears from the Truth, turning their back on Jesus Christ unknowingly. Listening to the pastors and the preachers dressed in sheep’s clothing cunningly devising fables.
2 Peter 1:16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
They turn from the Truth, they heed Jewish fables and turn their back on the Lord Jesus Christ, causing their pure white robes to become dirty, spotted, and blemished.
Titus 1:14 Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.
They give heed to seducing spirits, doctrines of devils, departing from the faith of the Lord Jesus Christ. They turn from righteousness in the latter days leaving their first love.
1 Timothy 4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Timothy 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
When one turns their back on Truth and is seduced into eating the poison of doctrines of devils, they also turn their back on eternal salvation. Because they do this, the Lord sends them a strong delusion that they believe a lie. These people might be damned unless and until they turn from their unrighteousness.
2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
When they find themselves in the Tribulation and trouble is all around them, they will say to their gods to save them.
I’m a good Christian, I go to church every Sunday, I celebrate the birth and resurrection of Jesus Christ, I support the chosen people, I do all the things a good Christian does. These gods will not help you. The rapture that you are looking for is not coming.
Jeremiah 2:27 Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.
There is no rapture that is going to arise and save you. These are all cunningly devised fables, doctrines of devils, seducing spirits disguised as wolves in sheep’s clothing.
There is only one way to eternal salvation and the kingdom of heaven.
John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Jesus Christ is the way. One has to be in the Truth of Jesus Christ to receive the life of eternal salvation.
Jesus has come for the lost sheep of Israel. Jesus will welcome back the sinner just as the prodigal son was welcomed back.
But there is a price to pay for not being a good steward. There is a price to pay for not studying to show yourself approved. There is a payment that the Lord requires for worshipping other gods and turning away from the Truth.
It is a chastisement that will need to be endured, the purification of the saints of God.
The Lord Jesus Christ has not heard your prayers for the rapture for the Lord cannot grant what does not exist. He has not answered your questions as to why you are here for the Lord cannot cross over through the gods and dirty robes. The Lord has brought you here to plead with you.
Ezekiel 17:20 And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me.
He can only hear you when you hear Him. You must rid yourselves of each and every one of your gods that you have followed and worshipped. You must repent to be saved.
There are four transgressions the Lord has against you. You may be guilty of one or all, it matters not. If you are guilty of one or all, you are guilty. You have transgressed His covenant He made with you. You have transgressed His law and there is a chastisement or punishment for transgressing that law and covenant.
Repent and accept the chastisement, He will again graft you back into that olive tree called Israel, spiritual Israel. He will fulfill His Promise to the children of Israel by saving the Remnant of Israel.
The Lord instructed the apostle John, the revelator to write a letter to each of the seven churches of that day. Those letters to the seven churches are also written for today’s church and believers. The Lord recognizes the works that you have done and that you do.
He also recognizes that you are in sin and His wrath coming down upon His church is for your correction. If He didn’t correct you, your soul would be cut off for eternity and His promise of saving a remnant would not be fulfilled. The Lord is calling you home. You are the overcomers.
Revelation 2:1-7 …These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks; I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, (These are the preachers and pastors dressed in sheep’s clothing and others that say they are Christians but are not) and hast found them liars: And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted. Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; (Repent and come back to the Lord) or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, (Having the candlestick removed out of his place means spiritual death) except thou repent. But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, (The tree of life is eternal life with Jesus Christ) which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
Revelation 2:8-11 …These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive; I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, (These are the preachers and pastors dressed in sheep’s clothing and others that say they are Christians but are not) and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan. Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, (The word some was added into the text, remove this word and it reads that the devil shall cast you into prison. This is where you are sitting right now.) that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. (The crown of life is eternal life with the Lord Jesus Christ) He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death. (The second death is the death of the soul.)
Revelation 2:12-17 …These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges;I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth. But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication. (The doctrine of Balaam is the teachings of a false prophet leading his parishioners to follow other gods) So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate. (The doctrine of the Nicolaitans is the worshipping of the physical Jews as the chosen people. God hated Esau. The physical Jews are and always will be the chosen people, is a false doctrine that goes way back.) Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
Revelation 2:18-29 …These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass; I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first. Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not. Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds. (Jezebel worshipped other gods.) And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works. But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden. But that which ye have already hold fast till I come. And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father. And I will give him the morning star. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
Revelation 3:1-6 …I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, (You say that you are a Christian) and art dead. (You have worshipped other gods.) Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God. Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee. Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy. He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, (Your name can be blotted out. Be an overcomer) but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
Revelation 3:7-13 …These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth; I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name. Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; (These are the preachers and pastors dressed in sheep’s clothing and others that say they are Christians but are not) behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, (The hour of temptation is the temptation of Satan to give you escape from your chastisement your are receiving. By just relinquishing your belief and faith, you can escape where you are. Just turn your back on the Truth and you will be okay, or so you think. The Lord will keep you from that by bringing you through the fire) which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown. Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
Revelation 3:14-22 …These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, (Face what is coming with determination to become an overcomer) that thou mayest be rich; (You will receive eternal life.) and white raiment, (You will wash your robes) that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
The letters to the seven churches are letters from the Lord to each of you. He is imploring you and pleading with you to return to Him.
There has at one time or another or on several occasions someone that has told you that Christmas and Easter were pagan holidays. That the physical Jews were not the chosen people, and that the rapture was not true.
You may have read scripture and thought ‘This does not pertain to me’, ‘This is speaking to those that will have to go through the Tribulation, those poor souls’, I’m going up in the rapture’.
You discounted their information and the words of the Bible for it went contrary to the doctrine that you have embraced. You were fed the poison of the lies of Satan himself stealing away your gift of eternal life with Jesus Christ.
There are passages concerning your fate that the preachers and pastors never had as subjects of their sermons. They never warned you of the coming judgment because that wasn’t for you or them. They handled the Word of God deceitfully.
Revelation 14:12-16 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them. And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle. And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe. And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.
The Lord warned of this going all the way back to Moses.
Deuteronomy 31:28,29 Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to record against them. For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.
Deuteronomy 4:29-31 But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul. When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice; (For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.
The Lord gave warnings all through the Bible of what would befall those that went to follow other gods. Deuteronomy 31 is the song of Moses the Lord told Moses to write as a record against the house of Israel. In Deuteronomy 4 the Lord provides the antidote to the poison of other gods.
Seek the Lord they God and you will find Him. Seek Him with all thy heart and with all thy soul. If you turn to the Lord thy God, he will not forsake thee. He will not destroy thee by cutting off your soul from eternal life with Him. He will not forget the covenant He swore to your fathers. You will have victory over Death and Hell. You will have victory over the beast. You will sing the song of Moses and the song of the Lamb.
Revelation 15:2-4 And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God. And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, Saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints. Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest.
The final battle is on. Satan wants your soul in hell. The Lord wants your soul in heaven with the gift of eternal life. The great deceiver has led you here. Let the Great Redeemer lead you out of here into eternal glory with Him.
Revelation 12:7-12 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. 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. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
Satan wants to destroy you. He has made war with you. He wants to overcome you. He wants to have your name blotted out of the book of life. There are many names that will be blotted out of the Book of Life.
The ones that put you here will have the same fate but will not be redeemed. The ones that will kill you will also be killed and will not be redeemed. They are the children of the wicked one and are wicked themselves. The Lord will avenge you.
Revelation 13:3-10 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. If any man have an ear, let him hear. He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
The Christian church of today is the spiritual Babylon spoken about in the Bible in Jeremiah chapters 50 and 51 and in the book of Revelation, even throughout the Bible. Judgment begins at the house of God. Babylon the great, the house of God is being judged.
The Lord tells you to come out of her so you are not partakers of her sins and you don’t receive of her plagues. Some did come out of her and were not partakers of her sins of worshipping other gods. Those that came out of her will not receive of her plagues. Those are the ones that are left or if you will, left behind.
Those that are taken shall receive of her plagues because they were partakers of her sins of fornication, worshipping of other gods. She, Babylon the great, the Christian church is being judged and is found wanting.
Revelation 18:1-8 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double. How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.
The Lord has waited as long as He could but could wait no longer. This time was destined to come. He warned that it was coming. He can wait no longer for all would perish into everlasting darkness if He did not intervene with the Tribulation.
2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Are we really in the end times? Is this really happening? Timothy speaks about the last days.
2 Timothy 3This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith. But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was. But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience, Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me. Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
Yes, that describes where we are today. Become wise and not silly women led away with divers lusts of worshipping other gods. All scripture will make thee wise unto salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. Peter gives some words of encouragement.
1 Peter 4:12-19 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: 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. If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified. But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters. Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf. For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.
The Lord is longsuffering towards those He loves, the Christians. He cannot love them though when they have other gods in their hearts. You must cast them away so He can receive you. In His word, He says that you will.
Isaiah 30:18-26 And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him. For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee. And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers: And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left. Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence. Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures. The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan. And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall. Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Jesus Christ is the way, walk ye in it. Jesus Christ is the Truth, embrace it. Jesus Christ is the Life, accept it.
Jesus Christ will bind up the breach of His people. Jesus Christ will heal the stroke of your wound. Repent now for you are an overcomer. The Word of God is Faithful and True. The Word of God will be fulfilled.
Revelation 3:19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
You have a difficult path in front of you. The Lord will be there with you and beside you as you walk this path for He loves you. He wants you in His kingdom. Come out of the lies, repent, and He will give you the gift of eternal life in New Jerusalem, forever with the Lamb of God. Be of good cheer for Jesus Christ has overcome this world and you too shall overcome for you are victors in this last battle for your soul. Enter thou into the Kingdom and into the Glory of the Lord Jesus Christ and the Father.
The questions that you had have been answered. You now know why you are here, why the Lord has brought you here, and most importantly, where you are going. He brought you to this place so you would hear and receive this message from Him. Ask of the Lord for the strength and the courage in the days ahead. Ask that your eyes see the Truth, your ears hear the Truth, and your hearts receive the Truth.
John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
This is the way, walk ye in it.
Amen