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   Jesus’ apostles taught us that God’s church is built on the foundation of the prophets, apostles, and Christ Jesus Himself the Cornerstone. (See Eph 2:20) Peter reviewed God’s Church and Jesus dealing with it through Moses in the wilderness.

    (Acts 7:37-51; This is the Moses who said to the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’ (See Deut 18:15) This is the man who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, with our ancestors, and he received living oracles to give to you. Our ancestors were unwilling to obey him, but pushed him aside and turned back to Egypt in their hearts, saying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods who will go in front of us, for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt – we do not know what has happened to him!’”

     “At that time they made an idol in the form of a calf, brought a sacrifice to the idol, and began rejoicing in the works of their hands. But God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, (astrology) as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘It was not to Me that you offered slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, was it, house of Israel? But you took along the tabernacle of Moloch and the star of the god Rephan, the images you made to worship, but I will deport you beyond Babylon.’”

     “Our ancestors had the tabernacle of testimony in the wilderness, just as God who spoke to Moses ordered him to make it according to the design he had seen. Our ancestors received possession of it and brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before our ancestors, until the time of David.”

     “He (David) found favor with God and asked that he could find a dwelling place for the house of Jacob. But Solomon built a house for Him. Yet the Most High does not live in houses made by human hands, as the prophet says, ‘Heaven is My throne, and earth is the footstool for My feet. What kind of house will you build for Me, says the Lord, or what is My resting place? Did My hand not make all these things? “You stubborn people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, like your ancestors did!”

     (Acts 7:52-53; Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They killed those who foretold long ago the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become! You received the law by decrees given by angels, but you did not obey it.)

    Israel couldn’t rid themselves of the paganism they’d learned in Egypt, because that inherited nature from Adam pulled them to the idolatrous mindsets of, ‘deciding for themselves and following what seemed right.’ All who aren’t recipients of God’s spirit are still plagued with these mindsets. The good news command was always, ‘honor the Holy One of Jacob.’ This Israel will do when they’re delivered back to their former borders. Jesus had Isaiah prophesy.

    (Isa 29:22; So this is what the Lord, the one who delivered Abraham, says to the family of Jacob: “Jacob will no longer be ashamed; their faces will no longer show their embarrassment. For when they see their children, whom I will produce among them, they will honor My name. They will honor the Holy One of Jacob; they will respect the God of Israel. Those who stray morally will gain understanding; those who complain will acquire insight.”

    This establishment of God’s kingdom and He preparing a people to maintain it the good news Jesus brought. (Jesus had Jeremiah prophesy.)

    (Jeremiah 10:1-5; You people of Israel, listen to what the Lord has to say to you. The Lord says, “Do not start following pagan religious practices. Do not be in awe of signs that occur in the sky even though the nations hold them in awe. For the religion of these people is worthless.”) (Attempting to worship Jesus while practicing any degree of paganism may as well be calling on Baal, Moloch, or the star of the god Rephan.)

     (Jer 10:10; The Lord is the only true God. He is the living God and the everlasting King. When He shows His anger the earth shakes. None of the nations can stand up to His fury.)

     (Jer 10:16; The Lord, who is the inheritance of Jacob’s descendants, is not like them. He is the One who created everything. And the people of Israel are those He claims as His own. He is known as the Lord who rules over all.)

     Satan instigates people’s thinking when they assume they’re following Jesus in each denomination. Called believer know from, New Covenant scripture that partaking of the tree of life is obedience to Jesus. The Way to the tree of ’eternal life’ is JESUS. That Way was revealed, minds opened, and nature changed after His crucifixion and ascension.

    God’s revelations aren’t given through theology teaching, dreams or speculations. Daniel was chosen and God used him to give us revelation. (May many respond prayerfully to God’s truth.)

     (Dan 2:27-28; Daniel replied to the king, “The mystery that the king is asking about is such that no wise men, astrologers, magicians, or diviners can possibly disclose it to the king. However, there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and He has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will happen in the times to come.)

    Education can’t possibly disclose spiritual understanding! NOW the same one revealing to Daniel revealed Jesus’ birth to Micah.

    (Micah 5:1-2; As for you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, seemingly insignificant among the clans of Judah; from you a king will emerge who will rule over Israel on My behalf, One whose origins are in the distant past.)

   JESUS’ origin was with God the Father from the foundation of this world. Micah’s prophecies are sure.

    (Micah 5:3; So the Lord will hand the people of Israel over to their enemies until the time when the woman in labor gives birth. Then the rest of the king’s countrymen will return to be reunited with the people of Israel.)

    Jesus revealed to His prophets that His chosen people (Israel) would be dispersed among the nations for their disobedience. When Jesus returns to establish His kingdom Israel will be reunited.

    (Micah 5:4; He (Jesus) will assume His post and shepherd the people by the Lord’s strength, by the sovereign authority of the Lord His God.)   Preplanned from the beginning. They? (the heirs of Abraham) (See Galatians 3:29) will live securely, for at that time He (Jesus) will be honored even in the distant regions of the earth.)

   Never has God the Father and God the Son been honored by a nation other than Israel, but all will honor our God in the future.

    (Micah 5:5-8; He (Jesus) will give us peace. Should the Assyrians try to invade our land and attempt to set foot in our fortresses, we will send against them seven shepherd-rulers, make that eight commanders. They will rule the land of Assyria with the sword, the land of Nimrod with a drawn sword. Our king will rescue us from the Assyrians should they attempt to invade our land and try to set foot in our territory. Those survivors from Jacob (Israel) will live in the midst of many nations. They will be like the dew the Lord sends, like the rain on the grass that does not hope for men to come or wait around for humans to arrive. Those survivors from Jacob will live among the nations, in the midst of many peoples. They will be like a lion among the animals of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep, which attacks when it passes through; it rips its prey and there is no one to stop it.)

    Israel has been scattered among the nations for many years, this text reveals that God’s chosen are yet to accomplish His will among this world’s populations. God’s and Israel’s adversaries are one and the same, and believers IN Jesus recognize, “today‘s Christians are modern day spiritual Israelites. Some of these shepherd rulers are resurrected Saints. (See Rev 20:2-7)

    (Micah 5:9; Lift your hand triumphantly against your adversaries; may all your enemies be destroyed! The Lord Will Purify His People.)

   During Jesus’ millennial rule, a purifying of His chosen is planned. Notice the word, “your” in the next six verses, speaking of things people hold to, in idolatrous fashion.

    (Micah 5:10-15; In that day, says the Lord, “I will destroy your horses from your midst, and smash your chariots. I will destroy the cities of your land, and tear down all your fortresses. I will remove the sorcery that you practice, and you will no longer have omen readers living among you. I will remove your idols and sacred pillars from your midst; you will no longer worship what your own hands made. I will uproot your images of Asherah from your midst, and destroy your idols. I will angrily seek vengeance on the nations that do not obey Me.)

    A circumcision of the heart people, a loving obedience to God’s way people are gifted with desire and effort to serve. Unbelievers don’t understood God’s intent regarding circumcision of the heart, it’s reveals to His chosen through Jeremiah.

   (Jeremiah 9:25-26; The Lord says, “Watch out! The time is soon coming when I will punish all those who are only circumcised in the flesh. That is, I will punish the Egyptians, the Judeans, the Edomites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, and all the desert people who cut their hair short at the temples. I will do so because none of the people of those nations are really circumcised in the Lord’s sight. Moreover, none of the people of Israel are circumcised when it comes to their hearts.) Circumcision of heart is, ‘loving God with all our heart; obeying with gifted understanding of God purposes.

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    The spiritual component of circumcision is, ‘a circumcision of heart’ the spiritual component of eating unleavened bread during the Passover season is, ‘putting away sin’, (rid homes and the body of that which puffs up.) As God’s chosen people Israel needed a guardian, ‘until God called granting a belief in Jesus as their Savior.’ Until that Belief in Jesus as Savior the law was Israel’s guardian, ‘their teacher’ that which kept them focused on God’s view. Until Jesus’ faith was imputed ‘poured out’ to the mind, ‘the love of God was not shed abroad to the mind.’ Allow Jesus’ apostle Paul to explain.

    (Rom 5:1-6; Therefore, since we have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in the hope of God’s glory. Not only this, but we also rejoice in sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance, character, and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us. For, while we were still helpless at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.) (After faith in Jesus is poured to our minds, we obey Him out of loving respect.)

    Children and unconverted adults ‘need a guardian’ a schoolmaster if you please to keep God’s view in focus. Jesus‘ new commandment which He said wasn‘t new at all, ‘to love God with your whole heart and neighbor as self“ only replaces the guardian ‘His law’ in recipients of His Holy Spirit. Allow Paul‘s explanation again.

   (Galatians 3:23-29; Now before faith in came we were held in custody under the law, being kept as prisoners, until the coming faith would be revealed. Thus the law had become our guardian until Christ, so that we could be declared righteous by faith. But now that faith has come, we, (followers of Jesus) are no longer under a guardian. For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God through faith. For all of you who were baptized, (immersed) into Christ have ‘clothed yourselves with Christ.’ There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female – for all of you are One in Christ Jesus. And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendants, heirs according to the promise.)

    As God’s chosen people unconverted Israel should remove leavening from their homes in obedience. No need for the practice to be discontinued after belief is granted, but with the love of God poured out with faith in Jesus, understand its part of the law. Jesus’ faith gifted individually replaces law keeping as a guardian – ‘schoolmaster.’ Paul is writing to God’s church, not the world at large. Until the Son of God and God the Father are revealed individually, all are under God’s law as a student of, or under a guardian. So Believers IN Jesus are no longer under the law because Children of God are gifted with the mind of Christ Jesus. As children of God His characteristics become ours. When the love of Jesus is imputed to our minds, so is a love of His spiritual law.

    Jesus’ prophets and apostles’ shared His good news that One day the whole world will understand that the same Jesus that came in the flesh and died for the remission of the world’s sins is also Re-Created, Creator, Sustainer, Originator of Life, Savior, Mediator and coming King of kings. Only through Jesus is eternal life. He wrote the ten commandments with His own finger and delivered them to Moses twice. He’s the Lord God that doesn’t change, ‘the same yesterday today and forever.’ He never gave authority for a Sabbath change.

     Jesus sustains earth’s revolving and turning, sun’s temperature, sea level etc. (See John 1:1-5, Hebrews 1, the whole chapter, and Colossians 1:15-20. Followers of Jesus worship Him rather than the law or His creation, but Him as our Creator. Unbelievers practice idolatrous paganism, ‘trust intellect and look to what seems right.’ Example: the pagan Druids, ‘followers of ancient Celtic religions’ worshiped the forces of nature. Many professing Christians still practice the customs laid down by these groups; worshiping the gods our week days are named after.

    Followers of Jesus are spiritually led to go before the throne of our Creator God in prayer, to Mount Zion, the city of the living God, the Heavenly Jerusalem, to myriads of angels, to the assembly, congregation of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God, the judge of all, to the spirits of the righteous, who are being made perfect, to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks of something better than Abel’s does.) Hebrews 12:22-24)

     From Hebrews 12:1-6 we discern; “By the faith of Jesus in us, we know through His revelations, ‘as did His apostles’ that we are gifted with immortality through Jesus and AS SUCH WE ARE; ‘surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, we must get rid of every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and run with endurance the race set out for us, keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus, the Pioneer and Perfecter of our faith.’ For the joy set out for Him He endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of God.

     Followers of Jesus should, (Heb 12:3-6; “Think of Him who endured such opposition against Himself by sinners, so that you, may not grow weary in our being and give up. You, have not yet resisted to the point of bloodshed in your struggle against sin. And have you forgotten the exhortation addressed to you as sons? “My son, do not scorn the Lord’s discipline or give up when He corrects you. “For the Lord disciplines the one He loves and chastises every son He accepts.”) (Quote from Prov 3:11-12)

     Knowing Jesus’ words, “no servant is greater than his master” we count the cost.

    (Hebrews 12:7-13; “Endure your suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is there that a father does not discipline? But if you do not experience discipline, something all sons have shared in, then you are illegitimate and are not sons. Besides, we have experienced discipline from our earthly fathers and we respected them; shall we not submit ourselves all the more to the Father of spirits and receive life? For they disciplined us for a little while as seemed good to them, but He does so for our benefit, that we may share His holiness. Now all discipline seems painful at the time, not joyful. But later it produces the fruit of peace and righteousness for those trained by it. Therefore, strengthen your listless hands and your weak knees, and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but be healed.”)

     A majority of this world’s populations, including professing Christians, do not believe in God as Creator, “as He manifest Himself to be in Holy Scriptures” making them unbelievers, or NOT Christ like people.

    (John 6:28-40; So then they said to Him, “What must we do to accomplish the deeds God requires?” Jesus replied, “This is the deed God requires – to believe IN the One whom He sent.” So they said to Him, “Then what miraculous sign will You perform, so that we may see it and believe You? What will You do? Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’” Then Jesus told them, “I tell you the solemn truth, it is NOT Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but My Father is giving you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is the One who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

     So they said to Him, “Sir, give us this bread all the time! Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. The one who comes to Me will never go hungry, and the one who believes IN Me will never be thirsty. But I told you that you have seen Me and still do not believe. Everyone whom the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never send away. For I have come down from heaven not to do My own will but the will of the One who sent Me. Now this is the will of the One who sent Me – that I should not lose one person of every one He has given Me, but raise them all up at the last day. For this is the will of My Father – for everyone who looks on the Son and believes IN Him to have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”)

     Jesus’ good news is about believing IN Him “for the remission of sin, for the gift of eternal life” (immortality.) It’s about our living a submissive to Jesus, being perfected to His spiritual image and resurrection. (About believing Satan will be bound, Jesus and His Saints millennial rule, peace, righteous judgment, a new heaven and earth.)

      Jesus revealed to His apostle Paul and he wrote for our understanding.

      (1Corinthians 15:12-28; Now if Christ is being preached as raised from the dead, how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead?

     (How do some say, (people are born immortal, the good go to heaven and the bad to hell.) If there’s no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised, and if Christ hasn’t been raised, then our preaching is futile and your faith is empty. Also, we are found to be false witnesses about God, because we have testified against God that He raised Christ from the dead, when in reality He did not raise Him, if indeed the dead are not raised. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is useless; you are still in your sins. Furthermore, those who have fallen asleep in Christ have also perished. For, if only in this life we have hope in Christ, we should be pitied more than anyone.” But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since death came through a man, (Adam) the resurrection of the dead also came through a man. (Jesus) For just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. But each in his own order: Christ, the firstfruits; then when Christ comes, those who belong to Him. Then comes the end, when He, hands over the kingdom to God the Father, when He, has brought to an end all rule and all authority and power. For He, must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet. The last enemy to be eliminated is death. For He, (God the Father) has put everything in subjection under His, feet. But when it says “everything” has been put in subjection, it is clear that this does not include the One, who put everything in subjection to Him, And when all things are subjected to Him, then the Son Himself will be subjected to the One who subjected everything to Him, so that God may be all in all.”) It’s the Good News all Christians Believe IN.

      (Matthew 24:42-47; “Therefore stay alert, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have been alert and would not have let his house be broken into. Therefore you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect Him. “Who then is the faithful and wise slave, whom the master has put in charge of his household, to give the other slaves their food at the proper time? Blessed is that slave whom the master finds at work when he comes. I tell you the truth, the Master will put him in charge of all His possessions.”)

      When Jesus died, “miraculous things took place. The world was shown the power of God and a glimpse of the coming physical resurrections.”

      (Matt 27:45-53; Now from noon until three, darkness came over all the land. At about three o’clock Jesus shouted with a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?” When some of the bystanders heard it, they said, “This man is calling for Elijah.” Immediately one of them ran and got a sponge, filled it with sour wine, put it on a stick, and gave it to Him to drink. But the rest said, “Leave Him alone! Let’s see if Elijah will come to save Him.” Then Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and gave up His spirit. Just then the temple curtain was torn in two, from top to bottom. The earth shook and the rocks were split apart. And tombs were opened, and the bodies of many Saints who had died were raised. (They came out of the tombs after His resurrection and went into the holy city and appeared to many people.)

        Jesus revealed to His apostle John and he recorded for our revelation.

       (Revelations 21:5-8; “And the One seated on the throne said: “Look! I am making all things new!” Then He said to me, “Write it down, because these words are reliable and true.” He also said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the one who is thirsty I will give water free of charge from the spring of the water of life. The one who conquers will inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be My son. But to the cowards, unbelievers, detestable persons, murderers, the sexually immoral, and those who practice magic spells, idol worshipers, and all those who lie, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. That is the second death.”)

       Jesus our Creator, Sustainer of all things is the Architect, the Alpha and Omega, whose plans will not be thwarted.

   T0: 33,043 subscribers ‘Church of God teaching.’ God’s 4^th Mo, Tamaz 14, 8,781, 6/26/21.  ……..The Lord God ‘Jesus” is yet going to keep all promises made to Abraham, on behalf of his descendants. Deliver Israel to their homeland, and take away their sins. Nations are going to consult with Israel about their God. After having punished Israel for the sin of looking to imaginary gods of the gentiles a magnificent deliverance is on the horizon.

  (Amos 2:4; This is what the Lord says: “Because Judah has committed three covenant transgressions; make that four! I will not revoke My decree of judgment. They rejected the Lord’s law; they did not obey His commands. Their false gods, to which their fathers were loyal, led them astray.)

     Israel’s ten tribes, later Judah were scattered, sent into captivity as Jesus prophesied through Amos. God withholds blessings to all nations as Amos records in chapter 4:7; “I withheld rain from you three months before the harvest. I gave rain to one city, but not to another.”

     (Amos 4:9; The Lord had Amos say; “I destroyed your crops with blight and disease. Locusts kept devouring your orchards, vineyards, fig trees, and olive trees. Still you did not come back to Me.” The Lord is speaking!)

      World leaders refuse to acknowledge rebelliousness toward our Creator. When plagues come, a turning repentance isn’t considered. God inspired His prophet to declare: (Amos 4:13; “He formed the mountains and created the wind. He reveals His plans to men. He turns the dawn into darkness and marches on the heights of the earth. The God who commands armies, is His name!”) God’s revelations aren’t learned from books or imaginations!

     In Amos’ chapter seven he tells of Jeroboam’s dying in war and Israel’s being carried into exile. A false priest bribed Amos, asking him to prophesy at another location.

    (Amos replied to Amaziah: (7:14-17; “I was not a prophet by profession. No, I was a herdsman who also took care of sycamore fig trees. Then the Lord took me from tending flocks and gave me this commission, ‘Go! Prophesy to My people Israel!’ So now listen to the Lord’s message! You say, ‘Don’t prophesy against Israel! Don’t preach against the family of Isaac!’ “Therefore this is what the Lord says: ‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the streets and your sons and daughters will die violently. Your land will be given to others and you will die in a foreign land. Israel will certainly be carried into exile away from its land.’”)

     Amos’ prophecies regarding Israel were fulfilled. Afterward God had him look to our future. It’s perpetual.

    (Amos 9:9-15; ““For look, I “God” am giving a command and I will shake the family of Israel together with all the nations. It will resemble a sieve being shaken, when not even a pebble falls to the ground. All the sinners among My people will die by the sword; the ones who say, ‘Disaster will not come near, it will not confront us.’ Be sure of this, the time is coming, says the Lord, “when the plowman will catch up to the reaper and the one who stomps the grapes will overtake the planter. Juice will run down the slopes, it will flow down all the hillsides. I will bring back MY people, Israel; they will rebuild the cities lying in rubble and settle down. They will plant vineyards and drink the wine they produce; they will grow orchards and eat the fruit they produce. I will PLANT them on their land and they will NEVER again be uprooted from the land I have given them says the Lord your God.”)

    Other prophesies make it clear that God is going to YET gather His people Israel, to the boundaries He described to Abraham and Moses. Understand modern day Israelites are spiritual followers of Jesus, as Paul understood.

     Gal 3:28-29; “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for all of you are ONE IN Christ Jesus. And IF YOU belong to Christ, you’re Abraham’s descendants heirs according to the promise.”)

    (Jeremiah 23:6; “So the Lord God of Israel has this to say about the leaders who are ruling over His people: “You have caused My people to be dispersed and driven into exile. You have not taken care of them. So I will punish you for the evil that you have done. I, the Lord, affirm it.”

     “Then I Myself will re-gather those of My people who are still alive from all the countries where I have driven them. I will bring them back to their homeland. They will greatly increase in number. I will install rulers over them who will care for them. Then they will no longer need to fear or be terrified. None of them will turn up missing. I, the Lord, promise it!” “I, the Lord, promise that a new time will certainly come when I will raise up for them a righteous Branch, a descendant of David. (Jesus)

    He will rule over them with wisdom and understanding and will do what is just and right in the land. Under His rule Judah will enjoy safety and Israel will live in security. This is the name He will go by: ‘The Lord has provided us with justice.’

     (Jer 23:7-8; “So I, the Lord, say: ‘A new time will certainly come. People now affirm their oaths with, “I swear as surely as the Lord lives who delivered the people of Israel out of Egypt.” But at that time they will affirm them with “I swear as surely as the Lord lives who delivered the descendants of the former nation of Israel from the land of the north and from all the other lands where He had banished them.” At that time they will live in their own land.’”)

Oracles Against the False Prophets.

    (Jer 23:9-12; “Here is what the Lord says concerning the false prophets: My heart and My mind are deeply disturbed. I tremble all over. I am like a drunk person, like a person who has had too much wine, because of the way the Lord and His holy word are being mistreated. For the land is full of people unfaithful to Him. They live wicked lives and they misuse their power. So the land is dried up because it is under His curse. The pastures in the wilderness are withered. Moreover, the Lord says, “Both the prophets and priests are godless. I have even found them doing evil in My temple! So the paths they follow will be dark and slippery. They will stumble and fall headlong. For I will bring disaster on them. A day of reckoning is coming for them.” The Lord affirms it!”)

     (Jer 23:13-21; “The Lord says, “I saw the prophets of Samaria doing something that was disgusting. They prophesied in the name of the god Baal and led My people Israel astray. But I see the prophets of Jerusalem doing something just as shocking. They are unfaithful to Me and continually prophesy lies. So they give encouragement to people who are doing evil, with the result that they do not stop their evildoing. I consider all of them as bad as the people of Sodom, and the citizens of Jerusalem as bad as the people of Gomorrah. So then I, the Lord who rules over all, have something to say concerning the prophets of Jerusalem: ‘I will make these prophets eat the bitter food of suffering and drink the poison water of judgment. For the prophets of Jerusalem are the reason that ungodliness has spread throughout the land.’”

    “The Lord who rules over all says to the people of Jerusalem: “Do not listen to what those prophets are saying to you. They are filling you with false hopes. They are reporting visions of their own imaginations, not something the Lord has given them to say. They continually say to those who reject what the Lord has said, ‘Things will go well for you!’ They say to all those who follow the stubborn inclinations of their own hearts, ‘Nothing bad will happen to you!’ Yet which of them has ever stood in the Lord’s inner circle so they could see and hear what He has to say?

    Which of them have ever paid attention or listened to what He has said? But just watch! The wrath of the Lord will come like a storm! Like a raging storm it will rage down on the heads of those who are wicked. The anger of the Lord will not turn back until He has fully carried out His intended purposes. In days to come you people will come to understand this clearly. I did not send those prophets. Yet they were in a hurry to give their message. I did not tell them anything. Yet they prophesied anyway.”

    (Jer 23:22-40; “But if they had stood in My inner circle, they would have proclaimed My message to My people. They would have caused My people to turn from their wicked ways and stop doing the evil things they are doing. Do you people think that I am some local deity and not the transcendent God?” the Lord asks. “Do you really think anyone can hide himself where I cannot see him?” the Lord asks. “Do you not know that I am everywhere?” the Lord asks.”

     The Lord says, “I have heard what those prophets who are prophesying lies in My name are saying. They are saying, ‘I have had a dream! I have had a dream!’ They are just prophesying lies. They are prophesying the delusions of their own minds. How long will they go on plotting to make My people forget who I am through the dreams they tell one another? That is just as bad as what their ancestors did when they forgot who I am by worshiping the god Baal.

   Let the prophet who has had a dream go ahead and tell his dream. Let the person who has received My message report that message faithfully. What is like straw cannot compare to what is like grain! I, the Lord, affirm it!

    My message is like a fire that purges dross! It is like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces! I, the Lord, so affirm it!”

     “So I, the Lord, affirm that I am opposed to those prophets who steal messages from one another that they claim are from Me, the Lord, affirm that I am opposed to those prophets who are using their own tongues to declare, ‘The Lord declares.’

    “You must no longer say that the Lord’s message is burdensome. For what is ‘burdensome’ really pertains to what a person himself says. You are misrepresenting the words of our God, the living God, the Lord who rules over all. Each of you should merely ask the prophet, ‘What answer did the Lord give you? Or what did the Lord say?’ But just suppose you continue to say, ‘The message of the Lord is burdensome.’ Here is what the Lord says will happen: ‘I sent word to you that you must not say, “The Lord’s message is burdensome.” But you used the words “The Lord’s message is burdensome” anyway. So I will carry you far off and throw you away. I will send both you and the city I gave to you and to your ancestors out of My sight. I will bring on you lasting shame and lasting disgrace which will never be forgotten!’”) The denomination’s say this about God’s Sabbath)

     The focus of Jesus’ good news is two fold. (1) Called out, repentant and chosen people are being blessed with a nature change; conversion from the inherited fleshly nature of Adam, to one likened to Jesus’. These who overcome to the end are being saved. They will be in the first resurrection and rule with Jesus. (2) God’s governing authority is to be established on earth. Satan is to be bound and this earth will be filled with the knowledge of God. Along the way, “physical resurrections are prophesied.” All Israel will be saved!”

    Jesus’ apostle Paul knew Isaiah’s writings and quoted Isaiah 59:20-21 in his letter to the Romans. We plan to share it next time.

   T0: 33,035 subscribers ‘Church of God teaching.’ God’s 4th Mo. Tamuz 7, 11,781, 6/24/21.  Followers of Jesus ‘Christians’ are at one with Him, God the Father and one another. His first four of ten commandments binds Godly love, and the last six tells how to love one another. Christians desire to be obedient, think as He thinks, love as He loves, hate as He, because it’s revealed, ‘He’s the only holy and righteous One. Godly love binds it all, and there’s no division. Satan is about division, we see his latest attempts in democracies, with his so called ‘woke’ philosophy, and race divides.  

    Jesus’ good news is about the kingdom of God being established on earth. Focused on His return with power, Satan bound, His Saints resurrected to a serving spiritual life, Israel re-established to former borders and the nations looking to Israel’s God for guidance. All pre-planned, revealed to Jesus’ apostle Paul, Isaiah, Jeremiah and others.

    (Rom 11:25-27 For I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: A partial hardening has happened to Israel until the full number of the Gentiles has come in. And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come out of Zion; He will remove ungodliness from Jacob (Israel) And this is My covenant with them, when I take away their sins.)

     Our creator’s plan for His People, and His earth are absolute. All things will unfold according to His plan in spite of religious organizations. Isaiah’s prophecy is Jesus’ revelation to him, spiritual and physical Israel.  (The sovereign master says, “These people say they are loyal to Me; they say wonderful things about Me, but they are not really loyal to Me. Their worship consists of nothing but man-made ritual. Therefore I will again do an amazing thing for these people – an absolutely extraordinary deed. Wise men will have nothing to say, the sages will have no explanations.” Those who try to hide their plans from the Lord are as good as dead, who do their work in secret and boast “Who sees us? Who knows what we’re doing?” Your thinking is perverse! Should the Potter be regarded as clay?)

    Should the thing made say about its maker, “He didn’t make me”? Or should the pottery say about the Potter, “He doesn’t understand”? (Our Creator does understand and plans His conclusion.) (“In just a very short time Lebanon will turn into an orchard and the orchard will be considered a forest. At that time the deaf will be able to hear words read from a scroll, and the eyes of the blind will be able to see through deep darkness. The downtrodden will again rejoice in the Lord; the poor among humankind will take delight in the Holy One of Israel. For tyrants will disappear, those who taunt will vanish, and all those who love to do wrong will be eliminated – those who bear false testimony against a person, who entrap the one who arbitrates at the city gate and deprive the innocent of justice by making false charges. So this is what the Lord, the one who delivered Abraham, says to the family of Jacob: “Jacob will no longer be ashamed; their faces will no longer show their embarrassment. For when they see their children, whom I will produce among them, they will honor My name. They will honor the Holy One of Jacob; they will respect the God of Israel. Those who stray morally will gain understanding; those who complain will acquire insight.”) (Jesus gives similar prophecy through Jeremiah.) 

    (Jeremiah 10:1-10; You people of Israel, listen to what the Lord has to say to you. The Lord says, “Do not start following pagan religious practices. Do not be in awe of signs that occur in the sky even though the nations hold them in awe. For the religion of these people is worthless. They cut down a tree in the forest, and a craftsman makes it into an idol with his tools. He decorates it with overlays of silver and gold. He uses hammer and nails to fasten it together so that it will not fall over. Such idols are like scarecrows in a cucumber field. They cannot talk. They must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not be afraid of them because they cannot hurt you. And they do not have any power to help you.”) (Read this chapter in KJV for more light.)

 I said, “There is no one like You, Lord. You are great. And you are renowned for your power. Everyone should revere You, O King of all nations, because You deserve to be revered. For there is no one like You among any of the wise people of the nations nor among any of their kings. The people of those nations are both stupid and foolish. Instruction from a wooden idol is worthless! Hammered-out silver is brought from Tarshish and gold is brought from Uphaz to cover those idols. They are the handiwork of carpenters and goldsmiths. They are clothed in blue and purple clothes. They are all made by skillful workers. The Lord is the only true God. He is the living God and the everlasting King. When He shows His anger the earth shakes. None of the nations can stand up to His fury.”

    (Now here is the message Israel will be giving to the nations.)

     (Jer 10:11-14; “You people of Israel should tell those nations this: ‘These gods did not make heaven and earth. They will disappear from the earth and from under the heavens.’ The Lord is the one who by His power made the earth. He is the One who by His wisdom established the world. And by His understanding he spread out the skies. When his voice thunders, the heavenly ocean roars. He makes the clouds rise from the far-off horizons. He makes the lightning flash out in the midst of the rain. He unleashes the wind from the places where He stores it.”

    “All these idolaters will prove to be stupid and ignorant. Every goldsmith will be disgraced by the idol he made. For the image he forges is merely a sham. There is no breath in any of those idols. They are worthless, mere objects to be mocked. When the time comes to punish them, they will be destroyed. The Lord, (Jesus) who is the inheritance of Jacob’s descendants, is not like them. He is the One who created everything. And the people of Israel are those He claims as His own. He is known as the Lord who rules over all.”)

(Heavenly Father: thanks for making us in Your image, revealing Yourself.  Teaching us through Your creation, Your planned our future from the foundation of the world. Make each called out one yield to Your Way and hopefully each will give You praise in the name of Jesus. AMEN)

    (After Adam and Eve’s disobedience, they heard the sound of the Lord God moving about in the orchard at the breezy time of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the orchard. God asked; “Where are you?” Adam replied, “I heard You moving about in the orchard, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.” The Lord God said; “Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from? Adam replied; “The woman you gave me, gave me some fruit from the tree and I ate it.” God said to the woman; “What is this you have done?” The woman replied; “The serpent tricked me, and I ate.” Gen 3:8-13.)

     Noticed an inherited characteristic? What child never blamed something other than themselves for his or her disobedience, or failure? and how about adult politicians and preachers? (Note that Adam didn’t realize he was naked until eating the forbidden fruit.)

   Their disobedience should cause awareness that we need a nature change, from innocent errors, to self awareness evaluations? We’ve each inherited that lawless “sin” nature from Adam and Eve, self serving, with a little god mentality, thinking to decide for self what’s right, wrong, good and evil.

     Our Creator has the right, an obligation to teach us what’s right, wrong, good and evil. He gave us a text book! He can fix our inherited nature! Through His revelations we’re able to understand our natural inclinations and desire. Only He gives the desire for Godly repentance.

    (Gen 3:14; The Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all the wild beasts and all the living creatures of the field! On your belly you will crawl and dust you will eat all the days of your life.”) Snakes have characteristics like Satan’s. Thus, he’s referred to as ‘serpent’ in Holy Scriptures, a camouflaged snake, sneaky, deceptive, and manifesting himself as an angel of light! (See 2 Corinthians 11:14)

   Though he’s spirit, Satan does have an end. Study the last three chapters of Revelations. Until then Satan’s business is to deceive and divide his followers to hostile toward God’s Way.

    (Gen 3:15; “And I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; her offspring will attack your head, and you will attack her offspring’s heel.”)

    Satan is the leader of demonic spirits, his offspring include demonically led people, that also manifest themselves as being enlightened about the ways of God.)

    The ‘woman’ could represent God’s church, and does refer to Jesus, ‘who from the planned beginning, was to be born of a woman.” One day He’ll destroy everything demonic. This Genesis text is our first scriptural prophecy regarding Satan’s demise.

   (Gen 3:16; To the woman the Lord God said; “I will greatly increase your labor pains; with pain you will give birth to children. You will want to control your husband, but he will dominate you.”) (See any characteristics?)

    (Gen 3:17-19; But to Adam the Lord God said; “Because you obeyed your wife, and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ cursed is the ground thanks to you; in painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, but you will eat the grain of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return.”) (Dead and no more than dirt in our fleshly inherited from Adam nature.)

    But, from the beginning our Lord God had the plan to put Satan away and re-make people in His spiritual likeness. Jesus referred to this miracle as being, “being born again” “born from above” or Fathered.

     (Gen 3:20; “Adam named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.”) (One day all will know they’re created in God’s image and for His purpose. God will make land more productive with nutritious foods.)

     (Gen 3:21-22; “The Lord God made garments from skin for Adam, his wife and clothed them. The Lord God said; “Now that the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not be allowed to stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”)

  The tree of life apparently represents man’s desire to usurp God’s will. God reveals it’s idolatry to look elsewhere, to discern what’s right, wrong, good and evil.

From the beginning, at Genesis 1:26, the Lord God said, “let US make man in our image. He’s Jesus, the Re-Creator, Creator, Sustainer, Originator of life, Mediator and Savior. (See Colossians 1:15-20)

   Gen 1 22, says; “like one of US.” One speaking is Jesus. God the Father and God the Son are the God family; and about the business of adding to The Family.

   (A better rendering or translation should read; “Now that the man has become like one of us, thinking TO KNOW good and evil, he must not be allowed to stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”) Why? Immortality is only gifted through Jesus.

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   In an effort to recruit pagan populations, an apostasy was created to hijack Christianities message. These were quick to make merchandise of sun and other idolatrous worshipers, concocting the pagan Easter fertility trappings to Jesus’ resurrection, watering down the significance of God’s set aside Passover season, with its two annual Sabbaths. The Passover represents saving from the bondage of sin, through the sacrificial Lamb of God ‘Jesus.’ (On that Passover evening in Egypt, Jesus had Moses instruct the people to apply blood of a lamb or goat on their door facing to protect them from the death angel, who’d kill all the first born of Egypt.) The event looked forward to and now back to when Jesus as ‘the Lamb of God’ shed His blood for the remission of sins.

     Physical and spiritual Israelites are to remember Nisan 14, ‘Passover’ and practice Jesus’ commands at John 13. Keep the 15^th and 21^st annual Sabbaths concluding the season? Keeping God’s set aside Passover season is significance regarding salvation through our Savior Jesus. Remembering and accepting Jesus’ blood sacrifice for the remission of sins is the only way to eternal life. Passover is for self examinations in Jesus’ Light.

   These usurpers of God’s holy season instituted their own regulations, like setting aside forty days before Easter, avoid pleasurable doings and calling it ‘penitence.’ They set aside Ash Wednesday, ‘Lent’ before celebrating Easter, sunrise services, eggs and rabbits. Few care to know the origins of their pagan practices, or how they connect Jesus. (Easter sunrise worship looks to the sun: eggs and rabbits represent fertility.) Such worship connects to the mother goddess ruler of the underworld, and protector of the harvest, fertility of  both animals and man. Greek goddess of sexual passion and Love, representing fertility through the act of sexual intercourse.)

     These hijackers of Jesus’ teaching instituting the very things the Lord God Jesus showed Ezekiel were abominations to Him.

    (Ezekiel 8:6-18; He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they are doing – the great abominations that the people of Israel are practicing here, to drive Me far from My sanctuary? But you will see greater abominations than these!” He brought me to the entrance of the court, and as I watched, I noticed a hole in the wall. He said to me, “Son of man, dig into the wall.” So I dug into the wall and discovered a doorway. He said to me, “Go in and see the evil abominations they are practicing here.” So I went in and looked. I noticed every figure of creeping thing and beast – detestable images – and every idol of the house of Israel, engraved on the wall all around. Seventy men from the elders of the house of Israel (with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan standing among them) each with a censer in his hand, and fragrant vapors from a cloud of incense were swirling upward.

     He said to me, “Do you see, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in the chamber of his idolatrous images? For they think, ‘The Lord does not see us! The Lord has abandoned the land!’” He said to me, “You will see them practicing even greater abominations!” Then He brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the Lord’s house. I noticed women sitting there weeping for Tammuz. He said to me, “Do you see this, son of man? You will see even greater abominations than these!”

    Then He brought me to the inner court of the Lord’s house. Right there at the entrance to the Lord’s temple, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the Lord’s temple, facing east – they were worshiping the sun toward the east! He said to me, “Do you see, son of man? Is it a trivial thing that the house of Judah commits these abominations they are practicing here? For they have filled the land with violence and provoked Me to anger still further. Look, they are putting the branch to their nose! Therefore I will act with fury! My eye will not pity them nor will I spare them. When they have shouted in My ears, I will not listen to them.)

     How is it that people can believe in a god that’s not the architect of His creation, One knowing the beginning and ending of His pre-planning?

     Years before the Son of God came in the flesh, revealing God the Father and Himself, He had His prophet Amos write about Israel’s conditions in the world, prior to the Messiah’s second coming. In chapter 9:11-15 tells of God’s restoring them.

        After Jesus’ resurrection and ascension, He revealed more detail about Satan’s influence through His apostles, telling of Satan’s effectively leading this world’s governments in their efforts to disprove God’s creation and planning. Let’s review His word through His apostle Paul again.

     (2Cor 4:1-6; Therefore, since we (apostles) have this ministry, just as God has shown us mercy, we do not become discouraged. But we have rejected shameful hidden deeds, not behaving with deceptiveness or distorting the word of God, but by open proclamation of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience before God. But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled only to those who are perishing, among whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of those who do not believe so they would not see the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God. For we do not proclaim ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your slaves for Jesus’ sake. For God, who said “Let light shine out of darkness,” is the One who shined in our hearts to give us the light of the glorious knowledge of God in the face of Christ.)

     Our God has been allowing the god of this age, deceptiveness since Adam and Eve, and will until Jesus’ second coming. God allows His chosen people to understand, the glorious gospel of Christ. Jesus’ light shining through the darkness to His chosen, who are given knowledge of God AND “Satan’s successes in deceiving the whole world. This was prophesied to increase until the end of this age. So we have Amos’s prophecy.

    (Amos 8:11-14; Be certain of this, the time is coming, says the sovereign Lord, “when I will send a famine through the land – not a shortage of food or water, but an end to divine revelation! People will stagger from sea to sea, and from the north around to the east. They will wander about looking for a revelation from the Lord, but they will not find any. In that day your beautiful young women and your young men will faint from thirst, “for truth.” These are the ones who now take oaths in the name of the sinful idol goddess of Samaria. They vow, ‘As surely as your god lives, O Dan,’ or ‘As surely as your beloved one lives, O Beer Sheba!’ But they will fall down and not get up again.) (Verse 14 gives the reason for this famine of revealed knowledge.

    People have turned to sinful idols, worshiping god’s of their imagination.  (Attempt to worship a Jesus of their imagination.) They imagine fitting all religions to their god! (O Dan and O Beer Sheba’s god is one that can’t lift up.) Imaginary gods this world has turned to are demonic, selling traditions practiced by the pagan gentiles throughout the world. Such practices were never authorized by our Creator. (May we be led to seek our true Creator God, who does lift up His called out ones.) He is the God of truth, the God of Abraham, Moses, the prophets and Jesus’ apostles.

     Until our Creator is revealed individually, we each are as little gods to ourselves! When people think they are capable of choosing what is right, wrong, good and evil for themselves, they are in fact making themselves, ‘little gods.’ People aren’t capable of knowing these things, of themselves. We inherited Adam’s nature that looks to the flesh. Our nature must be changed before we can inherit God’s kingdom.

    OUR creation isn’t complete, in the spiritual sense, until we’re spiritually fathered by God. ONLY God can make us conscious of our inherited shortcomings, and give a desire to think as He thinks. He gives individuals the mind to know that; only He is pure, righteous and holy. Of ourselves, we look for fleshly solutions, founded on self serving ideas, and for the most part, ideas from this world’s demonic leader, ‘Satan.’)

       Jesus characterizes His rule to that of King David’s. God’s time of peace is promised, and the faithful are praying it be soon. Be mindful, the deceiver ’Satan’ has many colors, God allows him to do miraculous things and creates havoc in the lives of many. Satan loves causing chaos, confusion and distortions of truths.

       All people groups have bought into Satan’s devices in various degrees. Provocations of war, and the blame game is a small part of his devises. Even peace loving people are bribed with monetary gains. God allows, because people have adopted demonic ways, turning their backs on the Ways God established.

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God is in us when we’re gifted with His spirit. May we each PRAY for one another and gifted love from God the Father, through God the Son, ‘Jesus.’ In believing the testimony of Jesus’ apostles our faith in God is increased, ‘knowing He makes His church One.’ God the Father in Jesus, and Jesus in us is a reality when we know we’re His Elect. Remember God loved us before the creation of the world.
Heavenly Father; we pray that You make each truth seeking person aware of Your love, ‘even when unknowingly practice sin.’ Please reveal Your Way and make each truth seeker Your own; is our pray in the name of Jesus. AMEN
God’s calling and opening a mind is a miraculous and awesome event. Jesus said and John recorded; (Do not be amazed that I said to you, ‘You must all be born from above.’ The wind blows wherever it will, and you hear the sound it makes, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit. John 3:7-8)
It’s a miraculous event when individuals are led to Believe IN our Creator God, as He’s manifested to be in His own holy Words. Then we’re gifted to know His mercy, characteristics and love. As our Mediator Jesus knows our inherited from Adam nature, motives, intent, and all our fleshly concerns. It’s a miracle too when we’re led to understand our self aggrandizing nature, and despise its result, if not changed. It is repentance when we turn from that inherited nature to Jesus’ way. Understanding these things is gifted belief in Jesus’ truth. Jesus and apostles referred to such as, ‘being called.’ Understanding, not from within our fleshly nature, but gifted from above. It’s this way so no one can boast.
Speaking of the gentiles being gifted with these understandings, Jesus’ apostles said; ‘God, who knows the heart, has testified to them by giving them the Holy Spirit just as He did to us, and He made no distinction between them and us, cleansing their hearts by faith. So now why are you putting God to the test by placing on the neck of the disciples a yoke that neither our ancestors nor we have been able to bear? On the contrary, we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, in the same way as they are. Acts 15:8-11)
Until gifted to understand, we don’t grasp Paul’s explanations to the gentile at Ephesians, regarding their calling. (Review Ephesians 2:4-22)
The so called circumcision to Abraham’s physical descendints, looked to spiritual circumcision is of the heart, and what the physical always look to. God always planned to make a chosen people His own, through Jesus, and give a circumcision of the heart to make each recipient at one with Himself and one another.
Abraham is our faith model. Circumcision of the flesh descendints, ‘Abraham’s physical heirs, Israel particular, was offered and accepted their Lord God’s covenant. They agreed to obey and the Lord God promised to be their Protector.
The Lord God (‘Jesus’) first recorded covenant was with Noah, and all living, saying to Noah: (Gen 9:11-13; I confirm My covenant with you: Never again will all living things be wiped out by the waters of a flood; never again will a flood destroy the earth. And God said, “This is the guarantee of the covenant I am making with you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all subsequent generations: I will place My rainbow in the clouds, and it will become a guarantee of the covenant between Me and the earth.”)
All Noah’s descendints share God’s covenant promise with each other.
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses and others trusted God to accomplish all His other covenant promises.
(Gen 15:12-21; When the sun went down, Abram fell sound asleep, and great terror overwhelmed him. Then the Lord said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendints will be strangers in a foreign country. They will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years. But I will execute judgment on the nation that they will serve. Afterward they will come out with many possessions. But as for you, you will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age. In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its limit.
When the sun had gone down and it was dark, a smoking firepot with a flaming torch passed between the animal parts. That day the Lord made a covenant with Abram: “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River; the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.)
These people groups are still in the world, ‘their lands God had gave them was taken, because of their ‘blatant sins, and that of going the way of Cain.’ However to Israel, only because of promises to Abraham these lands are to be perpetually theirs at a point of God’s choosing. (See Isa 22: 35: 51: 53: 65: Jeremiah 31: and Amos 9:11-15 for starters.) After Jesus returns, lands promised Abraham will be returned.
It was always in God‘s plan, to covenant with His chosen people by putting ‘His New Circumcision of Heart Covenant in His chosen people.’
(Jeremiah 31:31-33; Indeed, a time is coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah. It will not be like the old covenant that I made with their ancestors when I delivered them from Egypt. For they violated that covenant, even though I was like a faithful husband to them, says the Lord. “But I will make a new covenant with the whole nation of Israel after I plant them back in the land,” says the Lord. “I will put My law within them and write it on their hearts and minds. I will be their God and they will be my people.”)
The Pharisees and experts in the law didn’t grasp, God’s putting His law in minds. It was revealed to Jesus’ apostles after Jesus opened their minds.
(1Cor 2:6-16; Now we, (apostles) do speak wisdom among the mature, but not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are perishing. Instead we speak the wisdom of God, hidden in a mystery, that God determined before the ages for our glory. None of the rulers of this age understood it. If they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But just as it is written, “Things that no eye has seen, or ear heard, or mind imagined, are the things God has prepared for those who love Him.” God has revealed these to us by the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who among men knows the things of a man except the man’s spirit within him? So too, no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things that are freely given to us by God. And we speak about these things, not with words taught us by human wisdom, but with those taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things to spiritual people. The unbeliever does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him. And he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. The one who is spiritual discerns all things, yet he himself is understood by no one. For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to advise him? But we have the mind of Christ.)
When Jesus’ apostle Paul was teaching the Lord God’s truth, the so called circumcised Israelites were no closer to God than non-Israelites, ‘they considered themselves better because they were given His commandments and oracles.” (Non-Israelites were and are further from God because of their ingrained abominable practices.) Same practices appealed to Israelites when they stopped trusting their God.
The circumcision of the flesh covenant always looked forward to God’s spiritual covenant of the heart. His chosen a circumcision of heart people, ‘the Elect – Saints’ are spiritual Israelites. (See Deut 10:16, King James translation)
The world’s definition of a ‘Christ like person’ needs to be erased from the mind. Christ like people are a circumcised of heart people, a believing IN people. The world defines Christians as, people having membership in one of the many denominations using Jesus‘ name. It‘s the blind leading the blind.
God’s church is made of individuals He chooses and gifts with His spirit, a spiritual circumcision of heart. (When two or more are gathered in Jesus’ name, (nature) He’s present. See Matt 18:20) Then allow Jesus’ apostle Paul’s teaching to believers in Jesus..
(2Cor 4:1-2; Therefore, since we have this ministry, just as God has shown us mercy, we do not become discouraged. But we have rejected shameful hidden deeds, not behaving with deceptiveness or distorting the word of God, but by open proclamation of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience before God.) We must reject deceptiveness and know, ‘even when one truth isn’t proclaimed, a Christian doesn’t belong there. The god of this age is the influence.

   T0: 32,925 subscribers ‘Church of God teaching.’ God’s 4th Mo. Tamuz 6, 5,781, 6/16/21.       Individually called believers are led to love God the Father and God the Son, ‘Jesus Christ’ with the whole heart, mind, soul and strength. If we don’t love God more than all, we aren’t worthy. Complete devotion to God the Father and Jesus Christ are made manifest by our willingness to live His prescribed Way. Our fleshly minds like Israel’s before Jesus’ ascension, isn’t able to worship in spirit and truth, because ‘He’s only revealed to the called by promise.’ (The Called know Jesus as the Re-Creator, Creator, Originator of Life, Savior, Redeemer, Mediator, the Resurrection, and coming King of kings.) We must be set aside ‘sanctified’, and given understanding to know Jesus’ whole purpose. Jesus said; ‘the Holy Spirit wouldn’t be given until He’d been sacrificed and glorified!’ Proof is revealed in John’s good news.

    (John 7:37-39; On the last day of the feast, the greatest day, Jesus stood up and shouted out, If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me, and let the one who believes in Me drink. Just as the scripture says, ‘From within him will flow rivers of living water.’ (Now He said this about the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were going to receive, for the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.) (Jesus was begotten by the Holy Spirit, making Him the first born among many.) That spirit in Jesus’ mind made His resurrection sure.

    Israel made a covenant with God, promising to obey, and God promising to be ‘as their husband’, protector and Lord, ‘so He gave loving laws, and commanded obedience for Israel’s good.’ (Deut 12:32-13:5; You must be careful to do everything I am commanding you. Do not add to it or subtract from it! Suppose a prophet or one who foretells by dreams should appear among you and show you a sign or wonder, and the sign or wonder should come to pass concerning what he said to you, namely, “Let us follow other gods”, gods whom you have not previously known; and let us serve them.” You must NOT listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer, for the Lord your God will be testing you to see if you love Him with all your mind and being. You must follow the Lord your God and revere only Him; you must observe His commandments, obey Him, serve Him, and remain loyal to Him. (As for that prophet or dreamer, he must be executed because he encouraged rebellion against the Lord your God who brought you from the land of Egypt, redeeming you from that place of slavery, and because he has tried to entice you from the way the Lord your God has commanded you to go.) In this way you must purge out evil from within.)

    This text looks forward to how Jesus will rule during His coming reign. Even when people teach partial truths, ‘we’re not to follow.’

    Jesus’ death made the old will, ‘covenant’ void, ‘through His shed blood and resurrected life, God’s chosen have a new covenant through Jesus. God the Father calls and Jesus leads individuals from the bondage of sin, ‘place of slavery’ as Israel was led from Egypt’s bondage.

    When it’s revealed, this Jesus is the Lord, that ‘had this Deuteronomy text written’, it’s God revealing. (Review John 1:1-5, Heb 1: and Colossians 1:15-20) When Jesus comes again, He’ll bring peace to this earth. However in this age, His message divides, ‘because NOT all are given to understand.’ (See Matt 13:10-17 regarding why Jesus spoke in parables,)

   (Matt 10:34-39; Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, and a man’s enemies will be the members of his household. “Whoever loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. And whoever does not take up his cross, and follow Me is not worthy of Me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life because of Me will find it.)

    Pray for people in denominational situations, ‘refusing truth because of family and popularity.’ Allow a portion of Paul’s letter to the Ephesians wrap up this truth.

   (Eph 5:1-14; Therefore, be imitators of God as dearly loved children and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave Himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God. But among you there must not be either sexual immorality, impurity of any kind, or greed, as these are not fitting for the Saints. Neither should there be vulgar speech, foolish talk, or coarse jesting – all of which are out of character – but rather thanksgiving.

    For you can be confident of this one thing: that no person who is immoral, impure, or greedy (such a person is an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. Let nobody deceive you with empty words, for because of these things God’s wrath comes on the sons of disobedience. Therefore do not be partakers with them, for you were at one time darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of the light – for the fruit of The Light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth – trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord.

    Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. For the things they do in secret are shameful even to mention. But all things being exposed by the Light are made evident. For everything made evident is light, and for this reason it says: “Awake, O sleeper! Rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you!)

We’re Like Sheep

    Few in these so called modern times, know the characteristics of sheep from experience. Few domestic animals need the degree of constant care and protection as do sheep. God sees His people as sheep in need of a Shepherd. With no revealed guidance and Jesus’ lead, “people drift to what seems right based on parental guidance, education and experience. All of which is works of the flesh. (‘Godly upright parents have something to boast about ‘only in the Lord.’ Godly schooling and learning experience is something to be proud of, ‘only in the Lord.’) Spiritual understanding must be gifted as it was to Jesus’ apostles. The reason Holy Scripture, ‘likens people to sheep in need of a Shepherd was revealed, ‘long before Jesus’ fleshy life. crucifixion, and ascension, He revealed the following to His Isaiah.’ 

   (Isa 53:6; All of us had wandered off like sheep; each of us had strayed off on his own path, but the Lord, caused the sin of all of us to attack Him.”) Through Isaiah, Jesus revealed, His own suffering, ‘why and how He, ‘like a sacrificial lamb’ would be sacrificed.) Study the whole chapter.

    God the Father and Jesus chose that He’d bare the sins of the world, save the world, bind Satan and bring peace. Few sheep are being led, in this, ‘prior millennial age’ to follow this Shepherd‘s lead, because Satan is allowed to influences the majority to go the way that seems right to their inherited from Adam nature. Through Peter, Jesus instructs His sheep, ‘His called Believers’, on how to clothe themselves in Him.

    (1Peter 5:5-11; In the same way, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. And all of you, CLOTHE yourselves with humility toward one another, because God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble. And God will exalt you in due time, if you humble yourselves under His mighty hand by casting all your cares on Him because He cares for you.

   Be sober and alert. Your enemy the devil, like a roaring lion, is on the prowl looking for someone to devour. Resist him, strong in your faith, because you know that your brothers and sisters throughout the world are enduring the same kinds of suffering. And, after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace who called you to His eternal glory in Christ will Himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you. To Him belongs the power forever. Amen.)

    God calls, restores, confirms, strengthens and establishes those to whom He reveals Himself. No believer can boast of spiritual understanding!

     After understanding is miraculously given; ‘individually’ we’re to do the work of overcoming, ‘CLOTH ourselves with the Ways of God.’ This practicing of truth defines THE WAY.  However people need coaching about, ‘counting the cost.’

    (Luke 14:28) Jesus warned; and you, will be hated by everyone because of My name. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.)

    (Matt 10:22; But the person who endures to the end will be saved.) So, what gospel (good news) should we teach?

    (Matt 24:13-14; And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached throughout the whole inhabited earth as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.)

    7 times to the 7 churches Jesus said, ‘the one who conquers, (overcomes) I will permit him to eat from the tree of life that is in the paradise of God. See Rev 2: & 3) (See John 17:6-19; study Jesus’ prayer to His Father, for His apostles and Elect.)

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  Why are people not interested in truth? obsessed with tradition, and digress to animalistic behaviors? God blames Satan who likes to manifest himself as an angel of light, but not entirely because we’ve all inherited Adam’s sin nature that must be gotten rid of. People’s desire is for self, regarding right, wrong, good and evil, and Satan has sold a demonic premise regarding truth: ‘yours isn’t necessarily mine, nor mine yours’, that truth isn’t absolute, so Satan is divided, likes to divide people, and make truth debatably in the minds of his subjects. Are you one of these?

     Almighty God; please take away our inherited from Adam nature and replace it with yours. Take away our desire to lord over others, teach assumptions, and politically correctness as truth. Help us recognize our own fleshly inclinations, desires and agendas. We ask in Your holy name and the gifted nature of Jesus. AMEN

     Jesus said; (John 12:48; My word will judge, at the last day. The one who rejects Me and does not accept My words has a judge, the Word I have spoken will judge him at the last day.)

    Naïve worldly leaders in Christendom societies teach; ‘if one wants to follow Jesus, change from sinful life styles etc. (Find a church that fits your liking, we’re all trying to get to the same place) so, the brand doesn’t really matter. But, through His apostle Paul, Jesus gives instruction to individuals whose minds are being supernaturally opened, made born again.

    (1Corinthians 1:4-7; I always thank my God for you because of the grace of God that was given to you in Christ Jesus. For you were made rich in every way in Him, in all your speech and in every kind of knowledge just as the testimony about Christ has been confirmed among you – so that you do not lack any spiritual gift as you wait for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

    No room here for personal agendas. We must wait on revelation from our Lord Jesus Christ. (When we’re called and repent for having living the way that seemed right to our inherited nature, God makes us spiritually rich in Jesus, opening our minds to knowledge in Him.) Then we’re instructed to, ‘overcome our inherited fleshly nature to the end,’ study His Word, meditate on it, and wait for revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

    (1Cor 1:8-10; He will also strengthen you to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful, by whom you were called into fellowship with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. I urge you, brothers and sisters, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, agree together, to end your divisions, and be united by the same mind and purpose.)

    Advice from worldly people with agendas amounts to, the blind leading the blind. Their purpose doesn’t match Jesus’. Let’s consider our inherited nature.

    We’re a sovereign, naïve and experimentally minded people. God made Adam and Eve that way, and through pro-creation we’ve inherited a like sin nature, one susceptible to greed, jealously, teachings of demonically led affluent people. Long before our nature could be changed through belief in Jesus, He inspired Jeremiah to pen.

    (Jer 17:9-10; The human mind is more deceitful than anything else. It is incurably bad. Who can understand it? (I, the Lord, probe into people’s minds. I examine people’s hearts. I deal with each person according to how he has behaved. I give them what they deserve based on what they have done.)

    These nor was Adam and Eve created with a spirit of love for their Creator, that manifest itself in obedience. Had they been gifted with, ‘God’s spirit’, they’d have been suspicious of the devil’s motives. God knowingly created Adam and Eve with that sovereign, naïve, experimental nature, and purposely did NOT give them, ‘His Holy Spirit of truth’, (that mind set nature to love Him with all their heart, soul and mind.) God knew the outcome of their commune with the devil, yet He commanded obedience.

   To His chosen people ‘Israel’ God had Moses write, (Deut 6:5; Listen, Israel: ‘The Lord is our God, the Lord is One! You must love the Lord your God with your whole mind, your whole being, and all your strength.) But Israel like the world, yielded to that inherited sovereign, naïve experimental nature; in similar fashion as did Adam. (Like Adam, they yielded to their inherited naïve temptations, experiment and follow the ungodly pagans around them) So, as promised and pre-planned God’s scattered them among the ungodly populations of this world. That scattering? “until time of the gentiles is fulfilled”, until His pre-planned appointed time. Jesus had Paul share; ‘these things were told to Abraham ahead of time.’

    (Gal 3:1-9; You foolish Galatians! Who has cast a spell on you? Before your eyes Jesus Christ was vividly portrayed as crucified! The only thing I want to learn from you is this: Did you receive the Spirit by doing the works of the law or by believing what you heard? Are you so foolish? Although you began with the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by human effort? Have you suffered so many things for nothing? — if indeed it was for nothing. Does God then give you the Spirit and work miracles among you by your doing the works of the law or by your believing what you heard? Just as Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness, so then, understand that those who believe are the sons of Abraham. And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, proclaimed the gospel to Abraham ahead of time, saying, “All the nations will be blessed in you.” So then those who believe are blessed along with Abraham the believer.)

    Jesus quoted from Deut 6: when confronted by the hostile Pharisees. They ask, ‘which was the greatest law?’ Jesus responded; “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. The second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the law and the prophets depend on these two commandments. Matt 22:36-40)

    The question? Did God put in Adam an inherited nature to love and obey Him without question? Hardly! Why? People like sheep need a Shepherd, we’re sovereign, naïve, with an experimental nature. God’s conclusion? Worshiping Him intimately, in spirit and truth, requires a nature change.

    (Some, like Noah was called before, and after the flood, yielded to God, turned from the inherited naïve experimental nature.) The hostile minded like Cain thought God should be pleased with his sacrificing as seemed good to himself. People like to make God fit the way they think He should be. Yielding to natural temptations hostility toward God’s command to give, ‘the way of love and righteousness.’

    From the beginning, God pre-planned calling out, and giving by promise a new nature. Through His spirit He’d lead, reveal Himself, and teach people to be at one with Himself. Through His gifted revealed spirit people are able through Jesus’ faith, to thwart Satan’s deceptive influences, yield to and love God’s Way, and overcome the inherited sin nature through Jesus’ faith.

    Satan always knew his fate, what Jesus’ birth sacrifice and purpose would accomplish. Knowing the master plan, Satan is still giving out partial truths. From the time of God’s calling, communing with Job, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; ‘Israel’s enslavement in Egypt was pre-planned.’ God’s giving His laws through Moses and Aaron was establishing His parental relationship. Temple services, Israel’s shepherding needs and King David’s repentance, looked forward to Jesus’ sacrifice, and future remission of the world’s sins. Creator Jesus’ redeemed, ‘bought back’ His chosen people from their sins, ‘from their lawless nature.’ Shedding His blood, and imputing His loving nature was preplanned from the beginning. It’s His spirit of love from Himself and God the Father, manifesting it’s self. Thus, to be whole, each person needs the imputation of God’s Holy Spirit, so each may worship Him in spirit and truth.

     When we love God, it’s because He revealed Himself and loved us first. (See 1John 4:19) God the Father calls through the power of His Holy Spirit, opens minds, reveals His awesomeness, goodness and love, so we may comprehend, and desire overcoming our sinful nature inherited from Adam. His calling leads to genuine repentance, thankfulness for Jesus’ sacrifice and a remission of sins. Repentance and love for God is manifested by our obedience to His commands. Allow Jesus’ apostle John conclusion.

     (2John 1:9-11; Everyone who goes on ahead and does not remain in the teaching of Christ does not have God. The one who remains in this teaching has both the Father and the Son. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house and do not give him any greeting, because the person who gives him a greeting shares in his evil deeds.)

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      When God is revealed He’s loved, as manifested to be in the Holy Scriptures. No room for doctrinal debates regarding His characteristics and loving purposes. He’s revealed in Hebrews 1, John 1:1-5, and Colossians 1:15-20, as the Re-Creator, Creator, Sustainer, Deliverer, Mediator, Savior, the Resurrection and coming King of Kings. He came and grew in the flesh as promised to the prophets, Moses and David, revealing His Father and as the Light replacing darkness. That Light ‘Jesus’ is the first born from flesh to spirit, and heads His Church family. Teach Jesus different from this revelation is spiritual adultery.

     God is purposely allowing Satan and his followers to deceive the whole world in this age, ‘demonstrating people are incapable in and of themselves to rule themselves.’ That people are naïve followers of their self serving imaginations. Jesus was not mincing words when He said. “For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the Elect.” Matt 24:24) Jesus is saying, ‘only His chosen will not be deceived by Satan and his followers.’

    Jesus’ followers are spiritually led to despise every tradition and worldly concept that distorts or camouflages His truth. Years after God called Believers, and His church established, Jesus’ brother, ‘Jude’ saw the demonic apostate taking place. Its camouflaged assumptions of professing Christianity, administered by those with credentials, charisma, to distort the way of truth, by introducing mixtures of paganism with Judaism. (Study Jude.) About that same time, Jesus’ apostle Paul was experiencing the same and warned God’s church of deceivers beginning to force their brand of Christendom on people with the help of Emperor Constantine and other governmental authorities.

     Denominations are still deceived by the devil, deceiving naïve people to teach what seems right to their inherited from Adam fleshly nature. That same apostate mixture Jude wrote that. These are willingly ignorant with agendas attracting pagan star gazing, winter equinox worship, selling the idea that Jesus was born on or near the winter equinox to please the sun worshipers. These sold naive religious people on the pagan lie that Jesus died on the sixth day of the week, and was resurrected on the first day. (For many years and in many lands people were forced to celebrate, a good Friday death and a Sunday resurrection.) This history is no longer hid as knowledge of events increased with Jesus explicitly saying, “He’d be in the heart of the earth, three days and three nights, the only sign to be given.”

   (Matt 12:38-42; Then some of the experts in the law along with some Pharisees answered him, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.” But He answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For just as Jonah was in the belly of the huge fish for three days and three nights, so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights. The people of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented when Jonah preached to them – and now, something greater than Jonah is here! The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon – and now, something greater than Solomon is here!”)

    People of Nineveh, and the queen of the south believed IN our Creator and demonstrating it by submitting to Godly wisdom, no hostility toward God as did these experts in the law along with some Pharisees in Jesus’ day, and professing Christians in our day. Today a majority practically ignore the Passover season, ‘God’s first and second set aside annual Sabbaths.’ Instead set aside abominable to God practices, ignorant of the fact that their practices in this age mimic what God had Ezekiel say to Israel.

    (Ezekiel 8:6-11;  He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they are doing – the great abominations that the people of Israel are practicing here, to drive Me far from My sanctuary? But you will see greater abominations than these!” He brought me to the entrance of the court, and as I watched, I noticed a hole in the wall. He said to me, “Son of man, dig into the wall.” So I dug into the wall and discovered a doorway. He said to me, “Go in and see the evil abominations they are practicing here.” So I went in and looked. I noticed every figure of creeping thing and beast – detestable images – and every idol of the house of Israel, engraved on the wall all around. Seventy men from the elders of the house of Israel, (with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan standing among them) were standing in front of them, each with a censer in his hand, and fragrant vapors from a cloud of incense were swirling upward.” (Know any using smoking incense today?)

    (Ezek 8:12-14; He said to me, “Do you see, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in the chamber of his idolatrous images? For they think, ‘The Lord does not see us! The Lord has abandoned the land!’” He said to me, “You will see them practicing even greater abominations!” Then He brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the Lord’s house. I noticed women sitting there weeping for Tammuz.)

     The worship of Tammuz included the observation of the annual death and descent into the netherworld of the god Dumuzi. The practice was observed by women in the ancient Near East over a period of centuries.

    (Ezek 8:15-16; He said to me, “Do you see this, son of man? You will see even greater abominations than these!” Then he brought me to the inner court of the Lord’s house. Right there at the entrance to the Lord’s temple, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the Lord’s temple, facing east – they were worshiping the sun toward the east!) (Easter sunrise worship anyone?)

    (Ezik 8:17-18; He said to me, “Do you see, son of man? Is it a trivial thing that the house of Judah commits these abominations they are practicing here? For they have filled the land with violence and provoked Me to anger still further. Look, they are putting the branch to their nose! Therefore I will act with fury! My eye will not pity them nor will I spare them. When they have shouted in My ears, I will not listen to them.”)

   But many professing Christians say, that’s old testament, we have a new covenant.

    Unless God our Father shorten time for the Elect’s sake; people of Judea particularly and perhaps others are going to be over run by forces demanding submission.

    (Matt 24:15-16; So when you see the abomination of desolation – spoken about by Daniel the prophet – standing in the holy place (let the reader understand), then those in Judea must flee to the mountains.)

    This abomination seems to be a, demonic push to have people conform to a particular worship. Jesus added, (Woe to those who are pregnant and those nursing babies in those days! Pray that your flight may not be in winter or on a Sabbath.) Matt 24:19-20)

    Jesus’ reference to the abomination of desolation is from Dan 9:27. Some believe the fulfillment of Daniel’s prophecy was the actions of Antiochus IV (or a representative) in 167 B.C.. Jesus’ Words indicate that Antiochus was not the final fulfillment, but there’s still another fulfillment yet to come. Some argue that this was realized in A.D. 70, while others claim that it refers specifically to Antichrist and will not be fully realized until the period of the great tribulation at the end of the age as indicated in Mark 13:14, 19, 24 & Rev 3:10)

      The point; “idols, images and pagan traditions are nothing to followers of Jesus.” However we are spiritually led to speak against all things that distort, camouflage God’s truth and cause people to unwittingly be tools in Satan’s arsenals. People instigating the apostate Jude wrote about, “are willingly ignorant or ignore Jeremiah‘s prophecy.”

    (Jeremiah 10:1-10; You people of Israel, listen to what the Lord has to say to you. The Lord says, “Do not start following pagan religious practices. Do not be in awe of signs that occur in the sky even though the nations hold them in awe. For the religion of these people is worthless. They cut down a tree in the forest, and a craftsman makes it into an idol with his tools. He decorates it with overlays of silver and gold. He uses hammer and nails to fasten it together so that it will not fall over. Such idols are like scarecrows in a cucumber field. They cannot talk. They must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not be afraid of them because they cannot hurt you. And they do not have any power to help you.” I ‘Jeremiah’ said, “There is no one like You, Lord. You are great. And you are renowned for Your power. Everyone should revere You, O King of all nations, because you deserve to be revered. For there is no one like You among any of the wise people of the nations nor among any of their kings. The people of those nations are both stupid and foolish. Instruction from a wooden idol is worthless! Hammered-out silver is brought from Tarshish and gold is brought from Uphaz to cover those idols. They are the handiwork of carpenters and goldsmiths. They are clothed in blue and purple clothes. They are all made by skillful workers. The Lord is the only true God. He is the living God and the everlasting King. When He shows His anger the earth shakes. None of the nations can stand up to His fury.”

   Today’s spiritual Israelites are the only people understanding these things and it’s our responsibility to tell the world.

     (Jer 10:11-15; You people of Israel should tell those nations this: ‘These gods did not make heaven and earth. They will disappear from the earth and from under the heavens.’ The Lord is the one who by His power made the earth. He is the one who by His wisdom established the world. And by His understanding He spread out the skies. When His voice thunders, the heavenly ocean roars. He makes the clouds rise from the far-off horizons. He makes the lightning flash out in the midst of the rain. He unleashes the wind from the places where he stores it. All these idolaters will prove to be stupid and ignorant. Every goldsmith will be disgraced by the idol he made. For the image he forges is merely a sham. There is no breath in any of those idols. They are worthless, mere objects to be mocked. When the time comes to punish them, they will be destroyed.

    (Jer 10:16; The Lord, who is the inheritance of Jacob’s descendants, is not like them. He is the one who created everything. And the people of Israel are those He claims as His own. He is known as the Lord who rules over all.)

    Mixing paganism with Judaism and calling it Christian isn’t following Jesus. We can’t name one Easter or Christmas tradition that isn’t founded on old pagan worship practices. A Judgment day is coming, hopefully many practicing paganism will have opportunity to repent. (See Rev 21:8)

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   Children who really get to know honest law abiding parents of integrity normally want to grow and share parents characteristics out of respectful love. Believing parents didn’t steal they’re likely to avoid the temptation out of loving respect. Likewise when our Creator God is revealed and His goodness, righteousness, holiness and love made known, we desire to mimic, obey out of loving respect. With this revealed knowledge we don’t need the law telling us not to steal, commit adultery etc. When God’s gifted love is shed abroad in our hearts we’re compelled to love Him. Followers of Jesus are gifted with a desire from above to love as He loves.

     Holy Scripture is clear, godly love will decrease in these latter days. Through deceived people Satan leads the many into sinful life practices, and causes worldly religions to despise God’s Way and people. Matthew recorded Jesus’ Words.

      (Matt 24:9-14; Then they will hand you over to be persecuted and will kill you. You will be hated by all the nations because of My Name. Then many will be led into sin, and they will betray one another and hate one another. And many false prophets will appear and deceive many, and because lawlessness will increase so much, the love of many will grow cold. But the person who endures to the end will be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached throughout the whole inhabited earth as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.) (End of this demonic age.) Jesus inspired His apostle Paul to write likewise.

    (2Corinthians 11:12-15; And what I am doing I will continue to do, so that I may eliminate any opportunity for those who want a chance to be regarded as our equals in the things they boast about. For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. Therefore it is not surprising his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness, whose end will correspond to their actions.)

     Worldly religions disseminate enough partial truths to make merchandise of religious minded people. The naïve aren’t aware of the Divider’s desires. Unaware their divisive theories play into Satan’s plan. The many teach people can accept Jesus at a time of their choosing, and be saved when they‘re ready to accept Him. Jesus taught through His apostles, ‘His followers are called and predestined’ thus speaking in parables to hostile people toward His Way people. All weren’t being called then, not being called in this age. He opens minds and speaks spiritually to people He gifts with understanding.

     (Matt 13:10-11; Then the disciples came to Jesus and said, Why do you speak to them in parables” He replied, you have been given the opportunity to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but they have not.)

    Similar words were recorded by John. (John 13:34-35; I give you a new commandment – to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. Everyone will know by this that you are My disciples – if you have love for one another.)

   People must be gifted with a nature change, to love as Jesus commanded. Yes Jesus loves sinners, but He is speaking to a people called to be Believers in Him, people gifted to love one another, ‘just as I have loved you!’ How did Jesus demonstrate His love? He gave of Himself, His time and life. TODAY’S Believers are scattered, and if we have occasion to associate with likeminded Believers we’re blessed indeed. True Believers share a special fellowship with God the Father, God the Son, and one another. Exercising fellowship of love is Jesus’ new commandment. It’s His sign by which His are known.
(John 15:9-17; Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; remain in My love. If you obey My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have obeyed My Father’s commandments and remain in His love. I have told you these things so that My joy may be in you, and your joy may be complete. My commandment is this – to love one another just as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this – that one lays down his life for his friends. You are My friends if you do what I command you.

    I no longer call you slaves, because the slave does not understand what His master is doing. But I have called you friends, because I have revealed to you everything I heard from My Father. You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that remains, so that whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you. This I command you – to love one another.)

     It’s the foundational starting point to The Way. True believers must practice truth! Loving as Jesus loved, and obeying as He obeyed. We’re to obey Jesus’ special command to love all His followers, ‘just as He loves each of us.

    Christians are Jesus’ friends, and He reveals everything to them, ‘that He heard from His Father!’ We’re to realize we’re gifted to understand, ‘know He chose and loved us first.’ (That is Jesus loved us before we loved Him.) We’re gifted to know, ‘we’re appointed to go and bear fruit that remains.’ HOW? By practicing truth that remains, ‘witness as He did’ so those gifted may understand and obey. Ambassadors, ‘representatives of Jesus’, practice living as Jesus led His apostles to live. All that will remain of our living is, “the fruit others glean from seeing our practices in Him.” Everything else is a passing shadow.

    (1John 3:13-14; Therefore, do not be surprised, brothers and sisters, if the world hates you. We know that we have crossed over from death to life because we love our fellow Christians, the one who does not love remains in death.)

     IN our old fleshly inherited from Adam nature people want this world’s citizens to love them. In the new Jesus gifted nature, we understand the reality of His Words, ‘if they hated Me they will hate you.’ Jesus’ apostles experienced this world’s hatred. The question should be, ‘are we judging ourselves in His Light, and have we crossed over from death to life?’

    Remember God told Adam and Eve, ‘but you must not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will surely die.’ Gen 2:17) Meaning? Deciding for ourselves, what’s right, wrong, good and evil is the path to eternal death. Adam and Eve’s, eating from the forbidden tree to discern knowledge independent of God was idolatry. Followers of Jesus are spiritually led to know, ‘loving in the manner Jesus taught is to be immersed in Him’, that’s believe IN Jesus. True Christians are raised to life, ‘in Jesus.’ Jesus taught it through His apostle, Paul.

    (1Cor 15:22-23; For just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. But each in his own order: Christ, the first fruits; then when Christ comes, those who belong to Him.)

    (1John 3:15-17; Everyone who hates his fellow Christian is a murderer and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him. We have come to know love by this: ‘that Jesus laid down His life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians.’ But whoever has the world’s possessions and sees his fellow Christian in need and shuts off his compassion against him, how can the love of God reside in such a person?)

     Sharing and giving that which sustains life is the, ‘Christian characteristic inherited through Jesus!’ (Note also, ‘if no murderer has eternal life, then they aren’t born immortal.)

    (1John 1:5-8; Now this is the gospel message we have heard from Him and announce to you, God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with Him and yet keep on walking in the darkness, we are lying and not practicing the truth. But if we walk in the Light as He, ‘God the Father’ is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus ‘His Son’ cleanses us from all sin. If we say we do not bear the guilt of sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the Truth is not in us.)

     Each bears guilt of sin, through our fleshly pro-creation inheritance. Practicing truth is to shun darkness. The shed blood of God the Father’s Son, (Jesus) cleans us from all sin as we walk in His Light, and love as He loves.

    We know we’re unworthy of His calling, we know we deserve eternal death, because we inherited the lawless nature of Adam. If we’re converted to His Way, we know it’s because He loved us first.

   (1John 1:9-10; But if we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous, forgiving us our sins and cleansing us from all unrighteousness. If we say we have not sinned, we make Him a liar and His word is not in us.) Individually, we must confess; ‘we lived in the flesh before being supernaturally converted’, each inherited Adam‘s sin nature.  If we understand friendship with Jesus, it’s gifted.

    Even Jesus experienced pulls of the flesh, He resisted the fleshly nature and never practiced sin. JESUS’ apostle explained.

      (Hebrews 5:8-10; Although He, was a Son, He learned obedience through the things He suffered. And by being perfected in this way, He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him, and He was designated by God as high priest in the order of Melchizedek.) Likewise Christians learn obedience from the things experienced, ‘if we belong to Him.
(John 2:1-2; My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not (practice) sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous One, and He Himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for our sins but also for the whole world.) Through His spirit, God leads and calls out individuals, giving them to recognize their need for Him, and a nature change. It is a gifted conversion, ‘from the practice of lawlessness against God’s Way, to the practice of His commands, regarding good, evil, right and wrong.’

    When converted to God’s Way and slip back to the pulls of our inherited fleshly nature, ‘we have an advocate’ (Jesus Christ) our Shepherd’s spirit is imputed to the mind to give the needed strength.

   (1John 5:1-4; Everyone who believes that ‘Jesus is the Christ’ has been fathered by God, and everyone who loves the Father loves the child fathered by Him. By this we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and obey His commandments. “For this is the love of God: that we keep His commandments.” And His commandments do not weigh us down, because everyone who has been fathered by God conquers (overcomes) the world.)

      Believers obey God’s commandments because we Love Him. It’s our evidence that we are fathered by God, ‘if we know these things, happy are we if we do them.’ John 13:17) Believing Jesus is the Christ, is to believe in Him as He manifest Himself to be.