Jesus’ Revelations to John, chapter 1

To: 40,506 subscribers we’re praying God makes Temples of His spirit. 10/26/22, God’s 8th month, Cheshvan 1, 5,783. (Day 4 of week)

  We don’t know a lot about God’s seven Asian churches, “Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.” We know Jesus’ apostle Paul taught in the city of Ephesus and wrote that church a letter. At Colossians 4:16, Paul is asking them to share his letter with the Laodicea church. Some speculate these churches represent the Churches of God down through this current age. Laodicea being the end time church. There’s some logic in that assumption. Without revelations, I won’t go there. We teach God’s Church recognizes His laws, oracles and seasons as Judaism’s calendar sets them forth. Jesus’ apostle Paul was given revelations.

Romans 3:1-4; “Therefore what advantage does the Jew have, or what is the value of circumcision? Actually there are many advantages. First of all, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God. What then? If some did not believe, does their unbelief nullify the faithfulness of God? Absolutely not! Let God be proven true, and every human being shown up as a liar, just as it is written: “so that you will be justified in your words and will prevail when you are judged.”) “Quote from Psalms 51:4” Remember Jesus gave “understanding of scripture” to His apostles

As Jesus points out through John, the Ephesus church lost enthusiasm, “their first love.” Ephesus and Pergamum churches were plagued by the Nicolaitans. Sects holding to paganism to some degree. (Nicolaitans: a sect sometimes associated with Nicolas a Gentile convert to Judaism from Antioch. one of the seven original deacons in the Jerusalem church.) (See Acts 6:5) (Seemingly he taught Christians could engage in immoral behavior with impunity.) The temple of Diana, “Atriums” was at Ephesus and their worshipers gave Paul problems. See Acts 19:27)

(Rev 2:8-11; “To the angel of the church in Smyrna write the following: “This is the solemn pronouncement of the One who is the first and the last, the one who was dead, but came to life: ‘I know the distress you are suffering and your poverty (but you are rich). I also know the slander against you by those who call themselves Jews “Christian” and really are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. Do not be afraid of the things you are about to suffer. The devil is about to have some of you, thrown into prison so you may be tested, “tempted-tried” and you will experience suffering for ten days. Remain faithful even to the point of death, and I will give you the crown that is life itself. The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who conquers will in no way be harmed by the second death.’”) (This is the first of four times, “second death” is referred to in “Revelation of Jesus to John.” (IN this age, “many professing Christians are serving the synagogues of Satan.)

Worldly religions, practice various forms of paganism, “Baal and other gods the Roman calendar weekdays are named for.” Sun worship is very much alive. (Our English dictionary defines worship as; “loving, respecting, greatly and perhaps unquestioningly.”) Christendom in general looks to the winter equinox season with unquestioning celebrations, much as the pagans were doing during the time Jesus gave Moses His calendar for His people. Jesus said, “follower’s of Satan are the many who say He’s is the Christ and deceive the many.” The many aren’t aware that a “second death” awaits those who refuse to believe IN Jesus when He’s revealed; “particularly in and during His millennial reign.”

(Rev 2:12-17; “To the angel of the church in Pergamum write: “this is the solemn pronouncement of the One who has the sharp double-edged sword: ‘I know where you live – where Satan’s throne is. Yet you continue to cling to My name and you have not denied your faith in Me, even in the days of Antipas, My faithful witness, who was killed in your city where Satan lives. But I have a few things against you: You have some people there who follow the teaching of Balaam, who instructed Balak to put a stumbling block before the people of Israel so they would eat food sacrificed to idols and commit sexual immorality. (See Num 22-24; 31:16.” In the same way, there are also some among you who follow the teaching of the Nicolaitans. Therefore, repent! (turn) If not, I will come against you quickly and make war against those people with the sword of My mouth. The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, “overcomes” I will give him some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on that stone will be written a new name that no one can understand except the one who receives it.’”)

Denominationalists don’t take Satan seriously, not aware that he’s in the business of putting stumbling blocks before those who would follow Jesus. (See Balaam’s cunning ways, led by Satan. (See Num, 22: - 31:)

(Rev 2:18-29; “To the angel of the church in Thyatira write the following: “This is the solemn pronouncement of the Son of God, the one who has eyes like a fiery flame and whose feet are like polished bronze: ‘I know your deeds: your love, faith, service, and steadfast endurance. In fact, your more recent deeds are greater than your earlier ones. But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and by her teaching deceives My servants to commit sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols. I have given her time to repent, but she is not willing to repent of her sexual immorality. Look! I am throwing her onto a bed of violent illness, and those who commit adultery with her into terrible suffering, unless they repent of her deeds. Furthermore, I will strike her followers with a deadly disease, and then all the churches will know that I am the One who searches minds and hearts. I will repay each one of you what your deeds deserve. But to the rest of you in Thyatira, all who do not hold to this teaching (who have not learned the so-called “deep secrets of Satan”) to you I say: I do not put any additional burden on you. However, hold on to what you have until I come. And to the one who conquers, (overcomes) and who continues in My deeds until the end, I will give him authority over the nations – he will rule them with an iron rod and like clay jars he will break them to pieces, just as I have received the right to rule from My Father – and I will give him the morning star. The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’”) (Jezebel’s characteristics were that of an adulterous person, physical and spiritually. Allowing herself to be Satan’s tool. The (deep secrets of Satan) have to do with his lie regarding immortality, deceptions about the grave, Hades and Shoel. God is allowing Satan temporary spiritual and physical powers, to do signs and wonders. He has temporary power over the nations as Jesus prophesied) (Revealing that His churches have varying characteristics, strengths and weaknesses. At a point of God’s choosing, every person will witness His return.)

(1Cor 15:22-24; “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. Then comes the, (millennial) end, when He, (Jesus) hands over the kingdom to God the Father, when He has brought to an end all rule and all authority and power.”) (Jesus was the firstborn from among the dead, the ultimate ruler over the kings of the earth; He is the One who loves us, sets us free from our sins at the cost of His own blood and He has appointed us as a kingdom, as priests, serving His God and Father – to Him be the glory and the power for ever and ever.) (His church is in fact, a kingdom! The kingdom Jesus promised David that would be forever. Today its spiritual, when Jesus returns it will be both a physical and spiritual kingdom.)

Jesus reveals “He’s the same, yesterday, today and forever” as when He gave commandments to Moses, the frightened people ask that He not speak to them, but have Moses do the speaking. John being in the spirit on the Lord’s Day, doesn’t mean on the first day of the week. Put to the test, those who say they’re followers of Jesus, but are not and don’t do the deeds Jesus commands. Jesus hates the deeds of those who hold to practices designed to honor imaginary gods. Followers of Jesus will rule the nations with Him. People subjecting themselves to Balaam, Jezebel and manufactured god doctrines are Satan’s tools, (putting stumbling blocks before those who would follow Jesus.) Obey and repent are key words.

(Rev 3:1-6; “To the angel of the church in Sardis write the following: “This is the solemn pronouncement of the one who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars: (angels) ‘I know your deeds, that you have a reputation that you are alive, but in reality you are dead. Wake up then, and strengthen what remains that was about to die, because I have not found your deeds complete in the sight of My God. Therefore, remember what you received and heard, obey it, and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will never know at what hour I will come against you. But you have a few individuals in Sardis who have not stained their clothes, and they will walk with Me dressed in white, because they are worthy. The one who conquers will be dressed like them in white clothing, and I will never erase his name from the book of life but will declare his name before My Father and before His angels. The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’”) (Know, God’s Word is true, though every person a liar.) (Review Romans 3:1-4) Popular folks the world looks to aren’t followers of Jesus.

(Rev 3:7-13; “To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: “This is the solemn pronouncement of the Holy One, the True One, who holds the key of David, who opens doors no one can shut, and shuts doors no one can open: ‘I know your deeds. (Look! I have put in front of you an open door that no one can shut.) I know that you have little strength, but you have obeyed My word and have not denied My name. Listen! I am going to make those people from the synagogue of Satan – who say they are Jews (Christian) yet are not, but are lying – Look, I will make them come and bow down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you. Because you have kept My admonition to endure steadfastly, I will also keep you from the hour of testing that is about to come on the whole world to test those who live on the earth. I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have so that no one can take away your crown. The one who conquers I will make a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will never depart from it. I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God (the new Jerusalem that comes down out of heaven from My God), and My new name as well. The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’”) (Terminology used to define His Philadelphia church, indicate it’s time is close to the tribulation period. A time of upheaval when plagues and Satan’s time is about up.) Perhaps the internet is providing the open door for God’s Word to go worldwide. Philadelphia characterized people have promised protection; “Because you’ve kept My admonition to endure steadfastly, I will also keep you from the hour of testing that is about to come on the whole world to test those who live on the earth.”) Indicating Philadelphian church may be in this near end age time period.

(Rev 3:14-22; “To the angel of the church in Laodicea write the following: “This is the solemn pronouncement of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the originator of God’s creation: ‘I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either cold or hot! So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I am going to vomit you out of My mouth! Because you say, “I am rich and have acquired great wealth, and need nothing,” but do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked, take my advice and buy gold from Me refined by fire so you can become rich! Buy from Me white clothing so you can be clothed and your shameful nakedness will not be exposed, and buy eye salve to put on your eyes so you can see! All those I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent! Listen! I am standing at the door and knocking! If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come into his home and share a meal with him, and he with Me. I will grant the one who conquers permission to sit with Me on My throne, just as I too conquered and sat down with My Father on His throne. The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’”) (Jesus’ Laodicea church seems to assume much, (thinking themselves rich) indicates a yielding to worldly practices. Jesus suggest they get back to The Word, buy from Me that your nakedness not be seen.

 Review these church characteristics, strengths, weaknesses and how Jesus reveals Himself: as the Son of God, originator of God’s creation, One who searches minds and hearts, one who was dead but now alive, One who was, is and is to come. He’s so much more. Blessed are the one’s who reads the words of this prophecy aloud and blessed are those who hear (understand) and obey the things written in it, because the time is near.) 

To,40,452 subscribers we pray God is making Temples of His Spirit. 10/21/22. God’s 7^th month, Tishrel 26th. 5,783 (Day 1 & much repeating.)

    David’s dynasty continues through the One promising it would last forever. In this current age David’s Dynasty is given to a chosen spiritual people, called to belong to the truth, a New Covenanted people, believing in the prophets, apostles with Jesus the chief Cornerstone. They are the Elect being made temples of God’s spirit, God’s Church, spiritual Israel & family of God. Pharisees & Sadducees were expecting a Deliverer when John and Jesus came teaching repentance. They were familiar with Isa 22: 35: 51: 53: 65: Jeremiah 31: & Amos 1:11-15, all prophesying another deliverance. It’s certain to be.

   Review parts of Jeremiah 31: Moreover, the LORD says, “Sing for joy for the descendants of Jacob. Utter glad shouts for that foremost of the nations. Make your praises heard. Then say, ‘LORD, rescue your people. Deliver those of Israel who remain alive.’ Then I will reply, ‘I will bring them back from the land of the north. I will gather them in from the distant parts of the earth. Blind and lame people will come with them, so will pregnant women and women about to give birth. A vast throng of people will come back here. They will come back shedding tears of contrition. I will bring them back praying prayers of repentance. I will lead them besides streams of water, along smooth paths where they will never stumble. I will do this because I am Israel’s father; Ephraim is my firstborn son.’” “Indeed, the people of Israel are my dear children. They are the children I take delight in. For even though I must often rebuke them, I still remember them with fondness.” “I will fully satisfy the needs of those who are weary and fully refresh the souls of those who are faint. Then they will say, ‘Under these conditions I can enjoy sweet sleep when I wake up and look around.’” “Indeed, a time is coming,” says the LORD, “when I will cause people and animals to sprout up in the lands of Israel and Judah.”  

   “In the past I saw to it that they were uprooted and torn down, that they were destroyed and demolished and brought disaster. But now I will see to it that they are built up and firmly planted. I, the LORD, affirm it!” 

   The New Covenant.  “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.” “People will no longer need to teach their neighbors and relatives to know me. For all of them, from the least important to the most important, will know me,” says the LORD. “For I will forgive their sin and will no longer call to mind the wrong they have done.” The LORD has made a promise to Israel. He promises it as the one who fixed the sun to give light by day and the moon and stars to give light by night. He promises it as the one who stirs up the sea so that its waves roll. His name is the LORD of Heaven’s Armies. 

   The LORD affirms, “The descendants of Israel will not cease forever to be a nation in my sight. That could only happen if the fixed ordering of the heavenly lights were to cease to operate before me.” The LORD says, “I will not reject all the descendants of Israel because of all that they have done. That could only happen if the heavens above could be measured or the foundations of the earth below could all be explored,” says the LORD. “Indeed a time is coming,” says the LORD, “when the city of Jerusalem will be rebuilt as my special city. It will be built from the Tower of Hananel westward to the Corner Gate. The boundary line will extend beyond that, straight west from there to the Hill of Gareb and then turn southward to Goah. The whole valley where dead bodies and sacrificial ashes are thrown and all the terraced fields out to the Kidron Valley on the east as far north as the corner of the Horse Gate will be included within this city that is sacred to the LORD. The city will never again be torn down or destroyed.”) 

The Elect are now a faith gifted people described at Hebrews 11, review it. A people gifted with new birth, ‘as being born anew’ now making up the kingdom of God.

Jesus explained to Pilate that His kingdom is not of this world. Review John 18:33-40.  

    Today born anew people are being guided as Jesus revealed at John 16:12-39.

    In this current age followers of Jesus should know their citizenship is in heaven with Jesus. Our bodies, ‘this tent’ is temporary but new spiritual bodies and eternal life is our reality. Review Philippians 3:20-21.

  Christendom in general prefers worshiping a fictional Jesus, one whose name pagans like to attach with sun and Baal worship. Jesus said to the people looking for signs: “An evil and adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. (Matt 12:40-42; 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!”) (

   It’s a hostile religiosity that likes to attach Jesus’ name to the likes of things He hates. Seemingly they ignore the manifestation of Himself revealed to Paul. Again let’s review. (Col 1:15-20; “He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation, for all things in heaven and on earth were created by Him – all things, whether visible or invisible, whether thrones or dominions, whether principalities or powers – all things were created through Him and for Him. He Himself is before all things and all things are held together in Him. He is the head of the body, the church, as well as the beginning, the firstborn from among the dead, so that He Himself may become first in all things. For God was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in the Son and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself by making peace through the blood of His cross – through Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven.”) (Today the same Creator gave Believers IN Himself a New Covenant, He’s our resurrected Lord and Mediator before God the Father. (Review Heb 9:15-28)

   How fitting that the very same Creator who made Adam in their image would come, live in the flesh and shed His blood that our sins could be remitted. To attach Jesus’ name to worship designed to honor any form of paganism is an abomination. Review Galatians 3:23-29. Then consider why the ‘Feast of Shelters’ that must be observed in Jesus’ millennial reign on earth.

   (2 Corinthians 5:1-9; For we know that if our earthly house, the tent we live in, is dismantled, we have a building from God, a house not built by human hands, that is eternal in the heavens. For in this earthly house, we groan because we desire to put on our heavenly dwelling, if indeed, after we have put on our heavenly house, we will not be found naked. For we groan while we are in this tent, since we are weighed down, because we do not want to be unclothed, but clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. Now the one who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave us the Spirit as a down payment.” (Immortality is by promise and gifted by God our Father, it does the preparing and gives the desire and effort.) “Therefore we (Believers) are always full of courage, and we know that as long as we are alive here on earth we are absent from the Lord – for we live by faith, not by sight.”) (We repeat: unbelieving people live by sight, professing Christians live by sight and worldly pleasure dominates a lustful way of living.)

   (Romans 6:15-20; What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not! Do you not know that if you present yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or obedience resulting in righteousness? But thanks be to God that though you were slaves to sin, you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching you were entrusted to and having been freed from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness. (I, am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification. For when you were slaves of sin you were free with regard to righteousness.) Thus, we are full of courage and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord. So then whether we are alive or away, we make it our ambition to please Him.”)

Christians are called to submit to God’s spiritual law of love, which is a magnification of the old covenant. So, we don’t need a constant review of the written law as did the Israel of old because it’s magnification is written in our minds. 

To 40,431 Subscribers we pray God is making Temples of His spirit, 10/22/22, God’s 7^th Mo. Tishrel 29, 5,783. The Sabbath.

   (Gen 1:2) Spirit of God is like ‘wind from’ ‘breath of God’ or ‘mighty wind,’ each is taking the word ‘God’ to represent the superlative. Elsewhere in the Old Testament ‘spirit’ refers consistently to the ‘divine spirit’ that empowers and energizes individuals (See Gen 41:38; Exodus 31:3; 35:31; Numbers 24:2; 1 Sam 10:10; 11:6; 19:20, 23; Ezek 11:24; 2 Chr 15:1; 24:20)

   Jesus was born divine and for the preplanned purpose of serving as king of the Jews. Pilate ask Jesus if He was king of the Jews. (John 18:36-38; Jesus replied, “My kingdom is not from this world. If my kingdom were from this world, my servants would be fighting to keep me from being handed over to the Jewish authorities. But as it is, my kingdom is not from here.”  Then Pilate said, “So you are a king!” Jesus replied, “You say that I am a king. For this reason I was born, and for this reason I came into the world – to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.”  Pilate asked, “What is truth?” When he had said this he went back outside to the Jewish leaders and announced, “I find no basis for an accusation against him.) 

   Jesus is the Lord God who make perpetual promises to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and David, revealing to Moses that one like him was coming who must be obeyed. Jesus led Jeremiah to write at chapter 10:1-8; 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 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!) 

    Jesus is the Deliverer that led Israel from Egyptian bondage, delivers believers in Him from this age’s enslaving system and is going to deliver Israel from all over the world back to borders promised Abraham. The whole world will keep the Sabbaths He gave Israel, including the annual Sabbaths. Jesus had Zachariah prophecy; (Zach 14:15-21; Then all who survive from all the nations that came to attack Jerusalem will go up annually to worship the King, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, and to observe the Feast of Shelters. But if any of the nations anywhere on earth, refuse to go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, they will get no rain. If the Egyptians will not do so, they will get no rain – instead there will be the kind of plague which the LORD inflicts on any nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Shelters. This will be the punishment of Egypt and of all nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Shelters. On that day the bells of the horses will bear the inscription “HOLY TO THE LORD.” The cooking pots in the LORD’s temple will be as holy as the bowls in front of the altar. Every cooking pot in Jerusalem and Judah will become holy in the sight of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, so that all who offer sacrifices may come and use some of them to boil their sacrifices in them. On that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.) 

   Jesus’ death ended the old covenant regulations for His followers when His spirit made them AT-ONE with Himself when born anew. God the Father’s called out followers who’d believed IN Jesus and be fathered, ’born from above’ thus, be gifted with the covenant of promise through faith likened to Jesus’. (Galatians 3:23-29’ Now before (Jesus) faith or (faith in Jesus) 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 (His) faith. But now that (His) faith has come, we 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 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.) Book of Hebrews adds to this understanding. The heritage promised David is spiritual to Jesus’ followers.) So let’s repeat from a previous study, mindful that life is in the blood..

(Hebrews 9:15-28; And so, He is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the eternal inheritance He has promised, since He died to set them free from the violations committed under the first covenant. For where there is a will (covenant) the death of the One who made it must be proven. For a will (covenant) takes effect only at death, since it carries no force while the one who made it is alive. So even the first covenant was inaugurated with blood. For when Moses had spoken every command to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and goats with water and scarlet wool and hyssop and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that God has commanded you to keep.” And both the tabernacle and all the utensils of worship he likewise sprinkled with blood. Indeed, according to the law almost everything was purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. So, it was necessary for the sketches of the things in heaven to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves required better sacrifices than these. For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with hands – the representation of the true sanctuary – but into heaven itself, and He appears now in God’s presence for us. (as our Mediator) And He did not enter to offer Himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the sanctuary year after year with blood that is not His own, for then He would have had to suffer again and again since the foundation of the world. But now He has appeared once for all at the consummation of the ages to put away sin by His sacrifice. And just as people are appointed to die once, and then to face judgment, so also, after Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many, to those who eagerly await Him He will appear a second time, not to bear sin but to bring salvation.)

When gifted with the mind of Jesus; people desire obedience likened to Jesus’ to God our Father. As was Jesus and Abraham, Christians are in this world but not of this world’s system of things. Not only was Jesus’ apostles baptized with water; they were immersed in the spiritual love of Jesus. Their daily thoughts revolved around Jesus as they considered their bodies as temporary dwelling.

  (2Corinthians 5:1-9; For we know that if our earthly house, the tent we live in, is dismantled, we have a building from God, a house not built by human hands, that is eternal in the heavens. For in this earthly house we groan, because we desire to put on our heavenly dwelling, if indeed, after we have put on our heavenly house, we will not be found naked. For we groan while we are in this tent, since we are weighed down, because we do not want to be unclothed, but clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. Now the one who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave us the Spirit as a down payment. (All these things are by promise and gifted.) God does the preparing and gives the desire.) Therefore we are always full of courage, and we know that as long as we are alive here on earth we are absent from the Lord – for we live by faith, not by sight. (Unbelievers and professing Christians live by sight, pleasure and the lustful way of living dominates.) Thus, we are full of courage and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord. So then whether we are alive or away, we make it our ambition to please Him.) (Living by faith in God’s promises is submitting to God’s law of love: ‘no need for the law of commandments when we love His Way.’ No need to be told ‘don’t steal from a neighbor’ when we love our neighbor. No need to be told ‘keep God’s set aside holy times’ when we love Him. So, it is Jesus’ new covenant is with people called to be believers IN Him. All others have a guardian, ‘the law of God’s commandments.’ Jesus’ Words, His principles have been true since the foundation of the world.

(John 12:44-50; But Jesus shouted out, “The one who believes in Me does not believe in Me, but in the One who sent Me, and the One who sees Me sees the One who sent Me. I have come as a light into the world, so that everyone who believes IN Me should not remain in darkness. If anyone hears My words and does not obey them, I do not judge him. For I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world. 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. For I have not spoken from My own authority, but the Father Himself who sent Me has commanded Me what I should say and what I should speak. And I know that His commandment is eternal life. Thus the things I say, I say just as the Father has told Me.”)

God the Father and God the Son’s purpose in creating people in their image and likeness began by their creating mortal physical lives with creative minds, to plan and love beyond instinctive animals. God’s ending purpose is spiritual with attributes like His own. That is being (born from above) ‘spiritually fathered and molded in the likeness of our spiritual Creator.’ It’s God’s Way of making people family. His method of perfecting in His image. Thus, His command that we overcome our sin nature and Satan’s deceptions to the end. The command to grow in the grace and knowledge of God.

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Regardless our time zone, sun set is another day there. The Son of God ‘the Lord God Jesus’ is through whom, & by whom all things are sustained. (See Colossians 1:15-20, John 1:1-5 and Hebrews 1) These three scriptures tell us Jesus is the Re-Creator, Creator, Deliverer, Savior, our Mediator and coming King of Kings. He’s the One through whom there’s life, who created Adam in their image, likeness, who willingly submitted to a spiritually implantation of Himself as a sperm in the womb of a virgin. He and His Father’s purpose was that He experience a fleshly life, become the sacrificial Lamb, and die for the sins of the world, so Believers IN Him could inherit eternal life. He shed His life blood for the remission of the world’s sin so all who’d call on and believe in His name would inherit eternal life. He had this explained in the book of Hebrews.

   Hebrews 9:15-28; And so, He ’Jesus’ is the mediator of a New Covenant, so that those who are called may receive the eternal inheritance He has promised, since He died to set them free from the violations committed under the first covenant. For where there is a will, the death of the one who made it must be proven. For a will takes effect only at death, since it carries no force while the One who made it is alive. So even the first covenant was inaugurated with blood. For when Moses had spoken every command to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and goats with water and scarlet wool and hyssop and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that God has commanded you to keep.” (Quote from Exodus 24:8) And both the tabernacle and all the utensils of worship he likewise sprinkled with blood. Indeed according to the law almost everything was purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. So. it was necessary for the sketches of the things in heaven to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves required better sacrifices than these. For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with hands – the representation of the true sanctuary – but into heaven itself, and He appears now in God’s presence for us. And He did not enter to offer Himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the sanctuary year after year with blood that is not his own, for then He would have had to suffer again and again since the foundation of the world. But now He has appeared once for all at the consummation of the ages to put away sin by His sacrifice. And just as people are appointed to die once, and then to face judgment, so also, after Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many, to those who eagerly await Him He will appear a second time, not to bear sin but to bring salvation.”) Study the whole.

    If we’re Believers IN, our names are written in the book of life. We’ll be in the first resurrection. Others of God’s choosing will be in another fleshly resurrection ‘each in his own order- see 1Cor 15:’ and many will become Believers. Jesus reveals this in His Revelations to John. (Study Revelations 2:11, 20:6, 20:13 & 21:8)

 Who will die a second death? (Rev 21:7-8; “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.”)

   It’s revealed in Paul’s letter to the Philippians and elsewhere, “some Believers IN Jesus, can actually have the fleshly problem of desiring to make merchandise of others.” Resist this fleshly temptation. (Phil 4:4-9; “Rejoice in the Lord always. Again, I say, rejoice! Let everyone see your gentleness. The Lord is near! Do not be anxious about anything. Instead, in you learned every situation, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, tell your requests to God. And the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.” (Gentleness minus vanity is to look out for fellow Believers.) “Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is worthy of respect, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if something is excellent or praiseworthy, think about these things. And what’s received and heard and saw in me, do these things. And the God of peace will be with you.”)

   (Another of Joseph and Mary’s sons “James” puts the seal on this subject of faith.) (James 2:14-26; “What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can this kind of faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacks daily food and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, keep warm and eat well” but you do not give them what the body needs, what good is it? So also, faith, if it does not have works, is dead being by itself. But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works. Show me your faith without works and I will show you faith by my works. You believe that God is One; well and good. Even the demons believe that – and tremble with fear.”) (Demons and many professing believers are (believers that) not (believers in) demons fear the coming demise of themselves while the (many believers) that are deceived in their comfort zone. People demonstrate faith in God by practicing and living by His 10 commandments.)

  “But would you like evidence, you empty fellow, that faith without works is useless? Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar? You see that his faith was working together with his works and his faith was perfected by works. And the scripture was fulfilled that says, “Now Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness,” (Quote from Gen 15:6) and he was called God’s friend. You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone. And similarly, was not Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she welcomed the messengers and sent them out by another way? For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.”)

    (WITHOUT God’s spirit imputed to the mind people are spiritually dead. As with any unfertile egg, until a sperm unites it’s dead. Only through God’s indwelling spirit, do we have eternal life. Gifted faith is demonstrated by knowing His message and practicing His way. Then fleshly bodies are made spiritually alive by the imputation of God’s spirit!)

   (John 3:5-8; “Jesus answered, “I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born of water and spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit. 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.”)  So is the miraculous event of being, (born from above.) We didn’t choose our earthly parents, nor the timing of our physical birth; so it is with being born from above. It begins when God reveals Himself, demonstrates He loved us first, blessing us with His gifted desire to seek His Way.

Heavenly Father: make us grateful for Your revealed truth and give each Believer IN have a zeal for the spreading of Your Word. Thank You for grace and mercy, without which no one can be saved. In the gifted nature of Jesus we desire things soon be done on earth as in heaven. AMEN.

It’s a blessing and privilege to share God’s revealed truth. A blessing to understand through gifted faith that God created visible from invisible. Have you heard the remark; “you cannot get there from here?” That’s supposed to be tongue in cheek humor. There’s truth in that quotation when it comes to faith. Many scientific minded and the worldly religious folks doubt that God created this universe. (Without believing IN Jesus as Creator, it’s impossible to believe God is; have believing IN faith like Abraham’s and its absurd to call one’s self a Christian.)

Satan likes people believing they’re born with eternal life. Wants folks conjuring up theories about the end result of this physical life. (When we’re gifted to believe IN God, “knowing that God gifts eternal life isn’t theory.” Re-study Paul’s understanding at Hebrews 11.

    Regarding faith, consider two of Adam’s sons. Cain “believed that” he didn’t “believe IN,” so he sacrificed according to what seemed right to his fleshly nature. Abel “believed IN” and had no desire to substitute or consider what may’ve seemed right, “he made a blood sacrifice according to God’s instructions.” Abel had reverent regard for God’s Word and obeyed. (Abel “believed IN” Cain “believed that.”) (Study Genesis 4:) We see that few professing Christians believe IN God because their practices mimic Cain’s.

(Hebrews 11:4-10; “By faith Abel offered God a greater sacrifice than Cain, and through his faith he was commended as righteous, because God commended him for his offerings. And through his faith he still speaks, though he is dead.” (Abel’s obedience is an example and still the standard for believers/ ‘Christians.’) “Now without, (believing IN) faith it is impossible to please God, for the one who approaches God must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who seek Him.”) Faith in God is to acknowledge Him as He manifest Himself to be. “By faith Abraham obeyed, when he was called to go out to a place he would later receive as an inheritance, and he went out without understanding where he was going. By faith he lived as a foreigner in the promised land as though it were a foreign country, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were fellow heirs of the same promise. For he was looking forward to the city with firm foundations, whose architect and builder is God.”) (Believers IN Jesus are in the same category as Abraham, “who lived in the world but wasn’t of the world.” Strangers in a foreign country. Abraham didn’t yield to questioning intellect, “but simply believed God.) God made a covenant promise with Abraham that includes all Abraham’s heirs. (Galatians 3:29; “And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendants, heirs according to the promise.) Christians are called OUT to separate from the ways of the world as was Abraham. Called to inherit eternal life through Jesus with Abraham. (Study all of Hebrews 11)

  When we’re called to be Christ like, it’s revealed that He loved us first. His love makes obedience desirable, so we’re gifted to love God’s Way. The desire to be obedient is a given. We’re no longer under commandments but desire Jesus’ faith. When we’re “born from above” we’re considered Jesus’ friend as was faithful Abraham. Remember the apostles’ letters were to Believers IN, God the Father and God the Son. A converted to His Way people.

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    David’s dynasty continues through the One who promised it would last forever. In this current age David’s Dynasty is given to a people who belong to the truth, a called out, people with a New Covenant, a believing in Jesus, people, the Elect who are being made temples of His spirit. It’s God’s Church, spiritual Israel, ‘founded on His Prophets, Apostles with Jesus Himself the Chief Cornerstone;’ a people being made ‘family of God.’ A future deliverance greater than the one from Egypt is planned and revealed at Jeremiah 31.

   The Lord Will Turn Mourning to Joy. Jeremiah 31:1-40; At that time I will be the God of all the clans of Israel and they will be my people. I, the LORD, affirm it!” The LORD says, “The people of Israel who survived death at the hands of the enemy will find favor in the wilderness as they journey to find rest for themselves. In a far-off land the LORD will manifest himself to them. He will say to them, ‘I have loved you with an everlasting love. That is why I have continued to be faithful to you. I will rebuild you, my dear children Israel, so that you will once again be built up. Once again you will take up the tambourine and join in the happy throng of dancers. Once again you will plant vineyards on the hills of Samaria. Those who plant them will once again enjoy their fruit. Yes, a time is coming when watchmen will call out on the mountains of Ephraim, “Come! Let us go to Zion to worship the LORD our God!”’” Moreover, the LORD says, “Sing for joy for the descendants of Jacob. Utter glad shouts for that foremost of the nations. Make your praises heard. Then say, ‘LORD, rescue your people. Deliver those of Israel who remain alive.’ Then I will reply, ‘I will bring them back from the land of the north. I will gather them in from the distant parts of the earth. Blind and lame people will come with them, so will pregnant women and women about to give birth. A vast throng of people will come back here. They will come back shedding tears of contrition. I will bring them back praying prayers of repentance. I will lead them besides streams of water, along smooth paths where they will never stumble. I will do this because I am Israel’s father; Ephraim is my firstborn son.’” 

   Listen to the LORD’s message, O nations. Proclaim it in the faraway lands along the sea. Say, “The one who scattered Israel will regather them. He will watch over his people like a shepherd watches over his flock.” For the LORD will rescue the descendants of Jacob. He will secure their release from those who had overpowered them. They will come and shout for joy on Mount Zion. They will be radiant with joy over the good things the LORD provides, the grain, the fresh wine, the olive oil, the young sheep and calves he has given to them. They will be like a well-watered garden and will not grow faint or weary any more. The LORD says, “At that time young women will dance and be glad. Young men and old men will rejoice. I will turn their grief into gladness. I will give them comfort and joy in place of their sorrow. I will provide the priests with abundant provisions. My people will be filled to the full with the good things I provide.” 

   The LORD says, “A sound is heard in Ramah, a sound of crying in bitter grief. It is the sound of Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because her children are gone.” The LORD says to her, “Stop crying! Do not shed any more tears! For your heartfelt repentance will be rewarded. Your children will return from the land of the enemy. I, the LORD, affirm it! Indeed, there is hope for your posterity. Your children will return to their own territory. I, the LORD, affirm it! 

   I have indeed heard the people of Israel say mournfully, ‘We were like a calf untrained to the yoke. You disciplined us and we learned from it. Let us come back to you and we will do so, for you are the LORD our God. For after we turned away from you we repented. After we came to our senses we struck our thigh in sorrow. We are ashamed and humiliated because of the disgraceful things we did previously.’ 

   Indeed, the people of Israel are my dear children. They are the children I take delight in. For even though I must often rebuke them, I still remember them with fondness. So I am deeply moved with pity for them and will surely have compassion on them. I, the LORD, affirm it! I will say, ‘My dear children of Israel, keep in mind the road you took when you were carried off. Mark off in your minds the landmarks. Make a mental note of telltale signs marking the way back. Return, my dear children of Israel. Return to these cities of yours. 

   How long will you vacillate, you who were once like an unfaithful daughter? For I, the LORD, promise to bring about something new on the earth, something as unique as a woman protecting a man!’” The LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel says, “I will restore the people of Judah to their land and to their towns. When I do, they will again say of Jerusalem, ‘May the LORD bless you, you holy mountain, the place where righteousness dwells.’ The land of Judah will be inhabited by people who live in its towns as well as by farmers and shepherds with their flocks. 

   I will fully satisfy the needs of those who are weary and fully refresh the souls of those who are faint. Then they will say, ‘Under these conditions I can enjoy sweet sleep when I wake up and look around.’” “Indeed, a time is coming,” says the LORD, “when I will cause people and animals to sprout up in the lands of Israel and Judah. 

   In the past I saw to it that they were uprooted and torn down, that they were destroyed and demolished and brought disaster. But now I will see to it that they are built up and firmly planted. I, the LORD, affirm it!” 

   “When that time comes, people will no longer say, ‘The parents have eaten sour grapes, but the children’s teeth have grown numb.’  Rather, each person will die for his own sins. The teeth of the person who eats the sour grapes will themselves grow numb. 

   The New Covenant.  “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. “People will no longer need to teach their neighbors and relatives to know me. For all of them, from the least important to the most important, will know me,” says the LORD. “For I will forgive their sin and will no longer call to mind the wrong they have done.” The LORD has made a promise to Israel. He promises it as the one who fixed the sun to give light by day and the moon and stars to give light by night. He promises it as the one who stirs up the sea so that its waves roll. His name is the LORD of Heaven’s Armies. 

   The LORD affirms, “The descendants of Israel will not cease forever to be a nation in my sight. That could only happen if the fixed ordering of the heavenly lights were to cease to operate before me.” The LORD says, “I will not reject all the descendants of Israel because of all that they have done. That could only happen if the heavens above could be measured or the foundations of the earth below could all be explored,” says the LORD. “Indeed a time is coming,” says the LORD, “when the city of Jerusalem will be rebuilt as my special city. It will be built from the Tower of Hananel westward to the Corner Gate. The boundary line will extend beyond that, straight west from there to the Hill of Gareb and then turn southward to Goah. The whole valley where dead bodies and sacrificial ashes are thrown and all the terraced fields out to the Kidron Valley on the east as far north as the corner of the Horse Gate will be included within this city that is sacred to the LORD. The city will never again be torn down or destroyed.”) 

These are now a faith gifted people described at Hebrews 11, gifted with new birth, ‘as being born anew’ making up the kingdom.

   (Heb 11:1-40; Now faith is being sure of what we hope for, being convinced of what we do not see. For by it the people of old received God’s commendation.— By faith we understand that the worlds were set in order at God’s command, so that the visible has its origin in the invisible.– By faith Abel offered God a greater sacrifice than Cain, and through his faith he was commended as righteous, because God commended him for his offerings. And through his faith he still speaks, though he is dead.– By faith Enoch was taken up so that he did not see death, and he was not to be found because God took him up. For before his removal he had been commended as having pleased God. – Now without faith it is impossible to please Him for the one who approaches God must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who seek him. — By faith Noah, when he was warned about things not yet seen, with reverent regard constructed an ark for the deliverance of his family. Through faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.— By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place he would later receive as an inheritance, and he went out without understanding where he was going. By faith he lived as a foreigner in the promised land as though it were a foreign country, living in it with Isaac and Jacob, who were fellow heirs of the same promise. For he was looking forward to the city with firm foundations, whose architect and builder is God. By faith, even though Sarah herself was barren and he was too old, he received the ability to procreate, because he regarded the one who had given the promise to be trustworthy. So in fact children were fathered by one man – and this one as good as dead – like the number of stars in the sky and like the innumerable grains of sand on the seashore. These all died in faith without receiving the things promised, but they saw them in the distance and welcomed them and acknowledged that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth. For those who speak in such a way make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. In fact, if they had been thinking of the land that they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. But as it is, they aspire to a better land, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.— By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. He had received the promises, yet he was ready to offer up his only son. God had told him, “Through Isaac descendants will carry on your name,” and he reasoned that God could even raise him from the dead, and in a sense he received him back from there.— By faith also Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning the future.— By faith Jacob, as he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph and worshiped as he leaned on his staff.— By faith Joseph, at the end of his life, mentioned the exodus of the sons of Israel and gave instructions about his burial.— By faith, when Moses was born, his parents hid him for three months, because they saw the child was beautiful and they were not afraid of the king’s edict. By faith, when he grew up, Moses refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, choosing rather to be ill-treated with the people of God than to enjoy sin’s fleeting pleasure. He regarded abuse suffered for Christ to be greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for his eyes were fixed on the reward. By faith he left Egypt without fearing the king’s anger, for he persevered as though he could see the one who is invisible. By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that the one who destroyed the firstborn would not touch them. By faith they crossed the Red Sea as if on dry ground, but when the Egyptians tried it, they were swallowed up. — By faith the walls of Jericho fell after the people marched around them for seven days. — By faith Rahab the prostitute escaped the destruction of the disobedient because she welcomed the spies in peace. And what more shall I say? For time will fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets. Through faith they conquered kingdoms, administered justice, gained what was promised, shut the mouths of lions, quenched raging fire, escaped the edge of the sword, gained strength in weakness, became mighty in battle, put foreign armies to flight, and women received back their dead raised to life. But others were tortured, not accepting release, to obtain resurrection to a better life.

    And others experienced mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. They were stoned, sawed apart, murdered with the sword; they went about in sheepskins and goatskins; they were destitute, afflicted, ill-treated (the world was not worthy of them); they wandered in deserts and mountains and caves and openings in the earth. And these all were commended for their faith, yet they did not receive what was promised. For God had provided something better for us, so that they would be made perfect together with us.) 

Jesus explained to Pilate that His kingdom is not of this world. (John 18:33-40; So, Pilate asked Jesus, “Are you the king of the Jews?” Jesus replied, “Are you saying this on your own initiative, or have others told you about me?” Pilate answered, “I am not a Jew, am I? Your own people and your chief priests handed you over to me. What have you done?” Jesus replied, “My kingdom is not from this world. If my kingdom were from this world, my servants would be fighting to keep me from being handed over to the Jewish authorities. But as it is, my kingdom is not from here.” Then Pilate said, “So you are a king!” Jesus replied, “You say that I am a king. For this reason I was born, and for this reason I came into the world – to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.” Pilate asked, “What is truth?” When he had said this he went back outside to the Jewish leaders and announced, “I find no basis for an accusation against him. But it is your custom that I release one prisoner for you at the Passover. So do you want me to release for you the king of the Jews?” Then they shouted back, “Not this man, but Barabbas!” (Now Barabbas was a revolutionary.) 

    (King Jesus is now ruling from His heavenly throne, since His ascension and until His return, resurrecting His followers to eternal life and delivering Israelites to the borders promised Abraham. See Ezekiel 37.)

     So Pilate came outside to them and said, “What accusation do you bring against this man?” They replied, “If this man were not a criminal, we would not have handed him over to you.” Pilate told them, “Take him yourselves and pass judgment on him according to your own law!” The Jewish leaders replied, “We cannot legally put anyone to death.” (This happened to fulfill the word Jesus had spoken when he indicated what kind of death he was going to die.) So Pilate went back into the governor’s residence, summoned Jesus, and asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews,” Jesus repeated what He had told him already.

    Born anew people are being guided today as Jesus revealed through John. (John 16:12-39; “I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. But when the Spirit of truth, comes, it will guide you into all truth. For it will not speak on its own authority, but will speak whatever it hears, and will tell you what is to come. It will glorify me, because it will receive from me what is mine and will tell it to you. Everything that the Father has is mine; that is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what is mine and will tell it to you. 

   “I have told you these things in obscure figures of speech; a time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in obscure figures, but will tell you plainly about the Father. At that time you will ask in my name, and I do not say that I will ask the Father on your behalf. For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God. 

   I came from the Father and entered into the world, but in turn, I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.”  His disciples said, “Look, now you are speaking plainly and not in obscure figures of speech! Now we know that you know everything and do not need anyone to ask you anything. Because of this we believe that you have come from God.” Jesus replied, “Do you now believe? Look, a time is coming – and has come – when you will be scattered, each one to his own home, and I will be left alone. Yet I am not alone, because my Father is with me. I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble and suffering, but take courage – I have conquered the world.”)

    In this age followers of Jesus should know their citizenship is in heaven with Jesus. Our bodies, ‘this tent’ is temporary but new spiritual bodies and eternal life is our reality. (Philippians 3:20-21; “But our citizenship is in heaven – and we also await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform these humble bodies of ours into the likeness of His glorious body by means of that power by which He is able to subject all things to Himself.”) (Believing IN this scriptural text, is revelation. To practice life according to this knowledge, is to be At-One with Jesus.

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   Sunset today begins the seventh of seven annual Sabbaths as the Feast of Tabernacles closes. This ‘Last Great Day’ foreshadows judgment and likely Gods final judgment. Consider God’s criteria for judging His called people and the world  in Holy Scriptures.

    God made perpetual covenants with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and David, saying to Abraham that his heirs would be delivered and inherit the promised lands, disobey, be enslaved again and be delivered perpetually again.  To David He promises, ‘your dynasty will be forever.’ We see David’s spiritual mind set in his thanksgiving prayer to God: (2Samuel 7:18-29; King David went in, sat before the LORD, and said, “Who am I, O Sovereign LORD, and what is my family, that you should have brought me to this point? And you didn’t stop there, O LORD God! You have also spoken about the future of your servant’s family. Is this your usual way of dealing with men, O Sovereign LORD? What more can David say to You? You have given your servant special recognition, O Sovereign LORD! For the sake of your promise and according to your purpose you have done this great thing in order to reveal it to your servant. Therefore You are great, O Sovereign LORD, for there is none like you! There is no God besides you! What we have heard is true! Who is like your people, Israel, a unique nation on the earth? Their God went to claim a nation for Himself and to make a name for Himself! You did great and awesome acts for Your land, before Your people whom You delivered for Yourself from the Egyptian empire and its gods. You made Israel Your very own people for all time. You, O LORD, became their God. So now, O LORD God, make this promise You have made about Your servant and his family a permanent reality. Do as you promised, so You may gain lasting fame, as people say, ‘The LORD of Heaven’s Armies is God over Israel!’ The dynasty of your servant David will be established before you, for You, O LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, have told your servant, ‘I will build you a dynastic house.’ That is why your servant has had the courage to pray this prayer to you. Now, O Sovereign LORD, you are the true God! May your words prove to be true! You have made this good promise to your servant! Now be willing to bless Your servant’s dynasty so that it may stand permanently before you, for you, O Sovereign LORD, have spoken. By your blessing may your servant’s dynasty be blessed on into the future!”)

   After David his son Solomon was made king of Israel, making a temple for the Lord God and to His liking, plus dwellings for himself and others. He recruited help of other kings who respected him. Israel had peace during Solomon’s reign, though he was not as righteous as David, he had foreign wives. After Solomon most appointed kings did that which displeased the Lord, few did away with idols until finally Babylon overpowered Israel as prophesied. Read first and second Kings about the Lord God Jesus’ speaking through  His prophets, ‘Elijah, Elisha. and Isaiah until after Babylon took them captive. Jesus spoke and did miracles primarily through these three through Hezekiah’s time.  Afterward turn to  the book of Matthew and see how God’s kingdom with David’s dynasty is brought forward. (The following named people in Matthew and their accomplishments are recorded in first and second kings. You may want to skip most of these but read verse 17.  

 (Matt 1:1-17; This is the record of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, Judah the father of Perez and Zerah (by Tamar), Perez the father of Hezron, Hezron the father of Ram, Ram the father of Amminadab, Amminadab the father of Nahshon, Nahshon the father of Salmon, Salmon the father of Boaz (by Rahab), Boaz the father of Obed (by Ruth), Obed the father of Jesse, and Jesse the father of David the king. David was the father of Solomon (by the wife of Uriah), Solomon the father of Rehoboam, Rehoboam the father of Abijah, Abijah the father of Asa, Asa the father of Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, Joram the father of Uzziah, Uzziah the father of Jotham, Jotham the father of Ahaz, Ahaz the father of Hezekiah, Hezekiah the father of Manasseh, Manasseh the father of Amon, Amon the father of Josiah, and Josiah the father of Jeconiah and his brothers, at the time of the deportation to Babylon. –  After the deportation to Babylon, Jeconiah became the father of Shealtiel, Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel, Zerubbabel the father of Abiud, Abiud the father of Eliakim, Eliakim the father of Azor, Azor the father of Zadok, Zadok the father of Achim, Achim the father of Eliud, Eliud the father of Eleazar, Eleazar the father of Matthan, Matthan the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, by whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ. (17) So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon, fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to Christ, fourteen generations.)

     Our previous chapter explained why God began planning and choosing for Himself, ‘a called people who would be loyal to and AT-ONE with Himself.’ (See several texts below supporting God’s New Covenant calling principles.)

    (Gal 5:13; For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity to indulge your flesh, but through love serve one another.)

   (Eph 1:1-7; I therefore, the prisoner for the Lord, urge you to live worthily of the calling with which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, putting up with one another in love, making every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit, just as you too were called to the one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift.) 

   (Col 3:14-17; And to all these- virtues add love, which is the perfect bond. Let the peace of Christ be in control in your heart (for you were in fact called as one body to this peace), and be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and exhorting one another with all wisdom, singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, all with grace in your hearts to God. And whatever you do in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God through Him.)

    Jesus ancestor of David and Abraham’s heirs fulfills His spiritual purpose in establishing a new covenant during David’s future dynasty’s by demonstrating the law’s magnifying principles through His apostle Paul. Observe God’s calling followers of Jesus to obey Him through gifted faith, by grace, through love of and respect for God’s oracles.

   (Gal 5:17-27; For the flesh has desires that are opposed to the Spirit, and the Spirit has desires that are opposed to the flesh, for these are in opposition to each other, so that you cannot do what you want. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, depravity, idolatry, sorcery, hostilities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish rivalries, dissensions, factions, envying, murder, drunkenness, carousing, and similar things. I am warning you, as I had warned you before: Those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God! But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also behave in accordance with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, being jealous of one another.)

     Through Paul Jesus is speaking of a called people, who are spiritually born anew, made family and temples of His spirit in this and the age to come.

To,40,270 subscribers we pray God is making Temples of His Spirit. 10/14/22. God’s 7^th month, Tishrel 20. 5,783 (Day 6, 5^th day Feast of Tabernacles)

    Paul explained that when people knew God, they didn’t glorify Him. Abel, Enoch, and Noah are mentioned as the few who obeyed & found favor with God before Abraham. Abraham was the first God called to separate, move away from family and populations at large to walk in obedience to Him. So, from the time of Abraham the Lord God began choosing people who’d believe & be AT-ONE with Himself faithfully. God made a covenant with Abraham and his descendants, saying, ‘He’d protect, fight their battles, be as a husband and they as His wife. Israel is the only nation ever chosen to be God’s chosen people, and only because of promises to ancestors Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. God explained they did nothing to deserve deliverance and a covenant of promise, but only because He promised Abraham. Jesus had His apostle Paul explain how His followers got to the point of having a new covenant in Romans and Hebrews.

    (Rom 1:18-22; For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of people who suppress the truth by their unrighteousness, because what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes – His eternal power and divine nature – have been clearly seen, because they are understood through what has been made. So people are without excuse. For although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or give Him thanks, but they became futile in their thoughts and their senseless hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools.)  

  Abraham was told his ancestors would be in bondage to foreigners some 400 plus years before they’d be delivered to be God’s chosen. We have the written account of Jesus delivering through Moses and telling Moses ‘One likened to Moses’ would come from within their ranks, ‘One people must obey.’ After Moses and Joshua God governed Israel through Judges, Samuel being the last before Israel desired a king like other nations. The second God ordained king was David who was loyal to the degree that God promised his dynasty would last forever. One in David’s linage ‘the Son of God’ was prophesied to come, shed His blood for the remission of sins, be crucified, resurrected, ascend back to His Father until a set time when He’d return to rule as He’d inspired David. We are expecting Jesus’ return to accomplish all the promises made through Abraham, His prophets and apostles. In the flesh, Son of God, Deliverer and Savior Jesus taught three and one half years and before He returns, two witnesses will give His message three and one half years, (See Rev, 11)

    Jesus apostle John was inspired to write John 1:1-5, introducing Jesus. (John 20:30-31; Now Jesus performed many other miraculous signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not recorded in this book. But these are recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His name.)  (Luke 19:41-44; “Now when Jesus approached and saw the city, He wept over it, saying, “If you had only known on this day, even you, the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and surround you and close in on you from every side. They will demolish you – you and your children within your walls – and they will not leave within you one stone on top of another because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”) (Seemingly, this prophecy is yet to happen, unless God the Father chooses to shorten time, for the sake of the Elect. Israel’s enemies are now surrounded Jerusalem and dedicated to destruction. They will do the things our Lord God Jesus viewed abominable. (Matthew too recorded Jesus.)

    (Matt 24:15-22; “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. The one on the roof must not come down to take anything out of his house and the one in the field must not turn back to get his cloak. Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days! Pray that your flight may not be in winter or on a Sabbath. For then there will be great suffering unlike anything that has happened from the beginning of the world until now, or ever will happen. And if those days had not been cut short, no one would be saved. But for the sake of the Elect those days will be cut short.) (Israelites, particularly the Jews are hated by condoners of worldly traditional values, haters of God’s righteousness, mainly because to Jews the oracles of God are committed.) (Review Romans 3:1-4. It’s a quote from Psalms 51:4)

   Likely it was on the 11^th or 12^th day of Nisan when Jesus entered the temple courts. (Luke 19:45-48; Then Jesus entered the temple courts and began to drive out those who were selling things there, saying to them, It is written, ‘My house will be a house of prayer,’ but you have turned it into a den of robbers! (Quote Jeremiah 7:11) Jesus was teaching daily in the temple courts. The chief priests and the experts in the law and the prominent leaders among the people were seeking to assassinate Him, but they could not find a way to do it, for all the people hung on His words.”)

    Satan’s attempt to reveal himself and his followers as angels of light, offers some truth and many half-truths. Undeniably these do some good. Most worldly denominational leaders support various community programs and all should agree that it’s good when the hungry are fed, needy clothed and schooled. Good deeds will be rewarded when done altruistically. We should know too, organizational good deeds are bureaucratic, about forty percent of donations go to salaries and promotional advertisements. Christian principle is individual direct support to the needy. Bureaucracies serve themselves first. Our point? Organizations and their programs camouflage their main purpose. Which is to provide income for themselves and co-workers. Generally, the giving public never examine organizations’ inner workings. (Remember, the Christian duty is to prove all things, hold fast to what’s good and overcome our fleshly nature to the end. (See 1Thess 5:21-24) Jesus’ message” must be the criteria for worship. Satan and his followers want to deceive.

    (2Cor 11:13-15; “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.”)

    Polytheist belief in more than one deity and pantheist believe God and the material world are one and the same thing. God being present in everything is palmed off as in doing community services, particularly to like-minded people. Presenting themselves as angels of light is to deceive naïve people. It’s revelation when God’s people understanding their characteristics, ways, promises and purposes. Spiritually led people seek God’s way and prayerfully go to His Word to discern truth, ‘not organizations.’ We need to know to whom God’s promises are made and to whom God is speaking. (For example, in John’s fourteenth chapter, Jesus isn’t speaking to future followers but to His apostles.) Verses 12-14 had their initial fulfillment during the apostolic time. “I tell you the solemn truth, the person who believes in Me will perform the miraculous deeds that I am doing and will perform greater deeds than these, because I am going to the Father. And I will do whatever you ask in My name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it.” John 14;12-14) But greater fulfillments are coming.

    Jesus’ healing people when Peter’s shadow passed over them, is one of those greater works promised. Peter wasn’t thinking about each individual when his shadow passed over and saying a quick prayer asking for healing. Jesus did these healing to demonstrate His working through His apostle. In the case of such healings, it wasn’t knowing faith nor an attempt to conjure it up, knowing faith is gifted! Exercising hope faith is good when we know who Jesus is, but why ask when we know we aren’t willing to be obedient. We’re attempting to share Jesus’ apostle’s understanding about their knowing and hope faith. Peter demonstrated gifted knowing faith when he was called to Joppa after Tabitha died. (See & review Acts 9:40-43)

    Hope faith prayer to God should be from the point of view that God knows best; so, we ask, according to Your will. We should understand in our submit to God, that we’re mere people who don’t know what’s best. Un-believers prayers are to gods of their imagination. Consider Paul’s definition of knowing - revealed faith, in his letter to the Hebrews.

    (Heb 11:1-3; “Now faith is being sure of what we hope for, convinced of what we do not see. For by it ‘faith’ the people of old received God’s commendation. By faith we understand that the worlds were set in order at God’s command, so that the visible has its origin in the invisible.”) The King James Version reads; “now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”)

    Jesus’ apostles’ letters are to Believers, a called out people to be Christ like. A people God was or is making His ‘circumcision of the heart covenant people.’ So, lets repeat from a previous study. When Paul’s coworker Epaphroditus nearly died from sickness, Paul was not gifted with knowing faith regarding the outcome of his sickness.

    (Phil 3:17-21; “Be imitators of me, brothers and sisters, and watch carefully those who are living this way, just as you have us (we apostles) as an example. For many live, about whom I have often told you, and now, with tears, I tell you that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ. Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, they exult in their shame, and they think about earthly things.”)  (Bureaucratic organizations are in this category. (See Matt 24:5) Judging from Jesus’ Words and scriptural evidence, most of those professing Christ are deceived and their religion vain. Of their own accord, they choose denominations that fits their inherited thinking, so live according to what seems intellectually correct.

    (Phil 3:20-21; “But our citizenship is in heaven – and we also await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform these humble bodies of ours into the likeness of His glorious body by means of that power by which He is able to subject all things to Himself.”)

    (Phil 4:3; “So then, my brothers and sisters, dear friends whom I long to see, my joy and crown, stand in the Lord in this way, my dear friends!”)

    There’s only one way, it’s to be spiritually led to turn from living the previously ‘seemed right to our intellect way’ our fleshly mind way, to practice His Way. The Way of life our Creator commands is to stand with the Lord. I appeal to Euodia and to Syntyche to agree in the Lord. Yes, I say also to you true companions, help them. They have struggled together in the gospel ministry along with me and Clement and my other coworkers, whose names are in the book of life.”) (Called believer’s IN have their names written in the book of life. They’ll be in the first resurrection. Others of God’s choosing will be in a second fleshly resurrection. Jesus reveals this in His Revelations to John. (Study Revelations 2:11, 20:6, 20:13 & 21:8) 

To: 40.199 subscribers we pray God is making Temples of His spirit. 10/11/22, God’s 7th month, Tishrel 16, 5,783. (Day 3 of week, day 2 of Tabernacles)

     Cain rationalized about worshiping God through his sacrifice, thinking ‘if I were God’ I’d be pleased with my vegetable sacrifice. He wasn’t spiritually aware of blood sacrifice representing Jesus’ planned sacrifice for the remission of sins. Perhaps neither was Abel but he apparently didn’t rationalize, he just obeyed. Likewise Abraham didn’t rationalize about God’s commands.

    Individuals, Christendom & denominationalist like Pharisee and Sadducees in Jesus’ day, rationalize and choose for themselves what they think is right rather than going to & obeying God. Not aware that we inherited minds that rationalize about right, wrong, good and evil until God reveals our inherited from Adam and Eve’s rationalizing spirit. Thus, we each self-righteously think we’re capable of deciding for ourselves. It’s how Satan wants us to think. It’s why the world, nations and families are divided.

    The same Jesus who was with God in a beginning is the Lord God who communed with Cain after his sacrifice wasn’t acceptable saying, (Gen 4:6-16; “Why are you angry, and why is your expression downcast?  Is it not true that if you do what is right, you will be fine? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at the door. It desires to dominate you, but you must subdue it.” Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.” While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him. Then the LORD said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” And he replied, “I don’t know! Am I my brother’s guardian?”  But the LORD said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground! So now, you are banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. When you try to cultivate the ground it will no longer yield its best for you. You will be a homeless wanderer on the earth.” Then Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is too great to endure! Look! You are driving me off the land today, and I must hide from your presence. I will be a homeless wanderer on the earth; whoever finds me will kill me.” But the LORD said to him, “All right then, if anyone kills Cain, Cain will be avenged seven times as much.” Then the LORD put a special mark on Cain so that no one who found him would strike him down. So. Cain went out from the presence of the LORD and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.)

    Our nature wants to decide for itself, dominate until God calls and reveals our self-serving inherited rationalizing minds that leads to eternal death. Such rationalization must be turned from through Jesus, in order to inherit eternal life.

    Now the first annual Sabbath is ‘the day after Passover’ the 15^th of Nisan. Like each it is a perpetual Holy Day for both physical and spiritual Israelites. On the 10^th day of Nisan Jesus rode a donkey from the Mt. of Olives to Jerusalem; years before on the 10^th of Nisan” He instructed Moses to have the Israelites put up a lamb or goat to be killed and eaten on the same day. (See Exodus 12:) (Matt 21: Jesus sent two for a donkey and colt, saying to who’d ask “the Lord needs them.) The day was fulfilled See Zach 9:9) Matt 21:5; (Tell the people of Zion, ‘Look, your king is coming to you, unassuming and seated on a donkey, and on a colt, the foal of a donkey.’) (Along the way large crowds placed their coats and branches on the road, saying “blessed is the One who comes in the name of the Lord, Hosanna to the Son of David and saying “this is the prophet Jesus, from Nazareth in Galilee.) Our Savior like a sacrificial lamb  willingly submitted to be confined four days and killed on that 14^th day. Three nights and days later they’d find His tomb empty.

    Matthew recorded eleven disciples went to Galilee, Jesus had designated they meet Him. Thomas was likely one of the eleven. If so, he was slow to believe what Jesus had said. (See Matt 27) (John 20:19-23; On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the disciples had gathered together and locked the doors of the place because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders. Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.” When He had said this, He showed them His hands and His side. Then the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. So, Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. Just as the Father has sent Me, I also send you.” And after He said this, He breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you (apostles) forgive anyone’s sins, they are forgiven; if you retain anyone’s sins, they are retained.”) Thomas wasn’t among the apostles on that first visit behind locked doors and Thomas stated that unless he saw with his own eyes he’d not believe. (John 20:26-29; Eight days later the disciples were again together in the house, and Thomas was with them. Although the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” Then He said to Thomas, “Put your finger here, and examine My hands. Extend your hand and put it into My side. Do not continue in, your unbelief but believe.” Thomas replied to Him, “My Lord and my God!” Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen Me? Blessed are the people who have not seen and yet have believed.”) (Previously Jesus had told an unbelieving crowd, “My sheep hear, listen, follow Me and I give them eternal life, the Father and I are One.

    Christians are AT-ONE with Jesus and God the Father, understanding that Jesus is Re-Creator, Creator, Sustainer, Deliverer, now Mediator on our behalf before the Father and our coming king of kings. Jesus inspired John to write.  (John 1:1-5; “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was fully God. The Word was with God in the beginning. All things were created by Him, and apart from Him not one thing was created that has been created. In him was life, and the life was the light of mankind. And the light shines on in the darkness, but the darkness has not mastered it.”)

   Jesus said unbelievers were those assuming God would be pleased with their choices regarding worship and life practices. People not believing that eternal life is only through Creator Jesus. John uses a Greek word for ‘eternal life’ 37 times: 17 times outside the same prologue. No need to insert the Greek since we aren’t attempting to teach translators. It’s clear from the context that eternal life is the meaning. At 1John he uses the Greek “ζωή“ 13 times, always meaning eternal life. (Additionally, is the allusion to Ps 36:9, which gives significant Old Testament background. (“For with You is the fountain of life” “In Your light we see light.”) Other Judaism text expresses the similar idea. Life, especially ‘eternal life’ is one of the major themes of John’s Gospel.       Worldly organized religions, calling themselves Christian, dismiss Jesus’ apostle Paul’s plain talk about deceitful workers.

    (Phil 3:1-6; “Finally, my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord! To write this again is no trouble to me, and it is a safeguard for you. Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of those who mutilate the flesh! For we (Believers) are the Circumcision, the Ones who worship by the Spirit of God, exult in Christ Jesus, and do not rely on human credentials – though mine too are significant.”) (Today’s Circumcision are those God calls, gives humility and covenants with circumcision of heart people, those called out to be Believers, At[One with the Father and the Son.) Paul was inspired to write. (2Corinthians 13:15; “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.” “If someone thinks he has good reasons to put confidence in human credentials, I have more: I was circumcised on the eighth day, from the people of Israel and the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews. I lived according to the law as a Pharisee. In my zeal for God, I persecuted the church. According to the righteousness stipulated in the law I was blameless.”

    (Meditate on Paul’s statement. Denominational minded leaders in every community, have a zeal for their work as they see their calling. They manifest themselves as angels of light. There’s always some good and through good works many people are led to follow without proving their message. Paul admits that he had been one of these! One day after our resurrections many more minds will be opened, many will repent for having practiced what seemed right to themselves. After his calling, Paul considered his previous assets as liabilities.)

    (Phil 3:7-9; “But these assets I have come to regard as liabilities because of Christ. More than that, I now regard all things as liabilities compared to the far greater value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things – indeed, I regard them as dung! – that I may gain Christ, and be found in Him, not because I have my own righteousness derived from the law, but because I have the righteousness that comes by way of Christ’s faithfulness is a righteousness from God that is in fact based on Christ’s faithfulness.”)

    Based on Jesus’ faith, not his own! It’s popular for people to use the terminology (my faith). Paul had a ‘my faith’ belief before his conversion. Afterward Paul was clothed with Jesus’ faith. Faith in Jesus is what God accomplishes in us when we’re a called & born from above. When the mind of Jesus is revealed, (imputed) to our being.

   When Jesus was thinking of going to Jerusalem to fulfill shedding His blood for the remission of sin. He was warned not to go, a prophet came and used His belt in a prophetic warning. Let’s review Jesus’ private words to His apostles.

    (Matt 20:17-19; As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, He took the twelve aside privately and said to them on the way, “Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the experts in the law. They will condemn Him to death and will turn Him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged severely and crucified. Yet on the third day, he will be raised.”)

    Consider Jesus’ apostles mindset then and their thinking before Jesus breathed on and gave them understanding of the scriptures. Look back and review Paul’s words at Philippians 3:1.)

    (Phil 3:10-16; “My aim is to know Him, to experience the power of His resurrection, to share in His sufferings, to be like Him in His death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.”)

    (As Paul individualized his aim; we too should be mindful of “attaining to the resurrection.) (Restudy Jesus’ revelations to Paul at 1Cor 15. Paul admits he’s still in the overcoming stage to maturity.) “Not that I have already attained this – that is, I have not already been perfected – but I strive to lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus also laid hold of me. Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself to have attained this. Instead, I am single-minded: Forgetting the things that are behind and reaching out for the things that are ahead, with this goal in mind, I strive toward the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Therefore, let those of us who are (being perfected) embrace this point of view. If you think otherwise, God will reveal to you the error of your ways. Nevertheless, let us live up to the standard that we have already attained.”) The New Covenants parallels the old.

     The old covenant our Lord Jesus affirmed with Abraham was after the promises. Circumcision of the flesh was a physical reminder of God’s promises to an obedient people; those desiring to be a part of Israel submitted to it. All looked forward to circumcision’s spiritual component, gifted circumcision of the heart. A nature, change if you please. A spiritual fathering, by the Father to those elected to be spiritual Israelites. A people He put in His church family. The holy scriptures strongly indicate that God’s called out people are kept on His preverbal potters’ wheel, for perfecting during this life. Making us disciplined children. After Jesus’ death the Father’s called out Elect Saints to take to that heavenly Mount Zion. It’s the heavenly place Paul visualized in prayer and looked forward to going after his death.

    (Hebrews 12:22-29; “But ‘when’ you, (Elect Saints) worship you‘ve come to Mount Zion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, to the assembly and congregation of the firstborn, who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous, who have been made perfect, and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant and to the sprinkled blood that speaks of something better than Abel’s does. Take care not to refuse the One who is speaking! For if they did not escape when they refused the One who warned them on earth, how much less shall we, if we reject the One who warns from heaven? Then His voice shook the earth, but now He has promised, “I will once more shake not only the earth but heaven too.” Now this phrase “once more” indicates the removal of what is shaken, that is, of created things, so that what is unshaken may remain. So, since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us give thanks, and through this let us offer worship pleasing to God in devotion and awe. For our God is indeed a devouring fire.”) 

    An independent study of the holy scriptures should make any honest thinking person suspicious of religious leaders, regardless their fleshly good works. 

To,40,175 subscribers we pray God is making Temples of His Spirit. 10/10//22. God’s 7^th month, Tishrel 15. 5,783 (Day 2, ‘Feast of Tabernacles)

   Its always a full moon @ Tishrel 15, on God’s calendar, coinciding with God’s creation and ‘His chosen called covenanted with people and is foreshadowed by His Sabbaths, particularly His annual Sabbaths. Review chapter 11. Like God’s first Annual Sabbath, His sixth is perpetually set aside for God’s covenanted with people. That is Abraham’s physical and spiritual heirs. Jesus’ apostles were gifted with this understanding that He had Paul write.

    (Galatians 3:29; And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendants, heirs according to the promise.) Consider the whole leading up to this verse, remembering the law was given after Abraham’s believing God. (Gal 3:19-29; Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of ‘The Descendant’ to whom the promise had been made. It was administered through angels by an intermediary. Now an intermediary is not for one party alone, but God is One. Is the law therefore opposed to the promises of God? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that was able to give life, then righteousness would certainly have come by the law. But the scripture imprisoned everything under sin so that the promise could be given – because of the faithfulness of Jesus Christ – to those who believe. Now before (Jesus’) faith 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 (Jesus’ gifted) faith. But now that (Jesus’) faith has come, (been gifted) we are no longer under a guardian. For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God through (His gifted) faith. For all of you who were baptized 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.)

    The world, all unbelievers are under God’s law because of transgressions, only recipients of God’s gifted spirit aren’t under the law; that’s only because His loving spirit is miraculously gifted to the mind, His love shed abroad to the depth of their being makes for no desire to practice what He considers sin.  Jesus’ apostles were gifted to understand that God’s weekly Sabbaths and three set aside seasons were for worship that looked forward to Jesus’ gifted faith to His chosen, covenanted with people, becoming heirs with Abraham whose belief in God demonstrated his faith and righteousness in God’s view, making him God’s friend. Followers of Jesus are God’s children and friend by gifted faith through Jesus, like Abraham’s faith when we’re called to believe as did Abraham. 

    Remember Moses was told to tell Israel, Deut 30:11-20; “This commandment I am giving you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it too remote. It is not in heaven, as though one must say, “Who will go up to heaven to get it for us and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?” And it is not across the sea, as though one must say, “Who will cross over to the other side of the sea and get it for us and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?”  For the thing is very near you – it is in your mouth and in your mind so that you can do it. “Look! I have set before you today life and prosperity on the one hand, and death and disaster on the other. What I am commanding you today is to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to obey his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances. Then you will live and become numerous and the LORD your God will bless you in the land which you are about to possess.  However, if you turn aside and do not obey, but are lured away to worship and serve other gods,  I declare to you this very day that you will certainly perish! You will not extend your time in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess. Today I invoke heaven and earth as a witness against you that I have set life and death, blessing and curse, before you. Therefore choose life so that you and your descendants may live!—  I also call on you to love the LORD your God, to obey him and be loyal to him, for he gives you life and enables you to live continually in the land the LORD promised to give to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”)

    God told Joshua, (Jos 22:4-5; Now the LORD your God has made your fellow Israelites secure, just as he promised them. So now you may turn around and go to your homes in your own land which Moses the LORD’s servant assigned to you east of the Jordan. But carefully obey the commands and instructions Moses the LORD’s servant gave you. Love the LORD your God, follow all his instructions, obey his commands, be loyal to him, and serve him with all your heart and being!”)

    Matthew recorded Jesus saying the same, (Matt 22:34-40; Now when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they assembled together. And one of them, an expert in religious law, asked him a question to test Him: “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” Jesus said to him, “‘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.”) (Now these two commandments are planted in the mind when we’re miraculously born anew, ‘born from above’ or ‘born again.’  While the Pharisees were assembled, Jesus asked them a question: 

    Jesus then asked, Mat 22:42-46; “What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?” They said, “The son of David.” He said to them, “How then does David by the Spirit call him ‘Lord,’ saying, ‘The Lord said to my lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet”’? If David then calls Him ‘Lord,’ how can he be his son?” No one was able to answer him a word, and from that day on no one dared to question him any longer.)

    Peter answered that question about who Jesus is at Acts 2:22-41; “Men of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man clearly attested to you by God with powerful deeds, wonders, and miraculous signs that God performed among you through him, just as you yourselves know – this man, who was handed over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you executed by nailing him to a cross at the hands of Gentiles. But God raised him up, having released him from the pains of death, because it was not possible for him to be held in its power. 

  For David says about him, ‘I saw the Lord always in front of me, for he is at my right hand so that I will not be shaken. Therefore my heart was glad and my tongue rejoiced; my body also will live in hope, because you will not leave my soul in Hades, nor permit your Holy One to experience decay. You have made known to me the paths of life; you will make me full of joy with your presence.’ “Brothers, I can speak confidently to you about our forefather David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. So then, because he was a prophet and knew that God had sworn to him with an oath to seat one of his descendants on his throne, David by foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was neither abandoned to Hades, nor did his body experience decay. This Jesus God raised up, and we are all witnesses of it. So then, exalted to the right hand of God, and having received the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father, he has poured out what you both see and hear. For David did not ascend into heaven, but he himself says, ‘The Lord said to my lord, “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.”’ Therefore let all the house of Israel know beyond a doubt that God has made this Jesus whom you crucified both Lord and Christ.” Now when they heard this, they were acutely distressed and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “What should we do, brothers?” Peter said to them, “Repent, and each one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is for you and your children, and for all who are far away, as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.” With many other words he testified and exhorted them saying, “Save yourselves from this perverse generation!” So those who accepted his message were baptized, and that day about three thousand people were added.)

    So, who can accept Jesus’ message through Peter? Who is God calling to Jesus’ way? When will Jesus’ enemies become footstools for His feet? This day always foreshadowed that time and why followers of Jesus, those covenanted with Him rejoice in it and attempt to keep it holy.

To,40,148 subscribers we pray God is making Temples of His Spirit. 10/9//22. God’s 7^th month, Tishrel 14. 5,783 (Day 1 until sunset then Tabernacles)

    Feast of Tabernacles is set aside for God’s covenanted people, a time of crop harvest within the borders promised Abraham for himself and his descendants, a celebratory time looking to the Millennium, Jesus’ coming and new spiritual bodies. Temporary dwellings reminded His people that God planned our physical bodies were to be made spiritual. This Feast more festive than other annual sabbaths with a little wine etc

    Crop harvest and the Feast of Tabernacles for New Testament followers of Jesus also looks to the harvest of people for God’s kingdom. A covenanted promise of eternal life to believers in Jesus’ shed blood for the remission of their sins. Jesus told parables about this subject. God purposely set aside His seventh month and it’s four annual Sabbaths to foreshadow His saving plan. As always Satan arranges camouflage times to God’s Sabbaths and Festival’s.

Marti Grau, October Fest and Halloween is Satan’s attempt to replace the Feast of Tabernacles.

    We are blessed indeed when we know we’re Believers in Jesus. More than 12 apostles were traveling with Jesus in route to Jerusalem. He was giving parables along the way. (One about the Kingdom of God: a rich landowner hiring workers and paying those who worked less the same as the early hires. “So, the last will be first, and the first last.” The indication is ‘some at the close of this age will be first.’ Hearing Jesus’ parable, Zebedee’s wife knelt before Jesus and ask that her two sons sit on Jesus’ right and left sides in His kingdom. Jesus said, “you don’t know what you ask, it’s already prepared by My Father.” (Matt 20:28; Then Jesus called to the two brothers and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those in high positions use their authority over them. It must not be this way among you! Instead, whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant and whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave - just as the Son of Man did not come, to be served but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”)

    The first month on God’s calendar. (Matt 20:17-19; As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, He took the twelve aside privately and said to them on the way, “Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the experts in the law. They will condemn Him to death and will turn Him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged severely and crucified. Yet on the third day, He will be raised.”)

    It was likely the 7^th day of Nisan and perhaps Jesus was thinking back to His delivering the Israelites through Moses at this season and saying to Moses; (Exodus 11:9-11; “Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that My wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.” So, Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, but the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not release the Israelites from his land.”) Even then in Egypt, Jesus was looking forward to His being the sacrificial Lamb of God. (Jesus said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, “This month is to be your beginning of months; it will be your first month of the year. Tell the whole community of Israel, ‘In the tenth day of this month they each must take a lamb for themselves according to their families – a lamb for each household. If any household is too small for a lamb, the man and his next-door neighbor are to take a lamb according to the number of people – you will make your count for the lamb according to how much each one can eat. Your lamb must be perfect, a male, one year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats. You must care for it until the fourteenth day of this month, and then the whole community of Israel will kill it around sundown. They will take some of the blood and put it on the two side posts and top of the doorframe of the houses where they will eat it. They will eat the meat the same night; they will eat it roasted over the fire with bread made without yeast and with bitter herbs. Do not eat it raw or boiled in water, but roast it over the fire with its head, its legs, and its entrails. You must leave nothing until morning, but you must burn with fire whatever remains of it until morning. This is how you are to eat it – dressed to travel, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. You are to eat it in haste. It is the Lord’s Passover.” Exodus 12:1-11) 

   (Its the season and events followers of Jesus must focus on, to worship and contemplate on how the season fits with events soon to come.)

    (Exodus 12:12-16; I will pass through the land of Egypt in the same night, and I will attack all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both of humans and of animals, and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment. I am the Lord. The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, so that when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and this plague will not fall on you to destroy you when I attack the land of Egypt. This day will become a memorial for you, and you will celebrate it as a festival to the Lord – you will celebrate it perpetually as a lasting ordinance. For seven days you must eat bread made without yeast. Surely on the first day you must put away yeast from your houses because anyone who eats bread made with yeast from the first day to the seventh day will be cut off from Israel. On the first day (15^th day) there’ll be a holy convocation, and on the seventh day (21^st day) there’ll be a holy convocation for you.

    (Exodus 12:26-28; “When your children ask you, ‘What does this ceremony mean to you?’ then you will say, ‘It is the sacrifice of the Lord’s Passover, when He passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt, when He struck Egypt and delivered our households.’” The people bowed down low to the ground and the Israelites went away and did exactly as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron.”)

    Particularly the ‘10^th of Nisan’ followers of Jesus should be remembering Jesus’ mind set as He rode a donkey into Jerusalem, (allowing Himself to be put up as a lamb for slaughter until the 14^th day.) The 14^th around sunset should be a solemn remembrance as we celebrate Jesus’ new covenant ordnance, sacrificial death, (the 15^th first annual Sabbath, and His three nights and days entombed, His resurrection (tomb empty) on the 18^th day of Nisan.) Followers of Jesus should think on putting away sin and celebrating the second annual Sabbath on the 21^st day of Nisan. It’s the first of three holy seasons of the year ordained by God for believers to celebrate.

    (Matt 27:50-56; On the stake or cross 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.) Now when the centurion and those with him who were guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and what took place, they were extremely terrified and said, “Truly this one was God’s Son!” Many women who had followed Jesus from Galilee and given Him support were also there, watching from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.”) (Remember this is the same mother that ask Jesus that her two sons sit on Jesus’ right and left hand in His Kingdom.)

    (Matt 27:57-61; “Now when it was evening, ’before the 15^th’ there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who was also a disciple of Jesus. He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered that it be given to him. Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut in the rock Then he rolled a great stone across the entrance of the tomb and went away. (Now Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were sitting there, opposite the tomb.”)

    (On or soon after the 18^th day of Nisan Jesus appeared to two. Seemingly the weekly Sabbath fell on the 17^th day of Nisan that year.)

    Matt 28:1-10; Now after the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb. Suddenly there was a severe earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descending from heaven came and rolled away the stone and sat on it. His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow. The guards were shaken and became like dead men because they were so afraid of him. But the angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid; I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here, for He has been raised, just as He said. Come and see the place where He was lying. Then go quickly and tell His disciples, ‘He has been raised from the dead. He is going ahead of you into Galilee. You will see Him there.’ Listen, I have told you! So, they left the tomb quickly, with fear and great joy, and ran to tell His disciples. But Jesus met them, saying, “Greetings!” They came to Him, held on to His feet and worshiped Him. Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid. Go and tell My brothers to go to Galilee. They will see Me there.”)

  Receiving the Great Commission. (Matt 28:16-20; “So the eleven disciples went to Galilee to the mountain Jesus had designated. When they saw Him, they worshiped Him, but some doubted. Then Jesus came up and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”)  — (Scholars deny the trinitarian baptismal formula in the Great Commission, was part of the original text of Matthew, there’s no manuscript support for their contention.) (F. C. Conybeare and the Eusebian Form of the Text of Matt. 28:19, is based his view on a faulty reading of Eusebius’ quotations of this text. The shorter reading has also been accepted, on other grounds, by a few other scholars. For discussion (and refutation of the conjecture that removes this baptismal formula, see B. J. Hubbard, The Matthean Redaction of a Primitive Apostolic Commissioning (SBLDS 19), 163-64, 167-75; and Jane Schaberg, The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit (SBLDS 61) 27-61.)

   We don’t think this should be argued over, we do need to allow the, holy scripture complement one another, beware of translators with agendas and those leaning on tradition. One consideration is that Believers IN are promised the gifted “spirit of truth” “comforter or advocate” which makes each literally children of God. (Jesus said, John 14:15-17; “If you love Me, you will obey My commandments. Then I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be with you forever – the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept because it (the world) does not see Him or know Him. But you know Him, because He resides with you and will be in you.”)  (Another consideration is that Jesus’ apostles never used or named the spirit of truth in their salutations with “God the Father and God the Son.” They did all agree “they were recipients of the Holy Spirit making them At-One with God the Father and God the Son.”) (Jesus made it clear that many could not believe because they weren’t His sheep.) (John 10:26-30; “But you (unbelievers) refuse to believe because you are not My sheep. My sheep listen to My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish; no one will snatch them from My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all, and no one can snatch them from My Father’s hand. The Father and I are One.”) (Review Colossians 1:15-20, John 1:1-5, & Hebrews 1)  (We are blessed indeed when we know we’re Believers in Jesus.)