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The Tombstone of Traditions
Daniel 6:16,17 - Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and
cast him into the den of lions. Now the king spake and said unto
Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest continually, he will deliver thee.
And a stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den; and the
king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords;
that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel.
The biggest killer of Christians has always been one factor
'Tradition'. It is not that traditions are wrong or bad, but yet even
they have always been having hand in destroying Christians.
In the Bible the Lord asked man to do certain things as traditions
with only one reason to pass on understanding to the children and to
build faith for those growing or weak in heart. Any tradition followed
which does not build faith even if it does not seem evil is evil. It
is like taking duplicate medicine which are non-poisonous (like a
sweet made to look as a tablet), they make man feel that something is
been done about the problem but in reality nothing is happening
towards removing the problem, so the problem slowly aggravates.
In the Old Testament festivals and certain communal activities which
later became known as tradition were instructed so as to teach and
testify to the children about God and history of man’s relationship
walk with the Lord.
In the New Testament the Early Church did not give great importance to
traditions on the contrary they did away with most of them. Paul who
was a vessel of the Lord to witness to the kings, gentiles and
children of Israel (those who are growing in the Lord) did speak of
tradition only because his audiences were of that category. Paul in
short was commissioned by the Lord to be a junior school head master
and diplomat between worldly rulers and people who did not know God.
This is the reason Paul's writings do not go deep into study of the
Word or of the Kingdom of God, although he does talk of being aware of
them.
When Jesus resurrected He entered closed rooms without coming through
the door, He also appeared at different places without physical moving
between places. But what we see is when He resurrected the tombstone
covering the entrance was moved aside. Was it necessary to move the
tombstone? Jesus could have resurrected and come out of the tomb
without moving the tombstone.
The tombstone symbolizes tradition and this is confirmed in today's
message. We see Daniel was put in a tomb and a huge bolder like
tombstone covered its entrance, even after that the entrance had
soldiers guarding it, yet we see the king putting his seal on the
tombstone. Not only does the king put his seal but the nobles also put
their seals on the tombstone; these seals represented their approvals.
Traditions are followed by people mainly for getting approval of what
they are doing from the elders or seniors in the faith. Stop any
tradition and the person fears backlash from the elders and heads of
the church. Tradition in short kills a growing spirit and thus does
not let a person experience the risen Lord.
As a child following traditions is okay but as one grows in spirit it
is better to overcome traditions and dwell in relationship with God.
Since we live among people who do not know God the festivals we
celebrate do the job of reminding us and testifying unto others of
what the Lord has done.
Most of the churches are spiritual dwarfs because they give traditions
more importance than the purpose they are for.
Like Steve Ray the Catholic evangelist stated the Catholic church
stands on 3 legs, one being the Word, second tradition and the third
church authority. I will not comment about the other two legs, but
because tradition is an important leg on what they stand on is the
reason we see the church full of only spiritual babies.
Grow in Spirit and move the tombstone of tradition from your life and
experience the Risen Lord in your life.
[Prayer Starter]
Lord, You are God of the Living and not the dead. You are Spirit and
You desire your children even though made in the flesh to be led by
spirit. Lord, we pray all the spiritual babies that You intervene in
their lives and move the tombstone from their lives so that they
experience a spiritual revival...
This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.
[Reference Scriptures]
Matthew 27:58-66; 28:1-8
58 He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate
commanded the body to be delivered.
59 And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,
60 And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the
rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and
departed.
61 And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over
against the sepulchre.
62 Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the
chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate,
63 Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet
alive, After three days I will rise again.
64 Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third
day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say
unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be
worse than the first.
65 Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch: go your way, make it as
sure as ye can.
66 So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and
setting a watch.
1 In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day
of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the
sepulchre.
2 And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the
Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from
the door, and sat upon it.
3 His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:
4 And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.
5 And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I
know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified.
6 He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place
where the Lord lay.
7 And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the
dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye
see him: lo, I have told you.
8 And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great
joy; and did run to bring his disciples word.
John 20:19
19 Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week,
when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear
of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them,
Peace be unto you.
Exodus 12:24-27
24 And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to
thy sons for ever.
25 And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the
LORD will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep
this service.
26 And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you,
What mean ye by this service?
27 That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD'S passover, who
passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he
smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed
the head and worshipped.
Acts 9:13-15
13 Then Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how
much evil he hath done to thy saints at Jerusalem:
14 And here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that
call on thy name.
15 But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel
unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the
children of Israel:
Matthew 15:1-9
1 Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying,
2 Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for
they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
3 But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the
commandment of God by your tradition?
4 For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He
that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
5 But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is
a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;
6 And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus
have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.
7 Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,
8 This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me
with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
9 But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the
commandments of men.
Colossians 2:6-9
6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:
7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have
been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit,
after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not
after Christ.
9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
2 Thessalonians 3:6-9
6 Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh
disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.
7 For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not
ourselves disorderly among you;
8 Neither did we eat any man’s bread for nought; but wrought with
labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to
any of you:
9 Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample
unto you to follow us.
1 Peter 1:18-19
18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible
things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by
tradition from your fathers;
19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without
blemish and without spot:
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Sin redefined
John 3:20 - For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither
cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
In the Old Testament we read many Commandments were given to the
people but in the New Testament Jesus sums up all in 2 Commandments.
Did Jesus change the Commandments?
In the Old Testament we see the people were void of the Spirit of God
and the Spirit of God was only on a select few and that too many times
not always but only during a mission. It was only after Jesus made
peace between God and man by His sacrifice that the Holy Spirit was
promised to all those who believe in Jesus Christ.
Since sin in basic did not change, the Commandments of God too did not
change; it was only that in the Old Testament they were not
understood. The people void of understanding followed them in the
flesh and not in the spirit. Jesus kept every Commandment of the Old
Testament but yet was accused of breaking them by the Pharisees
(Jewish church leaders).
Sin is defined by disobedience to God so it was the Law that gave
birth to sin. Had God not commanded Adam and Eve not to eat of tree of
Good and Bad they would not have sinned. Before sin came into
existence was evil, it was the Commandment of God that exposed evil in
the form of sin. Before sin, evil was difficult to understand by a
person not knowing God well. So to understand sin well we need to know
evil and to understand evil well we need to know God Who is light.
Although Satan(s) and his angels did evil yet it is not written that
they sinned. They did not have a Commandment since they knew God well
and knew what was good in the eyes of God, the nature of God. Doing
anything that is against the nature of God is evil. Therefore Jesus
simplified this to ordinary man without Spirit of God into 2
Commandments wherein both talk about the most manifested nature of God
for those who do not know God and that is love (charity).
To know God one should firstly know love (charity) for without love
(charity) one cannot know God. But everything about God does not stop
at love (charity) for God has 11 more properties (fruit) about Him
which are enclosed within love (charity). It was this love (charity)
manifested in the sacrifice of His begotten Son Jesus Christ that we
receive the Spirit of Truth neither for a moment, nor for a few people
alone, but for all those who are touched by this love (charity). It is
only by the Spirit of Truth that we come to know God better; we also
come to know what is not good according to God and therefore by our
knowing more Light the definition of evil keeps changing for us.
Thus as we come closer to God and know more and more of God - the
Light - Spirit of God (Law giver) within us exposes more of the evil
that already exist. People who are afraid to face the truth of
bringing change into their lives land up running away from knowing God
Who is Light.
[Prayer Starter]
Lord, although man walked in the Garden of Eden along with the Angels
yet man did not know You well because man was made lower than the
Angels. You tested man by putting the tree of Good and Bad and Satan
made sure man failed this test thus bringing sin into man and evil
into the hearts of man. Evil and sin covered and took man even more
further from You. Your out stretched hand of love (charity) which was
manifested through Jesus Christ brings us closer to You, to know You
better. Lord, give us courage to hold on to your Light so as we come
to know You better, to let the darkness within us to be exposed and be
removed by your Light. You gave us authority over fallen spirits and
over weaknesses, help us to understand and believe in this
authority...
This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.
[Reference Scriptures]
Jeremiah 31:33-34
33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of
Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their
inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and
they shall be my people.
34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every
man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me,
from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for
I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
Zechariah 7:11-12
11 But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and
stopped their ears, that they should not hear.
12 Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should
hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his
spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the
LORD of hosts.
Romans 2:12-15
12 For as many as have sinned [erred] without law shall also perish
without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by
the law;
13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers
of the law shall be justified.
14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the
things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto
themselves:
15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their
conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while
accusing or else excusing one another;)
Romans 3:19-20
19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to
them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all
the world may become guilty before God.
20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be
justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
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Talitha cumi
Mark 5:41 - And he took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her,
Talitha cumi; which is, being interpreted, Damsel, I say unto thee,
arise.
When I got the scripture for today's message at first I thought the
Lord wanted me to write on the authority that Jesus had when He
commanded the dead child to get up. But as I looked close the Lord led
me to write on the words 'Talitha cumi' which are Aramaic words
meaning 'young girl arise' which even today in translations of various
are yet written in Aramaic.
Aramaic has its origin from the Aramaeans of Aram in the 12th Century
BC. This language was promoted by the Assyrians who made it their
official language. Later this language was the official language of
the Babylonians (King Darius) and thus became a language also of the
Israelites since they were under the rule of Babylonians. When Daniel
wrote his book half of his book is in Aramaic and half in Hebrew. One
may assume the second half may be Aramaic and the first half in
Hebrew, but contrary it is the opposite, the first half is in Aramaic
and second half in Hebrew.
Is today message about the history of the Aramaic language? No.
What I want you to understand the wisdom of God in using the languages
to bring His Word to His people.
If one reads into the explanations of the prophecies written in Daniel
before chapter 8 which was written in Aramaic was for the lost
Israelites and spoke more of earthly things but chapter 8 onwards was
more of spiritual things. For example the kings or kingdoms of
chapters 2-7 were of earthly kind but the king of chapter 8 (little
horn) was a unique king who had a spiritual status.
This too can be seen in text of the Old Testament, for most of the Old
Testament is written in Hebrew except the following text is written in
Aramaic.
Aramaic is found in four discrete sections of the Old Testament:
1) Ezra 4:8-6:18 and 7:12-26 - documents from the Achaemenid period
(5th century BCE) concerning the restoration of the temple in
Jerusalem.
2) Daniel 2:4b-7:28 - five subversive tales and an apocalyptic vision.
3) Jeremiah 10:11 - a single sentence in the middle of a Hebrew text
denouncing idolatry.
4) Genesis 31:47 - translation of a Hebrew place-name.
The Qumran text also known as the Dead Sea scrolls were manuscripts
found in caves on the banks of the Dead Sea which held among other
text also the whole of the Old Testament with all 38 of the 39 books
with only the book of Esther missing. These books were all translated
into Aramaic over a period of more than 400years. It had nearly 3
generations of translating systems of the Hebrew to Aramaic language.
Coming to the New Testament during the times of Jesus, during this
time 3 languages were spoken by the Israelites (Jews) - Hebrew,
Aramaic and Greek (which was official language of the Romans).
In the New Testament some parts of the book was originally written in
Aramaic and was later translated into Greek. These were done during
the early Apostolic Church, but what we see is that some of the text
like in today's message was not translated but kept as it were in the
language Jesus spoke to the common man.
During Jesus' time Hebrew was the Church language, Aramaic was the
common people's language and Greek the language spoken by the
officials.
Today's Bibles translations are founded from the manuscripts which
includes these 3 languages. The Apostles in the wisdom of the Lord
found the need to have the Aramaic text translated to Greek for Greek
was the language of officials.
The Bible takes us in spirit according to the languages it is written.
The promise of the Church (Hebrew) given to the common man (Aramaic)
to have authority and become sons of God (Greek).
Like in today's message Jesus spoke to the dead body of the little
girl to get up, so also the Lord is speaking to the Church of today
which is lost in worldly things to come alive in Him, to have
authority in Him and become sons.
[Prayer Starter]
Lord, You love your people very much. You want them to come to You to
eternally dwell with You. But since Heaven is only for sons, You are
speaking to your people to wake up and have authority in You so that
they overcome and your glory in seen in them when your image gets
manifested among your people. Lord we pray your people realize who
they are in You and stop running or turn their face from darkness, the
things that are not from your Kingdom and are destroying your people,
that they take them head on and expel them like light expels
darkness...
This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.
[Reference Scriptures]
John 1:10-13
10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world
knew him not.
11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the
sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor
of the will of man, but of God.
Romans 8:19-22
19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the
manifestation of the sons of God.
20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by
reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the
bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of
God.
22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in
pain together until now.
Galatians 4:4-7
4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son,
made of a woman, made under the law,
5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the
adoption of sons.
6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son
into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then
an heir of God through Christ.
Revelation 1:6-7
6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the
beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the
fountain of the water of life freely.
7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God,
and he shall be my son.
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Who is good?
Matthew 19:17 - And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? none
good but one, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the
commandments. [Italic words which were added to the scripture for
readability have been removed]
When God created the world (creation), the first two days when God
separated light from darkness and made 'Day' and 'Night', on those
days God did not say it is 'good' (He did say the light was good)
unlike the 4 other consecutive days He said good.
This topic on creation is one of the biggest debates between
Christians for many think these days are human days of 24 hrs. No
doubt the Hebrew word translated here as day is the same what we use
for human day but since it was not, that’s the reason God did not say
it was good on the first 2 days. It was one of the worst things God
had to do on those days.
The Hebrew word 'yowm' used as day also means whole and the word
'layil' translated as night comes from the word 'luwl' which means
winding stair - symbolizing a staircase going down.
These days is not a human day but God's days or Heavenly days (since
the physical world was yet not created) when God separated the
Heavens, the rebelling angels were removed from higher Heavens and the
lower Heavens were made for them. The Spirit of God hovered over the
water not waters (since this noun is singular and male, creation has
the gender female; mankind is symbolized not as waters but as sea).
The Angels of God are light and are good and the revolting angels were
not yet the separating process God did not find good since the
Heavenly Temple was damaged (the Angels are part of the Body of God
the Son and God the Son is part of the Body of the God Head).
Another day to note is the sixth day when God created man. The
previous 4 days everything God created, God said it as good but when
God created man He did not say man as good but said everything He
created as good.
Like the Hebrew word 'barak' translated mostly as bless does not mean
only good things for this word is also translated as curse is some
places in the Bible. Understand to bless is like giving a present, but
a present is good or bad depends on its contents.
Mankind was never good for in man were both children of God and
children of Satan; it was only by the sacrifice of Jesus and the
Spirit of God that the children of God are made whole and into
day/light.
No man before the sacrifice of Jesus was found good, that is the
reason why Jesus reacted quite harshly to the young rich man when he
called Jesus good. Jesus then exposed the un-goodness in this man when
He a put a stumbling block to him by giving him a choice between
worldly riches and God.
Every one of us are unworthy to be called good but are made good only
in Christ. We wait for the day (time) after judgment day when this
creation is no more and there is no more sea (symbolizing generations
of good and bad), no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither
shall there be any more pain. All that is bad will be discarded into
the lake of sulphure - symbolizing the second Hell of terrible
punishment unlike the first which was a prison for unbelievers and
suffering was according to one’s wrong doing (worms), in this Hell
only believers who fail Judgment, along with Satan (both dragon and
the beast) and the Anti-Christ would be put.
[Prayer Starter]
Lord, You created man with purpose. You wanted the best and most
perfect to be part of the New Temple since the previous was damaged by
darkness. Lord, You knew that it would be impossible for man alone to
overcome darkness so You humbled Yourself and came as man to be
sacrifice and make the impossible possible. Lord, we know in You we
have already received our victory for You do not fail and have
completed it all. Keep us Lord in You so that we too are good...
This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.
[Reference Scriptures]
Genesis 1 [Italic words which were added to the scripture for
readability have been removed]
Day 1
1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the
face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the
waters.
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light
from the darkness.
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And
the evening and the morning were the first day.
Day 2
6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters,
and let it divide the waters from the waters.
7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under
the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it
was so.
8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the
morning were the second day.
Day 3
10 And God called the dry Earth; and the gathering together of the
waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
12 And the earth brought forth grass, herb yielding seed after his
kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed in itself, after his
kind: and God saw that good.
Day 4
16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day,
and the lesser light to rule the night: the stars also. [without the
sun the grass would not have existed - day 3, nor day and night exist
- day 1]
17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon
the earth,
18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the
light from the darkness: and God saw that good.
Day 5
21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that
moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind,
and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that good.
Day 6
24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after
his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his
kind: and it was so.
25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle
after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after
his kind: and God saw that good.
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:
and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl
of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over
every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27 So God created man in his image, in the image of God created he
him; male and female created he them [him].
28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and
multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion
over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every
living thing that moveth upon the earth.
29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed,
which upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which the
fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and
to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein life, every green
herb for meat: and it was so.
31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, very good.
And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Revelation 19:19-20
19 And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies,
gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and
against his army.
20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that
wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had
received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image.
These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
Revelation 21:1-5
1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and
the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God
out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the
tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they
shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their
God.
4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall
be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be
any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things
new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and
faithful.
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Judged according to what is given
2 Kings 15:1 - In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of
Israel began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.
In today's message we read about King Azariah who became king of Judah
at a very early age of 16years. Even at that age he held on his
shoulders the responsibility of being a good king and what is
important was that he kept the Commandments.
We would say Oh what a good example, but we read that the Lord struck
him with leprosy. Now, one would ask there were other kings who did
not keep the commandments, they were instruments in killing the Men of
God and also abusing His sanctuary, why pick on Him.
The scriptures say he did 'according to all that his father Amaziah
had done; save that the high places were not removed: the people
sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places'. Azariah was
aware that these places of worship were abomination to the Lord.
Knowing this, he let it continue for he did not want to displease the
people who were involved with it.
Compare this with King Jeroboam the king of Israel who also ruled
around the same time and it is written about him that 'he did evil in
the sight of the Lord', it is also written he even made other
Israelites too, to sin, yet we do not read Jeroboam being struck with
leprosy. Is God unjust?
If you read about Jeroboam, it is written although he was a great
sinner, he fulfilled God’s Word and so did His will.
What is more interesting is that it is written both 'slept with their
fathers'. This line does not mean that they were just buried with
their fathers but means they slept in the bosom of Abraham which means
they did not go to Hell.
Although both were saved from Hell yet one who was good suffered a lot
and one who was considered evil did not, what was different between
them was them doing God’s Will.
Azariah knew that God wanted him to bring down the high places because
he had a relationship with the Lord, but to please the people he did
not bring down the high places. God in his personal had also to be
witnessed in his public life. He identified himself as a godly man but
his compromising on the high places certified them as being okay,
which angered the Lord more than what he pleased God by his personal
life.
This is the reason why many preachers, pastors, priest, Men of God and
people of God who become representatives of the Lord but by their
actions deny God's and show Him in a poor light land up suffering. In
their personal lives they may be good people, never hurting anyone,
always soft words, going out of their way, but because somewhere in
their lives they compromise God by pleasing people more than God, they
land up in great problems.
No doubt Azariah was saved from Hell because of his personal life
relationship with the Lord but in his earthly life he suffered and
paid a heavy price for wrongly witnessing God to His people. On
Judgment Day when both Azariah and Jeroboam wakeup in the Lord, both
will be judged based on all parameters which only the Son and Spirit
know.
Let us learn from today's message and also concentrate on what our
actions speak about the Lord to the people, how they show our God is.
[Prayer Starter]
Lord, You are Holy and Righteous God and You ask your people also be
holy and righteous. Lord, You know that it is not possible for man to
be holy and righteous, but being in You and under the shadow of thy
wings, we can cover ourselves with your holiness and righteousness.
Help us Lord to understand when we tell people we are Christian, we
are telling them who Christ and who our God is by our way of life, our
decisions, our actions, our behavior and all that we do. Open the
areas which need change and strengthen us in the areas which we are
weak in...
This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.
[Reference Scriptures]
2 Kings 5:1-7
1 In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began
Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.
2 Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned two
and fifty years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jecholiah of
Jerusalem.
3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according
to all that his father Amaziah had done;
4 Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed
and burnt incense still on the high places.
5 And the LORD smote the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of
his death, and dwelt in a several house. And Jotham the king's son was
over the house, judging the people of the land.
6 And the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are they
not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
7 So Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his
fathers in the city of David: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.
Revelation 3:15-16
15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou
wert cold or hot.
16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I
will spue thee out of my mouth.
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Dull-hearted and foolish lot

Jeremiah 10:8 - But they are altogether dull-hearted and foolish; A
wooden idol is a worthless doctrine.

Today as I sat to write my daily devotion I was hoping I would get
messages like I did 1 year before basically to build the elements of
faith, love, peace etc. the fruits of the Holy Spirit. But yet again I
receive this message today. I do not hold anything against the Lord
for putting me in such a tight and uncomfortable position. He is
saying enough is enough of the sweet talks for there are countless
numbers of people who do that. It is time to open the eyes of His
children for He cannot wait for the day to have them back Home.

Yesterday I attended the session of Steve Ray (Stephen Ray), out of
the full session there was one teaching which I really loved where he
explained the real meaning of 'believing', for that I give him a star.
There were 3 other statements which he made, which were true and
surprised me coming from a mouth of a Catholic official representative
on a stage, since their church officially does not state them, full
marks for that. But there were totally 35 teachings which I noted down
wherein he was bluntly deceiving and lying all for his own personal
gains, which I could see through and through and it came out from his
own mouth. This too was exposed only because the day before the
session I started binding and rebuking the deceiving spirit.

The hall in which the session was held is the biggest hall in Mumbai
and was almost full to capacity. I had taken along a Word rooted
sister who also like me came out of the Catholic church. The Lord had
told me to hold my temper and since it was an area I was weak before I
took her along so that she holds me back. Through half of the session
even she could not bear to stand the mocking he was doing on the stage
of people of God, of holy things and of the Holy Spirit. But after
lunch she pleaded me to let her go for she was getting a headache
hearing this man.

I had never heard this person before nor knew much of him; my only
knowledge of him was a small write-up in the newspaper and yet my
heart burned to take him down. It was only when I attended that I
understood why the Lord let such a feeling in me.

To the Catholic audience there it was just pleasure to hear him since
I would say not even a point fraction of people really knew the Bible.
All the blunt lies which even a person of commonsense would figure out
was applauded and cheered by the audience.

For example the reason he gave that the church kept idols was in the
olden days since the Bible was not available to all and people were
uneducated (in that dialect) so idols were the best way to teach
people. They were put not to worship them but to tell the stories and
characters of the Bible. Today the church has their own translations
in various languages so I do not understand why the idols continue?
Why he need the idols in his own house if he claims to be
knowledgeable of the Word? If they were to teach the Bible they should
be made with the various elements of the stories. Like Noah and an
ark, David with a sling, Peter crucified upside down etc. but what we
see is mostly just various persons in standing postures and that too
most of the statues are not Biblical characters but people they claim
as saints. There are more than 3 times the statues of Mary than of
Jesus. They claim this is statue is of Mary as if someone had taken a
photograph of her when she was alive (although statues of Jesus could
be debated on).

Another things was if they were teaching purposes only then why are
they venerated, offered flowers and candles etc. why leave the stain
glass images or the painting on the ceilings and not venerate them
too?

I am I could have easily taken this guy down by confronting him at
that place but what would been the result, like the Lord says the
people who were attending were dull-hearted and a foolish lot and
since they were stiff necked and do not want to change they just love
such understandings. Ironically the punch line of the event was 'still
lovin it'.

People are not aware that there are many learned persons like William
Webster and James White, who have confronted the understandings of
this person Steve Ray and these debates are available on the internet.
They are not disclosed to the Catholics. In Mumbai I heard a person
had downloaded a few documents and making Xeroxes of them was
distributing them at one such session of Steve Ray. His goons got hold
of this young man and confiscated his papers. If they are speaking the
Truth why were they afraid to let the people know of such debates, why
hide them?

When I was a Catholic I did not have any Believer come to me and
preach me any doctrine to get me out of that institute. It was only
after I surrendered to the Lord and started reading the Bible that the
Lord started teaching me and exposed the depth of the deceit, which
even the Believers may not be aware of.

As instructed by the Lord I will make a note of each of his points
answer them and publish them for the people to read and decide.

Heaven is not place for fools and dull-hearted people so wake up and
open your eyes to the deceit of the beast. No doubt the Catholic
church is fully soaked in it, but to some level this deceit still
continues in many of the Believer Churches, since they continued many
of the practices and understandings of this institute.

[Prayer Starter]
Lord, we pray for your sheep who are still trapped by the deceit of
the evil one. We rebuke and bind the powers which hold them down. We
break their chains in the Name of Jesus. We case away the yoke of
traditions put around their neck, the dew of your grace coverth them
and we claim them into your sheepfold...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]
Exodus 20:4-6
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of
any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or
that is in the water under the earth:
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the
LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers
upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that
hate me;
6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my
commandments.

--
T@MZ

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The fulfillment of the Word against the church of Tyrus

Daniel 11:34-39
33 And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet
they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by
spoil, many days.
34 Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help:
but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.
35 And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to
purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it
is yet for a time appointed.
36 And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt
himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak
marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the
indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be
done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of
women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god
whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and
with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god, whom
he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them
to rule over many, and shall divide the land for gain.
Since a few days my heart has been burning like David’s heart burnt
when he heard Goliath speak against his God and against God's people.
In India especially in Mumbai the Catholic Church has called a
champion from their faith who claims to have been Believer before (but
could not find a good Church!) so went to a Catholic Church and now
goes about preaching it as the true Church.
I have been wanting since a few days to go and meet this man and ask
him to name me even 5 things good about the traditions or beliefs this
church, for everything about it is infected with deceit and mischief.
I do not want to encounter him in the public at his 2 days workshop
which I decided to attend tomorrow but wanted to meet him in private.
The Lord gave me a Word yesterday through a sister - Proverbs 16:32
'He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty (warrior); And he
that ruleth his spirit, than he that taketh a city'. So I have been
reconsidering to confront him in public to deal like David did with
Goliath and get him in private like Jesus did with Saul. Personally I
too prefer the second one as the Lord advised and ask you also to pray
it happens. Whatever we do should glorify God and not to prove
ourselves right or glorify ourselves.
Just now a few minutes before I got today's message from the Lord I
received a message from a Catholic brother who sent me an invitation
to attend Steve Ray's workshop. In his mail some of the points he
wrote as to why this church is the Church of God, is because it
survived 2000 years. What he says is true that God's hand is there in
the survival of this church since many years and this was explained
through Daniel as to why God allowed this to happen.
It is written that the people who had insight of the Truth were
allowed to be crushed by this church so that in due time a refined lot
will arise. The ruler(s) of this church (Popes-who held a kingly title
for many years) were and are allowed to blasphemy God and mislead the
hard in hearts to a foreign god.
Since 1600AD as written in scriptures God has been started slowly to
refine His people and the time is at hand that soon He will sink the
ships (commerce) of this church which would be like piercing the belly
of the crocodile (leviathan).
Almost 15 to 20 percent of the Bible talks about this church of Tyrus
in Hebrew and in Greek Peter and how the piercing serpent (dragon) and
the crooked serpent (beast) deceive people using the name of Christ.
The founders of the Methodist Church, Pentecostal Church, Lutheran
Church etc. wrote and preached about this deceit but later the people
with the misunderstanding of rapture chose to ignore this danger
thinking that they will not be effected by it. If God gave so much
importance in His instructions Book to warn us, we need to take note
of it and not ignore.
[Prayer Starter]
Lord, since long the blood of your saints has been crying for revenge.
In your wisdom You allowed your people to be tempted by the leviathan
so that only the sheep will hear your voice and come to You, that they
will grow Fruit and enter into their eternal home. Lord, we pray you
guide your elected ones in this season according to your Word so that
your true glorious Church be seen among your people...
This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.
[Reference Scriptures]
Revelations 12:1-6
1 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with
the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of
twelve stars:
2 And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to
be delivered.
3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red
dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his
heads.
4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did
cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which
was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was
born.
5 And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with
a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his
throne.
6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place
prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two
hundred and threescore days [it was exactly after 1260 years from the
Pope was crowned King that the real Church started coming back - the
protestant movement].
Daniel 7:7-9
7 After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast,
dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron
teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with
the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were
before it; and it had ten horns.
8 I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them
another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns
plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the
eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.
9 I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days
did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head
like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his
wheels as burning fire.
Daniel 8:8-14
8 Therefore the he goat waxed very great: and when he was strong, the
great horn was broken; and for it came up four notable ones toward the
four winds of heaven.
9 And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed
exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the
pleasant land.
10 And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down
some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon
them.
11 Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by
him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary
was cast down.
12 And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of
transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it
practised, and prospered.
13 Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that
certain saint which spake, How long shall be the vision concerning the
daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the
sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?
14 And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days;
then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.
Ezekiel 28:1-10
1 The word of Jehovah came again unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre, Thus saith the Lord
Jehovah: Because thy heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a
god, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art
man, and not God, though thou didst set thy heart as the heart of God;
-
3 behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that is
hidden from thee;
4 by thy wisdom and by thine understanding thou hast gotten thee
riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures;
5 by thy great wisdom and by thy traffic hast thou increased thy
riches, and thy heart is lifted up because of thy riches; -
6 therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thou hast set thy
heart as the heart of God,
7 therefore, behold, I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible
of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of
thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.
8 They shall bring thee down to the pit; and thou shalt die the death
of them that are slain, in the heart of the seas.
9 Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou
art man, and not God, in the hand of him that woundeth thee.
10 Thou shalt die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of
strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord Jehovah.
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Peace be with you
Luke 10:5,6 - And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be
to this house. And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest
upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again.
There are many words as Christians we speak during fellowship which we
do not realize the depth and value of these words. In today’s message
the Lord is bring our attention to the words 'Peace be with you' or
'Peace be in this house'. These words were given unto the disciples as
part of their apprenticeship training when they went to minister on
their own.
If we give attention to the instructions, they were told to speak the
words 'Peace be to this house', but that peace would only remain on
that house if there was a son of peace abiding in it. If there was no
son of peace abiding in it then that peace which they spoke would
return back.
To a lay man peace is a feeling which comes into existence when there
is no strive. How can one give peace and why would a son of peace need
peace?
Firstly we need to understand that Lord Jesus Christ is not called the
King of Peace but is referred to as Prince of Peace. That makes us
conclude that it is His Father who is the King of Peace. Since we do
not know God the Father in Heaven, the Holy Spirit Whom He also refers
to as Father is the King of Peace and also called the Comforter. It is
both the Holy Spirit and God the Son, the outstretched hands of God
who are involved in the salvation of mankind.
Sin caused strife between God and man and this strife took away the
peace of man. A man may feel good by many ways but peace is only
available when this relationship between God and man is healed.
The Holy Spirit the King of Peace is the out stretched hand of God to
repair this relationship between God and man, but unless one does not
invite the Prince of Peace the King will not abide with that house or
person. It is only when a person believes in the Prince of Peace, he
is called a son of peace and he becomes an instrument to bring the
Peace via the King of Peace into the house.
This instruction was also given in the words of Paul and Silas when
they said the way to salvation is confessing 'Jesus Christ is Lord'.
Salvation is in simple terms is making of peace between God and man,
the bringing of man back to God.
Like Peace even blessings can only be received when one opens the
door, if the door of believe is shut your blessings will return back
to you. If Peace or blessings does not return to you it does not mean
your peace or blessing reduce. The mathematics of the Kingdom of God
is unlike that on earth, the more you give, more (means multiples of
it) will be given unto you.
There are millions of ways we can make ourselves feel good but this
feeling is temporary and will not last long. The only way to have
peace in our lives is Jesus Christ, we need to first believe in the
Prince of Peace and have Him in us. It is only through Him that Peace
can stay in and among us.
A Believer may say I believe in Jesus but still I have unrest in some
areas of my life.
Like a house has many room so also does our life. If we keep Jesus out
of that room, how can we expect Peace to abide there? So let us day by
day open all the doors of every room we find unrest to the Prince of
Peace to let total Peace to abide in us.
[Prayer Starter]
Lord Jesus, You are the Lamb of God, an eternal sacrifice and bridge
of Peace between God and man. By You we received the Holy Spirit, Who
works in us and comforts us to bring Peace in our lives. Holy Spirit
we have been keeping You away from the various areas and relationships
of our lives and therefore struggling. Coming into each area and bring
eternal Peace into them...
This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.
[Reference Scriptures]
Isaiah 9:6
6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the
government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called
Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The
Prince of Peace.
John 14:15-21
15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another
Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because
it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he
dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
19 Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me:
because I live, ye shall live also.
20 At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me,
and I in you.
21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that
loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I
will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
Hebrew 13:20-21
20 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord
Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the
everlasting covenant,
21 Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you
that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom
be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Zechariah 4:6
6 Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the
LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my
spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.
Acts 16:28-34
28 But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for
we are all here.
29 Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and
fell down before Paul and Silas,
30 And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be
saved, and thy house.
32 And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were
in his house.
33 And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their
stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway.
34 And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before
them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house
--
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Thou shalt not wear mixed fabrics!
Leviticus 19:19 - Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy
cattle [livestock] gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy
field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and
woollen [mixed fabrics] come upon thee.
If someone tries to keep this commandment of God, most would have to
go without clothes. Try to get a 100percent material. Almost all the
clothes we get have some or other percentage of mixture.
Did God not foresee this when He gave this instruction?
It is such commandments which have made people think that the Old
Testament is nothing to do with us, it was for the people of that time
only.
In fact it is disobedience of this commandment that Christians today
are less Christians and more worldly. Day before yesterday I was
dragged to a function of a Catholic friend (since her children came to
invite me and I could not disappoint them but God had a purpose of me
going there so that today I could share it in the message with you).
Their younger sister was receiving her First Holy Communion but since
I had my Bible session I told them I would be late. I avoid these FHC
parties for although they take Jesus’ Name something else happens.
Anyway they had their community leader to say a prayer and the woman
amazed me so much that I just could not hold myself from laughing. She
was advising the child that all gods are one and to respect all
religions. Anything any religion things any person ever gives never
deny but receive. We should be secular minded. She went on and after
about 20mins advice she blessed the child with the sign of the cross
saying in Name of Father, Son and Holy Spirit and mother Mary. I was
just waiting to see if she would add Allah and Krishna also along with
Mary (since she said all gods are one, so why not cast out demons in
the name of Krishna).
In today's message the commandment which God gave is to do with
exactly this. The Lord is firstly telling His Pastors (shepherds) not
to mix their flock with the beliefs of flocks of the unbelievers. He
also commands us not to wear a secular understanding. He tells us
either believe His Word or believe what the world (the evil one via
the world) tells you. It is because of secular Christians that
Christianity is suffering.
I am not saying we need to be like the fanatics of other religions. We
need to love others and help them whenever they are in need. But when
it comes to God and our faith, we should put high walls and barricades
not to let a cubic micron of their belief to pass through.
What has our Holy God to do with the evil one?
What has His people to do with the ways of the children of Satan?
[Prayer Starter]
Lord, the crooked serpent has enticed may of your children and is
making them do things which provoke You to anger. Lord, we pray that
their eyes open to the deceit of the ruler of the air who comes as god
of the people. Protect the hearts of minds of your people and let them
not provoke You to wrath. Bless your Shepherds with wisdom and
discernment. ..
This prayer we make in Jesus’ Name, Amen.
[Reference Scriptures]
Deuteronomy 32:3-6
3 Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness
unto our God.
4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment:
a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
5 They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his
children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.
6 Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he
thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and
established thee?
Deuteronomy 24:14-15
14 Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy,
whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy
land within thy gates:
15 At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go
down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he
cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee.
Deuteronomy 31:16-18
16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy
fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods
of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and
will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I
will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall
be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that
they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because
our God is not among us?
18 And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which
they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods.
Isaiah 26:21; 27:1
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the
inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall
disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
1 In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall
punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked
serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
Isaiah 42:13-23
13 The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy
like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against
his enemies.
14 I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained
myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and
devour at once.
15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs;
and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
16 And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will
lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness
light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do
unto them, and not forsake them.
17 They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that
trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our
gods.
18 Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.
19 Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I
sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the LORD’S
servant?
20 Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but
he heareth not.
21 The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness’ sake; he will
magnify the law, and make it honourable.
22 But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them
snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a
prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
23 Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for
the time to come?
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Overcoming our restricted body
Romans 4:19-21
19 And without being weakened in faith he considered his own body now
as good as dead (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness
of Sarah’s womb;
20 yet, looking unto the promise of God, he wavered not through
unbelief, but waxed strong through faith, giving glory to God,
21 and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was able
also to perform.
Below I get to today's message I like clear the definition of some
very fundamental things like faith and man as a being.
Faith in very simple terms means holding on to the Truth. Now Truth is
something that is not dependant on time, situation or any factor, in
short something that does not change. In whole creation there are only
two things that do not change one is God Himself and His Word.
God is the same yesterday, today and will be the same tomorrow. That
does not mean God does not grow. The glory of God keeps increasing but
His nature has never changed even by a micron. The same is His Word.
What God has written is for eternity and does not change.
Therefore faith simply means believing in God's Word - the Truth.
We may know the Truth but yet deny it, so faith is the strength in
which we hold on to the Truth as it is revealed to us. The stronger we
hold more the faith. The more we know the Truth, the easier for us to
hold on tightly.
Now let us understand man.
Man is a spirit being, having a soul (inner man) and living in a physical body.
When sin came into man, man lost 3 fruits and he who was not corrupt
became corrupt. He lost the fruits of Righteousness, Holiness and
Truth. It was due to this he got restricted in his body and therefore
Adam and Eve felt the nakedness of their body. Before sin man was
never restricted by his body for the Truth was in him and he was
called son of God, he also had Righteousness and Holiness in him.
In Galatians 5: 22-23 the nine Fruit(s) of the Holy Spirit are those
which we can have and built among ourselves by becoming one body. Paul
wrote of the 3 remaining Fruit(s) separately in Ephesians 5:9 so as
not to confuse the growing Christian.
We cannot grow the Fruit of Righteousness or Holiness, but by the
Spirit of Truth Whom we have received through Jesus and the Word of
God, we can build the Fruit of Truth. Once man has this Fruit the Lord
will come and give us His Righteousness and Holiness so as to remove
the corruption and make us sons of God again. Only Sons of God can
enter and dwell in Heaven.
Coming to today's message Abraham knew his body was becoming old and
that was a fact, but when the Truth started growing in him, his faith
increased and so he started not being restricted to his aged body.
We too are restricted by our problems and physical ailments all
because we do not know the Word of God and the Truth does not abide in
us. We need to grow this Fruit by building the understanding of the
Word of God. Understanding does not come by just reading the Bible or
by studying it in depth. Understanding will come unto us only when we
experience the Word in our lives. This is the reason testimonies and
self experiences are very important.
So let us build our part efforts towards man having this Fruit of
Truth by sharing the disclosers of the Word that God gives us and by
our testimony, so that we overcome this restriction of our body.
[Prayer Starter]
Lord, when You made us, we were made in your image. This image got
corrupt as sin came into us. To offset this corruption You came as man
and became a sacrifice to break the curses and gave us your Spirit so
that Truth may abide in us and we come back to You. Lord help us build
our faith as the Truth gets revealed more and more through the Body of
Christ - your people so that we overcome.
This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.
[Reference Scriptures]
Galatians 5:22-23
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering,
kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
23 meekness, self-control; against such there is no law.
Ephesians 5:9
9 (for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),
Revelation 12:10-11
10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation,
and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ:
for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them
before our God day and night.
11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of
their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
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Prosper in everything
3 John 1:2 - Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper
and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
Prosperity is the reason due to which many come into religion, pursue
God, or even live. Prosperity is not bad and it also the main reason
God created us so that He could see us prosper.
But would you like to be formed with one hand big and the other short,
one leg of double size and the other half the size? You would say
cursed is the man who is made like this.
When we are void of understanding we land up praying and pursuing God
to make our left hand long but are not bothered of our right hand. We
ask God for physical needs but ignore our spiritual needs. We want to
be healthy in body and we get down on our knees and make desperate
requests when our physical bodies are not functioning well. But do
people do that when they soul and spirit is not functioning well?
In today's message the Lord is telling us even the other extreme is
not good, wherein we only pursue spiritual growth, like knowledge and
gifts and ignore our physical needs. A person with great knowledge of
the Kingdom of God and blessed with great spiritual gifts but who does
not have the strength to walk 2 miles is like a handicap solider in
the Kingdom of God. How will he go the various missions which the Lord
wants to take him?
The Lord is not telling us to go to a gym. Even though we should give
priority to spiritual things first which are permanent, yet we should
not ignore our physical needs and our health.
Let me give you my own example:
I get up very early mornings to study and write my messages before I
go off to work. I manage 2 websites, SavedByFaith. info through which I
send daily devotional mails, which are basically the Gospel (rarely I
get deeper into the Word) and the other site wherein I write to teach
the Word of God in depth.
I do not use an alarm (for a very short time I did) but the Lord wakes
me up and it happens like someone switched on worship music that too
loud, like a live heavenly band playing before me. According to Indian
timings my getting up is very early, normally it is 5am but sometimes
it is even 3am or 4am at such times I get very excited for I know
there is going to be great revelations that day. This does not happen
nonstop, for there are also times the Lord lets me sleep longer so
that my body gets rest. If I keep myself awake late night due to
worldly or fleshy things, it affects my system and this becomes
visible in my work, health and my spiritual communication with the
Lord.
Let us discern in all that we do so that we prosper fully in
everything, let us be healthy in body, soul and spirit and let the
glory of God be visible in us.
[Prayer Starter]
Lord, You are a righteous God. In your endless wisdom You made us. You
gave us all the ability and resource to take care of ourselves and
prove ourselves to be mature sons. It is our lack of understanding,
discernment and passion for You that leads us to unbalance the balance
You have set. Lord, help us to get our house in order, for You are a
God of order not chaos...
We make this prayer in Jesus' Name, Amen.
[Reference Scriptures]
3 John 1:2-4
2 Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in
health, even as thy soul prospereth.
3 For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the
truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth.
4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.
1 Corinthians 6:20
20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your
body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.
1 Thessalonians 5:22-23
22 Abstain from all appearance of evil.
23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your
whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming
of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Denying the resurrection of Jesus
Matthew 28:11-15
11 Now while they were going, behold, some of the guard came into the
city, and told unto the chief priests all the things that were come to
pass.
12 And when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken
counsel, they gave much money unto the soldiers,
13 saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away
while we slept.
14 And if this come to the governor’s ears, we will persuade him, and
rid you of care.
15 So they took the money, and did as they were taught: and this
saying was spread abroad among the Jews, and continueth until this
day.
Last time when Dr. Ron Charles was in Mumbai after he finished his
sharing during the open hour he asked people if they had any queries.
At this time I wanted to confirm historically something which the Lord
had taught me and that was to do the time between Jesus getting
arrested and the time of His crucifixion. The church believes it was
on Thursday He was arrested and the next day He was crucified.
Dr. Ron confirmed there was recording by historians with details as to
what transpired with Jesus throughout those 4 to 5 days. All these
were censored from the movie 'Passion of Christ' which he scripted
because they could not show all these events to the general public, if
had it been done the movie would have possibly got an 'NC-17' or 'R'
rating. This meeting was for only Pastors and the elders of a Church
and when they heard this it surprised them and the leader of this
Church agreed that they need to study more and rethink on the
traditional believes they follow. These words were music to my ears
and joy to my heart.
In today's message we read how the Jewish church tried to deny the
resurrection of Jesus by giving money to the guards to tell lies so as
to deny Jesus' resurrection. What may surprise you is that even today
we have a church that does not deny the resurrection of Jesus directly
but denies the purpose of resurrection and thus indirectly it does
deny.
This church celebrates 'Ash Wednesday' 40 days before Good Friday (the
day they assume as the day of Jesus' crucifixion) . On this day they
put ashes on the foreheads of every person of the congregation and say
'from ash you came unto ash you go'. They do not know that they are
mocking the resurrection of Jesus by doing this. Like their elder
sister the Jewish church not with money but with lies denying the
purpose of Jesus' resurrection.
It is an irony that man has not understood resurrection, including
many Believer Christians.
Resurrection is not coming back to life. On our earthly death our
spirit does not die but continues to live, our earthly life is just a
very, very small fraction of our spirit life. It also does not mean
coming back to the body in which it was in. If the Spirit of Jesus had
come back to the body which it went from, people who saw Him after
resurrection and before crucifixion would have immediately recognized
Him and those who did not would have been sacred and ran.
Records state that Jesus was beaten and wounded so much all over that
He was not recognizable as a human. Also if Jesus came in a new body
then why was only the wound on the hands existing, why did they not
heal like the other wounds?
Resurrection is not to do with coming back to life but means the
cancellation of the curse of God. When man sinned God had cursed man
that not only his body but would perish but even his spirit would
perish. God had made man to live eternally with Him and therefore had
given him access to the Tree of Life. But after sin God condemned man
to Hell (prison) to suffer for his sins and to perish there till the
end of his spirit life.
What Jesus did by His sacrifice was take the curse on Himself and made
peace between God and man and therefore on the day of the Peace
Sacrifice He confirmed the breaking of the curse. Now man who believes
in Him instead of going to Hell would sleep in Him (bosom of Abraham /
Grave) and enter Heaven after Judgment when He comes back again to
punish the fallen angels and receive us.
By putting ash on the foreheads these so called followers of Christ
deny the main cause of Jesus Christ. They believe the curse still
continues and Jesus did not make peace between God and man. Their
words say something and their actions something else. The door of
Heaven open of us they deny it and therefore God says these goats will
not enter Heaven but only the sheep will.
[Prayer Starter]
Lord Jesus, by your sacrifice You became our sacrifice and our curse
of death You took on You. By your sacrifice You made peace been God
and man. This You confirmed by your appearing as again to man. Lord we
pray that at least now let the eyes of your Church open to what You
achieved by your sacrifice and let your people receive in abundance
all that You have made available for them...
This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.
[Reference Scriptures]
Genesis 2:7-8
7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed
into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he
put the man whom he had formed.
9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is
pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the
midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 3:17-19
17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice
of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee,
saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake;
in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou
shalt eat the herb of the field;
19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return
unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and
unto dust shalt thou return.
Matthew 25:31-33
31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy
angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall
separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from
the goats:
33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
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The Yves Saint Laurent rob Jesus wore
John 19:24 - They said therefore one to another, Let us not rend it,
but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be
fulfilled, which saith, They parted my garments among them, And upon
my vesture did they cast lots.
You may be surprised at my title of today's mail but this title I gave
so as to give you an understanding of the quality of rob that Jesus
wore.
People do not understand the scripture which says 'for your sakes he
became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich'; this
scripture has nothing to do with money or material things. Jesus wore
the best rob a middle class person could afford. It was not that Jesus
had a liking for good clothes but He wore this with purpose. White
linen cloth represented righteousness in the dress of the High Priest
and Jesus being The High Priest of all High Priests wore this robe.
His righteousness was unmatchable to any human being and it was for
this reason that His rob was not allowed to be torn and was thus
gambled between the soldiers.
The poor factor which is connected with Lord Jesus is His humbling
Himself in the Spirit world so that He could come as man and
personally help us. If Lord Jesus comes in His own true glory, nor
man, nor creation would be able to stand before Him. The same is the
case with the Holy Spirit and therefore the term Christ is used with
Jesus in the same scripture. He will show us His glory only after He
has finished His work in us and made us incorruptible.
Jesus did not need money for His needs yet He and His team did carry a
purse which did have sufficient for them. The Lord throughout
scriptures promises us of meeting all us our earthly needs, which
means we will have sufficient and that extra given is for tithing unto
others.
The riches which the Bible talks of blessing us with are spiritual
riches and not earthly riches. A person blessed with the extra money
is actually tested by the Lord and that test is a very hard test. Like
the young rich man who was good in all his other areas yet could not
pass this test and lost Jesus. In a similar way, having extra earthly
riches bring us into great test wherein many fail and lose Jesus. We
need to learn to handle our finances like Abraham did, the way he
tithed, took care of his servants etc... Abraham was not a very, very
rich man during his time but he was average in the upper income group
and this is recorded in history.
[Prayer Starter]
Lord, we pray that You take charge of our hearts that we may not be
lost to the pleasures of this world. That money does not take your
position in our lives. Help us to always remember that You are our
provider and all that we ever need is already given unto us, all we
need to do is fetch it by our daily efforts...
This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.
[Reference Scriptures]
2 Corinthians 8:7-9
7 Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance,
and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that
ye abound in this grace also.
8 I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of
others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.
9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was
rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty
might be rich.
Revelation 3:16-18
16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I
will spue thee out of my mouth.
17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have
need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and
miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou
mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and
that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes
with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
Matthew 19:16-25
16 And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good
thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?
17 And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good
but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the
commandments.
18 He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder,
Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not
bear false witness,
19 Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy
neighbour as thyself.
20 The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my
youth up: what lack I yet?
21 Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that
thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in
heaven: and come and follow me.
22 But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful:
for he had great possessions.
23 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a
rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.
24 And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through
the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of
God.
25 When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying,
Who then can be saved?
Genesis 24:34-35
34 And he said, I am Abraham's servant.
35 And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become
great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold,
and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses.
Genesis 14:14-24
14 And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed
his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and
eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.
15 And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by
night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the
left hand of Damascus.
16 And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his
brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.
17 And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from
the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were with him, at
the valley of Shaveh, which is the king’s dale.
18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he
was the priest of the most high God.
19 And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high
God, possessor of heaven and earth:
20 And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine
enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.
21 And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and
take the goods to thyself.
22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto
the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,
23 That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that
I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I
have made Abram rich:
24 Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of
the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take
their portion.
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Why the church lacks discernment
Hosea 4:11 - Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart
[understanding] .
In today's message the Lord gives us the reasons why the glory of God
is not experienced in the Church of today. Why so many things are
happening in the Church which is against God’s Word even though we
have so many senior people in the Church and why they are not able to
discern.
The 3 prime reasons which the Lord gives are whoredom, wine and new-wine.
Whoredom: The Lord is not accusing the leaders of sleeping around or
having physical relationships outside the institute of marriage as
been a cause of the sickness in the Church. This may be happening to
some extend but the whoredom which the Lord speaks of is the mental
sleeping around the elders do for the cause of pleasure of the flesh
(carnal self).
Many foreign things (things not of God's Kingdom) have been allowed
into the Church just to please people so that the Church does not loss
finances, name, numbers, power etc...
It started with small things and today it is outright prostitution
like is seen is red light areas. Thus we have concepts in churches
like all gods are one, inter faith discussions (not debates, not
finding the differences but finding common grounds), all people are
God's children since God created them (Satan too was created by God
but that does not make him God's child), fighting evil is not our work
leave it to God, traditions are more important than Word of God (this
still happens to some extend still in Believer Churches) etc...
Wine: The Hebrew word used here is 'Yayin' which is a term used for
fermented wine. As we know when grape juice is kept in jars over long
periods, the rotting causes the sugar to be broken and alcohol to be
formed.
God had promised the people of God daily fresh Manna would be provided
to the people of God throughout their journey in the wilderness until
they entered the Promised Land. That promised was not only for the
Israelites but also for us. We too are promised by God that every day
we will receive more knowledge and understanding of His Kingdom. But
what we see is leaders repeating a teaching for years and years. You
will find the Manna collected by one person being passed around again
and again like passing the parcel. I am not against sharing what the
Lord is revealed to someone but what is of concern is the lack of
seeing fresh Manna.
Like overnight kept Manna got worms during the time of the Exodus in
the same way teachings repeated again and again start bring worms into
preachers. The preacher stops connecting to God and starts connecting
to his teaching and then starts looking at himself not God and thus
worms like pride, power, greed and spirits like deaf and dumb spirit
start showing its head.
New Wine: This is the consequences of 'Yayin'. Since their
communication with God has got hampered over a period of time, we find
Church leaders taking teaching and understanding from sources other
than the Word of God or the Kingdom of God. We find people quoting
phrases of well known people more than scriptures irrespective of them
being 100 percent abiding by God’s Word or not, understandings and
traditions from other religions and beliefs are incorporated in
Christianity, the Bible is kept aside and new concepts are studied.
Days are not far if this continues, like in Hinduism their evil man
Ravan is considered also a saint, so also we will have Satan declared
a Christian saint.
Let us wake up and get our act together and our house in order while
it is easy else we will have a great, great difficulty in getting this
cancer removed.
Things may not look serious since many are void of the knowledge and
understanding or scriptures and Kingdom of God but to put this
seriousness in a simple layman terms with a hypothetical situation:
A preacher to add special effects to his teaching and to keep the
attention of his congregation preaches by standing on one foot. Now
another preacher looking at this thinks the secret of the great
teaching is because he stood on one leg so he too makes this a habit
and has some success in drawing and keeping the attention of the
crowd. Looking at this other preachers also start the same in their
Churches. After a few years a common understanding is reached that any
preacher preaching standing on both legs is not from God but from
Satan.
You may laugh at this but sadly thus things are happening in the
Church and we are blind to it, we just need to open our spiritual eyes
and see them.
[Prayer Starter]
Lord, we pray for the leaders of the Church. We rebuke the spirits of
spiritual laziness, blindness, deafness and dumbness and we cast them
out. We speak light, knowledge and wisdom into them. May they be
filled with your Spirit of Truth. We pray for the quick healing of the
body...
This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.
[Reference Scripture]
Exodus 16:14-31
14 And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of
the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar
frost on the ground.
15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another,
It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them,
This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.
16 This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, Gather of it
every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to
the number of your persons; take ye every man for them which are in
his tents.
17 And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less.
18 And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had
nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered
every man according to his eating.
19 And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the morning.
20 Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them
left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses
was wroth with them.
21 And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his
eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.
22 And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered twice as
much bread, two omers for one man: and all the rulers of the
congregation came and told Moses.
23 And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, To
morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which
ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which
remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.
24 And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did
not stink, neither was there any worm therein.
25 And Moses said, Eat that to day; for to day is a sabbath unto the
LORD: to day ye shall not find it in the field.
26 Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is the
sabbath, in it there shall be none.
27 And it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on the
seventh day for to gather, and they found none.
28 And the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my
commandments and my laws?
29 See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore he
giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man
in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.
30 So the people rested on the seventh day.
31 And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was
like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made
with honey.
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When the morning comes
John 21: 4 - But when the morning was now come, Jesus stood on the
shore: but the disciples knew not that it was Jesus.
Morning symbolizes a new day - a new hope. Jesus is the Light of the
world (creation) and therefore for us on earth is symbolized as the
Sun light which came when there was no hope.
Before sin came into man although there was day and night during
creation it is recording the days of creation as evening and morning,
evening and morning; the night as if did not exist (it was not actual
earthly days of 24 hrs but the word day means period of time;
archeological findings and Bible records make us to believe they were
Galaxy days, if you notice the Milky way galaxy where we live in has 6
circles and we are on the 6th circle as per Genesis we were created on
the sixth day). It is just symbolic as to stating that God was always
there even if there were ups and downs.
Does that mean that God is not there in the nights?
The Bible states there is no darkness so dark that can keep God away
and there is no place in creation where we can run away from God
(other than our own harden hearts if it has turned away from God). God
is present everywhere yet we talk of evening and morning as they
symbolize the glory of God - the manifestation of His presence.
The Heavens of Heavens also called the Mountains of Heavens is where
the Throne of God is, that does not mean it is a seat or a human
throne but symbolizes as the maximum glory of God is there.
Not only earth even the Heavens have morning and Lord Jesus came to
give us the Morning Star. It does not mean earthly mornings but means
a new level of the ever expanding glory of God. There are certain
beings that are most close to the Throne of God and these beings have
the highest position among the Angels. There are fixed numbers of
people who can be given this position and Jesus is offering this
position in Heaven to those who overcome. One confirmation is already
recording in the Bible and that is of David.
After Judgment Day when we all enter Heaven, David and all those
selected will be nearest to the Throne of God and will rule the
Angels.
So let us be more concern of that life which we will live eternally
than this temporary very short life we live here on earth. Let us aim
to be the Morning Star closest to the Throne of God.
[Prayer Starter]
Lord Jesus, You are the head of the Church, similarly You are the Head
of the Heavenly Bodies. You came not just to save us and take us to
our eternal Home but also give the opportunity to those who overcome
to be great in Heaven. Lord, help us to overcome our carnal self and
walk in your Spirit. Help us to build your glorious Body - the Church
here on earth...
This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.
[Reference Scriptures]
Genesis 1:5,8,13,19, 23,31
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And
the evening and the morning were the first day.
8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the
morning were the second day.
13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very
good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Revelation 2:26-28
26 And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him
will I give power over the nations:
27 And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a
potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my
Father.
28 And I will give him the morning star.
Revelation 22:16
16 I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in
the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright and
morning star.
Numbers 24:17
17 I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh:
there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of
Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the
children of Sheth.
2 Peter 1:19
19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well
that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until
the day dawn, and the day star [Sun] arise in your hearts:
Revelation 4:1-9
1 After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and
the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with
me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must
be hereafter.
2 And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set
in heaven, and one sat on the throne.
3 And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone:
and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an
emerald.
4 And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the
seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment;
and they had on their heads crowns of gold.
5 And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and
voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne,
which are the seven Spirits of God.
6 And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal:
and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four
beasts [Living Beings] full of eyes before and behind [complex and
multi-life being].
7 And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a
calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast
was like a flying eagle.
8 And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they
were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying,
Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to
come.
9 And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him that
sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever,
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If we are not gathering then we are scattering
Acts 22:23 - And as they cried out, and cast off their clothes, and
threw dust into the air,
Saul before he became Paul was the leader of the mobs that attacked
Christians - Jews who believed in Jesus. After Stephen was killed by
the mob with Saul being party to it, the Lord appeared to Saul and
spoke to him, this changed him. A person who was a leader of the enemy
became a leader of the Church. Not only was Christianity spreading
through the Jews but they now had Saul with a focused mission to reach
out to even to the Gentiles.
In today's message the Lord is telling us how Satan and his kingdom
grieve when we turn from our evil ways and take up our Cross and
follow Jesus.
Although these people were leaders of the Synagogue - the temple of
God, yet Jesus called them sons of Satan because of their ways and
their hearts.
When I was sharing on the Kundilini spirit at one of my sessions; one
of the sisters asked me as to how in a place of praise and worship can
such spirits be present?
When people of God are on mission doing God's work you are sure to see
attacks from the enemy camp. The enemy is on the lookout for people
who are weak in spirit and through them they try to breakdown the
mission team. You will also find specific people who come with a
mission to distract or to keep the team busy, taking away their focus
from God's work.
In this war if we go by numbers, we are against a multitude for our
mission is to gather and the mission of the enemy is to scatter.
People think that there are Christians- God's people, then there
Satan's people who hate Christians and then there are innocent people
who do not know God but are not against God.
Jesus says those who are not with Him we are against Him. If we are
not gathering then we are scattering. What varies is how actively we
are doing the gathering or the scattering.
No doubt there are lost sheep in the enemy camp but when they hear
their Master's voice they come to their master as Saul did and became
Paul.
When we give the Gospel we are just forwarding the Master's voice and
those who are His sheep hear and turn unto Him. As more turn to Him
the enemy’s camp weakens and their end comes near.
[Prayer Starter]
Lord, we are your sheep and we were lost in the enemy camp. You send
your Word through your messengers and we came unto You. You know us
and love us dearly therefore send your messengers to reach out to us.
Today we want You to use us to reach out to all those who are yet
lost. Take us to your lost sheep and speak through us unto them that
they may hear You and come unto You. We know once we have gathered all
your sheep You will come to take us to our eternal Home...
We make this prayer in Jesus' Name, Amen.
[Reference Scriptures]
Acts 22:20-23
20 And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I also was
standing by, and consenting unto his death, and kept the raiment of
them that slew him.
21 And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee far hence unto
the Gentiles.
22 And they gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up
their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it
is not fit that he should live.
23 And as they cried out, and cast off their clothes, and threw dust
into the air,
Matthew 12:30
30 He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not
with me scattereth abroad.
John 8:43-45
43 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye
will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the
truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he
speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
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The foreign influence in the Church
Ezekiel 23:15 - Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in
dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after
the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:
In today's message the Lord wants us to open our eyes to this foreign
influence which has spread through the Church like the influence of
the Babylonians of Chaldea had.
In my previous mails I exposed how the beast (Satan) rules this world
by becoming god over all religions in various forms. All idols
worshipers, human worshipers, nature worshipers and demon (fallen
angels) worshipers are indirectly worshiping this Satan who serves his
master who is bonded in hell.
Religions like Islam and Catholics are cover-up worshipers of this
beast without them knowing. If one studies the origins of the Kaba the
holy place of the Muslims, it was/is the temple of 360 gods. The idol
gods of the Catholics i.e. Mary and all her variations if compared to
the Hindu goddesses, you will find great similarity. Sometimes these
similarities are so visual that it fails one’s senses how a human with
even child like commonsense does not notice it.
For example when the Lord was exposing this image to me, my elder
sister and her husband who are connected with building the Catholic
Church and strong promoters of this idol have various statues of Mary
and one statue which caught my attention was this image Mary with
doves. She told me this Mary who has a special name (which I do not
remember) always appears with doves. And as I came out of my sister's
place and traveling in the car for about an hour I saw a poster of a
Hindu goddess with doves just like the Mary I saw at my sister's
house!
This beastly infection is not limited to the Heathens or Non believers
but even the Believer Churches are not spared. Many of the
non-biblical celebrations which the church does, has roots in paganism
(beast worshipers).
A few days back a sister opened my eyes to another great deceit which
this beast played on the Church and damaging it in a great way. People
must have heard of the Toronto anointing, this has its root in
Hinduism and is known as the Kundilini spirit. If one looks up Youtube
there is an well documented video on this. I personally have
experienced this so called 'joy of the Lord' many years back when I
had just come into the Lord(1994-5) and went flying 4 feet with this;
any person I pointed to would also get this 'joy' and would keep
laughing. It was so infectious that even a person I spoke to on the
phone and aware on this anointing would be infected with it. Unless a
person would say 'peace' this would continue for hours together. There
was a girl who did for nearly the whole day and when she went home she
continued and her mother got afraid and called the preacher who spoke
the words 'peace be with you' and she stopped.
When I experience this, the Lord led me to check scriptures for this
'joy' and I did not find any. The joy which the Bible talks of comes
when a person has victory, overcomes a situation, has revelation of
the truth etc. The Lord was gracious to let me experience this joy a
few days later when my wife was pregnant and I got a message in the
middle of the night about a complication with the pregnancy. I was in
my in-laws place and so I put my hand over my wife's stomach and
started to pray deeply in tongues. After about half an hour suddenly
the joy of the Lord hits me and I woke up the whole household. This
joy was different from the anointing which I received at the outreach.
Later I came to know the head of the child was pressed on the opening,
but later turned by itself (my wife was in the 7 months pregnant).
This (kundilini spirit) anointing was not discerned by even the top
most leaders of the Church just because they trusted the one gave it
unto them. They were blinded by the fame of that person and did not
check or question it with scriptures.
We need to discern everything even within the Church with the
scriptures. Even if the greatest, most famous person or most anointed
man stands before you, whatever he or she says do not take it as God's
word but go home and check it up with the Word of God. If you do not
understand or find it do not just write it off check it up with others
on that matter. But if the scriptures (even one) speaks the opposite
just do not bother to look further, just chuck that teaching out in
the dustbin. People in the early Church did not even spare Paul and
checked every word of his with scriptures.
Like the Anti-Christ is not singular but plural, these anti-christs
have been misleading the Church since long. The Anti-Christ the book
of Revelation speaks of is the boss of them and the last of them (the
last Pope). Similarly the mark of the beast is not just connected to
the last days' event during the Anti-Christ but has been this
infection which has been also spreading in Christianity, even in the
Believer Churches. The Bible says those who are aware of it and yet
continue (because the sacrifice of guilt - 'breaking of bread' saves
us of the sin we do out of ignorance) like Aholibah (RC Church) ties
the purple turban on her head, their names will be written off the
Book of Life.
[Prayer Starter]
Lord, your Church lacks the Spirit of discernment and knowledge of
your Word. We pray Lord You give more and more revelation of your Word
and more and more of your Spirit unto your people, especially the
leaders, bring a renewal in them. Build stronger the foundation of
Truth on which the Church is build since the attacks are becoming
stronger in these later days...
We make this prayer in Jesus' Name, Amen.
[Reference Scriptures]
Ezekiel 23:11-17
11 And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her
inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in
her whoredoms.
12 She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers
clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them
desirable young men.
13 Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way,
14 And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men
pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with
vermilion,
15 Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire
upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of
the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:
16 And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them,
and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.
17 And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they
defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and
her mind was alienated from them.
2 Chronicles 20:25-28
25 And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away the spoil of
them, they found among them in abundance both riches with the dead
bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves,
more than they could carry away: and they were three days in gathering
of the spoil, it was so much.
26 And on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of
Berachah; for there they blessed the LORD: therefore the name of the
same place was called, The valley of Berachah, unto this day.
27 Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and
Jehoshaphat in the forefront of them, to go again to Jerusalem with
joy; for the LORD had made them to rejoice over their enemies.
28 And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and trumpets
unto the house of the LORD.
Youtube link on Kundilini spirit infecting the Church:-
http://www.youtubecom/watchv=eBpw2oQrvMM
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Sorry the year in the mail is not 1994-5 but 2004-5
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 9:11 AM,
The foreign influence in the Church

Satan entering people
Luke 22:3,4 - And Satan entered into Judas who was called Iscariot,
being of the number of the twelve. And he went away, and communed with
the chief priests and captains, how he might deliver him unto them.
Many years back (I must have shared this testimony in one of my
previous mails) there was a sister who gave me a panic call saying
'brother, brother we have with us there the big one'. She was
referring to a case of deliverance which they were handling and the
spirit in that person started manifesting and claiming it was Satan
(Lucifer).
During that time the Lord had already revealed to me the truth of
Lucifer and the beast. Knowing the truth I bust of laughing. I did not
laugh at the sister but at the deceit which the spirit was trying to
get us into and to cause fear to enter us. The sister got offended
with my laugh and before cutting the phone even told me if I did not
want to help, I should not laugh. As she kept the phone the spirit
stopped manifesting and later she called me to apologize.
The Satan which is among us his powers along with the powers of the
fallen angels have been taken away during the time of Noah's flood.
These spirits only have powers on the worldly people and those
children of God who allow themselves to be used by these spirits.
It is only when we are in the flesh and operate in the flesh (does not
necessary mean one sin, the depth of the sin is important; even a
small hatred with great depth can be more dangerous than a murder) we
become playgrounds or better put puppets for these spirits.
They are very comfortable to dwell in the non-believers (even people
of good families leading good social life could be prey for these
spirits) but since their main goal is to destroy the children of God
they do enter (dominate) children of God. Their aim is to use man to
spread their worms and not let them grow fruits (of the Holy Spirit).
One of their most successful tricks is to keep man busy and let them
no time to spend with the Lord and built relationship thus not letting
them become stronger.
The most foolish thing which Christians do is to war with Satan, seek
out for him and so as to destroy him. Let me tell you if the real
Satan (Lucifer - the serpent who is the boss of them all) lands up
among us none of us will be able to survive. He is the master of
deceit and has powers beyond any man. For him there is only one weapon
and that is not known to us and is only know to Jesus. This is the
reason Jesus will come again after Lucifer is released to handle him.
Throughout scriptures the Lord tells us to fight against the weapon
Satan (plural) uses against mankind which is our flesh (sinful
nature). If we deprive him of this weapon then it cannot do any harm
to us. When we are knowledgeable of who our enemies are, its ways and
also aware of its powers then this knowledge gives us an upper hand in
the battle.
So please do not waste time behind evil spirits but spend time
depriving them place to dwell in so that their plans to destroy man
fails and they are sent to the place really made for them - Hell, to
suffer and die after their long spirit life ends.
[Prayer Starter]
Lord we thank You for making us your people, for planting the seed in
us and letting us know You. We thank You for your Word which reveals
the Truth to us and gives us an upper hand over our enemies. We thank
You for the promises in the Word and the great, great price awaiting
us at the end of this short story. We know we have the victory in
Jesus because He overcame for us and will come again to take us to
You. In Him is everything and everything is created for Him. He alone
knows You and knows your true Name which is so holy that nothing
impure can hold in its presence. We thank You for preparing us for the
time when You will declare Your true Name through your Son...
This we declare in Jesus' Name, Amen.
[Reference Scriptures]
Genesis 6:1-8
1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the
earth, and daughters were born unto them,
2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair;
and they took them wives of all which they chose.
3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for
that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty
years.
4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that,
when the sons of God [the last time the fallen angels were referred as
sons of God] came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children
to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and
that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil
continually.
6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it
grieved him at his heart.
7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the
face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and
the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
Luke 11:21-23
21 When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace:
22 But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him,
he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his
spoils.
23 He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not
with me scattereth.
2 Peter 2:9-22
9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and
to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of
uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they,
selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
11 Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not
railing accusation against them before the Lord.
12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and
destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and
shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that
count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and
blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they
feast with you;
14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin;
beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous
practices; cursed children:
15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following
the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of
unrighteousness;
16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man’s
voice forbad the madness of the prophet.
17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a
tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure
through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that
were clean escaped from them who live in error.
19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants
of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he
brought in bondage.
20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through
the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again
entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them
than the beginning.
21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of
righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy
commandment delivered unto them.
22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The
dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to
her wallowing in the mire.
1 Thessalonians 4:16-18
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with
the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in
Christ shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together
with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we
ever be with the Lord.
18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
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The ships of Tyrus
Ezekiel 27:25 - The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market:
and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the
seas.
People are not much aware of the beast as to who he or it is. The
Quran thinks of the beast as a powerful person who comes in the latter
days (which they think is now; some Muslims believed Gorge Bush was
him during the Gulf War and now think Obhama is him). In the book of
Revelation the beast is shown as a close companion to the Dragon
(Satan - Lucifer). People expect him to come in the end days but are
not aware it has been here since the start and is actively doing its
job.
In the Old Testament the beast has been called the young lion -
imitating righteousness (Psalms, Isaiah), Prince of Tyrus - half
truths (Ezekiel) and in the books of Moses in Israel’s exodus
symbolized by King Sihon. Some mistake it to be Satan who is clearly
differentiated in the Old Testament as the serpent (Psalms, Isaiah),
King of Tyrus (Ezekiel) and in the books of Moses symbolized as King
Og.
This character has hidden itself so cleverly since ages and has been
deceiving people, especially the people of God. Most mistake him to
Lucifer - who is bonded in Hell and would be released at the end.
When Jesus hinted of the church that will be built on the name of
Peter, He was referring to this character - the beast / the Prince of
Tyrus. Revelation talks of this church as being a woman set on a beast
with multiple heads. It also gives clues to the headquarters of this
beats by the heads and that being Europe. The book of Daniel even goes
further giving details and specifies it as the Vatican.
When the Lord revealed to me the true identification as to who Lucifer
was and is I was wondering if he is not with us then who is this Satan
(the word in scriptures is mostly plural) who is with us? It was then
the Lord revealed this character - the beast to me. Then I realized
why it was written of Satan (Lucifer) as being with us and wasn't.
If one looks across all religions it is this beast (Satan) that has
been fooling them and has been making itself god. Even Christianity
has not been spared and in fact it has made the early Christian church
its headquarters; Babylon the Great - the queen of all fornication and
blasphemy. The early church tries to hide all its beastly doings by
calling that era as the dark ages of the church. An institute which is
supposed to give Light becomes a source of darkness?
If we study the hierarchy in the Angels - the Heavenly body according
to the Bible then only will we are able to understand who Lucifer and
this beast were and are, and how together they managed to cause the
fall of one third of the army of hosts - the Angels. This character's
powers along with the other fallen angels were taken away during the
time when them was thrown to earth, unlike Lucifer who’s powers still
remain but is bond in Hell the endless pit to be released after his
due time.
In today's message the Lord speaks through Ezekiel and tells us about
the business this beast has been doing in the name of religion.
Yesterday I was outside a Catholic church which has just received a
huge statue of Pope John Paul. When I was in the RC church I was an
altar boy and had served the mass of this pope when he visited India.
At that time I considered it a great privilege and honor because I was
the head altar boy right in front. Later when I came into the Lord and
receive the Spirit of discernment I came to know and realize the great
wrongs this individual whom I thought was a man of God use to do.
This pope was most famous for his great believe in Black Mary a
version of Mary in South America (mainly Brazil). He has been party to
the witch crafts performed in name of this god (Black Mary) especially
when he was very sick. He was also famous in the Vatican for all the
physical punishment (lashes) he use to give himself whenever he use to
sin (this still seem to continues with the current pope).
Today this person void of God and understanding of His Word has been
promoted to be a saint so that idols of him can be manufactured and
marketed and so as to bring business to this church. This sainthood
will open new avenues for money by posters, postcard pictures,
lockets, chains etc. like they do with the other so called saints.
The most successful deceit of this beast is that of it coming in the
form of Mary the mother of Jesus and misleading people to do exactly
what Jesus said not to do while telling them she (it) is leading them
to Jesus, thus making them a rebellious people. This is the reason the
name 'Mary' which means 'rebellion' was given to her for God knew what
man would do in her name.
The mother of man Jesus is sleeping in her rest in the bosom of
Abraham while swords are being pierced in her soul by the misuse of
her name, all done by the deceit of the beast. The figure Mary has
been used in the most commercial way to gain money by this church
unlike any other god by the non-Christians. In the last days by the
power of the Anti-Christ this character will literally manifest to
life.
[Prayer Starter]
Lord we pray that You give the Spirit of discernment to your Church
especially to its leaders. They perish due to lack of vision and they
are under bondage because they do not keep you commandments and do not
understand them. You have given us a Spirit of Son-ship and not of
bondage. Lord by the authority You have given us we set free the
leaders of your Church from the deceit of the beast and we expose it
and bind its finances...
We do this in Jesus' Name, Amen.
[Reference Scriptures]
Psalms 91:13
13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the
dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
Isaiah 65:25
25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat
straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent’s meat. They
shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.
Isaiah 5:29-30
29 Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young
lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry
it away safe, and none shall deliver it.
30 And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of
the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow,
and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.
Deuteronomy 1:1-4
1 These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side
Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea,
between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
2 (There are eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir
unto Kadeshbarnea. )
3 And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on
the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of
Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment
unto them;
4 After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in
Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei:
Deuteronomy 2:30-34
30 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the
LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that
he might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day.
31 And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and
his land before thee: begin to possess, that thou mayest inherit his
land.
32 Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz.
33 And the LORD our God delivered him before us; and we smote him,
and his sons, and all his people.
34 And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the
men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none
to remain:
Deuteronomy 3:11
11 For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants;
behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of
the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four
cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.
Deuteronomy 28:1-9
1 These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses
to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the
covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
2 And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen
all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto
Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land;
3 The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and
those great miracles:
4 Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to
see, and ears to hear, unto this day.
5 And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are
not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.
6 Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong
drink: that ye might know that I am the LORD your God.
7 And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og
the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote
them:
8 And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the
Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh.
9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may
prosper in all that ye do.
Revelation 13:1-15
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out
of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten
crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet
were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and
the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his
deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
4 And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and
they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is
able to make war with him?
5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and
blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two
months.
6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his
name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to
overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues,
and nations.
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names
are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the
foundation of the world.
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that
killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the
patience and the faith of the saints.
11 And I beheld another beast [the Anti-Christ] coming up out of the
earth; and he had two horns like a lamb [he would be the last Pope],
and he spake as a dragon.
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and
causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first
beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from
heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those
miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to
them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the
beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that
the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as
would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
Revelation 20:1-3
1 And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the
bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the
Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a
seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the
thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a
little season.
Revelation 17:8
8 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of
the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the
earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life
from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was,
and is not, and yet is.
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The Good Samaritan
Luke 10:29-36
29 But he, desiring to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is
my neighbor?
30 Jesus made answer and said, A certain man was going down from
Jerusalem to Jericho; and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him
and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead.
31 And by chance a certain priest was going down that way: and when
he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
32 And in like manner a Levite also, when he came to the place, and
saw him, passed by on the other side.
33 But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and
when he saw him, he was moved with compassion,
34 and came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on them oil and
wine; and he set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and
took care of him.
35 And on the morrow he took out two shillings, and gave them to the
host, and said, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more,
I, when I come back again, will repay thee.
36 Which of these three, thinkest thou, proved neighbor unto him that
fell among the robbers?
Jesus was asked the question who is my neighbor? To which He gave the
parable of the Good Samaritan.
The Greek word 'plesion' is translated as 'neighbor' and this makes us
lose the main meaning and understanding of the Parable. The word comes
from the root word 'pelas' which means 'near'.
The word 'plesion' means someone close. It does not necessary mean, a
person living nearby, nor an acquaintance. The reason of the people
asking Jesus the question is because there was more depth to the
relationship which they needed to understand.
If we take the people Jesus took as example in the parable then only
would we understand what the question was. The people whom Jesus chose
as example were
A Priest
A Levite
And a Samaritan
Why did Jesus take these 3 as example and what was common between
them? The thing which was common between them is that they all were
believers and followers of Yahweh.
The Samaritans were people who worshiped the Lord God but people who
did not agree to the traditions of the Jews. It was for this reason
they were hated by the Jews and history has records of the wars fought
between them even inside Synagogues. They were not allowed by the Jews
even to share the natural resources like well water especially when
the Jews needed it, so were given time slots for this. It is like the
caste wars among the Hindus in India.
If in English I would have to ask the question who is my neighbor to
Jesus I would have put it as 'who is my believer brother or who are my
brethren?'
Of the examples Jesus took symbolized the following:
A priest was a person who was a doer of traditions.
Although a priest had to come from the tribe of Levite, when Jesus
took a Levite as an example here it symbolized a person who is born
believer.
A Samaritan here was a person hated by the above people as been void
of God, but a person who truly loved God against all odds.
If today Jesus was to answers the same question and had to give a
similar examples I am sure He would chose the following as example.
A Catholic Priest
An Israelite Jew
A Believer (Protestant)
What Jesus teaches us through this parable is that a person is not a
brethren by doing traditions or been born in a selected family (by
blood) but by having God with them (by true faith).
Even today we have a large portion of the Church who do not understand
this parable and do traditions to become Christian brethren - God’s
people. We also have a great portion of people who are deceived by the
word ‘Israel’, they consider the Jews (followers of Judaism) having
roots in the country Israel as God’s people (by blood).
What Jesus is telling us today is - we are not Christians because we
go to Church or because we are born in a Christian family. We become a
Christian when we have Christ in us, when the light and nature of
Christ shines in us and in our way of life.
[Prayer Starter]
Lord, I thank You for letting me know You and for revealing Yourself
to me as my God and my Savior. Lord, help me to be your child by
having You shine in me in everything about me, my thoughts, my deeds,
my relationships, my worship, my givings, my receivings.. .
This prayer I make in Jesus' Name, Amen.
[Reference Scriptures]
Matthew 10:5-7
5 These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not
into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans
enter ye not:
6 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
7 And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand.
John 4:6-29
6 Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his
journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.
7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto
her, Give me to drink.
8 (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)
9 Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou,
being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the
Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.
10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God,
and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have
asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and
the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?
12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well,
and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water
shall thirst again:
14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall
never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a
well of water springing up into everlasting life.
15 The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst
not, neither come hither to draw.
16 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.
17 The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto
her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:
18 For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not
thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.
19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.
20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in
Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye
shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the
Father.
22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for
salvation is of the Jews.
23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall
worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such
to worship him.
24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in
spirit and in truth.
25 The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is
called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.
26 Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.
27 And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked
with the woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest
thou with her?
28 The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city,
and saith to the men,
29 Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not
this the Christ?
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Church is not built on Petros but on Petra
Mark 3:16 - And Simon he surnamed Peter;
If we look in the Bible God changed the name of Abram to Abraham.
Abraham means (father of nation) it was a promise to him and so we
find thereafter he was not called Abram but always referred to
Abraham.
Let's take another case of Jacob being called Israel. Israel (Isra-El)
means Prince of God, but we find in scriptures Jacob and his
descendants are sometimes referred in the previous name and sometimes
with the new name. There are also cases wherein both the names are
used at the same time. If one looks up the scripture connected,
whenever the people disobeyed God and angered Him, they were referred
a children of Jacob and when they walk in His Word or when mercy was
shown to them they were called Israel. Israel is a promise to the
people of God which means He would make Sons of them.
In the case of Simon Barjona the son of Jonas, Jesus gave him a pet
name or surname Peter (Petros). But we see in scriptures Simon is
called with both the names. Even Jesus called Simon by the name Peter
very few times (recorded only twice) but used the name Simon more
often. People think the name Peter means rock. This understanding has
deceived many people and churches to be led away from God for they do
not understand this name or the reason why Jesus called Simon also
Peter. The name Simon means ‘heard’ and there was nothing wrong with
the name that Jesus needed to call him 'Peter'.
The name Peter (Petros) means 'pebble' or 'stone'. It is actually not
a good name for in Hebrew this name (Tyre) was used for Satan. Does
that mean Jesus was calling Simon a devil? No.
If you see after resurrection Jesus does not call Simon as Peter but
only by the name Simon.
Jesus had chosen Simon to lead His flock in His absence (confirmed by
Simon Peter picking up the robes of Jesus fallen on the floor after
entering the tomb after Jesus' death and resurrection) but Jesus also
knew what people would do in the name of Simon Peter; they would build
the church on the name of Simon Peter and this church would cause
spiritual death to many.
Petros (Peter) in Greek or Tyrus / Tyre in Hebrew means stone which
symbolizes small truth or part truth. Satan is a deceiver and also
clever, he does not speak all lie but speaks half truth so as to
mislead and cause destruction of the people of God. He does not want
the people of God to receive what is due to them as Israel. Not that
he will gain from it, for his end is written and nothing can change
it. He has deep hatred and evil in his heart because what he lost in
Heaven and much more will be given unto redeemed man.
It is the Lord Who is been referred as the Rock (Petra in Greek). In
the Old Testament there are 2 Rocks referred to. The first Rock which
the Lord allowed Moses to strike symbolized God the Son who humbled
Himself as man. The second Rock which Moses struck and for which the
Lord did not allow him to enter the Promised Land symbolized the Holy
Spirit Who humbled Himself and came as Spirit of Truth. This was done
to symbolize any sin against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven even
if that person has been a very anointed person and has done great in
the Kingdom of God.
The book of Revelation also speaks of the woman (prostitute) on the
beast or the church built on Tyrus (Petros).
When Jesus spoke to Simon Peter about the foundation of His Church the
scripture says:
Matthew 16:17-18
17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon
Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my
Father (Holy Spirit - the Rock - Petra) which is in heaven.
18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter (Petros - pebble),
and upon this rock (Petra - the Rock - the Spirit of Truth) I will
build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
19 And I will give unto thee (‘soi’ - you in plural - Jesus was
talking to the disciples) the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and
whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and
whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
20 Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he
was Jesus the Christ.
The Church of God is built on the Holy Spirit of which Jesus is the
corner stone. People who built their Church on anything else other
than the Holy Spirit - the Spirit of Truth is building a church which
is not on firm foundation.
God the Son is the Rock of our salvation and the Holy Spirit is the
Rock of God’s salvation. The Son broke the curses and became the
payment for our punishment, but it is the Holy Spirit Who makes us
able to enter into our inheritance in Heaven.
[Prayer Starter]
Lord, You are our Rock. The Rock of our salvation and the Rock of our
inheritance in You. You paid the price for us and opened the door of
Heaven making it possible for us to enter. It is You Who works in us,
guides us and helps us to walk in the path which Jesus as set to
become sons, so that we can enter Heaven and inherit that which God
has set forth for us in our Lord Jesus Christ. Let this Truth be
rooted in every heart so that they do not get deceived and
destroyed...
This prayer we make in Jesus’ Name, Amen.
[Reference Scriptures]
Numbers23:10
10 Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part
of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end
be like his!
Mark 14:37
37 And he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter,
Simon, sleepest thou? couldest not thou watch one hour?
Luke 22:34 (the second time Jesus used the name Peter to Simon)
34 And he said, I tell thee, Peter, the cock shall not crow this day,
before that thou shalt thrice deny that thou knowest me.
Ezekiel 28:1-15
1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I
sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man,
and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:
3 Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they
can hide from thee:
4 With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee
riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:
5 By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy
riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:
6 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set thine
heart as the heart of God;
7 Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of
the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of
thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.
8 They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the
deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.
9 Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou
shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee.
10 Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of
strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
11 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say
unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of
wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was
thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the
onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle,
and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared
in thee in the day that thou wast created.
14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee
so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and
down in the midst of the stones of fire.
15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created,
till iniquity was found in thee.
16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of
thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee
as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O
covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
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Chastising by the Husband of the Vineyard
Obadiah 1:12 - But look not thou on the day of thy brother in the day
of his disaster, and rejoice not over the children of Judah in the day
of their destruction; neither speak proudly in the day of distress.
The logical thinking of man says - because he has done wrong he gets
punishment, but this is not the whole truth. Although there is some
truth in it, yet it is not the whole.
We need to understand there are two types of cutting that a gardener
does to the plants that are growing. One which is done to the wild
plants in which they are cut so as to fully terminate them and the
other which is done to the most loved and precious plants where there
are pruned so has to get the best growth and the most beautiful form.
Both pain but the latter causes joy after a while.
There are also times when the gardener spares the wild plants for a
while, so that in the process of cutting it he may harm his precious
plants.
When people of God are pruned we should never mock or point fingers to
them for things will be worst for us.
[Prayer Starter]
Lord we know You love us deeply and because You love us You want the
best for us. You prune us so as to remove the corrupted parts and make
us most fruitful. Lord, we surrender ourselves to You, prune us and do
as You will with us. You have made us and You know us better than we
know ourselves. Nothing is hidden from You. Help us realize this also
when we see our brother been worked on, so that we may support and
encourage him through it...
This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.
[Reference Scriptures]
John 15:1-6
1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every
branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more
fruit.
3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of
itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide
in me.
5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in
him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do
nothing.
6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is
withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they
are burned.
Luke 21:18-19
18 But there shall not an hair of your head perish.
19 In your patience possess ye your souls.
James 1:2-4
2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations
[testing];
3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and
entire, wanting nothing.
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Man is like grass
Psalms 102:15, 16 - As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of
the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is
gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
It is very difficult for many to realize that the whole of creation,
the millions and billions of people were created for the processing of
the fraction amount of people, who are the people of God.
Although God has created all mankind yet all mankind is not His
children. Even some of those who take His Name have been called by
Jesus as children of Satan.
All people are like grass no doubt God has a purpose for them in
creation but at the end they will be cut out and put to fire and
forgotten forever. These people may seem good and godly according to
this world but like the flowers of the grass do not bear fruit but
just bloom and perish also will they.
But the people of God are not like grass they are the ones who have
fruit bearing seed in them, when they hear the Gospel these seed die
and bear fruit. God is the Husband of this garden and His eyes are
focused on those trees which bear fruit. Lots of other plantation also
exist in this garden but they do not count for this garden is an
temporary garden and only the fruit bearing plants will be one day
transplanted in to Heavenly permanent garden wherein they will never
lack or die.
The big trees do not need the grass and herbs much but the small
plants which are growing into trees do rely to some extend on them or
need to overcome them as hurdles to become strong rooted trees.
In the latter days we will see more of fruit bearing trees coming up
unlike ever before.
[Prayer Starter]
Lord, we thank You for counting us into your children and giving us
the seed of faith. Lord we also thank for and bless that person/s who
was/were instrument to bring this seed to life. We pray Lord You give
us the discernment to know your people from those of this world and
not be misguided or deceived by their ways and words...
We make this prayer in Jesus' Name, Amen.
[Reference Scriptures]
Deuteronomy 32:1-2
1 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the
words of my mouth.
2 My doctrine [teaching] shall drop as the rain, my speech shall
distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb [plants],
and as the showers upon the grass:
2 Kings 19:20-26 (Italic words which were added for readability have
been removed)
20 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith
the LORD God of Israel, which thou hast prayed to me against
Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.
21 This the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin
the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, laughed thee to scorn; the
daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
22 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast
thou exalted voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? against the Holy
of Israel.
23 By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said,
With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the
mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar
trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: I will enter into the
lodgings of his borders, the forest of his Carmel.
24 I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my
feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.
25 Hast thou not heard long ago I have done it, of ancient times that
I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest
be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
26 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were
dismayed and confounded; they were the grass of the field, and the
green herb, the grass on the housetops, and blasted before it be grown
up.
John 8:38-47
38 I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that
which ye have seen with your father.
39 They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus
saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works
of Abraham.
40 But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth,
which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.
41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not
born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
42 Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me:
for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but
he sent me.
43 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye
will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the
truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he
speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
46 Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do
ye not believe me?
47 He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not,
because ye are not of God.
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Proud in the imagination of their hearts
Luke 1:51 - He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered
the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
In this beautiful prayer of Mary; she declares some of the most
amazing characteristics of God. In today's message the Lord gives us
one such from this prayer that is of Him bringing down the proud by
His majestic works.
There is a very, very beautiful thought put up by Mary, 'God had
scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts by the mighty
works of His hands'. This term 'proud in the imagination of their
hearts' is the most beautiful and perfect term for those who nurture
pride.
The definition of pride is someone who considers himself more than
what he really is. Therefore a proud person is great in his own
imagination. Knowing who you are and what you are is not called being
proud but being self aware and this does not go against being humble.
Pride means putting yourself ahead of one's self; humility does not
mean putting yourself last but humility means putting others ahead of
you. In humility you do not put yourself down nor consider yourself
nothing, for that will be like insulting the One who created you.
Let me give an example if God has blessed you with a good voice you
should use it for the purpose to glorify Him or make life better for
your fellow persons. But when you sing to glorify yourself and start
to think you are great because of your voice then you are letting
pride get into you. For what is giving to you is given by God and not
something you made.
If a person cannot breathe to live without the ability which God has
given, can that person take credit for anything? It is only in one's
imagination that the person can think he or she is great.
Also not using that voice at all even for the purpose God has given is
also like insulting God by rejecting the beautiful thing which God has
given, making it as worthless.
Everything in us and those given to us has purpose and that purpose
should be towards Him, His glory and for His people.
[Prayer Starter]
Lord, we thank You for making us what we are. You have blessed us with
many abilities some which we have yet not discovered. Help us Lord to
know who we are and our purpose in You. Help us to use ourselves for
You and for your purpose. Help us by the Truth kill the spirit of
pride...
This prayer we make in your Mighty Name, Amen.
[Reference Scriptures]
James 4:5-6
5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that
dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the
proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
Matthew 25:14-30
14 For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far
country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his
goods.
15 And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another
one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway
took his journey.
16 Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with
the same, and made them other five talents.
17 And likewise he that had received two, he also gained other two.
18 But he that had received one went and digged in the earth, and hid
his lord’s money.
19 After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth
with them.
20 And so he that had received five talents came and brought other
five talents, saying, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me five talents:
behold, I have gained beside them five talents more.
21 His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant:
thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over
many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
22 He also that had received two talents came and said, Lord, thou
deliveredst unto me two talents: behold, I have gained two other
talents beside them.
23 His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou
hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many
things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
24 Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I
knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown,
and gathering where thou hast not strawed:
25 And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo,
there thou hast that is thine.
26 His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful
servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where
I have not strawed:
27 Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers,
and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
28 Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which
hath ten talents.
29 For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have
abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that
which he hath.
30 And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there
shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
1 Peter 4:10-11
10 As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one
to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
11 If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man
minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God
in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise
and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
--
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Lift your hearts with your hands unto God
Lamentations 3: 41 - Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God
in the heavens.
There is a retreat center in south India of the Catholic Church which
I attended before when I was yet in the RC Church. At this place
people (who attend there in large numbers) were forced to worship like
a commando training.
People were told to lift both their hands up for long hours and were
made to feel, by not doing so will disappoint God and will not receive
the blessing (purpose) they came for. The funniest news I received
just a week back that this center now tells people to lift only their
right hand. A brother who visited this place for some other reason
questioned 'what is wrong with my left hand?'
People void of wisdom will do anything. I thank God they did not read
today's scripture or take it serious, else I can imagine.
When we worship God we do many things like lift hands, kneeling,
swaying, dancing etc. these help us to increase our concentration on
worship or express ourselves better in our worship. In reality and in
scriptures they have meaning which we need to understand and do in
truth.
Like the word heart here does not mean our organ but our inner-man
(our nature, our feelings, our will, our minds etc.), so also the word
hands does not mean our arms. In the Bible hands symbolize our work.
Similarly our feet symbolize our way of life, so kneeling means
putting down our way of life to God and lifting our faces towards
Heaven (Light) means seeking the favor of God.
If I keep kneeling during worship or prayers but do not imply this
into my life, this kneeling makes no sense. My lifting hands up
towards the sky during worship even for hours, but if I do not glorify
God in my doings, my lifting hand does not make any sense.
What today's scripture is telling us is by our works and our doings we
can let the glory of God come into our inner man.
Our works will not save us, but when they are done to glorify God they
expand the Kingdom of God. We the children of God working in our
Father's vineyard should not feel ashamed but rather consider it our
duty. If we love our Father, we should be concern of His business
which is to bring His lost sheep to Him and to grow Fruit in them.
[Prayer Starter]
Lord we thank You for giving us hands and feet. By the ability You
have giving us we want to glorify You in our lives and let your glory
shine in us. Lord, we surrender our every plan and our every desire
let them be according to thy will and let your glory be through them.
Use us and glorify Yourself, so that we be glorified in You when we
become one in You...
This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.
[Reference Scriptures]
Matthew 18:8
8 Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and
cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or
maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into
everlasting fire.
Psalms 18:24
24 Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my
righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
Psalms 24:3-6
3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in
his holy place?
4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up
his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
5 He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from
the God of his salvation.
6 This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O
Jacob. Selah.
--
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Never Satisfied, Never Enough!

Proverbs 30:15,16 - "The leech has two daughters. 'Give! Give!'.
"There are three things that are never satisfied, four that never say,
'Enough!', the grave,Hebrew Sheol the barren womb, land, which is
never satisfied with water, and fire, which never says, 'Enough!'

The leech we all know is a blood sucking creature and the Bible says
life is in the blood so a leech is personified as that which sucks
life. This thing that sucks life of a person has two daughters whose
names are Give and Give. In simple sense both of them are greed, greed
of the earthly world and greed of the spirit world.

These two daughters have children one has three and the other four of
these two are almost common but the third spits to two.

Greed's earthly daughter's three children who are never satisfied are:

Death - Seoul which is another place for Hell is a place which was
made for sinful beings (especially the fallen Angels). When God made
man although he did not have everlasting life God had made provision
for everlasting life for him. But it was man's greed to be greater
than what God had made him that got him trapped on earth and bought
death unto him.

Barren womb - and unproductive soul; any soul that does not bear fruit
is like a womb. Knowledge of this world, skills / talents of this
world or any such has never satisfied any soul and never will.

Earth - this world can develop and develop in all direction, and will
never stop until it consumes itself. Whatever good we do on earth void
of God is indirectly vanity and will lead to destruction of mankind.
They may seem as a blessing today but tomorrow we will wake up and
realize we caused a nightmare.

Greed's spiritual daughter's four children who say 'not enough' are:

Hell - this prison which exists due to the curse of God was mainly
made for the fallen Angels but since man infected with greed from
these evil spirits man too was doomed into this prison. This prison or
endless pit can consume endlessly all mankind. It is only by Jesus'
Sacrifice we are saved from it.

Barren womb - the word used as barren does not mean empty but comes
from the root that means shut up. A womb is made to open and give
live. Even a womb that is not empty and has living life in it but does
not open is bad for it will cause the life to corrupt and rot and
cause infection to the whole system. A soul void of spiritual gifts or
fruits is like an empty womb. Also womb having spiritual gifts and
fruits but does not develop further and works for the glory of God is
like a womb having a child but the child cannot come out. In the start
it may feel good but latter that which is inside soon corrupts and
cause serious infection.

People do not realize the greatest enemy to our soul (worm which eats
into our fruits) and also the cause which made Lucifer into Satan is
greed. People think having more (worldly things or spiritual gifts) is
a blessing from God but they do not realize it is also a great
testing. Jesus has warned again and again that it is almost impossible
for a rich man to enter Heaven unless he does not have any attachment
to his wealth and uses it for the glory of God and for His Kingdom.

In spiritual world the earth is replaced by water and fire.

Water - symbolizes humanity in general but here it symbolizes sin. Sin
is like a worm which dwells in the soul but infects the spirit. It
will multiple in all areas of the soul with one purpose to consume the
spirit and the spirits connected to it. Sin does not stop till it
consumes all and perishes itself. It has to grow feeding on others or
else eats itself up.

Fire - when connected with the sanctuary symbolizes purification but
when connected with sin a consuming entity. When a metal is put in
fire it can purify it but when any combustible object touches it, it
perishes. Fire connected to sin like here greed symbolizes wrath of
God. Anything that goes against the plans (Light) of God invites the
wrath of God (like darkness). The wrath of God can consume all things
and is just terrible (I would rather say less on this).

Having more than what is necessary in this world or of the spirit
world that is not used to glorify God is not advisable and allow greed
to creep in. We need to understand everything that God created has
purpose; He did not make anything without purpose, both on earth and
in Heaven.

Wanting more and more of even spiritual good things but not using them
(even if not misusing them) causes harm. Satan was a very anointed
Cherub also known as a Morning Star, who’s ways were perfect and did
not crave for earthy things nor for earthly jewelery for Heaven is a
spirit world. They were good things which he craved for and are
symbolically written for us (who are lacking total wisdom and
knowledge of the Heavens) to understand.

Being blessed with spiritual knowledge, prophetic gifts, etc. but not
using them for the glory of God can cause us harm and eat into our
life.

[Prayer Starter]
Lord, help us to understand life and the purpose we are created. Help
us to know all things You created are good only when they have purpose
in You. Help us know your plans in our life. Help us overcome our own
desires and implement your plan into our lives...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]
Ezekiel 28:12-19
12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say
unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of
wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was
thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the
onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle,
and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared
in thee in the day that thou wast created.
14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee
so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and
down in the midst of the stones of fire.
15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created,
till iniquity was found in thee.
16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of
thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee
as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O
covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast
corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to
the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine
iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring
forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will
bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that
behold thee.
19 All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at
thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.

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He completed every sacrifice in Him
Mark 15:42 - And now when the even was come, because it was the
preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,
The day on which Jesus died was not before a normal Sabbath or day of
rest. In John 19:31 it is recorded as a high day which was the main
Passover celebration day. The day on which Jesus died was call the
Preparation day not because they had to prepare the food or decoration
or for any the party. If one read Exodus 12 it was the day (14th day)
before the Passover that they killed the lamb in the evening (Jesus
died also in the evening) and ate the lamb in the night, it was on the
next day that they crossed the Red Sea. The crossing day was
celebrated in a grand celebration and considered a day of rest, a
holiday.
The Passover started from the day of leaven bread (Jesus' last supper
and day of His arrest, which happened to be a Sunday) and ended with
the High day (the day after Jesus died, which was a Friday), in all it
was a 6 day celebration. When Jesus resurrected it was a Sunday a day
after the weekly Sabbath (Saturday).
Sunday was also celebrated during the times of Moses and was called a
day of the Peace Sacrifice. It was on that day the waved sacrifice was
offered as a sign of peace between God and man. It was on this day the
curse of God on man that man will perish unto dust was cancelled and
the proof of this was the appearance of Jesus after going to hell.
Hell is a prison which was made for all souls after death which had
sin. Jesus was covered with all the sins of mankind since man laid his
hands on Him while crowning him with thorns like they did to the bull
which was later left to wander in the wilderness, this too was
fulfilled by Jesus after His coming back from Hell. It was since no
sin was found in Him that He could not be kept in this prison. Jesus
could have appeared the day He died, for Hell nor is Heaven bound by
earthly time. It was to fulfill all scriptures that Jesus appeared on
the 3rd day.
So we see it was on the exactly on the 3rd day that Jesus resurrected
(the sign of Jonah is a curse to the wicket and this is to do with
understanding spirit life of man) and His sacrifice did not end on the
crucifix but continued even after He appeared from Hell. It was also
this reason that He did not allow Mary the Magdalene to touch Him at
that time for He had not finished all His sacrifices but did allow
everyone after He fully completed every sacrifice as prophesied by the
mouth of Moses. The final sacrifice which Jesus did was sprinkling of
His blood on Throne of God like the High Priest by entering the Holy
of Holies. Jesus ascended to the Father on that day (Sunday) offered
His blood sacrifice and completing everything, later appeared to His
disciples.
After His death Jesus even left His robe on the floor and this was
picked by Peter. The person whom the High Priest ordained to be the
next High Priest on the death of the High Priest would pick up this
robe and wear it. Peter was selected to lead the flock therefore even
though others entered the tomb no one less picked up the robe.
This does not mean Peter became the next High Priest, since our High
Priest is not dead and He had folded His face napkin signaling that He
will be back (which was a tradition followed at the dining table by
the Jews). Peter and all of us who are in Christ are acting priest and
our one and only High Priest is in Heaven seated at the Right
(righteous) Hand of God the Father in Heaven.
[Payers Starter]
Lord Jesus, we thank You for completing everything and opening all
doors or us to receive our salvation. By our faith in You we too have
all the curses broken, including the sentence of spiritual dead in
Hell cancelled. You made peace between God and man by being our Peace
Sacrifice. We thank You and receive in full that that You have made
available for us in You...
We declared this in your Mighty Name, Amen.
[Reference Scriptures]
John 19:31-33
31 The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the
bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that
sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be
broken, and that they might be taken away.
32 Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of
the other which was crucified with him.
33 But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already,
they brake not his legs:
Exodus 12:2-11
2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be
the first month of the year to you.
3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth
day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according
to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household:
4 and if the household be too little for a lamb, then shall he and
his neighbor next unto his house take one according to the number of
the souls; according to every man's eating ye shall make your count
for the lamb.
5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old: ye shall
take it from the sheep, or from the goats:
6 and ye shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month;
and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at
even.
7 And they shall take of the blood, and put it on the two side-posts
and on the lintel, upon the houses wherein they shall eat it.
8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and
unleavened bread; with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
9 Eat not of it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roast with
fire; its head with its legs and with the inwards thereof.
10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that
which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
11 And thus shall ye eat it: with your loins girded, your shoes on
your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste:
it is Jehovah's passover.
Leviticus 23:10-12
10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be
come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest
thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your
harvest unto the priest:
11 And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for
you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.
12 And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb
without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the LORD.
Leviticus 16:9-34
John 20:3-8
3 Peter therefore went forth, and the other disciple, and they went
toward the tomb.
4 And they ran both together: and the other disciple outran Peter,
and came first to the tomb;
5 and stooping and looking in, he seeth the linen cloths lying; yet
entered he not in.
6 Simon Peter therefore also cometh, following him, and entered into
the tomb; and he beholdeth the linen cloths lying,
7 and the napkin, that was upon his head, not lying with the linen
cloths, but rolled up in a place by itself.
8 Then entered in therefore the other disciple also, who came first
to the tomb, and he saw, and believed.
John 20:10-20
10 Then the disciples went away again unto their own home.
11 But Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping: and as she wept,
she stooped down, and looked into the sepulchre,
12 And seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and
the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.
13 And they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She saith unto
them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they
have laid him.
14 And when she had thus said, she turned herself back, and saw Jesus
standing, and knew not that it was Jesus.
15 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou?
She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou
have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will
take him away.
16 Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself, and saith unto
him, Rabboni; which is to say, Master.
17 Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to
my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my
Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.
18 Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the
Lord, and that he had spoken these things unto her.
19 Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week,
when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear
of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them,
Peace be unto you.
20 And when he had so said, he shewed unto them his hands and his
side. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the Lord.
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The Temple

Ezekiel 40:14 - He made also posts, threescore cubits; and the court
reached unto the posts, round about the gate.

If you have read Ezekiel chapter 40 to 44 and if you have any
architectural inclinations you with find these chapters like a
confused design of a Temple.

If you have seen the Traquair House maze or the Hampton Court maze it
is difficult to find your way through them and children require an
adult to stand on the wall (or at a height) to guide them in and out.

When The Lord had explained me the structure and functioning of the
various parts of the inner man I thought this was done, for I had not
read about this from any other source. But after a few days the Lord
gave me scriptures from these chapters Ezekiel 40 to 44 and I realized
these temples were not some miniature confused temple, but the design
structure of a heart (inner man) of man. They define the heart of the
perfect redeemed heart.

One needs to know Bible image study, Bible numerics, word study,
creation etc. with a firm foundation in the basics of the Bible to
understand this. In short these chapters are like the Gospel of John
may sound simple but are very highly coded.

The whole Bible or the foundation purpose of this creation of mankind
is all to do with the inner man. You can even call it a laundry where
the hearts of the people of God are cleaned and made whole; the
corrupt made incorruptible mainly by the humbled God the Son and
Spirit of God.

The Lord not only shows us our deficiencies but through Ezekiel the
perfect heart of the redeemed man (Jesus being the 1st) was declared
long before He came as man in the flesh.

The war and all the battles in spirit are fought here, in the battle
ground called heart or inner man. We need to fight the battles, but
the war is already won by Him. Even regarding the battles He has given
us all the weapons, defense systems, the war maps and the 100 percent
winning strategy all in the Bible and By His sacrifice.

The Bible is called the book of instructions, which are instructions
to overcome and to become the perfect Temple where the glory of God is
present.

[Prayer Starter]
Lord, our spirits got corrupted because sin came into our hearts. Our
corrupt spirits cannot enter Heaven nor come before You for anything
corrupt cannot exist before You, for You are Holy. You gave us not
only the Word but by the sacrifice of your Son You opened shut doors
for us and by your Spirit decode and guide us through your Word. Holy
Spirit, work in our hearts and make them the perfect Temple wherein
your glory dwells...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]
Ezekiel 40:1-4
1 In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning
of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year
after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day, the hand of
Jehovah was upon me, and he brought me thither.
2 In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and
set me down upon a very high mountain, whereon was as it were the
frame of a city on the south.
3 And he brought me thither; and, behold, there was a man, whose
appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in
his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.
4 And the man said unto me, Son of man, behold with thine eyes, and
hear with thine ears, and set thy heart upon all that I shall show
thee; for, to the intent that I may show them unto thee, art thou
brought hither: declare all that thou seest to the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 43:1-5
1 Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh
toward the east:
2 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of
the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters: and the earth
shined with his glory.
3 And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw,
even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the
city: and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river
Chebar; and I fell upon my face.
4 And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of the
gate whose prospect is toward the east.
5 So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and,
behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house.

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T@MZ

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