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Isaiah 29:2 - Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and
sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.

The Hebrew word translated as Ariel in the book of Ezekiel is used for the
altar and in Isaiah is used for Jerusalem. The word means lion or lioness
of God/god. Christians do not realize the term lion is used for the Lord
and well as to Satan (the Beast). Jesus is called the Lion of Judah and in
the book of Psalms 91:13 Satan (the Beast) is called the young lion or one
who roars ‘like a lion’.

It will surprise people to know in Genesis 49 when Jacob blessed Judah he
notes the seed of Judah (Jesus) / sceptre of Judah (Jesus - King) as an old
(ancient) lion! I do not think this fact also will get down the throats of
Christians.

It is only through the understanding of Bible image study (study of symbols
of creation used by God in scriptures) we will start to understand
scriptures like Daniel understood through dreams then the shadow will
reveal the real picture. These scriptures are nothing to do with the
natural lion but with what it symbolizes. Peter by the understanding of
this called us a royal priesthood. Lion symbolizes royalty and righteous
together that is why Jesus is termed as King and Chief Priest at the same
time. Jesus is called the ancient lion for He is righteousness from the
beginning like God is called the Ancient One.

Satan the Beast never desired to become God in Heaven (Prince of Tyre - the
one who is with us and whose Heavenly powers are taken away, that is why it
is compared to a man). Ezekiel 28:2 clearly states he desires to be god
over the sea / people of this world. He himself being a creation of God,
one who was very anointed of God, who was once upon a time dwelled very
next to the Throne of God (where His glory is maximum) and was blessed with
great wisdom and other spiritual gifts (Heavenly jewels) beyond the
imagination of man, is not a fool like man to claim to be God; but he does
know he can be god of people who are far from God.

God is telling us He would destroy Ariel (symbolizing Jerusalem) and cause
distress and sorrow to fall on her. Note there are 2 Hebrew words <03389> &
<03390> both translated as Jerusalem, they different slightly in the
script. One spiritually refers to God’s people and the other to the city or
people who pose as God’s people.

On 29th Oct we received message of God taking action on people heading His
Church / representing Christians. Two days later we got a message stating
because God loves (His Church) He takes drastic steps at times. Again on
27th we received a warning message on the same. I know in India lots of
things are happening among the leaders of Churches.

Today also the same message is the same as what we have been getting from
the Lord. He is going to cause shaking of the Church. This shaking is
happens for His Church is not firm founded in the Truth.

When we see the state of things around it is very depressing to see
Christians of many years some even Pastors and Church elders lack knowledge
of fundamental things of scriptures or of the Kingdom of God. Some days
back I was speaking to a Muslim convert who did many years of Bible study,
he was telling me how he fought with Bible school professors who would
teach how the Bible was corrupt and inaccurate. They mostly referred to
writings or views of atheists for Bible study. Many Bible college students
are void of the knowledge of God and the power of God for in the name of
Bible they are infected people with worldly understanding. Another brother
shared with me how his father was made head of the Church because his
ancestors were heads of the church. When we hear such things the question
comes to mind, ‘What is the Church to do with God or the Word of God?’.

It is time we see people taught according to the heart of God filled with
the wisdom of God. It is time the foundation is shaken, repaired and rooted
in the Truth and Spirit of God.

[Prayer Starter]

Lord, there are many Christians and Christianity is one of the fastest
growing religions in the world yet there very few people who know You and
have a relationship with You. Most are filled with teaching of the world
and thus are far from You. Lord, You love your Bride and we know You will
save her...

This prayer we make in Jesus’ Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

Isaiah 29:1-4

1 Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year;
let them kill sacrifices.

2 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and
it shall be unto me as Ariel.

3 And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against
thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.

4 And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and
thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one
that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall
whisper out of the dust.

Psalms 91:13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and
the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.

Genesis 49:8-12

8 Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in
the neck of thine enemies; thy father’s children shall bow down before thee.

9 Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he
stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him
up?

10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between
his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people
be.

11 Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass’s colt unto the choice
vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of
grapes:

12 His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.

Ezekiel 28:1-10

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
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The Law that destroyed the Jews

Isaiah 58:13,14 - If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from 
doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the 
holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own 
ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: Then 
shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride 
upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of 
Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.

The one Law that caused the destruction of the Jews is the Law of 
Sabbath. This Law by itself was just impossible to keep. It called them 
to literately stop everything (it means 'cease&# 39;) in life. It did not 
command just the person to refrain from any work but also commands all 
those working under him including his animals to refrain from doing any 
work. If one of these is broken the Law is broken.

The Jews knew it was just impossible to keep this commandment so they 
tried all their cunningness to find all kind of loopholes or ways out 
from doing things and still showing they have kept the Law.

An example was a person was not allowed to carry anything on this day, 
so the Jews thought of a solution, they would tie a string and drag the 
object from one house to another if they needed something very 
necessary. All these do and don'ts were written in a book that was 
fatter than the Torah and more important than the Torah.

They feared this Law because the consequences of breaking it, was death 
by being stoned. One may wonder why God made such a dreadful commandment.

If you look this is the only commandment that evolved with time. It 
started with them collecting Manna in the wilderness. As they kept on 
disobeying this Law, God started making this Law more and more difficult 
to keep, and its punishment more severe. Later God added to the Sabbath, 
even a Sabbath year and Jubilee year which came every 7th and 50th year 
respectively. Every feast was also considered a High Sabbath.

Did God take pleasure in making life difficult for the Jews?

Let us see this with Jesus.

Jesus was hated by the Jews because He did not keep the Law of Sabbath 
as they understood it. What is interesting to note, we see Jesus in the 
Gospels had a thing of during miracles especially during the Sabbath. 
They would tell Him, there were 6 days in a week for Him to heal people, 
why did He venture out to heal people especially on a Sabbath (like the 
man near the lake who did not even know Jesus).

There were some things Jesus did knowingly, aware of its consequences, 
like He knew by healing Bartimaeus He would damage His good relationship 
with the Romans. That is why the last miracle He did was to heal 
Bartimaeus since history shows Bartimaeus was not born blind or 
medically blind, but was punished and made blind by Caesar (Rome) for 
revolting against the Romans. Jesus also went against the Jewish High 
Priest who is equivalent to the Catholic Pope by healing the man with a 
crippled hand. This man too like Bartimaeus was punished by the Jewish 
High Priest for working on a Sabbath (that is why when He healed this 
man they were out to kill Him with rage which they could not otherwise, 
since they were under Roman rule).

When the Pharisees confronted Jesus for breaking the Sabbath Jesus 
always pointed to their lack of understanding on the Law and how they 
used their cunningness against God while they did break the Law 
according to their own understanding. Around the end we see Jesus 
pointed to scriptures wherein He showed them the Priests and David broke 
the Law every Sabbath yet were found guiltless by God (we too in the 
Lord are called both priest and royal like David).

Purpose or spirit of the Law is more important than the text of the Law. 
If the person breaks the spirit of the Law while obeying the text the 
Law lands up being broken (for God is not man to make foolish / worldly 
laws).

If one studies the Ten Commandments, they all were not commandments, for 
the Lord Himself refers to them as Law and Commandments. Jesus expounded 
them to us as there being only 2 Commandments and the rest were Laws 
under them. If one keeps the 2 the rest are automatically kept in 
spirit. That is why Jesus worked on the Sabbath but yet did not break 
any Commandment or Law.

Today the Lord is telling us if we love the Lord with all our hearts, 
minds, strength and understanding and totally rest (mentally and 
spiritually) in Him at His given time (not a specific day of the week) 
we would be blessed abundantly in every area of their lives. And yes the 
consequences of breaking this Law is death like other Laws, but would be 
on Judgement Day, that is why Jesus did stone the woman, who committed 
adultery, who according to the Law had to be stoned to death. That is 
why Jesus asking if anyone there was worthy to sit in the Judgment seat 
caused them to move out. It was not a wise or witty move of Jesus but a 
Godly move of Jesus for He had the understanding of scriptures.

[Prayer Starter]

Lord, You are spirit and Your Kingdom is not of this world. Lord, we 
pray your people keep your Laws and Commandments in spirit and truth and 
not in the flesh like the Jews did and will perish for not accepting 
You. Lord, give wisdom and discernment to your people who like the Jews 
try to keep your Commandments and Laws in the flesh...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

Exodus 24:12And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, 
and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and 
commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.

Genesis 2:1-3

1Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

2And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he 
rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

3And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it 
he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

[Did God really rest? He still works in us and through us, if He does 
not, then who is Jesus and who does miracles, heals, provides and 
forgives us?]

Exodus 16:21-31

Exodus 20:8-11

8Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

9Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:

10But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou 
shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy 
manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that 
is within thy gates:

11For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that 
in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the 
sabbath day, and hallowed it.

Exodus 31:14-17

14Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every 
one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth 
any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

15Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, 
holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall 
surely be put to death.

16Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe 
the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.

17It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in 
six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he 
rested, and was refreshed.

Exodus 35:1-3

1And Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of Israel 
together, and said unto them, These are the words which the LORD hath 
commanded, that ye should do them.

2Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to 
you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the LORD: whosoever doeth work 
therein shall be put to death.

3Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.

Leviticus 25:2-27

Numbers 15:31-36

31Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken his 
commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be 
upon him.

32And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a 
man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.

33And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and 
Aaron, and unto all the congregation.

34And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be 
done to him.

35And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: 
all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.

36And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him 
with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses.

Matthew 12:3-8

3But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an 
hungred, and they that were with him;

4How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which 
was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but 
only for the priests?

5Or HAVE YE NOT READ IN THE LAW, HOW THAT ON THE SABBATH DAYS THE 
PRIESTS IN THE TEMPLE PROFANE THE SABBATH, AND ARE BLAMELESS?

6But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple.

7But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not 
sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.

8For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.

1 Peter 2:9 - But YE ARE A CHOSEN GENERATION, A ROYAL PRIESTHOOD, an 
holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of 
him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

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Lift you voice like a trumpet and shout Repentance

Isaiah 58:1 - Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, 
and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.

Today we see very few true Christians and mostly namesake Christian, 
only because most preachers have stopped preaching on repentance, all 
love to preaching about forgiveness and blessings.

People of God, understand without repentance there is no forgiveness and 
without forgiveness there is no true blessings.

One thing people get very wrong is they think repentance is about being 
sorry for the sins one has done.

NO. Repentance is not about being sorry for the sins one has committed. 
How many sins can we be sorry for and can anyone remember all the sins 
one has committed to ask for forgiveness? ??

Repentance is about being sorry for the sinful life we have been living.

Repentance starts when we come to know God and know how Holy He is, and 
when we look at ourselves and see our lives and how this life we live 
does not allow us to come to God and we make our minds to do something 
about it. It is our love for God and desire to be with Him that requires 
us to give our lives unto Him so that by losing our lives to Him we may 
receive a new life.

Repentance causes us to come to God and when we come to God we receive 
forgiveness FOR ALL THE SINS we have committed. It does not mean just 
the sins we remember and not the sins we did not. True repentance causes 
us to receive forgiveness for all our sins. It causes us to become a new 
creation in Christ.

Like in today's message let us not be good preachers which the world 
wants but let us be messengers of God (Angels) doing what the Lord 
desires of us.

[Prayer Starters]

Lord, we pray your people be bold, that they receive a spirit of 
boldness to not fear man but have fear of God in them. That they preach 
not to please people or give them a religion, but preach to bring your 
people unto You. That they cause the people to be renewed and become a 
new people drawn out of this world...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

Mark 1:4 - John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of 
repentance for the remission of sins.

Matthew 11:

11Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath 
not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is 
least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

12And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven 
suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.

13For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.

Matthew 4:17 - From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: 
for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Acts 2:38 - Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one 
of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye 
shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

2 Corinthians 7:10 - For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation 
not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

2 Timothy 2:25-26

25In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God 
peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;

26And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, 
who are taken captive by him at his will.
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The righteous rejoice and praise for they are justified

Psalms 33: 1 - Rejoice in the LORD, O ye righteous: praise is comely for 
the upright.

Let me expound this scripture before I get into its message.

Psalms 33: 1 - Rejoice [means to overcome (from within) or cry out] in 
the LORD, O ye righteous [the word here is really justified]: praise 
[glory] is comely [to dwell] for the upright [the word means the righteous].

Psalms 33: 1 (Expounded) - Overcome from within in the LORD, O ye 
justified: glory dwells in the righteous.

The message say those whom the Lord calls His righteous are not perfect 
but they are the ones whom the Lord justifies, they overcome from within 
and praise dwells in them.

Please get this right. No one has and can be righteous unless we do all 
what is needed of us. Jesus rebuked the young man who called Him good 
master. One will understand Jesus did not call Himself good until He 
complete all that was written of Him in the books of Moses and Prophets. 
It was only when He did all things He sat on the Right (Righteous) Hand 
of the Father.

We all are growing in understanding of the Word since we lack full 
knowledge of it, it is not possible for us to be righteous, yet the Lord 
calls us righteous for He has given us His Spirit of Truth (1 of the 7 
Spirits of the Holy Spirit) and it is the working of the Holy Spirit in 
us Who causes us overcome and thus be justified in the Lord. That is why 
God's glory dwells in them for from a lump of carbon God makes them into 
a diamond.

Let us not try to be righteous by doing things like trying to keep the 
Law or be good, but let us surrender to the Spirit of God and be led by 
Him. Let Him work in us and through us, and help us overcome making us 
righteous, so that we become a source that gives glory to God.

[Prayer Starter]

Lord, No man has been able to keep your Commandments for man is corrupt 
(incomplete) due to sin. You came as man and showed us how by the power 
of the Holy Spirit we can be righteous. Lord we pray we learn not to 
work in our strength but surrender to You and by your working in us, we 
glorify You...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

Matthew 19:16-17

16 And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing 
shall I do, that I may have eternal life?

17And 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.
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Understanding dreams through the language of God

Daniel 4:5 - I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon 
my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.

Bible tells us God talks to us through dreams and most of the Prophets 
God communicated with was through dreams. Bible uses both the words 
dreams and also uses the words visions. People would think one is about 
seeing when one is asleep and the other when one is awake, but that is 
wrongs.

If we read Joel 2:28 the Lord says the old (spiritual elders) will dream 
dreams and the young (spiritually immature) will see visions. Both are 
different, both are dreams but the kind of dreams they are varies.

The dreams (visions) the young see are dreams that give some amount of 
information and it is like seeing something in a smoke, where some 
things are clear and the remaining hazy. Here the prime event remains 
embedded in the mind of the person but the remaining gets forgotten or 
is of no importance.

The dreams (dreams) the elders see are like seeing a movie, or being 
present at the event. Here everything is of utmost importance. Small 
things like colour, position, texture, material, shape, expressions also 
are of great importance. Here everything gets embedded in the mind of 
the one who sees it. It is not necessary the view is from your eyes, it 
mostly may be from the eyes of God and we could be one of the elements 
of the dream.

One can see dreams and visions when asleep or even when the person is 
awake, when the person goes in a trance, a level of the mind / as in asleep.

Firstly not all dreams are from God. Bible states one can get dreams 
when one eats a lot and when under spiritual bondage. The eating refers 
to both physical and mental eating. One's physical state affects one's 
mental state and one's mental state affects one's physical state for 
both interconnect with each other. Science states man sees normal dreams 
at a specific level of sleep. One may think it would be at the deepest 
level but that is not right. We see normal dreams occur at an 
intermediate level of sleep. At the first and at the deepest levels one 
does not see dreams, something which the Bible explains to us why.

To understand dreams that are from God one needs to understand the 
language of God. If we see all the people whom the Lord spoke to in the 
Bible wherein the person explains the dream which he saw, one would see 
a pattern between them. One can pray to God to give them wisdom to 
understand them like God gives us understanding or revelation of His 
Word. But the wisdom to do this is given by default to people with the 
calling of a Teacher like in the case of Daniel, Joseph son of Jacob, 
John the author of Revelation and even Job. We also have Teachers like 
Luke and Mark who wrote the Gospels but they did not have this gifting 
since there are 2 types of Teachers like there are 2 types of Evangelist 
(Word and music) or Healers (healing and deliverance) .

We read in today's message Daniel who had the calling of a Teacher (God 
helped him understand prophecies through dreams) had the ability to 
interpret dreams and this gave him favour with the king.

Today God is tell all He has already enabled you with the requirement 
according to your calling and placed you in a place where if you use the 
gifting given by God, it will get you to have favour not only with God 
but also with man. Bible says God will make us sit at the banquet table 
spread by our enemies. It is not that they would love us but even though 
they hate us they will not be able to harm us, in fact they will also be 
unwilling sources of blessing.

[Prayer Starter]

Lord You are God and when we walk in righteousness in You, we have 
favour not only with You but also with man. Even our enemies who hate us 
will bless us unwillingly for You are our God. Lord, we pray You speak 
to your people in dreams and visions more and more today. For when You 
speak to your people things happen and when You do not nothing good does...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

Job 7:14 - Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through 
visions:

Numbers 12:6And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among 
you, the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, will speak 
unto him in a dream.

Ecclesiastes 5:1-3,7

1 Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready 
to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that 
they do evil.

2Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter 
any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: 
therefore let thy words be few.

3For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's 
voice is known by multitude of words.

7 For in the multitude of dreams and many words divers vanities: but 
fear thou God.

Daniel 1:17 - As for these four children, God gave them knowledge and 
skill in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all 
visions and dreams.

Joel 2:28 - And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my 
spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, 
your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:

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Temple of Isis will be bought down

Ezekiel 29:15, 16 - It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither 
shall it exalt itself any more above the nations: for I will diminish 
them, that they shall no more rule over the nations. And it shall be no 
more the confidence of the house of Israel, which bringeth their 
iniquity to remembrance, when they shall look after [at] them: but they 
shall know that I am the Lord GOD.

This chapter in the book of Ezekiel was a rebuke by the Lord against 
Egypt. This prophecy was fulfilled in the shadow with the diminishing of 
the Egyptian kingdom. This once glorious kingdom later was ruled by many 
other nations.

The Egyptians had a goddess Isis who was known as mother god. She was 
the first daughter of the prime earth god Geb and goddess of the sky 
Nut. She was mostly portrayed holding her infant son Horus in her hands. 
She also had in her hand a round chain like object with a symbol like 
cross with its top stem fused in the chain or circle. She also had a 
special headgear with the moon embedded between 2 horns. She was the 
intercessor goddess who heard the prayers of people and especially close 
to the slaves, sinners and artisans (for they made her images). She was 
instrument in resurrecting her brother/husband after he was killed and 
his parts scattered all over the earth by another god. She was also 
connected with the Nile for they believed her tears flooded the Nile 
which was the main path for commerce for the Egyptians.

This myth spread through the Greek-Roman era and they also had this same 
image among them but in a different form. This image later found itself 
among the pagan-Christians of Rome as Mary which is today known as the 
Roman Catholic Church's Mother Mary / Perpetual Succour / Queen of 
Heaven / Mother of God.

The word Egypt means dual-straits / dual channels / dual pathways. The 
word in shadow referred to the people of land Egypt but in spiritual 
terms referred to those Christians who lived a dual life. A life of 
knowing God and yet worshiping pagan gods and following pagan practices.

Every child of God knows God deep within them like a just born infant 
(both humans and animals) knows its mother and knows how to suck its 
mother for nourishment. Giving the Gospel to them causes them to forsake 
the other gods and come out of them believing in the one and only Lord. 
Water baptism happens when a child of God comes out of Egypt and into 
Jerusalem (people who worship/praise God). Baptism of the Holy Spirit 
takes people from Jerusalem to Zion (fortified city) making them Israel 
(Sons / Princes of God).

Today's message speaks to the Christian Egyptians, mainly the Roman 
Catholic Church that its time of rule is nearing its end and no more 
with it rule / stand over others. In other words the fall of Babylon the 
Great.

We read in papers the popularity of Pope Francis. Ordinary people love 
his new approach but Catholic theologians are getting sleepless nights 
for he is shaking the very foundation of Catholicism. Catholicism stands 
on 3 pillars on the top being the Church represented by the Pope, second 
being traditions of the Catholic Church and then comes scriptures or the 
'Bible&# 39;. This 'Bible&# 39; is not the Bible we know but the Bible edited and 
tampered with over hundreds of years by this Church.

In countries like India when the word Christian is used people of other 
religions think it refers to Catholics. People are not aware they are 
not even a denomination of Christianity. They are like the goats in the 
flock, for they have their own horns (kings) and Christ is not their 
King even though they verbally claim, since they put a queen over Him. 
Christ's sacrifice is incomplete without their Mary's intervention. They 
have rejected grace (wool) and believe in only works for salvation (like 
mountain goats depend on their feet).

People in this Church are fooled to believe they are Christians due to 
their ignorance of scriptures. Jesus was called the Lamb of God and not 
Goat of God even though goats are a part of His flock. They are made to 
do baptism of infants and made to eat wafer claiming it to be the 
physical flesh of Jesus Christ (the Last Supper happened before Jesus 
died). They are filled with manmade traditions and fuse with the 
understanding of this world. In India they have come with an Indian 
version of Mary.

Let us pray the children of God who are yet in Egypt that God will open 
their eyes, bring their gods down like He did with plagues and bring 
them out of Egypt and into Jerusalem, and finally into Zion to make them 
into Sons of God (Israel).

[Prayer Starter]

Lord You are Spirit and Heaven is a Spirit place for it is your dwelling 
place. Lord we pray your people realize they are spirit being living 
temporary in a body of flesh. That they give up the things of the flesh 
and connect with You through spirit and your Word which gives life to 
the Spirit...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

Jeremiah 7:17-19

17Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets 
of Jerusalem?

18The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the 
women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to 
pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

19Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke 
themselves to the confusion of their own faces?

Jeremiah 44:25-29

25Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying; Ye and your 
wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your hand, 
saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn 
incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto 
her: ye will surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows.

26Therefore hear ye the word of the LORD, all Judah that dwell in the 
land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith the LORD, 
that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in 
all the land of Egypt, saying, The Lord GOD liveth.

27Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all the 
men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the 
sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them.

28Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land 
of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are 
gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words 
shall stand, mine, or theirs.

29And this shall be a sign unto you, saith the LORD, that I will punish 
you in this place, that ye may know that my words shall surely stand 
against you for evil:
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For His Name Sake

Ezekiel 36:22 - Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the 
Lord GOD; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine 
holy name's sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye went.

If we read the Bible we see Jesus became the first Protestant, He was 
born in a Jewish family but He led His disciples out of the Jewish 
Church. Initially they were called a sect of Jews and were given the 
name 'People of The Way' for their way of life was different for the way 
of life of main stream Jews.

The children of Abraham born out of flesh (Jews) were called 'People of 
Covenant' , but the covenant that God make with them was via blood of 
animals and circumcision of the flesh. Whereas the children of Abraham 
born out of faith through Jesus Christ (Christians) are called 'People 
of the New / Better Covenant' which God make via the Blood of Jesus 
Christ and the circumcision of the heart.

The Jews are called Israel (Prince of God) but Christians become Israel 
for Jesus came to make His people Sons of God through the Power of the 
Holy Spirit. The first true Israelite was none other than the seed of 
Jacob that is Jesus Christ for He demonstrated His authority in God in Him.

We see Jesus, Paul, Stephen and others rebuked the Jews especially the 
Pharisees for being white washed tombstones, very religious people, but 
yet spiritually dead inside and very far from God and far from the 
understanding of the Word of God and Kingdom of God. But we see the Jews 
were blessed by God and even thou the world went against them (at time 
God Himself) yet the Lord protected them through the worst of situations.

Did God do it for He loves them?

Today's message tells us God did great things to protect the Jewish 
nation not because He loves them but only because they have associated 
His Name to themselves.

We need to understand one thing today the world does not know 
Christianity therefore does not know God or the real Israel therefore 
God sustains the Jews till then, for His Name sake. Today also as Israel 
is facing problems, the Lord is confirming He will take them through it 
for His Name sake.

[Prayer Starter]

Lord, You are God of all creation of every race and kind of people. You 
chose certain people at a particular time to make yourself know so that 
through them You would reach out to the world. Lord, You desire to save 
all yet only a the names of few are written in the Book of Life. Lord, 
we pray your real Israel may come to existence, that your Power be 
manifested in them and through them. That the world may know You alone 
are God and God of all mankind...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

Romans 2:17-20, 28-29

17 Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy 
boast of God,

18And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more 
excellent, being instructed out of the law;

19And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light 
of them which are in darkness,

20An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form 
of knowledge and of the truth in the law.

28For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that 
circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:

29But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of 
the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of 
men, but of God.

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God rebuilds things better
Ezekiel 36:33-35

33Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day that I shall have cleansed you 
from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, 
and the wastes shall be builded.

34And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the 
sight of all that passed by.

35And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the 
garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become 
fenced, and are inhabited.

God is symbolized by light. The word in Hebrew also means vision or 
plans. Our God is a God of vision. He says in His Word He has plans for 
us and His plans are good.

God does not make mistakes but yet we see things going wrong, we see 
evil flourishing. The Word says God has allowed evil but has set a limit 
to it. He does not let evil to exceed beyond a point that it consumes 
His people. When He finds evil exceeding beyond a point He rebukes it, 
destroys it like He did Himself to the tower of Babble or the city of 
Jericho. God allows evil so as to refine His people, He desires them to 
reject evil and overcome it so that it would not affect them forever.

The Word of God says our God rides on chariots of glory. He moves from 
glory to glory and we being a part of Him, He requires of us to progress 
as He progresses. That is what today's message says. It says even the 
ruins He makes into a beautiful place like Paradise when He sojourns His 
people there. But before He changes the place He changes the people from 
inside out. He also states He protects not only His people but also the 
dwelling place of His people, which means all that is required for the 
survival of His people.

[Prayer Starter]

Lord, You are a God who's wisdom is without limits. You dwell alone the 
edges of time, time is not a factor for You. Lord, You are ever building 
and as your glory increases so do those connected to You also increase 
in You. Lord, we thank You for finding us worthy to be part of You and 
to build us and be glorified in You...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

Psalms 104:1-9 [expounded]

1Bless the LORD, O my [life / creature]. O LORD my God, thou art very 
great; thou art clothed with [glory] and majesty.

2Who coverest with [plans / vision] as with a [raiment]< 08008>: who 
stretchest out the [lofty] like a [grieve]:

3Who layeth the [happening] of his [dwelling place] in the 
[understanding] : who maketh [glory] his [progress]: who [liveth] upon 
the [edges] of [time]:

4Who maketh his [messenger, representative] [/sweet/ scent]; his 
[servants] a [instruments for rapid purification] :

5Laid the foundations of the [nations], it should not be removed for ever.

6Thou coveredst it with [abyss / murmur] as a [put on] <03830> : 
the [/corrupt/ understanding] stood above the [Truth].

7At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy [roar] they hasted away.

8They [ascend] the [Truth]; they [descend] by the [divide / /become 
pieces/] unto the place which thou hast [appointed] for them.

9Thou hast set a [limit] that they may not pass over; that they turn not 
again to cover the [nations].

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His Word is True

Daniel 11:28 - Then shall he return into his land with great riches; and 
his heart shall be against the holy covenant; and he shall do exploits, 
and return to his own land.

Since a few days many Churches in Mumbai (different denominations) 
collectively, are reaching out to the people of Mumbai to share the hope 
in Christ through a campaign named as 'Power to Change'. This campaign 
has 14 individuals from different walks of society sharing their 
testimony through a book. Huge posters have been put all around the 
city, on railway stations, roads, on city buses etc. asking people to 
call on a toll free number or sms to receive this book and experience 
the Power to change as these 14 people did.

I have been part of this campaign going to the people at their residence 
and offices to deliver the book. I get to talk to them and do the 
initial preparing the ground so that the seed of faith grows.

One person I visited was a Hindu and a friend of his had given his name 
without his knowledge to receive the book. So he was surprised when I 
reached his office to deliver the same. Anyway he received me and 
accepted the book with a smile when he came to know who that friend was 
and then he started asking me questions. He was a senior manager at this 
large MNC and also had 2 other junior colleagues of his to be present 
for this discussion. We got directly to the points quickly since time 
was less at hand.

Some of the main points we discussed:-

Is there hope in any religious person in this world?

How do we know there is one God and that He is the creator?

How do we know the scriptures we follow in various religions are His 
Words (Instructions to us)?

To the first point I gave his the 'test of death'. All religious people 
who claimed they are gods or are from God died and gone; none exist 
today leaving for 1 person Jesus Christ. If the others had no hope for 
themselves how can they give hope unto us? About Jesus I told him every 
day when he writes the date he acknowledges the existence of Jesus 
Christ for he puts the number of years since His coming in this world.

About God I told him how across all religions including Hinduism they 
acknowledge the one Creator, but then about how would one know they are 
worshiping the Creator and not someone else? To this I gave them 'the 
creation test'. Does the Creator confirm how He created this world and 
does it make sense to science or to human understanding. I showed him 
how the Bible details the process in which God created this creation and 
I also gave him details with dates (periods) of each stage of creation 
and that too acknowledged by science today.

About the third point I gave the simple 'self-consisten cy-test&# 39;. The 
easiest way to test a person is telling the truth is to ask that person 
various questions and then see if all the answers are consistent to each 
other. So I told him take verses or scriptures from the religious books 
of the various religions and test them against each other in the same 
book and the truth would be revealed. If any verse contradicts another 
or is proved false with history you will know it is not God's Word.

Today's scripture is a confirmation of the Bible being God's Word. It 
was a prophecy which Daniel expounded on hundreds of years before it 
happened. It relates to the Syrian king Antiochus plundering Egypt of 
its riches and then attacking the Jewish nation.

The Jews were called 'people of the covenant' for they were the first 
people God made a covenant with. This covenant was made by the blood of 
animals and circumcision of the flesh. We Christians are called people 
of the New / Better Covenant for our covenant is made by the Blood of 
the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God without blemish and by the 
circumcision of the heart.

Let us be confidant and boldly preach who we are and in Whom we believe.

[Prayer Starter]

Lord, there are many in this world who believe in vanity and become 
vanity. Lord, we thank You that by your grace You let us know You and 
today have hope to live eternally with You through your Word and your 
Spirit. We pray Lord more and more people receive this hope and that 
this hope gets confirmed in them through faith and authority...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

Genesis 15:2-21

Genesis 17:1-11

Matthew 26:26-28

26And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it; 
and he gave to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.

27And he took a cup, and gave thanks, and gave to them, saying, Drink ye 
all of it;

28for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many 
unto remission of sins.

1 Corinthians 11:25In like manner also the cup, after supper, saying, 
This cup is the new covenant in my blood: this do, as often as ye drink 
it, in remembrance of me.

2 Corinthians 3:

12Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,

13and not as Moses, put a veil upon his face, that the children of 
Israel should not look stedfastly on the end of that which was passing away:

14but [howbeit] their minds were hardened: for until this very day at 
the reading of the old covenant the same veil remaineth, it not being 
revealed that it is done away in Christ.

Hebrew 7:18-22

18For there is a disannulling of a foregoing commandment because of its 
weakness and unprofitableness

19(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in thereupon of a 
better hope, through which we draw nigh unto God.

20And inasmuch as it is not without the taking of an oath

21(for they indeed have been made priests without an oath; but he with 
an oath by him that saith of him, The Lord sware and will not repent 
himself, Thou art a priest for ever);

22by so much also hath Jesus become the surety of a better covenant.
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God loves to take samples and makes them examples

Mark 3:17 - And James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; 
and he surnamed them Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder:

John the Baptist was son of Elizabeth the cousin of Mary the mother of 
Jesus. The closest relations of Jesus other than His mother, brothers 
and sisters (children of Joseph & Mary) were James and John. James and 
John were children of Salome also called Mary by Jesus. She was the 
sister of Mary His mother. Their father's real name was Cleopas but 
since it was a common name and as per practice during those times, they 
would call him by a nick name which was Zebedee.

So we see James and John were Jesus' close cousins. But Jesus did not 
choose them to be His disciple just because they were His cousins. If 
one goes deep into understanding John especially, one would know he was 
special among the 12 not because Jesus loved him more (Jesus loved all 
the same but gave more attention to some according the mission they were 
called for).

We see Jesus called them Boanerges which means (sons of thunder / 
resembled thunder) instead of Zebedee or Cleopas. People think it was 
because they were very energetic or dynamic but that is not the case. 
Jesus was jovial as any ordinary human being. Many a times He did things 
to show the wise their foolishness especially the Pharisees that is why 
we read scriptures like 'it was Sabbath' immediately we see Jesus goes 
out to heal a person even if he did not acknowledge Him as Christ like 
sick man near the lake or the man born blind since birth. Jesus also 
purposely did crazy things to heal people in places where they 
disbelieved Him and did not have faith.

We see Jesus called Simon son of Jonah as Cephas /Kephas ( word is in 
Aramaic for Jesus spoke mostly Aramaic with His disciples and translated 
in Greek as Petros / Peter when the Gospels were translated into Greek) 
which means stone (symbolizing little knowledge) for his behaviour / 
attitude because he spoke at times without understanding. Jesus did not 
want to ridicule him but wanted us to know it was a person like Simon 
whom God changed and filled with wisdom and courage to speak at the 
first congregation of the New Church (at Pentecost).

With regards to James and John being called Boanerges it is because of 
an incident recorded in Luke 9:53-56, where they asked Jesus to call for 
fire to fall from the sky on a village for not receiving Him.

Our God loves to take people who are nothing, or who have failed in 
life, whom the world laughs at, and turns them into incredible, mighty 
people His Kingdom.

Today the Lord is telling us if we consider ourselves as failures in 
this world, or people who other like to keep away, or people who are 
laughed at for reason like lack of knowledge, looks etc., we have a good 
chance to be great in the Kingdom of God if we turn to Him and let Him 
work in us and through us.

[Prayer Starter]

Lord, You are a God who does wonders, that is why You chose the rejected 
of this world and make them shine like gold. You let your glory shine 
through them. Lord, we pray your Spirit ministers to all who are reading 
this and at some time in their life felt hopeless, that they may have 
hope in You and that You may refine them and make them glod...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

Luke 9:53-56

53And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would 
go to Jerusalem.

54And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt 
thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, 
even as Elias did?

55But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of 
spirit ye are of.

56For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save 
them. And they went to another village.

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A warning message

Isaiah 19:9,10 - Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that 
weave networks, shall be confounded. And they shall be broken in the 
purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.

We have received a message a few weeks back (dated 30-09-2013) and 
today's message is touching the same matter. We may wonder why these 
things are happening now.

If we look at the timeline of events concerning the Church in the Bible, 
we are at the turning point when the Church comes together and stands 
united in understanding and purpose in the Lord. Also this is the time 
we are walking into known as the Day of the Lord or the Day of His 
wrath. This is not the Judgment Day or the time when Satan the Devil 
(Lucifer) is released from the pit, which comes just before Judgment 
Day. Most Bible scholars feel this period is of 3 and half years, but I 
believe it is just 3 and half days (unlike other time projections) , even 
though it is very short it would be more terrible than man can imagine 
and through this short period very few would survive.

We see now many denominations are getting together and working together 
for the purpose of Church, this shows it is moving to the sixth stage of 
the Church, the Church of Brethren. Just before the Church of Brethren 
(united Church) comes into existence the Lord does some housekeeping 
task. He brings down the Church of Babylon (the Catholic Church) and 
before that deals with the people within the Believer Church who are 
misleading or misrepresenting Him, this is mostly concerning those whom 
He has called to duty and are not doing it.

Let me expound today's message:-

Isaiah 19:9,10 - Moreover they that work in fine [same as noble wine] 
flax [linen - symbolizing righteousness] , and they that weave networks 
[white cloth - symbolizing worldly religions], shall be confounded 
[shamed]. And they shall be broken [crushed] in the purposes 
[foundation] thereof, all that make [fashion] sluices [hired men] and 
ponds [stagnant place] for fish [souls].

Isaiah 19:9,10 [expounded]- Moreover they that work in richly 
righteousness, and they that weave world religions, shall be shamed. And 
they shall be crushed in the foundation thereof, all fashioned hired men 
and stagnant souls.

So in today's message the Lord is confirming the previous message and is 
also including people who work for religious man or religious institutes 
and those who are not growing spiritually (people who know the Lord but 
are now too busy doing something else and not giving any time to Him or 
His purpose in their lives).

[Prayer Starter]

Lord, You commanded us to love You with all our hearts, minds and all 
our strength. Lord, You do not desire those who do great things once a 
while and then go to sleep or live a worldly life. You Lord desire those 
who diligently follow You. They may not do great things but they 
consistently keep obeying your commandments and walking in your ways. 
Lord we pray we be diligent in our dedication towards You and not desire 
to draw people's glory to ourselves but give all glory only unto You...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

Zephaniah 1:12-18

12And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem 
with lamps; and I will punish the men that are settled on their lees, 
that say in their heart, Jehovah will not do good, neither will he do evil.

13And their wealth shall become a spoil, and their houses a desolation: 
yea, they shall build houses, but shall not inhabit them; and they shall 
plant vineyards, but shall not drink the wine thereof.

14 The great day of Jehovah is near, it is near and hasteth greatly, 
even the voice of the day of Jehovah; the mighty man crieth there bitterly.

15That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of 
wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of 
clouds and thick darkness,

16a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified cities, and 
against the high battlements.

17And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind 
men, because they have sinned against Jehovah; and their blood shall be 
poured out as dust, and their flesh as dung.

18Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in 
the day of Jehovah' s wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the 
fire of his jealousy: for he will make an end, yea, a terrible end, of 
all them that dwell in the land.

Revelation 3:1-13

[The stage we are in where evangelism is peek]

1 And unto the angel of the church in Sardis [red one symbolizing 
evangelism] write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of 
God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that 
thou livest, and art dead.

2Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to 
die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.

3Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and 
repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a 
thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.

4Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their 
garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.

5He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I 
will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess 
his name before my Father, and before his angels.

6He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

[The stage we are entering into where the Church walks in the ways of 
the Lord and having authority in the Lord]

7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia [brotherly love] write; 
These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the 
key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no 
man openeth;

8I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no 
man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, 
and hast not denied my name.

9Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are 
Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and 
worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.

10Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee 
from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try 
them that dwell upon the earth.

11Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man 
take thy crown.

12Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and 
he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, 
and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh 
down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.

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King Saul and his generation

1 Chronicles 9:43 - And Moza begat Binea; and Rephaiah his son, Eleasah 
his son, Azel his son.

1Chronicles 9:35-44 and 1 Chronicle 8:29-38 record the generations of 
Saul and it is rare that in the same book in the Bible a genealogy of a 
person is repeated. One may ask why that too a man who looks like one 
who failed as a representative of God?

One would understand Saul only by the relation between Saul and David, 
and the conversation between Saul and the spirit of Samuel.

David was a great Man of God who had an insight of spiritual things that 
is why even though he hated Saul yet he could not act his hate against 
him, instead loved him for there was something about Saul that David 
knew. We also read the Spirit (anointing) of God left Saul after God 
rejected Saul as king for disobeying Him. Yet we see David respected 
Saul as a Man of God and even though he got occasions to take his 
revenge and kill Saul, he refrained at the last moment. We also see the 
next chapter talks of the death of Saul and his sons in the battle 
field. When David came to know what they did with the body of Saul he 
got very angry and immediately got the person killed who claimed to be 
instrument in Saul's death. Also before this battle we read Saul tried 
to communicate with God directly and through people and failed on all 
fronts. In his desperation he tries to communicate with the spirit of 
Samuel (who is dead) to know God's will although knowing God had 
forbidden talking / communicating (even praying) to a dead persons 
(spirits). Saul himself had killed / chased people who would do 
witchcraft or communicate with spirits (human or evil spirits/fallen 
angels).

What David knew of Saul is confirmed by the spirit of Samuel. Even 
though Saul had disobeyed God and rejected by the Lord yet like the son 
in the parable of a prodigal son he turned to God at the last moments of 
his death and was saved. Samuel confirms this with Saul and tells him 
even though God would punish him with death for his wrong (trying to 
communicate with him after he had died) yet after he and his sons die 
they would be with Samuel. Now Samuel was a great Man of God in whom God 
was pleased and still was not in Heaven after death. None of us can go 
to Heaven after death until Judgment Day, after the Son of Man Jesus 
Christ judges us and finds us holding the Truth in us. It is then only 
He would cover us with His Righteousness and make us worthy to enter Heaven.

When we die we who believe in Christ / YHWH for Who He Is, go to sleep 
like Samuel in a spiritual level called Grave (which is lower than the 
level we dwell in, but above the level Hell). Even if we have the Truth 
in us or not, just by our belief we will be saved from Hell; only those 
who hold the Truth in them will pass Judgement Day and go to Heaven.

Yesterday the Lord spoke to us about having Him in us. Today He is 
telling us it is never late to turn to Him and be saved in Him. Like 
Saul even at the point of death we can turn to Him and be saved.

Jesus speaks in Matthew 7:21-23 there would be people who believe in Him 
and would do great and mighty wonders in His name. They would work hard 
for the Kingdom of God but yet because the Truth is not in them (do not 
do the Will of the Father) He denies them and does not allow them to 
enter Heaven.

I may sound harsh or my words frightful when I say 'it is better to die 
as an unbeliever than to know Christ and not have Him inside of us'. 
Those who reject Christ would go to Hell and suffer the sins in them, 
but those who know Christ and deny Him in their lives would be put in a 
place called Lake of Sulphur / Fire which is worse than Hell. This place 
one does not get punished for their sins but are punished for rejecting 
the Word of God / Truth and this punishment is worse than suffering Hell.

[Prayer Starter]

Lord, You forgive our ignorance and things that we do out of lack of 
knowledge, but after we know You and after You have revealed Yourself to 
us there is no excuse for us to reject You and your Word in our lives. 
Lord, although You are Love and seated on a Throne of Mercy, yet for You 
are Righteous You judge us and are fearful to those who reject You after 
all that You did for us. Lord, we pray your people understand believing 
in You is not about being Christian, but following You and having You in 
us is all about being Christian, and it is only those who believe in You 
are judged by You, other like Paul says are judged by themselves from 
the beginning...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

1 Chronicles 10:1-6

1Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled 
from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa.

2And the Philistines followed hard after Saul, and after his sons; and 
the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of 
Saul.

3And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him, and he 
was wounded of the archers.

4Then said Saul to his armor bearer, Draw your sword, and thrust me 
through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and abuse me. But his 
armor bearer would not; for he was sore afraid. So Saul took a sword, 
and fell on it.

5And when his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise on 
the sword, and died.

6So Saul died, and his three sons, and all his house died together.

1 Samuel 31:1-6

1Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled 
from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa.

2And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons; and the 
Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, Saul's sons.

3And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he 
was sore wounded of the archers.

4Then said Saul unto his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me 
through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, 
and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. 
Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it.

5And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon 
his sword, and died with him.

6So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all his 
men, that same day together.

1 Chronicles 10:13-14

13So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the 
LORD, against the word of the LORD, which he kept not, and also for 
asking a familiar spirit, to enquire of it;

14And enquired not of the LORD: therefore he slew him, and turned the 
kingdom unto David the son of Jesse.

2 Samuel 1:2-12

2It came even to pass on the third day, that, behold, a man came out of 
the camp from Saul with his clothes rent, and earth upon his head: and 
so it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the earth, and did 
obeisance.

3And David said unto him, From whence comest thou? And he said unto him, 
Out of the camp of Israel am I escaped.

4And David said unto him, How went the matter? I pray thee, tell me. And 
he answered, That the people are fled from the battle, and many of the 
people also are fallen and dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead 
also.

5And David said unto the young man that told him, How knowest thou that 
Saul and Jonathan his son be dead?

6And the young man that told him said, As I happened by chance upon 
mount Gilboa, behold, Saul leaned upon his spear; and, lo, the chariots 
and horsemen followed hard after him.

7And when he looked behind him, he saw me, and called unto me. And I 
answered, Here am I.

8And he said unto me, Who art thou? And I answered him, I am an Amalekite.

9He said unto me again, Stand, I pray thee, upon me, and slay me: for 
anguish is come upon me, because my life is yet whole in me.

10So I stood upon him, and slew him, because I was sure that he could 
not live after that he was fallen: and I took the crown that was upon 
his head, and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them 
hither unto my lord.

11Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and likewise all 
the men that were with him:

12And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for 
Jonathan his son, and for the people of the LORD, and for the house of 
Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.

1 Samuel 28:5-20

5And when Saul saw the host of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his 
heart greatly trembled.

6And when Saul enquired of the LORD, the LORD answered him not, neither 
by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.

7Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar 
spirit, that I may go to her, and enquire of her. And his servants said 
to him, Behold, there is a woman that hath a familiar spirit at Endor.

8And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and he went, and 
two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he said, I 
pray thee, divine unto me by the familiar spirit, and bring me him up, 
whom I shall name unto thee.

9And the woman said unto him, Behold, thou knowest what Saul hath done, 
how he hath cut off those that have familiar spirits, and the wizards, 
out of the land: wherefore then layest thou a snare for my life, to 
cause me to die?

10And Saul sware to her by the LORD, saying, As the LORD liveth, there 
shall no punishment happen to thee for this thing.

11Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up unto thee? And he said, 
Bring me up Samuel.

12And when the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud voice: and the 
woman spake to Saul, saying, Why hast thou deceived me? for thou art Saul.

13And the king said unto her, Be not afraid: for what sawest thou? And 
the woman said unto Saul, I saw gods ascending out of the earth.

14And he said unto her, What form is he of? And she said, An old man 
cometh up; and he is covered with a mantle. And Saul perceived that it 
was Samuel, and he stooped with his face to the ground, and bowed himself.

15And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? 
And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war 
against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, 
neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that 
thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do.

16Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the LORD 
is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy?

17And the LORD hath done to him, as he spake by me: for the LORD hath 
rent the kingdom out of thine hand, and given it to thy neighbour, even 
to David:

18Because thou obeyedst not the voice of the LORD, nor executedst his 
fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath the LORD done this thing unto 
thee this day.

19Moreover the LORD will also deliver Israel with thee into the hand of 
the Philistines: and to morrow shalt thou and thy sons be with me: the 
LORD also shall deliver the host of Israel into the hand of the Philistines.

20Then Saul fell straightway all along on the earth, and was sore 
afraid, because of the words of Samuel: and there was no strength in 
him; for he had eaten no bread all the day, nor all the night.

Matthew 7:21-23

21Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the 
kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in 
heaven.

22Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in 
thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done 
many wonderful works?

23And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, 
ye that work iniquity.
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Justifying sins with works?

Micah 6:7 - Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten 
thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my 
transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

I am happy for today's message for it is very important for all of us 
including me, since it is a great deception we all hold.

There are many who think they are Christians and holy people because of 
the good work they do, these including so called Men of God / Preachers 
/ Pastors etc...

Before I come to the punch of today's message:-

Understand as a Pascal sacrifice the Lord allowed the first born of 
sheep and also of goats. But when the Lord is addressed as a Pascal 
sacrifice He is addressed as a 'Pascal Lamb' but not as a 'Pascal Goat'. 
Just because God allows something we should not consider God is pleased 
with it.

Let me put it this way it is better to sacrifice a single lamb than a 
thousand rams.

The Hebrew word ram comes from the root word strength. The word 
translated as oil also means fat and symbolizes blessings (testimonies / 
output of our deeds) and first born symbolizes personal greatest sacrifice.

Today's message is a strong message to all. The Lord is telling us we 
may sacrifice a thousand rams, ten thousands of rivers of oil and give 
even our firstborn, would they justify our sins? Which means all the 
great deeds we do like ten thousands of crusades or missions we work and 
be blessed by tens of thousands of people and even sacrifice the most 
important things in our life for the Lord (like our jobs, our families, 
our friends, our social lives) but would they all justify for the sinful 
life we live?

God is telling us unless we do not have Him in us everything else would 
be meaningless. The only thing that overcomes sin is the Nature of God / 
Name of God in us. That is why in the very next verse He asks of us to 
walk in righteousness, love and building His people (carrying the 
Cross); unless we do not have all these 3 in us we do not have the 
Nature of God in us. Jesus' sacrifice is eternal but when we are 
baptized in the Holy Spirit we need to live the Life of Christ and we 
cannot keep using the sacrifice of Jesus for our sinful lives.

[Prayer Starter]

Lord, there are many who live a life void of You, a life infected with 
worldly lust but yet do works of the Kingdom of God. They think their 
works will save them. We think all the blessings we see in our lives are 
proof of our salvation. We are deceived for we see with human eyes and 
not with our spiritual eyes. Lord we pray our eyes open and we realize 
along with the work we do in your Kingdom we also need to work on 
ourselves. We need to walk in righteousness, according to your Word, we 
need to love as You loved and we need to fulfil the purpose You humbled 
yourself and came as man to be a sacrifice that is the salvation of your 
people. Lord we pray as we grow outwards we also grow inwards...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

Micah 6:6-8

6Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high 
God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year 
old?

7Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands 
of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the 
fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

8He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD 
require of thee, but to do justly [righteousness] , and to love mercy 
[Godly love], and to walk humbly with thy God [carry the Cross of Christ 
with God/Holy Spirit]?

Hebrew 10:23-27

23Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he 
is faithful that promised;)

24And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

25Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of 
some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the 
day approaching.

26For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of 
the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,

27But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, 
which shall devour the adversaries.
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Psalms 104

Today I have not received a message to send thus I did not. But I am 
sending something unique. It is my notes for a session which is a 
minimum 3 hours teaching. This Psalm is like a gold mine and I was just 
amazed with it so much that it came in my heart to share it with you all 
(I have never done this before sharing my teaching notes).

I have noted verses 1-17 of the Psalm as given in KJV-AV translation and 
then listed below the same but replaced the words with its Hebrew 
meaning / root words / what they symbolized. The details is too big to 
post so like Jesus said at times after His parables, 'those who have 
wisdom let him understand&# 39; (I surely will share part by part over a long 
period in my posts).

Psalms 104:1-17

1Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great; thou art 
clothed with honour and majesty.

2Who coverest with light as a garment: who stretchest out the heavens 
like a curtain:

3Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the 
clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:

4Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:

5Laid the foundations of the earth, it should not be removed for ever.

6Thou coveredst it with the deep as a garment: the waters stood above 
the mountains.

7At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.

8They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place 
which thou hast founded for them.

9Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not 
again to cover the earth.

10He sendeth the springs into the valleys, run among the hills.

11They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses quench 
their thirst.

12By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, sing 
among the branches.

13He watereth the hills from his chambers: the earth is satisfied with 
the fruit of thy works.

14He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service 
of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;

15And wine maketh glad the heart of man, oil to make face to shine, and 
bread strengtheneth man's heart.

16 The trees of the LORD are full; the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath 
planted;

17Where the birds make their nests: the stork, the fir trees are her house.

1Bless the LORD, O my [life / creature]. O LORD my God, thou art very 
great; thou art clothed with [glory] and majesty.

2Who coverest with [plans / vision] as with a [raiment]< 08008>: who 
stretchest out the [lofty] like a [grieve]:

3Who layeth the [happening] of his [dwelling place] in the 
[understanding] : who maketh [glory] his [progress]: who [liveth] upon 
the [edges] of [time]:

4Who maketh his [messenger, representative] [/sweet/ scent]; his 
[servants] a [instruments for rapid purification] :

5Laid the foundations of the [nations], it should not be removed for ever.

6Thou coveredst it with [abyss / murmur] as [put on] <03830> : the 
[/corrupt/ understanding] stood above the [Truth].

7At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy [roar] they hasted away.

8They [ascend] the [Truth]; they [descend] by the [divide / /become 
pieces/] unto the place which thou hast [appointed] for them.

9Thou hast set a [limit] that they may not pass over; that they turn not 
again to cover the [nations].

10He sendeth the [well /eye/sight] into the [inheritance] , 
[come] among the [Truth].

11They [irrigate /cause to drink] to every [living being] [/ / 
spread out - all existing]: the [ /fruitful] quench their thirst.

12By them shall the [flying creatures] of the heaven have their 
habitation, which [deliver] among the branches.

(legs in Hebrew to bow / subdue and wings to be extreme)

13He [irrigate /cause to drink] the [Truth] from his [ / ascend]: 
the [nation] is satisfied with the fruit of thy works.

14He causeth the [wild grass unbelievers] to grow for the 
[ / mute], and [small medicine plants / to be green] for 
the service of man: that he may [ / to overcome]out of the earth 
[nations];

15And [ / effervesce] maketh glad the [inner man] of man, [olive 
oil testimony] to make face to shine, and [ / to 
overcome] [sustain] [mortal man's / / desperate] [inner man].

16The [timber /shut] of the LORD are [plenty] ; the [ / 
firmness] of [whiteness symbolizing righteousness] , which he hath 
[fastened];

17Where the [/ / depart early / early ones elect] 
make their nests: [ / holy ones / saints], the [ /noble 
ones] are [family].
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Giving unto your brothers and sisters for your sake

2 Corinthians 8:4,5 - Praying us with much intreaty that we would 
receive the gift, and the fellowship of the ministering to the saints. 
And, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and 
unto us by the will of God.

One of the greatest misconceptions among man is that giving unto the 
needy or for the work of the Kingdom of God is a favour we do, something 
that puts us as a donor, a benefactor.

God asked us to tithe as a start and it does not end there. Giving is 
the next stage of tithing and that is why we do not read about tithing 
in the book of Acts. We as Christians should understand between the 
donor and recipient the greater benefiter is the donor and not the 
recipient of the donation. One may think this as one receiving blessing 
or doubt from the Lord, No, I am not speaking in that angle.

Today's message says the Church of Macedonia pleaded with the Church of 
Corinth to receive their donation.

We as Christians should understand it is a great blessing for us to find 
someone or a purpose to give to. That does not mean we need to give to 
anyone that put his or her hand out or everyone who takes the name of 
the Lord. We are to discern and do according to what the Lord guide us 
through His Word. Can we give to a terrorist organization and expect 
good? Or can we give unto a poor unbeliever while we have deprived a 
poor believer before our eyes?

God tells us to give unto the purpose of His Kingdom firstly unto His 
people in need and then unto the others, first showing love and then mercy.

In Matthew 10:42 Jesus says 'whosoever shall give to drink unto one of 
these little ones a cup of cold water only, in the name of a disciple, 
verily I say unto you he shall in no wise lose his reward'.

Jesus does not say they will receive a reward but says he shall not lose 
his reward. He also says 'in the name of a disciple' therefore the 
little ones does not mean little in age but spiritually poor (poverty is 
a curse). By giving, the giver who sets their eyes on this world may 
receive more from the Lord in this world and nothing more but those who 
set their eyes on the Kingdom of Heaven secure their place in the 
Kingdom of Heaven. Thus we should really thank God when He gives us an 
opportunity to give since what we give also comes from Him alone.

[Prayer Starter]

Lord, we pray your people have wisdom to understand the importance to 
give and have wisdom when they give, that they give unto the right 
purpose and right people. We pray they give, not in hope to receive 
more, for a person of faith knows You are our provider and You provide...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

Matthew 10:40-42

40He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth 
him that sent me.

41He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a 
prophet' s reward: and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a 
righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward.

42And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup 
of cold water only, in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you he 
shall in no wise lose his reward.

Acts 4:32-35

32 And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and soul: 
and not one of them said that aught of the things which he possessed was 
his own; but they had all things common.

33And with great power gave the apostles their witness of the 
resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.

34For neither was there among them any that lacked: for as many as were 
possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the 
things that were sold,

35and laid them at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto 
each, according as any one had need.
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The King reigns
1 Corinthians 15:25 - For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies 
under his feet.

During the time of Jesus the Jews even though the Saviour promised by 
the Lord was with them yet they were on the lookout of the Saviour. They 
could not recognize Him all because they lacked understanding of the 
Word. They still are awaiting the Saviour even though He has come and 
gone again all because they expect the Saviour to be a worldly king who 
brings back the Jewish kingdom of the likes of David. This may seem 
foolish but the irony is that Christians too are doing the same foolish 
mistake.

One may ask how Christians like the Jews when they have accepted Jesus 
Christ as their Saviour, Lord and King.

Most Christians have a very wrong understanding with the events of the 
end days. The Bible says Christ will come again at the end to Judge all 
mankind but they have made some modifications to the Bible and made 
Christ to come again at least 2 times. They expect Him to be born again 
as man and to rule the world for a thousand years. That is why they get 
fooled by men who come as Christ. I do not know how a man Jesus would 
rule for a thousand years unless He comes as God yet in a human form. 
Then there is a question what happens after the thousand years gets 
over, He dies or is taken up again or defeated by Satan and then comes 
again with His Angels to defeat Satan and judge mankind?

Bible clearly says this world is for a time, time and half - that means 
approximately 2500years (anywhere between 2300AD to 2550AD, there are 
many confirmations for this and they include the mark of the Beast and 
the 7 stages of the Church). That is also the reason Jesus resurrected 
on the third day, before the third day got over (spirit world does not 
go by earthly days). This was to confirm He would come before 3000years 
gets over. The Bible says the sign of Jonah (after the 3rd day) is for 
the wicket and evil man. If Jesus were to resurrect after 3 days there 
would be no hope for mankind to go to Heaven for all those before and 
during the time of Jesus (when He came as man, like His Apostles, Mary 
and disciples) who are asleep in Him would not live to enter Heaven 
(that is why He said there are people during His who will see Him coming 
in glory); this a person will understand only when they understand 
spirit life of man - which is about 3000 years (only God has the ability 
to live forever).

If we look at Church History after 300AD the Church was taken away into 
the wilderness by the teachings (tail) of Satan; that is when the 
Catholic Church came into existence. After exactly one thousand two 
hundred and sixty years the Church came back with the start of the 
Reformation movement, when the Bible was given to the people. The going 
and coming back of the Church from the wilderness is not an instant 
event but a gradual event over a period of time. If one sees it is 
exactly thousand years before the end comes and this is the time which 
today's message talks of where Christ rules. This Kingdom is not an 
earthly kingdom like the Jews were expecting, a human sitting on a 
throne made of gold; this Kingdom is of the Lord ruling over the hearts 
of His people for His Throne is the hearts of His people.

When Jesus left us to ascend unto Heaven He did not leave us alone but 
gave us His Spirit and His Spirit dwells with us. Jesus Christ is called 
King and it would surprise all that it is the Word of God and God who 
are referred to as King of Kings in the Bible. Jesus is the man factor 
of the God (The Son) who humbled Himself and He is referred as King, but 
He as Lord and His Word is King of King, Lord of Lords.

If one reads the book of Samuel one would understand man rejected God as 
King over His people for a human king. Thus Jesus as man becoming King 
by His Spirit brings back man to the real King that is the Lord and His 
Word (for the Lord ruled only by His Word). Since man is corrupt and 
cannot come before God (for he would die if he does) it is His Word that 
represents Him. It is His Spirit and His Word that prepares us and makes 
us worthy to come before God and dwell before Him forever.

Do not be like the Jews and miss everything for the lack of 
understanding. The King is here and His army has already started talking 
hold of His Kingdom since 1500AD and it is growing day by day. We are in 
2013 passed the half mark, with a few hundred years before Christ comes 
to judge His people. Let us not loose time and be part of the army of 
the King and fearlessly, by force win the hearts of His people through 
repentance, baptism and Truth like John the Baptist did during his days.

[Prayer Starter]

Lord, due to the lack of understanding of your Word, your people are 
missing the opportunity to be part of your army. They fail for 
experience the power of this army and thus are becoming victims of 
vanity and later call it persecution. They take pride in enduring this 
vanity taking your Name, not knowing they are doing things contrary to 
your Word. Lord, we pray more and more become part of this formidable 
army which no one or nothing can stop or come against...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

Daniel 12:7 - And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the 
waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand 
unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for 
a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to 
scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.

Revelation 12:4-9

4And his tail draweth the third part of the stars of heaven, and did 
cast them to the earth: and the dragon standeth before the woman that is 
about to be delivered, that when she is delivered he may devour her child.

5And she was delivered of a son, a man child, who is to rule all the 
nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and 
unto his throne.

6And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared 
of God, that there they may nourish her a thousand two hundred and 
threescore days.

7And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels going forth to war 
with the dragon; and the dragon warred and his angels;

8And they prevailed not, neither was their place found any more in heaven.

9And the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent, he that is called 
the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world; he was cast down 
to the earth, and his angels were cast down with him.

1 Samuel 8:7 - And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of 
the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected 
thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.

Matthew 2:2 - Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we saw his 
star in the east, and are come to worship him.

Mark 15:1-2

1And straightway in the morning the chief priests with the elders and 
scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, and bound Jesus, 
and carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate.

2And Pilate asked him, Art thou the King of the Jews? And he answering 
saith unto him, Thou sayest.

John 18:33-36

33Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium, and called Jesus, 
and said unto him, Art thou the King of the Jews?

34Jesus answered, Sayest thou this of thyself, or did others tell it 
thee concerning me?

35Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? Thine own nation and the chief priests 
delivered thee unto me: what hast thou done?

36Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of 
this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered 
to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.

Revelation 20:4-5

4And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto 
them: and I saw the souls of them that had been beheaded for the 
testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as worshipped not 
the beast, neither his image, and received not the mark upon their 
forehead and upon their hand; and they lived, and reigned with Christ a 
thousand years

5The rest of the dead lived not until the thousand years should be 
finished. This is the first resurrection.

Revelation 20:6 - Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first 
resurrection: over these the second death hath no power; but they shall 
be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

Revelation 19:11-16

11And I saw the heaven opened; and behold, a white horse, and he that 
sat thereon called Faithful and True; and in righteousness he doth judge 
and make war.

12And his eyes are a flame of fire, and upon his head are many diadems; 
and he hath a name written which no one knoweth but he himself.

13And he is arrayed in a garment sprinkled with blood: and his name is 
called The Word of God.

14And the armies which are in heaven followed him upon white horses, 
clothed in fine linen, white and pure.

15And out of his mouth proceedeth a sharp sword, that with it he should 
smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he 
treadeth the winepress of the fierceness of the wrath of God, the Almighty.

16And he hath on his garment and on his thigh a name written, KINGS OF 
KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

Revelation 17:14 - These shall war against the Lamb, and the Lamb shall 
overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings; and they also 
shall overcome that are with him, called and chosen and faithful.
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Name, name - Names

Daniel 1:7 - Unto whom the prince of the eunuchs gave names: for he gave 
unto Daniel the name of Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah, of Shadrach; and 
to Mishael, of Meshach; and to Azariah, of Abednego.

In today's message we read the chief official of the King of Babylon 
gave names to Daniel, Hananiah and Misheal to honour them in the royal 
court of the king of Babylon. I list below the names with their meanings.

Daniel= "God is my judge"

Belteshazzar= "lord of the straitened&# 39;s [poor] treasure"

Hananiah= "God has favoured"

Shadrach= "royal" or "the great scribe"

Mishael= "who is what God is"

Meshach= "guest of a king"

We see the names were given by the chief official were according to the 
character portrayed in his mind as to what he saw or felt, while their 
Hebrew names were promises which they claimed in their lives.

The Hebrew word for name is 'Shem' pronounced 'Shame&# 39;, it refers to 
fame, reputation, glory, report... In the Bible names are given with 
understanding and most places do play importance in giving us a message. 
This is valid not only for names of people but also name of places. And 
'names&# 39; was the reason I got into Bible word study (getting into the 
meaning of each word and its root).

Reading the Bible I found so many names for the Lord and wanted to know 
His real name. This process took me many years to digest the truth. The 
truth was like a bomb that shattered my thinking and the thinking which 
the world holds on the name of God. Being in Information Technology 
industry it helped me digest the revelation God gave.

In IT we tag inventory with tags which are unique to that object. This 
tag may be a barcode or QR codes or alpha-numerical code. The Bible says 
God knows us by name and if He knows us by name then that name should be 
unique through civilization. Thus I concluded the worldly name that we 
call ourselves is not the name God speaks of. Also God says in the Bible 
He has created each one of us uniquely and beautifully. It was then I 
realized the name God refers to is the nature, purpose, destiny each one 
of us has in the Lord, in other words means the inner-man in us. The 
name God refers to is not the name of the body of flesh but the name / 
design of the soul which is unique for each one of us throughout 
civilization.

When God created Adam He called him Adam. Since we speak English this 
word has become a name of the first human being God created but if we 
were to speak Hebrew than that would not be a name for it simply means 
man. So in simple English it means God created man and name him man. God 
did this because he was the only being and since there was no other 
human, there was no purpose to identify him uniquely. It was only when 
other humans came to existence that names were given to those being so 
as to know to whom we refer to.

Coming back to God's name:

All the names given in the Bible to God are descriptive to His Nature, 
to Who He Is. Even the name Jehovah / Yahweh is not a name as we 
understand. They are words coined from the 4 constants YHWH used in the 
Hebrew text to refer to the Lord. These words are ideograms (pictorial 
characters) which mean 'Behold the Hand Behold the Nail'. They refer to 
the Lord Jesus Christ before He came as man. Also the word Elohim means 
Divine Ones and refers to the Godhead (Trinity) that is the Father, Son 
and Spirit. As mentioned in my previous messages the Son came from 
within the Father and was part of the Father before the Father declared 
Him. His Spirit is the Spirit of the Father therefore they being 
separate individuals, yet are inseparable because they have same Spirit. 
It was the God The Son who humbled Himself and came as man Jesus. The 
God(s) referred to mostly in the Bible are The Son and The Spirit; The 
Father is rarely referred to. Jesus referred to the God the Father as 
Father (in Greek means Creator, Provider and Protector), and this term 
He said not to be given to any human earthly father. Jesus also referred 
to the Holy Spirit as Father for He was born as man through the Holy Spirit.

Not only the Spirit of God the Father and God the Son are same, even 
their Nature is same because the Son came from the Father, thus their 
(spiritual) Name is also same.

Coming to the worldly name of God:

When Moses asked the Lord His worldly name God said 'I AM'. Is that His 
name?

It is His spiritual name for He Is Who He Is. That is why in the Gospel 
of John Jesus said He protects His disciples in the Name of the Father 
which the Father has given Him. Jesus was not referring to the worldly 
name 'Jesus&# 39; but the His spiritual Name, which identifies Who He Is. 
Power is not in the worldly name 'Jesus&# 39; but in His spiritual Name that 
is Who Jesus Is, for it is also the Name of the Father / Godhead.

So does God have a worldly name? NO. There is no worldly name of God for 
He there is no God other than Him. Thus asking God for His name is like 
acknowledging the existence of other gods.

We Christians are growing only to know Who our God is, that is to know 
His Name. Jesus said He came to give us authority, that is to know Who 
our God is and to have power in Him. It is only through Jesus and the 
Holy Spirit will we know more and more Name of the Lord.

When Jesus comes again He with His Angels will not fight a battle like 
earthly battles. He with His Angels will possess all things and subdue 
all things by just shouting His Name, the Name of the Lord.

Let us not make the mistake of asking God His name but know Him by His 
spiritual Name and declare this Name to the world for there is POWER in 
HIS NAME for HE ALONE IS GOD.

[Prayer Starter]

Lord, since ages man has being calling You by names for they acknowledge 
the existence of other gods. They were far from You and did not know You 
that is why they lacked declaring your power unto this world and giving 
glory unto You. We pray Lord, that You open the eyes of your people and 
that they know You alone are God and that there is no God other than 
You. That they do not dare to ask You your name but know You by your 
Name (Nature)...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name (Who He Is), Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

Genesis 15:1 - After these things the word of Jehovah [Lord Jesus] came 
unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and 
thy exceeding great reward.

Genesis 17:1 - And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, Jehovah 
appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am God Almighty; walk before me, 
and be thou perfect.

Exodus 3:4-6

4And when Jehovah saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him 
out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here 
am I.

5And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, 
for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

6Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the 
God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was 
afraid to look upon God.

Exodus 3:14 - And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus 
shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.

John 8:24 - I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: 
for except ye believe that [who] I am, ye shall die in your sins.

John 8:28Jesus therefore said, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, 
then shall ye know that [who] I am, and that I do nothing of myself, but 
as the Father taught me, I speak these things.

John 8:58-59

58Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham 
was born, I am.

59They took up stones therefore to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, 
and went out of the temple.

John 14:8-14

8Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us.

9Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and dost thou 
not know me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; how 
sayest thou, Show us the Father?

10Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the 
words that I say unto you I speak not from myself: but the Father 
abiding in me doeth his works.

11Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else 
believe me for the very works' sake.

12Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on me, the works 
that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; 
because I go unto the Father.

13And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the 
Father may be glorified in the Son.

14If ye shall ask anything in my name, that will I do.

John 17:11-12

11And I am no more in the world, and these are in the world, and I come 
to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name which thou hast given me, 
that they may be one, even as we are.

12While I was with them, I kept them in thy name which thou hast given 
me: and I guarded them, and not one of them perished, but the son of 
perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.

1 Thessalonians 4:16 - 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;
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Merchandise of Tyre

Ezekiel 27:33 - When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst 
many people; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude 
of thy riches and of thy merchandise.

On my trip to Mangalore I met an ex-Catholic priest (who was removed 
from the Catholic Church), he is a very well-known preacher, a person 
more inclined to the Word of God and excellent music evangelist. In his 
desperation to win the crowds of late I saw him showing his dedication 
to Mary and more so I was really surprised to see him start retailing 
oil and water, in small bottles. Although he knows the Truth (somewhat), 
yet like others he too gives excuse of doing these things to attract the 
crowd. He knows if he does not do this the masses (Catholics) will not 
come and that would make it difficult for him to run his religious 
business center (ministry).

The Catholic Church since ages has been running a retail empire of 
selling religious objects. They directly or indirectly profit from the 
sales of these objects. This has made it the richest religious institute 
in the world.

Why am I talking of the Catholic Church in today's message?

Today's message is about Tyre. The Hebrew word Tyre means small stone or 
moveable stone and the same in Aramaic is Cephas / Kephas and in Greek 
is Petros translated in English as Peter (the word rock in Aramaic is 
Shua and in Greek Petra). The Catholic Church claims to be founded on 
Peter - not the real Apostle Simon Peter but a factious Peter like their 
factious Mary. The real Simon Peter as per the Bible was commissioned to 
lead the circumcised (Jewish Christians) and Paul the uncircumcised. 
That is why we see Simon Peter (Cephas) was mostly operating from 
Jerusalem the Jewish religious center. Also Peter was never sole in 
charge (administrative in charge) of the Church; he along with John and 
James overlooked the operations of the Church and were later joined by 
Paul and Barnabas. So we see the Catholic Church is founded on a 
factious Peter, but this is not just an imaginary being. The OT says the 
Prince of Tyre (another name for the Beast who imitates Lucifer and runs 
the operations in his absences - note the name Satan / Devil is plural) 
heads this empire (Lucifer is called the King of Tyre). It is this 
Prince of Tyre who desires to be god over the people therefore fools 
them to think they are worshipping God and makes them worship him. The 
book of Revelation says this institute (church) is the seat of the Devil 
and makes them do things in the name of religion but all that angers 
God. Ezekiel states the riches of this empire is run by ships of 
Tarshish which is a yellow jasper symbolizing false righteousness while 
Heaven is symbolized as founded on red jasper also called 'blood stone' 
which symbolizes righteousness of the Lord.

Today's message talks of the retail empire of this church crumbling down 
and its people leaving it in large numbers. That means some will come to 
know the Lord, some with be taken by vultures - that is they will 
believe in some vain religions and others may just stop believing in God.

[Prayer Starter]

Lord, over a long time this institute has been destroying your people 
and also martyred your saints. But as per your Word You have allowed it 
a due time to change. Like You bought the King of Babylon to take 
captive the people of Israel when they disobeyed You, so also You 
allowed this church. But when the King of Babylon make a golden image of 
itself You bought him down, the very person You lifted up You punished 
him such that he became a testimony for your glory. Lord, we pray You be 
glorified as the time of fall of this church is at hand...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

Galatians 2:9and when they perceived the grace that was given unto me, 
James and Cephas and John, they who were reputed to be pillars, gave to 
me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship, that we should go unto 
the Gentiles, and they unto the circumcision;

Acts 22:21 - And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee forth far 
hence unto the Gentiles.

Galatians 2: 8 - (For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the 
apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the 
Gentiles:)

Romans 15:15-16

15But I write the more boldly unto you in some measure, as putting you 
again in remembrance, because of the grace that was given me of God,

16that I should be a minister of Christ Jesus unto the Gentiles, 
ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles 
might be made acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

Revelation 13:11-12

11And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two 
horns like unto a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.

12And he exerciseth all the authority of the first beast in his sight. 
And he maketh the earth and them that dwell therein to worship the first 
beast, whose death-stroke was healed.

Revelation 17:9-13

9And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven 
mountains [Europe], on which the woman sitteth.

10And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other 
is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.

11And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of 
the seven, and goeth into perdition.

12And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received 
no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.

13These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the 
beast.

Ezekiel 27:25-36

Revelation 21:19 - And the foundations of the wall of the city were 
garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was 
jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an 
emerald;

Ezekiel 28:1-2

1The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,

2Son 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:

Cardinal Sarto, who became Pope Pius X, said:

The Pope represents Jesus Christ Himself...

In 1512 Christopher Marcellus said this to Pope Julius II:

Take care that we lose not that *salvation, that life and breath which 
thou hast given us*, for thou art our shepherd, thou art our physician, 
thou art our governor, thou art our husbandman, *thou art finally 
another God on earth*

/The Gloss of Extravagantes of Pope John XXII/ says:

But to believe that *our Lord God the Pope* the establisher of said 
decretal, and of this, could not decree, as he did decree, should be 
accounted heretical.

Pope Leo XIII said these things about the role of the Papacy and the 
Roman Church:

Our thoughts went out towards the immense multitude of those who are 
strangers to the gladness that filled all Catholic hearts: some because 
they lie in absolute ignorance of the Gospel; others because they 
dissent from the Catholic belief, though they bear the name of Christians.

This thought has been, and is, a source of deep concern to *Us*; for it 
is impossible to think of such a large portion of *mankind deviating, as 
it were, from the right path, as they move away from Us*, and not 
experience a sentiment of innermost grief. But since *We hold upon this 
earth the place of God Almighty*...

Ezekiel 28:6-10

6Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set thine heart as 
the heart of God;

7Behold, 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.

8They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of 
them that are slain in the midst of the seas.

9Wilt 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.

10Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of 
strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.

Revelation 2:8-10 [the second stage of the Church when the Roman 
Catholic Church was formed -- known as the dark ages, it killed the 
maximum Christians]

8And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith 
the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive;

9I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and 
I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but 
are the synagogue of Satan.

10Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil 
shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall 
have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give 
thee a crown of life.

Revelation 2:12-16 [The present Catholic Church around 1500AD onwards]

12And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith 
he which hath the sharp sword with two edges;

13I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is: 
and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in 
those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among 
you, where Satan dwelleth.

14But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them 
that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a 
stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed 
unto idols, and to commit fornication.

15So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, 
which thing I hate.

16Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against 
them [her] with the sword of my mouth [Word of God].

Revelation 16:19 - And the great city was divided into three parts, and 
the cities of the nations fell: and Babylon the great was remembered in 
the sight of God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness 
of his wrath.

Revelation 17:1 - 18:21
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The Revelation

Revelation 1:3 - Blessed he that readeth [know accurately], and they that
hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written
therein: for the time at hand.

Before I get to the message I like to touch on the book of Revelation.
People think the John who wrote the book of Revelation in a prison was John
the Apostle. I too considered that until I started understanding callings
and distinguishing the callings of a person. After understanding that when
I looked at the book of Revelation it did not look as a work of an Apostle
nor of a Prophet to be prophecies but more of a work of a Teacher revealing
the revelations of prophecies already declared/written. This we can
understand by the fact that this book is compared with the book of Daniel
and Daniel received the dreams as he was meditating on the writing of
Jeremiah and others. I having a similar calling have experienced the same
as Daniel therefore I am very confident that this book was not written by
John the Apostle but by another John. This was later confirmed to me from
carbon dating of this book to be many years after the era of the Apostles.
We also know John had a special purpose in the Lord therefore he was the
only one who was saved from being a martyr, he was miraculously saved when
he was put in a pot of boiling oil and this did not happen to the other
Apostles. God surely did not save him to die in a jail for the last chapter
of the Gospel of john gives a clue of the plan God had for him. Also he
would not have lived for 100+ years in a prison to write this book. If one
compares the style of writing of the Gospel of John or the letters of John
with this book one would be assured of what I am stating, that the writers
or narrators of these books are not the same.

Another fact I like to bring out about this book that it is like a jumbled
jigsaw puzzle and only when we go to the root of the visions, that is the
books of Moses, the Prophets & the Gospel of John, when we get to their
roots then only will we be able to put them in the right timeline.

Now coming to today’s message based on this background. The Lord is saying
blessed is the person who understands this book in its true understanding
and accurately puts the Prophecies explained in this book in its true place
in the timeline of creation.

This message I can reassure you for I have been very blessed as the Lord
opened these facts to me. I could easily discern the wise men of this world
who preach God’s Word according to their own worldly understanding. It also
helped and helps me prepare for many events in advance. It does hold most
of the most important events con concerning the Church and the salvation of
its people, also a good preview of what is set forth for us in Heaven.

[Prayer Starter]

Lord, your Word says your people suffer due to lack of understanding of
your Kingdom, today’s message reaffirms us the same saying blessed in the
man who walks in the light of right knowledge and understanding of the
things of your Kingdom. We pray Lord, that more and more seek the wisdom,
knowledge and understanding of your Kingdom and be saved from the corrupted
knowledge of this world...

This prayer we make in Jesus’ Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

John 21:20-24

20 Then Peter, turning about, seeth the disciple whom Jesus loved
following; which also leaned on his breast at supper, and said, Lord, which
is he that betrayeth thee?

21 Peter seeing him saith to Jesus, Lord, and what shall this man do?

22 Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that
to thee? follow thou me.

23 Then went this saying abroad among the brethren, that that disciple
should not die: yet Jesus said not unto him, He shall not die; but, If I
will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee?

24 This is the disciple which testifieth of these things, and wrote these
things: and we know that his testimony is true.

1 John 2:1-7

1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And
if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the
righteous:

2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also
for the sins of the whole world.

3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar,
and the truth is not in him.

5 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected:
hereby know we that we are in him.

6 He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as
he walked.

7 Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment
which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye
have heard from the beginning.

Revelation 1:1-6

1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto
his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and
signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

2 Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus
Christ, and of all things that he saw.

3 Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this
prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is
at hand.

4 John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and
peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the
seven Spirits which are before his throne;

5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first
begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him
that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,

6 And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be
glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

Revelation 21:16-21

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, and the bright and
morning star.

17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say,
Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take
the water of life freely.

18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of
this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him
the plagues that are written in this book:

19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this
prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of
the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

20 He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.

21 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
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Understanding darkened and alienated from God

Ephesians 4:18 - Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from
the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the
blindness [hardness] of their heart:

These few days I have been holidaying in Managlore with my family.
Mangalore has a lot of Christians predominately Catholics. The people here
are very religious. Their houses have many idols and even their doors are
engraved with images of people or things from the Bible, mainly of Mary and
infant Jesus.

If you meet these people, they are very friendly and come out as good
loving people, going out of their way for any person. Any person ignorant
of scriptures would state most of these people will surely go to Heaven,
but a spiritually mature person with discernment will have to search with a
candle light to find for sure a person here living a life according to the
Lord (even somewhat).

The goodness of these people are according to the worldly goodness, more of
an external goodness. But when you dig deeper you will find their hearts
hardened like granite. There are simple facts which expose the hardness
within them like the most common pastime of the people here is gossip. The
women here are deep into gossiping, but the men take the cake and defeat
the women thumbs down. A person not drinking alcohol is considered having
some serious illness. Also the relationships between members of many
families here are like volcanoes, many do not see eye to eye with each
other and if they do, one can feel the chillness of their cold looks. Some
volcanoes erupted and brewing lava, while others dormant and waiting to
erupt any time. The only things that hold the families together is the
respect and status of the family in society. To grow in status all
ouseholds compete to build large modern mansions with number of bedrooms
and bathrooms with top of the line fittings likes of which one rarely finds
even in the city.

When I entered this city I saw a lot of Muslims here. Their numbers
multiplied many times over the years. I asked the driver of my vehicle if
they had any Bible session or groups here and he was ignorant of any such.
Even the numbers of Believers here are negligible such that they do not
count in society. The driver was a Catholic and had statues mounted on the
top of the dash of his cars. The height of my surprise through this trip
was seeing a bungalow of the priest’s family with the door having a carving
of Jesus and the top of the house having a face of a Hindu demon to scare
away evil spirits.

There was a relative of mine whom I was sharing about God and challenged
her to do away with the idols in her house as according to scriptures which
she was aware of. But she was scared to do so because she knew society will
alienate her and her family.

How much they show externally as God loving, religious people that much
more internally they hate God and the things holy to God. They live a life
here on earth to enjoy the things of this world and are totally blank about
the greater life ahead.

Today’s message opens out the reason why people like them live such a life.
The message says that things like traditions have darkened their sight and
have alienated them from God and eternal life. They prefer being ignorant
of the things of God out of fear of being alienated by the worldly man.
This is what God says as hardening of the heart.

We should be aware of the nature of God as one who encourages those who
walk towards Him by drawing them closer by the knowledge of Him and by His
Spirit and drives to destruction those who harden their hearts by hardening
them further, by making them believe in vanity and foolishness of man.

[Prayer Starter]

Lord, You are light and those who shut their eyes to You and resist the
knowledge of the things of Heaven dwell in darkness. Lord, we pray for your
mercy on specially those who dwell in Mangalore. We pray that You move
things around and bring a change here. We your people intercede for them
and open the doors of change into their lives. Even if You need to turn
their lives upside down do so, but let your light shine bright in this
place...

This prayer we make in Jesus’ Name, Amen.
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He made this world and all things in it for us

Palms 104:15 - And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to 
make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart.

Believers have one scripture on the tip of their tongue which is John 
3:16 "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, 
that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting 
life" which they love to quote, Catholics also love to quote one 
scripture "Jesus turned water to wine" (they would not know which book, 
which chapter or which verse).

When I witness to people, there are many who have been studied in 
Convents (run by the Catholic Church) get surprised when I tell them I 
do not drink alcohol, not even wine. They question me if I am Christian, 
and I tell them 'Catholics drink Christians (Believers) do not' and then 
they get stunted. They ask me the difference and I tell them 'Catholics 
believe in Christ and Christians follow Christ'.

There are some scriptures in the Bible which give the impression God 
promotes drinking. It is when we only get deeper into it not by just 
reading a translation, will we understand its true meaning. Let me 
expound the message we received today to understand what God wants to 
tell us. Let us go in the reverse order (back to front) to get the right 
understanding.

The Hebrew word translated as bread here means food and does not refer 
to natural food but spiritual food since the food is for the heart 
(inner-man). Thus this scripture is not natural but spiritual.

In today's world people put moisturizing cream or lotions to rejuvenate 
the skin of their face in those days they used oil (fresh olive oil). 
Olive oil in the Bible symbolizes testimony and here speaks of God 
bringing victory over situations in the life of man to make his face to 
shine (have joy).

The Hebrew word used for wine is Yayin which is grape juice which is 
mildly fermented / brewed. This would be in alcoholic strength lesser or 
equal to table wine; over here it refers to moderate pleasure. God is 
telling is here, He does not desire His people to be a dull people like 
machines, or like the religion Communism (though it is against 
religions, it is a religion itself) where smiling is taboo or having fun 
is forbidden. Paul tells us to be sober, not void of pleasure.We 
Christian should enjoy the good things of life, but this should be much 
moderated, such that we do not get lost to the desires of this world.

Understand God though created this world for the main purpose to sort 
His people from those who are not His people, to refine them and promote 
them, yet God does not desire this earthly life to be boring for His 
people, He desires we do enjoy life, but controlled so that He does not 
loose us to this world. He brings great moments in our lives which bring 
joy into our lives and lifts us to greater levels; He also provides 
spiritual food for us to be strengthened in spirit.

[Prayer Starter]

Father, in your boundless wisdom You created this world with all things 
in it. We may find things good and bad but when You created it You said 
all things are good. Things were not what it was like when You created 
them. After sin came in us and sin grew in us, creation became our enemy 
and things that were good became bad for us. Lord help us overcome sin 
so the we enjoy this world the way You created it and through your 
creation know You more and more...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

Genesis 1:31 - 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.

Romans 1:18-32

18For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness 
and unrighteousness of men, who hinder the truth in unrighteousness;

19because that which is known of God is manifest in them; for God 
manifested it unto them.

20For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are 
clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his 
everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse:

21because that, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither gave 
thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart 
was darkened.

22Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

23and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an 
image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed beasts, and 
creeping things.

24Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto 
uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves:

25for that they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and 
served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

26For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women 
changed the natural use into that which is against nature:

27and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, 
burned in their lust one toward another, men with men working 
unseemliness, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error 
which was due.

28And even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them 
up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

29being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, 
maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

30backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of 
evil things, disobedient to parents,

31without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, 
unmerciful:

32who, knowing the ordinance of God, that they that practise such things 
are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also consent with them 
that practise them.

1 Thessalonians 5:4-9

4But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake 
you as a thief:

5for ye are all sons of light, and sons of the day: we are not of the 
night, nor of darkness;

6so then let us not sleep, as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober.

7For they that sleep sleep in the night: and they that are drunken are 
drunken in the night.

8But let us, since we are of the day, be sober, putting on the 
breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

9For God appointed us not into wrath, but unto the obtaining of 
salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
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Jesus the Passover Lamb

Ezra 6:20 - For the priests and the Levites were purified together, all 
of them were pure, and killed the passover for all the children of the 
captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.

Yesterday I had sent a message on the day of preparation, the day Jesus 
died and I had one sister message me with regards to the confusion 
between the High Sabbath and the weekly Sabbath and the day of 
preparation. Today as I prayed and asked God for a message for today I 
received Ezra 6:20, looks like there are others who are yet not clear on 
this topic and thus God wants to drive it further. Let me be simpler 
this time.

We know the book of Moses is a shadow of what Jesus Christ did for Jesus 
said this (John 5:46). Jesus was called the Lamb of God because He is 
our sacrificial lamb, the first born (since He existed from the 
beginning) who was sacrificed for our sins.

According to the book of Moses the Pascal lamb need to be bought 5 days 
before in the house and kept under observation for any blemish. Secondly 
this lamb was killed the evening before the Passover and the blood of 
the Pascal lamb (or goat as mentioned in the book of Moses) was applied 
on the outer side of the post of the door of the house so that death 
passes them.

Note firstly the Pascal sacrifice was killed the evening of the day 
before the Passover and Jesus fulfilled this. Secondly death was not 
defeated but just passed them. Thirdly people needed to purify 
themselves to be party to the Passover.

Many may not get the second and the third points.

Let me address them in the reverse order

Point number 3: To be part of the Passover the Jews had to dress in a 
particular fashion and prepare many things. They also were to recollect 
their bondages and realize how God delivered them from them. We know we 
all are sinners and only God can forgive our sins, thus to have our sins 
forgiven we need to come to God. But the irony is our sins separate us 
from God and become like a wall between us and God. Jesus by doing the 
later former, meaning performed the sacrifice done after sins were 
forgiven even before we are forgiven made a way for us to come before 
God and thus get our sins forgiven. We are declared righteous even 
before we are forgiven and made righteous. For this we need 2 things one 
is faith and the other thing is rejection of our sinful nature and 
acceptance of the nature of Christ, then only we can go by the path 
Jesus made for our sins to be forgiven and become righteous.

Preparation day is the day of purification and true purification is not 
about cleaning oneself but about surrendering to God and letting God 
clean us. People do this grave mistake of being sorry for their sins. We 
need to realize however sorry we may be for our sins we cannot do 
anything about it thus we are still doomed. Judas Iscariot too was sorry 
of what he did but still he was doomed and lost, being sorry and killing 
himself did not help him. If he had realized how wrong he was and had 
gone to Jesus he would have been forgiven and his soul would not have 
been lost. More than being sorry for our sins we need to be sorry for 
sinning and come to God, meaning rejecting the nature that caused us to 
sin and put on the nature of Christ (who is the visible image of God).

Now coming to point number 2: The sacrifice of Jesus saves us from death 
but does not defeat death. We need to realize the mission of Jesus did 
not end at the crucifix, for Jesus kept telling His disciples about the 
coming of the Comforter / Helper / Spirit of Truth who would bring them 
to the Truth, comfort them and help them walk in the Truth therefore He 
needed to go (be sacrificed).

By our faith in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ we are saved 
from Hell, but Judgment Day still hovers over us. After death we will 
rise from the Grave (a spiritual level not earthly grave) on the day 
Christ comes again and come before the Judgment Throne (not a real 
throne) where the Son of Man - Jesus Christ would judge us, not as God 
but as man and the Holy Spirit would help Him make right judgment. To 
defeat death Jesus gave us His Spirit so that by the working of the Holy 
Spirit Truth abides in us and the sinful nature in us be overcome. That 
is when sin will be defeat and death defeated.

Now clearing about the Passover and the Pascal Lamb let us come back to 
the dates.

Thursday was the day of preparation (the day the Pascal sacrifice was 
offered)

Friday the Passover (High Sabbath)

Saturday the Sabbath

Sunday the resurrection

Some scripture do not clearly distinguish between the High Sabbath and 
the Sabbath therefore the matter does not easily stand out unless one 
compares all the Gospel references along with the books of Moses.

At the time of Jesus' crucifixion since the High Sabbath and the weekly 
Sabbath was one after the other the Jews had to prepare for both the 
days before the High Sabbath. That is why they have to not only prepare 
the Pascal preparation (prepare ourselves) but also prepare the lamps 
(witness Christ) at the same time. We cannot say first I will become 
perfect as Christ and them tell people or witness Christ to others. As 
we are growing in Christ we need to witness the little of Him in us.

[Prayer Starter]

Lord You said the people will see but not understand what they see. 
Their ears will hear but yet they will not understand what they hear. 
This will happen because their hearts are fattened. Lord we pray for 
your grace on them that they do not fatten their hearts. That they 
surrender to your Spirit, such that their ears will hear and understand; 
their eye will see and understand and they come to know You and your 
mighty deeds...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

John 5:46 - For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he 
wrote of me.

John 1:29 - On the morrow he seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, 
Behold, the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world!

1 Corinthians 5:7 - Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, 
even as ye are unleavened. For our passover also hath been sacrificed, 
Christ:

Exodus 12:1-24

1And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,

2This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the 
first month of the year to you.

3Speak 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 the 
house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:

4And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his 
neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the 
souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.

5Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall 
take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:

6And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and 
the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the 
evening.

7And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts 
and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.

8And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and 
unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

9Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; 
his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.

10And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that 
which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.

11And 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 
the LORD'S passover.

12For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite 
all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against 
all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.

13And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye 
are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague 
shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.

14And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a 
feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast 
by an ordinance for ever.

Luke 22:1-2

1Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover.

2And the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might put him to 
death; for they feared the people.

Matthew 26:17 - Now on the first day of unleavened bread the disciples 
came to Jesus, saying, Where wilt thou that we make ready for thee to 
eat the Passover [unleavened bread]?

John 19:31 - The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that 
the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day 
[Passover], (for that Sabbath day [holiday] was an high day,) besought 
Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

John 19:14-18

14And it was the preparation of the Passover [High Sabbath], and about 
the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King!

15But they cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate 
saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, 
We have no king but Caesar.

16Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they 
took Jesus, and led him away.

17And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a 
skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha:

18Where they crucified him, and two other with him, on either side one, 
and Jesus in the midst.

Mark 16:1 - And when the sabbath [weekly Sabbath] was past, Mary 
Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet 
spices, that they might come and anoint him.

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Day of preparation stock your oil
Luke 23:54 - And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.

Jesus fulfilled every sacrifice as given by Moses required for the 
healing, forgiveness and salvation of man. The day He broke bread was 
the Feast of Unleavened Bread though according to Moses it was supposed 
to be celebrated the week after Passover but after the Jews were taken 
to Babylon a large part of the Jews started celebrating the Passover 
week together with the week of unleavened bread. For them Jesus may have 
seem to have accepted their modification in the laws given though Moses 
but it is only when we realize Jesus takes us for the conclusion to the 
task, from victory to the battle, then we would realize why Jesus 
celebrated the feast before. He did also comply with Moses' book by 
again breaking bread after His resurrection (Luke 22:7-13). If we read 
the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, they simply recorded what was 
witnessed therefore they state the Feast of Unleavened Bread as being 
celebrated before the Passover.

After breaking unleavened bread (on Saturday) Jesus was arrested and 
kept under arrest for 5 days, moved between the Jewish court to the 
Roman court during these 5 days. Historic documents give details of the 
torture He went through those 5 days. The movie Passion of Christ did 
not capture even a reasonable percentage of the torture that Jesus 
really went through. These 5 days Jesus kept silent like a lamb to 
fulfil the days of observation according to the book of Moses, this 
brings us to His death being on a Thursday.

If we read today's message it speaks of the Sabbath being on the next 
day of His crucifixion. People mistake it for the weekly Sabbath 
therefore think Jesus was crucified on a Friday. The Gospel of John 
records it as a High Sabbath and not as an ordinary weekly Sabbath. The 
High Sabbath was the day of Passover which fell on a Friday a day before 
the weekly Sabbath. Jesus was crucified on a Thursday evening, the 
evening before the Passover when they started preparing for meal of the 
Passover as subscribed in the book of Moses (Exodus). His resurrection 
was on the 3rd day which was on Sunday a day after the weekly Sabbath 
(Saturday).

Today God is reminding us our High Sabbath in the Lord is at hand this 
Sabbath is not His Passover but the Day of His coming in glory and we 
are dwelling in the evening of the day before, so are we preparing for 
it? Even for the weekly Sabbath the Jews would light lamps the evening 
before. For this they had to collect oil and if they did not have oil 
they would go door to door to borrow some. Jesus spoke through the 
parable of the 10 virgins [those not defiled by other gods/idols] of 
stocking oil [fuel] for their lamps [their testimony in 
Christ/witnessing Christ] before the coming of the Bridegroom. The Lord 
is telling us now is the time to stock fuel for our lamps for tomorrow 
would be late. Do not be caught without a burning lamp when the 
Bridegroom comes, you may have done great works for the Kingdom of God 
before but is your lamp still burning now for only those who keep 
witnessing Christ unto their last will enter Heaven to be with the 
Bridegroom. Wake up do not be caught asleep without a burning lamp.

[Prayer Starter]

Lord, You do not desire people who start with a bang and then fizzle 
away. You desire people who are diligent and dedicated unto the last. 
Woe unto us if we do great things for your Kingdom and then sleep being 
lost to this world. Wake your people from their sleep, fill us with 
great passion for your Kingdom that they keep our lamps burning bright 
unto your coming again to take us unto our Father's House...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

Matthew 25:1-13

1Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which 
took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.

2And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.

3They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:

4But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.

5While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.

6And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go 
ye out to meet him.

7Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.

8And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps 
are gone out.

9But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us 
and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.

10And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were 
ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.

11Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.

12But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.

13Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the 
Son of man cometh.

John 19:31 - 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.

John 19:14 - And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the 
sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King!

Luke 22:7-13

7Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed.

8And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us the passover, 
that we may eat.

9And they said unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare?

10And he said unto them, Behold, when ye are entered into the city, 
there shall a man meet you, bearing a pitcher of water; follow him into 
the house where he entereth in.

11And ye shall say unto the goodman of the house, The Master saith unto 
thee, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my 
disciples?

12And he shall shew you a large upper room furnished: there make ready.

13And they went, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready 
the passover.

Luke 24:28-35

28And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and he made as 
though he would have gone further.

29But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward 
evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them.

30And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and 
blessed it, and brake, and gave to them.

31And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of 
their sight.

32And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while 
he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?

33And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found 
the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them,

34Saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon.

35And they told what things were done in the way, and how he was known 
of them in breaking of bread.
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Life after death

Acts 5:6 - And the young men arose, wound him up, and carried him out, and
buried him.

Across religions we find dead is a mystical thing for them. Some glorify
the dead and some live for the purpose to die.

We have the Hindus whose principle wish of religion is the death of the
spirit for they believe in reincarnation - the spirit being born in
different forms as per one’s deeds in life. They strive for ‘mukti’ in
Hindi means freedom from the circle of life. The Greek and Romans
considered death as a journey from one world to another world. The Muslims’
and Catholics’ understanding of death and life after death is a little
confusing. Some of their beliefs are like fairytales. Their understandings
are so vague that one Muslim Jihadi suicide bomber who was caught red
handed before he could set himself off had taken great precaution to guard
his reproductive organs with a metal plate so as to enjoy his life where he
thought he would go, according to his Islamic understanding of life after
death. The Catholics on other hand expect Heaven to be a place where a
queen would be seated on a throne, with Jesus and God the Father on her
either sides, and a dove hovering over her head.

Today’s message tells us the Apostles got the young men to do the things
concerning the death. They did not get involved in it not because they did
not have respect for the person dead, but did it because they knew the body
of the person was nothing but like the clothes of the person and the person
lo longer dwelled in it.

People do not realized after death a person is no more male or female as he
or she was in the body of flesh. After death they are also not related to
us after death like they were in the body of flesh. After death we are
spirit and the only gender that spirit has is righteous or unrighteous. The
righteous are called ‘Of God’ (Sons) and the unrighteous as ‘their kind’
(outsiders awaiting their judgment and death).

Let us study about life and death as per what the Bible tells us and make
ourselves knowledgeable so that we walk in the ways of the Lord and have
eternal life.

[Prayer Starter]

Lord, You created us because You have plans for us for greater things. But
sinful man corrupt in understanding desires things that are temporary and
non-existent. They in their distorted understanding distort the things of
Heaven and thus do vain things in your name. Lord, we pray your people
pursue life and the things of life and not death and the things of
darkness...

This prayer we make in Jesus’ Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

Matthew 22:29-33

29 But Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the
scriptures, nor the power of God.

30 For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage,
but are as angels in heaven.

31 But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that
which was spoken unto you by God, saying,

32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?
God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.

33 And when the multitudes heard it, they were astonished at his teaching.

John 1:12 - 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:

Luke 20:34-36

34 And Jesus said unto them, The sons of this world marry, and are given
in marriage:

35 but they that are accounted worthy to attain to that world, and the
resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:

36 for neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels;
and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.

Genesis 1:21 - And God created great whales [monsters/prehistor ic
creatures], 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 it was good.

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Days of Distress and Disasters

Zephaniah 1:16, 17 - A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced 
cities, and against the high towers. And I will bring distress upon men, 
that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against 
the LORD: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh 
as the dung.

Today's message is one of the hardest topics for me. It is not only hard 
for me to explain to other people but also not easy for me to digest it 
myself.

Day before yesterday I shared my testimony of how as a Catholic I saw 
deceit in the Church and came out of her. What surprised me more was 
that things were not different with most Believers. Though they did not 
do the things of the Catholics but then many followed their own agenda 
contrary to the Word of God.

Let me explain you this in a very simpler way through the Gospels.

The 2 lot of people whom Jesus rebuked were the Pharisees and the 
Sadducees. The Pharisees were people of traditions they were the most 
rebuked since they were the most hard hearted. They represent the 
Catholic. Like the Pharisee the Catholics too are people founded on 
traditions. Like them they also gave high importance to the people in 
power (authority) in the Church and did what so ever they said even if 
that was contrary to what God said. This we see in the Pharisees by them 
abiding to the command of the High Priest to put Jesus to death even 
though He was found innocent. They were so blind by the command of the 
head of their Church that nothing else made any sense to them. They also 
had an idol like the Catholics have Mary through whom only they can come 
to God. Even though they call Jesus their saviour yet to get to their 
saviour they need Mary. Their saviour fails to save them without Mary. 
Similarly was Moses to the Pharisees, they had lifted him up so much 
that they used terms like blasphemy against Moses and stoning for those 
who did so.

The other group whom Jesus rebuked were the Sadducees. It may surprise 
you to know the Sadducees were people of scriptures. They did not give 
much importance to traditions but purely went by scriptures and you can 
see the difference by the questions they put to Jesus and the questions 
the Pharisees put to Jesus. One may wonder why they were also rebuked by 
Jesus even though they depended on the Word of God.

If we understand what the Sadducees followed then we would understand 
Jesus' attitude towards them. The Sadducees did not consider the whole 
OT as Word of God. They primarily followed only the books of Moses and 
the books of Psalms (during that time the book of Psalms was in 5 parts 
according to the book of Moses). They did not consider the books of 
Prophets as canon (official / legitimate Word of God). They did read 
them but did not abide by them or take them serious as the books of 
Moses and Psalms.

If we read Jesus rebuked those who did not listen / understand Him by 
repeating the words of Isaiah. He said their ears will hear and their 
eyes will see yet they will not understand and their hearts were 
hardened so that they do not be healed. The Hebrew word translated as 
healed means to be like God. One may wonder why God would do such a 
thing when He desires all be saved and we also are saved only by the 
grace of God.

If we read Isaiah it says make their hearts fat, their ears heavy (the 
word used here also means glorious/honourable ) and shut their eyes. This 
is what happens amongst most Believers.

They come to God mainly for the blessing that come through God. Their 
hearts are full of desires of the things that come as blessings and most 
of these things are things connected to this world and not the things of 
the Spirit world. Even the things that they desire of the Spirit world 
are also directly or indirectly for the purpose of things of this world, 
i.e. they desire the gifts of the Holy Spirit so that they can receive 
the honour and praise of the people of this world.

Only those who desire God for Who He is, His nature are the ones who are 
his true Children. Repentance is not about being sorry for one's sins, 
but is being sorry for one's sinful nature. Repentance is when we reject 
the sinful nature and desire the nature of God then only do we come 
before Him and are forgiven of our sins, are strengthened in Him and 
become more like Him (are healed).

Today's message talks of what the world states as persecution of 
Christians. Understand the Hand of God is not short, nor is our God 
dead, nor is He asleep that He cannot protect His people. If we see the 
Apostles became martyrs because they were on a mission, they were aware 
of it's end. They knew like Paul that they had to die and we see one 
among them John the Apostle was saved even after being put in a pot of 
boiling oil for God had no purpose for him to die as a martyr and when 
we understand that we will understand the reason of the deaths of the 
others.

Understand not a hair of our head can be harmed when we are in God; 
being in God means being in His nature, people who reject the nature of 
sin and desire God's nature.

It is time we reflect on our lives and check are our hearts fattened? 
Are our ears always itching to hear good things and messages which do 
not cause us to change? Are or eyes blind to see the Truth, have we made 
our own version of the Kingdom of God?

[Prayer Starter]

Lord, we pray your people wake up, that they come to You with a contrite 
and sober heart, that they not only desire to hear nice things but also 
rebukes and chastising for You are our good Father who truly loves His 
children. Lord, let our hearts desire You more than anything else. Let 
your Name be above all in our lives...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

Matthew 13:15 - For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears 
are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time 
they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should 
understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal 
them.

Isaiah 6:9-10

9And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand 
not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.

10Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut 
their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and 
understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
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Aholibah

Ezekiel 23:11-18

11And 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.

12She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers
clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them
desirable young men.

13Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way,

14And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed
upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,

15Girded 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:

16And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and
sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.

17And 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.

18So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my
mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister.

I was born in a devout Catholic family that would not dine unless the
family Rosary was said. We were part of the Cathedral in Mumbai. My
mother, all her life knew of only two places one our house and the other
the church, since she gave a lot of her time to the church. She was a
leader of one of the communities of the Cathedral; doing the reading
during Mass, giving communion, helping during social occasions were the
highlights of her life. My father on the other hand was outstanding
Catholic, he would attend Mass standing outside the church, but in his
life he lived as a good man never harming anyone, always helping a
person in need and always friendly to all from the beggar to the rich
man. But in time of test he showed more faith than my mother.

I as a young boy had great inclination towards God so in this
environment I too became a devout Catholic carrying photos and religious
pendants always and would spend most of my time in church as altar boy.
I also became very friendly to the priests and would spend a lot of time
with them. Being a senior altar boy and close to the priests I was
preferred for the high Masses of the Cardinals and was also chosen to
lead the troupe of altar boys for the Pope John Paul's Mass when he
visit India. I was the Catholic leader in school and the principle
thought I would become a priest.

In church I would pay attention to the readings therefore knew something
of the religion. All my life I would have stayed like that, thinking I
was on the right path if it was not for the Lord shaking the lives of
some of my family members and then of myself.

In my problems as a young man loss of all hopes when I began to pursue
God I became part of a charismatic ministry reaching out to other
people, being part of outreaches in Mumbai and outside Mumbai, but as a
part of the Catholic Church. In the ministry I grew to depend on
scriptures and thirst for its understanding. Our ministry did face
resistance from the Catholic Church with regards to putting Bible before
traditions.

As a staunch Catholic I would fight with people when they questioned my
belief. As I started studying the Bible I saw the things I did as a
Catholic or the things I believed in, contradicted scriptures. Having a
Calling of a Teacher of the Word in spiritual things, the Lord would
teach me through visions like He did to Daniel or John (book of
Revelation), so if I had a question I would put it to the Lord and keep
pursuing it with the Lord, and within a few days I would see visions or
events in life by which the Lord would explain them to me. But when I
saw contradictions in the religion I followed as a Catholic I put my
queries to the Lord and meditated on it. Then slowly the Lord started
opening all the hidden things of this religion and they were a great
shock for me. It took me more than 1 year to settle down when the deceit
of this church was exposed to me and my belief was shaken. Everyone
around me was stanch Catholic, those in my family and those in the
ministry. Some people in the ministry did know the deceit but they did
not have the courage to do something of it.

There was 2 things that really shook me about this Church one was it
claiming to take me to God but was taking me half way and then taking me
elsewhere, thus failing in taking me to God and worst bringing me into
greater wrath of His judgment, for now I knew of Him yet have rejected
His Word.

The second thing was I was made to think I worshipped the Lord but then
realized there was nothing about Him I worshipped. Although I stood
before statues and pictures representing Jesus and people in the Bible
yet they had nothing to do with the real Jesus or the people in the
Bible, it was something else I was worshipping.

In the book of Acts we read the Jews also claimed they worshipped the
Lord with great fervour but in reality as exposed by Jesus, Stephen and
Paul as they worshipped not the Lord but gods. The Catholics do idol
worship of false gods in the name of God but the idols of the Jews are
not made of earth or wood like those of the Catholics.

In today's message we read of the 2 sisters, daughters of one
(spiritual) mother who is a prostitute.The scripture says second is
worse than the first. The Jewish Church was initiated by Abraham and is
founded on the teachings (Laws) of Moses. The Christian Church was
initiated by Jesus Christ (who came out of the Jewish Church and was
called a leader of a sect) and was founded on the Holy Spirit (Spirit of
Truth). But later these churches did not be what they were set to be.
The Jewish Church claimed to be followers of the Laws of God given
through Moses but in fact did the traditions of man in the name of
Moses, for they never understood the teachings of Moses. They never knew
Moses spoke about Jesus and a great part of Moses' prophecies were to do
solely with Jesus. They never knew the word YHWH which they changed to
Yahweh is an ideogram which means 'Behold the Hand Behold the Nail', in
other words referred to Jesus Christ.

The Christian Church about 300AD became the Catholic Church which was
founded on half-truths (symbolized by stones in Greek Peter /Petros and
in Aramaic Cephas / Kephas unlike the Truth symbolized as an unmoveable
rock/mountain Petra and in Aramaic Shua) when Emperor Constantine fused
Roman pagan beliefs with Christian beliefs. These later were known as
traditions of the Church.

We see later the coming back of the Christian Church exactly 1260years
fulfilling prophecy. Also the prophecy of the fall of Babylon the Great
(the Catholic Church) is at hand and today's message expounds on how it
will happen. It tells us the Catholic Church will reach out to other
religions and thus start to fuse some of its beliefs with theirs; this
we see has already started. The Catholics in Malaysia wanted to refer to
God as Allah not knowing that Allah is the deity Hubal/Hibal the moon
god of the pagan Arabs worshipped in the Kaaba before Mohammad. In fact
Mohammad' s father was named after this god (Abd Allah ibn Abd al Muttalib).

For the Catholics spiritually it actually does not make much difference
for their main god/goddess Mary (who is not the Mary of the Bible) is
also a form of the moon goddess Ashtoreth (whom the Jews also worshipped
as Queen of Heaven) that is why you will see statutes of Mary standing
on the crescent moon (Immaculate Conception) and this same god is also
in Hinduism as Shiva (crescent moon on its head), that is why Jesus said
since Satan's house is united it survives, even though God bought
confusion between them during the bringing down of the tower of Babel.
The Catholics may say the image of Mary is according to Rev 12:1 - note
firstly this verse does not talk of crescent moon but just moon,
secondly it has nothing to do with Mary (it is connected to Christ and
His Church and was also the sign which was visible in the sky when He
was born), we also see the prophecy of 1260years of the church fulfilled
in this scripture.

Another point to note in Catholicism (Laws of the Catholic Church)
Muslims and Jews are also part of the salvation of God even though they
reject Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour (http://www.Vatican. va section
839 to 845 - under the topic 'The Church and non-Christians&# 39;) thus
making the teachings of Jesus and the Apostles as void.

Today's message states after this church starts to reach out to other
religions its people will realize its deceit and not only come out of
her, but will go against her. The Bible talks of this church falling in
a day (very short period) and I was made to understand there would be a
legal battle which would bring this church to bankruptcy, thus
fulfilling prophecy (Revelation 17-18).

[Prayer Starter]

Lord, when the Israelites who left Egypt You did great wonders yet they
continued worshipping other gods for they were stiff necked. Yet You
Lord did not consume them for the sake of their children, who would
enter the Promised Land. They were the shadow of your true people. In
the same way Lord, You tolerated this False Church for the sake of us
and those who are yours and are yet in this church. You are slow to
anger but not void of anger. As it is written You will vent your anger
on this church and revenge the souls of the martyrs. We pray Lord we see
your True Church come in its glory when it becomes a united body as it
is written...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

Zechariah 5:5-11

5Then the angel that talked with me went forth, and said unto me, Lift
up now thine eyes, and see what is this that goeth forth.

6And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that goeth forth.
He said moreover, This is their resemblance through all the earth.

7And, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead: and this is a woman
that sitteth in the midst of the ephah.

8And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the
ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.

9Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out two
women, and the wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the
wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the
heaven.

10Then said I to the angel that talked with me, Whither do these bear
the ephah?

11And he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar: and
it shall be established, and set there upon her own base.

Revelation 17-18

Revelation 12:1-6

1And 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:

2And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be
delivered.

3And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red
dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.

4And 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.

5And 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.

6And 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.
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Fellowship unto strength

Acts 28:14 - Where we found brethren, and were desired to tarry with them
seven days: and so we went toward Rome.

In the Bible every word has great significance. Even the names of people
and places do give great understanding and discloses the hidden things of
the Kingdom of God.

If one tracks the journey of Paul, the ports or places he went through
according the things happening in his ministry, we would be in for a great
surprise. They give understanding which will help minister people and
understand spiritual situations.

The Greek word ‘Rome’ means ‘strength’ so today’s scripture talks of Paul
and his associated meeting some brethren who stayed with them,
fellowshipped with each other in Holy Spirit (symbolized by the number
seven as in seven days) and they walked unto strength.

If we read when the Church received the Holy Spirit at Pentecost the glory
of God was on then and fear among the other people because they abided by
the ways of the Lord. If we read what they did then we would know why the
glory of God was on them. Acts 2:42 says firstly they consistently grew in
understanding through the teachings of the Apostles. Secondly they grew in
fellowshipping with each other. Thirdly they broke bread which symbolizes
giving oneself unto one another like Jesus did unto us, in other words
meaning serving each other. Fourthly they came together in prayer.

Our Church struggles because we do follow this order and priority that is
why we are a fragile body that cracks at the slightest tremble. People in
Church put prayer at the top, now since they do not have the understanding
of scriptures they pray for things that go against the Word of God and the
principles of God. Their prayers are hollow for their relationships with
each other are hollow. Their prayers are just vain words without action for
they do not give themselves unto each other that is why they are rarely
heard.

We the people of God should understand after the understanding of the Word
of God the most important thing for us is our love for each other. Praying
and fasting are like humbug if we are only words and driven by actions.

[Prayer Starter]

Lord, You are one and are an example of the oneness we need to be. Lord, we
pray we grow in love for each other and this love be the Agape love, a love
that builds others and is selfless. We pray we get our priorities right...

This prayer we make in Jesus’ Name, Amen.

[Reference Scriptures]

Acts 2:41-47

41 Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day
there were added unto them about three thousand souls.

42 And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship,
and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.

43 And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done by
the apostles.

44 And all that believed were together, and had all things common;

45 And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as
every man had need.

46 And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking
bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness
of heart,

47 Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added
to the church daily such as should be saved.

[Jesus commanded this to His disciples not once but four times]

John 13:34 - A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another;
even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

John 13:35 - By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye
have love one to another.

John 15:12 - This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I
have loved you.

John 15:17 - These things I command you, that ye may love one another.
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