THE BEGINNING OF THE CREATION OF GOD
And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; (Revelation 3:14)
Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: (Colossians 1:5)
Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; (Hebrews 1:3)
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INTRODUCTION
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—– the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God —–
The human thoughts on this subject and verse are astronomical . . . What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? (Psalm 8:4) Man looks upon the creation and denies the Creator. Man looks upon the word of God and denies the validity of the mind of God. Man looks upon the life and times of the Lord Jesus Christ and denies the FULLNESS of the GODHEAD bodily. But what man knows the mind of God? For all we know the divine BEING has been revealed by the Highest Himself. He is the FOUNTAINHEAD of ALL knowledge and wisdom.
In Revelation Chapter 3, verse 14 we have the Son of the Most Holy giving the LAST message, the announcement of the FINAL MESSAGE and REVELATION to the seventh church, the FINAL WITNESS OF FAILURE. He proclaims HIMSELF as The Everlasting One. First of all, He is the Amen, He finalizes all things to the church. Secondly, He is the faithful and true witness of God, as the church has failed, the Spirit of Christ can NEVER fail. He, and only He is the beginning of the creation of God . . . . the beginning of the creation of God.
That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life; (1st John 1:1)
Man has to stop and search his heart to see the Amen. This is FINALITY. It is the I AM who wrote seven letters to failing churches, and in the seventh period of time, they (the failed depraved church) have become so corrupt that they see more in themselves, and in silver and gold then IN the BEGINNING OF THE CREATION OF GOD. This seventh church (Laodicea) or period of Church history is totally denounced by Jesus Christ. He calls to the overcomer to separate themselves from the mass of professing Christianity and to find a Brook Cherith and there at the place of solitude, to buy of ME the righteousness of God, the gold of purity and the silver tried in the fire to deliver God’s righteousness to us. I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and [that] the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. (Revelation 3:18). It was the Lord Jesus who was tried in the fire for us on the cross of Calvary.
As FAITH is a gift, we must, therefore, protect that FAITH. We must be aware of the cunningness of the serpent, and the illusions of man’s thoughts. FAITH does NOT come from man, but from the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the Author and Finisher of our FAITH for without FAITH it is IMPOSSIBLE to please HIM. But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. (Hebrews 11:6)
As you read this last message in Revelation 3:14 to the LAST church, (And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God), the Lord Jesus separated Himself from this church. He is the OUTSIDER knocking on the door, and that door is extended to any person (showing the whole world is represented in this final letter), and this open door is also extended to a religious world who knows NOT what they worship.
Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. (John 4:22)
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. (John 4:23)
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. (John 4:24)
The Lord Jesus, the Highest Himself, was and is the FINAL and TRUE witness. And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her. (Psalm 87:5) Where man failed, God DID NOT and will NOT fail. He stands at the DOOR and knocks, If any man hears His voice and opens the door, Christ HIMSELF will come in and sup with him: Spirit to spirit, Soul to soul, Heart to heart. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. (Revelation 3:20)
The BEGINNING OF THE CREATION OF GOD is STILL creating new life from the sea of sin and from the deadness of Adam’s race. As both sin and death has destroyed Adam’s race, Christ Himself will pluck the sinner out of the swine’s swill and give that sinner a new life IN Himself. We live in a world that excuses sin and iniquity, a world of low moral or of no moral character. Are we there yet, Matilda? Yes, dear, we have been there for some time. When those in the corrupt corridors of churchianity attack the Bible and the deity of the Son of God, the one who is the BEGINNING OF THE CREATION OF GOD, they are all both numb and dumb for sin has blinded them to the TRUE THINGS of God. They know NOTHING of the everlasting to the everlasting, a distance that only the Almighty God knows.
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The REVELATION of GOD
CREATOR – THE BEGINNING OF THE CREATION OF GOD
THE WORD OF HIS POWER
SONSHIP – HEIRSHIP
Let’s view the SONSHIP of the Lord Jesus Christ. He WAS and IS that holy thing sent by God the Father from heaven to redeem man unto Himself. In Hebrews 1:2, (Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds) God the Father appointed His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, as HEIR of ALL things BEFORE the worlds were created. All that the Son put forth when He created that which was SEEN and that which was UNSEEN belongs to HIM as His inheritance. Then in Hebrews 1:2, it is the SON who creates the worlds, and ALL that the SON would create belongs to the Son in the name of the Father . . . by whom also he made the worlds refers directly to the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the BEGINNING OF THE CREATION OF GOD. We see that the Spirit of God placed His HEIRSHIP PRIOR to creation. It was appointed TO the Son who would SPEAK the worlds into existence BY the word of His power.
● Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; (Hebrews 1:3)
● Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. (Hebrews 11:3)
We not only have the creation of that which is SEEN, but the creation of the UNSEEN as well. In what is so amazing is the Lord Jesus Christ UPHOLDS ALL things by the word of his power. Why does the Holy Spirit phrase it this way, man would say ‘power of his word,’ yet the Holy Spirit, knowing the mind of God, declared the word of his power, thus, giving preeminence to the WORD and not to the word ‘power.‘
In Colossians 1:18, we see that the Lord Jesus has the preeminence OVER ALL things. And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. In the gospel of John, we begin with THE WORD, this is Christ being proclaimed by the Spirit of God as THE WORD and that ALL creation both the SEEN and the UNSEEN was made by HIM.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (John 1:1)
The same was in the beginning with God. (John 1:2)
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. (John 1:3)
In him was life; and the life was the light of men. (John 1:4)
Christ IS the WORD OF HIS POWER. HE alone can speak things into existence, and without Him was not anything made that was made, Christ was and is THE BEGINNING OF THE CREATION OF GOD. Through HIM, being THE WORD, all power in heaven and all power in earth is under His domain. His voice created them and all the things that we SEE out of the blackness and nothingness, the UNSEEN became the SEEN. Out of a non-existent state, Christ called out the entire creation. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. (Hebrews 11:3) ALL was created under the divine plan and the determinate counsels and foreknowledge of God. Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain. (Acts 2:23) Don’t go there, your mind is NOT large enough to understand the determinate counsels of God and His foreknowledge. They transcend all human time, His determinate counsels and foreknowledge spans from Everlasting to Everlasting. It is the Eternal timeline without time and without end. Within this Eternal line is the Book of Life, and the Book of Life is surrounded by the foreknowledge of GOD BEFORE THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE EARTH and before the sacrifice of the Lamb of God. We see the foreknowledge and determinate counsel of ‘Behold, the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. (John 1:29) And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. (Revelation 13:8)
The meekest of all was also the thunderous voice that created man and ALL things for both man and the creation was MADE by HIM, the Son of God, by the WORD OF HIS POWER thus, showing that the universe heard the voice of God. The universe exists as a witness to THE POWER OF HIS WORD, and there was not anything made that was made, for Christ and Christ ALONE, the Son of God, is THE BEGINNING OF THE CREATION OF GOD. He is the CREATOR of Genesis 1:1, In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
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The First Revelation of God Was
THE CREATION OF THE IMAGE OF GOD HIMSELF
THE BEGINNING OF THE CREATION OF GOD
Here is the first revelation of THE BEGINNING OF THE CREATION OF GOD. We have two designated spheres: heaven FIRST, the UNSEEN to the natural man; then we have the tangible earth (the SEEN), which would be the dwelling place of man, who was yet to be created. God prepared His earth and an environment for the habitation of man. Although man was created on the sixth day, God in His foreknowledge had already prepared a habitat for man. God in His foreknowledge, before the heaven and the earth, before the Church and the Body of Christ, before the Eternal state and the new heaven and the new earth yet to come, God had already prepared a place for the children of God IN HIS environment of righteousness. But in the first creation, the FIRST image created WAS the image of God Himself. Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature. (Colossians 1:15) You need to understand that Christ, the Son of God, was a manifest image BEFORE the foundation of the earth. It was the Lord Jesus who is the IMAGE of the invisible God.
For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: (Colossians 1:16)
And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. (Colossians 1:17)
And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. (Colossians 1:18)
For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell; (Colossians 1:19)
And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. (Colossians 1:20)
These verses take us from the creation to the cross of Calvary in the SAME IMAGE of the invisible God, Jesus Christ. In verse 18, we are reminded by the Spirit of God that He, the Lord Jesus IS THE BEGINNING. In the words of the Spirit who is the beginning. Also in 1st John 1:1 we read, That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life. Throughout the Scriptures, the Holy Spirit of God created a portrait of the manifest IMAGE of the invisible God. The Holy Spirit is telling us through Colossians Chapter 1 that CHRIST IS THE IMAGE OF THE INVISIBLE GOD. In Chapter 2, verse 9, the Holy Spirit tells us that CHRIST is the FULNESS of the Godhead bodily. For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. The BODILY image of the invisible God was FULLY expressed in the Son of God: Father, Son and Holy Ghost. The INVISIBLE God, God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth (John 4:24), designated the Lord Jesus Christ AS the manifest IMAGE and FIRST BORN of every creature AS the image of THE BEGINNING OF THE CREATION OF GOD.
In the determinate counsels of God, in His foreknowledge, ONE was designated as the Creator. This was DETERMINED BEFORE any matter existed. In a thought, Christ, the Son of God, BECAME the IMAGE of God. He is the FIRST SPIRIT MATTER IN THE IMAGE OF GOD, and then with the creation of Adam, God DETERMINED that Adam would be created in OUR IMAGE, the designated IMAGE of God who is the Son of God.
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. (Genesis 1:26)
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. (Genesis 1:27)
SIDE NOTE: The Number Six and The END of Age of Beastly Man. Just a reminder: this might have slipped by you, we KNOW that the number six is the number of man, this number was established in Adam, for Adam was created on the sixth day. If you would like some other information: Genesis 6 is the destruction of all flesh because of the sin of man, EXCEPT for the FAITH of one man, the man Noah, for Noah found grace in God’s sight because Noah walked by FAITH in the path of God. But God was not only watching Noah, but He was also watching all of mankind, and out of all of mankind, there was only one faithful witness and that was Noah.
Now does Revelation 3:14 have more meaning to you? It is Christ who is NOW the FAITHFUL witness of God. The church may fail, man may fail, nations may fail, BUT Christ will not fail. He will still stand at the door and knock; He will give the gift of FAITH to those who hear His voice. I ask you to take the blinders off, look at the nations of the world, the religions of the world, and those of false Christianity and take a serious look at everything around you and realize that Genesis Chapter 6 is again repeating itself once more.
And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. (Genesis 6:5)
And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. (Genesis 6:6)
And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. (Genesis 6:7)
But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. (Genesis 6:8)
These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God. (Genesis 6:9)
We are told in the book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ that at the end of man’s political world and religious world that it will be man who has world dominance. They will gather around a wicked man who God called A BEAST of a man. Again, the number six appears, in fact, it is a trinity of six (6 – 6 – 6). This is the trinity of evil of MAN THE BEAST, the false prophet and the old serpent the devil. This beastlike man will sit on the throne of Satan.
And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. (Revelation 13:1)
And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority. (Revelation 13:2)
God sees this man as A BEAST. He is the embodiment of the old serpent, the devil, and because of the sin of ADAM, the work of the devil flourishes through this beast. The false prophet declares all the lies of his father, the devil Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. (John 8:44)
At this time period of the beast throughout the whole world, Satan is worshiped.
And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? (Revelation 13:4)
And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. (Revelation 13:5)
And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. (Revelation 13:6)
And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. (Revelation 13:7)
And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. (Revelation 13:8)
In the popularity of prophetic conferences and teaching in the church, there is more teaching of the glory of the millennial kingdom than the prior world condition leading to the NEED of the millennial kingdom. Prior to the return of the Lord Jesus Christ, the world will be in its darkest point of man’s history. The world populace will be BEAST LIKE, following the blasphemies of the BEAST against the Almighty God, and against the BEGINNING OF THE CREATION OF GOD, Jesus Christ. The world will be outwardly worship Satan, and declare their complete loyalty to the BEAST by the mark in their hands, on in their foreheads. They will outwardly have symbols of idolatry on their front lawns, one house after another house will have images of the BEAST, much like the idols of Mary on the lawns that line the streets of the towns and cities in New England. But this is much worse, for neighbor will witness against neighbor, to the death of neighbors, if they uphold the FAITH of the Lord Jesus Christ.
In recent events with the satanic insanity of the shooting of Charlie Kirk, we see the beginning of what is coming over the whole world. As each grain of sand falls to the bottom of the hourglass the END OF THE age of FAITH draws nearer, and as each man and woman of FAITH departs from this world the cup of the Gentiles quickly fills to the brim.
And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. (Luke 21:24)
For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. (Romans 11:25)
We already see the results of the seeds of insanity and drugged madness on the streets of LA, on the streets of San Francisco, and on Kensington Avenue in Philadelphia. These tormented souls wander in the darkness possessed by dark spirits, lost forever, and doomed for hell fire. They have tragically but willingly given up their souls to the devil and have passed the path of no return.
● Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: (Romans 1:24)
● For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: (Romans 1:26)
● And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; (Romans 1:28)
God is long suffering; this means that He is grieved in His heart when He sees the wickedness of the sons of man. Twice, in Romans, Chapter 1, God describes their condition and GIVES THEM UP. But when the world at large embraces the insanity of sin, God GIVES THEM OVER to a reprobate mind. There is an insanity of sin when man is in complete darkness, when he no longer has any moral codes or any moral fiber in his being. His reprobate mind destroys his own flesh, as his body desperately searches for a means to relieve his physical and spiritual pain from the slavery of the blackness of sin. Aimlessly wandering without hope in the iron blackness of dark city alleys and through the blighted and wretched streets of our nation, these desperate souls knowingly search for a means to end it all. We could call it suicide by sin. When Chapter two of the book of Romans begins, ALL MEN, EVERY MAN are without excuse.
Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things. (Romans 2:1) But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things. (Romans 2:2)
When I was growing up, divorce and adultery were taboo. But now at age eighty, all around the world, divorce is not only commonplace but it is expected; thus, children face life without parents because divorce nullifies parental responsibility.
Oh, you can look at all the codes of mankind, and even back in the days of Moses, it was MOSES who gave the writ of divorce BECAUSE of the hardness of the hearts of the children of Israel. There were specific conditions in that writ of divorcement that the world pays no attention to today. Then as time passed, homosexuality was taboo, but NOW in our age it is accepted and even in some church settings it is not only accepted but it is promoted and encouraged by the Nicolaitan clergy. Jezebel sits on the throne of the Archbishop of Canterbury with her lesbian maidens. This is what I mean when I ask to take the blinders off and look around and SEE the depravity of mankind in our age and in our day. It is beyond biblical comprehension and many ways beyond Genesis Chapter 6.
The ways of turmoil and judgment are upon us, as sin imprisons all mankind, and yes, ALL HAVE SINNED, but do not be fooled, SIN , as we see it today, CONDEMNS the whole populace to the very slavery of sin itself. The socialistic governments take money from those who are working hard and trying to having a semi-sense of morality, yet these governments GIVE their (working men and women) money to PROMOTE lasciviousness, to PROMOTE men with men, and women with women. When the governments of the world are in darkness, the populace lives under their domain and under their shadow. So, is there any hope today? I call Romans Chapter 8, the resurrection of the spirit and soul. Why? Because in verse 2, the soul that is born again is FREE from The Law, Yes, I said, THE LAW of SIN AND DEATH THROUGH the Spirit of Life which is IN Christ Jesus, my Lord. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. In Romans 8:2, the Spirit of God made a profound statement, that it is the SPIRIT OF LIFE that is IN the Lord Jesus Christ that gives us the freedom from THE LAW OF SIN AND DEATH.
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Let us return to the first revelation of God through THE BEGINNING OF THE CREATION OF GOD. The BEGINNING OF THE CREATION OF GOD is HE, the Lord Jesus, who has the SPIRIT OF LIFE that breathed LIFE into Adam, that IN His own manifestation brought LIFE and LIGHT to the people of Israel and to the world. In Romans 8:9, we have more comfort, for in the Spirit of Christ, we are NO longer in the flesh but in the Spirit of the Son of God, and then the Spirit declares, if we do not have the Spirit of Christ then we are none of His. I ask the whole world to meditate on verse 9 of Romans 8. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. As this verse is a comfort to the children of God, it is also a condemnation to those of a world without Christ: to the political world, to the world of academia, to the religious world, and to the individuals who have an imaginary religion of their own evil imaginations.
There are two distinct verses that tell us that the Spirit of the Lord Jesus dwells in every believer: Romans 8:9 and Galatians 4:6. And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. In Romans 8:9, we have the Spirit of God, and then it is confirmed that this same Spirit is the Spirit of Christ. In Galatians, God the Father is involved in sending the Spirit of His Son into the heart of every believer.
Now if you can accept this, the Spirit of Christ IS the FULLNESS of the GODHEAD bodily. For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. (Colossians 2:9) As we know, the image of the invisible God IS the Lord Jesus Christ. Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature. (Colossians 1:15) Now in the manifest image of the invisible God, the Lord Jesus declared to His disciples that He would send a Comforter, the Spirit of Truth, to LEAD them into ALL truth. The Lord Jesus also said that GOD IS SPIRIT and they who worship God must worship Him in Spirit and in Truth. As we put all these verses together, we understand the unity of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. The FULLNESS of Christ IS HIS SPIRIT, and this SPIRIT is the SPIRIT of the COMPLETE GODHEAD. We also see another truth in John Chapter 4, that God the Father IS SPIRIT and He is manifested through His Son, the image of the invisible God, Jesus Christ.
If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. (John 14:7)
Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. (John 14:8)
Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father? (John 14:9)
In John Chapter 14, the revelation that the Lord Jesus Christ gave His disciples, He declared that HE IS THE FULLNESS OF THE GODHEAD bodily: Father, Son and Holy Ghost. He is the FULL representative of GOD to the whole world in BODILY FORM.
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More Revelations from God
● THE IMAGE OF GOD HIMSELF
● THE BEGINNING OF THE CREATION OF GOD
● THE EVERLASTING WORD
DWELLS WITHIN MAN
Now to another truth: the Lord Jesus has ascended on high. The image of the invisible God IS IN HEAVEN and He still speaks to the world THROUGH His Spirit and through THE EVERLASTING WORD of God which is settled in heaven forever. See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven. (Hebrews 12:25) The Holy Ghost is SPIRIT and He is manifested through the Son of God. In Galatians 6:4 we have the unity of the Father with the Spirit of Christ, and in Hebrews 2:4 it begins with the whole GODHEAD bearing them witness with signs and wonders, and divers miracles and gifts of the Holy Ghost. But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. (Galatians 6:4) God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will? (Hebrews 2:4) Now, this is specific, it is according to God’s own will, which embraces the ENTIRE GODHEAD.
Man has tried to separate deity from deity, and man from deity since the sin of Adam. The primary reason for Genesis Chapter 6 is that MAN REFUSED to believe God. In Hebrews Chapter 2, verse 5, we have not only the world that WAS and the world that IS NOW, but we have the world to come, and this is in subjection to the manifest image of God, the Lord Jesus Christ. For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak. (Hebrews 2:5) As the world to come will be in complete subjection to the Lord Jesus Christ, the body of every believer, those who are born again, ARE in subjection to the Spirit of Christ that dwells within them. Paul informs us that we are NOT our own, we are bought with a price, and the ONE who holds our purchase receipt is the Lord Jesus Christ. What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? (1st Corinthians 6:19) For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s. (1st Corinthians 6:20)
Now, it is up to us, I speak of the redeemed by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, to commune with the Spirit of Christ and SEEK the mind of the Lord in ALL that we do and say. Paul gave us great insight when he wrote in Galatians 2:20, Christ liveth in me. Man outside of Christ cannot say that, only the one who is born again through the Spirit of God can understand and be part of the realization that CHRIST LIVETH IN ME.
The manifestation of the Son of God FIRST appeared to mankind, appeared to the very man whom He had created . . . Adam. Adam was created in the very image of God BY the image of the invisible God. Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature. (Colossians 1:15) The BEGINNING OF THE CREATION OF GOD was the manifest image of the INVISIBLE GOD, Jesus Christ. It was the Lord Jesus Christ, the fullness of the GODHEAD bodily, who created Adam. It was Christ who said in His fullness (Father, Son and Holy Ghost) let US make man, more than one spoke these words . . . . LET US. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. (Genesis 1:26) To see further the plurality of the GODHEAD in Jesus Christ, God declared Let us make man in our image . . . OUR image. Again, we see the plurality in the Father, Son and Holy Ghost . . . the image of the invisible God. Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature. (Colossians 1:15) And if that is not enough witness for us, then God proclaimed after our likeness. I pause from Genesis and bring in 1st John 3:1-3.
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. (1st John 3:1)
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. (1st John 3:2)
And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure. (1st John 3:3)
The words we shall be like him should thrill every born again child of God. We are talking about THE IMAGE OF THE INVISIBLE GOD. Now, lay hold of Genesis 1:27, the Holy Spirit reminds us that it was in the IMAGE OF GOD made He him. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. (Genesis 1:27) Again, we see the GODHEAD, the bodily GODHEAD. Now let us go to John Chapter 3, how does this 3rd Chapter connect with the creation of man? The Lord Jesus proclaimed that a man MUST be born again. He MUST be born of the Spirit, and that Spirit is the Spirit of God. This is a mystery to the world, but to show the fullness of the GODHEAD bodily in John Chapter 3, in verse 11, the Lord Jesus began with Verily, verily, or Truly, truly. Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. (John 3:11) Here is the unity of the GODHEAD is speaking in the image of the invisible God. Again, the Lord Jesus used the plural WE SPEAK, and then He testifies to the truth . . . WE DO KNOW, and then, He testifies to all the past history of man in the words, WE (plural) HAVE SEEN. And the last testimony that He gave in verse 11 is that man has NOT received OUR witness (OUR – Father, Son and Holy Spirit). After the Lord Jesus gave the witness of earthly things, then He gave the witness of heavenly things in verse 13. And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven. (John 3:13) Here the Lord Jesus Christ is showing the fulness of the GODHEAD bodily in His omnipresence as the Son of man, the image of the invisible God. He also declared that this image CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN and AT THE SAME TIME, HE has a presence IN heaven. Now, He did not use the title Son of God, but He used the title Son of man. This connects verse 13 to verse 14. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up. In verse 14 the Lord Jesus describes the purpose for the manifest image of God, to not only be revealed to man, but to give HIS LIFE as the Son of man for the salvation of ALL who will believe in Him. That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. (John 3:15)
Going back to Genesis Chapter 1, as the Holy Spirit has reminded us concerning the creation of Adam, that Adam was MADE IN THE IMAGE OF GOD. Again, we have to see the fulness of the GODHEAD BODILY in the IMAGE OF THE INVISIBLE GOD, the CREATOR of ALL things, Jesus Christ. In the creation of Adam, God gave Adam dominion OVER the beasts of the fields, OVER the fowls of the air and OVER every creeping and crawling thing.
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. (Genesis 1:28)
Adam, before sin came into the world, and before his disobedience he was IN the PRISTINE IMAGE OF THE INVISIBLE GOD. Adam WAS NOT GOD, but a man MADE in the IMAGE OF GOD. Adam had a glory all his own that God had given him. Adam had a dominion that he was responsible for, and God gave him a help mate that Adam was ALSO responsible for her care and spiritual well-being.
In these things, if we go to the very end of Scripture, we will find the Son of man, the Lord Jesus Christ, the image of the invisible God WITH DOMINION over a NEW heaven and over a NEW earth wherein God’s righteousness dwells: a heaven and an earth WITHOUT sin. This is just a reminder of the progressive revelation of God. God begins with a paint brush in Genesis 1:1, and the Spirit of God is the paint on the brush. He gives the beginning of His revelation and then carries it all through Scripture, page by page revealing His determinate counsel and foreknowledge. If God did not bless man with understanding, then mankind would be without understanding Contrary to human belief, MAN would be a vacuum of knowledge and completely dysfunctional, he would be apart from any divine reasoning, therefore, the revelation of God begins with GOD unto man.
Man has never been an independent agent. Man has ALWAYS been under the dependency of God. Even to today with all the worldly wisdom, whether you are born again or in a lost state, YOU ARE DEPENDANT UPON GOD. The air you breath, the breath of life is from God, the heartbeat within your chest is from God and HE IS IN COMPLETE CONTROL of the switch of life, He turns it on and He also turns it off.
Let’s return to THE BEGINNING OF THE CREATION OF GOD. As time passes on through Scripture, the Divine Being, Jesus Christ continues His creation IN every newborn child. He also continues His creation in those who are born again. The fact that the Lord walked in the cool of the day in the garden (And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden Genesis 3:8) discloses that the image of the invisible God DID NOT disappear from sight after He had created man. This also ties us to John Chapter 3:13, And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven. The fullness of the GODHEAD bodily walked in the garden that He had formed for the benefit of man. In Genesis Chapter 3, at that particular time, we understand that Adam had brought sin into the world. The Lord God CALLED (the image of the invisible God CALLED) and we hear the first searching question AFTER Adam had sinned. WHERE ART THOU? And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? (Genesis 3:9) Through progressive revelation we go to the conclusion of Adam’s sin under The Law of Sin and Death. Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned. (Romans 5:12) In Genesis Chapter 3, we have the beginning of the WAR over the souls of man. It was the slithering slimy serpent of old, Lucifer, who tempted Eve and began the battle over the souls of man. I also remind you that the WAR against The Almighty God began in heaven when Lucifer and a group of angels rebelled against God their Creator.
Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. (Ezekiel 28:14)
Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. (Ezekiel 28:15)
By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. (Ezekiel 28:16)
In these verses, we see condemning facts concerning Lucifer: First, till iniquity was found in thee (verse 15), and secondly, in verse 16, thou hast sinned. This is the legacy of Lucifer, the covering cherub, who launched the battle in heaven and was cast DOWN to the ground. How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! (Isaiah 14:12) The embodiment of sin belongs to Lucifer and was transferred to man at the tree of the knowledge of good and evil where sin and iniquity changed the heart of man. Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. (John 8:44) Man in Adam, gave his heart to sin. The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? (Jeremiah 17:9) I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. (Jeremiah 17:10) Adam also gave up his spirit to sin. For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. (1st Corinthians 2:11) The spirit of man is a fallen spirit under The Law of Sin and Death. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. (Romans 8:2) But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. (Genesis 2:17) Man’s spirit is alienated from God. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. (1st Corinthians 2:14) Adam also condemned his own soul and the souls of all of mankind.
● Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: (Romans 5:12)
● Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. (Romans 5:18)
For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. (Romans 5:19)
Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: (Romans 5:20)
That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. (Romans 5:21)
● For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: (Ephesians 2:8)
● He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. (Psalm 23:3)
In Psalm 23:3, the word soul is a blanket for all the souls of man. All were and ARE condemned IN Adam under The Law of Sin and Death, and ALL need to have their souls restored by the righteousness of one Man, Jesus Christ, who is the image of the invisible God. Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. (Isaiah 53:10) This is the depth of the sin of Adam; it took the SOUL of the image of the invisible God to be offered for sin in order to restore the souls of man. And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour. (Ephesians 5:2) In Romans Chapter 5, we see the transfer of one man’s sin to ALL men. We also see the offering of the Lord Jesus Christ as the Righteous Man to restore those who are lost in sin and iniquity.
For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.) (Romans 5:17)
Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. (Romans 5:18)
For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. (Romans 5:19)
There is NEITHER grace nor redemption without the death and resurrection of the image of the invisible God, Jesus Christ, who IS THE BEGINNING OF THE CREATION OF GOD. That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life. (1st John 1:1)
The first epistle of John begins as complimentary to Revelation Chapter 3, verse 14. That which was from the beginning, THE BEGINNING OF THE CREATION OF GOD, and they visibly looked upon the manifestation of the GOD OF GLORY who created and formed Adam and appeared to Abram while he was yet in Mesopotamia. This introduction in 1st John 1:1 encircles both the SEEN and the UNSEEN of the fullness of the GODHEAD bodily, the manifest image of God IN Jesus Christ. The disciples beheld the ONE and the only ONE who walked in the garden in the cool of the day. We get a pleasant picture of the garden with the tree of life and all the other threes that bore fruit, but when God CALLED to Adam, sin had already bored deeply into the heart of man.
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. (Hebrews 4:12) Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do. (Hebrews 4:13)
It is the word of God and the eyes of God that examines us to the very depth of our souls. As the eyes of the Lord go to and fro throughout the whole earth. He is seeking those who will believe in Him, and as He seeks, those who receive Him are the ones who become the sons of God. Without FAITH, without belief in Jesus Christ there is NO salvation among man. John’s gospel and his epistles and the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ are far different from the first three gospels: Matthew, Mark and Luke. Although all the writings in the word of God are under the supervision of the Spirit of God, John’s gospel and his other writings lift the Son of God on high and shows us His glory, the GLORY of the ONLY begotten of the Father, FULL of GRACE and TRUTH.
The Spirit, the Comforter, that the Lord Jesus sent reveals all the truths of the Son of God from heaven itself. The same Spirit that is IN the manifestation of the invisible God is the SAME SPIRIT sent down into the hearts of all the redeemed. This is my God, and my Father, Son and Holy Ghost. And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. (Galatians 4:6) The Spirit of the Son of God, the Son who gave His life on the cross at Calvary, the Son who was raised from the tomb by the Spirit of life which was within Himself. He forever WAS and IS and WILL BE the Son of God’s love. He has loved us, the redeemed, unto death, and by His resurrection, we have the Spirit of life which is IN Him. In John Chapter 11, the voice of the image of the invisible God proclaimed, HE and NO ONE ELSE was the resurrection when He said, I am the resurrection. Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: (John 11:25) And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? (John 11:26)
Now lay hold of verse 26. This is the reality of our endless life. This is the Spirit of life IN Christ Jesus that IS IN YOU. This Spirit CANNOT die. This Spirit is the Spirit of the image of the invisible God, THE BEGINNING OF THE CREATION OF GOD, the FULLNESS of the GODHEAD bodily: the Author and Finisher of our FAITH, the Son of the Father’s love, and the sacrifice of that ONE who was loved. And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
Paul uses a phrase of the Spirit in 1st Thessalonians 4:14, that those IN Jesus Christ WILL NEVER DIE, they will SLEEP IN Jesus. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. I have never heard anyone examine this wonderful truth. Think what the Spirit of God is telling us. When we sleep, we have no idea of time. When we sleep, we know nothing about what is happening around us. When we experience a deep sleep, all the frailties and the things of the world cease to exist and we are in God’s rest. At death, we are NOT DEAD, but we are asleep in Jesus, and He will come and awake His beloved with a kiss of grace. Yes, he that liveth and believeth on the Lord Jesus Christ SHALL NEVER DIE. Believest thou this? We will hear the voice of heaven, as we hear His voice now in the word of God, and through the Holy Ghost. See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven. (Hebrews 12:25) We have such a wonderful testimony in the writings of John through the Spirit of God, there is a heavenly voice of the Comforter, which is the Spirit of truth. It is the heavenly voice as we read in John Chapter 1, verses 12 and 13. 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: (John 1:12) Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. (John 1:13)
There is a missing element in the teaching of the church. In John 1:12, the word POWER is ignored, He gave this POWER . . . gave he power to become the sons of God. This is the eternal POWER of the Living Word, the manifestation of the invisible God, THE BEGINNING OF THE CREATION OF GOD, and IN THAT POWER is the GIFT of FAITH and GRACE and TRUTH. The word power in the New Testament is mentioned in 142 verses, and sometimes it is mentioned more than once in the same verse. Thus, in John 1:12, the word power must have a deeply divine and profoundly supernal meaning. Without belief, there is NO POWER. Without FAITH, it is impossible to receive power, but those of faith will have the evidence in their lives that they diligently seek the knowledge and life of the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ. The power from on high transforms us into the sons of God and joint heirs with Jesus Christ. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. (Romans 8:14) The Spirit that dwells within you confirms that YOU ARE ONE of the sons of God, consequentially, you are part of a unique race of people. You have been born OUT of this world, but God has left you IN the world to be a testimony and witness of His beloved Son. Why, are you so unique? You have NOT been created by blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of the Spirit of the Living God.
Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. (John 3:5)
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. (John 3:6)
Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. (John 3:7)
The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. (John 3:8)
In Romans 8:15 we see another divine truth. In the old man, in Adam, we had a spirit of bondage under The Law of Sin and Death. This brought fear to the heart of man. When death has been all around him, he sits in the darkness WAITING for his number to be called. But to break that fear, God has given us the Spirit of adoption whereby we cry, Abba, Father. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. (Romans 8:15) Again we have the evidence bringing us into the relationship of sons. Compare this with Hebrews 12:5 – 9.
God has set us FREE from The Law of Sin and Death. He has given us the Spirit of life which is IN Christ Jesus. We are no longer bondmen, but free men, the sons of God with eternal life. Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; (Hebrews 2:14) And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. (Hebrews 2:15)
Now we have forfeited, through our salvation, the spirit of fear in Adam under The Law of Sin and Death. For it is the Spirit of Christ that dwells within us and it is THAT Spirit of Christ that bears witness with our spirit that we are the sons, the children of God. Now in Romans 8:17 (And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together) as children of God, WE are UNITED by the Spirit of Christ as JOINT-HEIRS. Here is the voice of the Spirit, NO ONE but the SONS can receive HEIRSHIP, and only through SONSHIP can we be joint heirs with Christ which is HEIRS OF GOD. It is Christ who is the HEIR of ALL THINGS. Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds. (Hebrews 1:2) As the half has not been told of ALL the GLORIES that are related to the Son of God, what lies in store for the saints of light has also not been totally told. But the Spirit of God provides a window in Ephesians 3:8 Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ. The phrase unsearchable riches of Christ disclose an innumerable amount of riches. These riches are beyond our thoughts and our wishes. However, when we examine Ephesians 3:9 it takes us back to our verse in Revelation 3:14 . . . THE BEGINNING OF THE CREATION OF GOD. And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ. (Ephesians 3:9)
It is the Lord Jesus Christ, THE BEGINNING OF THE CREATION OF GOD, who in the determinate counsels and foreknowledge of God WAS and IS the crimson thread of redemption and the golden cord of righteousness flowing through the history and time of man so that through the Lamb of God, from the foundation of the world, man may KNOW THE BEGINNING OF THE CREATION OF GOD, the FAITHFUL and TRUE witness, the AMEN, the ALPHA and the Omega, the beginning and the end. We, the children of God, have been grafted into the tree of life by the redemption that we have in Jesus Christ who is the image of the invisible God. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God. (Revelation 2:7)
Christ, the invisible God, in His manifestation in the garden of Eden claimed His rights over mankind. When in the garden, face to face with Adam, He told Adam, THOU SHALT NOT, thus, enforcing the will of God over Adam. But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. (Genesis 2:17) THIS three-word phrase . . . THOU SHALT NOT is used 240 times in Scripture. God reaffirms His command after the disobedience of Adam in Genesis 3:17. And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life. Through the Bible there are sections where God instructs man and the nation of Israel at the same time. One of the chapters that is very important is Exodus Chapter 20 where this phrase THOU SHALT NOT is dominant. THOU SHALT NOT is mentioned in TEN verses for a total of eleven times. In the book of Exodus, THOU SHALT NOT is mentioned twenty-five times. This was directed to the children of Israel, however, there are also great instructions for all of mankind in these words THOU SHALT NOT. In the book of Deuteronomy, dealing also with Israel, THOU SHALT NOT is mentioned in seventy-six verses. In the New Testament, THOU SHALT NOT is mentioned only in fifteen verses. Now, the first mention of THOU SHALT NOT (in the Old Testament) was dealing with the death of man. The LAST mention of THOU SHALT NOT is in Revelation 3:3, Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee. Now, let us return to Genesis 2:17, But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. What is the connection between Adam and the church in Sardis in Revelation 3:3? They are both surrounded by death. Sardis has a name that livest, but it is dead. And unto the angel of the church in Sardis 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. (Revelation 3:1) With Adam, his disobedience surely brought death. So, with Sardis, it is a church of death, a disobedient church, and a church without the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus. Yet, they have a name. The fact is that they are surrounded by MANY names of denominationalism AND religion. But these names have NO life, they are dead. Sardis is full of outward profession, but empty of the truth and the Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ. He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels. (Revelation 3:5) Throughout the seven churches in a corrupt world AND a corrupt church, the Lord Jesus addresses the overcomer. In Sardis, the overcomer has NOT defiled his garments of righteousness by defending His Savior and the righteousness of Christ from all that would assail and cast up dirt on the righteousness of Christ. The overcomer’s name WILL NOT be blotted from The Book of Life. What does this tell you about all the others in Sardis? It means that they are dead, and their names will not be found in The Book of Life. This goes for all those who follow the doctrines of denominationalism and father’s of the Nicolaitans, and they will forever be lost. The worldly wise person has not the garments of salvation, therefore, they will be blotted out to emphasis the gravity of their deadness in verse 3. Twice, the Lord declared in verse 3, THOU SHALT NOT, Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
Allow me to emphasis this one point that in Genesis 2:17, we are dealing with DEATH and disobedience with the first mention of THOU SHALT NOT. With the last mention of THOU SHALT NOT in Revelation 3:3 we are dealing with a DEAD CHURCH that has forsaken the Spirit of life which is IN Christ Jesus our Lord. The testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of prophesy. And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. (Revelation 19:10) Again, I ask you to open your eyes WIDE, when the Lord Jesus was speaking to Adam and said THOU SHALT NOT, it was a prophecy that went WITH THOSE WORDS concerning the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. There are four more words of immense importance. . . THOU SHALT SURELY DIE. There has been scores of prophetic decrees and judgments throughout Scripture given with the same instructions of . . . THOU SHALT NOT. The Spirit of Christ, which is the spirit of prophecy, has been in ALL the prophetic writings.
● For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. (2nd Peter 1:21)
● Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: (1st Peter 1:10)
Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. (1st Peter 1:11)
Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into. (1st Peter 1:12)
With the first prophecy that was given to man, man refused to believe that prophecy. The words THOU SHALT SURELY DIE had NO effect on Adam’s unbelief. This was the first time that man was given an instructive prophecy. All of us have seen a young child that when they are told NO, or THOU SHALT NOT, they have rebelled. We have seen this rebellion in their look and in their behavior. However, we fail to see that this rebellion is not only in the child, but in the growth process of man under sin. Even the ancients in the book of Ezekiel rebelled against God, standing on the steps of the Temple, with their BACKS to the Temple and facing the east they worshiped the sun. (Ezekiel 8:16) Remember Exodus Chapter 20, the ancients paid no attention to THOU SHALT NOT. And to the church of profession without possession, God has given instructive writings and prophecy concerning belief and unbelief. The world church has taken the path of unbelief and deadness. They keep the word of God sealed up to the people. They have replaced the word of God with church doctrine and man’s traditions and they have taken away the number one primary doctrine of the Bible which is the doctrine of Christ . . . THE BEGINNING OF THE CREATION OF GOD. They only see the Son of God as a body broken and hanging on a cross in human form in the image of His manifestation while they refuse to recognize His CURRENT glorious position as the RISEN VICTORIOUS ANCIENT OF DAYS tending to the things in the Temple of God. (Revelation 1) They fail to see the Lord Jesus Christ as the EVERLASTING GOD from everlasting TO everlasting. The whole book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ has been given unto Him to show all of mankind that HE is the FULLNESS of the GODHEAD bodily, that He, the Lamb of God, is The Almighty God.
In Colossians 2:8, the Holy Spirit of God warns the children of God concerning the evils of the world and the systems of the world to open the eyes of their understanding and to see that this 8th verse was placed perfectly by the Spirit of God before verse 9. Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. (Colossians 2:8) For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. (Colossians 2:9) The Spirit of God warns us in verse 8, and in verse 9, and the Spirit of God reaffirms the TRUTH IN Jesus Christ: the TRUTH of the doctrine of Christ. In verse 8, the very first word of the Spirit of God is BEWARE. BEWARE it will be man who will spoil you and draw you away from your walk of faith. BEWARE, man will cloud righteous issues in the word of God by man’s speculations and his unrighteous heart. BEWARE man will SPOIL you in the joy that you have in Jesus Christ, and the peace that you enjoy in the presence of Christ. No matter how long you walk with the Lord Jesus, BEWARE man will be persistent in attempting to draw you away from the word of God and the doctrine of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Spirit of God tells us that the number one technique of man will be philosophy, BEWARE they will rest their argument with scores of noted philosophers, but these are all philosophies of the world that have been embedded in the church, all the way from what is called, ‘the church fathers.’
Then we have vain deceit. Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit. This goes further than man, for as Lucifer (the serpent) deceived the woman, so these deceptive men hide themselves in false doctrines that play on man’s vanity. When a church in your community identifies with the world, seeking world riches for their building programs, and for their so-called social outreach, to draw the worldly-wise men and women into their great cathedrals and massive never ending building programs, they celebrate worldly holidays, they worship Xmas trees that ascend up to the heavens, they celebrate Mr. Pumpkin on the devils day known as Halloween, not knowing that the great grifter of perversion manipulated the word from ‘hallow’ to ‘Halloween.’ These grifters and men of deception have stolen the collective meeting of the children of God and have stolen THE RIGHT of the sons of God to be in the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ and Him only. They mingle the worldly-wise men and the daughters of men as in Genesis Chapter 6. They pervert their children to hunt down the famous eggs of Easter hidden in the grass with the snakes of deception, and on THEIR Easter Sunday, as the ancients of old, they TURN THEIR BACKS to the Temple of God (Christ) and face the east and worship the sun and NOT the Son of God. They have named it correctly, the call it ‘the sunrise service.’
Then in verse 8, we have after the tradition of men, the word of men is plural, it is the unrighteous who have come in unaware, a group of unrighteous men lifted up in high churchly positions. They are the ones who decide what is good for the church, far apart from the Spirit of Christ. The LAST church in Revelation Chapter 3, is the church of the Laodiceans showing that THEY possess the church and not Christ.
And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; (Revelation 3:14)
I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. (Revelation 3:15)
So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. (Revelation 3:16)
These verses reveal the truth of Jude verse 4, For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. These men are the same men of renown who perverted the old world in Genesis Chapter 6 BEFORE the great flood.
Also, in the Laodicean church we see the LAST thing mentioned in Colossians 2:8, the rudiments of the world. This is man’s world away from divine instruction, to deny the UNSEEN God and refuse to believe in the deity of Christ, to remove eternal life and the SONSHIP from the children of God. The world and its ever-changing moral principles are based solely on man’s innate quest to dominate other men. Thus, the rudiments of the world have always been to put Adam before Christ. The rudiments of the world corrupt the gospel outreach. It embraces social programs over the truth of God. The rudiments of the world are put in place to blind the eyes of their understanding by all the worldliness inside their tomb that they call ‘The Church.’ They look through a worldly kaleidoscope from the wrong end. These rudiments of the world go back to Cain who took his brother’s life in a murderous spirit. The rudiments of the world do every thing possible to kill the spirit of the child of God. As in Genesis Chapter 6, the rudiments of the world try to seduce the sons of God. At the tower of Babel, it was the rudiments of the world that drew ALL men to worship the tower built of brick and slime, and away from the worship of The Almighty God. It was the rudiments of the world that built the Temple in Jerusalem, it was Herod, an evil man, who constructed the Temple to appease the Jews. However, when THE BEGINNING OF THE CREATION OF GOD was IN the Temple, He stooped down and wrote on the stones with His fiery finger words CONDEMNING the children of Satan. Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. (John 8:44)
The word rudiment can also be called the foundation of evil, the seed of evil to the very root of evil. It was Lucifer, the old serpent, the devil and Satan, who was the first to pervert the truth of God. Now, man in Adam, was created by THE BEGINNING OF THE CREATION OF GOD. Adam KNEW that image, and Adam saw the very One who was His Creator. But Adam accepted the lie of the serpent and because of that lie, Adam gave up his position, he gave up his SONSHIP, he gave up his inheritance, he was then a child of Satan because he believed the lie of the devil. Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Many individuals have mused about the origin of man, however, in the determinate counsels and foreknowledge of God, God looks from the beginning to the end, and from the end to the beginning. He has a complete panoramic view of man’s history, and He has recorded this in the word of God so that the child of God will consider the beginning to the end, and from the end to the beginning to absorb ALL that is within the word of God. Thus, to see the progressive revelation in the Bible from the beginning to the end, and from the end to the beginning man needs to have a wide angle lense with the word of God and digest it as a WHOLE. Those who search for gold and treasure, go through great hardships, and the greatest treasure on earth today is the KJB (King James Bible). Yet, man will search where there is no gold, where there is no righteousness, and where there is no truth, nor signs of truth. They would rather have pyrite than PURE gold. They would rather have fool’s gold and join with those who say, There is no God.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good. (Psalm 14:1)
The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts. (Psalm 10:4)
As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: (Romans 3:10)
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The Revelation from God
THE DOCTRINE OF CHRIST
is the
PRIMARY DOCTRINE in ALL of SCRIPTURE
● CHRIST IS THE FULLNESS OF THE GODHEAD BODILY
As you step out of darkness from a world that proclaimed that there is no God, and you behold the glorious light of the Lord Jesus Christ: you didn’t step out of the darkness by yourself, it was the God of creation who called you by FAITH. Faith is that invisible element, it is the substance of hope, and FAITH is the fulfillment of belief. It is the key of FAITH that opens the darkened heart and presents the light of the Lord Jesus Christ to the inner most sanctum of the heart. Therefore, without this tangible FAITH, as without the tangible word, it is impossible to please God. But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. (Hebrews 11:6)
From Abel to the present-day man has been called by FAITH. FAITH in the Lamb of God who was slain from the foundation of the world to take away sin and death that Adam brought into the world. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. (Revelation 13:8) And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands. (Hebrews 1:10) Now I will give you light on these two verses. As THE BEGINNING OF THE CREATION OF GOD laid the foundation of the earth, it was there that He proclaimed the offering of HIS own soul for sin as the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world. BEFORE Adam was created, Christ provided Himself at the foundation of the world as an offering for sin. This opens the door to the determinate counsels of God and it expands the foreknowledge of God from everlasting to everlasting.
In Hebrews 11:6 the result of FAITH is to those who diligently seek Him, consequently they take courage to keep going on not feeling alone in this world. TAKE COURAGE . . . there are more like you . . . seeking to KNOW and rejoicing in the knowledge of Christ and through the Lord Jesus to embrace and know your heavenly Father. To KNOW Christ and to embrace the doctrine of Christ is to KNOW the POWER of His resurrection NOW in this present time. The BEGINNING OF THE CREATION OF GOD (Jesus Christ) has never been silent. From the thunder of His voice in the creation, He NOW whispers in the wind. He shows His power in the proud waves that He controls. He KNOWS and controls the wind circuits, and He looks upon the circle of the earth that He formed. The sun and the moon and the stars testify as a shadow of His divine light and glory. He IS the invisible God, and the image of that GOD. He (Christ) is the fullness of the GODHEAD bodily. For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. (Colossians 2:9)
Let’s dig deeper into the doctrine of Christ. It is CHRIST who alone is the TRUE testimony of God. And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God. (Revelation 3:14) Make no mistake, these are the very words of your GOD, the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus said, Ye believe in God, believe also in me. Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. (John 14:1) He was testifying as the true testimony that HE WAS THE GOD OF CREATION. The words of the Spirit of God in the word of God discloses that as the Son is IN the Father, that also the Father is IN the Son by the Spirit that dwells within them.
Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. (1st John 2:22)
Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. (1st John 2:23)
Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father. (1st John 2:24)
And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life. (1st John 2:25)
These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you. (1st John 2:26)
But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. (1st John 2:27)
And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming. (1st John 2:28)
If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him. (1st John 2:29)
These verses add to the doctrine of Christ. These verses also draw us into the family of God that this same Spirit dwells in us, and that we not only KNOW the Son of God, but we KNOW the Father as well. Now, let us read Deuteronomy 32:1-6.
Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. (Deuteronomy 32:1)
My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass: (Deuteronomy 32:2)
Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God. (Deuteronomy 32:3)
He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he. (Deuteronomy 32:4)
They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation. (Deuteronomy 32:5)
Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee? (Deuteronomy 32:6)
Although these words were written for the children of Israel as a nation, God revealed to them His FATHERHOOD, and that He was the One who was the birth of the nation.
● But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend. (Isaiah 41:8)
Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away. (Isaiah 41:9)
Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. (Isaiah 41:10)
● But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. (Isaiah 43:1)
● Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him. (Isaiah 43:7)
● Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself; (Isaiah 44:24)
As we behold the love of God for the nation of Israel, we can see also the love that He has for the Church today. It is the SAME GOD who created the worlds, that created Israel that also created the Church. These are all works of His creation, and the doctrine of Christ declares that HE IS THE BEGINNING OF THE CREATION OF GOD. His creation expands time, those who are born again today have been created by THE BEGINNING OF THE CREATION OF GOD. So as we embrace our own salvation, it is BY the ONE who is the right hand of His righteousness, the Lord Jesus Christ.
But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom. (Hebrews 1:8)
Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. (Hebrews 1:9)
And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands: (Hebrews 1:10)
The false prophets today that man the pulpits, and the demons that meet in the well-traveled wealthy hallowed halls of Christianity and religion are the devils’ work to deceive the souls of man to everlasting judgment. The average American knows nothing about The Bill of Rights and The Constitution of their own country for they live by hear say which is seldom the truth. The tall man made constructed spires of false Christianity do and say the same. Those who attend these dark holes of unrighteousness, KNOW NOTHING of The Bill of Rights of Christ nor of the Constitution, the Covenant of Christ. The truth from Genesis to Revelation can only be known in the King James Bible. If you do not live and breathe by the Spirit of these words then the Bible declares that you are dead in trespass and sin. You might have a name that thou livest, but you are dead. And unto the angel of the church in Sardis 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. (Revelation 3:1) Deadness means no Spirit of Christ within. The heart is empty of the Spirit of Christ.
And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. (Galatians 4:6)
But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. (Romans 8
The theme of Sardis in Revelation Chapter 3 places a blanket over the entire professing Church. They search in the darkness and deadness of Adam looking for water and light of life, and NEVER finding the springs of life in Jesus Christ. As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in thee. (Psalm 87:7) To the world, the psalmist tells what he has found in the fountain of life: the springs of everlasting life. He is joined with the singers around the throne of God. (Revelation 4 and 5) The players of instruments launch melodious sounds and sweetness of the presence of Christ into the air. The Spirit of Christ confirms that they were just men made perfect in Christ, and that they of old have the Spirit of Christ within them.
But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, (Hebrews 12:22)
To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, (Hebrews 12:23)
And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel. (Hebrews 12:24)
See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven: (Hebrews 12:25)
This section in Hebrews Chapter 12 is ONLY for the overcomer, from Abel to the last soul of FAITH, with the justifying Spirit of Christ.
● Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: (1st Peter 1:10)
Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. (1st Peter 1:11)
Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into. (1st Peter 1:12)
● For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. (2nd Peter 1:16)
For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. (2nd Peter 1:17)
And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount. (2nd Peter 1:18)
We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: (2nd Peter 1:19)
Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. (2nd Peter 1:20)
For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. (2nd Peter 1:21)
We are reassured by the Spirit of Christ that the prophets of old had the same Spirit of justification as we have today. As they searched the Scriptures through the Spirit of Christ, and the Spirit of God dwelt in them, they, as we today, are just men made perfect. We have a more sure word in these days for the full testimony of Jesus has been given to us. There is only one word and one interpreter of that word, it is the Spirit of Christ in verse 20 of 2nd Peter Chapter 1. Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. This verse has been abused for millenniums to TAKE AWAY the surety and the truth of the word of God, to bring confusion to the Church, so that the Church would seek the wisdom of man without the Spirit of Christ. Read the verses around verse 20, and you, by the Spirit of Christ, will put to bed ALL the confusion related to this verse. There is NO private interpretation of man because there is only ONE interpretation and that belongs to God alone. The RIGHTS of Interpretation belong to the Spirit of God. As the Spirit Christ dwelt in the prophets of old to GIVE the prophecies, the SAME Spirit of Christ will give the truth of those prophecies for the Lord Jesus IS the testimony of and the spirit of prophecy. And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. (Revelation 19:10) The believer today has to be assured that the Spirit of Christ WILL ALWAYS have a voice in this sinful world. The Spirit of Christ will always enforce and proclaim the truth of the word of God. The Lord Jesus declared that NOT one jot nor tittle shall pass from the law.
● For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. (Matthew 5:18)
Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 5:19)
For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 5:20)
● And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail. (Luke 16:17)
● The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever. (Isaiah 40:8)
There is a great misunderstanding of grace. Grace is offered to the whole world, and the whole world has an opportunity (as individuals) to lay hold of the grace of God through FAITH in the Lord Jesus Christ. However, those who do not repent and turn from the sin of Adam are still under the judgments and authority of the commandments and the condemnation of the law against them. For the world and everyone outside of Christ will be judged with eternal judgment at the great white throne of judgment when the books are opened and their names are NOT found in the book of life because they did not believe in the Lord Jesus Christ (the ONE who holds eternal life) therefore they are without justification, and we, by belief, are justified IN Christ through FAITH unto grace. It is NOT of ourselves, but of Christ IN God and God IN Christ justifying the world unto Himself through the sacrifice of Christ on the cross of Calvary when He offered His soul as an offering for sin.
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. (Isaiah 53:10)
He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities. (Isaiah 53:11)
These two verses are confirmed in the New Testament in Ephesians 5:2. And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour. In Isaiah Chapter 53 pay attention to he shall bear their iniquities. Then remember the WAR in heaven, and the words of the Holy Spirit to Lucifer, till iniquity was found in thee. In Isaiah 53, we find that man has completely identified himself with the iniquity of Lucifer.
Again, we bring in the division, the very first division in Scripture that God divided the light from the darkness. Lucifer no longer remained ‘the son of the morning,’ but he became the angel of darkness, and the vicious predator of men. How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! [how] art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! (Isaiah 14:12)
In John Chapter 1, we have the words in the beginning. In verse 5 we read, And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. Again, we have a division. Light has come IN Christ. The division is men love darkness and HATE the light because of sin and iniquity within them. This is the SAME darkness that came over the soul of Lucifer when he brought SIN and INIQUITY into heaven, and this is the SAME darkness that dwells upon mankind today because Adam brought sin and iniquity into the world. Adam, as well as Eve, swallowed the lie of the devil and they were hooked with sin and iniquity throughout all eternity. It is ONLY the light of Christ that can shatter the darkness and give light to the heart, soul and spirit of man. Man in sin cannot comprehend The Light. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. (John 3:19) For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. (John 3:20)
Sin is such a powerful force in mankind that it blinds man to the light of Christ, who is the Light of God. Man cannot receive or identify with THE BEGINNING OF THE CREATION OF GOD who is the Lord Jesus Christ, and therefore, the world lies and lives in darkness for they HATE the Light. Scripture asks us that when the Son of man comes, will He find FAITH on earth? And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? (Luke 18:7) I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? (Luke 18:8) These two verses go together, for FAITH, GRACE and TRUTH are only found in God’s elect.
And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: (Revelation 6:9)
And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? (Revelation 6:10)
And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled. (Revelation 6:11)
The elect of God not only enjoys salvation, but at the same time, they are placed in perils because of the darkness that surrounds them. Man will NEVER acknowledge the killing of the elect of God. Man will continually justify himself as merely killing the dregs of the earth, but, the elect of God, both living and under the altar, will all cry out, How long, O Lord. As I look around this world, I want you to answer the question, Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? As He called the men of old, He calls today, and as many who receive Him, to them, He gives the power to become the sons of God. As He stands at the door of the heart, and knocks, I beg you to open the door, and be ye reconciled to God. For God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself. To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. (2nd Corinthians 5:19) Let these words from Peter in Chapter 6 of the gospel of John be in your heart.
● Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life. (John 6:68)
And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God. (John 6:69)
● When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? (Matthew 16:13)
And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets. (Matthew 16:14)
He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? (Matthew 16:15)
And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. (Matthew 16:16)
And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. (Matthew 16:17)
● And Jesus went out, and his disciples, into the towns of Caesarea Philippi: and by the way he asked his disciples, saying unto them, Whom do men say that I am? (Mark 8:27)
And they answered, John the Baptist: but some say, Elias; and others, One of the prophets. (Mark 8:28)
And he saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Peter answereth and saith unto him, Thou art the Christ. (Mark 8:29)
● And it came to pass, as he was alone praying, his disciples were with him: and he asked them, saying, Whom say the people that I am? (Luke 9:18)
They answering said, John the Baptist; but some say, Elias; and others say, that one of the old prophets is risen again. (Luke 9:19)
He said unto them, But whom say ye that I am? Peter answering said, The Christ of God. (Luke 9:20)
And he straitly charged them, and commanded them to tell no man that thing; (Luke 9:21)
Saying, The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day. (Luke 9:22)
And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. (Luke 9:23)
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it. (Luke 9:24)
For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away? (Luke 9:25)
For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father’s, and of the holy angels. (Luke 9:26)
See and believe these words of Peter revealed to him by God the Father: And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God. This revelation to Peter from God the Father was so important that the Spirit of God placed it in all four gospels. This is also a part of the doctrine of Christ from the witness of God the Father of His beloved Son. This is all part of the everlasting gospel: the gospel that was BEFORE the foundation of the world, the gospel that has been throughout the history of man, the gospel that bears its supreme title, THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL.
And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, (Revelation 14:6) Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. (Revelation 14:7)
The everlasting gospel brings us back to Revelation 3:14, THE BEGINNING OF THE CREATION OF GOD, the Lord Jesus Christ. We will end now in our journey through eternity, we have much more to come, God willing, so rest my fellow beloved sheep in the arms of THE BEGINNING OF THE CREATION OF GOD, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Amen, and the Faithful and True Witness of God.
Amen and Selah.
The love of God that is beyond all understanding and the peace of God is with His own forever, from everlasting to everlasting.
● And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:7)
● Salute the brethren which are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the church which is in his house. (Colossians 4:15)
And when this epistle is read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and that ye likewise read the epistle from Laodicea. (Colossians 4:16)
And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it. (Colossians 4:17)
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Published on November 28, 2025 @) 2:30 PM (EST).
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All Scripture references are from the King James Bible. (KJB)