Hebrews 11:3 – By the Breath of His Mouth –

By the Breath of His Mouth

(Hebrews 11:3)

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)

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. (Genesis 1:1)

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)

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)

By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. (Psalm 33:6) He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses. (Psalm 33:7) Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. (Psalm 33:8) For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast. (Psalm 33:9)

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Consider the Power of God Creating the SEEN from the UNSEEN

The Spirit of God has given Hebrews Chapter 11 to open the eyes of our understanding concerning the TANGIBLE evidence of divine faith, and to see the reality of the things that we see based and supported by the things that are UNSEEN. The text of Hebrews 11:3 is to open the UNSEEN, to reveal the immense power of the Sovereign God of creation. Through His spoken word He brought to pass the heavens and the worlds and our home (for now) planet Earth. Genesis 1:1 is so vast yet it does not compare to vastness that is IN eternity prior to God’s creation of the heavens and the earth. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Not only is HE the GREAT CREATOR, but He has continued His creations in many forms and ways since Genesis 1:1, and all has been done through the wonder of His Living Word, the Lord Jesus Christ.

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) 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 the eyes of faith in Genesis 1:1 we are introduced to the CREATOR of all things, both SEEN and UNSEEN. It is God the Holy Ghost who gives us THIS writing, so that man may KNOW the purpose and will of God. Man is NOT an independent contractor. If God wants to write, He knows what He wants to write, and He chooses those that He uses to write HIS word, not their word. When God is writing there is no chance of human or satanic interference. The proof of this is when Moses broke the first two tablets of stone. God’s word was not deterred. God gave two more writings on two more tablets of stone EXACTLY as the previous two tablets of stone by the finger of God.

In the gospel of John in Chapter 1, John was not with God in the beginning, yet John was given the words. 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) These are divine words given from heaven to verify that Jesus Christ IS the Living Word of God and the Author of in the beginning. The Spirit of God also declared that the Living Christ was WITH God in the beginning. And the Spirit of God explains to us THAT LIVING WORD was not only God’s Christ, but He was GOD HIMSELF long before His manifestation on the earth.

Many cannot bear to look into what was before Genesis 1:1, the preexistent eternity that man can neither comprehend nor measure. Man cannot understand the wonder of the Creator when the Word was with God and was God. It was the Holy Ghost who moved over the face of the deep and John and Moses were not there. In the beginning is so far beyond us that we are fragments of dust blown about by the winds of eternity.

In the days of Jeremiah, they burned the written word of God that God had placed in Jeremiah’s soul, spirit and heart and had written for the children of Israel. The leaders of Israel took the scroll which was printed within and without and cut them into pieces and cast it into the fire. So, what did God do? This writing was so vast that Jeremiah’s memory was not capable of remembering every word, so therefore, God wrote them again through Jeremiah. (Jeremiah 36:15-31) Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire: and there were added besides unto them many like words. It is God’s mind and His memory that gave an exact copy of the original words. The Torah was written for the entire nation of Israel BEFORE they went into the land. Jeremiah’s writings were to a wayward nation who were about to be taken OUT of the land. Just as Moses was chosen of God, and he was a proper child, God informs us that He knew Jeremiah when he was in his mother’s womb. God told Jeremiah directly that He would put His own words in the mouth of Jeremiah. These would be God’s words of intervention to warn the children of Israel that their sin would carry them away into Babylon. Faith wants us to consider that what is impossible for us is NOT impossible for God. We are but flesh. He is divine, and the CREATOR of all things including those who are reading these words today. Ask yourself, Who brought you to this page that you are reading? Who wants you to see the wonder, the majesty, and the glory of God’s own Person in the manifest image of His beloved Son, the Lord Jesus Christ? In Jeremiah 1:9, God told Jeremiah EXACTLY what God did by putting God’s word in his mouth. Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth. Now buckle up, God PUT HIS WORD in the mouth of Jeremiah. There was NO chance that Jeremiah would divert from God’s word IN his mouth. One more marvel: BEFORE God formed Jeremiah IN the womb, God KNEW Jeremiah completely. God KNEW the soul of Jeremiah. What he was in the bowels of the earth, Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. (Jeremiah 1:5) Now I am going to take you where you might not want to go: God KNEW YOU, He KNEW your soul, BEFORE you were conceived. And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. (Genesis 2:7) Your soul was in pristine condition. It had NO scars nor sin upon it. However, when your earthly being was conceived, it was conceived IN sin and iniquity, therefore, death was upon you because of sin IN Adam from the moment of your physical birth. It was Adam who tainted your soul with sin, and God had to RESTORE that soul through the spiritual new birth. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. (Psalm 23:3)

It was by the offering of HIS soul that He restored our souls.

There are three issues that we see in this Psalm. First, the restoration of the soul that only God can accomplish; secondly, by the restoration of the soul in the divine spiritual birth of being born again, God leads that soul in the path of righteousness; and the third point is this: it is through His name’s sake . . . ALL the names of God combined and manifested in the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ, the name above every name. He restoreth my soul to a position and standing of righteousness and holiness before the Almighty God. He has done this Himself by the joy that was set before Him when He took upon Himself my sin and the sin of the whole world. It was by the offering of HIS soul that He restored our souls.

• 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)

• Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. (Hebrews 12:2)

Although we are conceived in sin and iniquity BEFORE our birth we were seen by God in our mother’s womb. Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. (Psalm 51:5) God knew our frame even then, and He is a God of mercy and grace. So, when one of these children is murdered by abortion by a ruthless system and ungodly mothers, God pours His grace upon these children, and RESTORES their souls. There are three verses in the book of the Revelation in Chapter 6 that explains a lot about the mysteries of God and those things that are UNSEEN. When the Lamb of God opens the fifth seal, remember that the number five is the number of grace, John’s eyes opened to the UNSEEN and under the altar he saw the souls of men who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held, and they (the souls of them who had been slain) cried out to the Lord Jesus Christ, How long, Oh Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?

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)

Now let us return to the UNSEEN. God KNOWS our soul BEFORE we are conceived. Although our soul is tainted by sin and iniquity, He will RESTORE our souls through faith. (Hebrews 11:6) and even in death He SEES and COMMUNES with the souls of His faithful servants (the children of God) the sons of God.

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)

As Abel’s blood cried out from the ground, so the souls of the children of God who have been slain by an unrighteous world also cry out to God. There is a price that the nations of this world are going to pay. These nations who have used the tool of abortion to murder unwanted children, these children are wanted by God. And they also cry out, How long, Oh Lord? All the nations and the mothers, and the doctors, and the nurses, and the organizations that harbor in their hearts, souls and spirits this avenue of murder will pay a great price. Based on America’s abortion figures SOON the United States will be no more. From coast to coast the fires of God will rage throughout the land.

And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart. (Jeremiah 7:31)

Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place. (Jeremiah 7:32)

And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away. (Jeremiah 7:33)

Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate. (Jeremiah 7:34)

This is why many preachers of our age stay away from the book of Jeremiah because the sin of the Jews in the day of Jeremiah is the SAME sin that we have today on the abortion altar. And although, God is long suffering, when His hammer falls, this once great nation (the United States of America) will disappear as the melting snow. The warning signs in God’s prejudgment have been with us for a long time. These judgments have been bringing us along hoping that there would be some sign of NATIONAL repentance toward God. And there has NOT been a NATIONAL repentance. A nation corrupted from the root can never survive, for the tree and its branches will lose all life, and that nation will vanish as the dust is scattered by the wind. But the word of the Lord endureth forever.

When Moses was given the writing of the Law by God, in the first five books of the Bible called The Torah, how would these words ever survive up to our present age, unless the Spirit of God, the Spirit of Christ, which was in them, KEPT those words up to this present age, which includes not only the writings of Moses, but the prophets, and the men of God, ordained by God with the Spirit of Christ within them to write the true word of God through the whole Old Testament.

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)

We see the Spirit of Christ working within those men to reveal God’s purpose and will to not only their age but also into the future and the manifestation of the UNSEEN God, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Living Word of God. Therefore, 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. God CREATED what we see from absolute nothingness, so that the things that are SEEN were not made from those things which do appear. However, man, because of sin and the love of himself, is in denial of God because Lucifer (through sin) has put into the heart of mankind that man is above God. Man will not admit it because of the sin and iniquity within. Man repeats the same sin over and over throughout history.

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Consider the Power of the Creation of a New Race of People Created for Heavenly Service

The Cain syndrome has grown from brother against brother to nation against nation with the SAME HEART of the murderous Cain in the false name of freedom. Man loves to hang onto this word ‘freedom’ for man has never understood the roots of his slavery to the Law of Sin and Death. The Lord Jesus declared that Lucifer, the devil, was a liar from the beginning. This puts mankind into the same category because when sin came in, the great lie also came in that Lucifer’s word was more important and had more foundation than the word of God. I have heard MANY children of Lucifer from the pulpit subtly, as the serpent, deny the word of God and its unconditional truth and its unconditional literal word from God Himself. It is NOT my opinion of the word of God, it is God’s opinion, and truly so, of my being and the sin which I inherited from Adam. It is only by the Spirit of God that man can see into the UNSEEN before the worlds were formed out of that great nothingness.

Now we live in the Age of Lies. And you better not believe what man has to say from the serf to the king . . . ALL LIE. We need to discern their words BY the word of God. Deceivers, of which there are many, have NO conviction in the lies that they tell, for they have been programmed by the devil through the societies of iniquity. If we were to divide the conscience of man there is a room for the thief, a room for the covetous, a room for the idolater, and a cathedral for the lies of all mankind. In our contemporary society, the cathedral of all lies is full . . . we could call it the fullness of lies. Man changes the truth into a lie, and his society have no basis for truth, nor can they discern truth. Therefore, they believe the multiplicity of the lies and crown these lies as truth.

To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like? (Isaiah 46:5)

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! (Isaiah 5:20)

Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! (Isaiah 5:21)

Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: (Isaiah 5:22)

Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him! (Isaiah 5:23)

Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. (Isaiah 5:24)

This book, this word that God, has given us, as the sons of men, IS the breath of life, and the world in its unity, as children of the devil, turns their backs on the word that formed the worlds. It is through faith that has been given to us that we understand, we hear in our hearts, souls, and spirit the great truths of our faith. Faith opens the eyes of our understanding to see the invisible, and the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: (Ephesians 1:17)

The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, (Ephesians 1:18)

And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, (Ephesians 1:19)

Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, (Ephesians 1:20)

Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: (Ephesians 1:21)

And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, (Ephesians 1:22)

Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all. (Ephesians 1:23)

Look what comes from those eyes of your understanding through faith that ye may KNOW without a doubt what is the hope of His calling. Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus; In Hebrews 3:1 it is the calling of the holy brethren who are the redeemed. And how are they called? They have been partakers of the heavenly calling. You mean that man has NOT called them? NO. Out of the celestial sphere GOD CALLED THEM with His heavenly calling in the Lord Jesus Christ. Contrary to the teaching of the Church, in Hebrews 11, we have all the conditions of that heavenly calling THROUGH FAITH. And FAITH opens the eyes of your understanding of this heavenly calling so that we understand the power of the word of God through the ministry of the Spirit of grace to our heart, soul and spirit. We believe and understand with our EYES WIDE OPEN that the worlds were framed by the Word of God. The great Architect of creation was (and IS) the FULLNESS OF THE GODHEAD BODILY in Jesus Christ. (John 1:1-4) Christ not only created but CONTINUES to create with every child of God being born again. What is denied concerning the Sovereignty of God is that Jesus Christ has created us (the children of God) INTO A NEW RACE OF HEAVENLY PEOPLE under the divine calling, the heavenly calling by Jesus Christ. This race of people makes up the Body of Christ, and the Lord Jesus will continue to create through the time span of mankind, and He will create a new heaven and a new earth wherein righteousness will dwell.

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. (2nd Peter 3:10)

Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, (2nd Peter 3:11)

Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? (2nd Peter 3:12)

Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. (2nd Peter 3:13)

Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless. (2nd Peter 3:14)

And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; (2nd Peter 3:15)

This blood-soaked earth MUST and WILL be dissolved. In all eternity there is only ONE blood that is definitive and that is the blood of Christ. The world MUST pass away, and the blood of all humanity MUST pass away with it, for the former things WILL NOT BE REMEMBERED. As the earth is passed away, it will be no more. It will be forever gone. And God, who has saved us with His own blood, will create BOTH NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH. The heavens MUST pass away for that is where Lucifer’s rebellion first began. The earth MUST pass away because that is where Lucifer’s rebellion continued. With the NEW heavens and the NEW earth, we understand that they also will be framed by the word of God, the word of His power. They will be created totally NEW so THAT which is SEEN will not be made of those things which do appear. Now, as man wants to hang onto Adam, who brought sin into the world, man also cannot let go of the world. Man desires to continue in the place of sin. They have invested their souls into the things that will be dissolved. The earth and the heavens have been programmed by God through the word of His power to last for a set time, a number of days; however, man thinks that this earth is permanent. Some theologian thinkers and tinkers believe that God is going to give the old earth a new coat of paint as in the days of Noah and the universal flood. I say, NO. Under the authority of God’s word that God is going to dissolve ALL MATTER both the heavens and the earth and THEN through the Word of His power, He will frame both the new heavens and the new earth wherein will dwell righteousness. Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. (2nd Peter 3:13) The new heavens and the new earth will not taste the blood of man’s wrath in man’s sin and iniquity and countless wars of death and destruction. The waters of life will freely flow in the river of God’s righteousness. The heavens and earth will pass away, but God’s Word will not pass away but will endure forever as a witness of God’s love to ALL the redeemed, the children of faith. BUT NOW as we patiently wait with anticipation, we cry out, Even so, come Lord Jesus.

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Consider the Great Presence of our Creator to Keep What He Has Created

Through faith, through Christ, we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God. The Holy Spirit gives us an accurate account of the breath or the Word of God forming and framing the worlds that are now. This also should give us confidence in the word of God. THIS MASTER OF CREATION is NOT only the CREATOR, but He KEEPS what He has created by the WORD OF HIS POWER. And this same WORD of His power will dissolve the current creation. When God created on the seventh day, God saw what He had created and declared that it was very good. This was BEFORE Adam brought sin into the world for sin shaped another world that led to the full domination of sin. Therefore, God judged that world with a flood. This flood left scars upon that world as a witness to the wickedness and the sin and the evil imaginations of the evil heart of man. The fountains of the deep were broken up and let loose. The heavens became an ocean of rain until ALL flesh was destroyed EXCEPT for those who were in the ark of God: eight souls and a multitude of every beast and flying fowls and creeping things.

The ark of God that was built by Noah was a miracle, for God framed the ark with His word and gave Noah the understanding to follow God’s directions. As Noah was preparing the ark, it was a witness against the evil world. The Lord gave Noah strength, and knowledge for nothing like that had ever been built before, nor ever seen by man. If you have ever seen a schematic of a tall ship and its construction it is truly a great marvel to see, and this is only what man can do, but the man Noah had God’s mind, God’s hand, God’s presence, and God’s strength to build something that mankind had never seen nor had built before. None of their idols could compare to this great behemoth building that gave a warning of a coming destruction with the preaching of Noah; yet Noah’s righteous preaching fell on deaf ears. This ark was built from raw materials that had to be shaped and cut. A great ship with no power, story upon story had to endure the worst storm the world had ever seen.

In the person of Noah, God’s words were exactly followed, word by word, line upon line, precept upon precept until Noah entered into the ark. And the heavens were opened and the fountains of the deep were broken up. One should see in Noah that he laid his own desires aside in fulfilling the word of God. In Noah’s preaching to a degraded world, he preached the righteousness of God, and I am sure that God placed His words into the mouth of Noah. What was our world like before the flood? We see that man had corrupted his own soul and was living in the imaginations of his own heart. Man was living by his own desires and had no interest in God’s word. How do we know this? Simply because the world turned away from Noah’s preaching. As Noah continued to build the ark day by day, it became a witness of their ungodly world. All that God had instructed Noah to perform, he did in that massive undertaking never before or since while the long suffering of God waited day after day for the ungodly world to repent. The world was living with a seared conscience. There was no remorse for their sins. Here is something that we should muse on: our conscience is a bank of knowledge. It is a goliath filing cabinet, and it is given by God to prevent sin; however, man in his enmity against God continues to sin with his own knowledge of past sin buried in his conscience. Think of all the knowledge that is in the conscience: the history of your life, every sin is placed there as a memory. Have you ever wondered how your conscience brings up your sins from twenty or thirty or more years? The simplest act, as a child stealing a dime, why do we have such a recall? God wants us to realize that when we are growing up the first sins’ lays the path for greater sins. The conscience bookmarks every one of these sins. The conscience wars against sin, and sin wars against the conscience. When we are young sin strikes the first blow to our conscience. Although many of these sins are baby steps, without the Lord Jesus Christ and His words to boaster our conscience, there is no ark of safety. We are the keepers of our own conscience.

Faith is the only glue that keeps our soul intact. Every person should examine their own being from the inward to the outward facade. What is vain inwardly always has an outward show or symbol. When you multiple vanity upon vanity then ALL becomes vanity. Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all [is] vanity. (Ecclesiastes 1:2) When Solomon wrote Ecclesiastes, he knew what had taken his heart away from God. He began as a king of wisdom and ended as the king of vanity, and he reigned over a people consumed with vanity. Vanity dictated their every step and every desire. The decisions of life were based and directed by their vanity, (remember that Solomon built temples to heathen gods of his many wives on the mount of corruption), and so today, not only in the United States but throughout the world, vanity thrives in every culture, every society, every group including the religions of this world. Vanity and the sins of vanity sear the conscience with a hot iron leaving them without any remorse for their wicked acts. Their vanity and sin become their pleasure and they become as a runaway train unable to stop their sin and vanity. They no longer have any input from their conscience without conviction or remorse or any thought of guilt.

Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; (1st Timothy 4:1) Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; (1st Timothy 4:2)

This is why you have the doctrines of devils not only in the world, but also in the professing church. When you sear a wound, you stop the flow of blood. When the conscience is seared, you stop the flow of truth, and replace the truth with the great lie of the devil. Remember that dime or two, it is the same with the word of God. Every word of God is profitable for the child of God. If the word of God is within it fights the battle of sin. When man wants to change one or two words in the Bible it is the beginning of grieving the Holy Spirit, and will lead down the path, the path to apostasy searing the conscience. In Hebrews Chapter 9, with the element of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, we receive the purging of our conscience. God empties it and begins afresh. How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? (Hebrews 9:14) In Hebrews 1:3, the Lord Jesus Christ has purged our sins. 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; In Hebrews 9:14, He has purged our conscience, so that our sins are no longer a burden upon us; thus, we are free to live our new life in Christ.

Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, (Hebrews 10:19)

By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; (Hebrews 10:20)

And having an high priest over the house of God; (Hebrews 10:21)

Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. (Hebrews 10:22)

Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) (Hebrews 10:23)

The Holy Spirit, or the Spirit of grace is the protector of our conscience. He weighs every thought, and every action that comes into the conscience. He watches over our mind, heart, and soul. He is the voice of God to us through God’s own word. He weighs all our thoughts and actions by the word of God. Our faith can only grow when it is seeking truth through the word of God by the revelation of the Holy Spirit. Our faith is multiplied from faith into faith. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith. (Romans 1:17) When the Lord Jesus said that He would give or send the Comforter, who is the Spirit of God, it was to give us full assurance of our faith IN and BY the Son of God. Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. (Hebrews 10:22)

Therefore, it is no marvel for the child of faith to believe that which is SEEN and that which is UNSEEN. Faith gives us an understanding that the worlds were framed by the Word of God. There are many things that we will never understand: one is the fullness of the Godhead bodily. We know the mechanics in the words, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, but we do not understand the mystery and the mind of God. Only the most vain and pompous individual will attempt to make God or the word of God subservient to the words and thoughts of man. This alone proves that the individual is NOT subservient to the word of God. For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else. (Isaiah 45:18) When Isaiah wrote these words, most likely in the days of Hezekiah, it was to assure the people of God that it was GOD who created the heavens and the earth. The Spirit of God has KEPT these words for us who live and walk by faith.

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Consider the Power of God Versus the Power of the World

In the New Testament God has given us more information about our Creator. In Hebrews 1:2, it is the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who made the worlds. And in Hebrews 1:10, the Lord Jesus laid the foundations of the earth. The vastness of the heavens was of the work of His hands. Again, this is a mystery to the mind of mankind. We cannot conceive a Being with such power that His breath forms both the tangible and the intangible by the Word of His power. He has molded centuries and millenniums, and the entire history of mankind is encased in God’s foreknowledge. We see the foreknowledge of God being fulfilled all over the world today: man against man, brother against brother, fathers against sons, and sons against fathers, the rebellious spirit of nations, the rebellious spirit of children, and women against men. Eve in her vanity has grown into a disobedient and vain idol of herself. The disobedience and influence of women have built the great abomination, the mother of harlots Babylon the great, and with all this, we have the hideous sins of the flesh: women with women and men with men.

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 likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. (Romans 1:27)

These are the sins which caused the world to be judged by the great universal flood, and caused the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and all that was within these cities to be completely dissolved by God. This judgment was so great that those who abuse their flesh today are called sodomites. Our world is overrun by this abomination of the flesh. We truly live in the days of Noah, and in the days of Sodom, and why did all this take place? Because they did not like to retain the knowledge of God, so God GAVE THEM OVER to a reprobate mind, and they became a people without God and no hope in this world. 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) A reprobate mind is a mind overtaken by insanity. I am sure that you have met people who lied, their conscience is so seared, that they actually believe their own lies because their mind and their conscience have been seared with a hot iron and there is no place for God or His word in their minds. God is trying to get their attention today through tremendous storms, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions. These are just the beginning of the judgments of God.

We live in the age of God’s final call concerning His Church, the Body of Christ. Soon, as the signs of the times dictate, the true Church, those who are born again will be translated from this earth to their home in heaven. They will be changed in a twinkling of an eye, and they will be like Him. But for now, we (the redeemed) patiently wait with anticipation of our translation. As Enoch, we walk by faith and will be translated because of our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. When that time comes man will be without the restraint of the Holy Spirit of God. As we are taken from the earth, so the Spirit of God will NO longer work in the same manner as He previously worked for the days of judgment will have come. Rivers of blood will flow in the wars of man, and the years following the translation of the Church will leave the world in a massive social and geographical upheaval with more wars and unparalleled death. The nations of the End Time are being formed as I write, they will be the powers of tomorrow: Gog and Magog. These armies plus the armies of the isles will one day face the armies of heaven and their King, our Lord Jesus Christ as King of kings and Lord of lords. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. (Revelation 19:15) And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. (Revelation 19:16)

As Israel is being destroyed, the Almighty will save a remnant. He will save 1/3 of the people of Israel, and He will take them through the fires, the fires of human hatred, which are in themselves a human hell inspired by Satan himself.

And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. (Zechariah 13:8) And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God. (Zechariah 13:9)

It is difficult to image the total destruction that is coming upon this world. Here is an overview of the condition of the present world. We have the war of the Ukraine, inspired and maintained by western powers including the United State of America against Russia. The Ukrainians have been losing from the very beginning and their land has been soaked by their own blood. And I say this with sincerity: it is NOT Russia but the United States that is feasting on the blood of the Ukrainian people. This ungodly nation (the United States) is the source of the unrest of the western world. The influence of the United States tyranny has spread throughout western governments. The leadership of the United States has been taken over by gangsters. They may be called leaders, but they are not. They are money hungry thieves using smooth words instead of guns (for now). Through their lusts they have sold their souls as they will neither denounce their lies nor the lies of others. Government officials are in the right hand of Lucifer, the devil, and the world news media sponsored and controlled by corrupt governments of the world have been spinning their lies for centuries, overturning nations with their lies and propaganda, and rewriting history according to their lies.

In the history of Russia, Czar Nicholas was overthrown by Lenin. Lenin was aided by the consent of the news media of that age. However, Lenin was well aware of news guile, when he came to power, he remembered their influence on the Russian people against the Czar and he did not want the same thing to occur regarding his own power, therefore, he nationalized the news media and placed it under the hand of the government. Today, in the United States, the government has bought the news media, and it is under the control of the government. It appears that the government understands how easily the people can be controlled. So, ask yourself, What is true? What is life? The answer is to fear God and to keep His commandments. To those who belong to the Body of Christ, we have been embraced by the faith of Jesus Christ, and His Spirit is within us. We are no longer part of the world, and the world is no longer a part of us for we have been SEPARATED unto God by our new birth, and we are NOW the people of God.

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Consider the Enduring Power of the Word of God

We fully understand that the world was framed by the Word of God, and the Word of God is the divine truth from the breath of His mouth. Each and every child of God has been given a revelation in their new birth to sincerely desire, as a newborn child, the milk of God’s word so that we may grow and mature in the knowledge and grace of the Lord Jesus Christ. 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. The last word in Hebrews 11:3 is the word appear. For us who belong to the Lord Jesus Christ, we can only reflect on His manifestation when He appeared and walked among mankind. In all the miracles and wonders that He performed were all gifts from heaven above as well as from Himself. Speaking to His disciples, as we speak and write to the peoples of the world, each and every one of you has some manner of burden in your heart. The Lord Jesus addressed these burdens when He said, Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. (John 14:1) He addressed the center of mankind: the heart and its troubles and presented Himself as the solution in His equality with God for He was God manifested in the flesh. Later in this same Chapter of John, He presented Himself as ONE with the Father. 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) Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. (John 14:10)

In His godly manifestation He presented the invisible God to the hearts of mankind. Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: (Colossians 1:15) As Christ stood before His disciples, as the manifestation of the invisible God, His word NOW presents to YOU a Savior that will take away the troubles of your heart. His written word is divinely entangled with His life, the Living Word, and through His Spirit, He manifests Himself to the hearts 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)

The Spirit of God understands the thoughts and the intents of your heart. You will not admit this, but God sees you naked before Him, all that you are and all that you have done is seen and recorded by God. Years ago, man would not have believed that in our cities that there would be multiple cameras on every corner and on every street intersection, so that the lords of the city can see everything that the citizens do. So, God, who created man and given man knowledge and intelligence, is FAR GREATER and more POWERFUL than man and the human experience. As the child of God grows in the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, faith is the shield against the darts of the wicked. Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. (Ephesians 6:16) Faith is a continuous journey for the redeemed soul IN the Lord Jesus Christ. It begins with the Author of faith. Christ Himself is the beginning of our faith. And to show us the continuance of His love through faith, we move through this world in the path of faith; thus, moving from faith to faith. When we see Him as He is, we will be like Him. It will be the end or the conclusion of our faith, and this is why the word of God informs us that He is the Author and FINISHER of our faith. Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. (Hebrews 12:2)

We also have another aspect of the faith OF the Lord Jesus Christ for He is the possessor of ALL things. I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. In this verse, we read I live by the faith OF the Son of God. (Galatians 2:20) It is NOT my faith, but the article of faith, the substance of faith that the Lord Jesus POSSESSES. As His faith is a gift to me, He reaffirms to man that He Himself was and is the Gift of God.

Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. (John 4:10)

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: (Ephesians 2:8)

As we look around at what remains of God’s wonderful creation that man has not ruined and spoiled, we behold what He and He alone made as He uttered the words of creation: in the beginning. Then man spoiled this beautifully pure creation by bringing sin into the world. Every time that it rains, it seems to me these are the tears of God falling to replenish the earth that mankind determined to destroy. In the manifestation of the Lord Jesus Christ, His eyes, the eyes of heaven, wept for His friend Lazarus, as He stood before the sepulcher was not all humanity before Him through death? As Christ wept did He not think of past graves, and present graves, and the future of man and death? Did He think of what man once was in that glorious day when He created man in His own image? And now before the sepulcher of His friend, He witnessed what mankind had become; therefore, Jesus wept. (John 11:35)

In Isaiah 53:3, we are informed by the Spirit of God that our Savior was a man of sorrows sand acquainted with grief, He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Christ bore for us all the sorrows of man and the grief of all of mankind. In His manifestation as the invisible God, God with us, He wept three times as recorded in the gospels. And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, (Luke 19:41) Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. (Luke 19:42)

The Lord Jesus saw what was before the city of Jerusalem in His foreknowledge. The Spirit of God gave Luke this testimony BEFORE the fall of Jerusalem, and it exactly described by the words of the Lord Jesus. For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, (Luke 19:43) And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation. (Luke 19:44) In the third mention of the Lord weeping, His day had arrived, the hour of the cross was before Him, He KNEW the agony and the suffering that He would bear, not only physically, but what His soul and spirit would have to endure. He prepared His heart to go into the darkness of death where He had never been before. . . and He wept in the garden. Remember that all of man’s troubles began in the first garden mentioned in Scripture. Now in Gethsemane He sweat great drops of blood, these were the tears that He shed for His own burden and for what He was about to endure. And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground. (Luke 22:44) Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared; (Hebrews 5:7) He asked God the Father that if it was possible that the cup He was about to drink would pass from Him, but He was there to do the work of God, and He must finish that work, therefore, He declared, Nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done. Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done. (Luke 22:42)

In Hebrews Chapter 5, verse 7, the Spirit of God reminds us of the burden and suffering that Christ endured BEFORE the cross and the struggled that He had when He wept in the garden of Gethsemane. Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared. (Hebrews 5:7) The Spirit of God said, with strong crying and tears. There is such an emotion within man when his burden is so great, and his heart aches with pain that no matter what his stature or strength . . . he wept. There in Gethsemane, the Creator of all things was burdened, it reminds me of the prophet and priest, Jeremiah in Lamentations 1:12, Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

We also have one of the most graphic prophetic psalms, Psalm 22. Here we see in detail the suffering of the Lord Jesus Christ both without and within. It was the Cain Syndrome that drove the Jews and the Romans to crucify the Man of glory, the Lord Jesus Christ. It was through envy and malicious jealousy in the hearts of the Jews to take away the vineyard from the Son of God, the Heir who had come. They said in their hearts, Come, let us kill him and the vineyard will be ours. (Matthew 21:33-46) Pay attention to verse 38, But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance. This parable concludes with the hearts of the Jews as enemies against the Lord Jesus Christ, for they perceived that this parable was directed to them. And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them. (Matthew 21:45)

The Jews were suffering from the Cain Syndrome, as sin lieth at the door. Now the door was wide open to their sin, and their sin brought forth death. When they with one accord, the leaders of the Jews, the Pharisees, and the Sadducee and the people cried out, Crucify him, crucify him. Their door of sin had opened wide, and the gate of death engulfed them and fulfilled their prophetic words of their cries, His blood be on us, and on our children. Their hearts not only condemned the Lord, but they condemned themselves and their children. Since the Jews cried out those immortal words, they have been driven out of the land, scattered into all nations, their blood has been shed throughout the world, and their children have suffered because of their wrath against the Almighty God. Even in our age we see this conflict continued in Israel in those very words, His blood be on us, and on our children. What causes this enmity to rise up in the hearts of man against the Almighty God, against the Heir of the vineyard, and against the servants of God and the people of God? It is a world given over to sin and the door of sin is wide open. Today, one cannot escape death for it is all around in every nation, in every city, in every town, daily man kills man out of envy and jealousy because they have forsaken God and the Word of the Lord.

We live in the very last days and God has opened a special book, He has given the seventh version of His eternal word that has been tried in the fire, as silver, seven times. The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. (Psalm 12:6)

And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth; (Revelation 3:7) I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name. (Revelation 3:8)

It is Christ Himself who declared that He has opened the door of God’s word. The books, the verses, the very words are from above so that in these last days the word of God is witnessing to all men that it is Jesus Christ who is the Eternal Living Word of God and He has opened His written word to man in these last hours. The word of God endureth forever. What is the length and breathe of this statement? That the words which God has spoken, the words that God has written through the Spirit of Christ, endures forever. So, today man has a beacon of light before him. This beacon of light is the KJ Bible. It has been given in these last days. It has been printed more than any other Bible. It has been attacked by every liberal theologian, and would-be preachers, and yet, there is NOT one glitter of this jewel that has been tarnished by man because God, in Jesus Christ, has opened THIS book and no man can shut it. But there will come a day when Christ will shut the door, and the world will descend once again into the dreaded age of darkness. In these last minutes of Church history, it is up to the children of God to keep a testimony of the word of God and NOT deny the name of Jesus Christ.

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Consider the Creator’s Sovereignty of the Word of God

How subtle can the serpent be? He continually tries to take away the Sonship of the Lord Jesus Christ, he attacks the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, and he assaults the sonship and the children of God as heirs of salvation. The serpent, through man, criticizes the words in the Bible attempting to change the consistency of thought or the position and meaning of the entire verse. By multiplying these seemingly small changes throughout the Scriptures, he has attempted to change the Laws of God within the word of God. How many even know that the Law of Sin and Death was set forth by God BEFORE Adam sinned, and the only deliverance from the Law of Sin and Death is through the Spirit of Life is in Christ Jesus. 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) In Genesis 2:17 we see the Law of Sin and Death established by God and by His word.

At the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, Eve listened to the words of the serpent, which by guile perverted the word of God so that she would eat of the tree in transgression and then give to Adam who was the authorized Federal Head, and he partook of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and therefore, sin was brought into the world, and thus, his image, the image of man was changed as a sinner before the Almighty God. This sinful image so shocked them that they covered themselves and hid themselves from God among the trees. Think of it this way: the devil had overturned man, but it was sin that conquered man for sin brought forth the death of man. Man was free in the garden to partake from all the trees EXCEPT from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. At THAT tree, Adam gave up his freedom and became a slave to sin. The first mention of the word sin in the Bible is in Genesis 4:7. If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.

After Cain’s disobedience in his denial of the word of God, God proclaimed to Cain that sin lieth at the door. These words were spoken to Cain BEFORE he murdered his righteous brother Abel. Cain allowed sin in the form of envy and jealousy to take control of his heart causing him to slay his brother. The door in every man is his heart, and sin corrupts the heart. Contrary or maybe in addition to medical opinion of the heart, the heart itself has feelings, the heart can ache, and the heart also has intentions, meaning that the heart has a sense of thought, and knowledge besides the mind. 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) When anyone opens the door to sin, then sin is always there to overthrow the heart and then man is condemned before God.

When man is redeemed through Jesus Christ, he receives a new heart that is linked to God’s Spirit, the Spirit of Christ. God opens the door to His word, so that the child of God can resist the many conflicts of deceit, envy, and guile and the biased attacks of man and the devil. In Psalm 119:11 it is the word of God WITHIN the heart that keeps the soul from sinning. Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. This verse reveals the truth that the word of God is a deterrent from sin, as we read in Revelation 3:8 when Christ opened the door to His word for the church in Philadelphia.

This is the LAST church that keeps His word and does not deny His name. The church at Philadelphia is the LAST church of the knowledge of the word of God BEFORE the translation of the saints. In verse 10 of Revelation Chapter 3, the Lord Jesus specifically tells the church at Philadelphia that He will keep them from the hour of temptation because THEY have kept the word of His patience. Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

As the time span of Church history advanced, the church at Philadelphia continues to keep His word, yet their strength in numbers diminished, for thou hast a little strength. Yet, even in their smallness they remain holy, faithful and true. As their strength diminished as in the day of small things, disguised Nicolaitan usurpers successfully overcame the church of the Laodiceans. The devil again came in with vain guile and denied the Son of God and His word forming a religious system caught up with worldly lusts and opened the door to sin and closed the door to the word of God.

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) Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: (Revelation 3:17)

When Christ introduced Himself to the church of the Laodiceans one of His declarations was that He IS the beginning of the creation of God which this Laodicean church denies. His first introduction of Himself to Laodicea in verse 14 is that He is the Amen, He is the End of all things, and by using the word Amen He has placed a finality to the church of the Laodiceans. As they are NOT faithful witnesses of God and Jesus Christ, He then declares that He Himself is the FAITHFUL and TRUE witness 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)

Why are all these things so important to our study verse of Hebrews 11:3? 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. It is THROUGH FAITH we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God. Laodicea has become so vile because of her material existence that they have many theories of God’s creation. Many embrace Darwin’s THEORY of evolution. The church of Laodicea has embraced Darwinism, Mariology, and perverse multiple opinions as translations of Scripture. The church of Laodicea has rejected Christianity and has accepted religions of all forms: social, political and economic. The church of Laodicea has crowned man as ‘the vicar of Christ,’ as they crown themselves as authorities and agents of God. The church of Laodicea blasphemes the Holy Spirit of God and continually nails Christ to the cross and leaves Him hanging there in their churches and cathedrals. It is NOT a DEAD Christ that I serve, I serve a LIVING Christ, a RESURRECTED Christ who sits on the throne of God and is able to keep me and deliver me through this crooked world. The statues and the icons all portray a God of man’s imagination in man’s quest to serve idols and NOT the Almighty God.

Let us return to Revelation Chapters 2 and 3. Seven times the Lord Jesus used this phrase, He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; In this statement, seven times the Lord Jesus addressed the individual and NOT the collective. It is NOT ‘they’ or ‘them’ or ‘these,’ it is ‘he’, the individual who needs to listen to the voice of the Son of God in these seven letters to the seven churches. He addressed each letter with His own attributes and who He is as that jewel with many facets. The letters may be to the multitude, but the voice of the Spirit is to the individual.

As Israel sang on the banks of the Red Sea the victory of Jehovah over His enemies and their deliverance, so also the Church at its birth sang praises unto the Lord Jesus Christ for HIS deliverance from sin and for new life IN Him. In the later end of Israel, she worshiped other gods and sang praises to Moloch and to Baal; however, when they were taken away into captivity their hearts cried, How shall we sing the LORD’S song in a strange land? (Psalm 137) So therefore, let’s approach the seven churches that followed the same path as Israel. In the first century, the Church joined to idols when the priests of Diana, the goddess of Ephesus, came into the unaware Church. They became known as the Nicolaitans, and the Lord Jesus expressed His hatred for these Nicolaitans in the first letter to Ephesus.

● 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. (Jude 1:4)

● But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. (Revelation 2:6)

● So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate. (Revelation 2:15)

This doctrine of priesthood and laity was brought in by Satan to deny the priesthood of ALL believers that we are a royal priesthood under the kingdom dominion of the Lord Jesus.

● And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. (Revelation 1:6)

● Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. (1st Peter 2:5)

● But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: (1st Peter 2:9) Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. (1st Peter 2:10)

As children of God, we have a standing before God to offer up our praise to the one that we honor and worship: the Lord Jesus Christ. As part of His Body, each individual can worship their Savior FREELY in the presence of God. This is what the Nicolaitans (today they would be recognized as ‘the clergy,’ or the Roman priesthood, or ‘men of the cloth’) who have usurped the place of Christ as the ONLY Mediator between the believer and God. However, the word of God proclaimed that there are NO barriers between a child of God and the Father. Christ, as our High Priest, is there at God’s right hand to make intercession for us. Many times the Spirit of grace takes our moanings and groanings and presents them before our Almighty God. If you profess the Lord Jesus Christ then you are NOT part of this world, the authority over you is NOT of this world, the authority that rules you is in heaven at God’s right hand. You are NOT part of this world, and the world is not part of you. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

Since Pentecost, there have been many battles fought by the children of God to maintain a testimony for the Lord Jesus Christ according to the word of God. As you read through Revelation Chapters 2 and 3, you will see the descent of the Church from a heavenly people to a worldly people with many worldly organizations under the authority of the Nicolaitans, and presbytery. It is Christ who is the HEAD of the Church. It is Christ who is the SOLE AUTHORITY over His Body, the Church. It is CHRIST who is the embodiment of ALL truth, the embodiment of ALL righteousness, the embodiment of ALL wisdom, the embodiment of ALL holiness, and the embodiment of ALL deity. He is the embodiment of Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

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Consider the Creator’s UNFAILING Word of God

In Revelation 3:20, the Church failed in her testimony on earth. It has become overrun by the Nicolaitans and the seed of the wicked one. Satan has set his seat IN the MIDST of the Church. They failed to uphold His name that is above every name: the LORD JESUS CHRIST. They failed to maintain their testimony according to the word of God. They failed to separate themselves from the world and the powers of the world. They failed in their unity of Spirit, and they have done despite to the Spirit of grace. Therefore, now, in our day, the Lord Jesus knocks on the door and beseeches man, the individual, to open the door and He will come in and sup with them, and they will sup together. 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) Remember the first door in Scripture was the door that God mentioned to Cain, when He said that sin lieth at the door. If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him. (Genesis 4:7) Now, in Revelation 3:20, it is righteousness that is knocking on the door IN Jesus Christ. When everything in the united counterfeit Church fails, Christ as the True Testimony of God WILL NOT AND CANNOT FAIL.

He will take the initiative and knock on the door with the Spirit’s voice, If any man hear, let him hear the voice of the Son of God. Seven (7) times, He introduced Himself to these seven churches as the One who sits at the right hand of the majesty on high. Each time that He introduced Himself, you see a divine portrait of His description by the Spirit of God. He will NOT be denied. So therefore lastly, when everything has failed, just as Israel in 2nd Chronicles 36, the glory God DEPARTED from His own sanctuary.

And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place: (2nd Chronicles 36:15)

But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy. (2nd Chronicles 36:16)

Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand. (2nd Chronicles 36:17)

And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes; all these he brought to Babylon. (2nd Chronicles 36:18)

Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword. (Ezekiel 24:21)

As God allowed His sanctuary to be taken captive by His enemies, Christ has also allowed His failed Church to be taken captive by His enemies. As the glory of God DEPARTED many times from Israel, so also the glory of His Christ, the Son of His love DEPARTED from the Counterfeit Church. The contemporary professing Church of today is the church of the Babylonians. They have exalted themselves above the stars of God, they have built for themselves towers of brick and mortar, of wood and brass, gold and silver, and they built it all on the foundation of the shifting sands of Babylon. As the first tower of Babel was blown away by time and dissolved in memory, and as the towers of Babylon were overcome by their enemies, so shall the spires of religious lust, envy and jealousy come down with a thundering sound. When Cain opened the door to sin because of his inward lust of envy and jealousy of his righteous brother Abel, religion was born because Cain worshiped the works of his own hands and despised his brother’s works of righteousness.

Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: (James 1:13)

But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. (James 1:14)

Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. (James 1:15)

Do not err, my beloved brethren. (James 1:16)

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. (James 1:17)

Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. (James 1:18)

Cain (in relation to his wicked works) is identified by the Spirit of God as a child of that wicked one in 1st John 3:12, Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous. In the early church at Smyrna, through all their tribulation and their poverty, they were seen as rich in God’s eyes. They were downtrodden by those who attended the synagogue of Satan, who said that they were Jews and were not. This was the infiltration of the children of the wicked one who persecuted those of true faith. Today, those who say that they are of ‘Jesus’ and are NOT, have diabolically and deceptively cast out those who walk by faith and who WILL NOT bend to the false doctrine of worldliness and wicked acts of the infiltrators. In the third church, in the book of the Revelation, we read, And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges; (Revelation 2:12) I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth. (Revelation 2:13)

Satan infiltrated to the point that he dominated that church, for the Lord Jesus stated, I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s seat is. In the church of Pergamos we have the joining of the church with the Nicolaitan hierarchy and government. This in itself was a tragedy, however, not only had they denied their testimony of Jesus Christ and the word of God, but they had willingly embraced the Nicolaitans and world politics. Although the word of God clearly states in 1st John 2:15, Love not the world, neither the things [that are] in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him, under Constantine, the Church surrendered to world power. Satan, through the Roman Empire, came into the professing (not possessing) Church and placed his seat in the center of Church doctrine and policies to deny the faith of the Lord Jesus Christ. Those who stood up against this wickedness and the UNSEEN dominance of Satan were slain for their testimony, as Antipas, God’s faithful martyr. Antipas was slain AMONG the church where Satan had established his seat of power and authority. When we arrive at the church OF the Laodiceans, we should remember that Cain, for his disobedience, for his wickedness, for his murder of Abel (the first martyr of faith) was driven out from the presence of God into the land of Nod, consequently, the church OF the Laodiceans is spewed from the mouth of the divine Sovereign of heaven and earth. They are cast out from the presence of God. The only counsel that is left is to come out from among them and to buy of God with no money and no price, Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. (Isaiah 55:1) Salvation is still available to the individual, the cost is faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and in that faith, the individual is separated from the world, from religion, and from the seat of Satan to the throne of the Almighty God. The born-again Christian is a stranger in this world and belongs to NO man and gives spiritual allegiance to NO man. The born-again Christian becomes a faithful witness to and for Christ, and Christ alone. So, as Christ stands at the door of YOUR heart and knocks, will you open that door to Him? Can you embrace the faith of an Antipas, the faith of Paul, the faith of John, the faith of all the apostles centered in the Lord Jesus Christ. As He comes in He will sit with you, as. He did with the two men on the Emmaus Road. He will reveal ALL things concerning Himself through the books of Moses, and the prophets, and the Psalms. He will open the gospels to you with a new heart and new eyes to see the glories of the Son of God who loved you and gave Himself for you.

The majesty of the heavens, through faith, spoke the worlds into existence by the Word of His power, and He is able to save you from the darkness of this hour with His light of eternal life by belief and faith IN Him. The same faith that SEES the worlds created by the Word of God, SEES the invisible sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high, you will, thus, feed the Spirit within from the true Manna from heaven maintaining your soul that was bought with the righteousness of God in the sacrificial death of the Lord Jesus Christ. For the testimony of Christ, Paul endured hardness and suffering not only from the world, but even from those who he had testified to and who had professed Christ, such as the Galatians.

Twice the apostle Paul spoke of his burden for the Galatians and what they had become. After his introduction in Chapter 1, from verse 1 to verse 5, he ended with the word ‘Amen.’ And then the next verse, the number 6, the number of man, Paul wrote these words, I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel. Paul’s second unction to the Galatians is in Chapter 3, verse 1, O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? Paul had established the churches at Galatia through the preaching of Christ and Christ crucified. Paul had shared the vivid revelation of God so that their spiritual being had felt within themselves Christ crucified. The Galatians had received the Spirit of God freely, not by the works of the Law, nor by the works of the flesh. They had received the Spirit of Christ within, sent down into their hearts by the Father of lights and perfections. And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. (Galatians 4:6) They had a personal affinity with the Spirit of Christ within them and received that Spirit by the hearing of faith: faith IN and OF the Lord Jesus. This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? (Galatians 3:2) In verse 2, of Chapter 3, Paul again, refers to the Galatians as being foolish for they had begun IN the Spirit and were trying to make the flesh perfect through the works of the flesh and not by the works of the Spirit. Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? (Galatians 3:3)

In verse 6 of Galatians 3, Paul takes us back to Abraham. Abraham BELIEVED GOD, not man. Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. (Galatians 3:6) Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. (Galatians 3:7) And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. (Galatians 3:8) Paul, writing to us through Hebrews 11:6, informs us that without faith it is impossible to please God, and those who come to God through faith must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him, that suffer for Him, that endure the despising and rejection. I add this, that under the blood of Christ, we are still in a world of suffering, and because we are not of this world, the world despises our faith and our stand for the word of God and the Living Word, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Isn’t the word of God amazing? The Spirit of God WAITS until the book of Galatians to tell us that the Spirit of God, through faith, preached the gospel to Abraham and Abraham believed that gospel and it was accounted to him for righteousness. Just as Abel offered a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, Abel received the witness that he was righteous. All those who are of the faith of the Lord Jesus Christ are blessed with faithful Abraham. It is not Abraham who has blessed us, but it is the faith of the Lord Jesus Christ with the same faith that faithful Abraham possessed. So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. (Galatians 3:9) In this section of Galatians, we are to obey the truth through the Spirit of God BY faith IN and OF the Lord Jesus. It is the little foxes that spoil the vine, don’t be passive to false doctrine, or we could call it ‘fools’ doctrines,’ the smallest change can have profound effect on the truth. Trust the Holy Spirit in what He has written and has given to us. He is the Diviner of true doctrine. In this short section in Galatians Chapter 3, (only in the verses that we have mentioned: 3:1-9) the word faith is mentioned seven (7) times.

In Genesis Chapter 4, we do not get the full scope of Abel’s faithfulness. In Hebrews 11:4, it is God testifying of Abel’s many gifts, or many sacrifices. Yet, each sacrifice was that ‘ more excellent sacrifice’ that was to come in the Lord Jesus Christ. Many times, Abel had gone to the altar, the great stone of Abel, and offered his gifts which could be related to the many offerings in the book of Leviticus given at a later date in time to the nation of Israel which also testified of the divine sacrifice of the Lamb of God, the Lord Jesus Christ. Now Abel’s many gifts undoubtedly drew envy, jealousy and malice from Cain, both men stood before God, both men heard what was accepted by God, but only one man obeyed God.

In verse 7 of Genesis Chapter 4, we have the first time in Scripture that the word accepted is recorded. It is in relation to the obedience to the word of God which Cain had disobeyed. And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen? (Genesis 4:6) If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him. (Genesis 4:7)

In verses 4 and 5, we have the word respect twice. And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD. (Genesis 4:3) And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering: (Genesis 4:4) But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. (Genesis 4:5) The Lord received the offering of Abel, the lamb without blemish, the first born, the lamb that had been set aside for the more excellent offering. God received that lamb in the offering as a sweet savor unto Himself because of the offering of the future in the sacrifice of His beloved Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. 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) Whether you want to receive it or not as God ministered the gospel to Abraham, God also ministered the gospel to Abel. In Abel’s many gifts, undoubtedly those gifts spoke of the many facets of the Lord Jesus Christ, not only in His sacrificial life, but also His sacrificial death on Calvary. Abel in his faith and in his offerings undoubtedly received the joy of the Lord.

Cain, however, offered the works from his hands and his person in his works. His hands, his person, his will, his works, his position as the first born son were more important to him than his obedience to God and to God’s word. By the works of Cain’s hands, he had accomplished what we read in Hebrews 10:29, Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?

Cain offered to God what came from the cursed ground. Cain offered to God the works from his own hands, he offered THAT to God INSTEAD of the worthy sacrifice of the lamb that God had commanded. God had respect for the worthiness of the sacrifice of Abel and had NO respect for the worthless sacrifice offered by Cain from the hands of Cain. We saw this same difference in the Galatians: the works of the Spirit of God versus the works of the flesh under the Law. Many times, the disobedience of man repeats the works of Cain through the Cain Syndrome documented through the entire Bible. Even in the case of Judas, who held the purse, the wealth of the world, he, for the lust of money betrayed the Lord Jesus Christ and the devil took up residence within Judas, for Judas was a child of the wicked one when Christ first chose the twelve. The Lord Jesus had chosen twelve, and one of the twelve was of the devil. Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil? (John 6:70) He spake of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon: for he it was that should betray him, being one of the twelve. (John 6:71)

We see in Judas the Cain Syndrome in the betrayal of the more excellent sacrifice which was the Lord Jesus Christ. In the betrayal of Christ, Judas sat at the supper, and listened to the words of Christ that the bread was symbolic of His Body GIVEN for them and for the world, and His blood would be the blood of atonement, atoning for the sin of the world. And at the end of all this, the devil entered into Judas and thus, Judas completed the conspiracy with the priests that he had initiated days before.

● Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests, (Matthew 26:14) And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver. (Matthew 26:15) And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him. (Matthew 26:16)

● And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people. (Luke 22:2) Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve. (Luke 22:3) And he went his way, and communed with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray him unto them. (Luke 22:4) And they were glad, and covenanted to give him money. (Luke 22:5)

We see in Judas a child of the wicked one fulfilling the Cain Syndrome through his lust for money. Judas was always worried about money and coveted anything that would bring more money to ‘his’ bag. The seriousness of the betrayal of Judas is not often examined; however, he didn’t betray his mother, his father, or brother or sister, but he BETRAYED the Almighty God. Satan’s venom flowed through the heart and veins of Judas. The boldness of this betrayal could only have come from the spirit of Satan within. The finality was the kiss. But Jesus said unto him, Judas, betrayest thou the Son of man with a kiss? (Luke 22:48)

The reality of the kiss that killed. A kiss can be one of affection, however, it can also be a kiss of betrayal which has been used many times in man’s sordid history. Truly the life of Judas ended with that kiss, for everything in his life then fell apart and ended with his death. He never spent the thirty pieces of silver. Many people look at that thirty pieces of silver as the price of a slave (and it was), or the exact amount that it took to redeem a slave (and it was), but we also should examine the slavery of Judas. He became a slave to sin and death which resulted in his own death which in itself was the unraveling of all of his emotions for he had betrayed innocent blood. He became tormented by his betrayal, so much so, that he cast the thirty pieces of silver at the feet of the priests in the temple. The Cain Syndrome that began in the Old Testament is seen played out in the New Testament in Judas.

In Abel, the gifts of God is seen in Abel’s many gifts, all prefigures of the ONE Gift to come, God’s beloved Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. In Revelation 3:20 the Lord Jesus is knocking on the door, let’s open the door and let Him come in. Let us listen to Him through the Spirit of God. Let us partake of His manna, the manna from heaven. As John the Baptist stood on the banks of the Jordan, and saw the Lord Jesus Christ, he spoke the revelation from God, Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world. John was not thinking as we would think today. You see, John’s father, Zacharias, was a devout priest, and John was taught all the many facets of the sacrifices from the book of Leviticus. So, therefore, when John saw the Lord Jesus and uttered those words, John saw the sweet savour of ALL those sacrifices in the Man from heaven. Thus, knowing all these truths, John also knew the finality that Jesus must increase and he (John) must decrease. John was symbolic of the old things passing away and Christ was the introduction of that which is new. He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled. (John 3:29) He must increase, but I must decrease. (John 3:30)

In those few words, John could see the burnt offering, the meat offering, the peace offering, the sin offering, the trespass offering and all the days of atonement even the deliverance of Israel out of Egypt under the blood of the lamb. This was John’s expression when he said, Behold, the lamb of the God which taketh away the sin of the world. Remember that John had been SENT by God to announce to Israel their Redeemer, as a symbol of the lamb, slain BEFORE the foundation of the earth.

As we sit at the table the Lord feeds us, for we are the sheep of His pasture, and He is the GREAT SHEPHERD of the sheep. The world works very hard to rob every Christian of the joy of being in the presence of Jesus Christ. The more that we desire His presence, the more we see the revelations of God in Himself. He reveals Himself through the word of God and the Spirit’s understanding to our hearts. Both John and Abel KNEW the Lamb of God. Abel saw his redemption by the Gift of God in a future date and age. John saw the redeeming Lamb who had come to redeem not only Israel but also a multitude from the world.

Many times, Abel had offered a lamb without blemish within and without, a first-born lamb set apart. John saw the beloved Son of God set apart to be the sacrifice that would take away the sin of the world. It was Abel’s faith that withstood Cain. All the torment that Abel endured at the hands of Cain could not move Abel from his faith, and Cain, being of that wicked one, slew his brother. Satan, through Cain, wanted to remove faith from the earth. Yet, Abel’s blood cried out from the ground as the blood of the Lord Jesus cries out today. It was God’s blood, the blood of redemption that atoned for Abel yesterday, that atones for us today, and is forever the blood of atonement. Through faith, Abel received a good report, and this faith will witness in the resurrection of the just when the divine voice of Jesus Christ utters the words again, Come forth.

And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. (John 11:43) And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go. (John 11:44)

The just shall rise again. They will enter into the joy of the Lord, and Abel, the first man of faith will receive his reward for being faithful to God and faithful to the word of God. All those, the just in the resurrection will be forever with the Lord. Hebrews 11:3 will be the foundation of the new heaven and the new earth. After the heavens and the earth that is now, will be dissolved, gone forever, and God, the Lord Jesus Christ, through the word of His power will create new heavens and a new earth wherein righteousness will dwell.

Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, (2nd Peter 3:11)

Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? (2nd Peter 3:12)

Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. (2nd Peter 3:13)

Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless. (2nd Peter 3:14)

And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; (2nd Peter 3:15)

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. (Revelation 21:1)

And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. (Revelation 21:2)

And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. (Revelation 21:3)

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. (Revelation 21:4)

And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. (Revelation 21:5)

And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. (Revelation 21:6)

He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. (Revelation 21:7)

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Consider the Divine Revealer of Faith

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)

In the fullness of time, God sent forth His Son to fulfill ALL TIME from the beginning of TIME to the end of TIME. There will come a point in the history of man that time will cease, and time will be no longer for those who belong to God and the new creation of the heavens and the earth will live in an eternal state, a timeless existence where there is neither sin nor death. God’s righteousness in His beloved Son will be the jewel of life and light in God’s eternal state. It may interest you that man seeks a paradise of man’s own making, even religions dream of a paradise. However, all their pretend paradises are clouded with the sin of man. Man builds paradise on sin and on the lust of the flesh. It is only God in His PURITY that can provide a PURE paradise without sin and death. As man began in a garden, his garden was a paradise to Adam, and Adam forfeited this paradise through sin, he forfeited his life through sin, for the wages of sin is death. Every cemetery, every grave yard, every battle field and past arenas are witnesses that sin brings forth death, and because of sin death passes upon every man. It is amazing how man measures himself trying to find some good in himself where there is no good thing. The trouble is that man looks through sin coated glasses. Man measures himself by other men, so he measures man in the realm of sin; therefore, his scales are not balanced. God weighs man against HIS righteousness IN Christ Jesus. God see the frailty and failure of every individual in the sin that Adam brought into the world. There is NONE who is found worthy without FAITH IN the Lord Jesus Christ. Christ is the substance of faith. He IS the things that are hoped for. He IS the promises of God, and He IS the evidence of things not seen. He IS the faithful and true witness of God. All the wisdom of mankind cannot find God. Man is void of divine understanding. It is ONLY through revelation that God can be known. It is the manifestation of the Lord Jesus Christ that has opened the door to salvation for mankind. For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all. (Romans 11:32) O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! (Romans 11:33)

It is through a merciful God that we have a path through FAITH to God’s redemption through Jesus Christ: His ONLY begotten Son. Think of the emotions of God, if we have emotions when death takes a child, think what must have taken place in the heart of God when God the Father witnessed the brutality of man against His beloved Son. In man’s wisdom, man’s heart would have been overcome with vengeance, and empty of mercy and love. Man ravished and destroyed a lot of the earth in his continuous wars. These wars are all based on man’s emotions of greed, vengeance and animosity against other men. Who can understand the ways of God and His divine mercy upon us, that He offered THE SOUL of His Son to redeem us to Himself, and to give us a position of sons as the inheritance of the Lord Jesus Christ. Can our wisdom understand that? Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? (Job 11:7) This verse from the book of Job in itself is a revelation to man, for man cannot know God UNLESS God reveals Himself to man. Most everyone knows that there is a book, the last book of the Bible, called the book of revelations; however, the true title is The Revelation of Jesus Christ. It seems that the word ‘revelation’ overcomes them.

God’s FIRST revelation to mankind, in written form, was given to Moses. Although Moses was NOT in the beginning when God created heaven and earth, he was given the revelation and the words to write that revelation as God revealed the past to Moses. Moses not only wrote the history of mankind up to his day and prophetically beyond his day, but he wrote the feelings and the understanding of the men and women that he wrote about. Each one of those individuals did not find God by their own reasoning nor by their own wisdom. Just as God revealed Himself to Moses, He revealed Himself to all those in the first five books of the Bible prior to Moses. In the writings of Moses we find both the faithful and the unfaithful to the word of God. None of the unfaithful found God, God revealed Himself through faith as a gift. When we get to Hebrews Chapter 11, we are introduced to the footprints of that gift of faith THROUGH those who were faithful to the word of God and had received the gift of faith. He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end. (Ecclesiastes 3:11) Moses was not with God in the beginning, he did not see the forming of matter, he did not see the creation of the heavens, nor the creation of the earth. God was not only revealing Himself to Moses, He was revealing Himself AND what He had created. NO ONE can know God UNLESS and UNTIL God reveals Himself.

In Hebrews Chapter 11, we are given the understanding of faith, that it is a SUBSTANCE, it is TANGIBLE IN the GIFT of God who is the Lord Jesus Christ. Christ is not only the manifestation of God on earth, He is the manifestation of the invisible. He is the manifestation of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth so that without faith man is left to himself. The child of God has been called out of darkness, and the works of the wicked world, to be a son in this present life. Although our sonship is a divine gift through the inheritance of the Lord Jesus Christ, we are to serve as the heirs of the promise, and we are to serve our Father in heaven. We are to walk the path of faith that the Spirit of God instructs us in Hebrews Chapter 11. All these individuals were NOT a random choices of God. Each one of these men and women had a divine purpose in the perfect will of God. Their footprints in the sands of time were examples of the accomplishments of faith through all its adversities, never bending, but following through all manners of hardships, denying the very wealth of the world for the poverty of faith. Today that seems a contradiction and yet, they wandered in sheep skins, and dwelt in caves, and gave up their lives to the faith that is IN Jesus Christ. We are today as spoiled little children that cry out to God the Father for our own desires instead of living in the will of divine faith.

Abel laid down his life for that divine faith. Enoch was taken from the earth BEFORE God’s divine judgment because of his testimony of faith that he walked with God and that he believed God. Noah through all the conflicts of an evil world that surrounded him was steadfast in his preaching of righteousness and the word of God denouncing the wicked world, and as a prophet, proclaiming to that world of the judgment to come. Abraham was called of God when the glory of God appeared to him. Why is the call of Abraham so important to both Jew and Gentile? After Noah passed from this earth, from Noah to Abraham, there was NO FAITH on the earth. ALL of mankind during that time period were born in darkness, lived in darkness and passed from this earth in death in darkness. When Abraham was called by the God of glory appearing to him in Mesopotamia he was given the gift of FAITH, and he believed God and it was counted unto him for righteousness. Abraham walked out of darkness and world idolatry to serve the living God.

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)

These two verses apply to the past world, the present world, and the future world. For man, as a whole, loves darkness and NOT the Light of God in Jesus Christ. Only through FAITH and being born of the Spirit can anyone SEE the invisible in the written word of God and the Living Word at the right hand of God. Although God has revealed Himself in His wonderful manifestation IN Jesus Christ, without FAITH man loves his darkness.

Everything that Moses wrote was through divine revelation. Even his birth, as a proper child, and the tragedy of his people and their four hundred years in slavery to the Egyptians when their cries went up before God that their burden was so great, all this was a revelation. And as God sent them a deliverer and a mediator, He raised up Moses to deliver them out of the bondage of this world, so, also, in our day, our Mediator between God and man IS the Lord Jesus Christ. He not only delivers from the burdens of this world, but HE also delivers us from the tragedy of sin that Adam brought into the world. And by Adam’s transgression passed that sin to all of Adamkind.

Christ gives us a new life, and a new walk, for we walk by FAITH. He has taken us from the old creation in Adam and has created us as a NEW CREATION, and in our future, we will inhabit the NEW HEAVENS and the NEW EARTH. Even now, we can come before the heavenly throne, the throne of grace, and our Mediator will intercede for us and hear our pleas and petitions and give us the strength that we need to continually place our footprints into the sands of time following the footprints of those who have gone before us.

As this earth is engulfed with the wickedness of mankind and reveals the days of Noah and the wickedness of Sodom and the city of Gomorrah, FAITH STILL lightens the hearts of the children of God to follow the word of God and to sit at the table with the Lord Jesus Christ feasting on the manna from heaven. When the fires came down and destroyed the cities of the plains of Jordan only their ashes remained, and theses ashes were picked up by the winds of time, and there was no more remembrance of those in Sodom or in Gomorrah. Only the names of Lot and his two daughters are known and remembered, these are the only names that God mentioned form ALL the people who lived in Sodom and in the city of Gomorrah and the other cities of the plains. Not even the wife of Lot was named. All their names were forgotten by the world. And only a divine record was given to Moses as he penned the book of Genesis. Moses never set his foot in MOST of the world of Genesis, yet, his record is of divine origin, and EVERY word is the word of God. Divine revelation and divine reckoning is divine FACT which cannot be altered for it is settled in heaven forever. Through FAITH we understand that not only the worlds that we SEE were framed by the word of God, but we also believe that the world to come will also be framed by the Word of God, the Word of His power. Who has known the mind of the Lord, and who by searching can find out God EXCEPT that God reveal Himself to the heart, to the soul and to the spirit by FAITH. Who can know the Lord?

Amen and Selah.

Published on June 18, 2024 at 11:45 A.M. (EST).

Article may be used, but not for gain. Freely ye have received, freely give.

All Scripture references are from the King James Bible. (KJB)

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