THE FALSE PROPHET: SIGHT
 

SECULAR HUMANISM

*In those days [as in these] there was no king in Israel [because they had rejected God]: every man did that which was right in his own eyes [i.e. walked by sight: secular humanism]. (Jud 21:25)

This is unquestionably the end of an age. We are blessed to be chosen participants during these concluding moments of Satan's 6000 year reign over the age of man. Six is the number of a man. Seven is the number of a saint. 6+1 (God)=7. "Count the number of the beast [Gk: a dangerous animal, venomous, wild]: for it is the number of a man." (Rev 13:18). 666. The beast is corporate soulical man. Elohiym God is triune. Man is tripartite. Body, soul and spirit. (1 Thess 5:23). Man without God in body is 6+0=6. Man without God in soul is 6+0=6. Man without God in spirit is 6+0=6. 666. The beast. (Ecc 3:18).

Satan was given rein over the beast age of man when Woman and Adam through her bowed the knee and "hearkened" to Satan's voice over God's voice. (Gen 3:17). Consequently, they fell from the grace of spiritual eyes into the curse of soulical eyes. They fell from what they "saw" (Gen 3:6) with spiritual eyes into seeing with natural eyes: "And the eyes of them both were opened." (Gen 3:7). They fell into the soulical realm of the natural beast. (Ecc 3:19). A beast has no faith. They became beast-man. A beast man walks by sight. A beast man is led by sight. Satan rules by sight. The false prophet is the prophet of sight. Satan's false prophet speaks to our beast man through sight. Sight reigns in the beast man. The beast man reigns in the world. The 1000 year millennial reign of Christ Jesus on earth will be a reign of restored faith. Faith is the seed substance (invisible: Heb 11:1) of the restoration ministry of Jesus Christ coming to fruition (visible) as the Christ in us (Heb 11:39,40). We are currently being prepared for the fullness of that restoration ministry of which Jesus Christ is a type.

*Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. (John 14:12)

PREPARATION OF THE SAINTS

We are soldiers in God's army. (2 Tim 2:3,4). We voluntarily enlisted into God's army when we entered into blood covenant with God and solemnly vowed with spoken words that Jesus is Lord. (Rom 10:9). We spoke the words, He shed the blood. The army of God is the corporate body of Christ. You and I as members of that corporate body are now in boot camp. Our feet are being shod, i.e. booted. We are being prepared. The purpose of this preparation process is to fully train us that we might fully effect the restoration ministry. The Holy Spirit is our teacher, aide and armour bearer. (John 16:12,13; 1 John 2:27). Putting on the whole armour of God is a process. We are commanded to "stand" that we may receive the "whole" armour of God. In obedience we stand while the Holy Spirit dresses us for the battlefield. Our corporate body is being dressed as our "feet" are being "shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace." (Eph 6:10-18). "Preparation?" Why is the word "preparation" interjected into that sentence? It could simply read "shod with the gospel of peace." Preparation is boot camp. We are not yet commanded to walk in the gospel of peace because the full armour of God has not been fully put on, by anyone. Very soon this corporate army-body will become fully substantial (Heb 11:1), compacted together (Psa 122:3; Eph 4:16), and stand up "upon their feet, an exceeding great army." (Ezek 37:10).

That is what we are being prepared for. The gospel of peace is our "preparation" course of study. We are students in school. (2 Tim 2:15). Contrary to popular opinion in some circles, no-one has yet graduated from boot camp. We are commanded three times in Ephesians 6:10-18 to "stand" in the gospel of peace while the whole armour of God is being put on. The purpose of this order is to completely prepare us for graduation day. Graduation day for us is that great Day of the Lord, the celebration of our Lord's Feast of Atonement which is also "the evil day" (Eph 6:13) for those "not all of us" (1 John 2:19). When that climatic Day of the Lord arrives, only then shall we become fully armoured, empowered and thereupon commanded to run in the full armour of God. (Joel 2:1-11). Stand now, run then. Meanwhile, let us "walk in the spirit." (Gal 5:16,25).

Our experiential (sight) reality is that we are under orders to "stand." Satan is the god of this experiential world. (2 Cor 4:4). From our assigned station or post we are not ordered to attack the devil but to "resist the devil." (James 4:7). Soldier, those are the orders. Will you obey? We are commanded to a defensive posture and post. For application, let us look to the parable of the wheat and the tares. This prophetic parable is about the children of righteousness and the children of iniquity. (Matt 13:41-43). (Us and them). When the householder is asked by His servants (shepherds) whether they should "go and gather" the tares from the wheat (the goats from the sheep) their Lord responded "Nay." (Matt 13:29,30). We have never been commanded to separate the goats from the sheep, (yet). That task has been reserved for the Son of man and His angels. (Matt 25:31-33). Who are His angels? That is an excellent question. (Heb 1:14). We have never been commanded to pursue the devil, (yet). Even the angel Michael who is our angelic prince (Dan 10:21; 12:1) acted in trepidation while contending with the devil over the body of Moses. (Jude 9). An unnamed angel, perhaps Gabriel, while attempting to respond to Daniel's prayer was delayed 21 days by the angelic prince (demonic) of the kingdom of Persia until the angel Michael "came to help me." (Dan 10:10-14). These circumstances, coupled with the realization that we are now made "a little lower than the angels" (Heb 2:6,7) ought certainly to reinforce caution and obedience to God's commands. The aggressive soulical self must first completely die before the submissive spiritual self can completely live. The "I" must die that the "we" may live. Please note that the "I" is always capitalized wherever it is found in this world. In this soulical sight world it is not possible to go on the offensive without being aggressive. Aggression is a soulical attribute. As we are transformed into the millennium of faith, we shall learn by becoming through the Spirit of Agape to go on the offensive without being aggressive. Praise God.

However, we are also commanded to "walk in the spirit" of positional (faith) reality wherein Satan is a defeated adversary. Beloved, have the patience and faith of the saints. (Rev 13:10; 14:12). On that great Day of Atonement our positional reality will become our experiential reality. (Matt 24:29-31). Two realities will become one. Jerusalem is the true church. The primary meaning of Jerusalem in Hebrew is "dual." Soulical and spiritual. The purpose of the Day of Atonement is the reconciliation of these two aspects of the church "And join them one to another into one stick [wood = man]; and they shall become one in thine hand." (Ezek 37:17). There will be a "new Jerusalem" in type (Rev 3:12) and then 1000 blessed years later in fact (Rev 21:2). The army-body of Christ will become fully armoured, empowered and commanded to go on the offensive. The invisible becomes visible. (Joel 2:1-11). Brethren, stand in the gospel and be filled. "Hold fast till I come." (Rev 2:25). Stand experientially (sight) and defend, i.e. hold fast the cup. Walk spiritually as trainee students (Prov 22:6) receiving the flow of our positional (faith) inheritance from the Spirit, i.e. allow your cup to be filled. Run then when we are a completed work graduated into fullness, i.e. when your cup runneth over (Psa 23:5). Stand, walk, run.

Babies stand (Gk: #5040 teknion: infants, Christian converts). Children walk (Gk: #3813 paidon: childlings, an immature Christian). Sons run (Gk: #5207 huios: ref. Zodhiates Greek Lexicon: mature sons). Our Lord Jesus is always referred to by Himself and by others as being a "huios" son, and never as a child excepting one special instance by His mother. (Luke 2:48). Pray that you too may become a huios: Paul did. Huios is "the prize of the high calling." (Phil 3:14). Every saint is chosen and called by God, but there is a "high calling." The Apostle Paul urged his brethren to "run," to "striveth" (not salvation) to obtain this "prize." Of this "prize" he said "lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway [Gk: unapproved, rejected]." (1 Cor 9:24-27). What was he saying? Dear brethren, the Apostle Paul was not concerned about losing his salvation. Let us get real. He did write half the New Testament. He was concerned about the possibility of he himself failing to attain to the prize of huios-ship, the Sons (huios) of God company. (Rom 8:14,19). This huios Sons of God company is part of but distinct from the all inclusive #5043 teknon Sons of God company of which all believers are called members. (John 1:12; Phip 2:15; 1 John 3:1,2). Shepherds and sheep. Mt. Zion and Jerusalem. Firstfruits and harvest.

PREPARATION OF THE FIRE

Upon entering the millennium, a "firstfruits" company (Rev 14:1,4; Joel 2:1-11) will then be fully trained (2 Tim 2:15), i.e. prepared, dressed, shod and therein empowered to run fully by faith and not by sight. Do you listen to what the false prophet (sight) tells you or to what the true prophet (faith) tells you? Both are speaking to you. Sight is the deadly enemy of faith. Sight attempts to destroy faith. Sight continually calls faith a liar. Sight attempts to deceive faith. Sight continually attempts to usurp the position of faith. Experiential reality continually attempts to usurp positional reality. 6000 years of sight reign. Six (man) plus one (God) equals seven, i.e. the number of completion. 6000 plus 1000 is complete. Man (sight) plus God (faith) is complete. Man (sight) transformed by God (faith) is complete. Glory. Ironically, the reign of sight will end with sight. I do not make this statement by way of prophecy because it is a present visible fact testified to by the logos Word.

*But when [in the time of harvest] the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. (Matt 13:26)

*Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye [saved and unsaved, spiritual and natural] shall see him, and they also which pierced him [unclean spirits (demons)]: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen. (Rev 1:7)

The gathering of the harvest of the field has never been an instantaneous process. Ask any farmer. So then, neither will be the ending of the reign of sight on this earth. The ending of the sight age will be observable throughout the harvesting process. (Psa 91:8). This process begins when the fruit is first seen ripening, and spans the cutting, bundling and reaping period until the final gathering of the fruit. Some of the fruit will be bundled and burned as bad fruit, and the rest that remains as good fruit shall be gathered up (1 Thess 4:13-17) into the barn, i.e. ark. (Matt 13:30). The burning of the bad fruit will be initiated by the sudden coming and appearance to all men of the "Son of man" as lightning. (Matt 24:27; 25:31-41). Lightning ignites fires. Please note also that these last mentioned verses specify the coming of the "Son of man" rather than the more commonly expected Son of God. Why? The inference at a certain level is that He will come from man (within) rather than from God (above).

"Then appeared the tares also" signifies by sight the beginning of the harvesting process which will end the reign of sight. "Every eye shall see him" signifies by sight the ending of the harvesting process which will coincide with the end of the reign of sight. In judgment "the tares are gathered [Gk: picked out] and burned in the fire." (Matt 13:40-42). Only those saints who are the Lord's servants shall visibly see the tares at the beginning of the harvest. (Matt 13:27,28). All men shall visibly see Christ Jesus in judgment at the ending of the harvest. First a natural manifestation of the harvest becomes visible to His servants. Then, after the visible process of gathering together the tares and binding them into bundles is completed, the spiritual manifestation of the harvest becomes visible to all men. The invisible becomes visible. This is now the time of the harvest. The angels are already diligently at work that the tares may be "made manifest" (1 John 2:18,19) from the wheat in preparation for the forthcoming fire, the bad separated from the good. (Matt 13:30,41,49). We know this to be God's truth for we can now see the evidence of the tares. As the tares are being bundled in preparation for the fire, Christ Jesus commands the reapers to "gather [Gk: assemble] the wheat into my barn [ark]." (Matt 13:30). Then the barn door will be shut, the protective enclosure body fully completed, "and every eye shall see him." (Rev 1:7). He shall not appear in wrath until the door is shut. We are the barn. He is the barn. The fire of God's holiness will permeate the earth and "there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth." (Matt 13:42). The tares shall be burned and the righteous shall "shine forth [golden heads of wheat] as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear." (Matt 13:43).

Question: "gather [assemble] the wheat into my barn." Does Christ Jesus intend that all the wheat be placed inside "into" the barn, or does He intend that part of the wheat be used as boards (ref. PREPARATION OF THE ARK) to assemble, i.e. be made "into" and build the barn? Or both? The wheat harvest is shepherds and sheep. Father Jacob prophesied at Mahanaim (Heb: double): "I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands." (Gen 32:10). What did Jacob mean? The true church consists of shepherds and sheep. "Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out" (Rev 3:12) applies to the shepherd band. "I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture" (John 10:9) applies to the sheep band. Both cannot apply to the same band or person. One cannot both "go no more out" and "go in and out." Perhaps some of the wheat is a "firstfruits" harvest (Rev 14:4) of boards to be assembled into and form the barn. The remaining majority of wheat is the full harvest (1 Thess 4:17) to be gathered into the barn. Shepherds always precede their sheep.

PREPARATION OF THE SACRIFICE

The only sacrifice "acceptable unto God" (Rom 12:1,2) is men (sticks of wood) used by Him either as fuel to be burned in the fire of the brasen altar (the cross), or used by Him as the fire of the brasen altar to burn the fuel. (Isa 9:1-21; Ezek 15:1-8; 21:32). All men are used of God. Your choice to be fuel or fire.

That the ending of the 6000 year reign of sight will occur by sight is a manifestation of a pervasive biblical law found in both the Old and New Testaments. The law of "measure for measure." (Mark 8:38; Luke 12:8; Rev 13:10). If a man persists in perceiving and believing by sight rather than by faith as the multitude of men have for all these 6000 years, or all his years, that man's return and reward shall rightfully be the fruition of the seed which he has sown. Sow sight, reap sight. Walk by sight, receive by sight.

*And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people [Christians], that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. (Rev 18:4)

Brethren, we are commanded by God to "come out of her" else severe and dire consequences shall follow. Who is the "her" and object of this command? The "her" is the world view of which Satan is god. (2 Cor 4:4). The "her" is that great whore, the Babylonian church. (Rev 17:1; 19:2). The "her" is empowered by sight. Satan presently reigns through his prophet of sight. Satan is the god of sight. If any person, a seminary or a church is walking by sight, they are in apostasy and worshipping Satan. They are leavened (Matt 13:33) with false doctrine (Matt 16:12) and listening to the false prophet of sight (Rev 13:11-17). These are "professing" Christians (Matt 7:23; Tit 1:16) who are being deceived by strong delusion. (2 Thess 2:11). However, we have just described the vast majority of past and present Christendom.

Very few men have a "willing mind." (1 Chron 28:9; 2 Cor 8:12). Those that "hath" (Matt 13:12) a willing mind are willing to die. (John 12:24). Are you? Are you sure? The meaning is that the soulical aspects of these men are willing to allow their selves, i.e. their soulical ego I am self, to be progressively put to death. By dying once positionally and then again and again and again experientially, they may live. For the unsaved soulical aspect, voluntarily dying to self is definitely not an easy deal. Ask anybody who is unsaved (completely soulical), or saved (partially soulical). God asks the soul to commit suicide. This action requires blind faith in God on the part of the soul who is at enmity to God. Why the soul? Because it is not the already transformed spirit that sacrifices itself. That, if possible, would be easy. But it is the untransformed natural carnal soul that voluntarily offers a portion of itself as sacrifice, to the death. This soulical sacrifice can only be done in faith for the soulical, not having spiritual eyes, cannot see beyond the death. This is true sacrifice. Hallelujah. This is faith. Natural eyes to spiritual eyes. Praise God.

Please thoroughly examine the Revelation of Jesus Christ. In Greek, the word revelation means: to take off the cover, i.e. disclose: reveal; disclosure: appearing, coming, lighten, manifestation, be revealed. Please note in the twenty-two chapters of the book of the Revelation that there are 75 direct references to "sight, saw, see, seest, seen, eye, eyes, appear, appeared."

PREPARATION OF THE ARK

For clarity of this message let us now state that Emmanuel became born visible for us Jesus son of Joseph (a man). (Heb 2:16,17). Jesus was the first man to be born with an "earnest" (2 Cor 1:22) of the Holy Spirit. As the firstborn among many brethren, He is ahead and the head of us. The head is revealed and born out of the womb before the body. Jesus then became for us Jesus the Christ or Jesus Christ (man-God) upon visibly receiving the fullness of the Holy Spirit in the river Jordan. (Luke 3:22). Jesus Christ then became for us Christ Jesus (God-Man) upon His visible death (John 19:30) and visible ascension (Acts 1:9). In every case, as He "became" (man, man-God, God-Man) He did so visibly and manifested in the sight realm.

*[The two angels] Which also said, Ye men of Galilee [Judas Iscariot, the tare of Judaea having been already picked out of the wheat], why stand ye gazing up [by sight] into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come [again from within a body] in like manner [by sight] as ye have seen him [by sight] go into heaven. (Acts 1:11)

Don't look up ye men of Galilee. Look within. Even the angels asked: "Hey guys, why are you out there wasting valuable feeding time staring up at the clouds?" Why is this so difficult? Is it the biblical cloud references? Well don't you rhema by now that men are the clouds? (2 Pet 2:17; Jude 12). We are the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night (Ex 13:21; Isa 4:5), and "a pillar in the temple of my God." (Rev 3:12). As cloud, each of us is a tiny speck of dust surrounded by a larger droplet of moisture (water, Holy Spirit) in the company of millions of other drops of water. We are the vessel cloud. From within us comes the rain, the former rain and the latter rain which is being increasingly poured out. (Joel 2:21-32). Peter and the other disciples experienced this prophecy as a type of firstfruits harvest on the day of Pentecost. Peter stood up with the eleven and addressed not just the multitude of "devout men" then present but all men, i.e. "Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words [Gk: rhema]." (Acts 2:14). He said rhema, not logos. He did not say "hearken to my logos." To "hear" in the sense of these verses is to "receive." This is tremendous prophecy. All men can hear logos. (John 1:14). However, only the gathering multitude of "devout men" that "came together" (Acts 2:5,6) as a type of corporate body can also hear the rhema (John 6:63; 12:48). These true believing Christians hear rhema while the unhearing "others" mock. (Acts 2:13). Would that all men would hear the rhema. Peter then repeated this prophecy that we might know that the experience will be repeated again and that the permanent fullness was yet to come. (Acts 2:16-21). The tongues-words (rain) came out of (from within) the twelve and were absorbed, i.e. heard and received, by and into the "devout men, out of every nation [prophetic] under heaven." (Acts 2:5). You don't believe me? Well, that's ok friend. Please be careful not to get a permanent crick in your neck while you stand around gazing up. When you are gazing up, you are not grazing down. Be ye doers of the Word in all humility. Bow down your heads, and feed. (2 Tim 2:15).

Please note that Spiritual God repeatedly manifests in the sight realm in a vessel-body for His progressive purpose. In like manner shall He be revealed and manifested in us. (Rom 8:18,19). The time of our Lord's second advent is a spiritual reality manifesting now in part in this present physical sight realm. Noah preached for 120 years the exact same end-time message as do we while the ark of salvation was "a preparing." (1 Pet 3:20). Our Lord God said that the days of man (sight) shall be 120 years. (Gen 6:3). He did not say what kind of years. A Jubilee year is a very special kind of year. It is a year of complete restoration to "proclaim liberty throughout all the land." (Lev 25:8-55). A Jubilee year is celebrated every 50 chronological years on the Day of Atonement. There have been 119 Jubilee years. 119x50=5950. We are about to celebrate the 120th Jubilee year of 6000 chronological years. Israel was restored to the Jews in 1948. In 1998 Israel will celebrate a Jubilee year. Depending upon the Lord our God and historical calendar inaccuracies, this may or may not be "the big one."

That which saves is salvation. The ark-vessel was salvation. We preach the gospel of Jesus Christ. He is the ark. While Noah was assembling the boards of the ark of salvation, the ark was manifesting in the physical sight realm. The ark was manifesting from in part into a complete whole just like a house or barn that is constructed board upon board from in part to whole. The invisible becomes visible. The multitude of people surrounding Noah could literally see the instrument of their potential salvation and hear the message of Noah but they chose to laugh or ignore it. Biblically, trees and wood represent men. The 48 wooden boards supporting the ark-tabernacle of Moses represent the 48 Levitical cities, i.e. the priests of God. The boards of the ark of Noah and the boards of the tabernacle of Moses in the Old Testament and the boards of the barn of Christ in the New Testament each fitly joined together form a type of the true spiritual church, the house of God. The barn into which the wheat is gathered is a New Testament type of ark. The barn is composed of wooden priest-boards. It is the house of God. The barn was "broken down" in the Old Testament. (Joel 1:17). Amos prophesied that the Lord God "will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old." (Amos 9:11). James repeats this prophecy that we may know that it is not fulfilled but yet to come. (Acts 15:16). Those who enter into the ark-tabernacle-barn are "in Christ." All are invited to enter in. (Heb 4:16; 10:19). The salvation of the sheep is attained by hearing the faith message of the shepherd-priests of God and entering into the sheepfold-ark. The sheep and the goats then and now can see the shepherd as well as hear the shepherd. The first ark-vessel (Noah) was moved by water. The second ark-tabernacle (Moses) was moved by men. The third ark-barn (Christ) is moving men.

As in the days of Noah, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. Now, while the ark of the barn-body of the Christ is being assembled (Matt 13:30: gather = Gk: assemble) board upon board for the exact same purpose of salvation, it is manifesting in the physical realm. Those willfully blinded in spirit choose not to hear nor to see the physical corporate body of walking talking priest-boards of God who are now in part manifesting Christ Jesus. These boards are you and I. Very soon these priest-boards who are being assembled into the many-membered ark-barn of Christ will manifest the fullness of Christ Jesus. That fullness will appear when He is fully "revealed in us." (Rom 8:18,19). When the ark of Noah was completed, then the hand of "the LORD shut him in." (Gen 7:16). Noah and his family were shut inside the ark and the unbelieving multitude were shut outside the ark. The "door" was closed. (John 10:7,9). The flood came immediately. (Matt 24:29). Those without remained without, doomed to eternal separation from God.

LIGHT, FIRE AND FLAME

Our God is a consuming fire. (Deut 4:24; 9:3; Heb 12:29). Whosoever you are, if you are not now experiencing the burning fire of God's holiness, you will most assuredly experience it very soon. (Zech 13:7-9; Mal 3:1-3). We shall all every single man, saved and unsaved, exist eternally in the fire of the holiness of Almighty God. Far far far better to submit to the fire than to be overtaken by it. (Joel 2). To willfully submit is to receive the fire internally on the inside and be thereby transformed, conformed to His image. His image is fire. Fire does not burn fire. Please repeat that out loud that your ears may hear: fire does not burn fire. To rebel against God is to experience the fire on the outside, eternally. That is a meaning of "the lake of fire" (Rev 20:14,15; 21:8), "where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched." (Mark 9:44,46,48; Isa 66:22-24). The Word, Bible, God is a soothing lake of water (Hab 2:14; Eph 5:26) to the saved but a tormenting lake of fire to the unsaved. (Luke 16:23-26).

God is eternal and everlasting. We are eternal and everlasting. God is eternal fire. If you will not allow the purifying fire of God's presence to enter within, then the burning fire of God's presence will remain without. Inevitably however, you will still be in His Holy Presence. Much pain. Much joy. Fuel or fire. Your choice.

*And the light of Israel [the true church, a city that is set on an hill, Jerusalem] shall be for a fire, and his Holy One [Sons (Gk: huios) of God, Mt. Zion] for a flame: and it [they] shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers [Matt 13:7,22: unclean spirits, soulical self] in one day; [the sixth feast: the Day of Atonement](Isa 10:17)

*Blow ye the trumpet in Zion [Heb: a monumental or guiding pillar (of corporate men: Isa 3:1-3; Heb 11; Rev 14:1) ], and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the [unsaved] inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand; A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness [Ex 14:19,20: to those unsaved walking by sight], as the morning [daylight] spread upon the mountains [so will appear the morning star: Rev 2:28, as the rising Sun of righteousness: Mal 4:2]: a great people and a strong [who are the ark tabernacle barn priest-boards overcomer body of Christ Jesus]; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations. A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth [for our God fully manifested and revealed in us to the unsaved is a thick dark cloud of consuming fire: Ezek 1:4,5]: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them. (Joel 2:1-3)

ARE YOU PREPARING?

Moment by moment even now He is rapidly, swiftly approaching from heaven with His army. (1 Thess 4:16; Matt 24:30,31). Where is heaven? Do you recall that "the kingdom of God is within you?" (Luke 17:21). Jesus addressed this message to the Pharisees to make clear the fact that the kingdom of God is inside the unsaved as well as the saved. However, within the unsaved there is no fire (Light) in the Brasen Altar (God the Son) of the first heaven, no flame (Light) in the Candlestick (God the Holy Ghost) of the second heaven, no Shekinah Glory (Light) in the Mercy Seat (God the Father) of the third heaven. "For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness," if I ask Him. (Psa 18:28; Rom 10:9). That is the difference between the saved and unsaved. We asked for the Light from God. The three "heavens" (plural 127 times) are within the all encompassing kingdom of God. (2 Cor 12:2). Christ Jesus is, in literal fact, bubbling up from within you. Don't you feel Him? He is that well of living water springing up from the seed of the Holy Spirit deposited deep in the heart of the earth inside you. (John 4:14). You are giving birth as did Mary in type. Out of the belly of your body broken to shivers shall flow rivers of living water. (John 7:38). In the millennial reign of Christ on earth you shall give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. (Rev 21:6). Yes, you! Dear brethren, wait not in the company of professing Christians and other unbelievers for His appearance in the clouds which all men will see. Be not joined to those walking by sight who look for His coming outside themselves. Do you not yet understand? He is "within you," i.e. inside you. He shall be revealed from inside you. (Rom 8:18). He shall be manifested from inside you. (Rom 8:19).

He is planted a spiritual seed inside you coming to fruition. Fruition is a type of birth. A spiritual seed produces a spiritual generation. John the Baptist preached in the wilderness east of the river Jordan, i.e. courtyard of the tabernacle, to prepare the way for Jesus. (Matt 3:1; Luke 3:2). Jesus was born in Bethlehem which is in the "land," i.e. the Holy Place of the tabernacle. Jerusalem is the Most Holy Place encompassing Mt. Zion, the future tabernacle throne of David our millennial king. (Jer 30:9; Ezek 34:23,24; 37:24,25; Hos 3:4,5). Christ Jesus is and always shall be King of Kings. By the water and blood of the birth of Jesus we are sanctified (1 Cor 6:11; 1 John 5:6) to enter into the Holy Place that we may hear from God and live. (Ex 20:19). Jesus is the firstborn son of God and the firstborn son of Mary. Jesus "openeth the matrix [Heb: womb]" (Num 3:11-13) of the tabernacle of God spiritually (positionally) and the tabernacle of Mary physically (experientially). He is the head. In birth the head enters into the new environment first, the body follows. We now stand on Holy Ground. Jesus Christ "openeth the matrix" of the tabernacle veil of the Most Holy Place which is the third heaven (2 Cor 12:2; Rev 1:10; 4:1,2) by His death. By this blood and water we are justified. (1 Cor 6:11; John 19:34). Fruition is a type of death. (John 12:24). To die in one environment is to be born into another.

Jesus was the forty-first generation from Abraham and the thirteenth generation from "the carrying away into Babylon." (Matt 1:1-17). Please count them. You are the Christ which is the seed of Jesus the Christ. You are the forty-second generation from Abraham and the fourteenth generation from the carrying away into Babylon. The Christ is a spiritual generation. Chronological time is a temporary parameter for temporary men and not the same as spiritual time. (Rev 10:6). This fourteenth generation of spiritual time spans the 2000 cubic cubits of the Holy Place which is 10 cubits in width x 10 cubits in height x 20 cubits in length, i.e. this present second heaven. Another example. This fourteenth generation of spiritual time spans the 2000 cubits of space between the ark of covenant and the children of Israel. (Josh 3:3,4). This present spiritual generation spans 2000 chronological years.

*A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation. They [the seed of Jesus Christ (us)] shall come, and shall declare [Heb: manifest, announce, expound fully, messenger, rehearse, report, speak, tell, utter] his righteousness [during the millennium] unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this. (Psa 22:30,31)

THE BEAST

*But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather [Gk: pick out] ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather [Gk: assemble] the wheat into my barn. (Matt 13:29,30)

"Then appeared the tares." (Matt 13:26). Do you not see the tares? The bundles of tares are common interest antichrist groups such as homosexuals, feminists, abortionists and the remaining unsaved now worshipping mammon. Mammon is the idolatry of the Babylonian church. (Rev 11:8; 17:5). "Ye cannot serve God and mammon." (Luke 16:13). Without question, everyone who is not a Christian is an antichrist. (1 John 2:18; 2:22; 4:3; 2 John 1:7). Every person is either of God or of the beast. These bundles of tares are like muscles or organs that form the antichrist body. They are functional to that antichrist body purpose, which is death. The tares contravene the prime directive: "Be fruitful, and multiply" which is life. (Gen 1:27). They are the beast. (Rev 13:1-10). They are members belonging to the same corporate anitchrist body. (Rev 13:2; 17:13). They are manifesting the beast nature in unsaved men: the unconverted soulical self. Man is the beast. Look into the field of the world. In the time of harvest, then "appeared" the tares. The tares are a visible indication of the end of this age. Mature stalks of wheat develop golden heads, i.e. fruit. Stalks of tares are poisonous darnel. Darnel stalks appear externally identical to the wheat stalks until fruition but then develop black heads. (Matt 23:25-28). Thus, during fruition the deadly darnel heads become highly visible in contrast to the golden wheat heads. "First" the tares (goats) are gathered into bundles. Do you not see them?

THE MAN CHILD

The Shekinah manifestation of Elohiym will soon be undeniably visible not only to those true believing Christians now walking by faith, but to millions of unbelievers and professing Christians walking in the darkness of this world by their own self sight. His second advent will be visible to all men for the first time since Adam and Woman were spiritually blinded to His Holy Presence. Emmanuel, God With Us, will become Manifested Light to all mankind from within we who are His ark-tabernacle-barn. (Rev 21:22,23). He was in type the Light within the tabernacle of Mary. (Jud 7:20). He emerged from that body in type (Rev 12:5) as the Lamb to serve as the Light of the world. He will fully emerge again from a corporate body (Rev 14:1) at the second advent (Rev 12:5) to reign as the Lion of Judah. In what may now seem a contradiction to our Christ in-part minds, His visible presence will seal with eternal finality the end of the age of sight. No unsanctified mortal man can enter into the presence of God and live. (Ex 30:18-21). No unsanctified man can look upon the face of God and live. (Ex 33:20; Rev 20:11-15). To the unsanctified He shall be the searing Light of a terrible burning flame. To we who are "after his kind" (8 times: Gen 1), He is a gentle and loving Father. Fire does not burn fire. We who are after His kind to them who are not shall be a flame of fire. (Heb 1:7). HOLINESS TO THE LORD "upon" their foreheads (Ex 28:36-38) will have become KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS "in" our foreheads (Rev 7:3; 14:1; 22:4).

*And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it [i.e. in us: Rev 21:2,3]; and his servants shall serve him: And they shall see his face [fire does not burn fire]; and his name shall be in [side] their foreheads . And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light [fully revealed from within: Jud 7:20]: and they shall reign [as torches of fire and lamps of light] for ever and ever. (Rev 22:3-5)

*Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. (John 8:12)

*Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. (Matt 5:14)

HIS WRATH

He shall be revealed in us (Rom 8:18,19) and "we shall be like him." (1 John 3:2). Beloved, let the full impact of this slung stone penetrate deeply into the forehead of your mind: being like Him also includes His wrath. We have been sent as fishers of men. (Matt 4:19). After, we shall be sent as hunters of men. (Joel 2:1-11).

*Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after [the tribulation: Matt 24:29] will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks. (Jer 16:16)

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ

be with you all. Amen


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