THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE

                             By: Terry D. Simms
           Copyright 1997-1998 Terry D. Simms. All rights reserved.

                              Table of Contents

Chapter                                                                  Page  
.......................Acknowledgments.......................................
.......................A Message To The Reader...............................
.......................Preface...............................................
.......................Disclaimer............................................
1......................He That Has An Ear, Let Him Hear......................
2......................The Good Seed.........................................
3......................The Elijah Ministry...................................
4......................Behold, I Give Unto You Power.........................
5......................Jesus, The True Light.................................
6......................A Price To Pay........................................
7......................Jesus Is Our Passover.................................
8......................Clean First That Which Is Within......................
9......................Come Out Of Her, My People............................
10.....................Famine And Restoration Of The Word....................
11.....................Separating The Tares From The Wheat...................
12.....................We Walk By Faith, Not By Sight........................
13.....................The Highway Of Holiness...............................
14.....................The Mystery Of Iniquity...............................
15.....................Believe God's Prophets................................
16.....................The Mystery Of God Finished...........................
.......................Conclusion............................................

                               ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

       I wish to thank my Wife and Son for their encouragement and inspiration
and for standing with me through many trials, hardships and persecutions: they
are really a blessing to me. Also, I wish to thank the dedicated prayer
warriors for their endless hours of prayers and support; and also those who
are taking a stand for God's Word regardless of the circumstances. And above
all, I thank the Lord Jesus Christ for his great mercy and patience toward us,
and for giving us His Word in these last days: for without Him we are all
lost.

                           A MESSAGE TO THE READER

       As you are reading this book please understand that its purpose is not
to condemn you, nor to discourage you from living a Christian life. On the
contrary, it was written as a wake up call for God's people. It was written to
stir your soul to seek the face of God to follow on to know the Lord Jesus
Christ in Spirit and in truth. God has given us a message: and that message is
JESUS. That message is for us to behold Jesus, the Lamb of God, which takes
away the sin of the world. That message is for us to return to Him with our
whole heart. And as you read this book, I ask you to open your heart, not your
mind. Open your spiritual ear, not your natural mind; and lean not unto your
own understanding. For it was not written in the words which man's wisdom
teaches, but what the Holy Ghost teaches.

       I make no claims of infallibility regarding the contents of my book.
But I am fully persuaded that God's anointing was upon me when writing most if
not all of it. And I give Him all of the credit and glory for any good thing
that may come out of it.

       Every chapter of this book contains scriptures from the King James
Bible. Why the King James Version? Because it is the most accurate and
uncontaminated translation of God's Word there is tracing back to the original
Holy text. I have directly quoted or paraphrased scripture in practically
every paragraph: and it is the scriptures that are speaking. And all scripture
is given by inspiration of God. No prophecy of the scripture is of any private
interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but
holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. The testimony of
Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. Certain things in this book will no doubt
offend some people. The truth is not always easy to accept: but, the truth
will always set you free.

                                  PREFACE

       Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, 
and of Jesus our Lord (IIpet.1:2). He has shown you, O man, what is good; and 
what does the Lord require of you, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to 
walk humbly with your God?(mic.6:8). Let us hear the conclusion of the whole 
matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of 
man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, 
whether it be good, or whether it be evil (ecl.12:13-14). 

     The Lord is near unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon
him in truth (psa.145:18). Seek the Lord while he may be found, call upon him
while he is near: let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his
thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him;
and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your
thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord (is.55:6-8).

       The kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which 
when a man has found, he hides, and for joy thereof goes and sells all that he 
has, and buys that field (mat.13:44). If you cry after knowledge, and lift up 
your voice for understanding; if you seek her as silver, and search for her as 
for hid treasures; then shall you understand the fear of the Lord, and find 
the knowledge of God (prv.2:3-5).

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                                DISCLAIMER

       The Author of this book is not responsible for anyone misusing the
information contained herein. The reader is advised to use prayer and wisdom
when applying this information to his or her own life.
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                        THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE

                               ~ Chapter One ~
                       He That Has An Ear, Let Him Hear

       He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the
churches (rev.3:22): For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and
reproofs of instruction are the way of life (prv.6:23). Thou shalt also
consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy
God chasteneth thee (dut.8:5). And ye have forgotten the exhortation which
speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening
of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: For whom the Lord loveth
he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth (heb.12:5-6). As many
as I love I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore and repent (rev.3:19).

       Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that
you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but
that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same
judgment (Icor.1:10). Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as
the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as you
see the day approaching (heb.10:25). Preach the word; be instant in season,
out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine (IItim.4:2,3).
The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. He that
refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof
getteth understanding. The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and
before honour is humility (prv.15:31-33).

       A wise man once said that there is one thing that is more powerful than
the word of God: and it is man's traditions. Who was that wise man who said
this? none other than Jesus Christ himself. Jesus said that we make the word
of God of no effect through our traditions. Almost every time God begins a
work through man, man turns it into a tradition and it becomes just another
religion. It is high time we give up our traditions and get back to the pure
word of God and return to our first love (mrk.7:13;rev.2:2-5).

       God is calling his people to return to the Apostles doctrine and to
return to the book of Acts Holy Ghost. These days it seems that just about any
old way will do with some people. But I'm hear to tell you that God is
raising up a holy church without spot and without blemish, a peculiar people,
a holy people. God is restoring the book of Acts Holy Ghost today to a people
who are returning to him, a people who will humble themselves and pray and
draw nigh to God with their whole heart (dut.14:2;jer.29:13;eph.5:26-32;
jam4:8-10).

       We are exhorted and admonished by the word of God to be perfectly
joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment, and not to forsake
the assembling of ourselves, but to continue in the faith with one accord.
Preaching to a brother or sister in the Lord does not mean that you are
condemning them. Sometimes they may not like it, but reproofs of instruction
are the way of life (prv.6:23,is.58:1,Icor.4:14-16,IItim.4:2,3,heb.12:11). God
uses his word to comfort us and encourage us. God also uses his word to rebuke
us and correct us. But this modern "Christian" church-world today will not
receive correction from God. They are too busy accusing or else excusing one
another (rom.2:15). Some church goers and some church leaders today are stiff-
necked and dull of hearing (act.7:51,heb.5:11-14). When God sends a prophet or
a preacher through the land with His word and you don't receive it, when you
reject that man of God you reject God (matt.12:30,luk.10:16,Iths.4:8).

       Some people say, "It doesn't matter where we go to hear God's word
because God is everywhere and as long as we confess Jesus as our saviour and
go to church we are doing God's will." But that is simply not true. That is
simply not sound doctrine. Because Jesus told Jerusalem, "Behold, your house
is left unto you desolate..."(luk.13:35). And this is only one example of
where the Spirit of God no longer resides. And Jesus said that he is going to
spue us out of his mouth if we don't repent and return to sound doctrine, true
holiness (jer.6:16-17;rev.3:16). God has blinded Israel's eyes unto this day
because they rejected His prophets. God took his Spirit from his people and
turned to the Gentiles, the sinners, because his own people wouldn't hear his
voice. And this is exactly what is happening today with some churches. For if
God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee
(is.44:18;65:1,2;Jer.14:11-14;rom.11:8,21).

     "I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early
and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend
your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in
the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not
inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me." God said (Jer.35:15). "Forasmuch as
this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me,
but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught
by the precept of men."(Is.29:13). "Yet they seek me daily, and delight to
know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the
ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take
delight in approaching to God."(Is.58:2). "Therefore I said, Surely these are
poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the Lord, nor the
judgment of their God."(Jer.5:4).

     If a servant of God does stand up and tell these modernized worldly-
minded Christians that sin is sin (jhn.8:34,luk.13:3), and that participating
in the customs of the world and keeping the traditions of men is abomination
to God [that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of
God (luk.16:15)-- the customs of the people are vain (jer.10:3)-- you shall
not do so unto the Lord your God (dut.12:30,31)], they think it strange that
you run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you
(Ipet.4:4). If you don't go along with them in their worldly ways of
worshiping Jesus, and if you try telling them the truth, they think you are
the strange one.

       They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him (tit.1:16).
For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;
proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. And have no fellowship with the
unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them (eph.5:9-11). This
modern church bunch does not reprove sin, it excuses sin. Jesus said,
"Whosoever commits sin is the servant of sin."(jhn.8:34). He said, "Not every
one that says unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven..."
(mat.7:21). Just because you confess Jesus Christ as your personal saviour
does not mean that you are saved. He said to be doers of the word, and not
hearers only, deceiving your own selves (jam.1:22). He said, "Many will say to
me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy
name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then
will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work
iniquity."(mat.7:22,23). There is a way which seems right unto a man, but the
end thereof are the ways of death. There is a generation that are pure in
their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness (prv.14:12;30:12).
Jesus said, "I go my way, and you shall seek me, and shall die in your
sins..."(jhn.8:21). Search the scriptures; for in them you think you have
eternal life (jhn.5:39). No man can serve two masters (mat.6:24). He that
covers his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesses and forsakes them shall
have mercy (prv.28:13).

       The majority of people calling themselves Christians now-a-days are
covering their sins. Very few are confessing their sins: and even fewer are
confessing and forsaking them. Many are using the grace of God as a license to
sin. Some of us are using God's mercy as an excuse to do something wrong; not
knowing that the goodness of God leads us to repentance and true change (psa.
55:19,rom.2:4). We want to hear that Christ may dwell in our hearts by faith;
but don't want to hear that if any man defile the temple of God, him shall God
destroy (eph.3:17,Icor3:17). "Woe to the rebellious children, saith the Lord,
that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of
my spirit, that they may add sin to sin." They say to the prophets, Prophesy
not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things (is.30:1,10).

       Most church folks today want to be patted on the back. Most love the
praise of men more than the praise of God. Most receive honour one of another,
and seek not the honour that comes from God only (jhn.5:44;12:42,43). They
don't want to be rebuked. They don't want to be reproved. They don't want to
be chastised. They want to reign with Christ; but don't want to suffer with
him (rom.8:17,IItim.2:12). Jesus said, "As many as I love I rebuke and
chasten..."(rev.3:19). Modern worldly-minded Christians don't want to be told
the truth. They want to hear good words and fair speeches -- smooth things
(jer.5:3,30,rom.16:18,is.30:10). They want to hear, He that is faithful in
that which is least is faithful also in much; but don't want to hear, He that
is unjust in the least is unjust also in much (luk.16:10). They'll recite John
Three Sixteen, but ignore Revelation Three Sixteen. They want to hear that
whosoever believes in Jesus should not perish; but they don't want to hear not
only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake, bearing his reproach
(jhn.3:16,phl.1:29,heb.13:13). Paul said, "Having the same conflict which you
saw in me, and now hear to be in me."(phl.1:30). Be a partaker of the
afflictions of the gospel. We are appointed to these afflictions (IItim.1:8,
Iths.3:3).

       The word of God brings deliverance: it brings life. The word of God 
also brings reproach, persecution and division. Because 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 is a discerner of the thoughts and 
intents of the heart (heb.4:12). Jesus said, "Suppose ye that I am come to 
give peace on earth? I tell you nay; but rather division..."(luk.12:51). 
"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, 
but a sword."(mat.10:34). Almost everywhere Jesus went he caused division 
among the people (jhn.7:43;9:16;10:19). If you preach God's word without 
compromising it many hearts will be pierced. Some people will be convicted and 
feel remorse and receive the word. Others will be offended and reject the 
word. This is the sword of division that Jesus is telling us about which is 
sharper than any twoedged sword: the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of 
God (eph.6:17).

       The true sword of the Spirit, the true word of God, brings together and
divides at the same time. This is the reason that the Church in the Bible was
persecuted in the same manner and to the same extent that Jesus was
persecuted: and this is why the few true churches today are suffering
persecutions. God's people today don't want to suffer these persecutions. It
is easier to compromise with the world, to compromise God's word and be
accepted by their congregations; than it is to cry aloud, spare not, lift up
your voice like a trumpet and show my people their transgression and the house
of Jacob their sins (is.58:1). Jesus said how can you believe His truths, you
which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that comes from
God only? (jhn.5:44). And before honour is humility (prv.15:33). Paul said,
"Do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the
servant of Christ."(gal.1:10). That's the trouble with some of us: we don't
want to offend anyone; so we are trying to win people over to Christ through
compromise, and in doing so we are making them twofold more the child of hell
than ourselves, by making proselytes, i.e., religious sinners (mat.23:15).
Some of us are more concerned with making religious converts than saving
souls.

       Many church gatherings and "Christian" fellowship meetings today are 
little more than social gatherings designed to ease the conscience, please the 
flesh and or satisfy the stomach. God warned us that the time will come, and 
now is, when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts 
shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall 
turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables (IItim.4:
3,4). Now the Spirit speaks expressly, that in the latter times some shall 
depart, and have departed, from the faith, giving heed to [religious] seducing 
spirits, and [religious] doctrines of devils; speaking lies in hypocrisy; 
having their conscience seared with a hot iron; forbidding to marry, and 
commanding to abstain from meats, which God has created to be received with 
thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth (Itim.4:1-3). This know 
also, that in the last days perilous times shall come, and have come. For men 
shall be, and are, lovers of their own selves... proud... lovers of pleasures 
more than lovers of God; having a form of Godliness but denying the power 
thereof: from such turn away (IItim.3:1,2,4,5). For they that are such serve 
not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair 
speeches deceive the hearts of the simple (rom.16:18).

       But you have not so learned Christ; if so be that you have heard him 
and have been taught by him as the truth is in Jesus: that you put off 
concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to 
the deceitful lusts; and be renewed in the spirit of your mind; and that you 
put on the new man which after God is created in righteousness and true 
holiness (eph.4:20-24). Therefore if any man be in Christ he is a new creature 
[or creation]: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new, 
and all things are of God (IIcor.5:17,18).

       Why don't most of these churches today have what the Church in the 
Bible had? has God changed? With great power gave the apostles witness of the 
resurrection of the Lord Jesus (act.4:33). The Lord working with them and 
confirming the word with signs following (mrk.16:20). Jesus Christ the same 
yesterday, today and forever (heb.13:8). "I am the Lord, I change not..."(mal.
3:6). Jesus said, "I am with you always, even unto the end of the world."(mat.
28:20). God has not changed!

       If we don't have what the early Christians had, it's mainly because we 
don't have the dedication that they had; and it's because we don't want the 
hardships that come with it. We don't want to deny ourselves and take up our 
crosses daily (luk.9:23). We don't want to present our bodies a living 
sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God (rom.12:1). We don't want to get into our 
prayer closets and pray for even one or two hours, much less all night long 
(mat.6:6;26:41,mrk.1:35;14:38,luk.6:12;21:36,act.6:4). We don't want to be 
ridiculed and made fun of. We don't want to be mocked and persecuted. We don't 
want to be reviled, or to be evil spoken of. We don't want to be rejected. We 
don't want men to hate us and separate us from their company and cast out our 
name as evil for Jesus' sake: we don't want our so called "Christian" brothers 
to hate us or separate us from their company (mat.5:11,luk.6:22, is.66:5). Are 
we somehow better than Jesus? He said, "If they have persecuted me, they will 
also persecute you..."(jhn.15:20). Paul said, "We are the children of God... 
if so be that we suffer with Him."(rom.8:16,17). Suffer what with Him? Self 
denial, sacrifice and persecution.

       The true gospel of Jesus Christ brings persecution (IItim.3:12). Paul
said, "Wherein I suffer trouble as an evil doer..."(2:9), "By evil report and
good report: as deceivers, and yet true..."(Icor.6:8). Paul was called crazy
because he prayed and stayed in the word so much (act.26:24;6:4,gal.1:16-18).
Even Jesus himself suffered rejection and was called crazy, not only by his
enemies, but by his own friends (mrk.3:21). His own siblings didn't believe in
him (jhn.7:5). If you are trying to live a holy and dedicated life like the
Bible teaches, then you too will suffer rejection, reproach and persecution.
If you don't like persecution and rejection, then you don't want to follow
this Jesus (IIcor.12:9-10,IItim.3:12-13). If you be reproached for the name of
Christ, happy are you; for the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you: on
their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified (Ipet.4:14).

       God's holiness is almost a thing of the past. True holiness is gone by 
the way side: but without it you will not see the Lord. The Bible says that 
without holiness no man shall see the Lord (heb.12:14). God's word in both the 
Old and New Testament says that if a man lie with a man as he lies with a 
woman, or woman with woman: it is abomination (lev.20:13,rom.1:24-27)-- The
woman shall not wear that which pertains to a man, neither shall a man put on
a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord your God
(dut.22:5)-- We are not to pierce our bodies, nor print any marks on our flesh
(lev.19:28): because all of this is of the world and not of God, and doing so
is contrary to God's word. Some might ask, "How do we know what is God's word
and what is not?" Jesus said that if any man will do God's will, he shall know
of the doctrine, whether it is of God, or whether it is of man (jhn.7:17). If
you are not sure that this is God's word (the Authorized K.J.V. Bible), it is
because you are not doing His will, but your own will.

       Peter wrote about modesty, about wearing of gold or jewelry and of 
putting on of apparel (Ipet.3:3). Godly modesty has taken a back seat to 
worldly fashion with this dress as you please attitude among many in the 
"Christian" religious community today. Paul taught that if a man have long 
hair it is a shame; and if the woman be not covered let her also be shorn: but 
if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered. Paul 
said, "But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither 
the churches of God."-- the true Church that is (Icor.11:6,14,16). 

       Concerning the hair, some might ask, "How long is long? and how short 
is short?" Concerning modesty and holiness, and the faith of God, some might 
say, "Let your conscience be your guide." But the Bible said to let the word 
of God be your guide. "Let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is 
written, That you might be justified in your sayings, and might overcome when 
you are judged." wrote Paul (rom.3:4). And Jesus said that every idle word 
that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. 
For by your words you shall be justified, and by your words you shall be 
condemned (mat.12:36). Whether you know it or not we are going to give account 
of all the things we are telling people it's "OK" to do. Then Jesus said that 
when the Spirit of truth is come into you he will guide you into all truth, 
and he shall teach you all things (jhn.14:26;16:13). So, let Jesus who is the 
Spirit of truth and who is the word of God convict you and guide you in all 
things (jhn.1:1,14;6:63;14:6,18).

       And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it 
he had rested from all his work which God created and made (gen.2:3). From the 
very beginning God separated the seventh day and made it sacred and holy for a 
reason. Keep the sabbath day holy: in it you shall not do any work (ex.20:8,
10). The sabbath is the last day of the week, not the first (gen.2:2-3).
Today, many of these churches celebrating it on the first day of the week
don't even believe their own teachings, because they are running around doing
their chores and having their fun on that day. Jesus said, "The sabbath was
made for man, and not man for the sabbath..."(mrk.2:27). Jesus never excused
us from keeping the Sabbath. We are making our own excuses. The sabbath was
made for man, and not man for the sabbath to do his own ways and his own
pleasures on God's holy day (is.58:13). If, however, some are truly keeping
the first day of the week or any other day of the week holy , believing it to
be the sabbath and not knowing any different, I believe that God is honoring
our sacrifice until we come into a deeper knowledge of His word (luk.12:48,
rom.14:5,IIcor.8:12). 

       If we don't have to keep the sabbath day holy, then we don't have to
honour our fathers and mothers. And if we don't have to do either of these,
then we can lie, steal, commit adultery and kill too. But, that's not right
and you know it. For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not
kill. Now if you commit no adultery, yet if you kill, you are become a
transgressor of the law (jam.2:11). If you were told that you don't have to
keep the sabbath, then it certainly wasn't God speaking.

       When Jesus said to deny yourself and take up your cross daily (luk.9:
23), and to do unto others as you would have them do unto you (mat.7:12), and
to love your enemies (mat.5:44), and to love your neighbor as yourself
(mat.22:39), and to forgive one another (luk.6:37,mat.18:35,mrk.11:26) (not
rendering evil for evil, but contrariwise blessing (Ipet.3:9), these weren't
suggestions: these are commandments (jhn.15:12)! The true Holy Ghost leads you
to apologize to and be reconciled with your brothers: "...and all you are
brothers." Jesus said (mat.5:24;23:8). The true Spirit of Jesus causes you to
forgive everyone with your heart as well as with your mouth (mat.18:21-35). He
causes you to forgive in deed, not just in word (luk.6:35,Ijhn.3:18). This is
true holiness without which no man shall see the Lord (heb.12:14).

       Living holy does not cause you to be saved, but being saved causes you
to live holy (eph.4:20-24,IIcor.5:17-21). Shun, avoid, stay clear of profane
and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness (IItim.2:16).
Some of us talk like the world, dress like the world and act like the world
and call ourselves Christians: Jesus said he is going to spue us out of his
mouth (rev.3:16,jgs.16:20). If you say you know Him and don't keep His
commandments the Bible says you are a liar (Ijhn.2:4).

                               ~ Chapter Two ~
                                The Good Seed

       And when [Jesus] had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to
hear, let him hear. And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this
parable be? And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the
kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and
hearing they might not understand. Now the parable is this: The seed is the
word of God. Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil,
and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be
saved. They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with
joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of
temptation fall away. And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when
they have heard, go forth, and are chocked with cares and riches and pleasures
of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection. But that on the good ground
are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it,
and bring forth fruit with patience. (luk.8:8-15).

       God's people in the early church knew their God and were strong and did 
exploits (dan.11:32,act.). They brought forth Jesus (gal.2:20)-- the word of 
God (jhn.1:1)-- the good seed (luk.8:11)-- the early rain (hos.6:3,jol.2:23,
hag.2:9)-- the man child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron (rev.
12:5)[As I live saith the Lord God, surely with a mighty hand and with a 
stretched out arm, and with fury poured out will I rule over you. And I will 
cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the 
covenant: and I will purge out from among you the rebels and them that 
transgress against me (ezk.20:33,37,38)]. 

       Many church folk, or "Christians", now-a-days don't want to be ruled 
over. They refuse to pass under the rod. Most think that they can take as much 
or as little of God's word as they want and leave the rest, thinking, "Well, 
that doesn't apply to me." But listen to what those that pass under the rod 
have done and will do: these that have turned the world upside down (act.17:
6). They did the very works of Jesus, just like he said his believers will do 
(jhn.14:12). They spoke as Jesus spoke (luk.4:32,act.4:13,29-31). Their words 
were with power and authority-- God's authority (mrk.13:34)-- the faith which 
was once delivered unto the saints. Which faith we are exhorted to earnestly 
contend for (jud.3). Jesus said to strive to enter in (luk.13:24), and to take 
it by force (mat.11:12). 

       Here are they that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus
(rev.14:12). In the book of Acts people were saved under the anointing (act.
10:44-48); people were healed under the anointing (5:16); people were raised
from the dead under the anointing (9:36-41;20:7-12); people also dropped dead
under the anointing (5:5-10). He's the same God today that he was then. The
Lord knows the thoughts of man: not a single thought can be hid from him: he
reveals the deep and secret things -- good or bad (psa.94:11,job.42:2,
dan.2:22,ecl.12:14). The Lord is a God of mercy and a God of judgment: he is a
just God. "Thus saith the Lord... let him that glorieth glory in this, that he
understands and knows me, that I am the Lord which exercise loving-kindness,
judgment, and righteousness in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith
the Lord."(jer.9:24).

       These are they which follow Jesus wheresoever he goes (rev.14:4), not 
just to church and back -- back to the cares of life. The cares of this world 
choke the word and you become unfruitful. The cares of life restrict God and 
you bring no fruit to perfection. Paul said, "I count all things but loss for 
the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have 
suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win 
Christ, and be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the 
law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is 
of God by faith: that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and 
the fellowship of his sufferings..."(phl.3:8,9,10). 

       We want to fellowship with Jesus' resurrection, but we don't want to 
fellowship with his sufferings. You can't have one without the other. Jesus 
said, "The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord. 
It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his 
lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub [the Devil], how 
much more shall they call them of his household? Fear them not therefore: for 
there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed; and hid that shall not be 
known. What I tell you in darkness, that speak in light: and what you hear in 
the ear, that preach upon the housetops."(mat.10:24-27).

       Jesus said, "If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and 
take up his cross daily, and follow me."(luk.9:23), "For whosoever will save 
his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall 
find it."(mat.16:25). You must lose your natural way of life daily in order to 
find your life in God. Paul said, "I die daily."(Icor.15:31), "I am crucified 
with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives 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."(gal.2:20). And they that are Christ's have 
crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts (5:24). Very few religious 
people today are losing their lives daily to follow Jesus wheresoever he goes: 
to follow him into the very depths of God: that we might know the things that 
are freely given to us of God (Icor.2:12). 

       For since the beginning of the world eyes have not seen, nor ears 
heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has 
prepared for them that love him. "But God has revealed them unto us by his 
Spirit" writes Paul, "for the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep 
things of God."(is.64:4,Icor.2:9,10). Jesus said that the reason why we are 
not going into the depths of God, the reason why we are not bringing the fruit 
of his word and work to perfection, is because when we have heard his word, 
go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life 
(luk.8:14). 

       "But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are
found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid. For if I
build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. For I
through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God." Paul
explained (gal.2:17). Likewise reckon also yourselves to be dead indeed unto
sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. And if Christ be in
you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of
righteousness (rom.6:11;8:10). When you receive Jesus in your heart your
sinful nature dies: your flesh with the affections and lusts are crucified
with Christ. It is Jesus in you that overcomes sin. You didn't overcome a
single sin in your life: Christ in you overcame that sin (jhn.8:31-36;16:33,
col.1:26-28).

       Paul wrote about the body, the mind, and the spirit. Paul said that
while he served the law of God with his mind, he was still held captive to the
law of sin. But he said that when he started walking after the Spirit of God
with his spirit, when he started living and walking in the Spirit with his
spirit, when he grew up in Christ and became mature in spirit sin didn't have
dominion over him anymore. Paul was not writing an excuse to sin, as some
would like to believe; rather he was explaining how to be delivered from sin.
Paul couldn't stop sinning in his flesh as long as he was serving God with his
mind; and neither can we. But when he took the desire and zeal that was in his
mind to serve God and put it in his heart and started serving God with his
spirit he became an overcomer; and so can we (rom.6&7&8,Icor.13:11,gal.5:25,
Ijhn.4:4).

       There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ
Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the
Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.
For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God
sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned
sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us,
who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit (rom.8:1-4). "If the Son
therefore shall make you free, you shall be free indeed." said Jesus (jhn.8:
36). Free from sin! Now being made free from sin (rom.6:22), in this present
world (tit.2:12), because as he is, so are we in this world (Ijhn.4:17).
Though Jesus were a Son, yet he learned obedience by the things which he
suffered (heb.5:8). For even hereunto were you called: because Christ also
suffered for us, leaving us an example that you should follow his steps: who
did no sin (Ipet.2:21,22)!

       Jesus said to be perfect (mat.5:48). It would be stupidity to think
that he would tell us something he knew we would not be able to do. But he
said that we must first be born again (jhn.3). Now we can't be born again
after the flesh. "How can a man be born when he is old?" Nicodemus asked
Jesus, "can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?"
Jesus answered, "Most assuredly I say unto you, Ecxept a man be born of water
and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God."(jhn.3:4-5). We
have to be reborn of the Spirit of God. You and I are Adam and Eve's
offspring. And they messed up big time. They failed to have dominion over all
the earth. They failed to conquer Satan. They didn't overcome sin; and you and
I can't overcome sin, on our own, that is. Have you ever heard of the term
"it's genetic"? It is in our genes, so to speak, to commit sin: however, it is
not an excuse to commit sin. The first Adam failed, but the second Adam (Jesus
Christ) overcame (Icor.15:45-47). God himself walked this earth as a man to
conquer Satan for us (see chapter five of this book). He shed his own blood
for me and you: and it is in and through and with his blood that we overcome.
If we would only realize what God did some two-thousand years ago. If we would
only realize the power that is in the blood of Jesus. If we would only realize
what being born again really means.

        Jesus said that we must be born again. And here is why: And the woman
said unto the serpent [the devil], We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the
garden: but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God
has said, You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.
And the serpent said unto the woman, You shall not surely die... (Satan
beguiled Eve through her mind when he convinced her to doubt God: and man's
heart, soul, mind and flesh was corrupted and blinded (gen.6:12,IIcor.4:4;11:
3) And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was
pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise she took of
the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and
he did eat. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they
were naked (gen.3:2-4,6,7).

       It was then that man, instead of walking after God, started walking
after his five sense knowledge, the sense of sight, sound, smell, taste and
touch. And it was then that God made the wisdom of this world foolish: for it
was then that man chose the knowledge of sin over the knowledge and wisdom of
God (for after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it
pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe... God
has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise. But the
natural man, including the natural minded Christian, receives not the things
of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know
them, because they are spiritually discerned) (gen.2:9,16,17,Icor.1:20,21,24,
27;2:14). From that day on man's soul was dead, void of God, separated from
God, and their bodies began to age and die (gen.3:23-24;6:3,rom.5:12). That is
why man will always seek to fill that empty place in his soul, whether it be
with the true God or with a false god. But without the true God there is no
true peace. "There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked."(is.57:21).

       In the beginning God made man in His own image. But in the day that
they partook of the knowledge of good and evil they were born in the image of
the wicked one. In the day that they partook of the knowledge to make one
"wise", the knowledge to be one's own god, they were born of the devil (and
now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do)
(gen.1:27;2:7,25;3:5-7;11:6,is.14:9-17,Icor.15:42-49). This is why we must be
reborn in the image of God. Not re-incarnated, re-born. David wrote, "Behold,
I was shaped in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me."(psa.51:5).
Jesus said, "That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born
of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto you, You must be born
again." [the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to
direct his steps (jer.10:23)] "You are from beneath; I am from above: you are
of this world; I am not of this world... You are of your father the devil, and
the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning,
and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks
a lie, he speaks of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it."(jhn.3:6-
7;8:23,44).

       Jesus, who did no sin (Ipet.2:22), was sent in the likeness of sinful 
flesh (rom.8:3), made of a woman, made under the law (gal.4:4). For God so 
loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoso-ever believes 
in him should not perish, but have everlasting life (jhn.3:16). In whom we 
have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: who is the 
image of the invisible God (col.1:14,15). Who gave himself for our sins, that 
he might deliver us from this present evil world (gal.1:4,jhn.10:17-18). He 
was made to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the 
righteousness of God in him (IIcor.5:21). Jesus said, "Most assuredly I say 
unto you, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."(jhn.
3:3).

       We must be born again. Peter said, "Being born again, not of 
corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which lives and 
abides for-ever."(Ipet.1:23). John said, "Whosoever is born of God does not 
commit sin; for his seed remains in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born 
of God....... whosoever is born of God sins not; but he that is begotten of 
God keeps himself, and that wicked one touches him not."(Ijhn.3:7;5:18). How 
many of you know that if you eat something that's hard to digest and it 
doesn't agree with you, you will either throw it up or it will pass right 
through you largely undigested? Is His seed remaining in you? or just passing 
through? If you are honestly and sincerely striving to be like Jesus, you may 
stumble along the way, but you will come to the place where His seed will 
remain in you, and sin will have no place in you (for a just man falls seven 
times, and rises up again (prv.24:16). For we are made partakers of Christ, if 
we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end (heb.3:14). 

       If you are being told that you cannot be like Jesus here in this
present world, it is a lie of the devil: for he is a liar, and the father of
it (jhn.8:44). Because Jesus is not coming back for an imperfect church. Jesus
is coming back for a perfect people, a chosen generation, a royal priesthood,
a holy nation, a peculiar people: he is coming back for a holy church without
spot and without blemish (Ipet.2:9,eph.5:26,27,IIpet.3:14). These are they
which are alive and remain that keep the commandments of God and the faith of
Jesus unto the coming of the Lord (Iths.4:15,rev.14:12). This is the glory of
the latter house which is greater than of the former (hag.2:9). This is the
glory which is soon to be revealed in us at the revelation of Jesus Christ,
when the mystery of God should be finished in the days of the seventh angel
when he shall begin to sound (rom.8:18,Ipet.1:13,rev.10:7)-- when that which
is perfect is come, the total redemption of the body of Christ (Icor.13:10,
luk.21:28,eph.4:30;1:14,rom.8:23,is.35:4). Therefore are they before the
throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple (here in this world,
because there is no night in heaven (rev.22:5)-- for they are without fault
before the throne of God (rev.7:15;14:5)(see chapter ten of this book).

       Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may
obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need (heb.4:16). For the grace
of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that,
denying ungodliness and worldy lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and
godly, in this present world (tit.2:11-12)-- According as he has chosen us in
him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without
blame before him in love (eph.1:4). This is the gospel of Jesus Christ which
is the gospel of God (mrk.1:1,Itim.1:11). This is the word of reconciliation
(IIcor.5:19). Jesus has brought life and immortality to light through the
gospel (IItim.1:10). This is the gospel which prepares you for eternal life.
And when you eat this gospel of the kingdom, when you eat this word and digest
it, then it remains in you and sets you free indeed from sin; because as He
is, so are we in this world; because greater is He that is in you than he that
is in the world (jhn.8:36,Ijhn.4:4,17): greater is He that remains in you.

       But we have to believe to receive. Some of us don't believe that we can 
live sin free: we don't believe the word. The devil has convinced some of us 
that we can never be like Jesus so why even try. Jesus said to repent and 
believe the gospel (mrk.1:15). Without faith it is impossible to please him: 
for he that comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of 
them that diligently seek him (heb.11:6). God is a spiritual, mental and 
physical rewarder of them that will honestly seek him without giving up. Paul 
said, "I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me."(phl.4:13). 
And this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith (IIjhn.15:4): 
our faith in the word. Jesus said, "I have overcome the world."(jhn.16: 33), 
and, "The prince of this world... has nothing in me."(14:30). Jesus overcame 
the devil with the word here in this world. In the beginning was the Word, and 
the Word was with God, and the Word was God... And the Word was made flesh 
[JESUS], and dwelt among us (1:1,14). Jesus was and is the Word, and he 
overcame with the Word. Your faith in the Word, and the Word, God, Jesus 
remaining and living in you is your power to overcome. This is Christ in you 
the hope of glory (col.1:26-28)!

       For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under the law 
but under grace (rom.6:14). By grace are you saved through faith (eph.2:8). 
What then? shall we sin because we are not under the law, but under grace? God 
forbid. How shall we that are dead to sin live any longer therein? (rom.6:15,
2)-- You have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. And you have 
forgotten the exhortation which speaks unto you as unto children, My son, 
despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked of him: 
for whom the Lord loves he chastens and scourges every son whom he receives 
(heb.12:4-6). You shall also consider in your heart, that, as a man chastens 
his son, so the Lord your God chastens you (dut.8:5). 

       If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son 
is he whom the Father chastens not? But if you be without chastisement, 
whereof all are partakers, then are you bastards and not sons. Now no 
chastening for the present seems to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless 
afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are 
exercised thereby (heb.12:7,8,11). God loves us: and it is for that very 
reason why he rebukes us and makes us sorrowful. But though he cause grief, 
yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies (lam.3:
32). God's mercy is not a license to sin. Grace forbids sin (rom.6). Godly 
sorrow works repentance to salvation (IIcor7:10). Godly sorrow causes you to 
acknowledge your iniquity (jer.3:13). It causes you to admit that you are 
wrong (mat.5:24). It causes you to confess and forsake your sins (prv.28:13). 

                               ~ Chapter Three ~
                             The Elijah Ministry

       The Apostle John wrote, "And there was given me a reed like unto a rod:
and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the
alter, and them that worship therein. But the court which is without the
temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles..."
(rev.11:1,2). The time is come for God's people to be measured. God is
measuring His church. Seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud
of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which does so easily
beset us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the
joy that was set before him endured the cross (heb.12:1,2). Let us therefore
fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you
should seem to come short of it. For he spoke in a certain place of the
seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.
And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest. They to whom it was
first preached entered not in because of unbelief. To-day if you will hear his
voice, harden not your hearts (4:1,4,5,6,7).

       There remains therefore a rest to the people of God (heb.4:9). There is
a real physical rest and a real peace of mind and soul for God's people on the
sabbath day: for those who from their hearts keep the sabbath holy. There is a
real spiritual rest for God's people on the sabbath day and on every day for
that matter: for those who dwell in Jesus, in the secret place in the Spirit
of the most High and keep His commandments with their hearts (psa.91:1,gal.5:
25,jhn.14:15-24). Jesus said, "My peace I give unto you: not as the world
gives..."(jhn.14:27). Isaiah said, "You will keep him in perfect peace, whose
mind is stayed on you: because he trusts in you."(is.26:3). The Lord said, "My
people have been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray,
they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to
hill, they have forgotten their resting place."(jer.50:6), and, "This is the
rest wherewith you may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing:
yet they would not hear."(is.28:12). Let us labour therefore to enter into
that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief (heb.4:11).

     Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after
the same example of unbelief (heb.4:11). Examine yourselves, whether you be in
the faith; prove your own selves. Know not your own selves, how that Jesus
Christ is in you, except you be reprobates? (IIcor.13:5). Work out your own
salvation with fear and trembling (phl.2:12). For if we would judge ourselves,
we should not be judged. But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord,
that we should not be condemned with the world (Icor.11:31,32).

       Do you hear what God is calling us if we are without chastisement or 
corrections from him? bastards (heb.12:8). Pure religion undefiled before God 
is for a Christian to keep himself, or herself, unspotted from the world (jam.
1:27). Paul said, "The foundation of God stands sure, having this seal, The 
Lord knows them that are his. And, Let every-one that names the name of Christ 
depart from iniquity."(IItim.2:19). God said He will rebuke us and reprove us. 
Listen to what He is telling us, "These things have you done, and I kept 
silence; you thought that I was altogether such a one as yourself: but I will 
reprove you, and set them in order before your eyes."(psa.50:21). 

       God is setting his true church in order right now whether we like it or 
not, whether we receive it or not (Ipet.4:17). Beware therefore, lest that 
come upon you which is spoken of in the prophets; Behold, you despisers, and 
wonder and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which you shall in 
no wise believe though a man declare it unto you (act.13:40-41). For the Lord 
shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of 
Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, 
his strange act (is.28:21)....... that frustrate the tokens of liars, and make 
diviners mad; that turn wise men backward, and make their knowledge foolish; 
that confirms the word of his servant (44:25,26). 

       "I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which
walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts..."(is.65:2).
"Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips
do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward
me is taught by the precept of men..."(29:13). God said, "Your own wickedness
shall correct you, and your backslidings shall reprove you: know therefore and
see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that you have forsaken the Lord your
God, and that my fear is not in you, saith the Lord God of hosts."(jer.2:19).

       "But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in
heart shall follow it."(psa.94:15). "Judgment also will I lay to the line, and
righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of
lies, and waters shall overflow the hiding place."(is.28:17). The spirit and
power of Elijah is now going to be sent to turn the hearts of the children of
God to their spiritual fathers -- the Apostles and Prophets and Jesus Christ
the head (mal.4:5,6,eph.2:20). There is only one major prophet on the scene
today who even comes close to the Elijah prophet. He is either the Elijah
prophet, or he is the forerunner of the Elijah prophet (see chapter fifteen
of this book).

       Jesus said that Elijah is come: and that Elijah shall come and restore 
all things (mat.17:11,12). The Elijah ministry is a two part ministry, the 
latter being a double portion of the former (IIkng.2:9-14). John the Baptist 
was number one, but number two doesn't arrive on the scene until the latter 
days to restore the Church. John the Baptist was the voice of him that cried 
in the wilderness to prepare the way of the Lord, to prepare a people, to 
prepare the Church that was to be born (psa.22:30-31;102:18,is.40:3,luk.1:17): 
he didn't restore the Church, because the Church was not yet born: he prepared 
the way. But this second Elijah, the double portion ministry of Elijah, is the 
restorer of all things, the restorer of the Church that has already been born 
(mal.4:5-6). Malachi prophesied, "But who may abide the day of his coming? and 
who shall stand when he appears? for he is like a refiners fire, and like 
fullers soap: and he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he 
shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they 
may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness."(mal.3:2,3).  

       And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will 
eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by your 
name, to take away our reproach (is.4:1). This one man is Jesus, and these 
seven women are the seven golden candlesticks, the seven churches in 
Revelation to whom Jesus said, among other things, "I have somewhat against 
you...", "I have not found your works perfect before God.", "I will come unto 
you quickly, and will remove your candlestick out of his place, except you 
repent.", and, "As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, 
and repent."(rev.2:4,5;3:2,19). 

       Isaiah was seeing the spiritual condition of many of these churches and
church folk today that use the title of  "Christianity", but are holding on to
their worldly ways, worshiping in the court which is without the temple, doing
their own little things, teaching their own little doctrines, promoting their
own lukewarm interpretation of the scriptures. The temple referred to here is
your heart which is the temple of God (Icor.3:17,eph.2:22;3:16-17,jam.2:26);
and the court which is without the temple is your flesh, your natural mind
(rom.8:8). Some of us who call ourselves Christians today act like Jesus, but
we don't live like him. Some of us want to be called by Jesus' name. Some of
us want to take hold of Jesus, but we are eating our own bread -- our own
religious beliefs, and wearing our own apparel -- our own religious spirit,
trying to please God from the outside in, worshiping in the court which is
without the temple. But God is measuring his elect today (rev.11:1;2:27). God
is measuring us, judging us and correcting us this very hour (Icor.11:32,
heb.12:7-8). The Spirit of Jesus is now calling us to come out from among
these false doctrines, and to come out from among these lukewarm churches.
"Be zealous therefore, and repent."

       In that day shall the branch of the Lord be beautiful and glorious, and 
the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped 
of Israel. And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Jerusalem, shall 
be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem: 
when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and 
shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit 
of judgment, and by the spirit of burning. And the Lord will create upon every 
dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by 
day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall 
be a defence. And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from 
the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain 
(is.4:2-6). God is not talking about the after-life here because there is no 
night or storm in heaven (rev.22:5). He is talking about here and now.

       Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with 
righteousness (is.1:27), when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the 
daughters of Zion by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning. And 
it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day... and the rest 
of the trees of his forest shall be few (10:17,19). We are the trees of his 
forest (61:3). If you don't think that God is talking to each and every one of 
us here, then think again. "For thus saith the Lord to the men of Judah and 
Jerusalem [that's us, his people], Break up your fallow ground, and sow not 
among thorns. Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, and take away the foreskins 
of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury 
come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of 
your doings."(jer.4:3-4). 

       God is not talking to pagans, heathens or sinners here: he is talking 
to me and you. For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of 
God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not 
the gospel of God? and if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the 
ungodly and the sinner appear? (Ipet.4:17,18). The righteous scarcely saved -
- Jesus said that many will seek to enter in and shall not be able (luk.13:
24). Why? because of sin in our hearts.

       God gave us his Spirit to lead us in the way we should go, and to
convict us when we do something wrong (convict, not condemn). But when you
over-ride that conviction your conscience is in the process of being seared.
If you ignore that conviction long enough eventually you'll become totally
desensitized to it, and committing the sin that would have had you on your
knees repenting will no longer even bother you.

       Some of us have all but lost our commitment and conviction to pray and
live a separated, holy and dedicated life unto God. When you stop praying or
when you are slack in your prayer life you don't have the mind of Christ: you
will not feel conviction about doing some things you shouldn't be doing. God
gave us his Spirit to lead us in the way we should go; and to convict us if,
or when, we do something wrong (convict, not condemn). However, if you over-
ride that conviction your conscience is in the process of being seared. And if
you ignore that conviction long enough eventually you'll become totally
desensitized to it, and committing a sin that would have had you on your knees
repenting will no longer even bother you or make you feel remorse.

       ~A Prayer~ O righteous, holy and just God, in the name of Jesus put
your fear in us. Put the fear of God in me. Shake us and wake us up before
it's too late. You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the
light of your countenance. We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness, and the
iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against you. Have mercy upon me,
O God, according to your lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of your
tender mercies blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my
iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions.
Cleanse me from secret faults. Sprinkle the blood of Jesus on our hearts. For
only your blood can take away sins. The precious blood of Jesus is the only
antidote for sin. Give me your blood to drink. Give me a new strength and
hunger in my heart to seek you. Change me today, not tomorrow, right here and
now; and refill me with Your Spirit. Behold, you desire truth in the inward
parts: and in the hidden part you shall make me to know wisdom. Create in me a
clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from
your presence; and take not your holy Spirit from me. Open my eyes, that I may
behold wondrous things out of your law. I am a stranger in the earth: hide not
your commandments from me. Cause me to be a doer of the word, and not a hearer
only, deceiving my own self (psa.19:12;51:1-11;90:8;119:18-19,jer.14:20,
jam.1:22).

       Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man sows, that
shall he also reap. For he that sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap
corruption; but he that sows to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life
everlasting (gal.6:7-8). Whatever kind of seed you plant in your garden is
what will grow there and is what you will reap. Whatever kind of seed you
plant in your heart is what will grow there and is what you will reap. The
things we say and do, the things we believe and the information we allow
ourselves to be exposed to, be it good or bad, be it right or wrong, be it
true or misguided will influence us and effect us accordingly. And with what
measure we mete withal, good or bad, it shall be measured back to us (luk.6:
38). And with what judgment we judge, good or bad, we shall be judged (mat.7:
2). We will reap exactly what we sow. If you are sowing things of the world in
your heart, then things of the world is what you'll bring forth. If you are
sowing the word of God [Jesus] in your heart, then Jesus is what you'll bring
forth. If some of us would pray and read the Bible as much as we watch TV or
do other pastime activities we would be bringing forth Jesus in deed and in
truth, healing the sick, casting out devils, raising the dead -- doing
exploits for God (jhn.14:11-14,dan.11:32); or at the very least we would be
much closer to Him.

       It is time to start living what we believe. We need to practice what we 
preach. If we believe the word, we ought to live the word. Paul said, "Even so 
hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the 
gospel."(Icor.9:14). We are not our own. We are bought with a price (6:19,20). 
We are not of this world (jhn.15:19;17:14). Listen, "If you will obey my voice 
indeed, and keep my covenant, then you shall be a peculiar treasure unto me 
above all people..."(ex.19:5), "And you shall be holy unto me: for I the Lord 
am holy, and have severed you from other people, that you should be mine."
(lev.20:26). 

       It's time to become strangers with the world: meaning it is time to 
estrange your-self from the ways of the world. Some of us want to remain 
friends with the world. Some of us want to become friends with the world. You 
adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that the friendship of the world 
is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the 
enemy of God (jam.4:4). 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. For 
all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and 
the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world 
passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that does the will of God abides 
for-ever (Ijhn.2:15-17). 
       
       God said he would rule over us. And that he would reprove, chastise, 
rebuke and purge us, and cause us to pass under the rod. It is a fearful thing 
to fall into the hands of the living God (heb.10:31). There is very little 
fear of God in the churches today. Why? because very few have fallen into the 
hands of the living God. Very few have laid down their whole life and fallen 
upon that stone -- Jesus. Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken 
(luk.20:18). Some of us don't want to be broken. King David said, "The 
sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, 
you will not despise."(psa.51:17). The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. 
Some of us are to proud to be broken. Jesus said, "Blessed are the poor in 
spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."(mat.5:3). Poor in spirit means 
humble in spirit. God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble (jam.4:
6,Ipet.5:5). A high look, and a proud heart is sin (prv.21:4). Many are giving 
God lip service today, but their hearts are full of pride: self-righteous 
religious pride.
 
       Most men [and women] will proclaim every-one his own goodness: but a 
faithful man who can find? (prv.20:6). No wonder God can't break and make 
some of you. You are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knows
your heart (luk.16:15). Quit proclaiming how good of a Christian you are.
Jesus as a man said that none is good, but one, that is God (mat.19:17,
luk.18:19). It's Christ in you, God in you doing good: it's not you. The pride
of your heart has deceived you (obd.3). Jesus as a man said, "Why call me
good?"(mat.19:17), "The Father that dwells in me, he does the works."(jhn.14:
10). A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from above (3:27). So
then it is not of him that wills nor of him that runs, but of God that shows
mercy (rom.9:16).

       It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his 
compassions fail not (lam.3:22). God saved the children of Israel for his 
name's sake (psa.106:8). King David said, "He leads me in the paths of 
righteousness for his name's sake."(23:3). It's not because of our good works. 
All our righteousnesses are as filthy rags (is.64:6). "Not for your sakes do I 
this, saith the Lord, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your 
own ways, O house of Israel."(ezk.36:32). Jesus said, "When you shall have 
done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable 
servants: we have done that which was our duty to do."(luk.17:10).

       Moses told the children of Israel, "Not for your righteousness, or for 
the uprightness of your heart, do you go to possess their land: but for the 
wickedness of these nations the Lord your God does drive them out from before 
you, and that he may perform the word which the Lord sware unto your fathers, 
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Understand therefore, that the Lord your God gives 
you not this good land to possess it for your righteousness; for you are a 
stiffnecked people."(dut.9:5,6). When a true preacher of God stands up today
and tells us that we are stiffnecked, some of us are ready to curse him out, 
reject him and cast out his name as evil.

       God resists the proud, and gives grace to the humble (Ipet.5:5). We 
have to be clay in the potter's hand: we have to be like putty in God's hand
(is.64:8,jer.18:6,rom.9:20,21). But some of us are too starchy and stiff-
necked: we won't endure chastening (jer.17:21-27,ezk.2:3-10,act.7:51). But
reproofs of instruction are the way of life (prv.6:23). However, a fool has no
delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself (18:2). 

                              ~ Chapter Four ~
                        Behold, I Give Unto You Power
        
       "He that loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and
he that loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And he that
takes not his cross, and follows after me, is not worthy of me." Jesus said
(mat.10:37-38). He said that we have to deny ourselves and take up our cross
daily. Paul said, "We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are
perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but
not destroyed; always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus,
that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body."(IIcor.4:8-
10).

       You have to sacrifice your life daily in order to have the life of
Jesus revealed in you. Paul said, "For which cause we faint not; but though
our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day."(IIcor.4:
16). John said, "He [Jesus] must increase, but I must decrease."(jhn.3:30).
Paul said, "I die daily."(Icor.15:31). Why? that the life of Jesus might be
made manifest, or revealed, in our mortal flesh (IIcor.4:11). Our mortal
flesh, not our immortal flesh: right here in this world, not just in the world
to come (Ijhn.4:17)-- The Lord working with them and confirming the word with
signs following (mrk.16:20)-- He's no different today!

       How many of us are daily crucifying our flesh with our affections and
lusts? How many of us are presenting our bodies a living sacrifice holy
acceptable unto God which is our reasonable service? daily? When Jesus'
disciples were unable to heal a certain sick person, he told them, "This kind
can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting."(mrk.9:29). Praying like
Jesus prayed. Praying and fasting like the disciples in the Bible did. Paul
said, "In fastings often..."(IIcor.11:27). Some of us are more dedicated to
our stomachs than we are to our God. The Bible said that some people's God is
their belly (phl.3:19,rom.16:18). But read what kind of fast God told us to go
on -- read Isaiah chapter 58. And in the New Testament too he said to present
our bodies a living sacrifice holy acceptable unto God which is our reasonable
service. And be not conformed to this world: but be transformed by the
renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good, and acceptable,
and perfect will of God (rom.12:1,2). He said it's our reasonable service. And
his commandments are not grievous (Ijhn.5:3). They are all plain to him that
understands, and right to them that find knowledge (prv.8:9).

       Jesus said, "Behold, I give unto you power... over all the power of the
enemy..."(luk.10:19). How? by prayer and fasting, and by the Word through
faith. He said, "If you continue in my word, then are you my disciples
indeed..."(jhn.8:31). If we continue in his word, then we are not his
disciples in word only, but in deed. And Jesus spent many sleepless nights in
prayer, sometimes praying all night till dawn (mat.14:23,mrk.1:35;6:46;14:38,
luk.5:16;6:12;18:1;21:36). I mean really praying, not this lip service stuff
or this TV preacher style mumbo jumbo. The Apostles said, "We will give
ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word." The 
Apostles also fasted regularly. And with great power gave the Apostles
witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus (act.4:33;6:4;13:2-3;14:23).

       The Bible says that Jesus, our example, was led by the Spirit to fast
and pray: the Spirit drove him into the wilderness to fast and pray (mat.4:1,
2,luk.4:1,2,mrk.1:12,13). Are we asking God to drive us into the wilderness to
fast and pray? Fasting and praying breaks your will and keeps your carnal mind
under subjection so that God can use you. Jesus returned in the power of the
Spirit, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, and saying, "The time is
fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent, and believe the gospel."
(mrk.1:15,luk.4:14).

       Jesus went about healing all manner of sickness and disease among the
people (mat.4:23). He rebuked the devil, saying unto him, "You dumb and deaf
spirit, I charge you, come out of him, and enter no more into him."(mat.17:18,
mrk.9:25). For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against
principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this
world, against spiritual wickedness in high places (eph.6:12). Jesus didn't
medicate diseases and illnesses, because he recognized them for what they
were -- bondages of Satan(luk.13:16). I'm not condemning anyone for taking
medicine or seeing a doctor. I'm encouraging you to earnestly contend for the
faith which was once delivered unto the saints and to let this mind be in you
which was also in Christ Jesus. To heal the sick, Jesus didn't use the potions
and remedies available in his day, he spoke the Word only (psa.107:20,
mat.8:8).

       They were astonished at Jesus' doctrine: for his word was with power
(luk.4:32). They questioned among themselves, saying, What thing is this? what
new doctrine is this? for with authority and power he commands even the
unclean spirits, and they do obey him (mrk.1:27). The word, prayer and
fasting, mixed with faith: only then will we have power over all the power of
the enemy: power over sin, sickness and death! Yes, even death. The dedicated
believers in the early Church had power over death. And we, as believers, have
in our possession the power and authority to do the very works and miracles
that Jesus did (mrk.16:17,jhn.1:12;14:12)-- Power to do the miraculous! It's
His Word!! But we must be ready, willing and able to freely give to others
what God has freely given to us, and not be slothful or doubtful. If we are
not receiving miracles, it is because of our unbelief; and if we are not doing
miracles, it is because of our doubts (mat.10:6-8;21:21,luk.8:50).

       Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who, being in
the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God (phl.2:5,6). The
Bible tells us to be spiritually minded: it tells us to have the mind of
Christ. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is
life and peace (rom.8:6). Some of us are not as spiritually minded as we might
think. Some of us think of miracles as extraordinary occurrences; and not as
something that should take place every day in our lives. Why? Because we are
more carnally minded than spiritually minded. Jesus said, "He that believes on
me, the works that I do shall he do also..."(jhn.14:12). All manner of
sickness and disease was subject to Jesus. Every devil was subject to Him. The
sea, the waves and the wind were subject to Him. He said, "If you abide in me,
and my words abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done
unto you."(jhn.15:7). If we are living and walking in the Spirit, then
miracles are our way of life (gal.5:25,jhn.10:10).

       We need to get in our prayer closets and bombard the heavens with
strong, sincere, earnest prayer until we are prayed through (having laid aside
every weight and every sin which does so easily beset us); until we have
overcome every obstacle of doubt and unbelief; until we be endued with power
from on high. Most of us will take out a little time here and there from our
busy lives to do a little praying, when it should be the other way around. We
should be taking out a little time from our praying to take care of our
natural business and then get right back into prayer. Praying brings the
spiritual rain down from heaven to water the Word that is in your heart. James
said, "The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much."
(jam.5:16).

       I can remember quite vividly when I was a child a feeling would come
over me and overwhelm me to sigh and to travail. I didn't give it much thought
back then. But by my early teens the feeling came more frequently and was more
intense. And although Jesus would speak to my heart to let me know that it was
him drawing me unto himself (jhn.12:32,rev.3:20), not knowing much about God
then, knowing only what the Catholic Church and other worldly religions
taught, I had begun to question my own sanity. I would get alone and just cry
and call out to God. This went on sporadically for several years (as I was
somewhat rebellious), until Jesus revealed himself unto me and filled me with
the Holy Ghost: and then it all became so clear. It was the Spirit of God
drawing me to Jesus then, just as it is the Spirit of God drawing us closer to
him today: if we'll let him (jhn.6:44,65). For we know not what we should pray
for as we ought: but the Spirit itself makes intercession for us with
groanings which cannot be uttered (rom.8:26). But we must yield to God, not
man (Iths.5:19)! Lift Jesus up with your heart and cry out to him! Pour out
your heart like water before the face of the Lord: and he will draw you into
his presence and comfort you (psa.140:13,is.61:1-3,lam.2:19,jhn.12:32;14:18)!

       Some of God's people today don't know how to fast and pray like Jesus
and the Christians in the early church did. And some just don't want to put
forth the effort and take the time out to do it. This is why we don't have the
faith which was once delivered unto the saints (jud.3)-- the faith of Jesus
(rev.14:12)-- the true latter rain outpouring (hos.6:3). This is why we have
not come to the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man, unto the
measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: that we henceforth be no more
children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine
(eph.4:13,14).

       Paul said, "Be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be
children, but in understanding be men."(Icor.14:20), and, "We know in part,
and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away. When I was a child, I spoke as a child,
I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put
away childish things."(13:9-11). Therefore leaving the principles of the
doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection (heb.6:1). It's time to grow
up in Christ!

       He must increase, but we must decrease. Jesus said, "When you were
young, you clothed yourself, and walked where you would: but when you shall be
old, you shall stretch forth your hands, and another shall clothe you, and
carry you where you would not."(jhn.21:18). For as many as are led by the
Spirit of God, they are the sons of God (rom.8:14). He said, "Except a corn of
wheat fall into the ground and die, it abides alone: but if it die, it brings
forth much fruit. He that loves his life shall lose it; and he that hates his
life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal."(jhn.12:24-25). Some of us
have not yet died carnally: we haven't totally put off our old man. Jesus said
that we have to be crucified and buried first, our own ways and thoughts
crucified and buried before we can have his life in us and be clothed with his
Spirit.

       Every day you have to die to live for God. There is hope of a tree, if
it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof
will not cease (job.14:7). It's not easy to die daily. It's not easy to
decrease daily. It's not easy to have our way cut down. Jesus never said it
was easy. Paul said, "When I am weak, then am I strong."(IIcor.2:10), "I live;
yet not I, but Christ lives in me..."(gal.2:20). Jesus said, "My strength is
made perfect in weakness."(IIcor.12:10).

       "For this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might
show forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter
believe on him to life everlasting." wrote Paul (Itim.1:16), and, "Unto me,
who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given... to make all
men see what is the fellowship of the mystery..."(eph.3:8,9). He said, "My
little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in
you."(gal.4:19). When God tries to impregnate us with the meat of his word to
cause us to bring forth the man child -- Jesus -- many are resisting him and
drawing back to lukewarm religious perdition. "Now the just shall live by
faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him."(heb.
10:38).

       Be in pain and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman
in travail (mic.4:10). Revelation says that in the last days God's true
people, his true Church, being with child cried, travailing in birth, and
pained to be delivered. And she brought forth a man child -- the measure of
the stature of the fulness of Christ in you (eph.4:13)-- after that you have
suffered a while make you perfect (Ipet.5:10)-- because as he is so are we in
this world (Ijhn.4:17)-- And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule
all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up (not raptured out)
unto God, and to his throne (rev.12:2,5).

       "Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was
delivered of a man child. Who has heard such a thing? who has seen such a
thing? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be
born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children."
When we start earnestly travailing and labouring to bring forth the seed of
God, the man child, God is going to manifest himself through us. "Shall I
bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? says the Lord: shall I cause
to bring forth, and shut the womb? says your God."(is.66:7-9). Jesus said, "A
woman when she is in travail has sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon
as she is delivered of the child, she remembers no more the anguish, for joy
that a man is born into the world."(jhn.16:21).

       We need to receive this word into our hearts and act on it before Satan
has a chance to snatch it away from us. Jesus said that when anyone hears the
word of the kingdom and understands it not, then comes the wicked one and
catches away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed
by the way side (mat.13:19). And these are they likewise which are sown on
stony ground; who when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with
gladness; and have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: for
when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, by and by they are
offended (mrk.4:16,17,mat.13:21). And that which fell among thorns are they,
which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches
and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection. But that on the
good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the
word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience (luk.8:14-15).

       Some of us confuse being slothful with being patient. Some of us are
past our due date. It's time to bear fruit. It's time to let God birth the man
child in us. No man, when he has lighted a candle, covers it with a vessel, or
puts it under a bed; but sets it on a candlestick, that they which enter in
may see the light. For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest;
neither anything hid, that shall not be known and come abroad. Take heed
therefore how you hear: for whosoever has, to him shall be given; and
whosoever has not, from him shall be taken even that which he seems to have
(luk.8:16-18;13:6-9).

                              ~ Chapter Five ~
                            Jesus, The True Light

       Like as a woman with child that draws near the time of her delivery is
in pain, and cries out in her pangs; so have we been in your sight, O Lord. We
have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth
wind -- every wind of doctrine (is.26:17,18,jer.22:22,hos.8:7,eph.4:14). Most
preachers have brought forth nothing but winds of doctrines up to this point.

       In the Old Testament Moses told the children of Israel, "Hear, O
Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord."(dut.6:4). And in the New Testament
Jesus reaffirmed this fact (mrk.12:29). Nevertheless II Kings tells us that
every nation made gods of their own and that the children of Israel did
secretly those things that were not right against the Lord their God (IIkng.
17:9,29).

       Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow
ground: for it is time to seek the Lord, till he come and rain righteousness
upon you. You have plowed wickedness, you have reaped iniquity; you have eaten
the fruit of lies: because you did trust in your way, in the multitude of your
mighty men (hos.10:12,13). Some of us trust in our so called "intelligent"
mighty scientists, philosophers, doctors, astrologers, psychics, teachers or
preachers to feed us with what we want to hear. Beware lest any man spoil you
through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the
rudiments of the world, and not after Christ (col.2:8).

       The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel [God's people],
The Lord our God is one Lord: and you shall love him with all your heart,
soul, mind and strength. He said, "You shall have no other gods before me."
(ex.20:3,dut.6:4,5,mrk.12:29,30). And the second is like unto it, You shall
love your neighbour as yourself. On these two commandments hang all the law
and the prophets (lev.19:18,mat.22:39,40). Your God is a consuming fire, even
a jealous God (dut.4:24). You shall not make any graven image, or any likeness
of anything, male or female, that is in heaven above or in the earth beneath
(ex.20:4,dut.4:16)-- You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall
you serve (mat.4:10).

        "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the
government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful,
Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father..." Isaiah prophesied (is.
9:6). The word of God in both the Old and New Testament said that they shall
call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us, and he shall
save his people from their sins (is.7:14;43:11,mat.1:21,23). Know that the
Lord he is God....... God is the Lord (psa.100:3;118:27). And there is only
one Lord (eph.4:5). Jesus said, "I and my Father are one.", and, "He that has
seen me has seen the Father."(jhn.10:30;14:9). Thomas said to Jesus, "My Lord
and my God." Jesus said, "Thomas, because you have seen me, you have believed:
blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed."(jhn.20:28,29).

       Now I want to briefly tell you what this light is, and what this light
is not, that some believe is God. We know by the word of God that Jesus is the
true Light. And we know by the word of God that without holiness no one will
see the Lord. God's word says to follow peace with all men, and holiness,
without which no man shall see the Lord (heb.12:14)-- In the beginning was the
Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God... All things were made
by him; and without him was not any-thing made that was made. In him was life;
and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the
darkness comprehended it not... That was the true Light [Jesus], which lights
every man that comes into the world. He was in the world, and the world was
made by him, and the world knew him not (jhn.1:1,3,4,5,9,10)-- Who only has
immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man
has seen, nor can see (Itim.6:16).

       The "light" which some, after having a near death experience or
otherwise, claim to have seen is not the true light of God if they don't come
back preaching Jesus and true holiness without which no man shall see the Lord
-- For Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no
great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of
righteousness, to deceive (IIcor.11:14,15). Many of them even use the name of
Jesus, just as Jesus said they would, and are deceiving many (mat.24:5). The
devil came to Jesus to deceive even our Lord (mat.4,luk.4). Paul said, "I
marvel that you are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of
Christ unto another gospel: which is not another; but there be some that
trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an
angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have
preached unto you, let him be accursed."(gal.1:6-8).

       Paul said that some are perverting or corrupting the gospel of Christ
through their opinions and philosophies; and some are perverting it by giving
heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils: but the Bible said to let
them be accursed. For if he that comes preaches another Jesus, whom we have
not preached, or if you receive another spirit, which you have not received,
or another gospel, which you have not accepted, or "another testament of
Jesus", you might well bear with him (IIcor.11:4). For many are giving heed to
seducing spirits -- religious spirits which appear as angels of light to teach
corrupted forms of the true gospel of Jesus. Paul said, "But if our gospel
[the true gospel of Jesus Christ] be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: in
whom the god of this world [Satan] has blinded the minds of them which believe
not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God,
should shine unto them."(IIcor.4:3-4). To the law and to the testimony: if
they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in
them (is.8:20).

       Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and
worshiping of angels (col.2:18). There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism
(eph.4:5), one way (jhn.14:6), one door (10:9): for there is one God, and one
mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus (Itim.2:5). There is one
judgment, not two, not two-hundred: as it is appointed unto men once to die,
but after this the judgment (heb.9:27). God is one God: one Lord. He's not
three-thousand gods all in one, nor is he three gods in one. John said that
the Father, the Word and the Holy Ghost are one (Ijhn.5:7). These three are
not IN one: and these three are not OF one: these three ARE one!

       Just as a man may be the president of a country, a husband and a father
all at the same time and is still only one individual, so is God. He's not God
the Father, God the Son and or God the Holy Ghost. God is the Father. God is
the Son. God is the Holy Ghost. God is the Word and the Word is God. God told
Moses, "I AM THAT I AM.", not, "I am those I am", or, "I am these I am" (ex.3:
14). Jesus said, "Before Abraham was, I AM."(jhn.8:58). So you see there is no
such thing as this trinity confusion, praying to saints, purgatory or
reincarnation. It's life or death, heaven or hell: it's one or the other. You
can try to change God's word to fit your belief but it doesn't work.

       If Jesus is the Lord and there is only one Lord and the Lord is
God, then Jesus is God. God spoke through Isaiah, "I am the first, and I am
the last; and beside me there is no God."(is.44:6). Jesus told John, "I am
Alpha and Omega, the first and the last...", "I am Alpha and Omega, the
beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which
is to come, the Almighty."(rev.1:8,11). He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM."
(jhn.8:58). The Lord said, "Look unto me, and be saved, all the ends of the
earth: for I am God, and there is none else."(is.45:22), and, "I, even I, am
the Lord, and beside me there is no saviour."(43:11). Many people claim to
believe in Jesus, but they don't confess him for who he is. John said,
"Believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God:
because many false prophets are gone out into the world."(Ijhn.4:1). Paul said
that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost (Icor.12:3).
If you know in your heart that Jesus is indeed God, then flesh and blood has
not revealed it unto you, but the Holy Ghost (mat.16:17). No one can say that
Jesus is the Lord God, but by the true Spirit of God. It's high time to
realize who Jesus is and worship him for what he is: God our Saviour (jhn.4:
42,act.4:12,Itim.1:1,phm.2:10). Jesus is the everlasting name of the one and
only true God.

       Zechariah prophesied, "In that day shall there be one Lord, and his
name one."(zch.14:9). The name of Jesus is far above every name that is named,
not only in this world, but also in that which is to come (eph.1:21). Neither
is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven
given among men, whereby we must be saved (act.4:12). Paul said, "As I passed
by, and beheld your devotions, I found an alter with this inscription, TO THE
UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore you ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you...
[though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as
there be gods many and lords many (Icor.8:5)] and the times of this ignorance
God winked at; but now commands all men every-where to repent..."(act.17:23,
30).

       God does not condemn man. Man is condemning himself by refusing to
accept the only true God. "And this is the condemnation", explained Jesus, 
"that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than 
light, because their deeds were evil. For every-one that does evil hates the 
light, neither comes to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he 
that does truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that 
they are wrought in God."(jhn.3:19-21). Jesus said that man shall not live by 
bread alone, but by every word of God (dut.8:3,luk.4:4). And the Word was made
flesh, and dwelt among us (jhn.1:1,14). Jesus said, "I am the living bread
which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for-
ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the
life of the world... For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink
indeed."(jhn.6:51,55). If someone cooks a meal for you every day of your life
and set a place for you at the table and you refuse to eat it, you can hardly
blame the cook for you starving to death. Jesus said, "I have prepared my
dinner...", and, "Come; for all things are now ready."(mat.22:4,luk.14:17).
Jesus does not condemn you. You are condemning yourself by refusing to eat
your daily bread from heaven (gen.2:9,mat.6:11,luk.4:4).

       Jesus, as a man, said, "And this is life eternal, that they might know
you the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent."(jhn.17:3). And
without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the
flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles,
believed on in the world, received up into glory (Itim.3:16).

       There is only one way to be saved, and it's easy, and that is to
confess with your mouth that Jesus is the Lord, and to believe in your heart
that he died on the cross for your sins and rose from the dead to give you who
believe everlasting life -- you who truly believe and repent (mrk.1:15,jhn.14:
6,act.4:12,rom.10:8,9,col.1:13-18,heb.9:11-14;10:5-22): then you too will know
without a doubt that Jesus is who the Bible says he is! Jesus said, "I will
not leave you comfortless: I will come to you."(jhn.14:18). As God has said,
"I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they
shall be my people."(IIcor.6:16). For God, who commanded the light to shine
out of darkness, has shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge
of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ (4:6).

                              ~ Chapter Six ~
                               A Price To Pay

       And when Jesus had called the people unto him with his disciples also,
he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and
take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose
it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same
shall save it. For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole
world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his
soul? Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this
adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed,
when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels. (mrk.8:34-38).

       To be a disciple of Jesus Christ you have to hate your own life. Jesus
said, "He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in
this world shall keep it unto life eternal."(jhn.12:25). You have to hate your
own life enough to forsake it daily. We are living in perilous times when men
are lovers of their own selves. Most are lovers of pleasures more than lovers
of God. I believe that the hour of temptation, which Jesus spoke about in
Revelation, is upon us. Many are falling away form sound doctrine and true
holiness and are giving heed to false religious spirits. Jesus said to take
heed to yourselves lest that day come upon you unawares. If you believe that
you are immune to being deceived then you are already deceived. Jesus is
saying today, "Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation."
(luk.21:34;22:46;Icor.10:12;IIths.2:3-12;IItim.3:1-5;rev.3:10).


       There is only one Lord and only one faith: not two Lords and one faith,
or one Lord and three faiths. "Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord;
for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a
family, and I will bring you to Zion: and I will give you pastors according to
my heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding."(jer.3:14,
15). "And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and
profane; and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean. And in
controversy they shall stand in judgment: and they shall judge it according to
my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my
assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths."(ezk.44:23-24). Some of us
would rather not discern between the unclean and the clean, and would prefer
not knowing the difference between the holy and profane, because it might
clash with some of our personal beliefs. We might have to give up some of our
long held traditions and belief systems. Some of us are unwilling to deny
ourselves and forsake everything for Jesus.

       "And in controversy they shall stand in judgment." God's people today
don't like controversy; they want good words and fair speeches, smooth things,
something easily palatable. God's word is as sweet as honey in your mouth, but
once you swallow it, it makes your belly bitter: it's hard to digest. The
trials, tribulations and persecutions we must go through as Christians are
bitter. When you eat the word and become a witness of Jesus Christ, then you
are controversial, and the rejection and persecution you will suffer because
of it is bitter (IItim.3:12). Peter said to grow in grace and in the knowledge
of Jesus (IIpet.3:18). Most don't want to go into the depths of the knowledge
of Jesus because it requires too much personal sacrifice: because the Bible
says that in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increases knowledge
increases sorrow (ecl.1:18). But those that will pay the price, the sufferings
of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall
be revealed in us (rom.8:18). God is going to manifest himself in and through
us, but not before we pay a price.

       For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, works for us a far
more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; while we look not at the things
which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are
seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal (IIcor.4:17,
18).

       You have to pay a price. Where more is known more is required (luk.12:
48). You are saved by grace through faith. You are bought with a price. Jesus
paid a price for your salvation, but you must pay a price to walk with him.
You have to pay a price to follow on to know the Lord. You have to pay a price
to know Jesus and the power of his resurrection here in this world. If Jesus
saved you and then immediately took you on up to heaven, then you would not be
required to take up your cross daily. You would not be required to give
yourself to fasting. You would not be required to be baptized in the name of
Jesus and then receive the Holy Ghost, or vice versa (luk.23:39-43,act.2:38;
19:6;10:44-48,mrk.2:20,Icor.7:5). The thief on the cross was convicted and
sentenced to death. He knew that he was guilty and that his only hope was to
turn to God whom he recognized in Jesus, and to believe and receive whatever
Jesus said. If we would only realize that we all have been found guilty before
God (rom.3:19), then we would have an urgency to truly repent and truly
believe and receive all of his words.

       If you don't believe that there is a price to be paid, then you don't
believe Jesus. Jesus said to deny your-self and take up your cross daily
(luk.9:23). He said, "He that takes not his cross, and follows after me, is
not worthy of me."(mat.10:38), and, "If any man come to me and hate not his
father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yes,
and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple."(luk.14:26). He said that we
have to forsake all (18:22). He said, "Whosoever... forsakes not all that he
has, he cannot be my disciple."(14:33).

       Jesus is not telling you to despise your spouse or to dishonor or
disobey your parents, and neither am I. Jesus said, "Honor your father and
your mother..."(mat.19:19); but he also said, "He that loves father or mother
more than me is not worthy of me..."(10:37). When it comes to the word of God
and doing His will "We ought to obey God rather than men." said the Apostles
(act.5:29). Sometimes what is right in the eyes of God, is not right in the
eyes of man. And sometimes what is right in the eyes of man, is not right in
the eyes of God. I am telling you to respect your spouse and to honor and obey
your parents; but I am also saying that we are to obey God rather than man:
anyone, friend or family.

       If you still don't believe that there is a substantial price to pay to
walk with Jesus, then just listen to what Luke said here in chapter nine: And
it came to pass, that, as they went in the way, a certain man said unto
[Jesus], Lord, I will follow you wheresoever you go. And Jesus said unto him,
Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man has
nowhere to lay his head. And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said,
Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father. Jesus said unto him, Let the
dead bury their dead: but you go and preach the kingdom of God. And another
also said, Lord, I will follow you; but let me first go bid them farewell,
which are at home at my house. And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his
hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God (luk.9:57-
62). It is a big price to pay, but there is an immeasurable reward that comes
with it. But how many of us will sacrifice everything for Jesus?

       The Lord said that He is married to us: and we should be married to Him
(jer.3:14,rom.7:4). Ephesians four says when he ascended up on high, he led
captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men (eph.4:8). Out of the ten lepers
that Jesus healed in Luke seventeen, only one of them turned back and was made
whole. The other nine received their gifts of healing and went their ways to
their religions. Many "Christians" and "Christian" churches today are not
married to Jesus. They are not turning back to be made whole. They are
receiving a gift from him here and there and are going their self-righteous
religious ways.

       Paul said, "These are the two covenants..."(gal.4:24)-- to Abraham and
his seed were the promises made. He says not, And to your seeds, as of many;
but as of one, And to your seed, which is Christ (3:16). Abraham gave all that
he had unto Isaac. But unto the sons of the concubines which Abraham had,
Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son (gen.25:5,6). God is
giving us natural gifts and spiritual gifts and sending us away from his
presence when we don't turn back to him with our whole heart.

       Break forth and cry you that travail not: for the desolate has many
more children than she which has a husband (gal.4:27). Cry aloud you that did
not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the
children of the married wife, says the Lord (is.54:1). Paul said, "But as then
he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the
Spirit, even so it is now."(gal.4:29). If you are reborn after the true Spirit
of God, if you are married to Jesus like you should be and God has put his
seed in your heart to speak his word, then you are in the minority: and not
only does the world hate you, but these wishy-washy, worldly-minded, luke-warm
"Christians" hate you as well. They are of the world: therefore they speak of
the world, and the world hears them (Ijhn.4:5). Jesus said, "If you were of
the world, the world would love his own: but because you are not of the world,
but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you."(jhn.
15:19). John wrote, "Therefore the world knows us not, because it knew Him
not."(Ijhn.3:1).

       The world didn't know Jesus, and his own people didn't receive him
(jhn.1:10,11): they were offended in him (mat.13:57). Jesus' enemies called
him the devil; his friends said he was crazy; and his own brothers didn't
believe in him (mrk.3:21,jhn.7:5). Persecutions against him and negative
feelings toward him were such that Jesus at times went about, not openly, but
as it were in secret (mrk.9:30,jhn.7:10-12). He did not put himself in
precarious situations unnecessarily, and neither should we. He was not naive
or stupid, and neither should we be: and so he warned us, "Be ye therefore
wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. But beware of men..."(mat.10:16,17).
He said, "If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you..."(jhn.15:
20). Moses' own people envied him (psa.106:16). For envy the patriarchs sold
Joseph into Egypt (act.7:9). For envy the chief priests delivered Jesus into
the hands of the Romans to be crucified: the chief priests and elders
persuaded the multitude against Jesus (mat.27:18,20,mrk.15:10). 

       Compared with the religious people, the heathens and sinners had little
to do with persecuting Jesus and having him put to death. Almost exclusively
it was the religious folks who persecuted him. Jesus said that they will
persecute you too. If you are not suffering these persecutions, then you are
not a doer of the word but a forgetful hearer deceiving your own self (IItim.
3:12,jam.2:22).

       "Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?" the
disciples prayed, "And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto
your servants, that with all boldness they may speak your word, by stretching
forth your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of
your holy child Jesus." And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where
they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost,
and they spoke the word of God with boldness (act.4:24-31). The heathen and
the hypocrites will rage when you take a stand for the truth.

       Back in my early Christian days on a calm and starry night with the
nearest rain cloud hundreds of miles away, two very dear Christian brothers of
mine, along with myself, were sitting at a table earnestly seeking the Lord
and reading from the Bible various scriptures concerning Jesus revealing
himself through his people and the manifestation of the sons of God, when
suddenly a roaring sound like thunder shook the whole house we were in like
an earthquake. And although it was neither heard nor felt by anyone else in
the city, there were others in the house, besides us three, who did witness
it. It was God confirming his word, that this indeed was his word and his
will, as the Spirit gave us utterance and filled us with such a peace. This
was only one of among many signs that were given to us, as Jesus opened our
understanding revealing the scriptures to us day after day. And because many
people did not understand what God was revealing through us, they began to
persecute us and speak evil things against us falsely. But as the persecutions
against us grew, the power of God grew even stronger for us: and we spoke the
word of God with boldness, the Lord working with us and confirming the word
with signs and wonders following!

       It is time to seek God like we did when we were first saved. If God
filled you with the Holy Ghost when you were first saved, then he put a deep
hunger in your heart to seek him daily, to pray, to read his word, and to go
on a chosen fast on a regular basis. I heard a good Christian song a while
back that went something like this, "Tell me, who's gonna pay the price that
Jesus said to pay? who's gonna sacrifice their lives? who's gonna fast and
pray?" It's time to get that hunger back. It's time to rededicate our lives to
Jesus and reclaim that zeal we once had when we were really hungering and
thirsting after righteousness; the zeal we had when we couldn't wait to get in
the Bible and read for hours at a time; the zeal we had when we couldn't wait
to pour out our hearts to Jesus in prayer; the zeal we had when we leaped for
joy and were exceeding glad to suffer persecutions for Jesus.

       Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her
youth. The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of
the Lord (jol.1:8,9). Jesus said, "Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man,
and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoso eats my flesh, and drinks
my blood, has eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. For my
flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed."(jhn.5:53-55). Jesus, who
is the meat and drink, is cut off from the house of the Lord.

       "I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto you were not
able to bear it, neither yet now are you able. For you are yet carnal: for
whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions..." exclaimed
Paul (Icor.3:2,3). There has never been more division among Christians and
Christian churches than there is today. When for the time you ought to be
teachers, you have need that one teach you again... and are become such as
have need of milk, and not of strong meat. For every-one that uses milk is
unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. But strong meat
belongs to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have
their senses exercised to discern both good and evil (heb.5:12-14).

       Jesus said to be perfect (mat.5:48). He said that if you don't forsake
all you can't be his disciple (luk.14:33). We have to forsake our envying, our
strife and our self-righteousness. Paul said, "I have suffered the loss of all
things [for Jesus]... but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which
are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before. I press
toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Let
us therefore, as many as be perfect [mature], be thus minded: and if in any-
thing you be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you."(phl.3:8,
13-15).

       Some of us don't want God to reveal the truth to us. When God reveals
something to you out of his word, from that day on you are required of it. If
you turn a deaf ear to it, then you have already backslidden in your heart
(jam.4:17). Paul continues, "Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained,
let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing."(phl.3:16). Many of
us are far from being perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the
same judgment with the apostles and prophets (Icor.1:10,eph.2:19-22). Why?
because we are not eating Jesus. We are not truly hungering and thirsting
after him. We are just snacking on him whenever it is convenient for us. Jesus
said, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God."(luk.4:4).
We are not truly living if we are not living by every word of God, and not
just the ones we like or the ones we agree with. We must eat a completely
balanced spiritual diet which includes the meat of the word.

       Many of Jesus' disciples when they had heard this, said, This is a hard
saying; who can hear it? (jhn.6:60). When Jesus began to wean his disciples
from milk and give them some meat they weren't able to handle it. If you give
a small baby meat chances are he will get sick and throw it up. Many
"Christians" today cannot tolerate the meat of God's word: they get offended
and reject it. We are supposed to be born again, and as new born babes desire
the sincere milk of the word that you may grow thereby (Ipet.2:2). Many church
going people today have a spiritual digestive system disorder. They can't even
properly digest the milk of the word much less the meat. Their growth is
stunted. They've become luke-warm. We are not supposed to stay babies or
children in Christ. We are supposed to grow in grace and in the knowledge of
Jesus (IIpet.3:18): we are supposed to grow up into him in all things (eph.4:
15). Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand
doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts (is.
28:9). From that time many of Jesus' disciples went back and walked no more
with him (jhn.6).

       Jesus said, "If any man come to me and hate not... his own life... he
cannot be my disciple... Whosoever he be of you that forsakes not all that he
has, he cannot be my disciple."(luk.14:26,33). Revelation twelve says that
they, the true disciples, overcame by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of
their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death (rev.12:11).
Peter told Jesus, "We have left all, and have followed you." Jesus answered,
"There is no man that has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or
mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, but he
shall receive a hundredfold now in this time... with persecutions; and in the
world to come eternal life."(mrk.10:28,29,30).

       "Who is my mother? and who are my brothers?" exclaimed Jesus. And he
stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and
my brothers! For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother,
and sister, and mother (mat.12:48-50,mrk.3:35). Now therefore you are no more
strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the
house-hold of God (eph.2:19). Jesus came unto his own, and his own received
him not. But as many as received him, to them he gave power to become the sons
of God, even to them that believe on his name: which were born, not of blood,
nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God
(jhn.1:11-13).

       With persecutions. With what? with persecutions. John said that if you
say you know God and don't keep his commandments you are a liar (Ijhn.2:4).
Jesus said that whosoever breaks one of these least commandments (mat.5:19)--
so we know that he is not just talking about the ten commandments. And Jesus
commanded us to suffer with him (luk.9:23,phl.1:29). If we claim to be
followers of Jesus Christ and we are not suffering the same persecutions that
he suffered, the same persecutions the disciples in the Bible suffered, if we
are not suffering the same persecutions, then we are not following the same
Jesus. Paul said, "Yes, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall
suffer persecution. But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse
deceiving and being deceived." (IItim.3:12-13).

                              ~ Chapter Seven ~
                            Jesus Is Our Passover

       The word of God is offensive to our flesh: it's offensive to our old
man: it's offensive to the Adam nature in us. For the flesh lusts against the
Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to
the other: so that you cannot do the things that you would (gal.5:17). Paul
said, "Though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh."(IIcor.10:
3). You have to quit warring against sin in your flesh and attack it at the
source, in your heart (mrk.7:21-23). For the weapons of our warfare are not
carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds; casting
down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the
knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience
of Christ (10:4,5).
       
       Solomon said, "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every
purpose under the heaven... a time to break down, and a time to build up..."
(ecl.3:1,3). God told Jeremiah, "I have this day set you over the nations and
over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to
throw down, to build, and to plant."(jer.1:10). A true prophet, apostle or
minister is sent by God to tear down traditions and false beliefs and to build
you up on the truth. But who among you will hear? who among you have ears to
hear?

       Your natural mind will always resist the true Spirit of God. Because
the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of
God, neither indeed can be (rom.8:7). The carnal mind simply means the natural
mind. Some of us are walking after our natural, carnal, fleshly minds trying
to please God. We have not put off our old garments, spiritually speaking,
before trying to put on Christ. Some of us have put our old man in the closet
instead of in the grave. It's time to come out of the closet and get into the
grave so to speak. It's time to put off ourself and put on Christ. Some of us
are trying to live for God with our fleshly minds -- our five sense knowledge.
We have the letter of the word in our mind, but not the Spirit of the word in
our heart. We know the letter, but not the Spirit. That's why some of you
won't receive a true prophet or a true minister whom God sends. Jesus said,
"You have not his word abiding in you: for whom he has sent, him you believe
not."(jhn5:38,luk.10:16,Iths.4:8). 
       
       We have to stop walking after the flesh and quit worshipping God with
our natural minds. God is not impressed by our outward display of
righteousness. No man is justified by the law in the sight of God (gal.3:11).
By the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in His sight (rom.3:
20). Some of us have changed on the outside, but we are still the same old man
on the inside. We force ourself to do what's right, and restrain ourself from
doing what's wrong. But it doesn't work. You have to want to change on the
inside. Jesus said that you cannot put new wine into old bottles (luk.5:36-
39). This is why some of us will receive a little milk here and there, but as
soon as God tries to give us some wine and some meat we are offended. It's
called surface religion. It looks good, sounds good and feels good on the
outside. But that's as far as it goes. Jesus said, "Even so you also outwardly
appear righteous unto men, but within you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity."
(mat.23:28). You have to clean first that which is within, that the outside
may be clean also (mat.23:26). You have to receive the word of God on the
inside -- in your heart.

       Some people say, "O, if I had only been alive in the days of Jesus, I
would have done this for him..." or, "I would have done that for him...." No
you wouldn't. You would not have done anything any different for him then than
you are doing now. If you had been alive in Jesus' day, you probably would
have either had him put to death, or you would have misunderstood half of what
he said (mat.23:30,act.7:51). You would have been no closer to him in your
heart then than you are today. Jesus said, "You hypocrites, well did Isaias
prophesy of you, saying, This people draw close to me with their mouth, and
honour me with their lips; but their heart is far from me."(mat.15:7-8). You
have to quit trying to please God in your natural mind and start worshipping
him wholeheartedly in your spirit which is your soul, your inner man, your
heart.

       So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God (rom.8:8). God is
a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth
(jhn.4:24). Paul said, "Though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now
henceforth know we him no more [after the flesh]."(IIcor.5:16). Jesus got all
over Peter about this. Peter's flesh wanted to worship a flesh God -- Jesus in
the flesh (mat.16). We better get out of this flesh stuff. Jesus told the
woman at the well, "You worship you know not what..."(jhn.4:22). It's time for
us to know what we worship. We better know who we worship. We need to know
Jesus in spirit and in truth.

       Purge out therefore the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, as you
are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: therefore
let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice
and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth [Jesus]
(Icor.5:7-8). "For I spoke not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the
day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings
and sacrifices: but this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I
will be your God, and you shall be my people: and walk in all the ways that I
have commanded you, that it may be well with you."(jer.7:22-23). In burnt
offerings and sacrifices for sin God has had no pleasure (heb.10:6). To do
justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice (prv.21:3).
He said, "For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God
more than burnt offerings."(hos.6:6).

       We are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once
for all (heb.10:10): having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of
commandments contained in ordinances (eph.2:15): blotting out the handwriting
of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out
of the way, nailing it to his cross (col.2:14). The law of circumcision and 
animal sacrifices and such were done away with at Calvary; but the ten 
commandments, written with the finger of God, written by God himself, were 
never done away with (ex.31:18,mat.19:16,17). For the law was given by Moses, 
but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ (jhn.1:17). 

       "He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second." wrote 
Paul (heb.10:9). Christ is our passover. Jesus is the unleavened bread of 
sincerity and truth. At the very last passover before the new covenant began 
Jesus took bread and broke it and gave it to his disciples saying, "Take, eat; 
this is my body." And he took the cup and gave it to them saying, "Drink ye 
all of it; for this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many 
for the remission of sins."(mat.26:26-28). Jesus took the bread and the cup as 
an example of his own flesh and blood and gave it to the disciples. Jesus 
said, "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not 
come to destroy, but to fulfil."(5:17).

       When John the Baptist saw Jesus coming unto him he said, "Behold the
Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world."(jhn.1:29). Jesus is our
sacrificial lamb. Jesus is our unleavened bread. Jesus is our passover. But we
have to hunger and thirst after him with our soul. We have to eat his flash
and drink his blood (jhn.6:53-58). We have to labour for that meat which
endures unto everlasting life (jhn.6:27). We have to eat our daily bread from
heaven (mat.6:11). We have to eat the Word (jhn.1:1,14,mat.26:26-28,mrk.14:22-
24). God said, "Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it."(psa.81:10). But
slothfulness casts into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger
(prv.19:15). We have to labour and hunger and thirst for him with our whole
heart. The Psalmist wrote, "The meek shall eat and be satisfied....... For he
satisfies the longing soul, and fills the hungry soul with goodness."(psa.22:
26;107:9). Jesus said, "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after
righteousness: for they shall be filled."(mat.5:6). 

       Some of us are missing God time after time because of our pre-conceived
understanding of his word, so that when he does try to reveal the meaning of a
scripture to us we refuse to believe it (prv.3:5;26:12,is.65:2). Jesus said,
"Why do you not understand my speech? even because you cannot hear my word.",
and, "My word has no place in you."(jhn.8:37,43). We have to put off our old
religious spirit first and get out of our own understanding and then open our
hearts wide and God will fill us. God is trying to fill us right now. This is
what is called dealing spiritual bread to the hungry soul (is.58:7). This is
what is called rightly dividing the word of truth (IItim.2:15). You may not
like what I'm saying, but it is scripture (IItim.3:16-17,IIpet.1:20-21,
jhn.13:20,luk.10:16,Iths.4:8).

       Some people believe that we are still living under the law of Moses: an
eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth; a life for a life (dut.19:21). Some of us
believe that an adulterer should be stoned, or that a murderer should be given
the death penalty, forgetting that whosoever shall keep the whole law and yet
offend in one point, he is guilty of all (jam.2:10). When you offend in one
point, when you commit one sin, you are guilty of breaking every law. You are
no better than the adulterer or the murderer in God's eyes (luk.13:1-5). You
may not have committed murder or adultery or some other particular sin with
your body, but at one time or another in your life you did it in your heart,
and it is all the same thing as far as God is concerned (mat.5:28;15:19-20,
mrk.7:21-23,Ijhn.3:15). And do you think this, O man, that judge them which do
such things, and do the same, that you shall escape the judgment of God?
(rom.2:3,mat.6:15;7:2). Isn't it ironic? Jesus came into the world to save
sinners. He gave his life for the life of the world (Itim.1:15,jhn.6:51). When
you and I were in sin Jesus forgave us, yet we are condemning others (rom.5:8,
eph.2:1-9).

       Paul said, "But even unto this day when Moses is read, the vail is upon
their heart."(IIcor.3:15). Well, even to this day when the New Testament is
read the vail is still on some of our hearts. We are studying the word with
our mind, but we are not seeking the Spirit with our heart: because when God
speaks to us to try to draw us closer to him, we say, "But, I don't believe
that is God." Sometimes we disapprove of God's messenger. Sometimes we
disapprove of God's message. Jesus said that you judge after the flesh (jhn.8:
15). If your heart's ear were opened to God's word, then you would get your
eyes off of flesh and off of the natural: because there is neither Jew nor
Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for
you are all one in Christ Jesus (gal.3:28). When Jesus comes into your heart
and takes control, you are a new creature made in his image: you are God's
Jew: your inner man is born again. For he is not a Jew which is one outwardly;
neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: but he is a Jew,
which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit,
and not in the letter (rom.2:28,29).

       You are not a white, black or Chinese Christian; and you are not a male
or female Christian. When you receive Jesus into your soul, then you are a
born again son of God: born of God's race. You are not a male or female of a
flesh and blood race in Christ. As many as received him, to them gave he power
to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: which were
born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but
of God (jhn.1:12,13). For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom
are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their
salvation perfect through sufferings. For both he that sanctifies and they who
are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them
brothers (heb.2:10,11). And because you are sons, God has sent forth the
Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Wherefore you are no
more a servant, but a son (gal.4:6,7).

       "Now are we the sons of God..." said John (Ijhn.3:2). In the beginning
God didn't call the woman Eve, Adam gave her that name (gen.3:20). God made
male and female and called their name Adam (5:2). Some of us are still judging
after the flesh because we are not living and walking in the Spirit. Jesus
said, "Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment."
(jhn.7:24). It's time to let Jesus remove the vail from our hearts. God said,
"I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life
freely. He that overcomes shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and
he shall be my son."(rev.21:6,7). It is the seed of God in our hearts which
brings us back to our place in God. It is the Son seed, the tree of life seed,
Jesus our passover, the Word made flesh in us which restores our son-ship
status and gives us power to overcome!

                              ~ Chapter Eight ~
                       Clean First That Which Is Within

       It's time to cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and 
spirit (IIcor.7:1). How many husbands or wives would put up with a spouse who 
told them, "Honey, my heart belongs to you, but my body belongs to another?" 
Would you? Well, we are the body of Christ, and members in particular (Icor.
12:27). We are Christ's bride and Jesus is our husband (is.54:5,jer.3:14,
IIcor.11:2,eph.5:26-32,rev.19:7-8). If some of us were as unfaithful to our 
spouse as we are to our Lord, they would have up and left us long ago. It's 
time to wake up and realize what we are in Christ. Paul said, "Glorify God in 
your body, and in your spirit, which are God's."(Icor.6:20). You are not your 
own. Jesus bought your body as well as your spirit (6:19,20). 

       I know that we all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God 
(rom.3:23), but that's not an excuse to continue sinning after you have 
repented. Jesus frees you from sin. Once you come to Jesus truly repented, he 
takes that sin out of you and you don't want to go back to it. If the Son 
therefore shall make you free, you shall be free indeed (jhn.8:36)! If we 
confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to 
cleanse us from all unrighteousness (Ijhn.1:9). A just man falls seven times, 
and rises up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief (prv.24:16). Many 
"Christians" are into mischief right now. God said, "Among my people are found 
wicked men..."(jer.5:26). 

       Today most religious people and most church people have their minds on
the world and on worldly things. Some of you may have put on a different look
outwardly, but in your heart you are still of the world. Why? because your old
man isn't crucified with Christ because you still have the world in your
heart. You are not denying yourself and taking up your cross daily. You are
not rising and praying always. Your old man is refusing to die and you are
accepting it. A spirit of anti-christ, another Jesus, has replaced the daily
sacrifice in your life with the pleasures of this world. You are partaking of
the world and making excuses to justify your deeds. But you are still part of
the world. Some of you would rather believe a lie than the truth. You choose
to believe in part truths and in misguided and misguiding preachers who are
tickling your ears with good words and fair speeches of rapture, celebration
and material gain: because you have turned away your ears from the truth and
have been turned unto fables(rev.13:16-17;IIthes.2:3-12;rom.16:18;Itim.6:5;
IItim.4:3-4).

       Now I am going to give you another piece of meat, so don't throw it up. 
God said, "When I say unto the wicked, You shall surely die; if he turn from 
his sin, and do that which is lawful and right he shall surely live... None of 
his sins that he has committed shall be mentioned unto him..."(ezk.33:14-16). 
And God said, "When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; 
if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his 
righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he has 
committed, he shall die for it."(33:13). You may say, "Yes, but that was the 
Old Testament; now-a-days Jesus is the sacrifice for our sins." Well, you do 
err not knowing the scriptures. Read what else the New Testament says: If we 
sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there 
remains no more sacrifice for sins (heb.10:26). Well, so much for that "once 
saved always saved" myth. Jesus said, "If I had not come and spoken unto them, 
they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin."(jhn.15:22), 
"For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required..."(luk.12:
48). 

       "Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of 
Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?... Therefore I will 
judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, says the Lord 
God. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity 
shall not be your ruin. Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby 
you have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will 
you die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that 
dies, says the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live."(ezk.18:25,30-
32).  

       Whether you know it or not, every sin you ever did in your life came
from your heart. Jesus said that when you look at someone, other than your
spouse, with sexual thoughts you are committing adultery (mat.5:28). John said
that if you hate [or hold any grudge (lev.19:18)] you are a murderer (Ijhn.3:
15). Paul said, "Every sin that a man does is without the body..."(Icor.6:18).
Jesus said, "Out of the heart proceed evil thoughts... these are the things
which defile a man..."(mat.15:19). Some people are not outwardly practicing
sin, but they are practicing it inwardly. Jesus said to clean first that
which is within that the outside may be clean also (23:26). Some of us are
cleaning the outside but not the inside. "The heart is deceitful above all
things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the Lord search the heart,
I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according
to the fruit of his doings." "For the land is full of adulterers; for because
of swearing the land mourns; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried
up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right. For both prophet
and priest are profane; yes, in my house have I found their wickedness, says
the Lord."(jer.17:9-10;23:10-11).

       Some of us would prefer not knowing what all is in our hearts. But we 
better wake up and seek God to remove all sin from our hearts. God said that 
if we will turn from our sin and come out from among these false teachings and 
do that which is lawful and right and restore the pledge, which is to return 
to him with our whole heart truly repenting and believing his word, then he 
will take us back (jer.3:1,ez.33:13-17). "Return unto me, and I will return 
unto you, saith the Lord of hosts."(mal.3:4-7). He said that he will dwell in 
us and walk in us and will be our God and we shall be his people. Having 
therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all 
filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God 
(IIcor.6:16-18;7:1).

       Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee 
from you (jam.4:7). God does not tempt man. Every man is tempted when he is 
drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. So don't blame God or anyone else. 
Get that sin out of your heart and you won't keep repeating it. Whether it be 
the lust for pre-marital or extra-marital sex (not the normal sexual
relationship between a husband and wife (gen.2:21-24,mat.19:4-6), drugs,
alcohol, envy, fame, fortune, etc. Then when lust is conceived, it brings
forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, brings forth death [separation from
God] (jam.2:13-15). For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is
eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord (rom.6:23). Sin separates us from
God. But godly sorrow works repentance to salvation which reconciles us back
to God through the blood of Jesus Christ which cleanses us from all sin
(IIcor.5:19;7:10,Ijhn.1:7).

       There has no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God 
is faithful , who will not allow you to be tempted above that you are able; 
but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that you may be able 
to bear it (Icor.10:13): if you want to escape. If you are unable to escape 
from a temptation, or a so called "habit", it's because you don't really want 
to escape from it and Satan has you bound by it. But wait just a minute, 
greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world, right? Then you 
have no excuse. When you come to Jesus in faith, sincerely and honestly 
repented, he forgives you and casts all your sins into the depths of the sea 
(mic.7:19). He loosens the bands of wickedness and undoes the heavy burdens: 
he lets the oppressed go free and breaks every yoke (to break some stubborn 
bondages you may have to fast (mat.17:19-21) (is.58:5-11). He creates a clean
heart in you; and renews a right spirit within you (psa.51:10,ezk.11:19,20).
You are a new creature made in His image: old things are passed away (IIcor.5:
17). God said, "Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be
clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and
I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a
heart of flesh."(ezk.36:25-26). "I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your
transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins: return unto me; for I have
redeemed you."(is.44:22). 

                              ~ Chapter Nine ~
                          Come Out Of Her, My People

       The human soul cannot be sustained on the milk of the word alone. Jesus
said that if you don't eat His flesh you have no life in you. Many preachers
today are not feeding their flocks with the meat of God's word. Christians
today are starving to death spiritually. Their preachers are feeding them with
everything but God's meat. They are telling their congregations that they can
sin and still serve Jesus. Well, they are calling Jesus a liar. Jesus said,
"Whosoever commits sin is the servant of sin."(jhn.8:34), and, "No servant can
serve two masters..."(luk.16:13). Let no man deceive you: he that does
righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. He that commits sin is of
the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning (Ijhn.3:7,8). You cannot
be partakers of the Lord's table and of the table of devils (Icor.10:21). Who
shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place?
He that has clean hands and a pure heart (psa.24:3,4). He that confesses and
forsakes his sins shall have mercy (28:13). 

       Arise and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it
shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction (mic.2:10). These big-shot
Hollywood style TV preachers along with these so called priests of God are
teaching lies. Jesus said, "He that gathers not with me scatters abroad."(mat.
12:30). They are scattering God's people with every wind of doctrine. The
Bible says they are wells without water (IIpet.2:17)-- they are like clouds
and wind without rain (prv.25:14). It's mostly religious entertainment and
show business designed to appeal to the flesh to appease or pacify our five
sense knowledge. "Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep
of my pasture! says the Lord. Therefore this says the Lord God of Israel
against the pastors that feed my people; You have scattered my flock, and
driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the
evil of your doings, says the Lord."(jer.23:1,2). God is angry with the
preachers today who are compromising his word.

       God is jealous. The Lord is slow to anger and great in power, and will
not at all acquit the wicked: the Lord has his way in the whirlwind and in the
storm (nhm.1:2). "I am full of fury... I am weary with holding in: I will pour
it out....... I am weary with repenting."(jer.6:11;15:6). The anger of the
Lord shall not return until he have executed, and till he have performed the
thoughts of his heart: in the latter days you shall consider it perfectly. "I
have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet
they prophesied. But if they had stood in my counsel and had caused my people
to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way and
from the evil of their doings. Am I a God at hand, says the Lord, and not a
God afar off? Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him?"
(jer.23:20-24).
 
       God said that we have strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he
should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life (ezk.13:22).
Today, many preachers are promising eternal life to and strengthening the
hands of the wicked by saying, "As long as you confess Jesus as your personal
saviour you don't have to quit sin altogether." God said, "[They] cause my
people to err by their lies, and by their lightness..."(jer.23:32). He said,
"They are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as
Gomorrah."(23:14). They return, but not to the most High (hos.7:12-16). They
return to lukewarm damnable religious heresies (IIpet.2:1-22,rev.3:16).

       Joshua said, "You cannot serve the Lord: for he is a holy God; he is a
jealous God..."(jsh.24:19). The Lord said that he is married to us (jer.3:14).
Paul said, "You should be married to [Jesus]"(rom.7:4), "For I have espoused
you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ."
(IIcor.11:2). Isaiah said, "Your Maker is your husband..."(is.54:5). God said,
"Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband so have you dealt
treacherously with me, O house of Israel."(jer.3:20). "Rejoice not, O Israel,
for joy, as other people: for you have gone a whoring from your God, you have
loved a reward upon every cornfloor. The floor and the winepress shall not
feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her."(hos.9:1-2). "Therefore the
showers have been withholden, and there has been no latter rain; and you had a
whore's forehead, you refused to be ashamed."(jer.3:3).

       We are committing spiritual adultery against God when we take heed to
these false teachings that these so called preachers of God are teaching
(IIcor.11:4,gal.1:6-8). We cannot practice pagan customs and traditions by
labeling it "Christianity" and not expect God to be angry. We may be sincere
in our intentions, but we are sincerely wrong. Paul said that a little leaven
leavens the whole lump (gal.5:9). Many so called "Christian" traditions,
including those associated with Christmas and Easter, have nothing to do with
true Christianity. It's not hard to find this out if you are really interested
in the truth. Pagans and heathens practiced these traditions and customs to
honor and worship their gods long before Jesus was ever born. Nowhere in the
Bible does it say we are to celebrate Jesus' birthday. The Apostle John said
that this is how we'll know the spirit of error: they are of the world:
therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them (Ijhn.4:5). The
majority of people worldwide, religious and non-religious alike, celebrate
pagan holidays in one way or another: only the names have been changed to
Christianity to deceive the hearts of the simple (rom.16:17-18). John said,
"They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us,
they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might
be made manifest that they were not all of us."(Ijhn.2:19).

       In the early days of the church some departed from the faith and mixed
paganism with Christianity. And with the so-called conversion of the emperor
Constantine in 312 A.D., what was professed to be Christianity came into
favored status with the Roman state. But what we need to realize is that
people with a very limited understanding of the truth were now having a great
influence upon molding and shaping what was known as Christianity. And in 321
A.D., Constantine (a leader of what is known today as Catholicism),
attempting to make Christianity more acceptable to the world, and willing to
appease the religious persecutors of his day, changed the Sabbath from
Saturday to Sunday and merged with the pagans and the pagan gods.

       As far as borrowing these practices and applying them to worship the
true Jesus, God's word couldn't be more plain, "Learn not the way of the
heathen... For the customs of the people are vain..."(jer.10:2-4), and, "You
shall not do so unto the Lord your God..."(dut.12:30,31). In fact neither the
Apostles themselves nor any of the true Christians in the early church
observed Jesus' birthday; nor did they practice any of the rituals connected
with modern Easter celebrations: because it was and is considered paganism
plainly spelled out in God's word. "But though we, or an angel from heaven,
preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you,
let him be accursed." exclaimed Paul (gal.1:8). "For we write none other
things unto, than what you read or acknowledge; and I trust you shall
acknowledge even to the end."(IIcor.12,13). If any man shall add unto these
things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: and
if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God
shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city,
and from the things which are written in this book (rev.22:18,19). "I will do
these things unto thee," God said, "because thou hast gone a whoring after the
heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idols."(ezk.23:30).

       Teaching this pre-tribulation rapture stuff is also just as deceiving
as teaching purgatory or pagan holidays because it is contrary to scripture:
it is contrary to sound doctrine. I'll give you many Bible scriptures in
other chapters of this book to disprove this pre-tribulation rapture theory
once and for all. The reason why some of these preachers are teaching a pre-
tribulation rapture, is because they know that they themselves are not ready,
not willing, and not able to go through the great tribulation. And it's
because they don't believe that the Church will be able to go through it
either. Therefore they are not teaching God's people how to prepare and how to
become overcomers without spot and without blemish (eph.5:27,IIpet.3:14,rev.
14:5). God said that they prophesy lies in his name (jer.23:25), and by good
words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple (rom.16:18). For they
have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind (hos.8:7). The wind
shall eat up all your pastors (jer.22:22). The winds of doctrines of men are
blowing.

       This is the wind Jesus warned us about: winds of doctrines: false
teachings. He said that whosoever hears these sayings of his, and does them,
he will liken him unto a wise man, which built a house, and digged deep, and
laid the foundation on a rock: and the winds blew, and beat upon that house,
and it fell not: when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that
house, and could not shake it. And every-one that hears these sayings of his,
and does them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man which built his house
upon the sand: and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds
blew, and beat upon that house, and immediately it fell (mat.7:24,25,26,luk.6:
48,49). If you have not digged deep into the word, deep into Jesus, then
chances are you have already fallen for these winds and floods of falsehood.
You are on shaky ground: you are no longer on the foundation of Jesus Christ
when you adhere to these false teachings.

       Paul said that Israel had a zeal of God, but that it was not according
to knowledge; and as a result Jesus was rejected by His own people (rom.10:1-
3,jhn.1:11). Some of us have a zeal of God, a strong desire to do something
for Jesus; but sometimes it is not according to knowledge. God said, "My
people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected
knowledge, I will also reject you, that you shall be no priest to me: seeing
you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children. As
they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their
glory into shame. They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart
on their iniquity. And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will
punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings. For they shall eat,
and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase:
because they have left off to take heed to the Lord."(hos.4:6-10).

       God said, "Behold, you trust in lying words, that cannot profit. Will
you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense
unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom you know not; and come and stand
before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered
to do all these abominations?"(jer.7:8-10). "My people ask counsel at their
stocks, and their staff declares unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms have
caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God."(hos.4:
12). "A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; the prophets
prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love
to have it so: and what will you do in the end thereof?"(jer.5:30,31). "Cease,
my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of
knowledge."(prv.19:27). "Come out of her, my people, that you be not partakers
of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues."(rev.18:4).

       This is the great whore church which is the Jezebel spirit that Jesus
is warning us to come out of and to forsake all of her false teachings and
pagan practices (rev.2&17&18,jer.11:9-11;44:4,ezk.20:8). Read your bible. Read
your history. It was Jezebel and others like her who brought in all of this
false worship. God said, "Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned
my holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane,
neither have they showed difference between the unclean and the clean, and
have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. Her
princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood,
and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain. And her prophets have daubed them
with untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying,
Thus saith the Lord God, when the Lord has not spoken."(ezk.22:26-28).

       "As for you, O house of Israel thus saith the Lord God; Go, serve
everyone his idol, and hereafter also, if you will not hearken unto me: but
pollute my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols."(ezk.20:
39). "For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will
cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of
mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice
of the bride. And it shall come to pass, when you shall show this people all
these words, and they shall say unto you, Wherefore has the Lord pronounced
all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin
that we have committed against the Lord our God? Then shall you say unto them,
Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the Lord, and have walked after
other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken
me, and have not kept my law; and you have done worse than your fathers; for,
behold, you walk every-one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they
may not hearken unto me..."(jer.16:9-12).
       
       "Come out from among them." "COME OUT OF HER, MY PEOPLE."(IIcor.6:
17,rev.18:4). "For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her
fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her,
and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her
delicacies."(rev.18:3). "And I gave her space to repent of her fornication;
and she repented not. Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that
commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their
deeds. And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall
know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto
every one of you according to your works."(2:21-23). "My people, go out of the
midst of her, and deliver every man his soul from the fierce anger of the
Lord."(jer.51:45).

       It is time to return to Jesus. It is time to forsake all of these false
beliefs, humble ourselves, repent and return to our first love! O Lord, my
strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the
Gentiles shall come unto you from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely
our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no
profit (jer.16:19).

                              ~ Chapter Ten ~
                     Famine And Restoration Of The Word

       Awake you drunkards and weep, and howl all you drinkers of wine, 
because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth... The field is 
wasted, the land mourns; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the 
oil languishes... Gird yourselves, and lament, you priests: howl, you 
ministers of the alter: come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my 
God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withheld from the house 
of your God... Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yes, joy and gladness 
from the house of our God? (jol.1:5,10,13,16). Behold, the days come, says the 
Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a 
thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord (ams.8:11).

       There is a spiritual famine among many in the Christian religious 
community these days. So few today are preaching the truth of God's word. 
God's children are being tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind 
of doctrine by these lukewarm preachers who are feeding them with part truths 
and outright lies. They are teaching this trinity lie, this pagan holiday 
falsehood and this pre-tribulation rapture lie. God said, "O my people, they 
which lead you cause you to err..."(is.3:12). He said, "The prophets prophesy 
lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spoke 
unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing 
of nought, and the deceit of their heart."(jer.14:14), "Hearken not unto the 
words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a 
vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the Lord. They say 
still unto them that despise me, The Lord has said, You shall have peace; and 
they say unto every-one that walks after the imagination of his own heart, No 
evil shall come upon you."(23:16,17), "Therefore will I scatter them as the 
stubble that passes away by the wind of the wilderness. This is your lot, the 
portion of your measures from me, says the Lord; because you have forgotten 
me, and trusted in falsehood."(jer.13:24).    

       If you are a sincere Christian, or someone who has just begun to
honestly seek God from your heart, if you truly hunger and thirst after
righteousness, really hungering and thirsting for God, like Job said, "I have
esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food."(job.23:12), then
you know deep down inside of yourself that something is missing with most of
these modern day preachers. The Psalmist cried out to God, "As the deer pants
after the water brooks, so pants my soul after you, O God... My tears have
been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is your
God? When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone
with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of
joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday....... My soul thirsts for
you, my flesh longs for you in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is..."
(psa.42:1-4;63:1).

       Amos prophesied, "They shall run to and fro to hear the word of the 
Lord..." [God is talking about his people here] They shall run to and fro to 
hear the word of the Lord, and shall not find it. In that day shall the fair 
virgins and young men faint for thirst (ams.8:12,13) -- for thirst of the meat 
of God's word -- for thirst of the true latter rain outpouring of God's 
fulness. Daniel said that at the time of the end many shall run to and fro and 
knowledge shall be increased (dan.12:4). Worldly Knowledge has been increased 
more in just the past five decades than in the past five-thousand years 
combined. Just within the last few decades alone both spiritual and natural 
knowledge have been increased at an accelerated pace. Jesus said that in the 
days before the end of the world many would come in his name and deceive many 
(mat.24:3-6). The Apostle John said that many deceivers are entered into the 
world (IIjhn.7), and even more so now than ever before. So we know that right 
now are the days that Jesus and the prophets spoke of.

       But God said that He will purify a people before the end to stand
against this flood of deception (dan.12:10,mal.3:17-18). God is raising up an
army in these last days, an army of true believers who will not compromise
with the world. An army of sold out, sanctified, tried, purged and purified
people who will bring forth fruit to perfection: the fruit of God's word: the
very life of Jesus Christ made manifest in their mortal flesh (IIcor.4:10):
filled with all the fulness of God (eph.3:19): the measure of the stature of
the fulness of Jesus Christ in you, the hope of glory (4:13): the Word in you
without measure (jhn.3:34,eph.3:18,19): the manifestation of the sons of God
(rom.8:17)! When we return to Jesus with our whole heart, when we return to
prayer and fasting and begin to esteem the words of his mouth more than our
necessary food God is going to restore the fulness of his word to us: when we
fall in love with his word and desire it more than anything else in the world.

       God is purging a people right now who are bringing forth his word in 
deed and in truth, not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in 
demonstration of the Spirit and of power (Icor.2:4). The kingdom of God is not 
in word, but in power (4:20). Jesus said, "He that believes on me, the works 
that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do..."(jhn.
14:12). The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former 
(hag.2:9). Jesus showed us this right from the beginning. This is why he went 
to that marriage in Cana. Listen, "Every man at the beginning does set forth 
good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse; but you 
have kept the good wine until now."(jhn.2:10). 
       
       God is raising up sons and daughters in the wilderness and sending them 
forth with his word to the lost and to the hungry. God is raising up some no-
bodies: people in your midst whom you may never have considered or whom you 
may have considered to be the least likely to be used by God. John the Baptist 
told the people, "There stands one among you, whom you know not."(jhn.1:26). 
All too often we judge and misjudge trying to choose God's people, forgetting 
that it is God that chooses whomsoever he will (jhn.7:24;8:15). Jesus said, 
"You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you." "Is it not lawful for me to 
do what I will with my own?"(jhn.15:16,mat.20:15). Right now God is trying to 
purge some of us and raise us up to preach His gospel of the kingdom, if we 
would only humble ourselves and give up our own self-righteous way of serving 
him. If we will call on him with our whole heart, not two-thirds, three-
fourths or nine-tenths: if we will seek only his approval, not our own or any-
one else's, and make ourselves a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for 
the master's use: then God can use us (mat.24:14,IItim.2:21). Then God will 
use us to heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead and cast out 
devils in Jesus' name, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord: and these 
signs shall follow them that believe. The day of Christ is at hand. The Lord 
is at hand. The kingdom of God is at hand: repent, and believe the gospel 
(mat.10:8,luk.4:19,mrk.1:15;16:17,phl.4:15,IIths.2:2)!

       "Say not ye, there are yet four months, and then comes harvest?" Some
of us believe that there are yet four months, or four years, or forty years
and then comes harvest. But Jesus said, "Behold, I say unto you, Lift up your
eyes and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest."(jhn.4:
35). When Jesus saw the multitudes he was moved with compassion on them,
because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.
Then says he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the
labourers are few; pray therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send
forth labourers into his harvest (mat.9:36-38).

       We are his labourers. God said, "My sheep wandered through all the 
mountains, and upon every high hill: yes, my flock was scattered upon all the 
face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them... neither did my 
shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not 
my flock... Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out... 
I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, 
and I will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was 
sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with 
judgment."(ezk.34:6,8,11,16). 

       Jesus said that He is come to seek and to save that which was lost 
(luk.19:10). He said, "I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of 
Israel."(mat.15:24). Jesus came into the world to save sinners (Itim.1:15). 
We need to be and must be moved with compassion on them just as Jesus was 
(mat.9:36;10:5-8). Some of us are judging sinners when we should be praying 
for them: and I don't mean praying for them out of a self-righteous attitude, 
but out of sincerity, really meaning it. We are labourers together with God 
(Icor.3:9). Paul said, "We then as workers together with Him, beseech you also 
that you receive not the grace of God in vain. (For He says, I have heard you 
in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured you: behold, 
now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)"(IIcor.6:1,2). 
The fields are white already to harvest: what are we waiting for? 

       Seek the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he is near 
(is.55:6). The Lord is near unto all that call upon him, to all that call upon 
him in truth (psa.145:18). He said, "Those that seek me early shall find me."
(prv.8:17). "And [ I ] will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and 
truth."(jer.33:6). "And I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the 
Lord: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall 
return unto me with their whole heart....... And you shall seek me, and find 
me, when you shall search for me with all your heart."(24:7;29:13). "For who 
is this that engaged his heart to approach unto me? saith the Lord. And you 
shall be my people, and I will be your God."(30:21,22). 

       God said, "Ask me of things to come concerning my sons...."(is.45:11). 
"Call unto me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, 
which you know not."(jer.33:3). Get real with God and he will get real with 
you. He will speak to you out of his word. He will speak to you in dreams and 
in visions. He will lead you and guide you into all truth and show you things 
to come (jhn.14:26;16:13). 

       We need to be in the place with God right now where he is in total
control of our hearts, minds and faculties: possessed by God, leading us where
we wouldn't go (jhn.21:18). This is the only way we are going to escape the
things that are coming on the earth, and even now are on the earth. Just being
a good decent living Christian is not going to be enough to get us through
these things. People, we better wake up! We are already in the beginning of
sorrows (mat.24:8); but we are about to go through the worst troubles that
have ever been: wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath;
blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke (act.2:19): great tribulation: even the
time of Jacob's trouble (jer.30:7). The Church is not going anywhere. Many are
about to have a rude awakening. "This generation shall not pass away, till all
be fulfilled." Jesus foretold (mrk.13:30,luk.21:23). He said, "After the
tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not
give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven..."(mat.24:29). He said
"After" this happens, after the tribulation, then he shall send his angels
with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from
the four winds (mat.24:31,mrk.13:24-30).

       Jesus was seen by hundreds if not thousands of people after his 
resurrection as he stayed on the earth many days teaching his disciples (Icor.
15:6). And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken 
up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. And while they looked 
stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white 
apparel; which also said, You men of Galilee, why stand gazing up into heaven? 
this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like 
manner as you have seen him go into heaven (act.1:9-11). Jesus is coming back 
in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory: and every eye shall see 
him (mat.24:30,rev.1:7). So there goes that secret rapture theory down the 
toilet. Jesus said to take heed that no man deceive you. "And they shall say 
to you, See here; or see there: go not after them, nor follow them." "Behold, 
I have told you before. Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in 
the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it 
not. For as the lightning comes out of the east, and shines even unto the 
west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be."(mat24:4,25-27,luk.17:
23).

       Whether you want to hear it or not, the Church is going to go through
the great tribulation. In Revelation twelve when Satan was cast out into the
earth in the time of these tribulations, who did he persecute? He went to make
war with who? the Church: the true Christians -- they that loved not their
lives unto the death -- they that keep the commandments of God and have the
testimony of Jesus Christ -- these which follow the Lamb wheresoever he goes -
- they that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus (rev.12:11,17;
14:4,12). God is trying to prepare us. He tells us over and over again in his
word that the Church is going to go through these tribulations. Read these
scriptures: jhn.17:15,psa.91,eph.6:13,IIcor.5:2-3,is.52:1,eph.5:26-27,rev.7:2-
3,Icor.15:51-52,rev.10:7,col.1:26,Ipet.5:10,Ijhn.4:17,luk.17:20-23,mat.13:30,
40,is.4,jhn.6:54,mat.25:1-12,luk.13:24-28,mat.7:21-23,mat.22:2-14,IIpet.3:10,
Icor.15:24,rev.20, and there is more.

       These are they which came out of great tribulation -- you can't come 
out of something that you didn't go into -- these are they which came out of 
great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the 
blood of the Lamb (rev.7:14). God is purging us and purifying us through these 
tribulations. Paul said that we must through much tribulation enter into the 
kingdom of God (act.14:22). God said, "I have refined you, but not with 
silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction."(is.48:10). God didn't 
take Daniel out of the lion's den: he kept him alive and safe in the lion's
den (dan.6:16-23). God didn't take Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego out of the
fiery furnace: he kept them alive and safe in the fiery furnace (3:13-28).
Jesus said, "I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but
that thou shouldest keep them from the evil."(jhn.17:15). 

       Daniel said, "Many shall be purified, and made white and tried; but the 
wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the 
wise shall understand."(dan.12:10). And the ears of them that hear shall 
hearken (is.32:3). God said that we have ears but we don't hear (jer.5:21). 
We are not going to be able to understand what God is doing if we don't give 
up this lukewarm religious stuff and remember from whence we are fallen, and 
repent and do the first works, and return to our first love, Jesus (rev.2:5). 

       But the people that do know their God shall be strong and do exploits. 
And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall 
fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil many days (dan.11:
32,33). Jesus said that you are going to be betrayed by friends and relatives, 
and some of you shall they cause to be put to death, "And you shall be hated 
of all men for my name's sake."(luk.21). 

       The world may hate you, your enemies may persecute you, and your 
friends may forsake you; but there is one who will never leave you nor forsake 
you: and his name is Jesus. He said, "Come unto me, all you that labour and 
are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of 
me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and you shall find rest unto your souls. 
For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."(mat.11:28-30), "...and him that 
comes to me I will in no wise cast out."(jhn.6:37). You might be at a place in 
your life where you feel that all hope is gone and that you are all alone. But 
rest assured that you are not alone: for He has said, "I will never leave you, 
nor forsake you."(heb.13:5), and, "I am with you always, even unto the end of 
the world."(mat.28:20). God promised us, "As one whom his mother comforts, so 
will I comfort you..."(is.66:13). Jesus is come to restore broken bodies, 
broken minds and broken hearts: whatever your need may be (luk.4:18). Jesus 
said, "If you can believe, all things are possible to him that believes."(mrk.
9:23). The Lord has not forsaken them that seek him (psa.9:9).

       Now when they shall fall, they shall be helped with a little help: but 
many shall cleave to them with flatteries (dan.11:34). This is exactly what is 
happening today: many are cleaving to those with religious flatteries. We are 
either going to let God chastise us and purge us and use us to fight with his 
army, or we are going to cleave to them with flatteries and fight against his 
army thinking we are doing God a favor. Jesus said that the time comes that 
whosoever kills you will think that he does God service (jhn.16:2). And some 
of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make 
them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time 
appointed (dan.11:35). 
 
       Many are going to go into confusion when they realize that they are in 
the tribulation and the Church has not been raptured out. In fact many are 
confused and many are offended right now over this rapture business. Jesus 
said, "And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and 
shall hate one another."(mat.24:10). He said. "These things have I spoken unto 
you, that you should not be offended... But these things have I told you, that 
when the time shall come, you may remember that I told you of them."(jhn.16:1,
4), "And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me."(mat.11:6).

       And the Lord shall utter his voice before his army (jol.2:11)-- these
soldiers are going to be made fat with the meat of God's word, filled with all
the fulness of God: the fulness of the word of God made manifest in our mortal
bodies (IIcor.4:10,11). God is going to reign and rule through us in this
world (rev.2:26-29). Jesus said that some of you do err, not knowing the
scriptures, nor the power of God (mat.22:29). Some of you are going to
question this just like they did in Jesus' days saying, "What is this? what
new doctrine is this?" If you don't get in God's word and stay in it, and
watch and pray always, you'll miss out on what God is doing. You'll call evil
good, and good evil: you'll blaspheme against the Holy Ghost if you don't take
heed to what the Spirit is saying to the churches.

       Paul said that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is
our salvation nearer than when we believed (rom.13:11). Jesus said that when
these things, the tribulations and sorrows and prophecies begin to come to
pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh
(luk.21:28). John said, "And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is
come salvation, and strength, and the kindom of our God, and the power of his
Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them
before our God day and night."(rev.12:10). Satan will no longer be able to
hinder our prayers (zch.3:1-9,dan.10:12-13).

       And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which stands
for the children of your people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as
never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time
your people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the
book (dan.12:1). Strengthen the weak hands, and comfirm the feeble knees. Say
to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God
will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save
you (is.35:3-4).

       And the Lord shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is
very great: for he is strong that executes his word: for the day of the Lord
is great and very terrible; and who can abide it? (jol.2:11). Isaiah
prophesied, "Whosoever shall gather together against you shall fall for your
sake... No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue
that shall rise against you in judgment you shall condemn. This is the
heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, says
the Lord."(is.54:15,17). These are they which are alive and remain unto the
coming of the Lord, that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus
(Iths.4:15,rev.14:12). Some of us will give our lives for the testimony of
Jesus, but some of us will remain. Jesus said, "Nevertheless when the Son of
man comes, shall he find faith on the earth?"(luk.18:8). If we want to be a
part of this last day move of God we better start believing His Word.

       For we have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but we
have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit
itself bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: and if
children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that
we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. For I reckon that
the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the
glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the
creature waits for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was
made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who has subjected
the same in hope, because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the
bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we
know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.
And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the
Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to
wit, the redemption of our body (rom.8:15-23).

       This army is the man child the Church gave birth to who was to rule all
nations with a rod of iron (rev.2:26-27;12:17). This army is the hundred and
forty-four thousand servants of God who are sealed with the seal of the living
God in their foreheads, that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that
be done in the midst of the Church (ezk.9:4); and the great multitude which no
man could number, of all nations, kindreds, people and tongues, which have
washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore are
they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple (here
in this world, because there is no night in heaven) (rev.7,heb.4:16). These
are they that know their God and shall be strong and do exploits (dan.11:32).
These are they which were not defiled with women [false religious spirits];
for they are virgins [virgins to Christ]. These are they which follow the Lamb
whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the
firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb. And in their mouth was found no guile:
for they are without fault before the throne of God (IIcor.11:2-4,rev.14:4-5;
12:5). This is the Church without spot and without blemish (eph.5:27). These
are the sold out, cleaned out and purged vessels that God -- Jesus Christ --
now inhabits without measure to fulfill his word: to do his work, his strange
work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act (is.28:21).

       You didn't figure this stuff out, and neither did I: it is God who is
revealing this to us. Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is
spoken of in the prophets; Behold, you despisers, and wonder, and perish: for
I work a work in your days, a work which you shall in no wise believe, though
a man declare it unto you (act.13:40-41). Therefore also now, says the Lord,
Turn even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and
with mourning: and rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the
Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great
kindness, and repents him of the evil. Who knows if he will return and repent,
and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering
unto the Lord your God? (jol.2:12-14).

       Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly: 
gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the 
children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his 
chamber, and the bride out of her closet. Let the priests, the ministers of 
the Lord, weep between the porch and the alter, and let them say, Spare your 
people, O Lord, and give not your heritage to reproach, that the heathen 
should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is 
their God? Then will the Lord be jealous for his land, and pity his people 
(jol.2:15-18). Then will God restore the meat and the drink -- the Word -- to 
his people. 

       Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God: 
for he has given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come 
down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first 
month. And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with 
wine and oil. And I will restore to you the years that the locust has eaten, 
the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which 
I sent among you. And you shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise 
the name of the Lord your God, that has dealt wondrously with you: and my 
people shall never be ashamed (jol.2:23-26). God is in the process of 
restoring at this time if we will receive it.

                               ~ Chapter Eleven ~
                     Separating The Tares From The Wheat

       "Now you are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you." said 
Jesus, "Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, 
except it abide in the vine; no more can you, except you abide in me. I am the 
vine, you are the branches: he that abides in me, and I in him, the same 
brings forth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing. If a man abide not 
in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and 
cast them into the fire, and they are burned."(jhn.15:3-6).

       It's time to seek Jesus with all of your heart and abide in the Vine, 
to go on to perfection and dwell in the secret place of the most High, to 
abide under the shadow of the Almighty (psa.91:1). It's time to let God have 
his whole way with us or else. Jesus said, "Every branch in me that bears not 
fruit he [God] takes away: and every branch that bears fruit, he purges it, 
that it may bring forth more fruit."(jhn.15:2). Are you being purged? Listen, 
That they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, 
that he might be glorified (is.61:3). Jesus said, "Every plant, which my 
heavenly Father has not planted, shall be rooted up. Let them alone: they are 
blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall 
into the ditch."(mat.15:13,14). 

       God is weeding his garden. The axe is laid unto the root of the trees: 
therefore every tree which brings not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast 
into the fire (mat.3:10). Jesus said that the enemy, the devil, sowed tares 
among the wheat. But when the blade was sprung up and brought forth fruit, 
then appeared the tares also (13:25,26). This charismatic, wishy-washy, 
hallelujah, praise the Lord, feel good religion junk is the tares among the 
wheat. Jesus said, "Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time 
of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather together first the tares, and 
bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn."(13:30). 
He said to gather together first the tares.

       Jesus is doing house cleaning right now. He is thoroughly purging his 
floor (mat.3:12,luk.3:17). He said, "Lift up your eyes, and look on the 
fields; for they are white already to harvest."(jhn.4:35). For the time is 
come that judgment must begin at the house of God (Ipet.4:17). Jesus said, 
"When the fruit is brought forth, immediately he puts in the sickle, because 
the harvest is come."(mrk.4:29). He said gather the tares first.

       And as it was in the days of Noah, and Lot, so shall it be also in the 
days of the Son of man (luk.17:26,28). They were eating, drinking, marrying, 
buying, selling, planting, building, and knew not until the flood came and 
took them all away. The same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and 
brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all (mat.24:38,39,luk.17:28,29). The 
winds are blowing, the tares are gathering, and a great flood of strong 
delusion is about to be released. We have had streams of delusion up to this 
point, but now floods of delusion are upon us -- strong delusion -- strong 
religious delusion (is.66:4,IIths.2:11,12,rev.12:15,16). 

       Jesus said that the day Noah entered into the ark the flood came and
took them all away. The ark represents the ark of the covenant which
represents Jesus who is the Holy of Holies. It is time for God's people to
enter into the ark, into the bond of the covenant, into that holy walk with
God bringing forth the fulness of the fruit of his word. God's elect, his
dedicated ones, are now entering into that place of refuge in God for a covert
from storm and from rain; because the rain is falling and the flood is about
to bust loose. Paul said, "They [the phonies] shall say, Peace and safety,
then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child;
and they shall not escape."(Iths.5:13). For God has given them the spirit of
slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;
unto this day. God has shut their eyes that they cannot see; and their hearts
that they cannot understand: HE that opens, and no man shuts; and shuts, and
no man opens (is.22:22;44:18,jhn.9:39,rom.11:8,rev.3:7). Jesus said that the
flood came and took them all away. If we don't get out of the rain soon and
enter into the ark, if we don't come out from under this lukewarm rain of
false revival we'll be swept away with them.

       Jesus said that they were taking care of every-day business until the 
flood came and took them all away. Took who away? those that didn't enter into 
the ark; those that didn't dwell in the secret place of the most High; those 
that didn't dig deep into the word; those that didn't enter into that holy 
walk with God unspotted from the world. Jesus said, "Then shall two be in the 
field; the one shall be taken, and the other left."(mat.24:40). Jesus is not 
talking about a rapture here. There is only one rapture, and it's only after 
the tribulation (24:29-34). Jesus is talking about a flood of delusion taking 
one and leaving the other. He is talking about fire and brimstone from heaven, 
judgment and wrath: a separating of the tares from the wheat. 

       Who taken? and by what? Jesus said to gather together the tares first.
Revelation twelve said that the serpent (Satan) cast out of his mouth water as
a flood after the woman (the true Church) that he might cause her to be
carried away of the flood. And the earth helped the woman, and the earth
opened her mouth and swallowed up the flood (rev.12:15,16). The whole earth is
swallowing up this flood of delusion: the "Christian" church-world is
swallowing up this do as you please false revival like it's the real thing.

       Jesus said to take heed to yourselves lest at any time your hearts be 
overcharged with surfeiting (surfeiting means to over eat or to partake of 
anything to excess), and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day 
come upon you unaware. For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on 
the face of the whole earth (luk.21:34,35). Too often our attention is on the 
cares of this life when it should be on Jesus.

       So who will be taken? and by what? those disciples who are too busy 
with the cares of this life; those who are too busy eating, drinking, 
marrying, buying, selling, planting and building; those who are not watching 
and praying always and searching the scriptures daily to know whether these 
things are so; those who come to the wedding without a wedding garment; those 
who have not washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb; 
those who have not kept themselves unspotted from the world: these will be 
taken away by this great flood of delusion and deception that they should 
believe a lie: that they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but 
had pleasure in unrighteousness (IIths.2:11,12). These are the tares that 
Jesus said will be taken out of his kingdom: taken with the rest of the world.

       The Church is not going to be taken until after the Antichrist at the
end of the world. Who do you think the Beast made war with? with the Saints
(rev.13:7): and you better believe these aren't wishy-washy Christians either. 
These are the are the sold out, dedicated, prayed up, read up, commandment 
keepers which have the testimony of Jesus Christ! These are the overcomers! 
Read Revelation chapter twelve.

                             ~ Chapter Twelve ~
                       We Walk By Faith, Not By Sight

       Jesus said, "If you love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the
Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you
for-ever; even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it
sees him not, neither knows him: but you know him; for he dwells with you, and
shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. Yet a
little while, and the world sees me no more; but you see me: because I live,
you shall live also. At that day you shall know that I am in my Father, and
you in me, and I in you." "These things I have spoken unto you, that in me you
might have peace. In the world you shall have tribulation: but be of good
cheer; I have overcome the world." These words spoke Jesus, and lifted up his
eyes to heaven, and said, "Father... I pray not that you should take them out
of the world, but that you should keep them from the evil." (jhn.14:15-20;
16:33;17:1,2).

       God's Church is going to be here during the great tribulation. God's
people are going to live by their faith. You will no longer be able to buy
your necessities without the mark of the Beast. You will no longer be able to
go to the doctor without the mark of the Beast. You are going to have to learn
how to live by your faith in Jesus. The Bible said that the just shall live by
his faith (hab.2:4,heb.10:38). Paul said, "For we walk by faith, not by sight
..." (IIcor.5:7). Jesus said, "If you abide in me, and my words abide in you,
you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done unto you."(jhn.15:7). Paul
said, "My God shall supply all your need..."(phl.4:19). The Lord also will be
a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble. And they that know
your name will put their trust in you: for you, Lord, have not forsaken them
that seek you....... God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in
trouble (psa.9:9-10;46:1). God will meet his people's spiritual and natural
needs now and during the great tribulation period: those that know the
scriptures and the power of God, and refuse to be deceived by the Antichrist,
and reject the mark of the Beast. The wealth of the sinner is laid up for the
just (prv.13:22,job.27:17).

       We need to start living and walking by our faith in Jesus right now: 
casting all our care upon Him; for He cares for us (Ipet.5:7): and stop 
relying on man. Paul said, "My speech and my preaching was not with enticing 
words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: that 
your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God."
(Icor.2:4-5). But he said, "Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of 
God."(rom.10:17). If we have ears to hear we need to start hearing God's word. 
God said, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge..."(hos.4:6). We must 
dig deep into the word and believe it. 

       Isaiah prophesied, "Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our 
sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he 
was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the 
chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed."
(is.53:4,5). It is God's will to heal you as well as save you. If you don't 
believe that it is God's will to heal you, then why go to the doctor or take 
medicine when you are sick? The Lord is not willing that any should perish, 
but that all should come to repentance (IIpet.3:9). It is not God's will that 
any perish, nor is it his will that any be sick. 

       You might ask, "If it is not God's will that any be sick, then why are
so many people, including good Christians, sick today?" Well, it is not God's
will that any perish, right? but that's not stopping some people from doing
wicked things and perishing and going to hell, is it? You don't know what is
in someone else's heart, even a good Christian's heart for that matter. There
may be doubt there. There may be a feeling that for one reason or another they
can't be healed. Or maybe they just don't really want to be healed. The fact
is that you don't know what all is in another person's heart. Don't
misunderstand me. I am not saying that if you are sick you are going to go to
hell. I am saying that if you are a child of God you don't have to be sick and
you don't have to stay sick if you get sick.

       Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that need not to be 
ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth (IItim.2:15). "I speak as to wise 
men; judge what I say." Paul is exhorting us here and admonishing us. "The cup 
of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? 
The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? For 
we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that 
one bread [Jesus-- the Word made flesh]." "For we are members of his body, of 
his flesh, and of his bones."(Icor.10:15-17,eph.5:30,).

       Paul said, "For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many 
sleep [sleep in the Lord]." He said that by not discerning the Lord's body, by 
not rightly dividing the word of truth, many are sick and many die prematurely 
and go on to be with the Lord (Icor.11:29,30). It is not God's will to take 
you home to heaven through some illness. For he does not afflict willingly nor 
grieve the children of men (lam.3:33). Jesus said, "The thief [the Devil] 
comes not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they 
might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly."(jhn.10:10). 
Jesus is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them (luk.9:56).

       But I would not have you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning them
which are asleep (passed away in the Lord), that you sorrow not, even as
others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again,
even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him (at the last
day, of course, after the tribulation (so lay your grief aside; put away your
guilt; give up your bitterness) (Iths.4:13,14,mat.24:29-34,mrk.13:24-30,jhn.6:
40,54).

       Many are perishing and many are sick because of unbelief. You have to 
believe in order to receive abundant life. Jesus healed all manner of sickness 
and disease among the people (mat.4:23). Great multitudes came unto him, 
having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, 
and cast them down at Jesus' feet; and he healed them (15:30). As many as 
touched him were made whole (mrk.6:56). If you will touch Jesus with your 
faith, then you too will be made whole: soul, mind and body! 

       If God created the vast natural universe, including the planet that you
are on this very day, then how much easier is it for him to heal your natural
body? He said, "Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh: is there any-
thing too hard for me?"(jer.32:27). Jesus said, "The things which are
impossible with men are possible with God."(luk.18:27). For with God nothing
shall be impossible (luk.1:37). God is a miracle God! He said, "My son, attend
to my words; incline your ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from your
eyes; keep them in the midst of your heart. For they are life unto those that
find them, and health to all their flesh."(prv.4:20-22), and, "I am the Lord
that heals you."(ex.15:26). Jesus shed his blood for your salvation and for
your healing: who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that
we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes you
were healed. For you were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the
Shepherd and Bishop of your souls (Ipet.2:24-25). 

       It is done! It is finished! (jhn.19:30,act.2:38-39)-- Christ has 
redeemed us from the curse of the law (gal.3:13). If you are a washed in the 
blood, born again, new creature in Christ, then this abundant life of Jesus, 
by Jesus, and in Jesus is yours for the asking (mat.7:7-11,luk.11:9-13). Jesus 
said, "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it 
shall be opened unto you: for everyone that asketh receiveth; and he that 
seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. Or what man is 
there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he 
ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know how to 
give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is 
in heaven give good things to them that ask him?"(mat.7:7-11). It doesn't 
matter who you are. If you are the worst sinner in the world just come to 
Jesus and he will give you a new life.

       "Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give 
you the kingdom." "And all things, whatsoever you shall ask in prayer, 
believing, you shall receive." "And nothing shall be impossible unto you." 
said Jesus (mat.17:20;21:22,luk.12:32). Believe it! Receive it! For there has 
not failed one word of all his good promises (Ikng.8:56,is.34:16,mat.24:35,
rev.21:5). Hear the word. Eat the word. Eat his flesh and drink his blood. 
Hear it... eat it... receive it in your heart... and practice it in faith!

                             ~ Chapter Thirteen ~
                          The Highway Of Holiness

       "Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country. But 
I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when 
the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was 
throughout all the land; but unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto 
Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow. And many lepers were 
in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, 
saving Naaman the Syrian." Jesus said. And all they in the synagogue, when 
they heard these things, were filled with wrath, and rose up, and thrust him 
out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was 
built, that they might cast him down headlong. But he passing through the 
midst of them went his way (luk.4:24-30).        

       Jesus turned to his disciples and said privately, "Blessed are the eyes 
which see the things that you see: for I tell you, that many prophets and 
kings have desired to see those things which you see, and have not seen them; 
and to hear those things which you hear, and have not heard them."(luk.10:23,
24). The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto 
their cry. The face of the Lord is against them that do evil. The Lord is far 
from the wicked: but he hears the prayer of the righteous (psa.34:15,16,prv.
15:29,Ipet.3:12). I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you 
have hid these things from the wise and prudent, and have revealed them unto 
babes....... That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, 
saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been 
kept secret from the foundation of the world (mat.11:25;13:35).

       The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him; and he will show 
them his covenant (psa.25:14). Jesus said, "It is given unto you [his elect] 
to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them [the tares, the 
phonies] it is not given."(mat.13:11). Remember the ten virgins? five went in 
with Jesus to the marriage: and the door was shut (mat.25). They weren't taken 
anywhere. They went into that holy walk with God. They're on the highway of 
holiness were the unclean shall not pass (is.35:8). Jesus said to pray for 
God's kingdom to come (mat.6:10). He then said that the kingdom of God is 
come: and that the kingdom of God comes not with observation... the kingdom of 
God is within you (luk.11:20;17:20,21). Jesus said, "I go to prepare a place 
for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and 
receive you unto myself; that where I am, there you may be also."(jhn.14:2,3). 
Paul said that God has [presently] raised us up together and made us sit 
together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus (eph.2:6), and has [now] 
translated us into the kingdom (col.1:13), the heavenly Jerusalem (heb.12:22), 
the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of 
heaven upon the earth (dut.11:21), which is the kingdom of God in you (jhn.14:
12-21). 

       Deuteronomy chapter eleven verses ten through seventeen says, "For the 
land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from 
whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy 
foot, as a garden of herbs: but the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a 
land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven: a land 
which the Lord thy God careth for: the eyes of the Lord thy God are always 
upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year. And it 
shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which 
I command you this day, to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all 
your heart and with all your soul, that I will give you the rain of your land 
in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather 
in thy corn, and thy wine, and thy oil. And I will send grass in thy fields 
for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full. Take heed to yourselves, 
that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and 
worship them; and then the Lord's wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up 
the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and 
lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the Lord giveth you."

       This is the mystery which from the beginning of the world has been hid 
in God (eph.3:9). Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that 
like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so 
we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together 
in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his 
resurrection: knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the 
body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin (rom.
6:4-6). You are buried with Him in baptism, wherein also you are risen with 
Him through the faith of the operation of God... Wherefore if you be dead with 
Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, 
are you subject to ordinances, (touch not; taste not; handle not; which all 
are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men? 
Which things have indeed a show of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and 
neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh. If 
you then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ 
sits on the right hand of God. Set your affections on things above, not on 
things on the earth. For you are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God 
(col.2:12,20-23;3:1-3). Paul said that we are risen with Christ, not past 
tense, not future tense, but present tense. We are risen with Christ now.

       If you then be risen with Christ -- this is the first resurrection 
(rev.20:5,6). Jesus said, "I am the resurrection..."(jhn.11:25). Many bodies 
of the saints which slept arose and came out of the graves after his 
resurrection (mat.27:52,53). He said, "The hour is coming, and now is, when 
the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall 
live." He said, "He that hears my word, and believes on him that sent me... 
is passed from death unto life."(jhn.5:25,24). Paul said, "Awake you that 
sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light."(eph.5:14). 
If we are waiting until after our heart stops beating to hear His voice, then 
we are missing the boat. Jesus said, "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."(rev.3:20). The Spirit of God is moving upon the 
face of the earth. God is searching out the hearts of people everywhere and 
pouring out His Spirit on the hungry and raising up those that will hear His 
voice.

       Some church folk have a little voice speaking in their head, but it's 
not Jesus. If it were Jesus he would be guiding you into all truth and showing 
you the tribulation to come and preparing you for it, instead of teaching this 
pre-tribulation rapture damnation. Jesus said, "My sheep hear my voice, and I 
know them, and they follow me." and, "A stranger will they not follow, but 
will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers."(jhn.10:5,27). 

       Jesus is knocking. Jesus is speaking. Hear, and your soul shall live
(is.55:3). He said, "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." This is the mystery which
was kept secret since the world began, but now is made manifest, and by the
scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting
God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith (rom.16:25,26)--
which is Christ in you [the Word in you], the hope of glory: whom we preach,
warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present
every man perfect in Christ Jesus (col.1:27,28). In whom we have boldness and
access with confidence by the faith of Him... to be strengthened with might by
his Spirit in the inner man... to comprehend with all saints what is the
breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ,
which passes knowledge, that you might be filled with all the fulness of God
(eph.3:12,16,18,19). The sons of God, those men and women who are watching and
praying always and seeking His word daily and fasting, those who are not
compromising with false religions, are now going to be filled with all the
fulness of God and will go forth in the power and wisdom of the Spirit
preaching the pure unadulterated Word!

       "But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom
which God ordained before the world unto our glory... Which things also we
speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Ghost
teaches...." said Paul (Icor.2:7,13). God ordained this before the world for
his offspring, the generation of Jesus Christ (psa.22:30-31,jhn.1:12-13,gal.3:
26-29): according as he has chosen us in him before the foundation of the
world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love (eph.1:4).

       Jesus said, "Many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit 
down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven. But the 
children of the kingdom shall be cast out..."(mat.8:11,12). He said, "Strive 
to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter 
in, and shall not be able. When once the master of the house is risen up, and 
has shut the door, and you begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, 
saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I 
know you not whence you are: then shall you begin to say, We have eaten and 
drunk in your presence, and you have taught in our streets. But he shall say, 
I tell you, I know you not whence you are; depart from me, all you workers of 
iniquity."(luk.13:24-27). The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they 
shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend and them which do 
iniquity (13:41) (Then comes the end, when He shall have delivered up the 
kingdom to God (Icor.15:24). Some people will make the role call in heaven 
whom you thought would not, and vice versa, some people will not make the role 
call in heaven whom you thought would surely make it (mat.20:16;25:31-46).

       "I am the door of the sheep." "I am the way." proclaimed Jesus (jhn.10:
7;14:6). Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leads unto
life, and few there be that find it (mat.7:14). And a highway shall be there,
and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not
pass over it... but the redeemed shall walk there (is.35:8,9). He that enters
not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbs up some other way, the same is
a thief and a robber (jhn.10:1). "My face will I turn also from them," God
said, "and they shall pollute my secret place [vineyard or sheepfold]: for the
robbers shall enter into it, and defile it."(ezk.7:19-22). Some of us have not
entered into the sheepfold, or vineyard, through the strait and narrow door,
by the way of holiness; but have climbed up some other way, sneaking in
through the window so to speak, through traditions, winds of doctrine and
compromise. But Jesus said that the children of the kingdom shall be cast out
into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth (mat.8:11,
12).
 
       Jesus said that many are called, but few chosen (mat.20:11-16). Here is 
how to be chosen and how to be chosen not. First how to be chosen not, or not 
chosen: Jesus said, "And when they had received it, they murmured against the 
goodman of the house, saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and you 
have made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day. 
But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do you no wrong: did not you 
agree with me for a penny? Take that yours is, and go your way..."(20:11-14): 
God paid these off and sent them out of his vineyard, away from his presence. 
Now how to be chosen: Jesus said, "When you shall have done all those things 
which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that 
which was our duty to do."(luk.17:10).

       "Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard," God said, "they have trodden
my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate
wilderness. They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourns unto me;
the whole land is made desolate, because no man lays it to heart."(jer.12:10-
11). He said, "There shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the
clouds that they rain no rain upon it. For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts
is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked
for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry."
(is.5:6,7).  Ezekiel prophesied, "And I will give it into the hands of the
strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they
shall pollute it."(ezk.7:21). "Christianity" today has become diluted and
polluted. Jesus said, "I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes:
and some of them you shall kill... and persecute them from city to city...
Behold, your house is left unto you desolate."(mat.23:34-38). Many of these
churches today have been left desolate, void of God's true Spirit. And some of
us are no better. We are like Samson. We don't even realize that the Lord's
anointing has departed from us (jgs.16:20). Samson didn't realize it until it
was too late. Isaiah prophesied, "Of a truth many houses shall be desolate,
even great and fair, without inhabitant."(is.5:9).

       God is separating the sheep from the goats. A separating of the tares
from the wheat is already underway (ezk.34:17-31). Fire and brimstone from
heaven and this flood of strong delusion is nearer than we might think. And we
are not going to be able to escape it if we don't enter in by the door into
the sheepfold into that holy place with God: if we don't strive to enter into
that holy sin-free marriage with Jesus, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon
with our house which is from heaven: if so be that being clothed we shall not
be found naked (Icor.5:2,3). Many people, including these pleasure and
treasure seeking church goers, believe that they are clothed with God's
Spirit; but they have covered with a covering which is not of His Spirit
(is.30:1). Paul said that they have received another Jesus, a counterfeit
spirit (IIcor.11:2-4,IIths.2:7): because it does not practice true holiness,
which is pure, undefiled, sin-free, unspotted from the world holiness:
unspotted from man's customs, traditions and doctrines. 

       Some people believe that they are rich in God's word supposing that
material gain is godliness (Itim.6:5). Some people believe that they are
guarantied a place in heaven because they are prosperous. Not so: for God
makes his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just
and on the unjust: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil (mat.5:
45,luk.6:35)(until His patience runs out (is.65:1-6,jer.6:10-15;15:6,Iths.5:1-
3,jam.5:1-6). But a little that a righteous man has is better than the riches
of many wicked (psa.37:16).

       Some people believe that they have it made with God, because they say, 
I am rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing; and know not that 
they are wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked (rev.3:17). You have 
forgotten that it is the Lord your God that gives you power to get wealth that 
He may establish His covenant (dut.8:18). Your gold and silver is cankered; 
and the rust of them shall be a witness against you. You have lived in 
pleasure on the earth, and been wanton (jam.5:3,5). Jesus said, "I counsel you 
to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that you may be rich; and white raiment, 
that you may be clothed, and that the shame of your nakedness do not appear; 
and anoint your eyes with eye-salve, that you may see."(rev.3:18). 

       Hear, you deaf; and look, you blind, that you may see. Who is blind, 
but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? who is blind as he that 
is perfect, and blind as the Lord's servant? seeing many things, but you 
observe not; opening the ears, but he hears not....... They are shepherds that 
cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every-one for his gain, 
from his quarter (is.42:18-20;56:11). For all seek their own, not the things 
which are Jesus Christ's (phl.2:21).

                            ~ Chapter Fourteen ~
                          The Mystery Of Iniquity

       Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have 
eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not (jer.5:21). Who among you 
will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for the time to come? (is.42:
23). Who among you will hear this? for the time to come has come. But this 
people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone. 
Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the Lord our God, that gives 
rain, both the former and the latter, in his season (jer.5:23,24). 
 
       Paul said, "Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not 
come except there come a falling away first..."(IIths.2:3). There's already 
come a falling away first: many have fallen away from God's true holiness. 
Today many claim holiness but continue living as though they belong to this 
world. John said, "They went out from us, but they were not of us... they went 
out that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us."(Ijhn.2:
19). And that man of sin be revealed. You have heard that antichrist shall 
come, even now are there many antichrists (2:18). The mystery of iniquity does 
already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the 
way. And then shall that wicked be revealed (IIths.2:7,8). 

       Has God opened your heart yet to see these things? Then shall two be in 
the field; the one shall be taken and the other left (mat.24:40). Until he be 
taken out of the way: until the tares be taken out of the way, separated from 
the wheat (13:30). Then shall that wicked be revealed: even him whose coming 
is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, and 
with all deceivableness of unrighteousness (IIths.2:8,9,10).

       God is trying to purge us and empty us out so he can put nothing but 
his word in us that we will be able to recognize the Antichrist. The 
Antichrist's testimony will not be holiness, it will be pleasure. His message 
will be the creature and the creation, not the Creator [Jesus (eph.3:9,heb.1:
2)]. But Jesus said that if you don't forsake everything and hate your own 
life you can't be his disciple (luk.14:26,33). He said, "Gather my saints 
together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice."(psa.
50:5). He said to present your bodies a living sacrifice (rom.12:1). He said 
to deny yourself and take up your cross daily (luk.9:23). This is the daily 
sacrifice which the Antichrist takes away. The antichrist spirit takes away 
the daily sacrifice and places the abomination that makes desolate (dan.9:27;
11:31;12:11), so that he as God sits in the temple of God (your body (Icor.3:
16,6:19) showing himself that he is God (IIths.2:4), but without true holiness 
and the daily sacrifice that comes with following the true Jesus. This is the 
abomination that makes desolate. This is the mystery of iniquity which is 
already at work.

       Jesus said that when you therefore shall see the abomination of 
desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, 
standing in the holy place (the temple of God is holy, which temple you are 
(Icor.3:17), whoso readeth, let him understand (mat.24:15,mrk.13:14). Paul 
said, "Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no 
great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of 
righteousness..."(IIcor.11:14,15). This latter day antichrist spirit is the 
ultimate Jesus, or God, impersonator: minus, of course, true holiness and the 
daily sacrifice.

       So many are going to be taken away by this flood of delusion. The whole
earth is going to swallow up this false move of God and the mark of the Beast
like it's the best thing that ever happened (rev.12:9,16;13:4-17). Jesus said
that false Christs and false prophets shall rise and shall show great signs
and wonders; insomuch that if it were possible they shall deceive the very
elect (mat.24:24,mrk.13:22). Great deception is upon us (rev.16:13-14). And
the mark of the Beast micro-chip technology in your hand or in your forehead
is not at the door, it is already coming through the door: and many of these
phony preachers will convince many to receive it, saying that this is not what
the Bible was talking about. But Jesus said that if you receive this mark,
visible or invisible, you shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God which is
poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and you'll be cast
into the lake of fire with them (rev.14:9-11;20:10;21:8).

       So many are being deceived already by this false religious stuff on TV
today. Almost every religious program on TV and Radio today is watered-down --
diluted and polluted. Some of these preachers, even well-known ones, may have
even had the truth at one time in their life; but have now given in to this
antichrist spirit. So many people are running to and fro today looking for a
sign watching this religious deception and not knowing the difference between
the holy and profane, not knowing the difference between the unclean and the
clean, not knowing the difference between him that serves God and him that
serves him not (ezk.44:23,mal.3:18). But we are not supposed to seek signs in
order to believe. Jesus said that a wicked or adulterous generation seeks
after a sign (mat.12:38-39;16:1-4). Don't get me wrong, true signs do follow
the true believers, but not without true holiness. But this is an adulterous
religious generation that seek after signs; a generation of forms of
godliness; a generation that are lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
a generation that loves eating more than praying and fasting; a generation
that loves to hear good words and fair speeches; a generation that loves to be
deceived (IItim.3:4-5,rom.16:18,is.30:10,jer.5:31): and for this cause God
shall send them strong delusion (IIths.2:11).

       Him whose coming is with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them 
that perish; because they received not the love of the truth that they might 
be saved (IIths.2:10). Paul was not talking about religious love here. 
Religious love is of the world. God's love causes you to change. Jesus told 
Peter, "You savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of 
men."(mat.16:23). Peter was full of religious love for Jesus, but lacked God's 
love at first. Jesus said that you know and enjoy not the things that be of 
God, but those that be of men. He said, "My peace I give unto you: not as the 
world gives..."(jhn.14:27). The world's peace and God's peace is not the same. 
The world's love and God's love is not the same. Religious love is self-
righteous sympathy which makes you feel "righteous". God's love is unbridled 
compassion which moves you to action regardless of circumstances. We better 
throw away our religious love and get the real love of Jesus in us. Religious 
faith is a thought: it's feelings and emotions, and little more. God's faith 
is action: his kind of faith drives you to bring forth daily more of his word 
and his works through you. Godly sorrow works repentance to salvation: but the 
sorrow of the world works death (IIcor.7:10). And for this cause God shall 
send them strong delusion that they should believe a lie: that they all might 
be damned who believed not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness 
(IIths.2:11,12). 

       Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall 
do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall 
understand (dan.12:10). When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit 
of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him (is.59:19). Our only hope is 
to continue in the word, and to stand in the word and have the word abide in
us, and let God stand up in us and lift up his standard of holiness in our
hearts and in our lives. Take unto you the whole armour of God and become
alive and on fire in his kingdom now!

       Break up your fallow ground: plow deep: gather out every stone and
pebble: lay aside every weight and the sin which does so easily beset us.
Sanctify a fast. Go through the gates; prepare the way of the people; cast up
the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people (is.62:
10). Stir up the gift of God which is in you: building up yourselves on your
most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost. For we know not what we should
pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself makes intercession for us with
groanings which cannot be uttered. And grieve not the holy Spirit of God,
whereby you are sealed unto the day of redemption. Lift up the hands which
hang down, and the feeble knees. For now is our salvation nearer than when we
believed (rom.8:26;13:11,IItim.1:6,heb.12:12,jud.20).

       Pray without ceasing. Wake up your measure of faith which God has given
unto every born again Christian. For God has not given us the spirit of fear;
but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind (rom.12:3,Iths.5:17,IItim.1:
7). Exercise your faith daily and it will increase, and you will bring forth
the works of Jesus. For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith
without works is dead also (jam.2:26). Let the Spirit of God stir you to watch
and pray always, and to fast, and to search out his word daily. If any of you
lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that gives to all men liberally, and upbraids
not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering.
For he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed
(jam.1:5-6). Only let your conversation be as it becomes the gospel of Christ
(phl.1:27). Dig deep to make yourself ready and enter into that perfect
marriage of the Lamb where Jesus will rule in you, because the flood gates are
being opened like never before.

       Let him that thinks he stands take heed lest he fall (Icor.10:12). For 
if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not you 
(rom.11:21). See that you refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not 
who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn 
away from him that speaks from heaven: whose voice then shook the earth: but 
now he has promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but 
also heaven (God is shaking the natural world and the spiritual world: He is 
shaking the Church to weed out the tares (is.13:13,IIths.2:2,rev.6:13). And 
this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are 
shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken 
may remain (heb.12:25,26).

       If you don't believe that God will allow the lukewarm to be taken away 
by delusion and wrath, just read what Jesus said he had done to the one who 
went to the marriage without a wedding garment on -- he was cast out into 
outer darkness. Jesus said that the king said unto him, "Friend, how camest 
thou in hither not having a wedding garment?"(mat.22). He called him friend, 
so he is definitely not talking to the heathens here. He said that these shall 
go away into everlasting punishment (mat.25:46).

       God said, "Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet 
my people have forgotten me days without number."(jer.2:32). Some of us 
believe that God is pleased by us going to church. We are the Church (Icor.12:
27). God does not dwell in temples made with hands (act.7:48). You are God's 
building (Icor.3:7). You are the place where God lives and works (jhn.14:12,
IIcor.6:16). Some of us believe that we are serving a part time God. We won't 
dare curse/ steal/ lust/ lie/ judge/ condemn/ be a busy-body/ gossip/ smoke/ 
drink/ etc., in church; but we will do such things when we are not in church. 
Well, we have forgotten our attire. We have forgotten our wedding garment. We 
have forgotten that we were purged from our old sins. We are defiling God's 
temple. Does a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? 
Can the fig tree bear olive berries? either a vine figs? so can no fountain 
both yield salt water and fresh (jam.3:11,12). Jesus said, "Either make the 
tree good and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt and his fruit 
corrupt..."(mat.12:33). Your heart, mind and body is the temple of God. If any 
man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy (Icor.3:17).  

       It's time to wake up out of this lukewarm religious sleep before it's 
too late. Awake you that sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give 
you light (eph.5:14). The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us 
therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of 
light (rom.13:12). Draw close to God, and he will draw close to you. Cleanse 
your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double minded. Be 
afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and 
your joy to heaviness (jam.4:8,9). Humble yourselves therefore under the 
mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time (Ipet.5:6). 

                            ~ Chapter Fifteen ~
                           Believe God's Prophets

       Awake, awake; put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful
garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come
into you the uncircumcised and the unclean (is.52:1). Put on the Lord Jesus
Christ, and make not provisions for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof
(rom.13:14). Isaiah prophesied this concerning the true Christians, "He has
clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of
righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, and as a bride
adorns herself with her jewels."(is.61:10). Let your garments be always white
[not your "Fruit of the Loom" or some other natural garment, nor any other
religious spiritual garment, but the garment of the Spirit of God -- Jesus]:
that you may be found without spot (ecl.9:8,IIpet.3:14). It's time to put on
Jesus!

       For the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife has made herself
ready. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean
and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints [And their
righteousness is of me, saith the Lord."(is.54:17,zch.3:4)]. And he said unto
me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the
Lamb. And he said unto me, These are the true sayings of God. And I fell at
his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See you do it not: for I am your
fellowservant and of your brothers that have the testimony of Jesus: worship
God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy (rev.19:7-10).

       The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy (rev.19:10). Believe 
in the Lord your God, so shall you be established; believe his prophets, so 
shall you prosper (IIchr.20:20). God will do nothing except he reveals his 
secrets unto his servants the prophets (ams.3:7). Jesus said, "It cannot be 
that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem."(luk.13:33). So God said that he will 
always have at least one true prophet on the scene.

       From Genesis to Revelation God has been revealing his plans to his
servants the prophets for the purpose of having them prophesy what He is doing
and what He is about to do. Also from the beginning to the end God's prophets
were and are mocked and ridiculed, and their word was not and is not believed
by many even among God's people. Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the
people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not
done it? Surely the Lord God will do nothing but he revealeth his secrets unto
his servants the prophets (ams.3:6,7). Where there is no vision, the people
perish (prv.29:18). God will not do anything without first revealing it to his
true prophets.

       God has a true prophet on the scene today, going through the lands,
warning us and preparing us for what HE is about to do. David Terrell is the
major prophet on the scene today. And like Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel, God
ordained this man from his mother's womb to be a prophet unto the nations
(jer.1:5;ezk.33:7;is.58:1;luk.10:16). And when you accept the word of God
from his mouth you are receiving God. And when you refuse the word of God
from his mouth you are rejecting God. And the word which you hear is not mine,
but the Father's which called me (jhn.14:24;20:21;luk.10:16;rom.13:1-4).

       This man is the forerunner of the Elijah prophet (if not the Elijah
prophet himself). And God showed him that we are going to go into at least the
first part of the twenty-first century. We better take heed. This is God's
prophet. I am not exalting man here; rather, I am lifting up the ministry of
a true prophet (rom.13:1-7). There are other prophets: some of which are
God's; some are by their own choosing. But you cannot choose to be a prophet.
God chooses His prophets (jer.1:5,gal.1:15). These so called "prophets"
running around contradicting God's major prophet are not God's prophets,
because the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets (Icor.14:32).
But God always backs up His word: and he put His word in David Terrell's
mouth. And Brother Terrell is now and has been for the past several decades
prophesying and warning God's people. But for the most part his words have
fallen on deaf ears.

       Jesus himself said that a prophet is without honour in his own country
and among his own people (mat.13:57,mrk.6:4,luk.4:24,jhn.4:44). "Also, thou
son of man," God said to his prophet, "the children of your people still are
talking against you... they come unto you as the people come, and they sit
before you as my people, and they hear your words, but they will not do them:
for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their
covetousness... you are unto them as a very lovely song of one that has a
pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear your words,
but they do them not."(ezk.33:30-32). "Therefore you shall speak all these
words unto them; but they will not hearken to you..."(jer.7:27). "You dwell in
the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and see not: for they
are a rebellious house."(ezk.12:2).

       Jesus told Israel that the kingdom of God would be taken from them and
given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof (mat.21:43). The United
States of America is that nation. God chose us to bring forth the fruits of
the kingdom of God, and as a result we have become the greatest nation on the
face of the earth. But in recent years this nation has backslidden from God.
We've become lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God. We've heaped to
ourselves teachers and preachers having itching ears and forms of godliness
without holiness. From the least of them even unto the greatest of them every
one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every
one deals falsely. God said, "They have healed also the hurt of the daughter
of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. Were they
ashamed when they had committed abomination? no, they were not at all ashamed,
neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at
the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the Lord."(jer.6:
13-15).

       Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they
happy that deal very treacherously? Thou hast planted them, yea, they have
taken root: they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their
mouth, and far from their reins.... pull them out like sheep for the
slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter. The LORD hath made all
things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil (jer.12:1-3;
prv.16:4).

       God said, "Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land
of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets,
daily rising up early and sending them: yet they hearkened not unto me, nor
inclined their ear, but hardened their neck..."(jer.7:25,27). "I have sent
also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them,
saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and
go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I
have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor
hearkened unto me."(Jer.35:15). "I have also spoken by the prophets, and I
have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the
prophets."(hos.12:10). "They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready;
but none goes to the battle: for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof."
(ezk.7:14).

       This nation, the U.S.A. as a whole, is a nation that obeys not the
voice of the Lord their God, nor receives correction (jer.7:28). This nation,
in large part, was built upon Christian values and Christian teachings: and
the only way to deny this fact is to rewrite history: and this is exactly what
many people are doing today. Animosity against Christianity in this nation has
never been more prevalent. And never before in the history of our country have
we had a more corrupt and anti-Bible government than we have today. Even the
church-world today does not believe the Bible to be the infallible word of
God. The Bible says that if a ruler pays attention to lies, then all of his
servants are wicked (prv.29:12). This scripture accurately describes our
current President and many of those serving under him today, including many in
the news media. They choose to believe and promote lies, and many people in
this country and abroad, religious and non-religious alike, are going along
with them (IIpet.2:1-2).

       "Thus saith the Lord, Stand in the ways, and see, and ask for the old
paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and you shall find rest for
your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein. Also I set watchmen over
you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not
hearken. Therefore hear, you nations, and know, O congregation, what is among
them. Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the
fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to
my law, but rejected it."(jer.6:16-19).

       For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity;
your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness. None calls
for justice, nor any pleads for truth (they make haste to shed innocent blood
-- even the blood of innocent unborn babies -- the unjust knows no shame
(zph.3:5):  they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and
bring forth iniquity... conceiving and uttering from the heart words of
falsehood (is.59:3-13). They change the truth of God into a lie, and worship
and serve the creature (man) more than the Creator (Jesus). And for this cause
God gave them over to a reprobate mind (rom.1:18-32).

       And judgment is turned away backward, and justice stands afar off: for
truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. Yes, truth fails; and
he that departs from evil makes himself a prey: and the Lord saw it, and it
displeased him that there was no judgment (is.59:14,15). If you depart from
evil and separate yourself from doing what others are doing, then you have
become their prey and you are made fun of by them. But, the pride of this
nation's wickedness has reached unto God. Pride proceeds destruction (prv.16:
18). This nation has lifted itself up to heaven through the pride of its
prosperity; but God himself, the righteous judge of all, shall bring this
nation down because of its backslidings (jer.18:7-10).

       Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for 
light, and light for darkness -- that they may add sin to sin -- Therefore as 
the fire devours the stubble and the flame consumes 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. Therefore is the anger of the Lord kindled against his people, 
and he has stretched forth his hand against them... For all this his anger is 
not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still (is.5:20,24,25;30:1). 

       For the people turn not unto him that smite them, neither do they seek
the Lord of hosts: and blasphemed the name of God, which has power over these
plagues. Neither repented they of their murders (hatred, grudges or bitterness
in the heart), nor of their sorceries (drug and alcohol abuse or recreational
use), nor of their fornication (lust of the flesh or of the eyes, i.e., lust
in the heart), nor of their thefts (which includes holding back from God or
man when we should be giving). God said, "Yes, they have chosen their own
ways, and their soul delights in their abominations. I also will choose their
delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none
did answer; when I spoke, they did not hear: but they did evil before my eyes,
and chose that in which I delighted not."(is.9:13;66:3,4,rev.9&16). "And I
will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it,
even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied against
all nations."(jer.25:13).

       Your words have been stout against me, saith the Lord. Yet you say,
What have we spoken so much against you? You have said, It is vain to serve
God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinances, and that we have
walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts? And now we call the proud happy;
yes, they that work wickedness are set up; yes, they that tempt God are even
delivered (mal.3:13-15). You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels.
Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand
up, and save you from these things that shall come upon you (is.47:13). For I
have heard from the Lord God of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the
whole earth (is.28:22). In the latter days you shall consider it (jer.30:24).
God said, "For my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble
the kingdoms, to pour upon them my indignation, even all my fierce anger: for
all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy."(zph.3:8). "And
I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and
I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease..."(is.13:11).

       God warned us that in the last days there would be scoffers, walking
after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of Jesus' coming? for
since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the
beginning of the creation. For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by
the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the
water and in the water: whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with
water, perished: but the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same
word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and
perdition of ungodly men. But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing,
that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one
day. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count
slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should
perish, but that all should come to repentance. 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, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the
elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are
therein shall be burned up (IIpet.3:3-12).

       I don't claim to be a prophet or some big-shot preacher, just one whom 
the Lord God has opened my ear and I was not rebellious neither turned away 
back (is.50:5): but his word was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my 
bones, and I could not keep silent (jer.20:9). And I assure that the gospel 
which I have written about here is not after man. For I neither received it of 
man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ (gal.1:12,
mat.16:17). And I am saying this by the Spirit of the only true God, by the 
Spirit of prophecy which is the testimony of Jesus, that the marriage of the 
Lamb is at the door, when they that have made themselves ready having endured 
rebuke and chastening, and have kept themselves unspotted from the world, 
shall through their most holy faith enter into marriage with Jesus into the 
fulness of God; and when they that have not made themselves ready, but have 
compromised God's word and held the truth in unrighteousness, shall be shut 
out and given their portion with the unbelievers (luk.12:46). 

       For as a snare shall it come (21:35): even great wrath and persecution 
which will catch many off guard because they refuse to take heed to God's word 
and prepare themselves spiritually and naturally and move out of the wicked 
cities and out of the wicked areas and into a blessed area, chosen not by man, 
but by God. John said, "And to the woman [the true Church] were given two 
wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her 
place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the 
face of the serpent."(rev.12:14). There is a spiritual place in God where we 
should be already. But there is a natural physical place where we should be 
also when we are not out evangelizing. Not training with firearms for a 
revolution. They that take the sword shall perish with the sword (mat.26:52,
gen.9:6,rev.13:10). I am not against someone having firearms, but I'm talking 
about learning to be self sufficient without taking the mark of the Beast. I'm
not against someone owning and baring firearms, because after all, guns
were one of the tools by which our forefathers obtained and secured many of
the freedoms taken for granted today. The founding fathers of the United
States, many of whom were God fearing men, included in the U.S. Constitution
our right to own and bare firearms so that a controlling government would
never be allowed to enslave the citizens of this great nation. But we must
not put the natural sword in place of the sword of the Spirit. Some trust in
chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the Lord our
God (psa.20:7). Some trust in bullets, and some in bullet-proof vests; some
trust in technology; others trust in money, gold and silver: but we need to
put our trust in Jesus. We better take heed or else we'll be snared with the
wicked (job.9:22,ezk.21:1-3,hos.4:6).

       Jesus said to watch and pray always that you may be accounted worthy to
escape all these things that shall come to pass and to stand before the Son of
man (luk.21:36). A thousand shall fall at your side, and ten thousand at your
right side; but it shall not come near you. Only with your eyes shall you
behold and see the reward of the wicked (psa.91:7,8). "Come my people, enter
into your chambers, and shut your doors about you: hide yourself as it were
for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast."(is.26:20). Seek the
Lord, all you meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek
righteousness, seek meekness: it may be you shall be hid in the day of the
Lord's anger (zph.2:3). Jesus said, "These things I have spoken unto you, that
in me you might have peace. In the world you shall have tribulation: but be of
good cheer; I have overcome the world."(jhn.16:33). God is going to hide us in
his Spirit. He is going to hide us in Jesus -- the secret place of the most
High.

       Jesus said, "I pray not that you should take them out of the world, but 
that you should keep them from the evil."(jhn.17:15). God is going to chasten, 
refine and mold his elect: and keep his people strong during the tribulation -
- those that enter into the bond of the covenant; that dwell in the secret 
place of the most High; that enter into his marriage; that have passed under 
the rod of correction and have been purged, and have washed their robes and 
made them white in the blood of the Lamb. But the rest will be carried away by 
this flood of strong delusion and destruction that shall come as a snare on 
all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth (luk.21:35). 

       Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let 
all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the Lord comes, for it 
is nigh at hand; a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and of 
thick darkness (jol.2:1,2). Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! to 
what end is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light (ams.5:
18). The day of the Lord which is the time of gross darkness and the wrath of
God upon the earth is fast approaching: it is even at the door. And you who
are not watching and praying always, you who are not walking in the light of
this word shall be visited as by a thief in the night!

       But you, brothers, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake 
you as a thief. You are all the children of light, and the children of the 
day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as 
do others; but let us watch and be sober (Iths.5:4-6). Arise, shine; for your 
light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon you (is.60:1). Walk 
while you have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walks in 
darkness knows not where he goes (jhn.12:35).
 
                            ~ Chapter Sixteen ~
                        The Mystery Of God Finished

       For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the 
people: but the Lord shall arise upon you, and his glory shall be seen upon 
you. And the Gentiles [sinners] shall come to your light, and kings to the 
brightness of your rising (is.60:2,3). Therefore let us not sleep, as do 
others; but let us watch and be sober (Iths.5:6). Take unto you the whole 
armour of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having 
done all, to stand (eph.6:13).

       Jesus said, "Blessed are those servants, whom the Lord when he comes 
shall find watching: surely I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and 
make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them."(luk.12:
37). King David prophesied, "You prepare a table before me in the presence of 
my enemies: you anoint my head with oil; my cup runs over."(psa.23:5). 

       Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb 
(rev.19). Jesus said, "Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my 
dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come 
unto the marriage."(mat.22:4). He said he will come forth and serve us our 
portion of meat in due season (luk.12). He said he prepares a table before us 
in the presence of our enemies (psa.23). He said that all things are ready, 
not off in the heavens somewhere, but right here and now we are going to eat 
the fulness of God's word and enter into marriage with him on this earth in 
the presence of our enemies! 

       This is the mystery of Christ in you. God said that the glory of this
latter house shall be greater than the former (hab.2:9). This is the mystery
of God which is the revelation of Jesus Christ in you. Paul said, "He that is
joined unto the Lord is one spirit." (Icor. 6:17), "For we are members of his
body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause shall a man leave his
father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be
one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the
church."(eph.5:30-32). Jesus said, "That they all may be one; as you, Father,
are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us... And the glory
which you gave me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are
one..."(jhn.17:21,22). "And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour,
and evey man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me,
from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will
forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more."(jer.31:34).

       "Thus saith the Lord, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my 
footstool: where is the house you build unto me? and where is the place of my 
rest? for all those things have my hand made, and all those things have been, 
saith the Lord: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a 
contrite spirit, and trembles at my word."(is.66:1,2). Solomon built him a 
house. Howbeit the most High dwells not in temples made with hands (act.17:47,
48). You are the temple of the living God; as God has said, I will dwell in 
them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 
Wherefore come out from among them, and be separate, says the Lord, and touch 
not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, 
and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty (IIcor.6:16,
17). 

       In the beginning God created man in his own image and said let them 
have dominion over all the earth (gen.1:26,27). God made man to dwell in: to 
live in: to rule and reign through us (rev.2:26-29). That was before man 
sinned. Then Jesus came to reconcile us back into the image of God (IIcor.5:
19-21,phl.2:5-8). Man is the work of God's hands: the man that is born again 
in the image of Jesus. God said, "Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, 
and concerning the work of my hands....... Your people also shall be all 
righteous: they shall inherit the land forever, the branch of my planting, the 
work of my hands, that I may be glorified."(is.45:11;60:21). Jesus said, "My 
meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work."(jhn.4:
34). Revelation five ten says that Jesus has made us unto our God kings and 
priests: and we shall reign on the earth. We shall reign with God on this 
earth: God in us, Jesus Christ in us reigning through us on this earth before 
the end of the world! Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have 
boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world 
(Ijhn.4:17)! 

       This is the mystery of God which is finished in the latter days before 
the end of the world. This takes place in the last days, not at the last day. 
As it was in the days of Noa, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of 
man (luk.17:26). In the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall 
begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished (rev.10:7). We are 
overcomers here in this world. Jesus was down here in this world when he 
overcame Satan. The thief on the cross overcame by the blood of the Lamb and 
by the word of his testimony here in this world. If we are not supposed to 
overcome in this world, then not only are our lives down here in vain, but 
Jesus' death and resurrection was in vain also. But that's not the case. John 
said, "You are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because 
greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world."(Ijhn.4:4).  

       This is the mystery which Adam and Eve gave up their right to-- the 
tree of life in the midst of the garden of Eden (gen.2:9)-- the Word (jhn.1:
1)-- Christ the power and wisdom of God (Icor.1:24)-- Jesus in you, the hope 
of glory (col.1:27)! Jesus said, "I am the living bread which came down from 
heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever... Whoso eats my 
flesh, and drinks my blood, has eternal life; and I will raise him up at the 
last day."(jhn.6:51,54). The rapture takes place at the last day, but the 
mystery of God is finished before the last day: it is finished at the 
revelation of Jesus Christ, in the days of the seventh angel when he shall 
begin to sound, in the days of the Son of man, when that which is perfect is 
come, when this mortal shall have put on immortality (Ipet.1:13,rev.10:7,luk.
17:26,Icor.13:9-12;15:51-57) -- Here is the patience of the saints: here are 
they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus (rev.14:12).

       Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to 
the tree of life (rev.22:14). Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the 
life..."(jhn.14:6), "The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and 
they are life."(6:63), "For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink 
indeed. He that eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, dwells in me, and I in 
him."(6:55,56). He said, "To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the 
tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God."(rev.2:7). 

       Religious people, in general, are among the hardest people to get saved
because we believe that we are already righteous because we are good people.
We are righteous alright, self-righteous. We know enough; we see enough: or so
we think. Jesus said, "For judgment I am come into this world, that they which
see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind." "I came not
to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." Jesus didn't come for this
self-righteous church bunch. He said, "If you were blind, you should have no
sin: but now you say, We see; therefore your sin remains."(jhn.9:39,41,luk.5:
32). Jesus said that common sinners and whores will go into the kingdom of God
before some of us (mat.21: 31), because they will eat from God whatever is set
before them: because some of them will receive the word without questioning
it: those that have not yet been corrupted by false religious beliefs, who
will humble themselves, repent and receive the kingdom of God as a little
child (mrk.10:15).

       "But you, son of man, hear what I say unto you; Be not rebellious like 
that rebellious house: open your mouth, and eat that I give you."(ezk.2:8). 
"Behold, I have set before you an open door, and no man can shut it: for you 
have a little strength, and have kept my word, and have not denied my name."
(rev.3:8).

       Jesus said to tell them which are bidden,"I have prepared my dinner, 
and all things are ready: come unto the marriage. But they made light of it, 
and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise..." (mat.22:
4,5). Jesus said, "Say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now 
ready. And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto 
him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray 
you have me excused. And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I 
go to prove them: I pray you have me excused. And another said, I have married 
a wife, and therefore I cannot come." (luk.14:17-20) -- Multitudes, multitudes 
in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of 
decision (jol.3:14). Many are making excuses today as to why they are unable 
to do this or do that for God.

       "The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy. Go 
therefore into the highways, and as many as you shall find, bid to the 
marriage."(mat.22:8,9), "Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them 
to come in, that my house may be filled. For I say unto you, that none of 
those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper." exclaimed Jesus (luk.
14:23,24).

       Jesus said that half of us good living Christians are running on a low 
battery. He said that five out of ten of us virgins are low on oil and the 
door is about to be shut, when half of us will be shut out forever because we 
don't have enough oil in our lamps, we don't have enough of God in us to see 
what is about to take place before our eyes (mat.25).

       And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, says the Lord, two 
parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. 
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 (zch.13:8,9). Behold, I have refined you, but not with 
silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction (is.48:10).

       Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, 
because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work 
of what sort it is. If any man's work abide which he has built [on Jesus], he 
shall receive a reward. If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer 
loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire (Icor.3:13-15). For, 
behold, the day comes, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yes, and 
all that do wickedly shall be stubble: and the day that comes shall burn them 
up, says the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch 
(mal.4:1). 

       "But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness [Jesus] 
arise with healing in his wings; and you shall go forth, and grow up as calves 
of the stall. And you shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes 
under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, says the Lord of 
hosts."(mal.4:2-3).

       It's time to humble ourselves and pray and turn from our own ways and
seek the face of God (IIchr.7:13-14). It's time to pass under the rod of
correction (ezk.20:33-44). It's time to let Jesus rebuke us, chastise us,
purge us and refine us (dut.8:5). It's time to take hold of and possess the
faith which was once delivered unto the saints (jud.3). It's time to put Jesus
on: and let Jesus in (rom.13:14,rev.3:20). It's time to seek his
righteousness, not our own: all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags
(is.64:6). We better get this attitude right here in our hearts right now:
listen, We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covers us: for we have
sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto
this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God (jer.3:5). O Lord,
to you will I cry: for the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness,
and the flame has burned all the trees of the field (jol.1:19). Search me, O
God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any
wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting (psa.139:23,24). O Lord,
correct me, but with judgment; not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing
(jer.10:24).

       "For a small moment have I forsaken you; but with great mercies will I 
gather you. In a little wrath I hid my face from you for a moment; but with 
everlasting kindness will I have mercy on you, says the Lord your redeemer."
(is.54:7-8). "But I will correct you in measure, and will not leave you 
altogether unpunished..." said God, "because your sins were increased, I have 
done these things unto you."(jer.30:11,15). Then they that feared the Lord 
spoke often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book 
of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that 
thought upon his name. "And they shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, in 
that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spares his 
own son that serves him. Then shall you return, and discern between the 
righteous and the wicked, between him that serves God and him that serves him 
not."(mal.3:16-18).

       "Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he has torn, and he will 
heal us; he has smitten, and he will bind us up. After two days will he revive 
us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. Then 
shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared 
as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and 
former rain unto the earth." wrote Hosea (hos.6:1-3). 

       Hosea was not talking about the early Church here because you cannot 
revive something that does not yet exist. The Church was not revived on the 
day of Pentecost, it was born. Hosea was talking about this last day revival 
which is the latter rain outpouring of the Holy Ghost without measure. Peter 
said, "One day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as 
one day."(IIpet.3:8). We are on the threshold of entering into the third-
thousand year, or third day with the Lord, since the birth of the Church, when 
God's elect is coming into the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect 
man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ (eph4:13), when 
that which is perfect is come (Icor.13:10): and He will revive us and raise us 
up, and we shall live in his sight in true holiness in the presence of our 
enemies on this earth in the days before the end of this world (psa.23:5). 
Glory to Jesus!

       "Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I 
declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them." The Lord shall go forth 
as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, 
yes, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies. "I have long time held my 
peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a 
travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once. I will make waste 
mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers 
islands, and I will dry up the pools. And I will bring the blind by a way that 
they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make 
darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I 
do unto them, and not forsake them." "And it shall come to pass, that before 
they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear... 
saith the Lord."(is.42:9,13-16;65:24). Thank you, Jesus, for your Word! 

       "Hear the word of the Lord, you that tremble at his word; Your brothers 
that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake, said, Let the Lord be 
glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed."(is.66:
5). "For I will restore health unto you, and I will heal you of your wounds, 
says the Lord; because they called you an outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom 
no man seeks after."(jer.30:17).

       The days are at hand, and the effect of every vision (ezk.12:23). Seal 
not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand. He that 
is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy 
still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is 
holy, let him be holy still. And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is 
with me, to give every man according as his work shall be (rev.22:10-12).

                                 CONCLUSION

       O my Father, if you be willing, if it be possible, let this cup pass 
from me, remove this cup from me, take away this cup from me: nevertheless not 
what I will, not as I will, but what you will, as you will: not my will, but 
yours be done (mat.26:39,mrk.14:36,luk.22:43), prayed Jesus as a man, as our 
example. He said, "You shall indeed drink of the cup that I drink of; and with 
the baptism that I am baptized withal shall you be baptized..."(mrk.10:39).

       Hear the word of the Lord, you that tremble at his word; you that
count the cost and forsake all; you that deny yourselves and take up your
crosses daily; you that put your hands to the plough and don't look back; unto
you that fear my name: Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The
spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak. Pray without ceasing, watch unto
prayer, for yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, with all
power and signs and lying wonders, and will not tarry or delay. But know that
the kingdom of God comes not with observation: the kingdom of God is within
you. And the saints of the most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the
kingdom forever. And the Lord whom you seek shall suddenly come to his temple
-- you are that temple -- and you shall be endued with power from on high: and
you shall be witnesses unto me unto the uttermost part of the earth (is.32:15;
66:5,luk.9:23,62;14:28,33;17:20,21;24:49,mal.3:1;4:2,mrk.14:38,Iths.5:17,Ipet.
4:7,heb.10:37-39,IIths.2:1-12,dan.7:18,act.1:8).

       I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your 
daughters shall prophesy; and your young men shall see visions, and your old 
men shall dream dreams: and on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour 
out my Spirit, and they shall prophesy. I will show wonders in heaven above, 
and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke. And you 
shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that you be not troubled: for all 
these things must first come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall 
rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be great 
earthquakes, pestilences, famines and troubles; fearful sights and great signs 
from heaven: these are the beginnings of sorrows (jol.2:28-30,act.2:17-19,mat.
24,mrk.13,luk.21). 


       Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted: they shall deliver you 
up to councils, and into prisons: you shall be brought before rulers and kings 
for my sake, for a testimony against them: but when they shall lead you, and 
deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what you shall speak, neither 
premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak: for 
it is not you that speak, but the Holy Ghost. For I will give you a mouth and 
wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist. 
You shall be betrayed by parents, brothers, kinfolks and friends; and some of 
you shall they cause to be put to death. But he that shall endure unto the 
end, the same shall be saved (mat.24,mrk.13,luk.21). 

       These are the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may 
be fulfilled: great tribulation: a time of trouble such as never was since 
there was a nation: signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and 
upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, confusion; the sea and 
the waves roaring; men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after 
those things which are coming on the earth. The sun shall be turned into 
darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and terrible day of the 
Lord come: and it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of 
the Lord, whosoever shall call on the name of Jesus shall be saved (jol.2:31,
32,act.2:20,21,dan.12,mat.24,luk.21)! 

       And you shall preach this gospel of the kingdom in all the world, in 
demonstration of the Spirit and of power, the Lord working with you and 
confirming the word with signs following, for a witness unto all nations, and 
then shall the end come (mat.24:14,Icor.2:4,Iths.1:5,mrk.16:20)!

       And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the 
first earth were passed away... And He that sat upon the throne said, Behold, 
I make all things new. For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and 
the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. But be glad and 
rejoice forever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a 
rejoicing, and her people a joy. For as the new heavens and the new earth, 
which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed 
and your name remain. And He said unto me, Write: for these words are true and 
faithful (is.65:17-18;66:22,rev.21:1-8)!

                                -- THE END --


                                (back cover)
       "He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew 
him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as 
received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God...." (jhn.1:10-
12)