Father and Son are one Person
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Two of the most basic errors that fooled the churches are Trinity and Christmas
- Bible did not ask to celebrate the birth of Jesus
- Trinity is an unsolved Mystery
- Father and Son are ministries and not Persons
- The secret name of God
- Born again of the Holy Spirit
- The Ancient of Days is the Judge
- We must discover Who the Judge is
- Two people cannot sit in the middle of the throne
- Three People are never seen in Heaven
- Competitive Christianity
Bible did not ask to celebrate the birth of Jesus
Christmas is the biggest celebration of the year, despite the fact that the Bible never asked us to celebrate the birth of the Lord.
That shows us how gullible Christians are. They just believe in this church tradition because everyone else does. They regard conforming to their church as more important than conforming to the Scriptures. Thus, they are fooled and become part of the foolish virgins of the parable of Matthew 25.
Christians use the unscriptural word “Christmas” and the unscriptural date “25 December” so often that they are now used to believing in things that are not written in the Bible.
But the Christmas story teaches us to contradict Scripture.
Paul says that we Gentiles served pagan gods and those errors seem to be naturally in us.
GALATIANS 4:8 “Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
:9 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?”
Fixing a date in the year is a beggarly element. It is not Christian worship. It is bondage to a pagan spirit.
The Jewish calendar was based on the moon and their year was about 11 days shorter than our Roman calendar. Every two or three years they would add in an extra month. Thus, no day of the year was the same from one year to the next in the Jewish calendar. But, in 45 BC Julius Caesar set up the Roman year of 365 days to match the length of the year. This pagan Roman calendar enabled the pagans to have a repeatable midwinter date of 25 December for their sun god’s birth.
GALATIANS 4:10 “Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.”
Fixing a day (25th day) and month (December) and time (Christmas time) and year (every year)
GALATIANS 4:11 “I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.”
Paul says that observing the Christmas date is so pagan that it makes us waste-of-time-Christians.
The Christmas tree is copied from paganism. We should not go that route.
JEREMIAH 10:2 “Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.”
(Signs of heaven are the Zodiac signs, Your Stars Foretell as the astrologers claim. Believing that is superstition)
JEREMIAH 10:3 “For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
:4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.”
Cutting down a tree, setting it upright, and then decorating it is the “way of the heathen” that we should not be following.
But Christians want to follow these pagan customs. We attach the name of Jesus to a pagan custom and think that God is impressed.
A woman symbolizes a church. A virgin is a clean woman, representing saved people in the church. Saved but fooled by the charismatic church leaders into their unscriptural beliefs. Thus, they will not be ready for the Lord when He Comes to catch His Scriptural Bride up to meet Him in the air.
What other deceptions are in the church?
Trinity is an unsolved Mystery
Babylon was famous for its mysteries. Trinity was one of those mysteries as was the sun god’s birthday in midwinter when the day is short. The Pontiff was head of the Babylonian priesthood. Julius Caesar bribed his way to becoming Pontiff in 63 BC. That title stayed with the Roman Emperor.
In AD 382 Roman Emperor Theodosius gave the title of Pontiff to his uncle Damasus who was Bishop of Rome. The mysteries of Babylon entered the Roman Catholic church. The Pope is still Pontiff today.
Religion is based on trying to understand mysteries that cannot be solved. That makes people think they are clever.
This process endlessly fascinates people with its unscriptural mental gymnastics. They are brainwashed into believing statements that are not written in the Bible like “The Antichrist”, “Merry Christmas”, “God the Son”, “Eternal Sonship”, “Father and Son are of the same substance” (but God is a Spirit, not flesh and bone), and “Father and Son are of the same essence” (whatever that means). They are then proud of believing what is not written in Scripture. Then they happily ignore Scriptures that contradict them.
Being deceived, they are smugly complacent about contradicting Scripture. Trinitarians say that Father and Son are “co-equal” but Jesus said the Father is greater than Him,
JOHN 14:28 … “for my Father is greater than I”.
Thus, they gain an illusion of knowledge. Rather like hunting for shadows in the mist. Is it three or is it one?
Three Persons Who are each God but yet there is only one God. That is a mystery that cannot be solved.
A negative mystery cannot be solved. That is its attraction. We are attracted by negative forces like gravity that pull us down. Smoking, drinking, drugs, and illegal sex attract us as they are negative forces. Positive forces tend to repel like Bible study and an hour of prayer. Many Christians have to force themselves to do that.
But an hour of what is called doomscrolling on the internet with its mindless distractions is easy to do. So is an hour watching the superficial TV programs that offer no inner compass.
Augustine, a famous Roman Catholic Trinitarian around the year 400, said that Trinity was this unimaginable mystery.
In a radio broadcast that I listened to many years ago, Billy Graham, the world’s most famous evangelist, echoed this sentiment as he admitted he could not understand the Trinity himself but begged us to believe it for his sake.
1600 years of dispute and debate and the Trinity Godhead remains unsolveable. Trinitarians still cannot tell us what the one name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost is.
It is simply impossible to find one name for three Persons.
But Trinity is a man-made mystery designed to obscure Who God is and what His name is.
The Bible, however, promised that the mystery of God should be finished.
REVELATION 10:7 “But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound,
the mystery of God should be finished,
as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.”
Those who ignore or reject the seventh angel or messenger, William Branham, from America, will endlessly and unsuccessfully try to wrap their minds around one of the greatest deceptions of all time, the Roman Catholic Trinity.
Remember, it was the Roman Catholic Pope Julius I who introduced Christmas around the year AD 350.
Christmas and Trinity are Roman Catholic doctrines that the Protestants have foolishly taken to be the foundation of their beliefs. There are 45000 different kinds of denominations and churches. Trinity and Christmas are almost the only common beliefs in this bewildering maze of opinions. Scared to sever those two threads that bind the churches together, none of the churches dare attack Christmas and Trinity. They prefer to attack you if you raise those issues.
Father and Son are ministries and not Persons
The Godhead was misunderstood when church-goers mistakenly thought that the three different ministries of God, above the Jews as the Father, with us as Emmanuel, then in us as the Holy Ghost would require Him to be three People.
In the Old Testament, God is a Spirit, a supernatural Spirit.
Somewhere in the thoughts of God’s Mind or Spirit was humanity.
Humanity (the purple circle) was somehow wrapped up, unseen, in the supernatural Spirit that is symbolized by the yellow teardrop shape.
Job, as a human, was in God at the creation. I do not remember being in my father when he was a young man. Similarly, all of us sons and daughters of God do not remember the emotional joy we felt when the earth was created. But we knew that was our future home, so we got excited.
JOB 38:4 “Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.”
JOB 38:7 “When the morning stars sang together,
and all the sons of God shouted for joy?”
Angels are never called the sons of God.
HEBREWS 1:5 “For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son,”
HEBREWS 7:9 “And as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes in Abraham.”
Levi was the great-grandson of Abraham. He was four generations away, unimaginably small in Abraham. Yet Levi rejoiced when tithes were paid to Abraham.
God has to have “total control” if He wants to build for eternity. No sin. No doubt. No opposition must exist anywhere.
Only then He is “God the Father”.
But because of human free will, God does not have full control over humans.
Thus, in the Old Testament, God is the “Father” (partial control as He allows humans to make mistakes) but not “God the Father” (Full control).
“God the Father” is never mentioned in the Old Testament.
In the New Testament:
God makes a perfect Person, Jesus Christ.
Now the supernatural Spirit (yellow) is the Father Who is wrapped up in the (purple) human spirit and body which is the Son.
The supernatural Father is the Creator from nothing. For us, that is impossible.
The human Son is the Redeemer. We cannot save ourselves.
Two impossible ministries unite in Jesus.
The 10 Commandments say that we cannot make an image of God.
A statue is dead so that is not an image of God. If we say that a man is God, then that man is inadequate as he is not infallible, he does not know everything, and he will die.
God had to make an image of Himself, a perfect Man, Jesus, as His Son.
The Man Jesus was the “perfect Son of God” because the indwelling supernatural Spirit of God had “complete control” over Jesus.
Only when the supernatural Spirit dwelled in Jesus in the New Testament did God call Himself “God the Father”.
COLOSSIANS 2:9 “For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.”
God cannot be “God the Father” until He has complete control over the “Son of God” Who is a Man.
Jesus, as a Man, must have a perfect human nature (shown in violet) that is not supernatural.
Thus, God is not a Man.
NUMBERS 23:19 “God is not a man,”
Jesus, as a Man, is not God. Thus, the Bible never says “God the Son”.
The secret name of God
In the Old Testament God was “the Father” of the Jews with some control, thus not “God the Father” with complete control.
God had an unpronounceable name, JHVH, which we call Jehovah or Lord. But a name must be pronounceable. So, there was a mystery wrapped around God’s name.
But God’s true name was a secret as Samson’s father and mother found out.
JUDGES 13:18 “And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret?
:21 But the angel of the LORD did no more appear to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was an angel of the LORD.
:22 And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.”
God had a secret name in the Old Testament that nobody knew.
In the New Testament the name Jehovah disappears for 2000 years. There is no mention of the name Jehovah in the New Testament. Thus, the Father loses His name in the New Testament.
People say, “In the name of the Father” or they say, “We thank our Father in Heaven,” but they cannot tell us what the name of the Father is.
In addition, the Trinity God of three Persons has not got a name. Three People cannot have one name.
Egyptians had three names for their trinity gods. Isis, Horus, and Seb.
The churches have a similar picture of three Men for their Trinity God but they cannot find ONE name for the Trinity God.
Trinitarians claim it is I AM. But nobody got saved in the name of I AM. Nor baptized in the name of I AM.
Sinners never blaspheme in the name of I AM.
Trinity cannot even find THREE names because the Holy Ghost has no name in the Bible.
Yet Jesus said, Baptize In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
So, if these three are to have one name then they must be one Person.
Trinitarians can only find one New Testament name, Jesus. Because Jehovah has never been used for 2000 years.
Old Testament names like El, Elah, Elohim, Adonai, Jehovah, Yahweh, JHVH, and YHWH are claimed to be the names of “God the Father” but are never used in the New Testament. And “God the Father” is never used in the Old Testament. Thus Trinity is a mysterious muddle when it comes to a name.
Born again of the Holy Spirit
Trinitarians speak of “Eternal Sonship” which is not only unscriptural, but it contradicts Scripture.
ACTS 13:33 “Thou art My Son, this day have I begotten thee”.
God created a human Man to dwell in.
His flesh and bone are not eternal. No eternal Sonship. No “God the Son” is mentioned in the Bible.
The Bible never says “God the Son” as God is not a Man.
JOHN 14:8 “Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
:9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip?
he that hath seen me hath seen the Father;
and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?”
God the Father is the invisible Spirit of God (the yellow circle) that is in the Man Jesus.
The inner invisible Spirit is seen by the dress and behaviour of the outer body.
The supernatural Spirit of God and the human nature of Christ merge in a similar manner to your conscious mind and your subconscious mind merging without you having two minds. You are also not two people. Yet your conscious and subconscious talk to each other as when your conscience is subject to your subconscious mind and argues with your conscious mind when you are being deceptive.
Unfortunately, we have a sinful human nature (shown in grey, below) that fights with the Holy Ghost (shown in red) that God puts in us when we repent.
The way we dress and behave and believe shows the outside world how much of God is in us.
Salvation is when we repent and accept Jesus as our personal Saviour.
When we get saved, we repent, but God does not have much control over us. God injects a small portion of His Holy Spirit into our hearts.
Self (our human spirit) and the Holy Ghost fight within us like two dogs, a bad dog and a good dog.
The dog we feed the most wins.
Holiness is a way of life once we allow the Holy Ghost to grow within us and control our behavior and motives.
As self shrinks, then the Holy Ghost can grow and control our dress and behavior which indicates how much of God’s presence is in us.
Holy Ghost Baptism
God has grown sufficiently in us so that He now has enough control over our lives to guide us into all truth.
JOHN 16:13 “Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth:”
JOHN 14:10 “Believest thou not that I am in the Father,
and the Father in me?
the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself:
but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.”
Our works, our dress, and our behaviour tell the world that the Father dwelleth in us.
But there is a second part to this arrangement.
JOHN 14:10 “Believest thou not that I am in the Father”
How can I be in the Father if the Father is in me?
In the Father (Who is a supernatural Spirit) means in the WILL of the Father.
Can you recognize your DAY and what you must believe to fit into God’s great Plan?
The four beasts in Heaven around God’s throne represent the four stages of God’s great Plan with His church. They are full of eyes. Eyes speak of wisdom.
Before and behind means they know the future and they know the past.
REVELATION 4:2 “And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.
and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind.
:7 And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle.”
The LION age from AD 33 to 312 established the truth of the apostles.
The endlessly long OX age of 1200 years saw the truth destroyed and buried in the Dark Ages as tens of millions of believers were slaughtered like oxen
The MAN age from 1520 to 1906 saw Martin Luther in Germany restore salvation by faith. The King James Bible was translated.
John Wesley in England restored holiness and outreach with no political involvement. Then the great Missionary age of the 1800s that was based on the King James Bible.
The EAGLE age of the Pentecostal gifts from 1906 to the revealing of the mysteries (plural) of God by William Branham (1947 – 1965) so that we can understand how to be restored to the beliefs of the first church age apostles. That is the mystery (singular) of God.
But, sadly, the churches ignore or reject brother Branham and move away from the King James Bible with over 100 different variations of the English Bible. Message-churches foolishly rely on interpreting quotes as they move away from what is written in the King James Bible.
The apostles of the first church age never had a pastor in charge of a church.
This doctrine began with the Roman Catholics who placed a priest in charge of each church. (Do you see the Catholic spirit infiltrating the Protestants as they copy a doctrine and just give it a new name, pastor instead of priest? Now, Message-churches are giving Jesus a new name. But they have come up with many new names.)
REVELATION 10:7 “But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound,
the mystery of God should be finished,
as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.”
The harvest happens when the last stage of the developing seed is exactly like the first seed that was originally planted by the apostles.
The mystery (singular) of God is when Bride individuals can understand the Bible because they can understand what the original apostles wrote and did in the New Testament.
Consider the parable of the ten virgins, clean women. Representing saved people in the churches.
MATTHEW 25:2 “And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.”
[Fooled by church leaders].
DANIEL 12:10 “… but the wise shall understand.”
Our focus must be on understanding the Word of God so that we are not fooled. If we understand the Bible mysteries then only can we be part of the wise virgins.
Trick question by atheists:
Is Jesus God? Christian answers Yes.
Did Jesus die? Yes.
How does God die? No answer. Christian is trapped
The pagan Romans could also not understand this problem of how God could die.
Is Jesus God? The proper answer: the Man on the outside is not God. God is the supernatural Spirit dwelling inside Him (yellow circle).
ROMANS 5:10 “For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son,
Where was God when Jesus died? IN Christ.”
II CORINTHIANS 5:19 “To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself,”
The yellow flame represents thee supernatural Spirit of God.
Did Jesus die? Yes. The supernatural Spirit of God left His body.
JAMES 2:26 “For as the body without the spirit is dead,”
How does God die? God never died. He just moved out of the body of Jesus to carry our sins down to hell to dump them on the Devil.
We need the Holy Ghost's wisdom to understand the Godhead.
The Ancient of Days is the Judge
DANIEL 7:9 “ I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.”
Church-goers say that the Ancient of Days is “God the Father”. But “God the Father” is never mentioned in the Old Testament.
“The hair of His head like pure wool”. A judge’s wig.
Long hair means submission. A judge is under submission to the written law of the land.
Judgement must be under submission to the Word of God.
DANIEL 7:13 “I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.”
This looks like two Persons.
Or is it a Personification of two Ministries, Judge and Advocate?
An Advocate stands to plead for mercy.
ACTS 7:56 “And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.”
ISAIAH 44:8 “Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.”
But there cannot be two People involved. You cannot have two People beside each other in Heaven.
ACTS 7:56 “And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.”
If Jesus cannot stand beside God, what does this mean?
God is a Spirit. He does not have a right hand.
The “right hand” is just a symbol of His power.
MATTHEW 26:64 “Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you,
Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power,
and coming in the clouds of heaven.”
Jesus stands to show He is our Advocate and then He sits to show He is our Judge. Two opposite ministries combine in Him.
But Jesus had to die as a man, and God cannot die.
Jesus has to be a Man and not God on the outside when He died on the cross. Yet He has to be God on the inside.
The Judge has to stay with Scriptural truth which requires that sin is paid for by death.
The Advocate paid for the penalty of sin with His own blood. If He can get us to confess our sins, then He can pay for our sins.
When Jesus took on our sins, the supernatural God within Him turned His back on Him and refused to communicate with Him. Thus Jesus died as a Man, with no supernatural help.
But God stayed in Him to check that all the Scriptures were fulfilled.
ISAIAH 59:2 “But your iniquities have separated between you and your God,
and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.”
The supernatural God hid is face from the awful sins that the Man Jesus was carrying on the cross.
We must discover Who the Judge is
DANIEL 7:9 “I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool:”
White woolen hair looks old. The Ancient of Days looks old, like an old man.
Church-goers think that He must be “God the Father”. But “God the Father” is never mentioned in the Old Testament.
This next Trinity picture has God the Father looking old.
Remember, God does not get old. And we do not know what the Holy Spirit looks like. A dove is a Personification, not a person.
This next Trinity picture also has God the Father looking old. And a totally made-up picture of the Holy Ghost in the red ellipse shape.
JOHN 5:22 “For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son:”
Remember, the Father will never judge anybody on Judgement Day.
As the Father, Jesus set the standards for Truth.
As the Son, Jesus kept the standards.
As the Holy Ghost in us, Jesus enables us to understand and keep the standards.
Jesus, as a Man, is in Heaven on the Mercy Seat.
Jesus as the Word of God must be in our hearts.
It is not what you say about Jesus as a Person, it is what you say about the King James Bible. It is Perfect, the Absolute truth. I believe and seek to understand every word and punctuation.
The King James Bible tells me the thoughts of Jesus. I must love all His thoughts and seek to know more.
If I criticize the King James Bible then I criticize the thoughts of Jesus. That is dangerous.
His Bride will be those who love His thoughts and seek to understand His thoughts better.
We all have different gifts and ministries and abilities. There are many different cultures and circumstances. Believing and understanding the written Bible is the one common heritage that all Christians have.
JOHN 12:48 “He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him:
the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.”
Two impossible ministries unite in Christ: Creator and Redeemer
Create means to make something from nothing. No Scientist has ever done this.
No person can save themselves from their sins.
God has to save but God cannot die for our sins.
ISAIAH 43:1 "But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.”
It should have taken two People to do these two ministries. But Jesus did them both.
Whatever you say about the King James Bible is what you are saying about Jesus, because those are His thoughts.
Thus, the King James Bible must be the Absolute truth.
Jesus is the Word of God.
JOHN 14:6 “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”
We can only get to the supernatural Father by understanding and following the King James Bible.
ACTS 20:28 “Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers,
to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.”
God hid His face from the Man Jesus and would not speak to Him. But God was within Jesus because the blood was within Jesus.
And it was God’s blood.
LEVITICUS 17:11 “For the life of the flesh is in the blood:”
ROMANS 8:10 “… but the Spirit is life”
The Creator was God in action as a supernatural Spirit.
The Redeemer was God acting inside a Man to be our Kinsman Redeemer, as Boaz was to Ruth.
Jehovah God became a Man by dwelling inside the human Man, Jesus Christ.
Thus, Jesus did the impossible. He fused Man and God together in one Person.
JOHN 3:13 “And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.”
This is impossible for us humans.
While the Man Jesus walked on Earth, the supernatural Spirit of God that was in Him was also in Heaven.
Two people cannot sit in the middle of the throne
REVELATION 4:2 “And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.”
Revelation Chapter 5 gives more details.
The one on the throne holds the Book of creation and redemption in His hand.
The mystery of the redemption of the creation is all wrapped up and hidden in the symbols and patterns of the King James Bible which is the greatest Book.
God holds this Book in His right hand which symbolizes His creative power that produced the universe and all that is in it.
REVELATION 5:1 “And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.”
But there was no man who with human wisdom was able to open and understand the mysteries of the Book (the King James Bible).
No man has the wisdom to puzzle out the meaning of the Seven Seals.
REVELATION 5:4 “And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.”
We can read the Seven Seals in Revelation Chapter 6. We can guess what it means but we will never guess the correct answers.
Only Jesus, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, could open the Book and explain its meaning.
REVELATION 5:5 "And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.”
John looked for a Lion but saw a Lamb.
How can a weak Lamb be a powerful Lion.
REVELATION 5:6 “And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.”
The Lion and the Lamb are not two People, they are two ministries.
Jesus is both Lion, the King of the beasts and the sacrificial Lamb.
This is Personification, portraying a ministry as a living being.
“Having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.”
A horn speaks of power. An eye speaks of wisdom.
Seven spirits speak of the power of the Holy Spirit and the wisdom and understanding of the Holy Spirit that went out into the seven different church ages.
Each age had to contend with different tricks that the Devil used to fool the church away from Scripture.
DANIEL 12:10 “… but the wise shall understand.”
Only the wise virgins shall understand because they have enough oil to burn brightly so that they can see and understand the Scriptures.
Burning oil speaks of the Holy Ghost baptism.
But they had to buy the oil and pay a price.
JOHN 16:13 “Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself;”
The Holy Spirit puts no emphasis on self, the people that He uses.
ROMANS 11:29 “ For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.”
Great gifts are impressive but do not prove that we are right with God
God grants great gifts to some people and they are lost.
Balaam gave a wonderful prophecy but his pagan feast at Baal Peor with the Midianitish women killed about 24000 Jews.
But look how magnificent his gift of prophecy was.
NUMBERS 24:17 “I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.”
The wise men followed this Star to find Christ as a two-year old Child in a house when Joseph was not present.
MATTHEW 2:11 And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.
But look at Balaam’s end.
NUMBERS 31:8 “Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword.”
Judas. A church leader and apostle had a great supernatural ministry.
MATTHEW 10:5 “These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying,
:8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils:”
But Judas’ greed for money destroyed him and made him allow Satan into him.
LUKE 22:3 “Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve.”
The two enemy heathens in the days of Gideon got a prophetic dream and the correct interpretation which told Gideon what to do.
This true gift of prophecy did not mean that they were right with God.
MATTHEW 7:21 “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.”
Knowing what to do and believe in our day is more important than some great works of faith.
MATTHEW 7:22 “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?
:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.”
Here, in the next verse, is where Trinitarians make a big mistake. It looks like two Persons but it is not.
REVELATION 5:7 “And he came and took the book
out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne.”
But where did the Lamb come from?
REVELATION 5:6 “And I beheld, and, lo,
in the midst of the throne
and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders,
stood a Lamb as it had been slain,
having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.”
The Lamb was always standing in the midst of the throne. Two People cannot be in the midst of the same throne. The Lamb is the same One that John saw on the throne. So, it is Jesus on the throne.
This is Personification. Illustrating the two main characteristics of Jesus as Creator and Saviour. The Creator holds the Title Deeds of creation as a Book but only the Lamb can save the creation from the Fall and thus open the Book.
ISAIAH 43:1 “But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee”
REVELATION 5:7 “And he came and took the book
out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne.”
The Lamb comes to take the Book in order to reveal how He redeemed the creation.
If the Lamb came to take the Book,
and the Lamb was already in the midst of the throne, then where did He come from?
He could not travel through space as He was already in the middle of the throne.
So, He had to travel through time,
all the way back to the beginning to check that His redemption plan was perfect and that there had been no souls that He had overlooked. Jesus checks everything. He leaves nothing to chance.
There must be no loopholes for the very clever Devil to wriggle out of future punishment. Satan must end up in the Lake of Fire. Heaven will not be great if Satan is still on the loose. He has done enough damage.
Heaven has to last for eternity. Thus, every smallest speck of sin has to be destroyed by fire.
In order to live safely in 2024, the Jews have to eliminate all the Hamas terrorists from Gaza. That is a difficult process.
We have the difficult task of confessing and eliminating hidden, underground sins from our lives.
Getting rid of the desires of the flesh.
Women focus on adorning the flesh with jewellery, body-piercings, revealing dress, and Makeup. Anything made-up is false.
These are all worldly interests.
James 4:4 “… whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.”
The wise virgins in the church are fast asleep.
Being in a church is no longer an advantage.
MATTHEW 25:5 “While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
:6 And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.”
Whatever we are doing, it is not good enough.
MATTHEW 25:7 “Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.”
Cutting the carbon off the wick so that the light can burn brighter.
All our hidden sins must be purged out.
In 2024, the Jews focused on eliminating all the hidden Hamas terrorists. A difficult and dangerous job.
So, after travelling in time all the way back to the beginning and checking that all of the salvation plan was watertight and would stand up to the most minute examination, then Jesus came back through time to take the Book.
He first had to check that everybody who was meant to be saved was in the Book. No saved person must be left out because of some possible error.
During that process of time-travel, He never left the throne.
But the salvation plan had then been thoroughly checked. God leaves nothing to chance.
ISAIAH 43:11 “I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.”
You are not allowed to picture the Savior standing alongside the Lord God. Then you have a wrong understanding of God.
This is a warning to us. We must check our beliefs by running them through Scripture and making sure there are no omissions and no contradictions. And no additions.
II TIMOTHY 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Three People are never seen in Heaven
Genesis Chapter 1 is the beginning when God turns nothing into something. That is creation
GENESIS 1:27 “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”
Is it one or two?
Definitely cannot be three.
This picture obviously makes no sense. A man and a woman are not the image of three Men.
GENESIS 5:2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
Male and female were one being.
Only the spirit of man is created out of nothing. The flesh is made from the dust of the earth. Thus, flesh cannot be created.
JOHN 4:24 “God is a Spirit:”
Somewhere in the supernatural Spirit of God were the attributes of humanity.
Our human attributes, being in God, were part of God.
So, God created a smaller masculine spirit as a man. Somewhere in this masculine human spirit were the feminine attributes.
The feminine attributes, being in the spirit of Adam, were part of Adam.
Thus the spirit man was created in the image of the Spirit of God.
Later, God covered Himself with a body of flesh as Emmanuel. From His pierced side came water and blood. The Holy Spirit also left His Body.
From the water of the Word, the blood of His Sacrifice on the cross as He died, and His Holy Spirit that took our sins down to hell to dump them on the Devil, God built up a Bride over 2000 years of church history.
In Genesis Chapter 2, God formed a body of flesh for Adam. He put him to a deep sleep (symbolizing death) and then pierced Adam’s side to remove a rib from which God made woman as man’s bride.
JOHN 5:37 And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time,
nor seen his shape.
God is a Spirit and as such God has got absolutely no shape that we can see.
I JOHN 4:12 No man hath seen God at any time.
We cannot see the Spirit of God the Father. We cannot see the Holy Spirit. We can only see Jesus.
What is the right hand of a Spirit? A Spirit has no hand.
Where is the right hand of an unseen God? A Spirit has no hand and God is invisible.
But we can see the Man Jesus Who is the Son of God.
The Spirit of God dwells in Jesus and is manifest by the works and behavior of the Man Jesus.
COLOSSIANS 2:9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
As the Lamb, Jesus is the Door to Heaven because He washed us from our sins in His own blood.
REVELATION 1:5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us,
and washed us from our sins in his own blood
The Lamb is just a Personification of His ministry as the Saviour. The sinner at the bottom of the steps will make Heaven because crawling up the steps of repentance will cover him in the blood of the Lamb.
The Lamb is our only entry into Heaven.
The Lion personifies His ministry as the King. He has the authority to chase you out of His Kingdom if you try to come in any other way. A lion kills ruthlessly. You can expect no mercy from an angry God.
The sinner who is lying at the foot of the throne is doomed because there is no blood. Just fire.
Competitive Christianity
Ambitious church leaders and family favourites are the downfall of the church.
Believing something because a famous person said it is wrong. You must check it with Scripture.
Supporting your family because they are your family is not correct.
DEUTERONOMY 1:17 “Ye shall not respect persons in judgment;”
PROVERBS 24:23 “These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.”
The wise virgins do not have respect of persons. They do not just follow a leader.
JAMES 2:9 “But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin,”
It is sinful if you believe something just because some great person said so. What is said has to be Scriptural.
Believing something just because a prominent family member said so is sinful.
Matthew Chapter 20 describes Jesus Who is about to be rejected and killed in a horrible way. Jesus is describing His future torment.
MATTHEW 20:19 “And shall deliver him [Jesus] to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again.”
Jesus will die a horrible death.
But an ambitious mother says, So what! I want my children promoted above everyone else. This preference of family is nepotism, which is a sin.
Favouring her own children meant she was totally out of tune with God’s Will.
MATTHEW 20:20 “Then came to him the mother of Zebedee's children with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him.
:21 And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom.”
MATTHEW 20:23 “but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father.”
Jesus says there is a place on His left hand for someone to sit.
That means God is not on His left hand.
Thus, Jesus is not sitting on the right hand of God.
LUKE 14:26 “If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.”
God’s Will must come first. Agreeing with something that suits your family is very wrong if it is unscriptural.
The pagan Roman spirit required that the wife regard her father as her head, not her husband. That awful spirit is still around today as fathers want to dominate their married children.
A married woman must only be in subjection to her husband. She is not in subjection to her dominating and interfering father.
I PETER 3:5 For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:
When a woman marries, she changes her name and must, from then on, obey her husband.
The Bride must only be in subjection to her Husband Jesus, Who is the Word of God.
Quotes must make you understand the Scripture and must not be used to replace the Scripture.