Bride - Part 7
The New Testament is no exception to all that has previously been
confirmed about the Bible. Every writer of the New Testament was an Israelite.
All of the Gospels, the Epistles, and the Revelation Letter are inspired
and preserved records of the Israelite people. There is no book and no
writer of the New Testament who does not have racial roots into the stock
of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob/Israel From the first chapter in Matthew's
Gospel to the final restoration of the twelve tribes in a new heaven and
new earth in Revelation 21, the New Testament is an Israelitish book.
To make the family history of the Bible include the entire world
is to wreck and ruin the entire plan of a supernatural and provident God.
Failure to correctly identify Biblical Israel and understand the Bible
message has resulted in the Church world seeking to build a program of
world evangelism.
The attempt of modern Judeo-Christianity to evangelize the world
has erased the color line in the Church, greatly accelerated interracial
marriage, and brought the Church of Jesus Christ to a day of real peril.
Universalism in salvation history is not found in the Bible. It is the
vain imagination of man running wild before God and in disobedience to
His Word.
Is it not about time that we were content to leave the non- Israelites
of the world to follow their gods and their religions and rest content
in the knowledge that God has ordained the Bible and the salvation history
contained therein for His people Israel?
Why do we want to rewrite the Bible in the image of fallen man?
Why do we seek to make the Bible something that God did not intend? Let
the non- Israelites of the world follow their gods, build their temples,
and read their religious books. Bring back the Israelite missionaries that
are running to the far corners of the earth with a program God did not
ordain. is it not about time that we believed God and Scripture and be
content to hear the words of Jesus Christ in Matthew 15:14:
"...I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel."
As for Israel, let them follow Jesus Christ, be faithful to His
Commandments, and evangelize their own kind. What God hath ordained let
no man seek to change.
Whenever the Anglo-Saxon people allow the Book to be closed, through
neglect or a refusal to heed its warnings or listen to its message, the
ensuing spiritual decadence brings retribution in sorrow, trouble and national
calamities. The forces of evil were unable to close the open Book at the
time of the Spanish Armada, but now they have succeeded in bringing about
the closing of the Book in the evil doctrine of modernism. The teachings
of this sugarcoated Judeo-Christian atheism have literally closed the Book
to the understanding of multitudes of our people.
Our people, today, face a crisis of such magnitude as has never
before been experienced by our nation or people. It was a day of evil for
our land when modernism entered our seminaries and graduated into the pulpits
of our churches - and it was brought in through traitors to Almighty God
and the Lord Jesus Christ, and by their enemies; who falsely claimed to
be Christian.
With the advent of this Judeo-Christian modernism the Book began
to close and people turned away from its truths until today millions never
look into its pages nor read its message. A state of spiritual decadence
is afflicting our land with unbelief, from the men who stand in our pulpits
to those who sit in the pews and the multitudes that crowd the streets
of our cities.
Let us once again open the Book before it is too late, that there
may be a revival of interest, bringing such a spiritual awakening that
it will enable God to save us. Let those who are in authority seek for
Divine guidance as they pilot the Ship of State through troubled waters.
They must yet open the Book and follow the instructions of God
contained in this Book of books; there is no other solution for the crisis
ahead, nor can we expect victory over our enemies until there is compliance
with these requirements.
Of Israel the Lord said:
"Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way,
and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. Beware of him,
and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions:
for my name is in him. But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do
all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary
unto thine adversaries. For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring
thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the
Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off." (Exodus
23:20-23)
Today that Mighty Angel has "in his hand a little book opened."
Let us obey His voice and follow the instruction of the opened Book that
our enemies may become God's enemies and our adversaries His adversaries.
If we continue to provoke Him by refusing to believe, to read, to study
and to be guided by the instruction of the open Book, there will be no
one but ourselves to blame for the troubles and national calamities that
will come upon us.
May the figurehead, the man with the open Book, so markedly portraying
the reason for America's greatness, be a symbol of a soon awakening throughout
our land to the need of opening our Bibles that God's Will may be done
and our country and people saved from all their enemies.
The Divine Choice: It is always hard to tell what is the deciding
factor in the choice of a marriage partner, for love is indefinable, and
this is no less true in the choice that Almighty God made of the people
who were to constitute His national bride.
He chose them, not because they were a great or a powerful people,
nor even because they were a rich and prosperous people, nor even because
they were a particularly good or righteous people. In fact, the Scriptures
express it this way:
"The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because
ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:
But because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the oath which
he had sworn unto your fathers..." (Deuteronomy 7:7-8)
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The Almighty God who knows the end from the beginning, and who
had promised our forefathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob/Israel that their
descendants would become a great and mighty nation, and a blessing to all
the earth, looked down upon a race of slaves in Egypt, saw the potential
that was in them, freed them from bondage and led them into the wilderness
of Sinai to become His Divine Partner.
This the Jews have never done, the world has never been blessed
by them, they have only been a curse, a thorn in the side of the world
since they came back from Babylon and began trying to convince the world
of the tremendous lie that they were/are True Israel.
God's purpose in choosing Israel is clearly expressed in the following:
"Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have
chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before
me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. I, even I,
am the Lord; and beside me there is no saviour. I have declared, and have
saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore
ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, that I am God... This people have
I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise." (Isaiah 43:10-12,
21)
The Divine Marriage: Following the miraculous deliverance of the
Children of Israel from slavery in Egypt, and the crossing of the Red Sea
having been accomplished, Moses led the people to the slopes of Mount Sinai,
where, what we might well term a marriage ceremony, was to be performed.
We find these events outlined for us in Exodus chapter nineteen. Having
rescued the people and brought them safely thus far, God is ready to take
them as His very own:
"...Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children
of Israel; Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you
on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself." (Exodus 19:3-4)
The conditions for the marriage contract or agreement are then
clearly stated:
"Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant,
then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all
the earth is mine: And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an
holy nation..." (Exodus 19:5-6)
Just as the modern bride at her wedding ceremony gives her assent
with the simple words "I do," so the people of National Israel responded
to the Divine Bridegroom:
"And all the people answered together, and said, All that the
Lord hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people
unto the Lord." (Exodus 19:8)
The ceremony was concluded some three days later when the Israelites,
having observed a period of cleansing and sanctification, the Lord came
down upon the mountain in a display of awe-inspiring splendor. Lest there
be any doubt that the relationship existing between Israel and their God
was that of husband and wife, we shall quote some other vital Scriptures
which settle the matter once and for all, for honest Bible students:
"For thy Maker is thine husband; the Lord of hosts is his name;
and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall
he be called." (Isaiah 54:5)
"But now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and he
that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have
called thee by thy name; thou art mine." (Isaiah 43:1)
"Why shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man that
cannot save? yet thou, O Lord, art in the midst of us, and we are called
by thy name; leave us not." (Jeremiah 14:9);
"Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers
in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of
Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them,
saith the Lord." (Jeremiah 31:32)
The descendants of the patriarchs were now truly IS-RA-EL, a people
ruling with God. But even at the time of this Divine marriage a warning
was given against unfaithfulness and taking His Name in vain. This we find
recorded in the third commandment which is more than just an injunction
against swearing profane language.
The Divorce: For a short period after their entry into the Promised
Land of Canaan the people of Israel were faithful to God. But during the
days of the Judges and of the Kings we find an increasing trend to apostasy
and unfaithfulness.
Repeatedly we find Israel rebuked for the worship of the gods
and goddesses of the heathen nations round about Baal, Milcom, Chemosh,
and Ashtaroth the Queen of Heaven. The prophets of God compared this falling
away into idolatry to the behavior of an unfaithful wife committing adultery
with many lovers.
Time and time again throughout the Old Testament idolatry is called
spiritual adultery and religious whoredom. We find the prophets giving
warning on numerous occasions that such conduct can result in one thing
only: divorce, the annulment of the Covenant or Marriage Contract agreed
at Sinai. Look carefully at these words of the prophet Jeremiah:
"The Lord said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast
thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon
every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the
harlot...And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel
committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce;
yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot
also. And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she
defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks...Surely
as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously
with me, O house of Israel, saith the Lord." (Jeremiah 3:6, 8-9, 20 )
The Law of God laid down very strictly the penalty for such adulterous
behavior and the rules governing marriage and divorce are given to us in
the Book of Deuteronomy:
"When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to
pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness
in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her
hand, and send her out of his house." (Deuteronomy 24:1 )
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The refusal of Israel to repent of her wicked ways made just such
a punishment inevitable. The final stages of the drama are vividly recorded
for us in the Book of Hosea. This prophet was himself commanded by God
to marry an unfaithful wife called Gomer.
Her subsequent adultery, the names given to her children, her
divorce and eventual restoration because of the undying love her husband
bore her, were all meant to typify God's love for, and dealings with His
own unfaithful wife: Israel. Thus we read:
"...the Lord said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms
and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom,
departing from the Lord. So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim;
which conceived, and bare him a son." (Hosea 1:2-3 )
Concerning the children of their union, we read:
"Then said God, Call his name Loammi: for ye are not my people,
and I will not be your God." (Hosea 1:9 )
This speaks to us of the divine divorce decree, the breaking of
the Covenant relationship between God and Israel. Again we read Israel
being addressed under the type of Gomer the adulteress:
"Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither
am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight,
and her adulteries from between her breasts." (Hosea 2:2 )
So it was that God divorced Israel, cast her out of His house,
the land of Palestine, never to return. The ultimate penalty was to be
loss of, and blindness to their identity, for we read:
"Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make
a wall, that she shall not find her paths." (Hosea 2:6)
Sure enough, when Israel's cup of abominable idolatry and spiritual
fornication was at last full to the brim, God permitted the armies of the
Assyrian Empire to conquer the Northern Kingdom of Israel, capturing its
chief city Samaria in 721 B.C. and deporting the Ten Tribes and some 200,000
from the fenced cities of Judah, into exile by the Rivers of Halath and
Habor,
near to the modern Caspian Sea.
The Scriptures faithfully records that these people never returned
to the land of Canaan. Israel, dispersed, rejected, divorced from their
God and blind to her true identity, migrated across Europe, coming to the
British Isles, North and West of Palestine, and continued on to the west
when by the making of the New Covenant their process of restoration could
begin.
Now, we are going to give you the truth as to the identity of
the "woman" and that "great city" right from the Scriptures themselves.
Once you know and understand the identity of them, then (1) you
will know who the enemy is and (2) has been right from the very beginning.
(3) You will understand that we were/are engaged in a war - a war for the
control of the Kingdom. Matthew 11:12 states:
"...from the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of
heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force."
We will now identify that "great city" at the very start of this
presentation and then take you to the other Scriptures which reveal the
"woman" and the identity of our enemy. As Yahshua said.
"You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free."
(John 8:32 )
Turn to Revelation 11:8 where we read:
"And their dead bodies shall be in the street of ‘the Great City,'
which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, WHERE also ‘Yahshua' was Crucified."
Question?: Where was ‘Yahshua' {Christ} Crucified?
Answer!: "Jerusalem." Now you have the identity of that "Great
City." It's the city of "Jerusalem!"
Now, turn to Revelation 16:1-2. This tells the story of the vials
of wrath being poured out upon the earth by the angels. It would appear,
we are currently between the sixth and the seventh vials. Immediately after
the seventh vial is poured out, there is to be a great earthquake, such
as was not since men were upon the earth. Next let's read verse 19, where
it says:
"And the ‘Great City' was divided into three parts, and the cities
of the nations fell: and Great Babylon came in remembrance before ‘Yahweh
to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath."
We understand this to mean that Jerusalem is to suffer a great
earthquake {fight} which will divide her into three parts. Chapter 17 reveals
the identity of the "Great Whore" that sitteth upon many waters,
"With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication,
and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of
her fornication." (Revelation 17:2 )
You will note in verses 4, 5 and 6, the actual description of
her arrayment, her many names she is known by and whose blood is upon her
hands.
Verse 4:
"And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked
with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand
full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication."
Verse 5:
"And upon her forehead was a name written, mystery Babylon the
great, the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth."
Verse 6:
"And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and
with the blood of the martyrs of Yahshua {Jesus}."
Verse 7:
"I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that
carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns."
Verse 9:
"And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven
mountains, on which the woman sitteth."
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At this point we wish to
digress and tell you that the false Judeo-Christian ministers and preachers
have tried to tell you that these seven mountains are either the seven
hills surrounding either the cities of Rome or Moscow in order to fit it
into their falsehoods in identifying that "great city" to be something
that the Scriptures clearly show it not to be.
You must, always remember,
that throughout Scripture, God has symbolically used the word mountains
to represent governments. With that understanding, it become rather simple
to identify the seven mountains {governments} the woman sitteth upon.
It's the G-7 nations comprising
of (1) The United States, (2) Canada, (3) England, (4) Germany, (5) France,
(6) Italy {Six Israelite nations} and (7) Japan {one heathen nation}. These
are the governments that control the monetary policies upon the earth for
the woman.
The beast is the anti-Christ
system of world Jewry and its twin companions, Communism and Democracy,
which are used to enslave mankind. Now comes another key verse as it identifies
the "woman." Chapter 17, Verse 18,
"And the Woman which thou
saweth is that Great City which reigneth over the kings of the earth."
There you have it! The "great
city" and the "woman" are one and the same. Now comes another bombshell
for you to gain the understanding of these Scriptures. Chapter 18 of Revelations
further identifies that Great City and the Woman at being Babylon the Great!!
Revelation 18:2:
"And he cried mightily with
a strong voice saying, ‘Babylon the Great' is fallen, is fallen, and is
become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and
a cage of every unclean and hateful bird."
Verse 3:
"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."
Verse 6:
"Reward her even as she rewarded
you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which
she hath filled fill to her double."
Verse 8:
"Therefore shall her plagues
come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly
burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her."
Verse 10:
"Alas, alas, that Great City,
Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come."
Verses 11 thru 21 describe
the wailing of the merchants of the earth for no man buyeth their merchandise
anymore. You will note in verse 13 that the merchandise contained "...Slaves
and Souls of men."
Who has been the merchants
of the world who have dealt, and still do deal in slaves? Of course it
is the Jews!
Verse 18:
"...What city is like unto
this ‘Great City!'"
Verse 19:
"...Alas, alas, that ‘Great
City'...for in one hour is she made desolate."
Verse 20:
"Rejoice over her, thou Heaven,
and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her."
Verse 21:
"...Thus with violence shall
that ‘Great City Babylon' be thrown down, and shall be found no more at
all."
Verse 23:
"...For thy merchants were
the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries {pharmakia-drugs-pharmacy}
were all nations deceived."
Another key verse - Verse
24:
"And in her was found the
Blood of Prophets and of Saints and of all that were slain upon the earth."
To whom was Christ speaking
when he said,
"And say, if we had been
in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them
in the Blood of the Prophets." (Matthew 23:30)
"Wherefore ye be witnesses
unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets."
(Matthew 23:31)
And
"That upon you may come all
the Righteous Blood shed upon the Earth, from the blood of righteous Able
unto the blood of Zacharias, the son of Barachias, whom ye slew between
the temple and the altar." (Matthew 23:35 and Luke 11:49-51)
After Jerusalem was destroyed
in 70 A.D., who is it that said,
"...We are impoverished,
but we will return and build the desolate places: thus saith the Lord of
hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them,
the border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the Lord hath indignation
for ever." (Malachi 1:4)
And,
"Thus saith the Lord God;
Because the enemy hath said against you, aha, even the ancient high places
are ours in possession." (Ezekiel 36:2)
To whom did God declare:
"And the house of Jacob shall
be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble,
and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be
any remaining of the house of Esau; for the Lord hath spoken it." (Obadiah
18)
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To what people did the apostle John say Christ was speaking to
when He said:
"Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father
ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the
truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh
of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it."
And,
"...because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not."
And
"He that is of God heareth God's words; ye therefore hear them
not, because ye are not of God." (John 8:44-47)
And,
"I told you, and ye believed not;" (John 10:25)
"But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said
unto you." (John 10:26)
Who are the people who murdered Christ?
"...For ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen,
even as they have of the Jews." "Who both killed Christ, and their own
prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary
to all men." (1 Thessalonians 2:14-15; John 19:14-18; Acts 2:26; 4:8-10;
5:30; 10:39; 13:27-29; Luke 24:20)
Who are the people who deny Christ is God come in a flesh body?
"Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He
is antichrist, that denieth the Father and Son. Whosoever denieth the Son,
the same hath not the Father." (1 John 2:22-23)
And,
"Hereby know ye the spirit of God: every spirit that confesseth
that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God. And every spirit that
confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God; and
this is the spirit of antichrist." (1 John 4:2-3)
And,
"For many deceivers are entered into the world who confess not
that Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist."
(2 John 7)
A). Who are the people who now occupy that "great city"
Jerusalem?
B). Who are the people our false ministers have proclaimed to
be God's chosen people?
C). Who are the people that hate Christ and openly deny Him and
His teachings?
D). Who are the people run out of every country after they have
been found out?
E). Who are today's money changers and print worthless pieces
of paper and steal our people's wealth and eat out the substance of our
land?
F). Who are the people that reject the Bible and follow the teachings
of the Talmud?
G). What people have declared war upon all Christians as is taught
from their beloved Talmud?
The answer to all of these questions is one and the same - the Christ
hating, anti-Christ JEWS!!
Citizenship Requirements: Now we come to the last important question
in our study; what is the entrance requirements to this City wherein God
dwells and which promises a new government, a new existence, and a new
way of life?
We know from Scripture that to possess immortality, we must be
incapable of sinning (the wages of sin is death), We know of no one who
is, or who has been (with the exception of Christ), incapable of sinning.
Immortality requires sinlessness, therefore, we cannot inherit the New
Jerusalem as long as we are in these mortal bodies.
However, there are some who are teaching that we are in the kingdom
now, that Christ is reigning as King in this kingdom, and that the resurrection
occurred in 70 A.D. The disturbing thought that the resurrection has occurred
and we have been left out brings to mind the following from "The Purpose
of the Resurrection," by Stephen E. Jones:
"The first resurrection had not occurred when Paul mentioned Hymenaeus
and Philetus. There are some teachers today who say that the first resurrection
occurred in 70 A.D. at the destruction of Jerusalem. The Jehovah's Witnesses
say the resurrection occurred in 1914 A.D. The problem is, no one can point
to any resurrected saint and say, ‘See, that man died a hundred years ago
and is now alive, immortal, and incorruptible. Let's elect him as our president
so that he can rule and reign on the earth as the Scriptures say!' If the
resurrection is already past, then where are they? Why are they not ruling?
Why have they not ‘bound Satan' (Revelation 20:2)? Why are they not administering
true justice and righteousness in the earth by the Law of God? Why do evil
men yet flourish?
Once gain, the only explanation we get is that they were ‘raised
spiritually' in such a manner that no one perceived it. We are asked to
see it with ‘the eye of faith,' because it all happened in secret, and
these saints are all in heaven and have little or no influence in the government
on earth.
All these views redefine resurrection in terms of the dead going
to heaven in some spiritual state, rather than in the likeness of Jesus'
resurrected body. Whenever men say that the resurrection occurred in the
past, but they cannot point to resurrected saints to support their view,
they have redefined resurrection and adopted the pagan Greek view of resurrection.
They are saying that when the dead are raised, they go into a spiritual
state that is apart from matter. All these views destroy the doctrine of
the resurrection.
So if any man comes teaching that the resurrection is already
past, whether they say it occurred in Matthew 27 or in 70 A.D. or in 1914
A.D., it is simply an extension of the doctrine of Hymenaeus and Philetus.
Do not be among those whose faith is overturned, by such teachings.
Those who teach that the resurrection occurred in 70 A.D., tell
us that Paul's writings about the resurrection were completed before 70
A.D., and therefore he could not have known that the resurrection would
occur in so short a time. While on the surface this may sound plausible,
we need to remember exactly what is meant by ‘resurrection.' The gospels
are replete with evidence of the physical resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Additionally, Paul emphasizes the physical resurrection of Jesus the Christ
in his first epistle to the Corinthians. He reminds those to whom he is
writing that
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‘...if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in
your sins. Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.
If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.'
Paul is saying that if in this mortal body, this ailing body, this sinful
body we have hope, we are most miserable. In other words, if during our
life here and how we can worship and believe and have faith in Christ,
we are most miserable because that would be the end of it."
Stephen Jones is correct; those teaching that the resurrection
has already occurred have redefined resurrection. Do not fall for it!
A Distinction of Words: It appears that those who teach this doctrine
fail to distinguish between being "reborn" (or having a "new birth") and
being "resurrected." Our English words "born again" mean a "regeneration,"
not a "resurrection." When we are "born again," we have been drawn to Christ
by the Father, (John 6:44) and we become "born of God." (1 John 3:9)
We become
"...born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible,
by the word of God, which liveth and abideth forever." (1 Peter 1:23)
This is a spiritual regeneration that heralds the replacement
of our natural or carnal insight with the insight of the Holy Spirit. It
is what is meant by "being led by the Spirit."
There are separate and distinct words for "regeneration" and "resurrection"
in Greek; the Greek word "anastasis" means "a rising or raising up" and
is translated as "resurrection" in English, while the Greek word "anagegennemenoi"
means "having been generated again" and is translated as "born again" in
English. Thus we can see that there are two processes that we must experience
in our walk.
To document further a physical resurrection, let us turn to the
ninth verse of Paul's letter to the Romans:
"Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more;
death hath no more dominion over Him."
Here we see that Paul pictures Christ as being raised from the
dead, and when He was raised from the dead, death had no dominion, or no
power, over Him any longer. this is called the resurrection, and it is
the hope of you and I who are called according to His purposes. The hope
of every believer is in the resurrection, it is this transformation process
that we look forward to.
What we have in this life is not that transformation, it is regeneration.
Even in regeneration we still experience all the problems of the flesh;
the sin, the sicknesses, the worries, and the confusion. Is this, as some
are trying to tell us, what we have to look forward to? We tell you that
it is not! Right now we are experiencing the trails of this life whether
it be from government, sickness, loss of income, or family problems. In
our present bodies, we have neither the power nor the righteousness required
to keep a new type of government righteous even if we could put one in
place.
There seems to be something always lacking in our lives (as fallen
unregenerate men) which has prevented us from establishing and maintaining
a righteous government. Perhaps we need to remember the Scripture that
tells us that we know in part and we do in part, but until that which is
perfect is come, (1 Corinthians 13:10) we are not going to have the full
measure of success that we desire in this life.
That is a major difference between us and those who teach that
we are in the kingdom now. Some ministries preach that in the days ahead,
man will be able to usher in the Kingdom of god. A feat that we might add,
no previous generation of man has been able to accomplish in his present
form, state, and existence. They believe that man will somehow get better,
become more obedient to God, and that God Almighty will then use them through
the leading of His Spirit to establish the Kingdom of God upon this earth.
Well, at least they have the correct location of the kingdom,
instead of claiming that it is off in some nebulous outerspace location!
However, though we are "Heirs of the Promise," we like Abraham, must live
by faith, and look for the promised "country" (kingdom), whose builder
and maker is God. These are the promises from the Word of God, to the overcomers.
We are not born overcomers without lifting a finger, we become overcomers
by yielding to Christ, and dying to self-will.
We will, also have to, like Paul; fight the good fight against
Christ's enemies. Christ told us that the Jews are the physical seedline
descendants of Satan, through Cain, slew Abel; whom Christ labeled as being
responsible for the shedding of all the innocent blood upon the earth;
occupy that "Great City" Jerusalem; and who are the enemy of our people
{Jacob/Israel} and all of the other races on the earth.
Our position towards this enemy is very clearly shown in the Scriptures,
"...Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the
Lord? Therefore is wrath upon thee from before God." (2 Chronicles 19:2)
"Do not I hate them, O God that hates thee? I hate them with perfect
hatred: I count them mine enemies." (Psalm 139:21-22)
"I will lay my vengeance upon Edom {the Jews} by the hand of my
people Israel." {Adamic race, the seed of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob - Known
to the world today as the Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, Celtic and kindred people
of the western world}. (Ezekiel 25:14)
"The presence of the Jews in the midst of the European nations
is a cause of many evils and a serious danger..." (Liszi, Franz, 19th century
Hungarian Musician)
The Jew continues to monopolize money, and he frees or strangles
the throat of the state with the loosening or tightening of his purse strings.
