We Now Have God's Devine Nature

By means of these He has bestowed on us His precious and exceedingly great promises, so that through them you may escape [by flight] from moral decay (rottenness and corruption) that is in this world because of covetousness (lust and greed), and becoming sharers (partakers) of the Divine nature. 2 Peter 1:4

Through the power of Christ we have now become sharers of our Father’s Divine Nature. So just as the rottenness and corruption of this world cannot touch our Lord and Savior Jesus, they now cannot touch us who are one with Him! Nothing can corrupt Jesus and we are now members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bone, Ephesians 5:30! Our Father has rescued us from this world and He has allowed us to become one with His Own Nature, it’s our destiny in Christ!

Who gave (yielded) Himself up [to atone] for our sins [and to save and sanctify us], in order to rescue and deliver us from this present wicked age and world order, in accordance with the will and purpose and plan of our God and Father— Galatians 1:4

These precious and exceedingly great promises are for us right now! We are justified right now, we are glorified right now, our calling is now, and we are now the sons of God, because we are one with God right now!

Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew Him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as He is pure. 1 John 3:1-3

Through Christ we have escaped the hatred of this world. Just think about what that really means? When they wanted to stone Jesus, He just walked away from them. When they wanted to throw Him over the cliff, He just walked away. When satan tempted Him, He just told him to leave. When it was time to crucify our Lord, He permitted them to do it. When they wanted to arrest Him, they asked Him who He was, and as He told them, they fell back and to the ground, and He permitted them to get up. Jesus allowed them to do what it is they had to do. And then on the Cross He forgave them all, for they knew not what they had done! Just as our Lord escaped and has escaped all moral decay, corruption, and rottenness, so have we; and we have done it through the free gift of our Fathers Anointing! Now here is the cool part, once He gives His gift of anointing, He never takes it back.

For God’s gifts and His call are irrevocable. [He never withdraws them when once they are given, and He does not change His mind about those to whom He gives His grace or to whom He sends His call.] Romans 11:29

We Are Baptized With And Forever One With Christ

For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God through faith. For as many [of you] as were baptized into Christ [into a spiritual union and communion with Christ, the Anointed One, the Messiah] have put on (clothed yourselves with) Christ. There is [now no distinction] neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is not male and female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. Galatians 3:26-28

The Greek word that we translate baptized from is baptizo. The best way to explain what baptizo means is to use an example of a cucumber becoming a pickle. To make a pickle a cucumber is submerged into the pickling spices and the cucumber is forever changed. It will still look like a cucumber, yet the cucumber has taken on the characteristics of the spices and it even has the pickling spices through it. The cucumber can never go back to being a cucumber; it has been forever changed into a pickle. 

This is how we are now in Christ, our old man has passed away, and behold the new man, created in God’s image, a partaker of His Divine Nature, has been born, 2 Peter 1:4. We may physically look like our old selves, but we now have Christ in us, on us, through us, and we are now one with Christ, we can never go back. 

I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that Thou hast sent Me, and hast loved them, as Thou hast loved Me. John 17:23 

We have been crucified with Christ, nevertheless we live, yet it is not us who lives, it is Christ in us Who lives, Galatians 2:20. Praise God, we need to say this Truth out loud daily! “We are new creatures in Christ, we have been dressed with Christ, old things are passed away for us, and behold all things have become new for us.” 

Thank God we have been baptized into Christ and we have put on Christ, and A-men, we are now one with Christ, sealed by the Holy Spirit of God, and we cannot go back! 

In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise, Ephesians 1:13

Jesus Returns As A Thief

Jesus will return like a thief. You ever hear this preached when someone is talking about a pre-tribulation rapture? They say that Jesus will sneak in and take His Bride. The question is this true? Does Jesus return quietly as a thief and then take His Bride away and the world continue on?

For you yourselves know perfectly well that the day of the [return of the] Lord will come [as unexpectedly and suddenly] as a thief in the night. When people are saying, All is well and secure, and, There is peace and safety, then in a moment unforeseen destruction (ruin and death) will come upon them as suddenly as labor pains come upon a woman with child; and they shall by no means escape, for there will be no escape. 1 Thessalonians 5:2-3

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will vanish (pass away) with a thunderous crash, and the [material] elements [of the universe] will be dissolved with fire, and the earth and the works that are upon it will be burned up. 2 Peter 3:10

The lie of a pre-tribulation rapture goes like this. Jesus will return as a thief, snatch His Bride away and the world will go on for another seven years. The lie tells us that for the first three and a half years after we are gone there will be peace. We are told that there will be peace until the anti-christ is revealed and then for three and a half years there will be great tribulation. 

As you can see in these verses, Jesus will return and when He does the world does not go on peacefully. Just imagine if only 1% of the worlds population, all Holy Ghost filled, were taken away in a single moment. Do you think that there would be peace if 70 million people would be gone instantly? In 2013 the population of the world is estimated to be 7.1 billion people, now imagine 50% of them being taken away. Why do I ask you to think of 50%?

Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish (thoughtless, without forethought) and five were wise (sensible, intelligent, and prudent). Matthew 25:1-2

Jesus tells us in His parable of the Ten Virgins that when the Bride Groom returns, half, five of the ten virgins, will be filled with the Holy Spirit. Jesus did not say one, or two of them, He tells us five, which is half. So imagine 3.5 billion Holy Ghost filled people, from every tribe, tongue, and nation, being taken off the earth in a single moment. There is no way that there would be peace for three and a half years. The world and society would crumble, just as we are told that they will in 1 Thessalonians 5 and 2 Peter 3. The Truth is that the Bride will be caught up to be with Jesus and it will be at the end of the Great Tribulation not at its beginning. Then when we are, Jesus instantly returns and takes over the rule and reign of the earth.  

Philippians 1:27

27 Only be sure as citizens so to conduct yourselves [that] your manner of life [will be] worthy of the good news (the Gospel) of Christ, so that whether I [do] come and see you or am absent, I may hear this of you: that you are standing firm in united spirit and purpose, striving side by side and contending with a single mind for the faith of the glad tidings (the Gospel).

Here is our great peace, Jesus will always keep us. He will cause us to walk in a manner worthy of the Good News. The Holy Spirit causes us to stand firm with a united spirit.

For His divine power has bestowed upon us all things that [are requisite and suited] to life and godliness, through the [full, personal] knowledge of Him Who called us by and to His own glory and excellence (virtue). 2 Peter 3

Now to Him Who is able to keep you without stumbling or slipping or falling, and to present [you] unblemished (blameless and faultless) before the presence of His glory in triumphant joy and exultation [with unspeakable, ecstatic delight]-- To the one only God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory (splendor), majesty, might and dominion, and power and authority, before all time and now and forever (unto all the ages of eternity). Amen (so be it). Jude 24-25 

Now may the God Who gives the power of patient endurance (steadfastness) and Who supplies encouragement, grant you to live in such mutual harmony and such full sympathy with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus, That together you may [unanimously] with united hearts and one voice, praise and glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah). Romans 15:5-6

We cannot help but be who our Father has destined for us to be. We can have perfect peace and confidence that Jesus will cause us to be victorious in all things. 

For those whom He foreknew [of whom He was aware and loved beforehand], He also destined from the beginning [foreordaining them] to be molded into the image of His Son [and share inwardly His likeness], that He might become the firstborn among many brethren. Romans 8:29

And may the God of peace Himself sanctify you through and through [separate you from profane things, make you pure and wholly consecrated to God]; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved sound and complete [and found] blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah). 1 Thessalonians 5:23

No worries for us, Jesus makes sure that we win! 

Ephesians 4:15-19

15 Rather, let our lives lovingly express truth [in all things, speaking truly, dealing truly, living truly]. Enfolded in love, let us grow up in every way and in all things into Him Who is the Head, [even] Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).

16 For because of Him the whole body (the church, in all its various parts), closely joined and firmly knit together by the joints and ligaments with which it is supplied, when each part [with power adapted to its need] is working properly [in all its functions], grows to full maturity, building itself up in love.

Once again, there is only One and in Christ we cannot help but to work properly through the power of our Father. For us to not work properly would mean that Jesus and the Holy Spirit are not working properly. We have the Holy Spirit empowering us to clearly know and live in this Truth. I honestly believe that the worlds Christians think that they have to first act, for our Father to then act through them. This is wrong and through the power of Christ we will preach the Truth that will set the world free. We are now one with our Father through Jesus, and because that we are the world is able to believe, John 17:19-22. 

17 So this I say and solemnly testify in [the name of] the Lord [as in His presence], that you must no longer live as the heathen (the Gentiles) do in their perverseness [in the folly, vanity, and emptiness of their souls and the futility] of their minds.

18 Their moral understanding is darkened and their reasoning is beclouded. [They are] alienated (estranged, self-banished) from the life of God [with no share in it; this is] because of the ignorance (the want of knowledge and perception, the willful blindness) that is deep-seated in them, due to their hardness of heart [to the insensitiveness of their moral nature].

19 In their spiritual apathy they have become callous and past feeling and reckless and have abandoned themselves [a prey] to unbridled sensuality, eager and greedy to indulge in every form of impurity [that their depraved desires may suggest and demand].

Let me ask you this question, has the world really seen and heard the Truth? Or have they seen a form of godliness that talks about Jesus and our Father but denies Their power, 2 Timothy 3:5. Here is what I mean: hasn’t the world predominately only seen denominations that arrogantly claim that they are the only true believers, 1 Corinthians 3:5? Hasn’t the world seen tele-evangelists that base their entire message on money, 2 Peter 2:3? Haven’t they seen and heard what they must first do, so that our Father can then do something for them, John 15:5? I honestly do not believe that the world has seen the Truth. They have seen a ton of religion, but not the Truth. I believe that when our Father takes us out to the world in the full power and demonstration of the Holy Spirit the moral understanding of the world will change! How can we hold them at fault when they have not seen the Truth of Love that intercedes, regardless of what they have done, to forgive them, just as it did with Jesus and Stephen? How can we condemn them when there is no condemnation in us, Romans 8:1? 

Look at how Jesus dealt with the hard hearted and the morally corrupt. He feed them, forgave  them, taught them, healed them, and loved them. We are now one with Him! How can we act any differently? 

Ephesians 4:1 Part 2

1 I THEREFORE, the prisoner for the Lord, appeal to and beg you to walk (lead a life) worthy of the [divine] calling to which you have been called [with behavior that is a credit to the summons to God's service,

All scripture is Divinely inspired, 2 Timothy 3:16. So why would our Father have verses like Ephesians 4:1 written this way? When the Truth is that if we are truly born again, we can’t help but live godly life’s.

For His divine power has bestowed upon us all things that [are requisite and suited] to life and godliness, through the [full, personal] knowledge of Him Who called us by and to His own glory and excellence (virtue). 2 Peter 1:3

And those whom He thus foreordained, He also called; and those whom He called, He also justified (acquitted, made righteous, putting them into right standing with Himself). And those whom He justified, He also glorified [raising them to a heavenly dignity and condition or state of being]. Romans 8:30

Through Christ and because we are now one with Him, John 17:21-23, and because we are now His body, we are now one with all that He is. The two of us have become one flesh, Ephesians 5:30-32, so as He is, so are we in this world, 1 John 4:17. Jesus can’t walk away from being one with our Father and we are one with Him. Jesus can’t help but to live godly, He is God, and we are now one with Him. This is the Truth that sets us free. We are perfectly united with our Father, just as Jesus is perfectly united with Him, we are all one. So back to the question: why would our Father have verses written that make it sound like we have things to do on our own?

Then the disciples came to Him and said, Why do You speak to them in parables? And He replied to them, To you it has been given to know the secrets and mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given. Matthew 13:10-11

Our Father had the Bible written in the exact same way that He speaks. The secrets of our Father’s Kingdom are not for the unsaved to understand yet. The power and victory of our Father’s Kingdom are not for the guests of the Wedding Feast. God knew that there would be a great number of unsaved people who would preach and read the Bible while in this world. So He wrote it in such a way that would cause them to stumble and fall over the Truth. It is an absolute Truth that we should live godly life’s, just as the Holy Spirit had Paul write. The Truth that gives us peace and faith with this, is that for a born again believer, we can’t help but to live godly life’s. We can’t help but be godly because we are one with Jesus, He is our Head, He is our Vine, He is our Shepherd, our Father is our Potter, and the Holy Spirit is our Strength. The responsibility for our righteousness and sanctification lies solely with our Lord and Savior, not with us. Just as the responsibility for the body on how to act and live lies with the head and not the other body parts. The head must direct everything, whether seen or unseen, for the body to properly function and Jesus is our Head. The body does have its part to play, but no body part ever plays its part alone or separate from the head. The body is one and we are one with our Father, so we are as He is.  

The unsaved however will read this verse and look to themselves and to their own power. They will try to live godly life’s on their own and they will teach that this is the will of our Father. They will boldly confess that God doesn’t want robots or puppets. They will confess such things because they do not have the revelation of the Truth about being one with our Father. They see being one with God as being a robot. They do not realize the glory of it all. They have not seen that to be one means life and life abundantly. They will always fail because salvation and all of the benefits of it are all just a free gift from our Father. There are no works that can earn it, so the saved just grow in the power of our Father’s might and the ungodly continually try to earn it through human strength and efforts and they continuously fail. They do not have the Holy Spirit living within them and empowering them to know the Truth. They are blind so they stumble and fall.    

Revelation 14:11 Part 2

11 And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no respite (no pause, no intermission, no rest, no peace) day or night--these who pay homage to the beast and to his image and whoever receives the stamp of his name upon him.

This is a great place to go and study the Truth about Hell. Many will use verse 11 to teach that people who are sent to Hell will suffer for all of eternity, because our Father had it written that “the smoke of their torment ascends forever.” This teaching is false and once our Father teaches you the Truth about Hell, it will remove a great deal of fear and dread that so many in religion try and place on us. 

Hell is very real. In Revelation it is called the Lake of Fire. Death and Hades will be thrown into it, Revelation 20:14. The angels that rebelled will be thrown into it, 2 Peter 2:4. The anti-christ and the false prophet will be thrown into it and those who take the mark of the beast will be thrown into it. The Bible is very clear about these. But here is the thing, just because the smoke rises forever, does that mean that the people who are thrown into it suffer forever? Here are some verses that address it.

Then I heard a mighty voice from the throne and I perceived its distinct words, saying, See! The abode of God is with men, and He will live (encamp, tent) among them; and they shall be His people, and God shall personally be with them and be their God. God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and death shall be no more, neither shall there be anguish (sorrow and mourning) nor grief nor pain any more, for the old conditions and the former order of things have passed away. Revelation 21:1-4

But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the Lord shall be as the fat of lambs [that is consumed in smoke] and as the glory of the pastures. They shall vanish; like smoke shall they consume away. Psalm 37:20

FOR BEHOLD, the day comes that shall burn like an oven, and all the proud and arrogant, yes, and all that do wickedly and are lawless, shall be stubble; the day that comes shall burn them up, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. Malachi 4:1

And you shall tread down the lawless and 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. Malachi 4:3

Behold, they are like stubble; the fire consumes them. They cannot even deliver themselves from the power of the flame [much less deliver the nation]. There is no coal for warming or fire before which to sit! Isaiah 47:14

As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol (the place of the dead) shall come up no more. Job 7:9

Drought and heat consume the snow waters; so does Sheol (the place of the dead) those who have sinned. Job 24:19

Such people will pay the penalty and suffer the punishment of everlasting ruin (destruction and perdition) and eternal exclusion and banishment from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power, 2 Thessalonians 1:9

There is a Hell and our Father tells us that some people will be thrown into it. My hope is that it is only one person as Jesus alluded to in His parable of the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, Matthew 22:11 and John 17:12. The things and people that are thrown into the Lake of Fire cannot suffer forever because our Father does away with all suffering when He comes. Their punishment is eternal, these people can not come back into being, that is why the smoke of Hell is eternal. Those who are cast into the Lake of Fire are eternally cast out of the presence of the Lord, Who is omnipotent, so they have to just cease to be, or our Lord would not be omnipotent. So there is a Hell and the punishment is eternal, but the idea of the people who are thrown into it being eternally aware and tormented does not fit with the scriptures about Hell. Nor does it fit with what we have ever seen from our Lord, Who alone holds the Keys of Hell, Revelation 1:18, and Who is the same yesterday, today, and forever, Hebrews 13:8.  

Revelation 9:1

1 THEN THE fifth angel blew [his] trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth; and to the angel was given the key of the shaft of the Abyss (the bottomless pit). 

And they begged [Jesus] not to command them to depart into the Abyss (bottomless pit).

Luke 8:31

For God did not [even] spare angels that sinned, but cast them into hell, delivering them to be kept there in pits of gloom till the judgment and their doom. 2 Peter 2:4

The Abyss, the bottomless pit, must be one nasty place. There are beings down there that even frighten the demons! This angel is sent down from our Father to release those things to carry out His wrath. For those who are not sealed with the Holy Spirit this will be one scary time. But not for us, because the perfect love of our Father drives all fear from us. This is just another great opportunity to see our Father at work. This will be just another great opportunity to preach the Gospel of the Kingdom with power and demonstration of the Holy Spirit! The spiritual attacks from these things will be massive and men will be seeking death, but under the control of these beings they will not be able to find it. I truly believe that we will be casting these beings out of millions of people, just as Jesus cast the demons out. We will be used to set the captives free and the testimony of what our Father is doing through us will be undeniable, even though many will deny it!

Think for a moment of the evil that will arise when a fourth of the world is in such a deadly war. Just remember the torture and violence of WWI and WWII. During the Great Tribulation there will not only be this major war, there will also be devastating natural disasters that are happening at the same time. And on top of all of these things, we are now shown that there will be demonic attacks on the wicked as never before. Beings will be released from the Abyss that even scare the demons. These beings are released by our Father to punish the wicked. Those who have for years used the name of our Lord to steal and who have made merchandise of us will be tormented and they will seek death, but death will elude them. They will reap seven times what they have sown.  

The Holy Spirit had Peter tell us that the fallen angels have been held in the abyss under lock and chain until the day of their judgment. These beings that are released have been the jail keepers and cell mates of the fallen angels, and they are released to go into the world as instruments of our Father’s Wrath. For most of my Christian life, I have heard it preached that we better accept Jesus as Lord, so that we may be raptured out of all of this. But the Truth is that we are not raptured from this, we are sealed from all of this. Sealed with the very Spirit of our Father, the same protecting force for Jesus seals and protects us! These beings may be scary to some, but for us, they are just beings created by our Father to carry out His will. We will always know that these being are controlled by our Father.

Can you see why we should desire to be here during this time? People are going to be saved during this period, saved in numbers so great, that they cannot even be counted. People are going to be saved out of every nation, tribe, and tongue! Jesus tells us that after the great falling away, and the Great Tribulation comes, that the Gospel of the Kingdom will be preached to every nation, tongue, and tribe! There will be such great opportunities to be used by our Father during these three and a half years. Religion so often wants to focus on the wrath of our Father, but we have not been appointed to His wrath, we have been appointed to His righteousness. And true righteousness, righteousness from Jesus, desires to serve those in need. Righteousness has a heart to serve those who are called and chosen, even if they haven’t been born again yet. During the Great Tribulation, there will be millions who are called and chosen!