Study Of Revelation 6-22

Revelation 6
1THEN I saw as the Lamb broke open one of the seven seals, and as if in a voice of thunder I heard one of the four living creatures call out, Come!
2And I looked, and saw there a white horse whose rider carried a bow. And a crown was given him, and he rode forth conquering and to conquer.(A)
In the Bible a horse is often used to show power and strength for battle. Job 39:19, Psalm 137:10. A crown represents a ruler or ruler ship. This horseman is the only one of the 4 given a crown.

I am not sure that the colors raise any real prophetic meaning, white is used to describe purity and red to describe sin, but black and pale aren’t used to describe any prophetic meanings?

3And when He broke the second seal, I heard the second living creature call out, Come!
4And another horse came out, flaming red. And its rider was empowered to take the peace from the earth, so that men slaughtered one another; and he was given a huge sword.
5When He broke open the third seal, I heard the third living creature call out, Come and look! And I saw, and behold, a black horse, and in his hand the rider had a pair of scales (a balance).
6And I heard what seemed to be a voice from the midst of the four living creatures, saying, A quart of wheat for a denarius [a whole day's wages], and three quarts of barley for a denarius; but do not harm the oil and the wine! [II Kings 6:25.]
7When the Lamb broke open the fourth seal, I heard the fourth living creature call out, Come!
8So I looked, and behold, an ashy pale horse [[a]black and blue as if made so by bruising], and its rider's name was Death, and Hades (the realm of the dead) followed him closely. And they were given authority and power over a fourth part of the earth to kill with the sword and with famine and with plague (pestilence, disease) and with wild beasts of the earth.(B)

In Revelation 7 we read that these for Horseman, or 4 winds, are held back until God can choose, or seal, all of His chosen ones.

Also notice that these 4 Horseman hurt men and nations, conquer, taking peace, slaughter men, create great inflation, and they were given power over a ¼ part of the earth to kill and destroy. They were not given power over all of the earth, only a 1/4th part of the earth, and yet they could not come until every chosen one of God was sealed.

Only one horseman is given a crown, the one who conquers, the others would seem to work under him. With conquering comes war, killings, no peace, inflation, and death. I believe that the horseman is an angel, in Revelation 7:2 the Word teaches us that these 4 angels were given authority. They were given this authority by our Father to pour out His wrath and they are held at bay until our Father tells them to go and it is clear that our Father only gives them limited power over a 1/4th of the earth. God is always in charge.

9When the Lamb broke open the fifth seal, I saw at the foot of the altar the souls of those whose lives had been sacrificed for [adhering to] the Word of God and for the testimony they had borne.
10They cried in a loud voice, O [Sovereign] Lord, holy and true, how long now before You will sit in judgment and avenge our blood upon those who dwell on the earth?(C)
11Then they were each given a [b]long and flowing and festive white robe and told to rest and wait patiently a little while longer, until the number should be complete of their fellow servants and their brethren who were to be killed as they themselves had been.

These chosen ones did not die from disease, pestilence, drinking the bitter water, they were sacrificed, killed for being used by the Holy Spirit to testify of Jesus and the Kingdom. Look at Stephen and John, Peter, and Paul when they were beaten. If God allows us to be sacrificed He anoints us with power to glory during it.

The white robes represent that they are pure and that they were victorious.

12When He [the Lamb] broke open the sixth seal, I looked, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun grew black as sackcloth of hair, [the full disc of] the moon became like blood.(D)
13And the stars of the sky dropped to the earth like a fig tree shedding its unripe fruit out of season when shaken by a strong wind.(E)
14And the [c]sky rolled up like a scroll and vanished, and every mountain and island was dislodged from its place.
15Then the kings of the earth and their noblemen and their magnates and their military chiefs and the wealthy and the strong and [everyone, whether] slave or free hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains,(F)
16And they called to the mountains and the rocks, Fall on (before) us and hide us from the face of Him Who sits on the throne and from the [d]deep-seated indignation and wrath of the Lamb.(G)
17For the great day of His wrath (vengeance, retribution, indignation) has come, and who is able to stand before it?

After a 1/4th part of the earth was controlled by the 4 horseman, then we sea a change, and there are asteroids hitting the earth, great earthquakes, the sky roles back, and the sun is darkened and moon looks like blood. These events effect a 1/3rd of the earth, Revelation 8, the Trumpets. Just as science today shows, a very small asteroid hitting the earth even a major earthquake, or volcano effects great expanses of the earth. There is a change here. People have seen a 1/4th of the earth fighting and they have seen people being killed and now they see these natural disasters. They have also seen the saints being killed for their testimony. There is great despair and as all these things are happening the chosen ones of God are preaching with power and demonstration of the Spirit, so much so that the leaders of the world and all of the world are saying that this is the wrath of God. How will they hear without a preacher and how shall we preach unless we are sent.

Revelation 7

AFTER THIS I saw four angels stationed at the four corners of the earth, [a]firmly holding back the four winds of the earth so that no wind should blow on the earth or sea or upon any tree.

The events of Revelation are not in chronological order. It keeps going back and building on itself. So John is shown these riders being empowered and what they will be able to do, then He is shown the Truth that they cannot do what they are called to do until God says so. The 7 seals, 7 trumpets, and 7 plagues are all happening at the same time. The 4 horseman, are all harming a 1/4th part of the earth at the same time.

I also believe the four winds, 4 horsemen, are fallen angels, while else would they need to be held back. If they were of God they just wouldn’t go until they were told to go.

2Then I saw a second angel coming up from the east (the rising of the sun) and carrying the seal of the living God. And with a loud voice he called out to the four angels who had been given authority and power to injure earth and sea,
God gave these 4 angels authority and power not satan. They can only do what God has permitted. Our Father is always in charge, this is His wrath, not satans vengeance. Satan is never in control, he can only do what our Father permits!
3Saying, Harm neither the earth nor the sea nor the trees, until we have sealed the bond servants of our God upon their foreheads.(B)
Since the 4 Horsemen deal with hurting men, the earth represents the rural or sparsely populated regions of the earth. The seas represent the metropolitan areas, and the trees represent the nations. The Truth is no chosen one can be harmed by the instruments of God’s wrath.

The term forehead is used a lot in the Book of Revelation. Our foreheads are plan to see, they are right there in front of everyone. So it will be plain to see who is of God and who is not of Him. This is plain to see because it is the Holy Spirit within us, the fire in our belly’s, that makes us that way. Right now it’s not so plain to see, we have to test the spirits, 1 John 4:1. But during the Great Tribulation it will be plain to see who is saved and who isn’t!

Also remember that the 4 horsemen have only been given power of a 1/4th part of the earth. But the prophesy does not say that only the saved in a 1/4th part of the earth be sealed. We are a body, one heart, one mind, and one accord. There are not several bodies, but one!
4And [then] I heard how many were sealed (marked) out of every tribe of the sons of Israel: there were 144,000.

5Twelve thousand were sealed (marked) out of the tribe of Judah, 12,000 of the tribe of Reuben, 12,000 of the tribe of Gad,
6Twelve thousand of the tribe of Asher, 12,000 of the tribe of Naphtali, 12,000 of the tribe of Manasseh,
7Twelve thousand of the tribe of Simeon, 12,000 of the tribe of Levi, 12,000 of the tribe of Issachar,
8Twelve thousand of the tribe of Zebulun, 12,000 of the tribe of Joseph, 12,000 of the tribe of Benjamin.

When each one of these children were born their mothers spoke out a saying about them. So when we put together those sayings in the order in which they are listed here, this is what we have:

Praise God, He has seen my affliction, and His good fortune has come. I am happy blessed and to be envied, for God has seen my struggle and He has caused me to forget all of it. I was despised, but now Jesus is my husband and companion. God has given me my hire and my marriage gift by taken away my reproach. And now I am seated as a son at His right hand!

9After this I looked and a vast host appeared which no one could count, [gathered out] of every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages. These stood before the throne and before the Lamb; they were attired in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.

We have been raised up together and made to sit together in Heavenly places in Christ Jesus right now, and salvation is for everyone now, all nations, all tribes, and all peoples now. So this does not mean that our physical bodies have to be in Heaven during this event of the Great Tribulation.

There is a certain number of God’s elect that have to come into being before the Great Tribulation and the Wrath of God can begin.

Notice here that these people are before the Throne they are not seated in the Throne with Jesus.

10In loud voice they cried, saying, [Our] salvation is due to our God, Who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb [to Them we owe our deliverance]!

Our salvation is due to Jesus and our Father. Salvation means:
deliverance, preservation, safety, salvation
deliverance from the molestation of enemies
in an ethical sense, that which concludes to the souls safety or salvation
salvation as the present possession of all true Christians
future salvation, the sum of benefits and blessings which the Christians, redeemed from all earthly ills, will enjoy after the visible return of Christ from heaven in the consummated and eternal kingdom of God.
Fourfold salvation: saved from the penalty, power, presence and most importantly the pleasure of sin.

We have all of the benefits of salvation right now and it is due to Jesus and our Father.
Notice that we have been sealed. Sealed by the Holy Spirit and that would allow us to be saved from all of the instruments of our Father’s wrath that was being poured out by the four winds. We would be delivered, preserved, and safe from wrath while on this earth. We do not have to be in Heaven to be safe. The Truth that we are still around and that there hasn’t been a pre-tribulation rapture will become clearer as we study on.

11And all the angels were standing round the throne and round the elders [[b]of the heavenly Sanhedrin] and the four living creatures, and they fell prostrate before the throne and worshiped God.
12Amen! (So be it!) they cried. Blessing and glory and majesty and splendor and wisdom and thanks and honor and power and might [be ascribed] to our God to the ages and ages (forever and ever, throughout the eternities of the eternities)! Amen! (So be it!)

The leadership of Heaven all agree with what is happening on earth. Our Father, Jesus, the 24 Elders, the 4 living creatures that see everything, and the angels are all in full agreement. Out of the mouth of two or three let everything be confirmed.

13Then, addressing me, one of the elders [[c]of the heavenly Sanhedrin] said, Who are these [people] clothed in the long white robes? And from where have they come?
14I replied, Sir, you know. And he said to me, These are they who have come out of the great tribulation (persecution), and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.(C)

Notice that John writes that these people came out of the Great Tribulation, not that they came out of the world or earth. The Great Tribulation is not a place but an event.

Right now we are on this earth and we come out of battles, or we come out of wars, or out of a trial. Right now on this earth we have been washed with the Blood of Jesus, this does not happen when we get to Heaven, but when we are chosen and saved. So it does not mean that we have been removed from the world. Even though we are in the world, we are not of the world. This only teaches us that these people have come out of the Tribulation. They are protected from the wrath of our Father.

15For this reason they are [now] before the [very] throne of God and serve Him day and night in His sanctuary (temple); and He Who is sitting upon the throne will protect and spread His tabernacle over and shelter them with His presence.

Once again we are before the Throne, not seated in it with Jesus.

We are now the Temples of God, as we will be during the time of the Great Tribulation, even though we are not in it, we are still in these bodies, sealed and empowered by the Holy Spirit to be used by our Father, servants night and day. Never ending service protected and used by God Himself.

Ask yourself this question, how do we serve God? Does God need us to serve Him in Heaven? How would we serve Him there? We serve our Father in His Temple (which is our bodies) by being used by Him to witness to the lost, minister to our brothers and sisters, and overcome the wicked one. This is how we serve our Father, in Heaven we rule and reign with Him, on the earth we serve Him.

Think of the service that we can provide during this time of tribulation. Think on the miracles that our Father can perform through us. This is a wonderful time to be used by God to do greater works than Jesus was used for while He was here on the earth as a man.

16They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun smite them, nor any [d]scorching heat.(D)

The four winds and the 7 trumpets will sound, there will be no peace, the sun will be scorching the earth, the waters of the earth will be turned bitter, a 1/3 of the population will die by drinking the bitter waters. And yet Jesus will cause us to be fed, the suns heat will not hurt us, and we shall have water to drink. This is a time of our Fathers wrath and we are not appointed to wrath, but to righteousness.

Can you see now why all the nations of the world will hate us. They will think to themselves these people are not better than us, why do they not suffer. So when we are used by God the jealousy of the fake religious people of the world will be even greater than that when Jesus was here. Rulers will fear us, as they are desperately trying to have all the answers so that they can maintain their power. This is a great time for us to be used by our Father to show just how great He is. No one will be able to say that they did not know for the Gospel will be preached to every nation with great power and demonstration!

But before this can happen the great apostasy of the false Christians must take place. Many who have played around with Christ will fall away.

17For the Lamb Who is in the midst of the throne will be their Shepherd, and He will guide them to the springs of the waters of life; and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes

Notice that God will wipe away our tears, not that He did wipe away our tears. Do we have tears in Heaven? Notice that Jesus will guide us to the springs of water. In Heaven the river runs right down the middle of it, will we need guided to it? Our bodies have not been raised yet, that happens at the last trumpet, do our spirits get thirsty? Or scorched by the sun? Is Jesus our Shepherd in Heaven, or in Heaven do we rule and reign with Him? This is why we stand before Him as we do now and just as we do now, we thank Him that we are saved from our enemies and during the Time of the Great Tribulation from the wrath of our Father.
Think of how people look to governments now for the answers, and then think of how fruitless they will be during the Great Tribulation, just as they have no real answers now during the Great Tribulation governments will be useless! Just think of how we will be hated as the sun does not harm us, as we do not hunger even though they say that we cannot buy, and how we have clear clean water to drink as a 1/3 of the world is dying from the bitter water. We will be cursed, and blamed for it. And just as with our Lord Jesus, we will be used by our Father to tell them all exactly how they too can have it and we will be used by God to perform miracles to help them, and yet they will absolutely be consumed with jealousy and envy and hate for us. If we were going through it like they are, they could care less about us!

Revelation 8

WHEN HE [the Lamb] broke open the seventh seal, there was silence for about half an hour in heaven.

Half hour is a brief moment in time. So in Heaven there is silence for a brief moment in time.

Think about right before something really huge is about to finally come together, how we stop to watch.

2Then I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and to them were given seven trumpets.
Now John is shown something different, the seventh seal was the end and now John is taken back to the beginning and the 7 trumpets are shown him to further clarify the Revelation of Jesus Christ.

Trumpets in the Bible represent loud warnings of our Fathers approach, Joshua 6:4-5, Exodus 19:16-17.

3And another angel came and stood over the altar. He had a golden censer, and he was given very much incense (fragrant spices and gums which exhale perfume when burned), that he might mingle it with the prayers of all the people of God (the saints) upon the golden altar before the throne.(A)

The prayers of the saints are sweat to God. It is us communicating with Him and He communicating with us. It’s fellowship.

4And the smoke of the incense (the perfume) arose in the presence of God, with the prayers of the people of God (the saints), from the hand of the angel.
5So the angel took the censer and filled it with fire from the altar and cast it upon the earth. Then there followed peals of thunder and loud rumblings and blasts and noises, and flashes of lightning and an earthquake.(B)

Fire is the power of the Holy Spirit; we are baptized with the Holy Spirit and with fire, power! “John answered them all by saying, I baptize you with water; but He Who is mightier than I is coming, the strap of Whose sandals I am not fit to unfasten. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.” Luke 3:16 The power of God is poured out on His people who have been sealed and He uses them as never before! I believe that we are one body as never before, because there is going to be a great falling away of fake believers, “Let no one deceive or beguile you in any way, for that day will not come except the apostasy comes first [unless the predicted great falling away of those who have professed to be Christians has come], and the man of lawlessness (sin) is revealed, who is the son of doom (of perdition),” 2 Thessalonians 2:3. This will be a time of us being used by God to do the works that Jesus did and even greater works, John 14:12. John wrote in 1 John 4:17 that As Jesus is, so are we in this world. The Truth is that we are more than conquerors through Christ Who loves us, and Greater is He that is within us than he that is in the world! And here we see that there is only hot or cold, the lukewarm have been separated from the true chosen ones. And with the power comes lightening, thunders and earthquakes. Read Psalm 18 and you will see how God reacts when His people call upon Him and here we read a very similar description.

Before the trumpets were allowed to sound, the angel had to pour out the power of God upon His people, just as before the four winds were allowed to come we who were chosen had to be sealed. We are sealed with the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit is our power, our strength, He clearly shows us things to come, and teaches us all things as He causes us to remember everything that Jesus has spoken.

6Then the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared to sound them.
7The first angel blew [his] trumpet, and there was a storm of hail and fire mingled with blood cast upon the earth. And a third part of the earth was burned up and a third of the trees was burned up and all the green grass was burned up.

1st Trumpet right along with the 6th Seal, the change has happened after the first five seals, a 1/4th part of the earth was in war and under the control of the 4 horseman and people were being slaughtered in this 1/4th part of the earth and now a 1/3rd of the earth is being effected by natural disasters.

8The second angel blew [his] trumpet, and something resembling a great mountain, blazing with fire, was hurled into the sea.(D)
9And a third of the sea was turned to blood, a third of the living creatures in the sea perished, and a third of the ships were destroyed.
10The third angel blew [his] trumpet, and a huge star fell from heaven, burning like a torch, and it dropped on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water--
11And the name of the star is Wormwood. A third part of the waters was changed into wormwood, and many people died from using the water, because it had become bitter.

Think of a major asteroid hitting the earth, there would be several smaller pieces along with it and a 1/3rd of the earth is immediately affected. Many people would die from the impact and by having to use the bitter water. Nothing has told us that the 4 horseman are gone, so a small amount of wheat would be worth a whole days wages, peace would have been removed, death, killings, and opportunists trying to conquer the weak and fearful.

12Then the fourth angel blew [his] trumpet, and a third of the sun was smitten, and a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that [the light of] a third of them was darkened, and a third of the daylight [itself] was withdrawn, and likewise a third [of the light] of the night was kept from shining.

This still speaks of a 1/3rd, not the whole earth. The smoke and ash rising from the collisions would darken the sun, stars, and moons light.

13Then I [looked and I] saw a solitary eagle flying in midheaven, and as it flew I heard it crying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe to those who dwell on the earth, because of the rest of the trumpet blasts which the three angels are about to sound!

Now woe to those who dwell on the earth! Not a 1/4th of it, or a 1/3rd of it, but to all of it. Makes sense, war has ravaged a great part of the earth and now natural disasters are hurting even more of it. Of course it will reach all who live on the earth. Yet, we have been sealed, we have been empowered. Jesus is our Shepherd, the heat does not harm us, we do not thirst, and if we drink any deadly thing it will not harm us, Mark 16 is still in effect. Heaven and earth will pass away, yet our Fathers Truth’s still remain! And I believe that the Truth’s that we rely on today will be amplified, because believers will be unified as never before!

Revelation 9

1THEN 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 [a]of the shaft of the Abyss (the bottomless pit).

Now we see another spiritual attack coming. The 4 horseman were fallen angels. Think for a moment of the evil that will arise when a 1/4th of the earth was in such a great war, so many dying and then a 1/3rd of the earth being hit with such natural disasters. Now we see even a greater spiritual evil arising.

Also notice the whole earth is not yet been consumed, there has to be somewhere for us to be Shepherd too, where we can eat, drink, and not be harmed by the effects of the natural disaster. The eagle cried out the woes are coming, but they are not yet here.

2He opened the [b]long shaft of the Abyss (the bottomless pit), and smoke like the smoke of a huge furnace puffed out of the [c]long shaft, so that the sun and the atmosphere were darkened by the smoke from the long shaft.(A)

The bottomless pit, the place where the devils begged Jesus not to send them when He came on the seen in Luke 8:31. This has to be one nasty place that even the devils fear it. This is a place where God has imprisoned His ultimate tools of wrath. Notice that the eagle cried out to the whole earth!

3Then out of the smoke locusts came forth on the earth, and such power was granted them as the power the earth's scorpions have.(B)

4They were told not to injure the herbage of the earth nor any green thing nor any tree, but only [to attack] such human beings as do not have the seal (mark) of God on their foreheads.

Once again we see that we are protected from physical, natural, and spiritual events of the Wrath of our Father.

Also notice that they were told that they could not harm the remaining food supply of the earth, they can only attack humans that are not sealed by the Holy Spirit. Once again we see that God is in total control, even telling the demons what they can and cannot do. We are so plainly marked that they know they cannot harm us. I am telling you the Church will be something very powerful during these times!

5They were not permitted to kill them, but to torment (distress, vex) them for five months; and the pain caused them was like the torture of a scorpion when it stings a person.
6And in those days people will seek death and will not find it; and they will yearn to die, but death evades and flees from them.(D)

I wonder how death evades people. I mean take a gun and blow your head off, yet death evades the people who are vexed. Can you imagine the distress that even people who are trying to die cannot.

7The locusts resembled horses equipped for battle. On their heads was something like golden crowns. Their faces resembled the faces of people.(E)

The horses represent power, they do not have crowns, but something like crowns, fake.

8They had hair like the hair of women, and their teeth were like lions' teeth.(F)
9Their breastplates (scales) resembled breastplates made of iron, and the [whirring] noise made by their wings was like the roar of a vast number of horse-drawn chariots going at full speed into battle.(G)
10They have tails like scorpions, and they have stings, and in their tails lies their ability to hurt men for [the] five months.
11Over them as king they have the angel of the Abyss (of the bottomless pit). In Hebrew his name is Abaddon [destruction], but in Greek he is called Apollyon [destroyer].

We have seen war in a 1/4th part of the earth, natural disasters that effect a third of the earth, and now we do not see a limit on the spiritual attack, the whole earth is effected. Think about a natural disaster now and how the world reacts, then think of a war as small as the Iraq war and how the world reacts, can you imagine the evil that will arise from a war that encompasses a 1/4th part of the earth, and then natural disasters that effect a 1/3rd of the earth and how people will react. The fear, the dread, the hopelessness, the anger, and the bitterness that the children of the devil will exhibit with these kinds of catastrophic events will far surpass anything that we have seen. The Truth is still the Truth and whatsoever a man soweth that shall he reap, now think of why these evils can be released from the Abyss when all of this is being sown, even from people who have not been directly effected.

This is the 1st woe that the eagle cried out about. He cried 3 times.

12The first woe (calamity) has passed; behold, two others are yet to follow.
13Then the sixth angel blew [his] trumpet, and from the four horns of the golden altar which stands before God I heard a solitary voice,
14Saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, Liberate the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.
15So the four angels who had been in readiness for that hour in the appointed day, month, and year were liberated to destroy a third of mankind.

Along the Euphrates River 4 angels were now allowed to come to power and destroy a 1/3rd of mankind. A 1/3rd of all of mankind will be destroyed by these spiritual armies. Notice that they are liberated, God is in total control, and this is a time of His wrath. God is the Gardener, He is the Potter, He is in control today and He is in control during this time. He is in control of His body, His flesh, His Temple, of which we are and there is not one of us who will be asked to go through or do anything that our Father has not empowered us to do with faith, hope, and love.
In Jeremiah 30:7, the Great Tribulation is called the time of Jacobs trouble. The Bible does not say where the 1/4th part of the earth is, or where the 1/3rd part of the earth is, but if it is a time of Jacobs trouble you would have to believe that it would be in the region where Israel is. Jesus told those in Judah to pray that their flight was not in the winter and not on the Sabbath, so this ties in with the events taking place in the Middle East. And now we read that the angels that are along the Euphrates, the Middle East, will come together and destroy a 1/3 of mankind.

16The number of their troops of cavalry was twice ten thousand times ten thousand (200,000,000); I heard what their number was.

In today’s battles troop strength is becoming less as weapons become greater. The only people using a great number of people to battle is muslim extremists. Think of it, with today’s weapons, you send 200,000,000 people into battle and they would easily be killed by far less bombs and other weapons. Also keeping supply lines open to feed these troops would be extremely difficult. This is why I believe that these are spiritual warriors.

The 4 angels are loosed from their captivity bound by the Euphrates. I have always heard this preached that it was China, but China is not near the Euphrates River. Also there are 200,000,000 million troops all riding on 200,000,000 horses? The horses could represent power, but as we will read the horses look like something. So even if the horses that we read about where mechanical and the riders human, 200,000,000 of them would be highly unlikely with the technology of today. China has a highly technologically advanced army.

The population today is approximately 6,602,224,175 so a 1/3rd today would be 2,178,000,000. But we have had a war that involved a 1/4th of the earth and natural disasters that have killed millions of people on a 1/3rd part of the earth, so these numbers will be far less when this war breaks out.

17And in [my] vision the horses and their riders appeared to me like this: the riders wore breastplates the color of fiery red and sapphire blue and sulphur (brimstone) yellow. The heads of the horses looked like lions' heads, and from their mouths there poured fire and smoke and sulphur (brimstone).

Notice John does not write about arrows, or projectiles, or explosions, but fire, smoke, and sulphur. Here again if the horses were mechanical to hold a soldier, they are extremely un-aero dynamic. Today’s weapons are sleek, but yet these are broad like a lion. And there is no way that the riders are actually riding 200,000,000 horses. A country could hardly feed and supply the men, let alone animals. And think about supplying 200,000,000 mechanical devices. The weapons fo today that are bulky are ones that carry several troops, but these warriors all have their own transportation.

18A third of mankind was killed by these three plagues--by the fire and the smoke and the sulphur (brimstone) that poured from the mouths of the horses.

This tells us that a 1/3rd of mankind is killed by these plagues. This verse does not say in what region the 1/3rd is killed, but this is Jacobs trouble and the seed that has been sown towards Israel by the Muslim world and the revised Roman Empire makes us believe that the 1/3rd probably is in the Middle East but the Word just tells us a 1/3rd of mankind, so this is all speculative, all we know is a 1/3rd of the unsealed who are left will be killed by these spiritual warriors.

19For the power of the horses to do harm is in their mouths and also in their tails. Their tails are like serpents, for they have heads, and it is by means of them that they wound people.

The riders and the horses both have the power to harm and kill.

20And the rest of humanity who were not killed by these plagues even then did not repent of [the worship of] the works of their [own] hands, so as to cease paying homage to the demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor move.
21And they did not repent of their murders or their practice of magic (sorceries) or their sexual vice or their thefts.

Remember there is great anger at the true Christians right now, thousands upon thousands of us are being slain for our testimony, but that is alright, remember how God empowers us, just as with Stephen, John, Paul, Peter, James when they were persecuted for their testimony, they rejoiced that they were able to suffer for it, that is the power of God flowing through us that are required to partake in such things. So during these events, war, natural disasters and now a terrible spiritual war that dwarfs the war that had happened by the 4 horseman, people will not run to God for comfort. They will be killed if they do. So if they are not empowered with the Holy Spirit they will definitely not seek God for comfort. But a-men, there will be those who do and we are being empowered to be there for them. We are serving our Father day and night in His Temple, our flesh, and the fire from His throne has been poured out upon us so that we can serve as never before. Jesus is still feeding us, we still do not thirst, and we still have the power of the Holy Spirit. A 1,000 have fallen at our side and 10,000 at our right hand but it has not come nigh us!

I believe these people will be running to church though, the anti-christ’s church, that as we study further we will see in greater detail..

Revelation 10
1THEN I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, robed in a cloud, with a [halo like a] rainbow over his head; his face was like the sun, and his feet (legs) were like columns of fire.
2He had a little book (scroll) open in his hand. He set his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land,
3And he shouted with a loud voice like the roaring of a lion; and when he had shouted, the seven thunders gave voice and uttered their message in distinct words.
4And when the seven thunders had spoken (sounded), I was going to write [it down], but I heard a voice from heaven saying, Seal up what the seven thunders have said! Do not write it down!
5Then the [mighty] angel whom I had seen stationed on sea and land raised his right hand to heaven (the [a]sky),(A)
6And swore in the name of (by) Him Who lives forever and ever, Who created the heavens ([b]sky) and all they contain, and the earth and all that it contains, and the sea and all that it contains. [He swore] that no more time should intervene and there should be no more waiting or delay,
7But that when the days come when the trumpet call of the seventh angel is about to be sounded, then God's mystery (His secret design, His hidden purpose), as He had announced the glad tidings to His servants the prophets, should be fulfilled (accomplished, completed).(B)
8Then the voice that I heard from heaven spoke again to me, saying, Go and take the little book (scroll) which is open on the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.
9So I went up to the angel and asked him to give me the little book. And he said to me, Take it and eat it. It will embitter your stomach, though in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.(C)
10So I took the little book from the angel's hand and ate and swallowed it; it was as sweet as honey in my mouth, but once I had swallowed it, my stomach was embittered.
11Then they said to me, You are to make a fresh prophecy concerning many peoples and races and nations and languages and kings.(D)

The scroll is a fresh prophecy that the Holy Spirit is going to have John preach, we will read about in Revelation 11. And the Word of God is sweet in John’s mouth, yet His stomach is sickened by it. How many times have you read the Word and when you read it is refreshing and sweet, and you love it? But then the reality of what it means to the lost sinks in and it makes you sick to think of what is going to happen to those whose hearts are not right. We see that our sins, sicknesses, and diseases have been born by Jesus and how sweet that Truth is, yet we see people who reject it and whose hearts are wrong with God and we see them sick and dying and it makes us upset. This is how I see this chapter regarding John receiving a new prophecy, because it will involve his beloved Jerusalem.

Revelation 11
1A REED [as a measuring rod] was then given to me, [shaped] like a staff, and I was told: Rise up and measure the sanctuary of God and the altar [of incense], and [number] those who worship there.(A)

This chapter begins John’s new prophesy. John is shown just how great the number of the Church will be, how we measure. This has to be sweet, Jesus shows His beloved just how many will be saved throughout the ages.

2But leave out of your measuring the court outside the sanctuary of God; omit that, for it is given over to the Gentiles (the nations), and they will trample the holy city underfoot for 42 months (three and one-half years).(B)

Notice here that John is to only measure the Temple, us, and not Jerusalem, the Holy City. Now the prophecy becomes bitter, Jerusalem will be trampled under foot for 3 ½ years.

3And I will grant the power of prophecy to My two witnesses for 1,260 (42 months; three and one-half years), dressed in sackcloth.

Once again a sweet thing, God empowering His two witnesses for the same 3 ½ years.
4These [witnesses] are the two olive trees and the two lampstands which stand before the Lord of the earth.(C)

Two olive trees are Zerubbabel and Joshua, Zech 4:14. These two lead the captives out of Babylon, Zech 4:7 and the two olive trees continuously provide oil, which is the Word of God through the power of the Holy Spirit, not by physical might, Zech 4:6.

So these are literally two witnesses who will be used by God to deliver many people out of Babylon, which later we will read about is the worlds system. So for 3 ½ years we will see the power of God flowing powerfully through these two. Didn’t Jesus preach for around 3 ½ years?

5And if anyone attempts to injure them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their enemies; if anyone should attempt to harm them, thus he is doomed to be slain. [II Kings 1:10; Jer. 5:14.]

Just like with Jesus they have a time to serve and a time to die. God is in control and they do not die until their time is finished, preplanned by our Father. And just as with Jesus, they use the Word of God as their sword, not a physical one.

6These [two witnesses] have power to shut up the sky, so that no rain may fall during the days of their prophesying (their [a]prediction of events relating to Christ's kingdom and its speedy triumph); and they also have power to turn the waters into blood and to smite and scourge the earth with all manner of plagues as often as they choose.(D)

We have seen the 4 horseman kill off a 1/4th of the earth, natural disasters are affecting a 1/3rd of the earth, a spiritual war that kill’s off a 1/3rd of the earth, and now we see that plagues are being spoken out by God’s two witnesses. The thing here is that God released the 4 horseman, God released the seals, God released the Angel of the Abyss, and now God is controlling through the Holy Spirit the two witnesses. This is God’s wrath and He is in control and His wrath is not against His own body. We are fed by Jesus, covered by Jesus, and find clean water by Jesus. Our sins, sicknesses, and diseases are born now by our Lord and Savior, and they will be borne then by Him. Even during the Great Tribulation He is greater within us than he that is in the world!

7But when they have finished their testimony and their evidence is all in, the beast (monster) that comes up out of the Abyss (bottomless pit) will wage war on them, and conquer them and kill them.(E)
8And their dead bodies [will lie exposed] in the open street ([b]a public square) of the great city which is in a spiritual sense called [by the mystical and allegorical names of] Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.(F)
9For three and a half days men from the races and tribes and languages and nations will gaze at their dead bodies and will not allow them to be put in a tomb.
10And those who dwell on the earth will gloat and exult over them and rejoice exceedingly, taking their ease and sending presents [in congratulation] to one another, because these two prophets had been such a vexation and trouble and torment to all the dwellers on the earth.

Think of how the anti-christ and the false prophet have been preaching against the two witnesses of God. They have cursed them, trying to preach to people that their false religion is right, not what the two witnesses are preaching. The anti-christ and false prophet have been telling people to pray to graven images, and those images are probably those of Bible figures: Mary, John, Peter, Paul, and others. They have been preaching that the works that the witnesses do is of the devil, just like the Pharisees and Sadducees did to Jesus. So of course when they are killed they will rejoice, thinking they were right and that they truly are of God. Satan is a deceiver and I believe that the anti-christ, false prophet, and their followers will actually believe they are doing God’s work. Many will be celebrating what they believe is the defeat of the devil. I mean look at what God had done through these two, plagues, droughts, and famine.

11But after three and a half days, by God's gift the breath of life again entered into them, and they rose up on their feet, and great dread and terror fell on those who watched them.(G)

Think of how people will fear now. They were wrong!

12Then [the two witnesses] heard a strong voice from heaven calling to them, Come up here! And before the very eyes of their enemies they ascended into heaven in a cloud. [II Kings 2:11.]
People use this as a verse to confirm there are many raptures. But think about it, they are raised from the dead, this verse does not teach us that they are transformed. Lazarus was raised and not transformed. And they were called up to Heaven, Enoch and Elijah were called up to Heaven and not transformed.

13And at that [very] hour there was a tremendous earthquake and one tenth of the city was destroyed (fell); seven thousand people perished in the earthquake, and those who remained were filled with dread and terror and were awe-struck, and they glorified the God of heaven.
Jerusalem is rocked by a great earthquake, just as when Jesus was crucified.
14The second woe (calamity) has passed; now the third woe is speedily to come.

The 1st woe was the Angel of the Abyss killing a 1/3rd of mankind and now the 2nd woe is the Angel of the Abyss killing the two witnesses.

15The seventh angel then blew [his] trumpet, and there were mighty voices in heaven, shouting, The dominion (kingdom, sovereignty, rule) of the world has now come into the possession and become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ (the Messiah), and He shall reign forever and ever (for the eternities of the eternities)!(H)
16Then the twenty-four elders [of [c]the heavenly Sanhedrin], who sit on their thrones before God, prostrated themselves before Him and worshiped,
17Exclaiming, To You we give thanks, Lord God Omnipotent, [the One] Who is and [ever] was, for assuming the high sovereignty and the great power that are Yours and for beginning to reign.
18And the heathen (the nations) raged, but Your wrath (retribution, indignation) came, the time when the dead will be judged and Your servants the prophets and saints rewarded--and those who revere (fear) Your name, both low and high and small and great--and [the time] for destroying the corrupters of the earth.(I)

The last trumpet has blown, immediately after the two witnesses are raised up. Notice that as soon as the power of God that had been flowing through these two as a witness stops, the time of this world is over. This is the time that God’s saints are rewarded. If there had been a time of reward before this, a pre-tribulation rapture, when some teach is the time of the Marriage Supper of Lamb, than this verse would be wrong. This is the time of the Marriage Supper, after the last Trumpet. 1 Corinthians 15:51-52. This is the time of reward not before.

19Then the sanctuary of God in heaven was thrown open, and the ark of His covenant was seen standing inside in His sanctuary; and there were flashes of lightning, loud rumblings (blasts, mutterings), peals of thunder, an earthquake, and a terrific hailstorm. [I Kings 8:1-6.]

The end of times.

Revelation 12
1AND A great sign (wonder)--[warning of future events of ominous significance] appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and with a crownlike garland (tiara) of twelve stars on her head.

Remember Revelation is not in chronological order, so this is Jesus showing John something further to clarify his vision.

The woman is the Church, 2 Corinthians 11:2 and Ephesians 5:23-27. Israel is Jacob, a man, masculine, the church though is often referred to as a woman, the Bride of Christ. The Church’s power is Christ and Jesus is the Sun. The moon is the old Testament, the church is founded on the Old Testament. Then the Crown of stars represent the church’s authority, 12 Apostles, 12 Patriarchs.

The woman is clothed with the Sun, God, Jesus.

2She was pregnant and she cried out in her birth pangs, in the anguish of her delivery.
The church birthed Jesus. Jesus was the first begotten of many brethren, Revelation 1:5.
3Then another ominous sign (wonder) was seen in heaven: Behold, a huge, fiery-red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and seven kingly crowns (diadems) upon his heads.(A)

The dragon is satan. The heads and crowns represent rulers that he uses.

4His tail swept [across the sky] and dragged down a third of the stars and flung them to the earth. And the dragon stationed himself in front of the woman who was about to be delivered, so that he might devour her child as soon as she brought it forth.(B)

Satan deceived a 1/3rd of the angels and they fell with him and they tried to destroy Jesus as soon as he was born and failed. God warned Joseph in a dream and he took Mary and Jesus and fled to Egypt.

5And she brought forth a male Child, One Who is destined to shepherd (rule) all the nations with an iron staff (scepter), and her Child was caught up to God and to His throne.

Jesus was resurrected to Heaven. Satan thought he had destroyed Jesus by crucifixion, and yet He was raised. Just as satan will think that he has destroyed the two witnesses and will fail. Satan is given to much credit. He is just a tool of God and he repeatedly shows his ignorance throughout history. Look how God has used him. Satan is a deceiver and he constantly is trying to convince people that he is in charge. Ego, pride, and jealousy usually do. God knows the beginning and the end, God knew what satan would do, and He still made him that way! God created the good and the evil.

6And the woman [herself] fled into the desert (wilderness), where she has a retreat prepared [for her] by God, in which she is to be fed and kept safe for 1,260 days (42 months; three and one-half years).

For 3 ½ years the Church is protected and fed during the Great Tribulation. Jesus Shepherds us to food and water, protects us from scorching sun and wipes away all of our tears.

Notice here that the prophecy never teaches us that the woman would reject the child, as Israel rejected Jesus. I believe that is a huge point to not mention if the woman were actually Israel.

Also Israel never fled into the wilderness, the Jewish people fled into Europe and Russia, heavily populated areas of the world, not the wilderness. But the true Church was always on the outside looking in. Not the false Christian churches, but the real church.

This verse may also represent the 1260 years that the Catholic Church and the Popes had power, until Napoleon came in and stopped it. For centuries the Pope had complete power and you have to see that millions of true believers were killed during this time of the Pope’s. The Bible was taken from the people because they were considered too stupid, and the Truth suffered greatly at the hands of a fake religious organization having a form of godliness but who denied the power of it. But for those who are truly called and chosen, there was the salvation of Christ that fed, clothed, and protected them.

Prophecy can cover thousands of years as well as a distinct moment in time. We see 3 ½ years all throughout the Bible. It shows you that God is in charge and puts His signature on everything.

7Then war broke out in heaven; Michael and his angels went forth to battle with the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought.
8But they were defeated, and there was no room found for them in heaven any longer.
9And the huge dragon was cast down and out--that age-old serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, he who is the seducer (deceiver) of all humanity the world over; he was forced out and down to the earth, and his angels were flung out along with him.(D)
10Then I heard a strong (loud) voice in heaven, saying, Now it has come--the salvation and the power and the kingdom (the dominion, the reign) of our God, and the power (the sovereignty, the authority) of His Christ (the Messiah); for the accuser of our brethren, he who keeps bringing before our God charges against them day and night, has been cast out!(E)

This is after Jesus was crucified and raised from the dead. Not before, satan was accusing Job in Heaven before wasn’t he? The churches power, or the woman’s power, is salvation and our Kingdom is from Christ and this came to us after Jesus was raised from the dead. After Jesus’ crucifixion is when He bruised satans head with His heal, and after HE was crucified is when Jesus took the keys to death and hell from satan.

11And they have overcome (conquered) him by means of the blood of the Lamb and by the utterance of their testimony, for they did not love and cling to life even when faced with death [holding their lives cheap till they had to die for their witnessing].

Jesus is the woman’s power and His Blood keeps us clean from sin, 1 John 1:9.

12Therefore be glad (exult), O heavens and you that dwell in them! But woe to you, O earth and sea, for the devil has come down to you in fierce anger (fury), because he knows that he has [only] a short time [left]!

The woman is not harmed, God has always prepared a place of safety for us. We are His body, His flesh, His Temple and there is no weapon that can harm God and we are one with Him. This shows that even if we are to be killed for our testimony, that there is not a woe for us. God’s power will flow through us and even if we are killed for being used to testify it will be glorious and wonderful, as we are empowered with the Holy Spirit to serve the Kingdom and our Father and our brothers and sisters.

13And when the dragon saw that he was cast down to the earth, he went in pursuit of the woman who had given birth to the male Child.

After Jesus’ resurrection the Church has always been persecuted, yet for the true chosen ones, God has always been victorious through us! Satan has always failed and he always will. Our Father is always in control and that is our peace that passes all understanding. Remember too that God is constantly telling the demons what they can and cannot do, satan is no different, he can only do what our Father allows.

Satan wages war on the church because that is who salvation has come too, not Israel, they rejected Jesus.

14But the woman was supplied with the two wings of a giant eagle, so that she might fly from the presence of the serpent into the desert (wilderness), to the retreat where she is to be kept safe and fed for a time, and times, and half a time (three and one-half years, or 1,260 days).

Isn’t it wonderful to think of how Christianity has flourished in the wildernesses of the world? God clearly spoke that when the devil would begin his attack, the church would flee into the wilderness. Today there is America, which began as a vast wilderness. Christianity flourishes in the USA and God has used it from the very beginning of its creation as a nation which is an instrument of His righteousness. I find it interesting too that America is known as the Eagle and before it ever was, God was speaking of the wings of an eagle to be there for His church. But there were wildernesses before America for the Church and even today in the wildernesses of Africa, Asia, and South America Christianity is protected and flourishes. John was given this vision almost two thousand years ago and we can see that God knew what He was talking about.

15Then out of his mouth the serpent spouted forth water like a flood after the woman, that she might be carried off with the torrent.

Satan pours people out to persecute the Church. Waters represent people. We can look at History and see this is true. We can especially see that satan has always used wolves in sheep’s clothing. Those who look religious, but whose hearts are to take you from God and place your trust in a lie that will destroy you. Examples like praying to Mary, or some other person that was used by God. Making graven images and bowing down before them. Placing one man above every other and then telling us that that man is the substitute for Christ on this earth. There are several other religions that do the same things, I am only pointing out the Catholic Church here to go along with the anti-christ, who I believe will be a Pope. The anti-christ’s seat is in Rome and he has great political power.

16But the earth came to the rescue of the woman, and the ground opened its mouth and swallowed up the stream of water which the dragon had spouted from his mouth.

Satan’s people are always stopped. So whether it is a wilderness that God escapes us to, a natural disaster, or a miraculous event, satan fails each and every time. Failures are always angry, and satan is always angry. The end times the whole world is against us and many of us are sacrificed for our testimony, but not all of us!

17So then the dragon was furious (enraged) at the woman, and he went away to wage war on the remainder of her descendants--[on those] who obey God's commandments and who have the testimony of Jesus Christ [and adhere to it and [a]bear witness to Him].

Satan failed before and he will fail again. Even when the whole world is against us, through Christ we prevail.

Revelation 13
1[AS] [a]I stood on the sandy beach, I saw a beast coming up out of the sea with ten horns and seven heads. On his horns he had ten royal crowns (diadems) and blasphemous titles (names) on his heads.

In Bible prophecy the Sea is used to represent a great number of people and 10 crowns represent 10 kings and the beast is the antichrist. The anti-christ uses the power of these 10 kings to force his power on the people.

2And the beast that I saw resembled a leopard, but his feet were like those of a bear and his mouth was like that of a lion. And to him the dragon gave his [own] might and power and his [own] throne and great dominion.

The anti-christ is fully powered by satan. He is fully powered by a looser, who has failed at everything he has ever done. Think about satan’s dominion, it definitely has shrunk, he and the 1/3rd of the angels have been kicked out of heaven and have been suffering defeat for thousands of years!

3And one of his heads seemed to have a deadly wound. But his death stroke was healed; and the whole earth went after the beast in amazement and admiration.

The Popes power was taken by Napoleon in 1798. From 538, when the Bishop of Rome was made the Pople until 1798 he had a great army and was the world leader. This is 1260 years, 3 1/2 years for prophecy. The deadly wound that was healed, the Pope come back into great power!

4They fell down and paid homage to the dragon, because he had bestowed on the beast all his dominion and authority; they also praised and worshiped the beast, exclaiming, Who is a match for the beast, and, Who can make war against him?

Now think of the carnage that these people are seeing. A war that killed a 1/4th of all mankind, locust that had consumed them for months, natural disasters that turn a 1/3rd of the waters bitter, and a spiritual attack from the Abyss that kills off a 1/3rd of all mankind. Of course they are looking for someone who they hope will bring peace.

Think of how people fall down before the Pope now, and then think of when he has the full support and power of the 10 kings and satan. God has allowed a great falling away of the false believers from the Church and they have probably ran to the fake church of the anti-christ which I believe to be the Catholic faith ran by the anti-christ who is acting as the Pope.

Notice how finally satan tries to imitate God here. He finally gives all his power and authority to man, as Jesus has given to us.

5And the beast was given the power of speech, uttering boastful and blasphemous words, and he was given freedom to exert his authority and to exercise his will during forty-two months (three and a half years).

Think of the blasphemy now of the Pope. People bow down to him, this is nowhere to be found in the New Testament, it is actually spoken against. People kiss a ring of his finger, he has people bow down and kiss a graven image. The Pope believes that He is the Christ on the earth. He places himself above people, it is not hard to imagine how the Pope will be when he has the backing of 10 kings and a fearful and wary population that for the first time in History can really see the carnage of war. There will be 24 hour news, the internet, clear and precise pictures with people trying to make them as afraid as they can be to get the ratings. Could you imagine World War II with today’s news coverage?

6And he opened his mouth to speak slanders against God, blaspheming His name and His abode, [even vilifying] those who live in heaven.
7He was further permitted to wage war on God's holy people (the saints) and to overcome them. And power was given him to extend his authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation.

Who permitted the anti-christ to wage war? God! Our Father will give Him power of every tongue, nation, and tribe. Think of how he will try to make people worship? Graven images, priests, Mary, false teachings from Him not from the Bible. And it will all look religious. So of course he will come after the woman, the true Church, for preaching the Truth and now he has an army and governments supporting him that can reach the world. We will be hated by every nation, but victorious everywhere God leads us.

8And all the inhabitants of the earth will fall down in adoration and pay him homage, everyone whose name has not been recorded in the Book of Life of the Lamb that was slain [in sacrifice] [b]from the foundation of the world.

Everyone will worship the anti-christ but those who have been sealed, those who have been empowered, those who are chosen. We are one with God and God bows to nothing, and His body, empowered with our Fathers Strength, will be lights on the sides of the hills, we will still be the salt of the earth. We will still lay hands on the sick and they will recover, the gifts of the Spirit will operate in their full power and demonstration fro all to see.

9If anyone is able to hear, let him listen:
10Whoever leads into captivity will himself go into captivity; if anyone slays with the sword, with the sword must he be slain. Herein is [the call for] the patience and the faith and fidelity of the saints (God's people).

You ever hear christians who talk about hording food and having guns to protect it. They will be slain. The whole world is against us. Only Jesus will feed us, shelter us, and give us water.

11Then I saw another beast rising up out of the land [itself]; he had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke (roared) like a dragon.

Think of America here. The beast has two horns, yet no crowns; freedom of religion and democracy maybe? Look at how the beast is portrayed like a lamb, think of how the USA has been used by Jesus and yet it speaks like dragon. This clearly shows America, no other country on the earth is used by Jesus to spread the Gospel and yet our government officials, our voice, shy away from it and speak just like satan, our politicians are always glorifying the works of itself and of men. Notice satan doesn’t speak like a ruthless dictator, he is subtle and usually uses half truths that sound good, like our Presidents who say that they have faith, yet never mention Jesus.

12He exerts all the power and right of control of the former beast in his presence, and causes the earth and those who dwell upon it to exalt and deify the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed, and to worship him.

Look how America’s leadership could support the Pope in a time of Great Tribulation. There is turmoil everywhere. America is hated by most of the world right now, so they could throw their support towards the Pope to try and sure things up. They have seen that religion has worked for them in the past, and the Pope is a world wide leader, so they could easily force people to follow what the Pope says. Not so much because they care about the Pope, but to bring peace and stability. Remember satan is a divided house, all of these kings, and beasts will not be together as one. There will be jealousy, mistrust, bitterness, everything satan is, they have been empowered fully with. America throwing its support to the Pope is all in an attempt to bring about some peace and stop the wrath of God.

Do you really think that satan is going to show the anti-christ what he is doing to him? I believe that the Pope will believe that he is doing the right thing. But he is so blinded that he cannot see. I think the same of America, everything being done is an attempt to bring stability and peace. Look at the government now: don’t speak against anything, woman can have abortions, redistribute wealth, all things that have failed, yet to try and bring peace and harmony, go for it.

So the false prophet could easily be the President of the United States trying to stabilize the world. All the time thinking of His legacy, just like satan.

13He performs great signs (startling miracles), even making fire fall from the sky to the earth in men's sight.

America’s weapons are the best in the world and causing fire to fall from the sky is nothing.

14And because of the signs (miracles) which he is allowed to perform in the presence of the [first] beast, he deceives those who inhabit the earth, commanding them to erect a statue (an image) in the likeness of the beast who was wounded by the [small] sword and still lived.

After people have seen the natural disasters that are God’s wrath, they will be so desperate for a sign and anything that looks like it will bring about peace and safety will be welcomed. How easy it will be to force the earth to follow what America believes will bring about stability.

15And he is permitted [also] to impart the breath of life into the beast's image, so that the statue of the beast could actually talk and cause to be put to death those who would not bow down and worship the image of the beast.(E)

You ever notice how much of the world makes huge portraits of their leaders and every dictator has a great statute of himself. Making one talk is nothing and with computers today it can speak of great things. Notice that the dragon does not cause the image to speak, it is America that does.

16Also he compels all [alike], both small and great, both the rich and the poor, both free and slave, to be marked with an inscription [[c]stamped] on their right hands or on their foreheads,
17So that no one will have power to buy or sell unless he bears the stamp (mark, inscription), [that is] the name of the beast or the number of his name.

With the instability of the world at this time, of course the anti-christ and America will want total control. Right now the USA believes that it is the policeman of the world, so in these times of great trouble, how much more will it? Especially when a bunch of totally ungodly people are running the show. Look right now how liberal leaning leaders think they have to impose their views on less enlightened people. Then think of how religious right leaning leaders believe they can force their opinions on the ungodly. Now in these times of great tribulation think of how in the name of peace and safety they will force their beliefs, all in the name of world peace and stability.

18Here is [room for] discernment [a call for the wisdom [d]of interpretation]. Let anyone who has intelligence (penetration and insight enough) calculate the number of the beast, for it is a human number [the number of a certain man]; his number is 666.

The beasts number, the Popes number is 666. The number 6 represents the worship of man, and is the number of man, signifying his rebellion, imperfection, works, and disobedience. 6 is used 273 times in the Bible, including its derivatives (e.g, sixth) and another 91 times as “threescore” or “60.” Man was created on the sixth day (Genesis 1:26, 31). See also Exodus 31:15 and Daniel 3:1.

People look at the number so much, but I wonder if it really means as much as people give it. Doesn’t Jesus tell John here that it is simply the number of the anti-christ?

Revelation 14
1THEN I looked, and behold, the Lamb stood on Mount Zion, and with Him 144,000 [men] who had His name and His Father's name inscribed on their foreheads.
2And I heard a voice from heaven like the sound of great waters and like the rumbling of mighty thunder; the voice I heard [seemed like the music] of harpists [a]accompanying themselves on their harps.
3And they sang a new song before the throne [of God] and before the four living creatures and before the elders [of [b]the heavenly Sanhedrin]. No one could learn [to sing] that song except the 144,000 who had been ransomed (purchased, redeemed) from the earth.
4These are they who have not defiled themselves by relations with women, for they are [[c]pure as] virgins. These are they who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These are they who have been ransomed (purchased, redeemed) from among men as the firstfruits for God and the Lamb.
5No lie was found to be upon their lips, for they are blameless (spotless, untainted, without blemish) before the throne of God.
6Then I saw another angel flying in midair, with an eternal Gospel (good news) to tell to the inhabitants of the earth, to every race and tribe and language and people.

Just a thought here, why does this verse just teach us of 144,000, John does not make mention that they were from the 12 tribes of Israel? These 144,000 were taken from among men, the Holy Spirit does not have John write that they were taken from Israel? These 144,000 could be the same as earlier, or they could be new?

But here is the thing, they seem to be a leadership who Jesus uses during the tribulation. They have not defiled themselves with women. Just a thought about being defiled by a woman, it could also mean that they have not been defiled by false churches, women in the Bible often refer to churches or it could mean they are actual virgins. But marriage and the physical relationship involved with it do not defile a man. Marriage and sex are an ordained instrument of God. It really doesn’t matter to what is being said here, the Truth is there are 144,000 special messengers of Christ who will be used like no others have. Only they can sign their song! They may be true virgins, or undefiled by false religion, they may be from the 12 tribes or from among all men.

Remember all true Christians have been washed clean by Jesus. We all stand without spot wrinkle or blemish, that is how Jesus has made us. This is the power of His Blood, it is eternally working for us so that we are all saved to the uttermost! These 144,000 just are used like no others have been.

Also notice that the Gospel is being preached throughout the whole earth. The anti-christ, the false prophet cannot stop us, and even though huge amounts of us are being killed for testifying the power of the Holy Spirit still drives us, rejoicing and singing as we are used to preach to all creatures!

7And he cried with a mighty voice, Revere God and give Him glory (honor and praise in worship), for the hour of His judgment has arrived. Fall down before Him; pay Him homage and adoration and worship Him Who created heaven and earth, the sea and the springs (fountains) of water.

As the anti-christ is calling for people to falsely worship, we see Jesus here is still alive, still living to testify of the Truth, still empowering believers.

8Then another angel, a second, followed, declaring, Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She who made all nations drink of the [maddening] wine of her passionate unchastity [[d] idolatry].(A)

Babylon has fallen. The anti-christ hasn’t fallen yet, so it cannot be him or his church. The false prophet has not fallen, so it could not be America. So what could it be? I believe that it is the world’s economy. Nothing has ever made nations act with evil as much as money. The love of money is the root of all evil and the nations are all about the love of money and the power that it brings!

9Then another angel, a third, followed them, saying with a mighty voice, Whoever pays homage to the beast and his statue and permits the [beast's] stamp (mark, inscription) to be put on his forehead or on his hand,
10He too shall [have to] drink of the wine of God's indignation and wrath, poured undiluted into the cup of His anger; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.(B)
11And 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.(C)

The testimony of Jesus must be something to behold right now. All of the inhabitants of the earth are hearing it. For God to be so forceful as to offer no chance for these people who take the mark of the beast means the testimony of Jesus through the 144,000 and the numbers who could not be numbered, and the two witnesses, must be incredible. So plain and powerful that a person has no choice but to accept or deny Jesus as Lord. I believe that the preaching during this time will be greater than ever. Jesus said that the works that He did, so shall we, and even greater ones, and here is a time when I believe will be the greatest preaching of all time.

Powerful, plain, and clear!

12Here [comes in a call for] the steadfastness of the saints [the patience, the endurance of the people of God], those who [habitually] keep God's commandments and [their] faith in Jesus.
13Then I heard further [[e] perceiving the distinct words of] a voice from heaven, saying, Write this: Blessed (happy, [f]to be envied) are the dead from now on who die in the Lord! Yes, blessed (happy, [g]to be envied indeed), says the Spirit, [in] that they may rest from their labors, for their works (deeds) do follow (attend, accompany) them!

People are seeing God’s Truth preached as never before. We are crucified with Christ and nevertheless we live, yet it is not us who lives it is Christ within us. We are dead and our lives are hid with Christ in God. So the voice from Heaven is saying blessed are those who accept and believe during this time. The parable of the workers, even those called during the last hour, receive the same pay!

14Again I looked, and behold, [I saw] a white cloud, and sitting on the cloud [h]One resembling a Son of Man, with a crown of gold on His head and a sharp scythe (sickle) in His hand.(D)
15And another angel came out of the temple sanctuary, calling with a mighty voice to Him Who was sitting upon the cloud, Put in Your scythe and reap, for the hour has arrived to gather the harvest, for the earth's crop is fully ripened.(E)
16So He Who was sitting upon the cloud swung His scythe (sickle) on the earth, and the earth's crop was harvested.

The last trumpet and Jesus gathers the dead in Him first and those of us who are left behind are caught up together with Him.

17Then another angel came out of the temple [sanctuary] in heaven, and he also carried a sharp scythe (sickle).
18And another angel came forth from the altar, [the angel] who has authority and power over fire, and he called with a loud cry to him who had the sharp scythe (sickle), Put forth your scythe and reap the fruitage of the vine of the earth, for its grapes are entirely ripe.

The wheat and the chaff have been allowed to live together until this point and now it is done! The chaff shall be burned. The testimony of Jesus has been presented with such power and clarity that no one could deny it. The perfect church without spot, wrinkle, or blemish fully mature and fully empowered with no sin has been testifying the Truth that sets the world free.

19So the angel swung his scythe on the earth and stripped the grapes and gathered the vintage from the vines of the earth and cast it into the huge winepress of God's indignation and wrath.
20And [the grapes in] the winepress were trodden outside the city, and blood poured from the winepress, [reaching] as high as horses' bridles, for a distance of 1,600 stadia (about 200 miles).(F)

Jesus is returning with the troops of Heaven. We are caught up in the air with Him and then out of His mouth proceeds the power that destroys so many people that their blood is as high as a horses head and for 200 miles.

Revelation 15
1THEN I saw another wonder (sign, token, symbol) in heaven, great and marvelous [warning of events of ominous significance]: There were seven angels bringing seven plagues (afflictions, calamities), which are the last, for with them God's wrath (indignation) is completely expressed [reaches its climax and is ended].(A)

Once again Revelation is not chronological. God is once again showing John in clarity the expression of His wrath during the Great Tribulation.

2Then I saw what seemed to be a glassy sea blended with fire, and those who had come off victorious from the beast and from his statue and from the number corresponding to his name were standing beside the glassy sea, with harps of God in their hands.

A clean and clear number of people who have been baptized with the Holy Spirit and with His power. John sees those of us who are empowered by the Holy Spirit to not follow the anti-christ.

3And they sang the song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the Lamb, saying, Mighty and marvelous are Your works, O Lord God the Omnipotent! Righteous (just) and true are Your ways, O Sovereign of the ages (King of the [a]nations)!

These people sing the Song of Moses and of Jesus. Jesus came and fulfilled the law within us, so that we no longer serve our Father through our own effort, He has placed His Spirit within us and He no causes us to walk in them and keep them, Ezekiel 36:27. We now serve by the power of Jesus, as He is so our we in this world, 1 John 4:17.

4Who shall not reverence and glorify Your name, O Lord [giving You honor and praise in worship]? For You only are holy. All the nations shall come and pay homage and adoration to You, for Your just judgments (Your righteous sentences and deeds) have been made known and displayed.(C)
5After this I looked and the sanctuary of the tent of the testimony in heaven was thrown open,
6And there came out of the temple sanctuary the seven angels bringing the seven plagues (afflictions, calamities). They were arrayed in pure gleaming linen, and around their breasts they wore golden girdles.
7And one of the four living creatures [then] gave the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath and indignation of God, Who lives forever and ever (in the eternities of the eternities).
8And the sanctuary was filled with smoke from the glory (the radiance, the splendor) of God and from His might and power, and no one was able to go into the sanctuary until the seven plagues (afflictions, calamities) of the seven angels were ended. [I Kings 8:10; Isa. 6:4; Ezek. 44:4.]

This is God finishing the plan for the world, and no on is able to go into the Heavenly sanctuary until it is complete. It doesn’t say this directly but I believe that God knew there would be a time in history when people would believe that there was a pre-tribulation rapture and it is like here He is saying you can’t come in until everything is finished. God also said that we stand before the throne, but when we are caught up with Jesus after the last trumpet we rule and reign, these things are done from the Throne, they are done where our Father is and it’s like He keeps showing us not until the time is finished.

Revelation 16
1THEN I heard a mighty voice from the temple sanctuary saying to the seven angels, Go and empty out on the earth the seven bowls of God's wrath and indignation.(A)

Clearly this is Jesus’ voice, since no one was allowed in until the plagues had been finished.

2So the first [angel] went and emptied his bowl on the earth, and foul and painful ulcers (sores) came on the people who were marked with the stamp of the beast and who did homage to his image.(B)
3The second [angel] emptied his bowl into the sea, and it turned into blood like that of a corpse [thick, corrupt, ill-smelling, and disgusting], and every living thing that was in the sea perished.
4Then the third [angel] emptied out his bowl into the rivers and the springs of water, and they turned into (became) blood.(C)
5And I also heard the angel of the waters say, Righteous (just) are You in these Your decisions and judgments, You Who are and were, O Holy One!
6Because they have poured out the blood of Your people (the saints) and the prophets, and You have given them blood to drink. Such is their due [they deserve it]!(D)

Jesus leads us to fresh water, Revelation 7:16. The saints who have been sealed with the Holy Spirit do not have the wrath of their Father touch them.

7And [from] the altar I heard [the] cry, Yes, Lord God the Omnipotent, Your judgments (sentences, decisions) are true and just and righteous!(E)
8Then the fourth [angel] emptied out his bowl upon the sun, and it was permitted to burn (scorch) humanity with [fierce, glowing] heat (fire).

Jesus protects us from the sun, Revelation 7:16.

9People were severely burned (scorched) by the fiery heat, and they reviled and blasphemed the name of God, Who has control of these plagues, and they did not repent of their sins [felt no regret, contrition, and compunction for their waywardness, refusing to amend their ways] to give Him glory.

Look how it says that they did not give God glory. Think about religion today, they teach the works of man. You do this and you do that, then God can do something. How many people will tell you that they prayed this or that and then it happened. Or they gave this or that and then something happened. God is a reactive figure in their world. They control the Father instead of the Father controlling them. Jesus said to those who had done mighty works in His name that He never knew them, Matthew 7:22. I believe that they will be in church, the anti-christ’s church, acting all religious and having a form of godliness but denying the power of it.

10Then the fifth [angel] emptied his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was [plunged] in darkness; and people gnawed their tongues for the torment [of their excruciating distress and severe pain](F)
11And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their anguish and their ulcers (sores), and they did not deplore their wicked deeds or repent [for what they had done].
12Then the sixth [angel] emptied his bowl on the mighty river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to make ready a road for [the coming of] the kings of the east (from the rising sun).(G)

Now here we see that the Euphrates River is dried up for the Kings of the East to come to the battle. There is no mention of 200,000,000 million here. And God proclaims the kings from the east, not king! So is it China? Would China need the river to be dried up? America didn’t, when we went into Iraq, we just went over it. Our technology was that advanced. But for the Kings of Iran, Iraq, or some other nation, they would need it.

13And I saw three loathsome spirits like frogs, [leaping] from the mouth of the dragon and from the mouth of the beast and from the mouth of the false prophet.(H)
14For really they are the spirits of demons that perform signs (wonders, miracles). And they go forth to the rulers and leaders all over the world, to gather them together for war on the great day of God the Almighty.

These frogs, or demons, will perform miracles and will be used to make the anti-christ and the false prophet, the Pope and the President of America, to look like they are truly of God. Many of the people of the world enjoy freedom right now and they would have to be deceived and willing to bow down. To make through war everyone to bow down would take far more than 3 ½ years. The world through the trials and tribulations want it and they want it because they have been deceived into wanting it.

15Behold, I am going to come like a thief! Blessed (happy, [a]to be envied) is he who stays awake (alert) and who guards his clothes, so that he may not be naked and [have the shame of being] seen exposed!

We have been sealed, Jesus is our Shepherd, greater is He that is within us than he that is in the world. We are crucified with Christ and nevertheless we live, yet it is not us who lives, it is Christ within us who lives. Our lives are dead and hid in Christ is God. God has placed His Spirit within us and He causes us to walk in His statutes and He causes us to keep His judgments. Through the power of Christ we will be awake!

16And they gathered them together at the place which in Hebrew is called Armageddon. [II Kings 9:27.]

Notice God had to make it easy for the kings of the east to get to Armageddon. I can’t see muslims coming under the dominion of the Pope and America even with all of the death and destruction that has occurred. So could it be that they are coming to attack the Pope who has set up His kingdom in Jerusalem. Remember that the Gospel has been preached with great power to every nation, so it has been preached in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and all of the other powerful muslim nations. Satan is a divided house and this alliance will constantly be fighting and deceiving one another, satan who has given the power knows no other way.

17Then the seventh [angel] emptied out his bowl into the air, and a mighty voice came out of the sanctuary of heaven from the throne [of God], saying, It is done! [It is all over, it is all accomplished, it has come!](I)
18And there followed lightning flashes, loud rumblings, peals of thunder, and a tremendous earthquake; nothing like it has ever occurred since men dwelt on the earth, so severe and far-reaching was that earthquake.(J)
19The mighty city was broken into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. And God kept in mind mighty Babylon, to make her drain the cup of His furious wrath and indignation.
20And every island fled and no mountains could be found.
21And great (excessively oppressive) hailstones, as heavy as a talent [between fifty and sixty pounds], of immense size, fell from the sky on the people; and men blasphemed God for the plague of the hail, so very great was [the torture] of that plague.

The two witnesses have just been raised up, great fear is on the whole world for they have seen it. The anti-christ has armies all around Jerusalem, the worlds water supply is done, the sun is scorching millions, the world can see that these things are not touching us, the last time is going to be miserable for the lost. They will see Jesus returning from the east like a bolt of lightning, they will see the dead in Christ rising and those that are alive being caught up. This is the last day’s events!

Revelation 17
1ONE OF the seven angels who had the seven bowls then came and spoke to me, saying, Come with me! I will show you the doom (sentence, judgment) of the great harlot (idolatress) who is seated on many waters,(A)

The doom of the anti-christ’s church, the Roman catholic church and all who have joined her.

2[She] with whom the rulers of the earth have joined in prostitution (idolatry) and with the wine of whose immorality (idolatry) the inhabitants of the earth have become intoxicated.(B)
Idolatry, making statutes and worshipping them. Placing the love of the Pope higher than it should be. As Peter told Cornelius, I am just a man, do not bow down to me. People who are willing to follow false teachings in attempt to escape the wrath of God.
3And [the angel] bore me away [rapt] in the Spirit into a desert (wilderness), and I saw a woman seated on a scarlet beast that was all covered with blasphemous titles (names), and he had seven heads and ten horns.
4The woman was robed in purple and scarlet and bedecked with gold, precious stones, and pearls, [and she was] holding in her hand a golden cup full of the accursed offenses and the filth of her lewdness and vice.(C)
5And on her forehead there was inscribed a name of mystery [with a secret symbolic meaning]: Babylon the great, the mother of prostitutes (idolatresses) and of the filth and atrocities and abominations of the earth.

The Catholic Church thrives in the worlds economic system. And for money and power they have corrupted many and done all kinds of blasphemous things. People join right in to find favor and grace, always having a form of godliness, wolves in sheeps clothing seeking whom they may devour!

6I also saw that the woman was drunk, [drunk] with the blood of the saints (God's people) and the blood of the martyrs [who witnessed] for Jesus. And when I saw her, I was utterly amazed and wondered greatly.

The Catholic church has killed off the saints all throughout its history and the members of her have always gone right along.

7But the angel said to me, Why do you wonder? I will explain to you the [secret symbolic meaning of the] mystery of the woman, as well as of the beast having the seven heads and ten horns that carries her.
8The beast that you saw [once] was, but [now] is no more, and he is going to come up out of the Abyss (the bottomless pit) and proceed to go to perdition. And the inhabitants of the earth whose names have not been recorded in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world will be astonished when they look at the beast, because he [once] was, but [now] is no more, and he is [yet] to come.(D)

The Pope once was the most powerful man on earth, then God empowered Napoleon to end it, and then the Pope comes back into being the most powerful man on earth, because God loosed the powers of the Abyss.

9This calls for a mind [to consider that is packed] with wisdom and intelligence [it is something for a particular mode of thinking and judging of thoughts, feelings, and purposes]. The seven heads are seven hills upon which the woman is sitting;

The seven Hills that surround Rome.

10And they are also seven kings, five of whom have fallen, one still exists [and is reigning]; the other [the seventh] has not yet appeared, and when he does arrive, he must stay [but] a brief time.
11And as for the beast that [once] was, but now is no more, he [himself] is an eighth ruler (king, head), but he is of the seven and belongs to them, and he goes to perdition.
12Also the ten horns that you observed are ten rulers (kings) who have as yet received no royal dominion, but together they are to receive power and authority as rulers for a single hour, along with the beast.

None of Europe is ruled by Kings anymore, 10 rulers who have no royal dominion.
The revised Roman empire countries that bring the Pope back to great power.

13These have one common policy (opinion, purpose), and they deliver their power and authority to the beast.

The leaders of the revised Roman Empire make the Pope the leader of the union.

14They will wage war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will triumph over them; for He is Lord of lords and King of kings--and those with Him and on His side are chosen and called [elected] and loyal and faithful followers.(F)

Satan looses and those who join with Him loose as well and suffer his same fate.

15And [the angel further] said to me, The waters that you observed, where the harlot is seated, are races and multitudes and nations and dialects (languages).

The Catholic church encompasses a great number of nations, peoples, and languages. And during the end times will even be granted further power over all tribes, nation, and tongues.

16And the ten horns that you saw, they and the beast will [be the very ones to] hate the harlot (the idolatrous woman); they will make her cheerless (bereaved, desolate), and they will strip her and eat up her flesh and utterly consume her with fire.

The anti-christ and the ten rulers, have no real love for the people. They love themselves and their actions and plans only bring grief to those who join in. Remember the power of the preaching that the Holy Ghost is doing through the saints. These people are freely joining in with the harlot, even after hearing and seeing what God is doing!

17For God has put it into their hearts to carry out His own purpose by acting in harmony in surrendering their royal power and authority to the beast, until the prophetic words (intentions and promises) of God shall be fulfilled.
18And the woman that you saw is herself the great city which dominates and controls the rulers and the leaders of the earth.

The very people that the antichrist and the 10 rulers hate are the ones that will bring the leaders of the world to them, because their citizens demand it!

Revelation 18
1THEN I saw another angel descending from heaven, possessing great authority, and the earth was illuminated with his radiance and splendor.
2And he shouted with a mighty voice, She is fallen! Mighty Babylon is fallen! She has become a resort and dwelling place for demons, a dungeon haunted by every loathsome spirit, an abode for every filthy and detestable bird.
3For all nations have drunk the wine of her passionate unchastity, and the rulers and leaders of the earth have joined with her in committing fornication (idolatry), and the businessmen of the earth have become rich with the wealth of her excessive luxury and wantonness.

The worlds economic system has collapsed. Excessive luxury, sound like the Pope, the Religious leaders of today and the developed countries. Notice the verse does not say luxury, but excessive luxury. Jesus never taught us not to have a coat, but he said if we had two to give one away.

4I then heard another voice from heaven saying, Come out from her, my people, so that you may not share in her sins, neither participate in her plagues.(B)

During this time of wrath the worlds system is falling, there is supper high inflation, and so what does God do. He removes us out of it. We are now fed, we now are protected, and we receive water from Jesus. Jesus teaches us on the Sermon on the Mount to take no thought for our own lives, but to seek first the Kingdom of Heaven and our Fathers righteousness and everything else will be added unto us! The time of the Great Tribulation is the perfect time for this Truth to be lived and realized.

The worlds economic system includes false religion, governments, and business. Just look at the world today and you can clearly see this.

5For her iniquities (her crimes and transgressions) are piled up as high as heaven, and God has remembered her wickedness and [her] crimes [and calls them up for settlement].(C)
6Repay to her what she herself has paid [to others] and double [her doom] in accordance with what she has done. Mix a double portion for her in the cup she mixed [for others].(D)
7To the degree that she glorified herself and reveled in her wantonness [living deliciously and luxuriously], to that measure impose on her torment and anguish and tears and mourning. Since in her heart she boasts, I am not a widow; as a queen [on a throne] I sit, and I shall never see suffering or experience sorrow--(E)

People believe that America is great because of our free market economy and that it will stand. China is trying it, Europe, most of the whole world. But it is very fragile and the weakness of putting ones faith in the worlds economy will show plainly!

8So shall her plagues (afflictions, calamities) come thick upon her in a single day, pestilence and anguish and sorrow and famine; and she shall be utterly consumed (burned up with fire), for mighty is the Lord God Who judges her.

After a war that consumes a 1/4th of the earth, natural disasters that consume a 1/3rd of the earth, a spiritual war that kills off a 1/3rd of the earth, can you see why the economic system will crumble in just a day? Can you see how wheat and basic supplies will cost so much? How famine and disease will rise so rapidly? And how the world put their trust and faith in money and now it is totally worthless. Gold and silver will be cast into the streets as useless.

But the chosen ones of God shall be right there, being used in the full might and power of our Father. No weapon formed against us will prosper and all the while being fed, clothed, protected, and watered by Jesus Himself! Miracles abounding, discernment, healings, miraculous faith, tongues, interpretation of tongues, all abounding through us!

9And the rulers and leaders of the earth who joined her in her immorality (idolatry) and luxuriated with her will weep and beat their breasts and lament over her when they see the smoke of her conflagration.(F)

What can these leaders do, they gave the Pope their power, He told them that He would make everything alright. He told them that these so called Christians who would not join the Catholic Church were of the devil, yet they are the only ones prospering. There people cried out for this, and yet everywhere they are dying and cursing and fighting!

10They will stand a long way off, in terror of her torment, and they will cry, Woe and alas, the great city, the mighty city, Babylon! In one single hour how your doom (judgment) has overtaken you!
11And earth's businessmen will weep and grieve over her because no one buys their freight (cargo) any more.(G)
12Their merchandise is of gold, silver, precious stones, and pearls; of fine linen, purple, silk, and scarlet [stuffs]; all kinds of scented wood, all sorts of articles of ivory, all varieties of objects of costly woods, bronze, iron, and marble;(H)
13Of cinnamon, spices, incense, ointment and perfume, and frankincense, of wine and olive oil, fine flour and wheat; of cattle and sheep, horses and conveyances; and of slaves (the bodies) and souls of men!
14The ripe fruits and delicacies for which your soul longed have gone from you, and all your luxuries and dainties, your elegance and splendor are lost to you, never again to be recovered or experienced!
15The dealers who handled these articles, who grew wealthy through their business with her, will stand a long way off, in terror of her doom and torment, weeping and grieving aloud, and saying,

The only thing people have really put faith in is gone and they have no idea what to do.

16Alas, alas for the great city that was robed in fine linen, in purple and scarlet, bedecked and glittering with gold, with precious stones, and with pearls!(I)
17Because in one [single] hour all the vast wealth has been destroyed (wiped out). And all ship captains and pilots, navigators and all who live by seafaring, the crews and all who ply their trade on the sea, stood a long way off,(J)
18And exclaimed as they watched the smoke of her burning, What city could be compared to the great city!
19And they threw dust on their heads as they wept and grieved, exclaiming, Woe and alas, for the great city, where all who had ships on the sea grew rich [through her extravagance] from her great wealth! In one single hour she has been destroyed and has become a desert!(K)
20Rejoice (celebrate) over her, O heaven! O saints (people of God) and apostles and prophets, because God has executed vengeance for you upon her!(L)
21Then a single powerful angel took up a boulder like a great millstone and flung it into the sea, crying, With such violence shall Babylon the great city be hurled down to destruction and shall never again be found.(M)

Never again will money and commerce be the way.

22And the sound of harpists and minstrels and flute players and trumpeters shall never again be heard in you, and no skilled artisan of any craft shall ever again be found in you, and the sound of the millstone shall never again be heard in you.(N)
23And never again shall the light of a lamp shine in you, and the voice of bridegroom and bride shall never be heard in you again; for your businessmen were the great and prominent men of the earth, and by your magic spells and poisonous charm all nations were led astray (seduced and deluded).
24And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all those who have been slain (slaughtered) on earth.(O)

Look at how Paul was persecuted for making the statue makers loose money when the town accepted Jesus through His preaching, Acts 19:18-34.

Revelation 19
1AFTER THIS I heard what sounded like a mighty shout of a great crowd in heaven, exclaiming, Hallelujah (praise the Lord)! Salvation and glory (splendor and majesty) and power (dominion and authority) [belong] to our God!
2Because His judgments (His condemnation and punishment, His sentences of doom) are true and sound and just and upright. He has judged (convicted, pronounced sentence, and doomed) the great and notorious harlot (idolatress) who corrupted and demoralized and poisoned the earth with her lewdness and adultery (idolatry). And He has avenged (visited on her the penalty for) the blood of His servants at her hand.(A)

Think of how the love of money has corrupted this world. And the freedom that is now had by being as our Father is. God doesn’t go and buy what He needs or wants, He speaks it into existence and now His children will live forevermore as He is. Nothing is put before our relationship with our Father.

3And again they shouted, Hallelujah (praise the Lord)! The smoke of her [burning] shall continue to ascend forever and ever (through the eternities of the eternities).(B)
4Then the twenty-four elders [of [a]the heavenly Sanhedrin] and the four living creatures fell prostrate and worshiped [paying divine honors to] God, Who sits on the throne, saying, Amen! Hallelujah (praise the Lord)!
5Then from the throne there came a voice, saying, Praise our God, all you servants of His, you who reverence Him, both small and great!(C)
6After that I heard what sounded like the shout of a vast throng, like the boom of many pounding waves, and like the roar of terrific and mighty peals of thunder, exclaiming, Hallelujah (praise the Lord)! For now the Lord our God the Omnipotent (the All-Ruler) reigns! 7Let us rejoice and shout for joy [exulting and triumphant]! Let us celebrate and ascribe to Him glory and honor, for the marriage of the Lamb [at last] has come, and His bride has prepared herself.(D)
8She has been permitted to dress in fine (radiant) linen, dazzling and white--for the fine linen is (signifies, represents) the righteousness (the upright, just, and godly living, deeds, and conduct, and right standing with God) of the saints (God's holy people).
9Then [the angel] said to me, Write this down: Blessed (happy, [b]to be envied) are those who are summoned (invited, called) to the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he said to me [further], These are the true words (the genuine and exact declarations) of God.

This is the marriage supper of the Lamb, after the Catholic Church has fallen, after Babylon has fallen, after all of the seals have been opened, the trumpets have sounded, and the plagues have been released. Notice that the voices from Heaven at last the Bride has prepared herself, at last the time for the supper is at hand. The Great Tribulation is coming to an end, and the inhabitants of Heaven are glorifying God because the Marriage has arrived.

10Then I fell prostrate at his feet to worship (to pay divine honors) to him, but he [restrained me] and said, Refrain! [You must not do that!] I am [only] another servant with you and your brethren who have [accepted and hold] the testimony borne by Jesus. Worship God! For the substance (essence) of the truth revealed by Jesus is the spirit of all prophecy [the vital breath, the inspiration of all inspired preaching and interpretation of the divine will and purpose, including both mine and yours].

Not even the angels allow people to bow down before them, yet the Pope has absolutely no problem with it!

11After that I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse [appeared]! The One Who was riding it is called Faithful (Trustworthy, Loyal, Incorruptible, Steady) and True, and He passes judgment and wages war in righteousness (holiness, justice, and uprightness).(E)

Jesus returning, this is the second time in Revelation that we are shown that this event happens at the end of times.

12His eyes [blaze] like a flame of fire, and on His head are many kingly crowns (diadems); and He has a title (name) inscribed which He alone knows or can understand.(F)
13He is dressed in a robe dyed by [c]dipping in blood, and the title by which He is called is The Word of God.
14And the troops of heaven, clothed in fine linen, dazzling and clean, followed Him on white horses.

Once again the troops of Heaven not the saints of Heaven, not the bride, but the troops of Heaven. Jesus is coming to get us. And we will be caught up with Him to be with Him when He cleanses the earth and takes over His 1,000 year rule!

15From His mouth goes forth a sharp sword with which He can smite (afflict, strike) the nations; and He will shepherd and control them with a staff (scepter, rod) of iron. He will tread the winepress of the fierceness of the wrath and indignation of God the All-Ruler (the Almighty, the Omnipotent).(G)

Notice that all of the people do not die. Jesus rules those who remain with an iron rod after He comes back. Makes sense, not everyone left is at Armageddon. There has to be people who did not take the mark of the beast. Funny but doesn’t this sound like the muslims around the world? I just can’t see them joining up with America and the Catholic Church, even if war, plagues, and natural disasters have ravished the earth. And Arabs have a covenant with God through Ishmael. But I am sure that there are others, many others. Also the Jews, can you see them taking the mark of the beast?

16And on His garment (robe) and on His thigh He has a name (title) inscribed, KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.(H)
17Then I saw a single angel stationed in the sun's [d]light, and with a mighty voice he shouted to all the birds that fly across the sky, Come, gather yourselves together for the great supper of God,(I)
18That you may feast on the flesh of rulers, the flesh of generals and captains, the flesh of powerful and mighty men, the flesh of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all humanity, both free and slave, both small and great!
19Then I saw the beast and the rulers and leaders of the earth with their troops mustered to go into battle and make war against Him Who is mounted on the horse and against His troops.

Armageddon. The anti-christ and false prophet have convinced a great number of people to come together to fight against Jesus. Now here is a question, how did they know to go there at that time? No one knows the time except God? Jesus doesn’t show up for months before and set up shop, so they can gather their armies and come against Him. So why would the anti-christ be gathering up all of these armies and people around Jerusalem at this time? Maybe to kill off the Jews? Maybe to have a big rally to try and drum up support and rally his beat down and defeated followers? A show of power against people who have to be getting fed up with all the tragedy? Maybe protection from disgruntled followers? Who knows why they have been gathered, but one thing is for sure, it is not because he knows that Jesus is returning. The rally must be to come together in unity and probably in prayer and sacrifice and billed as an attempt to come against what the anti-christ is calling the devil, which actually is God.

20And the beast was seized and overpowered, and with him the false prophet who in his presence had worked wonders and performed miracles by which he led astray those who had accepted or permitted to be placed upon them the stamp (mark) of the beast and those who paid homage and gave divine honors to his statue. Both of them were hurled alive into the fiery lake that burns and blazes with brimstone.

Think of the world watching this on television. They see thousands of troops and people, they have been hearing the rhetoric preached at them. They have just seen the two witnesses rise up to Heaven and as they watch Jesus crashes as lightening into the seen, they watch as thousands are destroyed instantly and they see the anti-christ and false prophet thrown into the lake of fire. Those who remain on the earth, those who weren’t killed and who haven’t accepted Jesus as Lord yet, have to rejoice like crazy. They have heard it preached from the saints, they didn’t believe, and yet they will be able to live under the just rule of Jesus. No more war, no more natural disasters, no more plagues. But as we will read, some will still rebel with satan when he is released in a 1,000 years.

21And the rest were killed with the sword that issues from the mouth of Him Who is mounted on the horse, and all the birds fed ravenously and glutted themselves with their flesh.

The Pope and the President are thrown into the lake of fire alive and all of the other troops are killed instantly. And God has the birds clean it all up.

Revelation 20
1THEN I saw an angel descending from heaven; he was holding the key of the Abyss (the bottomless pit) and a great chain was in his hand.
2And he gripped and overpowered the dragon, that old serpent [of primeval times], who is the devil and Satan, and [securely] bound him for a thousand years.
3Then he hurled him into the Abyss (the bottomless pit) and closed it and sealed it above him, so that he should no longer lead astray and deceive and seduce the nations until the thousand years were at an end. After that he must be liberated for a short time.
4Then I saw thrones, and sitting on them were those to whom authority to act as judges and to pass sentence was entrusted. Also I saw the souls of those who had been slain with axes [beheaded] for their witnessing to Jesus and [for preaching and testifying] for the Word of God, and who had refused to pay homage to the beast or his statue and had not accepted his mark or permitted it to be stamped on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived again and ruled with Christ (the Messiah) a thousand years.(A)

The dead in Christ have been raptured and those that were still alive have been raptured and we now rule and reign with our Lord, Jesus!

We have authority, act as judges, and rule. There has to have been people left after the Great Tribulation who weren’t killed and who never were chosen. These we rule and reign over, we rule and reign because we are one with Jesus, Who rules with an iron scepter.

5The remainder of the dead were not restored to life again until the thousand years were completed. This is the first resurrection.
6Blessed (happy, [a]to be envied) and holy (spiritually whole, of unimpaired innocence and proved virtue) is the person who takes part (shares) in the first resurrection! Over them the second death exerts no power or authority, but they shall be ministers of God and of Christ (the Messiah), and they shall rule along with Him a thousand years.

Notice here to that we minister to these people for a thousand years.

7And when the thousand years are completed, Satan will be released from his place of confinement,
8And he will go forth to deceive and seduce and lead astray the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth--Gog and Magog--to muster them for war; their number is like the sand of the sea.(B)
9And they swarmed up over the broad plain of the earth and encircled the fortress (camp) of God's people (the saints) and the beloved city; but fire descended from heaven and consumed them. [II Kings 1:10-12; Ezek. 38:2, 22.]
10Then the devil who had led them astray [deceiving and seducing them] was hurled into the fiery lake of burning brimstone, where the beast and false prophet were; and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever (through the ages of the ages).

God is just, everyone must be given a chance. These people have had children and have grown again, think of how the earth has changed and grown over the last 1,000 with all of the wars and diseases that have killed millions. The earth will explode in its population during this 1,000 of peace and protection of Jesus. And some will be chosen because their hearts are right and some wont. So satan is allowed to come and get his kids, to be with him where he is. Just as we are with our Father where He is.

11Then I saw a great white throne and the One Who was seated upon it, from Whose presence and from the sight of Whose face earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them.
12I [also] saw the dead, great and small; they stood before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is [the Book] of Life. And the dead were judged (sentenced) by what they had done [[b]their whole way of feeling and acting, their aims and endeavors] in accordance with what was recorded in the books.

The dead are raised. Think about it, not just those who died before and during the Great Tribulation, but those who lived and died during the 1,000 year reign of Jesus. There are probably people who were chosen and yet who died during this time. They aren’t raised up to be thrown into the lake of fire.

13And the sea delivered up the dead who were in it, death and Hades ([c]the state of death or disembodied existence) surrendered the dead in them, and all were tried and their cases determined by what they had done [according to their motives, aims, and works].
14Then death and Hades ([d]the state of death or disembodied existence) were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
15And if anyone's [name] was not found recorded in the Book of Life, he was hurled into the lake of fire.

Revelation 21
1THEN I saw a new [a]sky (heaven) and a new earth, for the former [b]sky and the former earth had passed away (vanished), and there no longer existed any sea.(A)
2And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, all arrayed like a bride beautified and adorned for her husband;
3Then 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.(B)

We are forever with our Father and He is forever with us.

4God 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.(C)

Notice that death is no more after the millennial reign of Christ. There will be anguish and sorrow, and tears until then. If people are dying during the 1,000 years, people will cry, they will feel grief and pain. But here in the New Heaven, no death, no grief, no pain, no suffering.

5And He Who is seated on the throne said, See! I make all things new. Also He said, Record this, for these sayings are faithful (accurate, incorruptible, and trustworthy) and true (genuine).(D)
6And He [further] said to me, It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I [Myself] will give water without price from the fountain (springs) of the water of Life.(E)

Remember that God’s wrath was poured out against Babylon, the world economic system, and here Jesus once again takes a jab at it, saying without price.

7He who is victorious shall inherit all these things, and I will be God to him and he shall be My son.
8But as for the cowards and the ignoble and the contemptible and the cravenly lacking in courage and the cowardly submissive, and as for the unbelieving and faithless, and as for the depraved and defiled with abominations, and as for murderers and the lewd and adulterous and the practicers of magic arts and the idolaters (those who give supreme devotion to anyone or anything other than God) and all liars (those who knowingly convey untruth by word or deed)--[all of these shall have] their part in the lake that blazes with fire and brimstone. This is the second death.(F)

Cowards, those who choose the anti-christ for the fear of being killed or tortured for Jesus and the submissive, get nothing of God.

9Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls filled with the seven final plagues (afflictions, calamities) came and spoke to me. He said, Come with me! I will show you the bride, the Lamb's wife.
10Then in the Spirit He conveyed me away to a vast and lofty mountain and exhibited to me the holy (hallowed, consecrated) city of Jerusalem descending out of heaven from God,(G)

The city is not Jesus’ Bride, we are, John can see us because this is where we will be in the New Jerusalem. Read Ephesians 5:31-32.

11Clothed in God's glory [in all its splendor and radiance]. The luster of it resembled a rare and most precious jewel, like jasper, shining clear as crystal.
12It had a massive and high wall with twelve [large] gates, and at the gates [there were stationed] twelve angels, and [on the gates] the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel were written:(H)
13On the east side three gates, on the north side three gates, on the south side three gates, and on the west side three gates.
14And the wall of the city had twelve foundation [stones], and on them the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
15And he who spoke to me had a golden measuring reed (rod) to measure the city and its gates and its wall.(I)
16The city lies in a square, its length being the same as its width. And he measured the city with his reed--12,000 stadia (about 1,500 miles); its length and width and height are the same.

1,500 miles high, no more lack of atmosphere!

17He measured its wall also--144 cubits (about 72 yards) by a man's measure [[c]of a cubit from his elbow to his third fingertip], which is [the measure] of the angel.
18The wall was built of jasper, while the city [itself was of] pure gold, clear and transparent like glass.
19The foundation [stones] of the wall of the city were ornamented with all of the precious stones. The first foundation [stone] was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony (or white agate), the fourth emerald,(J)
20The fifth onyx, the sixth sardius, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, the twelfth amethyst.
21And the twelve gates were twelve pearls, each separate gate being built of one solid pearl. And the main street (the broadway) of the city was of gold as pure and translucent as glass.
22I saw no temple in the city, for the Lord God Omnipotent [Himself] and the Lamb [Himself] are its temple.
23And the city has no need of the sun nor of the moon to give light to it, for the splendor and radiance (glory) of God illuminate it, and the Lamb is its lamp.(K)
24The nations shall walk by its light and the rulers and leaders of the earth shall bring into it their glory.

Nations, people, and rulers? How can this be? Think about it, those who did not join with satan after he was released from the Abyss. We have been preaching for 1,000 years, somebody had to listen. Jesus said that the dead would be judged, not the living. Not everyone joined satan and they will be part of an earth that does not taste death, has no sorrow or grief. The earth will finally be as God has always intended. And God dwells among men and we rule in the new Jerusalem with Him.

25And its gates shall never be closed by day, and there shall be no night there.(L)
26They shall bring the glory (the splendor and majesty) and the honor of the nations into it.
27But nothing that defiles or profanes or is [d]unwashed shall ever enter it, nor anyone who commits abominations (unclean, detestable, morally repugnant things) or practices falsehood, but only those whose names are recorded in the Lamb's Book of Life.

The only ones who can enter the new Jerusalem is Those who were caught up with Jesus at His return, because we were one with Him.

Revelation 22
1THEN HE showed me the river whose waters give life, sparkling like crystal, flowing out from the throne of God and of the Lamb
2Through the middle of the broadway of the city; also, on either side of the river was the tree of life with its twelve varieties of fruit, yielding each month its fresh crop; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing and the restoration of the nations.(A)

God’s constant provisions keeps the nations healthy and whole.

3There shall no longer exist there anything that is accursed (detestable, foul, offensive, impure, hateful, or horrible). But the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall worship Him [pay divine honors to Him and do Him holy service].(B)

No more sin, no more separation from God, all people can see His face. He is no longer shrouded in a cloud. Everything is pure.

4They shall see His face, and His name shall be on their foreheads.(C)
5And there shall be no more night; they have no need for lamplight or sunlight, for the Lord God will illuminate them and be their light, and they shall reign [as kings] forever and ever (through the eternities of the eternities).
6And he [of the seven angels further] said to me, These statements are reliable (worthy of confidence) and genuine (true). And the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, has sent His messenger (angel) to make known and exhibit to His servants what must soon come to pass.
7And behold, I am coming speedily. Blessed (happy and [a]to be envied) is he who observes and lays to heart and keeps the truths of the prophecy (the predictions, consolations, and warnings) contained in this [little] book.
8And I, John, am he who heard and witnessed these things. And when I heard and saw them, I fell prostrate before the feet of the messenger (angel) who showed them to me, to worship him.
9But he said to me, Refrain! [You must not do that!] I am [only] a fellow servant along with yourself and with your brethren the prophets and with those who are mindful of and practice [the truths contained in] the messages of this book. Worship God!
10And he [further] told me, Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this book and make no secret of them, for the time [b]when things are brought to a crisis and the period of their fulfillment is near.
11He who is unrighteous (unjust, wicked), let him be unrighteous still; and he who is filthy (vile, impure), let him be filthy still; and he who is righteous (just, upright, in right standing with God), let him do right still; and he who is holy, let him be holy still.(D)
12Behold, I am coming soon, and I shall bring My wages and rewards with Me, to repay and render to each one just what his own actions and his own work merit.(E)

Thank God the saved are dead in Christ and our works are now Jesus’ works through us, and Jesus merits a great reward!

13I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last (the Before all and the End of all).(F)
14Blessed (happy and [c]to be envied) are those who cleanse their garments, that they may have the authority and right to [approach] the tree of life and to enter through the gates into the city.(G)
15[But] without are the dogs and those who practice sorceries (magic arts) and impurity [the lewd, adulterers] and the murderers and idolaters and everyone who loves and deals in falsehood (untruth, error, deception, cheating).
16I, Jesus, have sent My messenger (angel) to you to witness and to give you assurance of these things for the churches (assemblies). I am the Root (the Source) and the Offspring of David, the radiant and brilliant Morning Star.(H)
17The [Holy] Spirit and the bride (the church, the true Christians) say, Come! And let him who is listening say, Come! And let everyone come who is thirsty [who is painfully conscious of his need [d]of those things by which the soul is refreshed, supported, and strengthened]; and whoever [earnestly] desires to do it, let him come, take, appropriate, and drink the water of Life without cost.(I)

Here again we see that the bride is the church, not the New Jerusalem. Through Christ our souls are refreshed and supported. Jesus is our Head, He is our Shepherd, He is the Vine. For those empowered to accept Him, He is their everything, for without Him we can do nothing, John 15:5.

18I [personally solemnly] warn everyone who listens to the statements of the prophecy [the [e]predictions and the consolations and admonitions pertaining to them] in this book: If anyone shall add anything to them, God will add and lay upon him the plagues (the afflictions and the calamities) that are recorded and described in this book.
19And if anyone cancels or takes away from the statements of the book of this prophecy [these [f]predictions relating to Christ's kingdom and its speedy triumph, together with the consolations and admonitions or warnings pertaining to them], God will cancel and take away from him his share in the tree of life and in the city of holiness (purity and hallowedness), which are described and promised in this book.

This scripture has been used by people to talk about us loosing our salvation. But the Truth is no one who has been grafted into the Vine would ever take away or add to this prophecy. If they would than God would have made a mistake by grafting them into the Vine in the first place. God knows the beginning and the end, but yet He grafted someone in whose heart wasn’t right? That would mean God was fooled, and God is never fooled.

20He Who gives this warning and affirms and testifies to these things says, Yes (it is true). [Surely] I am coming quickly (swiftly, speedily). Amen (so let it be)! Yes, come, Lord Jesus!
21The grace (blessing and favor) of the Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah) be [g]with all the saints (God's holy people, [h]those set apart for God, to be, as it were, exclusively His). Amen (so let it be)!

Through Christ Our Father Will Use Us To Do All Things

“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.” Philippians 4:13

Is there anything that Jesus cannot do? Absolutely not, He can do anything and that is the force that is now strengthening us. Jesus has unlimited access to the full power of God our Father, because the Two of Them are One! This is our strength! Jesus spoke to situations, He told them what to do and they obeyed Him! Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow, He changes not! He will speak through us as He spoke. No, it’s even more powerful than that, He will speak through us as He now speaks, with the full power of the New Covenant! As we speak people should hear God, they should see His righteousness through us. We should tell storms to stop, the sick to be whole, and the dead to be raised. We should tell the demons to flee, because it is our Father within us! We should speak with the full power of the resurrection and of the love of God! The Truth is this: our Father now has the full freedom to speak through us just as He spoke through Jesus, because the separation of sin has been removed from us!

Our Father has not given us a spirit of fear; we can have all joy in accepting and believing this. We have been given us a sound mind, a mind of God's very Anointing; so that we can understand this, and He has given us His love that now dwells within us. To speak as Jesus speaks shows the love of God to be fully active within our lives! Jesus came and He healed the sick, He spoke of the love of God and now our Father has millions of bodies to speak through! Jesus came as one man united with God and He spoke of salvation, and millions throughout the ages have believed and been saved. And now our Father has millions of us who are one with Him through Christ to speak the same message! Jesus has given us all of Himself and through His strength we are now able to allow Him to be all that He is within us! There are now no limitations for the power of God to be revealed within us on the earth! Our Father can now do all things through us, because His Anointing has strengthened us so that He can!

We Speak With The Power Of God Himself

“Ye are of God little children, and have overcome them: because greater is He that is you, than he that is in the world.” 1 John 4:4

Our Father is now greater in us than anything or anyone that is in the world, and this absolute Truth is how righteousness speaks! This Truth is what has been shed abroad in our hearts! This is the Truth that we have been born again of and it is what we have become one with! The Supreme Court is not greater than God, Who we are now in and Who is now within us! There is no sickness and no disease that is greater than God, Who is now in us! Recessions or Depressions are not greater than God, Who is now in us! There is no terrorist or threat that is greater than God, Who is now within us! The US Congress, the European Union, the UN, or any President or Prime Minister is nothing compared to the Living God, Who has made us His Living Temple and Who is our Father!

Jesus spoke to storms and they ceased! He told the devil to get lost and he fled! He told the dead to rise and even when they were still bound in grave clothes they came forth! Our Father spoke aloud and the people marveled at what they had heard and said that it had thundered, and Jesus simply said that God had spoken on their account and not on His. He spoke this way because He knew where God was. He didn’t need a sign from our Father, because Jesus had the sign to know where God was, He was born of Him! The people were all looking for God up in Heaven, but Jesus knew that He was right there, and that God was in Him!

Jesus knew of the greatness of God and He spoke with that confidence, because it was God speaking through Him! Faith comes from hearing the Truth and the Truth sets us free, so that we too are able to have our Father speaking through us, in all of His power and with the full force of His grace, love, and virtue! We now have the exact same mind that Jesus has, the mind of Christ, so with all of our Lords confidence, because of what He knows and what He has experienced, we are able to know of the power of our Father that is great within us!

You are blessed in the power of God’s might!

Why We Speak Of Abundant Faith

“But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thy heart, Who shall ascend into Heaven? (That is to bring Christ down from above:” Romans 10:8

Our Father and His Word are now in abundance in our hearts and since they are, that is what is spoken abundantly out of our mouths! For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth will speak, Matthew 12:34! God has given us a new heart and we no longer have to seek for Him, because we know that He is always with us, we are one with our Father, just as Jesus is One with Him. We are now eternally one with God through our Lord and Savior. This is how the righteousness of faith, which is in abundance in our hearts, speaks. This is how the faith that is Authored and Finished by Jesus speaks! We speak this way because it is the actual Anointing of God speaking through us. God’s Holy Spirit cries out from within us that God is our Father, that we are born of Him, and that we are one with Him through Jesus Christ our Savior! We talk like Jesus talks, because Jesus is now our Head, and He is now our righteousness! We have been crucified with Jesus, and yet we still live, but it is not our old self that is alive anymore, that body of sin and unrighteousness was destroyed, it is now the new man, recreated in Christ that lives! We are now new creatures in Christ, old things and the old way of speaking have passed away. It is now Christ that is alive within us and everything has become new for us! We speak like Christ, because we can speak no other way, we are now one with Him; we are joint-heirs with Him, we are His body! We have been recreated in God’s image in true righteousness and true holiness! We have been born again from the Incorruptible Seed of God and we will speak as the Seed that has bore us speaks! A-men, how glorious is the awesome power that God now has through us because of Jesus!

How Righteousness Speaks

"But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thy heart, Who shall ascend into Heaven? (That is to bring Christ down from above: Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) But what saith it? The Word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the Word of faith, which we preach; that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on Him shall not be ashamed" Romans 10:8-11

A-men, we don’t have to go up to Heaven and get Jesus to come down here to help us! We don’t have to bombard the Gates of Heaven with our prayers to get our Father's attention! Our salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior gives us direct access and unity with God. Jesus hasn’t just given us access to God either; He has made us one with Him, just as He is One with Him! We are now members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bone. We are now the Holy habitation of God Himself. God’s righteousness cries out from within us that He is always with us, that He is in our hearts, that we have His Spirit, that we have the mind of His Anointing, that He is our Father, and that we are now one with Him here on this earth! “And because ye are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then a heir of God through Christ.” Galatians 4:6-7

Our conversation should reflect these absolute Truth’s! There is never a situation, good or bad, when we are separated from our Father. And out of the abundance of our hearts our mouths will speak! Now our hearts are filled with God Himself and the Truth’s that He has filled us with will set forth His righteous works in our lives! We are a glorious church without spot, wrinkle, or blemish and greater is He that is in us than anything that is in the world! And we through the power of the Holy Spirit we are strengthened to talk and act like it!

Our Flesh Has Been Destroyed, So That We May Be Used By God

“Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.” Romans 6:6

We have no confidence in our flesh, because through Christ our flesh has been destroyed! We have been crucified with Christ, nevertheless we live, yet it is not us who lives, it is Christ within us! Think of it, if you are in a battle and the soldier beside you is killed, would you put any confidence in His ability to protect you? Absolutely not, and that is how it is with us, we have no confidence in our flesh, because our flesh is as dead as dead can be. Our flesh has no ability to do anything that would earn us right standing with God! We now put our trust in the Bright and Shinning Star that is Jesus. He is alive, He is brilliant, and He is with us, He is in us, and He is One with us! This is where our confidence lies, this is the wisdom and knowledge that fills the new mind and heart that our Father has given us! Our minds now look towards the Truth and they do not stumble over it! And we have been fully equipped, so that we can be the very vessels of honor that God desires to work through!

Our Father now has millions of born again believers, all united and one in Christ, that can be used by Him just like Jesus was used. We are truly an army of one! These mortal bodies of ours have been quickened and made alive together with Christ, because we are born again from the very Incorruptible Seed of God. “Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)” Ephesians 2:5 We are now the very tools that God works through on this earth! And since we have been empowered by the Holy Spirit to give ourselves up for God, He has raised us up together and we have been seated together with Jesus our Savior. And the only reason that we could even do this is because Jesus gave us the ability and the opportunity to give ourselves over to God! “And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in Heavenly places in Christ Jesus: that in the ages to come He might shew the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.” Ephesians 2:6-7 Faith comes from hearing the Word, and the Truth of God’s Word sets us free!

Righteousness is ours, it’s ours because Jesus gave it to us, our Lord gave us His very own righteousness. Righteousness allows our Father to be with us, and righteousness allows God to work through us! The works that our Father does through us does not make us righteous; Jesus makes us righteous! This is the freedom of salvation, and our Father would that we all have it!

We Have An Anointed Mind

"For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind." 2 Timothy 1:7

Jesus has given us a sound mind, actually the soundest mind of all, because He has given us His mind. “For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ.” 1 Corinthians 2:16 Jesus has given us His mind and Jesus’ mind knows beyond any shadow of a doubt that our Father will produce much fruit through us! We now have the peace and the wisdom that Jesus has about us; that it is God within us producing His fruit! We have been given a mind of knowledge that knows it’s only by the Anointing of God, which is Christ, that our Father is able to work through us! We do not fear this Truth that we have to put complete and total trust in God and that we can place no trust in ourselves. The sound mind that our Father has given us, gives us the ability to believe this way! We have been given the same mind as Christ, we now believe as He believes! We know that it is a lie of the devil that says God helps those who help themselves! We now have a mind that does not fear the complete and total power of God that is working through us! We have a mind that desires the fullness of our Father to be within us, and a mind that expects Him to do His works through us! We have a mind that expects victory in every situation and in every area of our lives!

"Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of His knowledge by us in every place." 2 Corinthians 2:14

This is the faith that Jesus has given us, His very own faith, and there is not one work that we could ever perform that could earn it. Our flesh on its own just doesn’t have the ability to work that way! But through Christ, our Father will always cause us to triumph and He will always use us to make Jesus known in every place! Through Christ, our Father will lead us into the world to preach the Gospel to every creature and through Christ we will proclaim from the rooftops what Jesus proclaimed in silence!

Our Confidence Is Jesus

"For we are of the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh." Philippians 3:3

Through the Anointing of God in our lives we have absolutely no reason to ever put any trust or confidence in ourselves to do anything that would allow God to move in our lives! We have been given the peace of God that passes all understanding and God has allowed us to see the Truth that we are righteous because Jesus is righteous. “For if the first fruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.” Romans 11:16 God has freed us and we are now blessed because we have obtained righteousness apart from our own works. God has now revealed the Truth to us and we no longer have to rely on ourselves, or our own abilities to be right with God. Through the revelation of who we are in Christ, we now have no confidence in human abilities!

Even our faith is not our own, our faith is now Jesus’ faith. We now stand in the power of Jesus’ ability to believe God. Jesus has given us the Holy Spirit, to dwell permanently within us, so that through the power of God Himself, we are now able to look to Jesus for His faith! Jesus does not stumble at the promises of God, He is completely confident that God is willing and that God is able to do all that He has spoken. This is faith, and this is what Jesus Authors and Finishes within us! Since Jesus has given us His faith, God is now able to work His works of righteousness through us. God is able to cast out demons through us, God is able to heal the sick through us, and God is able to preach the Gospel to every creature through us. God does not fail and with Him working through us, we will never be ashamed and we will always rejoice in His Anointing! We will rejoice because Jesus has given us the faith that it is God within us working, we no longer have to look to ourselves. People are not healed by the power of our hands being laid on them; they are healed by the power of God that is within us, Who led us to lay hands on them! It’s no longer us sharing the Gospel, it’s God within us! We will never be ashamed because Jesus has given us His faith that God is able and willing to work through us completely! Jesus Authors our faith to be just as His faith, so that we know beyond any shadow of a doubt that we can do nothing without Him. But with Jesus, God will use us to do all things! We have not stumbled at the Stumblingstone, we have accepted the Truth that we can do nothing, and we have been saved from the lies that say we should even try. And through Christ and God’s Truth of who we are in Christ we are never ashamed!

Righteousness Comes By Faith, Not By Works

"Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at the stumblingstone.; As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on Him shall not be ashamed." Romans 9:32-33

Whoever has been empowered by the Holy Spirit to believe in Jesus shall never be ashamed! Thank God that we do not have to depend on our own works to obtain righteousness! We are no longer limited by the power of our humanity; the power that sin had over us has been removed and we have been set free to walk in the greatness of God. Jesus isn’t ashamed and we are now and forevermore one with Him! Our Father has given us Jesus, the best that He has and Jesus has been made the righteousness of God for us! And through Jesus and through the power that He now exhibits through us, we will never be ashamed! Through Jesus we succeed in every area of our lives. Jesus will never fail us and He will always allow our Father to triumph through us!

Jesus is completely dead to sin! The power that separated man from God, which is sin, was destroyed for us by Jesus at the Cross! Sin lost all effect and power over us because of the righteous Blood that Jesus shed for us! All of the forces of evil that attempted to overcome Jesus while He was here as a man, lost all of their abilities over Him when God raised Him from the dead!

“Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over Him. For in that He died, He died unto sin once: but in that He liveth, He liveth unto God.” Romans 6:9-10

Jesus is the righteous Stumblingstone that our Father has laid in Sion! Man apart from Christ wants to earn his own righteousness and many stumble over the free grace of God that is Christ! Righteousness without Christ is sin to our Father! The Truth for life is this, it’s God’s way or it’s death. Our Father wants us righteous and He gave us only one way to become righteous, and that way is Jesus! No work will do, it's all just a free gift from our Father and Jesus gives us the faith to accept it!

We Have Jesus' Anointing To Be Used

“And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.” Ephesians 3:19

Hallelujah, our Father is going to work through us in the full power and demonstration of His Spirit! Think of the way that Jesus lived when He was manifested in the flesh, He had compassion on the sick, so He allowed God to use Him, so that the sick were healed and the dead were raised! He didn’t stumble at Who He was, He rejoiced in it. We are now one with Him and our Father has given us our Lord's Anointed mind that looks toward Him for full understanding of who we are. Jesus knows exactly who we are, He knows exactly Who He is, and He will show us and He will give us the ability to accept and have boldness in the Truth that we are now one with Him!

Now here is the powerful Truth of our salvation, if we have truly been empowered by the Holy Spirit to make Jesus the Lord of our lives, we can’t help but look unto Him!

“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me, and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, Who loved me, and gave Himself for me.” Galatians 2:20

If we are truly saved, it is now Christ, which is God’s anointing, the exact same anointing that Jesus has, that now lives within us. The exact same anointing that our Father gave to Jesus to live and to fulfill all that He is to do, now lives within us! The same anointing that allows Jesus to know that it is God within Him doing the works now lives within us! The same anointing that allows Jesus to fully know that He is One with God, now lives within us! We have not been given a different anointing than Jesus has, we have the exact same anointing, and it is that force that now lives within us. We will look unto Jesus to Author and Finish our faith, the very life force within us can do nothing else! We will win and our Father will work through us, and it’s not dependant upon our abilities to accept our Fathers Truth’s. We are dead and it is now Christ that lives within us, so it’s dependent upon Jesus’ abilities, and He finished all that was needed for us to fully believe at the Cross!

Jesus will Author and He will Finish our faith and it will allow God to be all that He is within us! How great is that? The freedom that we have been given through salvation: Our Father does the works and we receive the rewards! We are now rewarded just as Christ is rewarded, for we are now one with Him! Through Jesus, our Father, Who is God, can now have fellowship with us, and through Christ He is able to work through us as He has always desired to. Jesus makes us able vessels unto God’s righteousness! Our Father works through us now exactly as He works through Jesus, there is no separation at all. Not as robots, but as one flesh! God will show His signs through us and we will glorify Him in every action, just as our Lord does and did! Through Christ we will never stumble or fall!

“Now unto Him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy.” Jude 24

Because we are saved, and because we are now one with Jesus, and since we have His Anointing, we will never fall, and we will stand before God with boldness and with all joy! Greater is He that is within us, than he that is in the world! “Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world.” 1 John 4:4

No Fear For Us

“There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.” 1 John 4:18

The Light of our Savior will cast all of the darkness of fear from us! Jesus’ love is perfect love and He will do all that it takes for us to insure that we walk in His perfect love. And He will lead us in a path that insures that we accept His perfect love and that we trust in it, so that there will be no fear at all within us! We are perfect in His love because of the power of His love! The power of Jesus’ perfect love cast out all fear from within us of not measuring up, or questions about God’s willingness to use us. Read anywhere in the Bible, about any thing we are to do and then remember, Jesus will Author and He will Finish the faith within us to live it! God has not given us a spirit of fear; all of the fullness and power of God that we read of in the Bible is for us! “And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.” Ephesians 3:19 Through Christ, there is no darkness at all for us! Through Christ and the freedom that His Blood brings, we can have the fullness of God within us, 100% of the time, working all of the works of an abundant godly life, an abundant life here on this earth, and an abundant eternal life!

“Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the Day of Judgment: because as He is, so are we in this world.” 1 John 4:17 Through Jesus we will stand fully confident with boldness on the day of judgment, there will be no fear within us, for His love has cast out all fear from us! We will have boldness, we will have full assured faith, Authored by Jesus Himself, that we have the right to stand there. Because just as Jesus lived on this earth, so did we; we will have lived by the power of God within us and He did the works! How awesome is that? Just as sure as Jesus, that’s how sure we will be! Jesus knew that He was going to be raised from the dead and that He was going to be seated at the right hand of God, and He knew that it was His right and there was no fear in Him at all that it was going to happen. That is how we will be when Jesus returns! The Church will be bold in who we are in Christ, there will be no fear and there will be no doubts, because as He is, so were we, even in this world! We stand in the confidence that Jesus has, Jesus knows that He was raised from the dead, there is no doubt for Him at all, and that confidence, that faith, is now within us!

God Will Use Us

“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 doth the works. Believe Me that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me: or else believe Me for the very works sake.” John 15:10-11

The first faithful thing that Jesus will lead us into regarding works of righteousness is this: it is our Father within us, He does the works! Faith authored by Jesus regarding this Truth is the key to walking in the full power and love of God Himself! Faith in this Truth will allow us to walk as Jesus walked! “He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also so to walk, even as He walked.” 1 John 2:6 “I am come a Light into the world, that whosoever believeth on Me should not abide in darkness.” John 12:46 Through Jesus we are empowered to live and understand all of the Truth’s of God! Through Christ and the Light that He provides there is now no darkness for us! And since there is now no darkness for us, there is now no occasion for us to stumble and fall! Jesus will teach us all that there is to know about God and He will give us the confidence and full assuredness that it is God within us doing His works of righteousness! Jesus will Author the faith within us so that God can give us the utterance to speak in new tongues. Jesus will finish the faith within us so that God can cast out all devils through us! Jesus we Author and Finish our faith, so that God can empower us to suffer no harm or ill effects from deadly things! Through Christ, and through the faith that He now gives us, we will lay hands on the sick and the power of God within us will cause them to recover, just as they recovered when Jesus laid His hands on them! Jesus will Finish our faith so that we just don’t talk about these Truth’s of God. He will Finish our faith so that we will actually live and rejoice in the Truth’s of God. And the world will believe and they will know that God loves us, just as He loves Jesus because of it! We will live in the fullness of God and in the power of God because Jesus has given us the faith that allows God to work fully through us!

Jesus Is Our Faith

“Looking unto Jesus the Author and Finisher of our faith; Who for the joy that was set before Him endured the Cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the Throne of God.” Hebrews 12:2

There is no greater Truth regarding our faith than this: true godly faith can only come from Jesus. Jesus endured the Cross and all of the pain and suffering that went along with it for the shear joy of being the only One Who could lead us into completely and totally trusting in God! Jesus begins our faith and He finishes our faith. Faith is not a human ability to accept and believe the things of God. Faith is God’s ability working through us, by the power of Christ, to accept and believe His eternal Truths! No one is greater at faith than Jesus and we have free access to Him, and Jesus will freely Author our faith and He will freely Finish our faith! Only with faith that has been Authored and Finished by Jesus can we accept and walk in the full power of what God has provided for us. Faith that comes from Jesus will never stumble at the promises of God and it will never hesitate or question the Truths of God. Only faith that is produced by Jesus is fully pleasing to God! “But without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that cometh to God must believe that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.” Hebrews 11:6 When we are empowered with the very Spirit of our Father that allows Jesus to Author and Finish our faith, then we too are fully pleasing to God, just as Jesus is fully pleasing to God! On our own and through our own efforts we have no ability to believe any Truth of God, only through the power of Christ can we walk in true faith, and then we have the ability to accept all of the Truth’s of God! This precious gift is unlimited and it is available for all who seek it; Jesus will Author and Finish faith for everyone who looks unto Him!

Faith In The Power Of Signs

“So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.” Romans 10:17 “And ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall make you free.” John 8:32

We need to hear the Truth that Jesus said that those who believe will have these signs following them: casting out devils, speaking in tongues, no deadly thing harming them, and being used by God to perform miraculous healings. The Truth of the power of God that is within us and that is for us will set us free! The Truth will set us free from fearing gifts like tongues. The Truth will allow us to see why we have them, what they are, and that it is God within us doing all of them! Faith comes from hearing the Truth and the Truth sets the world free! The great Truth about the signs of God, the signs that will follow us, is that they are only happening because it is God within us doing them. Through the power and freedom that Jesus’ sacrifice has provided, God can now do all things through us! There are no limitations for God any longer; He is now free to work through us completely as He worked through Jesus completely. “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.” Philippians 4:13 Christ, the Anointing of God, allows us to be used by our Father to do all things and it is the Father within us, He is doing the works! Christ allows God to do all things through us, and the world will see God through us, and the world will accept Him, not just because we talk about Him, but by the signs that He performs through us! There will be no doubt as to the One Who is working through us; the works will go beyond man’s abilities, and God will be glorified by them! We should all eagerly desire the love of God, which manifest itself in the signs He performs through us. We should all eagerly desire that God use us as vessels of His honor and that the sick are healed by His power working through us, that He uses our mouths to utter exact prophecies in whatever language that is needed, and that because of Him and the signs that are an evidence of His presence, multitudes come to believe and be saved!

Jesus is Lord and this is the day that He has made and through His glorious presence within our lives we will rejoice and be glad in it!

The Power Of The Sign Of Healing

“They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.” Mark 16:18

The Word of God says that we shall be used by our Father to lay hands on the sick and they will recover. The sick will recover, the sign of our Father within us goes beyond just praying for the sick, the proof of God actually being within us is that the sick recover!

“And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both men and women. Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow them. There came also a multitude out of the cities round about Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them that were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed every one.” Acts 5:14-16

We are shown that all that were sick were healed, they weren’t just prayed for, they were healed, and because of the power of God working through the believers, multitudes were saved! The ministry of miraculous healing grew the Church like nothing else! Without television, without radio, without telephones, without mailers, and without the Internet, people, even from far away cities, came and were added to God because of the ministry of healing! The power of the sign of healing is unmatched! Jesus healed everywhere He went, and so did the Apostles, so did Paul, and so did those who believed! Man has no ability to miraculously heal apart from God! We have to create a medicine with side effects, or cut a person open and remove something, or shoot poison into the sick and hope that it kills the sickness before it kills the person, this is man’s healing process! And we charge enormous amounts of money for it, but our Father just heals, no pain, no charge, and when He does, people get saved, even those who just watch it! Jesus taught us that all who believe would have this sign follow them and as our Father had Paul write, we all should eagerly desire it!

The Sign Of Tongues

“And these signs shall follow them that believe; In My Name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak in new tongues;” Mark 16:17

Jesus taught us that we would be empowered to speak in new tongues if we believe and are saved. “And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.” Acts 2:4 Notice that on the Day of Pentecost, all of the believers were speaking in new tongues, not just the Apostles, but all 120 people, both women and men spoke in tongues. All of the believers who were there at Pentecost spoke with new tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance! Jesus said the sign of speaking in new tongues would follow all who believe. Speaking in tongues is a sign of the presence of God. Whether we are speaking in an earthly language that is not our own or a heavenly one, it is the Spirit that gives us the ability to do so, and it is a sign that our Father is real, that He is alive, and that He dwells within us.

“Eagerly pursue and seek to acquire [this] love [make it your aim, your great quest]; and earnestly desire and cultivate the spiritual endowments (gifts), especially that you may prophesy (interpret the Divine will and purpose in inspired preaching and teaching).” 1 Corinthians 14:1 Amplified Bible.

Tongues are a gift from our Father that acts as a sign to the world, a sign that proves that He is real, and since it does, we should eagerly desire it. Should we desire tongues above the other gifts of the Spirit, no; but we should desire it. Think of never needing an interpreter to preach the Gospel. How awesome, regardless of which nation we will be in, the power of the Holy Spirit will give us exactly the Words that our Father wants spoken, exactly when they should be spoken, and exactly how the people hearing them need to hear them spoken. Through the power of the Spirit we can speak to a person, even if we have never spoken their language before, exactly as our Father would speak to them. Think of the intimacy and understanding that God has, and that is exactly how we may be used to speak to them! Awesome, absolutely awesome!

Think of praying in tongues, speaking the language of the Angels. The Spirit of God giving us the utterance, so we are praying exactly what needs to be prayed, exactly how it needs prayed, and all through the power of God Himself! Jesus said that we all would speak in new tongues, and the Holy Ghost inspired Paul to write that we should all eagerly desire it! The gifts of our Father are not to be feared, we haven’t been given a spirit of fear, but of power. God’s signs should be desired by all of us. Faith comes from hearing the Truth and the Truth sets us free.

There is no condemnation here, if our Father hasn’t given you the gift of tongues yet, He will, for it is a sign for all who believe. This is just preaching that brings the hope that it is for all and should be desired by all who believe.

Victory Is Our Sign

“They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.” Mark 16:18

Really take hold of and notice that Jesus does not say that our testimony about Him would be the sign of our unity with our Father, but rather that the miraculous works of God through us would be the sign! Deadly drinks and poisonous snakes kill men, but they have no effect on God and on those whom God indwells!

“And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand. And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, no doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live. And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm.” Acts 28:3-5

Paul didn’t have super human power, our Father had the power, and God is exactly the same within us, our Father never changes!

Our Father allowed Paul to be bitten by the snake, Daniel to be cast into the lions den, Goliath to taunt David, and Jesus to endure the Cross. Persecution will arise for the Words sake, but our Father will never leave us or forsake and through Christ we are always and eternally more than conquerors! No weapon, and there are many weapons that are formed against us, will ever prosper. Our Father working through us is the sign of His Truth and His Truth sets us free! So welcome the attacks, rejoice in the tribulation, for we have been counted as worthy to be used by God to glorify His Kingdom!

Moreover [let us also be full of joy now!] let us exult and triumph in our troubles and rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that pressure and affliction and hardship produce patient and unswerving endurance. And endurance (fortitude) develops maturity of character (approved faith and tried integrity). And character [of this sort] produces [the habit of] joyful and confident hope of eternal salvation. Such hope never disappoints or deludes or shames us, for God's love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit Who has been given to us. Romans 5:3-5

Why Signs?

“And Jesus said unto them, Go into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe; In My Name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak in new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.” Mark 16:15-18

Why did Jesus say signs? He could have said works, but Jesus said signs! Jesus said that signs would follow us because we are the living testament that God is real and that He has come to dwell as one with man! People see God through us; they see works and actions that man is incapable of! God does His miraculous works through us and only God can perform the works of God. “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 doth the works.” John 15:10 Jesus told the people clearly that it was not Him alone doing the works, but that it was God doing the works through Him! And then to confirm His testimony, Jesus told the people to look at the works that were happening through Him. “Believe Me that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me: or else believe Me for the very works sake.” John 15:11

We should say the exact same thing as we are ministering. “People believe that we are saved and believe that we are in God and that He is in us through Jesus Christ our Lord; or else believe that we are saved and united with God because it is God working within us and we are not harmed by deadly drinks or snakes. Believe that we are saved and united with God because devils flee from us, believe because we speak in new tongues, and believe because God leads us to lay hands on the sick and they recover!” Jesus told the people to believe because of the works they saw God performing through Him, and Jesus tells us that we will see the works of God being performed through us. Signs prove to the world that we are saved: signs both for us and for the entire world to see. “Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on Me through their word. That they all may be one; as Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that Thou hast sent Me.” John 17:20-21 We are one with God, just as Jesus is One with God. Now stop right there, we are one with God just as Jesus is One with God, when you think of Jesus and God, you too should think of you and God. That is why Jesus came, so that we could enjoy the exact same unity with our Father that our Lord and Savior enjoys! That is why Jesus freely went to the Cross! Jesus went to the Cross so that all separation between man and God would be eliminated. And as Jesus was used by God as a sign of His presence and His love, so shall we be used as a sign! Jesus didn’t come and minister with just Words, even though His Words are eternal. Jesus came in action and in deed, and God doesn’t change, He is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow! “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.” Hebrews 13:8

Signs will follow all who believe and are saved!

What Jesus Has To Say About Signs

“And Jesus said unto them, Go into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe; In My Name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak in new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.” Mark 16:15-18

If we have been empowered to believe in Jesus as Lord and are baptized with God’s Holy Spirit, we shall be saved; no questions, no doubts, and no maybes about it, it’s an absolute Truth, and if we don’t believe in Him, we shall be damned! It doesn’t get any clearer than that! God would that all men be saved and He has given all of us the measure of faith to accept and believe in Jesus as Lord, so that we all can be saved! “For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.” Romans 12:3 The Truth will set us free and faith comes from hearing God’s absolute Truth! “Who will have all men saved, and come to the knowledge of the Truth.” 1 Timothy 2:4

The Truth is this, all who believe in Jesus as Lord and who are saved will have the signs that Jesus spoke of in Mark 16 following them! Jesus doesn’t lie and Jesus said that signs will follow us; no questions, no qualifications, and no doubts. If we believe that Jesus is Lord and are baptized with the Holy Spirit these signs will follow us, it’s an absolute Truth! That is the awesome thing about our Father, He is absolute and His Word is absolute and eternal! Heaven and earth will pass away, but the Truth that God’s signs will follow all who believe will still be around!

Signs and wonders can not help but follow us; we are one with Jesus and signs and wonders follow Jesus wherever He is! God will use us as members of His body to cast out devils! Our Father will empower us to speak with new tongues! Poisonous snakes and deadly drinks will not harm us, because they cannot harm Jesus! And in the authority of the Name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, we will be used by God to lay hands on the sick and they will recover, just as God used Jesus to heal the sick 2000 years ago, He will use all of us who are one with Jesus today to heal the sick! All who believe in Jesus as Lord shall have these signs following them, all of us who believe! These signs will not just follow preachers or evangelist; all of us will be used by God to have these miraculous signs following us! Because it is God within all of us doing the works of His righteousness and these signs follow God!

The Blood Of Jesus Purifies Us From All Sin

“But if we walk in the Light, as He is in the Light, we have fellowship one with another, and the Blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.” 1 John 1:7.

Now one last tidbit of Truth from God’s Word, to overcome any issues of doubt concerning our purity. 1 Peter 2:9 teaches us that we have been called out of darkness into God’s Light, and 1 John 1:7 teaches us that if we are in the Light of God than Jesus’ Blood cleanseth us from all sin. Just as human blood cleanses the body of infections and viruses, the perfect Blood of our Lord and Savior continually and eternally cleanses us from sin! So if you are saved and have the Spirit of God within you, you are pure even as our Savior is pure! We are pure because of Jesus and we have the Holy Spirit bearing witness with our spirit that we are now the sons of God. Jesus’ Spirit also cries out from within us that we are. We know the Truth and the Truth has set us free. We are what our Father has born us to be and that is to be as He is! That is the Truth of God and that is good preaching brother! They may want to kill us for saying it, but man for those who are empowered to find it, peace that passes all understanding and Light that drives out all darkness are to be found! The glorious Truth of our salvation is that it makes us just like our Father, just as Jesus is just like our Father.

We are blessed beyond expression through the power of God’s might that eternally abides within us!

Born Again People Are Just Righteous

"If ye know that He is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of Him." 1 John 2:29

Our Father told us that the way we would know who was born of Him, was by the righteous acts that He would do through them. God not only said righteous acts, but righteousness as Jesus’ righteousness! Now that is righteous, and we see in 1 John 3:3, that through the power of the Holy Spirit’s hope we are pure as our Father is pure.

And everyone who has this hope [resting] on Him cleanses (purifies) himself just as He is pure (chaste, undefiled, guiltless

Jesus gave all of His righteousness to us. We were created in His image and He is the firstborn among many brethren. But it’s so much more powerful than just being in Jesus’ image, we are actually one with Jesus. We live because the same power that lives within our Lord and Savior lives within us. So it shouldn’t be a stumbling block, this should be an area of our rejoicing, because we are one, one with Jesus, and one with each other, and since we are one, the world will believe!

“How much more shall the Blood of Christ, Who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the Living God? Hebrews 9:14

Remember what we have been studying about righteousness, it means to be guiltless? Well, so many don’t feel guiltless, so when we talk about now being God’s children and being pure as our Father is pure, they tend to have issues. Our Father knows who we are. He knows what we are. Jesus was tempted in every area of His life, just as we are, so Jesus was tempted to feel guilty. About what I don’t know, but the Bible teaches us that He was tempted as we are tempted, so He was! Now our Father did something about our feeling guilty, He sent Jesus, and God knew that the Blood of Jesus would purge our consciences from dead works. The Blood of Jesus will clean all of that guilt up. I have so many things I could feel guilty over, yet the Holy Spirit has empowered me not too. That’s not bragging on my ability to block feelings, that is being thankful for our Father's ability!

We have the Spirit of our Father within us. He is strengthening us to trust God’s Truth. He is allowing us to believe this and He is empowering us to live in it. The Spirit has given us the joy and peace of believing this, that we may abound in hope, and that hope has brought faith, faith Authored and Finished by Jesus!

The Importance Of Believing Your A Child Of God

"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 3:2-3

Let’s study why this hope of being a child of God is so important, “every man that has this hope in him purifieth himself, even as He is pure.” Wow, pure as God is pure, and all we have to do is have this hope. But wait, we have to hope, can we do it, do we have the power, this is big stuff, pure as God, can a mere mortal, weakened by the flesh hope for such a thing? Well, I honestly believe that God has never required us to do anything that He is not within us giving us the power to do, so let’s see what the Word says? “Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope; through the power of the Holy Spirit.” Romans 15:13

Praise God, if we want to be pure like God is pure, all we have to do is have the hope that we are now His children and that when Jesus comes back we will be like Him. No problem, because our Father, through His Holy Spirit, fills us with all joy and peace of believing so that we may abound in hope. And faith is the evidence of things hoped for, so we have the faith to live it, because God has empowered us with all of Himself to abound in hope, so that we may abound in faith. It’s all God. But look, we may have all joy and all peace in believing, that is so awesome, all peace in believing. When God says pure, as He is pure, we may have peace and joy in believing it. I have said this verse in so many churches and they have gotten so made at me. I have been asked to leave, I have been damned, I have been cursed and yelled at, but I have peace in this Truth, the Holy Spirit has given it to me. I know, because God is within me, that this is Truth. God has empowered me with His very Own Spirit and empowered me so I don’t struggle with it, I don’t hesitate at it, it’s just as sure within me as the Sun will rise! Heaven and Earth will pass away, but this Truth, will last forever. And this peace and joy is for every believer, no limitations with any of us!

We are now the children of God, and He has sealed us with His Spirit, and there is nothing that can penetrate that seal, nothing! We didn’t fool God to start with. We aren’t used by satan to fool God into accepting us, so that we can escape back to the world and then use it against Him. God knew us, and He chose us, and we have been born again, not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible!

The Power OF The Lord's Prayer

“After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy name.” Matthew 6:9

Here is the really powerful thing about our own lives, when Jesus taught us to pray, He said to begin the prayer with, “Our Father.” Thus Jesus is telling us to consider ourselves equal with God, and He said to do this because it is the Truth, God is now our Father. We can pray this because we are now one with Jesus. We can pray this with all of the confidence and boldness that Jesus prayed it! That is the measure of love that our Father has for us, that He allowed us to be born again of Him. He used the same power that He used to bring Jesus into a body, His Spirit, and He is allowed to do it for us because Jesus was sacrificed and His Blood was shed, and there was no fault found in Him! We are not born of the will of man; we are born of God! “But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His Name; Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” John 1:12-13

A child does not choose to be born; he is just born. It is the parents that willed it. Well, the same is true with us, we can seek God, but He is the One Who chooses for us to be born again. Many are called but few are chosen. Now our Father is not stingy, He would that all men be saved, but He knows the hearts of all men, and He sees what is Truth, and He chooses who will be born again. That is a powerful Truth, because so many believe that we are the ones who choose to be born again, which is why they believe that we can fall away and loose our salvation! But we are not born again by a man’s will, or by our own will, we are born by God’s Will. There is no fooling God; He has no illegitimate children, that is why Jesus said that we should pray in a way that tells the world we are equal with our Father, Who is God! We are a chosen generation and we are a royal priesthood. “But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of Him Who hath called you out of darkness into His marvelous Light:” 1 Peter 2:9

Today We Are God's Children

"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 3:2-3

Now we are the sons of God, do you know just how powerful this Truth is? Turn to John 5:18,

“Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill Him, because He not only had broken the Sabbath, but said also that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God."

When Jesus said that He was the Son of God, the Jews wanted to kill Him. I mean they really wanted to kill Him; they wanted to stone Him and throw Him over a cliff! Because when Jesus said that God was His Father, He was making Himself equal with God. That was a capital offense to the Jews, Jesus was breaking their supreme law, and He knew it, yet He still said it. Jesus had to; it was the Truth that would set the captives free! Jesus knew how they would react, yet He still said it. We see how our Father is here in John 5. There is no fear within Him, there is no political correctness, His love goes beyond that, most of what He has to say will offend, yet all that He has to say is love and is freedom. This is the Spirit that now abides within us.

“For God hath not given us a spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.” 2 Timothy 1:7

God has made us His children and He is our Father and the glorious Truth is that now makes us one with Him. Exactly like Jesus is One with Him.

We Can't Boast

“So that no mortal man should have [pretense for glorying and] boast in the presence of God. But it is from Him that you have your life in Christ Jesus. Whom God made our Wisdom from God, [revealed to us a knowledge of the Divine plan of salvation previously hidden, manifesting itself as] our Righteousness [this making us upright and putting us in right standing with God], and our Consecration [making us pure and holy], and our Redemption [providing our ransom from eternal penalty for sin.] 1 Corinthians 1:29-30 Amplified Bible

When Jesus walked down the street people were healed by just touching His garments, and as they did touch Him, He said that He perceived that virtue had gone from Him. Jesus had not yet gone to the Cross, the only thing that Jesus had done, was to be born and filled with the Holy Spirit. Jesus had done no work to earn righteousness, the Old Covenant was still fully in place, so there was no work that could be done, man's righteousness was as filthy rags! The only thing Jesus did was to be born of God, born of a woman and of the Holy Spirit, just as we have been born again! We cannot glory before our Father, as Jesus couldn’t glory before Him. That is why Jesus said that He wasn’t good, that only God was. This is why Jesus said He didn’t do the works, but that it was the Father within Him doing the works!

When the Spirit leads you to study the Word of God, Jesus will reveal to you the power of our Father's Truth. Life changing is an understatement of what will happen to you, talk about entering God’s rest! The burden of works will go and True living will begin! Jesus said to be the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven, we have to be the biggest servants; this is the only way that we will ever be able to serve! We need to stop trying to be righteous on our own, through works, and just rest in the peace that our Father will bring to fullness His righteousness within us. How do we do it, we are empowered by the Holy Spirit to allow Jesus to lead us into the paths of righteousness for His Name sake. Then the righteous works of God will come and we will be used by our Father to do the works that Jesus did and even greater ones, because He has gone unto the Father!

Be blessed, if you have been empowered by the Holy Spirit to say yes to Jesus, righteousness has been born into you. It may not be mature, but God is pouring His Spirit out on all men, and the glorious Church without spot, wrinkle, or blemish is coming into its fullness! "No weapon that is formed against us shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of Me, saith the Lord." Isaiah 54:17 "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: He leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake." Psalm 23:1-3

Righteousness: Part V

“For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.” Romans 10:3-4

So many are preaching that we should walk righteously, as if by our own human power we have the ability too. The righteousness that is trying to be established by so many is this, we will sin, yet we will be righteous as long as we repent and ask God for forgiveness. What is the difference between that work or going out and offering up a goat or cow as a sin offering? There is no difference, none whatsoever.

Our Father doesn’t say that we will know who is born of Him by the way they repent. He says that we will know them by the way they are empowered by Him to walk righteously, as Jesus was empowered by God to walk righteously. Jesus didn’t earn His righteousness, He was born with it, He was born of God, and He was and is God! Jesus can’t help but be righteous, He is One with it, it’s in Him, and now who are we one with? People are trying to go out and earn righteousness, they are ignorant of the Truth of God and they will fail each and every time. You want to be righteous, it only comes from Jesus, and you have to be empowered by the Holy Spirit to look unto to Jesus to Author and Finish the faith within you that will allow you to see who God has made you! Then you will walk righteously as Jesus, in an unshakeable knowledge of who you are in God! Faith comes from hearing the Truth of God, and the Truth of God absolutely and eternally sets us free!

Righteousness: Part IV

“But to him that worketh not, but believeth on Him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works. Saying, blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.” Romans 4:5-8

King David, and all who were under the Old Covenant, had to perform works and try to earn righteousness. They had to because the Blood of Jesus had not yet been shed for them. They longed for what we have, King David, an extremely blessed man of God, said that we were blessed because of this freedom through Christ. Our Father allowed David to see who we would be in Christ, as He did for the other Prophets of old, and they longed for what we have, and they were willing to be persecuted just for talking about it. “That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.” Romans 8:4 The thing they could never achieve, righteousness fulfilled, has been fulfilled within the least of us by the power of the Holy Spirit.

“Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.” Romans 6:18 This Truth does not get preached nearly enough, we are free form sin, we should consider ourselves dead to it, Romans 6:11, Christ has broken the relationship that we had with it. Our bodies which could sin have been destroyed by the power of Christ that has been freely given us, Romans 6:6. We are now members of Righteousness body, flesh of His flesh and bone of His bones. We are now the Temples of Righteousness. Righteousness is now our Head, we have the Spirit of Righteousness, the Mind of Righteousness, and as Righteousness walked so to do we walk. The requirements of righteousness have been fully met within us through Christ, freely and without any works!

This is grace my brothers and sisters!

Righteousness Part III

“Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference. For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.” Romans 3:22-23

We are freely justified by our Father's Grace through Jesus our Lord. Sure we all have fallen short of His glory, which is why Jesus prayed in John 17 that we would have His glory, ours isn’t enough, it never has been enough and it never will be. We need to move on past the principle of Christ that says we have forgiveness of sins, so many of us dwell there. We need to move on to perfection, walking in the victory and love of the righteousness that has been freely bestowed on us who have been empowered by the Holy Ghost to believe! Freely, without any works, we have been made righteous, virtuous, morally upright, free from guilt and sin, approved and accepted by God, and through Jesus we are faultless. Jesus has saved us to the uttermost and we are now one with the One Who is sanctified and Who sanctifies, and He is not ashamed to call us His brethren. The power solely lies on our Lord and Savior and He ever lives to intercede for us so that we are absolutely and completely saved to the uttermost. Jesus is greater in us than anything or anyone in this world!

Righteousness: Part II

“Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.” Philippians 1:11

Our righteousness only comes from Jesus and His righteousness brings praise and glory unto our Father. Man has no ability to be faultless; yet for those of us who have been empowered by the Holy Spirit to accept Jesus as Lord, His Blood makes us faultless, Hebrews 13:2. Man has no ability on his own to be sinless, yet for those of us who have been chosen and born again, who have God’s Seed within us, and because of our Fathers power, we cannot sin, 1 John 3:9. Man apart from God cannot be upright and virtuous, but God has given us a new heart and has placed His Spirit within us, and He causes us to walk virtuously and uprightly in the power of His might, Ezekiel 36:26-30. Righteousness and all that it means can only be had by Jesus freely given it to us, we can’t will righteousness into our lives, we can’t even come close to accomplishing righteousness; our righteousness is as filthy rags.

Thank God that we are no longer required to operate in our own righteousness, we are filled with the complete and full power of our Saviors righteousness and since we are, it brings praise and glory unto our Father. If we were righteous on our own, if we conformed to God’s will through our own efforts, it would bring praise and glory to us, because we did it. But since we can’t do it, yet righteousness is still the measure of if someone is saved, it brings glory to our Father. Every bit as much as the Israelites had no ability to part the Red Sea and escape the Egyptian Army, yet it happened and they did escape, so it is with us regarding righteousness! We have escaped the death of sin, by the act of righteousness bestowed on us by God! Through Jesus the righteousness requirements of life have been fully met within us. Our Father just now gave me that example of the Red Sea and that is good preaching, thank you Lord!

“So that the righteous and just requirement of the Law might be fully met within us who live and move not in the ways of the flesh but in the ways of the Spirit [our lives governed not by the standards and according to the dictates of the flesh, but controlled by the Holy Spirit.] Romans 8:4 Amplified Bible

Born Again People Are Righteous As God Is Righteous

"If ye know that He is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of Him." 1 John 2:29

“If you know (perceive and are sure) that He [Christ] is [absolutely] righteous [conforming to the Father’s will and purpose, thought, and action], you may also know (be sure) that everyone who does righteously [and is therefore in like manner conformed to the Divine will is born (begotten) of Him [God].” 1 John 2:29 Amplified Bible

As we begin this study on righteousness, let’s first look at what righteousness actually means. According to the Dictionary and Strong’s Concordance righteousness means to be morally upright, virtuous, without guilt or sin, innocent, faultless, approved and accepted by God, one whose thinking, feeling, and acting is conformed to the will of God, and integrity. So we can take these meanings and replace them for righteousness and be saying the exact same thing.

With that in mind, we can accurately say for us to know that someone is born again of God they must be morally upright, virtues, guiltless, sinless, innocent, faultless, accepted by God, and one whose thoughts, actions, and feelings are conformed to God’s will, and all of these things must be in a like manner to Christ’s righteousness! Our Father had John write it, so it’s Truth! Now I don’t know about you, but I don’t believe that most Christians have this mind within them. But as we have done so many times before with these posts, we are going to look at our Father's Word and we are going to see what the Truth is, and faith will come to us by hearing and studying the Truth of God’s Word. Because the Word will give us hope that extends past our own abilities and it will transcend us into the reality of God’s abilities.

We Will Know Each Other And Ourselves By Our Fruit

“Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?” Matthew 7:16

The Bible teaches us that we will know each other by the fruit being produced in our lives. And the Truth of the saved is: Jesus is now our Vine that is producing our fruit.

“I am the Vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in Me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without Me ye can do nothing.” John 15:5

We need to settle it right now, we should all expect to be used fully by our Father to bear much righteous fruit that proves that we are in the Vine! According to Jesus, if we are saved we will be used by our Father to produce much fruit! Through the power of Christ that is at work within us, every one of us should be producing much godly fruit: love, peace, joy, gentleness, faith, longsuffering, and goodness, and producing much of it! God had it written that it would prove that we are part of the Vine of Jesus Christ!

I don’t want to sound condemning here, but Jesus said that through Him, we will bring forth much fruit and Jesus said that we would be known by our fruit! I think for most of us we believe that it is unrealistic to think this way. But we should expect that all of us are fully used by our Father to produce much fruit. Jesus said that if we are one of His branches then we will bear much fruit. That’s awesome, we should shout for joy, we have the Holy Spirit within us strengthening us in this hope and since we do, faith will come, and we will be used by God to bear much fruit. Think of how much the world needs it? Look at the Middle East, you think they need some gentleness, goodness, love, and peace? Take a gander at Washington DC, you think that group may need some of what God has to offer? If two of us agree as touching any Truth of God and it will come to pass. Together in the full power of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ we can agree that these verses of Truth are fulfilled within our lives. Through the full power of the Holy Spirit we can actually hope to be fully matured by our Father to the fullest stature of Jesus Christ. And through faith Authored and Finished by Jesus we will move on to perfection, and we absolutely will, our Father has proclaimed it!

We need to preach that we will absolutely be used to produce much fruit, because it’s Truth, and the Truth will set us free! I know people who never produce any fruit, and they have been so called saved for years, and no one loves them enough to tell them the Truth. The consequence is a life filled with failure and ask yourself this, wouldn’t Jesus tell them how wonderfully they can be used? I mean Peter said that he didn’t want Jesus to be crucified and Jesus called him satan! We all need to look in the mirror and desire for God to be Who He is within us.

Ask our Father, are you being used by Him to produce much fruit? He will tell you. The great thing about much, is it’s relative. A new branch may not be bearing as much fruit as a mature branch, but in reality, compared to its size, it’s producing more than the older one, or much. Our Father knows where you are and He knows what much is for you and what is great for you. It is our Father producing the fruit for us anyway, so He defines much for each of us. And if you are truly saved, it just happens, a branch doesn’t have to take thought for producing fruit, the Vine and the Gardener determine that! And the Gardener and the Vine have determined for us to have much!

“But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught by God to love one another.” 1 Thessalonians 4:9

Through Christ We Are Perfect For Every Good Work

"Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of everlasting covenant, Make you perfect in every good work to do His will, working in you that which is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ; to Whom be glory for ever and ever. A-men." Hebrews 13:20-21

"And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is He that calleth you, Who also will do it." 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24

When you see verses like these two, you can see that it’s not at all impossible to live as one who is saved to the uttermost, sanctified wholly, perfect in every good work, and well pleasing to God. It’s not even hard to have the faith that we can never stumble and live in perfection. Look at what God says, it’s not us doing it; it’s Him doing it within us. The Blood of Jesus makes us perfect in every good work, and God is faithful to preserve us blameless, He will do it! I don’t think any believer stumbles at believing God can do anything, we stumble when we think that we have to do it, but praise God it’s not up to us, it’s up to Him, and He is faithful to do what He has said.

The Power Of God's Perfect Love

"And hereby we do know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. He that saith, I know Him, and keepeth not His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoso keepeth His word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in Him. He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also so to walk, even as He walked." 1 John 2:3-6

Praise God for the power of the verses that we have studied over the last several postings. We have seen that the love of our Father is now perfected within us, that there is no occasion for us to stumble, and that we are actually able to walk as Jesus walked. These Truth's are what our Father has to say about those who are empowered to accept the sacrifice of Jesus and who are baptized with the Holy Spirit. Do you see that salvation is not us just getting by, barely making it into Heaven? Our Father talks about us abiding in His Holiest. God says that as He is, so are we in this world, and our Father says that through the Blood of Christ we are saved to the uttermost! Our Father tells us to consider ourselves dead to sin, in the same way that Jesus is dead to sin. Jesus tells us that we will be used by God to do greater works than He did, and Jesus tells us that the Holy Ghost will teach us all things, and knowing perfect love is part of all things.

Salvation is bringing us into line with what God created: man in His image. But salvation goes so far beyond just being in our Fathers image, it goes into us being one with Him, no separation, as the branch lives only because the vine is ever connected to it, so do we live, because we are always connected to Jesus. Jesus is the One Who is alive within us, so of course we would have and share in His personality, His character, His abilities, His everything, we are now one, and the only reason we live is because He lives. We are flesh of His flesh and bone of His bones! We now are one with the very Spirit of God. We are one with Who God is, what He feels, what He wants, and what He desires. Jesus has sent all that our Father is to become one with us and to dwell within us, the same Spirit that strengthens and makes God Who He is, now dwells within us and strengthens us to be as He is!

Think about it, do you hear that the Church actually has the power to never stumble or fall? Have you ever heard that God’s love can actually be perfected within us, or that we are saved to the uttermost? I have heard that we should strive for these things, but it was preached and implied that we must use our own efforts to get there, and if we did everything just right than it would come. It was never preached to me that we couldn’t help but be there, because we are now one with God, and He is always there. Actually if someone would have stood up and said that they were there, no one would have believed them. This is not pie in the sky thinking, it is reality, it’s who we are in Christ, and it’s Who He is within us.

In Christ We Can't Help But Love

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith.” Galatians 5:22

“And to know the love of Christ, which passes knowledge, that ye might be filled with the fullness of God.” Ephesians 3:19

Jesus has sent the Holy Spirit of our Father to dwell within us, and because He does, we now have God’s love; we are now one with God’s perfect and complete love. We actually have living within us the very love of God, the love that came to die on the Cross, the love that lives for the very purpose of interceding for all believers. This is the love that has been born into us. We are commanded to love our brothers in the Lord if we are saved, that requirement is an easy yoke to be born, it’s pleasant, and we can’t help but accomplish it, because we are now one with Love! If we don’t love our brothers and sisters in the Lord, we are in darkness, and we don’t have salvation, that is what 1 John 2:9 has to say about it. But through Christ we do have the Holy Spirit and the fruit of that relationship is love, and since we know that love, we are filled with the fullness of our Father, and through Christ we have uttermost salvation! For the saved we can’t help but love, we are born of it and it now abides within us, we are one with the fullness of our God's love!

Love Others And Never Stumble

"He that loveth his brother abideth in the Light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him." 1 John 2:10

“Whoever loves His brother [believer] abides (lives) in the Light, and in it or in him there is no occasion for stumbling or cause for error or sin.” 1 John 2:10 Amplified Bible

If we love one another, there is no occasion for us to stumble and there is no occasion to sin within us, none! God said, and His Word is everlasting, if we love our brothers in the Lord, there is absolutely and positively no occasion that we can sin. Now that is some powerful stuff, but here is what even makes it even more powerful. “And I have declared unto them Thy Name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith Thou hast loved Me may be in them, and I in them.” John 17:26 Jesus is declaring God’s Name to us, He ever lives to do it, so the love that God had for Jesus, the Head of the Body of whom we are part of, is now eternally within us. If we are truly saved, than we can’t help but love our brothers, because we have the same love for them that God has! Man that is so awesome, the love that has been born into us is the same love of God, now that just isn’t love, that’s perfect love. And since we now have God’s love within us, there is no occasion for us to stumble or to sin! Just allow the power and the wisdom of the Holy Spirit to teach you the full victory of this Truth! I know that it is easy to struggle with the power of these verses. I mean how in the world could we ever love as God loves. But we can love as God loves because the power of the sacrifice of our Lord and Savior has allowed our Father to do it through us. If we walk by sight with this, we will stumble and fall into the ditch. But if we allow Jesus to Author and Finish our faith, we will see clearly that God is willing and able to that which He has spoken. We will humbly accept the power of Jesus and acknowledge that it is the Father within us; He does the works! And the Truth will set us free and we will love as God loves and there will never be an occasion for us to stumble or fall!

The Full Power Of Jesus Within Us

"And hereby we do know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. He that saith, I know Him, and keepeth not His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoso keepeth His word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in Him. He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also so to walk, even as He walked." 1 John 2:3-6

Our Father proclaims that we are to walk as Jesus walked. “I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me, and the life I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, Who loved me, and gave Himself for me.” Galatians 2:20 “For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.” Colossians 3:3 “Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Romans 6:11 “For we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones.” Ephesians 5:30

If these verses are really true, how can’t we walk like Jesus? There is a freedom here in our Father's Truth that is not being enjoyed by the Church. God has provided a rest for us from our own works and we need to talk about it, faith will come that will set the captives free! The yoke of walking as Jesus walked is easy, because our faith is Authored and Finished by Jesus. It is the king of Kings Who is alive within us and He causes us to walk as He walks!

Our Father has really been showing me that we preach against the symptoms and not the problem. We look at someone who may be struggling with sin and we preach against that particular sin. When in reality the problem is that the person does not have God in their life to keep them from the uncleanness. The symptom may be cured, but if the problem isn’t fixed and the union with God accepted, another sin will arise. “When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out. And when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.” Luke 11:24-26

So many of us believe that we will always struggle with human weakness until Jesus returns, but from the Truth’s of God that we have studied, we can see that this kind of thinking is false. Our Father said that He would keep us; and man, if God keeps us, we are kept! Through Christ, Who we are now one with, we have God’s perfect love, we have access to the holiest, we have sanctification, glory, power, and eternal faith, hope, and love! Through Jesus, our Father has saved us to the uttermost. Jesus now ever lives to intercede for us. We now have the mind of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We are now the Temples of God. Jesus is now our Shepherd and God is now our Dad. We are as He is, because we are born of His seed, so are we in this world! Salvation is more than what is being preached and in Jesus’ Name that is done away with today! Father I ask You that You allow laborers to boldly proclaim Your Truth everywhere, and anyone who is preaching anything but the Truth, let them be cursed! “As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.” Galatians 1:9

Jesus is Lord and all who are empowered by the Holy Spirit to call on the Name of The Lord, shall be saved!

God's True Desire For Us

“But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name. Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” John 1:12-13

“Even the Spirit of Truth; whom the world cannot receive, because is seeth Him not, neither knoweth Him, but ye know Him, for He dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.” John 14:17 We are born of God. We are born from our Father's free will, now stop and take hold of that Truth. You are saved because God willed for you to be saved! Your not just kind of accepted, the Great I am willed it, that is some truly powerful stuff, condemnation gets blown away when we realize that we are saved because God willed it.

We have a new heart within us today that is directly from God. We now have our Fathers very Spirit abiding within us. We are completely one with God. Our Fathers Spirit is strengthening us, encouraging us, teaching us, and guiding us. Our Father is saving us from all of our uncleanness and God is causing us to keep His Word. So, the love of our Father is perfected within us, and since His love is perfected within us, we know that He is in us!

This is God’s will and desire for all to have. Nowhere do we ever read that God only wants this for just a select few. Our Father would that all men be saved and now is the day of our salvation! Faith comes form hearing and hearing comes from the Word of God, and hope is the precursor of faith, and our faith is Authored and Finished by Jesus Himself! None of this is hard for our Father and He is perfectly equipped to perfectly fulfill it within our lives! God’s yoke is easy and His burden is light.

"For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light." Matthew 11:30

It really doesn’t get any easier than this does it? You want God perfected in you, keep His Word, and O, by the way, God will do it for you! Bam! Take that devil, we have God, the One Who sent a couple of angels over to throw you out of Heaven and the One Who took the keys of death and hell right from you! Yeh, God is the One within us, God is keeping us! It’s His will! Even if we are weak, that’s all right, because when we are weak, He is strong, and His strength is perfected in our weakness. “Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.” 2 Corinthians 13:10 Evil, throw the best you have at us, we rejoice even at the worst, and as you do it devil, we grow even stronger! Through Christ we win in everything, we are victorious in all things, because we are sealed with the very Spirit of God, and Jesus will never leave us or forsake us, and this is how we are forevermore!

God Empowers Us To Keep All Of His Word

"And hereby we do know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. He that saith, I know Him, and keepeth not His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoso keepeth His word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in Him. He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also so to walk, even as He walked." 1 John 2:3-6

Do you know how it is that we know that we are in God? Well, according to the Word, we will know that we are in God, when His love is perfected within us. Wow, how many will dare to say that God’s love is perfected within them? And do you know how we know that God’s love is perfected within us? When we keep His Word. Double wow! How many will even dare to think that they have been empowered to fully and completely keep our Father's Word? But let’s go on, and if we say that we abide in Jesus, than we should be walking as Jesus walked. Triple wow, walk as Jesus? These are not typical Sunday morning sermons are they? But, as we have discussed so many times before, wherever we read that we are required to do something in the Bible, we can find where our Father has said that He is the One doing it through us. So let’s see what we find concerning these requirements.

We are to keep God’s Word. “A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. And I will put My Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes, and ye shall keep My judgments, and do them. And ye shall dwell in the land I gave your fathers; and ye shall be My people, and I will be your God. I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you. And I will multiply the fruit of your tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen." Ezekiel 36:26-30

Well that is an awesome enough Truth to start with. God is the One Who is keeping us from all uncleanness; God has saved us from ourselves! I don’t know about you, but that is cause for a great big A-men! Our Father is the One Who is causing us to keep His commandments and He is causing us to keep His Word. Our Father has given us a heart that desires to do this, and a heart and spirit that allow us to do it by God doing it for us. Now, after reading these verses, ask yourself this, does our Father struggle with doing anything? So if it is God within us that is saving us from our uncleanness and it is God within us Who is causing us to live right, where is the struggle? There is none, because we are now more than conquerors through Christ Who loves us. And our Father can now do all things through us by the power of Christ that strengthens us! Christ has strengthened us with Himself so that we can now be the Temples of God and if we abide in Him and His Word abides within us, we can ask what we will and it shall be done, and herein is our Father glorified that we bare much fruit, and so are we His disciples!