The Loaves and Fishes
Letter 2
Rohnel, a bondservant of God, the Father, and Christ, His Son, to His little children. Grace and Peace be unto you.
2Co 9:6 But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
2Co 9:7 Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
Pro 22:9 He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.
Introduction
This is the second of eight Letters to the Church of God, now updated again and retitled as the Lord has given greater increase and mercifully corrected an error He caused. Fulfilling the Scriptures means that all things are ours, including times of deception and error. Christ, the one the Lord sends in every generation, bears the iniquities of us all and is numbered with the transgressors.
Isa 53:11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
Isa 53:12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
Know that all eight Letters are spiritually discerned; the flesh profits nothing [John 6:63]. Read all of the letters to get the Sum of the Word regarding God’s Truth. God’s Truth are His thoughts towards His creation … For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
Jer 29:10 For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.
Jer 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Jer 29:12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
Jer 29:13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
Hag 2:6 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;
Hag 2:7 And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts.
Hag 2:8 The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts.
Hag 2:9 The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the LORD of hosts.
Sections in this Letter include: Introduction, Suppressing the Truth in Unrighteousness, Eutychus, An unconverted Simon Peter, Lazarus, Unbelief, Dorcas, Christ raises a Maiden, Closing.
Through our unbelief and the suppressing the truth in unrighteousness, the two spiritual sins we commit in our Day of the Lord, we fall asleep in Christ. It is spiritual night. Christ is gone away for a little while to prepare a place for us. We are not converted, remain babes in Christ, tarrying in spiritual Jerusalem, Sodom and Egypt, waiting for the Comforter. We deny the Lord three times before the true Light of Christ shines in our hearts. There are two spiritual sins we commit. Unbelief [there is no resurrection because it is already past], and believing the lie [the resurrection is always out there, lo look here, lo look there and lo do not look within]. The lies are saying Christ is come in the flesh when He has not, and likewise saying Christ is not come in the flesh when He has come.
This spiritual food is the loaves and fishes of the Pharisees and Sadducees, which is hypocrisy. These are spiritual words; take heed how you hear and try the spirits … In the meantime, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, Christ [He] began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. And speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
Jas 3:17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Joh 13:33 Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you.
Psa 36:9 For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.
Psa 36:10 O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart.
I say to you is a new commandment Christ gives us after telling His disciples that He goes away, and the new commandment is to love one another as He loved us, His disciples. This love is the greater works, and it means Christ comes to us, raises us from the dead, out of our sins by giving us the Spirit of Life. This is the greater works and true love of God, which we also now perform after being converted, looking out for one another, raising the spiritual twelve tribes of Israel within and within others [Isa 49:6]. Christ coming back to us is performing the good work toward us in our latter end, so we may, in turn, perform a good work toward others, lending without expecting anything in return. Performing the good work to others in turn is to have the Spirit of Prophecy and to keep the Lord’s Commandments. This is how we love. The Spirit of Prophecy is our gift of faith and the testimony of Christ being formed within us. We are not able to love without the gift of faith given to us. Through love, we are set free from our sins within and without. It is the only way.
Rev 19:10 And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
Joh 13:34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
Joh 13:35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
Joh 13:36 Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered him, Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards.
Joh 13:37 Peter said unto him, Lord, why cannot I follow thee now? I will lay down my life for thy sake.
Joh 13:38 Jesus answered him, Wilt thou lay down thy life for my sake? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, The cock shall not crow, till thou hast denied me thrice.
Php 2:4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
Php 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
Php 2:6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
Php 2:7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
Suppressing the Truth in Unrighteousness
We suppress the truth in unrighteousness when we believe the lies of our carnal minds. Suppressing the truth in unrighteousness, we say peace when there is no peace. It is the false prophet within us. It is saying there is no resurrection because the resurrection is already past. We say Christ is come [believing the lie] when Christ is not yet come [not of truth]. We still compare physical with spiritual and are unable to discern the Word rightfully. We suffer many things before we are spiritually able to see and hear.
Luk 17:22 And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it.
Luk 17:23 And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not after them, nor follow them.
Luk 17:24 For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.
Luk 17:25 But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.
Luk 17:26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
Luk 17:27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
Luk 17:28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
Luk 17:29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
Luk 17:30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
Luk 17:31 In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.
Luk 17:32 Remember Lot’s wife.
Luk 17:33 Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.
What are the lies? One of the lies we believe is that we do not need to obey Christ’s Commandments to be saved from our sins because Christ died for us. The Commandments Christ gave us, the Glory of His Name, are the wife of our Covenant, and the husband of our youth [belief]. Not believing that it is necessary to keep Christ’s Commandments on the one hand or believing we should keep the Commandments of Christ on the other hand, not getting it right, is the blemished sacrifice we offer unto the Lord. We deal treacherously with the wife of our youth.
Mat 5:19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Mal 2:13 And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth it with good will at your hand.
Mal 2:14 Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
Mal 2:15 And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
Mal 2:16 For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.
Mal 1:7 Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD is contemptible.
Mal 1:8 And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? And if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts.
Saying the Lord is come when He has not, is believing a lie. Leaving our first love, the first works that we did when we received the former rain, is what the Church of Ephesus within us does, and unless we repent and do the first works, we are perished, and our candlestick is taken away. Christ is His Commandments because His words are Spirit and Life [John 6:63].
Rev 2:1 Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks;
Rev 2:2 I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:
Rev 2:3 And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name’s sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.
Rev 2:4 Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.
Rev 2:5 Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.
Forgetting what we have heard from the beginning, not taking heed how we hear, we slide back and preach another Gospel in spirit. Do not let what you have heard from the beginning slip. Not watching our garments, we lose our reward in Christ. We are spiritual merchants actively trading in the great city, Babylon. We are merchants making a lie. The Lord makes us to err, but in due time, He brings us down … Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? Her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn. Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth? The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.
Heb 2:1 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
Heb 2:2 For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;
Heb 2:3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;
Heb 2:4 God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?
Mar 4:24 And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given.
Mar 4:25 For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he hath.
2Co 11:4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.
Gal 1:6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
Gal 1:7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
Gal 1:8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
Gal 1:9 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.
Gal 1:10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
The enemy is within. It is the tares growing along with the wheat. Being tempted by Satan because of our own lust, we fall from our own steadfastness, preaching another gospel. It is the many temptations we go through in the wilderness to be proved and found worthy to stand before the Lord. If we do not overcome the temptations in the wilderness, it leads to spiritual death. As we mature, we count it joy to be tempted as we overcome the lies of the harlot, going from glory to glory.
Jas 1:12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
Jas 1:13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
Jas 1:14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
Jas 1:15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
Jas 1:2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
Jas 1:3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
Jas 1:4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
Our journey to the Promised Land is long, and we are encouraged not to grow weary. The Lord, however, is faithful and does not allow us to be taken by the snare of the devil but makes a way of escape. Believing lies is idolatry, which is covetousness. We live every word of God because of each other.
Gal 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Gal 6:8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
1Co 10:12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
1Co 10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
1Co 10:14 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.
1Ti 4:16 Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.
Col 3:5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Col 3:6 For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:
Col 3:7 In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.
To better understand what we do in spirit, let us now look and see what we do when we rise up to play and make a carved image for ourselves, that is to say, to make a lie. Carved images are made with cankered silver and gold. We cast off our first faith, turning aside to Satan. We are young widows, waxing wanton, and we have to be proved, going through the Lake of Fire.
Exo 32:5 And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the LORD.
Exo 32:6 And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
Exo 32:7 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves:
Exo 32:8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
1Co 10:1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
1Co 10:2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
1Co 10:3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
1Co 10:4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.
1Co 10:5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
1Co 10:6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
1Co 10:7 Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
1Ti 5:11 But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;
1Ti 5:12 Having damnation, because they have cast off their first faith.
1Ti 5:13 And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
1Ti 5:14 I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
1Ti 5:15 For some are already turned aside after Satan.
Making a carved image, we eat strangled meat, of which the Lord commands us not to eat, and it typifies the thorns that come up in our land, choking that which we have heard from the beginning. John tells us to stay with that which we have heard in the beginning. The Son is Christ, and Christ is His words of Spirit and Life.
Act 15:28 For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things;
Act 15:29 That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
Jn 2:21 I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
1Jn 2:22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.
1Jn 2:23 Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.
1Jn 2:24 Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.
Not understanding what it means to compare spiritual with spiritual, we are snared and fall backwards when we believe a lie. We are snared because of stammering lips, our inability to understand the deep sayings of the Lord without the Spirit of Truth. Speaking to us in parables at first is part of going through the Lake of fire, in the Day of the Lord, to teach us spiritual things. It is the Lord’s doing … O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? Testify against me. The Lord, the potter, has marred us on purpose to remake a new vessel.
Isa 28:9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
Isa 28:10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
Isa 28:11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
Isa 28:12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
Isa 28:13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
Mat 13:34 All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them:
Mat 13:35 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.
Believing a lie is the seed that falls by the wayside. This is an inheritance gained quickly. We believe many lies within, and this spirit is also portrayed in the physical churches of the world, even in the natural world, in the physical churches of the world, because it is always the natural before the spiritual.
Mar 4:2 And he taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine,
Mar 4:3 Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow:
Mar 4:4 And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up. [Your carnal mind]
Pro 20:21 An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
Being tempted by the devil, we began well in the Spirit, believing to keep Christ’s Commandments, and end up in the flesh, not believing or unable to keep His Law without the Power of the Holy Spirit. Trouble starts when we are weary.
Psa 69:1 Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
Psa 69:2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
Psa 69:3 I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Gal 3:3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?
Gal 3:4 Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.
Gal 3:5 He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
Receiving Christ’s Commandments and believing is accounted to us for righteousness. This is how we receive the Lord at first, and believing like this was accounted to us as being faithful, but we do not continue, and the Lord charges His angels with folly.
Gal 3:6 Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.
Gal 3:7 Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
Gal 3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
Gal 3:11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
Gal 3:12 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
Gal 3:13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
Gal 3:14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
Slipping through the deceitfulness of sin, not understanding, the Lord gives us over to the stumbling block of our inequity, our inability to obey without the power. The Lord causes us to err and, for a season, has us believe we do not need to keep the commandments anymore. These are strong words from the Lord. I, Rohnel, have lived it for you in a moment, but God is faithful and did not tempt me above what I am able to bear. I lived these words for you, so you do not have to live them. Bearing your sins in my body, it is a fearful thing to fall in the hands of the living God.
Eze 14:1 Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat before me.
Eze 14:2 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Eze 14:3 Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them?
Eze 14:4 Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the LORD will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols;
Eze 14:5 That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.
Eze 14:6 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.
Eze 14:7 For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from me, and setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to a prophet to enquire of him concerning me; I the LORD will answer him by myself:
Eze 14:8 And I will set my face against that man, and will make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Heb 10:31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Believing the lie we want to believe ties us to Mystery Babylon, that great harlot within, that steals the Lord’s glory. She eats and says she is doing nothing wrong. This is the false prophet within and shadows the law of sin in our members. Christ warns us not to hearken unto her.
Rev 17:5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
Deu 13:3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Living out the church of Thyatira within, we fabricate lies and idols of the heart to say the Lord has spoken when the Lord did not speak … And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity. Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD … Silly women we are within, lovers of pleasures, hearing not doing.
2Ti 3:1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2Ti 3:2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
2Ti 3:3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
2Ti 3:4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
2Ti 3:5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
2Ti 3:6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
2Ti 3:7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Having unjust scales, coveting what is not ours, removing the landmarks, being thieves and robbers in spirit, we rob God of His Glory sitting in an idol’s Temple. Once we see past the lie, we give glory to His Name. His Name is His Commandments. Defiling the Temple of God, the Lord destroys the lie within … Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain. Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours
Job 24:1 NKJV “Since times are not hidden from the Almighty, Why do those who know Him see not His days?
Job 24:2 “Some remove landmarks; They seize flocks violently and feed on them;
Job 24:3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless; They take the widow’s ox as a pledge.
Job 24:4 They push the needy off the road; All the poor of the land are forced to hide.Psa 29:2 Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.
The voice of the Lord, the armies in heaven, is what sets us free from the lie. We are being birthed as sons of God as we come out of the lie.
Psa 29:3 The voice of the LORD is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the LORD is upon many waters.
Psa 29:4 The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty.
Psa 29:5 The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars; yea, the LORD breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.
Psa 29:6 He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.
Psa 29:7 The voice of the LORD divideth the flames of fire.
Psa 29:8 The voice of the LORD shaketh the wilderness; the LORD shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh.
Psa 29:9 The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of his glory.
Psa 29:10 The LORD sitteth upon the flood; yea, the LORD sitteth King for ever.
Psa 29:11 The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace.
Believing the lies of the harlot within is the spirit of lasciviousness and idleness, satisfied with things as they are, not dividing the Word of Truth; saying “soul take your rest; you have done well for yourself”. This is the careless city within … This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.
1Pe 2:11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
1Pe 2:12 Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
Luk 12:16 And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:
Luk 12:17 And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?
Luk 12:18 And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.
Luk 12:19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
Luk 12:20 But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
Luk 12:21 So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
This is the Church of Sardis, which does not have perfect works before the Lord. Here, we have a form of godliness without the Power of God. A Few names in Sardis that do not defile their garments typify the anointing that we received at the beginning that stays in us. We have a little life. We know the Law of God, His Commandments.
Rev 3:1 And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.
Rev 3:2 Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.
Rev 3:3 Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
Rev 3:4 Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.
Rev 3:5 He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
Faith without works being dead is the moral of the story. Only having the Spirit of Truth, which is the Spirit of Prophecy, without the gift of faith that is the Promise does not save us. We have to have faith plus works, or we remain dead and sleep in Christ.
Jas 2:26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
Speaking and doing the Commandments of Christ is how we wash each other’s feet, showing mercy. Christ coming with His ancient ones to give us the gift of faith is our bath to make us clean. Discern with spiritual eyes. Obeying Christ is love in the spiritual and in the natural.
1Jn 2:3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
1Jn 2:4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
It is a grievous error to leave the commandments and believe they no longer matter under faith. What we heard from the beginning, before we mercifully see the greater works, is essential to show good works and love the Lord.
1Jn 3:18 My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
1Jn 2:7 Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.
Jhn 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
God is faithful, and we overcome the lie that we do not need to know or keep the commandments. Being converted, we are now the little children in Spirit; our young men within overcome the lies of the harlot, and our fathers have known the Father; we understand as in the beginning. Denying the commandments of Christ is denying Christ and is the spirit of anti-Christ. Take heed how you hear.
1Jn 2:12 I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake.
1Jn 2:13 I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father.
1Jn 2:14 I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.
1Ki 8:56 Blessed be the LORD, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.
1Ki 8:57 The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us:
Eutychus
Paul raised Eutychus from the spiritually dead. His life being still in Him is the anointing that stays in us when we receive the first rain, which is the sealing of the Spirit of Promise, the earnest of our deposit. It is the Law of Christ, the Law of Liberty. The lights in the upper chamber typify the Law of Liberty, which is Christ, which is a path unto our feet. Read Psalm 119 and see how David, as a type of us, praises the Lord for His Law. Paul gave Eutychus the Spirit of Truth and power, and Eutychus was set free.
Act 20:7 And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.
Act 20:8 And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together.
Gal 4:26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
Gal 4:27 For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.
Paul was preaching long, typifies Lazarus being dead four days. This typifies the night far spent and we are weary. Receiving and hearing without understanding, receiving the seed by the wayside, we fall from our own steadfastness, not watching our garments and leaving our first love. Not keeping the Lord’s Commandments when we want to or not believing that we should keep them is falling from our steadfastness. Not being able to keep the Law of Christ is because we have no power.
Act 20:9 And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.
Rom 13:12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
When Paul fell on Eutychus, he was ground to powder. Paul embraced him, showing Eutychus love, which is the greater work. They broke bread, that is, to eat the Lord’s Supper worthily, which means they all had the same mind because the house was no longer divided; they all came to the unity of the Truth. They talked a long time, typifying a fiery process: Pentecost is fully come … And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
Act 20:10 And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him.
Act 20:11 When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed.
Act 20:12 And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little comforted.
Mat 21:44 And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
Mar 3:25 And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
An unconverted Simon Peter
Fallen asleep is the state we are in before our conversion, before our rebirth, before Christ comes with His ancient ones to show us the Truth. The unconverted Simon Peter denied the Lord three times; he denied that He knew the Lord. Simon Peter, as a type of us, was thinking above what was written. As unconverted babes in Christ, we do not have the power to overcome the wicked one. As babes in Christ, we still fight, not having the gift of faith, not dying to self, never coming to the Truth. We do not understand what we worship. Not shedding blood in spirit, we reason within. As Christ’s disciples we are John and Peter … For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead.
Joh 20:3 Peter therefore went forth, and that other disciple, and came to the sepulchre.
Joh 20:4 So they ran both together: and the other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulchre.
Joh 20:5 And he stooping down, and looking in, saw the linen clothes lying; yet went he not in.
Joh 20:6 Then cometh Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulchre, and seeth the linen clothes lie,
Joh 20:7 And the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself.
Joh 20:8 Then went in also that other disciple, which came first to the sepulchre, and he saw, and believed.
Joh 20:9 For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead.
Mat 16:21 From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.
Mat 16:22 Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee.
Mat 16:23 But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.
Heb 9:22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
Clinging to our idols, we fight. Christ gives us over to a reprobate mind, worshipping the creation, which is self, rather than the Creator, never coming to the Truth that sets us free. We do not know the greater works or how to perform them. We do not know the will of God for our lives and worship what we do not know [John 4]. No works mean we have no power to overcome. Relying on our dreams, that is to say our idols, what we think we believe, we are spiritually in rebellion and are grumblers that exchanges the truth of God into a lie. We have to be born again to discern between good and evil. We have to teach and obey the Commandments, all of it.
Rom 1:23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
2Ti 3:6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
2Ti 3:7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
1Co 10:10 Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
Simon Peter, before his conversion, was satisfied with the loaves and fishes; Peter was satisfied with the work of His hands, yet Christ required of Peter to love Him more than the loaves and fishes. The loaves and fishes are the meat that perishes; it is knowledge without God and not the meat that gives life aionios, comparing spiritual with spiritual, which is to show mercy. The Spirit of Prophecy and to obey His Commandments is how we are being made over, a new creation in the Lord.
Joh 21:15 So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs.
Joh 21:16 He saith to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my sheep.
Joh 21:17 He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.
Joh 6:26 Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled.
Joh 6:27 Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
In our unconverted state, we clean only the outside of the cup, We eat, and we are merry, sleeping the sleep of death and taking rest for our souls, saying we have done good, building bigger barns for ourselves. In this backsliding state we never go unto perfection unless we are wakened. Going unto perfection is doing the works of God and that includes keeping His Commandments through the Power of God.
Rom 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
Luk 12:18 And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.
Luk 12:19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
Luk 12:20 But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
Pro 24:33 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
Pro 24:34 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.
Simon Peter, like types of us, did not want Christ to wash our feet. We do not realize that keeping Christ’s Commandments is what keeps us on the way. Not having the light of Christ’s coming to us a second time, we, like Peter, have no hope of being saved. It is only by doing the will of the Father, sharing our bread with the hungry and thirsty, the fast that I have chosen [Isa 58] that we love our brethren and are able to wash their feet and bathe them through speaking truth, doing the will of the Father. Blessed are your eyes if you are given eyes to see this. Singing the song of Moses and the Lamb, we go from glory to glory.
Joh 13:8 Peter saith unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me.
Joh 13:9 Simon Peter saith unto him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head.
Joh 13:14 If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another’s feet.
Joh 13:15 For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
Rev 15:3 And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.
Rom 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Rom 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Peter became the Rock, the foundation on which the Lord built His Church. The true foundation is the foundation the Apostles and prophets laid down in every age, being given the Spirit of Truth, the first and latter rain [power]. Christ is the chief cornerstone. Keeping the Lord’s Commandments, all of it, knowing and doing, is a stumbling stone to many. There are few that find the path to salvation.
Mat 21:42 Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
Isa 8:14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Isa 28:16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
Isa 28:17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
Isa 28:18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
Being raised from the dead without the Spirit of Christ yet, the bones that first come together in the valley of dry bones in Ezekiel 37 do not yet have the breath of life. This makes us a widow without a husband; Christ is gone away, and we have little faith. Christ comes the second time and breathes life into us through the Spirit of Truth, which gives us power to perform His will. We are now able to keep His Commandments because we understand. Only a son of God reveals Christ and the Father in this Day.
Eze 37:8 And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.
Eze 37:9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
Job 33:4 The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.
We see and discussed the big lie of the harlot, mystery Babylon within ourselves. We see this is what it means to not go unto perfection. We see we steal the Lord’s worship, stealing what belongs to the Lord when we do this. In this state, we see our garments are moth-eaten, and we have bags with holes in them, we never get enough. We fall asleep, and it takes the Spirit of Truth to renew us, to birth us again unto a lively Hope in Christ.
Pro 30:20 Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.
Mat 21:13 And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
Job 24:14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
Thanks be to our wonderful Father and His Christ; Christ comes back a second time to save us from our sins. He lays His hands on us, and gives us a renewing mindset that as the converted Cephas, we are able to feed the Lord’s sheep. We are now being made into the image of Christ.
1Pe 5:2 Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
1Pe 5:3 Neither as being lords over God’s heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.
Jer 18:3 Then I went down to the potter’s house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.
Jer 18:4 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
Lazarus
Lazarus is an example of one fallen asleep in the darkness of the night, a sickness not unto death. We fall asleep so that God and Christ may be glorified when we are then given God’s Spirit and are recovered out of the snare of the devil. The snare of the devil is believing the lie [“did God really say”] that we do not have to obey the Lord’s Commandments. It is the loaves and fishes that sustain the Pharisees and Sadducees.
Joh 11:3 Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.
Joh 11:4 When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.
Rom 5:5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
Rom 5:6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
Rom 5:7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
Rom 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Rom 5:9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
Lazarus is dead means Lazarus is spiritually dead in his sin. Christ was not there when Lazarus died because it was spiritually night; the sun and the moon stood still. We have to fall back, be taken, and be snared; thus we have to die before we are judged by the Word. These eight Letters to the Church is the Spirit of Truth coming to you. It is Judgment Day. We keep all the sayings of the prophecy of the Book before Christ comes, to make His abode in us. It means we live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. We have to fall asleep; we have to die believing the lie before we can be set free. The lie is that we do not need to keep the Commandments of Christ because He did it all for us on the tree.
Joh 11:11 These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.
Joh 11:12 Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well.
Joh 11:13 Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep.
Joh 11:14 Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead.
Joh 11:15 And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the intent ye may believe; nevertheless let us go unto him.
Joh 11:16 Then said Thomas, which is called Didymus, unto his fellowdisciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him.
Joh 14:28 Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.
Lazarus died because he believed a lie. Martha and Mary, his sisters, typify his mindset. The one Martha serves much, typifying unbelief, and the other, Mary, typifies having the earnest of the deposit of the Spirit received when we receive the first rain. For Mary, the resurrection is out there, still to come, and for Mary, Christ is come; she received Christ’s Commandments during the first rain. Martha still does not believe that he who lives and believes in Me will never die, and he, although he were dead, and believes in Me, shall never die. The two sisters are unequally yoked.
2Co 6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
2Co 6:15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
2Co 6:16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
2Co 6:17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
2Co 6:18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
Joh 11:23 Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again.
Joh 11:24 Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
Joh 11:25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
Joh 11:26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
Joh 11:27 She saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world.
Martha, who serves much, remains unconverted, building the Temple with her own hands, unlike Mary, who received the anointing of the Spirit, a little life being left in her. Being unequally yoked with unbelievers [not the heathen out there but those who claim Christ yet without faith], we eat the Lord’s Supper unworthily.
Co 11:24 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
1Co 11:25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
1Co 11:26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord’s death till he come.
1Co 11:27 Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
1Co 11:28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.
1Co 11:29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.
1Co 11:30 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
1Co 11:31 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
1Co 11:32 But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
1Co 11:33 Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another.
1Co 11:34 And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.
Jesus crying with a loud voice when He woke Lazarus is Christ coming with His ancient ones. Christ is the Word of Truth, King of Kings. It is the sound of the great trumpet … But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets. Christ’s Word destroys the lies and idols of the heart within.
Rev 19:12 His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.
Rev 19:13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
Rev 19:14 And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
Rev 19:15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
Rev 19:16 And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
Isa 21:9 And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.
Rev 14:8 And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
Rev 18:21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
The sound of the trumpet is the voice of the Lord that brings to birth, brings to birth the sons of God, The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of his glory. Christ’s Voice births the man-child in us, to make the mystery of the Gospel known.
Joh 11:43 And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.
Jud 1:14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
Rev 10:7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
Mat 24:31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Rev 12:5 And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.
Rev 12:6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
After being raised from the sickness not unto death, Lazarus sits at the table with Christ and the Father in the Kingdom of heaven, eating and drinking, typifying having Christ’s Law, receiving the first rain. Martha in Lazarus is still serving the law of sin and death in her members, typifying Lazarus who is risen but who does not have the power yet. Lazarus has been raised but still lacks the breath of Life. He still lacked the power to obey the Law of Christ, to obey the Commandments. Lazarus embraced the Commandments [Mary], but the gift of faith was yet to come.
Joh 12:1 Then Jesus six days before the Passover, came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
Joh 12:2 There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.
Luk 22:30 That ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Act 1:6 When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?
Act 1:7 And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.
Act 1:8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
Blessed are we, when Christ knocks to open the door, and we are ready to receive Him. We know His Voice … Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound that goeth out of his mouth. And Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.
Lazarus came forth, but his face was still bound with a napkin, typifying the law of sin and death in our members. The veil that keeps us from overcoming. At this point we are hearers only and not doers. We are entering into that within the veil. When Christ removes the covering, we are set free from mystery Babylon. Mystery Babylon is the leaven of the Sadducee; it is the carved images we make for ourselves.
Joh 11:44 And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.
Joh 13:20 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.
Mat 27:51 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
Mrk 15:38 And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.
Luk 23:45 And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.
Heb 6:19 Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
Heb 10:20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
Unbelief
Spiritually speaking, not having the gift of faith, we remain under the bondage of the carnal law of the Gentiles, accusing and excusing within ourselves [Rom 2]. We do not have the Spirit of Truth, the gift of faith; Christ is not revealed in us as yet. We do not have dominium over sin. The resurrection is still out there. When Christ does come to us we at first do not recognize Him in the form of His appearance. We do not believe the Truth when it comes to us. Flesh strives against the spirit, and the spirit strive against the flesh. We continue to do violence in the land, selling the Lord that bought us, and it is the Judas within … Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city. Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it. Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets. For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him: But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance. Our own wickedness encompass the righteous within; therefore wrong judgement goes forth. In other words, no judgement. We are in unbelief, blind and deaf, doing all in ignorance by the Lord’s design.
Mat 5:21 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:
Mat 5:22 But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.
Gal 5:16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
Gal 5:17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
Gal 5:18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
Eze 8:17 Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.
Hab 1:2 O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!
Hab 1:3 Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.
Hab 1:4 Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.
In this, we are the unconverted Saul of Tarsus, persecuting the Church of God, standing by, killing Stefan, the Lord’s trustworthy messenger. We do not believe the messenger bringing the Good News of the true Gospel of Peace, Christ, the Hope of Glory. We do not believe the truth when it is presented to us because we are not able to do so. … And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
Joh 12:37 But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him:
Joh 12:38 That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?
Joh 12:39 Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again,
Joh 12:40 He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.
Act 7:57 Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,
Act 7:58 And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man’s feet, whose name was Saul.
Act 7:59 And they stoned Stephen [trustworthy witness], calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
Act 7:60 And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
In unbelief, we do not know the time of our visitation. Unbelief is a hardened heart through the deceitfulness of sin. Sinning is our carnal reasoning. In unbelief, the seed of the Word falls in a stony place. Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, typifies a stony heart. A Stony heart is a hardened heart. When the Lord comes a second time, the enemy within is greatly astonished and perplexed and does not believe the truth of Christ’s coming. The seed falls on stony places, and the sun scorches that which comes up. This is Pharaoh within; Christ raises Pharaoh up so Christ’s Name may be declared in the earth. It is through our unbelief that we obtain mercy.
Mic 7:2 The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
Mic 7:3 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
Mic 7:4 The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.
Mic 7:5 Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.
Luk 19:41 And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,
Luk 19:42 Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
Luk 19:43 For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,
Luk 19:44 And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
Rom 9:17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
Rom 9:18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
Our unbelief is the work of our hands; it is our self-righteousness and great treasure at this time, loving the high places in the congregation. This describes the sin of unbelief in us. In unbelief we do not have the full counsel of God, and we are not free from the man of sin within sitting in the Temple of God claiming He is God [2 Thess]. In unbelief, we are in Egypt, that is also Sodom and Gomorrah. The Lord brings Israel out of Egypt through a prophet likened unto Moses … And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved. The Lord’s messenger is killed in Sodom, alias Egypt. Our father is the devil alias our carnal minds. To be carnally minded is death in spirit.
Rev 11:8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
Rom 1:1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,
Rom 1:2 (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,)
Rom 1:3 Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;
Rom 1:4 And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:
Rom 1:5 By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:
Rom 1:6 Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ:
Joh 8:31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
Joh 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Joh 8:33 They answered him, We be Abraham’s seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?
Joh 8:34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
Joh 8:35 And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever.
Joh 8:36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
Joh 8:37 I know that ye are Abraham’s seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.
In unbelief, we do not have faith. Without faith it is thus impossible to please God. We sit in great darkness, and spiritually speaking we have a withered hand [Luk 6]. Under the law of the Gentiles [Rom 2:13], we worship self. Our hand is withered, and we are not able to do good; that is to say, to show mercy, which is the greater works of God. We are not able to raise up spiritual children. Mercy, that is to say, the Law of Liberty triumphs over judgment [the law of the Gentiles]. When the sun goes down [Christ going away], there is great darkness in our land. Abraham was in a deep sleep typifying fallen asleep, a sickness not unto death. Christ promised us eternal life before we go down to Egypt. We have to be in Egypt first for us to come out of Egypt. Being in unbelief, the Lord saves us and His Name is glorified. We are guilty of all because of each other. Believing the lie, as we see discussed earlier on, is being in the great and terrible wilderness.
Mat 12:7 But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.
Mat 12:8 For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.
Heb 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Gen 15:12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.
Gen 15:13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
Gen 15:14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
Gen 15:15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
Doing violence in spirit, drinking blood, the blood of Abel, the prophets, and the Son is on our hands. Not taking hold of our unbelief brings us into a spiritual prison … Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison. Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.
Gen 4:7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
Gen 4:8 And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
Mat 27:24 When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.
Mat 27:25 Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.
Mat 21:38 But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.
Mat 21:39 And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him.
In unbelief, not believing when Christ is come, we try and buy the Holy Spirit with money. Buying and selling, we have the mark of the beast. Not having the Spirit of Truth, our knowledge is cankered, and it is not the knowledge of God. The Knowledge of God is to do His will … For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.
Act 8:18 And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles’ hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money,
Act 8:19 Saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost.
Act 8:20 But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.
Rev 13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
Rev 13:17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Rev 13:18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
In our unbelief, denying the one Christ sends, we preach out of strive not genuinely hindering other to go into the Kingdom of God [Matt 23]. As spiritual Pharisees, we do not worship in Spirit and Truth.
1Ti 6:3 If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;
1Ti 6:4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
1Ti 6:5 Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
Not entering into the Kingdom of God ourselves, we all become dross in the sight of God at this time … Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver. And our righteousness … as filthy rags before God. But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. Pharisees in type typify the unbelief in us. It is the sin of hypocrisy.
Mat 23:13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
Rom 8:5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
Rom 8:6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
Rom 8:7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
Speaking against the anointed of the Lord, we foam out our own shame and are the angels kept for Judgment … The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, self-willed; they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities. Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord. But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption; And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you; We live every Word of Scripture because of each other.
Col 2:18 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
Col 2:19 And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.
Col 2:20 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
Col 2:21 (Touch not; taste not; handle not;
Col 2:22 Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?
Col 2:23 Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.
When Christ comes a second time with His ancient ones, His Word, destroying the man of sin, we are as a flower fading away [James]. The Spirit of the Lord is King of Kings. It is the Word of Truth.
Rev 19:11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
Rev 19:12 His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.
Rev 19:13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
Rev 19:14 And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
Rev 19:15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
Rev 19:16 And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
Jas 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Jas 1:18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
Going on to perfection requires believing in the one the Lord is sending to be able to do the greater works of God, which covers a multitude of sins. Christ destroys our high places. Without having the Hope of Christ appearing to us often, as He gives the rain in due seasons, we are lost and without God in the world, strangers and foreigners to the New Covenant. Christ does not leave us comfortless but comes back and gives us an expected end. Without Christ in us, there is no fruit to perfection. But after we receive the gift of faith, the Spirit of Truth, another priest arises. Being converted, becoming sons of God, we are becoming priests after the order of Melchisedec, without father [devil] and mother [mystery Babylon]. We are now going onto perfection, Satan, the beast, and the false prophet within being destroyed as Christ is appearing more and more to judge our enemies within.
Heb 6:1 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
Heb 7:11 If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
Rev 20:14 And death and hell [unbelief] were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
Rev 20:15 And whosoever [lie] was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
Rev 20:10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
Thanks be to God; our withered hand gets healed on the Sabbath Day when we receive the breath of Life into our nostrils. This is receiving the gift of Faith which brings us out of Egypt, out of the lie, the law of sin in our members, the great wilderness, and brings us into the Promised Land.
Mat 12:10 And, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him.
Mat 12:11 And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?
Mat 12:12 How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.
Mat 12:13 Then saith he to the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it forth; and it was restored whole, like as the other.
Mat 12:14 Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him.
Christ is Lord of the Sabbath, and through His gift of faith, we are being restored, going through fire and brimstone. It is His loving kindness to the children of men. Whilst Christ is away, it is night, and the sun and the moon stand still. The Lord is our Maker; fear not, He comes back to save us and makes us anew.
Joh 16:19 Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him, and said unto them, Do ye enquire among yourselves of that I said, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me?
Joh 16:20 Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.
Joh 16:21 A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
Joh 16:22 And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.
Lam 3:22 It is of the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
Lam 3:23 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
Isa 54:4 Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.
Isa 54:5 For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.
Isa 54:6 For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.
Isa 54:7 For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.
Isa 54:8 In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer.
Isa 54:9 For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.
Isa 54:10 For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.
1Pe 4:19 Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.
Dorcas
An example of being given life after death is Dorcas. Dorcas was sick, a sickness not unto death, and was restored back to life. The many garments she made were the many good works she had done, after she received the first rain. Yet she had fallen asleep, not watching her garments; she did not have the gift of faith, and the converted Simon Peter, now named Cephas, showed mercy to her, the greater works to be done. He showed her the spiritual sins she had committed, and now at last Dorcas was free to serve the Lord with all of her might.
Act 9:36 Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did.
Act 9:37 And it came to pass in those days, that she was sick, and died: whom when they had washed, they laid her in an upper chamber.
Act 9:39 Then Peter arose and went with them. When he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she was with them.
Peter put them forth, and through his prayer [the greater works done, which is the love of God] restored Dorcas back to life. He loved Dorcas as Christ loved him, laying his life down, like I, Rohnel, am now laying down my life for you, doing the greater works, showing you these things, not doing my own pleasure but keeping the fast the Lord has chosen. The fast the Lord chooses is to give meat to those who do not have in due season, Matt 24:45. It is doing the will of God, the Father. The good works Dorcas did, the many garments she made, was not good enough. Dorcas lacked the gift of faith to make her whole … Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Act 9:40 But Peter put them all forth, and kneeled down, and prayed; and turning him to the body said, Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes: and when she saw Peter, she sat up.
Act 9:41 And he gave her his hand, and lifted her up, and when he had called the saints and widows, presented her alive.
Act 9:42 And it was known throughout all Joppa; and many believed in the Lord.
Isa 58:6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
Isa 58:7 Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Isa 58:8 Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.
An example of explaining the more perfect way is Aquila and Priscilla explaining to Apollos Christ is come in our flesh, which is the gift of faith so show us our sins. Dorcas is a type of us, going onto perfection after she has been given the gift of faith.
Act 18:24 And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus.
Act 18:25 This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John.
Act 18:26 And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.
Having good works without the Spirit of Truth is not the end of our faith. We have to have His Spirit to be able to be saved ourselves, and to save others. Christ is come in our flesh, the Hope of Glory.
Col 1:24 Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church:
Col 1:25 Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;
Col 1:26 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
Col 1:27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
Col 1:28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
Col 1:29 Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
1Pe 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
1Pe 1:4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
1Pe 1:5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
1Pe 1:6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
The true Bread of heaven is the Renewed Covenant [Heb]. The Baptism of Fire, Christ is revealed to you by one standing among you, is the true Bread from heaven. Discern spiritually, comparing spiritual with spiritual. The true Bread is now being revealed. Our unbelief and lies do not stand in the Day of the Lord. Our faith is our inheritance undefiled.
1Pe 1:7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
1Pe 1:8 Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
1Pe 1:9 Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
1Pe 1:10 Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:
1Pe 1:11 Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
1Pe 1:12 Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.
Joh 6:49 Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
Joh 6:50 This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
Joh 6:51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
Christ raises a Maiden
In Luke 8, one from the ruler of the synagogue’s house came and said, “Thy daughter is dead; trouble not the Master.” Christ saying, “Fear not,” means do not reason within ourselves but believe only, have faith in Christ, have faith in the one Christ is sending to you, you who are reading now. Faith in Christ makes us whole. The virgin was dead; the virgin implicating the fatherless and widows waiting for the Comforter in spiritual Jerusalem.
Luk 8:50 But when Jesus heard it, he answered him, saying, Fear not: believe only, and she shall be made whole.
Luk 8:51 And when he came into the house, he suffered no man to go in, save Peter, and James, and John, and the father and the mother of the maiden.
2Co 11:2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
The maiden was sleeping. Christ touched the maid; that is to say, He laid His hands on her and called out. Christ made the maid whole. In Matt 9 we find another example of a woman who was made whole through her faith in Christ. Those laughing typify the spiritual Sadducees who do not believe in the resurrection of Christ; that is to say, Christ is not come in our flesh; they have the spirit of anti-christ. The spirit of antichrist denies the Father and the Son [1 John 2:22]. Both being in unbelief and believing the lie is the spirit of antichrist.
Luk 8:52 And all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not; she is not dead, but sleepeth.
Luk 8:53 And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.
Luk 8:54 And he put them all out, and took her by the hand, and called, saying, Maid, arise.
Mat 9:21 For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.
Mat 9:22 But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.
1Co 15:51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
1Co 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
The maid was given meat straight away because now she was able to eat it. Meat is to do the will of the Father, the greater works, which is to go to the Gentiles. Given meat, comparing spiritual with spiritual, the maid was now able to go to the lost sheep of Israel. She was equipped with the gift of faith to preach the Gospel. Without hearing the Gospel, those in darkness are still carnal, a divided house which cannot stand … And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. And if Satan rise up against himself, and be divided, he cannot stand, but hath an end. A Lie cannot cast out a lie, only Truth can.
Luk 8:55 And her spirit came again, and she arose straightway: and he commanded to give her meat.
Luk 8:56 And her parents were astonished: but he charged them that they should tell no man what was done.
1Co 3:1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
1Co 3:2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
1Co 3:3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
1Co 3:4 For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?
1Co 3:5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
1Co 3:6 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
1Co 3:7 So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
Joh 20:21 Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.
Joh 20:22 And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:
1Ti 5:23 Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.
When we are given the Spirit of God, our lives are hid with Christ, being baptized into His death. Christ gives us the latter rain, poured out from heaven. We ask for this rain as He commands us to do, and we receive the rain because now, for the first time, we ask in the Father’s Name, as the Father and Christ are now in us, being One. The Lord restores us to life, and our barns and our fats overflow as time goes on. The Lord restores everything He has taken away, and we know that He is the Lord.
Joh 14:20 At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
Col 3:3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
Joh 16:23 And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.
Joh 16:24 Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
Joe 2:23 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.
Joe 2:24 And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil.
Joe 2:25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
Joe 2:26 And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed.
Joe 2:27 And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed.
Being raised into life, we are put to service to show the greater works to our brethren sitting in great darkness. After we have been given life, we pray night and day to see the faces of our brethren to impart this unspeakable gift of faith through the laying on of our hands, because we have been taken away from them for a short time, and why is that? It is because we could not speak to them as unto spiritual but as to carnal [1 Co 3]. There is a time to speak, and there is a time to be silent. At first, the Lord causes our mouths to be shut and then He opens it wide to preach the Acceptable Year of the Lord.
1Th 2:17 But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face with great desire.
1Th 2:18 Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us.
1Th 2:19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?
1Th 3:10 Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?
Isa 62:6 I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,
Isa 62:7 And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
Closing
Everything works for the greater good. How unsearchable are His riches past finding out! The wrath of God is only fulfilled after the seven last plagues are poured out. The seven last plagues are these eight Letters to the Church. Discern with a spiritual mind. Every jot and tittle has to be fulfilled as we live every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. In this Letter we discussed the loaves and fishes of the Sadducee and Pharisee within. The cards are fallen; the truth about these spiritual states is being revealed. It is the beginning of the end … And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
1Co 3:21 Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours;
1Co 3:22 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;
1Co 3:23 And ye are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s.
Rev 15:8 And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.
Until the shadows of youth flee away, not having faith and not having works, is the vanity of childhood and youth. Christ requires of us, to see our sins and put evil away from us. Without the Spirit of Prophecy [Truth] and keeping His Commandments [Grace], we ever stay hearers without understanding and not doers of His Word
Being ignorant of our spiritual sins still makes us guilty … but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Pro 16:6 By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.
Son 2:14 O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.
Son 2:15 Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.
Son 2:16 My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.
Son 2:17 Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.
Ecc 11:9 Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Ecc 11:10 Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.
Now these remain:
1Co 13:13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
Christ is become the stumbling stone. Only those who endure to the end will be saved. In your patience possess ye your souls.
Receive ye the Gospel, receive ye the Holy Spirit.
2Th 3:17 The salutation of Paul [Rohnel] with mine own hand, which is the token in every epistle [Letter]: so I write.
