Romans 11 – Blindness and Mercy
Rohnel, a bondservant of God, the Father, and Christ, His Son, to the little children of God already born and to the ones still to be born, Grace and Peace be unto you.
Eph 6:13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
Eph 6:14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
Eph 6:15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
Eph 6:16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
Eph 6:17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
Eph 6:18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
Eph 6:19 And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel,
Eph 6:20 For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
Introduction
This is the third of eight Letters to the Church of God. 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. Christ is doing us good in our latter end, teaching us the difference between right and wrong, good and evil, so we may have life in Him. This is His loving kindness to the children of men … 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. Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.
Deu 11:13 And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments [love, the greater works] which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul [believe the Lord God with your heart and soul],
Deu 11:14 That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.
Deu 11:15 And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full.
Deu 11:16 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods [your reasoning mind, the creation], and worship them;
Deu 11:17 And then the LORD’S wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you [die in your sins].
Deu 11:18 Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.
Deu 11:19 And ye shall teach them your children [go to the gentiles], speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Deu 11:20 And thou shalt write them upon the doorposts of thine house, and upon thy gates:
Deu 11:21 That your days may be multiplied [life aionios, eternal life], and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.
Mat 9:3 And, behold, certain of the scribes said within themselves, This man blasphemeth.
Mat 9:4 And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?
Mat 9:5 For whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and walk?
Mat 9:6 But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins [showing mercy forgives sins, the greater works of God], (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house.
To spiritually discern is the meat of the Word and the New Commandment [John 13:34, 1 John 2:7, 2 John 1:5] given in John, not seeking my own profit but the profit of many that they may be saved. The meat of the Word is the new creation being made into the image of Christ. The new creation is where God is all and in all; Thy Kingdom come in our flesh. Not discerning the Word makes us unskilful as babes in Christ. Not knowing the difference between good and evil makes us not want to go unto perfection. Perfection is love, and without love we are nothing. To love is not what we think it is at first; to love is to do the greater works of God. We do not come to Christ unless He draws us, and it is through much tribulation that we are being born as sons of the living God.
1Co 13:1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
1Co 13:2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
1Co 13:3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
Heb 5:13 For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
Heb 5:14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
1Ti 4:14 Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.
1Ti 4:15 Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.
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.
Mic 3:8 But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.
Joh 6:44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
Joh 6:45 It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.
Joh 12:32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.
Joh 12:33 This he said, signifying what death he should die.
Here are the key points in this Letter; Introduction, Dead in our Sins, Not all Israel is Israel, Examples, Lazarus and the Rich Man, Judas alias Saul, The Great Mercy of the Lord, The Remnant of Israel, Partaking of the Lord’s Supper Unworthily, All died to be Judged, Conclusion.
Dead in our Sins
Scripture tells us we are dead in our sins. How can that be? We have our father, Abraham in type; we have faith, we have the Commandments of Christ and try to obey them, falling, standing, trying, and this equals our righteousness, the righteousness of the Pharisees, which is the First Covenant [the Word], hearing only and not doing without the Power of God. Yes, not all in Abraham are the seed of Christ; only in Isaac are we the seed of Christ [Read Galatians]. Thus, we see Paul states we are dead in our sins. We have to exceed our water Baptism. We have to exceed hearing only. Our water Baptism only cleans the outside of the cup; our spiritual sins remain; we have to go through the Baptism of fire, that is the Lake of Fire [doing, having faith] before we are ready to receive the Father [Understanding]. It takes the Spirit of Truth coming to us, the messenger Christ sends, another comforter, before we can receive the Father. When Christ’s messenger appears to us, we are being quickened [raised], our eyes enlightened, to see the spiritual truths of the hidden Gospel. Christ’s messengers are the angels of the seven churches. All these words are spiritual and are not understood with the carnal mind.
Eph 2:1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
Eph 2:2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
Eph 2:3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
1Co 15:44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
1Co 15:45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
The living Bread coming down from heaven is the Spirit of Truth [Christ], coming to us, to prepare us to receive the Father [Holy Spirit]. When we receive Christ [that is to say believe the one He is sending], we die no more and pass from death into life. Loving our brothers, we show them these things and pass from death into life. This is showing mercy and is the greater works of God. The Spirit of Truth is Christ and His angels coming to us to birth Christ in us. We are in much anguish at this time. It is the Day of Judgment in our lives, as we live by every Word of God and not by bread alone [Luk 4:4]. Discern what is being said. We have to have faith to believe in the one Christ is sending as His messenger.
Joh 6:48 I am that bread of life.
Joh 6:49 Your fathers [Abraham, First Covenant] did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
Joh 6:50 This is the bread [the one Christ is sending] 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.
Mat 5:20 For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
1Jn 2:10 He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.
1Jn 2:11 But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
Mat 25:37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
Mat 25:38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
Mat 25:39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
Mat 25:40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
The Spirit of Truth, the Word, fulfils the Law and the Prophets, showing mercy, loving each other, speaking Truth to each other, speaking plainly, giving the understanding of the Scriptures makes everything perfect. Thus love fulfils all Scripture, cleaning the inside of the cup, creating us anew, giving us a new mindset, declaring the counsel of God … Gal 6:15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. Gal 6:16 And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.
Mat 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
Mat 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Mat 23:26 Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
Mat 23:27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.
2Co 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
2Co 5:18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
2Co 5:19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
Until John, we do violence to the Kingdom of God, hearing only but not believing. We have to believe in Christ and the one He is sending before we are able to enter into the Kingdom of God. The Lord’s wrath has to be poured out on our beastly kingdom within, our beastly reasoning mind, which does not believe the one Christ is sending. We have to see our spiritual sins before we are being judged. We defile the Temple of God through our unbelief and idols of the heart.
Mat 11:12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
Mat 11:13 For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.
Mat 11:14 And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come.
Mat 11:15 He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
1Co 3:17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
1Co 3:18 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.
Not all Israel is Israel
Not all Israel is Israel; only those who believe in Christ, believe that He is come in the flesh of the one He sends, are the seed of the free woman [Isaac]. This is a parable. We were all baptized in Christ’s Name, our Baptism of water, hearing the Word, but still not believing, and with many the Lord is not well pleased. Through each other we become guilty of all; all things are ours, whether Paul, Cephas or Apollos. We are hearing the true Gospel being preached to us now; see that you do not harden your hearts … Heb 3:15 While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. But with whom was he grieved forty years? Was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
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.
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.
Rom 8:8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
The Lord is not pleased with us by His design, because we seek the Kingdom of God without, lo look here, lo look there, whilst the Kingdom of God is within us. We do not seek to enter into His rest by faith and do not believe the one the Lord sends to us to testify of these things. The ones testifying of these things, as their Lord, is a stumbling block and offence to those who do not believe. Without faith it is impossible to please God. Those of us who first believed obtained the righteousness of God, which is the gift of faith. It is Christ being born in us.
Luk 17:21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
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.
Rom 9:30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.
Rom 9:31 But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
Rom 9:32 Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;
Rom 9:33 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
Rom 1:17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
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;
In this unbelieving state, we have a zeal for God, and are those who do service in the congregation. Unbelievers have no right to eat at our altar in their unconverted state. However they eat and eat unworthily. It is impossible for them to believe on their own but thanks be to God all things are possible. It is hard for a rich man to be born of Spirit.
Mat 19:23 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Mat 19:24 And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Mat 19:25 When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved?
Mat 19:26 But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
Heb 13:10 We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.
Heb 13:11 For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.
Heb 13:12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
Heb 13:13 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
Heb 13:14 For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
In our unbelief, we have a zeal for God but still do not know that our water Baptism, hearing the Word without believing, cannot save us. We have to have the Renewed Covenant, the Baptism of fire, to be saved from our sins [unbelief]. The Baptism of Fire is the Lake of Fire that completes our water Baptism, making us doers [believers] once we understand, once we are birthed. We now share our bread with the hungry [Isa 58 – the fast the Lord has chosen] and keep ourselves unspotted from the world [ unbelief, carnal reasoning]. Christ is the end of our faith; our Baptism of fire is the end of our faith and not our Baptism of John. Unbelief in our hearts and minds speaks against God’s anointed preaching the Gospel. Think spiritually. Think within and not out there. This is what we all do.
Rom 10:1 Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.
Rom 10:2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
Rom 10:3 For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
Rom 10:4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
Rom 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Rom 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
Thinking within, we see nothing good dwells in our flesh; we see the man of sin within, and now we are ready to be judged, to make us clean and well accepted in the Beloved once the fiery Baptism has done its work, speaking of things that are not as if they are at this time. Thinking without, we never arrive at the Truth. Believing the lie that without faith [works, belief] we can enter into the Kingdom of God, we are silly women ever learning, never able to come to the knowledge of Truth.
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.
2Ti 3:8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
2Ti 3:9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.
Jud 1:10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
Jud 1:11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
Jud 1:12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
Jud 1:13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
Jud 1:14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
Jud 1:15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
Christ and the ones who believe at this time, the ones who are awakened from deep sleep receiving the gift of faith first, are now being sent to those in unbelief … 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. 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. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. 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. And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. The ones receiving the gift of faith first are the armies that follow Christ wherever He goes. We are being sent as the Father sent Christ to preach the true Gospel of Christ. You who are reading, the true Gospel of Christ is preached in these eight Letters to the Church … I am paying my vows before them that fear Him. I am declaring to you the mystery of the Gospel. Do not be afraid, only believe. I bring you the Word of God, my vesture dipped in blood.
Eph 5:32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
1Co 1:21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
Isa 32:20 Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass.
Psa 22:22 I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.
Psa 22:23 Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.
Psa 22:24 For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.
Psa 22:25 My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.
Preaching the Gospel, preaching the Name of the Lord, we are showing mercy to those yet abiding in unbelief, not believing in what we preach. These abiding in unbelief at this time are the fatherless and widows. The Word of the Lord is a two-edged sword. Unbelief is sin to God, yet the fatherless and widows are precious in His sight. Christ does not leave us orphans but sends another comforter, the Spirit of Truth, to show mercy and prepare the way for the Father [Holy Spirit] to make His abode in us. The Spirit of Truth is the fire sent on earth and completes the Baptism of John. Spiritual speak, it means this: the fiery Baptism of Christ does not make us hearers only but doers [believing]. These are spiritual words.
Rom 10:12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
Rom 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Rom 10:14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
Rom 10:20 But Esaias is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me.
Rom 11:31 Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
Rom 11:32 For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
Psa 13:5 But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.
Psa 13:6 I will sing unto the LORD, because he hath dealt bountifully with me.
Hos 2:23 And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.
Preaching the Gospel of Christ willingly to the ends of the earth is what the angels of the seven Churches do. It is good tidings … Act 13:32 And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers, God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee. And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David. Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. God, the Father, raised Christ up again. He raised up His sons and reveal Himself to His sons in this age and in every age since Christ.
1Co 9:16 For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!
1Co 9:17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.
Rom 10:15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
Rom 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Rom 10:18 But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.
Preaching the Gospel, their sound, the Word, is going out to the ends of the earth, as Christ stretches forth His Hand to His people, but the lost sheep of Israel at this time do not believe Christ is come in our flesh and are in the state of unbelief. Christ sends His Word before Him to make known the counsels of our hearts. The story of Nebuchadnezzar is the story of unbelief within our hearts and minds until we are given eyes to see and ears to hear. Read the Book of Daniel and see how the Lord gave him eyes to see and ears to hear after Nebuchadnezzar went through the Lake of Fire, comparing spiritual with spiritual. This is a type of us.
Rom 10:16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?
Rom 10:21 But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.
Dan 2:28 But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these;
Christ sends the weak things of the world to preach His Gospel. The seven angels of the seven churches are the scapegoat let loose in the wilderness by the hand of a fit man [Christ]. This goat bears the sins of all in the congregation, those obtaining salvation in this age … Lev 16:21 And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness: And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness. Read the whole story.
1Co 1:27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
1Co 1:28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:
1Co 1:29 That no flesh should glory in his presence.
1Co 1:30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
1Co 1:31 That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
Isa 53:2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Isa 53:3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Isa 53:4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
Isa 53:5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
Isa 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Christ disciples did not believe that He was resurrected from the dead and we, who are preaching the resurrection of Christ within ourselves, are not believed by those in unbelief. Christ appears in our flesh as He appears in different forms. As He is, so are we in this world [1 John 4:17]. Christ is jealous over His own and so are we. Love is strong as death and nothing will separate us from His love [mercy] and our love [mercy] towards our brothers. Sending fire on the earth, Christ takes revenge on our spiritual enemies within … Eph 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
Mar 16:12 After that he appeared in another form unto two of them, as they walked, and went into the country.
Mar 16:13 And they went and told it unto the residue: neither believed they them.
Mar 16:14 Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.
Son 8:6 NKJV Set me as a seal upon your heart, As a seal upon your arm; For love is as strong as death, Jealousy as cruel as the grave; Its flames are flames of fire, A most vehement flame.
Son 8:7 Many waters cannot quench love, Nor can the floods drown it. If a man would give for love All the wealth of his house, It would be utterly despised.
Those in unbelief do not believe, hearing only, and seek the Scriptures daily to prove their unbelief, not receiving the implanted Word with meekness and then trying the spirits to see if things are so. In unbelief, we want the doctrine [garments] of Christ but do not desire to come to Christ. Preaching the Gospel is likened unto being poured out, and those that receive us receive the Holy Spirit, [Father and Son] through much tribulation being born again … Act 10:45 And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Joh 19:23 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam , woven from the top throughout.
Joh 19:24 They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did.
Eze 39:25 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name;
Eze 39:26 After that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid.
Eze 39:27 When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations;
Eze 39:28 Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there.
Eze 39:29 Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the LORD God.
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.
Seeking a sign, those in unbelief abide in death, in the heart of the earth. We do not know the time of our Visitation in an unbelieving state … Isa 10:3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory? The Lord breaks down His Temple, not one stone left upon another, the Day He comes to us to gather us back to Him … Job 10:12 Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
Mat 12:39 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:
Mat 12:40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Mat 16:1 The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.
Mat 16:2 He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.
Mat 16:3 And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?
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.
The unbelievers, sinners in Zion, are afraid; nobody can abide when Christ comes to His Temple; the man of sin is destroyed by the brightness of Christ coming … Isa 33:10 Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself. Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you. And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire. Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; and, ye that are near, acknowledge my might. The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings? He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil; He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure. Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off. Reading the Scriptures above in Isaiah 33, we see that, abiding in unbelief, we are guilty; we are the man of sin.
Joh 5:38 And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not.
Joh 5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
Joh 5:40 And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.
Joh 1:26 John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not;
Joh 1:27 He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to unloose.
Not all sin after this manner. Through one all become guilty, and through one all become justified again. By man comes death, and by man also comes the resurrection. This is a deep parable; it was imputed to Christ, and it is imputed to us. Those that receive the gift of faith first, the scapegoat, shows mercy and makes atonement and justifies those in unbelief, which was made sin for them. It is because of each other that Christ accomplishes His work.
1Co 15:20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
1Co 15:21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
1Co 15:22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
1Co 15:23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.
1Co 15:24 Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
1Co 15:25 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
1Co 15:26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death [unbelief].
Rom 4:13 For not through law [reasoning] is the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, of his being heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith;
Rom 4:14 for if they who are of law are heirs, the faith hath been made void, and the promise hath been made useless;
Rom 4:15 for the law doth work wrath; for where law is not, neither is transgression.
Rom 4:16 Because of this it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, for the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that which is of the law only [unbelief], but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham [belief],
Rom 4:17 who is father of us all (according as it hath been written—’A father of many nations I have set thee,’) before Him whom he did believe—God, who is quickening the dead, and is calling the things that be not as being.
Rom 4:18 Who, against hope in hope did believe, for his becoming father of many nations according to that spoken: ‘So shall thy seed be;’
Rom 4:19 and not having been weak in the faith, he did not consider his own body, already become dead, (being about a hundred years old,) and the deadness of Sarah’s womb,
Rom 4:20 and at the promise of God did not stagger in unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, having given glory to God,
Rom 4:21 and having been fully persuaded that what He hath promised He is able also to do:
Rom 4:22 wherefore also it was reckoned to him to righteousness.
Rom 4:23 And it was not written on his account alone, that it was reckoned to him,
Rom 4:24 but also on ours, to whom it is about to be reckoned—to us believing on Him who did raise up Jesus our Lord out of the dead,
Rom 4:25 who was delivered up because of our offences, and was raised up because of our being declared righteous.
As unconverted babes in Christ, hearing the Word, still not believing, we kill and condemn Christ and the one whom Christ is sending. Out of our mouths come good and evil. Our tongues, a deadly poison … Jas 3:6 and the tongue is a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna. For every nature, both of beasts and of fowls, both of creeping things and things of the sea, is subdued, and hath been subdued, by the human nature, and the tongue no one of men is able to subdue, it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison, with it we do bless the God and Father, and with it we do curse the men made according to the similitude of God; out of the same mouth doth come forth blessing and cursing; it doth not need, my brethren, these things so to happen; doth the fountain out of the same opening pour forth the sweet and the bitter? is a fig-tree able, my brethren, olives to make? or a vine figs? so no fountain salt and sweet water is able to make. Cry aloud, show my people their sins.
Isa 58:1 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
Isa 58:2 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
Isa 58:3 Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.
Isa 58:4 Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
Jas 5:6 Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
Jas 3:9 Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
Rom 12:14 Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.
Isa 57:11 And of whom hast thou been afraid, and fearest, That thou liest, and Me hast not remembered? Thou hast not laid it to thy heart, Am not I silent, even from of old? And Me thou fearest not?
Isa 57:12 I declare thy righteousness, and thy works, And they do not profit thee.
Isa 57:13 When thou [in unbelief] criest, let thy gatherings deliver thee, And all of them carry away doth wind, Take away doth vanity, And whoso is trusting in Me inheriteth the land, And doth possess My holy mountain.
The sin of unbelief comes through a hardened heart. It creeps in unawares. It is the Lord who hardens the heart of the unbelieving, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. It is the Lord who shows mercy. Looking within, we see all things are ours to fulfill as it is today. Pharaoh in our hearts has a purpose; nothing is for nought.
Rom 9:14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
Rom 9:15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
Rom 9:16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
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.
Jud 1:4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
The believing and the unbelieving grow together, the wheat and the tares that look alike and grow together until the time of harvest. When in unbelief we do not watch, and the enemy enters into our hearts and minds to sow doubt and discord. It is the gall of bitterness that defiles within. Christ makes us to err, hardens our hearts, gives us wine, the poisons of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps so He may show mercy through His loving kindness. It is sealed up in the Lord’s treasures, all He is doing to gather us back to Him. Read Deut 32, it is speaking to you and me as we are reading. Vengeance belongs to the Lord … Deu 32:29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end! How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up? For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges. For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter: Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps. Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures? To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste. For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left. And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,
Mat 13:25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
Mat 24:42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
Mat 24:43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
Mat 24:44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
Heb 10:30 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.
Heb 10:31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Abiding in unbelief makes us blind, deaf, and naked. One greater than John is here. One greater than Solomon is here. We have to have works; that is to say, we have to believe. Remember we are always speaking spiritual words. We, for a season, rejoice to abide in John, which was a bright and burning Light until Christ. Christ is the true Light. Spiritually speaking, the Baptism of John is hearing the Word and not believing, cleaning the outside of the cup, still having idols of the heart. We are not converted yet and are babes in Christ. We are striving with our Maker as Job did, holding fast to our righteousness, not wanting to go unto perfection when the Lord comes with His ancient ones.
Mat 12:41 The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
Mat 12:42 The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
Joh 5:33 Ye sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth.
Joh 5:34 But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that ye might be saved.
Joh 5:35 He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.
Job 24:13 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
Christ warns us to take heed how we hear. Our time is always ready, as it is today. Unbelief and idols of the heart is the evil works of the world within ourselves. It is the man of sin, Lucifer, the devil, the Assyrian, the Egyptian, Satan, the beast, the false prophet, the dragon, the serpent, and Mystery Babylon. The dream is one. The harvest is when Christ and His Christ come to show us our sins and root them out. It is the Day of Judgment when He takes vengeance on the inward enemies within us. Once we see our sins, Christ puts the sickle in and thresh … Isa 63:1 Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save. Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat? I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment. For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come. And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me. And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth. Christ’s own arm helps Him. They are His elect remnant of His people down through the ages. The ones He has chosen before the foundation of the world. Treading the winepress is the time of great Tribulation.
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.
Mar 4:26 And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;
Mar 4:27 And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.
Mar 4:28 For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.
Mar 4:29 But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.
Joh 7:6 Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready.
Joh 7:7 The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
In our unbelief, not believing the one the messenger Christ sends, we kill the messengers of the seven churches, alias the two olive trees standing before the God of the whole earth … Rev 11:3 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth. And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed. It is night, and we stumble at the stumblingstone. We are in unbelief and the Kingdom of Heaven is taken from us. The spiritual publicans and harlots are the ones that believe in Christ without having to see a sign. Once we see, the stone that we reject is the one that same stone grinds us to powder. Better is a poor wise child, the one just being born, who receives Christ with meekness, than a foolish king that abides in unbelief.
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?
Mat 21:43 Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.
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.
Mat 21:31 Whether of them twain did the will of his father? They say unto him, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.
Ecc 4:13 Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
Faith without works [belief] is dead. The Holy Spirit quickens; reasoning profits nothing. Works is to go to the Gentiles within and without. It is showing mercy to those in need. When we show mercy, it is works that make faith perfect. We are not able to show mercy unless we are converted.
Joh 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
Joh 6:64 But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.
Joh 6:65 And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.
Jas 2:17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
The carnal mind within seeks to reign to establish our own salvation. We have bitter and sweet coming out of our mouths. We love God but hate the one Christ sends. In our unbelieving state, seeking our own righteousnesses which is of self, we end up losing our souls and are no better off than the sinners on whom the towers of Siloam fell. Losing our soul is losing the wife of our covenant. Except we repent of our unbelief, we perish.
Jas 3:11 Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
Jas 3:12 Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
Mat 16:25 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
Mat 16:26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Luk 13:2 And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they suffered such things?
Luk 13:3 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
Luk 13:4 Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem?
Luk 13:5 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
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.
Christ does not do anything for nought. All of this unbelief serves a great purpose, and although Christ charges His angels with folly, once said you are not my people will become you are my son, today I have brought you forth. Those in unbelief are the angels kept for Judgment Day … Joh 12:48 He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day. For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.
1Co 6:3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life
Job 4:18 Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:
Job 4:19 How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
Job 4:20 They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
Job 4:21 Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.
At this time, there are false prophets amongst ourselves. Here is an example of Elymas, who was blind for a season before the Light of Christ came. The Light is wisdom and understanding, Father and Son. Being a false prophet, we are puffed up with our own knowledge, and we do not recognize the messenger Christ is sending, the false prophet within, clinging to the lie that the resurrection is already past or that there is no resurrection. We have to be converted to cast out this lie. Think within. It takes prayer and fasting before the lie is cast out. It takes going through the Lake of Fire, the second death, before the true Light shines.
Act 13:6 And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Barjesus:
Act 13:7 Which was with the deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus, a prudent man; who called for Barnabas and Saul, and desired to hear the word of God.
Act 13:8 But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith.
Act 13:9 Then Saul, (who also is called Paul,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him,
Act 13:10 And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
Act 13:11 And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.
Luk 10:15 And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be thrust down to hell.
Luk 10:16 He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.
2Pe 2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
2Pe 2:2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
2Pe 2:3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
2Pe 2:4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
Pro 21:16 The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.
Mic 3:6 Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.
Examples
We know that the Lord gives us many witnesses and examples to help us understand what He is saying to us and to warn us from His wrath to come. We also now, for the first time, learn to compare spiritual with spiritual, which is to compare one Scripture with another to understand the meaning of what is being said [1 Co 2:13]. This knowledge is what the Holy Spirit teaches. It is the excellency of the knowledge of Christ, our pearl of great price, that makes all Scriptures complete.
Lusting is when we covet what is not ours; idolatry is lies within our hearts and minds, holding fast to what we believe is true; fornication is covetousness wanting more and more. Tempting is arguing with God, kicking against the pricks, and murmuring is telling Christ we do not need what He is putting us through. All these are spiritual sins we commit within ourselves.
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.
1Co 10:8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
1Co 10:9 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
1Co 10:10 Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
1Co 10:11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
1Co 10:12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
Mar 7:14 And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand:
Mar 7:15 There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.
Mar 7:16 If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
Lazarus and the Rich Man
The parable of Lazarus and the rich man depicts those in unbelief versus those in faith. Lazarus is the poor man, rich in faith, and the rich man is the one in unbelief. The poor man, having gone before the rich man through the Lake of Fire, the big gulf, is now in the bosom of Abraham, a type and shadow of the father of the faithful. The rich man is tormented, given over to Satan for the destruction of his flesh so his spirit may be saved in the Day of the Lord. The rich man within still does not hear Moses and the prophets speaking of Christ and is likened unto Christ, saying to Nicodemus … Joh 3:12 If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? And Luk 23:31 For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry? If we do not believe Christ is come in the flesh, how will we believe He is come in the Spirit?
Luk 16:31 And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.
Jas 2:5 Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?
Jas 2:6 But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?
Jas 2:7 Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called?
Those in unbelief question the authority of Christ and His Christ to this day. The one Christ sent is not recognized, because Christ appears in many forms. Here in Matt 21, Christ catches those who reason in their own craftiness. This typifies us in our Day of Judgment. The Day of Judgment is the Lake of Fire; it is the second death. All of Scriptures are being fulfilled in this Day. Without this Day, without the Lake of Fire, we remain abiding in our sins. What is not of faith is sin. Being double-minded, we get caught up in our own reasoning.
Mat 21:23 And when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority?
Mat 21:24 And Jesus answered and said unto them, I also will ask you one thing, which if ye tell me, I in like wise will tell you by what authority I do these things.
Mat 21:25 The baptism of John, whence was it? from heaven, or of men? And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say unto us, Why did ye not then believe him?
Mat 21:26 But if we shall say, Of men; we fear the people; for all hold John as a prophet.
Mat 21:27 And they answered Jesus, and said, We cannot tell. And he said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things.
Mat 5:25 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.
Mat 5:26 Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.
Judas
As a type of us, Judas in us or the unconverted Saul in us, is a blasphemer that persecutes Christ in ignorance. It was night when the betrayal took place, which signifies ignorance, being blind and deaf. Christ and His ancient ones are being killed by those who do not hear them. Being in ignorance still makes us guilty. In times past, God winked at our sins, but in the Day of Judgment, we give an account of every idle word we speak. In unbelief, our own words judge us, whether we have done good in this life or whether we have done evil in this life. These are spiritual words that say whether we have shown mercy or whether we did not show mercy once our eyes and ears are open. We have to give more attention to these words. Take heed how you hear them.
Joh 6:70 Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?
Joh 6:71 He spake of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon: for he it was that should betray him, being one of the twelve.
Act 3:14 But you denied the Holy One and the Just, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,
Act 3:15 and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses.
Act 3:16 And His name, through faith in His name, has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which comes through Him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
Act 3:17 “Yet now, brethren, I know that you did it in ignorance, as did also your rulers.
Mat 12:36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
Mat 12:37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
Killing the one Christ sends, preaching the true Gospel, preaching the resurrection [His Son revealed in me, Christ is come in our flesh, eat my flesh drink my blood], our betrayal takes place, and now Judas, those in unbelief, seek an occasion to betray Christ. Those in unbelief want proof; they seek after signs that is not of faith. We are being delivered to the carnal mind, Caesar within. Caesar, the man of sin, unbelief, the law of sin and death, is the shepherd of the flock that forbids us to speak to the Gentiles; that is to say forbids us to speak to our brothers so they may be saved. It is to forbid us to speak to the Gentiles, those carnal nations within.
Joh 13:26 Jesus answered, He it is, to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it. And when he had dipped the sop, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon.
Joh 13:27 And after the sop Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto him, That thou doest, do quickly.
Mat 26:14 Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests,
Mat 26:15 And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.
Mat 26:16 And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him.
The Scriptures are being fulfilled in order and as Christ’s appears to us. This includes being the unbelieving son of perdition who betrays Christ. Christ loses us only to find us again in due time and give us faith.
Jhn 17:12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
2Th 2:1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
2Th 2:2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
2Th 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
2Th 2:4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
1Th 2:15 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
1Th 2:16 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
The man of sin is the spirit of fear that worships the creation, self, rather than the Creator, Christ and His Christ [Rom 1:25]. The unconverted Saul who became the mighty Apostle Paul, was a Pharisee of note and he was blind, not knowing where he was going, oppressing the poor, not visiting the fatherless, the widows and orphans. This is a type of us in our unbelief not believing Christ is come in the flesh. Being blind, we only have one king … Joh 19:15 But they cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.
Jas 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
Zec 13:7 Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.
Zec 13:8 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.
Zec 13:9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.
At this stage the Lord smites the shepherd and scatters the sheep in their hearts and minds, and His House is a divided house and a house divided cannot stand. It is a house of divination and not a house of prayer. Thanks be to God, who turns us back to Himself, we come to the knowledge of Truth and there is no more division in our house … Eze 12:24 For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel. For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I say the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord GOD.
Luk 12:52 For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.
Luk 12:53 The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Rom 11:9 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:
Rom 11:10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.
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?
As the unconverted Saul which is also Esau in type, unbelievers hear the true Gospel preached to them but because of the deceitfulness of riches they do not believe. The Lord through the one He sends, does mighty works amongst us, yet they abide in unbelief still.
Joh 15:22 If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.
Joh 3:19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
Mar 4:19 And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.
As the man of sin, Saul, a type of us, are murderers that stand by when the Lord’s faithful witness is killed. The accusing mindset is the stoning of Stephen.
Act 7:59 And they stoned Stephen, 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.
Act 8:1 And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles.
Act 8:3 As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison.
Making friends with our carnal mind we become adulterers who sell our birthright for a morsel of meat. It is our selfish ambition to establish our own righteousness through the First Covenant, the Baptism of John, hearing the Word, that makes us leave our first love, the wife of our covenant. Discern spiritually what is being said. The wife of our youth is the Christ of Christ the Lord is sending to preach the Gospel.
Jas 4:4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
Mal 1:3 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
Mal 1:4 Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever.
We have an evil eye at this time, and bitter jealousy, living in luxury, in riches, being dead whilst we live. It is Pharoah raised up in us so the Lord may show mercy to those that has fallen asleep first and they now show mercy to Pharoah, the man of sin within and without. The bread of him that has an evil eye means his bread is the things he believes and it is not of the truth.
Pro 23:6 Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:
Mar 7:21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
Mar 7:22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
Mar 7:23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
At this point our gold and silver, our knowledge is cankered. We reject the authority of Christ for the sake of gain. Drinkers of wine, doing our own pleasure, we do not receive Christ, we take away the key of knowledge and pass over judgment. People’s pleasers we are not friends of God. Too much wine makes us drunkards and gluttons in Spirit … Rom 14:17 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men.
Tit 2:2 That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
Tit 2:3 The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
Luk 11:42 But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
Luk 11:52 Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.
Hos 6:6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
Joh 12:43 For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.
There is a root of bitterness sprung up in our unbelief, and we are spiritual Sadducees who do not believe Christ is come in our flesh, our flesh because we are His flesh and bones. Read the story of Simon in Acts 8. We have the Spirit of antichrist as a spiritual Sadducee. In unbelief, we never eat with pleasure … Job 21:25 And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.
Act 4:1 And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them,
Act 4:2 Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
Act 8:23 For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.
The Lord hides Himself at this time and those in unbelief is dead while they live. Yet Christ love sinners … 1Pe 4:6 For this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit. God does not want any of His to perish at this time and we see Christ weeps over Jerusalem as it is this day.
Joh 12:36 While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them.
1Ti 5:6 But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.
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.
In the Lords great mercy, through the laying on of His hands through His Christ, those in unbelief do not continue in unbelief but get saved. They, however are now being persecuted for the faith they once overthrew by their fellowmen. The Lord appeared to Saul which became Paul when he got saved. Paul was now commissioned to go to the gentiles within his brethren and to the gentiles without. It was a quick work the Lord did in Paul’s life as it is with us today because a thousand years is like one day to God. Paul was sent to … Act 26:17 Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee, To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me. The converted Paul was sent to preach the Gospel and not to baptize in His Name. He was sent to show mercy, that is to say he was send to baptize with fire, which is the Gospel of Peace.
Act 26:14 And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
Act 26:15 And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.
Act 26:16 But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee;
1Co 1:17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.
1Co 1:18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
Preaching the Gospel, preaching the risen Christ in me, I, Rohnel, was caught in the Temple and the Jews went about to kill me [spiritually]. I put my trust in Thee Lord … Psa 9:10 And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee. Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings. When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble. Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:
Act 26:21 For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me.
Act 26:22 Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come:
Act 26:23 That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.
Rom 8:16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
Rom 8:17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
The Remnant
We have looked at the example of Judas, the unconverted Saul as types of us. The remnant of Israel are the same ones abiding in unbelief. All of Israel those that receives the Word of this Gospel, are not Israel, only those the Lord is chosen, in Isaac seed are the blessed. They are the true remnant of Israel. It is a mystery because they are the remnant but yet they are also the ones in unbelief that get saved through the Lord’s mercy showing them these things.
Rom 11:2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,
Rom 11:3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
Rom 11:4 But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.
Rom 11:5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
Isa 29:24 They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.
Mic 7:18 Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.
Mic 7:19 He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
Mic 7:20 Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.
Grace means to be raised from spiritual death and to be given the Spirit of Life. Only a few at this time obtain His grace. This is the greater works and the true love of God. This grace is by election, nothing that we ever did or do but it is only by God’s design that we are being saved at this time. It is through the fiery Baptism of Christ, that we are made accepted in the Beloved.
Rom 11:6 And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
Rom 11:7 What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded.
Eph 1:4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
Eph 1:5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
Eph 1:6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
Before the Lord shows mercy, the remnant are those who are the broken off branches at this time. Those that have been broken off are broken off because of unbelief, not believing the one God sends to preach the Acceptable Year of the Lord. Those fallen asleep believed and were woken up first to bring the message of salvation. Some of those fallen asleep first believed and then fell back into the unbelief spoken of in Galatians. Those that are broken off, the remnant of Israel, come forth in the resurrection of damnation and those who believed first in the resurrection of Life.
Rom 6:20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.
Rom 6:21 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
Rom 6:22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
Rom 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Joh 5:28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
Joh 5:29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
Because of unbelief the branches are broken off. Unbelief is the hardening of the hearts. Wrath is the reasoning of the carnally minded, accusing and excusing to arrive at knowledge but not the knowledge of God. It is lust and anger in spirit. The knowledge of God gives us great and precious promises whereas the knowledge of man, the work of our hands is the opposite. It is a wisdom that envies and strives … Jas 3:14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
2Pe 1:3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
2Pe 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
Jas 3:13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
The broken off branches, forget the wife of their youth, and look on another in their hearts and minds. It is the mindset of an adulterer. The broken off branches at this time, do not agree with the adversary quickly and get snared by their carnal reasoning, Caesar, the king within. This is what all of us do within. Not being justified by faith, we go about our own business establishing our own righteousnesses without God. We need the Lake of Fire to purify us. We need doing the Word to save us.
Mat 5:27 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
Mat 5:28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Mat 12:37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
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 should heal them.
Mat 5:25 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.
Mat 5:26 Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.
In the parable below, we see the difference between faith and unbelief. In faith, we preach the Gospel, in unbelief we think we see and do not know that we are blind. In faith we have works [belief] and in unbelief we have nothing. In faith, we have Hope of Christ’s appearing and it is through this Hope of Christ’s appearing that we purify ourselves. Having Hope we are the tender herbs speaking of those who have the gift of faith, we sprout again once made alive. Those abiding in unbelief is likened unto the root of the tree that wax old … Job 14:7 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
Joh 9:35 Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had found him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God?
Joh 9:36 He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him?
Joh 9:37 And Jesus said unto him, Thou hast both seen him, and it is he that talketh with thee.
Joh 9:38 And he said, Lord, I believe. And he worshipped him.
Joh 9:39 And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.
Joh 9:40 And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also?
Joh 9:41 Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.
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.
Thanks be to our wonderful God, the Lord grafts the remnant back in after we and they suffered for a while. They are first blind and in unbelief until the Day of Christ when Christ sends His Christ, the deliverer, to turn away their sins. We are guilty of all because of each other and justified because of each other [Rom 4]. In Christ’s wrath, he delivers us from the bondage of the carnal mind. It is a time of great shaking, a time of astonishment when Christ turns our captivity away before our eyes. It is the time of Jacob’s trouble.
Rom 11:25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
Rom 11:26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
Rom 11:27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
2Sa 22:1 And David spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul:
2Sa 22:2 And he said, The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;
2Sa 22:3 The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.
2Sa 22:4 I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
2Sa 22:5 When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;
2Sa 22:6 The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;
2Sa 22:7 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.
2Sa 22:8 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.
Until the great shaking takes place, those in unbelief are enemies for the Gospel’s sake but beloved for the father’s sake. Once again we see the two-edged sword of the Lord. Christ is come in our flesh is the true message of the Gospel and the message that is rejected by the carnal world. Because of the rejection of Christ, the fallen asleep made alive, the Christ of Christ, are the first to receive the gift of faith and now save their brothers doing the greater works of God. This way God has mercy upon all. Those in unbelief are holy to the Lord, being the root that comes out of Jesse. They are grafted back into their own olive tree and are riches to the world. Those in unbelief return … Mic 5:3 Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel. We sigh and cry over our brothers in unbelief but we have a promise from the Lord … Rev 6:10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
Rom 11:28 As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sakes.
Rom 11:29 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
Rom 11:30 For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
Rom 11:31 Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
Rom 11:32 For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
Rom 11:11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
Rom 11:12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
Rom 11:15 For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
Rom 11:16 For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
Rom 11:23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.
Here is an example of Titus that was grafted back in. Titus left Paul to go to Dalmatia … 2Ti 4:10 For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia. Titus after his conversion, was a messenger of the churches. He was grafted back into his own olive tree. Once though the Lake of Fire, Titus was converted.
2Co 8:16 But thanks be to God, which put the same earnest care into the heart of Titus for you.
2Co 8:17 For indeed he accepted the exhortation; but being more forward, of his own accord he went unto you.
2Co 8:18 And we have sent with him the brother, whose praise is in the gospel throughout all the churches;
2Co 8:23 Whether any do enquire of Titus, he is my partner and fellowhelper concerning you: or our brethren be enquired of, they are the messengers of the churches, and the glory of Christ.
2Co 8:24 Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.
The Occasion – Partaking of the Lord’s Supper Unworthily
We partake of the Lord’s Supper unworthily because some received the gift of faith whilst others tarry for the Lord to come. Thus the one walking by faith is hungry for the Lord appearing more and more and the other abiding in unbelief is full, hearing the true Gospel preached to them but not gone through the Lake of fire yet. When we examine ourselves we see that we do not have the same mind and eat unworthily for a time. This is the occasion the Lords seeks to judge us, eating and drinking unworthily at His table. All these things are being fulfilled at this time, looking within.
1Co 11:20 When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord’s supper.
1Co 11:21 For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
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.
Rom 15:6 That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Rom 15:7 Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God.
1Co 11:30 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
When we see these things we are therefore commanded to wait for each other as did John when he tarried on the isle of Patmos doing the greater work. Discern spiritually what is being said. The one writing to you, is John tarrying on the island of Patmos for my brethren, the remnant of Israel. These eight Letters written to the Church are the testimony of Christ Jesus. It is the Spirit of Prophecy.
1Co 11:33 Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another.
Rev 1:9 I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ
Thus all died to be Judged
We have to die once and after that the Judgment. The Lord seeks an occasion against us, and it is because we eat His Supper unworthily. So all died and all have come short of the Glory of the Lord to be woken up and to be judged by Him and His Christ in the great Day of the Lord which is now on our House. This is our latter end, the end of all things. Our Day of Judgment is come and so is Pentecost. We live all things, every Word of God, because of each other, being one bread together. Let us be glad and rejoice in all the Lord is doing for us. Without the Lake of fire we are not saved.
1Pe 4:5 Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.
1Pe 4:6 For this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
1Pe 4:7 But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
1Pe 4:12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
1Pe 4:13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
1Pe 4:14 If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
1Pe 4:15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men’s matters.
1Pe 4:16 Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.
1Pe 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
1Pe 4:18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
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.
Closing
In His great mercy, the Lord makes a way of escape for all. It is through the believing husband or believing wife that we are being saved because the believing husband or wife stands in the gap for the other. Our little sister is yet carnal, but we tarry for her. It is a parable. In this Letter we discussed the man of sin within us. It is the hardened heart of Pharaoh. Pharaoh gets converted in the end. Our curse turns into a blessing. In the previous Letter the fallen asleep in Christ are those not wanting to go unto perfection. They stumble a little but are helped to go unto perfection in due time. Both types go hand in hand. Both types are types of us in this Day as we fulfill the Scriptures, living by every Word.
Deu 23:5 Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee.
Col 3:19 Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
1Co 7:3 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
1Co 7:4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
1Co 7:5 Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
1Co 7:13 And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.
1Co 7:14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
1Co 7:15 But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.
1Co 7:16 For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?
Eph 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Eph 5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
Eph 5:27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
Eph 5:28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
Eph 5:29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
Eph 5:30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
Son 8:8 We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?
When all is said and done, grace will reign through righteousness, speaking of things that are not as if they are at the time of this writing. Comparing spiritual with spiritual, we now see the great mercy of the Lord and His Christ, who gave themselves for their brethren, laying down their lives to save them from such a great death. Having been saved first, we now do as Christ did. In due time, those in unbelief, get converted and their conversion is riches to the world. We all come short of His Glory at first, so boasting is excluded. Not all Israel is Israel, take heed how you hear … Mar 8:35 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save it.
Rom 5:21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
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.
Now these remain:
1Co 13:13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
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.
2Th 3:18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.