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The Tree of Life

July 19, 2025September 2, 2025 Rohnel

The Commands of Christ Jesus, the power of an endless Life

Ronel, and my beloved husband, Pete, a servant of Jesus Christ, separated unto the Gospel of God, to the strangers scattered throughout the world, Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied. Speaking to the Church to comfort, edify, and exhort [1 Co 14:3]. Who will believe our report?

Eph 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:

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:

The Two Trees Part 2 – The Tree of Life

In the letter, The Two Trees Part 1, we see how we ate of the fruit of the tree of good and evil, which led to spiritual death through God’s design who works all matters after the counsel of His own will [Eph 1:17, Prov 16:1].

Christ is jealous for Zion, His people, and through His great mercy and judgment returns to us, His unfaithful wife, and spiritually raises her from the dead if He has chosen her/us to hear His Voice in this age. Christ forsakes us for a little while, but with great anger and jealousy comes back for His throne.

Jer 33:11 The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the LORD.

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.

Not all calling Christ Lord will enter into the Kingdom of God now, but only those who hear His Voice in every generation. We, the escaped remnant, now have access to the Tree of Life, which is Christ, in us, the Hope of Glory [Rom 11:5, Isa 11:16]. Christ IS come in our flesh, and if anyone disagrees, he has the spirit of anti-Christ.

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.

Joh 10:16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.

The Tree of Life is a dry tree in the midst of paradise, which the Lord makes to flourish in this day, the Day of the Lord. He brings down the high tree, the tree of good and evil, to dry up the green tree and exalt the dry tree. Christ, the dry Tree, is exalted above all.

Eze 17:24 And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the LORD have spoken and have done it.

Eph 1:20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,

Eph 1:21 Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:

The Tree of Life is for the healing of the nations [gentiles], which have Christ’s Name [Gospel] in their foreheads, the gentiles whom He has chosen in every generation. The rest of the Gentiles will be saved later according to His plan because Christ is the Saviour of all men [1 Tim 4:10]. Only some are saved in every generation, and the end of the ages is come upon us, His people, in every generation.

Rev 22:2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

Rev 22:4 And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.

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.

Act 15:17 That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.

We do not desire Christ at first; there is no comeliness in the dry tree. We have to be born again [John 3:3]. The Lord has to open our eyes to see and our ears to hear His glorious Gospel. This is the Lord’s mercy. Mercy is to raise us up from the dead [spiritual death]. The Gospel is hid.

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.

Luk 5:38 But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved.

Luk 5:39 No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better.

The Tree of Life is the knowledge of Christ, the faith of Christ. The knowledge of Christ is to believe that only His blood can save us. His blood, His Words of Spirit and Life [John 6:63] saves us from the wrath to come. His knowledge is the knowledge/mystery of His Gospel; it is the knowledge of His Commandments, so we may do them. It is the knowledge that our own knowledge and good deeds, which are needful, cannot save us.

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 [Gospel] 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.

2Pe 3:18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.

Col 2:3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

The Tree of Life is the godly wisdom from above, which gives us life eternal [aionios], and that is to know Christ and the Father [John 17:3]. This tree gives us the fear of the Lord, and the fear of the Lord is to obey Him, which is the beginning of wisdom.

Jas 3:17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

Ecc 7:12 For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.

Pro 9:10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.

Pro 16:6 By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.

Eating of Christ’s flesh and bones, drinking His blood, the Lord now makes a New Covenant with us, writing His Laws in our hearts and minds. We are renewing creatures; the old life and old mindset is passing away. Our covenant with death, eating of the fruit of the tree of good and evil, does not stand; it is disannulled [Isa 28:18]. Death, where is your sting? We now have a lasting peace. Our God is full of compassion and long-suffering with us, and His mercy is on them that fear Him from generation to generation [Luk 1:50].

Isa 54:10 For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.

Heb 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

Heb 8:13 In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.

1Co 15:55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

The Lord sends His messenger of the Covenant suddenly, Christ makes a quick work upon the earth in our hearts and in our minds. Christ comes when it is least expected. The heavens are rolled up like a scroll in this Day, and He makes a sudden end to all of our unrighteousness and ungodliness, which is the work of our own hands, the idols of our hearts.

Mal 3:1 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.

1Th 5:2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

Having access to the Tree of Life, the Lord takes away our sins and remembers them no more. The Lord visits us with His salvation. He takes away our sins by giving us His Commandments, the judgments of His mouth[Ps 105].

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.

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.

All of us have sinned and have come short of His glory, and if we say otherwise, we lie.

Rom 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

Rom 3:24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

Rom 3:25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

We escape from the corruption of worldly lusts and covetousness [idolatry] because we have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked eating of the fruit of the tree of good and evil. We live by every Word that comes out of the mouth of God. No man escapes, all eat of the fruit of the tree of good and evil and come short of the glory of God. Please read the letter, The Two Trees Part 1, which shows us the fruit of the tree of good and evil, the exalted tree.

Eze 6:9 And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.

Eze 6:10 And they shall know that I am the LORD, and that I have not said in vain that I would do this evil unto them.

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.

The Tree of Life is the true Sabbath’s rest; we cease from our own works and rest in Christ. The Sabbath’s rest is holy unto God. This Sabbath’s rest was made for us, and the Lord reigns supreme over it. We have to become holy to see the Lord; we do not serve two tables, the table of Mammon and the table of the Lord. We do not mix wool and linen in one garment, we do not plow with an ox and ass together, spiritually speaking [Deut 22:10-11].

Heb 4:9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

Heb 4:10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.

Exo 20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

Mar 2:27 And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:

Mar 2:28 Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.

We are now sons of God, chosen before the foundation of the world, and our hearts bear witness that we are the sons of God. The Lord accepts us as sons, and we are no more bastards [Heb 12:8]. We travail in birth and with much pain and sorrow, birth the man-child [Rom 8, Rev 12:13].

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,

Gal 4:5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

Gal 4:6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

Hos 1:10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.

Eating of the Tree of Life, we have the Promise of eternal Life. We have to abide in His love [keep His Commandments, 2 Pet 3:9] to receive the Promise, which is the Holy Spirit, which are the Words of Spirit and Life [John 6:63]. This is the Power of God and eternal life [life aionios].

1Jn 2:24 Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.

1Jn 2:25 And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.

Rom 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

We have to patiently hope and wait for the Promise of God [Heb 10:36]. We receive the Promise of the Spirit of God through the faith of Christ, which is a gift of God. We have to hear and believe the Gospel to be sealed with the Holy Spirit [Eph 1:13]. The Promise is our inheritance, eating of the Tree of Life, which is Christ in us. The Promise belongs to us; our inheritance is in the Lord. The true Israel of God has no inheritance in this world.

Act 2:39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

Gal 3:14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

Eze 44:28 And it shall be unto them for an inheritance: I am their inheritance: and ye shall give them no possession in Israel: I am their possession.

Eating of the Tree of Life, we are being made partakers of His divine nature, His anointing stays in us. We have come to the end of our faith, the salvation of our souls. The anointing is the Holy Spirit, the Promise, or the Comforter.

1Jn 2:27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.

Jer 31:34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

We are now children of the blessed and holy First Resurrection and reign with Christ, sitting on twelve thrones. Our citizenship is New Jerusalem above.

Mat 19:28 And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

Mat 19:29 And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.

Mat 19:30 But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first.

Rev 3:12 Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.

We rejoice that we are made low, emptying ourselves, becoming servants to God. All of our treasures are fading away. We cannot see the Lord and live; our natural man has to die.

Isa 28:1 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!

Jas 1:9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:

Jas 1:10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

We are offered up following Christ’s example, as He is so are we [1 John 4:17].

Php 2:17 Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.

Php 2:18 For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me.

This is the only Tree that makes us holy unto God; we are being made perfect on the third day. We are made over, a new man conformed into the image of Christ.

Eph 4:13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

Eph 4:24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

Col 3:8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

Col 3:9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;

Col 3:10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:

This is the Day, the Lord will reconcile our brethren back to us. You, who are reading, that came out of the physical churches/fellowships of the world, that have no fellowship elsewhere, whether it be over the internet or in a church, today the Lord joins you to us, we are one flock, we have One Lord, One Father. If you believe in the Name/Gospel of Christ in your hearts and confess with your mouths, you are His sheep. You are part of the remnant the Lord calls. Christ is not leaving or forsaking you.

Joe 2:32 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.

Gal 3:26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

Gal 3:27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

Gal 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

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.

Gal 6:17 From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.

Eating of the Tree of Life brings forth fruit and joy unspeakable as we start to overcome sin. Our reward is the crown of righteousness. We have to patiently wait for the Lord, put all our hope in Him to come and give us this crown, and above all else, to be found spotless [without sin] when He comes. Those who wait for the Lord are not put to shame [Isa 49]. Paul says he presents us as a chaste virgin unto Christ.

2Ki 19:30 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.

2Ki 19:31 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.

Psa 92:13 Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.

Psa 92:14 They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;

The crown of glory is Christ in us, the Hope of Glory. It is the Gospel of Jesus Christ; it is knowing and obeying the Commandments of Christ. We wait patiently, striving to enter into the narrow gate, and are watchful that nobody takes our crown. When we fall, we get back up immediately, we resist the devil [carnal thoughts, the world], and he flees from us. The Lord promised and He will do it and IS doing it, and that is to give us overcoming over our sins, overcoming the world within and without.

Isa 28:5 In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people,

Isa 28:6 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.

2Ti 4:7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:

2Ti 4:8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.

Rev 3:10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

Rev 3:11 Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.

As the true Israel of God, we are the praise of the earth because Christ returns to us. He has not forgotten us. He is our faithful High Priest after the order of Melchisedec. He wakes us up from deep sleep [spiritual death], and we have joy forevermore. The Lord dwells in Mount Zion, Christ and the Father dwells in us in this Day [John 14:20].

Isa 8:18 Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.

Isa 46:13 I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.

Isa 51:16 And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.

We are Zion, the perfection of beauty.

Psa 50:2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.

Psa 50:3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.

Psa 50:4 He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.

Psa 50:5 Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.

Psa 50:6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.

The tree of Life extends peace to us like a river; it endures forever, because the Lord, through His mercy, has opened our ears and made us to see the One whom we have pierced. He has brought us home again. The Lord’s judgments give us peace. The Lord’s judgments are His Commandments. Our peace is our comfort.

Isa 66:12 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon her knees.

Isa 66:13 As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

Joh 14:27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

Isa 52:7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!

We pray and thank the Lord continually for saving us. Once we are lifted out of this world, we see the bondage, we see Leviathan [the devil], which has pulled us up into his net [Job 41]. Praying, lifting up hands, means the way we walk in this life. Praying means worshipping God. Our hearts are full of joy because of what the Lord is doing in this Day.

Heb 13:15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.

1Pe 2:5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

Rev 8:3 And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.

Reading this letter, we have a joyful and pleasant feast and we remember to remember God, the Father, and the Lord, Christ, to honour and obey Them as we are unworthy servants, which is our duty to do. Here are some Commandments for a time like this, reading and reminding ourselves what a great gift we have been given, the Tree of Life. His Commandments are our daily bread from heaven. The Apostles remind us:

To walk worthy of our calling … being steadfast … holding to our Head.

To not be spoilt by fables and philosophies … to shun vain babblings … to put our affection on things above … to not answer foolish questions … to not walk in lasciviousness, excess of wine, idolatries … to establish our hearts with grace not with meat … to not love the world … to try the spirits … to keep away from idols … to not follow after evil.

To love our brethren fervently … abounding in love … keeping His Commands … to esteem those that labour in the Word.

To have confidence to draw near … casting our cares upon Christ … to be humble, patient, and longsuffering … looking to others’ affairs, not just our own.

To forbear and forgive each other … to get angry and sin not … to be full of mercy.

To not neglect our gifts … to work with our own hands … to eat at home … to study to show ourselves approved … be ready to give an answer … not to be slothful … to speak truth in love.

To gird up our loins … to be sober … to resist the devil … to labour to enter into His rest … to not be involved in the affairs of this world.

To bridle our tongues … no corrupt communication out of our mouths … no evil speaking … no bitterness … no jesting … to be kind and gentle … to renew our minds … our speech seasoned with salt … swift to hear and slow to speak … to set aside the sins that so easily beset us … to not covet … to not faint … to not be unequally joked with unbelievers.

To be holy, set apart … to not be partakers of others’ sins … to lay hands suddenly on no man … to follow after peace and holiness …to not revile … to not threaten … to not be partial … to not be puffed up.

To feed the flock … to present every man perfect … to be hospitable … to entertain strangers … to visit the fatherless, the orphan, the widow, the Levite, the stranger spiritually … to not eat or drink the Lord’s supper unworthily … to seek the excellent gifts but rather to prophesy … to be orderly. Casting our cares upon Him … our behaviour honest among the gentiles … to redeem our time … to be subject to rulers … to not be a stumbling block… to not judge another … to bear the weak … to judge nothing before the time … to give cheerfully … to not speak evil.

To give thanks in all things … to not moan … to do things heartily as if we do it for the Lord … to press on for the prize of the high calling … to make our calling and election sure … to examine ourselves … to live by faith.

To teach and preach the Gospel … to not be ashamed of the Gospel … to admonish, exhort, comfort, and edify … to be humble … to not boast … to do good when we know to do good … to not revile … to be patient … to bear each other’s burdens … to do good to all men.

To pray for the king and all men … to lift hands up everywhere praying spiritually … to confess our sins … to pass our time in fear of the Lord.

To be doers of the Word … to not quench the spirit … to give heed to prophesies … to not forsake the assembly … to present our bodies a living sacrifice … to be of the same mind … fervent in spirit … rejoicing in hope … blessing not cursing.

To think on things true, honest, just, pure, virtuous, and of good report … to die daily … to love and many more.

Receive ye the Gospel.

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The Commands of Christ, the power of an endless Life

Ronel and my beloved husband, Pete, to the strangers scattered throughout the world, Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied. Speaking to the Church to comfort, edify and exhort [1 Co 14:3]. Who will believe our report?

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,

The Two Trees Part 1 – Knowledge

Christ first takes us out of the world [Egypt] and starts drawing us [whose names are written in His book] to Himself. He makes a Covenant with us coming out of the world and tells us He will bring us into the Promised Land, which is Christ in us, the Hope of Glory, to be a partaker of His Divine nature [2 Pe 1:4]. Here is the Covenant in type and shadow:

Exo 6:6 Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:

Exo 6:7 And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

Exo 6:8 And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for an heritage: I am the LORD.

We do not continue in the first Covenant, we forget the Lord and He regards us not. We increase in knowledge and Christ is forgotten, His Commandments do not come to heart.

Jer 3:16 And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the LORD, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any more.

The Ark of the Covenant, which symbolizes Christ, the Commandments, is forgotten, and the Lord casts us out of His Presence.

2Ch 15:2 … The LORD is with you while you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.

Jer 23:39 Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I will forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, and cast you out of my presence:

We see by the mercy of the Lord, He makes a new Covenant with us after these days, finding fault with the first Covenant.

Heb 8:8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:

Heb 9:15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

Through God’s design working all things after the counsel of His own will [Eph 1:11], we have the Gospel preached to us, but are drawn away through our carnal minds, that is to say, our fleshly lusts, which are our carnal thoughts in our quest for knowledge. The parable of the sower explains what happens to us:

Mat 13:18 Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower.

Mat 13:19 When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.

Mat 13:20 But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it;

Mat 13:21 Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.

Mat 13:22 He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.

We spiritually go back to Egypt in our attempt to establish our own righteousness. It was ordained from the beginning of the world that we would eat the fruit of the tree of good and evil. This tree is the tree of knowledge, and is pleasant to look at and a tree to be desired to make us wise [Gen 3:6]. We do eat of this tree, because we live by every Word coming out of the mouth of God [Matt 4:4]. All things are ours [1 Co 3:22] as we keep the sayings of the prophecy of this book [Rev 1:3]. This tree leads to spiritual death:

Gen 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Gen 3:5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

Knowing good and evil is making us wise, our carnal thoughts going to and fro, up and down, round and round we go, and it is the accusing and excusing thoughts we have within ourselves leading to knowledge. This law is called the law of the Gentiles, a law unto ourselves [Rom 2:15]. It is a deceiving wisdom which have many doctrines:

Job 1:7 And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.

Eph 4:14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

Going to and fro is how we increase knowledge. We are hasty, wanting more and get our treasures by a lying tongue, vanities tossed to and fro [Prov 21:5-6]. We run to and fro seeking the Lord, and do not find Him because He is hidden from us [Amos 8:12].

Dan 12:4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

Ecc 1:18 For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

It is a fleshly wisdom driven by the spirit of disobedience, through the prince of this world, Satan, the prince of the power of the air. Satan appears to us as an angel of light [2 Co11:14]. We are children of wrath and do not know it. Our knowledge, which is perfect in our own eyes, makes us blind and deaf, having eyes and ears that do not see and do not hear [Isa 42:19].

Jas 3:15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

Jas 3:16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

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.

We are commanded to abstain from fleshly lusts [carnal thoughts] that war against the soul. The sin in our members is our carnal minds, having carnal wisdom, dreaming dreams, listening to the false prophets within and without [Jer 23:9] who lie to us and give us false visions and divinations, for example, idols of our hearts, thinking our knowledge will save us in the day of trouble [Jer 14;14]. Let us drink and eat and be merry. Drinking and eating without the Lord is sin [Rom 14:17].

1Pe 2:11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Rom 6:11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Rom 6:12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

We love and reap the wages of unrighteousness, not building and founding our houses upon the Rock [Christ] but going astray and falling into a deep sleep [Acts 20:9-11].

Jer 22:13 Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour’s service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;

2Pe 2:14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:

2Pe 2:15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

Our accusing and excusing mindsets are of our Father, the devil, which is the mark of the beast. The Lord’s Words are spiritual [John 6:63]. We do not have the mind of Christ, nor have we the Father, and the Promise of the Father is not yet given to us [Luk 24:49]:

Joh 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

Satan, the spirit of the carnal mind, is a murderer and a thief.

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.

Eating of the tree of good and evil is likened unto money, the god, mammon, which is the pride of life. The fear of the Lord is to hate pride [Pro 8:13], but pride and violence cover us in spirit [Ps 73:6]. We cannot serve two masters, two tables at the same time [Luk 16:13]:

1Jn 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

1Jn 2:17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

This worldly wisdom is the corruptible silver and gold, the corruptible treasures that we heap up during this time of our walk, working out our own salvation without fear and trembling. Our idols are our own doings. Our idols are the work of our own hands [Ps 115:4]:

1Pe 1:18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;

1Pe 1:19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:

Jas 5:2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.

Jas 5:3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

Our treasures are not saving us, nor do it save any man. Our wisdom is cankered silver and gold. We are sinning angels reserved unto judgement [2 Pet 2:4].

Eze 28:2 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:

Eze 28:4 With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:

Col 1:12 Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:

Col 1:13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

Col 1:14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:

Our foolish wisdom is found on our lips, being fools, which swallow us up, babbling all day long in our vanity and vain deceptions, lying to ourselves and to others, promising them and us liberty whilst we are servants of corruption [2 Pe 2:19]. We sit as God in the temples of our hearts [2 Th 2:3-4]:

1Co 1:20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

1Co 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.

1Co 3:20 And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.

This worldly knowledge is not from above, but it is the wisdom that is reveling in our cunningly devised fables, genealogies, imaginings, and wishful thinking, dreaming to establish our own salvation. We are modern-day fortune tellers, saying we see and we do not know that our sin remains [John 9:41].

2Pe 1:16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

1Ti 1:4 Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.

1Ti 1:5 Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:

The heaping up of great treasures to ourselves gives us itching ears that turn us away from the Truth of the Gospel. We warm ourselves by the fire and the resurrection of Christ, that is to say, to bring Christ up from the grave, bringing Him into remembrance to know and obey Him is past or future tense for us. We are typical Sadducees and Pharisees. We do not desire Christ at all [Isa 53:2-3]:

2Ti 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

2Ti 4:4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

The spirit of whoredom is in our midst. We look everywhere else for the Kingdom of God. This is all by God’s design, becoming like gods, before we are allowed access to the tree of Life, Christ, through great judgment and mercy.

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.

Psa 82:6 I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.

Psa 82:7 But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.

We have eyes full of adultery rioting in the daytime after our idols increasing in riches, forgetting Christ drawing men after us and hindering them from entering into the Kingdom of God themselves. Our high places are where we burn incense to other gods, for example, via the traditions of men naturally and spiritually [2 Ch 28:4]. We love the high places in the congregation, and our spiritual wickedness at this time is found in high places [Eph 6:12].

2Pe 2:13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;

2Pe 2:14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:

2Pe 2:15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

We go back to the days of our youth, we go back to Egypt, the place of bondage and slavery. We make Christ’s House a den of robbers [Matt 21:13] and are the merchants trading with the souls of men spiritually [Rev 18:11-13].

Eze 23:19 Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

Jer 7:8 Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.

Jer 7:9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;

Jer 7:10 And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?

Jer 7:11 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD.

Gal 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

Gal 5:20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

Gal 5:21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

As Christ’s Bride, we commit adultery with strange flesh. We do not keep to our first estate, hearing and obeying the Commands of Christ, but rather treasure up wrath for the Day of Judgement. We commit adultery with a strange woman who flatters with her lips and are that evil man that delights in the forwardness of the wicked [Prov 2:14]. Asking amiss, we do not receive because we ask to spend it on our pleasures, which are our treasures of worldly knowledge [Jas 4:3-4]:

Jud 1:6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

Jud 1:7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

Pro 2:16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

Pro 2:17 Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.

Eze 16:32 But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!

We have many lovers and provoke the Lord to anger and jealousy [Zec 8:2-3]. We are in deep deception, the devil/our carnal minds have overtaken us [Rev 20:3]. Christ has given us over for the destruction of our flesh, that is to say, He is marring our carnal minds.

Deu 32:16 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.

Son 8:6 Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.

1Co 10:22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

1Co 10:23 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.

We forget the Lord and say His table is contemptible. We are thieves that steal from the Lord because we do not worship or honour Him. His Commandments are a light thing to us :

Mal 1:6 A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?

Mal 1:7 Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD is contemptible.

We have the spirit of divination, which is rebellion against the Lord and His Christ. We have neither godly wisdom nor understanding. Our necks are stiff, and we are cruel/hardened as ostriches:

Job 39:13 Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?

Job 39:14 Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,

Job 39:15 And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.

Job 39:16 She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without fear;

Job 39:17 Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.

1Sa 15:23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.

Rom 10:21 But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.

We rebel/gainsay against the Lord and His Christ. We eat and drink in the kingdom of darkness and wax fat, and are the drunkards of Ephraim who do not inherit the Kingdom of God [1 Co 6:10]. The Lord has no pleasure in us and accepts nothing from our hand, yet He loves us but hates the Esau in us [Mal 1:1-4].

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;

Our Rock, Christ, has sold us out, and we do not consider our latter end [Deut 32:29-30]. We are spiritually dead, twice plucked up by the roots. Not knowing that we are in a deep sleep whilst we live, we keep on feasting.

Deu 32:15 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

Deu 32:17 They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.

Deu 32:18 Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.

Walking to and fro, up and down, round and round in circles, accusing and excusing thoughts lead us to have many idols, fables, and imaginings, which are the work of our own hands. We do not hear and do not obey the Commandments of Christ, but spiritually commit sacrilege with our idols of knowledge, but there is no life in them.

Hab 2:18 What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?

Hab 2:19 Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.

Rom 2:22 Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?

Rom 2:23 Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?

Rom 2:24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.

We fornicate with our father, the devil’s wife, and uncover the devil’s nakedness, which are the kingdoms of this world. We have great knowledge, and there is no end to our treasures, yet without Christ. We are the man.

1Co 5:1 It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife.

1Co 5:2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.

1Co 5:3 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,

We reap the reward of this action, and are imprisoned by our carnal reasonings, delivered up to Satan for the destruction of our flesh that our spirits may be saved in our Day of Judgement. We are the Corinthian fornicators, sinning against our own body within and without:

1Co 5:4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

1Co 5:5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

1Co 6:18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

We commit spiritual idolatry, which is the spirit of covetousness, never having enough, having a strong desire for knowledge and more knowledge, and are never satisfied with what we have. We are always hungry and cold, and our wages are put into bags with holes in them. We are not content, and our riches are rotten [Joel 1:17].

Col 3:5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

Rev 2:20 Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.

Rev 2:21 And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.

Hag 1:6 Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.

We are merry, never thinking that our bags wax old and our treasures fail. We are rich but we are not rich towards God. Read the parable of the rich man [Luk 12:16-19]. Our flowers, which are beautiful in their time, fade away quickly as James notes.

Luk 12:20 But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?

Luk 12:21 So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.

Jas 1:11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

Christ finds us lacking [Matt 19:16-22, Rev 3:2] and does not find us perfect. He has something against us; we are the sons of Belshazzar and are weighed in the balances:

Puffed up with knowledge, not entering into Christ’s true Sabbath [Heb 4] because of disbelief, we do not seek the Kingdom of God and the righteousness found only in the holy commandments.

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.

Dan 5:27 TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

Heb 13:5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

We are the covering cherub that sits in the seat of God, being full of pride [Eze 28:14]. We are the man of lawlessness, we appear beautiful on the outside but are full of dead men’s bones [Matt 23:27]. The inside is full of excess [Matt 23:25]. Perfect in our own beauty, not holding to our Head, Jesus Christ, and not having the faith of Christ, the Lord, rejects us at this time [Co 2:18-19]. We do not see Him anymore [John 16:16, Luke 22:18], until He comes again.

Hos 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

Eze 28:4 With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:

Eze 28:5 By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:

Here in Deuteronomy, in type and shadow, the Lord warns us about this state of affairs. He warns us not to forget Him. Who has eyes to see and ears to hear?

Deu 8:11 Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day:

Deu 8:12 Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;

Deu 8:13 And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;

Deu 8:14 Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;

Sitting like the eagles, secured in our knowledge, making our nests up high with our fenced cities [Jer 49:16], we do not see evil coming, we say peace, peace when there is no peace [Isa 59:8, Rom 3:17]. We sin more and more, adding sin to sin, and do not know that destruction is on its way. We are haughty, jingling as we go, and puffed up one against the other. At this point, we have no reward in Christ, as we put our trust in the pride of life [1Jn 2:16-17], the love of money, and loving not God. We have strayed from the faith of Christ.

1Ti 6:10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Hos 13:2 And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.

Isa 3:16 Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:

This is the way of an adulterous woman, Spiritual Babylon within us, that all go through in our appointed time. Here we have great wealth, forgetting the One who begat us. Our table becomes a snare to us to this day.

Pro 30:20 Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.

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.

We worship the hosts of heaven [symbolic of the tree of good and evil], never ending, coming to the Truth of the Gospel. Observing traditions of men, birthdays, Christmas, Halloween, and many more. This is worshipping the hosts of heaven, even in the natural, partaking in all of these heathen practices. The Lord gives us over to our fleshly desires and lusts and deceives us [Ez 14]:

Jer 8:2 And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.

Gal 4:9 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?

Gal 4:10 Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.

Eating of this tree is the sin of hypocrisy. We make our brothers stumble who follow after us [Matt 15:19]. Our meat [knowledge] becomes a stumbling block to the weak [Rom 14:15].

Isa 32:6 For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

Luk 12:1 In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Defrauding our brethren, we make merchandise of them as we do not teach them the Gospel, the Commandments of Christ, instead enticing them to be like us, sitting in an idol’s temple, being covetous for more and more knowledge. We are not holy at this stage, but unclean.

1Th 4:2 For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.

1Th 4:3 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

1Th 4:4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;

1Th 4:5 Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

1Th 4:6 That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.

1Th 4:7 For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.

1Th 4:8 He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.

1Pe 1:16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

We labour in vain and can never get enough. We are always hungry because it is not the true manna from heaven [John 6]. There is no fruit on the fig tree [Matt 21:19]. Our herds groan, there is no pasture [Joel 1:18].

Hos 4:10 For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD.

Hos 4:11 Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.

Hos 4:12 My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.

1Ti 6:5 Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.

The Lord, Christ, gives us over to a reprobate mind, unnaturally lusting after each other, knowing the Truth, but worshipping ourselves, the creation, and not the Creator, which is Christ. His Words are spiritual [John 6:63], and we are shown the state of these things in the natural:

Rom 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

Rom 1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

Rom 1:30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

Rom 1:31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

Rom 1:32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

This is our state, eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. We are spiritually dead, twice plucked up by the roots:

Eze 17:9 Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof.

Eph 5:14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.

What then is the purpose of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? Why do we have to eat of this tree first? If this tree makes us to sin, why do we have to go through this?

Rom 9:19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?

Rom 9:20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

Eating of this tree, we learn to discern between good and evil. We accuse and excuse thoughts to come to knowledge, and this knowledge we acquire has many truths and many lies. We learn discernment, for example, we know there is no free will and that the trinity doctrine is false. We have to know these things to speak with the enemy at the gate. The Lord first spoils us and then He is making us over, as we are like clay in the Potter’s Hand.

Jer 18:4 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

Mar 2:22 And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles.

Eating of the tree of good and evil brings us to the tree of Life, which is Christ in us, the Hope of Glory. We are brought out with great mercy and judgment in the Day of the Lord. Who has believed our report? The Lord is near us, who can know it, TODAY WHEN YOU HEAR HIS VOICE:

Rom 10:6 But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:)

Rom 10:7 Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)

Rom 10:8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;

Heb 10:6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.

Heb 10:7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.

Some of the commands we covered in this study include these commandments, which we strive to do in all our behavior.

Love God with all your heart, soul and mind …, love your neighbour as yourselves …, love each other as I loved you …, do not commit adultery …, flee fornication …, do not defraud your brethren …, do not let your meat be a stumblingblock …, keep away from idols …, do not covet …, be free of the love of money …, abstain from fleshly lusts …, preach and obey the Gospel of Christ …, do not be puffed up one against another …, be set apart …, keep My Commandments…, and many more.

Receive ye the Gospel. Amen.

Part 2 of this study on the Tree of Life can be accessed by clicking here.

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Eating and Drinking in the Kingdoms

July 13, 2025December 27, 2025 Peter

Examining How and What We Eat

To the pilgrims of Christ in many nations. We give thanks to the Lord and the Father for opening the eyes of our hearts to see the truth of the Gospel. May these words accomplish the work the Lord intends in those who hear.

As we are drawn to the Lord, studying the Scriptures and seeking the truth, we consume spiritual food, advancing us into the kingdom. Having received the Gospel, we now abide in Him and the mystery which is the living Christ, the commandments making us heirs to His kingdom.

Eph 3:4 Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ

Eph 3:5 Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;

Eph 3:6 That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:

Eating and drinking symbolize the spiritual truths we consume and take to heart. These beliefs are what guide, nourish, and sustain one on their walk. As we eat and drink with Christ, we consume His words, meaning His commandments, and take them to heart. This is the only way of salvation. What defiles us is what comes out of a man. If we eat and drink worthily, by eating at the tree of life that is the commandments, we are reaping the fruits of righteousness. Eating and drinking unworthily at the tree of knowledge of good and evil leads to the wages of sin.

Mat 15:18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.

Mat 15:19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

The adage that “you are what you eat” has great wisdom. The physical acts of eating and drinking show us these truths [Rom 1:20] that are applicable in the spiritual realm of God. If one eats or drinks poorly, they become sick, diseased, fat, and may even die. So, it is in the Spirit. We learn through Daniel that the Lord’s chosen people, having favour with Him, are given better food to eat, even while in captivity.

Dan 1:8 NKJV But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s delicacies, nor with the wine which he drank; therefore he requested of the chief of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.

Sitting in captivity with the king of Babylon, those favored of God are given special allowances to eat our requested food and refrain from eating and drinking that which the king gave everyone else. A test was done, and the countenance of the health of Daniel and the others was far better; thus, they continued eating clean food and refraining from the defiled food of Babylon.

Dan 1:15 NKJV And at the end of ten days their features appeared better and fatter in flesh than all the young men who ate the portion of the king’s delicacies.

Dan 1:16 Thus the steward took away their portion of delicacies and the wine that they were to drink, and gave them vegetables.

Eating the food the Lord provides brings the true knowledge of God and great wisdom, and understanding. This food is the commandments.

Dan 1:17 As for these four young men, God gave them knowledge and skill in all literature and wisdom; and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.

Abiding in the commandments is our food, the meat of Christ, and the true living bread. This food provides the strength to perform the greater works, doing the work of the Father who sent Christ, who in turn sends us. This work is preaching the one true Gospel and revealing the mystery to those ordained to receive the truth. The sons of God are eating of the Gospel of the Father’s commandments.

Joh 4:32 NKJV But He said to them, “I have food [meat] to eat of which you do not know.”

Joh 4:33 Therefore the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought Him anything to eat?”

Joh 4:34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work.

The commandments are also about drinking the new wine that is Jesus Christ. We taste this wine as we witness the first miracle in our walk with Christ. As chosen disciples, we accompany Christ to a wedding wherein the water of the Word [we knew in the letter, hearing only] is turned into the wine of the Gospel. Now we walk out our faith being chastened and transformed by the living commandments that is judging us and making our paths straight. The kingdom of God is no longer near; it has come unto all that receive the Gospel. Those who hear are invited to come to the wedding feast with Christ.

Joh 2:1 On the third day, there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.

Joh 2:2 Now both Jesus and His disciples [YOU and ME] were invited to the wedding.

The true mother of Christ is those who keep His Word as the Scriptures declare. We are the first to drink of this new wine, and it’s a miracle.

The commandments, Christ the living word, is the true knowledge of God that we eat daily as we follow the Lord. The living commandments are Christ and is the way, the truth, and the life. At first, we only hear the commands and do not do them, as we must receive the power of Christ working inside His Holy Temple. We must patiently wait for the power of His indwelling Spirit, the Holy Spirit, to come.

Act 1:8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

The Word of God, the commandments are pure and undefiled, reserved for us in heaven as the favored of God. These living words are the unleavened bread the Israelites ate in the shadow of the Old Testament. We do not add to it or take away from the commandments; we just do them.

Pro 30:5 Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.

Pro 30:6 Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

Israel of old was given strict commands about what they could and could not eat under the law of Moses. These laws are just shadows of the instructions by which the sons of God are to eat the living word of commandments. We cover just one example for brevity and understanding. Swine or pork was forbidden to be eaten because those animals do not chew the cud, meaning they gobble down their food without considering it and meditating upon it. When one quickly eats up everything in sight like swine, one inevitably ingests bad food with the good food and thereby becomes defiled. The Lord’s commandments are pure and simple and are not to be polluted by anything. Those in the Lord do not eat with spiritual swine, as we are commanded to be careful in how we eat and conduct ourselves in the household of God. Spiritual swine are fornicators and gluttons, covetous for even more food and always adding to the Word of God by their eating. We are commanded not to eat with them.

1Co 5:11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

These are judgments we make daily, judging actions, not the person, and above all, obeying the Lord. The detailed knowledge of these Old Testament shadows is not necessary for one to come to the commandments [Christ] and be saved. The example of swine illustrates the allure of flesh that desires to pursue this other knowledge, forgetting the commandments to only eat at the Lord’s table. In the end, all that matters is a new creation, and only the living commandments in our hearts cause that to happen. More knowledge does nothing to advance the grace of God. Eating unworthily, we dishonor our Father and profane the table of the Lord, despising the commandments, bringing polluted spiritual food to the altar of our heart.

Mal 1:7 Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD is contemptible.

Mal 1:12 But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible.

After first coming to Christ, all drift away from His law and begin to add to and take away from the commandments. Now eating defiled food of all kinds, resulting in all kinds of spiritual diseases and sicknesses. There is no overcoming of sin when we do not hearken unto the voice of the Lord, meaning His commandments.

Exo 15:26 And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee.

Before we receive this Gospel, we are plagued with many spiritual plagues and diseases without overcoming. Believing in Christ’s Gospel, we are hearkening unto the Lord’s commandments, and all of our spiritual diseases are being healed, and we are raised from the state of death into newness of life. This comes by the way of Jesus Christ, the Word who is the holy commandments of the Father.

Mat 11:4 Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see:

Mat 11:5 The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.

Many say but do not do the commandments of Christ. This is all of us before we get the power of the Gospel. We labor to be rich and drift away from doing the work of God, which is believing [doing] His commandments. Leaven creeps into the food and drink, as there are many false prophets, teachers, apostles, gospels, and even antichrists to be endured. Departing from the commandments is departing from Christ; we leave our first love.

Rev 2:4 Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love [i.e. Christ, the Living Word, the Commandments, the Gospel, the Holy Spirit]

Rev 2:5 Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.

This mystery of the Lord’s ways is shown in the fall of Adam and Eve. All mankind disobeys the commandment and eats from the forbidden tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The fruit of this tree appeals greatly to the lust of our flesh and the pride of life living inside these clay vessels. Satan, the serpent who is the spirit of the carnal mind, tempts us to sin, questioning the commandments by asking, “Did God say not to eat of this tree?” The serpent’s lie is mixed with some truth and we readily stray from the simplicity of the commandment. If correction is not brought quickly, we can completely fall, thus we have this exhortation.

2Ti 4:2 Preach the word [The Commandments, not knowledge]; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.

The tree of knowledge is the devil’s table and not the Lord’s. Flesh loves to eat from it as we covet knowledge more than obeying the Lord. Wherever a man’s heart is, there will be his treasure. The serpent’s food keeps us in bondage to the law of the Gentiles and the accusing and excusing mindset that is the carnal mind. Rather than doing the commandments, we justify ourselves by gobbling down food, feasting, and becoming drunk with more of the wine of knowledge. This is a snare that takes the commandments, the living Christ, coming into our hearts to set us free.

Isa 28:13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

If we have the living Christ dwelling in us, being sons of God, we have been set free from the bondage of this cruel cobra venom.

Deu 32:32 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.

Deu 32:33 Their wine is the poison of serpents, And the cruel venom of cobras

Christ, the true bread of the Father, the living commandments, comes to us twice in the plan of salvation. This is seen in the shadow of the old, where the tablets of commandments we first do not keep are given to us a second time [See Exodus 34]. We need the second coming of Christ to receive the power that is the indwelling Spirit, also known as our Comforter.

Joh 14:16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;

Joh 14:17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

Joh 14:18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.

This is our patience as we wait and pray for Him to come. Christ leaves us for a season but promises to come again, and then we are eating and drinking at the Lord’s table in the Father’s kingdom.

Mat 26:29 But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.

Going astray, forsaking His commandments [Christ] and eating and drinking unworthily is written in our book as all things are ours to fulfill. Everyone being saved is first the prodigal son, who leaves their father’s house in search of riches and riotous living. We leave the Father in our solemn assemblies, pursuing knowledge and spiritual riches, having many festivals of food and wine as we search the Scriptures. Our hearts are not yet willing to come to the living God, the commandments which is the Gospel. If we draw near to Him [the commands], He draws near to us.

Living by every word has us getting spiritually fat when we first hear the commandments and have our ears opened to the Words of God. With full bellies of the wrong food, we fall asleep and forget [perceive not] the truth.

Isa 6:9 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.

Isa 6:10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.

Our falling away from Christ, the commandments come first, and then we are given to see the abomination of desolation in our spiritual house. This is how our hearts are turned back to the commandments.

Isa 6:11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate

This strong delusion is unavoidable as it must come to pass before the Lord returns in the day of the Lord and gives us the power to overcome by the indwelling living commandments that is His Spirit.

2Th 2:3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition,

2Th 2:4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

The Lord’s table of the true living bread and wine, the commandments, is never esteemed by those who walk in the flesh. We wax fat in our delusions and pride in our spiritual riches, lightly esteeming the commandments. We therefore sacrifice to our devils and not to God in this our strong delusion.

Deu 32:16 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.

Deu 32:17 They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.

But we cannot eat at both tables as it provokes the Lord, whose name is Jealous.

1Co 10:21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils.

We are to always examine how we eat and drink spiritual nourishment. Not eating properly makes one weak and sickly, and many fall asleep, doing no work in the kingdom.

1Co 11:28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.

1Co 11:29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.

1Co 11:30 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.

Eating defiled food, the bread of adversity, keeps our spiritual house desolate without overcoming and afflicted in lamentation.

Lam 1:4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.

Knowing but not doing the commandments is being unfaithful to Christ. The Lord takes away from those who waste His talents, and thus He takes the Word of commandments out of our hearts. Without the rain of the living commandments, a famine of hearing the Words of the Lord [Amo 8] comes, and that is how we are turned over to strong delusion. A jealous God takes away His tabernacle, feasts, and sabbaths that once sustained us. We have forgotten the Lord our maker and turned our backs on His commandments.

Lam 2:5 The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strongholds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

Lam 2:6 And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.

The Lord must call us out of this strong delusion that represents Spiritual Babylon within us. In Spiritual Babylon, we feast on food that is everything but the commandments, and we make idols out of our knowledge of the deep mysteries hidden in the law and the prophets. We become enemies of the cross of Jesus Christ.

Php 3:18 For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:

Php 3:19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.

Eating the Lord’s Supper in the Kingdom

When Christ comes the second time, we belong to Him and receive an earnest deposit of His Spirit of the commandments in which we now walk. This is the true knowledge of God and the heavenly treasures we pursue, being sons of God led by His Spirit. To those without the living Spirit, these riches are not attractive, as Christ and His Christ are not esteemed by those in the world. Following the commandments, we become a stench of death to the world, yet for us of like mind, we are a sweet-smelling savour to one another. Knowing the Lord is THE HOLY COMMANDMENTS of the Father is how we lean not on our own knowledge and understanding.

Pro 3:5 Trust in the LORD [The commandments] with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

Pro 3:6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

The living commandments within us are what give birth to the new man. They are our beloved and where we lean [trust] in all ways.

Son 8:5 Who is this coming up from the wilderness, Leaning upon her beloved? I awakened you under the apple tree. There your mother brought you forth; There she who bore you brought you forth.

The commandments, the Lord’s food, lift us out of our graves rebirthing us to a new life in Christ.

Jas 4:10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord [The Commandments], and he [the commands] shall lift you up.

There is great joy in our hearts when our eyes open to see this truth.

We have not yet arrived, having only a measure of the Spirit of the Father’s commandments. Being in bodies of weak carnal flesh, we carefully watch with whom and how we eat the Lord’s supper. A little leaven of our fleshly lusts can creep in and spoil the whole meal. Evil company corrupts, and we are to separate those who continue to practice disobedience and take lightly the Lord’s commandments. Staying with the simplicity and purity of the living commandments is paramount, and we never allow it to be mixed, added to, or subtracted from.

1Co 5:7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

1Co 5:8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. [The commandments]

Part 2 – Coming Out of Spiritual Babylon

The Orthodox churches that many come through are just the shadow of Babylon. The true Spiritual Babylon is primarily within our hearts and also outside in our time of fellowshipping with the many called. In Babylon, we eat King Nebuchadnezzar’s meat and drink his wine. This means we are pursuing our lust, seeking the mammon of spiritual riches, and not being content with the simple food of the Lord’s commandments.

Dan 1:5 And the king appointed them a daily provision of the king’s meat, and of the wine which he drank: so nourishing them three years, that at the end thereof they might stand before the king.

Dwelling in Spiritual Babylon [us in our time], we want nothing to do with THE LAW OF CHRIST, the living commandments. As soldiers of the Lord, we are commanded to be content with our wages, and those wages are His commandments and the measure of His Spirit given.

Luk 3:14 And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages.

Only the Lord can give the increase and give us more faith of His commandments, so we wait on Him to bring us the rain and food we need. This is entering into His rest, trusting Him to provide.

Mat 6:31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?

Mat 6:32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

Mat 6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Our activities in Babylon are about the riches and the appearances rather than the doing. This woman is arrayed in expensive clothing and fine gems, having the appearance of Godliness. Yet in Babylon, we are dead in our sins, separated from the very commandments that save. The living Christ, the commandments have not been resurrected within us. We have not heard the call to arise and come forth. When the living Word of Christ is revealed, the commandments, and our eyes see it, we are amazed, as was John, at just how strong the delusion of Spiritual Babylon is.

Rev 17:3 NKJV So he carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.

Rev 17:4 The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication.

Rev 17:5 And on her forehead a name was written: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

Rev 17:6 I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with great amazement.

Babylon is known for its many merchants, meaning those who are buying and selling, which spiritually is the accusing and excusing mindset of the carnal mind. Here we chase riches of all kinds and clean the outside of the cup while we trade in the unrighteous mammon of knowledge, which is trading in the souls of men.

Rev 18:11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:

Rev 18:12 The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble,

Rev 18:13 And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.

When Christ is revealed and we see Him as the commandments, we understand and are returned to the simplicity of Christ. His commandments are our food, the true bread of life. All go into Babylon as it is written in everyone’s book to spend the appointed time until we hear the call to come out of her. Only those being made faithful, a small remnant, the little flock, escape in every generation, this being the daughter of Zion. We escape the captivity to both the world and Spiritual Babylon when we take to heart [EAT] the living commandments.

Mic 4:10 Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field [the world], and thou shalt go even to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.

Christ, the commandments of the Father, are raised from the dead within us the day we leave Babylon. Being delivered from our bondage to the serpent’s food, we now walk in the Spirit of the living God, the perfect law of liberty. We become His instruments of service to go preach to the others who have not yet heard.

Mic 4:13 Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.

The Jerusalem of Babylon within us is not the holy city and is instead likened unto Sodom [Rev 11:8] as we, its congregation, eat leavened bread, and sit idle, not working in the kingdom, neither preaching nor obeying the commandments.

Isa 1:9 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.

Isa 1:10 Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.

The Lord hates these Babylonian feasts and solemn assemblies that do not bear His name, meaning the commandments are not in them. The Lord does not accept the sacrifices of fat beasts filled with their own knowledge.

Amo 5:21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.

Amo 5:22 Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts

Isa 1:11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.

Isa 1:14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.

The Lord sends His angels and ministers to preach His Gospel to the vessels prepared to hear to bring deliverance to the captives. Some hear this Gospel of the commandments and come out of Babylon, maybe even today, if they understand.

Rev 14:6 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,

Babylon within us falls soon after we receive this Gospel of the commands. The lies cannot stand in the presence of the truth. We no longer drink of the poison wine from the devil’s table.

Rev 14:8 And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.

The day we leave Babylon and hear and believe the law of Christ, the commandments, is a holy day and brings us great joy. We are returned to our first love, that is, the living commandments. Now we are eating the living bread and drinking the wine of life, and sending portions to others by preaching this Gospel. The joy of the Lord, these indwelling commands, is our strength. This is the fat, the best portion of the Lord we are eating, which keeps us on the right path, building the temple of God. Here is the witness for our admonition.

Neh 8:9 And Nehemiah, who was the governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, “This day is holy to the LORD your God; do not mourn nor weep.” For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the Law.

Neh 8:10 Then he said to them, “Go your way, eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepare [Those hungry]; for this day is holy to our Lord. Do not sorrow, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.”

Neh 8:11 So the Levites quieted all the people, saying, “Be still, for the day is holy; do not be grieved.”

Neh 8:12 And all the people went their way to eat and drink, to send portions [preach the Gospel] and rejoice greatly, because they understood the words that were declared to them.

The commandments are the hidden treasure of the Lord and the mystery of the Gospel. When we find this treasure, we sell all the Babylonian spiritual possessions we once valued, and like Paul, we consider it all dung [See Phil 3:4-11]. It is with great joy that we buy the field where the treasure of the commandments is hidden, as the parable shows.

Mat 13:44 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.

All men are naturally born spiritual merchants, buying and selling being under the law and its accusing and excusing mindset. But when we are given to find the pearl of great price, that is the Lord’s commandments, we sell all we have to buy it. Let them with ears to hear and eyes to see receive the Gospel of Truth. The rich young ruler lacked the ability, the faith of the commandments [Christ], to make this deal with the Lord

Mat 13:45 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls:

Mat 13:46 Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.

The merchandising stops. We are now eating at the Tree of Life and holding to the wisdom of the Proverbs.

Pro 23:23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

Most miss this everlasting Gospel preached by the Lord’s angels, as they cannot discern the time and do not recognize Him working through His ministers, supposing they are just gardeners. Most remain sleeping, well fed and comforted at the contemptible table of devils and stay in Babylon. We pray these words from the Lord open some eyes to see the mystery.

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

Rom 11:8 (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.

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 always

Receiving this Gospel of the commandments hidden for the ages, we now rejoice and are being made ready and granted our spiritual clothing in the Lord.

Rev 19:7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.

Rev 19:8 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.

The Wedding Feast of the King

We must be sincere in our faith in the Gospel and embrace the holy commandments with our whole heart, mind, and soul. Some try to enter into the Lord’s feast without the necessary preparation, which is believing the Gospel of commandments. Some come without this faith, wearing defiled garments. We see this in Matthew’s parable of the wedding feast.

Mat 22:11 And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:

We only come to the feast and into the kingdom of God through Christ, meaning only by way of the Holy Commandments. These commandments, Christ is the door and the only way to enter. Anyone coming any other way is a thief and a robber and was not made ready.

Joh 10:1 “Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.

Joh 10:2 But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

All who come before Christ to show us the way without the commandments are thieves and robbers. The commandments of Christ are the only door by which we enter into the true feast and partake of the tree of life. The true sheep do not hear these false teachers and prophets and, in time, are brought in by the door.

Joh 10:7 Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.

Joh 10:8 All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.

Joh 10:9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.

The righteousness of the saints is our faith of Jesus Christ, the living commandments. Our hope of salvation rests on them and nothing else. This is the wedding garment required to eat at the true feast of the Lord. Without actionable faith in the commandments [pursuing holiness], no man shall see the Lord.

Mat 22:12 And the King siith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless [muzzled].

Mat 22:13 Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Mat 22:14 For many are called, but few are chosen

The Lord separates His little remnant, the pure virgins having oil in their lamps. They are the true bride of Christ, having made themselves ready by enduring the persecution and suffering for their faith in the commandments. We cannot enter in being ashamed of the Gospel, no, we must be bold and preach it to all the nations and kingdoms within and without. Nobody without a wedding garment is allowed to remain at the feast. The Lord, the living commandments, takes them away and muzzles their mouths. Those not ready are cast out from the true ones and separated from the remnant being saved. May the Lord make this clear to all who hear.

As the Lord’s servants, we bid many to this feast by preaching the Gospel, but very few come. We are commanded to call not our friends, brethren, kinsmen, or “rich” neighbors, but rather go to the poor without all the knowledge, the maimed, the lame, and the blind. Those who need a physician are the lost sheep now being found.

Luk 14:12 Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee.

Luk 14:13 But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:

Luk 14:14 And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.

The Lord’s ministers are sent to those who cannot invite us back to a feast. We are not leaving the table of the Lord where we eat His commandments. We give and expect nothing in return; our reward is Christ. It is better to give food than to receive it. Blessed are those who come to our feast, they shall eat the true bread of life.

Luk 14:15 And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these things, he said unto him, Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.

Many are bidden [called] but very few come because the Lord’s feast is not alluring to flesh versus the devil’s table. The Babylonian merchandising and trading at the tree of knowledge is far more attractive, and there is no persecution to bear.

Luk 14:16 Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many: [Many Called]

Luk 14:17 And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready.

Very few of the “spiritual Jews” of the circumcision [THE RICH], those steeped in all the knowledge of the Scriptures and especially the law and the prophets, come to the feast. They are not hungry and are already filled and need nothing, trusting in their knowledge of the Scriptures to save them. These are those Paul wrote about to Timothy [2Tim 3] being high-minded, covetous, and proud, having a form of godliness but denying the power of the commandments. They are ever learning the Scriptures but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth, which is the Gospel and is the wedding feast. From such we turn away and now go to the Gentiles.

These parables of the Wedding Feast give the excuses as to why those called do not come. They don’t come to the feast of the Lord because they are preoccupied with their fields [the world] or engaged in merchandizing, the buying and selling of knowledge. They remain bound to the wrong law, being a law unto themselves, and esteem lightly the commandments of the Lord.

Mat 22:5 But they made light of it, [THE COMMANDS, THE FEAST] and went their ways, one to his field, another to his merchandise:

Luke’s version confirms all the excuses pertain to being engaged in merchandizing and being married to the world.

Luk 14:18 And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused.

Luk 14:19 And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused.

Those who refuse the invitation of the angels [Rev 14], reject the Gospel and remain in Spiritual Babylon. They were not given to hear the commandment to come out of her my people, because as yet they are not His people. The Lord’s house is filled so like the Apostles, we now turn to the Gentiles and go find the lost sheep scattered to many nations.

Luk 14:21 So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.

Luk 14:22 And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room.

The door into the wedding feast is closed to those who refuse the Gospel. Remaining on the outside, partaking at the table of knowledge of the tree of good and evil and they shall not taste of the true living bread that is the flesh and blood of Jesus Christ.

Luk 14:24 For I say unto you, That none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper.

Those who reject the living commandments after hearing it preached turn on the Lord’s messengers, hating us, thereby holding murder in their hearts. This is a betrayal of Christ, and the Lord sends His wrath and destroys those who blaspheme against and hate Him [the commandments].

Mat 22:6 And the remnant [that would not come] took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them.

Mat 22:7 But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.

Mat 22:8 Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy. `

Those who reject Christ are rejecting the commandments and are unworthy of eternal life in this age. We see this in the Acts of the Apostles, as most of the “circumcision”, meaning the Jews having all the knowledge of the Scriptures, reject the Gospel and strive against our preaching.

Act 13:45 But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.

Act 13:46 Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.

We are given a ministry to go and preach the Gospel. We now rejoice in our newfound joy of the lively hope of Christ and the resurrection of His Holy Commandments from the dead.

Isa 61:10 I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.

Grace and peace to the scattered brethren in all the places of this earth.

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