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Shutting the Door to Christ

Peter

 

Knowing Not the Time of their Visitation

Peter and Rohnel, servants and apostles by the will of the Lord Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained a like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God the Father and our Saviour Jesus Christ:   Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord

The Scriptures are written for and are about Jesus Christ and His Christ, the firstfruits of salvation in this age. While all humanity is saved in the end, in this age, it is the chosen few, the elect, who are the firstfruits; they are Jesus Christ in the world.  All Scriptures are a parable spoken in dark sayings that only those given ears to hear and eyes to see can understand. The Scriptures begin with the Lord creating us as His firstfruits and making in us a heaven and an earth in which His light shall shine forth.

Gen 1:1  In the firstfruits [Strong H7225 ראשׁית, beginning] God created the heaven and the earth. 

Gen 1:2  And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 

Gen 1:3  And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 

Gen 1:4  And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 

Few understand these spiritual words, yet those appointed to understand do so as they are marked by the Lord for salvation in this age. The manifestation of the sons of God comes about in the time of the end, which is now for this generation and continues until the end of the physical age.

Dan 12:9  And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. 

Dan 12:10  Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand. 

We are fulfilling the prophecies of the end times written in the Prophets, the Gospels, the Epistles, and the book of Acts. All things are indeed ours to fulfill as Christ fulfilled the Scriptures, and so do we as His Christ in this world. As with Christ, events happen so that the Scriptures are fulfilled in our lives. We endure the same rejection and hatred from our own people as the Lord. The city that welcomes us with great joy, and then, as is appointed and declared from the beginning, turns against Christ. These brethren also fulfill the Scriptures and do not know the day of their visitation, the coming of Jesus Christ to them in this age for salvation.

Luk 19:41  And when Christ was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, 

Luk 19:42  Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. 

Luk 19:43  For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, 

Luk 19:44  And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation. 

To fulfill the Scriptures, we briefly sorrow as Christ over the rejection from the fallen brethren who know not the time of their visitation. They are not given to discern the signs of the time, nor recognize Jesus Christ in their midst, and, in time, turn against Christ. It is all written to be fulfilled by the Christ, the Lord’s anointed, whom He raises to do His greater works in this age. Our recent experience fulfilled many prophecies regarding Christ and His dealings with the Pharisees, Sadducees, and Scribes, who are the chiefs and rulers of the house of Israel, to which we go through to find the lost sheep of Israel.  These chiefs took away the key, the Commandments, corrupting them by adding to and taking away, and thus are not entering in and hindering those who heed their counsel. They kill Christ in their hearts as they have done to the prophets before.

Luk 11:49  Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and of them they shall slay and persecute: 

Luk 11:50  That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation; 

Luk 11:51  From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation. 

Luk 11:52  Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered. 

Speaking truth in boldness and standing firmly on the Commandments, Christ, the Apostles, and all born again of the Spirit are rejected by our brethren in living by every Word.

1Co 3:21  Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours; 

1Co 3:22  Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; 

1Co 3:23  And ye are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s.

The Lord brings a trial and a heresy against the Commandments. The warnings of the watchmen who blow the trumpet [the rule and order the Lord sets over the flock] go unheeded, and the result is the division the Lord orchestrates. Thus, our warnings about the sin unto death and remaining separated from one the Lord has cut off are ignored, spoken evil about, and thus the Lord’s will in winnowing the flock is accomplished.  The Lord did it.

Amo 3:6  Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it? 

Amo 3:7  Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets. 

In New Testament language, the Gospel we preached was heard yet not obeyed, as their foolish hearts are darkened by the Lord. The fallen of Israel worship the creation, meaning men, themselves, and not the creator [the Commandments], preferring to return to Sodom, which the angels of God previously delivered them from.

Rom 1:21  Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 

Rom 1:22  Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 

2Co 4:3  But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: 

2Co 4:4  In whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. 

We boast not against these branches whom the Lord has cut off, but fear, knowing we too can be cut off if we make the same error and do not continue in the Gospel we have heard and preach. We obey God and fulfill the remaining prophecies for the work of God to be finished. Those who reject Christ and refuse to come to the wedding feast when given the choice to choose today whom they shall serve are cut off, and Christ moves on from them. The call to come out and meet the bridegroom is rejected, and the foolish virgins who have no oil in their lamps, who had merely warmed themselves by the fire, doing no work, were not ready when Christ came.  The door is thus shut and not reopened in this age.

Mat 25:10  And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut. 

Mat 25:11  Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. 

Mat 25:12  But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not. 

Mat 25:13  Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh. 

The Lord rules with a rod of iron, and when judgment has come upon the house of God, after the Gospel has been preached, there is no more ignorance, and thus the separation of the sheep and the goats, the wheat and the tares, is taking place quickly.   Many are called, and only a few are chosen to be saved in every generation, and we are witnessing this in our day of the Lord. The door to Christ is shut for those who refused the call and did not recognize the day of Jesus Christ.

Luk 13:24  Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able. 

Luk 13:25  When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are: 

Luk 13:26  Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets. 

Luk 13:27  But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity. 

Luk 13:28  There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out. 

The door is shut to those who cut off their Messiah, and the wicked one has now entered their city, and they are being swept away by a flood of lies.

Mat 24:37  But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. 

Mat 24:38  For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, 

Mat 24:39  And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. 

Dan 9:26  And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. 

To fulfill the Scriptures, some who did not come when called to choose whom they serve and at what table they eat, return asking to be let in through the door that is now closed. It seems unloving to flesh, but the rejection of Christ and the Gospel once one has tasted of it is not forgiven in this age. It is the sin unto death. We are commanded not to pray for these brethren; we do not even wish them Godspeed. We move on as commanded.

1Jn 5:16  If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it. 

1Jn 5:17  All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death. 

Mar 3:29  But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Spirit hath no forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation: 

John tells us what walking in love is all about, and the very next words remind us that loving God and all men includes doing things that some may seem offensive and harsh, as they judge by their flesh and emotions, not by the Commandments. Here is the Commandment again.

2Jn 1:6  And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it. 

2Jn 1:7  For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist. 

2Jn 1:8  Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward. 

2Jn 1:9  Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. 

2Jn 1:10  If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: 

2Jn 1:11  For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds. 

Christ and His Christ do not open the door as Commanded; we do not even wish them Godspeed; we cut off all communication with those who spoke evil against the Commandment and/or against the Lord’s anointed in their day of visitation. Speaking evil is saying our words were lies and the Commandment was not true, thus attributing them to Satan. Anyone who did not hear the voice of the true shepherd and follows the voice of strangers instead is not of God; they are being identified in the times of the harvest, as the time of separation is now.

Joh 10:3  To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. 

Joh 10:4  And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. 

Joh 10:5  And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers. 

Luk 10:16  He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me. 

1Jn 4:6  We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error. 

Now is the harvest, and the sheep and goats are being divided by judgment that has fallen on the house of God in this generation.

Mat 25:31  When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: 

Mat 25:32  And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: 

Mat 25:33  And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. 

The ways of God in dividing a remnant and moving them onwards to salvation are the mysteries being revealed in the last days. Those who reject our Gospel and us who preach it, are separated from Christ.  When they seek to come back, they learn that repentance is not granted in this age for those who sinned the sin unto death. Those who fail are caused to fail of the grace of God, receiving it in vain and thus are not renewed to repentance in this age.

Mat 7:23  And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. 

Heb 12:17  For ye know how that afterward, when he [Esau] would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. 

Those being saved, the elect, build their spiritual house on the Rock that is the Commandments and nothing else. Those not chosen build their house on a mixed multitude of shifting sand, esteeming flesh, respecting persons, and not loving God with all their heart, mind, and soul. When the flood of apostasy comes in the last days, to try the faith of Israel, they are swept away and taken away only to be restored in the age to come. This is the fall of Spiritual Babylon within every man not given to heed the call of the angels to come out of her.

Mat 7:26  And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: 

Mat 7:27  And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.

Apostles receive their revelation, the Promise and baptism of Christ, directly from the Lord. All others receive their baptism of Christ through the laying on of hands by the Apostles and others who have in turn been raised in Christ. When preachers of the Gospel are sent out, they are Christ, and the day of visitation of Jesus Christ has come to all that the Lord puts in our path. Christ and His Christ first go into the synagogues of the spiritual Jews who profess His name, and there we preach the Gospel [Act 13:46]. Yet most Jews reject it, trusting instead in their knowledge and desiring to continue to reign and sit in the high seats they appointed themselves to take. We thus fulfill these Scriptures as Christ in the world.

Mat 23:2  Christ saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat: 

Mat 23:3  All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not. 

Mat 23:4  For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. 

Mat 23:5  But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, 

Mat 23:6  And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,

Those who exalted themselves are abased, and when the Commandments and Christ are evil spoken about, the Lord brings his fury and destroys the leaders of Israel and all who follow their pernicious ways. Scriptures speak of this in many places, including here in Ezekiel speaking of Egypt, that is, really, Spiritual Jerusalem, likened unto Sodom and Egypt [Rev 11:8]. The dragon, the prince of the world, runs the show here as they remain bound to the law of sin and death in their members. The leaders of the house claim the river that fed the flock as their own and boast in themselves, bringing the wrath of God upon that house. The fowls of heaven, the carnal lies and reasonings of men, are set to devour them, as this is the great supper of God that is the same as being swept away by a flood of lies [fowls of heaven].

Eze 29:3  Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself. 

Eze 29:4  But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales. 

Eze 29:5  And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven. 

These cut off brethren marked for destruction are not the true shepherds, as they did not come through the door that is Christ. They are the deceivers, the false apostles, whom the Scriptures prophesy appear to us in the last days. They beguile many by their outward form of righteousness and swelling words of vanity.

2Co 11:13  For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. 

2Co 11:14  And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. 

These are also known as false brethren, unawares, and are among the perils that the apostles of every generation face in preaching the Gospel and defending the ministry of the Gospel.

2Co 11:26  In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; 

As the angels of the Lord, the Cherubims, the apostles by the will of God, we zealously guard the gate/door and entryway into the Holy City of New Jerusalem, where the tree of life grows and feeds the inhabitants.  Nothing unclean enters in as the watchmen and shepherds are commanded to guard the sheep and allow no dogs, wolves, sorcerers, or heretics whom the Lord has already rejected into the Holy City.

Rev 21:27  And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life. 

Rev 22:14  Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. 

Rev 22:15  For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie. 

The Fate of the Fallen

Those deceived by the hand of the Lord, not marked for salvation in this age, think they are doing God a service by killing us in spirit and cutting off the Messiah from their city. Yet they are the blind leading the blind who have not known the Father nor the Son, and thus fulfill many prophecies in our lives, including this one.

Joh 16:2  They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. 

Joh 16:3  And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me. 

Rather than Christ, the Jews in the city chose Barabbas, a murderer and a man who previously stirred up sedition against the Lord’s anointed and was rightly put into prison and excluded from the city. They were given a choice, and they chose Barabbas, proving they know not the Lord who had visited them.

Luk 23:18  And they cried out all at once, saying, Away with this man, and release unto us Barabbas: 

Luk 23:19  Who for a certain sedition made in the city, and for murder, was cast into prison. 

Joh 18:40  Then cried they all again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber. 

We sorrow for our fallen brethren; we tried to save them as Paul wrote about in Romans 10 and 11. Yet the will of God has been made manifest, and thus we move on, dying to our fleshly emotions and knowing no man in the flesh anymore. Many have observed these things from afar, following what the Lord is doing in His flock and reading what the Lord has given us to post on this website. Some of them following us are rising from their graves and awakening from their sleep.

Mat 27:50  Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. 

Mat 27:51  And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; 

Mat 27:52  And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, 

Mat 27:53  And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many. 

Mat 27:54  Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God. 

Our spiritual clothing, meaning our writings and doctrine that we taught them and preached, are parted from us, and they have cast lots for them, thus fulfilling even more Scriptures.

Joh 19:23  Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. 

Joh 19:24  They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did. 

They broke none of Christ’s doctrine, as the legs of the crucified Christ were not broken. The doctrine of Christ is only heard and is not obeyed.

Joh 19:32  Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him. 

Joh 19:33  But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs: 

A day comes when those who were cut off look upon him who was pierced.  While they seek repentance in tears, it is not granted, for the door remains shut in this age. All these things, the killing of Christ and His Christ in spirit in every generation is about fulfilling the Scriptures.

Joh 19:34  But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water. 

Joh 19:36  For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken. 

Joh 19:37  And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced. 

False apostles and deceivers are cut off from the true Israel of God. They are not to be found in the true city of God, Heavenly Jerusalem, also known as New Jerusalem. They remain in Spiritual Jerusalem, which is Babylon, and the cage for every evil bird [carnal thoughts and reasonings].

Rev 2:2  I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars: 

Rev 2:9  I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan. 

It is obedience to the Commandments to deny and separate from those who commit the sin unto death, blasphemy of the Holy Spirit, that immediately shuts the door.  We are not letting anyone aligned with them back into our spiritual house.  This is the Commandment of the Lord, and the door remains shut as we love God more than we love men.  Saying otherwise is another gospel.

Gal 1:10  For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ. 

With lessons learned, as the appointed shepherds, we carefully guard the gates of who comes into the Heavenly Jerusalem that the Lord is building, the true everlasting city of God. Anyone coming to our fellowships must be let in by the Apostles, who oversee the flock as shepherds and are diligent watchmen. We are careful as commanded to whom we cast our pearls of truth and the meat of this Gospel. We do not give our holy things to those the Lord has cut off who are the heretics, antichrists, deceivers, false apostles, and deceitful workers the Lord raises to try our faith.  Time is short, and we do not waste any time in disobedience with those whom the Lord has cut off. Our ministry is to go only to the lost house of Israel, and they are those who hear and receive the words of Christ we preach.

Mat 7:6  Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you. 

As the Lord’s witnesses, we have the power to shut heaven and to make it rain or not in the Spirit. We are given this power by the Lord and are commanded to use it in obedience to the Commandments. By retaining their sin, we shut the rain off in this age.

Rev 11:6  These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will. 

We know the fallen did not choose of their own free will to do the evil they have done. All was appointed and declared from the beginning. Thus, we have asked our heavenly Father to forgive their sin as we cannot forgive it ourselves in obedience. Our Father hears us, and the fallen cut off brethren are saved in the age to come.

Luk 23:34  Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots. 

We have not yet attained, and we press onward for the high calling of God, striving to finish our race. We follow Christ, the Commandments, our eyes always looking to them, and we groan, waiting for the fullness of the adoption as the Sons of God.

 

 

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The Acceptable Year of the Lord   

Rohnel

Our Day of Visitation and Acceptance in the Beloved

Rohnel and Peter, servants of Christ Jesus, according to His will, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called: Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.

Keep My Commandments 

Jer 7:23  But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.

Joh 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.

The Acceptable Year of the Lord

Preaching the true Gospel is the same as preaching the Acceptable Year of the Lord. Coming to understand this helps us know how we are to live our lives henceforth and what to expect as we finish the race set before us. When Christ IS come with His mighty angels preaching the Gospel to us, the Acceptable Year of the Lord IS  begun within us. This is also known as the Day of the Lord and the days of visitation. Please refer to the detailed study: The Wonderful and Dreadful Day of the Lord on the truthinscripture.com website.

Luk 4:18  The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,

Luk 4:19  To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

Hos 9:7  The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred [violence in the land, accusing and excusing within ourselves].

Luk 19:42  Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace [the Commandments] but now they are hid from thine eyes.

Luk 19:43  For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,

Luk 19:44  And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.

1Pe 2:12  Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

The Acceptable Year of the Lord is the year of the Lord’s favor upon men and is the greatest blessing any man receives in a vessel of clay. The favor towards man is the true grace of God, which is what transforms us and remakes us into His image by the chastening and scourging of our earthly man and beastly way of life. The grace of God is not a substitution of His death for ours, nor is it forgiveness where no suffering or consequences, which teach us as children, are experienced. True grace is the fire, the Commandments of Christ, the wrath of God poured out against our flesh, that is to say, our carnal mindedness being bound to the letter of the law, accusing or excusing within ourselves [Rom 2].

Isa 26:9  With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments [Commandments] are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

Rom 1:4  And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:

Rom 1:5  By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:

Rom 1:6  Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ:

Heb 12:6  For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

The wrath of God, Christ’s Commandments, is what teaches us righteousness. The wrath of God is aimed at the first Adam within us, the gentile nations within, who walk after the stubbornness of their own hearts. All of what is described in Ephesians below is what the natural man within us does. Do not think out there, but discern spiritually and think within.

Tit 2:11  For the grace [Commandments, the Word of Grace] of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,

Tit 2:12  Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

Jhn 3:36  He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

Eph 5:2  And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

Eph 5:3  But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

Eph 5:4  Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.

Eph 5:5  For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

Eph 5:6  Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.

We see that the Acceptable Year of the Lord is also known as the Day of Vengeance, the Day of age-enduring fire, that brings about the last Adam, a quickening Spirit, the new man of His righteousness, established by the faith of Christ. Think spiritually within.

Isa 61:1  The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

Isa 61:2  To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;

Heb 10:30  For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.

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.

Christ’s favour towards us is His righteous judgments that come by way of the Word, the Commandments. This is His loving kindness or mercy shown to us that opens our blind eyes and deaf ears. Knowing we are in the Lake of Fire, His Commandments, which kill death within us, that is to say, the carnal mind, is what we receive from our heavenly Father. We are being accepted in the Beloved and being transformed into the image of Christ, going from glory to glory.

Psa 30:5  For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour [H7522 – acceptance, receiving us] is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

Rev 20:14  And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

Eph 1:4  According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

Eph 1:5  Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

Eph 1:6  To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.

The restoration of Israel, that is to say the restoration of God’s sons, is accomplished in the Acceptable Year and time the Lord has ordained when He IS come to rule in our lives, establishing a new earth in which His righteousness dwells. We are set free from bondage to the letter. Satan, the devil, our natural father, is cast out of our heavens when the Lord rules in Zion [us] in this Day. This is the true Sabbath’s rest of the Lord we seek and with patience and prayer wait to enter in.

Isa 49:8  Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;

Isa 49:9  That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.

This parable speaks of us being set free from Satan, the spirit that drives our carnal minds, on the true Sabbath day. Satan is the prince of the power of the air [Eph 2:2].

Luk 13:15  The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering?

Luk 13:16  And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?

It is in the Acceptable Year of the Lord that we are being made to give an account, and we are being judged every day. Our spiritual progression is advanced from the initial down payment [2 Co1:22] onward toward a mature man of God who does righteousness [1 John 4:12], as the Spirit dwelling in us is righteous.

Act 17:30  And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:

Act 17:31  Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.

Act 10:35  But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.

Rom 12:1  I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

The Acceptable Year of the Lord is not literal. This applies to all of Scripture;  the Lord’s words are spiritual, and flesh profits nothing [Joh 6:63]. Christ speaks in similitudes and in parables [Hos 12:10, Mar 4:11]. Outwardly, the Acceptable Year defines the three harvests of the Lord by which all men are being saved [1Co 15:22-24] in the order ordained. Yet the Acceptable Year of the Lord is also a living event that God’s sons live out inwardly. This Year of the Lord is what is converting us and making us acceptable in the Beloved. The spiritual man is the blessing, coming forth through a progressive and fiery process that is maturing us.

Deu 16:16  Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:

Deu 16:17  Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.

Luk 21:17  And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake.

Luk 21:18  But there shall not an hair of your head perish.

Luk 21:19  In your patience possess ye your souls.

The Acceptable Year of the Lord is the same as the three days during which Christ is rebuilding the Temple of God within us, which we have destroyed and profaned, making it a house of merchandising and not of prayer. The result is spiritual death, and the glory of God is not found in the house. We are the Temple of God, and He raises us through His Commandments. We suffer many things before the Lord raises us from death and begins to remake His Temple.

Mat 15:32  Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude [within us], because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.

Mrk 8:31  And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

Joh 2:19  Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.

The working of the Lord within us for these three days is the one sign given that the Lord is with us and we are now being conformed into His image and righteousness. It is an evil generation, that is to say, it is an evil mindset, to seek after a sign. We all do this at times appointed for us to do. All is by God’s design.

Mat 12:38  Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee.
Mat 12:39  But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:
Mat 12:40  For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

Our change of heart, done by the spiritual circumcision of the Lord, is the same acceptance process that is consecrating us as priests and bringing forth the last Adam, a quickening Spirit.

Eze 43:27  And when these days are expired, it shall be, that upon the eighth [new beginnings] day, and so forward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings upon the altar, and your peace offerings; and I will accept you, saith the Lord GOD.

Col 2:9  For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

Col 2:10  And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:

Col 2:11  In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:

Col 2:12  Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.

It is in Christ’s mountain, spiritual Jerusalem, where we are accepted and where all of His righteous work is performed in us. The true Gospel of Christ is separating the little children of God, and it is the savour of death to death, that is to say,  death to our carnal way of thinking.

Eze 20:41  I will accept you with your sweet savour [of death], when I bring you out from the people, and gather you out of the countries wherein ye have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen.

2Co 2:15  For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:

2Co 2:16  To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

Dying to death on a tree [Acts 5:30] is how we are being conformed into the image of the Son and is what makes us acceptable to the Lord. This is Christ’s desire and plan, who is working all things according to the counsel of His will [Eph 1:11]. Christ commands us to ‘follow Him’ to death. This is why our death [death to death, the second death] is precious to the Lord.

Psa 116:15  Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.

Ecc 7:1  A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one’s birth.

1Co 15:31  I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

A New Testament witness explaining the Lord’s view of our death is this:

Col 1:20  And, having made peace [within] through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.

Col 1:21  And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled

Col 1:22  In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:

Those being accepted by the Lord are those bringing judgment to the Gentiles within themselves, that is to say, the rest of the dead within. Those whom the Lord accepts are those in whom He delights when judgment is brought forth.

Jer 9:24  But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.

Isa 42:1  Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth [H7521 – Accepts]; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.

Pro 3:12  For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

Rom 7:22  For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

Christ taking pleasure in His people is the same as the Lord accepting His people, as Psalm 149 confirms.

Psa 149:4  For the LORD taketh pleasure [H7521 – accepts] in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation.

Psa 149:5  Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds.

Psa 149:6  Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two edged sword in their hand;

Psa 149:7  To execute vengeance upon the heathen, [within first] and punishments upon the people;

Psa 149:8  To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron [rule and reign over the inward nations];

Psa 149:9  To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints. Praise ye the LORD.

Being accepted by God, the Father, and Christ, His Son, means we have been chosen and received by Them [One Spirit] as Their sons. Embracing the true Gospel is embracing the work of Christ’s chastening grace, which scourges the man of sin within and burns up our entire old way of life, making all things new within and without.

2Ti 1:8  Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;

2Ti 1:9  Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,

2Ti 1:10  But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:

Today is the Acceptable Year of the Lord. We are hearing the true Gospel being preached to us. We are admonished not to squander it or receive this grace of God in vain.

2Co 6:1  We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.

2Co 6:2 For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.

Victory is certain, the Baptism of Fire, the place of our death within, the Lake of Fire, is the only way wherein the righteousness of Christ is being established. This is a new heaven and a new earth within us.

2Pe 3:13  Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.

2Pe 3:14  Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, without spot and blameless;

Col 2:12  Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.

In the Acceptable Year of the Lord, being set free from our hard labour, speaking spiritually, we watch lest we enter into temptation. Our enemies within are always there to tempt us, wresting judgment away. Our hard labour is the fruit of our carnal thinking, which produces lies and idols of the heart, the work of our own hands.

Mat 24:42  Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

Mat 24:43  But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.

Mat 24:44  Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.

2Pe 3:17  Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.

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.

We have every expectation of fiery trials daily as we go through the Lake of Fire now, in vessels of clay to die to death, which is the second death. Think spiritually.

2Co 6:4  But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

2Co 6:5  In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;

2Co 6:6  By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love [Agape – our obedience] unfeigned,

2Co 7:4  Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.

Sons of God no longer abide in darkness in the Acceptable Year of the Lord. The Light of Christ has shone onto our earth, and we ourselves are now enlightened with the light that is the Commandments, which bring judgment to the earth.

Psa 97:4  His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.

Mat 5:16  Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

The Lord is seated in our heavens, and we are become quickening Spirits, and no longer live for ourselves. The Promise IS come for us.

Mar 16:19  So then, after the Lord had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

Mar 16:20  And they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word through the accompanying signs. Amen.

1Co 7:23  Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men [lies].

Eph 5:9  For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth.

Eph 5:10  Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.

We grow to fully embrace the suffering and afflictions to which we have been appointed for the sake of the true Gospel of Christ Jesus in this Day of the Lord, the Acceptable Year of the Lord, the Day of our Visitation, and the Year of Vengeance. All the same symbol, the dream is one [Gen 41:26].

Php 1:29  For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;

Col 1:24  Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church:

Col 1:25  Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;

The Power of the Spirit, Christ’s Commandments, is working mightily in us. We are now the Lord’s ministering angels sent to those who obtain salvation. Believe the Gospel, and know we, the sons of God, His little children, have been accepted by the Lord, in the Beloved.

Luk 21:28  Now when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near.”

Heb 3:13  but exhort one another daily, while it is called “TODAY,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

Heb 3:14  For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end

God is the God of the living. Those chosen and counted worthy to obtain salvation and the resurrection of the dead no longer live for ourselves but are bondservants of the Lord. We become the angels of the Lord, the children of God, by way of the resurrection from the dead.

Luk 20:35  But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:

Luk 20:36  Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.

Luk 20:37  Now that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the bush, when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.

Luk 20:38  For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.

If we be dead with Christ, we shall live with Christ, being one in Spirit with God.

Joh 14:19  Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.

Joh 14:20  At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

In the Acceptable Year of the Lord, we, the sons of God, send portions to those for whom none is prepared. Our garments are white, and our heads do not lack ointment. This is a parable, and it means we wear the white robes of righteousness, that is to say, obedience to Christ’s Commandments, and our heads do not lack the anointing oil of the Commandments. We know them and strive to do them.

Neh 8:9  And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.

Neh 8:10  Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.

Ecc 9:8  Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.

Many studies that summarize the Commandments of the Lord found in the Scriptures can be found by clicking this link to the truthinscripture website:  Commandments

Receive ye the Gospel, receive ye the Holy Spirit.