Taking the Land
A black churning cloud spread out from the top of the mountain. Lightening flashed through its bowels sending forth a voice so loud the mountain trembled. Below in the valley it was so dark that it seemed like night. Upward turned faces scanned the mountainside where it was visible. The congregation waited anxiously for the Man of God to appear with the words of the almighty Jehovah. A gasp, a pointed finger and there he came descending out of the storm with face aglow. Under his arm two tablets of stone, and in his eyes the fire of God. They had made for themselves an idol and were caught making sacrifice to it. The new stones were testimony that God had forgiven their idolatry. The whole multitude that filled the valley was so quiet you scarcely knew they were there. Babies did not cry, no child whimpered, and not one animal in the whole place opened its mouth. The wind twisted the ends of the womens hair and tugged at the mens beard. Ex. 19
In the wilderness of religion, an uninhabited place barren of spirituality, stand a religious people looking steadfast into the angry heavens. They too stand guilty of breaking the covenant by entering into worship in a man made religion. There is another (corporate) Man of God on the scene that has ascended into the higher things of God and on the tablets of the heart he has written his Law of Love. Like the Holy man of old, they are coming forth in His glory, being changed into the image of the Son of God. Mans spirit search the mountain of time for him to appear. Even creation waits in anticipation to be free from death and decay at the manifest of Gods sons. Rom. 8:15-25
Israel had a leader and now had the law of God. The law they though was a blessing would prove to be their condemnation. God knew their hearts were not turned toward him and that they still had Egypts idolatrous ways. So, he ordained a form of worship with ordinances to cover the sin of their hearts and for breaking the commandments. He also gave them a code of conduct for every day life and holy days set aside to worship him. He even gave them the Tabernacle and the Ark of the Covenant where he communed with Moses. Nothing more was needed except for them to follow him and so they did. "And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night." Ex. 13:21
God has given us a spiritual code for life and it will be a blessing and not a curse. "This I(YahShua speaking) say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other." Gal. 5: 16-18 A new spiritual leader is about to appear, one new man, yet made up of many sons. God has set-aside for us the rest of his eternal Holy Sabbath. "There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief." Heb. 4: 9-11
Israel, the inner Man
In this Tabernacle of clay, in the Most Holy Place of our spirit, the Ark of his Presence abides. And it is there in that sacred place we commune with him. Nothing more is needed except that we follow him and follow him we shall. "Then said YahShua unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me." Mat. 16:24 He goes before us and makes straight the path and light our pathway. Sometimes we cant see very far ahead, but we press on toward the mark of the high call of God. Phil. 3:14
There is a cross life we must embrace and carry with us daily. Notice that YahShua did not say to take up his cross. He said the cross is yours. It is not enough to accept the redemption his cross if you want the full inheritance. You must take up your cross daily and die to self daily and be conformed unto his image daily. This will not happen over night at the last trump as we have been taught. This is a lifes walk of self-denial, doing what God wants and not what we want. We must follow him in symbolic death, the death of ourselves to obtain the fullness of his life.
The Provoking
God had successfully brought Israel out of Egypts bondage, but the Egypt was still in them. "How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me. Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the Lord, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you: Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward which have murmured against me. Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun." Num. 14:27-30 The idolatrous ways of Egypt had shown through in spite of the miracles they had seen. At the hands of the Man of God, he gave them water in the desert and manna to eat, but they were not satisfied with what God had for them.
The Church(believers) was brought out of sins bondage by the death of YahShua upon the cross, but they had not gotten the sin ways out of them. Grace covers their sin, but the sin nature still struggled in their breast because they were not turned toward God in their hearts. "Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded." James 4: 7-8 Though he had made a sin offering with the blood of his only begotten Son, they were not grateful for what God had done for them. "This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men." Mat. 15: 8-9
The Jordan
Soon Israel arrived at the muddy banks of the Jordan River; beyond lay the Promise Land. It was theirs for the taking. God had brought them to this place and said to go over. They chose twelve men, one from each tribe of Israel and sent them in to spy out the land. This was not Gods plan; this was theirs plan for God had already spoken. When the spies returned they brought fruit from the land and it was large and bountiful. However, ten of the spies told of horrible giants in the land so large that they seemed like grasshoppers in their own eyes. But two remembered the words of the Lord, and encouraged the people to believe God and go over. However, they gave heed to the ten and turned their faces and refused to go over. Num. 13 & 14 They cried out unto the Man of God and he went into the Tent of Meeting and approached the Ark of His Presence inquiring of the Lord. And God answered and said, "Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the Lord. But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still." Num. 14: 37-38
Note: Notice from here on in Israels wonderings nothing further is said about the cloud and the pillar of fire. The only presence of the Lord found was in the Most Holy Place of the Tabernacle and only the man of God saw it. The Lord ceased leading the people and Moses became their leader.
It was time for the Church to possess their possessions. The church began their march toward the Promise Land, the blessing that belongs to the church(believers). "According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue." 2 Pet, 1:3 Down to the banks of the Jordan they came with the YahShua leading them. Jordan is a great gulf that stands between religion and spirituality, between outward ordinances and inward spiritual life. God had brought them to this place and it was theirs for the taking. The apostles were ready to believe God and cross over into the realms of the spirit. The church is the reality of what literal Israel was in type and just as their forerunner, the church has turned away from the Jordan and wondered in the wilderness of religion and spirituality has died there. However, He has raised up another generation and God gives this warning. "But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord. Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt(sin) and in the wilderness(of religion), and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice. Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it." Num. 14: 21-23
But, the Church was still religious and it stood in unbelief, so once again religious ordinances were set up, elders were placed and pastors and teachers were elected. It was not Gods idea he had told them what to do. God was no longer in charge in the congregations for men were their leaders. The deadly wound to religious order that was destroyed by the work of the cross was healed and now it is not only alive, but also thriving. We find that it is just as it was before the appearing of YahShua. It is time for God to manifest his other sons.
The apostles went into the realm God had for the church to dwell in and brought out to the people the fruit of that place in Him. The power that came at Pentecost was the firstfruits or foretaste of what lies beyond the Jordan for the people of God. Rom. 8:23 Though the miracles were great the church as a whole could not conceive of crossing the Jordan, it was just too much for them. The fruit of the Spirit grew there and it was bountiful, the Spirit without measure, but like Israel of old they turned back. The people cried out to God and the spiritual man withdrew himself and began to seek the Lord their God on their own, in the Tent of Meeting, outside the camp. And the voice of the Spirit said, "Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues." Rev. 18:4
The believers once again are finding themselves at the brink of the Jordan for it is time for Gods people to enter the spiritual land that the old religious order refused to enter. Two is the number of witness. "One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established." Deut. 19:15 There are right now two witnesses of Gods grace and salvation seen in the world, the fundamentalist(including Catholics) and the Pentecostal(including the nondenominational half-tribe of Pentecost). There are two that witness that it is time to cross the Jordan of human kind and begin to live in the spiritual Kingdom of God. These two witnesses are Joshua(YahShua), the son of none(no man)and Caleb(the sons of God). The message is going forth today, "And Caleb, said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it." Num. 13:30
Here the words of the two witnesses, "And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes. And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land. If the Lord delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey. Only rebel not ye against the Lord, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the Lord is with us: fear them not."
Not Going In
The Bible says literal Israel turned their backs and tempted God for forty years in the wilderness until all of the old unbelieving generation died. Then once again he brought them to the brink of the Jordan to take possession of their inheritance. It was time for the new generation to go over and dwell in the land. But, the children of Gad and the children of Reuben along with the half-tribe of Manasseh refused to go over and took their possessions on the eastside of the river. "Wherefore, said they, if we have found grace in thy sight, let this land be given unto thy servants for a possession, and bring us not over Jordan." Num. 32:5
Reuben means, "to squat or lie out flat". Rueben speaks to us of the fundamentalists, who became "squatters" and have sit down on the salvation message and refused to go any further, no Promise Land for them. Then comes the tribe of Gad, which means, "to crowd upon". These "crowded" in upon the fundamentalist to capture the hearts of a good many of their people. However, they were too busy competing and crowding each other to cross the Jordan. And then there is the half-tribe of Manasseh or the nondenominationals. Manasseh means, "to remit, remove: --forget, deprive, exact." These have "removed" from the mainstream Pentecostals to in effect become a denomination of their own, but dont tell them that they wouldnt believe it. They choose to "forget" their Pentecostal roots and seek "to remit" on their own making merchandise of the things of God, "exacting" a price for everything. All have become big business. "The two tribes and the half tribe have received their inheritance on this side Jordan near Jericho eastward, toward the sunrising." Num. 34:15
Why would anyone not want the full benefit of what Messiahs death bought for us on the cross? Yet, we see the fundamentalist rejecting Pentecost and the tribe and half-tribe of Pentecost thumbing their noses at the notion that there is more for the church. The fundamentalist seem content with the thirty-fold blessing and the Pentecostals can see nothing beyond the gifts of the Spirit and have settled for the sixty-fold realm. However, beyond Jordan there awaits the hundred-fold realm, the third feast of Israel for the church. We have had Passover and Pentecost and the Feast of Tabernacles is underway.
I want to say here, that I do not speak of other cults because these two are the only ones who hold the teaching of the Scriptures. What you find in both of these witness groups is the spirit of the Pharisee. These denominations are made up of modern day Pharisees and their scribes write book after book for gain. They are strict abides of their doctrinal teaching and piously defend them at any cost. They strain at gnats and swallow camels. They refuse to go in and hinder those who would from going in. YahShua plainly said, "But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in." Mat. 23:13
This was the terms Ruben, Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh placed before the man of God. They would send all of their fighting men over the Jordan with the rest and fight until the land was taken. They declared. "We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance. For we will not inherit with them on yonder side Jordan, or forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side Jordan eastward." Num. 32: 18-19
I dont understand their logic for on the east of the Jordan the land was commanding and the ground stubborn while beyond the Jordan was the land flowing with milk and honey. It was the blessing God had brought them there to inherit. So many today are refusing to take their possessions in the realm of the spirit even though they join in the battle against evil and sin in the land. These people will be blessed in the manifestation of the sons of God and will in the Kingdom Age help to destroy the enemy and bring peace to the land, at least outwardly. The people that leave Fundamentalist and Pentecostals will go to battle against the forces of evil in the land until the lie comes and Satin is bound.
They have settled on the natural temporal side of the Jordan where the ground of complacency is hard, where no spiritual seed can grow and their religious acts remain. They choose the temporal blessings over spiritual things, just as Esau did. This is not the inheritance God has in mind for his people. Our inheritance is life in the spiritual realm beyond the physical, basking in Gods presence. It is ours for the taking. It flows with the sincere milk of the Word and revelation knowledge that is sweet as honey to the spirit man.
The Church as we know it has been wondering in the wilderness of religion for almost two thousand years or forty generations. Deut. 8:2 Forty is the number that signifies death. The flood was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.(Gen. 7: 4) The Israelites wondered through the desert (wilderness) forty years until all the old rebellious generation had died off(death).(Num. 14: 34-35) Joshua and the Calebs are in the wilderness with rebellious Israel, but Caleb has a different spirit. Num. 14:21-24 As the people of God represented by Israel were dying in the wilderness of dead religion, the Calebs were dying too, but their death is different because he had a different spirit. The old man of earth is dying, dying to self and to religious ways. They are being led by the Spirit, instead of Moses(a man)and are eating sacred manna(revealed Knowledge) while the rest of Israel cry out for flesh. Their desert is the refining fire and they will come forth as pure gold, vessels fit for the Masters use. If you will not rebel and will submit yourself unto the work of the Spirit you can be part of that number, but you must come into the wilderness of refining. You must be lead by the Spirit and not a ministry and you must be satisfied with the manna from above and not seek understanding through the flesh. God has a people out here right now doing their forties in the wilderness, outside the walled cities of denominations. We are in a fast, fasting from mans religious ways and learning Gods. Learning to be spirit beings, they will soon be manifested to the world. (Rom. 8: 22-25)
Joshua means, "Jehovah - saved" and represents YahShua. Caleb means "to yelp" or cry against, to bark a warning(Strongs Hebrew Dictionary) and he represents the sons of God. Together they will have the courage to press into the deeper things of God. Israel had a rebellious religious spirit, but Caleb had a different spirit. Num. 14:21-24 They will take the land by force, victory is theirs. Together they will lead the way into the realm of spiritual eternal life and immortality, the Promise Land.
Beyond the Jordan
I have a news flash for you. If you are looking for the manifestation of the sons of God to be the end of the matter, think again. It is just the beginning. As I said before they will bring the restoration of all things. Their message in part will be, "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord. And he shall send YahShua Messiah, which before was preached unto you: Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began." Acts 3: 19-21 Though the Kingdom Age will be upon us, there will be much work to do. The religious spirit will not die easily. There are enemies in the land and battles to be won.
The land lay before the children of Israel and their courage soared with the victory at the hands of the Lord when the walls of Jericho came tumbling down. Josh. 6 They were big, they were bad, and then there was little Ai. Josh. 7 It was there that they tasted their first defeat. What happened? As long as they sought the Lord and went out only at his command they won seemingly undefeatable battles, but once they went out in their own arrogance, even a small army defeated them. Though they gained most of the land, they disobeyed the Lord and did not completely destroy all the enemies in the land. They grew wary with the battle and began to make treaties. This was literal Israels defeat.
We too will see the might hand of the Lord bring the walls of denominations down with a crash and many will be our victories. However, those who are not of the Elect will find defeat when they try to once again do it on their own power, without the leading of the Lord. Old ways are hard to lay down. It is not enough to take the land, they must destroy the evil in it by submitting to the cross life and the refining fire of the Spirit. If we leave the enemy in the land, we are in effect not taking the land at all. The land lies within and the Jordan is the dividing line between carnal and spiritual, between our will and Gods.
Listen, you know there has been six millenniums since the fall of mankind, two thousand in the days of innocence before the Law, two thousand from the going forth of the law to the cutting off of the Messiah( See Daniels) and two more during the Church Age. Sometime in the early part of the seventh God will manifest his sons and the Kingdom Age will begin. Now the Bible states that for six days shall you work and on the seventh you shall rest from your labor, it is Holy Sabbath unto the Lord, the Lords day. Counting one day as a thousand years as in 2 Peter 3:1 we see that we are on the brink of the Kingdom Age when man rests from the labor of sin and inters the great and terrible day of the Lord. Great to those who love his appearing, but pure terror for those whose heart are not purified from its sin nature. In the Law handed down by Moses when the Lord called for a Holy Sabbath, the sixth day was the Day of Preparation. It was at that time men would afflict their souls(psyche) and purify their hearts for the holy day to come. This pattern is followed through out Gods dealing with mankind. The Bible simply says, "Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of rest, a holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the Sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings." Lev. 23:3 We are at the end of the sixth day now, the Sabbath is dawning.
"And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season." Rev. 20:1-3
Did you hear it? Not all of the populous in the Kingdom Age will give their entire heart and being unto the Lord even though every knee shall bow and every tongue will confess, that YahShua is Lord to the glory of God. Confession is not possession. Many will compromise with the enemy and suffer defeat. However, to maintain life in the Kingdom Age they bind the man of sin, that old enemy, the devil, deep within the recesses of the heart. He will be held there with the strong chains of iron will and the seal of Gods own word. None will know he is there for time will deceive their own hearts. He will be forgotten there in his prison in the depths of their being. They have submitted to the power of God tremendous influence and have never had it so good, basking the love that covers them. It seems that this is truly the Garden of Eden. A thousand years of the powerful influence of Gods government and His presence in the earth and all is will, or so it seems.
The Word says the children of Israel committed sin by taking the accursed things out of Jericho. Well, the man of God went before the Lord and asked what happened. God replied, "Israel has sinned; they have violated my covenant, which I commanded them to keep. They have taken some of the devoted things; they have stolen, they have lied, they have put them with their own possessions." Joshua 7:11
In the indictment of the Lord you can see what he considers the priority level of their sins. First, they broke covenant with him. Then they committed idolatry and stolen, then they lied and took possessions for their own.
When the River is breached and the church(believers) go in to take the land by the power of the Lord many will fall victim to the enticing things found there. Man will have not yet learned that they can not control the power of God. You can take nothing for yourself out of this land, no glory, no ministry, and there will be no little religious kingdoms to be made there.
Another Covenant
God is going to make another covenant with his elect and it is beyond the Covenant in His Blood. This may sound sacrilegious but think about it. If YahShua blood has done its work in our life and we have allowed the cross life of the Holy Spirit to purge all of the sin nature out of us, conforming us into the image of HIS dear son, then there will be no more need for the blood. When the church(believers) crosses over into the Kingdom Age lead by the manifested sons of God many will not believe even then. Even with the sons of God having undergone a metamorphosis change and walk among them in immortal bodies as YahShua did after his resurrection some will harden their hearts and choose not be obey God. Rom. 8:15-25
Daniel saw it as the Kingdom of God and said, "it was cut out without hands". This is one move of God that man will not lay his hands(ministry) to. He goes on to describe it as, "a great mountain, and it filled the whole earth". Dan. 2: 34-35 With the new age comes a new covenant. The covenant with the sons of God is; "And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son." Rev. 21:5-8
This covenant is the Covenant of Sonship, overcoming by the blood of the Lamb of God and the word of testimony. You realize of course in the spirit there is really no words to speak. Our life speaks louder than any words. Our conversation is our way of living. Phil. 3:20 The blood of the Lamb has already finished its work at the cross, but our testimony must line up with the Spirit of sonship whereby we cry, "Abba Father". This is a sonship covenant. It places you in the family as a fully mature heir. A covenant is an Old Testament word for contract or a legal binding agreement. It is between two people and both have something to offer. A life lived in spirituality, and sonship on our part and fatherhood, life and spiritual blessing on Gods part. Through the sons, the very elect, who have overcome this carnal realm and entered into immortality the door to this other covenant will be established for all of Gods people. Just as YahShua death opened the covenant in his blood to Gods people in his day and eternal life was offered, the manifestation of the sons of God will pass on to the world the experimental walk in immortality and life.
What was begun at the cross will find fulfillment in the Kingdom Age. "But we see YahShua, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man. For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren." Heb. 2:9-11 When the sons of God, the elect, put on immortality and began to walk with mortal everlasting man, then will be fulfilled the scripture, "For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea." Hab. 2:14 This will happen because His kingdom has come and His will is done upon earth as it is in heaven. This covenant, however, can be broken if one or the other of the parties defraud or break the agreement. The Elect are sealed and will keep the covenant.
The Broken Covenant
Sadly though, many who walk as immortal man will break the covenant by harboring carnal things and allowing the nature of sin to remain hidden deeply within the recesses of their heart. When this happens then covenant is annulled and the oath is no longer valid. "And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant." Gen. 17:14 Disobedience breaks the covenant. We must appropriate the full blessing of what YahShua death on the cross did for us. We can not let one drop of that precious blood become of none effect. Why not take the full blessing? "Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it." Isa." 1:16-20 Dont break the Covenant of Sonship in the Kingdom Age or you will loose fellowship with God and you will loose your full inheritance.
Idolatry
The inhabitants of the earth plain harboring idols in the heart is the second reason God gives that makes Gods people flee before their enemies in the Kingdom Age. There are, I would say, nearly as many idols in the world as there are people. Nearly everyone has their patron and pays homage to it whither it be money, prestige, possession or just something greatly desired. God and God alone is the author and finisher of our faith. We can not hold any other Gods before him, whither it be a ministry, church or possessions. "Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?" Rom. 6:16
Stolen
Obtaining is one of mans weaknesses. He strives to get, get, get and goes to any link or does anything allowable and sometime not allowable to obtain. We can not conquer if we fall prey to gain. We must overcome it. The laws have changed on this side of the Jordan. Those who seek to get will find they are bankrupt and those who seek to give will walk in abundance. However, when it comes to spiritual things that is tramping in Gods domain. We must war with the visible church that steals the anointing, or what looks like it to the people of God, and uses it for their own purpose. The praise that belongs only to God is squandered on the ministers, ministries and the church denomination. The laws of God are; giving and preferring others above you own desires. The most abhorrent sin of stealing is taking the Lords money and using it to build memorials to these denominations called churches while the widows go without and orphans hunger. No greater theft has occurred in all of mankind than to steal the hearts of Gods people away from him calling upon his name to do it, and then blatantly taking the spiritual childrens bread out of their mouths. God is watching, he knows the thief. This must fall in the dust of our going as we take the land.
The Lie
Some will try to steal what little spiritual blessing they find being held out to Gods people and hide what they are doing with lies, mimic and mocking what God is doing. They might fool the people making themselves look like an angel of light but those with spiritual perception can pick them out easily. Do they think God is blind? The lie of lies is when you lie to your own heart and convince yourself that something you conceive is of God. That it is right, even when the Spirit convicts otherwise, and you turn away from that conviction because you will look bad to those around you. Self is still alive and you do not want to crucify it. If you live a deception you become that deception. If you live a lie, you become that lie.
Taking Possessions
The drive for prominence and possession is the main cause of most evil. To have, to obtain, to possess, it is all-inclusive. Here is where the Spirit of the Harlot Religious System is most prominent. Here is where the battle will be the fiercest and only a pure heart will win this one. For her to control, to possess, to direct is the ultimate obsession. She puts religious fetters on Gods people in the name of YahShua. Like in Egypt she makes salves out of well meaning people by seduction and deception. She is building her kingdom with the souls of Gods people, but God will give us the victory over her. Just as the walls of Jericho fell the walls of denominations and religious cities will fall. "For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double. How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her." Rev. 18: 5-8
The final Out Come
What will be the final out come of the enemy of our soul(being)? Do to the fact that some did not allow the Holy Spirit to purify their hearts and children were born with the inherit sin nature still in them during the seventh millennium the Lord has to loose it and allow it to come to the surface. The final purging of sin from the human race will take place at the end of the day of rest. Thus we read, "And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog, and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city." Rev. 20: 7-9 This will be the final battle for the souls of mankind. Gog and Magog in the Strongs Hebrew and Greek dictionary simply says, "of foreign origin." That foreign sin nature Adam took into himself at the fall recorded in Genesis will raise it ugly head once more.
Well, we read in Revelations. " And fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them." Rev. 20:3 "And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever." Rev. 20:10 "And the beast(fallen nature) was taken, and with him the false prophet (religion)that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark(carnal thinking) of the beast, and them that worshipped his(mans) image(church, ministers and ministries). These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone." Rev. 19:20
Yes, there was a literal lake of fire in the time of YahShua. YahShua called this place Gahenna. It was the place outside the city wall in the Kidren Valley where refuge and the residue of the sacrifices were burned and because of the amount of refuge from the city and the sacrifices it was perpetually burning, night and day. It was an eternal fire that was forever burning, being fueled constantly. But, what was cast into it was consumed entirely. It was said that even the carcass of the beggars and those found dead whose bodies were not claimed by the family were cremated there as well. Their bodies did not remain there forever, they were consumed. The smoke of that place had ascended up for thousands of years and the fire remained until 70 AD. It was also called the ash heap. This is what YahShua was referring to in Mat. 25:41
Spiritually speaking God is the consuming fire. Deut. 4:24 The lake of fire is where the dead carcasses of religion are burned, where the filth of the heart is consumed. You will either be purged of the inherit sin nature and come forth as the Three Hebrew Children with no smoke or sent of its death upon you or you will be utterly consumed by it. The Satan, devil of our lives, will end there in that flame, done away with once for all.
The Eight Day/ Eighth Millennium
The future looks bright ahead for those who have allowed the glory of God to consume their lives. There is coming a new day, a new beginning for mankind and that is the beginning of the eighth millennium. Eight is the number of new beginnings, a new week and the Eternal Age.
"And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, write: for these words are true and faithful. And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son." Rev. 21: 4-7
"And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. 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. And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him: And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads. And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever." Rev 22: 1-5