Understanding Bible Basics

CHAPTER II. DAY OF CREATION

6. THE RECORD OF THE CREATION

Gen 1;1-2 In the beginning God created the HEAVEN (first heaven) and the earth. 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.

There were THREE PERIODS OF PREPARATION

DAY ONE- light

Day one also reveals the purpose of creation; Light in darkness. In the fulness of time light life came into the day of death and deposited this light in the hearts of believers

Gen 1:1:3- And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

DAY TWO- water

Gen 1:6-8 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament HEAVEN (second heaven). And the evening and the morning were the second day.

DAY THREE- land

Gen 1:9-13 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the third day.

There were THREE PERIODS OF FILLING

DAY FOUR-light

Gen 1:14- 19 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; AND let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

DAY FIVE- water

Gen 1:20- And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth,

…in the open firmament of heaven. And God created great whales, and every living creature that moves, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

DAY SIX- land

Gen 1:24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.

Earth was prepared for man.

PROVISION

Gen 1:29-30 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you, it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to everything that creeps upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

The DAY OF CREATION

Gen 1;1-3 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

Gen 2:4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,

UNDERSTANDING BIBLE BASICS

7. CONCEPTS AND TIME.

Like every book that has a front and back cover protecting the pages inside, Genesis and Revelation embrace and enfold the rest of the scripture, protecting the Spirit Word, and binding the living Word of God together like a cover, protecting the Spirit Word. However, these two books are the most misinterpreted books in the Bible and is no place for the natural carnal mind.

Rom 8:7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

Both these books were visions, and they were written approximately 1,600 years apart. The similarities in these two visions are amazing and very important to identify and to be understood in the spirit: especially in the first two chapters of Genesis and the last two chapters of Revelation, sealing the beginning from the end.

Both books refer to the beginning and the end, the Garden, the Tree of Life, the River, and the Place of Perfection.

Joh 14:3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

At the time of writing of these two books, approximately 1500 BC and 70 AD respectively, there were major turning points in history, that unfolded God’s purposes in time.

Death reigned until Moses who wrote the first five books of the Bible, but he lived 2500 years after Adam. Adam was created on DAY FOUR and the minute Adam ate, the clock started ticking and is ever progressing, taking us back to the original plan set in Genesis one.

The first great turning point was the flood and only eight people were saved, through the Ark; a new beginning. The time when Moses came on the scene was a very important turning point. His life was spared through a little Ark and His name means; DRAWN FROM WATER.

It was time to start the building of God’s house.

Moses was the reason for this massacre of boys by Pharoh, yet he was trained in Pharaoh’s palace. MOSES was fully equipped to write the vision of the Goodness of God that was given to Him when He asked to see God’s Glory, EX 33;11.

This vision of Time was given to Moses on the mountain and he wrote Genesis One.

Day one… it was GOOD!

Day Two… it was GOOD!

Day Three… it was GOOD! … etc.

Rom 5:14 …death reigned from Adam to Moses,

The Law reigned from Adam to Moses and was a schoolmaster unto Christ. Christ fulfilled the law and became the final sacrifice, marking the end of the Law of Moses.

The final removal of the old system of worship started with their captivity in Babylon which marked the beginning of the removal of the system that defiled the house that was building, or the BODY that was in preparation. The Law world was the schoolmaster leading up the Christ, yet they did not receive Him, they worshiped the system and killed the Christ. His own rejected Him. Joh 1:11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.

The prophets came in after the kings ruined the house that was being built and warned them about Babylon and their final destruction. The end of the law world was foreshadowed by Israel’s captivity in Babylon and ended 70 AD, with the destruction of Jerusalem.

Is 66:1 Thus saith the LORD, the heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?

In Babylon, Ezekiel was given visions of the measuring of the temple, foreshadowing the final destruction of the temple. The Tabernacle had three doors, but now it was door upon door as they opened for all kinds of idolatry in the temple, and this place had to be broken down.

God gave them yet another chance to rebuild the temple, but they went right on with their idolatry and started the FIG TREE system, within the priestly system and they were now ruled by Pharisees, Sadducees, and rulers of the Temple who took over Moses’ seat. FIG Leaves come from the garden and it means; I WILL DO IT MY WAY. They formed the fig tree within the system and Jesus demonstrated their removal by cursing a fig tree. The book of Revelation was written just before the final removal of that system and the Kingdom could now fully manifest on earth for the Old was now done away with.

Heb 8:9 The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:

Rev 15:8 And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.

Rev 10:7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.

John, on the Isle of Patmos, was the last surviving apostle before the final removal of that old system.

Rev 1:9 I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.

John was given the final revelation of Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the Beginning and the End. This vision takes us straight back to the book of Beginnings and marks the turning point where the Kingdom of God can now function on earth. The Kingdom was only foreshadowed and not recorded in the Bible. We cannot place the removal of the old at the final consummation of the kingdom.

God does not have a beginning nor an end; He is the Beginning and the End. Time has a beginning and end. Christ was the END of the Law world, but the church, HIS BODY will never end.

Eph 3:10 To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,

In Him, every end has a new beginning. In time there are constant new beginnings and endings, but God is the beginning and end of all. The end is revealed in the beginning and the beginning is picked up in the end.

We can so easily get stuck in classifying the books and dividing the verses and reading through the Bible programs while missing the purpose of the Word, not understanding the Spirit Language and understanding God’s purposes revealed IN THE VOLUME OF THE BOOK, Heb 10:7

The Book of Genesis is where first principles are laid down and this paves the way to understanding the rest of the Word. It is crucial to understand Genesis to understand God’s purpose in human history, which is repeating cycles in time.

These patterns are spiritual seasons and appointed times, underlined with the purposes of God ever progressing to perfection. Genesis and Revelation are both visions and can only be understood through and by the Spirit. It is no place for the natural carnal mind

Heb 11:3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

Rev 1:1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants' things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

God’s message to the church is to “HEAR WHAT THE SPIRIT SAYS”, and to be overcomers in this life. His plans and purposes are revealed in the Volume of the BOOK, from beginning to end.

UNDERSTANDING BIBLE BASICS

II. CREATION

8. TIME OF WRITING

Genesis is the book of beginnings and the laying down of first principles. The time of writing and authorship are of major importance. In Genesis, we read about the beginning of creation and the beginning of Time until God’s people were led out of bondage to the promised land.

Time began when Adam was driven from the garden, the place of perfection in Eden, and entered the DAY of Death. This Day will end when man steps back to God’s original purpose for him and Revelation deals with the fact the way is set for this restoration. The whole of creation is waiting for the sons to grow and possess the Kingdom.

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

The seed of sin inside Adam multiplied in and through humanity. It became a hopeless situation until the flood brought in a new day, a new beginning where God works through time to restore man. This new beginning correlates with Day ONE of Creation Week, but sin reigned.

A new world started in Abraham, the father of faith and a major turning point in history came about with Moses.

Rom 5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses.

David foreshadowed Christ the next turning point, who brought REFORMATION and a new world. No man is able to bring this kind of change, but God himself.

Joh 1:17 the law was given by Moses, grace, and truth came by Jesus Christ.

Heb 9:10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.

Eph 1:9 Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:

Eph 1:10 That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him.

There was a battle for seed and Satan used Pharaoh to massacre a whole generation of babies. MOSES was the target, but he was drawn from water and then trained under Pharaoh, and He wrote Genesis.

Moses was called on the MOUNTAIN at a burning bush, where for the first time the ground was declared to be Holy, revealing the plan of restoration, for at that point the ground was cursed. Moses was then instructed to bring God’s people out of Egypt, resembling the world. These are all pictures of God’s plan to bring total redemption to all of creation.

On the way to the promised land, God met with Moses again on the mountain, this time, “Face to Face”, as a friend. Moses kept reminding God of His name, “DRAWN FROM WATER”, and he wanted to see God’s WAY so that he might know HIM and find grace. Moses requested that God’s presence go with them on their journey and God assured him that his requests would be granted.

Moses pressed in deeper and asked to see God’s GLORY. At that point, everything changed on that mountain. Moses was placed in the cleft of the rock beside God, but he was not allowed to see God’s face [the forward side;], while he was FACE to FACE with God. He was not filled with the Spirit and was only permitted to see God’s workings, from behind. JESUS is the face of God Moses could not see.

2 Cor 4:6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

God’s answer came in a vision;

Exo 33:19 And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.

God’s Goodness passed by him in the form of GRACE and MERCY. He saw from the beginning of creation until the final day, which is Rest. He wrote…Day one… It was good…, Day Two… etc.

The first person who found Grace was Noah, then Abraham followed by the heroes of faith found Grace. In the New Testament, Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ, and He brought us, Mercy. These are all important periods of time.

Grace is - you get what you do not deserve.

Mercy is - you do not get what you deserve.

We are not to read and interpret the Word as separate stories, the Word is the redemption plan of God, revealed from beginning to end. This vision of God’s GOODNESS was given to Moses more or less 2,500 years after Adam. Adam was only created on Day Six.

Genesis is a vision and is no playground for the natural mind. Genesis one is the BLUEPRINT or the DNA of Time or THE DAY OF DEATH. This book is the key to understanding time. There were three days of preparation and three days of filling that led to REST.

Time began when Adam fell and is ever progressing back to the purposes of God. Time will end when man's knowledge and understanding have reached their limits and man returns to his original purpose.

On DAY FOUR the sun moon and stars were created. This correlates with when the true light came into the world. Jesus is the fourth man who brought in the second-generation man. JESUS CHRIST;

· the fourth man who appeared in the furnace with Shadrach, Meshack, and Abednego.

· the body in heaven with the four faces that were being prepared to come to earth, Adam the man, Abraham the ox, David the eagle, and then Christ the Lion of Judah.

· the fourth in the royal seed line of Christ. He was the Rock that followed them in the wilderness.

1Cor 10:4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.

· the face of God that Moses was not permitted to see.

· In Daniel 2, He is the Rock-cut loose from the mountain, which hit the statue and it then became a mountain that filled the earth. He is the Rock of Salvation on which we must build our house, the place of HIS HOUSE.

He was the only begotten that now became the first begotten that brought forth the second generation of man.

1 John 3:2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

Genesis covers the end from the beginning and Revelation covers the way from Genesis, describing the removal of the first and ushering in the time of the kingdom where the sons will finally possess the kingdom and bring restoration to creation.

UNDERSTANDING BIBLE BASICS

II. GENESIS AND CREATION

9. THE BEGINNING AND THE END

To understand the terms; End or Ending, you first have to understand the Beginning, for the END was determined from the BEGINNING.

Is 64: 10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:

“Beginning and End”, has different interpretations in the natural realm, compared to the spiritual realm. The Bible is a book that covers both these realms and is written in the natural realm, but infused by the spirit. Unless the Spirit reveals the Word, we have a history book full of good stories.

The VOLUME OF THE BOOK is all about the Christ.

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.

Heb 12:2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Revelation one clearly indicates to us what Revelation is all about and connects the entire Word, by taking us back to the Word that was in the beginning.

Rev 1:1. The Revelation of Jesus Christ,

Christ is called the faithful witness,

· who IS AND WAS and IS TO COME.

· He is the Alpha and Omega,

· He is the BEGINNING AND THE END.

God does not have a beginning and end.

GOD IS THE BEGINNING AND END. In the natural, the beginning and the end are two different points in time. GOD IS THE beginning and the end, AND GOD IS one point. EVERYTHING began IN HIM, and all will end IN HIM. The only way to eternal Life is IN HIM.

1 Cor 15:24 Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.

The first verse in Genesis answers the most difficult question that all scientists struggle with; Where did it all begin?

Gen 1:1 in the beginning God created heaven and the earth.

In the beginning, heaven and earth were created at the same time. This is the first verse in the Bible, but it is not the first chronological verse. The first chronological verse is found in John one, which was written after 70 AD and the destruction of Jerusalem. The Book of John was one of the last books written and takes us back to a time before the beginning of creation. The WORD is connected.

Joh 1:1, In the beginning, was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

BEGINNING is the Word [Res-sheeth], meaning; before time main thing or the head; the principal thing.

Before the beginning, The SPIRIT WORD came from the bosom of the Father. The Father sent forth His Spirit Word and in Wisdom created heaven and earth. God did not separate from the Spirit, they divided to co-created and were in total harmony. GOD with God.

John 1:1, In the beginning, was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

And GOD SAID… This same WORD manifested as in human form, in the fullness of time, or the climax of the ages.

Joh 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

Joh 1:2 The same was at the beginning with God.

Joh 1:3 All things were made by him, and without him was not anything made that was made.

The sun was not needed in the realm of perfection and was only set in place on Day four of creation, as a guarantee for time. Genesis One is the blueprint of time. The fall of Adam ignited time. Christ, the fourth man, the True Light, came into time, 4000 years after Adam, in the fullness of time, correlating with the fourth Day.

Joh 1:4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

:5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

Creation is one DAY with seven DAYS or TIME PERIODS. The purpose of creation was to deal with darkness and rebellion. Nothing man can do can stop God’s purposes. When the Day of Death is done, and the Sons of God have manifested. We are back on track to total perfection and rest for all of creation.

Rom 8:22 & 23 For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now. And not only they but ourselves also, which have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

Eph 2:7 That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.

The minute Adam fell, he fell short of the Glory of God, and time as we know it, began. God does not have a beginning and end, but time has. God works in time to bring us to rest

Joh 5:17 But Jesus answered them; My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.

1 Cor 15:25-28 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

The purpose of time was to bring creation back from its fallen state to the realm of perfection and light. Time has cycles and seasons, resulting in generations with many beginnings and endings, ever progression towards Rest. The End is Rest.

Isa 46:9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,

Isa 46:10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, my counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:

UNDERSTANDING BIBLE BASICS

II. GENESIS AND CREATION

10. REALMS.

Gen 1:1 in the beginning God created heaven and the earth.

Heaven is not a planet we are going to one day when we die. Heaven is a realm that was created at the same time as the earth, and they function together.

Isa 66:1 Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?

Genesis One is clear about Heaven and Earth but does not say anything about HELL. The doctrines we have about hell come from the Dark Ages and we will have to go back to the Word to understand this realm. Hell was not created by God, but when Adam sinned, God said that man would return to Dust.

Gen 3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it was thou taken; for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

The realm of death was called the pit and the first to go there was Able when Cain opened this door.

Gen 4:7 If thou do well, shalt thou are not accepted? and if thou do not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.

Death has DOORS and Hell has GATES.

Job 38 :17 Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou saw the doors of the shadow of death?

Jesus came to destroy the works of the enemy and HE became the door to life. He descended and opened the prison and preached the Gospel to them.

1 Pet 3:19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; For this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

Christ brought a total reformation, Heaven, Earth and Hell changed. Hell before the cross and after the cross are not the same place.

Rev 22:14 And DEATH AND HELL were cast into the LAKE OF FIRE. This is the second death.

· Hell was the place of departed souls before the cross and was called SHEOL in Hebrew and HADES in Greek. It was also referred to as THE PIT.

· The Lake of Fire or the second Death is the place of eternal damnation and darkness prepared for Satan and His angels and those who refuse the light.

Rev 20: 6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the FIRST resurrection: on such, the SECOND DEATH hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ and shall reign with him a thousand years.

On Day one God separated the light from darkness and this light realm was called DAY. The six spiritual days or time periods that followed took place in this LIGHT DAY, or REALM of perfection called EDEN. Darkness was separated from light.

Heaven is that realm of light and perfection, called EDEN. Heaven is not a planet somewhere beyond the blue, neither is it God’s dwelling place. God’s glory or dwelling is above the heavens.

Psa 8:1 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.

In disobedience, Adam ate from the Tree of Knowledge and was driven out of this place of perfection, and they found themselves naked and afraid. Adam and Eve had offspring, so their story was not just a spiritual story, their story was one that laid down principles.

The heavenly realm of perfection was now closed to mankind so that they would not eat from the Tree of Life and live forever in this fallen state, where death rules. Two cherubim protected the tree. The minute Adam fell the battle for seed was announced and heaven started preparing for God to rescue humanity. On earth, Satan constantly tried to contaminate the seed line of Christ and twice he massacred a whole generation of Babies but could not stop Christ from coming. The infant church survived His final effort.

Genesis One, tells us what God did, and …

Genesis Two tells us how He did it.

Genesis 2:8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

· East meaning; First,

· Garden means closed environment or Bride and

· Eden means Pleasure.

The garden (BRIDE) was a closed environment where the spiritual realm manifested on the earth, in a certain place. Two of the four rivers in the garden are known to us, and they are the Tigress and the Euphrates, so we can identify the location of the manifestation of this spiritual place that manifested on earth.

The law system carried the mysteries of God, the Testimony of Jesus in an ark, a coffin with life inside, and god’s presence appeared on top of the mercy seat under the shadow of the wings of the Cherubim. Christ’s body was the veil that opened this place that was prepared for us. We are not under the shadow of the wings we are in the place prepared. In Revelation, we find the tree. The Sword has now slain the shepherd and the Tree of LIFE was opened. The river flows from the throne and the lamb and on both sides is the Tree of Life. The river or provision comes from the TREE of LIFE.

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 manners of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

In this fallen state, Heaven became the throne room from where the restoration plan was worked out on the earth, in time.

Isa 66:1 Thus saith the LORD, the heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?

Heaven is the realm of perfection where the judgment seat was set up for the Ancient of Days.

Daniel 7:9. I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.

Every heaven and earth form a world. In Genesis one there were three heavens or firmaments created.

1. In the beginning.

2. On day two, the waters were separated from the waters.

3. On day three when the sun moon and stars were created.

These heavens correlate with the three worlds in time.

1. The world before the Flood,

2. The world of the Law and

3. The world without end, THE CHURCH

The Kingdom now functions in the heart of believers. Eternity working within us.

2 Pet 3:6-7 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

Isa 43:2 When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.

Eph 3:21 Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.

Jacob had a dream of a long ladder and heaven opened and angels ascending and descending. Throughout the Old Testament history, heaven opened progressively revealing the purposes of God.

Ex 24:10 And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.

Is 6:1 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.

Eze 1 Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.

The heavens also opened in dreams like with Daniel and it all pointed to Christ, who brought the heavenly realm down to earth. The final opening of the heavens was when Jesus was baptized. Jesus was born on the earth, in the fullness of time, as a man, but at His baptism, heaven opened, and the Spirit descended and rested upon Him. For the first time, God’s Spirit now indwelled a man, and He was called Son of man, Son of God. HE now became the Christ or the anointed one. The Spirit of the Son now indwells a man and Heaven is opened on earth. Jesus declared that He was in heaven while he was standing on earth.

Joh 1:18 No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father (in heaven), he hath declared him.

Joh 3:13 And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.

· Jesus was the body prepared.

· Christ was the body filled with the Spirit of Truth .

· The Lamb was the body sacrificed to prepare a place for…

· The church, Christ’s body on earth.

The place that Christ went to prepare, is a place in the SPIRIT, a realm of victory right within this fallen creation, and is called the Kingdom of God or the Kingdom of Heaven.

This is a place is a person, which is a place of peace in a troubled world, a place of joy amongst sorrow and death. This is a place where one can experience the bliss and knowledge that your sins are forgiven, a place of light in the darkness.

Col 1:12-14 Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:

11. THE DAY CONCEPT.

In Genesis One, the story of creation is the passing goodness that Moses saw in a vision. The SEVEN DAYS of creation are laid down the principles and patterns for time. Each day had the same pattern: evening, morning, and a day period, and each was sealed with the GOODNESS of God.

On Day One God spoke Light into a dark, void, and formless earth. God then divided Light from darkness and on DAY ONE He called Light; DAY and the darkness; NIGHT. There was no sun or moon to regulate time on earth.

These were spiritual days or time periods for the sun and moon were only created on Day four.

· DAY ONE refers to the first period in creation.

· LIGHT DAY resembles the realm of perfection where creation took place.

· THE FINAL DAY is REST, and this was determined from the beginning.

A Day is the most important measurement for time, but in the Spirit, it is more an indication of a certain period and is used for comparisons. The Bible talks about a Day of Vengeance, a Year of Favor; while Jesus said His Hour has come.

A day in the Spirit is a perfect period of time.

A DAY can be 24 hours, 40 years as in a generational day, or even a lifetime.

2 Pet 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day.

In the Spirit, a thousand does not mean 1,000 or a millennium, but it means a perfect time. The only perfect time in the Day of Death was when Satan could not kill Christ. Hundred and forty-four thousand implies that God’s purposes are in place as Jesus hung on the cross; twelve tribes, twelve Apostles, and the twenty-four elders in the heavens.

Natural interpretations misplace prophecies and leave us lost in the corridors of time. Science and the Bible cannot contradict each other, God made science. Any contradiction is proof of misinterpretation of the Word or wrong declarations from science. A careful study of Genesis unlocks the spiritual language in the Word and reveals God’s purposes throughout time.

The DAY OF THE LORD and THE LORD”S DAY is two different periods that overlap, Compare the following;

Psa 118:24 This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.

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Zep 1:14 The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.

The Word does not contradict itself, it paints pictures.

Jesus was the only begotten of the Father and then became the first begotten, leading many SONS to Glory.

In the fullness of time, God manifested on the earth and at the end of time man will manifest God on earth.

The manifesting of the SONS on earth is when we step back in from where Adam stepped out. These patterns were set from the beginning.

· The earth was prepared in three periods of time;

· Then filled for three days or periods:

· Day Seven God RESTED.

The time of filling followed the same pattern as the time of preparation.

Day One - Light divided from darkness

Day Four – The sun, stars, and moon was created

Day Two – Water was divided

Day five – waters and the sky filled

Day Three – land and sea were divided

Day six – land was filled, and man was made.

Genesis One is like the DNA of time or the floorplan of time. Creation was a week of seven days and time plays out in a seven-periods with continual endings and beginnings like wheels within wheels, revealing the workings of God.

Gen 2:15-17 And the LORD God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eat thereof, thou shalt surely die.

A Day consists of two twelve-hour cycles: an evening and morning and a day. Time is a Day of Death in a fallen state. The minute Adam disobeyed God, the DAY of DEATH started, for the seed of Death was in the Tree of Knowledge.

Jesus became the fourth man and at the full restoration or cycle of time, we will be back on track. In the fullness of time, Christ came as the morning and brought light to the people that sat in Darkness, Matthew 4: 16. He brought light into darkness and Life into Death, He did not remove us or announced our escape from the earth. He brought life to us.

Hosea 6: 3 Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.

His coming ignited the Due Season with former rain and Latter Rain.

1 John 3:8 He that commits sin is of the devil; for the devil sinned from the beginning. For this purpose, the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

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

God’s purpose has always been for man to live, man was never made to die. Christ’s death is the END OF DEATH, AS THE END. In Christ, we live, even when we die.

Rev 14:13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works do follow them.

12. INTRODUCTION TO BIBLE GRAMMAR

The Bible is the greatest gift to humanity after the cross and it comes in the written form of two major languages. Peter makes it clear that the focus is not the language but the spirit of the Word.

2 Pet 1:16-20 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.

For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. And this voice which came from heaven we heard when we were with him in the holy mount.

We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

The Bible is a treasure that keeps unfolding and as Time goes Revelation grows.

2Ti 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that need not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Isa 34:16 Seek ye out of the book of the LORD and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth, it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.

The book of Revelation is a direct message from God to the infant church that came through the tribulation. The voice that called from the garden and leaped over the mountains, is now behind John, as he was commanded to write to the churches to hear what the Spirit says to be overcomers in the Kingdom and the command is clear; Hear what the Spirit says. We are not to listen to voices crying in the darkness.

Rev 1:10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,

To the Church in Ephesus

Rev 2:7 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcomes will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God

To the Church in Smyrna

Rev 2:11 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcomes shall not be hurt of the second death.

To the Church in Pergamum

Rev 2:17 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches;; To him that overcomes will I give to eat of the hidden manna and will give him a white stone, and in the stone, a new name is written, which no man knows saving he that receives it.

To the Church in Thyatira

Rev 2:28 -29 And I will give him the morning star. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches;

To the Church in Sardis

Rev 3:5 - 6 He that overcomes, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches;

To the Church in Philadelphia

Rev 3:12 - 13 Him that overcomes 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. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

To the Church in Laodicea

Rev 3:21-22 To him that overcomes will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches

The Kingdom can now be entered and God has one message for all; HEAR WHAT THE SPIRIT SAYS.

13. THE FIRST LANGUAGES.

The Bible is not just a Best Seller, it is the most valuable article on earth. Every time you hold a Bible you hold the most expensive article on earth. The Bible contains the love story of the creator who bought his humanity back by becoming like one of them and then offering His life so they can find life. There is a long line of saints who also offered their lives for you to have this precious book in your hands.

If only we would read the Volume of the Book and understand the purposes of having the Book and fulfilling the purpose of God in our lives.The Bible was scrolls written by individuals over a period of about thousand six- hundred years and is divided into two definite parts called the Old Testament and the New Testament. A TESTAMENT is a covenant that provides an inheritance after the death of a person.

When you read the book of Genesis, it is clear, that the text has a deeper meaning than the language you read.

The original language of the Old Testament was Aramaic and Hebrew, and the New Testament was Greek. The old was only a shadow of the new and was written in a time when the world was being prepared to receive Christ. The battle for seed is coming to a climax in the fullness of time. The four world empires that formed the body that Satan on earth, and through whom he worked His plans were revealed in a dream to Nebuchadnezzar.

Daniel explained to the king that four empires would follow in succession, and they were described as a statue, resembling a body in which Babylon was the head, Medo-Persia was the breast, Greece was the loins, and Rome the legs. These four nations also resemble four animals. Ezekiel saw four animals in heaven representing Christ’s body being formed on earth.

This preparation took place from Noah who left a raven and 3 doves, up till Christ's baptism.

Joh 1:32 And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.

Aramaic and Hebrew were picture graphs that told stories. At first glance it seems a very simple language, but the more you investigate, the more you will discover treasures of truth. This was a very simple yet deeply expressive language and had four basic components.

· [Yod] Meaning God

· [Dalet] God reaching down.

· [Bet] God working.

· [Samekh] The work complete

The combinations of the numbers tell the full story of the complete picture and restoration of humanity. The letter [Bet] in the word beginning means floorplan. Genesis One is the blueprint or DNA of time.

In Hebrew, the combination of letters and numbers tells a story and paints pictures. Every picture or letter also had a number ‘s’ and God's purposes are woven in through these numbers and their combinations which are Spirit breathed and form the language of the SPIRIT WORD.

The number system forms circles and time is cycles of beginnings and endings. GOD IS THE BEGINNING AND END. Numbers form patterns that reveal God’s purposes. A good study of numbers opens up the Word, for instance…

· TWO = AGREEMENT

Heaven and earth will finally be in total agreement.

· FOUR = EARTHY

· TEN = COMPLETE

· FIVE = MINISTRY

The New confirms the old, yet it was written in different time frames and languages. The New Testament is written in Greek. Rome built roads connecting the world, but the Greeks brought in a universal language.

Greek is a very rich and intellectual language with intensive tense forms and meanings. Every sound bending has a different meaning The Greek language just paints a better and fuller picture than English can ever give us.

It is always good to study the word with Hebrew, and Greek lexicons to get a full understanding of the Word. However, the only way to understand the purposes of God is by the Spirit. We are not to get stuck on languages, Rabbis, or any other messengers preaching the Word. We are to hear what the Spirit says if we want to go on to perfection.

14. COMPILATION OF THE CANON.

The Bible is the history of the seed line of Christ, but it is totally supernatural. It is not a normal book and is not of natural origin, though it was written and compiled by men. These men were moved by the Spirit.

1 Pet 1:20 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

The Bible is a compilation of books. It is more like a library, but it is a library with a difference. The cannon exists of 66 chosen books, taken from thousands of scrolls, and is divided into two parts.

· The Old Testament with 39 books.

· The New Testament with 27 books.

These books were written over a period of a thousand six hundred years starting with Moses and the last book was written by the apostle John.

The same Spirit that inspired holy men of old to write these books also appointed and inspired councils of early church fathers to compile the books. Other scrolls did contain all truth but harbored some folklore and error. The scrolls contained history that was orally passed on from generation to generation and was tainted with exaggerations and added stories.

God is only truth, and Grace and Truth came from Jesus Christ. The minute you divide Grace from Truth you are set on a road to destruction. Good and evil brought in darkness through lies.

1 Joh 2:2I I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

The are many doctrines doing the rounds today that do not pass the test of the Word. These doctrines are taken from these outside manuscripts that the Word of God does not confirm. Enoch lived before the flood and people grab the book of Enoch as something special and mystical, while all the mysteries were opened in the time of Paul. The book of Enoch was written about 300 before Christ and teaches about Angels as sons of God who had intercourse with women. (Gen 6) It was the seed line of Seth that mingled with the seed line of Cain. Angels are not sons.

Heb 1:5 For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?

The Word is Spirit breathed and the Spirit will not lead you where the Word cannot sustain you. Good advice is; not to study these left behind scrips, but to go for the SPIRIT Word.

AS TIME GOES REVELATION GROWS.

The Spirit of God inspired the writing of the Word as well as the compilation of the Word. In approximately 325AD the first council of Nicaea met as instructed by the Roman Emperor Constantine. They worked through thousands of scrolls to find the ones that underscore only truth. In 381 AD the First Council of Constantinople decided which books should be contained in the Bible. The first Bible containing all 66 books, commonly referred to as the VULGATE, was translated and compiled by St. Jerome into Latin in 400AD.

Many lost their lives for translating and spreading the Bible, and for preaching the truth. There were multiple onslaughts to destroy this book. During the Dark Ages when barbaric hordes, burned monasteries and Bibles, St Patrick, a rescued slave who became the priest of Ireland, had many monasteries with Priests rewriting the Bible, far away from the rampage in Europe.

The Bible was written with so much reverence toward God, that the scribes had to purify themselves every time they wrote the Name of God. The road of the translation of the Bible was paved by men who paid with their lives, mostly burnt at stakes as heretics by the system that controlled the people for monetary Gain. If the people could not read the Word, they could be controlled by paying penitence for a family member who was burning in hell. The system only enriched itself with its big cathedrals while the ignorant suffered and never got the GOOD NEWS of the gospel of salvation.

God raised a man by the name of Martin Luther who brought fresh revelation on the reformation that Jesus established on the cross. There is a long lineage of true men of God that paved the way for, and we are to honor their lives by stepping into the purposes of God revealed in the Word.

The natural mind, fueled by fame and fortune has always opposed the purposes of God, but God always had a remnant. Not only did the book survive being chained to pulpits, burnings of church raids, wars, and critics; it spread like a raging, uncontrollable wildfire. The Bible became the most translated book, on earth and the only real Best Seller. As of September 2020, the Bible had been translated into;

· 704 languages.

· Portions of the NT into another 1,551 languages.

· Portions of the NT and OT into another 1,160 languages.

The Bible is now found in all together 3,415 languages.

The purposes of God cannot be stopped by anything in the natural. The spreading of the Bible goes hand in hand with the progression of the revelation within the text.

AS TIME GOES REVELATION GROWS.

15. THE SPIRIT LANGUAGE.

The Spirit language is what transforms the written word into THE WORD OF GOD. It is woven through all languages and runs like a silver cord throughout the Word. Binding the Word into one story that carries the purposes of God, from beginning to end. The natural mind gets sidetracked by mere existence and is often lost in the corridors of time, missing the life and purposes of God revealed in the Word.

We find many sincere Christians who do not understand God’s purposes, constantly searching and never finding, never entering the Kingdom.

We cannot understand the Spirit Word with the natural mind, and we cannot change history.

We can only apply history in the Spirit. God intends for us to understand His plans and purposes. Paul understood and he wrote.

Eph 3:4 … when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery 0f Christ)

God established the end in the beginning, and His purposes was set.

Joh 8:14 …for I know whence I came, and whither I go.

If you do not understand the Spirit language, you have a history book full of stories that happened way back in time. The Spirit language makes the Book come alive and turns the letter into the Living Word of God.

The natural mind is at enmity with God because the natural mind operates in a fallen state and cannot understand the spiritual purposes of God.

The carnal mind reasons, and struggle believe.

Rom 8:6 For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

1 Cor 2: 13 &14 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Ghost teaches; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receives, not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned.

The events in history and the parables in the Bible are saturated with numbers, colors, and symbols, which are the glue that ties everything together. The Spirit realm is timeless and in the Spirit things overlaps and intersects, forming patterns that can be found throughout scripture, forming the spirit language. Numbers and symbols are woven into every Story.

Some very prominent numbers are.

· SEVEN; meaning God is working on earth.

Here are some examples, Seven seals, seven trumpets, seven Vials, seven eyes, seven candlesticks. They marched around Jericho seven times.

Jacob worked for two periods of seven years, Nebuchadnezzar became like a beast for seven years, pharaohs dream of seven fat and seven lean cows, they were taken in captivity for seventy years, and from the beginning, creation took place in seven periods.

One weak is seven days.

Creation day has seven periods.

Time is a week of seven periods.

...The list goes on.

· FOUR; meaning earthy.

Jesus is the fourth man in the furnace, four creatures in heaven with four faces, four generations on earth.

· the THIRD DAY; Meaning the time of redemption.

Abraham saw Moriah, on the Third Day God appeared to Israel, there was a marriage on the Third Day, etc

It is of major importance to know the Spirit language when it comes to understanding the Word. This language can be always understood by all races and people and facets of life. You can only speak a language when you understand the vocabulary.

Here are some terms that would help you.

NUMBERS

1 – Unity or God.

2 – agreement.

3 – Trinity - Father, Spirit, Son / heavenly

Number combinations tell a story.

4 = 2+2 - earthy

5 = 2+3 - working/ministry/hand

6 = 2x3 - the number of men in his fallen state.

One short of seven; he fell short of the Glory of God.

7 = 4+3 - God working on earth

8 = 4+4 - New Beginning

9 = 3x3 - glory

10 = 5+5 - complete

Numbers explain themselves.

30 = 3x10 - maturity

40 = 4x10 - generation

70 = 3+4x10 - God working with earth

for a complete time

1000 =10x10x10 - Perfection

OBJECTS

Face – favor

Water - provision

Land - Israel in the Old Testament

Islands - isles of people

River - constant nourishing

Dust – death

Rock - sturdy foundation

Sea – peoples/nations

Vineyard - Israel

Fig tree – self-righteousness

Cedar - Kings of the earth

Trees – people in the Old Testament

Garden – Bride

Mountain - ruler/head/high place or person

Egypt – of the world/worldly

Cup – experience

Dove - spirit

Dogs - Pharisees

Horse - strength

Sword – The Word

COLOURS

Blue – heavenly

Purple – royal

Red – sin

White – clean

Gold – holy

The rainbow has seven colors and stands as a guarantee that the world will never again be destroyed by water. Rain is now a blessing.

Isa 55:10 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returns not thither, but waters the earth, and makes it brings forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

The Spirit language is what binds the books into the eternal, infallible WORD OF GOD

16. INTRODUCTION -DIVIDING OF TIME

Ecclesiastes three describes the time cycles that every human alive experience in the fallen state of creation. Everything in us wants to change these cycles for we were never created to die, but we are stuck in these cycles that work in time.

Eccl 3:1-8 A time to be born, and a time to die;

A time to plant, and a time to pluck it up that which is planted.

A time to kill, and a time to heal.

A time to break down, and A time to build up.

A time to weep, and a time to laugh.

A time to mourn, and a time to dance.

A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together.

A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing.

A time to get, and a time to lose.

A time to keep, and a time to cast away.

A time to rend, and a time to sew.

A time to keep silence, and a time to speak.

A time to love, and a time to hate.

A time of war, and a time of peace.

In the fallen state of creation, time is a limitation, but the eternal God is constantly working His purposes in time.

The Spirit is timeless and Timelessness is working in time.

Eccl 3:1-8 To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

There is not a purpose to every time, but a time to every purpose.

The human life span is just too short to even begin to understand God’s purposes in time, yet the Spirit reveals the Word. The Bible contains the history of the preparation and final sacrifice of the body and the opening of the Kingdom.

Kingdom history is to be lived out and is not written in the Word. We do not read about COVID or even the Holocaust in the Word. However, the instruction to overcome darkness is clearly Spelled out; HEAR WHAT THE SPIRIT SAYS.

Eccl 3:11 He hath made everything beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart so that no man can find out the work that God makes from the beginning to the end.

Jesus gave His body as an offering so we can receive His Spirit and thus have the mind of God.

1 Cor 2:16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

1 Cor 2: 10-11 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knows the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God know no man, but the Spirit of God.

The written Word contains the purposes of God and Paul urged Timothy to study and rightly divide the Word. The Word can be understood in a wrong way and the scripture confirms that the natural mind cannot receive the things of the Spirit.

2 Tim 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that need not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

We are to divide the written Word, not the character or the person of God. You cannot separate Grace and Truth, for it only results in a movement.

The church are the body of Christ on earth, not a movement, a building or a denomination. Grace is not a movement, neither is faith a movement. To rightly divide the Word is to understand TIMES and SEASONS appointed by God and to understand REALMS.

Gal 4: 4-5 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

John 8:23 And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.

At the baptism of Christ, the heaven or above realm opened, and the Spirit descended and never left again; The Dove found an olive leaf.

17. TIME PATTERNS.

Genesis One reveals the Beginning and the Creation week. The patterns set in Genesis One form the seasons in time. These patterns are the Days or time periods. Days in Genesis are not twenty-four-hour days as we know a day, for the sun was only created on Day four. Genesis Three describes the Beginning of time, and Genesis Two describes how creation took place.

Heaven and earth separated with the fall of Adam and one verse, in particular, gives us the first glimpse of the separated realms.

· Before the fall - Gen 2: 5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew:

· AFTER the fall - for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth,

· WITH the fall - and there was not a man to till the ground.

GENESIS ONE also sets the pattern for the Day as Evening, Morning, and Day. Jesus’ ministry was in the morning time on the Day of DEATH. The day broke when the heavens opened at Jesus’ baptism and God himself announced the TODAY, and that Jesus is the Son of God.

Heb 1:5 For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?

Time is a DAY OF DEATH with an evening, morning, and day. The birth of Jesus brought joy in the morning.

Hos 6:3 Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth Is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.

Psa 110:3 Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.

Psa 118:24 This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.

Christ brought in a total Reformation in the fullness of time, Martin Luther brought a refreshing. No man could bring a reform, only God could make ALL THINGS NEW. Christ was the TRUE LIGHT that came into the world, and SHEOL or HADES was shaken at His death.

John 1:5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

Mat 4:16 The people which sat in darkness saw great light, and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.

In the Old Testament, Sheol was a place of death and the shadow of death where Lazarus was on the bosom of Abraham.

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

This is the second death.

The patterns set in Genesis one, are the framework of human history, in time. Time follows the same pattern as the seven periods of the Creation Day:

· first a time of preparation or EVENING,

· and then a time of filling, as DAY.

Time slowly passes through seasons or cycles progressing back to perfection.

Genesis One is the BLUEPRINT of TIME.

Day One -Let there be Light & dark –

The Flood / A New Beginning

Day Two - Separation of waters –

Calling of Abraham [Gen 17:7] Abraham’s calling and the two seed lines

Day Three - Separation of land and plants

David a tree planted by the river

Day Four - Creation of the universe.

The fullness of time [Gal 4:4]

[Joh 1] The true light that has come into the world

Day Five - Filling of water and sky –

Refreshing - Martin Luther [Acts 3:16-22]

Day Six - Filling of Land -

Restoration unto Immortality, the final mystery.

Day seven Rest - End of Time -

Manifestation of sons & immortality.

The SEVENTH DAY was the DAY OF REST.

This end was set from the beginning.

The Day of Rest was interrupted with THE DAY OF DEATH when Adam fell, and Day FOUR, The Day.

God announced a New Day when Christ was manifested as the SON OF GOD and called it TODAY. The third Day from the cross is the SEVENTH DAY of creation.

All this was foreshadowed when God commanded Moses to prepare the people on the THIRD DAY so that they would be ready on the SEVENTH DAY.

Spiritual Days and natural days are not the same, as spiritual Mathematics and natural Mathematics differ.

18. THE TWO DAYS OR TWO REALMS

The biggest key to opening the book of Genesis is found in this next verse, but this is also where the natural mind fails.

Gen 2:4 These (talking about the seven days of creation) are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,

The seven days of creation is but a day;

THE DAY OF PERFECTION.

Heaven and earth were created together and they functioned together. God’s abode is above the heavens, meaning of a higher state of nature.

Ps 8:1 O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! whom hast set thy glory above the heavens.

On Day One God called light into being. John One tells us the light life was in Him. God poured himself into the earth and separated the darkness from light. The rest of Creation took place in this REALM OF PERFECTION and Darkness was never mentioned again. Genesis Two refers to this realm as Eden, the place of pleasure.

Gen 2:8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

· East meaning FIRST.

· Garden means a closed environment or BRIDE.

· Eden means PLEASURE or delight, a perfect realm or DAY.

God never intended for man to die, and He never gave Adam a choice. God warned Adam that he would die on the day he ate of the wrong tree. The purpose of Creation is to drive darkness out and we were created for his pleasure. However, the minute Adam ate (he had fellowship with darkness), his Light-Life became blood-life.

He saw his nakedness, but he could not see the one they had fellowship with but could only hear His Voice walking in the Garden.

Heaven and earth separated, and TIME began with a progression of beginnings and endings.

THE BEGINNING OF TIME.

It took all of Adam’s generation more or less a thousand years to die and thereafter no one ever became older than a thousand years. Heaven and earth were separated and a battle for seed raged on earth. Time followed the pattern of preparation and filling, and Heaven and earth were being prepared for the True light to come into the World and Time began. The number for the fallen man is six. He is short of the Glory, and he is not in rest. Noah was 600 years when He build the ark. Ararat means the curse is reversed.

There are three heavens described in Genesis One.

1. Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created heaven and the earth.

2. Gen 1:8 And God called the firmament Heaven.

3. Gen 1:17 God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

On Day Four the sun and moon were set in place as guarantees.

Gen 1:14 And God said, let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; AND let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

Day Four is where the Day of TIME slots in, with a Beginning and the End. God does not have a beginning and end; HE IS the Beginning and the End. Everything about the earth is four. Four kingdoms, four horses, four winds…. etc.

There are four generations described in the word.

1. The generation of ADAM – They were destroyed with water.

2. The generation of NOAH - resembling a RAVEN that did not find a resting place.

3. The generation of ABRAHAM - the DOVE that did not find a resting place.

4. The generation of CHRIST. resembling a DOVE that found a resting place.

These are patterns set as guarantees and were worked out in time, the DAY of Death.

Though the generation of Adam ended with the flood, his generation is also a picture of the human generation. The first Son killed the second Son, but the seventh from Adam, Enoch never died. The tenth from Adam was to rid the earth from the curse. We know that creation is waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God to bring creation back to perfection.

Rom 8:22-23 For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

Eph 2:7 That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.

In time, Heaven became the realm of authority, and Earth is the realm where this authority is exerted over during appointed time periods. Every heaven and earth form a world.

Isa 66:1 Thus saith the LORD, the heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool:

One verse in particular clearly describes the separation of these two realms.

Gen 2:5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew:

That was in the third Day Period of time of the creation week

Gen 2:5b for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth,

This is the beginning of the first natural generational day, that ended with the flood.

Gen 2:5c and there was not a man to till the ground.

Man, only tilled the ground after the fall of Adam.

Time worked out in more or less 1,000-year periods except at the two points; the flood and the cross to the burning down of Jerusalem in 70AD. These were the times that God dealt with curses, water, and fire.

2 Pet 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Isaiah prophesied about the church,

Isaiah 34:2 When thou pass through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walk through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.

The DAY of TIME or the DAY OF DEATH is the fallen state of creation and consists of three worlds.

19. DAY PATTERNS.

Heaven and earth separated with the fall of Adam and Time began. In Time the creation Days correlate with history in preparation for the True Light to come to earth. Every period now forms a turning point in History, and these time periods reveal the progression towards the purposes of God for humanity, REST.

Heb 4:9 There remains therefore a Rest to the people of God.

Every combination of Heaven and Earth is referred to as a World. WORLD and EARTH are two totally different concepts and if not used in the right connotation it brings in major misunderstanding and confusion, especially in connection with the end-time doctrine.

Heb 9:26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

Rom 10:4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.

The bible refers to the END OF THE LAW WORLD, and not the earth. We have to understand the three worlds and the three heavens correctly.

2 Pet 3:5 - 7 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water

1. Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:

2. But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

3. Eph 3.21 Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.

THREE HEAVENS IN GENESIS, correlate with the

THREE WORLDS IN TIME.

Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

1. A world before the flood,

Gen 1:8 And God called the firmament Heaven

2. A world after the flood and

Gen 1:17 God set sun and moon in the firmament above

2. A world after the cross.

Eph 3:21 Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.

The heavenly element or ruling authority in the 1st world was the Spirit of God that hovered over the waters from the beginning.

Just before the flood, God said that His Spirit will not ever strive with man, from the outside and He ended the first world with the flood. The rainbow with seven colors was set in place as a guarantee of the promise that the earth would be restored.

God revealed the authority of the 2nd world to Joseph in a dream. The sun, moon, and stars that bowed before him represented the nation of Israel which had been given the authority of this 2nd world.

The Law was given to Moses as a schoolmaster until Christ, but they totally perverted the system and sat in Moses’ seat. Matt13:1. We know that the end is always determined from the beginning and their end was also revealed to them in the Song of Moses, just before He died.

This song in Deuteronomy 32, was not a good song.

:22-44 For a fire is kindled in mine anger and shall burn u nto the lowest hell…They shall be burnt with hunger and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.

The sword without, and terror within shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of grey hairs.

I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men: For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:

Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps. Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures? To me belongs vengeance, and recompense; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste. And Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun.

This Song came in fulfillment in 70 AD when Jerusalem and the temple were totally burned to the ground. This destruction and removal of the system are what the book of Revelation is all about.

Revelation is all about the END OF THE LAW WORLD.

Rev 15 :3 And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvelous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.

Jesus brought in a totally new world into the Day of Death, the fallen state of creation. He then gave his life to prepare a place for us. This place is IN HIM. He is our light in the darkness.

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

Eph 3;21 Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.

20. THE DAY

The world before the cross was the preparation of the body to receive the Spirit of God.

Heb 5:10 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou would not, but a body hast thou prepared me:

Jesus brought in the morning that flowed out into the DAY, where the Spirit indwells believers, forming the body that would restore the earth.

A Day is the most important measurement of time and the most important part of the time to function in.

I Thess 5:4-9 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore, let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep, sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.

But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation. For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

The book of Thessalonians was written to the church in Tribulation that awaited the Day of Vengeance, the forty years after the cross. This was a time of gross darkness where Satan tried to prevent the kingdom of God from functioning on earth. It was a very Dark period and Rome; the Rod of Iron was merciless and all the disciples except John who wrote the Book of Revelation died in this period. This time spilled over into the Dark Ages. As the world stood up out of the water from the flood, the church now stands up from the fire, and there will be a time of refreshing till the restoration of all things.

The Bible covers the history of the church up to the removal of that old system.

In Revelation, God commands John to write to the seven churches in Asia and He has the same message to all the churches and that is to.

HEAR WHAT THE SPIRIT SAYS.

Jerusalem did not receive a letter.

In Revelation 10 The angel of God is revealed with a small book in his hands. There were seven thunders but no lightning, meaning there were declarations made, but there was no revelation given. John was forbidden to write what the thunders said, but He was commanded to eat the book. The book would be sweet in the mouth and bitter in the belly and that would be until the time is no more, or when the sons will manifest on the earth. He then announces that the mysteries that the prophets foretold are finished and he announced a new era of prophecies that carries the Testimonies of Christ. This little book is all about church history that is not foretold or written down in the Bible, but it is to be lived out in time through the saints, who are to keep the sweetness on the tongue and not complain like Israel.

Is 5:20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

We are still in a fallen state, but we carry the Hope of Glory, the Glory that will fill the earth. The kingdom is the heavenly realm that now functions on earth through the Spirit. The progression of this kingdom in time is clearly described in three places in the Word, through the prophets. This progression is in four stages in Church history.

1. Mark 4:28 For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.

2. Eze 47:3-7 …and the waters came down from under from the right side of the house, at the south side of the altar.

And when the man that had the line in his hand went forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the waters were to the ankles.

Again, he measured a thousand, and brought me through the waters; the waters were to the knees. Again, he measured a thousand, and brought me through; the waters were to the loins. Afterward, he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass over: for the waters have risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed over.

3. Acts 3:19-21 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 Jesus Christ, 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.

Hebrews four reminds us that there remains a rest for the people of God and the work of the Cross is eternal.

Chapter eight speaks about the reformation that Jesus Christ established. Combining these scriptures, the progression of the Kingdom becomes clear.

Mark 4:28

Ezekiel 47

Acts 3:19

DAY FOUR

SEED

ANKLE-DEEP

REFORMATION,

DAY FIVE

BLADE

KNEE-DEEP

REFRESHING

DAY SIX

EAR

THIGH-DEEP

RESTORATION

DAY SEVEN

HARVEST

TO SWIM IN

REST

We have already entered the final stage in time. One day is like a thousand years and a thousand years means a perfect time. The final end will be when all enemies are under our feet and the harvest.

1Cor 15: 24-26 Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

The Restoration of the Spirit by speaking in tongues started in the 1900s in Azusa Street with Rev. William Seymore. This revival flowed over in the restoration of Baptisms in the 1930s.

The 1940s is well known for the Healing Revivals and the faith movement flowed into the unfolding of the final mystery revealed to Paul, the mystery of immortality, from 2000 AD onwards.

1 Cor 15: 51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

There is but one thing that must still come in line and that is for the body of Christ to have victory over the God of this world, Money.

We are not to wait for death or to be raptured, the time has come for the manifestation of the Sons of God, in order to redeem the earth from the curse. We are to ascend this high place of victory that Christ prepared for us. This is a place where we die for our will and be single minded and one with Christ.

UNDERSTANDING BIBLE BASICS

V. THE FULLNESS OF TIME

21. INTRODUCTION TO THE FULLNESS OF TIME

The fullness of time or the Climax of the ages, is the time that God stepped into the realm of time and took on the form of fallen man to bring redemption to all of humanity.

Eph 1:9 – 10 Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:

That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:

This is a time of reformation that brought a complete change or a new world, but the new could not function because they held on to the old system.

Heb 9:8 The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:

The Son of Man had to return on the clouds of heaven to remove the first covenant.

Heb 10:9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.

Jesus came to fulfil the will of the Father. The end is always set from the beginning and His coming to the earth brought in a New beginning that predestines us to sonship. Ephesians One describes the two destinations.

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

Eph 1:11 In whom [CHRIST] also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

This time is also called the time of reformation. Martin Luther brought refreshing not reformation, only God could bring reformation.

Heb 9:10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.

I the fulness of time God manifested on the earth, at the end of time Man will manifest God on the earth.

22. THE TIME OF PREPARATION.

Heaven and earth were in harmony till Adam ate of the wrong tree, and there was a separation between these two realms; time began. Time is a day of death where a battle for seed was ignited, which was a process of preparation for heaven and earth and the restoration of humanity.

The Bible is divided into two parts: the Old Testament and the New Testament, or two covenants. This is also a dividing of time because Christ brought reformation, and the realm of heaven opened again on earth. The New Testament starts with the birth of Christ and Matthew One describes the preparation of the seed line that was to bring forth CHRIST. Verse, one contains the royal seed line of promise that was hidden in the natural seed line.

Mat 1:1 The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

The Old Testament is the time on earth of the preparation of the body. God called Abraham and because he believed God, he became the FATHER of FAITH. He believed God and moved away from his CITY and his family.

Heb 11: 8 – 10 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receiving for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.

By faith, he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. Cities are dwelling places that were ruled by Kings and right after the flood, the people tried to take control of this fallen situation themselves, by building a tower. God stopped them like He stopped man from eating from the tree of life after the fall. God never intended for man to die or to live forever in this fallen state. The calling of Abraham was the beginning, or foundation, of the world that carried the Testimonies of Christ in mysteries in a natural seed line.

God sealed the covenant with Abraham after he slaughtered the worldly kings and appeared to Abraham as Melchizedek; the form of the spiritual body that appeared on earth. Jesus became our High Priest in the order of Melchizedek, in the spiritual seed line.

Heb 7:17 For he testified, Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

The calling of Abraham correlates with the second Day in the Creation week when the waters were separated from the waters and a firmament was formed. Abraham had two seed lines: a spiritual and a natural seed line.

Gen17:7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, AND to thy seed after thee.

Gen 19:6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.

ABRAHAM, ISAAC, JACOB, and JOSEPH were the fathers, or the foundation of the House that Moses had to build, but the house belongs to God. Heb 3:2 – 5 The preparation of the house was a system of worship that carried the Testimonies of Christ in a coffin or ark.

Heb 10:1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.

Heb 8:5 Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern showed to thee in the mount.

Moses leads Israel out of Egypt establishing the Passover ceremony, which was a parable of the work Jesus came to do.

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

The Commands of life were then given to Moses, but Israel broke all the commands before it was even-handed to them and because of transgression, the law was added. They failed to keep the law and desired a king. The prophets came in to warn them of the wrath to come. These warnings were not for our day and age, they were for that system. Moses had to sing them a song revealing their destruction before he died. The system of the Tabernacle of Testimony was all about Christ, yet they killed the Christ.

Gal 3:24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

There were three sections: The outer court, the inner court, and the Holy of Holies. Everything about God was three, The father, son, and Spirit. There were three entrances; The Gate, the Door, and the vail.

Jesus came through the gate being born of a woman under the law. He became the Door and His flesh, the torn veil that opened up the realm of the spirit to us.

In the outer court was the sacrificial altar, where the offering was brought, and the water laver or sea, where our sins are washed away. In the inner court, there was a lampstand resembling Christ the light of the world with the seven spirits of God.

The table with showbread, resembled Christ the bread from heaven, and the altar of incense speaks about the cry of humanity.

The Holy of Holies contained the ark of the covenant with the cherubim wings overshadowing the MERCY SEAT, representing the cherubim guarding the TREE of LIFE from the garden. The Testimonies of Christ were kept inside the Ark, under the Mercy seat.

· The commands of life; were opened in Christ.

· The pot of Manna, THE BREAD OF LIFE.

· The Staff that budded, THE TREE OF LIFE.

In Hebrews 9:1-3, we see that the outer court has now become the 1st division and the altar of incense moved into the Holy of holies. In Revelation 11, only the Holy Holies remain which is the city set on a hill that came down from heaven, the bride of the Lamb of Revelation 21.

The mysteries were kept secret within this system but were opened in Christ. Paul opened these mysteries.

I Tim 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

23. THE OPENING OF THE HEAVENS.

During the time of the preparation on the earth, the body in heaven was also being prepared for the Godly seed to come into the earth, in the form of a man. The preparation of this body in heaven and earth worked in a parallel pattern. The progressive preparation in heaven was revealed in a progression of visions and dreams on earth, and the BOOK of HEBREWS calls this separate revelation.

Heb 1:1 God, who at sundry times and in divers’ manners spoke in time past unto the fathers by the prophets…

God called Abraham to move away from his family and the worldly cities. Abraham believed God, and God repeatedly visited Abraham in person. God took Abraham outside His tent and showed him the uncountable stars in heaven and declared that his seed would be like the stars in heaven. God wanted us to know that this would be a work of His doing, for Abraham’s wife was barren. Sarah tried to help God by giving her servant girl to her husband, but Abraham landed in trouble because He listened to his wife, just like Adam. God visited Abraham again and opened Sarah’s womb and the son's promise became a reality. Abraham now had two sons, yet God commanded him to offer his only Son Isaac. Ismael was not rejected by God, but He was not reckoned.

This was a picture of Christ and Adam.

1 Cor 15:45 And so it is written, the first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.

The wives of Isaac and Jacob were also barren. Eventually, all the foundation stones of the first world had two Sons and the first sons all served the second son. Joseph the fourth foundation man, also had two sons and when Jacob blessed them, he blessed ye younger son instead of the eldest and assured Joseph that it was not a mistake.

Jacob ran away from His brother and slept with His head on a ROCK when heaven opened for the first time in a dream.

John 1:50 -51 Jesus answered and said unto him, Because I said unto thee, I saw thee under the fig tree, believe thou? thou shalt see greater things than these. And he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.

Christ is the rock. He saw heaven opening and angels ascending and descending. This was fulfilled at the beginning of Christ’s ministry. The opening of heaven was a progression of revelations during appointed times.

To Israel.

Exo 24:10 And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.

To Isaiah.

Isa 6. Isaiah saw heaven opened and man’s sins being forgiven, but Israel’s eyes were veiled, and they were taken to the seat of Satan: BABYLON marked the beginning of their removal. Isaiah keeps referring to the hand of God that was still outstretched. as God punished Israel and the nations. Revelation reveals this outstretched hand in the destruction of the city and the temple in 70.

To Ezekiel.

Eze 1. In Babylon, Ezekiel saw heaven opened and the four living earthy creatures. God was preparing to come in human form to rescue man from sin and death. The creatures were standing on wheels within wheels, cycles of time. The wheels also went up and down and Ephesians describe the ascending and descending of the bodies.

To Daniel.

Daniel 7 As an old man in Babylon saw the throne room and the Ancient of Days. The court was in session and the Christ entered on clouds to receive the everlasting Kingdom. Daniel was then commanded to seal the vision until the end.

To John,

Revelation 5 & 6 John, the last apostle, received the final revelation of Jesus Christ and revealed the mysteries of God. The seals of the Book in the right hand of God were opened and the Day of Vengeance or the removal of that system was revealed.

Chapters 21 and 22 of Revelation deal with the opening of the Kingdom that Christ brought to earth. Misinterpreting these happenings to lead to a major misunderstanding of the purposes of God with man. It is like being lost in the corridors of time and not really knowing what comes next and not understanding the work of the cross.

At Christ’s baptism, the heavens opened, and Jesus declared that He was in heaven while standing on earth,

John 3:13 And no man hath ascended to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.

The Kingdom of God is also called the KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. A place of peace righteousness and Joy in a very deluded and troubled world. Christ sealed us with His Spirit and the earth is waiting for the Sons to manifest and step into ruling in this awesome realm, bringing back creation to perfection.

Eph 1:10 That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and whi

UNDERSTANDING BIBLE BASICS

V. THE FULLNESS OF TIME

24. THE CLIMAX OF THE AGES.

This is a period referred to as the Fullness of Time is right in the middle of the seven-day week or DAY OF DEATH, four hundred years after Adam. The most epic event to ever happen on the earth was during this time. There was a shift in the realms that ushered in a totally New World where man's conscience is opened; THE world of the CHURCH, the many-membered body of God is growing into total perfection.

Gal 4:4 But when the fulness of the time has come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law.

Rom 8:3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

Rom 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

God Himself manifested on earth, in the MIDDLE OF the Day of DEATH.

The fourth day is the generational day and the middle of time. Christ was the fulfillment of all the law and of the prophets and He came to dismantle the work of Satan and remove the first to establish the Kingdom on earth.

1 Tim 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

The people that sat in darkness saw a great light. Darkness is no match for light.

Joh 1:9 That was the true Light, which lights every man that cometh into the world.

Joh 1:4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

Jesus is called the Bright and Morning Star. His birth was the breaking of the morning and the beginning of the DUE season with the FORMER RAIN and the FORMER and the LATTER RAIN as prophesied by Joel.

Joel 2:23 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in one.

The angels announced joy to this sad world, but neither HE nor the message of the Kingdom was accepted.

Joh 1:10 & 11 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not.

His own did not just reject him they allied with the Kingdoms of the world to get rid of the Christ, all this was prophesied by David.

Ps 2:2-4 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. He that sits in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.

Their rejection of Christ ignited the battle of the Ages. Heaven and Earth have been in preparation for the body where the Dove would find a dwelling on Earth. Satan failed to stop this event though He constantly tried to contaminate and abort the seed.

Satan’s power and intelligence were revealed by his failure to stop the coming of Christ. At the cross, he was totally stripped of his power, and he had a short time on earth where he was like a roaring lion in the Time of TRIBULATION, trying to destroy the infant church.

1 Pet 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

Rev 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceives the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

Rev 12:12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knew that he hath but a short time.

The cross is the place where the battle raged, the same spot Abraham was to offer Isaac. Armageddon means the high place or mountain where strength is measured. While Jesus was on the cross Michael and His Angels fought and this was predicted at the sealing of the prophecy by Daniel.

Dan12:1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which stands for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.

Rev 12:7-8 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not; neither was their place found anymore in heaven.

Babylon marked the beginning of the end of the law system that was totally infiltrated with Satan’s seed. In Babylon, they refused to sing the Lord’s song. Four-hundred years of silence followed, yet they started the fig tree system within the priestly system. This system within the system of worship opposed Christ. John first rebuked them.

Matt 3:7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

In Matthew 23, the battle between Jesus and the Pharisees, clearly reveals that they do not support Christ’s mission and they were set on a course to take Him out. Jesus did not curse the natural fig tree; He came against this self-help system and showed them a parable of what was about to happen in the Spiritual realm.

· The Fig Tree system took over Moses’s seat and became the Harlot that was riding on the Beast. The IMAGE OF THE BEAST is described in Daniel 2 as the body that consists of the four biggest Kingdoms that ever ruled the world.

· Christ was the Rock that was cut loose from the mountain where Moses saw the Goodness of God when he asked to see the GLORY.

· He was the rock that followed them and now has become a great mountain that fills the earth.

At the temptation, Satan took him to this Mountain to tempt Him to give in. On the mount of transfiguration, He chose to go all the way, to redeem humanity.

Jesus, the lion of the tribe of Judah was called the KING of KINGS. Babylon was the head of the statue or the body that Satan prepared. The emblem of Babylon was a lion and he was called the “king of Kings”.

This battle determined the establishment of the kingdom and Kingship on the earth. Israel now had to be rejected by God for they wanted a worldly king and totally rejected God. They became the harlot riding the Beast.

Isa 1:21 How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.

The Dragon, or Satan was the mastermind behind the three Frog Spirits fueling the Fig tree system; the Drago, the Beast, and the false prophet.

Rev 16:13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.Rev 16:14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.

On the cross, THE LION BECAME THE LAMB. Satan thought he had won, but it only ignited the DAY OF VENGEANCE that removed the Old system, for the sons to establish GOD’s Kingdom on earth.

It was when Abraham slaughtered the kings, that Melchizedek appeared, the one that gave himself as a ransom.

25. THE VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS.

John the Baptist came preaching the gospel of the Kingdom, but he did not do this in Jerusalem. He was in the wilderness of JUDEA, and all the people had to go outside to the city, into the wilderness to be Baptized. At the baptism site, the Pharisees and Sadducees sent people to find out who this man is, and John’s answer was quite clear.

John 19:19 -23 And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou? And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed,

I am not the Christ. And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not.

Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No. Then said they unto him, who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself? He said I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.

He lived in the wilderness, and he wore wild clothes and ate HONEY and GRASSHOPPERS. Israel came through the wilderness to their PROMISED LAND but refused to enter, confessing they are like grasshoppers.

Numbers 13:33 And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.

That generation all died in the desert and forty years later the next generation entered. This was foreshadowing the forty years after the cross when that generation that called for His blood to come on them had to die. Israel then made their promised land a wilderness and John the Baptist had to work from the wilderness.

John the Baptist was to turn their hearts back to God, preparing the way for Christ. John’s mission was clearly laid out in the last chapter, the last verse in the Old Testament.

Mal 4: 6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

The Pharisees and Sadducees of the time were well aware of the warnings of the prophets, and they came to make sure that they would be saved by checking on John because the rest of this last warning in Malachi was clear and not pleasant at all.

Mal 2: 1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

Mal 2: 4 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:

John and Jesus came preaching the kingdom, but They were not received. Matthew 11 is a very important turning point in the ministry of Christ.

John landed in Prison, and He took offense and doubted His own message. He was the one that announced; “THE LAMB”, now he sends disciples to Jesus, to find out if He was the one. Jesus replied with Isaiah’s 61, prophecy.

Mat 11:4 - 6 Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see: The blind receives 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. And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.

Jesus then turned to the people and told them that the Kingdom has suffered violence and that the violent took it by force, referring to the Pharisees and Sadducees. He then turned to the Pharisees and Sadducees and spoke about John and told them that for them Malachi 4, is now coming into fulfillment.

Mat 11:4 And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come.

The kingdom now had to come through Death and resurrection and on the mount of Transfiguration, Moses, and Elijah appeared to reveal his exit to Jesus, and yet He came down and said;

John 15:16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

Jesus brought the Kingdom and when He broke the bread with the Emmaus disciples their eyes opened, and the kingdom came. The wicked generation that held on to the law prevented the functioning of the Kingdom.

Heb 9: 8 The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:

Rev 15:8 And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.

Paul tells us how the Kingdom will now be entered.

Acts 14:22 …we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

John announces the end of that period of removal.

Rev 1: 9 I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.

We cannot wait for things to happen, that have already been. That is completely missing the purposes of God.

26. THE TURNING POINT

The law failed miserably and was totally infiltrated by SERPENT SEED. In Babylon, they appointed Pharisees and Sadducees, which was never God’s intended plan. They invented their own system of worship within the Law that became the fig tree system. The very people God chose and who carried the testimony of Christ, rejected Him, and even tried to kill Him while still a baby. Finally, they allied with Rome and conspired to kill the Giver of LIFE.

This battle between the two seeds was ignited when Adam fell and ended at the Cross, the high mountain that filled all the earth, fulfilling the prophecy of Daniel, in Daniel 2:35 - 45. The statue was the kingdoms of the earth or the Image of the Beast and the stone that was cut loose from the mountain was the Rock which followed them in the wilderness. This Rock was cut out of the mountain without hands. On the mountain, God hid Moses in the cleft Rock.

This Rock is CHRIST.1 Cor 10:4

Golgotha on Mt Moriah was the place of crucifixion, but Armageddon means a high place where great forces measure strength. This high mountain is the last in a series of mountains that Solomon wrote about while longing for redemption.

Song 2:8 The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.

He refers to the high places, or turning points, in the time of preparation.

1. Mount Moriah: - Abraham was proven on the choice He made to believe in God.

2. Mount Horeb: - Moses asked the people to choose blessings or curses.

3. Mount Nebo: - Joshua pleaded with Israel to choose to serve God.

4. Mount Carmel: - Elijah brought the nation to choose and killed the Baal priests.

5. Mount of Transfiguration: - Christ chose His Bride.

6. Armageddon: - The Final Mountain where the deal was sealed for our souls.

7. Mount Zion: - The city set on a hill, the bride revealed, the New World.

The cross is the dividing line between the old and the new, the above and beneath life. Jesus took our judgment and paid the penalty which brought forth a New World.

1 Cor 15:21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.

God came into this fallen creation to redeem mankind and set him back on the course of Life. The Son became a man so that we as men can become SONS.

1 Cor 15:45- 47 And so it is written, the first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.

The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven. God is eternal and HE cannot die. Christ had to leave his Father to taste death for every man. He came for his bride.

1 Joh 3:8 … For this purpose, the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

2 Tim 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:

Christ sealed us the Spirit as a guarantee that the end will be Rest. Now we are to grow in grace. God in the beginning formed man from the dust, blew the breath of Life in his nostrils and became a living soul. Jesus breathed over the disciples and birthed a new spiritual generation of man, within the fallen state of creation.

It is time that we understand the work of the cross.

· Heaven and earth are brought back in agreement.

· Christ dealt with Adam, with sin, and with death. No one can ever go back to Adam; we are a new awakened species of humanity.

· He fulfilled the Law and the Prophets.

· We cannot go back to the bondage of the Law and distort the prophesies that have nothing to do with us or our generation.

· We cannot rebuild the temple.

WE ARE THE TEMPLE.

· The old has gone the New has come, within this fallen state.

There is a distinct difference between.

…The Old and the NEW.

OLD - NIGHT NEW – DAY

Battle for the seed. Incorruptible seed.

Preparation Filling

Body prepared Body growing in grace.

Keep the Sabbath Christ, the Lord of the Sabbath.

Many generations The chosen generation

People are trees We are branches ingrafted

The Law ruled. Hear what the Spirit says.

Dark realm Spiritual realm open.

Heaven is closed Heaven is opened on earth

Adam the first man Christ, the second man

Living Soul a Quickening Spirit

All misunderstanding of the Word is because of the mixing of times, seasons, and realms, whereby we are actually defying the work of the cross.

The cross changed everything. God’s purposes are worked out through time and recorded in the VOLUME OF THE BOOK. We are not called to our imaginations but to His purposes

Rom 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

UNDERSTANDING BIBLE BASICS

UNDERSTANDING BIBLE BASICS

VI. THE GROSS DARKNESS

27. INTRODUCTION TO GROSS DARKNESS

The Bible becomes the Spirit Word when you understand the Spirit language that forms patterns called seasons in time. These are cycles, wheels in wheels, beginnings, and endings, foreshadowing and fulfilling of God’s purposes throughout time, ever progressing back to god’s original plan for man.

Time is like a maize to the natural mind, because of the human lifespan. Only in the Spirit can one grasp the full picture painted in the Word. We have to go higher to see this picture that is unfolding and working on our inside. The natural mind is only occupied with its immediate environment and can easily miss the full purpose of God.

1Co 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Rom 8:7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

Ecc 3:1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

Ecc 3:11 He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.

God is eternal and His purposes are eternal, but He works in Time that can be measured and worked out, for it has a Beginning and an End.

GOD IS THE BEGINNING AND THE END.

God manifested in time to bring Reformation and to establish His Kingdom on earth. His own did not receive Him and now the kingdom could only come through death and resurrection.

Joh 14:3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

The Kingdom could only be entered through TRIBULATION.

Act 14:22 Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

The Tribulation was the gross darkness or the Day of Vengeance, prophesied to Israel from the beginning of their world. The rulers took over Moses’ seat and Killed the Messiah calling for His blood to come on them.

The patterns laid out were now opened and for the next forty years after the cross, their carcasses had to lay waist once more, before the Kingdom could function on the EARTH.

Heb 9:8 The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:

Heb 10:9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.

This time was prophesied over and over as a warning.

Isa 60:1 Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.

Isa 60:2 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.Not understanding times and seasons appointed, will leave lost in the corridors of time, trying to force revelation and creating doctrine to please the natural mind and pacify the ignorance of understanding GOD’S set PURPOSES in time.

THE SONG OF MOSES

The first time the Bible mentions LATTER DAYS was in a SONG that Moses was commissioned to write, just before he died. This song was about the LAST DAY of the nation that has just been born. The end is always set from the beginning.

Deut 31:29 For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you, and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.

The song you sing is the spirit that you carry. You carry your own victory and your own destruction within. This song that Israel carried would eventually testify against them. Whatever you do wrong and is not covered by the blood follows the path laid out, by this song.

This song of Moses was God commissioned.

Deut 32:16 &17 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this person will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them. Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?

Deut 32:19 -22 Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel. Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel.

Deut 32:31 And Moses spoke in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until they were ended.

This song is clear about its purposes.

THE SONG OF MOSES

First -

God confirmed the promise of the restoration of the earth.

Deut 32:1- 4 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear O earth, the words of my mouth. My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distill as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass: Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God. He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: A God of truth and without iniquity, just and right.

(Speaking about the Christ)

-Israel was reminded of How he cared for them and led them. Deut 32:1-15

-Israel’s unfaithfulness to God was revealed.

Deut 32:15-19

-Israel’s latter days were revealed to them.

Deut 32: 20-:48

And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.

:21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

:22-24 For a fire is kindled in mine anger …

They shall be burnt with hunger and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.

:25 -26 The sword without, and terror within shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.

:27-28 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men: Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.

:28- 29 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them. O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

:32 – 33 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter: Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.

Deut 32:34 Is not this laid up in store with me,

and sealed up among my treasures?

Deut 32:35 To me belongs vengeance, and recompense; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.

Deut 32:48 And the LORD spoke unto Moses that self-same day, saying,

This day of vengeance that was to come was sealed in God’s treasures, and Deuteronomy 29 explains that the revealing comes when the seals are broken.

Deut 29:29 The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

Israel did sin themselves bankrupt and was sent to Babylon for a complete time yet did not repent. They started their own system of rulers within God’s system of priests and started the downhill spiral to their destruction in 70 AD. Their destruction and the coming of the Messiah were revealed to Daniel in visions from Daniel 6-12. In Daniel 7 the vision of the 70x7 weeks unto Messiah was revealed and in Daniel 12, but Daniel was commissioned to seal the vision. In Revelation five there was a cry in heaven about the book with seven seals.

Rev 5:2 And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?

Rev 5:5 And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.

As the lion opened the seals and became the LAMB THAT TAKES AWAY THE SINS OF THE WORLD, was revealed.

The removal of the old started in Babylon and was to be on the people, the city, and the Temple. Revelation calls it, seals trumpets and vials. The book of Revelation describes this terrible day of destruction or tribulation and the manifesting of the Kingdom, that Jesus established at His resurrection.

Revelation 1:9, and Rev 15 describe the outpouring of the vials or the final event.

Rev 1:9 I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.

Rev 15:3 And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvelous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.

Rev 15:8 And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.

29. THE LAST DAYS

Genesis, one describes three heavens.

· In the beginning, the throne room.

· On Day Two, the sky

· On Day Three, the heavens

In time these realms functioned with the earth to form three worlds.

· Before the flood

· The world that started with Abraham

· The world that started in Christ.

The world carried the curse on the earth that came with the fall of Adam. God never cursed Adam or Eve, they carried the consequences of their actions.

The earth has two life-giving elements that became the curses: WATER and FIRE. In the destruction of the first world, God dealt with the first curse and a new world was to start that would prepare a body in which the Spirit could indwell man and work from within.

Gen 5:29 And he called his name Noah, saying, this same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.

The curse of fire was dealt with in the destruction of the second world, to bring us to a world that is indestructible within a fallen creation; The place prepared is called the KINGDOM of heaven.

Is 34:2 When thou pass through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walk through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.

The first world was destroyed with water and the second by fire. Both these worlds had scoffers and mockers in their LAST DAYS.

2 Pet 3:3 -4 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

These people are totally deceived, for Abraham lived 2000 years after Adam, and Adam was the beginning of time and not the creation.

2 Pet 3:5-7 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:

But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

The LAST DAYS and the LAST DAY refer to two very different time periods. The first world had LAST DAYS, and the second world had LAST DAYS. Israel’s removal began in Babylon and Jesus’s ministry marked the beginning of the LAST DAYS, of the second world, the world of the law.

Heb 1:2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;

In 70AD Jerusalem and the temple were completely destroyed. The New Testament church was caught within this tribulation period of these, “LAST DAYS”.

2 Tim 3:1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

Paul describes the church as a world without end. This world functions within this fallen creation. It is a place of the spirit, that will go through the water and the fire. The LAST DAY is a term used by Jesus to describe the end of this fallen state or the end of time. THE LAST DAY will be a rising up from blood-life back to Light- Life, the perfect realm unto REST.

John 6: 39,-40 And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing but should raise it up again at the last day.:

And this is the will of him that sent me, that everyone which see the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.

John 6: 44-54 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.: Whoso eat my flesh, and drink my blood, hath eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

The people were aware of the doctrine of the resurrection.

Joh 11:24 Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.

To be raised up or to be caught up is to be changed unto the perfect state the realm of perfection, not to be transported or raptured to another planet somewhere.

1 Cor 15:51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed

30. THE END OF THE WORLD

Every time something happens on Earth, we are being spooked by the “end of the world”. There have been so many mispredictions and books written, and this just continues with no one ever apologizing for missing it. People seem to be blindly following wherever the blind leaders take them. However, God is not confused, neither is He the author of confusion nor can the Word contradict itself. The carnal mind directly opposes God’s purposes and erroneously mixes times and realms.

To understand the end of the world, we first have to understand the term world.

· The world does not mean the earth.

· The world is a realm of authority that functions in a certain time period.

· There are three worlds described in the Bible.

1. The first world that ended with water [the flood].

2. The second world is the Law world which ended with fire in 70AD.

The foundation of this world was when Abraham in obedience was willing to offer His son. Moses became the builder of the house and requested to see God’s Glory. The Law was given to Moses, as a schoolmaster until Christ.

3. The third world of the church was conceived in CHRIST at the crucifixion. This world has no end.

Eph 3:21 Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.

At the end of the second world, Christ’s death brought in the World with NO END.

Heb 9:26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

Eph 3:21 Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen

The disciples never understood the kingdom and when Jesus ascended, they were still obsessed with the restoration of Israel. This is still happening today. We cannot enter the new [Christ] whilst we cling to the old world of the law, the LAW OF MOSES. When leaving Jerusalem for the last time, the disciples marveled at the stones of the temple, but Jesus said that it would all be broken down. The disciples then asked Jesus a three-fold question and He answered them straight-forward, yet they did not comprehend.

To this day this is still the most misinterpreted chapter concerning so-called END-Time teaching.

Mat 24:3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us,

· when shall these things be? (breaking of the temple stones) and

· what shall be the sign of thy coming, (the son of man)

· and of the end of the world? (the Law world)

In the entire chapter of Matthew 24, Jesus described the end of the second world as a time of war, persecution, tribulation, destruction, and distress, describing the time of ROME. In the first century, Rome was a growing empire, conquering nations everywhere.

JESUS explained that the coming of the SON OF MAN would be like lightning from the east to west [Mat 24:27] and the falling of the figs [Isa 34:4] predicting the end of the Pharisees and Sadducees, the system within the system.

THIS IS NOT FOR OUR TIME AT ALL.

It was for THAT WICKET GENERATION that killed Christ and then called for His blood to come on them. Jesus warned them of the calamity that would come upon THAT WICKED GENERATION.

Mat 24;34 Verily I say unto you, this generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.

Jesus also warned the Christians to flee Jerusalem. Jerusalem brought forth the Christ and then killed him, those that fled Jerusalem are the DAUGHTER OF ZION, which brought forth the Church. The Jews were scattered around the Mediterranean, because of the many wars during the previous 400 years. They did not even know about the Christ being crucified and the gospel had to be preached to them first. Paul fulfilled this mission through the mission trips before the END finally came in 70 AD. It was the end of the law world.

Mat 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

Three and a half years after the crucifixion, Stephen was stoned, and it caused widespread persecution of Christians. Stephens's clothes were laid at Saul’s feet, and he became the main man trying to destroy the church, till God blinded him to see the light.

Saul had a change of heart and a change of name, and Paul became the apostle to the Gentiles, but he first went to the Jews in every city, and then he was persecuted by the Jews. Finally, he came to a point where He declared the time of removal had come.

Acts 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.

Paul was beheaded and Peter was crucified upside down and all the apostles’ died martyrs, only John survived after He was thrown in a pot of boiling oil and sent to Patmos, where He wrote REVELATION, just before 70 AD.

John became the bishop of Ephesus after his release from Patmos and wrote the Gospel of John as well as 1,2 & and 3 JOHN. The second world has ended and we now have to hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

We cannot change history or take the wrong prophecies for the wrong timings, yet we have to apply the Word by the Spirit, to understand God’s purposes.

31. THE REMOVAL OF THE OLD

JESUS fulfilled the Law and the prophets, but the rulers held on to the law and sat in Moses’s seat.

John 1:11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.

Acts 3:13 -15 The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go. But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you; And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.

· At Christ’s baptism the heaven opened.

· In His death HE became the final sacrifice for the sin of the world, yet they still kept on sacrificing, even though the veil was rent.

· With His resurrection, He brought the Kingdom of God to earth, yet they still held on to the OLD. The schoolmaster became their master.

The old had to go for the new to come. The Kingdom came but could not function while the old system was still a recognized institution.

Heb 10:9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.

Heb 9:8 The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:

Babylon marked the beginning of Israel’s destruction. God dealt with His people for a complete time of seventy years, to no avail. Daniel then sealed the vision of the destruction that would come on the people, the city, and the temple, and Christ opened the seals. The Book of Revelation deals with the removal of the old system or the second world. The process of removal is described as SEALS, TRUMPETS, and VIALS.

This progression of destruction has nothing to do with the church, a world with no end. The natural world is still in a fallen dark state while the Kingdom is a realm of light within this darkness. The Kingdom is ever progressing unto perfection. The Kingdom came but could only function when the Old was abolished. Isa prophesied there would be a gross darkness when the light arise and John wrote that this darkness is now over.

1Jn 2:8 Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.

Christ brought in yet another visitation to Israel, but they totally rejected Him and now sealed their own fate by killing Christ and calling for His blood to come on them. The Day of Vengeance of the WRATH of the LAMB was released upon them. Rome, THE ROD OF IRON, was instrumental in the removal of the old.

NOTE: Rome is no more. Revelation describes the TIME OF ROME, the legs of the statue in Nebuchadnezzar's dream.

The removal of the old does not deal with the end of time or the end of the earth. It was not the destruction of the church; on the contrary, God sent letters to the churches on how to overcome it. Daniel saw in a vision this terrible TIME OF TRIBULATION that would come upon his people, his city, and the temple. [Dan 9:24 & Dan 12] God told Daniel to seal the vision till the end, the same as the song of Moses.

Revelation 5:5 & 6 the LION of Judah became a LAMB; Christ crucified. His death opened the seals, and their destruction was now unavoidable. The WRATH OF THE LAMB was poured out upon that Generation [Isa 34:8, Mat 23:36, Mat 24:34] who had rejected their king [Joh 19:15] and called for His blood to come on them and their children [Mat 27:25]

Rev 1:7 Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.

Rev 6:16 & 17 And said to the mountains and rocks, fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand? The final judgment came down on the temple in 70 AD, with the burning down of the Temple and destruction of Jerusalem.

Rev 16:8 And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.

Rev 16:1 And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.

The last two chapters in Revelation deals with the kingdom of God which is the heavenly realm that is now opened and functioning on earth. These chapters take us back to the beginning, back to the garden, and the purposes of God. This is no place for the natural mind, we have to hear what the SPIRIT says.

THE OLD IS GONE THE NEW HAS COME

32. DAY OF VENGEANCE

In Acts chapter one, just before Jesus ascended, he said to the disciples; “It is not for you to know the times and the seasons”. Clearly, their understanding of times was darkened. Thirty-five years later the church in Thessalonica was caught up in the terrible tribulation that Daniel saw in a vision and then had to seal it. Clearly, the church grew in understanding.

1 The 5:1 &2 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

GOD is not a thief; THE DAY OF THE LORD is the thief in the night. Paul wrote to this church in the Tribulation, which had come upon the 2nd WORLD, that led to their destruction.

He mentions two groups of people:

1. The ones in darkness on whom the calamity was breaking.

2. The ones in light that were not destined for the wrath to come.

These people were not ignorant of this.

The prophets also mention these two groups of people.

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

Isaiah 60:1 & 2 Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon the. For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.

Mal 4:1 & 2 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble:

and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. But unto you, that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings, and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.

Jesus was baptized and tempted in the desert.

In Luke 4:14 - 19, He returned full of the Spirit and went into the synagogue and from the scroll read Isaiah 61 and said that this scripture is now fulfilled in their midst. Jesus then announced the Year of Favor, but not the Day of Vengeance.God still gave them another chance. John came baptizing and the rulers bombarded him with questions because they knew the prophecies of the DAY OF VENGEANCE, that was to come.

John 1:19- 23 And this is the record of John when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou? And he confessed and denied not; but confessed,

I am not Christ. And they asked him, What then?

Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not.

Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No.

Then said they unto him, who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?

He said I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.

Why Elijah? Malachi 4 is a very clear prophecy on this DAY,

Malachi 4:5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:

John and Jesus came preaching the gospel of the kingdom, but the rulers did not receive the message for they took over the seat of Moses [Mat 23:1 & 2]. In Mat 11 things changed, Jesus announced that the kingdom suffered violence and was taken by force and John was in prison and had taken offense of Christ. Jesus then challenged the rulers on John the Baptist and decreed:

Mat 11:14 … JOHN the Baptist is Elias, which was for to come.

This was another turning point, and the Kingdom could now only come through DEATH and RESSURECTION, indicating that the DAY OF VENGEANCE was now unleashed.

Mal 3:2 But who may abide the DAY OF HIS COMING? and who shall stand when he appears? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap:

The prophets warned Israel about this time, but Israel killed the prophets and became drunk with the blood of the prophets, resembling the harlot in Rev 17, 18 &19. Finally, they killed the Son and signed their own death sentence.

The book of second Peter deals with worlds, time periods, the coming of the son of man, and then describes the passing of the second world with the sun, moon, and stars as the heavenly elements.

2 Pet 3:10 But the DAY OF THE LORD will come as a THIEF IN THE NIGHT; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

This DAY OF DARKNESS began when Judas ate of the broken bread at the last Passover. Satan entered him and as He left, it was dark. but it was already in the evening. The Day of Darkness began and ended forty years later when that wicket generation was removed, like with the Israelites in the desert.

John was released from Patmos and became the bishop of Ephesus after 70AD and wrote.

1 John 2:8 Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.

2 Pet 1:19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:

33. INTRODUCTION TO THE NEW

Jesus made it clear that we cannot mix the Old and the New, for you will reveal your nakedness and lose your joy.

Mat 9:16 No man putts a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse.

Mat 9:17 Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runs out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.

Revelation declares that the NEW HAS COME.

Rev 21:5 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.

Rev 21:6 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.

It is up to believers to believe and grow in the kingdom by hearing what the Spirit says in order to finally possess the Kingdom. The cross was the reformation that changed everything.

LIGHT CAME INTO DARKNESS.

Rev 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

The sea are the people of the earth. Israel became the sand of the sea instead of being the stars of heaven. Now the Day Star must rise in our hearts for the darkness is over.

Rev 21:2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

This was a vision given to John and He was on the Day of the lord in the Spirit. This is now a playground for the natural mind. And clearly, is he done with the natural Jerusalem, which was destroyed just after Revelation was written. Jesus made the announcement loud and clear.

YOU ARE THE CITY; YOU ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD.

We cannot fight darkness with darkness.

We cannot go back to the old, we cannot step over the cross and want to hide in the shadow of His wings; NO, we are to enter the place prepared, the place where our minds are transformed by the Spirit.

Gal 4:21-26 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh, but he of the freewoman was by promise. Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which leads to bondage, which is Agar. For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

It is for freedom Christ has set us free;

Heb 6:1 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection;

34. THE NEW HAS COME

Most people are still waiting for the New because of misunderstanding times and seasons. Christ brought in the new, but we must be born again to even begin to understand this new realm of heaven that functions on earth in this fallen state. The old world was the world of the Law, which was removed, and the New WORLD ORDER has come.

Clearly, the natural mind wants to perverse everything in the Spirit. They speak about a new world order in the natural, but everything in the natural is lies and destruction. The new world is heaven and earth combined within this decaying realm. To understand and step into the purposes of God you have to understand that the New has come.

Rev 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away, and there was no more sea.

The Bible is not talking about the Indian or Atlantic oceans. The sea has a twofold spiritual meaning.

1. The seas are the peoples and nations.

Rev 10:5 And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven.

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.

2. In the first portion of the Tabernacle was the sacrifice altar and the water laver called the sea.

2 Ch 4:6 He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the burnt offering, they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.

Mica 7:9 He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities, and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

Heb 8:12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

Revelation is the consummation of all the workings of God on earth to finally bring creation back into rest and He declares.

Rev 21:5 & 6 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. …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.

Revelation 21 and 22 is a confirmation to the church that the old is done away and the NEW has COME. Abraham went looking for a city and eventually, they held on to the greatest city ever, but that place had to be removed in order for the New to be established.

Revelation deals with the removal of the old that Started in BABYLON. This was sealed by Daniel and opened by the lion of Judah on the cross. It was prophesied in Daniel 9 and played out in Revelation as Seals, Trumpets, and Vials. Revelation reveals the conquering Christ over the three Frog Spirits, which deals with Satan, the Kingdoms of the World, and the False Prophet, the system that killed Him.

Rev 16:3 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.

The old is gone the New has come. IT IS DONE.

Rev 21:2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

Rev 5:9 And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou was slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;

Rev 15:3 And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb [ the new SONG], saying, Great and marvelous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.

This is what the NEW TESTAMENT is all about.

Grace came and we have found MERCY, in this fallen state of creation.

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.

Act3 3:23 Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine.

Heb 10:20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;

2 Cor 5;17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

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

Gal 6:15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.

The old is gone the New has come. IT IS DONE.

35. THE CHURCH.

The old was preparing for a Body where the Spirit can dwell. Jesus was the fulfillment of all the preparation. The cross was to be the final sacrifice where the law finds its total fulfillment.

Mat 5:1 &18 Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For verily I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

Col 2:17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.

Heb 10:5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou would not, but a body hast thou prepared me:

Jesus prepared the disciples for what was coming, but they just did not get it.

1 Cor 11:24 And when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.

In the last chapters of the book of John, Jesus shared with the disciples that were all to die for the Gospel except John the beloved. At the ascension, they went on about the restoration of Israel, totally ignorant of what was waiting for them. At the end of his life, Peter finally understood they were the foundation of this new world to come.

1 Cor 4:9 For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.

Rev 21:14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

The Book of Revelation is about Christ, the head of the body, establishing his body, THE CHURCH on earth.

The place of dwelling is in Him, and this KINGDOM of GOD is called THE KINGDOM of HEAVEN. The CHURCH or Ecclesia is a many-membered Body, a gathering, and Christ is the head. This body cannot be limited to a building or a system and cannot be burned, broken down, or destroyed.

This body is bound together with the same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead; now living on the inside of us. Members are born again into this new body and will not be touched by the second death, which is the lake of fire. You were bought with the precious blood of Christ and do not belong to Satan or to yourself. You are bone of His bone and flesh of His Flesh. You are one with Him: you are his BRIDE.

1 Cor 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

All the gifts in the church are to edify the body and not exalt the members.

Eph 4:12 & 13 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: 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:

In the New Testament, we find the guidelines of how this body functions and how you are to behave in the church

1 Tim 3:15 But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou ought to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

This is not like the law that brought judgment, this was given as a guide to keep you connected to the purposes of the Spirit. As a cut of toe and a chopped-off finger, you will not amount to much.

No normal body has two heads, therefore, to be part of this body, you will have to follow Christ into the Holy of Holies and surrender your will. We are now a member of his body, everyone having an eternal purpose.

1 Cor 6:15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.

Rom 12:4-5 For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.

Jesus was the body prepared. He was born as a child became a son and was offered as the final sacrifice. Now the same Spirit inside of us cries to the Father we are His body on earth, but you have to be born again ad remain ingrafted.

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.

In the fullness of time, God manifested on the earth and at the end of time man will manifest as sons on this earth to restore creation back to perfection.

Joh 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:

Rom 8: 22 6 23 For we know that the whole creation groan and travail in pain together until now.

And not only they but ourselves also, which have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

The body, the church cannot function apart from the head. The Kingdom is where this body dwells. The church buildings and groups are only tools to help the body and are wrongly mistaken as the church itself. The Church is a spiritual body where members are connected in the spirit, no matter the denomination or location.

Churches can be burnt, and denominations can fall, but this body cannot die.

36. THE KINGDOM.

The Kingdom of God is what Adam lost and Jesus restored.

Luke 19:10 For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.

What is the kingdom?

Did the Kingdom come? and if:

When did it come?

After Jesus was on the Mount of Transfiguration he started talking about his death and the last Passover, he revealed the time of the coming of the Kingdom and turned the Passover into communion.

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.

Three days later Jesus broke the bread with the disciples in Emmaus and their eyes were opened.

Luke 24:30 & 31 And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them. And their eyes were opened, and they knew him, and he vanished out of their sight.

The Kingdom came, but the people held onto the old and kept on sacrificing. The two systems cannot function together, for the old was to bring in the NEW. This was revealed before and during the removal of the old system.

Heb 9:8 The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:

Rev 15:8 And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.

In Revelation 16 the vials were poured in the temple and the sacrifices were finally removed, the kingdom was opened.

The missionary journeys took place during this time of removal which started at the stoning of Stephen and ended in about 70AD. This all happened in the time of Rome. Except for John’s writings, all the New Testament letters were written in this approximately 40-year period time.

Paul explains this time of opening the Kingdom, the birthing of the church, and the writing of the New Testament.

Acts 14:22 Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorts them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

Revelation 21 and 22 declare that the Kingdom of Heaven is now on the earth. It is a place in the Spirit, where we step into eternity while we are on earth. Christ’s resurrection marked the point of the end of DEATH AS THE END. Death is just an additional change before we are all changed into the likeness of His glorious, resurrected body. Jesus explained the Kingdom to Nicodemus, but he just could not see, for they were still blinded by the Law. Only by the Spirit, the veil is removed. When you taste you see, but you have to eat to live.

Joh 3:3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

Jesus is the front, or the face of God that Moses could not see, while He was face to face with God, for he was not yet filled with the Spirit. God did not intend for us just to see the Kingdom; the Kingdom was established on earth so we can enter and possess the Kingdom.

Joh 3:5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

Water speaks of baptism, where we associate ourselves with His death. The Spirit resembles fire where we die to our ambition and own will. You must step into His death, through baptism and die to your own will by the cleansing of the Spirit fire. The wood, hay, and stumble must burn to the point where it is no longer your will but His will in your life.

Daniel prophesied about this time of the manifestation of the sons possessing the KINGDOM.

Dan 7:22 Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.

Kingdom is more than getting saved and one day going to heaven. The kingdom is about entering heaven on earth and being the light of the world, restoring creation to perfection. We are made Kings and Priests and God wants us to rule on the earth.

Rev 5:10 And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.

Daniel 7 tells us that the judgment is given that the saints will possess the kingdom, right here on this earth in its fallen state. That is when sons will manifest and conquer the god of this world and not run after mammon. The Kingdom of God is the realm of heaven opened on the earth, by the Spirit within the heart of believers.

Jesus stepped over the brook Kidron into the garden and in doing so He brought us back to the garden. The kingdom is a spiritual place of growth as soon as the incorruptible seed is planted in the heart of a believer. This growth is described in four stages and works out in time and individual lives.

Mark 4:26 - 29 And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;

And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knows not how. For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.

In Revelation 22:1 we see the river comes from the Throne of God and of the Lamb. In Ezekiel 47:1 - 5, this river is laid out in four stages; ankle-deep, knee-deep, thigh-deep, and rivers to swim in.The minute we believe, we receive salvation and the same Spirit that raised Him from the dead indwells and seals us until the redemption of our bodies. Believers are sealed with the Spirit, a guarantee against the second death, the lake of fire.

2 Cor 1:22 Who hath also seals us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

Eph 1: 14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

Rom 8:23 And not only they but ourselves also, which have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

The minute you are born again you have already stepped into eternity. Your eternal life starts in Christ. We have been translated from darkness to light and you become part of His body on earth and the dwelling place of the Body is called the kingdom of God.

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

John 5:23 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

Jesus taught the disciples to pray: “Let Thy kingdom, let Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven”. The kingdom came when Christ rose from the dead, yet the kingdom still needs to manifest. The problem is that the kingdom has come, but people want to go to heaven. Heaven opened on earth. The Kingdom is only foreshadowed in the Bible.

37. FINAL MYSTERY

The cross ignited the opening of the MYSTERIES., but the dispensation only started with Paul. His coming was the beginning of the unveiling of the mysteries hidden through the ages.

1 Tim 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

The final mystery is the manifestation of sons and was revealed to Paul. The end revealed from the beginning

1 Cor 15:51 Behold I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

Jesus revealed this to Martha when he raised Lazarus.

Joh 11:26 And whosoever lives and believeth in me shall never die. Believe thou this?

The day when Jesus ascended, there appeared two men in white apparel:

Act 1:9 - 11 And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold two men stood by them in white apparel;

Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.

The coming of the Lord has always been problematic because of misinterpretation of times, but He said He will come in the same way He left with a cloud. This cloud refers to the cloud of witnesses [see Heb 12:1] and not to the natural clouds we observe. The disciples wanted to know about his coming even before He went.

Mat 24:3 …Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?

Heb 9:28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

The above two scriptures speak about two totally different time periods. He went away and he told them He would be back after a short while. The New Testament describes two comings; First He would come for the saints, dealing with the Old, and Finally, He would come with the saints.

THE SON OF MAN came to deal with sin and returned with the clouds to complete what was started on the cross. He returned as lightning from the East to the West, as a THIEF IN THE NIGHT to end the DAY OF VENGEANCE, in THE LAST DAYS. It was just an appearance with the clouds to the generation that killed him, who continued sacrificing beyond the cross.

Rev 1:7 Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.

In Revelation 16:17 He declares: “IT IS DONE”.

The final coming, in the last day or second coming, is the coming of the LORD OF GLORY, the final mystery. In John 6, Jesus declares that there will be a RAISING UP in the LAST DAY, not rapturing. The church His Body is going to another planet, they will be totally restored to the realm of perfection.

This is a totally different event. The scripture is very clear about this event.

1 The 4:13 – 18 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

For this, we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so, shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

Rom 8:11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

The way this final mystery will take place is confirmed in 1 Corinthians 15.

1 Cor 15: 50 - 57 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality, So, when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting?

O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

In the final writings of the Word, John reveals that we will go back to the image and likeness which was our portion from the beginning.

1 John 3:2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

THE TIME HAS COME…

…TO STUDY AND KNOW THE KINGDOM.

… TO POSSESS THE KINGDOM.

The Kingdom is a place that Jesus prepared.

The place is a person, the Christ within your heart.