Everlasting Gospel? What is it?
Revelation 14:6-7
6
And I saw another
angel fly in the midst of heaven,
having the everlasting gospel to
preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,
7
Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his
judgment is come: and worship
him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
Ecclesiastes
12:13
Let
us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear
God, and keep his
commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
John
5:24
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 (judgment); but is passed
from death unto life.
Believing in God, as Jesus
here refers in John 5:24, and the Good news or Gospel, there with
proclaimed, does not mean,…
to believe that Jesus died and arose
again. What is called the Gospel
of Grace, and preached throughout the dispensation of the Church
only set one on course
with a great hope of the
full redemption, here offered by Jesus in John 5:24, upon the return of Christ at His second coming. The Gospel of Grace only came about after
Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection, and the Good
News offered thereby
was the opening
of the door for Salvation to be extended to the Gentiles, previously having no access
to the Covenants and Promises of God. The Gospel here offered
in John 5:24 is referred
to throughout Christ’s
earthly ministry as the Gospel of the Kingdom
of God, into which a person must be Born Again
to enter that kingdom. Now after John the Baptist was put in
prison, Jesus came into Galilee preaching the
Gospel of the Kingdom of God
Mark
1:15
15 And saying, The time is
fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the
gospel.
Contrary to this Gospel
of the Kingdom of God and the resurrection then offered, the Gospel of Grace only brings hope in the
general resurrection at the time Michael stands up according to
Daniel 12:1-2
1And at that time shall Michael stand
up, the great prince which standeth
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.
2 And many of
them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life,
and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
The TWO RESURRECTIONS can be seen from John
5:25
Verily, verily,
I say unto you, The hour is coming,
and now is, when the dead
shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall
live.
The
grace being offered
after Christ’s earthly
ministry was understood to be the Ernest or down
payment to that Promise of His return at the End Time, after the Times of the Gentiles
had run out. Where many have erred, between these two Gospels,
was to teach that one is born again
by believing that Christ died,
arose again, and once professing one’s faith in that fact they
pass from death unto Eternal
life. Nothing could
be further from the truth. The truth being offered by Christ
in John 5:24 and
it’s Good news, if one would hear what Jesus was telling
them and believe on God, they would not come into judgment because
they have Eternal
life. But if any, being in this condition by New Birth with Eternal life,
happened to live long enough to see the second coming they would have no
advantage over those not being Born Again as they. We see this in
1
Thessalonians 4:15
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which
are alive (having
the first fruits of the Spirit) and
remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent (hinder) them which are asleep.(Awaiting the
Second Resurrection)
John 5:25
The hour is coming,… when the
dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.
I Thessalonians 4:16
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from
heaven with a shout, with the voice
of the archangel (Michael -Daniel 12:1), and with the trump of God (1
Corinthians 15:52): and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17 Then we
which are alive (in the Spirit) and remain (physically) 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.
As
we see from Ecclesiastes 12:13, the whole duty of man is to fear God or have faith in God
and not oneself, and by doing so one automatically fulfills the Commandments of God, because there
is no other way to fulfill
them. Self-righteous, religious
works do not fulfill the Commandments, but Faith in God’s
Sovereignty does. This was confirmed
when Jesus condemned the self-righteous Pharisees.
Matthew
5:20, 27-28
20 For
I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall
exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case
enter into the kingdom of heaven.
27
Ye
have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit
adultery:
28
But
I say unto you, That whosoever looketh
on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his
heart.
In other words Jesus was magnifying
the law with these statements, showing that it was not within the ability of
the natural man to fulfill the letter of the law, as the self- righteous Jews
were claiming. If a person thinks they can live so righteous that they can, of
themselves, fulfill the law they are deceived. The law was not given that a
man, of himself, could fulfill it, but it was given to prove he couldn’t.
Faith in God does NOT mean believing in the Bible or
that the Bible is true or even believing about God. This is
only one’s profession of faith towards
God and NOT faith IN God – Big, Big difference! The minister
that can’t tell you the difference has no business
in the pulpit because he has not been Born of God himself.
They are blind to truth,
thus speaking lies, leading the
people blindly to the ditch of tribulation in which all will be brought to
judgment by Christ. As you will begin to see, very few were truly Born of God
and that small group was limited to the first coming ministry of Christ with
the exception of the Apostle Paul coming later. The great decline came after
those Apostles died off, and what we have had since is a claim of faith and not
the New Birth.
Saying all that, we can now see that the Everlasting Gospel, unlike the Gospel of Grace, is not dispensational. It is indeed one and the same as that of the
Gospel of the Kingdom of God,
where God is honored as such rather
than religion self-determined by man. THE LIE OF RELIGION HAS BLINDED MANKIND
AWAY FROM REAL FAITH IN GOD, OFFERING NOTHING MORE THAN “ANOTHER
GOSPEL” CLAIMING SALVATION, WHEN THE END RESULTS
THEREOF IS DEATH OR SEPERATION FROM GOD.
Proverbs 16:5
There is a way that seems right unto a man, (religion) but the end thereof are the ways
of death.
II Timothy 3:5
These having
a form of godliness (religion), but denying
the power (Sovereign Omnipotence of God) thereof: from such turn away
Romans 8:6
For to be carnally minded
is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
John 4:21 and 24
… the hours cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain,
nor yet in Jerusalem, worship the Father… God is a spirit and they that worship
him MUST worship him in spirit and
truth.
Contrary to
what has been generally preached from the pulpits, the Kingdom of God is Spiritual and not
literal.
Luke:17:20-24
20 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the
kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The
kingdom of God cometh not with observation:
21 Neither
shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
22 And he
said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye
shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it.
23 And they
shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not after them, nor follow them.
24 For as the
lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under
heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so
shall also the Son of man be in his day.
I Corinthians 15:50
For flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God.
Thus the resurrection and redemption you seek is a spiritual understanding of Truth
and not physical bodies coming up from literal
graves.
THE MAIN DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE ‘GOSPEL
OF GRACE’ AND THE ‘EVERLASTING GOSPEL’
The “Gospel,” the way it has for the
most part been taught, is predicated upon the following assumption:
[ Mankind was, at some point in the creation, given Free Moral Agency or the ability to
choose one’s destiny by self-determination, greatly influenced by God’s
ultimate failure called Satan, a third party being, created perfect by God,
that went awry by, somehow, removing himself from God’s Sovereign control and
greatly interfering with an otherwise perfect creation.
Taking this position assumes to leave man responsible for
his accomplishments as well as his own failures, mainly of which was in meeting
the standards of a Righteous God. Along with this idea, one is left to believe
that God either made a big mistake in giving man freewill, making the devil,
over which God lost control,….OR,... that this Omnipotent Sovereign God planned
this obsolescence of man and man’s inability to meet those righteous
requirements. Then worse, God sentencing
man to eternal damnation of hell-fire for those failures, whether he was
directly or indirectly responsible, through the influence of this
third-party-reject, called Satan, which had caused man to fail. God, then magnifying man’s inadequacies with a law that man could
not keep, requiring mankind to believe that Jesus Christ died and arose again,
to escape the judgments of hell-fire. In other words, God made mankind
fallible that he might become guilty and be sent to a burning hell if he
doesn’t repent for being made imperfect and fallible in the first place.]
Numerous and serious questions
abound, if we are honest in our evaluation of this formula just stated:
1)>>>Is this really the Gospel, or is it rather another gospel, declaring God’s
inadequacies and lack of Sovereign control over all things? How is that “good
news”?
2)>>>Is the Omnipotence and total power of the
Almighty Creator so limited that he cannot save all or is it, as we have
earlier stated, planned that way just to burn some in hell-fire?
3)>>>Moreover, with the alleged salvation brought
from such a ‘gospel,’ can mankind be so impersonal to believe himself worthy,
or just lucky enough to have faith to make the right choice to be granted
eternal bliss above others,… while knowing that many he has loved, and for
which he cares, are being tortured in a place of torment? How sadistic a
thought!
4)>>>Is this the GOOD NEWS
of a Righteous God or has the Gospel been tampered with just to instill fear
into people and fill the churches, offering a false deliverance to a false,
religious belief system called BABYLON?
The true
Gospel of Grace was never meant to replace the
Gospel
of the Kingdom of God preached by Jesus Christ.
Like that of the Gospel (or good news) of the Resurrection
of Jesus, spoken of in Mark 16, the Gospel of Grace was the fact that in the
manifold wisdom of God an avenue to salvation was opened to those having no
such hope at the time of Christ’s first advent. The Apostle Paul, after his
conversion, was given this responsibility of taking this good news of Christ
and his resurrection to the Gentiles. Any preaching of the Gospel of the Kingdom by the Apostles, as well as Paul, was
only in pointing to a time to come when Christ would return to finish the work
of the Kingdom (as stated by Christ “that
where I am there ye may be also”), which was aborted by Christ being
rejected by those to whom he was sent. Again, in the wisdom of God, it was
through that rejection that salvation was extended to the Gentiles. THIS is the
TRUE GOSPEL OF GRACE, and taken
along with the Gospel (or good news)
of the Resurrection of Jesus spoken of
in Mark 16; both comprise what is understood to be the GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST,
and not the lies being taught as the “gospel” with “another gospel and another
Jesus” from the pulpits today.
For the most part, what is being
taught as the “Gospel,” is nothing more than asking someone to believe in a
church doctrine or some idea that will identify you with that group of people
and their beliefs. Once acknowledging that you believe such, you are thereby
assumed to be “Born Again” with “Eternal life.” Some, in addition to this,
require what they call, “the in-filling of the Holy Ghost” with the evidence of
speaking in an “unknown tongue,” which is nothing more than a cheap counterfeit
to receiving the fullness of TRUTH OF THE WORD OF GOD, WHICH IS THE FULLNESS OF
THE HOLY SPIRIT. While not being limited to these ideas, many variations of
this, calling it, “THE GOSPEL,” remain too numerous to mention.
To thoroughly understand the
difference we must examine more closely the background setting the stage for
the Gospel. As the
result of what happened in Genesis chapter 3, mankind became separated from
God, or at least he perceived himself out of touch and indifferent towards his
Creator. Redemption, to regain man’s original position with his Creator
was required.
To understand redemption, one must
first understand what happened to require it. The concept of sin is guilt,
magnified by a law which condemns sin. Therefore if we could do away with the
law, would not that eliminate sin? NO,… because one
still has a conscience of guilt about something for which he perceives himself
responsible. A perception of FREEWILL brought that divide between God and man. But
that perception was in the mind of man, not God’s. From man’s
standpoint, he believed he had a choice between what he now believed to be good
and evil. But did he really have a choice? NO,…
because God never forfeited any part of His Omnipotence that would allow for
such. Let us examine some of the
Scriptures that support the fact that God controls it all:
Rom.
8:29-30
29For whom
He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that
He might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30
Moreover
whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also
justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.
Rom.
9:15-16
15
For
He says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will
have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.
16 So then
it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but
of God who shows mercy.
Rom. 9:21 21Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same
lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?
Rom.
9:11-13
11(For the
children not yet being born, nor having done any good or evil, that the purpose
of God according to election might stand, not of works but of Him who calls),
12 it was said to her, The older
shall serve the younger.
13 As it is written, Jacob I have
loved, but Esau I have hated.
There are those that take the
hardline position, as we do, that God is Sovereign, and in Omnipotent control
of ALL things. Contrary to this, the
largest group by far, believes in FREEWILL of man, and takes the position that
God, in His Omniscience, of knowing all things, foreknew, or knew ahead of time
what choices, as to salvation, mankind would make and worked accordingly to
those choices to save some, while sending others to hell. What is interesting,… is the fact that there is no direct Scripture in the
entire Bible that says mankind was given FREE MORAL AGENCY. The closest it
comes is in
Deuteronomy
30: 15-19
15 See, I
have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;
16 In that I
command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to
keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the Lord thy God shall bless
thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
18 But if
thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and
worship other gods, and serve them;
18 I
denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not
prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest
over Jordan to go to possess it.
19 I call
heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose
life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
Now at first glance one may say: “According to verse 19, it says: ‘therefore choose life,’ So,… we have a
choice.”
However, read the four previous
verses, which clearly indicate that it is a CALL UNTO OBEDIENCE or one would suffer the consequences. In other
words, verse 19 should be read more correctly as to say, ‘therefore PURSUE life.’
Additionally, one may also ask: “So what is
meant by, Rom. 8:21-30 ‘For whom He
foreknew…,’ if it wasn’t that God, as a prophet, would, look down through
time to see what choices people would make?”
To answer that question we must
realize that God’s Omniscience, of knowing all things, doesn’t operate as a
prophet that sees a future event, but exists because of His Omnipotence. In
other words God doesn’t just see the future, He makes the future.
FOREKNOWLEDGE OF GOD simply means that the knowledge of God is expressed in His
creation. An example would be the expressed thoughts of a new home by the
builder fulfilling the desires of the new home’s owner. This fact should answer
the long misunderstood idea, gathered from the expression, “We are made in the image of God.” I say misunderstood,… because
most run off on the tangent of teaching that man is patterned after, what they
assume to be ‘a three-person godhead, or
trinity,’ and then putting with that idea their assumption, that man is a
triune being made up of a body, soul and spirit, thus making him in the image
of God.
This teaching is erroneous on both
points. God is not a trinity of three persons and man has no soul. He became
a living soul upon the breath of life entering the body. In short, we are made
in the image of God as His expressed thoughts or knowledge that He had before
of us, prior to the beginning of the world.
This being the case, how, and from what,… is one redeemed by the
offering of Christ and the atonement of blood thereby offered? Without the
shedding of blood there is no remission of sin. But,…
‘WHAT’ is put in remission by the Blood of Christ?
The answer: It is the punishment of sin
required by the law!
Does this really have anything to do with the consciousness of guilt,
as far as eliminating IT? Not really, because a cancer put in remission is
still an inactive cancer. While one can be redeemed from the judgment
of the law by the required shedding of blood, one still remains a sinner in his
own mind even though his sins, by faith, are covered from judgment by the blood
of Christ. With this remission of sin, one’s acts of sin are given a
perceived amnesty, but it does not do away with the conscience one has for
doing wrong. The illusion of choice is lying to him and telling him that he is
a FREE MORAL AGENT, now saved by grace from the judgment of the law because he chose to believe in the ‘Gospel’.
However the word ‘SAVED’ is here used loosely as one self-imagines his position of believing himself to be in Christ, or
having the security of a saved position. The term ‘FAITH’ is likewise used
loosely because what is assumed to be faith is nothing more than a hope.
If a man claims to have faith, or believes something to be indeed
so,… how can he prove his claim, unless he has proof
and evidence of that which he believes is so? For the most part, people believe
in what is called “blind faith,” meaning that no substance is required to prove
what they believe. Often erroneously, they use the term as a way of saying, “you don’t have to understand something,
just accept it by faith.” But this is not faith at all!!! It is but an
assumption or theory as to something you think to be so. To have faith means
you believe, and with that belief, you will have an understanding of what you
believe. This UNDERSTANDING is the EVIDENCE and substance of that, to which,
you have entrusted your faith. In other words if a man shares his faith, he
shares his understanding, and it is no different when God shares His way of
thinking with us, it brings faith.
Along
with this idea of having faith, we must take into consideration where that
faith is directed. If one says, he has
faith in God and that belief is put in a belief about God as taught by others, one’s faith is hearsay from a
secondary source which may or may not be correct. Faith in God means to have
firsthand knowledge from God, because the man that knows God is taught of God
and not of other men. Moreover, in order to know God one must be born of the
Spirit, or mindset, of God.
Contrary to this
assumption of faith, which leaves mankind spiritually blind and believing he
knows things to be so, when he really doesn’t, real faith is not blind, but has
substance and evidence that brings real understanding to the way things really
are. This has everything to do with the fact that all of mankind are sinners in their own eyes, perceiving themselves to have
made the choices based upon this limitation of their faith and understanding of
God. This ILLUSION OF MAN HAVING FREEWILL, THAT HAS CAUSED THE WHOLE PROBLEM
FROM THE BEGINNING, will remain until the full REDEMPTION, offered by the
EVERLASTING GOSPEL, brings them back, in one’s thinking, to the original creative
state, when God saw it was all GOOD, in the finished work of that creation,
before this illusion of FREEWILL entered the picture.
Here is where the word REDEMPTION
must be kept in context when speaking of the Gospels. The Gospel of Jesus
Christ and by one’s faith in the finished work of the cross, redeemed one, by
that faith, from the law and its impending judgment passed upon all that
committed sin. However again, that did not remove the fact that all are sold
under sin by their very human nature that causes one to perceive himself guilty
for his failures and short comings in the first place. While the Gospel of
Jesus Christ and his resurrection opened that door for one to have faith toward
God, it is the Gospel of the Kingdom of God and the NEW BIRTH it offers, that
destroys THE MAN OF SIN and its carnal way of looking at things, thus
eliminating the sin question forever.
I
John 3:9
9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for
his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because
he is born of God.
No
one can enter the Kingdom of God unless he is BORN AGAIN, but once reborn, he
CANNOT SIN.
Romans 8:1
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which
are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Unlike
the “finished work of the cross” which redeems from the judgment of the Law
with its required blood atonement, the Everlasting Gospel and Rebirth from the
old nature it offers, REDEEMS from the conscience of sin in the finished work,
as depicted in Hebrews 4:1-11, which speaks of entering INTO the
finished work of the creation as God rested from His labors of that creation.
1 Let
us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any
of you should seem to come short of it.
2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto
them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in
them that heard it.
3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he
said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter
into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the
world.
4 For he spake in a certain
place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from
all his works.
5 And in this place again, If
they shall enter into my rest.
6 Seeing therefore it remaineth
that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered
not in because of unbelief:
7 Again, he limiteth a
certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then
would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
9 There remaineth therefore
a rest to the people of God.
10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath
ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
11 Let us labour
therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of
unbelief.
Now
Jews, and Christians alike, for centuries have striven
to enter into that REST by the keeping of a literal day of the week or marking
out things which could be done on a Sabbath day, but not considered work. This
age old quagmire brought no understanding of the REDEMPTION, and what it really
took for one to ENTER that rest. At this point we must examine the fallen
nature of mankind that prevents him from entering this finished work, REST, and
keeps him in this insecurity of sin, which condemns by the consciousness of
guilt, perceived by THE ILLUSION - FREEWILL!
Unlike the Gospel of Grace, which serves a purpose for a season or
dispensation, the EVERLASTING GOSPEL
is not dispensational. In other words, it is the Good News that brings to view
the BIG PICTURE, revealing how God views things from an ETERNAL standpoint, not
being subject to time and space. The reason it is called the Gospel of the Kingdom of God, is that it
puts God back on the throne. Not that He was ever
dethroned, but just a reminder to us that HE is The Almighty and not we
ourselves, as we perceive self-determination. A major part of this GOSPEL OF
THE KINGDOM being offered by Jesus was the full REDEMPTION of entering into
that REST of the FINISHED WORK OF GOD when he said:
Mathew
11:28
28 Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden,
and I will give you rest.
Contrary
to the view held by most, FREEWILL WAS NOT IN THE ORIGINAL CREATION OF GENESIS
CHAPTER 2!!!
So where
was FREEWILL introduced? It was an apparition or ILLUSION occurring as the
RESULT of the events OF THE FALL recorded in Genesis 3.
THEREFORE NOT BEING IN THE ORIGINAL CREATION, FREE MORAL AGENCY -
FREEWILL WILL NOT BE IN THE
REDEMPTION.
Most Jews teach that freewill was a
divine gift from God imparted to man when he was given a soul. This idea is wrong in two aspects:
1)
Man was
not given a soul.
Man became a living soul after the breath of life entered.
2)
Freewill
was not in the original creation as claimed by Jewish doctrine.
If it was, among all else, God found it good, and it would
remain in the Redemption. Not being in the original creation, it will not
remain in the Redemption.
However, the Jews also teach that it
will be removed in the REDEMPTION, even though they teach it was in the
original creation. They can’t have it
both ways as they teach. It is contradictory. Why do we bring out this
Jewish teaching? It is because this doctrine has greatly influenced others and
misled many into the LIE that mankind has FREE WILL, when he does not. The bottom line is this; if it’s not in the
original, it is delusional and cannot be real, because all things were good and
complete from the beginning. THAT’S WHY WE NEED THE FULL REDEMPTION, IN ORDER TO GET US BACK TO REALITY and away from these
delusional apparitions, perceived by mankind to be
real, when in truth THEY ARE NOT! Like the illusion of freewill, the
illusion of a Devil, hell-fire, and sin, will also come to an end. ‘Freewill’
was not in the original creation, therefore only exists in one's mind.
Moreover, everything contingent and projected off of that figment and
illusion must come to an end in the FULL REDEMPTION.
Like the boogieman in
the closet, bringing false fears of a burning hell, the idea of a Devil
overriding God’s Sovereignty, will no longer be given place in one’s belief
system. All these childish delusions, taught from the pulpits of man, will no
longer be given credibility.
THIS IS THE PURPOSE OF THE
EVERLASTING GOSPEL GOING FORTH AT THIS TIME, SO THAT MANKIND CAN HAVE A
PLUMBLINE WHEREBY TO MEASURE ALL THINGS, AS TO WHETHER THEY BE SO,… OR NOT.
Malachi
3:18
18Then shall
ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth
him not.
Simply put, the
acid test is this;
If a man says he
has freewill, he has never been born of God. He doesn’t have eternal life, nor
can he enter the Kingdom of God.
Moreover he will come into judgment for what he perceives to be his
works, even if those works consist only of his claim to choose and believe.
On the other
hand, if one claims to believe in the Sovereignty of God, yet builds upon that foundation unsound doctrines, such as an eternal,
hell-fire judgment, which discredits God’s just righteousness, he will be spared,
but his works burnt
I Corinthians 3:11-15
11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is
laid, which is Jesus Christ.
12 Now if any man build upon
this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day
shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try
every man's work of what sort it is.
14 If any man's work abide
which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer
loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by
fire.
WHEN IS THE
EVERLASTING
GOSPEL AGAIN
PREACHED?
This
EVERLASTING GOSPEL is what Jesus was
referring to in Mathew 24, when he said:
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.
It
is the 7th plague of Revelation 16:17 poured out into the air:
17And
the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air.
It
is the 7th TRUMPET of Revelation 11:15-19:
15 And the seventh angel
sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The
kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ;
and he shall reign for ever and ever.
16 And the
four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their
faces, and worshipped God,
17 Saying, We
give thee thanks, O Lord God
Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come;
because thou hast taken to thee thy
great power, and hast reigned.
18 And the
nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they
should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward
unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and
them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest
destroy them which destroy the earth.
19And the
temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of
his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices,
and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.
This is the same GREAT POWER spoken
of in
Daniel
12:
7
And I heard the
man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up
his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware
by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a
time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter (or broadcast in
the AIR) the power of the holy
people, all these things shall be finished.
While
this POWER was poured out moderately at Pentecost according to
Luke
24:49
And, behold, I
send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem,
until ye be endued with power from on high,
Only
being fulfilled in part according to
Acts 2:17, the greater outpouring will occur when Michael stands up and THE EVERLASTING
GOSPEL is broadcast into all the world.
Joel 2:28
And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will
pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall
prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
This
event is the same as that referred to in Revelation 10. The Mystery, there
finished, brings this POWER as deliverance and judgment as the Seventh Trumpet
unto everlasting life and the Seventh plague unto everlasting condemnation at the
time Michael stands up according to Daniel 12:1-2 as earlier quoted.
Revelation 10:4-11
4 And when
the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard
a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders
uttered, and write them not.
5 And the
angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to
heaven,
6 And sware by him that liveth for ever
and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth,
and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein,
that there should be time no longer:
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.
8 And the
voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again,
and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel
which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.
9 And I went
unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto
me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be
in thy mouth sweet as honey.
10 And I took
the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth
sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.
11 And he
said unto me, Thou must prophesy again
before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.
Matthew
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.
This being the same MYSTERY contained in the SEVENTH SEAL of Revelation chapter
8:1
And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was
silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
This
brings the resurrection of I Thessalonians 4:15-17
15 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.
16 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:
17 Then we
which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds,
to meet the Lord in the air: (the BROADCAST
or AIRING OF POWER HELD AS A MYSTERY
UNDER THE 7th SEAL IN SILENCE UNTIL THE SOUNDING OF THE SEVENTH
TRUMP ) and so shall we ever be with
the Lord.
Thus bringing the same resurrection as in I Corinthians 15:50-58
50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth
corruption inherit incorruption.
51 Behold, I
shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 In a
moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the
last trump: for the trumpet shall sound (as is
I Thessalonians 4:17 and Daniel 12:1), and
the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. (as in Daniel 12:2)
53 For this
corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 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.
55 O death,
where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
56 The sting
of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
57 But thanks
be to God, which giveth us the victory through our
Lord Jesus Christ.
HERE IS THE OBVIOUS QUESTION FOR MOST THAT ARE UNDER THE
GOSPEL OF GRACE WHEN THEY FIRST HEAR THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL:
“But isn’t one’s faith in the Gospel of Grace adequate
forever?” Only if that faith is made
complete by walking into the full understanding of the Big picture, NOW being presented in the EVERLASTING
GOSPEL. In the grand view, God is
building a house with many habitations, and when a corner is turned, you must
turn with it. If one did not turn from the Law to Grace at the first coming, he
was left behind. Likewise, as another
and final corner has been turned, all must turn with it, thereby having their
faith made perfect and complete.
Hebrews
6:1-2
1Therefore
leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection
(completion); not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works,
and of faith toward God,
2 Of the
doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and
of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
IN
CONCLUSION
I realize at this point that it may be hard for one to make the
connection; but the ILLUSION OF FREEWILL
and the perception of SELF-DETERMINATION
that it brings, is the root of all the problems and unrest that has, and is,
occurring in the world. WORLD PEACE
will only come when mankind renounces its claim to such and pronounces
Sovereign Control to our Creator, thereby regaining dynamic
and harmonic balance with the rest of the Universe, which
demonstrates no such prevarication to reality, as that of the ILLUSION THAT MAN CONTROLS ANYTHING.
Again it may be hard to make that connection, but living with
the delusion of self-determination, skews and distorts one's outlook on life in
general, and directly effects how one perceives and treats others.
Demonstrating this fact, the Bible, and all that is spoken therein, boils down
to this one point:
It
is the whole duty of man to Honor his
Creator above all else, thereby denying self. This is the First and GREAT COMMMANDMENT.
The
Second Commandment, and the fulfillment thereof, only reflects that you
have fulfilled the first. For it is how we perceive and treat the rest of
God's Creation, that speaks to how
we perceive and Honor the Sovereign God of the Universe.
The question naturally arises:
“What is it, by nature, that has always existed which
would override a set of religious laws and requirements designed to keep
mankind on the right course? In other words, if the religious laws are removed,
what’s left, if anything, to govern the morals of mankind?”
The answer: Universal, Inherent, Collective, Objective Morality,
or perceiving and judging others with the knowledge that they have no freewill
or self-determination!
Objective morality is inherent as we perceive the
innocence of others. The illusion of personal freewill tends to delude one from
that inherent value as we view others responsible for their own actions and
which are often offensive to our self-centered egos.
Religious standards can never replace
universal, inherent, collective, objective morality. Religious organizations on nearly every street corner
testify to this fact. In fact religious ideologies, overwhelmingly promote
exclusivism. They do not promote collectivism and brotherhood of mankind. Oh
they will say they do! However, actions speak louder with their self-promoting
agendas. I am only against religion when it conflicts with reality.
In summary of what you have just read:
The
Everlasting Gospel and the Good News it brings renders the Gospel of Grace, and
the guilt it requires, obsolete because an innocent man does not need grace or
forgiveness from something he did not do!
FINAL DIRECTIVE
In short we must
grow up in Christ by leaving the first principles of our faith towards God,
going on to perfection to see things as God sees them. This, indeed, is THE
ADOPTION, to wit, OR WITH UNDERSTANDING bringing us unto the REDEMPTION of the
PURCHASED POSSESSION by which we are positionally placed as MANIFEST SONS OF
THE MOST HIGH GOD. This understanding of the Manifested Sons of God comes
through the hearing and receiving of this Everlasting Gospel.
To do this one
must first, RENOUNCE FREEWILL (which is TRUE REPENTANCE as explained at the
end of this message) and secondly, PRONOUNCE THE SOVEREIGNTY AND
OMNIPOTENCE OF THE ALMIGHTY (which means to honor the first and great
commandment upon which all the others rest). Upon doing so and from that point,
and with that as the foundation of faith in God, the HOLY SPIRIT will quicken to you
the UNDERSTANDING OF ALL TRUTH, and upon that sure foundation, the house of the
Lord will be built correctly and you will have no need that man teach you, for
you will be restored to the original position when mankind, on the basis of
true communion, addressed and heard from his Creator.
HAVE YOU TRULY REPENTED
AND BEEN CONVERTED OR ARE
YOU DECEIVED BY ANOTHER GOSPEL?
The meaning of
the Greek *metanoia/μετἀνοια
is very different from the meaning of the English repentance, and the meaning of
the Greek metanoeō/μετανοἐω
is very different from the meaning of the English repent. Therefore, the
translation of metanoia as ‘repentance’ is an
extraordinary mistranslation. Reviewing translations of metanoeō/μετανοἐω and metanoia/μετἀνοια
as repent or repentance, in the Greek, there is none of the sorrow or regret
contained in the words repentance and repent.
Repentance denotes “sorrow for what one has done or omitted to do; especially,
contrition for sin.” Repent primarily means “to review one's actions and feel
contrition or regret for something one has done or omitted to do” Therefore,
translating metanoeō/μετανοἐω
and metanoia/μετἀνοια
as repent and repentance constitute “an utter mistranslation” that translators
excuse by the fact that no English word can adequately convey the meaning of
the Greek words.
Two key
Protestant Reformation figures in opposition to the Church's interpretation of metanoia as comprising contrition, confession, and
penances, Martin Luther objected that it retained its classical sense of “a
change of mind.” John Calvin pointed to the double derivation of “repentance”:
from the Hebrew meaning conversion, or turning again and the Greek [metanoia] meaning a change of mind and purpose. The meaning
of the word, for Calvin, is appropriate to both derivations because repentance
(a) involves “withdrawing from ourselves,” (b) turning to God, (c) “laying
aside the old,” and (d) putting on “a new mind.”
In most dictionaries and in the minds of most Christians the primary meaning of “repent” is to look back on past behavior with sorrow, self-reproach, or contrition, sometimes with an amendment of life. But neither Jesus nor John the Baptist is telling us to look back in sorrow. For St. Paul, “metanoia is a transfiguration for your brain” that opens a new future.
There is no
English word that signifies the meaning of the Greek μετἀνοια
(metanoia).
Merriam-Webster has remedied this deficiency by transliterating the
Greek μετἀνοια
into metanoia and borrowing it as an English word
with a definition that matches the Greek: “a transformative change of heart;
especially: a spiritual conversion,” augmented by an explanation of metanoia’s Greek source: “from metanoiein
to change one's mind, repent, from meta- + noein to
think, from nous mind.”
With this in mind when considering Peter’s
appeal in
Acts 3:19
Repent
ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted
out.
We can see that
he is not setting forth a ‘three-step-solution’ for deliverance but rather
showing that it is ‘one’ achievement attained by a true TURNING FROM ONE’S
SELF-DETERMINATION AND GIVING FULL ALLEGIANCE TO THE OMNIPOTENT POWER AND
SOVEREIGN CONTROLLER OF ALL THINGS, THE
ALMIGHTY. Again we see this call going out by John the Baptist as well as Jesus
when summoning the hearers to turn from
their way of understanding and mindset of self will unto the WILL AND MINDSET
OF THE ALMIGHTY. Moreover when considering other scriptures to this effect John
and Jesus again are focusing on deliverance from judgment and offering Eternal
reward by way of the preaching of this GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD, which
again is requiring those hearers to honor The Almighty and His Sovereignty as
we can see from
John 5:24
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.
This Gospel
appeal was being made to Israel who had walked away from honoring God’s
Sovereignty shortly after leaving Egypt when doubting that Omnipotent control
by accepting the witness of those sent to view the Promised land and their
negative report, again expressed in their worship of the ‘Golden calf’ rather
than the Almighty as their true deliverer. Doubting God’s Omnipotent
Sovereignty has always been Israel’s problem thus it only stands to reason that
the fear of the Almighty is what John
the Baptist, Jesus, and Peter are calling them back to for deliverance.
With the
mistranslation of the word “repentance” to mean something other than a
renouncing of self-determination and return to honoring the Sovereignty of the
Almighty, many are left with the misconception of being delivered by the mere
admission of wrong doing and need of turning a new page in their life as one
would make a New Year’s resolution to change, which couldn’t be further from
the truth of what the Scripture is requiring for salvation. Ecclesiastics 12:13, tells us that “the whole duty of man” is to
Fear God and by doing so, contrary to self-determined works, is the only way to
fulfill the Commandments of God. Jesus makes this clear in John 5:24, when
directing the hearers to “believe” or TRUST in the Almighty, Jesus was sent
here to represent.
In short, feeling
sorry for mistakes past does not bring ‘CONVERSION’ nor the “BLOTTING OUT OF
SINS,” but hearing the GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD preached by Jesus and at his
directions given, DOES, according to John 5:24, “BELIEVE ON HIM THAT SENT” JESUS
“hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed
from death unto life.” This is the Gospel Jesus Christ preached and any other
gospel preached in his name is “another gospel” teaching another Jesus.
*“Meta” (from the Greek preposition and
prefix meta- (μετά-) meaning
"after" or "beyond") Definition of “Noia”:
suffix meaning from the Greek νοια (condition of the) mind or will (e.g.,
paranoia). Metanoia, a transliteration of the Greek μετἀνοια, has been
reckoned the greatest word in the New Testament. The King James Version and
many other versions of the New Testament translate metanoia/μετἀνοια as
‘repentance.’ Metanoia’s verbal cognate metanoeo/μετανοἐω
is translated by the word ‘repent.’ Translating metanoia
as ‘repentance’ has been deemed “an utter mistranslation.”
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