JESUS COMES!

KINGDOM BUILDERS

“BUILDING THE KINGDOM THROUGH THE WORD OF GOD”

PIERCING THE VEIL

JESUS COMES

Again, I watched with interest a favorite bible preacher, pastor, and prophet give a great and intellectual rhetoric of the imminent battle of Armageddeon, the end of the world, his take on the number 666 which is supposed to go in the hand or forehead, the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem, the rise of the antichrist, and the coming of Jesus in the sky and his reign in planet earth after he kills all his enemies, then he establishes the Kingdom of God in the earth.  And he went on “ad nauseum” with endless and preposterous stories about God’s favorite people, the Jews, how the temple worship, bringing forth the Red Heifer to sanctify the priests, the instruments, and the tabernacle, and how sacrificial lambs would be reinstituted. Then he talked about the feast days being restored and fulfilled. STOP!  All these myths and  FEAR MONGERING AND FAIRY TALES has got to come to an end.  This is the same  type of stories Margaret McDonald dreamed of when in a fit of high fever of the coming of Christ in the sky.  Much like the Virgin of Guadelupe who supposedly had been visited by Christ himself, it was believed worldwide, and shrines have been built to revere these holy sites all over the world.  People without the Holy Ghost such as Clarence Larkin who also believed the baptism of the Holy Ghost was of the devil wrote his Dispensational Truths which was read and believed by nearly all of the church world for over 100 years.  People like Darby and Scofield picked up on these myths, published their beliefs in a leather binder, and viola!  A new so called truth was established which was never believed by the early church fathers.  And multitudes of pastors and religious folk write and print their own dispensational charts showing all these things the carnal and natural mind can stand. 

In the first place, Christ did not come to destroy men or mankind.  Not any!  In fact, he came to save all men.  This is the purpose of the cross.  He made peace through the cross with both Jew and Gentile which is the remainder of all the inhabitants of planet earth.  There will never be a 3rd covenant.  The first covenant was done away with, and the 2nd covenant was the covenant of Grace through faith without the works of the law. 

It is a likely possibility that the temple will never be rebuilt.  Even if it is, it will be an affront to God, because he has already chosen another temple which is you.  You are the tabernacle made WITHOUT hands.  The Holy Spirit has come to live in you and not a box.  Should Israel begin to sacrifice animals again, it would be an abomination to the work of the pure Lamb of God, Jesus Christ, who was the supreme sacrifice once and for all for all men.  The priesthood of Israel to Israel will never be restored.  God has rejected them and called the Gentiles to be Priests and Kings unto him to all the world, God using them inside of them and not in some man made ediface.

The only War of Armageddeon man will ever see is you who will experience this great battle within your own soul.  The spirit battles the flesh on a daily basis.  This is not to say that there will never be another world war or a war in the middle east.  In fact, it probably will be.  But, it is not the war to end all wars.  There have been wars since the beginning of time.  And until supreme peace comes, there always will be.  In actuality, there have already been at least 3 wars in the field of Megiddo known as Armageddeon.  The valley of Armageddon was famous for three wars in Israel’s history, Barak’s victory over the Canaanites in 609 B C (Judges 4:15),  Gideon’s victory over the Midianites (Judges 7) in the  Battle of Megiddo (15th century BC), & the  Battle of Megiddo (1918), a battle between British Empire forces led by General Edmund Allenby and the Ottoman Empire. There have also been 18 wars in Israel since 1956 including the war with Hamas going on in 2023. 

The battle of Armageddon refers to the final war between human governments and God. These governments and their supporters oppose God even now by refusing to submit to his rulership. The kings of the earth take their stand And high officials gather together as one Against Jehovah and against his anointed one.  (Psalm 2:2). The battle of Armageddon will bring human rulership to an end.—“In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed. And this kingdom will not be passed on to any other people. It will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, and it alone will stand forever, (Daniel 2:44).  The STONE Kingdom of Christ will crush all other kingdoms so that the kingdoms of this world will become the kingdoms of our Lord and his Christ.  Forasmuch as thou sawest that the STONE was cut out of the mountain without hands, …. (Daniel 2:44,45).   …after thou shalt have known that the heavens do rule.  (Daniel 4:26b).   And at the end of the days, I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation: And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?  At the same time my reason returned unto me; and for the glory of my kingdom, mine honour and brightness returned unto me; and my counsellors and my lords sought unto me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent majesty was added unto me.  Now I, Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.  (Daniel 4:34-37).  Nebuchadnezzar’s name according to Rabbinical literature meant the "wicked one”.  His goal was world dominion, and he destroyed all who opposed him. Just like modern day Sadam Hussein, he killed with impunity.  Apparently, Nebuchadnezzar was a ruthless man.  It was thought he may be the offspring of the union of the Queen of Sheba by her marriage with Solomon.  This would indicate he had religious roots especially because of his father, Solomon.  If that is the case, there would likely be a natural fear of the Lord.  As far as governments go, all governments will be on Christ’s shoulders.  It really makes no difference if it is a Monarchy, Dictatorship, Republic, Democracy, Autocracy, or any other form of government.  The supreme and most exalted government of God will be a Theocracy.  It is clear that Nebuchadnezzar was a wicked king and the people mourned.  After his divine encounter, the monarchy continued, but he became a righteous king and the people rejoiced. 

The word “Armageddon” occurs only once in the Bible.   Prophetically, Revelation shows that at “the place that is called in Hebrew Armageddon,” “the kings of the entire inhabited earth” will be gathered “together to the war of the great day of God the Almighty.”—And they gathered them together to the place that is called in Hebrew Armageddon. (Revelation 16:14).at They are, in fact, expressions inspired by demons and they perform signs, and they go out to the kings of the entire inhabited earth, to gather them together to the war of the great day of God the Almighty. (Revelation 16:16). Prophetically, Revelation shows that at “the place that is called in Hebrew Armageddon,” “the kings of the entire inhabited earth” will be gathered “together to the war of the great day of God the Almighty.”—And they gathered them together to the place that is called in Hebrew Armageddon. (Revelation 16:14).

Who will fight at Armageddon? Jesus Christ will lead a heavenly army to victory over God’s enemies. (Revelation 19:11-16, 19-21).  But, the battle will not be fought like most think in their mind.  One can’t fight a spiritual battle with guns, swords, spears, heavy artillery, and weapons of mass destruction.  NO!  In fact, Christ will fight this battle with his name called The Word of God.  And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.  And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations:  and he shall rule them with a rod of iron:  and he treadeth the wine press of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.  (Revelation 19:13-15).  The Sons of God are already the ones who are seated in heavenly places with Christ.  Their job as first fruits unto Him is to minister the unadultered Word of God as a sharp two edged sword to all the world.  When the scriptures say He will have dominion and rule the world with a rod of iron does not mean that God will exact obedience through force as many think.  The “rod of iron” by definition is a shepherd’s crook and God will lead by example through his anointed ones who walk in the righteousness of God and teach the Word to all the Nations.  Dominion comes then when all men have willfully submitted themselves to the Lordship of Jesus Christ.  All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.  Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.  Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I commanded you:  and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.  (Matthew 28:18-20). 

Antichrist is not a man.  Antichrist is a spirit which is against or contrary to Christ in all men.  The so called Son of Perdition or Man of Sin is the Adamic nature in all men. 

When Paul said of God, Jacob have I loved and Esau have I hated, he did not mean he actually hated any men or the Muslims.  He was speaking an allegory concerning his election.  Jacob was the son chosen of God through faith while Esau was the rejected son because of the works of the flesh and according to election.  This is much like the allegorical story of Isaac and Ishmael.  Isaac was the son of promise while Ishmael was the son of the flesh.  Christ has died for all men, but you can’t go to him by your own good works, by the strength of the flesh, by blood relatives, but only through faith which he incidentally gives as a free gift to one and all.  All men were written in the Lamb’s Book of Life before the foundation of the world. In this allegory, we find then the election is not to the sons of Adam after the flesh, but to the sons of God after the promise of the spirit. It’s meaning then has nothing to do with some races or religions of men being lost or saved according to God’s fickle election as some think.  Once one gets off the judgment throne, he can see clearly that God never intended to destroy anyone in Hell.  His intention is to save all men through the atoning work of Christ at the cross. 

John Calvin posited the doctrine of predestination. His doctrine has stood the test of time till now, but when you examine his arguments, he comes up lacking.  In the first place, his argument that God has a remnant that are going to Heaven and many are going to Hell is already predetermined by an all knowing and wise God from before the foundation of the world.  That is so contrary to truth.  Christ was crucified before the foundation of the world for the sins of all men.  And all men were written in the Lamb’s book of Life from before the foundation of the world.  Peter makes it clear,  And a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient whereunto also they were appointed.  (1 Peter 2:8).  Ah ha, you say.  Gotcha!  In the scriptures there were some who were not written in the Book of Life, …and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.  (Revelation 17:8b).   That might hold water if you interpret the Book of Revelation with a carnal mind, and you see a beast called the antichrist, a so called son of perdition ruling over the whole earth, and you see wicked unregenerate men burning in everlasting fire.  The beast that rises up out of the earth is all soulish men after the order of Adam.  All righteous men were written in the Book of Life from the beginning of the world.  Hence, John writes, And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abominatiion, or maketh a lie. 

Martin Luther started the Protestant Reformation declaring that “the just shall live by faith“.  And that faith alone was enough.  The Catholic Church fought him rigorously and ultimately excommunicated him.  It was said he posted the 95 Theses, though it was never proven that he did, on the church house door which started the reformation.  Mostly, it was a rant against the selling of indulgences.  He seemed to agree with some of the Catholic teaching which apparently is still in the protestant church today.  So much of Christian churches today are filled with ceremonies, rituals, sacraments, and have a form of godliness, but deny the power of Christ and have no relationship with him other than a one hour meeting on Sunday morning to satisfy the purposes of religion in their heart. 

Christ has already come.  And, he lives in you.  There will be no “so called” Rapture.  He is the mystery that has been withheld from the ages which is Christ in you, the Hope of Glory.  The Jews beheld the Son of God, but did not see him though he stood in front of them.  The church still looks for Christ to come in the flesh on the clouds of glory on a white horse to rescue them himself.  They cannot see him in their flesh as the indwelling Holy Spirit just like Israel could not see and understand who Christ was because he came in such a humble way as a child born in a manger.  He has come to us in a humble way to bring rebirth to our spirit by living in us.  You have Christ in you, you have the Holy Ghost in you, you have God in you. 

Jesus has already established the Kingdom of Heaven also known as the Kingdom of God.  Daily, mankind enters into the Kingdom through the new birth.  There is no other kingdom to build in the future.  The kingdom is here now.  You enter in by the spirit.  Flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom.  And, flesh and blood cannot see the Kingdom for it can only be spiritually understood and seen.

The doctrine of predestination is derived from Romans 8:29 and Ephesians 1:5-14. Ephesians 1:5 reads, He [God] predestined us [Christians] to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself.   If God predestined people to become Christian and one must be a Christian in order to go to heaven, then God must also predestine people to go to hell since people are either Christian or they are not. The problem with these assumptions is most folks have believed there is a heaven and a hell.  It is so hard for the predistination folks to believe that all men were written in the lamb’s book of life before the foundation of the world. Heaven can’t be proved to be on some planet in outer space as some believe and Hell can’t be proved to be in the center of the earth as some believe.  If one is saved, he doesn’t then die and go to heaven.  There is no scripture that teaches that.  But, when one is saved, he does inherit eternal life.  That is quite a different concept.  As an eternal being, you will live forever, and your abode is planet earth.  You can’t improve on that.  Earth was created to be inhabited and its inhabitants were created to praise God.  Adam and Eve were created to live here, no one is ever known to leave here, God is manifest here, and eternity is expressed here as the new heaven and new earth.  To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. Death is instantaneous and not a little time travel, then present with the Lord.  Some of the most preposterous doctrines are concocted by the carnal mind.  Any fires talked about such as Hell, Gehenna, Hades, Tartaros, and the Lake of Fire were the purging fires of the Holy Ghost.  Little spiritual discernment is used to find God and his will.  Hell was always an analogy used by the Lord.  It was never intended to be a real place.  God’s whole plan of life was to save men.  All men.  That is why he went to the cross.  If his sacrifice was only to save 10% of the population and the devil was to get the rest, he was a weak God.  He came to save sinners not the righteous.  He loved his enemies not just those that love him back.  If the so called saints ever gets this, we will have a reformation throughout the world.  Most in the church world condemn the enemies of God to Hell as is if they were s-o-o-o-o righteous and not cognizant they too were the enemies of the cross before God chose them.  We must get off the judgment seat.  Predestination assumes some go to heaven and some go to hell.  And that God in his infinite wisdom already knew who would be wicked and who would not.  It is written that there is none righteous no not one.  All have gone astray.  Since it is God’s infinite mercy to save his enemies and the unrighteous, and it is, it does not preclude that any should be consigned to a sinner’s death.  There is not one person who ever got saved because of his own righteousness, only Christ’s.  With all due respects to John Calvin, and no slander intended, but his doctrine was all wet from beginning to end.  He may have been the spiritual leader in his day, and well respected for his beliefs, but word has been opened up in a new day with a new revelation though it has been there from the beginning.  A carnal or natural mind can never, never, never find the mind of God. 

Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.  In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.  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.  And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.  Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?  Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.  (John 14:1-6). 

At nearly every funeral I have ever gone to, and there have been hundreds, this scripture is read and preached to the bereaved in an effort to grant them consolation for their dear departed  loved one.  That consolation is that though this poor deceased soul, though he had a tumultuous life here on earth is now safely in the arms of Jesus in a beautiful, ornate, gold Mansion in the sky that Christ has been building for him all along for the last 2000 years.  Such a carnal depiction of that passage of scripture has lasted to this date.  That place that Christ built was you.  You are the house of God.  And there are multitudes that make up that house.  Every house built on earth has different components.  There is the foundation, the walls, the roof, the flooring, the heat and air, the cabinets, the appliances, and the nails and screws that hold everything together.  God’s house is no different.  We are members of his body, each one having a different function.  All are important though some seem to have less importance and are hid from view such as the nails. 

For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.  For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:  # If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.  For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.  (2 Corinthians 5:1-4). 

We find that this house and body and tabernacle are the same thing in scriptures.  The house Paul is talking about is you.  This house is not made with hands, but it is made in heaven.  This is the house Christ was talking about in John 14.  And we are clothed with this house from heaven. This house is the eternal house that Christ has been building all along.  This is that beautiful mansion of which he spoke.  It is hard for folks to see this for most people are not comely, have defects, don’t believe right according to religious doctrine, are not ornate, and certainly don’t look like they have been fashioned by God.   But, wasn’t Christ, the pattern son, not comely and rejected of men.  He didn’t have the religious doctrine of the Pharisees and Saducees down, he didn’t look like a king, he didn’t come riding in on a white horse, and he didn’t have a throne.  Who would want to be ruled by a servant?  He didn’t measure up to the expectations of his day, and was discarded as a heretic.  Folks did not know he was the God of Heaven incarnate.  Neither do folks know that you are the house of God.  How do I know?  They keep building shrines to him, they build churches, ornate buildings in his name, synagogues, mosques, and beautiful buildings bearing the name of Christ.  Men try so hard to duplicate the heavenly pattern they think is that mansion in the sky, but to date have failed miserably. 

Jesus has already come physically and he was missed by most of the known religious world!  He has already come again in the form of the Holy Spirit abiding in the believers, the church, but to this date has not been acknowledged.  How do I know?  Why folks are still looking for him to come riding in on his white horse, destroy his enemies, and establish his kingdom on earth.  The only problem is that this kingdom cannot not be seen by the natural eye.  It is an invisible kingdom.  It is not in Jerusalem, not in any church or synagogue, and cannot be observed.  The kingdom of God is within each of God’s believers.  Christ has already come and is still coming and the Kingdom of God is being increased day by day.  He continues to build his Heavenly Mansion.  GLORY!

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